Pell’s Angels

We’ve recently been through a week of horror as the cool calm and collected Pell (the ultimate bureaucrat) was questioned by the Royal Commission. Pell’s performance was nothing other than remarkable on many fronts. Only once did he let the Mr. Hyde side take over in an unconsidered statement of not being interested in his “mate” abusing (mating with) kids.

Very little came out of Pell that we didn’t know already, nor was there that classic “got-ya” moment where the witness breaks down and admits to everything. Apart from Pell hiding from Australian justice and making it difficult (if he is genuinely sick, he should retire and come home) – a la Skase – nothing really seems to have been achieved by that whole procedure.

Pell may or may not have been involved in such activity – there has not been any proof of it – he may or may not have been aware of it happening – once again no direct proof. But on the second issue, he would have had to be the only human on “Earth” (Well, the Christian definition of humans and Earth) who didn’t know what was going on in the church. But until there is direct evidence, such as someone popping up and saying father Pell “Pell-ted” me and pumped me every night, he will be innocent at least officially. But the thing about a Royal Commissions is that they can form a view which is not based on direct evidence but simply circumstantial.

What’s remarkable about Pell is that to him the church is more important than anything – the truth, the victims, what’s right, what’s wrong or anything else. He must believe that his God will judge him well as his protector.

What completely baffles me is how God made him the administrator of all his/her (keep you ladies content) money!! What with all that stuff about the pope and his direct line to God, one would have to believe that this was some sorta rort by the church.

The Pope appointed this bureaucrat well knowing that there was this ugly cloud overhanging him. One can only imagine the frantic calls on the direct line to the pope as God attempted to right things. There can be no other reason than that god simply ordered that he was removed from further disgracing his kingdom and getting him away from the “darling little angels”.

The church operates like any other corporate. Once senior executives make a decision they stand by it come hell (oooops! Maybe I could have chosen my words better!) or high water! So the Pell decision cannot be overturned. The pope must hope that Pell digs himself a hole and buries himself (or ascends to that place beyond the fluffy clouds)!

But the question still remains, did god actually make a mistake? I guess there is an easy out for the true believers – Pell is innocent and naïve and knew nothing and of course God never makes mistakes! As a true believer, one does not need facts, simply belief would do. If any other organisation “sold” snake oil the way the church does, it would be immediately dis-embowered by the corporate watch-dog, but the Christian church (as do other religions) gets away with it! – that’s a discussion for another time.

The dangerous aspect about this is that it isn’t harmless snake-oil, the church uses these crazy beliefs to take control of people’s minds and money. It just isn’t normal for even kids to drop their pants on command, bend over and take it in the backside by anyone! Least of all, some depraved ugly man in a strange cloak who talks fantasy super natural stuff!!

The church (not quite the same church) refused to Christen my son because we weren’t regular church goers – I was a bit peeved by it all at the time, but then, they were right, and my son is probably blooming lucky that it happened that way! The more observant of you are probably wondering why someone with my views of the church would want my son Christened! That’s another story too!

Good luck to the Pope and Pell and God bless Pell’s Angels – one can only hope their God will fix this blooming problem and their lives!

The Big Fat Hog poo poos Auburn council!

If ever you wondered which level of politics you should enter, the answer is blatantly obvious – it is undoubtedly councils. Yes, it’s grubby, it lacks any sophistication or intelligence and the people deals with (or compete against) are the most corrupt, but that’s how you make money and making money is the name of the game.

Long gone are the days when individuals entered politics with the genuine desired to make a change and improve the community, state of country. It is now a career – a highly paid career. In fact Australian politicians are amongst the highest if not the highest paid politicians in the world. I believe the Australian prime minister is paid more than the president of the US.

See, whilst higher levels of politics have a greater impact on the future of the nation, there isn’t much money in it. These levels of politics set strategy and high level policy, but the money is really at the coal front where the detail policy and business deals take place.

