One sycophant after another, (((they))) must have some pulling power down under!
https://www.news.com.au/national/politic...39b07edd15
https://www.news.com.au/national/politic...39b07edd15
Quote: (10-17-2018 06:55 PM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:
Oh man..., the jokes write themselves.
Doesn't this simply enforce the idea that many migrants are simply not civilized enough to live in Australia in any capacity...?
A plan to force migrants to live in regional areas would create ‘ghetto towns’
AUSTRALIA runs the risk of creating countless “ghetto towns” if Scott Morrison’s plan to force migrants to live in rural and regional areas goes ahead.
AUSTRALIA runs the risk of creating dozens of “ghetto towns” if a plan to force new migrants to live in regional and rural areas is enforced.
Alan Tudge, the recently appointed Minister for Population and Cities, flagged the Government’s intention to require a percentage of immigrants to spend five years living in smaller towns rather than settle in capital cities.
It was sold as a measure to give struggling cities like Sydney and Melbourne a breather and allow infrastructure investments to catch up with booming populations.
However, leading planning expert Shane Geha said the country runs the risk of “creating a cure that’s worse than the disease”.
“If we simply send migrants to the regions without thought or planning, we will end up with ghetto towns rather than ghetto suburbs,” Dr Geha, managing director of EG Urban Planning and Property, told news.com.au.
“There are no jobs and there is lower income. Quite simply, this is not a good formula for successful towns to thrive.”
Pressure has been mounting on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to prioritise a population plan, with calls from some in his Government to slah immigration numbers.
Speaking in Tasmania earlier this month, Mr Morrison said he supported migrant visas that were contingent on moving to non-metro areas.
“We need to manage the impact of growth in Sydney and Melbourne, where we need to manage the impacts of what has been particularly strong population growth,” he said.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/...058a2193e6
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Police said the assault lasted for several minutes before the attacker ran away and was seen getting into a silver car.
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The alleged perpetrator is described as being aged in his 30s or 40s, with a heavy build, a large belly and legs, a prominent nose and lips.
He was last seen wearing a black hooded jumper, long dark-coloured pants, and white sneakers
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Australia: Muslim cabbie beats atheist with crowbar, leaves him for dead after “harmless discussion about religion”
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A Scots backpacker has told how he was “left for dead” in the street after he was brutally attacked by a taxi driver with a crowbar.
Former cagefighter Euan Fraser, 30, said the cabbie beat him unconscious on his doorstep leaving him with a bleed on the brain.
He claims the attack happened after he got out of the car in Melbourne following what he thought was a harmless discussion about religion.
Euan, from Dundee, Scotland, was knocked out and medics did tests which showed he was struck with a thick metal pole, like a crowbar.
He was forced to shell out £4,000 for his medical treatment and now suffers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Describing the incident, Euan said: “As I got out of the taxi I just heard footsteps behind me and heard a loud bang.
“Then I felt this immense pain in my head and I was knocked clean out.
“I was laid into when I was on the floor. I was left laying there in a pool of blood. He left me for dead….
Euan, who stands 6ft 5ins tall, flagged down the yellow cab after a night out with a friend in Melbourne in June last year.
He recalls how he and the taxi driver spoke “at length” about the driver’s Muslim background and he became visibly annoyed when Euan said he was an atheist.
Euan, who was working on a farm at the time, argued that religion had “played a part in causing deaths and wars” throughout history.
Architecture student Euan said: “He didn’t like it at all when I started expressing my views. He started to preach his religion on me.
“I argued that science was responsible for evolution rather than religion, which he didn’t like either.
“I tried to change the conversation but he kept going on about it. I could see he was getting wound up.”
He got out of the car expecting the cabbie to drive off when he was smashed over the head and “beaten to a pulp”….
Euan sustained bruised ribs, a battered shoulder, multiple cuts to his face and a bleed on the brain during the sickening attack….
Police investigated but have yet to trace the taxi driver….
Quote: (10-31-2018 06:23 PM)StrikeBack Wrote:
This willful ignorance of Islam being ultra violent is very strange to me. From parents of small children to this guy a cagefighter and a backpacker (surely he's seen some shit?), they all seem to think Muslims are quiet innocent little lambs who would never fart on a fly.
