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What will be Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s official title, given he will be President of Negotiations at COP31, yet still represent Australia (ostensibly) in climate haggling?
That has occupied my mind this past week, as I am conscious the bespoke title should reflect not only Bowen’s considerable responsibilities but also his public regard.
It was a challenge. While still encompassing the great man’s important roles and self-important demeanour, the title nonetheless needs to be catchy. But adding phrases to the moniker President of Negotiations is a recipe for a word salad.
Then it hit me – what about an acronym for the dual roles? Bowen’s full title for this international gathering would be President of Negotiations/Climate Emissary, but for day-to-day purposes he would be known as the PONCE of COP31.
This will involve endless posturing, but Bowen is up to the job.
For example, COP31 does not kick off until November 2026, but already the poncing has begun.
“As COP President of Negotiations, I would have all the powers of COP presidency to manage, to handle the negotiations, to appoint co-facilitators, to prepare draft text, and to issue the cover decision,” Bowen boasted to journalists just minutes after it was announced Australia had ceded to Turkey its bid to host COP31.
In other words, Turkey will be a mere backdrop for the conference, and Bowen will preside as Big Kahuna.
— At least according to him.
Dream on. As American digital media newspaper Politico wryly noted: “The victory for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government was somewhat more complete than what Australia had admitted to earlier this week, when one of its ministers [Bowen] suggested that the Australians would have sole control of the diplomacy at the talks.”
For all Bowen’s grandstanding, a Turkish representative will still serve as COP31 President. Erdogan has merely thrown Bowen a bone.
Just imagine his address. Think back two years ago, to COP28 in Dubai, when Bowen, in his opening statement, delivered a bizarre acknowledgement of country which declared that “respect for Indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices” was “critical” to the “climate change response and clean energy future”.
No worries. If we must join the climate and renewables cult, should we throw our lot in with Inti, the Incan sun god, and follow that up with offerings to Vayu, the Hindu god of the winds?
I can picture the minister of maladroitness speaking now. “Friends, welcome to COP31, and I just want to stress how important it is in an adverse climate that we learn from the experience of Turkey’s Indigenous peoples, particularly the Armenians and the Kurds.”
Not that I am a fan of Erdogan, but he deserves our gratitude for sparing us the $2bn it would have costs us to fund Festival-of-Chris-by-the-Torrens. Mind you, we will be shelling out millions for a poor man’s COP in the Pacific, the contrived precursor to the main event. If Bowen is looking for a title for that, he could always christen it SOP-COP.
His bid to secure COP31 began as a vanity project three years ago, but in recent months a desperate Bowen saw it as his lifeline. And you know what that means. We are funding the world’s most expensive attempt to rewrite a political resumé.
Politically and domestically, Bowen’s career is terminal. Electricity prices, a major driver of inflation, have risen 37.1 per cent in the 12 months to October 2025.
— His own department warned himin May power prices would continue to surge if the government persisted with its 2030 emissions reduction target, a brief Bowen insisted on disingenuous grounds be withheld from the public.
He remains in cabinet only because no one wants the energy portfolio. As was obvious during this year’s election campaign, his fellow ministers avoid being seen alongside him. To his Labor colleagues, Bowen is the polly waffle in the parliamentary swimming pool.
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What will be Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s official title, given he will be President of Negotiations at COP31, yet still represent Australia (ostensibly) in climate haggling?
That has occupied my mind this past week, as I am conscious the bespoke title should reflect not only Bowen’s considerable responsibilities but also his public regard.
It was a challenge. While still encompassing the great man’s important roles and self-important demeanour, the title nonetheless needs to be catchy. But adding phrases to the moniker President of Negotiations is a recipe for a word salad.
Then it hit me – what about an acronym for the dual roles? Bowen’s full title for this international gathering would be President of Negotiations/Climate Emissary, but for day-to-day purposes he would be known as the PONCE of COP31.
This will involve endless posturing, but Bowen is up to the job.
For example, COP31 does not kick off until November 2026, but already the poncing has begun.
“As COP President of Negotiations, I would have all the powers of COP presidency to manage, to handle the negotiations, to appoint co-facilitators, to prepare draft text, and to issue the cover decision,” Bowen boasted to journalists just minutes after it was announced Australia had ceded to Turkey its bid to host COP31.
In other words, Turkey will be a mere backdrop for the conference, and Bowen will preside as Big Kahuna.
— At least according to him.
Dream on. As American digital media newspaper Politico wryly noted: “The victory for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government was somewhat more complete than what Australia had admitted to earlier this week, when one of its ministers [Bowen] suggested that the Australians would have sole control of the diplomacy at the talks.”
For all Bowen’s grandstanding, a Turkish representative will still serve as COP31 President. Erdogan has merely thrown Bowen a bone.
