mothra wrote on Jun 12^th, 2025 at 3:24pm:



Not the Heebie-Jeebies?  I thought they'd all done a Beach Boys and exited...

Some Australians need their citizenship canceled and to be exiled ... deportation would surely tame some of them...

Funniest thing - I was behind a car today and noted the rego plates.... AB 0172 ....  it's on my car camera so I'll get it up for yez...

So they don't worry about being called Abo at all... unless they are one of the recreationally offended ..... who are worth a laugh and nothing else.

Jasin wrote on Jun 12^th, 2025 at 5:32pm:


No.

I've never claimed that he's bad because he's orange.

He's bad, and just so happens to be orange.

He's bad because he's a rapist and convicted criminal who stole money from kids' cancer charities.

Nothing to do with his orange skin.

ProudKangaroo wrote on Jun 14^th, 2025 at 8:06am:





Oh, the pwogwessive psycho drama!
The world of accusation, admission, guilt, worship, innocence, condemnation.

Inquisition, witch hunt, moral preening.

Boris wrote on Jun 11^th, 2025 at 9:44pm:

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Jun 13^th, 2025 at 9:09pm:



We live in a country in which petty grievances and perceived slights abound, and one in which resentments and gripes are taken seriously by the state. We saw evidence of this state of affairs in two unrelated reports this week.

The first came from Leeds, where an employment tribunal found that the use of the word ‘lads’ in relation to a worker earning £95,000 a year at a farming and food production company amounted to ‘casual use of gender-specific language’, and could be legally regarded as ‘unwanted… given her account of how it made her feel’. Her level of compensation is to be decided at a later date.

Taking recourse to legal action is very much the order of the day now

It would be tempting to dismiss this as an isolated and meaningless episode, except that it’s neither. On the first count, it belongs to a growing list of court cases that begin with ostensibly insignificant, dubious or comical slights made towards workers by their bosses, a trend that culminated last month in an NHS worker taking her employers to court for comparing her to Darth Vader. She won £30,000 in compensation.

Neither is this case meaningless. It signifies a culture beholden to the notion that their subjective feelings are a matter that warrants intervention by the authorities. Taking recourse to legal action, making appeals to the arms of the state for perceived slights, is very much the order of the day now, as another widely-disseminated report reminded us on Wednesday.

A study conducted by the social cohesion campaign group Don’t Divide Us has found that equality laws are causing unsuccessful racial discrimination lawsuits to ‘sky-rocket’. Between 2017 and last year, the number of employment tribunals that included a claim of discrimination based on the characteristic of ‘race’, as defined in the Equality Act 2010, almost tripled, from 285 to 829. Tellingly, while such claims have shot up, the number of successful cases has remained stable and more or less unchanged. According to Alka Seghal Cuthbert, the campaign group’s director, the Equality Act has:

Handed inordinate power to those making malicious or bogus claims or to thin-skinned people willingly misinterpreting perfectly innocent comments or interactions.

https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/06/trial-by-victimhood-has-taken-over-britains...

A leading academic has savaged one of Australia’s most prestigious law schools as a woke “ideological re-education camp” in a recently resurfaced email.

Eric Descheemaeker, a professor at The University of Melbourne Law School and visiting research fellow at Oxford University where he graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in Law, wrote the email to former boss and then-dean, Matthew Harding, in August 2023.

The professor’s correspondence remained private until last week when copies appeared on noticeboards at the university’s Parkville campus, and an image of the print-out was published by The Age.

In the email, which was written in response to an “Indigenous Cultural Safety Review”, Dr Descheemaeker criticised the leftist stances adopted by the university. 

“I find the road we are travelling exceedingly sad, and indeed concerning (but in my case more sad than concerning because if it continues I will not feel able to travel along very much longer),” the email began.

“I joined what I thought was a world-class law faculty; I wake up in an ideological re-education camp with incredibly parochial concerns, those of the inner north suburbs of Melbourne (sorry, ‘Naarm’),” Dr Descheemaeker wrote.

“Celebrating the ‘noble savage’ is already the main, if not exclusive, thing MLS [Melbourne Law School] appears to exist for – with just a bit of space to spare for every possible sexual or gendered minority vying for claims to victimhood.”

Dr Descheemaeker added that he and his colleagues are expected to “acknowledge” aboriginal land claims “every 10 feet in our corridors”, and that leftist activists “have made us start every meeting with ritual prayers” – an apparent reference to “welcome to country” ceremonies which are growing in prevalence across the country.   

Dr Descheemaeker also wrote that activists and administrators “want to police every aspect of what we do, say, teach (or not do, not say, not teach)” and that they expected him “to teach that Australian law is only ‘settler law’ and that there exists a rich body of ‘indigenous law’ alongside”.  “What are indigenous private-law remedies, I wonder. Ritual spearings?” he asked.

Dr Descheemaeker further stated that he and his colleagues frequently “stand accused before the political commissars”, and that he was amazed that the school “appoint[s] people based on race”.

This comment was made in relation to departed aboriginal colleages, with Dr Descheemaeker noting that he only knew one former co-worker was “indigenous because it was in her job description”. Dr Descheemaeker did observe, however, that “she had a sticker on her office door showing a police car burning”.

Dr Descheemaeker warned that the end result of this emphasis on indigenous issues over traditional academic concerns would inevitably be one of failure.  “There is absolutely no end to where the ‘Blak’ activists are meaning to take us – except destruction,” he wrote. “This madness has to come to an end.”

The sudden appearance of the email led the university to offer counselling and support services to any staff or students who felt “offended or upset”, and the current Dean of Melbourne Law School, Michelle Foster, described it as “sensitive correspondence”.

ka-bloom   ..... What was that noise?  Oh - that was just the echo of a bunker buster obliterating Iran's facilities.   OK - I thought it was reason collapsing at MLC or whatever - that law school in Melbourne....