gay picnic defence posted:

They can try him in absentia can't they?

DancingShade posted:

Sure but having Pell fart about the Vatican in safety eyeing off the younger tourists until he finally dies of old age doesn't help anyone.

gay picnic defence posted:

No, but it does a lot of longer term damage to the credibility of the church which is a good thing

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/lenoretaylor/status/864603656204697600

hooman posted:

MysticalMachineGun posted:

please don't die hooman

Recoome posted:

I like how some sportsperson gets a state funeral or something

like who is this person even again?

Recoome posted:

I like how some sportsperson gets a state funeral or something

like who is this person even again?

JBP posted:

Lou Richards was a really big deal for people who enjoyed the prime of their life from 1945 through 1985. He did a lot to professionalise and grow AFL. He is a popular public figure and something of a Victorian icon.

State funerals are held for people who are deemed to be of public significance so that the public can attend their funeral. A lot of people are going to miss Lou Richards and hold that he offered a significant contribution to Australian life.

Recoome posted:

I like how some sportsperson gets a state funeral or something

like who is this person even again?

Bogan King posted:

A letter from the Finance Department advised him [Culleton] he was legally required to pay back his $200,000-a-year salary he earned as a senator, plus what he paid his staff and other expenses, because the High Court found he was never eligible to run for election. [ABC]

Recoome posted:

Simon Bermingham on ABC talking about how there's only a handful of uni students protesting

ughhhhhh it could be that we are really loving busy right now. I'd love to be protesting today but I am snowed under with an assignment

Recoome posted:

complains about government spending on public events

Recoome posted:

Simon Bermingham on ABC talking about how there's only a handful of uni students protesting

ughhhhhh it could be that we are really loving busy right now. I'd love to be protesting today but I am snowed under with an assignment

bowmore posted:

yep, we don't have time to protest

not risking failure to shout at this deadshit government

quote:

TAKING ON TERROR - Terrorist Khaled Sharrouf’s brother charged The Australian12:00AM May 17, 2017 SAM BUCKINGHAM-JONES (alledged) Journalist Sydney - PAUL MALEY National Security Editor Sydney (So you know it's serious)

The brother of one of Australia’s most notorious Islamic State terrorists, Khaled Sharrouf, has been charged after allegedly resisting police officers during an early morning raid on Anzac Day. Arken Abdull Rahim Sharrouf yesterday appeared in Sydney’s Sutherland Local Court charged with resisting an officer in the ­execution of duty. Dressed in a dark jacket, light pants and a grey headpiece, the 30-year-old younger brother of Khaled pleaded not guilty to the charge, which stemmed from a raid on his Peakhurst home in the early hours of Anzac Day. Mr Sharrouf’s house, which he shares with his wife and four young children, was raided apparently because of concerns he may have violated a Firearms Prohibition Order, which allows police to search him at will.

“Your Honour, we’re entering a plea of not guilty,” Mr Sharrouf’s lawyer, Omar Juweinat, told magistrate Julie Huber yesterday. Court documents obtained by The Australian reveal that while Mr Sharrouf has no recorded violence convictions, he “has warnings that he is associated with terrorist activity. The accused stated he suffers from schizophrenia but no details were supplied to police,” the documents say. “It is unknown if the ­accused has made statements or carried out activities advocating support for terrorist acts or violent extremism.”

Mr Sharrouf was arrested on Anzac Day morning, taken to a southern Sydney police station, and charged after allegedly hindering two constables in the ­execution of their duty. He was later granted unconditional bail. In late 2013, Khaled Sharrouf, who also said he had schizophrenia, travelled to Syria using his brother Mustafa’s passport, with Sydney extremist Mohamed Elomar, to join Islamic State. A few months later Sharrouf’s wife, Tara Nettleton, joined him in Syria, along with the couple’s five young children. Nettleton later died in a Syrian hospital, effect­ively rendering the children wards of Islamic State for a period while Sharrouf was missing. Elomar and Sharrouf cut a bloody swath through northern Syria and Iraq, documenting their many atrocities and war crimes on social media. Sharrouf gained global notoriety for posting images of his young son holding the severed head of a Syrian official.

It was subsequently revealed Sharrouf had been collecting thousands of dollars from his Disability Support Pension while overseas.

Elomar later married Sharrouf’s eldest daughter, Zaynab, who bore him a child.

Elomar was killed by a drone strike in 2015 in the Syrian city of Raqqa, once declared the “capital” of Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Sharrouf has since become the first Australian to be stripped of his citizenship after the government enacted anti-terrorism laws. He was reported by Iraqi media outlets to have been killed in an air strike on Mosul, but had escaped death several times previously and is believed by Australian authorities to be alive. After yesterday’s hearing, Mr Juweinat said he and his client would vigorously fight the charge. Specifically, Arken Sharrouf will be challenging the NSW Police Force’s reason for conducting the raid. Mr Juweinat said on April 24 — the day before the arrest — Mr Sharrouf was issued with a Firearms Prohibition Order, which allows police to search any person, any home, or vehicle that person operates, without a warrant. “One of the issues is whether the entry was lawful in the circumstances and, further, whether the (Firearms Prohibition) order was issued properly by the commissioner of police,” Mr Juweinat said after Mr Sharrouf’s court appearance. “The reality is, had it not been for his affiliation with his brother Khaled, I’ve got no doubt this wouldn’t have happened.”

The matter will return to Sutherland Local Court on June 27, two weeks after police are to serve their brief of evidence on Mr Sharrouf and his lawyer.

racing identity posted:

Lou Richards invented the rotating wheel handball game for fabulous prizes

racing identity posted:

Lou Richards invented the rotating wheel handball game for fabulous prizes

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/lenoretaylor/status/864603656204697600

racing identity posted:

Lou Richards invented the rotating wheel handball game for fabulous prizes

Anidav posted:

This government sucks so loving much

JBP posted:

You might as well be in here saying "gently caress Bud Tingwell he was a useless poo poo because I don't watch Australian film and television".

Anidav posted:

This government wins so loving much

Recoome posted:

But did Lou Richards urine in his own mouth?????