Fine.

Julia has recently stated her case to a very bored and unimpressed Australian citizenry.

She made the legalistically valid point that a person does not have to prove themselves innocent of an alleged crime in a common law jurisdiction complying with the rule of law.

She makes the point that no-one could prove her guilty of

http://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20515&page=218

The premier of the Australian commonwealth is not at all corrupt.

Of Coursssse not.

She said not, that we need to ‘move on’, simply take her word that she’s not telling whoppers.

And, of course, we need to believe her.

Or else!

Neither are our other political masters corrupt, neither federal, state, nor regional.

Nor our judges, legal officers, bankers, nor our public servants.

That’s the indisputable official line according to their sort. And of course that is specious twaddle of the order that has become their standard.

Or so they’d hope to have us pond scum believe.

Or else alright!

After all our compulsory voting system guarantees most Australians get windy enough to get out of bed and place a vote on election day instead of having a good lie-in.

Result being that there is always an oversufficiency of like-minded winners of that curiously rigged raffle they claim is a democratic election.

Face it; Australians only vote to avoid a fine – not to choose a parliamentary representative.

Now these raffle winners, unfortunately, do tend to have some influence over who gets all those powerful top jobs in our limited little society.

It shouldn’t be that way – ‘cause anyone with a grade three primary school understanding of civics could tell you why not.

But, to our collective detriment, that is the way it is.

All that is fine and good for the raffle winners – those who are temporarily, overweeningly, confident enough to believe themselves the masters.

What did I read the other day?

Some constitutional expert opined that the Ozconstitution provides only two guaranteed rights to Australians –

1 - the ‘right’ to vote. (as mentioned compulsory and enforced by fines)

2 – the right to be poorly ‘represented’ and more likely ignored by the winners of those rigged raffles.

Actually that’s quite misleading. The ‘truth’ mooted by the establishment is more complicated and therefore tragically an even worse case situation for the majority of Australians – as even such high profile Australians as Julian Assange have discovered the last several months.

Not a problem for some. There exists the vaunted ‘Common Law rights’ as are mentioned below -

http://www.ecu.edu.au/about-ecu/vice-chancellor/distinguished-orator/the-constitution-and-the-protection-of-human-rights - that is if you have the funds to exercise the choice of buying justice.

Apparently Jayent Patel found the means of gaining ‘justice’ in NewMania.

Other aspects of the new Newman regime in NewMania seem to have attracted the attention of the Federals.

Kevin seems bright enough to work out the link between what Newman is doing to state public service jobs and what Herr Abbott, given the chance, will expeditiously prosecute in the future.

Swann has to agree.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/political-foes-wayne-swan-and-kevin-rudd-set-sights-on-true-enemy/story-e6freoof-1226460271810

What causes all this to be invisible to the PM and her faction is a mystery.

It may be that anything happening up near, or especially above, the Brisbane line doesn’t matter a stuff to her lot.

The other scenario gathering more traction here and in southern states is about the secretive traitorous faction in labor apparently engineering the final solution for labor as a political entity and grooming us all for a handover of Australia, not to a conservative political party, but to a tontine of exploitative capitalist pigs already engaged in stripping what wealth they might muster from Australia and Australians before handing the husk over to what emerging geopolitical power may wish to annex the remains.

Too harsh?

Is it just that a little girl coming to Australia from Wales has little loyalty and less understanding of that admittedly flawed nation to which she emigrated?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Gillard

Whatever your own personal conspiracy theory - one thing for sure is that old saying of Bill Hayden’s when he was shoved sideways by the silver bodgie must be rattling about inside Kevin Rudd’s head – “The Drover’s Dog could win this election”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hayden

And without being too harsh similar will be said about Mr. Abbott if Ms. Gillard refuses to graciously retire in the very near future.

Dear politicians, a hint –

• If you find it irksome that people tend to treat you, you know, the way they do why not consider thinking about looking at matters as if you were ‘in the other person’s shoes’ – in that idealist legalistic sense. Thinking that way is expected of you as a precept at law.
• I know it will be hard but stop saying things like ‘moving on’ and the like. Or keep sprouting perceived callousness and see what life is like when you are given the bum’s rush and do have to occupy such shoes.
• Otherwise figure it out for yourself – or perish in the attempt.
• I happen to reckon you are all coming so very close to perishing in that attempt.

