hooman posted:

Bill Shorten is a counter to Tony Abbott in the same way a grapefruit is a counter to Tony Abbot. It just has to sit there and do literally nothing while ole Tones shits in his own mouth. Shorten is worthless and I really hope he doesn't get elected but I'd still prefer him over Turnbull.

My preference for the leader of this country at the moment is actually "Someone else".

Solemn Sloth posted:

I'm someone else.

SynthOrange posted:

BBJoey posted:

please source your BackBurner quotes, they're nice people and could use the clicks.

SynthOrange posted:

Sorry! http://www.theage.com.au/federal-po...006-gk25wf.html

CrazyTolradi posted:

The thing is, it isn't the quality of the education in private schools that made Prime Ministers be able to become PM, but their socioeconomic backgrounds and contacts/social circles/loving a dead pig that got them on that path.

Jintor posted:

Is Australia's number one illegal immigrant population still backpackers overstaying their visas or did that change in the last couple years

katlington posted:

It'll be framed as affecting children doing it for extra money.

DancingShade posted:

Politicians should be in Canberra sittings 7 days a week.

DancingShade posted:

Politicians should be in Canberra sittings 7 days a week.

Zenithe posted:

Having had jobs that are both on weekends and through the night, they should start sitting at midnight.

Zenithe posted:

Having had jobs that are both on weekends and through the night, they should start sitting at midnight.

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Police probe teen gunman's school connections and group spreading Islamic State ideology

The teenage killer responsible for gunning down a police employee in Parramatta turned "distant" in the weeks prior to the shooting but was still diligently attending voluntary lunchtime prayer sessions that are now the subject of a state government audit.

Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar's playground connections have become a key focus for authorities who are trying to piece together the quiet teen's sudden radicalisation.

Fresh details have emerged of a small group of students at Arthur Phillip High School spreading Islamic State ideology.

Fairfax Media can reveal that Jabar was in the same year as a 15-year-old Islamic State supporter who yelled abuse outside a Christian school and flew the terror group's flag through western Sydney.

The teenager, who cannot be named, was ordered to participate in a youth offenders conference for driving past the Maronite College of the Holy Family in Harris Park on September 16, 2014 yelling death threats. He was flying an Islamic State flag out the passenger window.

Two days earlier, the boy's older brother and one of the brother's friends, both former Arthur Phillip students, were targeted in pre-dawn anti-terrorism raids across Sydney.

On Tuesday, police arrested another year 10 student on his way to school because of social media posts he wrote in the aftermath of Friday's shooting, including a threat that Merrylands police station "is next, hope they all burn in hell".

Several students have confirmed to Fairfax Media that Jabar would, without fail, attend voluntary lunchtime prayer groups every Friday with a group of Muslim students and supervising teachers.

The state government is auditing all voluntary lunchtime religious groups following allegations that students were preaching extremism in sessions at Epping Boys High.

"No matter what he was doing, he would always drop it to ask the teacher if he could go into the classroom and pray," said one student.

Jabar was a talented basketball player and considered the best in the school's under-15s team however he became distant in the weeks before the end of the last school term.

"He didn't show up to any of our games, he would just disappear," said a close friend and teammate, Peter, whose surname has been withheld.

"I asked him what was happening and he just said 'Oh I had to go home to finish off some assignments'."

Peter said Jabar would go to Parramatta mosque every afternoon unless he had basketball training or tutoring.

However, he also said Jabar was a cheerful, smart, private student who never spoke about religion openly at school and was not a ringleader.

"He would go to the mosque but he didn't like talking about religion. He'd rather joke around so it doesn't make any sense what he's done.

"We had some teammates who were always talking about religion and extremist stuff and he would always tell them to be quiet, he'd change the topic."

A year 11 student who knew Jabar said he didn't show any signs of radicalisation.

"I couldn't believe it, I never thought it could be him," he said. "He got brainwashed.

"I have seen the mosques around here ... they tell you all this stuff and fill your head with it. Once you get brainwashed they show you books ... and makes you hate other sectors."

Fairfax Media has been told by a source at Parramatta mosque that Jabar was among a group of friends who sometimes wagged school to pray there.

One month of CCTV footage from the mosque has been handed to police.

He attended the mosque again on Friday afternoon before walking to the police building on Charles Street and opening fire, killing accountant Curtis Cheng.

Commissioner Andrew Scipione, Premier Mike Baird and Police Minister Troy Grant were among those who laid flowers at the scene on Tuesday before speaking with the special constables who killed Jabar in a short gun battle.

Mr Scipione vowed that "everything ... will be done" to understand how a 15-year-old schoolboy could kill a well-respected employee as he left work.

"There is no way you can describe the hurt inside that building and right across the NSW Police force at the moment," he said.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/police-pr...l#ixzz3nmNFdiGS
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Two days earlier, the boy's older brother and one of the brother's friends, both former Arthur Phillip students, were targeted in pre-dawn anti-terrorism raids across Sydney.

Anidav posted:

Hey, how did he get ahold of an ISIS flag? I thought the AFP and Customs were hawking that sort of stuff after the Sydney Siege.

hawaiian_robot posted:

Patriots are flooding my inbox in support of Stopping the Mosque in Bendigo. Aussie Oi. Rise Without Fear

Pred1ct posted:

They will argue that hospitality/retail workers are the most casualized workforce, that their workers aren't doing it as a career like in nursing, but just to earn some money while they are studying. And you see the workers quite enjoy this arrangement, because they have the flexibility to work whenever they want around their uni/TAFE timetable!

Oh and the cost of business for oz retail is so high, what with all those online retailers we can barely pay to keep the lights on and please sir, can I have some more sir

Anidav posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdC9WtbEpWE

Zenithe posted:

Yeah, they've gone into overdrive regarding that.

On a related note, get ready for QLD Senator Pauline Hanson.

hawaiian_robot posted:

edit: holy gently caress the Great Aussie Patriot Facebook page is unintentionally hilarious as gently caress

Zenithe posted:

This gem was from the UPFs page.



Keep in mind, this was posted on their own page, which either means they are too dumb to know they are obviously being trolled, or their supporters are too dumb to realise that putting 15 full colour posters on the side of a bun is actually pretty dumb.

Also I just noticed that "Aussie Pride, Nation Wide" is pretty close to another phrase.

Negligent posted:

Is it OK to fatshame middle aged men who post shirtless photos of themselves on the internet

The gut hanging out below the sign written in texta really makes the image

hawaiian_robot posted:

I swear to god either the Great Aussie Patriot (ugh) or the UPF page had pretty much the fourteen words on one post. No Nazis allowed though, guys, for real!

edit: and some "anti-racist is codeword blah blah"