Jaiydn-Jaxxon discovered the old Cundlebar homestead where Burkean ceremonies are still performed 30 years later. Look at them all so young. Carmen Lawrence looking like a suicidal woman wouldn’t melt in her mouth, Peter Dowding believing in a future you could believe in. Julian Grill when the oil oozing out of him was close to extra virgin. Good times. Must have been disappointing JJ. Hoping for a 1983 Hustler? (Julian notwithstanding). JJ writes,
Around the line of Capricorn, up there in Martu land,
A highwayman once came to rest, and with his robber band.
‘Midst cattle-dust and spinifex and trees tied up in knots,
Old Cundle Burke’s been sleeping, while his homestead slowly rots.
Corruption’s set itself in place, for years and years it seems;
The fridge is dead, the windows gone, white ants devour the beams,
The timbers have all tumbled down, the roof is good and rusted,
But only very recently did Cundle Burke get busted.
‘Twas only as I clambered through that I did spy the thing
In piles of rags and newspaper he’d made himself a king
But something glistened darkly in the dust, and caught my eye –
That kind of oiliness that still persists in things bone dry –
And from its bed of broken boards I knelt down and I plucked it,
Unfurling sheets of text about our state and how he’d fucked it.
God help ye, Cundle Burke, and all the misers, thieves and toadies,
Who still infest our cabinets, and businesses, and banks;
It’s a Faustian relationship, ‘tween voters and their votees,
We’re a people on the rack, and old Mephisto holds the cranks.
The Worst of Perth 
Smooth Pierre.
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…gets the nod.
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does that photo of Carmen say Ditch the Witch?
just one more way that that Carmen blazed a trail for Julia.
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Her own brother was saying that I seem to remember.
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In other news, Anwar “Sodders” Ibrahim lost the Malaysian election.
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We can safely assume that the owners of Cundlebar homestead were Bell Resources shareholders who banked with Rothwells.
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Carmen Lawrence shows the sisterhood you don’t need Emilys List to change your own oil filter. You go girl!
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Magnificent words and pics. The political and the poetic: perfect.
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What a talented cabinet. Were the pages stuck together?
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’83 would’ve been perfect. And yes they were. With asbestos
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I guess it’s not going to catch fire no matter how hard and fast you rub it.
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BTW, I saw someone called Shardonnay Tong today. I thought you would like the name. And the spelling.
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uuugh. That reminds me, I’ll have to dig out the Coolgardie Cool Rambler from my mag pile. Shania-Mae’s Corner here we come
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am i missing the photo of big carmen?
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Oh, where is it. I thought I put it up.
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I’m sure I saw one. Where is she?
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In our hearts, TLA, inside all of us, forever.
I definitely didn’t take one, but I DID steal the pamphlet (Building on the Burke Years) so if she’s in there I’ll dust off the asbestos and scan it for ya.
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I was just looking at a pic of a young Carmen. WTF?
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I wonder what accursed publication I was reading?
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Better leave the lights on, Cundle Carm’s comin’ to GET ya
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Carmen was not one of Burke’s “friends” and did not ascend to the ministry until Dowding . (Education)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Lawrence
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That is the most sleazy pic I have ever seen of Dowding.
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The way youse were talking, I’d assumed that was a young Carmen ‘polishing the tractor’, as the kids say.
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Speaking of Dowding and Grill:
“We are satisfied that, during the July (1988) meeting, Mr Dowding DID NOT explain the close connection between the purchase price being paid for PICL (Petrochemical Industries Company Ltd – a joint venture between Dallas Dempster and Laurie Connell) and the size of the problem at Rothwells. NOR DID HE explain that the government was DELIBERATELY building up the value of PICL by a support mechanism and guarantee. Cabinet may well have reached a DIFFERENT VIEW if the real position had been explained. WE REGARD THIS FAILURE BY MR DOWDING AS IMPROPER. It follows that we have rejected Mr Dowding’s view that it was sufficient to tell cabinet merely that commercially appropriate support mechanisms would be put in place. Mr Grill was fully aware of the true situation. He passively allowed cabinet to be uninformed and was thereby implicated in Mr Dowding’s impropriety.” – 1992’s report of the royal commission into commercial activities of government and other matters (my emphasis).
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Good times…
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The BEST of times.
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A prima facie case, but was it ever tested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dowding
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You have been foung quilty of criminal smoothness. It was an unsafe claim that one could believe in the future.
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Carmen Lawrence broke the Westminster system by lying to Parliament and then refusing to resign. Not that anyone cares.
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Magna Carmen. Magna Cundle Carms
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