Keep up that good work, men!

“Google - The futility of researching Australian governance” - or - “Let your fingers do the walking”

Author - Krummlauf

What funding goes toward diverting the mass consciousness away from real issues here in Australia?

It would be fair enough to expect the ‘silent majority’ to be distracted by sports events, risqué late night TeeVee and the like – but have a go yourself – ‘Google Australia’ - the futility of researching governance. The result lists a load of waffle more to do with the nausea and difficulty apparently caused by every government in the world except our own.

Only one article caught my eye on page I of the search results - http://www.sawa-australia.org/background/winthewar.pdf  - and guess what SAWA is about?

Since you ask, it is the “Support Association for the Women of Afghanistan”. SAWA would have to be a meritorious organisation, undoubtedly worthy of unanimous support – but I’d never categorise the outfit as ‘Australian governance’.

 But let’s look at that article to find out what it’s about. 

                                    

ABSTRACT – “If Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Defence Minister Stephen Smith believe that trust and confidence can be reestablished by Australian soldiers toward Afghan troops they are meant to live alongside and train they are sadly deluded.

That's the problem in having politicians of limited life experience and senior defence force officers who gain preferment and promotion through playing the political game.

The Australian commitment is in a mess and will not be sorted in the short, medium or long term.”

The authors, their own pages -

Bruce Haigh

http://www.brucehaigh.com.au/index.htm  

Kellie Tranter

http://kellietranter.com/

They do seem to be receiving some high profile support, according to their links –  http://www.sawa-australia.org/links.html

But that’s not what I was looking for.

I am 100 percent in agreement with what Bruce and Kellie have written in that document and am also in agreement with much they portray as their social conscience on their own pages. I note how much they care about our Julian.

But it all somehow seems a little false.

Take for instance in  -

http://kellietranter.com/2012/07/to-sin-by-silence-when-they-should-protest-makes-cowards-of-men/#disqus_thread

Shona wrote in reply  – “My favourite saying is "In Australia nobody hears you scream" that sums up my treatment at the hands of government. “

Which few words perfectly succinctly sum up what happens these days in Australia, at every tier and in every bureau, in result of the chronic, systemic failures in governance.

And it is neither accidental nor caused by ‘cracks’ between the planks of legislation.

So going to our other author –

http://www.brucehaigh.com.au/profile.htm  - impressive profile

http://www.brucehaigh.com.au/defence_folly.htm - biting comment

“Appointing serving or former senior military officers, to undertake sensitive humanitarian investigations, smacks of the militarisation of the government process. Until the military can get its own act together it should be kept well clear of assisting such undertakings.”

“The media coax people into believing that we are experiencing a refugee plague, that our safety and security are being threatened even if we are not being overrun; many of our elected representatives respond with policies of indifference, all the while carefully professing their own personal humanity, and the self-perpetuating frenzy leads us as a nation to ignore the international humanitarian obligations we have agreed to uphold.  Why do our political parties permit, let alone encourage, such xenophobic propensities?”

“The cowardly and callow handling of this issue by the federal parliament defines it and goes a long way to explaining why the average person holds politicians, the parliament, democratic institutions and indeed democracy with such contempt.”

http://www.brucehaigh.com.au/veterans.htm

“In my opinion Vet Affairs should be made to concentrate solely on the welfare of surviving vets. They should be forced to abandon their proselytizing and promotion of the Anzac legend. As far as government expenditure on recording and honouring the history of Australian involvement in war I believe that should be the sole preserve of the Australian War Memorial.”

“By way of interest, the Minister of Veterans Affairs, Warren Snowdon, might like to provide a list of his officers who will be attending Anzac Day Ceremonies in Turkey, France, Belgium and elsewhere around the globe.”

So is this poor effort ‘all at sea’ and at cross purposes? I’m just borrowing the work of others in order to save time?

Might seem so until you consider some basic elements of how a subtle mélange of truth and disinformation may be confected into quite some hermetic fait accompli.

Bruce and Kellie like many Australians evidently care about others. That is without a doubt.