Just imagine his address. Think back two years ago, to COP28 in Dubai, when Bowen, in his opening statement, delivered a bizarre acknowledgement of country which declared that “respect for Indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices” was “critical” to the “climate change response and clean energy future”.
No worries. If we must join the climate and renewables cult, should we throw our lot in with Inti, the Incan sun god, and follow that up with offerings to Vayu, the Hindu god of the winds?
I can picture the minister of maladroitness speaking now. “Friends, welcome to COP31, and I just want to stress how important it is in an adverse climate that we learn from the experience of Turkey’s Indigenous peoples, particularly the Armenians and the Kurds.”
Not that I am a fan of Erdogan, but he deserves our gratitude for sparing us the $2bn it would have costs us to fund Festival-of-Chris-by-the-Torrens. Mind you, we will be shelling out millions for a poor man’s COP in the Pacific, the contrived precursor to the main event. If Bowen is looking for a title for that, he could always christen it SOP-COP.
His bid to secure COP31 began as a vanity project three years ago, but in recent months a desperate Bowen saw it as his lifeline. And you know what that means. We are funding the world’s most expensive attempt to rewrite a political resumé.
Politically and domestically, Bowen’s career is terminal. Electricity prices, a major driver of inflation, have risen 37.1 per cent in the 12 months to October 2025.
— His own department warned himin May power prices would continue to surge if the government persisted with its 2030 emissions reduction target, a brief Bowen insisted on disingenuous grounds be withheld from the public.
He remains in cabinet only because no one wants the energy portfolio. As was obvious during this year’s election campaign, his fellow ministers avoid being seen alongside him. To his Labor colleagues, Bowen is the polly waffle in the parliamentary swimming pool.
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What will be Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s official title, given he will be President of Negotiations at COP31, yet still represent Australia (ostensibly) in climate haggling?
That has occupied my mind this past week, as I am conscious the bespoke title should reflect not only Bowen’s considerable responsibilities but also his public regard.
It was a challenge. While still encompassing the great man’s important roles and self-important demeanour, the title nonetheless needs to be catchy. But adding phrases to the moniker President of Negotiations is a recipe for a word salad.
Then it hit me – what about an acronym for the dual roles? Bowen’s full title for this international gathering would be President of Negotiations/Climate Emissary, but for day-to-day purposes he would be known as the PONCE of COP31.
This will involve endless posturing, but Bowen is up to the job.
For example, COP31 does not kick off until November 2026, but already the poncing has begun.
“As COP President of Negotiations, I would have all the powers of COP presidency to manage, to handle the negotiations, to appoint co-facilitators, to prepare draft text, and to issue the cover decision,” Bowen boasted to journalists just minutes after it was announced Australia had ceded to Turkey its bid to host COP31.
In other words, Turkey will be a mere backdrop for the conference, and Bowen will preside as Big Kahuna.
— At least according to him.
Dream on. As American digital media newspaper Politico wryly noted: “The victory for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government was somewhat more complete than what Australia had admitted to earlier this week, when one of its ministers [Bowen] suggested that the Australians would have sole control of the diplomacy at the talks.”
For all Bowen’s grandstanding, a Turkish representative will still serve as COP31 President. Erdogan has merely thrown Bowen a bone.
Just imagine his address. Think back two years ago, to COP28 in Dubai, when Bowen, in his opening statement, delivered a bizarre acknowledgement of country which declared that “respect for Indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices” was “critical” to the “climate change response and clean energy future”.
No worries. If we must join the climate and renewables cult, should we throw our lot in with Inti, the Incan sun god, and follow that up with offerings to Vayu, the Hindu god of the winds?
I can picture the minister of maladroitness speaking now. “Friends, welcome to COP31, and I just want to stress how important it is in an adverse climate that we learn from the experience of Turkey’s Indigenous peoples, particularly the Armenians and the Kurds.”
Not that I am a fan of Erdogan, but he deserves our gratitude for sparing us the $2bn it would have costs us to fund Festival-of-Chris-by-the-Torrens. Mind you, we will be shelling out millions for a poor man’s COP in the Pacific, the contrived precursor to the main event. If Bowen is looking for a title for that, he could always christen it SOP-COP.
His bid to secure COP31 began as a vanity project three years ago, but in recent months a desperate Bowen saw it as his lifeline. And you know what that means. We are funding the world’s most expensive attempt to rewrite a political resumé.
Politically and domestically, Bowen’s career is terminal. Electricity prices, a major driver of inflation, have risen 37.1 per cent in the 12 months to October 2025.
— His own department warned himin May power prices would continue to surge if the government persisted with its 2030 emissions reduction target, a brief Bowen insisted on disingenuous grounds be withheld from the public.
