Anidav posted:

It's printed by a printing shop I walk past every day in Milton, Brisbane. QLD.

Graic Gabtar posted:

So are you happy with the quality of your order?

Colours all good? Happy with the font?

Graic Gabtar posted:

So are you happy with the quality of your order?

Colours all good? Happy with the font?

Redcordial posted:

Operation Rolling Thunder is now being applied over Melbourne. It has been a while since I've heard bursts of thunder lasting for greater than 5 seconds, some even 10, it's quite surreal.

I'm so glad I stayed home to research and drink rather than meet up for a late-night motorbike ride.

Graic Gabtar posted:

I just drove across town through it. Heaviest rains I've been stuck in for a bit.

Made it safely to the annoyance of many of you.

Redcordial posted:

It was quite heavy wasn't it, my driveway even became an inch high and three metre wide stream of gushing water.

I've also been meaning to say something to you regarding you announcing some of your personal info in the recent past. I want to apologise for being so harsh in the past to some of my replies to various posts you had made, mostly pertaining to the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees.

The various calls for you to gently caress off etc were instantly recognized as a hasty and stupid move on my part when you disclosed some of the things you have faced and continue to face.

I hope you have a good night and rest of your weekend man, I appreciate your more open-minded contributions and will remember not to be so hasty in my agitation.

Redcordial posted:

It was quite heavy wasn't it, my driveway even became an inch high and three metre wide stream of gushing water.

I've also been meaning to say something to you regarding you announcing some of your personal info in the recent past. I want to apologise for being so harsh in the past to some of my replies to various posts you had made, mostly pertaining to the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees.

The various calls for you to gently caress off etc were instantly recognized as a hasty and stupid move on my part when you disclosed some of the things you have faced and continue to face.

I hope you have a good night and rest of your weekend man, I appreciate your more open-minded contributions and will remember not to be so hasty in my agitation.

Jonah Galtberg posted:

Actually, you are wrong and Ciarg should gently caress off

Redcordial posted:

It was quite heavy wasn't it, my driveway even became an inch high and three metre wide stream of gushing water.

I've also been meaning to say something to you regarding you announcing some of your personal info in the recent past. I want to apologise for being so harsh in the past to some of my replies to various posts you had made, mostly pertaining to the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees.

The various calls for you to gently caress off etc were instantly recognized as a hasty and stupid move on my part when you disclosed some of the things you have faced and continue to face.

I hope you have a good night and rest of your weekend man, I appreciate your more open-minded contributions and will remember not to be so hasty in my agitation.

katlington posted:

What things have they faced and continue to face that excuse or explain their disgusting opinions on asylum seekers ?

katlington posted:

What things have they faced and continue to face that excuse or explain their disgusting opinions on asylum seekers ?

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A CURIOUS aspect of the Australian of the Year award is that three of the eight finalists were involved in one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Australian military history.

Former chief of Army David Morrison, his then speech writer, transgender ­officer Cate McGregor, and then Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick were central to the so-called Jedi Council sex scandal of 2013 that set the stage for Morrison’s feminist deification.

Described in the media as a “sex ring”, the Jedi Council was simply a closed email group of 17 male ADF personnel who received messages from former Army signaller Hastings Fredrickson, who used the Star Wars moniker on his laptop.

Between 2010 and 2013, Fredrickson, who worked for ­defence contractor Thales, sent explicit emails to the group detailing his sexual ­exploits, real or imagined. The “travel diaries” of “the Wolf of Woolloomooloo” were self-aggrandising amateur pornography, 50 Shades Of Grey for men. Women were “molls”, “sluts” and “whores”, and he was fixated on anal and “spit roast” sex.

Fredrickson, now 41, comes across as a repulsive predator, but his encounters were consensual. His most serious ­offence was to film himself having sex with an unsuspecting woman and sending screenshots to the group.

