Matthew Beet posted:

I'm the other 60%

Murodese posted:

Yeah, this is pretty much my argument. Going Fruity Gordo at people isn't going to change any minds ever, because people bunker the gently caress down when they're under attack. Manipulating them into changing their opinion is far more effective.

Fruity Gordo posted:

I agree Craig, you should probably stop posting forever so as not to give us any more ammo or any more reason to think that you're a very bad person. A sound decision which will yield best results.

Fruity Gordo posted:

Your vendetta is excruciatingly boring fyi

Graic Gabtar posted:

Maybe we should just continue posting about politics.

You'll keep doing what you do. I'll throw in my occasional 2 cents worth. You'll all go berserk. I'll get a chuckle and we will all carry on like before.

Les Affaires posted:

Oh come on. Really?

Graic Gabtar posted:

LOL - what do you want me to do?

Lid posted:

In a cafe

They have an OZ burger

Egg

Pineapple

Beetroot

I hate everything.

Murodese posted:

It's cute that you think I actually give a poo poo about you beyond turning your name into a synonym for "flipping the gently caress out randomly and forcefully"

Les Affaires posted:

Stick up for your beliefs. Debate in good faith. Pretty much what this subforum is about.

Graic Gabtar posted:

Yeah, would that be before or after I shove the cyanide up my arse?

Graic Gabtar posted:

Yeah, would that be before or after I shove the cyanide up my arse?

Murodese posted:

You know how we block tiring trolls? Why don't you just block people suggesting you shove cyanide up your rear end?

Orkin Mang posted:

because blocking people is for precious little babies. it's what tearie little ultras do when someone disagrees with them.

Endman posted:

Master of puppets is pulling my striiiiiiiiiiiiiiings!

hiddenmovement posted:

It's actually "I'm pulling your strings"

Graic Gabtar main account spotted

Matthew Beet posted:

No. I said I couldn't get up from the couch. Go see if sadistech can get you one of those magnifying glass sheets.

hooman posted:

Sadistech: Mobility and aged care service provider to goons.

Cartoon posted:

MC Eating Disorder posted:

I'd just like to know what the gently caress would convince these people

Kommando posted:

MARCH BRISGOON AUSPOL MEET

Anidav posted:

What are you talking about? I see heaps of races!

Elves, Dwarfs, Orcs, Humans.

Anidav posted:

What are you talking about? I see heaps of races!

Elves, Dwarfs, Orcs, Humans.

Kommando posted:

MARCH BRISGOON AUSPOL MEET

Graic Gabtar posted:

It's funny though how few political views I actually give yet I'm all of these imagined horrible things just because I don't respond to simple questions or argue in good faith.

BlitzkriegOfColour posted:

Basically, put them under anaesthetic, give them a skin graft to be dark-skinned, like, Aborigine in Far NQ skinned, or heart of Africa skinned, then make them live their lives. That's the only thing that will make them understand. They are incapable of empathy, and have all the intellectual rigour of primary school children.


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Birb Katter posted:

There is a person in this picture who looks like a fat version of me. This is worrisome.

Goodwill letters to asylum seekers on Nauru returned unopened posted:

Immigration department delivers three boxes of mail to barrister Julian Burnside – six months after he was assured it was being distributed to detainees.

quote:

Thousands of goodwill letters sent by Australians to immigration detainees held on Nauru have been returned unopened. The letters of comfort and support were organised by the Melbourne barrister Julian Burnside. He did the same in 2001 after asylum seekers on the Tampa were detained for long periods. Last year, with the support of advocacy and social justice groups, he organised for almost 2,000 letters from Australians to be sent to detainees on Nauru. A similar number were sent to people at the processing centre on Manus Island.

The letters were directed to people whose identity and boat number are known to Burnside. Each letter contained a self-addressed stamped envelope so the detainees could reply to the sender if they wished. The letters were designed to let the detainees know that Australians were thinking of them, that they were not alone and that not everyone is hostile to refugees. By the middle of last year it was apparent that the letter writers had not received any replies from Nauru.

Burnside followed up with an email inquiry to Nikki Keirven, then the Department of Immigration and Border Protection’s lead service delivery officer at the Nauru offshore processing centre. On 25 June 2014 she replied:

“Thank you for your email. I appreciate you have an interest in knowing whether the letters you have been sending are arriving in Nauru. I can confirm that they are arriving and are being distributed to transferees by the service provider [Transfield Services]. This is a work in progress given that letters continue to arrive. There are also a number of letters which have arrived for transferees who have departed Nauru. Where forwarding addresses are available, they will be forwarded on.”

However, replies from detainees were still not being received. This was considered unusual, as in the past asylum seekers had been responsive to messages of support.

What followed was months of email correspondence between Burnside and the department. It emerged that the Nauruan postal authorities would only accept the self-addressed envelopes if the Australian stamps had been purchased in Nauru.