He remains in cabinet only because no one wants the energy portfolio. As was obvious during this year’s election campaign, his fellow ministers avoid being seen alongside him. To his Labor colleagues, Bowen is the polly waffle in the parliamentary swimming pool.
https://t.co/C6LCtFs9JQ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G6vYoFGbwAAgxOT.jpg)
![RositaDaz48's tweet photo. #TheMocker..
What will be Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s official title, given he will be President of Negotiations at COP31, yet still represent Australia (ostensibly) in climate haggling?
That has occupied my mind this past week, as I am conscious the bespoke title should reflect not only Bowen’s considerable responsibilities but also his public regard.
It was a challenge. While still encompassing the great man’s important roles and self-important demeanour, the title nonetheless needs to be catchy. But adding phrases to the moniker President of Negotiations is a recipe for a word salad.
Then it hit me – what about an acronym for the dual roles? Bowen’s full title for this international gathering would be President of Negotiations/Climate Emissary, but for day-to-day purposes he would be known as the PONCE of COP31.
This will involve endless posturing, but Bowen is up to the job.
For example, COP31 does not kick off until November 2026, but already the poncing has begun.
“As COP President of Negotiations, I would have all the powers of COP presidency to manage, to handle the negotiations, to appoint co-facilitators, to prepare draft text, and to issue the cover decision,” Bowen boasted to journalists just minutes after it was announced Australia had ceded to Turkey its bid to host COP31.
In other words, Turkey will be a mere backdrop for the conference, and Bowen will preside as Big Kahuna.
— At least according to him.
Dream on. As American digital media newspaper Politico wryly noted: “The victory for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government was somewhat more complete than what Australia had admitted to earlier this week, when one of its ministers [Bowen] suggested that the Australians would have sole control of the diplomacy at the talks.”
For all Bowen’s grandstanding, a Turkish representative will still serve as COP31 President. Erdogan has merely thrown Bowen a bone.
Just imagine his address. Think back two years ago, to COP28 in Dubai, when Bowen, in his opening statement, delivered a bizarre acknowledgement of country which declared that “respect for Indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices” was “critical” to the “climate change response and clean energy future”.
No worries. If we must join the climate and renewables cult, should we throw our lot in with Inti, the Incan sun god, and follow that up with offerings to Vayu, the Hindu god of the winds?
I can picture the minister of maladroitness speaking now. “Friends, welcome to COP31, and I just want to stress how important it is in an adverse climate that we learn from the experience of Turkey’s Indigenous peoples, particularly the Armenians and the Kurds.”
Not that I am a fan of Erdogan, but he deserves our gratitude for sparing us the $2bn it would have costs us to fund Festival-of-Chris-by-the-Torrens. Mind you, we will be shelling out millions for a poor man’s COP in the Pacific, the contrived precursor to the main event. If Bowen is looking for a title for that, he could always christen it SOP-COP.
His bid to secure COP31 began as a vanity project three years ago, but in recent months a desperate Bowen saw it as his lifeline. And you know what that means. We are funding the world’s most expensive attempt to rewrite a political resumé.
Politically and domestically, Bowen’s career is terminal. Electricity prices, a major driver of inflation, have risen 37.1 per cent in the 12 months to October 2025.
— His own department warned himin May power prices would continue to surge if the government persisted with its 2030 emissions reduction target, a brief Bowen insisted on disingenuous grounds be withheld from the public.
He remains in cabinet only because no one wants the energy portfolio. As was obvious during this year’s election campaign, his fellow ministers avoid being seen alongside him. To his Labor colleagues, Bowen is the polly waffle in the parliamentary swimming pool.
https://t.co/C6LCtFs9JQ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G6vYoFEa0AQPX6R.jpg)
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Until recently I was convinced that Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus had no sense of humour. Zero, zip, zilch.
How wrong I was.
In my defence, the priggish Dreyfus had given every impression he is devoid of humour.
It was, I had thought, a perception reinforced beyond doubt in 2023 when he berated a female journalist at a press conference, reminding her he was a “Minister of the Crown” and raising his voice as he angrily told her: “Do not interrupt.”
But it turns out he is an adroit piss-taker, albeit one with a dark sense of humour. Last week we learned Dreyfus has, through Labor’s how-to-vote cards, urged his constituents of Isaacs to preference Greens candidate Matthew Kirwan at number two.
That’s right. Dreyfus, a prominent Jewish-Australian federal cabinet minister, has a done a vote-swapping deal with the party that abhors, irrespective of what its mouthpieces claim, the very existence of Israel.
We look forward to Dreyfus’s next comedy act. Perhaps he will claim, deadpan, he had no choice but to make this deal, given he holds his seat by only by a 9.5 per cent margin and Isaacs has been continuously held by Labor for just the past 30 years?
