Everyone in Sydney waiting, moronically, on press conferences in which we find out whether or not the city will be made into the Melbourne of winter 2020. The Media, salivating for a lockdown of a sprawling city of ~6m people, is barely concealed. Madness.
According to the @SkyNewsAust chryon, the usual 11am presser by Gladys has been pushed back to 12:30pm, which is never a good sign....
Sydney & New South Wales have been the engine room of Australia since early 2020 (plus India & China buying our commodities, which upsets the brokens here). No one has learned anything from Melbourne's economic Chernobyl & population exodus, clearly.
Like many here, I am obliged to follow some of NSW politics (in all its sordid details and occasional redeeming qualities) and I had never heard of this Adam Marshall fellow before an hour ago. I suspect I am not alone here.
Apologies to any with weak stomachs - but @ljayes on Sky just said the NSW Health sewage results show Covid results only in greater Sydney metropolitans area. Which may be a good sign. Also an example of why @NSWHealth is the gold standard of public health
Dr Kerry Chant is the gold standard of Chief Health Officers. The stalwarts of @NSWHealth carrying this State and, indeed, Australia, on their broad shoulders.

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24 Jun
Thirty years later, "Hunt For Red October" still goes well .... No one reviewing a classic movies channel will pass up HFRO - it is the "Roadhouse" for the thinking man. Also, probably Alec Baldwin's last serious role.
The HFRO starts well with Alec Baldwin being dropped to Heathrow in a Range Rover - at one stage, they were basically issued to naval officers as the Range Rover sat high enough that most officers could wear their cap while driving past the guard
Quite why a naval analyst would end up at the CIA and not, say, ONI, has never been explained to me, except recall reading that ONI was located in a part of US "Fedland" where local gangs exchanged gunfire outside after dark. I am sure someone will correct me here.
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23 Jun
Have Portugal v France on in the background. No spoilers please. Two teams that I have deep respect for, ancestrally and culturally. Unlike the dreaded Boche that the Magyar Hussars should have put to the sword!
Portugal seemingly not learning that if you do not mark up on the French every second of every minute then the French have too much class up front.
Could someone with influence with @UEFAcom here ensure that we never again have games at conflicting times? It is absurd to have all these teams playing at / near the same times. I do not care if the players need rest. This is their factory. Clock on whenever you are rostered on
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22 Jun
The same Canberra press gallery & 'friends of the ABC' who did not see Scott Morrison's reelection coming in May 2019 now doomsaying Coalition because of Barnaby Joyce. In #Realpolitik, only this map matters. Joyce sures up Coalition where needed. Smarter Labor people know this
Given the comically slow Vaccine roll out, had the ALP been led by Shorten (or anyone else) the slow vaccinations would have been hammered every day. Instead, Morrison was blessed with Albo, from the Sydney inner west, talking about electric cars, which mostly retail for ~$80K.
Australia is facing it umpteenth federal election in which most of the Australian Left (and its media apparatchiks) will campaign on making Australia into a more rugged version of Denmark. Tell me the first thing you notice here.
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21 Jun
1/ Almost two years ago, I said this on @ABCthedrum re the cancerous effects of politicians becoming lobbyists and influence peddlers on our system of government ..... at the time, I got some pushback & a lot of 'but everyone does it' .....
2/ "Nearly a dozen former federal ministers from the most recent Coalition and Labor governments are either registered lobbyists or providing “strategic advice” to companies...."

theaustralian.com.au/nation/push-to…
3/ Errr, that horse has bolted & is now out to stud ....

“We do have to be careful of this revolving door in Australia. There needs to be very firm guidelines on what lobbying involves … a five-year ban would give enough length.”

theaustralian.com.au/nation/push-to…
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20 Jun
The Kosciuszko brumbies are part of the Australian legend and anyone wanting to hurt these magnificent wild horses should be on a police register.
Good short history of the Brumby horse here

cerfhorses.org/brumby-horses/
This is good on the Brumbies as well. I cannot believe that there are not better solutions to the Brumby challenge than some mass cull for these equinphobic hippies upset they cannot grow weed or whatever in the Snowy Mountains

savethebrumbies.org/about-us/austr…
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18 Jun
This will help many of the very online canon lawyers here trying to understand why Catholicism (born 33AD) is at odds with your Left/Right (born 1789)
Where church A (or synagogue or mosque) says that Politician X is not welcome in A for publicly repudiating A's most fundamental doctrines - this is A protecting itself from public scandal & sin. X continues to hold the office they hold, albeit X's soul may be in grave jeopardy.
Christianity since it was in private homes & the Catacombs has preached against abortion. The earliest Christians rescued & adopted babies abandoned by the pagan Roman culture. Nothing has changed here since the times of Saints Peter & Paul. The deposit of Faith must be guarded.
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