After Thales discovered the emails, he was sacked and the ADF was informed. Thales also contacted the Melbourne woman he had filmed.

Fredrickson has since been convicted of using a carriage service to cause offence and ­received a 15-month suspended jail sentence. Justice done and that is where the matter should have ended.

But this was the “misogyny” era of the Gillard government and it came in the wake of the 2011 ADFA scandal in which a cadet filmed himself having consensual sex with another cadet and broadcast it via Skype without her knowledge.

Defence Minister Stephen Smith ordered seven reviews and appointed Broderick to change the ADF’s attitude to women. Morrison implemented her recommendations and became her slavish admirer.

One former general says Smith “exploited the Skype scandal for his own ... popularity within the (Labor) party. He wanted to show he could bring the military to heel”.

Thus, Smith opened the door to the worst social engineering experiment in Defence history.

Morrison responded to the minor infractions of the Jedi Council with disproportionate ferocity, describing the case to senior brass as “worse than Skype”.

The speech McGregor wrote for Morrison in June 2013 was in direct response to the allegations. “There is no place for you among this band of brothers and sisters,” he thundered.

The speech went viral and is the main reason cited for ­Morrison’s Australian of the Year award. He was feted by the feminist establishment and shared a stage with actress ­Angelina Jolie at the UN as a result.

While soldiers were dying in Afghanistan, the Army was obsessed by gender. The unwitting members of the Jedi Council were sacrificial lambs.

In the end, eight soldiers were sacked, among them young career officers of impeccable standing, who had done serial tours of duty in Afghanistan. SAS commandos who suffered PTSD were crucified for doing nothing more than reply approvingly to a rankly sexist email.

Most emails went unanswered. Many were never opened. Yet officers were punished for having them on their email system.

Yes, the language they used is offensive. But it’s just talk, black humour and a few dirty pictures sent in private emails to friends.
Only Fredrickson had committed a serious offence in filming a woman without consent and sharing images.

“The battle for us blokes is we admit we did wrong by slapping this guy on the back and making a joke of his actions,” says sacked Army major “John”.

“But (our problem was) Morrison saw it as a platform to launch his agenda.”

John regrets the replies he sent Fredrickson. “Yeah f--ken oath I’d root her. Good work,” was one.
Or another he wrote while on deployment in the Middle East: “The Israeli molls are smoking hot.”

Sexist, yes. A sacking offence, absolutely not.

“We thought we’d get kicked in the arse for using the Defence email system inappropriately,” he said.

Yet the way the Army and the media behaved, you would think the soldiers were guilty of serious sexual offences. As one senior officer peripherally involved with the case says: “I assumed they had sexually assaulted women.”

Among the eight who were sacked were SAS commandos and other veterans of multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan. Some were suffering PTSD yet were ruthlessly discarded.

One Special Forces soldier was about to receive a Commendation for Distinguished Service for actions in warlike conditions in Afghanistan.
His relatives had flown to Canberra from interstate the day before the ceremony when he was told the award had been withdrawn.

These are men who put their lives on the line in service of their country and they have suffered the ultimate betrayal, crucified by the Army to satisfy a feminist agenda.

And now Australian of the Year has become a vehicle for this phony jihad.

adamantium|wang posted:

Ackerman today:

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WITHOUT doubt last week’s Australian of the Year was the most mismanaged and divisive event since former Prime Minister Julia Gillard was dragged out of a Canberra restaurant in 2012 by federal police, losing her shoe as she fled a group of Aboriginal protesters who had been urged to stage a demonstration by a member of her own staff. Video of that farce went viral within seconds.

This year, former general and former chief of army David Morrison was named Australian of the Year following his selection by a panel of unelected individuals on the basis of a speech on gender equality which he delivered but didn’t write.

It didn’t take a nanosecond for the custard to start flying.

Morrison’s principal protagonist was the person who wrote his speech, Malcolm McGregor, a transgender who prefers to be known these days as Cate, or Catherine.

