hooman posted:

One of these things is not like the others...

open24hours posted:

In degree perhaps, but they're informed by the same kind of thinking.

vatican scum daily posted:

Cardinal George Pell: Child abuse royal commission trying to find location for survivors to hear testimony

The child abuse royal commission has announced it is trying to find a suitable location in Rome to allow abuse survivors to be present when Cardinal George Pell gives evidence next week.

A group of survivors has been pushing to be allowed to hear Cardinal Pell's evidence in person, after he was given permission to give evidence via video link from Rome due to ill health.

Commissioner Justice Peter McClellan told the third public hearing sitting in Ballarat it was a "reasonable" request.

He told the inquiry a suitable hotel room in central Rome had been located and tests would be carried out to ensure the hearing could be video linked back to Sydney.

He added if that room was not suitable, another location would be found.

A crowd-funding campaign has raised $204,000 to send a group of abuse survivors to Rome.

The group of 15, made up of 10 survivors and five support staff, will leave for Rome on Friday.

hooman posted:

I'm not sure why you think helmet laws are punitive for a perceived crime? There is a question about whether or not it is better to have them (better safety) or not have them (more cyclists) but I see them as fundamentally analogous to car seatbelts rather than dole bludger investigations and torturing refugees.

Important question, why don't buses have seatbelts? I always feel really uncomfortable on a bus without a seatbelt on. Perhaps a similar exception can be made for ride share bikes?

Birb Katter posted:

Auspol March: Is blackface OK yet?

open24hours posted:

Because the purpose of the laws is different to the stated purpose. Bike helmets aren't mandated to prevent head injuries anymore than detention is mandated to protect refugees. Helmets are mandated to reduce the number of cyclists, detention is mandated to reduce the number of refugees trying to come here.

It would be nice to think that these laws are created based on an even handed weighing of the evidence for and against, but they're not. The decision is made and the justifications come later.

QUACKTASTIC posted:

hooman posted:

I don't disagree with you regarding refugees, but that's a pretty strong assertion regarding bicycle helmets that I'd like to hear some arguments/see some evidence for given this took place from 1988-1992, which is a tiny bit outside my sphere of political awareness.

quote:

She has absolutely nothing to apologise for. This is not black face, this is fancy dress.

quote:

And not a single complaint about the white face paint on the woman next to her.

QUACKTASTIC posted:

Auspol March: Blackmailed by self-harming babies

xPanda posted:

He doesn't have any, he's trying to muddy the waters and conflate distinct issues because the government is trying to prevent him breaking the law and endangering himself and others by stopping him from doing something he shouldn't be doing anyway - speeding.

Anidav posted:

Hey whats the story behind that image?

hooman posted:

Important question, why don't buses have seatbelts? I always feel really uncomfortable on a bus without a seatbelt on. Perhaps a similar exception can be made for ride share bikes?

quote:

Australian Design Rule 68
• Developed in 1990 as a result of the
Australian crash investigations and lab
testing
• Requires three point seat belts mounted on
seats (not bus frame).
• Applies to all Australian buses built from July
1994 (metro buses are exempt)

Anidav posted:

Hey whats the story behind that image?

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

And not a single complaint about the white face paint on the woman next to her.

Cartoon posted:

Seatbelts are required on all but metro buses.


But clearly they just came up with that over a beer one lunchtime and decided authoritarians needed a fillip.

Freudian Slip posted:

LOL at that person thinking that there aren't people who are also upset about the cultural appropriation of Day of the Dead.

Birb Katter posted:

It went over as well as can be expected by the less than pasty white team members.

hooman posted:

Western Australian buses are not good at following that rule in the entire time I was using them heavily.

Unless the definition of metro stretches 20+km from the city and into the suburbs...

MonoAus posted:

it does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth_Metropolitan_Region

Cartoon posted:

They all seem to be firmly on the right side of the Dulux colour chart.

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Well you're wrong.



Cambage is half-Nigerian.

xPanda posted:

He doesn't have any, he's trying to muddy the waters and conflate distinct issues because the government is trying to prevent him breaking the law and endangering himself and others by stopping him from doing something he shouldn't be doing anyway - speeding.

Birb Katter posted:

poo poo, people are seriously complaining about whiteface from that pic. I thought it was just a dumb goon joke

hooman posted:

Important question, why don't buses have seatbelts? I always feel really uncomfortable on a bus without a seatbelt on. Perhaps a similar exception can be made for ride share bikes?

Freudian Slip posted:

The issue isn't white face, its the cultural appropriation of day of the dead. Its a bigger deal in the states since they poo poo Mexico and Mexicans far more than we do.

Birb Katter posted:

Let me rephrase that, white people are complaining about whiteface. We're not talking people complaining about cultural appropriation of cinco de mayo.