Monarchists Demand Say In GG Appointment
Ok, this may not be exactly accurate, but doesn’t it strike anyone else as ironic that many of the people who argued that we shouldn’t have a republic where we get to vote on who the head of state are now saying that they don’t like Albanese’s choice of Governor-General and that it should be someone “more mainstream”.
While, in some ways they may have a point… After all, Sam Mostyn isn’t your typical Aussie. I mean she’s a member of that minority group called women. As Andrew Bolt was quick to point out that there was no way Labor would appoint one of those poor white males who never seem to get a look in these days.
And Janet Albrechtsen did say that if someone asked her to be GG, she’d just say to shoot her. Doubly so, if it was because she was a woman!
Shame on you for thinking that it’s a shame she wasn’t asked, but moving on…
It seems that we shouldn’t be appointing people on the basis of anything other than merit and, well, Sam Mostyn is only getting the job because she’s the “wokest of the woke” and we prefer the sleepy ex-army types like David Hurley who managed to sleep through the fact that he allowed Scott Morrison to have five ministries and his meetings with several people on that future leaders group because he didn’t remember meeting them more than once or twice when it seems that it was closer to several times the number of ministries that ScoMoses managed to appoint himself to.
Yes, ex-ADF types are just fine even if they don’t represent the mainstream because most people don’t join the defence forces but at least they represent the white male brigade so there’s no reason for Bolt to complain and no reason for Albrechtsen feel like Sam was only given the job because she was a woman who supported action on climate change and campaigned for the Voice…
Although I can think of several other women who also support action on climate change and the Voice, so if that was the criteria, why didn’t Albo give it to one of the ones who would have caused an even bigger brouhaha. Maybe an trans person or someone Indigenous… Or some transgender Indigenous individual.
Whatever, it’s important to remember that GG should be mainstream, and that Sam Mostyn is far too ideologically driven. After all, she was the first female AFL commissioner so how does that make NSW feel when most of them are more interested in Rugby? Clearly, she’s not fitting in with the values of the majority there.
And let’s not forget that she’s been on the board of several radical organisations such as Beyond Blue, The Australia Council for the Arts, the GO Foundation, Transurban, Citibank, Virgin Australia and a host of others. Like how lefty is Citibank? And being on so many boards, where’s her real-world experience?
So I think we can safely say that this radical appointment is typical of Labor. The last time they got to decide who’d be our head of state they also chose a woman in Quentin Bryce, so they’ve got a history of doing things like this. I mean most people would agree that our head of state shouldn’t be a woman unless shes’ the Queen and she had a pretty good go, so isn’t it time for a man?
Ok, ok, I’ll take my tongue firmly out of my cheek and say quite clearly that I don’t believe that the head of state should just be at the whim of the PM of the day…
Of course, it should be someone who can achieve the consensus of both of the major forces driving decisions in Australia: Rupert and Gina.
P.S. Is it true that Dutton has been staying at Gina’s place in WA so that he can work out an acceptable plan for the election?
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Return to home pageYep, one often thinks the culture wars and animus projected towards anyone or anything centrist inc. ‘woke’, ALP, elites, ‘lefties’, climate/Covid science by News Corp, right, LNP etc., is in fact a conservative civil war amongst the ageing hard nativist right and the more centrist educated or urbane centre right.
Issue the LNP and RW conservatives have is targeting, manipulating and catering to older voters whose supposed cultural interests do not concur with the younger and more moderate conservative voters’ economic interests (why regions suburbs are now targeted more, more retirees?).
Self induced civil war a la Brexit, Trump and The Voice with external help of RW media cartels, fossil fuel Koch ‘free market’ think tanks and nativist ‘environmental’ Tanton influence to break from previous consensual liberal democratic norms; on latter see the barking about ‘immigrants’ and/or international students blamed with ALP govt. for a supposed housing and rental crisis.
I guess according to Janet, you’re only a quota queen when you’re outspoken on behalf of the female population, and not on behalf of the Patriarchal Brigade…
Dammit Janet!
Frankenfurter would be rolling in his grave, and Rocky would be having another meltdown in his golden spandex shorts…
Couls someone please pass on to a Ms. J Albrechtsen the clear fact of her inferiority above the jawline, her problematic egofixations, her devotion to duty serving a masturbatory mental misfit maggotty media mogul, foreign, treacherous and supremely ugly inside and outside the skullbone, so that bleating for money is not a substitute for intelligent, accurate, relevant, tasteful comment. As they say in Venice, Far Canal. The whole stable of poxfox misfittery is bowelblocked bullshit, to sneer at the paying suckers. The announced candidate for G-G, a turdy irrelevant position and an anachronistic snobsnottery, is actually excellent. Could you imagine in horror if the recent mad Moronism had appointed, say, J Bishop, the Big Blot of Brownness, a revolting subhumanoid? And the local royalty raggy ratbag ratshit deluded dickheaded drongo dregs can get as stuffed as a Xmas Chook.