There is no doubt that the higher the level of politics the less grubby the individuals involved, in a general sense – of course there are always the exceptions. It is also the case that the level of intelligence and capability required rises too, with notable exceptions once again. But the money in the trough is inversely proportional. The trough does not constitute the budget but more an indication of the money one can make through legal or illegal means.

So, if one is driven by power and a semblance of idealistic vision for your nation then Federal level is the way to go. But if money is the key driver, as it is for most Aussies, then, leap in to the cess pit and roll in the sewerage that is council politics - the rewards are high. Just walk into any council car park, particularly in the North shore (Mosman, Lane Cover), and it is a showcase of European sports cars – Ferraris, Maseratis, Porsches – you name it. If you had this image of the hard working councillor yanking at the door of his battered Datsun 200Y, Torona or Holden and puffing n belching his way home, then wipe that image right out of your mind – reality it quite different. It’s far more like getting in to their Ferraris and zooming home with absolutely no regard for the road rules. No authority would dare fine them, it’s far more lucrative to all to simply be on the pay roll.

The recent development in Auburn threatened to upset the money making machine. One of the councillors had gotten a bit over-zealous with the exhibitionism! Was he going to bring this whole rort into public scrutiny?!!

Quick action was required and delivered. This guy was Lebanese and we all know that all Lebanese are Muslims and we hate them, so here was the perfect scape goat. The state government, Councils and Police decided to pick on him. We couldn’t have one jerk spoil it for all the other jerks in the system.

Now If you were charged by the head hog to make this problem go away, without spoiling it for the other hogs and make it seem like harsh action was being taken against corruption, then, what would your solution be? Ummm. .. ummmmm – let me think!

1. I’d get rid of that councillor and the best and easiest way to do that would be to sack the whole council.

2. I’d get another councillor from somewhere else, one that was into all of this, to replace the council.

This way, you would have got rid of the high risk individual, it would appear that you were taking harsh action on corruption and you would now have an “insider” there who could cover-up everything else and make it look like it was working swimmingly well!

Oooops! That sounds terribly like the option taken by the State government!

A councillor who had his snout in probably Australia’s largest trough was assigned to manage a council which has a relatively modest trough! So we have a Big Fat Hog poo pooing the Auburn council and managed to bring some level of satisfaction to the other big fat hogs who were getting a bit nervous about this young Lebanese stallion giving it all away! It’s sorta’ the Mafia type solution.

The thing is that Councils are a law unto themselves. Anyone who has any dealings with them would agree with this view. The councils have policies which apply only to Mr. and Mrs household owner (who can’t really afford to add to the trough) and are totally transparent to developers with wads of contributions to the trough collection.

The whole process is quite a joke. They have an appeal process where Mr. and Mrs. Householder can get an independent assessment of issues. But when the council meet to make decisions these independent assessments are completely ignored regardless of the fact that they prove the council are acting against their own policy. Typically, the councils have one big fat hog, “sponsored” by the trough contributors, bullying and controlling the decisions of the council and what the big fat hog wants is what the big fat hog gets.

You may ask, where the governance of councils lie. The simple answer is, with no one. Officially there is a state minister accountable. That minister and their department have no interest what-so-ever unless it is election time. But usually things take so long that by the time one gets a response from the minister the election is gone and so there is no interest.

Then there is the toothless ICAC. ICAC is deliberately under resourced. The corruption is so in-grained in the system that if one attempted to sufficiently fund ICAC it would consume the entire state budget! Whilst the council level corruption may have much larger amounts of money involved, the profile of the “stings” are much lower. The higher the level of politics the bigger the profile and so ICAC always have bigger fish to fry than the Big Fat Hogs in councils.

Every now and then there is a minor hiccup in the system as with the case of the Auburn council, but quickly things are brought back to a state of normalcy and the Big Fat Hogs continue wallowing in their cess pits getting enormous pleasure from their pockets overflowing with cash, driving back to their mansions in their Ferraris.

