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Kevin Rudd’s sorry speech:
For the pain, suffering and hurt of these stolen generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry.
To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry …
This parliament resolves that the injustices of the past must never, never happen again.
“Never, never” turns out not to be a very long time:
Abusive Queensland mums and dads will have one year to become better parents or risk having their children taken away permanently.
Impervious to irony, aren’t they?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 02 25 at 01:24 AM • permalink
What’s the difference between a rottweiller and a social worker?
With the rottweiller you at least get part of your child back.
Seriously, how is the Man of Wax going to reconcile this with the left of his own party, who see that a rug monkey must stay with its genetic parents (except of course for IVF-sourced fruit of lesbian loins, but who says rationality and consistency have any place in these rarified atmospheres?), no matter how shit-strewn, violent, depraved or drunken the environment? After all, loss of a sprog cuts welfare entitlement and the resultant support personnel, as well as the inevitable ineffective enforcers of nanny-state intrusion.
If it’s this daffy after three months, WTF is it going to be like after three years?
- So how does this tie in to the reported lack of indigenous families to foster kids out to?
Or will culture trump kiddie protection again???Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 25 at 02:35 AM • permalink
- Posted by dean martin on 2008 02 25 at 03:19 AM • permalink
- #7
The viewer sees a target appear down the barrel of a Walther PPK, one shot and the target is down. The screen goes red before fading to swirling silhouettes of Julia Gillard pirouetting to the powerful voice of Lulu:-He has a powerful mandate
Presented by our ABC,
An apparatchik that’s second to none,
The man with the golden tongue.Lurking in some Fairfax paper,
Or splashed on a TV somewhere,
In the next room, or this very one
The man with the golden tongue.Faith is required whenever he’s hired,
It comes just before the fall.
No-one can catch him, no journo can match him
For his million dollar skill.One “$orry” speech means another poor victim,
Has come to a miserable end,
For a price, he’ll appease anyone
The man with the golden tongue.His eye may be on you or me.
Who will he bang?
We shall see. Oh yeah!Faith is required whenever he’s hired,
It comes just before the fall.
No-one can catch him, no journo can match him
For his million dollar skill.One “$orry” speech means another poor victim,
Has come to a miserable end,
For a price, he’ll appease anyone
The man with the golden tongue.
Will get nothing done
He’ll please everyone
With his golden tongue.Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2008 02 25 at 03:24 AM • permalink
Impervious to irony, aren’t they?
They sure are. I wonder when those true believers not completely brainwashed will begin to see the light?
I give it another 2-3 months.
O/T, but another example of Chairman Rudd’s perfidy. Barely two months in office and suddenly Oz is, after all, on track to meet Kyoto targets. Australia set to meet target. (And here I was, thinking we were responsible for the destruction of the world.)
The Chairman certainly works fast.
The media in Australia had better get its skates on, or maybe dust off those stories they shelved because they presented the facts – the ones that cast the Howard Government in a good light.
Perhaps it is like the Law(?) of Highway where an Authority responsible for a highway is liable for misfeasance but not for nonfeasance – Repair the highway and something happens and you are liable. Don’t repair it and you are not.
Perhaps they figure that will not be liable if the biological parent hurts a child, but worry about intervening and being responsible for not arranging a perfect upbringing.
Stolen Generations anyone?
Posted by Toiling Mass on 2008 02 25 at 04:55 AM • permalink
- Hey!
Over on the “Vanishing Explained” thread, three in a wrow of my feeble attempts to wreply to pistol-packin’ Wronwright, each of them shorter and unfunnier than the previous, have kapoofed into the cyber-abyss.
WTF is up with that?Posted by formerly Huck Foley on 2008 02 25 at 05:21 AM • permalink
So of course, THIS irate drivel DOES post? Screw this, it’s nap time.
Posted by formerly Huck Foley on 2008 02 25 at 05:22 AM • permalink
This makes me sad. And somewhat angry with the same people the Hawk is annoyed with.
What was that Bond Movie title?