This is the same bloke who in January, after international criticism of the Albanese government’s appallingly lax response to a massive increase in anti-Semitism in this country, was sent to Israel to “demonstrate Australia’s longstanding friendship with the Israeli people and our commitment to peace in the Middle East”.
It was seen as a cynical ploy. Shadow frontbencher Julian Leeser, who is also Jewish, denounced the trip as a “pre-election gimmick”.
At the time I thought Dreyfus should be given some slack. After all, he is the son of a Holocaust survivor. Who knows, I thought, maybe his is the only voice in cabinet lambasting those who downplay or outright ignore anti-Semitism, whether their motivation is to shore up Western Sydney and inner-city seats or to placate the growing number of party members – including those at ministerial level – who despise Israel.
I can think of many ways to demonstrate Australia’s longstanding friendship with the Israeli people. Favourably preferencing a candidate who has called for Israel to be held accountable for “genocide and apartheid” is not one of them, but that is exactly what Dreyfus has done.
You would think voters, particularly Jewish-Australians, are entitled to an explanation. Dreyfus finally broke his silence on Wednesday when asked, but offered nothing substantive. The decision was a “matter for the party”, he insisted repeatedly.
That is a weasel excuse. To imply this outcome was out of his hands is a misrepresentation. For example, Dreyfus’s colleague and fellow religionist Josh Burns, who holds the Melbourne seat of Macnamara, is running an open ticket. His Labor predecessor Michael Danby, who is also of the same faith, told Sky News this week Dreyfus’s decision was “not justifiable” and “not ethical”.
Let’s take a quick selection of quotes from the Greens’ federal representatives to remind the Attorney-General how entrenched hatred of Israel is within the Greens. We begin with Western Australian senator Dorinda Cox. “I stand in solidarity with Palestinian people in their struggle against settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing,” she declared last year.
That same year Queensland senator Penny Allman-Payne said military exports to Israel further the “genocidal ambitions of an apartheid state”.
The three Brisbane-based Greens MPs are equally condemnatory. Stephen Bates (Brisbane) said last year parliament “must not continue to support Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza”, a phrase repeated verbatim the next month by Elizabeth Watson-Brown (Ryan). Max Chandler-Mather (Griffith) claimed in 2024 that Israel was conducting “a manufactured and engineered famine” in the region.
It ain't easy being Green — but a strong dose of idiocy helps
What does it say about those who vote for the Greens? I'm not talking about young, impetuous adults. All of us did stupid things in our youth. Let's consider a typical case.
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He has done it.
Finally @AlboMP has made good on one of his many promises.
~Think back to election night in 2022 when he gave his victory speech, declaring, he “wanted to bring Australians together”.
Admittedly he has gone about it in an unusual way, having broken a promise in order to keep a promise.
~As we learned on the weekend, he has quietly rissoled the proposed Makarrata Commission, which the Uluru Statement had envisaged would oversee treaties and so-called truth-telling.
This has infuriated Indigenous activists.
~Like many before them, they made the mistake of believing Albanese could be trusted.
But in one respect he has delivered, albeit inadvertently.
~The Prime Minister has brought Australians together, even if their only thing in common is their disdain for him.
All smiles and folksy during his keynote speech at the Garma Festival on Saturday, Albanese had a new vision for Indigenous Australia. “Renewable energy,” he declared, was “the best chance Australia has ever had to bring genuine self-determination and lasting economic empowerment to remote communities”.
He mentioned Makarrata only once, saying his government remained “committed”. It did not take long for his audience to twig.
“We are not happy. My people and I are not happy that there was no mention about the Makarrata [Commission] in his speeches here,” said NT ~Legislative Assembly member and Liya-dhälinymirr Djambarrpuyŋu man Mark Guyula. Albanese, he protested, “won’t walk through the fire”.
Not so, Mark Guyula.
~If ever there was a man who walked through the fire at Garma, it was Albanese.
How else do you explain the smoke coming from his pants? 😂
Asked by Insiders host David Speers on Saturday about the Makarrata process, Albanese was coy.
~What of the truth and justice commission, asked Speers.
“That’s not what we have proposed,” replied Albanese. “What we’ve proposed is Makarrata just being the – the idea of coming together.” Feigning bemusement, he said he was “somewhat perplexed at why people see that as being complex”.
His banal definition of Makarrata was remarkably different from what he previously envisaged. Addressing parliament in 2020, the then opposition leader spoke reverently not just of the proposed voice, but also of what was to follow.
“The liberation of truth must be followed by agreement-making, which the Uluru Statement expresses as a Makarrata Commission,” he said. “Let that great Yolngu word ‘Makarrata’ spread from East Arnhem Land and fill an entire continent.
