Dear @AustralianLabor
Kids should not be in federal politics!
Here we see a 21yr old Labor Sen standing with one foot on a swivel chair, the other on an ergonomic ‘adjustable’ desk and a baggy dress over the chairs back rest….30cm from a large fucking window. Brains of a slug!
Greens leader David Shoebridge: “time to tax the rich.”
Also David Shoebridge: four properties in his wife’s name, and no comment on the tax breaks.
Woollahra home, transferred to her in 2007, then estimated at $2.2m in a suburb where houses now clear $4m.
Darlinghurst flat, bought for $535k, later around $1.5m.
Ultimo terrace, bought for $543k, then estimated at $1.4m.
Plus one interstate.
He’s on the mortgages.
Asked what tax breaks she used to build the portfolio, he declined to answer.
Elites are a problem. Just not when the title is in the spouse’s name, and you conveniently live in the most expensive one.
This is NOT a drill... these are the legal bars of the open-air prison that it will soon be a crime to even TALK about much less try and break free from.
When you combine the Digital Duty of Care with the Hate Groups Bill... you get legal railroad leading DIRECTLY to prison for anyone who resists... and a total online GAG ORDER for anyone who dares to speak up.
If you're thinking "It can't happen here"... that apathy is exactly why it CAN happen here.
Not only CAN Albo ban Pauline Hanson's Please Explain and One Nation Party, if he does, we will be silenced on ever digital platform from even speaking out about it.
Watch and see for yourself, this isn't a hypothetical, it's built in to the Digital Duty of Care.
https://t.co/jQ2VNwfF5i
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Welcome back to Firearm Friday! This week we’ve got something that looks more at home in a traditional hunting cabinet than an H&K catalogue, but underneath that timber is Heckler & Koch engineering. Meet the HK 630.
When most people hear the name Heckler & Koch, their mind probably jumps straight to firearms such as the G3, HK91 or MP5. The HK 630 is a rather different looking member of the family. With its traditional timber sporting stock and relatively understated appearance, you could easily walk past one without realising that internally it shares some very interesting engineering with H&K's better-known military designs.
The Heckler & Koch HK 630 was a German-made semi-automatic sporting rifle chambered in .223 Remington/5.56×45mm. It belonged to a family of sporting rifles produced by H&K that included larger-calibre models such as the HK 770 and HK 940. What makes these rifles particularly interesting today is H&K's decision to adapt its famous roller-delayed blowback operating system to a rifle intended primarily for the sporting and hunting market.
Rather than using the gas-operated action found in many conventional semi-automatic hunting rifles, the 630 employs the same general roller-delayed principle for which H&K became famous. Closely related systems appeared in firearms including the G3 and MP5. The chamber was also fluted to assist extraction, another characteristic strongly associated with H&K's roller-delayed firearms.
Where the HK 630 differs dramatically is in presentation. H&K wrapped all that German engineering in a much more conventional sporting package. The rifle features a full wooden sporting stock, longer sporting-profile barrel and conventional sights rather than trying to resemble one of the company's military rifles.
One unusual feature is the charging handle. Instead of the familiar forward-mounted handle seen on firearms such as the G3 and MP5, the 630's handle is positioned toward the rear of the receiver on the right-hand side. The rifle feeds from proprietary detachable magazines rather than the magazines used by H&K's military rifles.
The 630 is particularly important when looking at the history of another unusual H&K, the SL6. The relationship actually runs the opposite way to what can sometimes be assumed: the HK 630 came first, and the SL6 was subsequently developed from the same sporting-rifle design. The SL6 essentially pushed the concept in a more military-influenced direction, using a shorter barrel, wooden fore-end and H&K-style diopter sights while retaining the basic roller-delayed system. Sources describing the SL6 specifically identify the 630-family sporting rifle as its predecessor.
The family never became as commercially successful as H&K's military designs. They were comparatively expensive rifles to manufacture and buy, and production numbers were limited. Surviving examples have consequently become interesting collector pieces, particularly for enthusiasts wanting something from the stranger corners of H&K's catalogue. Reported factory date codes indicate HK 630 examples from the 1980s, although precise production ranges quoted by collectors vary.
The later SL6 and SL7 continued the idea, combining sporting timber furniture with unmistakably H&K mechanical features. The SL6 manual, for example, specifies a polygonal barrel and H&K's roller system, illustrating just how much of the company's established engineering made its way into these unusual sporting rifles.
Today, the HK 630 represents a fascinating period in Heckler & Koch history. It doesn't have the instantly recognisable silhouette of an MP5 or G3, and that's precisely what makes it interesting. Underneath the polished timber and sporting-rifle appearance is a piece of classic Cold War-era German engineering, and one that helped provide the foundation for the later SL6.
So that's this week's Firearm Friday, proof that not every Heckler & Koch needs black furniture and a military pedigree to be interesting! The HK 630 might look like a gentleman's hunting rifle, but underneath the timber it's still very much an H&K.