Aussies in their blinkered state of patriotism always like to portrait other governments and societies as being corrupt, we simply are incapable at having a real good look at ourselves. In reality corruption, in these other countries that we so like to put down, is mere shrapnel compared to the millions of dollars involved in Australia.

Don’t for one moment be fooled into thinking that the current NSW state government is attempting to clean this all up. They are simply interested in reducing the cost of councils to the state government. Remember the troughs are being filled by developers not the state government, so why should they care! There will simply be fewer larger councils and therefore fewer larger troughs with bigger and fatter hogs with their snouts in ‘em.

The Bimbo Bishop wants to make a tropical paradise of China’s South Sea Islands?!!

The Western world is getting their knickers in a knot over the islands created by China. But are they making a mountain out of a sand dune?! Yes, the bloody commies are invading the world again, check under the beds each night, folks, you never know who might be hiding under there!!! Be scared! Be very very scared!!!

But the crazy Bitch, ooooops!! I mean Bimbo (Julie Bishop)), in typical Aussie fashion sees no end to the opportunities!! She’s canvassing to make it a holiday resort for good ole’ Aussies!! She wants to make sure that we are all welcome there! Why, it’s gotten all the ingredients that are needed to make it a tropical paradise – nothing (literally) but pristine beaches, Asian chics to be prostituted and transmitted disease to, not too far from Aussie and has a readymade air strip! What more do ya’ need. Yea, drugs n’ alcohol – nothing that a couple of Aussie chics with surf boards couldn’t sort out!.

South sea paradise

This bimbo probably thought she was being smart at the time of her comments, but did in fact get a public whipping by her more intelligent counter part in China. Another of those ill considered comments (shirt fronting type) targeted at the domestic market to boost the Aussie pleb ego, but bimbo like on the international stage. She didn’t dare raise the matter up while she was there just a few days later. Although her counter part seemed to bring it up every now and then, just to watch her squirm!!

Bimbo Bishop

It appears, the Chinese may have a whole different perspective on things. This is an ingenious solution compared to the modus operandi of the West for centuries around the region. Which was to massacre the people, enslave those remaining, exploit them for commerce and sex, transmit hideous diseases and then move on to the next opportunity.

China is probably laying claim to territorial waters that were forcefully removed from them when the West colonised the whole area and then later during their obsession to support any despot that was not quite socialist communist – as Churchill said they were nothing but “chinks and pigtails”!! But let’s not let the facts get in the way of bashing up an eminent threat to the old world order.

Strangely we don’t hear much protest about Gibraltar or Falklands – Maybe it’s just a matter of time until we get used to the new world order.

Yes, people of the GusWiSucs, be scared!! Be Very, Very Scared!! China will keep expanding these Islands until there will be just one Island – China. Where are we all going to go?!!!

Be scared folks, the water levels are rising!!!

Strategically, these islands make little difference what so ever. It is clearly a political statement to the region by the dominant force of the region (and soon the world). OK, from a defensive perspective they could be strategic, but offensively, they make little difference. With all the sabre rattling of the West, we surely get uptight when a nation decides to protect itself!

Going back many decades back to my school day science experiments, I vaguely recall that when one drops something into a bucket of water the water level rises – Archimedes and all that!! My real concern is that with all these islands popping up (or down as the case may be), where is all the water going to go?!! Stuff global warming, the sea levels are going to rise at a hectic rate!!! Yes, people of the GusWiSucs, be scared!!! Very, Very Scared!!!

So much for the submerged Islands that the crazy Bimbo had luscious photographs of!!

Now I do have a great solution for that concern too!! I recall driving (or being driven by a charming Palestinian tourist guide – and yes, we did do a whole lot of driving, as the Jewish guards would not let us through the check-points, since our friend was Palestinian and send us on lengthy de-tours!) in Israel, just outside Jerusalem, past a sign-post which stated we were at sea level. And then we continued descending further and further!!! An eerie sought of feeling that if the surrounding land masses should change, the whole area would be . . .umm, just different!

