coljones

I am not kidding Marty, for example there was a high-school teacher who couldn't write his own report cards. His senior had to do it for him. Now he probably should have learned more at primary school, but the main thing is he should not have been made a graduate teacher.

But at the end of the day your example (education failure rate) is still much lower than, say, Rotax engines. Quite a few technical graduates are highly literate in their primary languge, mathematics, the language they use all day in their jobs. Business and education could give greater concideration to providing PAs to technical professionals who can spend a bit of time fixing up the lousy spelling of professionals when they communicate with the technical illiterates among business, politics and the general public.

 

 

Queensland had many things before the rest of the Country.I know we laugh at ourselves about setting our clocks back to the last century, but when you look at history Qld led the way in many things.

 

The Golden casket paid for free medical in Qld since before I was born.

 

When Medibank, (the forrunner to medicare) came in I remember my fathers comment. Now I have to pay for my free medical.

 

And he was not only serious but he was also correct.

Someone had to pay for the tickets. If Queenslanders had got moral the medical system would have collapsed.

 

 

YippeeSouth Australia, is putting FREE solar panels on houses, only state owned at first, but later, free lather.

 

When will this state (NSW) get on that band-wagon.

 

spacesailor

Nothing free in life. The houses upon which the panels and batteries are to be placed will pay for their power to offset the capital investment and operating costs incurred by private investors ($800mill) but the upside for SA is a distributed power system which is more resilient than centralised power from a single source such as coal fired or imported from NSW/Vic. It also appears that the final bill to the householder/generator will be a saving of 30% on their bill.

 

 

Maybe Jolliffe had seen too many empty gestures from white people before and thought that nothing would really change. He knew ahead of time about the perfidious LNP and their manipulation of the laws.

 

 

They look like German tourists. Jobs? - the proud and noble aboriginal was tossed off their lands and only permitted back if they worked for slave wages (if they were lucky).

 

 

Farmers in the Wimmera this grain-carting season were treated even worse ( than we are by CASA ) by transport dept types. One farmer was fined hundreds because a tie-down strap had a half-turn in it. Another because his seat had a small tear. All this terrorism was justified on "safety" grounds and defended by the minister, although not specifically those 2 cases.The tie-down strap guy later won in court, if he had lost there it would have cost him thousands.

 

Regulated out of earning money? For sure.

 

Where was the local MP ( Andrew Broad, a Brumby owner and inheritor of political fortune ) in all this I wonder.

Broad is hunting down gays - they are everywhere, in the cupboards, hiding in the cornflakes packs, sitting in the front row of churches, even among pilots - Andrew, it is time to get back to your day job!!

 

 

Traditional spectator sports are very wasteful of resources. The money about to be poured into stadiums in NSW is outrageous and represents a transfer of vast amounts of money from the taxpayer to narrow financial interests from whom the taxpayers can expect little return. On the other hand eSports are very efficient with the bulk of costs falling to the participants rather than innocent bystanders. Sport needs to be moved off the ABC to, say, 2GB, where the listeners know no pain, and the bills are paid by advertising.

 

 

Who should get more money? The head of BHP, the PM, Pauline or the head of a charity? Should Alan Jones and the rest of the entertainment industry suck the country dry?

 

 

You might have better luck over on RecFlying.

 

 

I just read a good story about how the first colony city on the moon operated.It belonged to Kenya...Why? because Kenya offered a deregulated environment in which things could happen without being stopped by "safety " bureaucracy. So several big companies moved there .

 

Jabiru has a better go at being innovative in South Africa than they do here, look at the two engined plane as an example.

 

And medically, it is already cheaper to go overseas to escape our over-regulated and litigation-hampered situation here.

 

Gosh we could go ahead if only people could really choose to do things at their own risk.

Or you could work in illegal sweat shops with zero safety at slave labour pay in Australia, working for a BMW driving Young Liberal hounding you back to work with threats of dobbing the workers into social security or immigration or both.

 

 

Catholic Archbishop Blames Disobedient Wives For Domestic Violence

We have pretty strong defamation laws here, and it is also a criminal offence to "falsely accuse on an indictable offence". However, women are running 'offences against women' empire, and it was, in my time, prohibited to charge a female for making a false report of an offence involving her and a male. I suppose that nowadays, I should say "her and another person with whom the complainant has a relationship.", cause girls fight each other, too.

And in the olden days it was known that the male would take the female out and belt her til she told "the truth" or for the sergeant told her to go back to the offender as a domestic causes too much paperwork. Yes, there are women who prey on men but the domestic violence and assault visited on women is much more prevalent and unreported.

 

 

Recent events in OZ have the politicians and police lining up the media to be present during a raid of a very dubious nature. In other cases the politicians and police refuse to listen and it is only through the media does an action get investigated.

 

 

As I alluded to, sometimes civilized behaviour sometimes has to take a step back in order to deal with uncivilized behaviour. Are we too concerned with the "rights" of perpetrators? Male apes will fight to protect breeding females. Is PC such a director of our lives that following protocols supersedes summary justice?

