Graham Evans

Like: Art, FOSS, sourdough, philosophy, espresso, maths, chess, AI and technology. Too much: Twitter, onanism, youtube. Living in the bush.

[Graham Evans @grayhamandeggs]

@MsMountebank To be fair, this problem was created by the Federal government and every state is failing to do the impossible. NSW has at least had the balls to tell the government the task is impossible.

[Graham Evans @grayhamandeggs]

@_22over7ish_ @LundukeJournal Freebsd uses permissive license like uutils. They write their own coreutils just so they can keep their own license.

[Graham Evans @grayhamandeggs]

Donating to political parties and then receiving multiples of your donation back in grants is corrupt. I think it is time for unions to be prohibited from making political donations. Also, if you're a plumber you should be pissed at your union.

[GGee @22thinkinggirl]

The figures are staggering 🤬🤬🤬

[GGee @22thinkinggirl]

Menzies Research Centre analysis reveals $215 million in government grants to unions.

Pork-barrelling on steroids

https://t.co/pc39Dwq60l

[Graham Evans @grayhamandeggs]

@eevblog is there a clear cmos jumper? I would work out how to clear cmos in any case. Battery out and unplugged for 30 minutes might work. I know it booted once but I would still be looking at BIOS issues.

[Graham Evans @grayhamandeggs]

@sevenssev @Haydenfreedom From this point forward fair to cite a figure between A. $15 billion and B. $30 billion. Source for A: QLD building enquiry. Source for B: VIC government chief infrastructure advisor. Seems like B should have more knowledge so closer to $30B than $15B.

[Graham Evans @grayhamandeggs]

@mtaibbi as an australian i always envied your bill of rights esp. 1st amendment

[GGee @22thinkinggirl]

LABOR MUST GO
#DitchJacinta #BootOutLabor
#FreshStartVictoria

“Premier Jacinta Allan’s chief infrastructure adviser confidentially estimated the cost of rorts and rip offs could be as high as 30 per cent on parts of Victoria’s Big Build, while another top official privately conceded the state government had done nothing to nail down the true cost of corruption on its projects.

The damning comments attributed to the high-ranking Victorian public servants are contained in a trove of documents released by the Fair Work Commission to this masthead following a freedom of information request.

They undermine efforts from Allan and certain building unions to focus on inflation and discount corruption and wrongdoing as driving cost blowouts and delays on the $100 billion Big Build infrastructure program.

The files contain commission general manager Murray Furlong’s contemporaneous notes of a meeting in October last year, where he writes that a senior Labor government public servant was asked by a public service colleague to try “approximating the cost” of wrongdoing on the Big Build.

The wrongdoing was described in the notes as conduct in the “ambit of crime … such as ghost shifts & [gangland] enforcers supplied via made-up jobs” as well as “unproductive work practices and patterns required by the CFMEU” and a range of other factors.

Furlong’s notes of this meeting state the senior public servant estimated there was a “30% CFMEU premium on [Big Build] sites”

While the note doesn’t identify the official who made the comment, a source with knowledge of the meeting, unable to discuss it publicly, said it was Kevin Devlin, who for years has overseen the Big Build as the head of the Victorian Infrastructure Delivery Authority.

In the notes, Furlong also recalls a senior industry representative describing the removal of a national code governing construction industrial relations was “like switching off the electric fence”.

This masthead has previously reported that Devlin had separately been party to a national peak body’s confidential briefing that warned of lawlessness in the construction industry and also cited a 30 per cent premium.

Furlong publicly referred to the 30 per cent figure at a Senate estimates hearing in February attributing it to discussions with Victorian officials.”

[Graham Evans @grayhamandeggs]

@tonytardio this is just so weird, like a complete commitment to not engage with the substance of the actual corruption occurring

[Graham Evans @grayhamandeggs]

@ALeighMP Apparently only CFMEU members are allowed to be properly paid for their work.

[Ocarina Jones 🇮🇱 🐝 @OcarinaJones]

Last evening I was listening to The Bolt Report when I was jolted out of my comfort zone by a report regarding Researcher Roger Karge. I could not believe what I heard so I did some research of my own.

The Article in the Australian was paywalled so I went to the Article in the Australian Financial Review by Maani Truu from which I quote
“A debate over free speech has engulfed the Australian Historical Association’s annual conference after the inclusion of an outspoken critic of the book Dark Emu sparked protests from historians and Indigenous academics.
Roger Karge, who publishes the website Dark Emu Exposed, was scheduled to appear at the five-day event held at Macquarie University in Sydney as an “independent researcher” who “writes on issues regarding Australia’s Aboriginal and colonial history and contemporary questions of race relations and politics.
But his inclusion on a panel titled “re-appraising Indigenous histories” sparked backlash from one academic, who wrote on LinkedIn that they had withdrawn from the event, and from prominent Indigenous academic Marcia Langdon, who said she had written to the association to express her objection.
Just after 10pm on Sunday, hours before the start of the conference on Monday, Karge said he was told his membership had been suspended for 14 days and as such he would not be able to attend the event.
According to the email, seen by The Australian Financial Review, AHA secretary Richard Scully said the executive committee had reviewed the Dark Emu Exposed website and was investigating whether it breached the rules because it was “unbecoming a member or prejudicial to the interests of the association”.
“This suspension will last for 14 days while the executive undertakes its investigation. This means that you will not be permitted to present at, or attend, the 2026 AHA conference,” the email read.
It also said Karge would have an opportunity to respond to the claim and that the association would refund any travel costs.
Responding to the email on Monday morning, Karge issued his objection to the decision and said he would “vigorously defend” his reputation.
He also questioned whether the association had taken issue with the Dark Emu Exposed website or himself personally.
In a statement, AHA president Michelle Arrow said the organisation was currently investigating the complaints about Karge’s inclusion.
A decision will be made at a later date,” she said in a statement. “Given our commitment to fairness and due process, we cannot comment further at this time.
In separate comment posted by the Australian Historical Association LinkedIn profile, Arrow said it was “crucial that the AHA conference remain a space of safety for those who attend”.
“For this reason, the AHA has a code of ethics and a conference code of conduct; any violation of these codes can exclude an attendee from the conference,” the comment read.
“It is important to note that no presenter is invited to the conference except for keynote addresses and plenary panels. Individuals submit their proposed papers for inclusion and their abstracts are assessed by streams.”
Karge has long sought to discredit Bruce Pascoe’s 2014 award-winning book Dark Emu, which sought to overturn the “hunter-gatherer” perception of pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians.
But according to the Dark Emu Exposed website, the focus of the site has since shifted to exposing “people in the public space who genealogical records would indicate are mistaken to believe that they are of Aboriginal ancestry”.
In an email to Karge in May, Arrow warned that including determinations about someone’s Indigenous identity in his presentation would fall outside the conference’s code of conduct.
We hoped that you could focus your paper on the Risdon Cove case, as it would complement the other papers in the session very well,” the email read.”