Let everyone feel what those four syllables hold.
What does it mean?”
Good question. What does it mean, Albo, or rather what did you want it to mean back then?
“Conflict resolution, making peace after a dispute, justice, the path to national treaty — agreements that acknowledge the pre-existing rights of a people in a land where sovereignty was never ceded, and we have it within us to do it,” he said.
This was no off-the-cuff remark. “The voice will be nothing without truth-telling,” said Albanese in February 2021. “Without it, we cannot be whole. A Makarrata Commission as outlined in the Uluru Statement would oversee a national process of truth-telling, agreement and treaty making.”
And again, six months later: “As a priority, Labor will establish a Makarrata Commission with responsibility for truth-telling and treaty. It will be established through a process of open nominations and review.”
In November 2021 he resumed these parliamentary declarations. “We will implement the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full,” he said, a commitment that was repeated in his victory speech. Pointing to the members of the Morrison government, he declared this was “something that hasn’t been advanced from those opposite”.
“It’s always just about the announcement and never the delivery for a prime minister who is just not up to the job,” he said, a line of exquisite irony.
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He has done it.
Finally @AlboMP has made good on one of his many promises.
~Think back to election night in 2022 when he gave his victory speech, declaring, he “wanted to bring Australians together”.
Admittedly he has gone about it in an unusual way, having broken a promise in order to keep a promise.
~As we learned on the weekend, he has quietly rissoled the proposed Makarrata Commission, which the Uluru Statement had envisaged would oversee treaties and so-called truth-telling.
This has infuriated Indigenous activists.
~Like many before them, they made the mistake of believing Albanese could be trusted.
But in one respect he has delivered, albeit inadvertently.
~The Prime Minister has brought Australians together, even if their only thing in common is their disdain for him.
All smiles and folksy during his keynote speech at the Garma Festival on Saturday, Albanese had a new vision for Indigenous Australia. “Renewable energy,” he declared, was “the best chance Australia has ever had to bring genuine self-determination and lasting economic empowerment to remote communities”.
He mentioned Makarrata only once, saying his government remained “committed”. It did not take long for his audience to twig.
“We are not happy. My people and I are not happy that there was no mention about the Makarrata [Commission] in his speeches here,” said NT ~Legislative Assembly member and Liya-dhälinymirr Djambarrpuyŋu man Mark Guyula. Albanese, he protested, “won’t walk through the fire”.
Not so, Mark Guyula.
~If ever there was a man who walked through the fire at Garma, it was Albanese.
How else do you explain the smoke coming from his pants? 😂
Asked by Insiders host David Speers on Saturday about the Makarrata process, Albanese was coy.
~What of the truth and justice commission, asked Speers.
“That’s not what we have proposed,” replied Albanese. “What we’ve proposed is Makarrata just being the – the idea of coming together.” Feigning bemusement, he said he was “somewhat perplexed at why people see that as being complex”.
His banal definition of Makarrata was remarkably different from what he previously envisaged. Addressing parliament in 2020, the then opposition leader spoke reverently not just of the proposed voice, but also of what was to follow.
“The liberation of truth must be followed by agreement-making, which the Uluru Statement expresses as a Makarrata Commission,” he said. “Let that great Yolngu word ‘Makarrata’ spread from East Arnhem Land and fill an entire continent.
Let everyone feel what those four syllables hold.
What does it mean?”
Good question. What does it mean, Albo, or rather what did you want it to mean back then?
“Conflict resolution, making peace after a dispute, justice, the path to national treaty — agreements that acknowledge the pre-existing rights of a people in a land where sovereignty was never ceded, and we have it within us to do it,” he said.
This was no off-the-cuff remark. “The voice will be nothing without truth-telling,” said Albanese in February 2021. “Without it, we cannot be whole. A Makarrata Commission as outlined in the Uluru Statement would oversee a national process of truth-telling, agreement and treaty making.”
And again, six months later: “As a priority, Labor will establish a Makarrata Commission with responsibility for truth-telling and treaty. It will be established through a process of open nominations and review.”
In November 2021 he resumed these parliamentary declarations. “We will implement the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full,” he said, a commitment that was repeated in his victory speech. Pointing to the members of the Morrison government, he declared this was “something that hasn’t been advanced from those opposite”.
“It’s always just about the announcement and never the delivery for a prime minister who is just not up to the job,” he said, a line of exquisite irony.
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Allan naive to expect Andrews-like fealty
Victoria is well on its way to becoming Venezuela. The only good news is the animals in Melbourne Zoo are not on the menu, at least for now.
#THEMOCKER
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For the last week I have devoted much of my time to trying to fill a large knowledge gap concerning developments in the Middle East. The fault is mine alone and one that arose through not paying attention to what was happening in Gaza.