I’m sure you get my trend of thought. Just a few strategically placed nuclear explosions (and don’t we have a surplus of hardware for that!) and there will be plenty of space for the surplus water! For the first time in centuries we might have receding water levels!!

The “Promised sea”

We could actually kill (do we really have to kill them?) three birds with one stone (ok, maybe a few nuclear explosions rather than a solitary stone.)!! We would have instant peace on Earth, used up the stock of nuclear weapons (there won’t be a need for them anymore!!) and solved the issues around rising sea levels. We might have to dump the paranoid Jewish state in the middle of Nevada or someplace that really likes them. But I suspect the Jewish state, by then, would have built a massive water proof bunker and they would have magically sprout some gills that will ensure their survival!

Maybe my vision of peace is a fantasy – the GusWiSucs will still be around, bullying any nation that they even remotely suspect to be militarily weak!

Isn’t it great, a couple of hours with pen and paper (ok, keyboard and mouse!) and the world’s problems solved!!

Holocaust, Holocaust, Holocaust I screeeam!!

I scream Holocaust from every roof top because the word needs to be liberated! It’s a word that since WWII has been completely stifled and monopolised by the Jews. So much so that if used in any other context, it is considered offensive!!

As was recently witnessed, when the former captain of Team Australia – a complete puppet of Israel – got his knickers in a knot over the use of this word!

Abbott’s Holocaust gaffe–courtesy of Youtube

The strength of the Jewish lobby has even resulted in a sub-definition of “The Holocaust” being included in the oxford dictionary which refers specifically to the horrendous atrocities inflicted on the Jews in Europe. Clearly this would not have been the case prior to WWII.

It is also interesting that at the very time that the Jewish holocaust was taking place, there was another, of equal devastation (6-9 million) happening in India – Churchill’s Holocaust on the sub-humans of Bengal through wilful starvation. One that very few, if any, are aware of or cares about. There were some differences in that they were not murdered with bullets or guns but simply allowed to starve to death on the streets by taking away their food and diverting it to feed the rich fat Englishmen and their armies fighting in Europe. Effectively, they were robbed of their food and left to starve.

Churchill’s Holocaust–The Bengal famine.

Of course Western nations prefer to be ignorant of the crimes they committed as Winston Churchill (A recent prominent leader of the SuCs) said of the event

“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people  with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits”

and when the Delhi government sent a telegram painting a picture of the devastation

“Then why hasn’t Gandhi died yet?”

How noble is the Nobel?!

So much for the heroes of the SuCs! – all note worthy causes for being awarded the Nobel prize for “defending exalted human values”!! Clearly some humans have more value than others and sub-humans have none what-so-ever!

Here are some of the other Holocausts that purely due to the victims being non-white, non-Christian sub-humans, have not really been on the radar.

- Hiroshima and Nagasaki

- Killing fields in Cambodia

- Guantanamo Bay

- Palestine

- Tutsi’s

Churchill or Hitler, who was the greater sadistic, racist bigot?

As a young child of about 5 years, I recall my brother received a comic book which idolised Churchill and his supposed “escape” from the Boer prison. I lived in a society that was still in awe of their masters and revered their heroes. My uncle was a historian and a prize possession of his, were the two gigantic volumes of fiction on WWII – the Churchill version.

Having being brought up in this environment, it was hardly surprising that I considered Churchill a great man. Why, it was only a few weeks back that at a party, churchill came up in the discussion, and one of the visitors adoringly said “Churchill won the war”!

But in fact,

Churchill did not win the war, he lost an empire!

He bungled the war (that he loved so much) sooo badly that his forces had their arses whooped and driven right back to mother England. It was fortunate that Hitler didn’t really want to fight a war with Britain or there wouldn’t have been much left of those men whose lives were mercifully saved by Hitler at Dunkirk. OK, that’s not how Churchill and his propaganda machine would present it.

Churchill’s world – graded with savages, bagamoors, vermin, dogs, baboons and more. . .

As a child, one of my friends had a whole army of plastic men and weapons. We would often fill our imaginations with wild images of war and heroes as would young boys. But then, we grew out of that stuff and moved on.

