Breasts

Here we go again. A doctor indulged in disgusting behaviour by expressing milk in a Virgin Australia business class lounge. She discreetly did so under a shirt but was requested to do so elsewhere.

In 1984 it was legislated that women can breastfeed in public. How can this still be an issue some forty years plus later? Do you know what makes it all the worse? It was a female staff member who 'advised' the woman. When it was suggested she could express her milk in the toilet, the doctor said, ok, you bring your lunch with you and sit with me in the toilet eating your lunch while I express milk to feed my baby. 

I think as part of staff training anywhere, the right to breastfeed in public should be mentioned. It shouldn't have to be like that. 

One woman who spoke on the radio said that when challenged by a man about breastfeeding in public, because it made him feel uncomfortable, moved her baby away and flashed him in his face her full bare breast. He moved away.

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Unrelated, this was an odd headline I saw on FB. Florida man bites off brother's penis when he caught him having sex with his cousin on the penis biter's favourite Dragon Ball blanket. Nowt as queer as folk. 

I was led elsewhere, whereby you Guggle 'Florida man...' and insert your birthdate in the format say January 22. 

Lordy, mine came up as 'Florida man arrested for pleasuring himself with an ice pack'. Feel free to comment what your Florida man birthdate comes up with. I won't judge you.  

Hey Hey. It's Saturday

Hey Hey It's Saturday began as a children's programme broadcast Saturday morning. It went a bit further than just being a kid's show and gathered an adult audience. The show was moved to Saturday night and became very successful. There were some terrific moments in the show over the years. It eventually fell out of favour and was cancelled, and a revival attempt several years later did not succeed. 

It was often entertainment in the background for us as we primped and preened ourselves before going out Saturday night at around 10pm. Yes, kiddies, we went out early back in the olden days, not at midnight. 

One of our favourite segments was Media Watch, no connection to the current hard hitting ABC Media Watch now broadcast, with it's focus on poor media and journalism.

Typos, poor grammar and poor punctuation have alway been with us. I had a good laugh at the not so subtle humour. 

Quiz Fail and Win

Not smugly, no not at all, I was too young to really know The Beatles. I did buy Paul McCartney's Wings album, but that was my only love of The Beatles. Of course everyone knows some Beatles music. My Beatle ignorance was reflected my zero score in this week's  YP's quiz. A couple of quizzes before, I scored 7/10 in his Famous Women quiz. 

Last week I bragged to my Dead in Bed Neighbour when I messaged her, that for the first time I scored 10/10 for The Age newspaper Victorian topical quiz. There are four options in the drop down boxes. The answer to the question about Bright was a plausible guess. 

Still with The Age, each week since the quiz' inception I have participated in its weekly opinion poll. There is some kind of prize, valued at around $100 as I remember, but I've never won it. 

The poll is not general opinion, because readers of The Age are more educated than the general populace, more socially progressive, wealthier, and have a general care about society. They are less religious, but that's from a fairly low base anyway. They are older and feel the threat of street crime. Mostly there is no question to ask myself when answering, but at times there a 'but?'. 

I voted with the majority in every question in these polls, but I wanted to qualify my answer about YouTube being available to kids, because parents or carers can already restrict children to only watching YouTube for Kids. Had that been mentioned, I would have changed my answer. 

Never stop complaining

I heard it on the radio, so it must be true.

Not so. A public figure made a statement on radio that I instinctively knew was wrong. I immediately sent a detailed message to the radio station pointing this out, but after he had left the studio. The station called me and asked if I would like to go to air to speak about what I had I messaged. I declined. I am not a great speaker and I would have needed time to think. I checked a couple of websites and I was right, the public figure wrong. 

There was some doubt on the radio about the validity of what the public figure had said, but the broadcaster has more important things to focus on than small detail.

Let me tell you, I was cross as patch. The station dropped the matter and I stewed on it for a couple of days. The public figure is an ok guy, and has similar political views to myself, but that makes it worse. It is harder to hate and attack someone on your political side.

It became too much and I sent him an email. I know some of you will have guessed who I am talking about, too bad. Here are some excerpts from my email and his response, which I was quite surprised to receive. I consider his response was very decent and honest. There was a bit more that I am not displaying. So people, when public figures get it wrong, call them out. Just maybe not #47, who is immune to criticism. Misspoke in his response is as good as a mea culpa you will normally receive from a public figure. 

