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I guess the Iran war exposes the fact that Australia has little oil storage, little oil refining capacity (and what little we have is taxpayer subsidised) and exploration and fracking is banned in many areas, and even if allowed there would be extensive green and red tape, lawfare and land rights claims.
The oil storage problem could easily be solved by mooring and repurposing unused old oil tankers, a common practice in properly managed countries.
Oh, but don’t worry, we have the world’s most fanatical commitment to wind and solar, that will save us! LoL.
A country in full self-destruct mode.
In the following video fake conservative Liberal PM Morrison four years ago proudly announces refusal to extend a petroleum exploration license in the Sydney Basin. Now all offshore oil and gas drilling is banned in NSW. https://youtu.be/v_LOAf9KkM8
And in the Great Australian Bight Equinor (2020), BP (2016) and Chevron (2017) were scared off from drilling because of Green pressure.
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Maybe it’s time for Australia to get serious about coal liquefaction?
China has quite a bit of expertise in that area. I’m sure they would be happy to help (for a price … Darwin perhaps?).
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I think coal liquefaction is still expensive, even at current oil prices and just like building a new power station, there is no chance of doing that any time soon, if ever, in Australia’s current political climate.
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Despite being under almost constant “aluminium overcast”, Germany raised this to something of an art-form in the last great unpleasantness,
That is why they “struck east”. It was not just a lust for “Lebensraum”, a ‘minor tiff” over who had the better form of socialism or the better costume designer.A vast proportion of the Wehrmacht’s logistics system was HORSE DRAWN, from the start. OK for a quick canter through the Low Countries or even agriculturally rich France. After the initial enormous losses, the soviets simply traded scorched earth for time. Germany also had access to the sizeable Ploiesti oil-fields and refineries in Romania. These were attacked in 1943 by the USAAF operating out of Libya. Operation “Tidal Wave”. A lot of “dumb” bombs were dropped. 53 aircraft and 500 aircrew were lost.
Basically all for nothing; there was little or NO reduction in production. The steady “erosion” of the German LOGISTICS system, (remember those unfortunate horses), and general road, rail and canal systems, meant that DISTRIBUTION of liquid fuels was a chancy business.
That was then, this is NOW.
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The way things are in South Africa we could probably transplant Sasol for a rolling start
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Oddly enough, our rice-propelled “mentors” LONG ago started building a large number of petroleum storage facilities.
These were NOT intended to “buffer” the fuel supplies for farmer Chen’s roto-tiller or his wife’s “Hongda Wave”.
Mechanized Divisions, strike aircraft and fast attack ships do NOT run on rainbows and unicorn farts.
The exact “contents” of these facilities is also subject to conjecture, because “ready use” light fractions are more tricky (dangerous) to store in large quantities.
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Australia’s problem is that every time a polly finds another taxable industry, that new tax is spent on middle class welfare that the 50% + 1 demand, not on nation building projects.
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You are right but I’m not sure Australia is unique in that regard.
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Yeah, but we’ve been there a loong time.
This is the last “national” project I can recall, you may remember others.
The Alice Springs to Darwin section of the Adelaide–Darwin railway was completed on 17 September 2003. This final stretch connected the transcontinental rail line, allowing the first freight train to reach Darwin on 17 January 2004, and the first passenger train, The Ghan, arrived in Darwin on 4 February 2004.
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the first passenger train, The Ghan, arrived in Darwin on 4 February 2004
The first TOURIST train carrying people?
It will be interesting to see if the New Castle-Sydney passenger train is ever upgraded to reasonable speeds in my life time.
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Been there, slower than tram through South Yarra.
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Maybe the looming global oil shock is exactly what’s needed.
Everything goes crazy in price, shelves empty, petrol rationing and the planet-saving unicorns of solar and wind are waving the surrender flag in the face of failure.
“And still the people didn’t see”?
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During the 2019 private meetings between Trump and Morrison in the US when AUKUS was developed and signed late 2021 a deal was also done on US oil supply to Australia and option to buy more as needed.
Morrison purchased $90 million dollars of US oil and in advance of a plan to expand storage facilities in Australia agreed between them that the US would provide the storage, and of course the Pacific Ocean shipping route.
