I was stunned when I saw Scomo not willing to properly apologise to the people who suffered heavily from the Liberal Party government’s Robodebt fiasco. Instead, he refers to the difficulties involved in debt collecting. What is this ? Do the people who were driven close to suicide when faced with huge sent-in-error Centerlink payback demands not deserve an apology? Reading the stories of affected individuals is heartbreaking. And what about the tax-payers whose hard-earned money has been so obviously wasted by the Liberal Government ? What was supposed to save the government 1.7 billion dollars now costs the tax payer 1.2 billion dollars. It is the biggest class-action in Australian history! This stinks and Scomo knows it. Read this very well written article in TheConversation.

It takes character and empathy to face the consequences of a big mistake on behalf of a government and deal with this matter properly. Scomo just does not get it and the voters will remember this. I am sure, Jacinda Adern would have dealt with this much more appropriately, if she were in Scomo’s place. She might not have allowed a computer-based debt collection process in the first place which is the real core of the problem.

Read this article in The Conversation

“Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election raises a perennial question about what Rupert Murdoch does when the candidate he has opposed wins.

Answer: He adapts and he waits. Electoral cycles last three, four or five years. Murdoch has been wielding power for five decades.

Murdoch is a chameleon. It is true that when political and business conditions are favourable he glows brightly in blood-red conservatism. But when, as now, conditions are uncertain, the colour dims and takes on a more complex hue.”

Murdoch has no permanent “friends” or permanent “enemies” – just permanent interests!

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Psychologist Margaret Rutherford reveals what’s entailed in overly thriving for perfectionism.

How to get over “never-good-enough”

How is it we are here, on this path we walk,
In this world of pointless fear, filled with empty talk,
Descending from the apes as scientist-priests all think,
Will they save us in the end, we’re trembling on the brink.

Men’s mighty mine-machines digging in the ground,
Stealing rare minerals where they can be found.
Concrete caves with iron doors, bury it again,
While a starving frightened world fills the sea with grain.

Her love is like a fire burning inside. Her love is so much higher it can’t be denied,
She sends us her glory, it’s always been there,
Her love’s all around us, it’s there for you and me to share.

The Moody Blues, How is it (we are here), 1970

Yepp, that sums it up nicely.

Look, team: we’ve paid 10 times too much for land, bought water from friends for double the cost, done huge favours for fossile fuel donors, ruined lives with bogus debts, bribed electorates with Sports, fabricated documents to smear opponents, fair enough, BUT…..

, … buying EXPENSIVE WATCHES for EMPLOYEES is where I DRAW THE LINE.

Leppington triangle, Angus Taylor water buyback scandal, mining industry, bogus robodebts, sports grants affair, Angus Taylor (the one with more than 9 lives) fabricated documents scandal – nothing to see here. Australia Post Christine Holgate buys watches 2 years ago for employees as a reward for performance – must go. Says it all.

I just could not resist watching this video today. Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones) performing for President Obama, family and friends. How I miss having Obama there!

https://profile.theguardian.com/user/id/18149478?page=1

“So little Joshie Frydenberg, the puffed-up bully-boy,
confected outrage specialist and ScoMo’s dinky toy,
has demonstrated yet once more his arrogant disdain
for decency in parliament by going off his brain
with quite the demonstration of ambition gone berserk,
a rant that left him looking like a monumental jerk,
so here’s to all Victorians, you’ve done a mighty job,
and next time vote out Joshua, the biggest southern knob,
for Coalition negligence left nursing homes alone
while private owners raked in cash and tossed the aged a bone.”

Author: GazzaFromGrongGrong, The Guardian