I had thought, wrongly as it turned out, that I had at least a basic understanding of the conflict and Hamas’s objectives. It was only a few days ago that my ignorance became apparent to me, when I learned that Australia had backed a General Assembly resolution calling for the Security Council to admit Palestine as a member state.
Boy was I surprised. Less than a week after the October 7 attacks, Foreign Minister Penny Wong told journalists that Hamas’s atrocities had “pushed that prospect of peace further away and lessened the chance of the aspirations of the Palestinian peoples to be realised”. She reiterated the same message later that month, telling the Jewish Community Council of South Australia that “the two-state solution is further out of reach”.
But remarkable events have since occurred, all of which escaped my attention and that of many others, to change that. I can only conclude the members of Hamas experienced a mass epiphany. They have now decided it is morally problematic to kidnap, rape, and slaughter Jews. No doubt they have laid down their arms and now embrace their Israeli neighbours. In fact this renouncing of intifada now sees the former terrorists tending to their olive trees, composing poetry, and breeding racing pigeons.
~Did I get that right?
Forgive my facetiousness, but that last bit is more believable compared to Wong’s justification for Australia’s voting as it did. “This is a clear rejection of the goals and methods of Hamas,” she declared with a straight face.
Indeed, minister. You would have us believe its leaders immediately held crisis meetings following your announcement. The only conceivable way the Albanese government’s ‘strategy’ could amount to a thwarting of Hamas would be if it members suffered a giggle fit upon learning of Wong’s claim.
Ditto for Wong’s insistence that this decision was “not about whether Australia recognises Palestine”. That was disingenuous. At its federal conference in 2021, the ALP elevated to its national platform a resolution of 2018 which called on the next Labor government “to recognise Palestine as a state”. Who successfully moved this amendment? Why, none other than Wong herself.
It is not just the public who have been duped. Among those who at the time played down the significance of Wong’s amendment was Jewish-Australian and Labor MP Josh Burns. Labor’s policy “has not changed at all,” he told Australian Jewish News the day after it was passed. “We remain supporters of a two-state solution and we remain strong and unwavering friends of the State of Israel.”
It was a disillusioned Burns who emerged last week, realising he had been played like a fiddle by his own party.
“Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Australia and the decision [to back the UN resolution] will make Jewish Australians feel more isolated as they remain gravely concerned for the hostages in Gaza,” he wrote in an Instagram post. Noting that Wong had said only last month in her speech to the ANU National Security College that “any future Palestinian state cannot be in a position to threaten Israel’s security and will need a reformed Palestinian Authority,” Burns’s language was restrained but he was clearly seething.
“In my opinion, these conditions have not been met yet,” he said.
~In other words, pants on fire, Penny Wong.
And not just Wong. Responding to questions last month following the Foreign Minister’s ANU speech, Anthony Albanese resorted to a familiar phrase that, thanks entirely to the incumbent, is a colloquialism for prime ministerial mendacity. “Nothing has changed in our position,” he said. Stage three tax cuts, anyone?
The decision to back Palestine’s UN bid has nothing to do with seeking Middle East peace and everything to do with appeasing the burgeoning number of anti-Semitists in the party’s ranks.
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It was harsh and unfair of me to say Immigration Minister Andrew Giles botched the release of murderers, rapists, and paedophiles into the community. In fact, given his background as a socialist left lawyer for asylum seekers, he did an excellent job.
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It has been two years since Immigration Minister Andrew Giles assumed his portfolio, and his performance has been the subject of much mention these last seven months. Suffice to say he is a reminder that ministers should not be appointed unless they at least have a passing knowledge of the concept of ministerial responsibility in the Westminster system.
No example better illustrates Giles’s ineptitude than his failure to manage the 149 immigration detainees released into the community following the High Court’s decision in the case of NZYQ in November, which held that immigration detainees could not be held in custody indefinitely if there was no reasonable prospect of their being deported.
On reflection, it was harsh and unfair of me to say Giles botched their release. If anything, he speedily managed the discharge of these criminals and other undesirables, including murderers, rapists, and paedophiles. So speedily in fact that just days after the court’s decision, 27 of them were dumped at a suburban motel in Perth without supervision. What I should have said was that Giles did an excellent job of releasing them quickly but has proved utterly useless at ensuring the community’s safety in the process.