I have recently been advised that Albanese Labor sold that $90 million reserve in the US for 100% profit to the Australian Government but at the expense of our fuel supply security longer term, and as it turned out now is that time.
In Parliament recent days various Albanese Cabinet Ministers took time to ridicule the Morrison Liberal-National-LNP Government for wasting money on oil in storage far away !!!
Albanese Labor did not bother to action the Australian oil storage Morrison Government plan 2019/20 after forming government in May 2022
And during that 2022/23 Financial Year and economy gaining strength after the Pandemic period, Freydenberg-Morrrison Budget announced March 2022 for 1 July start with a prudent conservative deficit forecast (deficit and surplus are of course always estimated and not realised until end of financial year accounting). New Treasurer for Albanese Labor announced in October 2022 a revised (he claimed new) Budget to 30 June 2023 and a surplus forecast.
To achieve that surplus windfall tax receipts from the post-pandemic recovery helped a lot but it was not prudent of Freydenberg to forecast surplus at that stage of recovery.
Also many budget items and procurement order quantities, notably for the ADF, were deferred into Forward Estimate years, cut back or cancelled. Included were the 30# F-35 Lightning stealth fighters for the RAAF to achieve their target of 100 stealth fighters. Maybe you remember Opposition Leader Dutton pledging that if the Coalition formed government in 2025 they would reinstate that $3 billion F-35 RAAF order? Labor now is in denial and claim that there was no outstanding F-35 order !!! Labor also cancelled funding of development of weapons systems for the Boeing Australia designed and built to Loyal Wingman Project requirements (the next stage of the Joint Strike Fighter Project the Howard Government entered into as a allied nation combined funding) now MQ-28 Ghost Bat unmanned drone stealth jet fighter designed as a FORCE MULTIPLIER flying alongside Air Force (RAAF and any allied nation buyers) aircraft, jet fighters or others needing protection and/or attack capabilities. Or ground based remote controlled missions.
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Bowen claimed today that Australia has a, “strategic reserve held under our government held in Australia, not in Texas like it was under Angus Taylor”.
I wonder where that is and in what form?
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Angus Taylor statement
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Correction, the sale of the US oil stock I had been told was false, the oil remains in storage as agreed between Trump and Morrison 2019-2020.
Labor have not however actioned the building of more storage facilities in Australia next step Morrison planned
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In the latest edition of Sky News Australia “Lefties Losing It”, a segment shows how Joe Biden tells a mostly black audience that he is smarter than they are.
From 1:15.
https://youtu.be/skQbS7LUjko
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In the US TRUMP rescinds the deceptive “MPGe miles per gallon equivalent” rule for EVs which was a lie.
Bit by bit, TRUMP is dismantling the “renewables” energy scam, at least as much as possible, as a lot of the scam is maintained by the Democrat states.
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I hope our “agreement” with the US to store our strategic fuel reserves actually means something. Time to get the reserves moved to Australia and stored here in case we actually need them at short notice. Can we trust Trump to actually release them without question!
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I was posting about that John until advised that $90 million US storage reserve was sold by Albanese Labor when they creatively accounted a surplus for October to 30 June 2022/23.
And doubled the purchase price when sold.
Isn’t it obvious that Renewable Energy Target first 32% by Rudd-Gillard-Rudd 2007-2013 governments and Transition Away From Fossil Fuels is in play right now? There are other and several factors that finally forced closure of the last four oil refineries from 2022-2025 leaving two remaining in operation.
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Thanks Dennis, I wasn’t aware of that. No wonder Blackout Bowen has doubled down on “don’t panic, there is no fuel shortage”
My goodness we’ve been sold down the Swanny.
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I did more research, the sold information was given to me in reply to a question I asked as to why that oil reserve is not being shipped to Australia now
It was not sold
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“Australia’s Fuel Stock Shortfall: Current Crude Oil Reserves at Just 53 Days ”
https://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/australias-fuel-stock-shortfall-current-crude-oil-reserves-at-just-53-days/
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https://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/australias-fuel-stock-shortfall-current-crude-oil-reserves-at-just-53-days
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” Time to get the reserves moved to Australia and stored here ”
Ah, but you don’t need to buy gold with all its theft risk and expense of storing it and then moving it… you can buy ‘Gold Certificates’ that let you own gold and follow the market without all that bother…
Does anyone think Biden kept ‘Australia’s oil’ in the American physical reserve when he sold it off to drop the petrol price before the last election??