As mentioned though something becomes strained to falsity when all ever mentioned is events involving any other nation or any other race, religion or societal set other than the common or garden boring bloody Australian.

So why is that?

Are we all either swimming in mining share dividends or too worthless to bother a mention?

Or is it more that the overweeningly arrogant yet defective sort mentioned by our correspondents above are actually shelling out millions in funding for bribes, legal action, threats and probably the odd KGB style ‘wet job’.

That has to be it – taxpayer’s money wasted on the forlorn hope of terminal distraction of the peasantry from truth. Surely our news services HAVE to hear the bellow emanating from the suburbs every 6.00 pm – “Oh shiiitt; not Afghanistan/refugees/ give up smokes n’ drink; always the bloody same STILLLLL!!”

The only other view is that none of ‘em truly care whether through greed, callousness, or sheer stupidity.

At sunset and the going down of the tatty old flag – no speculation matters – except surrounding that one fact - the place never worked all that well yet has become immensely worse to the extent of complete dysfunction.

Next week we might discuss – “The new Australian underclass/slave caste and their distinctive mandatory apparrel” – or – “So, when you grow up Freddie, do you want to be a green fluoro, or an orange fluoro?”

“JULIAN HAS HAD A BIT OF A WIN – BUT?”

According to the majority of those ‘experts’ the Australian propaganda ministry  [the (G)Ay Bee Cee] trundles out from their storage closets, Julian Assange is despicable; should at the very least be expeditiously removed from view, kept in quarantine, the record of his accomplishments expunged and hopefully, consequently,  be forgotten by society.

After all that IS the way they are required to operate as dictated by their ‘political masters’ – the same ‘masters’ who keep encouraging the peanut rush to ‘just move on’ after each and every spectacular foul up.

Political regimes of every stripe appear to be escalating heartlessness and brutality in the guise of pragmatism at an accelerating rate.

Tacit acceptance of this seems an indication that core societal principles have been cast aside by the majority of the human race.

Having said that it must be considered that the death penalty is just a bit stiff for winning a few scoops off the ‘mainstream media’ at the expense of those allegedly ‘transparent democracies’– or was it having a bonk or two without his wearing a frenchie that got the buggers so upset?

Sanctuary?

If it has been ‘okay’ over the past many years for the Seppos/Brits to grant asylum to a variety of dissenters, traitors and ne’er do wells – certainly often enough to establish precedent – then what the hell is wrong with Ecuador providing sanctuary to a Townsville lad?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_asylum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary

Reciprocity?

Forget it unless it can be achieved from a position of moral strength through negotiation.

Sure it is ‘okay’ for the Seppos/Brits to expect their diplomats and embassies to remain inviolate; so why not those of Ecuador?

The only way to assure the inviolacy of the Ecuadorian embassy in London is to ensure that the fact of any breach of that embassy becomes immediately publicly known worldwide.

In short, the fear of resultant reciprocal action (in fact a cornerstone of the relevant Vienna convention) is the only leverage available toward achieving natural and true justice for Mr. Assange.

Compliance?

Compliance with what?

There’s now some word on the net that Ecuador wants to extradite one Aliaksandr Barankov to Belarus –

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ExBelarus+financial+crime+prober+fights+extradition+Ecuador+week/7118193/story.html - all of which, in conjunction with the Townsville lad’s plight, puts Ecuador on the spot and under the microscope.

Their judges of civil/inquisitorial persuasion (as opposed to our common law/adversarial variety) will doubtless be criticized for their decision by those unfamiliar with the code of Napoleon.

And meanwhile Sweden or leastways Swedish nationals play a stunt in Belarus –

http://blog.amnestyusa.org/europe/photos-of-teddy-bears-land-belarus-student-behind-bars/#more-30318

Sure it’s a joke to invade another nation’s airspace and without notice or approval drop unknown items by parachute over their cities.

Anyone would agree that on the face of it Belarus should be encouraged to release poor Anton for doing nothing more than taking pikkies.

Then again a better headline might be “Amnesty condones invasion of Belarus’ airspace and illegal dropping of Swedish ordnance”.

The sub header could be “Swedes to be extradited for false flag invasion?”

God sakes – now I know why certain tasteless turnip like vegetables are called Swedes.

But it is funny to discover how Sweden does appear like some lurking actor playing the ‘eminence grise’ - in a bad play.

Funny my arse – bloody amateurishly sinister as far as this writer is concerned when this stuff turns up during a casual read despite being neither sought nor solicited.

Consequence?

So what could happen if a hyped-up Britain is gulled by an arrogant, overzealous Sweden and bribed by a mob of vindictive Gringos to nab a circumstantially diplomatically inviolate Julian from his Latin American sanctuary?

Well, the second innings perhaps but with no covert support for the Brits this time from a friendly dictator

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Augusto_Pinochet

If luck is pushed too far the best outcomes for a Falkland Islander might rely on the toss of a coin

Heads – Pack up the rowboat in anticipation of a quick departure.

Tails – Learn a latin language damn pronto.

• “ I seem to recall that when General Pinochet was being detained in London on a Spanish arrest warrant the British government was unable to fulfil its extradition obligations and he was allowed to escape back to his Chilean bolthole. It seems that in Britain you stand a better chance of avoiding extradition if you are a murderous fascist dictator than if you are a champion of free speech and open government. But of course we must dismiss from our minds any suspicion that in both cases it was and is Washington that has reminded London where its real obligations (and best interests) lie. Perish the thought.”
Adrian Marlowe
The Hague, Netherlands
•  “William Hague says the UK does not recognise diplomatic asylum. Strange. The UK did recognise the concept of diplomatic asylum when the Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty was sentenced to death by the communist authorities for supporting the anti-communist uprising in Hungary in 1956. Mindszenty spent 15 years in diplomatic asylum in the American embassy in Budapest. Strange that the UK authorities did not protest then. But maybe Hague is too young to actually know of this precedent.”Jan Culik
University of Glasgow

Source - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/19/diplomatic-dilemmas-and-julian-assange?newsfeed=true

Further reading -

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/19/us-wikileaks-assange-ecuador-idUSBRE87H08Q20120819

http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/index.php?topic=13916.0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_law

http://www.unog.ch/80256EDD006B8954/(httpAssets)/7F83006DA90AAE7FC1256F260034B806/$file/Vienna%20Convention%20(1961)%20-%20E.pdf

http://www.gonzagajil.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=99:the-inherent-conflict-vienna-convention-on-consular-relations-and-united-states-domestic-law-&catid=19:volume-7-2003-2004&Itemid=26

http://annaprovidence.deviantart.com/art/Eminence-grise-319471880

Breaking news, 20/8/12, about the latest renaming of the State of Queensland.

The lnp(liberal/national party) politburo met over the last weekend to plan moves divorcing “God’s Own Country”™ from the last remaining unhealthy influences of the deposed and despised laborite regime.

In line with lnp policy any such initiatives have to be ‘funding neutral’ but nonetheless apparently positive and representative of the new order.

That is why some bright spark attending the think-tank came up with the idea of renaming queensland yet again.

The reasoning went this way –

It was all very well just to spell queensland without an upper case q during the laborite regime: after all such use of the lower case did reasonably reflect the state’s embarrassing credit rating but caused (all had to agree) constant merry hell for anyone using a word processor.

Meanwhile ‘Moynihania’ never did catch on –

(See - http://calligulashorse.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/moynihania-used-to-be-called-queensland.html ) - apparently some adverse feeling from the footy set scotched the official name change

Nonetheless our new minders did like the symmetry of both the northern and southern states names ending in ‘ia’. (They reckon that when we annex New Zealand we can likewise match WA (West Australia) with EA.

These overnight discussions were grueling and exhaustive yet at some time in the early morning a decision had been made to choose a new state name that –

• honoured a hero of the new regime
• reflected the consummate victory of their party and the establishment of the new regime as the rightful outcome of the Bligh mutiny II
• and ended in ‘ia’. 

So in result of these deliberations and in recognition of the new Leader, as of 4.23am, Sunday,19, August, 2012, queensland shall henceforth and in perpetuity be known as “NewMania”.

