The loony bin formerly known as the Liberal Party of Australia continues to burn to the ground today.
Trapped in the multiple personality wing, liberals are alight. Purported libertarian, “Tiny” Tim Wilson, has lost his battle to shut down freedom of political expression in Goldstein:
Independent candidate Zoe Daniel has won the Goldstein sign stoush, with the Victorian supreme court ruling her supporters have not displayed her signs prematurely.
On Wednesday Justice John Dixon declared that displaying the signs for a period of less than three months does not contravene Bayside City Council rules despite the fact the election has not been called.
He restrained the council from taking action against those displaying election signs unless they remain up for more than three months or more than 14 days after the federal election.
Let’s recall that purported Libertarian, “Tiny” Tim, was campaigning for neighbours to dob one another in to be fined thousands of dollars for expressing their political views. Sounds more like the CCP to me.
Meanwhile, another LNP fascistic attack on free speech has backfired in Sydney:
Sales of stickers calling on voters to “bin” the prime minister have surged after the Liberal heavyweight Philip Ruddock’s Hornsby Shire Council threatened residents that garbage collection services may be suspended if they weren’t removed from wheelie bins.
On Wednesday Ruddock, the Hornsby mayor and NSW Liberal party president, defended council’s decision to insist upon the removal of stickers containing photos of Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce emblazoned with the slogans “bin him” and “chuck them out”.
He insisted the decision was taken by council officers, and had nothing to do with his office as mayor or his fellow elected councillors, of which five of nine are Liberal.
The flames are also consuming the kleptocratic ward where card-carrying taxpayer thieves are roasted:
They’re the “problematic” videos that the finance department didn’t want to see the light of day.
Created for an “objective” infrastructure campaign, the videos featured a cheery Michael McCormack spruiking federal government spending. They were to be played before free movies in a taxpayer-funded roadshow through regional cities to promote the Building our Future package in 2019, ahead of the May election.
Just 137 people attended the six movie nights, including one lone viewer in Ballarat, at a cost to taxpayers of $353,730 – or about $2,500 a ticket.
The mates that come visiting are also getting singed:
There are few people in the world of carbon credits and emissions reduction policy with the credibility of Andrew Macintosh.
The ANU law school professor is an internationally respected authority on these issues.
He’s also been a go-to expert for the Coalition government, serving on its bushfires royal commission panel, the Climate Change Authority and its review into offsetting emissions by heavy industry and agriculture.
For nearly seven years, he chaired the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee, a statutory body tasked with vetting the integrity of carbon offset schemes under the government’s Emissions Reduction Fund.
Now he’s blowing the whistle.
“I’m a big believer in these schemes and the ability to use offsets to help cut emissions and to help lower the cost of doing so,” he told the ABC.
“But what we’re seeing is a real inability to operate schemes like this with high integrity.
“An environmental market without integrity is not an environmental market,” he says. “It’s a rort.
“And I feel that Australia’s carbon market is just that – it’s degenerated to become a rort.”
The conflagration has also jumped containment lines to the LNP sexual deviancy block which, frankly, has run out of space:
A “devastated” victim-survivor of child sex abuse says two Tasmanian government ministers who groaned at a question asked on her behalf in parliament should resign, after they repeatedly refused to apologise.
More:
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet faces another byelection test – expected before the federal election – after he demanded the resignation of Kiama MP Gareth Ward, who has been charged with sexual assault.
After a lengthy investigation, sex crimes detectives charged Mr Ward on Tuesday with three counts of assault with an act of indecency, one count of sexual assault without consent, and one count of common assault.
The head of the entire division has run screaming from the building, trying to outrun his own blazing cassock:
Pastor Dooley said announcing Mr Houston’s resignation was one the hardest days of his life.
At the helm of the country’s dominant Pentecostal force, Mr Houston steered Hillsong through scandal after scandal including allegations of worker exploitation, misuse of grants and anti-gay stances.
But yesterday was the final fall from grace for the embattled pastor, who has remained silent from his home in California since the complaints were aired.
He is not expected to return to Australia until his criminal trial begins in December.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is yet to issue a statement about his friend, Mr Houston, who he thanked in his maiden speech to Federal Parliament in 2008.
We can at least draw solace from the pagan ritual of torching LNP hypocrites as their ramshackle asylum is razed.
Burn mother fucker, burn!