You would be mad to have any reserves in another country, you don’t own it until its in your hands!
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The Trump-Morrison deal was buy as much as you want and store it in the US with option to buy more as needed.
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I smile at television advertisements wording UP TO range stated.
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I don’t understand. Malcolm Roberts asked a question in Senate estimates and it was confirmed that the reserves were sold in 2022. What is the truth here.
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Pauline Hanson accessed a taxpayer-funded rebate scheme to install solar power on her Queensland home, despite calling for an end to public subsidies for renewable energy projects.
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She’s already paid for it via her taxes, she might as well get some of them back!
Where do you think the money for these things comes from?
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Let the pearl clutching and gasps of indignation begin.
or not…
More seriously, is it possible (and achievable) to get solar panels installed without a subsidy…? How does the system work in QLD?
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Country wide it’s the low income earners who can’t afford to own a home that subsidise the more wealthy home owners who have solar & batteries. Just wondering when low income Labor voters will wake up to the fact they’re being screwed by the mob they vote for!!
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There is nothing wrong with playing by the rules. That scheme was created for any/all Australians to take advantage of. Even the ones who think the scheme is dumb and should be loaded into a cannon and shot into low earth orbit.
It reminds me of this 2016 clip of Hillary Clinton trying to deliver a ‘gotcha’ on Trump for not paying his ‘fair share’ of taxes and Trump responding with ‘That makes me smart’ …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBZR1-onmAo
… and then went on to explain all ways the tax codes are rigged to protect rich people, and he was only playing by the rules politicians like her had established over decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jXB0GebRrQ
Then when he got into office, one of the first things he did was DOUBLE the standard deduction and child tax credit used by working stiffs who can’t afford to hire tax attorneys, and and put a stringent cap on SALT deductions and carried interest deductions used by rich people to lower their taxable income. Not surprisingly, the Democrats squealed like pigs at those changes and one of the first things Biden did when he won was to restore those deductions.
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Steve,
We got panels installed in 2010.
NOT to save the planet (which doesn’t need “saving”) but because we could see that electricity prices
would continue to rise. They have. And Black-Out Bowen is certainly making sure they do.
Nature will continue to look after itself.
Just don’t mow your lawn for 6 months and you’ll end up with a mini jungle.
Australia badly needs One Nation to sort a lot of things out. Because the Uni-Party is not interested.
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As the late multi-billionaire businessman Kerry Packer once told a Senate Tax Inquiry, that it is his legal right to minimise tax liability when done legally in accordance with taxation laws.
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Putting solar panels on your roof and batteries on the back wall is the best thing any Australian home owner can do to highlight the insanity of subsidising grid scale wind and solar.
Heavy industry needs low cost base load power derived from coal like Australia had back in 2003. Victorian fired coal power was being sold for $23/MWh in 2003. That made all heavy industry in Australia economic and even enabled road vehicle manufacturing – now long gone.
With base load power now averaging $95/MWh, no heavy industry is viable. Most has already shut down and the rest have their hand out in a soviet era pattern that leads to economic collapse.
The solar farms in South Australia made no money in Q4 2025. They are already dead assets and wind farms are heading the same way. Rooftop solar has removed their load.
One Nation has policy that will lower electricity cost by 20%. It really is low hanging fruit because it simply requires changing generator bidding from 5 minute interval to 24 hours. That gets rid of all the wind and solar farms that add cost to the grid. They are already dead assets so kill them off now rather than pretending they are useful.
House owners can accelerate the inevitable decline of the weather dependent grid by installing a battery and rooftop solar. They will enjoy lower cost electricity until the grid becomes an economic asset again rather than a subsidy harvesting scheme.
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Is that doable with present laws without having to pay the subsidy harvesters compensation?
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The RET ends in 2030 and pays next to nothing now. The new AEMO contracts would need to be evaluated to determine if they should just be stopped – I expect there are penalties because the proponents would know their economic value depends on government largesse. Batteries will have economic value for peak lopping and solar plus battery at a load has economic value providing the solar is not interfering with running the coal plant full tilt. All new solar installation can have export shut down or throttled remotely.
Those now with solar panels but no battery would be most disadvantaged but they could still end up with lower energy bills.