Maybe Janet A needs to read up on who is mainstream Australian. According to this book Ms A is way behind the times. Things have moved on since she was relevant. mainstream Aussies are no longer images of old Blighty and its colonial culture.
https://www.booktopia.com.au/indigenous-research-into-mainstream-australian-culture-lorraine-muller/book/9781032161686.html
The GG is a nothing job and merely a method of giving friends a pile of lifetime cash and so should it remain like that.
Someone should point out, to the janet et al, that many XYs would never get a job if XX were given equal access to the selection process and/or selection panels.
the most compelling argument for Samantha Mostyn is that so so many RWNJs hate her…
apart from her impeccable credentials that is
Clearly Janet Albrechtsen has not seen a recent census that showed that women comprise more of the Australian population than men. One question that people need to consider is, if Australia is not ready for a female Prime Minister, a female GG, a female this or a female that, when will it be? And we can’t say, “Oh, 40 years from now,” because 40 years from now, the same thing will be said. Similarly, if Australia is not ready for an LGBTIQA PM, GG or whatever, when will it be?
The role of GG is the King’s representative in Australia, but let’s not forget that when James Scullin wanted to appoint Sir Isaac Isaacs GG, King Charles’s Great-Uncle engaged in a tirade that would have made Hitler proud!
The preferred choice of Albrechtsen and those of her fellows in the league of dunderheads is….. Bronwyn of the chopper squad..
If only they would just shut up, or better still, just disappear.
Can we try to get her name right as a mark of respect?
She may be maturing like a fine wine but Ms Mostyn deserves recognition in her own right.
Monarchists can just go and macerate themselves in their own dregs.
Thanks, Jennifer. Have fixed.
Typical of the Oz RWNJs, the LNP and their feckless flunkies, it’s ‘READY, FIRE, AIM!’.
They’re always ‘READY’ to cut down anything emanating from the ALP govt, ‘FIRE’ regardless of collateral damage, and ‘AIM’ – well they’re not really sure about that, because they’re aimless, a broad scattergun spray suffices for their m.o.
Like a picnic of drunken duck hunters, they excel at shooting themselves in the foot – only they fall for it.
What impressive credentials : Sam Mostyn will make a fine Governor General.
The Liberals are not impressed but then, it takes a lot to please them these days.
Speaking of monarchists: I call complete and bullshit from Moany Crackpot the Misogynist.
““I don’t want to import identity politics into the party but to defuse identity politics by showing that the Liberal Party and Australia more generally really does judge people on merit and is prepared to give anyone and everyone a fair go if they’re ready to have a go for us and for our country more generally.”
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/liberal-party-needs-more-women-mps-tony-abbott-20240405-p5fhml.html
Ghoulie, I mean Julie, when she appears in Mynmar will so dazzle them with her fantastic dress sense that they will gladly throw their weapons down and flock to designer clothes stores to be like her and so peace will reign.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-06/julie-bishop-appointed-un-special-envoy-for-myanmar/103677260
So the UN chose Julie Bishop as special envoy?
What, she has a handle on ‘Three Brotherhood Alliance’ in north Myanmar?
The CCPs specialty is pretending not to be involved in scams they are behind.
China having installed Myanmar’s junta now wants to appear as a neutral party, and victim.
But why Bishop, why Mynamar and why now?
The UN is big on strategy, but, for public display they present as reactionary problem-solvers.
Having a number of high profile conflicts on the boil helps keep the UN visible.
Ukraine, Gaza, next?
It helps to understand the world if you remember the UN are pushing for a one world government.
As for monarchists, or non-monarchists, the idea most Aussies are represented by politicians is just that, an idea.
re. Ghoulie, Girlie, Joolie, does it really matter; it seems we have well & truly jumped the shark of best-practice and choice of person when the Asbestos Attorney – who made her name defending James Hardie Industries against those thousands of pesky impertinents seeking compensation as they hacked and coughed and choked to death after years of exposure to Hardie asbestos products derived from the Wittenoom mine in the Pilbara region of WA – a minesite which was, coincidentally, named and managed by one Lang Hancock, he of the genocidal eugenicist outlook per the ‘aboriginal problem’, and progenitor of that other notorious female spawned in the deserts of the western regions of this continent – is selected as the best possible representative of the United Nation in its efforts to conduct reasonable dialogue with the murderous Burmese military regime who, it may assuredly be stated, have zero interest in ever allowing that country to return to self-determination in choice of government.
I have a good friend here in Oz who is a first cousin to Aung San Suu Kyi. She was a political refugee, exiled for her opposition to the junta. I’m confident she won’t view the fashion queen’s appointment as anything but political theatre. On the upside, the Bish may be able to develop a neat sideline in exporting sarongs to the look-at-me fashionistas in this country who have zero qualms in regard to cultural misappropriation.
It never ceases to amaze me that people still believe and live their lives by this psuedo-scientific bullshit magical mumbo-jumbo!
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/astrologer-reveals-meaning-of-total-solar-eclipse/news-story/0de7213584e6989088af35f88523ca7a