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Nassim Taleb shares an example that comes from his friend and trading partner, Mark Spitznagel. "A martial version of the ludic fallacy: organized competitive fighting trains the athlete to focus on the game and, in order not to dissipate his concentration, to ignore the possibility of what is not specifically allowed by the rules, such as kicks to the groin, a surprise knife, et cetera. So those who win gold medal might be precisely those who will be most vulnerable in real life."
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Senator Hanson-Young said the vile “It’s okay to be white” posters were referred to police when she spotted them on Thursday.
Quote: (11-02-2018 04:50 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:
Who knows how many rednecks went for a packet of smokes that weekend, read that headline and thought "what the fuck!?"
Quote: (11-02-2018 04:50 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:
A thousand white-bread rural rednecks would have passed by that headline that weekend and gotten a reality check that they and their kids have been marked for extinction.
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White Ribbon Australia has zero tolerance for disrespect, abuse and violence of any kind towards women.
White Ribbon acknowledges Ashleigh’s courage in making a public statement about an incident that women should never experience. [Yes, it MUST be true because she said it. Foley's guilty!]
We will never excuse or defend violence towards women of any kind. No matter who you are, what part of the community or organisation you are from – including if that person is an ambassador or connected to our own organisation – wherever disrespect and abuse against women occurs then the perpetrators must always be held to account. [Even when he denies it.]
White Ribbon has stood Mr Foley down from the White Ribbon Ambassador program, pending the investigation. [The investigation is worthless if you're already praising the accuser as a victim.] All White Ribbon Ambassadors must pass a rigorous training program and abide at all times to the tenets of the Ambassador program. If at any time this is breached, then this respected status will be withdrawn.
White Ribbon calls for this matter to be discussed respectfully and in a way which supports women who display courage in speaking out against any abuse.
Quote: (11-09-2018 12:43 AM)david.garrett84 Wrote:
Surprised none of you gents closer to the news at home in Australia didn't raise this one:
The would-be leftist Premier of New South Wales (the equivalent of a Governor in the US for our non-Australian friends reading) has been felled by a #MeToo accusation.
The accuser's name? Ashleigh Raper.
Australia's hugely anti-male, anti-"DV" group, White Ribbon, has already removed Foley's ambassador status:
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White Ribbon Australia has zero tolerance for disrespect, abuse and violence of any kind towards women.
White Ribbon acknowledges Ashleigh’s courage in making a public statement about an incident that women should never experience. [Yes, it MUST be true because she said it. Foley's guilty!]
We will never excuse or defend violence towards women of any kind. No matter who you are, what part of the community or organisation you are from – including if that person is an ambassador or connected to our own organisation – wherever disrespect and abuse against women occurs then the perpetrators must always be held to account. [Even when he denies it.]
White Ribbon has stood Mr Foley down from the White Ribbon Ambassador program, pending the investigation. [The investigation is worthless if you're already praising the accuser as a victim.] All White Ribbon Ambassadors must pass a rigorous training program and abide at all times to the tenets of the Ambassador program. If at any time this is breached, then this respected status will be withdrawn.
White Ribbon calls for this matter to be discussed respectfully and in a way which supports women who display courage in speaking out against any abuse.
The Labor Party's stance on these issues is bizarre, to say the least:
- Bill Shorten was investigated by the police for RAPE and the investigation itself was kept super quiet. Now, I'm all for the presumption of innocence, but it only seems to apply in the tiniest number of instances, like in Bill's.
- NSW Labor bureaucrat Jamie Clements was previously kicked out of his job and the party effectively for bonking a younger woman who later accused him of assault, with no corroborating evidence. I'm pretty sure she had even been cheating on her boyfriend/fiancé at the time. His career and standing were dutifully ruined by things like the apprehended violence order that was taken out against him.
- Soon-to-be retired Labor Member of Parliament Emma Husar was accused of severe bullying of staff (claims fairly well substantiated by a party investigation) and Basic Instinct-style sexual harassment (not substantiated by the party investigation, but that's not saying much). Even so, she countered that the whole saga was her being "slut-shamed" (*eye roll*).
