Dear mhaze,

Lol.

It was Murdoch, it was a lifetime achievement award, it was the first time it had been handed out by this crowd in 14 years and it was a gong as you can clearly see in the pictures.

What's got your knickers in a knot? You are certainly not above a bit of obfuscation yourself old chum so all this lather and blather drips with your usual hypocrisy.

I did like the Crikey headline: "Murdoch's Australia Day award — brought to you by miners and bankers" which was far more truthful that most of the mainstream press such as the AFR:

"Mr Murdoch, 89, made the rare public remarks during a brief video to accept a lifetime achievement award from the Australia Day Foundation."

http://www.afr.com/politics/federal/rupert-murdoch-slams-woke-culture-in-australia-day-award-speech-20210126-p56wup

It is a good observation on Murdoch, media and the elites in any case.

Paul,

Do please get things right, Robert Borsak is a slim very fit bloke and the elephant that he shot was taken legally and the meat and everything else went to the local people for their use.

The money spent by Borsak went to conservation and the elephant that he shot was marked for killing by the Government Conservators.

So do intersperse your posts with some truthful observations.

Regarding the wearing of possum skins for political kudos, there is no excuse for so doing no matter who.
How do you know that the skins came from NZ and were not from illegal hunting in Australia?

Hi Issy,

Fat Bob Ballsup, the Great White Hunter, paid $20,000, it seemed like bribe money, so he could sit in a purpose built comfy shooting bunker. The fear stricken endangered elephant was driven into position, no danger to Fat Bob. From his safe location Fat Bob took a pot shot at the poor animal. How long the suffering elephant took to die we don't know. Fat Bob said he ate the animal, that's why he's Fat Bob, there is no evidence any locals got a slice, what so ever. Probably the carcass was left to rot, after Fat Bob got his trophy pics.

What about your mate Tony Azzi the wombat killer?

Hi Joe,

Just got messages from Fiji, cyclone passing overhead, strong winds heavy rain, and flooding

Hi Paul,

And an earthquake as well :(. Keep your fingers crossed :)

Slightly off-topic, an article came out yesterday from French neo-Marxist anthropologist Christophe Darmangeat, critiquing Marx and Morgan on women's rights in traditional societies:

http://cdarmangeat.ghes.univ-paris-diderot.fr/docs/Brochure-EN.pdf

I've been thinking along similar lines, that women in Aboriginal societies didn't have any real equality whatsoever, but were in fact used for their two functions: gathering food, and reproducing men - and of course girls to be traded in the future (as an ex-dairy-hand, the similarities with dairies were interesting: keep the cows in milk, raise and sell off the steers, and service the heifers eventually for their milk production).

And once those two functions were exhausted, they were figuratively - and in droughts, literally - put under a bush and abandoned.

I have to very reluctantly agree that there was nothing much going for women in traditional societies, or in the cultural justifications for their subordination.

Joe

Paul,

A pathetic post; why don't you address some of the points I raised about Australian Aboriginals being so much better off nowadays because of British administration.

You can't, of course, so must resort to your so-called humour.

Hi Issy,

There is no humour when Fat Bob Ballsup admitted paying large sums of money to dirt poor Africans to shoot such majestic creatures as endangered elephants! That is the type of politician YOU support.

You are still struck dumb when it comes to the wombat killer, your good buddy, and leading NSW shooter TONY AZZI.

Give me your answer on good buddy Azzi, and I'll answer any question you like.