Me: 

I am very disappointed at your spruiking of misinformation about the closure of Bourke Street to trams on the 8th of August. You clearly stated the reason for the closure was for Yarra Trams works in Bourke Street, when it has become clear that the closure is for the opening of Mecca. 

It is very odd that Myer window Christmas crowds of a hundred people or more can safely be in Bourke Street with trams running, yet the opening of a shop needs to have trams stopped. If there is disruption to Bourke Street trams, they are normally rerouted to Latrobe Street. This may well cost Yarra Trams but if it happens for an event, I expect Yarra Trams wants compensation, and it seems obvious that Mecca was not prepared to pay.

The whole matter stinks...

Response:

I’m really sorry for the disappointment caused by my earlier communication regarding the Bourke Street tram closure. My intention was never to mislead or obscure the facts. I was just back from leave and invited to discuss the Mecca opening.

At the time, I was not across the detail on tram disruption and misspoke.

and when commercial interests appear to influence decisions that affect many. Your point about past events (like the Myer Christmas windows) proceeding without tram closures is a fair one, and raises valid questions.

Thank you again for holding me to account. I value thoughtful, constructive criticism like yours, and I’ll aim to do better in future.

Kinda back

I am not making my splendiferous return to the world of blog. I just want to write a little rant, after hearing weirdness on one of our commercial tv news bulletin. I call it the car crash news, and there was ripper tonight whereby many cars were damaged and the driver of an unmarked police car accidently gave the miscreant a bump with the police car, with him receiving multiple bone fractures, and he is under police guard in hospital. 

The incident was also covered by the 7pm ABC TV News, somewhat less sensationally than the Channel 7 news. 

Then came the pre ad promotion for a following story by Channel 7 newsreader, Peter Mitchell. 

How to reduce your risk of dying by 40%! 

The 40% odds for perpetual life is quite good. The detail was made clear in the story. I calmed down, until this...

Reduce your mortality by 25%.

In spite of my poor lifestyle choices, isn't that something for me to grasp at too?

PS For those who follow Elephant Child's blog, I am sure we are all wishing her well as she recovers from serious surgery. I think she is the most caring person I've come across on the internet, and that is quite a statement. Be well, EC.   

Enough, The Age

In its early days, Melbourne's The Age newspaper was a pompous and conservative broadsheet. Around the time I began reading and buying the newspaper each day, it has become quite adventurous with its reporting. Its sister Fairfax company paper The Sydney Morning Herald also caught up with modern times.

A late friend gave me lots of laughs when he referred to another gay couple who in the 90s rose from their slumbers and both sat at their respective desktop computers to read the electric newspapers. While I may have laughed, it wasn't too much later I was doing the same. Eventually the newspaper forced me to pay for access, and it is now about AU$1 a day for The Age but I also have access to The Sydney Morning Herald, the digital Brisbane Times and WAtoday (Western Australia Today). That's fine, and I am happy to pay this.

But, what I am not happy about is horribly intrusive advertising, not on the desktop version, but on the shortcut web link I have on my phone. As you are quickly scrolling through a story, advertising pops up and you can't smoothly scroll past it. I keep trying to scroll and end up at the end of the story and I have to backtrack. I've long has the app on my phone but for some reason I can't remember my link to the online newspaper worked better. It doesn't now. I went to try the app again and while my email address showed, it was shown that I was not a subscriber. There was nothing I could do to login.  As seems to be happening more often now, I deleted the app with my information and reinstalled it, and I was able to log in normally. So, I will see if this works better for than the overly intrusive advertising on the normal website available on phones. 

I won't even mention the battle I've had with the road toll company Linkt over the hoops I've had to jump, as I cancelled Ray's account and made my new one. I only did so because the electronic tag in the car to deduct toll money had stopped working. I stupidly mentioned that Ray had died and I was now the account holder. No you aren't, was the reply. He is dead. You need to set up a new account. Stop!!! I said I won't mention it. 

Things on the home front were fine until, "Andrewww, the cooking exhaust fan is not working". 

Lordy, Phyllis recently asked me rather cheekily what I do with the board they pay me. I told him it is not his business. They both think I am rich. Compared them, I suppose I am, but it really costs to live in the 'privileged'  western world. 

Bah, just two months ago I bought new LED lamps for the range hood. I will take them out and maybe they can be reused down the track. 

Media Monday

With our media dominated by the commercial Murdoch press and Fairfax media, aka tv Channel 9 Media, our ABC is to be treasured, being government funded and free of commercial and notionally free of government influence.

Both private media companies are very involved in daily newspapers too, and also country daily and weekly newspapers.

