open24hours posted:

Would you take it over better local trains?

400km/h is at the high end of current technology, and you can guarantee they'd go for a much slower and slightly cheaper option.

Birb Katter posted:

If he was out that way chances are he was from the Shire and his death was for the best.

PaletteSwappedNinja posted:

Let's murder him haha

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

You know what's a bit scary. I legitimately had no idea who you were talking about for a good 20 seconds.

gay picnic defence posted:

They can't even sustain a fusion reaction for more than a couple of seconds, the point where it becomes a commercially feasible thing and not just a science experiment would have to be decades away. By which stage 1kWh solar panels will probably cost about $10 each.

Vladimir Poutine posted:

Pill Snortin'

open24hours posted:

Pfft, as if there's a solution to any problem that doesn't involve banning things. Furthermore, Australia doesn't have a culture.

Anidav posted:

If kept on, and never replaced in 2010. Could rudd have successfully diversified the economy?

open24hours posted:

Pfft, as if there's a solution to any problem that doesn't involve banning things. Furthermore, Australia doesn't have a culture.

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

Rudd wasn't interested in diversifying the economy. He and Swan did everything in their power to prop up the housing bubble and promote mining.

quote:

While Mr Harding said he steered clear of polls, he said Mr Newman was one of the Lord Mayor’s he respected, along with Sallyanne Atkinson, Clem Jones and Jim Soorley.

“Campbell was a bloke that got stuff done,” he said.

The Age posted:

Catholic Church spent millions providing for paedophile priests

The Catholic Church has spent millions of dollars providing pensions, housing, and private medical insurance to convicted paedophile priests despite branding them "evil" and having most defrocked.

The Melbourne archdiocese alone is still financially supporting six former priests who have been convicted for committing sex crimes against children.

Parishioners have unwittingly been partly funding the assistance through their donations into church collection plates, which they believed went towards the local church or fundraising for retired priests.

Church records show two of the paedophiles, priests Wilfred Baker and David Daniel, received hundreds of thousands of dollars alone in annual pensions and entitlements.

Their victims received one-off payments of $31,000 to $37,000 under the church's Melbourne Response redress scheme.

The decision to continue financially supporting disgraced priests was made by senior church figures in Melbourne and the top advisory council at the Vatican, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, according to documents tendered to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

A spokesman for the archdiocese of Melbourne said the church is currently providing support to six priests with criminal convictions for child sex crimes, including four who have been "laicised" or defrocked.

Nine other priests have received pensions, housing stipends or private health insurance after their convictions and until their deaths. Many of them had also been defrocked.

The Age posted:

Facility for sex offenders to be expanded at Ararat

The facility housing some of Victoria worst sex offenders will be expanded to hold more of the former prisoners on supervision orders.

The state government will announce on Friday the capacity of the facility - which houses offenders who have finished their sentences but are deemed to be an unacceptable risk of reoffending - will be increased from 40 beds to 55 at the cost of $3 million, and that work will begin next month.

The village-style complex, called Corella Place, is located next to the prison in the western Victorian town of Ararat. There are no walls surrounding the facility, but the offenders living there are monitored with GPS ankle bracelets and cannot leave without permission.

''The existing residential facility plays an essential role in the management and ongoing rehabilitation of Victoria's most serious sex offenders,'' Corrections Minister Ed O'Donohue said.

Graic Gabtar posted:

I'm not going to say this is a good thing but it sounds like a bit of a typical beat up on a certain religion.

Wind back the clock.


Many tax payers "unwittingly" fully fund these facilities as well, but it's not presented as an angle in the article above.

As abhorrent as these individuals can be you have to house them somewhere. If the Catholic church wants to pick up the bill so be it.

fiery_valkyrie posted:

Would the "senior church figures in Melbourne" that made that decision have included Pell?

Mad Katter posted:

I think the most problematic part about the story is that the victims receive relatively little support from the church in comparison to their abusers.

gay picnic defence posted:

That would be the same for regular crims though, how much would we spend locking them up compared to compensation paid to victims?

Mad Katter posted:

I think the most problematic part about the story is that the victims receive relatively little support from the church in comparison to their abusers.

Fried Chicken posted:

I'm less impressed with David Pope's cartoons ok late. How can I, an American, help restore Tony Abbott to power and let the drawing man get back on his game?

Anidav posted:

tithin posted:

Almost certainly. Even if he didn't authorise it directly, as Cardinal / former Archbishop, he would have been aware of it.

Graic Gabtar posted:

Yes it's the quite obvious angle of the story, but it's still a beat up.

A simple Google shows that the offenders named were in the article are/were supported by the church for around ten years each. One is dead. Not hard to rack up "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to be honest. They should have reported that so that readers know the rivers of gold have stopped for at least one of them.

If you want to write an article about lovely payments to victims of crimes then do that. Unless they draw comparisons between Church vs. State funding for a similar thing as well then it just reads like a junk article.

Graic Gabtar posted:

Yes it's the quite obvious angle of the story, but it's still a beat up.

A simple Google shows that the offenders named were in the article are/were supported by the church for around ten years each. One is dead. Not hard to rack up "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to be honest. They should have reported that so that readers know the rivers of gold have stopped for at least one of them.

If you want to write an article about lovely payments to victims of crimes then do that. Unless they draw comparisons between Church vs. State funding for a similar thing as well then it just reads like a junk article.

BlitzkriegOfColour posted:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-27/macho-culture-to-blame-for-alcohol-fuelled-violence-dr-anne-fox/6270072

Article is crap, report therein is rather interesting.

Birb Katter posted:

Thread has been pretty quiet lately so let's get back on track. Should sausages be called sangas or sandwiches? Can they both be sangas so you can have a sanga sanga?

Birdstrike posted:

Yesterday I had a steak sambo for lunch