Found this crap the other day by sheer accident -

http://www.themonthly.com.au/understand-place-you-must-first-understand-bundaberg-bear-queensland-what-it-john-harms-121 

 

The bit about re-inventing - about postal clerks becoming retired brigadiers is so completely 'just so' as to be almost unbelievable.

Oh yes. Absolutely right.

 

The  scum being sent up here from the southern states must have provided immense space in the streets for all those wackos left behind - to get up to whatever mischief enters their tiny minds.

Then I heard that some flogger having something to do with these pages is approved by the Gay Bee Cee to the extent of being 'interviewed' on Sunday night by one of their power women?

Incredible!

 

Best we link with 'the monthly' before they are proscribed and censored by our 'masters'.

“What are you bellyaching about this time?”

Calligula’s Horse –

So what are you bellyaching about this time?

Benjie Capuzzo -

“Put it this way. The great OzGovernment has hit on a way to save doing anything at all on behalf of its citizens.

As well as sacking every employee at the first sign of honesty or display of conscience they’ve put in these call centres allegedly for a one stop shopping approach to agencies and services.

Actually it’s a great way of creating ‘complaint fatigue’™ while also completely destroying the last vestige of motivation amongst all those underemployed and life experience disadvantaged young adults those call centres exploit then dispose of without any qualms whatsoever.”

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/insurers-accused-on-early-rejection-of-flood-claims/story-e6frgczx-1226148481981 - which is how the mainstream put it

CH – Now you mention it the ‘Great Land of the Two Speed Economy’ does seem a little short of helpful contacts and information these days.

BC – “A little short – is that what you call it?

Take a look at this pikkie. Now, according to a certain nazi type fresh out of the land of the Long White Cloud – this animal is a rat.

While everyone knows that queensland has become a joke surely the manual of corporate governance could be sourced elsewhere than from a ‘Dilbert’ comic book?”

Image – The rat. Despite the fact that the animal has been identified as a possum, a protected species here in Qld, this animal has been deemed ‘a rat’ and the house it has adopted has been declared ‘a vermin infested hovel fit only for demolition’ by an insurance assessor of dubious ability but of evident overseas extraction.



BC cont. - “Everyone knows that New Zealanders are crazy and can’t tell the difference between a possum and a rat even on a good day - but that’s no reason to let ‘em emigrate to Oz and take up work as insurance assessors here in God’s Own Country.

Maybe that stupid television fiasco many years ago set in New Zealand and all about a timber town had every Kiwi and his dog (or should that be sheep?) represented as the ne plus ultra chippie.

Stands to reason don’t it – in the same way that we still have Poms and the bloody Scotch as foremen and union organizers – after all their sort are better than us, aren’t they?

Maybe that combined with the fact that being a chippie, a carpenter – though probably a failed carpenter in his homeland – somehow lends him the status of another carpenter, that pesky Joshua bar Joseph.”

CH – Hoo boy – bellyache. What the hell has carpentry  and JC himself got to do with call centres and governance?

BC -  “Simplissimo, Charlie Horse, if you shut up and listen for a few secs.

You really are as bad as those brats in the call centres – no lateral thinking and no ability to accept that life ain’t a straight line.

Now consider – if some insurance company is bought out by German interests a while ago they probably expected projected climate change trends to improve their profitability in Australia.

But of course the drought broke as we Aussies knew it would so these Krauts, these absentee investors in insurance decided to utilise standover tactics when the flooding began.

Unprecedented claims arising from the Christmas/new year flooding have been met with bastardry and the sort of frustrating obfuscation that has been refined to an art form by those who pretend to serve our society.

So if anyone is wondering what Christmas, carpenters in new jobs, possums, rats and brain-dead bloody incompetent public servants have in common they’ll have to think about it for a while.”

CH – Oh I get it Benjie.

You mean Christmas and the carpenter. What is ordinarily supposed to be a time of good will between men – emotionally juxtaposed with the concept of our good Lord Gentle Jesus who apparently was a carpenter himself before that famous career change in his life.

You infer that not only was the season ruined for so many by the forces of nature but that such misfortune was compounded by some other ex-carpenter or other; one so debased as to be acting almost in the manner of an anti-christ  - In fact acting callously and dishonestly toward vulnerable people in the worst sort of distress.