Never say from Russian with love and goldfinger on her majestys secret service again because you only live twice and diamonds are forever so live and let die or your octopussy which is for your eyes only will moonraker.
So there said the spy who loved me.
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 02 25 at 05:50 AM • permalink
- Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2008 02 25 at 06:03 AM • permalink
Considering Kev’s professed childhood adventures sleeping in the back seat of a car, maybe the next Labor campaign song will be performed by Hot Chocolate…
Kevin’s in the back seat of my Cadillac –
Let me take you there! (Yeah yeah!)
Kevin’s in the back seat of my Cadillac –
Let me take you there! (Yeah yeah!)
Sort of O/T, but about the Canberra freak show. According to a talking head on my ABC earlier this evening, and confirming something many of us knew……World stock markets have dropped around 5% this year….but the Oz market has gone south 11% ie >twice the world average.
Might this little number have anything to do with the Economics Nobel Laureate-in-waiting, Inane Wayne? Naah!! markets don’t do unkind stuff like that.
that is quite clever.
I also wanted to tell you that, my son occasionally reads a few of the comments here that I point out as ultra-funny. He came across a comment that showed the $orry correction. He’d never seen it before. He was absolutely cacking himself. I told him that it was your inspiration.
The little bugger corrected a newspaper page that a rabid lefty teacher had posted on a corkboard at school after the sorry fiasco. It had the word SORRY as a huge headline. My son corrected it by adding a couple of vertical stripes to the “S”. hehehehe
The only rebuke I gave him about his vandalism, was to mention that in Oz, it’s only ONE vertical stripe for the dollar sign.
Another thing of interest at my son’s school. The principal decided to hold a “personal sorry” morning tea today for the students of the school that have Abo blood. There’s ONE, that I know of. Would love to have been a fly on the wall. I wonder if the parents of these children had any knowledge of what was going to happen. Will try to find out and let you all know.
#28 – Pog, did all the other kids have to handover their pocketmoney to the blackfella?
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 02 25 at 06:43 AM • permalink
#20, #26 Comment left. Hey, Iowahawk did say we could reproduce his “Bye” post without permission…
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 02 25 at 06:44 AM • permalink
actually, that’s exactly what he’s hoping for. He was the only student in the whole school who exercised his freedom of choice by choosing NOT to attend the $orry Day assembly.
Unfortunately, and unbeknownst to him, he is practically able to have free rein at school, as the administration won’t touch him because of prior dealings with myself.
Fortunately, he is not the type of child to take advantage of this, even if he knew about it, as he has a good character.
And you all stop being so mean to poor Kruddy. He’s $aid $orry for all those Aborigines previous do-gooder spankers have $tolen.
HIS do-gooder spankers won’t $teal any Aborigines at all. They will merely… borrow them for a while.
For their own good.
Not like all those bad buggers under ALP governments from 1900 to last week.
MarkL
canberra
Pog, tell your sprog that he should get the Head to ensure that all pocketmoney is paid to your Token on a weekly ba$i$.
The other kids will get $ick of $orry in a hurry.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 02 25 at 07:35 AM • permalink
Not quite OT, but I had to share this:
On behalf of the Sudanese Liaison Organisation, and all the members of the Sudanese community, I would like to congratulate the Prime Minister, the government and parliament of Australia for taking the historic and courageous step of saying sorry.
This nation needs healing between communities.
But especially the non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal communities.
We would like to join all Australians in apologising to the indigenous community and we would also like to thank the Aboriginal people, especially those in Dandenong, for welcoming Sudanese Australians to this land.
Yien Thiang Luony, Noble Park
Dandenong Leader, Feb 25, 2008I think my brain imploded when I read that load of bollocks.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2008 02 25 at 08:01 AM • permalink
#20. Damn, Ash. And the Archbishop is a favourite read of mine, too.
That really sucks – I’d thought better of Cranmer.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2008 02 25 at 08:09 AM • permalink
#36 Penguin, but…..but……..but, the tanks are already here. They’re in Darwin….and they’ve already got little kangaroos painted on them and everything.