Unfortunately, in the case of Churchill, these models were a life time obsession (as was with the British aristocracy) and he attempted to take his fantasy in to the real adult world. He was a particularly dumb chap, as was evident in his school records (not necessarily more dumb than his compatriot English aristocrats, but dumb never the less). To the misfortune of Britain, he enacted his fantasy by waging an unnecessary war which killed millions and resulted in the capitulation of his empire! Due to his pompous nature, he (and the rest of Britain) was unable to accept that.

Over 7 billion people (in today’s terms), gained their freedom - no more were they raped and pillaged by their conquerors

Due to the strict hierarchical social structure in Britain, where the plebs worshipped their aristocracy (still evident in their obsession with their royalty), they dumbly followed this maniac and believed every word that was uttered out of his mouth (Undoubtedly he had a way with words, far more sophisticated than would be expected of one with his lack of intellect, which suggest that he had a good script writer – a ploy adopted by many from the times of Shakespeare!).

This was a man who had a life time obsession of being a hero. He worked on writing fictional stories of his great escapades (including his escape from prison in the Boer war), which due to his position, were never really verified – and didn’t he know it! It is unlikely that this dumb, portly, incompetent chap could organise a piss up in a brewery, let alone escape from a prison.

After the walloping during WWII, the British badly needed heroes – this was a society that lived for grand stories of heroism and massacres of “savages”. Churchill had built a perfect false facade that met this very need and hence this mad lunatic was re-elected as prime minister of a dying state.

Much is said about Hitler’s solution for the Jews. But Hitler’s views were widely spread across Europe amongst the political circles. Churchill’s support of Eugenics went much further. He wished to implement them on his very own people!! The raving lunatic wanted to segregate and castrate his own people – the one’s he considered below par!

"The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feebleminded and insane classes, coupled as it is with a steady restriction among the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks, constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate... I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed up before another year has passed"

On the other hand, Churchill despised every other race on Earth and was proud of it. Due to his arrogance and the bigot that he was, he couldn’t realise that he was simply a racist lunatic and he proudly blurted out his gibberish to anyone that would listen – and that was the whole of England. There were just a few of his own race who were astonished by his racism but in their usual supportive manner for the institution of aristocracy, said nothing.

Churchill’s world

One can well understand why Churchill was such a disturbed man. His world was one surrounded by baboons, stray rabid dogs, vermin, bagamoors, chinks, pig tails and Camel poo consuming savages of lesser grades. It was enough to drive anyone insane!

"barbaric hoards who ate little but camel dung,"

We are fortunate that due to this mad hatter’s arrogance we don’t need to look too hard for evidence of his racist bigoted views – why, he himself broadcasted them proudly at every opportunity he had (resulting in a whole bureaucracy being kept busy attempting to erase any evidence of it and defending this false façade that has been constructed for this looney!).

So engulfed was this man in his self-importance that to build his profile he would lay claim to many a smart quote that preceded him, often times spreading a story that involved his political rivals (fortunately most of these have now been credited to their rightful owners!!).

Let’s not be mistaken, this chump was able to mislead many in Europe at the time. To such an extent that he was able to hoodwink the custodians of the Nobel prize to award him one for literature (fiction, perhaps!)!!

"for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"

And this for the man who purposely starved to death more people in India than Hitler could even dream of gassing (mind you, Churchill loved the thought of gassing the lesser grade savages too!)!

"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes...[It] would spread a lively terror."

Churchill the war hero–“we shall starve them on the beaches. . .”

The Churchill enforced famine in Bengal has never been made much of by the Jews, Europe or anyone really. The Jews have been too self-obsessed taking revenge and massacring the Palestinian kids and other neighbours to worry about India and most Western Europeans or yanks would not know of it nor even believe it occurred if you told them so. But if anyone suggested that Hitler didn’t slaughter Jews, one immediately becomes a social pariah! The real “Holocaust” happened in India (I am one against the term being monopolised by any one event during WWII). The reality is that

it is in the interest of the Anglo-Celtic dominated world to over exaggerate the Jewish disaster and understate the massacre in India.