The Latrobe Valley could attract modern industry based on the lowest cost electricity in the world. The is why Australia punched well above its weight in aluminium smelting – solidified electricity. Australia was at the forefront of aluminium smelting in the 1990s.
The grid operating strategy is to minimise CO2 production. If it was run to minimise cost with all the hidden carbon taxes gone, electricity price would drop that month.
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This particular ‘Shock Horror’ seems to be from a Guardian hit piece, inspired by Zali Steggall – who appears to have lodged an FOI to obtain the names of people who have accessed the SRES rooftop solar scheme by registering and selling on the credits.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/09/pauline-hanson-renewables-solar-power-rebate
Being a dim bulb, Steggall clearly didn’t read ON’s energy policy, which actually promotes rooftop solar as a means to reduce household electricity costs and commits to: “continuing, in principle, the subsidising of the small-scale renewable energy scheme to help more Australian households and small businesses to install solar panels and reduce their electricity costs”.
https://www.onenation.org.au/lowering-prices-households-business-industry-australia
So (unusually for a politician) personal behaviour 100% internally policy consistent – and no preferential lurks.
Naturally the Grauniad jazzes Steggall’s undergraduate gotcha up a bit by linking to Hanson’s criticism of the unbelievably stupid Bowen Virtual Power Plant subsidised battery and smart meter plan. Despite having no evidence whatever that she accessed it.
Toads. Toads all the way down.
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“Being a dim bulb, PF clearly didn’t read ON’s energy policy, which actually promotes rooftop solar as a means to reduce household electricity costs and commits to: “continuing, in principle, the subsidising of the small-scale renewable energy scheme to help more Australian households and small businesses to install solar panels and reduce their electricity costs” recycling Dr Faustus comment below
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Albanese wanted to send the Iranian female football team home but TRUMP intervened saying that would be a terrible mistake and that he’d take them if Albanese didn’t.
Like most Leftists, Albanese’s heart is with the oppressive regime (Red-Green Alliance) and has no concern for the freedom of the people, especially women.
I think anyone opposed to oppressive regimes would make good citizens, far better than the usual Labor-voting-for-life imports being brought in by Albanese. TRUMP obviously recognised this which is why he offered to take them.
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Funny how “Trump is always right”, he instinctively knows the “common-sense” path. He will make the hard decision that others equivocate about, and has done what the past six US Presidents have failed to do, and gone after the leading trouble maker in the ME, Iran, along with Netanyahu, using all the IDF Intell that is second to none.
Well done Mr President.
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I keep making the point that Trump’s second presidency is God’s gift to humanity. I still believe that declaring peace with CO2 will be his most impactful effort but removing clerics from power in Iran could well be a close second.
The Iranian women’s soccer team silent but visible protest is a powerful sign for kind people back in Iran.
Maybe Albanese felt that the US/IDF victory in Iran would be swift and the women would go back to a hero’s welcome for disrespecting the clerical rulers – for sure!!
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The decision was made and the 5 players were in a safe place 5 hours before any public comment from Trump.
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The locals on the Gold Coast showed strong support for keeping the soccer team in Australia. I watched this 7 news report yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg82ZIYDfMA
So it is a big deal for local Iranians really concerned for the team’s safety.
There are no women clerics in Iran. So women have no political power.
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Copied from Dr David Adler, Farcebook:
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The Orange Man’s criticism/reward cycle has nicely revealed Albanese’s personal qualities as a small, flabby, hollow-chested man.
Who could have guessed?
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Long known as “Each Way”
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FWIW
“Putin Adviser Dugin: Crazy Like a Fox
Americans of both parties better educate themselves”
https://americanrefugees.substack.com/p/putin-adviser-dugin-crazy-like-a?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2747685&post_id=190297967&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=9bg2k&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Via thtps://instapundit.com/781385/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“I’m a longevity doctor. This is why I’ll never give up alcohol”
“Doing all that we can to achieve good health is sensible – who doesn’t want to enjoy life for as long as possible? Yet what is the point of living a long life if it is one of restriction and abstinence, not joy? At the age of 58, some of my fondest times with friends have certainly included wine or beer. Spending time eating, drinking, laughing and swapping stories has brought me much pleasure over the years, so I have no plans to stop.”