However, once again we have drifted off topic. My point is: "Have so skewed our pursuit of Justice in male/female interactions that the word of a woman is worth the word of two men?" Are we bound to believe every claim of a woman and dismiss a man's counter claim? Don't forget that the Oldest Profession is predominantly practised by females, and its variants are taught to them from birth.

There are all sorts of bias in evidence. Your years as a cop should have shown you that. They used to call it verballing in the old days and very few women used to endulge.

 

 

Yet another well-known male has been found guilty in a trial by Media of alleged offensive behaviour having a sexual connotation.

No investigation of the allegations, which date the behaviour to a time four years ago, has been completed. No properly constituted tribunal has examined and adjudged the allegations. Yet this man has been forced to stand down from his current workplace, and his employment elsewhere this year has been, at best, postponed.

 

On what basis? The words of several females who, having said nothing at the time of the alleged behaviour, have now jumped on the Weinstein bandwagon. One of these women had the temerity to say "I didn't even know it was sexual harassment." Another said that she spoke up despite the risk of not working "in a musical" again.

 

Four years to realise what some action was? C'mon! What grade of thespian misses a cue by four years?

 

But let these claims, belated though they are, be a danger warning to all men, in all occupations. No male can defend himself against a woman's allegation of misconduct towards her. The System is so heavily weighted towards acceptance of anything a woman says, to the detriment of any counter claim a man says.

 

I strongly support equality in the workplace, especially as the tough physical work has almost been eliminated from it. Yes to equal pay for equal work. But for equal pay, expect equal treatment.

 

Can a man complain about bullying actions by women? Not on your Nelly. Can a man complain about a woman wearing alluring clothing? Not a chance.

 

I wonder what would happen if a man refused to work with women on the basis that working with women left him liable to indefensible complaints from women?

There are quite a few power relationships you might examine and ask if the behaviours are fair and reasonable. The Telegraph invents news but most of the rest see some fire among the smoke. There have been enough convictions recently that would suggest that silence among the victims is self preservation and it is only with an active press and support for the victims is justice, mediocre as it tends to be, is acheived. I hope that justice for the innocents is acheived.

 

 

If you are ever in Denmark head for Egeskov Castle for a fine collection of bikes

 

Motorcycle exhibition

 

 

More kerfuffle over referring MP's to the High Court delaying getting on with business.

Well, that gives them pause from beating up on pensioners, the unemployed, refugees and unionists. There are some upsides in life

 

 

Octave, did you read my post #77? It's getting to the stage that when filling in a form, when listing an emergency contact, you will have to list their relationship as Partner, not Wife. Maybe not just yet, but that's the way it's heading.Just one more "Politically Correct, don't upset the LGBTTQI lot" rule. They seem to be able to upset us traditionalists daily without restriction.

You are asked about the relationship with your emergency contact. It is up to you how you describe - husband, daughter, father, codependent, de-facto, lover, brother, wife etc

 

 

What would be wrong with" Mrs, Pam Jones ",Sounds normal to me.

 

spacesailor

That would be normal but then and now some people think that women become invisible after marriage.

 

 

How about "this is Fred, one of the kids". For a long while some groups addressed my wife, Pam, as Mrs. Colin Jones. Her name wasn't Colin and I wasn't a lady. We were not amused!!

 

 

I agree with that, I was responding to Peter's post below. Kenneally is an Australian citizen and has renounced her US citizenship, but somehow she's not an "Australian".

But she is part of the ALP Right Wing Scum best known for looking after the mates than looking after Australia.

 

 

Obviously he's not going to stock pork products. The difference is, of course, that he'd probably happily sell you all the halal lamb & chicken you could carry, regardless of the fact that you don't share his belief system.

Obviously he's not going to stock pork products. The difference is, of course, that he'd probably happily sell you all the halal lamb & chicken you could carry, regardless of the fact that you don't share his belief system.

I had a halal beef sausage in a roll at Bunning Greenacre. It tasted fantastic. I suppose if you buy halal you get what you pay for rather than some unidentifiable sludge.

 

 

If the politicians weren't gutless and did their jobs this whole issue would have been sorted out two years ago.

 

 

She's an Australian who is an American who is not an American citizen but an Australian citizen. Simple. Listen to her & she is an American, but luckily not one with a whiny nasal voice. Confused? You are not alone.

Leave Michaela Cash out of this!!!

 

 

As I've said before, The Constitution specifies that our representatives shall be elected DIRECTLY by the people- not INDIRECTLY via Party priorities. Why then, are we able to vote above the line and, in effect, allow political parties (who are not even mentioned in the damned constitution) to choose our reps. for us?Surely this is is MUCH more blatant breach of our national constitution than the trivia of where a parent was born.

you can vote below the line. the most recent reforms took most of the power of the parties controlling flows away in so much as above the line votes can only flow to the party list unless the voter adds more lists by numbering more than [1]. Due to preference farming by wacko groups the ticket grew to gigantic proportions which meant that chances of error crept in when voting below the line. in the vast majority of cases people voted a arty ticket so above the line voting was introduced to allow people to vote a ticket without errors creeping in. I vote below the line to put Fred Nile, Shooters, the National Party, anti-vaxers and other bottom feeders down the bottom, where they deserve to be.