The Daily Blog Open Mic – 21st October 2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/531445/king-charles-heckled-by-lawmaker-at-australian-parliament
Background on heckling politician and lessons for future:
It appears that Ms Thorpe is similar to David Seymour who has found a small stream of indigenous blood in his small body.

Lidia Alma Thorpe …is an Aboriginal Australian independent politician. She has been a senator for Victoria since 2020 and is the first Aboriginal senator from that state. She was a member of the Australian Greens until February 2023 when she quit the party over disagreements concerning the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament,[1] and became a leading figure in the “progressive No” campaign for the Voice referendum in October 2023.[2] She had also served as the Greens’ deputy leader in the Senate from June to October 2022.

Lidia Alma Thorpe[5] was born in 1973 in Carlton, Victoria,[6][7] to Roy Illingworth[8] and Marjorie Thorpe.[3] She is of English, Irish,[8] Djab Wurrung, Gunnai and Gunditjmara descent.[9]
Thorpe grew up in Housing Commission flats in Collingwood and went to Gold Street Primary School in Clifton Hill.[3] She studied Year 7 at Fitzroy High School, Year 8 at Collingwood High, returned to Fitzroy High for Year 9, but left soon afterwards, at the age of 14. She plays Australian rules football and netball…
…She became a single mother at the age of 17…
…Her first job was working with her uncle Robbie Thorpe at the Koori Information Centre at 120 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, which at that time was “a hub of Black political activity”.[3] She says that from that day onwards, she has worked continuously, apart from six-month breaks after the births of each of her children.[10]

She holds a Diploma of Community Development from Swinburne University of Technology, a graduate certificate in public sector management and a Certificate IV Indigenous Leadership…

…In 2013, Thorpe was declared bankrupt with over A$700,000 in debts, including monies owed to Indigenous Business Australia and A$55,000 owed to the Australian Taxation Office. She said that her bankruptcy resulted from domestic violence, stating “like many survivors of family violence, I ended up losing everything in a bid to protect myself and my family from an impossible situation”.[16] Her ex-husband, who was an alcoholic, confirmed her account of the marriage breakdown.[3] She was discharged from bankruptcy in 2016…

Resignation from Greens’ deputy leadership
On 20 October 2022, Thorpe resigned from her position as Greens’ deputy leader in the Senate, shortly after ABC News revealed that in 2021 she had dated the ex-president of the Rebels outlaw bikie gang, Dean Martin. At the time of the relationship, she had held the justice portfolio for the Greens and had been serving on the joint parliamentary law enforcement committee, so had been privy to confidential briefings about bikie gangs and organised crime. Thorpe had not disclosed the relationship, and it was only revealed when her staff notified party leader Adam Bandt’s office and an independent parliamentary authority. Her staff became aware of the relationship in mid-2021. In August 2021, when confidential law enforcement committee briefing documents concerning motorcycle gangs arrived in her office hours after Thorpe had met Martin. One of her staffers urged her to inform Bandt but she failed to do so. She told the staffer that “she was being really careful”: she used encrypted social media to communicate with Martin. Conversations were deleted weekly, and they never met at either one’s home. The matter was referred to the Australian Federal Police. Thorpe said that she continues to be friends with Martin.[27][28][29] Martin had been president of the Rebels in Victoria, and had been charged and pleaded guilty to liquor offences in 2013.[30]

Following the revelations, Thorpe faced a censure motion in the Senate. ALP senator Helen Polley, the head of the joint parliamentary law enforcement committee, of which Thorpe had been a member, said, with regard to Thorpe’s position as a senator: “She should consider if it’s the right place for her”.[31]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidia_Thorpe

This profile seems similar to others I have seen with a mixed number of things to embrace as a passionate interest. It seems like the right time to find some useful rellies to claim in one’s background.