I pay a bit over $30 a month for access to my local paper, The Age. The gives me access to Sydney's equivalent local paper and other digital only interstate papers. 

But some twelve years ago an electronic media disrupter arrived in Australia, The Guardian, with its English origins being the Manchester Guardian, a very old and very well respected newspaper, based in Manchester, England. 

When politicians talk the talk, it will cut them down.

When commercial avarice is apparent, it will tell you.

It investigates. I pay $100 a year as a donation and it is worth every cent but generally the online paper is free to read.

The paper's chief editor for the last ten years, Katherine Viner, sent out an email to note whatever occasion and there were some links to terrific reads. I took the time to read them. 

Former New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, post office. 

A female Somali refugee who has made a good life for herself with English citizenship, but it wasn't easy.

This one is heartbreaking, and if you read neither of the above, read this heartbreaking one about what how arguably the best public health system in the world failed. Sorry, it won't cheer you up at all. How Martha died. There are lessons to be learnt.

Bits

My newest Mondegreen: I wasn't really paying attention to the tv and when perhaps Gardening Australia was being broadcast, my ears pricked up, as I heard 'To bully him'. What??? It was so out of context. Fortunately the Fetch box allows me to go back, even though I am not actively recording. It was the single word 'tabouli'. Yes, I did have my hearing aids in my ears. 

There was a cool new show on ABV TV last night where piano players (I could have used the word pianists, but I am not sure they all are) play in a public space and they are listened to by Australian pianist Andrea Lam and the internationally known, Harry Connick Jr. The 103 year old pianist competitor probably doesn't have much of a future in the music industry. 

Well, the Australian election result was a shock. The Labor Party won with a landslide. The last time I tuned in, the state of Tasmania has no conservative party Liberal/National Party members. The conservative Liberal Party was pretty well wiped out in all Australian capital cities. 

My opinion is the leader of the opposition party, the Liberals, has an ugly character and came with so much baggage as he was a member of a former ruling conservative government. Once he announced his policy of the sacking of a huge number of public servants, DOGE like, and a stupid member sprouting Make Australia Great Again, he was a goner. How to scare the voters #101. Then he sprouted off about the first nation welcome to country speech used at many public ceremonies, suggesting it may be overused. I don't think it is. My sister had a brief welcome to country speech at the wedding to her wife. Mother later remarked, was that really necessary. In my mother's mind, aborigines were trouble. She was a person of her time and quite racist, conflicted by her lovely and kind Filipina neighbour, and the medical staff from wherever in the world who looked after her for so many years.

The Murdoch media, and its newspaper editorials suggesting to vote for the conservative party would be a good thing to do, was clearly out of step with the Australian populace. As for the execrable Sky News, my god, what a fuck up this also Murdoch media tv station is. 

The fallen leader of the conservative party went down the road of nuclear power, on a long time line. Nuclear power is great and perfectly safe, until it isn't. Even one of most technically advanced country, Japan, could not ensure nuclear safety. 

As I type, Phyllis and Kosov are making my dinner. My Meals on Wheels, technically three days worth were delivered today. 

I did something wrong on my desktop and screen shots can no longer be found in Pictures/Screenshots, after pressing Windows+Print Screen. The pics are saved, but I cannot find out where. It took me some time, but I found out that I can press Windows+Control+S, and that works for me as they are saved to Clipboard, a place in the Windows tree I'd never heard of. Is it a new name for Notepad? 

Back to politics. I stayed in accommodation with my ABI (Acquired Brain Injury) Brother in Ballarat for a family gathering. More later about that later, but we were back at our digs and were watching the election results on the Saturday night as we drank a wee dram. I was astonished when he said he voted for Dutton, the conservative party leader. I expressed something that indicated I was mega surprised. He replied, I voted for Jason Wood. I know him and he is a nice bloke.  After hearing Mr Wood interviewed on radio yesterday, he seemed like a decent person and not one of the hard right members of the conservative party. He seemed like a reasonable person and that is how the conservative Liberal Party, that seems to have become a party of extreme #47 like policies, needs to rebuild itself to recover from its devastating loss of popularity, full of reasonable people. 

Dutton was a government minister who could have stood up and spoken up about the disgraceful Robodebt scandal. I can never forgive any of the party at the time for Robodebt that led to suicides. Beyond the failures of men in the party, it certainly in the future should not be led by woman who was also Robodebt compliant. Yes you, Sussan Ley. You cannot be a part of an invigorated refresh of the conservative Liberal Party. 