So, my advice is that whenever numbers are thrown at you about these two holocausts, halve it when it comes to the Jewish and double it when it comes to the Indian and one might end up with numbers that are remotely accurate.

Churchill and his beastly rabbits!

Churchill unashamedly said he would re-write history with the sole purpose of making him look grand. And this, he did do. With most of the western world still suckers to his piece of fiction and this is precisely why the principle I suggested might work!

A murderous villain gets awarded a Nobel prize for “defending exalted human values” – is that not ironic and does that not degrade the achievements of the other deserved winners. Churchill’s primary rival, Mahatma Gandhi never did receive a Nobel prize and yet whilst Churchill is a mere flicker in the minds of my generation, he is forgotten in the next, Gandhi will be eternal. The thing is that,

it is never those who inflict horror and terror on others who become the heroes in the long term, it is to those who bring freedom to millions that the honour is bestowed.

The likes of Gandhi and Mandela will never require a whole government sponsored organisation nor even a Nobel prize to make heroes of them – they just are!

I guess if Hitler won the war, he would have been awarded one for “peace and humanity” as well. He would have awarded himself the award, like it or not and maybe it would have been justified due to the billions of people who gained freedom (and guess what, we wouldn’t have had the problem that is Israel!)!!

Clearly a right royal stuff up by the commissions responsible for the Nobel prize. There is no doubt that the good ole’ chump would have been bribing and pushing every button he could, to get the award. Maybe one day, we will find out the dirt behind that one.

In the end, for his atrocities and embarrassment, Hitler killed himself or would have been murdered by the Allies (puppet court or otherwise), but the murderous Mugabe-like villain Churchill, self-promoted himself with vigour and the Anglo-Celtics followed him. Maybe in his old days, as he toyed around with his plastic model soldiers, this bigot was haunted by the images of 7 million people starving to death or the many hundreds of thousands who died for his childish pleasures of war games – I suspect not, he was too self-obsessed to even tolerate the notion that he was responsible.

So for mine, Hitler and Churchill were both hideous specimens of our species – one was demonised and the other idolised. Perhaps neither deserved idolising and it is really of no consequence as to which of them was more evil.

A simply delightful evening with princess Aurora!

On Saturday (12th December 2015) yours truly experienced a delightful evening at the Australia Ballet’s production of Sleeping Beauty – the finale to the 2015 season - “A year of Beauty”.
From the very outset, I should make it clear that although I have enjoyed ballet from my childhood ranging from the few lessons I had and the old black and white movies at the British council, to periodically attending performances, I could only profess to be a lover of the art form and in no way an expert on the subject.

If a picture painted a thousand words then a performance paints a million!

This was a new production by David McAllister. Everything apart from the music and Choreography was started from a blank canvass.
As someone who made a modest donation to the production, the Australian Ballet pleasantly provided continuous updates over the 2 or so years of it’s production. The creation of the costumes from some of the initial draft drawings were mesmerising and indicative of the strength of the creative team. Beauty was splashed all over the production.
However, bringing this to reality on stage, is a far greater challenge and in the few spare moments when I might have thought of it, it did create a sense of anticipation.

The Australia Ballet's new production of Sleeping Beauty.