Can you just picture Air Chief Marshal Houston standing on the bridge of a massive cargo ship fully laden with M1 Abrams pulling up in a port in the US with a megaphone in his hand saying “We’d love to keep them, but my mum won’t let me play with tanks, they’re too violent.”
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2008 02 25 at 08:27 AM • permalink
The two amphibious transport ships costing $1billion each could also be heading for the chop. The Rudd Government believes neighbouring nations would feel threatened as the ships could hold an invasion force.
Yes, invade other places like East Timor.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 02 25 at 08:37 AM • permalink
#41- Like all the other deals they’re snorking on about- signed contracts, there’s fuck-all Joel, Waxboy or anyone else for that matter can do about it without incurring a)- collossal penalties for breaching said contracts and b)- the utter contempt of our major defence partner, senior staff officers and about every PBI, Matelot and Knucklehead in the ADF, but never let a bit of politicking and slagging off the Howard government get in the way of reality. It’s not going to be a good three years in defence, just hope nothing nasty happens on these dolts watch, but it’s a lot more likely.
(Conveniently short memory as well- the last time the ALP had the chequebook they saddled us with the Collins Class, OH&S overseers on exercises, a feminised force and myriad other silliness, most of which no doubt will pale into insignificance with future fatuousness, futility and fuckwittery).
labor (emphasis on small l) will trash the defence force, they have no strategic vision, no grand plan other than say $orry to everyone who votes for them.
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 02 25 at 09:20 AM • permalink
the last time the ALP had the chequebook they saddled us with the Collins Class
Was that the class that liked to fire off at small children?
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 02 25 at 09:21 AM • permalink
Hey! Over on the “Vanishing Explained” thread, three in a wrow of my feeble attempts to wreply to pistol-packin’ Wronwright, each of them shorter and unfunnier than the previous, have kapoofed into the cyber-abyss. WTF is up with that?
Yes, Mr. Possibly-Huck-Foley-possibly-Stoop-Davy-Dave, there seems to be a limit on the amount of time a person can use the writing box to craft a comment. I encounter this problem all the time. I ascribe this problem to Andrea’s possibly bonehead decision to purchase the blog software from one of paco’s companies, Microsoftly.
When I spend 10 minutes say writing an especially brilliant retort to paco and his questioning of my reliability as a ruthless henchman for the VRWC, I will submit it and it will vanish. Vanish! Damn that paco!
What I usually do is “go back”, bring up the comment box, usually with my comment. I then bring up a second Tim Blair web page and transfer my comment
—are you listening to me?—
(in the comment box) to the comment box on the new Tim Blair page. Then I submit it. It usually works.
It’s like everything else that we buy from paco’s companies. We have to figure out ways to get around shitty defects with his products. Gawd knows he won’t give us a refund.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 25 at 09:46 AM • permalink
Gosh dern it, paco! It happened again! Here I’m trying to explain to that Stoop Davy Dave Wanna Be why there’s a problem (answer: paco) and how to get around it (answer: out think paco). And it happens to me! That’s utterly brazen.
Would you please have your Indian, Sri Lankan, or wherever programmers fix that problem. And don’t charge us for doing it this time!
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 25 at 09:51 AM • permalink
#28, Pogria, you make me regret that i have no kids to give to the cause of updated politics as personified by the schools and teachers.
Not to mention watching the little ones surpass their parents’ humour.
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 02 25 at 10:30 AM • permalink
Wronwright – I seldom understand anything you write, but i really enjoy reading your posts.
Kind of like munching on a rainbow – I’ll leave it to you to figure out why.
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 02 25 at 10:32 AM • permalink
- Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 25 at 10:56 AM • permalink
- Typing from hospital bed:
I would like to commend Paco Inc. software technicians. Upon receipt of my first complaint, they sent a wonderfully competent member of their tech support team directly to my house to address the problem. He didn’t look like any geek that I’d ever seen . Imagine a man 6’6” and 320 lbs with the name Tiny embroidered on his work smock. After quickly finding and addressing my problem he was also kind enough to drive me to the emergency room after an unfortunate keyboard accident that involved two broken legs and severe cuts and bruising. Lucky huh?