Political or guerilla theatre opportunity –
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/531445/king-charles-heckled-by-lawmaker-at-australian-parliament Oct.21/24
Charles is on a nine-day jaunt through Australia and Samoa, the first major foreign tour since his life-changing cancer diagnosis earlier this year.
Thorpe is known for her attention-grabbing political stunts and fierce opposition to the monarchy…
Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe shouted anti-colonial slogans at King Charles during his visit to the Australian parliament on Monday, shocking assembled lawmakers and other dignitaries.

“Give us our land back! Give us what you stole from us!” Thorpe screamed in an almost minute-long diatribe, after the 75-year-old king’s speech.
“This is not your land, you are not my king,” the independent lawmaker said, decrying what she described as a “genocide” of Indigenous Australians by European settlers.

So for future personal advancement, politicians could just pick on past misdemeanours or worse and spout them any time there is an obvious camera operating. What you do when there are numerous operating security cameras around I am not sure. Join your victim-oriented pseudo political party and you will be set for lots of self-advancing diatribe/dialogue.

Ms Thorpe has not enhanced the Greens in Australia. And Darleen Tana in NZAO has not done so here. Having chutzpah, presenting well, useful OE, and a relatively unspotted record plus a comprehensive set of grievances will not improve our failing polity – we need better than this from our indigenous people and Shane and Winston.

3 COMMENTS

Greywarbler October 21, 2024 At 3:32 pm

Patrick Boyle an internet communicator who is most interesting and will add seemingly reliable information on various subjects. I suggest it is worth checking him out to see if you agree with my description.

The California account has relevance to NZAO and how we will go and how the financial carrots held out to us will have hard unpalatable cores.
What Went Wrong With California? 0:00 / 28:32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vx3XOA_-j0

and
This shared office space for start-ups and people needing work space (which concept we have also in NZ) seems a good idea. But in our modern times every good idea can suffer from being stretched too far for quick profits and collapse.

(The wise, business-minded citizen society needs to have built a combined tied trust fund to buy part of new concepts once proved, and retain their interest and practical asset separately, when the rest collapse after all the prontopreneurs have pushed the idea beyond excess.)
The Inevitable Decline of WeWork
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Q_4vjPMSE

Patrick Boyle
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
Patrick Boyle is a hedge fund manager, a university professor and a former investment banker.
Greywarbler October 21, 2024 At 5:07 pm

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/531378/health-nz-managers-ate-9000-of-canapes-as-financial-crisis-loomed
This is a sort of leak that particularly excites me in NZAO. Not for the first time, I remember Christine Rankin flying managers to a conference centre in Rotorua IIRR. Aren’t these civil servants or whatever they call themselves a blast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syipch1wI7E
The MPs Pay Rise | Yes, Prime Minister | BBC Comedy Greats 3.55

Seeing we probably can’t do anything about this let’s have a laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX9X_Bk3N98
The Treasury doesn’t believe in giving money back! – Yes Prime Minister
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgUemV4brDU
You’re a Banker | Yes, Minister | BBC Studios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbt_FQJN0sc
Unforeseen Problems | Yes, Prime Minister | BBC Comedy Greats 3.43
Greywarbler October 21, 2024 At 6:21 pm

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/531445/king-charles-heckled-by-lawmaker-at-australian-parliament
Background on heckling politician and lessons for future:
It appears that Ms Thorpe is similar to David Seymour who has found a small stream of indigenous blood in his small body.

Lidia Alma Thorpe …is an Aboriginal Australian independent politician. She has been a senator for Victoria since 2020 and is the first Aboriginal senator from that state. She was a member of the Australian Greens until February 2023 when she quit the party over disagreements concerning the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament,[1] and became a leading figure in the “progressive No” campaign for the Voice referendum in October 2023.[2] She had also served as the Greens’ deputy leader in the Senate from June to October 2022.