From the moment one sat in the auditorium, it was hard but to be engulfed in the grandeur and creativity starting from the curtains, enticing you back into the time and place of the fairy tale.
There were many surprises along the way – the costumes were spectacular the sets including the chandeliers were brilliant, the rose bed fit for a princess and the dancing was, although never the strength of the Australian Ballets productions, was good too.
But the most delightful surprise was princess Aurora herself – played by Benedicte Bemet.
I do not remember when I first noticed her presence on stage, but it must have been pretty close to when she join the company (which I believe was 3 years ago). When I first noticed her, she didn’t appear to have the best technique nor was she in any role of significance, but her enthusiasm and involvement in the moment made her shine. One could almost follow the whole story by simply watching the expressions on her face. It had become a practice to find her amongst the Corps de Ballet. For one who as a child, had eyes for only the male dancers – the likes of Nureyev and Baryshnikov - this was quite a change.
I have always thought she was a touch (dare I say it!!) bottom heavy to really become a technician of the art form. But then a few months ago, at a performance of 20:21, I remember thinking to myself that she had “toned” her legs and I thought of it no further!
As usual, even this evening, I tried spotting her with the Coryphées and and Corps de Ballet (sometime over the last 3 years, she must have been promoted to the Coryphées) but did not spot her. And then she made her appearance as princess Aurora! It took me a couple of seconds to recognise that it was in fact her and my reaction was WOW!! (As usual the opera house had run out of the production information sheets just at our door of entry, so we had no idea who was in the cast).
To add to this, Amber Scott – my favourite principal, was dancing the role of the Lilac fairy. The other dancer I love watching is Chengwu Guo. He had not made an appearance in the first Act. Could it be that he was the Prince?!!! Now that would be absolutely puuuuurfect!! My favourite three Australian Ballet dancers playing the three key roles!

Amber Scott and Chengwu Guo

Alas, it was not to be - Chengwu played the blue bird and displayed his technical skills brilliantly.
But let’s get back to the star of the evening -  Benedicte. Being as young as she is, fitted the role in every way. When the first famous balancing sequence approached, I could feel myself tense up for her. She managed to get through it unscathed! But when the second sequence arrived, she absolutely “nailed it”(pardon the technical term) and as she swapped her partner for the final time, she even held the balancing pose for longer than required, almost as a display of her prowess, which had the younger members of the audience simply burst out uncontrollably with applause. She was able to draw this applause again during the pas de deux during the ball for the wedding.
The Australian Ballet used Benedicte as Clara in the poster for the Nutcracker in the 2014 season.  But it turned out that she performed the role in Melbourne (I’m a little confused about this as one of the Sydney reviews seem to suggest she played Clara). In Sydney (at least in the performance I was at), it was played by the new Principal Ako Kondo. A bit of a disappointment for me, not a reflection of Kondo – who is arguably a better dancer, but more due to the anticipation I had built up prior to that performance.
But maybe in the end, the reaction of “WOW” was due to all of this happening – missing out her performance as Clara, the opera house not having the information sheets (it might not have been the same if I knew she was playing the role). The delightful surprise was all worth it!
What’s best is that I can look forward to seeing Benedicte, Amber and Chengwu continue to perform key roles in the Australia Ballet productions until one of them decides to stuff it all up by either retiring or moving to another company!

Put together, the feeling of deja vu when the music for Carabosse and her rats sent shivers down my spine as it had done when I was a little 8 year old kid engendering nightmarish images in my mind (music that I had probably not heard for a couple of decades), the sheer beauty of the sets and costumes and the happiness of witnessing a young ballerina blossom – the ingredients for a simply delightful evening!

Is Bishop the quintessential Blonde Bitch . . . ummm, I mean Bimbo?!!

Sorry, just using her own parlance! Maybe it’s acceptable for a woman to call another a bitch in parliament, but people do get their knickers in a knot when a guy uses the term on a woman. So, let’s leave aside the Bitch and focus on the Bimbo!

The Bishop and the Bitch!

There are a few of aspects relating to Blonde Bimbos that are undisputed.

1. Most of them, aren’t blonde
2. They are blonde, because when viewing through Western societies’ lenses, Blonde is sexy and sexy is good - gets you further in life!
3. As they are usually operating at a level of incompetence, they are susceptible to many a gaffe!

