gay picnic defence posted:

I discovered not all manufacturing is dead in this country; I spent a few days helping out in a factory that makes razor wire and security fencing for prisons and they've got more orders than they know what to do with.

gay picnic defence posted:

I discovered not all manufacturing is dead in this country; I spent a few days helping out in a factory that makes razor wire and security fencing for prisons and they've got more orders than they know what to do with.

gay picnic defence posted:

I discovered not all manufacturing is dead in this country; I spent a few days helping out in a factory that makes razor wire and security fencing for prisons and they've got more orders than they know what to do with.

gay picnic defence posted:

I discovered not all manufacturing is dead in this country; I spent a few days helping out in a factory that makes razor wire and security fencing for prisons and they've got more orders than they know what to do with.

SynthOrange posted:

Judge sympathises with Children's Court guard who had sex with 'worldly' 14-year-old

A former Children's Court security guard has been released on a good behaviour bond for having sex with a 14-year-old he met outside the court building, with a judge saying the man was "not made of steel".

Franco Abad, 32, had been in a sexual relationship with the girl for some weeks, believing she was 17, over the legal age of consent of 16.

looool

quote:

“We’re dealing with desires here ... mutual desires,” he said.

ewe2 posted:

I'm conflicted by First Dog's portrayal of female News Corp employees as incoherent dingbats. Discuss.

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

So that's why we have the torture prisons. It was all a corporate welfare scheme all along!

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

Malcolm Turnbull is having to defend himself from accusations he cares too much about the homeless

Jonah Galtberg posted:

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quote:

Mr Turnbull was photographed on Wednesday putting a $5 note in the cup of a homeless man as he was arriving to give a major speech to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia.


Mr Turnbull was asked by 3AW radio host Neil Mitchell why he gave the man money when people are advised not to do so.

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A Victorian school named on a porn-sharing website has been accused of "slut-shaming", after it hauled female students into an assembly and asked them to stop wearing short skirts.

Kambrya College, whose extraordinary transformation was documented in the ABC series Revolution School, asked all girls in years 7 to 10 to ensure their skirts were below their knees to "protect their integrity".

They were also asked to stop wearing make-up and sending "sexy selfies".

It came a day after the Berwick state school was named on a pornographic website that posted graphic photos of Australian schoolgirls.

A mother at the school, Catherine Manning, said that the girls were also asked to stop posting photos of themselves online.

"As a parent, I am MORTIFIED that my daughter was subjected to such appalling messaging at the hands of those entrusted to care for her," she wrote on Facebook.


"Please share this and demand that schools stop slut-shaming and victim-blaming.

"Stop letting boys off the hook for their appalling behaviour."

She told Fairfax Media that the school had missed the mark.

"It doesn't matter what the girls are wearing, it should be about the choices those boys make and we should be encouraging these girls to be who they are without being shamed."

They feel judged and victimised by school staff, like all eyes are on them, and they don't feel comfortable around their male peers. They feel their school has sexualised and demonised them, and compounded the problem by sending a strong message that it is them, the girls, who are responsible for the boys' behaviour, and that the boys are the victims here." – Catherine Manning

Ms Manning – who runs self-esteem workshops for adolescent boys and girls– said students were told that boys did not respect girls who wore short skirts.

It is understood that other parents have phoned the school to complain.

Kambrya College assistant principal Jo Wastle confirmed that the school held an assembly on Thursday where boys and girls were separated and spoken to about "dress codes, sexting, social media and respect".

"We chose to separate boys and girls and different years to create smaller groups and encourage open dialogue," she said.

"Anyone who saw the Revolution School series will see how seriously we take uniform policy here at Kambrya College. "

She said the assembly also provided an opportunity to discuss the school being named in relation to a website with indecent images of Australian schoolgirls.

"As far as we know none of our students were affected, but they had heard about it and we wanted to set their minds at rest," Ms Wastle said.

The school's uniform policy states that skirts should be on or below the knee and only light make-up should be worn.

On Wednesday, the school emailed parents saying it had been named on a website that refers to child pornography.

But principal Michael Muscat said that to the best of his knowledge, no current students were implicated in the matter.

"We are aware that a former student who graduated some years ago made a comment on the website thread and named our school," Mr Muscat said.

The principal said that the school would work with students over the coming days to reiterate the importance of "cyber safety and respect".

Tokamak posted:

Spare change is a pull factor. Stop it, and homelessness will go away.

BlitzkriegOfColour posted:

It doesn't follow. Stalin was extremely benevolent to populations under his influence, but also brutal when dealing with internal dissent.

Solemn Sloth posted:

Feel like this is soft on homelessness personally, can't we like, institutionally torture them?

EvilElmo posted:

8 posts.

New record for these threads.

EvilElmo posted:

8 posts.

New record for these threads.

EvilElmo posted:

Knorth posted:

https://twitter.com/courteneyh/status/766132362052644864

Solemn Sloth posted:

it's nice of you to set up a google search to jump in and defend the labor party at a seconds notice, is it an internship or what?

Seagull posted:

until Elmo came to have a cry about how anti torture we are I'd defaulted to only thinking poorly of the libs, but thanks for reminding me labor also suck

EvilElmo posted:

To clarify, that was probably a record for the longest time it's taken to go from one topic to linking it back to torture as a joke.

BBJoey posted:

modern liberalism is cool

torture: acceptable
joking about torture: off limits

Solemn Sloth posted:

Torture isn't a joke, something which your australian labor party would do well to learn imho

Solemn Sloth posted:

Feel like this is soft on homelessness personally, can't we like, institutionally torture them?

Solemn Sloth posted:

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/no-short-skirts-no-makeup-no-sexy-selfies--school-accused-of-slutshaming-20160819-gqwq6m.html

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“I expected the maximum reaction to my being the first woman prime minister to come in the first few months,” she said. “What I found living through the reality was that the sort of gendered stuff actually grew over time.”

Gillard singled out the ABC’s decision to fund a four-part sitcom titled At Home with Julia, which parodied her relationship with her partner, Tim Mathieson.

“They chose bizarrely, in my view, to finance a comedy where an impersonator played me,” she said of the state broadcaster. No similar program had been made of other prime ministers, before or since, she noted.

Gillard agreed with an academic quoted by the Atlantic who said sexism was more socially acceptable than racism.

“In some ways, I think we put a burden on women in the face of gender attacks that doesn’t necessarily play out in the face of racist attacks.”

She singled out her announcement of the carbon tax in 2011, which prompted protesters to rally against her outside Parliament House, some wielding signs such as “Ditch the witch” and “JuLIAR”. Tony Abbott, the then leader of the opposition, stood in front of them while condemning the tax.

“I have made the point since that, if Australia had an Aboriginal Australian prime minister and the opposition leader went and stood in front of signs that said ‘Sack the black’, or inserted any of the dreadful words we have for Aboriginal Australians, it would have been a career-ending moment,” she told the Atlantic.

“And if an Indigenous Australian prime minister had complained about that, I don’t think people would say, ‘Oh, he is just playing the victim.’

“But that is what gets said about women who complain about sexism. There is an added kind of layer that women leaders are just supposed to take it on the chin and not complain about it.”