My research:
I performed this research because I thought my friend, the Late Mr Justice Rae Else Mitchell had been the President of the Historical Society and he would have been most upset if the society had excluded any speaker because other speakers did not like what he might say. Particularly at a Conference held at Macquarie University where he was a member of the University’s first Council in 1964 and Deputy Vice Chancellor to Sir Garfield Barwick from 1967 to 1976.

My research further showed.
The Royal Australian Historical Society (RAHS) was founded in 1901 and Rae Else-Mitchell was indeed President from 1970 to 1976 but further there was a reorganisation of Historical Societies in 1976 and the Federation of Historical Societies (FHS) with the inaugural President also Rae Else Mitchell who served from 1977 to 1986. Followed by Ron Winch an antiquarian Bookseller and Valuer as President (much of my library came from Winchbooks). In 1973 the Australia Historical Association (AHA) was formed and it was this body that committed this assault on debate and the search for truth.

My introduction to Historical Society publications was around 1978 when Rae Else Mitchell gave me a printed copy of his Fifth Augustus Mr Justice Wolskel Memorial Lecture on 23 May 1975 to the Victorian Historical Society, titled “Territorial Conquest – Phillip and Afterwards”.
A speech in which he credits Professor Alex Castles, and Justices Blackburn and Elizabeth Evatt as pioneers on the subject. A Speech which would most probably cause consternation among modern Historians who seem to prefer censorship and theorising to the search for facts and actual history.
Historians who seem to have forgotten the damage such attitudes caused in the “Secret Women’s Business” debacle over the bridge to Hindmarsh Island.

The General public and historians alike, were better informed by public debates like those between Keith Windschuttle and Henry Reynolds or comparisons such as those made by historian Geoffrey Partington in his book “Hasluck versus Coombs” and finally Roger Karge is a critic of the work “Dark Emu” and its author Bruce Pascoe, as are many others particularly Peter O’Brien in his book “Bitter Harvest”.

Professional Institutes and Societies have a duty to the public as well as to their members and that duty is the pursuit of Truth based on facts not feelings.
From facebook:

[Harald Murphy @harald_murphy]

On this my twelfth circumnavigation of Australia since 2018 in an EV, I covered 13,285km in a Tesla Model YL in 10 days (227 hours) in June/July 2026.
An entire continent has been encircled using @Tesla @TeslaAUNZ @Tesla_AI Full Self Driving (Supervised) V14.3.3 with 100% (car verified) usage.

[Econo ad absurdam @econoadabsurdam]

What you think the biggest lobbyists in parliament look like/what they actually look like

[NZ Vaping Alliance @VapingAlliance]

Just let that sink in Australia (oh and no fire-bombings) & @FCTCofficial @WHO

Hat's off to @minhealthnz @ASHNZ2025 @iPHC2 + Rob Beaglehole

https://t.co/Qifm86jJqx

[Marko Matvikov @MarkoMatvikov]

Labor just robbed taxpayers last night.

A workplace relations bill that claims to be about addressing an unfair dismissal case backlog passed the lower house and senate through a quiet dirty deal with the Greens.

Hidden deep inside the bill is the right for the federal government to discriminate against independent contractors and small businesses that aren’t unionised.

Put simply, they’re effectively legalising corruption at a national level - ensuring their own political base profits from inflated public works contracts at the taxpayers’ expense.

This grift then flows back to the party through political donations - and so the cycle of tightening Labor’s grip on power continues.

Without any transparency, scrutiny or debate.

[Graham Evans @grayhamandeggs]

@xwanyex Yt premium is too expensive but I appreciate YT gives freedom to podcasters to make side deals and includes a jump forward button. A lot of YT creators have pretty hard lives financially.

[Graham Evans @grayhamandeggs]

@GingerDotDev @asglidden @tracewoodgrains It's about a right to bear armements not about protection from prosecution for using those armaments.

[Bernard Keane @BernardKeane]

At what point are Victorian police going to start investigating senior Vic Labor ministers for abuse of public office and perhaps even being accessories after the fact for the tens of billions stolen by organised crime and the CFMEU?

[Graham Evans @grayhamandeggs]

@Jackat19 @22thinkinggirl there are direct admissions in this article:
https://t.co/DeolIgcaaQ

[Graham Evans @grayhamandeggs]

@JMarshall63666 @22thinkinggirl Yes
https://t.co/DeolIgcaaQ