While that may be McGregor’s preference, the biological reality, accepted universally since 1905 when Edmund Beecher Wilson and Nettie Stevens discovered the chromosomal XY sex-determination system and established this to the satisfaction of the scientific community, is that males have XY sex chromosomes and females have XX sex chromosomes.

McGregor may identify as a woman and may even, with the blessing of the politically correct military establishment, use women’s lavatories, but until the chromosomes undergo some miraculous alchemic transformation, McGregor ­remains by all biological and scientific rules, a bloke.

Just like Aunty Jack.

The lipstick and pearl twin-set wearing McGregor has one thing going in her favour in her bid to prove his femininity, however.

McGregor went off like a stereotypically jealous sheila over Morrison’s award.

The 17th century English poet William Congreve noted: “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned,” usually written as “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”.

There is often more than a grain of truth in stereotypes.

McGregor was bizarrely nominated for the same award as Morrison by Queensland, where she hadn’t lived for nearly 43 years, apparently for having the courage to wear a dress.

There was a bloke named Richard Byron who used to perform as Carlotta, the lead drag queen and later the compere of Abe Saffron’s Les Girls when it was the focal point of Kings Cross, right beside the El Alamein fountain.

But no-one nominated him as Australian of the Year though he was undoubtedly better known to his fellow ­citizens than McGregor is ever likely to be and probably ­uttered more soothing words to the gender confused than the military reservist will ever utter.

McGregor, who wrote the only memorable words Morrison delivered in his years in the military, was mightily displeased by her former superior’s selection by the po-faced worthies who delivered the award from a somewhat lacklustre field of individuals nominated for doing what they were paid to do.

McGregor told the homosexual community’s newspaper, the Star Observer, that the choice was “weak and conventional” adding “he’s on a steep learning curve when it comes to LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and ­intersex — thank you for asking) and trans issues”.

Morrison had apparently preferred to remain scientifically correct and not politically correct when McGregor started appearing in dresses as dress uniform, and referred to him as “Malcolm” and used male not ­female pronouns — a form of torture called “dead-naming” by those who think they can flick the gender switch with an application of lippie and a visit to the women’s wear department.

McGregor would have won my sympathy if the attack had been about Morrison politicising the award with his support for the dead Republican movement, but nevertheless.
Cate McGregor ‘remains by all biological and scientific rules, a bloke’, Piers Akerman says. Picture: Facebook

When The Australian newspaper asked McGregor about her attack on the man who had been of such assistance to the sexually confused within the military, she ­recanted and apologised for a “poor choice of words”.

McGregor’s principal beef is that the selection committee didn’t have the cojones to ­select an LGBTI person. That’s somewhat self-serving as she appears to have been the only one on offer.

But disregard that small issue, and the point is about the Australian of the Year award in general.

McGregor is apparently of the belief that it should have gone to a member of a minority group because — hey, if you’re a member of a minority, you’re entitled to take all the prizes, right?

Well, no, there’s nothing in the criteria that says the award should go to members of minority groups. The three main demands are that those nominated have demonstrated excellence in their field, have made a significant contribution to the community and nation and provided an inspirational role model.

That precludes all of this year’s nominees and throws a ­shadow on the selection of some recent recipients.

This fiasco highlights the problem faced by those asked to select the Australian of the Year, indeed, the problem starts with their ­selection.

They are unrepresentative of Australians and in their ­detachment miss the real values Australians admire.

They need to read The Sunday Telegraph to understand the nation and they could ­easily ignore 99 per cent of what is said or written by anyone who needs to stand on an academic qualification to gain stature in the community or, for that matter, is championed by the ABC.

Such a hissy fit — and the Mardi Gras is still a full month away.

BBJoey posted:

let's not pry into someone's private life because of their political opinions expressed on the something awful forums, please

Redcordial posted:

regarding you announcing some of your personal info in the recent past.