My neighbour HH is driving me in her motor car to a Buddhist cafe I know not where for lunch on Wednesday. What on earth is Buddhist food like? One may not like surprises, but one lives for them. 

Just the one, too many

One should not be so cruel but sometimes people deserve a dose of cruelty, such as Sydney celebrity socialite Vanessa Jacobs Fennell.

It us alleged she had a few too many drinkies, and was doing blockies in Bellevue Hill, one of Sydney's prestigious eastern suburbs, in her black Range Rover, sporting at least two shredded tyres. 

She side swiped four cars, one seriously, parked outside The Grumpy Baker. And wow, it was added to the story that one of the damaged cars was a Tesla. I can see the price of used Teslas plummeting, regardless of this incident.

She was breathalysed, with a positive reading but was refusing to go to the police station. She was arrested and then tried go the biffo with the police, so she was also charged assaulting a police officer. Into the slammer she went, but was bailed later that night.

I expect when hit by the cold harsh light of the day the following morning, what she will be most upset about the news reports is her unflattering photo in the media. Photo by Rhett Wyman

Ageing

I am not that old in comparison to some of you. Some of you are of a similar age. Some of you are younger. 

Generally your health and physical condition really starts to deteriorate at the age of 60. In my case when I retired at the age of 61, my body began retiring too. At 67, should I live to 77, I think I'll be in wheel chair and being spoon fed. Ok, maybe not. I hope not. 

Your genes will mostly dictate your lifespan, and we all know clean living, diet, socialising and exercise can cheat the genes somewhat. Having a partner helps, along with keeping your mind active, but if you blog, your mind is active. 

I can't say my life has been clean, and still isn't but I do try in various areas. 

But what really pisses me off is those who reach a seriously old age and brag about their older person achievements, how fit they are, their wonderful pain free life. At 90, they are living a glorious life. Good for them, but for most people it is not like that. 

Your partner may have died, many of your friends have died, you may not have much money to spare, you may feel lonely at times, your health could be bad, making your life a constant struggle. You might be dependant on others, in spite of disliking that. 

So just before you brag about what a great life you are living when you are 90, this is not the case for most people, who probably struggle at the age of 80 onwards, or earlier. 

But you don't have to be too old , as you can even die at the age of 40 from the coded police words, "There are no suspicious circumstances".

It was very sad to hear of the deaths of two retired star Australian Rules footballers around the age of 40, one day apart, and there were no suspicious circumstances. One would think, they had everything to live for. 

Troy Selwood.

And Adam Hunter. 

There you go dear readers, I've cheered you up no end, but life is not all balls and skittles. 

Madison Mental

#45 held a party at Madison Square Garden. I was truly disturbed by the hate from some of the guest speakers directed at Hilary Clinton and Harris, let alone the vulgarity. I don't think I've heard anything like that in politics in my life. Is this person seriously running as leader of the number one country in the western world? 

Who knows? Maybe the 'basket of deplorables' will vote for the execrable #45 again. As I was reminded today, women folk, your vote is private. No one among your family and friends will know how you vote. Please do the right thing, if not for yourself, but your American sisters. Women have already died because of refused abortions. 

Vale George Negus

Just an update about the word route, it is rather inconclusive that it is American influence in Australia. After all, Nat King Cole sang route rather than rowt with the line, Get your kicks on Route 66. I'm sure many did. To repeat Tasker's comment yesterday, Get your snout on rout 66.

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George Negus could probably be described as an old style knock about journalist, and that is a positive. As a journalist, an overseas correspondent, one who spent time in war zones, a television reporter and tv current affairs host, he knew his craft. Sadly he has died from Alzheimers at the age of 82. Ha, he and Thatcher died from the same disease.

For anyone my age what may stick in our heads is those of us who were watching, was this interview of Iron Lady, aka the late UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher used up the interview time by delaying questions into time spent questioning Negus' questions. On the face of it George was on his backfoot, but I rather think Thatcher showed her true posh and imperious persona, to not take an Australian journalist seriously. My goodness, so many years later, how her soft posh accent irritates me. Note a a slight licking of her lips at about 35 seconds, indicating....something. 

George's interpretation. Right at the end of the interview, look deeply into her malevolent eyes, with not an ounce of empathy towards anyone ever. 

I hired a male sex worker for my 70th birthday. It didn’t go as planned

I am not 70, so it is not about me. It was a column written in our newspaper The Age. You can perhaps read it here.