More at
https://health.yahoo.com/wellness/healthy-aging/longevity/articles/m-longevity-doctor-why-ll-100000450.html
Via https://instapundit.com/781198/#disqus_thread
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I once made a new year resolution to give up alcohol, cigarettes and women.
It was the longest 48 hours of my life
joke!
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FWIW – re yesterday’s # 27 and the bombed school
“JOHN HINDERAKER: Lies, Damned Lies, and Journalism. “So the Tomahawk didn’t hit the school, it hit the naval base. And the video indicates that at that point, the school had already been struck. By what? We don’t know, but the one thing we know for sure is that it wasn’t the Tomahawk. My guess is that the military investigation will conclude that the school was struck by an errant Iranian missile, but by that time the left-wing press will have firmly implanted the assumption that it was ours.”
The Western press happily carries water for the mullahs. You cannot despise them enough.”
https://instapundit.com/781455/#disqus_thread
IIRC there was a local video of “errant rocket tracks” posted about the time that was reported.
And in comments at Instapundit
“This was a known lie from the get-go. Hell, there’s even video of the Iranian missile having erectile dysfunction and crashing right down on the alleged school.
I think it’s also telling that they built a “school for girls” (like that’s allowed with islam) right nest to a missile installation. No coincidence there…”
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“The video, uploaded on Sunday by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr News Agency and verified by The New York Times, shows a Tomahawk cruise missile striking a naval base beside the school in the town of Minab on February 28. ”
“President Donald Trump said: “No. In my opinion and based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran. They’re very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions.””
“Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth..said the Pentagon was investigating, “but the only side that targets civilians is Iran”.”
“A Times analysis of the video shows the missile striking a building described as a medical clinic in the Revolutionary Guard base…As the camera pans to the right, large plumes of dust and smoke are already billowing from the area around the school, suggesting that it had been struck shortly before the strike on the naval base. ”
Anyway, it was only 170-odd Iranian schoolgirls, they shouldn’t have been in the warzone..
You’d be clutching at straws to pretend the Americans didn’t do it.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/us-tomahawk-hit-naval-base-beside-iranian-school-video-shows-20260309-p5o8ui.html
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Reminds me about the Hamas Gaza Palestine terrorist group proxy of Iran claim that a IDF bomb hit a hospital and much later the truth was revealed, it was a Hamas aimed at Israel rocket failure
The Iran based propaganda department as usual did not bother with facts to spoil a good story aimed at public opinion worldwide
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According to ABC’s Ombudsman:
a) About 6:00 am (AEST) – ABC News bulletins reported that “hundreds had been killed” after a hospital was hit by an Israeli airstrike, according to Gaza authoritiesCasualty figures circulating internationally were 300–500 dead from Gaza’s Health Ministry.
b) 30 minutes later – ABC says “Israel blames Palestinian militants after hospital bombing kills hundreds in Gaza.”
c) News for “normal people” 7:00 am – the ABC noted reports of hundreds killed and that no independent verification was available at that stage;
d) From late morning on – ABC says: Israel said a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket misfire caused the blast. Gaza Authorities reports 471 dead, American Intelligence – dozens…
At war both sides are lying, though sometimes they do not want to.
But ABC is not at war.
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FWIW
“WE’RE WATCHING DOWNFALL, BUT WITH MASS NOTIFICATION SYSTEMS AND PCs TO CRANK OUT AI SLOP IN THE AYATOLLAH-BUNKER:”
” INSANE. The Iranian regime is mass texting its own citizens like an unhinged group chat.
One message warns people that if they photograph strike sites they will be treated as “American-Zionist mercenaries” and spies for Israel.
Another message threatens Iranians living abroad that if they “sympathize with the enemy,” their property will be confiscated.
And in the middle of it all, the regime proudly announces it will fight “to the last breath.”
Imagine living in a country where your government’s crisis management strategy is:
– Threaten your own population
– Encourage neighbors to inform on each other
– Confiscate property from citizens overseas
– Blame everything on the “Zionists”
When a regime starts texting threats to 90 million people, that’s a sign of a panicking dying monster.”
https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/2030951420501864526
And more at https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/2030951420501864526
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That via https://instapundit.com/781454/#disqus_thread
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“The Iranian regime is mass texting its own citizens like an unhinged group chat.”
I’m sure I just got one from Bowen telling me not to buy petrol, there’s no panic..
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Inside and outside Parliament House various Albanese MPs and Ministers have been telling via media and question time now is when EV owners are well in front and have no need for fossil fuels.
Ignoring that the fleet of EVs here including government and private sector fleet and other leased EV are about 2% of the total fleet.
And ignoring the premium paid retail price between equivalent EV and ICV, and higher insurance premiums, and depreciation (trade-in value) rate far worse than ICV.
Going to need more than any “fuel” saving before reaching break even on outlay
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FWIW
“Ancient Woman Had Complex, Life-Saving Surgery on Her Skull 2,500 Years Ago, New Research Finds
Scientists found what appeared to be a primitive prosthetic placed in the woman’s jawbone”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ancient-woman-had-complex-life-093000525.html
https://instapundit.com/781192/#disqus_thread
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Yeah, but she still died.
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The bots are back and the computer is saying no again.
And it’s finally stopped raining here on the Sunshine Coast.
Time to go talk to the cows. See what’s new.
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Maybe some amoosing news?
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Sadly I never got the chance. Turns out robot lawn mowers are allergic to heavy rain so it was off to Bris Vegas for a day trip.
Maybe tomorrow. The cows look like they are happy to wait to dispense their wisdom. Patience is one of the good things about cows.
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Surely oppressed Iranian womens hockey team members would be equally supportive of a labor vote as with ISIS brides?
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Most of the Left support the regime and have been silent about the oppression of women for the last 47 years plus Albanese didn’t want them until pressured by TRUMP.
Plus Labor is mass-importing people who in another country would happily jail or execute women, including these ones, for not wearing hijabs or burkhas and would prevent them being educated.
Why would they, or any freedom-loving person vote for Labor?
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Don’t know about free “dom” but free “stuff” ranks right up there.
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Did anyone else see WA succession bid is underway yet again. WAxit.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/abusive-husband-waxit-is-back-on-with-400page-manifesto/news-story/cfb5cb6f8fbe799db12df28b720eb9e3
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Secession pops up every generation or two.
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Or every time WA suddenly becomes rich. Some WA folks tend to forget the lean years when they had to be supported by the other states.
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The really surprising thing is that more States aren’t suggesting the same.
Why should NSW pay to keep bloating ACT and subsidise the other States? What can Canberra give us that we can’t do ourselves?
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Are you volunteering to keep 72 F-35s flying?
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Latest developments for Boeing-RAAF Australia MQ-28 Ghost Bat stealth unmanned jet fighter
https://australianaviation.com.au/2026/02/internal-weapons-slated-for-ghost-bat-in-block-3-upgrades/
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What can Canberra give us?
That’s a trick question isn’t it?
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Has Trump just saved his Presidency?
There are many different measures of oil price but one has WTI dropping $18 to $100. Odd people yanks, their constitution is a football for the amusement of the political class but price of gas can cause riots – and Trump may have just averted a riot.
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It ain’t over until the fat trans lady sings.
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But the haters said it was over yesterday.
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Once upon a time the business of America was business. Now the business of America is war.
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No! War was Iran’s business.
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” Now the business of America is war.”
No, no! The ABC told me, its not America, its Trump!
“”If a state is legitimately exercising self-defence — as the United Arab Emirates clearly is — it can call on literally any other state to come to its aid and assistance,” … That, (Professor Don Rothwell from the Australian National University, a pre-eminent expert in international law) said, stood in stark contrast to the original strikes on Iran by Israel and the Trump Administration which rested on “dubious or non-existent” legal foundations.”
The propaganda never stops! We’re not picking a side and sending our military off to war, with a lot of twisting and weaseling we are helping a Gulf State defend itself from Iran just because it has American military bases on its land.
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Legal foundations for war. Yeah right. As if that was ever a thing anybody other than an expert would ever say.
Rule 1: Trump is not allowed to strike first because … umm .. well because the intelligentsia is backing the other side.
Rule 2: The other side never strikes first even when it does because … umm .. well because Trump is a poo poo head.
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Fat trans lady?
Just when I thought I had it figured out…
Trans lady is .. let me guess .. a man in a dress?