That debacle is of little surprise, given he had no legislative contingency plans for an adverse decision in the NZYQ case, despite the court’s intimating in June that it would overturn its precedent allowing indefinite detaining of dangerous unlawful citizens. That Giles was absent for at least three meetings with senior legal counsel from his department in the lead-up to the court’s decision is a remarkable case of ministerial indifference.
https://t.co/Nnih05ndH8
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Stay home Alice Springs, the Prime Minister’s got his eye on this Watching the footage of mass rioting last week in Alice Springs, I half-expected the Northern Territory government to announce the town had signed a sister city agreement with Juba, South Sudan. -Wanton vandalism, vicious assaults, gangs of youths roaming the streets armed with axes, knives and clubs, rampant car theft and burglary, bloody feuds – yes, I thought, Central Australia is ticking all the boxes.
-For Alice Springs residents, safety is best observed by staying at home. But even that does not guarantee security. Fail to fortify your house, and chances are one night you will discover an intruder holding a machete to your throat. If you are lucky, they will just demand the car keys.
Daytime does not mean respite. Last week terrified patrons barricaded themselves in the Todd Tavern whilst rioters threw bricks, smashed windows and hurled themselves at the locked entrance. The mob also trashed cars and other local businesses. Police were outnumbered and overwhelmed.
As Alice Springs mayor Matt Paterson told The Australian, the situation shocked even hardened Territorians.
“Yesterday was the worst I’ve ever seen, and I’ve spoken to people who’ve lived here much longer than I have, and … it’s the worst they’ve ever seen it,” he said, pleading for the federal government to intervene.
But the besieged residents of Alice Springs need not fear. The Prime Minister has heeded your cries for help. Speaking last week from Muswellbrook, NSW, where he had just announced his plan to shower the solar panel industry with a billion dollars in taxpayer-funded subsidies, Anthony Albanese was asked when he would go to Alice Springs. His response?
“We are continuing to monitor what is happening there,” he said.
There you have it. This is splendid news to distressed locals and testament to the Prime Minister’s hands-on approach. Monitoring the situation in Alice Springs is a longstanding Albanese project, you see. He began monitoring this situation in July 2022, when Indigenous leaders wrote to him, warning the impending expiry of federal government alcohol bans in the NT would lead to violence and disorder.
Albanese did absolutely nothing to address this, but the important thing is he continued to monitor the situation. And when soaring alcohol-fuelled violence and property offences brought chaos to Alice Springs in January last year, he continued to monitor the situation from Canberra. In fact, following much criticism from political opponents and disquiet from his own party, he even made a marathon four-hour visit to the town, which I am sure all will agree was a stupendous effort. Make no mistake, Territorians. -Even if the entire town is set ablaze, Albanese will continue to monitor the situation.😏
Pressed in Muswellbrook as to when he would visit the town, Albanese was both coy and defensive. “I have visited the Northern Territory nine times,” he insisted. When asked how many of those visits were to Alice Springs, he avoided the question.
And let it be said that all these visits to the NT were prompted by Albanese’s unfailing focus on mainstream issues. For example, he went to the last two Garma Festivals to plug his botched Indigenous voice to parliament referendum. And who could forget the moving images of the Prime Minster having a good weepy as he was presented with a copy of the Uluru Statement from the Heart just days before the referendum?
Then there was Albanese’s visit to Darwin in November for an ALP fundraiser at an upmarket restaurant. As the NT News reported, all that concerned locals needed to do to speak with him was fork out $5000 a head for the privilege. This is yet another example of Albo’s everyman credentials.
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It has been only three months since Miles succeeded Annastacia Palaszczuk, yet in that brief period he has established a reputation for unparalleled munificence.
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Premier Steven Miles, I have decided, is a man who is incredibly generous. Such is his capacity for giving to others that he is by far the most generous man in Queensland. In fact, he is the most generous man in Australia and could well be the most generous man in the southern hemisphere.
It has been only three months since Miles succeeded Annastacia Palaszczuk, yet in that brief period he has established a reputation for unparalleled munificence. Thinking of enrolling your kids in weekend sport? Miles is sending $150 your way. Are you a small business owner who could do with an energy rebate? Miles has $650 for you. On that note he is giving every Queensland household a $550 rebate on their electricity bill this year. And while he is at it, Miles is splashing out $4000 for every household that installs a solar battery. How generous is this bloke?
If you are a Queensland senior, that nice Mr Miles will give you a new pair of glasses. Are you a budding visual arts student? Come join the 10,000 students whose TAFE courses will be paid by Miles.
Do you have children in high school?
Miles will give you $337 to buy them textbooks and forget those pre-school fees, for Miles will foot the bill.
What you see before you is the philanthropist politician.
The largesse he bestows on the masses flows from Miles like puss from an exploding pimple.
But alarmingly, an ignorant electorate fails to acknowledge that Miles is the great provider, or that he does so out of a sense of benevolence.
In last weekend’s by-elections the ALP lost the formerly safe seat of Ipswich West to the LNP, suffering a 17% swing.
It has retained Palaszczuk’s former seat of Inala, but at the cost of a massive 21% swing.