Starshark posted:

It's pretty hard for me to read Devine and Ackerman, especially the way I am right now, but am I right in thinking that they unleashed on Morrison on the same non-issue?

katlington posted:

Hardly sounds like prying.

Starshark posted:

It's pretty hard for me to read Devine and Ackerman, especially the way I am right now, but am I right in thinking that they unleashed on Morrison on the same non-issue?

In other news, tried to find out why ScreamingLlama got probied and discovered they speak a strange language in the Eve thread.

Recoome posted:

Devine's piece is poo poo, whereas Ackerman's article loving sucks rear end and is wrong regarding the universally accepted definitions for gender. It's so disgusting I don't even know where to begin, I could write an essay about it but just goddamn

Redcordial posted:

I agree with your views towards both Devine and Ackerman, and also agree that Ackerman's position is a much more aggressively positioned one which seems to only have been written to incite hatred in my opinion.

Redcordial posted:

It was public information provided at a particular point in time, you thick gently caress. If you actually had a sense of positioning and memory you would know it was earlier this month you brain dead slug.

And no, I will not repeat personal information that someone had shared in good confidence, even though it was shared publicly, I am not going to do your loving work for you.

Recoome posted:

Devine is an apologist for sexual harrassment in the workplace, and minimising the impact that sexual harrassment has on not only the victims, but the reputation of the ADF. She attempts to shore up the shakiest argument with the classic "while soldiers were dying", which while true, doesn't count for poo poo because not addressing this issue wouldn't have saved soldiers from dying. The message sent by Defence was clear one, which is that sexual harrassment and objectification of women was not going to be tolerated. But won't someone think of the men, who were the real victims

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Devine's piece is poo poo, whereas Ackerman's article loving sucks rear end and is wrong regarding the universally accepted definitions for gender. It's so disgusting I don't even know where to begin, I could write an essay about it but just goddamn

Cartoon posted:

This is AusPol if you aren't posting at obvious 'lost the plot' angry levels you clearly don't care enough and shouldn't be sullying our pristine thread with your milquetoast postings. Hmmmm toast.

Is anyone angry enough to tell me what Jay Weathrill's story is? On the one hand he is white anting Labour. On the other he is white anting Labour.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-29/jay-weatherill-budget-swipe-labor-and-liberals/7123330?section=sa

Gorilla Salad posted:

We just need to ask ourselves whether we want to end up like the US where "25% of military women have been sexually assaulted, and up to 80% have been sexually harassed".


It also completely ignores anyone with Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome and a bunch of others.

Recoome posted:

Ackerman's piece presents a view which is so backwards we could use carbon dating on it to figure which prehistoric age it was dug up from. It's dangerous because the person/people it targets (transgender people) already suffer from a large amount of discrimination and misunderstanding, and this article does not help anyone who is a transgender be accepted. Phrases such as "the homosexual community's" really presents a "us vs them" mentality and reinforces the stereotype that trans people are these weird, hosed up, and wrong individuals. Unsurprisingly, it is exactly this view which causes trans people to commit suicide.

Gorilla Salad posted:

It also completely ignores anyone with Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome and a bunch of others.

katlington posted:

Graic Gabtar posted:

Really? They have to re-order the text in that policy. Regardless, we're still going to have Lucas Heights for some time yet.

Graic Gabtar posted:

Makes sense. Does this include just Lucas Heights or all the other sources that crop us as well? I'm assuming it would. Also, is it the policy though? Does it have to be voted for or can Di Natale just make it so?

Graic Gabtar posted:

Well, we do export quite a bit of Uranium. You could argue we should have more of a role in a solution as we've contributed to a bit of the problem. The genie is out of the bottle. You can't un-mine it.

Graic Gabtar posted:

Where do The Greens stand on where it should be stored? The country where it was used or whoever puts their hand up for the cash? We have a very geological stable continent. Sounds like some serious coin could be made to fund our own renewable energy program.

Birb Katter posted: