Mad Katter posted:

The photo is of Wyatt Roy, who was the youngest Australian elected to parliament back on 2010.

Sam Dastyari posted it on Facebook and called him out, but Wyatt Roy come along and posted that he he took it to commemorate the first world war or something: https://m.facebook.com/senator.sam.dastyari/photos/a.280027748812387.1073741829.269334213215074/341317172683444/?type=1&source=46

gently caress knows how waving a gun around is an appropriate way to commemorate the enormous and senseless waste of life though.

Haters Objector posted:

Israel have caused otherwise ambivalent people to become actual anti-semites, in the same way that Al Qaeda have caused people to become Islamophobes

Captain Pissweak posted:

I keep telling you people about Howard years history education.

It bad.

Mad Katter posted:

The photo is of Wyatt Roy, who was the youngest Australian elected to parliament back on 2010.

Sam Dastyari posted it on Facebook and called him out, but Wyatt Roy come along and posted that he he took it to commemorate the first world war or something: https://m.facebook.com/senator.sam.dastyari/photos/a.280027748812387.1073741829.269334213215074/341317172683444/?type=1&source=46

gently caress knows how waving a gun around is an appropriate way to commemorate the enormous and senseless waste of life though.

Amoeba102 posted:

Well I haven't so I don't know the nuances. How does it not fit for these children to be "worthy victims" in the eyes of some propagandaMurdoch rag?

Goodpart posted:

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/...806-101849.html

SO PRO CLICK

Tokamak posted:

Howard taught us that WWI/ANZAC remembrances are rallies where we go and cheer our soldiers who fought for our freedoms; it's like Australia Day for soldiers.

Captain Pissweak posted:

I keep telling you people about Howard years history education.

It bad.

Murodese posted:

I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but when I did history in year 6-10 we were taught that Gallipoli was a great victory for Australia and our soldiers were hard men who fought against ten times their number and managed to get away cleanly by being ingenious.

webmeister posted:

Seriously, stop whatever you're doing and watch the full interview. The guy who thinks of himself as the smartest man in Cabinet (if not the parliament) takes literally five minutes to stammer and stutter his way through explaining the difference between a website and a webpage. "We're not monitoring your web surfing, just the addresses of the sites you visit"

Clark & Dawe are out of a job.

Captain Pissweak posted:

I didn't learn we lost at school.

A movie taught me that.

Fruity Gordo posted:

In my interpretation, you don't apply the concept until there's appreciable media coverage. So, not just when a terrorgraph link has been up for 4 hours. It's about the culture, not one article, and if anyone in the media persists with this story they'll have to admit that they're dealing with white supremacists so it will derail the whole narrative. So these children won't exist in the narrative, but they will exist as traumatised kids outside of it who were manipulated by their parents and propagandists and mocked by idiots for absolutely bullshit reasons which had nothing to do with ensuring their wellbeing.

quote:

Rampant visa fraud and migration crime involving people flying into Australia are going unchecked while the government focuses on stopping boats, according to secret government files detailing entrenched Immigration Department failings.

Hundreds of pages of leaked confidential departmental documents obtained by Fairfax Media reveal that Australia's national security is being compromised by wide-scale visa rorting and migration rackets operating with impunity, including some with links to terrorism or organised crime.

The confidential Immigration Department files reveal repeated internal warnings over several years that widespread visa fraud is "business as usual yet remains largely untreated" because the department's investigation and enforcement capacity has collapsed.

duck monster posted:

Its yet another groupsicle to come out of the "national alternative" which split up a while back. @ndy slackbastard will probably do a write up at some point soon.

Murodese posted:

I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but when I did history in year 6-10 we were taught that Gallipoli was a great victory for Australia and our soldiers were hard men who fought against ten times their number and managed to get away cleanly by being ingenious.

quote:

Police arrested five of the teenagers at Dover Heights, in Sydney's eastern suburbs, at 3:30am on Thursday after residents recognised them from publicity over the attack.

The teenagers were taken into custody but were too drunk for police to interview.

Cleretic posted:

I seem to say this every month, so time to get it out of the way early this time:

Similarly, I didn't know we lost at Gallipoli until seeing the actual movie; it was apparently more important that we know what an Australian trench looked like, down to specific details, than whether or not we won in them.

The worse one to me is still Eureka, though. I didn't know it was a failure until last year, when explaining the name of the Australian mech from Pacific Rim to an American friend of mine. Guillermo del Toro indirectly taught me more Australian history than my actual Australian history course.

That lovely Howard history curriculum REALLY hosed up my sense of both perspective and actual historical fact. Not only did it gloss over our failures and shady poo poo (of which there were many; Australia hasn't exactly had the most glorious history), the overfocus on what little we do have meant that I had a twisted grasp of the history of the rest of the world in comparison.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Yes, Minister on metadata.

SynthOrange posted:

re: the schoolkids and the neo-nazis:



http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-07/teenagers-arrested-for-bondi-school-bus-abuse/5654108

Freudian Slip posted:

Sorry to out - but it's one of those little myths that piss me off

Smegmatron posted:

quote:

Sex workers to have to wait longer to get dole

SEX workers and table-top dancers who lose their jobs will not be eligible for a reduction in the number of months they have to wait before they can get the dole, sparking accusations the Abbott government is imposing moral judgments on the social welfare system.

Even unemployed people who claim they have worked by running for public office will have to wait longer than others to get the Newstart Allowance.

Welfare Rights has written a submission to the government, declaring its outrage at the “moral judgments” being made in new rules.

Other concerns raised by Welfare Rights in its submission include new rules that make unemployed people spend their savings — before the six-month waiting period for the dole even begins. Welfare Rights says the treatment of the Liquid Assets Waiting Period (LAWP) is particularly unfair.

Under changes unveiled in the May budget, those younger than 30 will be cut off the dole for six months. If they enrol in a course, they can apply for a lower welfare payment to study.

The waiting period for New­start will reduce depending on past employment. The reduction will be a month for every year of prior work, except for school leavers; otherwise no income support will be provided. Part-time employment would also be recognised on a pro-rata basis.

In the explanatory memorandum for the bill circulated by Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews, the waiting period for “gainful work” would operate differently for different categories of work.

“Gainful work is defined to mean any work for financial gain or reward,” it says. “As examples, the minister could provide that particular kinds of gainful work do not cause a reduced waiting period if the work: does not involve a substantial degree of consistent personal exertion; consists of domestic or gardening tasks in relation to the place of residence of the person or a member of their family; consists of the management of financial investments in which the person or a member of their family has an interest; involves nudity or is in the sex industry; or is for the purpose of achieving election of the person to public office.”

In its submission, Welfare Rights says it is alarming that the minister may determine that there is no reduction for gainful work for a myriad reasons.

“In our submission, it is objectionable to allow moral judgments to enter the Social Security Act and determine something as important as length of waiting period.,” it says.

“If the work is lawful and gainful, then it should reduce the waiting period. This debate should not be about whether or not this is condoning such work (the law does that elsewhere — it is legal after all). Rather, it is about equity.”

Mr Andrews said “part-time employment will also be recognised on a part-time basis”. The minister did not address questions about legal sex work.

Kat Delacour posted:

Closing the loopholes to make it perfectly clear that yes we do in fact want you destitute and starving for 6 months.