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FWIW – more on oil in today’s Coffee and Covid newsletter
“ood morning, C&C, it’s Monday! Your DST-brain-fogged roundup includes: It’s the breaking news syndrome again— overnight, Iran “approved a new Supreme Leader;” as usual, corporate media is lying about what happened, so I had to do the journalistic spadework the real reporters wouldn’t;
Trump checkmated Lloyd’s of London in a 338-year-old maritime insurance standoff that’s about to uncork the Strait of Hormuz,
and the SAVE America Act showdown just went nuclear— Trump says nothing gets signed until voter ID passes, and Schumer took the bait.”
(My bold)
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/shadow-men-monday-march-9-2026-c?
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And somewhere in “internet comments” this morning there was a new description –
“Main stream media” = “Quisling media”
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Goodness me. That Coffee and Covid piece is good stuff.
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Interesting – it seems that a number of South Australians are driving in Russia (judging by the typical behaviour on local roads).
How To Not Drive in Russia 49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a5JP6C-Jb8
How To Not Drive in Russia 50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sSUwajM_4A
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Haven’t driven in WA yet? Worst drivers in Australia, by far. Have noted that with the lowering of the morning sun, traffic on Highway sections facing into the sun is slowing to a crawl, as WA drivers cannot adapt to driving into the sun. Nor can they handle a bit of rain. And don’t get me started on their roundabout behaviour.
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Every day above-ground is a miracle.
Thought No Zulders were horrific at basic driving skills yet those Russkies take out Darwin’s Award every time 🤦♂️
Dude on the Harley in #50 kicking the car beside him sure had a nice day as he rode off into the sunset…
Thanks for the laugh G No.3.
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FWIW – discovery of “another treasure island”?
“MATT TAIBBI EXCLUSIVE: The FBI’s Secret Stash Finally Uncovered.”
https://instapundit.com/781428/#disqus_thread
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Who says Kash Patel is “embattled”? I wouldn’t quibble with “hated”.
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FWIW
“Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, Off the Cliff We Go!”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Carney_Sheeple-600×400.jpeg
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/03/08/heigh-ho-heigh-ho-off-the-cliff-we-go/
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Correction
I apologise for misleading and now retract my comment that Labor sold the Morrison Trump $90 million oil reserve, as I had been told it was sold …..
April 2020: The Australian government announced a plan to spend $94 million on a fuel reserve, initially to be stored in the U.S. This was part of a strategy to bolster national fuel security amid concerns about global supply disruptions.
2020 Agreement: Australia signed a 10-year lease agreement to store oil in the U.S. SPR, allowing access to these reserves during emergencies.
Current Status: As of now, there has been no sale of the oil reserve. The arrangement allows Australia to access its oil stored in the U.S. but does not involve selling it.
However, the planned storage facilities for Australia Morrison plan has not been actioned
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WHO is really governing Australia’s health system? The hidden network inside our institutions.
Lucinda van Buuren is not a political activist by nature. She is a clinician — a scrub and circulating theatre nurse whose entire career was built on one foundational principle: do no harm.
Her journey into this research began the moment the COVID-19 injection mandates arrived in her workplace. As someone deeply trained in values-based practice and medical ethics, Lucinda’s instinct was straightforward: read the documents. All of them. Study what you are being asked to sign up to.
Her sister — who held the role of Patient Safety Officer, also submitted data showing 580 deaths already recorded on the adverse events register.
Not once did anyone in a position of power acknowledge either of their questions. And both were terminated from their positions.
This is how whistleblowing works in Australia. You raise the alarm with evidence. You are ignored. You are removed. And the system moves on as if nothing happened.
https://wchaustralia.substack.com/p/who-is-really-governing-australias
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Much more than that- WHO has collaborating centers all around the world, universities, medical research sites etc, and they answer to WHO, not their Govts. All is secret, they can’t discuss anything unless WHO OKs it. WHO is beyond information requests from any country. AHPRA and TGA are both in that pot, so WHO controls the whole health sector in Australia through its 54 collaborators.. That is why the propaganda is so wide and effective.
A great article.
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..Thanks John,
.. but
..Terrifying.
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Littleproud has resigned. It sounds as if he is about to bail. Another rat.
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They all are! You have to be, to want to be controlling other peoples’ lives.