Lidia Alma Thorpe[5] was born in 1973 in Carlton, Victoria,[6][7] to Roy Illingworth[8] and Marjorie Thorpe.[3] She is of English, Irish,[8] Djab Wurrung, Gunnai and Gunditjmara descent.[9]
Thorpe grew up in Housing Commission flats in Collingwood and went to Gold Street Primary School in Clifton Hill.[3] She studied Year 7 at Fitzroy High School, Year 8 at Collingwood High, returned to Fitzroy High for Year 9, but left soon afterwards, at the age of 14. She plays Australian rules football and netball…
…She became a single mother at the age of 17…
…Her first job was working with her uncle Robbie Thorpe at the Koori Information Centre at 120 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, which at that time was “a hub of Black political activity”.[3] She says that from that day onwards, she has worked continuously, apart from six-month breaks after the births of each of her children.[10]

She holds a Diploma of Community Development from Swinburne University of Technology, a graduate certificate in public sector management and a Certificate IV Indigenous Leadership…

…In 2013, Thorpe was declared bankrupt with over A$700,000 in debts, including monies owed to Indigenous Business Australia and A$55,000 owed to the Australian Taxation Office. She said that her bankruptcy resulted from domestic violence, stating “like many survivors of family violence, I ended up losing everything in a bid to protect myself and my family from an impossible situation”.[16] Her ex-husband, who was an alcoholic, confirmed her account of the marriage breakdown.[3] She was discharged from bankruptcy in 2016…

Resignation from Greens’ deputy leadership
On 20 October 2022, Thorpe resigned from her position as Greens’ deputy leader in the Senate, shortly after ABC News revealed that in 2021 she had dated the ex-president of the Rebels outlaw bikie gang, Dean Martin. At the time of the relationship, she had held the justice portfolio for the Greens and had been serving on the joint parliamentary law enforcement committee, so had been privy to confidential briefings about bikie gangs and organised crime. Thorpe had not disclosed the relationship, and it was only revealed when her staff notified party leader Adam Bandt’s office and an independent parliamentary authority. Her staff became aware of the relationship in mid-2021. In August 2021, when confidential law enforcement committee briefing documents concerning motorcycle gangs arrived in her office hours after Thorpe had met Martin. One of her staffers urged her to inform Bandt but she failed to do so. She told the staffer that “she was being really careful”: she used encrypted social media to communicate with Martin. Conversations were deleted weekly, and they never met at either one’s home. The matter was referred to the Australian Federal Police. Thorpe said that she continues to be friends with Martin.[27][28][29] Martin had been president of the Rebels in Victoria, and had been charged and pleaded guilty to liquor offences in 2013.[30]

Following the revelations, Thorpe faced a censure motion in the Senate. ALP senator Helen Polley, the head of the joint parliamentary law enforcement committee, of which Thorpe had been a member, said, with regard to Thorpe’s position as a senator: “She should consider if it’s the right place for her”.[31]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidia_Thorpe

This profile seems similar to others I have seen with a mixed number of things to embrace as a passionate interest. It seems like the right time to find some useful rellies to claim in one’s background.

Political or guerilla theatre opportunity –
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/531445/king-charles-heckled-by-lawmaker-at-australian-parliament Oct.21/24
Charles is on a nine-day jaunt through Australia and Samoa, the first major foreign tour since his life-changing cancer diagnosis earlier this year.
Thorpe is known for her attention-grabbing political stunts and fierce opposition to the monarchy…
Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe shouted anti-colonial slogans at King Charles during his visit to the Australian parliament on Monday, shocking assembled lawmakers and other dignitaries.

“Give us our land back! Give us what you stole from us!” Thorpe screamed in an almost minute-long diatribe, after the 75-year-old king’s speech.
“This is not your land, you are not my king,” the independent lawmaker said, decrying what she described as a “genocide” of Indigenous Australians by European settlers.

So for future personal advancement, politicians could just pick on past misdemeanours or worse and spout them any time there is an obvious camera operating. What you do when there are numerous operating security cameras around I am not sure. Join your victim-oriented pseudo political party and you will be set for lots of self-advancing diatribe/dialogue.

Ms Thorpe has not enhanced the Greens in Australia. And Darleen Tana in NZAO has not done so here. Having chutzpah, presenting well, useful OE, and a relatively unspotted record plus a comprehensive set of grievances will not improve our failing polity – we need better than this from our indigenous people and Shane and Winston.

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