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For this career politician, politics is not about self-advancement but instead self-sacrifice for the good of the country.
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Having watched the Prime Minister address the National Press Club on Thursday, I just want to say as an Australian that I feel much respected by his government. You too undoubtedly feel much respected. All of us feel much respected because Anthony Albanese constantly tells us how much he respects everyone. As he said during his election night speech in 2022: “I can promise all Australians this — no matter how you voted today, the government I lead will respect every one of you every day.”
For this career politician, politics is not about self-advancement but instead self-sacrifice for the good of the country. These were the principles he espoused during his first parliamentary speech as the country’s new leader. “My colleagues and I want to treat every day in this job in this place in government as an opportunity to deliver for the people of Australia, to fulfil our promises and to prove worthy of the trust that the Australian people have placed in us,” he said.
We should remind ourselves frequently how fortunate we are to have a leader who respects us. One need only contrast Honest Albo with his immediate predecessor to see what happens when we have a leader who disrespects us by telling fibs.
-As Albanese said of Scott Morrison in 2021, he was “a leader whose words have become meaningless”.
That is what happens when you abuse trust, as the then opposition leader reiterated. Morrison was “a prime minister who has no regard for what he said yesterday, so you should have no regard for what he says today,” said Albanese. “Having already shown Australians and the premiers and the media and his colleagues and the parliament and France and the United States that he can’t be trusted, Scott Morrison has now reached a point where he can’t even trust himself.”
-You might remember it was on this day in 2022 that Albanese addressed the National Press Club and was asked by then ABC political editor Andrew Probyn:
-“Who is Anthony Albanese?” Following the lengthy standard spiel about his humble origins, Albanese invited the audience to read his biography written by journalist Karen Middleton.
Its title reflected “the way I engage in politics,” said Albanese.
-“I tell it straight.”😂
He told it straight during the election campaign.
“We’ve no intention of making any super changes,” he said, a promise he kept for a whole nine months.
-“One of the things that we’re doing in this campaign is we’re making all of our policies clear.”
Like Albanese, Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers is someone who tells it straight. Announcing in 2021 that Labor would honour the Morrison government’s stage three tax cuts, he and Albanese stressed the party was doing so to ensure “certainty” for Australians.
But as we learned this week, the government, citing a cost-of-living crisis, intends significantly curtailing tax cuts for those with taxable incomes above $150,000, instead announcing it would direct the moneys to lower and middle-income earners.
This backflip can only be explained by a remarkable and recent change of circumstances. Asked repeatedly two weeks ago by ABC News Breakfast presenter Michael Rowland whether Labor’s promise was still good, a testy Albanese accused him of playing “word games”, saying “nothing has changed” and “the government has exactly the same position”. This was the same Albanese who declared just days before the election that he wanted to “change the way that politics operates in this country” by “actually answering questions”.
I admit to being puzzled about the contrast between what Albanese told Rowland as opposed to what he told us on Thursday, but given he always plays it straight and respects us, I have concluded this cost-of-living crisis arose only after that interview.
And nothing says fair and equitable like government taking from a minority to ingratiate itself with the majority.
Imagine not being able to say whatever you want without being subject to #MichelleRowland’s judgment of ‘impartial’ truth!
Better still as #theMocker said in today’s #Australian “the new #ACMA fact checkers will be Tim Flannery, Bruce Pascoe and Norman Swan”.
Australia gets a new PM, the Solomon Islands get a top-notch new Chinese military base, and the STC debuts its brave new production ‘From the River to the Sea’.
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Issue by Issue - Silver Star #2 https://t.co/d9tXE0v0Ma via @TheTelltaleMind #SilverStar #JackKirby #SteveDitko #PacificComics #sciencefiction #DariusDrumm #TheMocker
Reposting from Instagram: #DitkoBer2021 Day 14: The #Mocker! #SteveDitko #Ditko #DitkoBer #JeauxJanovsky #JeauxJ #JeauxJanovskyArt #TheMocker #PacificComics #RobinSnyder #BlackAndWhite #Noir
@Tim_jbo Excellent balanced piece by #TheMocker setting the record straight while exposing lot of #FakeOutrage #hypocrisy, destroying #myths about #Leak’s cartoon, calling out #PaulBarry, #KRudd with a novel concept for #TheirABC ...the use of relevant facts.
A great piece! MUST READ.
This is brilliant from #themocker @australian, ping @PaulForbesRFS @AStrongerOZ @theo_troy @michaelsnape - RT if you agree. https://t.co/oj0ay0MJxH
New Zealand’s progressive PM @jacindaardern enjoys lecturing Australia on asylum seekers, writes @Oz_Mocker. But it’s about time she focused on her own problems
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