The story is about a 70 year old single but sexually experienced woman who paid an extraordinary amount of money to hire a sex worker, something like AU$1300 for 3 hours, plus a few hundred for a hotel, for her 70th birthday present to herself. It wouldn't be much of a story if it all went well, would it. 

Older women and sex is something that enters my curious mind, curious in both senses. In my opinion she overegged the blancmange. She was trying to buy an emotional experience resulting in sex. She spoke to the bloke before hand more than once. She found they had things in common. She liked the sound of him and liked his looks. She was concerned about how he would react to her 70 year old body, and she should not be. It is a commercial arrangement. She made great preparations at the hotel before his arrival. While it remained all very polite and civilised, she realised it wasn't working and asked him to leave, which he did. 

The next day she called him and asked for a refund, which he did. She took no blame and decided it was his lack of professionalism. Maybe, maybe not. 

But honestly, why did she do it in such a hard and expensive manner? She lived alone so I kind of get why she wouldn't want a sex worker in her home. Why wouldn't she be content with a quick fuck with a hot rent guy for an hour in a motel room? If it was a gay man, it might be over in 30 minutes. I suppose it was a birthday present to herself and she wanted to go the whole hog a romantic experience. I don't think that is something that is you can buy.

The author mentioned a film with a similar theme. I have not heard of the film but it sounds interesting, Good Luck To You, Leo Grande. It stars Emma Thompson, so that is one positive, the second being the male actor Daryl McCormack, is quite attractive. Have you heard of it or seen it? I want to see the film and from my investigations, the easiest way is using YouTube for the cost of $5.

Grand or great?

I read in the electric newspaper the term grand niece and that had me puzzled. From the person seeming to be reading directly from papers on ABC Radio, I heard the same. 

The story was about a grand niece of a former State Premier now seeking preselection as an electoral candidate. 

Great niece and grand niece are the same, as Google tells me. It can even be great grand niece. I think I prefer to have great nieces than grand nieces. The OED informs me using great niece and great nephew is twice as common as using grand.

I did not know about grand and great being the same. Did you? And if so, why didn't you tell me?  

Good news story, kind of

This was a major headline media story because it is a very unusual thing to happen.

Benjamin Phikhohpoom (by his name I guess he is of Thai heritage) was abducted in a well to do area while walking home from a very good school in the local area of Caulfield in the greater area of Glen Eira. This is dominantly a Jewish area. Is that relevant? Maybe. But I can't see Benjamin as being a target by hatred of Jews.

Media informs me that the fifteen year old lad was pulled into a car by three teenagers who demanded his phone and personal belongings. He was stabbed, thrown out of the car and dragged for 150 metres and then, run over. 

He spent a long time in a coma but eventually recovered but not quite to the full extent. The television news subtitled his speech last night. But I could understand him easily. 

He is back at school, albeit part time. 

Photo from the Herald Sun.

What a marvellous country Australia is, clean, green, neat and safe.

From the English Daily Mail.

The three teenagers who allegedly carried out the attack were arrested and charged following the incident. 

All three have been granted bail and are set to face a children's court at a later date.

One of the alleged offenders, a 14-year-old boy, faces 70 charges relating to several armed robberies and multiple counts of theft. 

The reasonable part of my brain says if convicted, the perpetrators should serve a gaol sentence, understand the gravity of what they did and undergo rehabilitation before being released back into society.

The emotional part of my brain says why attack an innocent kid on his way home from school? Lock the fuckers up and throw away key for these wasters of society.

It will be interesting to see what the courts decide and you can bet the sentences will be mild.  

Style at our ABC

We can be quick to judge what female media people wear, even if we say nothing, we still notice things. Or is that just me? 

Men in figure disguising suits (like #45 with his girdle and suits that almost disguise his bloated figure) have it much easier. That's nothing against big people, it's just about him. 

But some men in media really get style right. I won't mention his extremely white teeth or his suspiciously black hair but local and most excellent ABC weekend newsreader Iskandar Razak really hits the mark.

His well cut jacket is perfectly teamed with a white shirt. The red tie, red kerchief and red watchband break the conservative look.

Some men paint their nails because they like to and good luck to them but I expect Iskandar's single painted nail is in support of "Nailed It, an organisation to raise awareness of physical and sexual violence against children, and that's not a bad thing.

I am sure you are relieved it is a brief post today. Ex Sis in Law stayed last night before surgery at St Vincents Hospital today, as I have another hole cut in my neck at the Alfred Hospital. Eventually the Herman bolt with fit through. 