Remember, what the ALP does now is what the Liberals do 5-10 years later (calls for female quotas, blind acceptance of accusations from female politicians and employees, transgender activism etc.).
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NSW POLITICS – MARK'S PLAN
New South Wales politics is in poor shape. Our electricity prices have doubled in a decade. Our school results are going backwards on international league tables.
Our city of Sydney is congested and increasingly dysfunctional, a victim of over-population growth. Country areas have been neglected, with voters protesting through huge by-election swings in Orange and Wagga Wagga.
It took the former NSW Labor Government 14 years to get out-of-touch with the electorate. The O’Farrell/Baird/Berejiklian Government has done it in half the time.
The Premier keeps on promising an infrastructure miracle for Sydney, yet in reality, she can’t even build tram tracks down the middle of George Street.
Sydney is bursting at the seams and commuters are suffering. Our trains are over-crowded. Our roads are like a parking lot.
As soon as new facilities are opened, the population growth around them means they need to be rebuilt and expanded, further delaying the provision of decent public services.
In taking an extra 100,000 people a year, there are only two ways Sydney can grow: through unsustainable urban sprawl or by building massive apartment blocks across the city, making our suburbs unrecognisable. Either way, big immigration numbers are killing Sydney as a liveable city.
We need a break from rapid population growth, a chance for jobs, services and transport links to catch up. That’s one of the reasons I’ve joined One Nation and become its NSW leader for the March State election.
Along with Dick Smith, Senator Pauline Hanson has been Australia’s leading voice for a major cut in immigration numbers. Having lived in Sydney all my life, I want to play a role in saving the city from over-population and perpetual congestion. At State level, we need a planning policy of urban containment.
When 20 years ago Bob Carr said that Sydney was full, why didn’t governments listen? With State and Federal elections in the next seven months, Sydneysiders have a unique opportunity to send a strong message about the city’s future. When it comes to population growth and over-development, enough is enough.
Whether people were born here or born overseas, we all have the same interest: we want to take back our city from time sapping, infuriating congestion. We want backyards for our children and grandchildren to play in, not a row of apartment towers.
The problem with Gladys Berejiklian is that, as a lifelong supporter of Big Australia immigration, she can never solve Sydney’s problems. Yet in throwing money at projects like the Olympic Stadium reconfiguration at Homebush, she is neglecting the needs of country and regional NSW.
It’s One Nation policy for the $810 million on this project to be reallocated to capital works for country hospitals. During a time of drought, governments need to invest as much as possible in rural and regional economies.
There are other big issues to tackle. Both Labor and Liberal are obsessed with renewables – a high-risk strategy of putting all our energy eggs in one basket. In truth, NSW needs to diversify its energy base, adding nuclear to the mix and giving coal a fair chance to compete. This is the best way of bringing down electricity prices.
Under Labor and Liberal, the State’s schools have gone backwards, both internationally and compared to other States and Territories. We need to lift teacher quality and bring the curriculum back to basics. The NSW Government should actually start running education policy, instead of outsourcing it to the Teachers Federation.
I will also be campaigning to end the new Left-wing discrimination in our institutions. Quotas and targets in State employment are discriminating against men.
This is a big worry for parents: their sons can work hard at school and university, be well qualified for a job and still miss out, because they have the wrong gender (or skin colour). Especially in public safety services like the fire brigade, police and train drivers, the best person for the job must always get the job.
Parties change and evolve over time. The One Nation I’ve joined is pro-merit and anti-discrimination, supporting the traditional Australian ‘fair go’.
Labor, Liberal and the Greens, by contrast, have embraced divisive identity politics, judging people by their race, gender and sexuality. There was a time when we were told to ignore such things, as they were irrelevant to a person’s character and quality. Now it’s all the elites talk about.
NSW needs a change in direction. After 16 years of corrupt and incompetent Labor Government and eight years of Premiers from the Left of the Liberal Party (O’Farrell, Baird and Berejiklian) we have, in effect, had 24 years of Left-leaning government, ignoring the political mainstream.
Big policy changes are needed to put commonsense back into NSW politics. That’s what I’ll be advocating on behalf of One Nation as we campaign for the March 23 election.
Read more at our website: https://nsw.onenation.org.au