Everything I’ve heard says they were grossly underqualified to do the job in the first place. I don’t expect the fix to be any better.

Agriculture was probably the beginning of the end. And while not necessarily a ‘technology’, the concept of land ownership was a bad idea as well.

‘Daft as a brush’ is an oldie but a goodie. I have no idea what it means.

supercilious cunt

Damn. I used that exact phrase in an email to my ex-wife like 15 years ago. It’s a good’n.

Where’s the fun in that?

He’s happy to pay when it’s other people’s money, i.e. the taxpayers.

That phrase could only be more Australian if it had some kind of hat on.

After riding my bike to work in the rain: “Did you get wet?”

“Only on the outside.”

“Kirk leaned left at the end.”

Counterpoint: Randy Fine should not be allowed to speak in public ever again if he’s going to tell such blatant lies…

I’m sure they’ll do a bang-up job.

“Doesn’t matter. Got Paid.”

I don’t like her.

It was said all along that it would go from being a pandemic to being endemic.

By golly, I think they may be on to something!

Unemployed with money, however… I spent about 5 years ‘unemployed’ and living on income protection insurance, which gave me about AUD7000/month. It was great!

“If all the village idiots, in all of the viilages, left their villages, and formed their own village, of idiots. In that village, you would be the village idiot.” - Colin Lane

“Don’t be so humble. You’re not that great.” - Maria Bamford’s dad.

“People say you’re a real wit, but I think they’re only half right.” - me

Voltaire’s Bastards by John Ralston Saul. It didn’t necessarily radicalise me, but it certainly changed my view of the world.

Thoughts and prayers.

The milquetoast Albenese government has been a bit of a disappointment, but it’s still preferable to whatever Dutton would have manifested. Still, how hard would it have been to not be so fucking weak?