Local troubles and troubles to our west

We've returned from a great short holiday in Sydney. I will tell you about it soon. I am always slow to restart blogging after a holiday. There always seems so much to do when returning after even just a week away, never mind sorting through photos.

Two matters of great concern occurred while we were away and the most obvious happened in the Middle East. What Hamas did is unbelievable, that is a direct and personal attack on people of Israel. It was brutal and how I hope those who were abducted by the Hamas animals are safe. It is just so wrong to target people for being no more than what they are and where they live. If they live on contested land, that is because their government approved the occupation. It isn't their fault.

I will die with bad feelings towards the Kremlin (Russia), and now Hamas (Palestine). 

But we have to remember that it is not the Palestinian people who did this but its extreme government which I am sure never told the citizens of its war plans before being 'elected'. 

Naturally Israel will respond with great anger, and that is hardly surprising. However Israel also must remember the innocent people as it responds. I hope not to add the Knesset to my bad feeling governments. The world is watching you Israel and you will be judged by your humanity. An eye for an eye has a bad ending.

It is all really so sad and I am sure to become even more so.

The second.

The no vote for our indigenous voice to parliament was also sad, but not unexpected. I think it has been proved that Prime Minister Albanese made a political mistake with this referendum. It has been so divisive and the best line was 'If in doubt, say no'. The opposition party and many commentators told outright lies, yet our ABC gave so much air time to absurd 'no' arguments. The ABC's own highly respected gave some truth to this. The evil Murdoch media empire did exactly what one would expect. 

I wonder when you are old, how will you answer your children and grandchildren when they ask how you voted? "Grandma, did you vote yes in the referendum for something that could improve the life of Aborigines by giving them a say in laws that affected them?" I hope you are proud of how you will be judged by your descendants.  

I can proudly say that my parents were among the 95% of Victorians who voted yes in the 1967 referendum.

Voters were asked whether to give the Federal Government the power to make special laws for Indigenous Australians in states,^[1] and whether Indigenous Australians should be included in official population counts for constitutional purposes.

What makes a desirable man

What makes an attractive man if you rise above the superficial of good looking? 

Tony Armstrong, an ABC tv radio and television personality is nice enough looking with a slim neat body. He is mainly a sports presenter and Aussie Rules football commentator but has taken on other significant roles. 

But looks alone don't make a man attractive. This is my ideal, so don't feel inadequate fellahs.

Tony is smart, clever and well educated. He speaks with a very neutral Australian accent. He is very witty. He cares about society. He is an eloquent and a fluent speaker. He dresses well with a sense of style, without being over the top. 

Google him and you will find his private life has remained so. As a footballer, he doesn't have past scandals. Generally he is just such a nice guy.

I think I have just convinced myself that I want to marry him.   

The happy clappers at Hillsong

As if normal religions aren't bad enough, we have newer religious organisations such as Hillsong. I've no idea what Hillsong is about but it seems to attract nice but disaffected people who are believers. That's just my opinion. I don't think anywhere has done better with happy clapper religions and scandals than the US as the people behind the happy clapper nonsense raked in millions of dollars to spend on themselves, were unfaithful to partners, involved in sexual scandals and more.

Followers of Islam go to great lengths to justify their religion but they have no tolerance of a diverse society and while the rest of Australian electorates voted for gay marriage, one heavily Islamic suburb in Sydney did not. Then you get prats like this Muslim bloke who preaches such hatred against gay people. It's a quick read. He should be prosecuted for hate speech.  https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/national-news/sydney-muslim-preacher-goes-on-vile-rant-against-lgbt-persons-worldpride/222423

Back to Hillsong with some links that should work for you.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/05/hillsong-founder-pastor-brian-houston-sydney-court-trial

I love the Kardashion reference in this one. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/09/hillsong-accused-of-money-laundering-and-tax-evasion-by-mp-under-parliamentary-privilege

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/world/australia/brian-houston-hillsong-resign.html

Crooks, liars, thieves and charlatans. 

I've just checked the definition of religious bigot and it seems I am not one. It just seems like it and I make no apologies.

Friday Funny

Hels of Art and Architecture, mainly drew my attention to this article after I used a photo of this ridiculous looking motorhome.

https://topgear.fandom.com/wiki/Jeremy%27s_Homemade_Motorhome

I really laughed when I read the short piece. While I don't like Clarkson, he can be quite funny at times.

Here is a summary YT clip of the episode, 8 mins. 

So what eventually happened to the campervan? If you read the article above you would know but for simple folk, here is another brief clip, 3 mins.