million dollar mack posted:

Can you all kindly shut the gently caress up about dirty dishes so we can get back to planning our Jihad vs Tony?

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Asylum seekers' babies could be sent offshore under new visa laws

The Federal Government looks set to succeed in its bid to bring back temporary visas for refugees, after striking a deal with the Palmer United Party.

T-1000 posted:

To play devil's advocate: a single working person has to clean rather than work overtime or a second job or further training/career development. This is also sacrificing their ability to earn money working in a paid position to do work. Why are they not entitled to be paid for this work?

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The new “safe haven visas” would allow asylum seekers who meet a series of conditions and work in a regional area for three and a half years to potentially apply for further visas beyond this point. 

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One of the photographs run on this website, tablet and Fairfax papers in relation to the death of Numan Haider was published in error. The young man in a suit was not Mr Haider, and we unreservedly apologise to him for the error.

The young man has no connection whatsoever with any extremist or terrorist group and we deeply regret any such inference arising from the publication of the photograph. The picture has been withdrawn from circulation.

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Ms Abdel-Fattah described the terror raids as a "spectacle" and "conveniently timed" ahead of the government's "most draconian" national security legislation which is being introduced into Parliament this week.

"You cannot help but feel cynical about the timing of these raids, the fact that it is whipping people up into a frenzy of hysteria, or war fever," she said.

"It reinforced this wider narrative of Muslims as criminals ... and I'm very cynical about the government's decision to politicise these raids," she added.

Counter terrorism expert and academic Ms Aly said "all terrorism is theatre and all counter-terrorism is theatre, so yes, [the raids were] a manufactured spectacle".

When contacted by Fairfax Media for a comment, Mr Hawke said "I thought the ABC let the team down by entertaining these conspiracies".

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Police have swarmed an Islamic school in western Sydney after reports of an intruder threatening staff and students with a knife.

Officers were called to Al-Faisal College in Minto on Thursday afternoon amid reports that an armed man had entered school grounds and was asking if it was a Muslim school.

Police said the man entered the school on Benham Road about 2.10pm, spoke with a female staff member and left a short time later. He was last seen on Kitson Road.

They had reported a man running onto school grounds, asking if it was a "Muslim school" and then pulling out a knife and threatening a teacher and students.

Adnar posted:

Whooops

TheIllestVillain posted:

Fairfax must be staffed by clowns or monkeys or some kind of loving circus animal

Kid falsely identified as "terror teen"



Actual kid

Seagull posted:

They all look the same to them.

EvilElmo posted:

I read somewhere that the person fairfax used is actually the Grandson of a guy who went to Afghanistan in 2002 to work on brokering peace between different tribes and was assassinated for his efforts.

Good work. Hope this costs fairfax a few million and a front page apology tomorrow.

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Hakim Taniwal (Pashto: حکيم تڼيوال) was the Governor of Paktia province in Afghanistan until he was killed by a suicide bomber on 10 September 2006, at the age of 63.[1] Prior to his governorship of Paktia, Taniwal had governed the difficult province of Khost, near the border with Pakistan, where al-Qaeda had established training camps during the time of the Taliban and later took refuge in the Tora Bora mountains.

Murodese posted:

Their online apology had a picture of Jamie Durie on it for some reason as well

Seagull posted:

They all look the same to them.

Fruity Gordo posted:

Considering it's a complete backflip on his previous rhetoric implying he had concern for the human rights of refugees, I think we can pretty reliably predict that in a couple of weeks he'll be in favour of university fee deregulation and slashing social security as well.

E: or maybe not slashing social security, since he was on the dole once and therefore can vaguely remember how hard a life it was to be unemployed, even though the dole amount was much less cruel back in his day.

Cartoon posted:

Cartoon posted:

There's the 'apology' (There isn't one, well not on the front page even though they do manage to get more TERROR!!!! and a picture of the right victim).

I would imaging that Stacks or who ever are making the dudes phone ring off the hook because the defamation case is such a slam dunk lay down misere. They can pretty much think of a number and run with it for the out of court settlement. Well unless we start seizing assets on the basis of religious affiliation but we'd never do that!

You Am I posted:

All this whipping up of terror and anti-Islam rhetoric in the media, I fear is going to have a gruesome conclusion.

I'm not liking this one bit, but sadly the Federal Government has a huge hard on for belting up that community, and I can't see the media stopping any time soon.

Gough Suppressant posted:

reminder, this is the 'good' melbourne newspaper.