He’s over my shoulder as I type this thank you note patiently correcting my numerous errors.
Once again, thanks Paco for the wonderful tech support.
signed, Greene, (and Tiny).
#36, Penguin, No tanks, no planes, no ships and no choppers.
Whats next? No More Buwwets? (About 3 minutes in)
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 25 at 01:26 PM • permalink
Kevni does have a certain “Elmer Fudd” look about him, don’t he?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 02 25 at 03:58 PM • permalink
At least you couldn’t accuse him of “doing bugger all for aboriginal children”.
Have I got those words in the right order?
I believe you got it right.
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 02 25 at 04:32 PM • permalink
The Bond movie? You must be referring to From Ruddsta With Love.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 02 25 at 05:00 PM • permalink
#43 Yes, the contracts are signed, but penalties will not greatly worry the freakshow …it is after all only taxpayers money. IMO the most likely to go are the Seasprite helo(a good riddance because it is a total fiasco), the Abrams tanks (bought, but easily mothballed and left to rot),and the amphibious ships*(these are nasty because they might….gasp…… carry troops somewhere). This then might make the highly capable destroyers operationally unnecessary. Plus the Army will go back to the dark days of beazley.
Expect to see more profound defence thinking along the lines of the tripe in the quoted article. In fact the left know that votewise, defence doesn’t count much in Oz, so they can make plenty of cuts especially those that remove offensive capability, and reduce the ability of the ADF to act as a joint force. These cuts will be sequenced, and covered by a propaganda campaign. Cuts like those to come will always hurt the ADF because they raise the level of parochialism, as the three tribes fight over their slice of the shrinking pie. I know, having been in plenty of the fights.
But even the vilest lefty knows deep down that Uncle Sam will always rock on down to pull us out………won’t he???
* and …shudder…. they look like aircraft carriers
Pengin, my friend, what about me? -I can hardly reach the keyboard through the tears. BTW -what was said about Defence during the campaign…nary a word. Not that it matters. The left seeks to destroy the ADF as viable military force. They can do this easily in three years -take 10-15 at least to rebuild
Abusive Queensland mums and dads will have one year to become better parents or risk having their children taken away permanently.
Yes, but Labor will do it—again—in a GOOD way…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 25 at 09:13 PM • permalink
The first multibillion-dollar white elephant to get the axe could be an $8.1billion navy plan to build three air warfare destroyers. They are designed to protect fleets, and Australia doesn’t have one.
And never bloody well will have one again, if this shower have their way!
#58 Rod C, remember when Australia used to have carriers – two of them? Remember which government it was which refused to replace the last of them, even when the deal to do so had already been made by their predecessors? Getting a nasty feeling of deja vu here …
What I usually do is “go back”, bring up the comment box, usually with my comment. I then bring up a second Tim Blair web page and transfer my comment
—are you listening to me?—
(in the comment box) to the comment box on the new Tim Blair page. Then I submit it. It usually works.
Bah! If I can’t waste my time efficiently, I’ll waste it elsewhere. At least until the nostalgia gets the better of me again.
StoopPosted by formerly Huck Foley on 2008 02 25 at 10:05 PM • permalink
- #66 EdwardM…I served in the old Melbourne on 4 occasions as I recall. Sydney never. Whilst it is true the RAN had 2 carriers for a period of time, we never operated two together in any real way. I was a part of naval aviation when the no replacement was announced by Hawkey. A very difficult time for the Service, but not to the extent that we saw any resignation from the great men!!!
Mind you, I doubt Invincible would have been much use to us…..you need, ideally, three ships for a viable force.The freak show has its sights on a bigger target than the RAN. It wants the emasculation of the ADF. Christ knows who will save all the bangladeshis when the sea level rises 1000’ next year
Oops. Sorry about that.
See? That was easy!