@angry-goddess.bsky.social

Still mad as Hell!

There's no valid reason that if McConnell were alive that he would not be physically present at Graham's funeral. Even if that meant showing up in a wheelchair. Strom Thurmond was basically a vegetable and his staff still wheeled him around to important functions and voted for him. Mitch is dead.

On what the pair had discussed in their two meetings (and the swim event), Bleijie said he had answered the question, before adding: "We talked about the weather. How’s that? We talked about the Brisbane Times misinformation".

After a Hancock Prospecting spokesperson praised any govt effort to reduce roadblocks for critical minerals projects, Bleijie said Rinehart had not raised such matters before he intro'd a controversial draft bill boosting state approval powers. But said he'd be happy to talk her or anyone

"She supports regional Australia, great. Invests in regional Australia, great. She’s the richest person in Australia. Do we want her money investing in Queensland? Absolutely," Bleijie said.

Bleijie again refused to outline whether Rinehart's letter to him lobbying for Olympic rowing in the "beef capital" Rockhampton arrived before the government made a decision against GIICA's eventual advice, saying "what does it matter" if it did & denying the intervention influenced anything anyway.

From the outset, he sought to label that reporting misinformation (and continued to do so on multiple occasions), offering as evidence only that he took issue with Rinehart's labelling of his national swimming champs attendance as part of "her party". "I don’t control her website,” Bleijie said.

Went along to Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie's media conference this morning to ask some of the outstanding questions from our reporting about his interactions with billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart over the last week. Here's a thread of the main takeaways:

Bleijie said Rinehart wrote no similar letter to him about the new National Aquatic Centre (which also department from GIICA recommendations), but said it should not be surprising the rowing and swimming patron would want such things.

He is a cretin. Sunshine Coast always elects cringe. Peter Slipper, Ted OBrien, the weather woman Rosanna Natoli. It's bonkers, the number of racist LNP ONP upper middle bogans retire there. + the many white only retirement "lifestyle" villages. I thought Vic Park stadium would be their undoing.