And more to the point this dropkick was treating dishonestly with people who had shelled out good money in the fair expectation of decency and fair dealing when the times are bad – stuffing about with those who had paid their dues.

Yeah Benjie, I’m with you now. Indeed you are spot on.

The accents change over the years but the same game of exploitation and divide and conquer keeps being played at every level.

But back to call centres. Open up about that please.

BC – “Okay then. What do you do if protected animals have invaded your ceilings and are chewing holes everywhere?

Firstly it began happening after a state government project nearby located a complex electrical installation under flood level.

Meanwhile improperly carried out ancillary work to do with that project displaced wildlife and caused rainwater retention on certain nearby properties.

Image – High tech rat switches on cloaking device before ripping through ceiling

A reasonable response to that would be to call on the State to repair the damage and demand they pay compensation for the detriment caused.”

CH - And how does a person progress with that task?

BC – “By contacting those numerous agencies indicated as of jurisdiction through the officially nominated appropriate contact points – then screaming blue murder.”

CH - And what outcomes result?

BC – “Don’t be bloody patronizing CH. In the famous words of another carpenter, Grant Harrison – ‘We Aussies are a funny lot. In other parts of the world when injustice and unreasonableness become intolerable the people march and call up bloody revolution. While that’s happening everywhere else we Aussies phone up a friend and have a good bellyache.’

For all the good ‘progressing complaint and feedback through appropriate channels’ does we Aussies we might as well give up and just give our pals the shits by constantly whingeing.

But change is happening – population, demographics and attitudinal change is happening at an accelerating pace and the eternal fob-off will cease working very soon.

Naturally the only response we’ll see from our masters is more paranoia and coppers that look and act more like Judge Dredd every day.”

“Moynihania used to be called queensland”

 Key words – F.U.B.A.R., W.O.F.T.A.M., CORRUPTION, ‘STATE OWNED CORPORATIONS’ eg, CMC (CORRUPTION MANAGEMENT CORPORATION, Qld)

See - http://www.heli-vets.net/acronyms.html

Okay – This Moynihan fella had a contract with queensland government to run an outfit called the CMC.

Queenslanders (bless their braindead little souls) actually believe that a bloke being paid a bucketful of South Pacific Pesos every week would exercise the rule of law and bust dishonest politicians.

What a bloody joke. Imagine booking the paymaster!

But somehow this Moynihan has decided to quit his job prematurely. Appears he had a bit of an accident a few months ago and in result can’t think straight anymore.

The press releases don’t go into much detail about what sort of ‘accident’ caused these lapses of job performance.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-08/cmc-chair-moynihan-steps-down/3652126?section=qld

Wouldn’t take much of a leap of the imagination to work out a scenario, though.

Most people in God’s own state who criticize the bold gendarmerie once too often get to be confronted sooner or later with some event or set of circumstances that seems to be some sort of ‘accident’ or other.

Aboriginal people and white trash have customarily just ended up dead while the likes of our Moynihan are either locked away on trumped up charges or kept under ‘close management’ for the rest of their lives.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/police-culture-must-change-warns-cmc-chairman-martin-moynihan/story-e6freoof-1226062237906

http://www.cmc.qld.gov.au/asp/index.asp?pgid=10814&cid=5201&id=1359

An accident – do people soil themselves when given a dose of the tazer?

Or would the threat be enough if made by a ‘professional’?

Other Moynihans (there seem to be a tribe of Moynihans in the legal, quasi-legal and administrive rackets here in queensland.

It wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume that if one Moynihan (who once had the cojones to put on paper a wish list of performance and honesty improvements for police) had to retire due to an ‘accident’ he suffered round about the same time he last criticized corrupt police then another Moynihan just might be brought under pressure to conduct proceedings in the qld floods inquiry along certain ways.

http://www.news.com.au/commission-of-inquiry-limits-right-to-appear-before-states-flood-inquiry/story-e6freoof-1226018732657?from=public_rss

If those ways happened to prove unhelpful to those suffering in the floods then so what – they’ll get over it.

Queensland – underwater and inoperative one day – corrupted past recovery the next.