We'll dig through the Owen Guns Museum collection and find something else interesting for next Friday, you will never know what other treasures we will find!
🚨BREAKING: ABC begins quietly scrubbing Gaza ‘journalists’ after IDF releases terror evidence
The taxpayer-funded broadcaster is discreetly editing its Gaza coverage after evidence mounted that "journalists" it mourned were terrorists.
Full exclusive report with statement(s) from the ABC: https://t.co/0sCw6ZBmtW
We get it, Mehreen. It's not easy being Green
Denied the Greens top job, Mehreen Faruqi reacted not with magnanimity but with a familiar blast of indignation, turning her loss into yet another performance of grievance.
✍🏽 THE MOCKER
#MehreenFaruqi, I feel your pain.
Like you, I was devastated when I learned yesterday you had missed out on your bid for the top job. Had you succeeded, it would have been a fantastic outcome for this column - sorry, I mean this country.
Here you were, the deputy leader of the Greens and the favourite to clinch the party leadership. I bet you had already drafted an acceptance speech peppered with the usual diatribes, no doubt claiming your elevation was a vindication of your stance against those (supposedly) genocidal Zionists.
Just think of what could have been. With characteristic self-indulgence, you would have observed your ascension was all the more remarkable, you being a Muslim woman of colour who all your life had been constantly thwarted and oppressed by whiteness, the patriarchy, structural racism, blah blah blah. And you would have ended your speech by claiming your victory was just the beginning of the struggle to overturn the settler colonial state.
But instead your colleagues opted for your fellow NSW senator #DavidShoebridge to lead them. In doing so, they sat you fair on your derrière.
You could even say they put you in the bin.
Bugger. 😏
Credit to you though. You would have accepted your defeat with good grace by congratulating Shoebridge and adding that despite your disappointment you respect the process and will work with the new leadership team. Right?
Not a chance. Instead you hurled your teddy of colour out of the cot. You denounced the process, saying “Without a member vote, we cannot call ourselves a grassroots party” and demanding the new leadership team “set a timeline for one member, one vote”.
It takes a lot of effrontery and petulance to stand out in a party of entitled brats. But for a 63-year-old to throw the hissy you did yesterday was quite the exhibition. You are too obnoxious and too militant for the Greens’ liking. Says it all, doesn’t it?
As to what the future holds for both you and the party, you have made that clear.
“I did not stand again for deputy leader today because, on reflection, I believe I can best play my part in that action outside the constraints of the leadership team,” you said.
Translation: “You are so going to pay for denying me the tiara that was rightfully mine. By the way, my term does not expire until June 2031. Ha!”
Poor David Shoebridge.
He might be leader in name, but Mehreen wears the cranky pants in this household.
On that note, Senator, would it help assuage your peevishness if he were to establish an honorary position in the Greens befitting your standing?
I am thinking something along the lines of primus inter prima donnas.
Look on the bright side. The only time you are genuinely happy is when you are in full misery guts mode. Your missing out on the leadership provides you with yet another excuse to screech discrimination and embark on the regular performative outrage tour. As you wrote in your memoir Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud in 2021:
“Being born a person of colour outside Australia is a permanent mark that is used to render me, and people like me, irrelevant and voiceless in white-colonised countries,” you said.
I could think of many words to describe you, Senator, but “voiceless” isn’t one of them. It is impossible to be voiceless when you have lungs the size of Lahore and a chronic case of poor-bloody-me.
You migrated here from your native Pakistan in 1992. I use the word migrated with reluctance, because your sourpuss demeanour and bilious outbursts are such you would think we forced you to come here. So entrenched is your victimhood I reckon you first bemoaned your lot here even before the aircraft arrived at the gate.
https://t.co/GEcKXjqwLQ
New Greens leader David Shoebridge:
"We're here to beat down One Nation."
"We're here to replace Labor."
Good Lord! We’re dealing with the bottom of the barrel here! This is who Labor does deals with, Labor and the Greens are both as bad as each other.
It’s a race to see who hits the bottom. Place them LAST!
The net zero lies and madness of the major parties is killing Australian manufacturing.
Yet another smelter is on the brink. And Albanese hands out a taxpayer-funded Band-Aid while Chris Bowen keeps piling on costs through his climate safeguard mechanism.
We export our resources, jobs and industries, then buy back the finished goods.
Meanwhile, we struggle to make our own medicines, steel and aluminium, and barely refine our own fuel.
The world is getting more dangerous. Australia needs cheap energy and the ability to make what we need here.
Only One Nation can be trusted to scrap net zero, abolish the climate change department and get Australia making things again.
We must use our own resources and stand on our own two feet.
Hey @PMalinauskasMP@alpsa
Exactly WTF is this moronic nincompoop doing ??
Is she HIGH??
Why the hell are taxpayers forced to pay her outrageous undeserved DEI salary??
Is she hoping to injure herself & get a massive taxpayer funded PAYOUT??