Maybe he’s heading for One Nation, you have to be in with the winners!
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No. He’s taking his bat and going home. Another by-election.
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That was in error (maybe).
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Thanks H,
Here’s the ABC Just In report:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/david-littleproud-steps-down-as-nationals-leader/106437902
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Would I be a better person if I knew who in the heck Littleproud is (or was)?
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It only matters if you are Australian.
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I am Australian but I have no interest in show business for ugly people.
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If you know he’s ugly why did you ask?
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Hopefully Matt Canavan gets the guernsey. Surely better than previous retreads.
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Iran just gave Gulf states 48 hours – choose America or your oil
https://youtu.be/uKtrgV-9WxA?si=j-LZh9HyJd1sxhFP
I’m watching desalination plant attacks more than oil refineries. 😉
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Hmmm. America or oil? I imagine the response will be …
both …
but thanks for asking and good luck with the goats and virgins.
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Trump operates on the belief that the world can only be (sort of) orderly if there is adequate oil, freely traded. He doesn’t want it all for himself. IMHO
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It is safe to suggest that both Iranian Navy and Air Force are finished.
There are some rockets and drones still to be expended unless they get into enemy hands but they have been pre-allocated for critical targets.
There is tiny island 25 miles off Iranian coast, everyone knows its name by now, which can be taken and held by a platoon of US Marine.
Also, there is an Iranian lady with impeccable engineering and managerial credentials, more than 20 years AD.OC experience, with her own trusted crew, being interviewed for Interim CEO role in undisclosed location.
So the rumours are certain President wants not only the Big Oil flow to restart as of tomorrow morning but to fill up the right ships and to be paid for in the correct currency…
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Apparently Bunnings have sold out of jerrycans. That makes sense: Buy a $30 container to store 20 lt of petrol in case the price rises.
I guess they have used up their hoard of toilet paper by now.
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“but to fill up the right ships and to be paid for in the correct currency…”
Yes! That is dead right!
“He doesn’t want it all for himself. IMHO”
No! That is dead wrong!
Well, he doesn’t want to use it all himself, but he definitely wants himself in charge of its extraction and sale, and it must be in $US. THIS is the big war for America’s economy, if they lose this and people leave the dollar, the Yanks will have to work for a living like the rest of us!
Watch the piracy again here- See if they seize them ‘under international law’, or just blow them up and ignore the civilian crews.
“The vessels have been identified as Shabdis and Barzin, which operate under Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL)…Both ships recently docked at Gaolan port in Zhuhai on China’s southeastern coast, a major chemical-handling facility that processes large volumes of industrial compounds, including sodium perchlorate – which is critical for producing solid rocket fuel, the report says. Officials and and analysts were cited in the Post as concluding the cargo likely includes sodium perchlorate destined for Iran’s missile program.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/suspected-missile-fuel-precursor-materials-sail-china-iran-even-us-bombs-fall
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FWIW – future reading
“Pushing back on Recent ‘Sea Level is Worse Now’ Claims: The Coordinate System That Ate the Coastline
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/05/the-coordinate-system-that-ate-the-coastline/
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The BOM maintains a series of sea level monitoring stations around the country with records for over 40 years now.
If we are experiencing rapid sea level rise why isn’t the data from these presented as proof?
https://www.bom.gov.au/oceanography/projects/abslmp/abslmp.shtml
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I am fully aware that YT feeds you the sort of stuff you’ve watched before, and I watch a lot of warries but I’m being fed stuff I’ve never seen before.
It started with stories (and I mean stories) of our SAS in ‘Nam, how they were called “ma rung” (ghosts) with a 500:1 kill ratio, how they disgusted the Yanks and put them to shame in jungle warfare. That progressed to stories, the same stories, in Afghanistan but the names and scenery has been changed. It has entered a third phase now where feeble old Yank officers’ death-bed confessions are saying how they lost soldiers in their command when they laughed at the SAS or were saved by Aussies after ridiculing them.
I’m torn. I am aware that the SAS is the best, so there must be more than a kernel of truth in this so I watch at night, sipping a red. and not annoying you on this forum.
Do others get this AI generated (rubbish) in their feeds? The SAS is publicity shy so have any here first hand knowledge of their operations?
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Yes, i have started using the do not recommend channel option on these. Dropped away quickly.
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