Exhibit One

Exhibit Two

New Zealand taxpayers might want to call Jacinda to the office for a chat.

Meanwhile in Australia - "Powerful rebuke" hey SBS?  

To what, sanity?

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gave this powerful rebuke at the World Economic Forum to fellow heads-of-state who refuse to act on climate change. pic.twitter.com/H0902OBZDQ

— SBS News (@SBSNews) January 22, 2019

Great reminder about democracy and big decisions.  

Get on with it.

"This is a huge decision for our country, perhaps the biggest we will make in our lifetime, and it will be the final decision" - David Cameron, 10 November 2015. #Brexit #PeoplesVote pic.twitter.com/XLVTCpszvq

— James Holland (@James7Holland) June 1, 2018

Next Tuesday 29 January at 5:30pm in Sydney I will speak about the bias, persecution and terror that 'Thought Police' have thrust upon my family using NSW anti-discrimination laws.

More than $5 million has been spent by... https://t.co/BTpy4mmXJf

— Bernard Gaynor (@BernardGaynor) January 23, 2019

Last night Indonesia's President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) held a press conference at the Merdeka Presidential Palace in Jakarta to announce the terms under which Islamist Jihadi spiritual leader Abu Bakar Bashir might be released from prison.

Bashir's been serving a 15 year sentence since his June 2011 conviction for running a terrorist training camp.  Last week Jokowi's staff announced Bashir's conviction would be quashed and he'd soon be released without conditions.

After protests from within Indonesia's security services and from foreign governments, including Australia, Jokowi yesterday painted a very different picture with no prospect of Bashir's conviction being quashed and an unlikely path to parole.

Here's CNN Indonesia's report.

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said convicted terrorism prisoner Abu Bakar Ba'asyir must pledge allegiance to the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI) and Pancasila as conditions for his release.

"The conditions must be fulfilled. If not, I cannot do it. For example, being loyal to the Unitary Republic of Indonesia, being loyal to the Pancasila. The principle, it is very clear," Jokowi said at Merdeka Palace on Tuesday (1/22).

According to Jokowi, he would violate the legal provisions if he released Ba'asyir without the concerned fulfilling the loyal conditions for the Republic of Indonesia and the Pancasila.

"Right, there are legal provisions and mechanisms, this is something basic - loyal to the Unitary Republic of Indonesia and the Pancasila," he said.

ENDS

Bashir's an avowed opponent of both principles, he's told his followers he'd rather stay in prison than pledge allegiance to either.

Bashir is an Islamist who believes Indonesia should adopt only Sharia law.  The unitary Indonesian state is a multi-cultural, multi-religious community with hundreds of different ethnic, religious, language and cultural groupings.  Islam is not the not the state religion.

The basis of Indonesian law and society is the Pancasila - or five principles.

The first of the principles - Ketuhanan Yang Maha Esa doesn't quite translate literally into English but the following "A Divinity that is an ultimate unity" is pretty close.

That phrase is designed to accommodate Indonesia's officially recognised religions, including the polytheist and monotheist:

• Islam (in its various forms)
• Christianity (Catholicism and Protestantism)
• Hinduism 
• Buddhism
• Confucianism

Abu Bakar Bashir is dead against the Pancasila - and dead against a unitary Indonesian state that includes kuffirs.

I'm tipping he won't take the pledge of loyalty to the Pancasila - if he did his whole Islamist organisation would collapse around him, it's reason for being would be gone.  

So no pledge, no parole - and that's a very good thing!

He can rot in jail - I hope he dies there.

Bastard.

The Australian today reports the great news that Tony Abbott has kicked off a Liberal Party competitor to GetUp.

The move to mirror the election campaign tactics used by Labor and groups aligned to the Left has been backed by Scott Morrison and the federal Liberal secretariat as a key campaign and fundraising vehicle ahead of the May election.

The creation of a campaign website based around Mr Abbott’s extensive social media footprint follows concerns among senior Liberals that the party, and the ­centre right more broadly, had failed since the 2007 election loss to deal with Labor’s formidable campaign resourcing and the success of the activist Left.

Mr Abbott has the largest social media footprint of any federal MP, with 450,000 Facebook followers.

ENDS

It's called Battlelines (after Tony's book) and you'll find the website here:

https://www.battlelines.com.au/

I'm proud to say that I was the first cab off the rank joining the fight against unions bright and early this morning.

I urge you to click here, go to Battlelines and join Tony's team!

The World's Greatest Treasurer has someone new to look up to.

Nice to know that Wayne - I always though taxation was there to pay for stuff like defence, school teachers and hospitals.

UPDATE - Stu of NT dropped us a note with this reminder of the way it was with Wayne!

From the outside looking in the Liberal Party appears to be a disconnected, incoherent rabble.

Labor is very good at managing events like this one in Gilmore today.  The Liberals are shockers.

Warren Mundine is an outstanding candidate and will be a welcome addition to the Party and the parliament if he wins this seat.  People like Warren come along rarely and bringing them in laterally takes care and a lot of sensitive work - but the end results make all of that worthwhile.

Why wasn't a very senior Lib assigned to sit down with the man who though his preselection was assured and work through an alternative arrangement for him?

Grant Schultz does not sound like a man who's been taken into the confidence of the senior leadership.  He sounds like someone who's been badly treated and who wants to inflict maximum damage on the party to which, until this morning, he was giving his all.

It's awful to watch these people tear each other apart - and it's so unnecessary.

Google has 5.8M hits for coverage of this poor kid's encounter with protesters near the Lincoln Memorial over the weekend.

A few hours ago the US President sent this message supporting Nick and his schoolmates.

Looking like Nick Sandman & Covington Catholic students were treated unfairly with early judgements proving out to be false - smeared by media. Not good, but making big comeback! “New footage shows that media was wrong about teen’s encounter with Native American” @TuckerCarlson

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2019

Nick Sandmann is an impressive young man.  It's hard to imagine the pressure he and his family are under with all sorts of threats against them and the world's lefty media going through them like a dose of salts.

Here's Nick's statement.

Here's some of what young Nick and friends were up against.

Nick Sandmann and the students of Covington have become symbols of Fake News and how evil it can be. They have captivated the attention of the world, and I know they will use it for the good - maybe even to bring people together. It started off unpleasant, but can end in a dream!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2019

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims without evidence that "the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change" pic.twitter.com/Tndg9A0K80

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) January 22, 2019

God must be very proud of his earthly creations.

I have this on very good authority from a source close to the ABC Melbourne radio host.

On 26 January, the Governor General will be most graciously pleased to approve the award of Member (AM) in the Order of Australia to:

Mr Jonathan Eric FAINE                                                                                                    Vic

For significant service to the broadcast media as a radio presenter, to the law, and to the community.

For services to the broadcast media and the law?

Wonder where this gem featured.

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2013/03/jon-faine-takes-on-the-abc-bosses-and-loses.html

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2013/01/abcs-jon-faine-apology.html