OK, I’m no expert on hair colour, but she sure does have dark roots(pardon the pun!!) and that is as far as I will take that part of the discussion.
Bishop has undoubtedly had a privileged upbringing and has clearly leveraged her sex appeal (and possible blondeness) to good use – a classic case of “nice from far, but far from nice”! Through-out her life she has been the show-pony, at Clayton Utz, even attending Harvard (do they select on sex appeal?!)! Apart from being the blonde show-pony, she had all the tick boxes checked!
Despite all of this, this is a woman that the “Fiberal” party never see as leading them. Yes, she’s great to have as the side-show glamour chic, but not the the front and centre leader. To her credit, she has clung on to many a court tail, swapping beds as required to maintain her role as the show pony.
When the PM was away in Paris, recently, the Bimbo was in charge! There were just two matters that the Bimbo had to address and in true neo-con, Liberal style, the Bimbo simply gave inaccurate facts (Aussie media is incapable of holding our politicians accountable, they simply pass on the drivel that the politician excrete.).

1. The contribution to the Climate fund
2. The phone call she was involved in with Morrison and Turnbull

On the former, Australia burdened by Climate change sceptics and introverted selfish drivers,  has been dragged along kicking and screaming in to the conference in Paris. Turnbull has shown circus like skills in juggling the various Looney views of his party and still presenting a half-respectable front at the conference (although continually being shown-up as a spoilt, selfish, climate change pariah, in all the papers being presented). Being the largest Island in the world, it’s going to be awhile before Australia is under water, so Australians are completely inept in their ability to understand all the fuss!
When pointed out that Australia’s commitment to the Climate fund was a re-allocation from the Aid budget rather than new funding, Bishop towed the party line of admitting that (somewhat a surprise as the “Fibs” usually simply lie and move on -  Malcolm obvious decided not to lie on this matter). But rather than stop at that, Julie could not help, but add some farcical lies about how “that is what the leaders of the island nations wanted”!!!
Unfortunately, once again, we were in Bimbo territory. Which pacific nation would say to Australia that they should not add more funds, but simply divert the aid budget to climate change?! What is worse is that the Aussie media simply listened and broadcast this drivel – no questioning or even more appropriately ridicule, what-so-ever!
The second matter was in relation to her “Lady Macbeth” like role in the leadership shenanigans. Clearly Abbotts and Bishop’s recollection of the events are poles apart. At least one of them is fabricating stories and most probably they are both. The Australian public almost expect this of their Fiberal politicians. Strangely enough, not so from their Labor party representative – remember the Gillard big lie – Carbon Tax?!

The Bishop knives the Abbott.

Some of Ms Bimbo’s explanations for her conduct between February 2015 and the spill were simply torturous to listen to. Every other word was a fabrication.

Bed hopping deputy.

More recently we had the hilarity of the swapped missing islands!

Another Julie Bishop Bimbo moment!!

Even then, Ms Bimbo had the audacity to blame that insensitive stuff up on the Labor party!!! On the direct competition front between the bimbo and her Nemesis, Plyberseck, it’s 2 to zip on my count!
Of course, We are well versed with the “Fiberals” attitude to the endangered pacific Islands.

We love our Islander neighbours!
Bishop was the beneficiary of the missile attack on MH370. This was the puuurfect opportunity for Abbott and Bishop to gain some popularity back home through some sabre rattling on the global stage. The dreary black suited politicians just loved having the spunky blonde amongst them. So whilst Australia may have lost a few lives, they did the most sabre rattling. Accusing Putin and threatening to “Shirt front” (I must admit, it was not purely the Russians that dived into that Oxford dictionaries attempting to understand the exact meaning of the phrase, yours truly was quite mystified too!) another global leader for what was clearly an error, whether it be by the Russians or any other party. This was one instance where the term collateral damage was possibly excusable.
Abbott had his 15 minutes of glory and Bishop, maybe 25. But pretty much everything Australia did during that period was a complete stuff-up – either a bit pre-mature or based on completely wrong information. The world leaders to it for what it was – a marketing spiel targeted at domestic politics.
Aussies love their blonde chics. So, it’s not surprising that the media has not shown-up Bishop for what she is. Bitch? Bimbo? both? – that is for each of us to decide. Blonde? – that is for each us to guess – Yours truly thinks not!