Lid posted:

A 15-year-old former private schoolboy accused of raping an intoxicated teenage girl at a party has been allowed to travel overseas at taxpayer expense to visit his parents in the school holidays.

The youth, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, is charged with aggravated sexual assault on the girl at Bellevue Hill on March 4.

Another 15-year-old is charged with making and distributing footage of the attack.

Teachers at Cranbrook reportedly called police after learning mobile phone footage of the attack had been shared among dozens of teenagers via a private Facebook messenger group.

Court documents revealed that the girl had no idea she had been assaulted.

"The victim was intoxicated by alcohol and was not aware of the offence until she was informed by other people by text message the following day," police allege.

On Thursday Bidura Children's Court heard the boy's father has a high-ranking position with an Australian government department and is posted overseas. That country does not have a bilateral extradition treaty with Australia.

The court also heard the father's employer "heavily subsidised" the youth's tuition and boarding fees at Cranbrook.

And the government would cover the airfares for the youth to fly to his parents' country of residence for a visit under "reunion" provisions.

Bogan King posted:

)))dogfucker(((

Kurtofan posted:

What's the hate symbol?

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Someone make me an avatar of debt bot killing boomers pls

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Someone make me an avatar of debt bot killing boomers pls

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/theboltreport/status/864773871106367488

toiletgraph posted:

Men dressed as Chopper Read and Reg Regan win court battle against ‘fun police’

IT was a very Australian national celebration: two blokes dressed up as footy boofhead Reg Regan and stand over man Chopper Read, riding pushbikes between houses during a “fridge to fridge” drinking party on Australia Day.

But a pair of police officers driving past didn’t see the fun in it and ended up arresting the two men.

They later claimed in court they suspected Chopper was going to commit an armed robbery with the weapon he was carrying — a toy plastic rifle.

What followed was a court case that stretched for more than a year and ended last week with the police found to have lied about why they arrested the two men on the footpath outside ­Berowra train station on January 26, 2016.

The pair told their story so long as they were not identified.

According to court documents, Chopper and Reg were riding BMX pushbikes on the footpath from one house to another at 4pm during the “Australian icon” themed celebration to drink more alcohol, when the police approached them.

Chopper, who was drunk, became angry and started filming the police on his phone, asking them why they’d been stopped.

The police charged Chopper with intimidating police, resisting police, offensive behaviour and driving a vehicle under the influence of alcohol.

He was facing a maximum penalty of five years jail. Reg was never charged

But Hornsby Local Court heard the police variously gave contradictory versions of why the men were approached and arrested, with Chopper’s phone video used to expose the lies.

Magistrate Reis said: “There is a distinct impression that the reasons put forward in the police notebook, fact sheet, statements and much of their evidence in court is due to a post arrest ­attempt to justify the arrest.”

The charges were withdrawn except for one of riding a pushbike while drunk, to which ­Chopper pleaded guilty.

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/theboltreport/status/864773871106367488

Wheezle posted:

Rowan Dean has one of the most punchable faces in the country.

Wheezle posted:

Rowan Dean has one of the most punchable faces in the country.

quote:

A senior Turnbull minister has blasted Catholic schools for running a dishonest campaign against the federal government’s new school funding plans.

Christopher Pyne, who used to be the education minister but now looks after defence industry, said he had not had a single email, phone call, letter or visit from a constituent complaining about how the government plans to change funding arrangements for Catholic schools.

“I am quite disappointed in the Catholic education system nationally for running a campaign, using their parents’ money, that is dishonest and is trying to keep in place a system which is not fair to all Australians,” he told Sky News on Sunday.

The opposition, Bill Shorten, has attacked the Gonski 2.0 funding policy, saying that not all parents who send their children to Catholic schools are wealthy and they should not be “punished” for their choice. The shadow treasurer, Chris Bowen, has referred to the funding model as a one-size-fits-all model that will have “significant ramifications for the 20% of Australian students educated in the Catholic system”.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

It's also a shot at the conservatives in the Coalition since many of them (eg Abbott, Joyce, Andrews, Cormann, and formerly Bernardi) are Catholics.

Bogan King posted:

The article fails to do due diligence as it doesn't mention if helmets were being worn or not.

Anidav posted:

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has given 7,500 asylum seekers living in Australia until October to lodge an application for protection, or face deportation, declaring the "game is up" for "fake refugees".

quote:

Peter Dutton declares 'game is up' for 'fake refugees' living in Australia By political reporter Jane Norman Updated 28 minutes ago

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has given 7,500 asylum seekers living in Australia until October to lodge an application for protection, or face deportation, declaring the "game is up" for "fake refugees".

Key points:

Asylum seekers given until October 1 to lodge an application for processing
Otherwise they will be cut off from Government payments, subject to removal from Australia
7,500 asylum seekers costing taxpayers about $250 million each year, Mr Dutton says
Mr Dutton said the asylum seekers had all arrived by boat under the previous Labor government, most without identity documents, and had so far either failed or refused to present their case for asylum with the Immigration Department.

"If people think they can rip the Australian taxpayer off, if people think that they can con the Australian taxpayer, then I'm sorry, the game's up," he said. "They need to provide the information, they need to answer the questions and then they can be determined to be a refugee or not." The asylum seekers have now been given until October 1 to lodge an application for processing or they will be cut off from Government payments, subject to removal from Australia, and banned from re-entering the country. According to Mr Dutton, the group is costing taxpayers about $250 million each year in income support alone and the deadline would ensure the Government is "not providing financial support to people who have no right to be in Australia". South Australian Senator (And complete piece of poo poo) Nick Xenophon said the new policy would have public support, and appeal to the Coalition's support base, but urged the Government to take a "calm, methodical and fair" approach. "I only hope that the Government puts as much effort into dealing with job seekers as it does with asylum seekers," Senator Xenophon said on Insiders.

But refugee advocates have slammed the "arbitrary" deadline as "cruel and unfair".

GetUp's human rights director Shen Narayanasamy said while many of the asylum seekers had been in Australia for years, they were only given the go ahead to lodge an application for protection last November. "Asylum claims are incredibly long, torturous documents," she said. "And what Peter Dutton has failed to tell you is that he has denied them interpreters and access to legal assistance." Of the 50,000 asylum seekers who arrived by boat between 2008 and 2013, 43,000 have now been processed — which means they have either been granted a visa or had their claims rejected — or are currently having their claims assessed. However, there are 7,500 asylum seekers "outside the process" and that is the group now subject to the October 1 deadline.

Asylum seeker statistics

50,000 Illegal Maritime Arrivals arrived in Australia between 2008 and 2013
Labor processed 20,000 of these people
It stopped processing IMAs in August 2012 leaving 30,500 people yet to be processed — this is known as the Legacy Caseload
23,000 of the Legacy Caseload have applied for Temporary Protection Visas or Save Haven Visas
Of those 6,500 have been granted a TPV or SHEV
3,000 have already been found not to be refugees and must leave Australia
13,000 are having their claims assessed
Around 7,500 remain outside the process and have not presented their case for protection

Cartoon posted:

I have been waiting for this particular spin to be applied. It is a pathetic attempt to wedge refugee advocates on the issue of cost. It is doomed to failure as even this but also has the "unintended" consequence of forcing a small group of desperate people into crime or the black economy.

Tokamak posted:

$33,000 per refugee, per year? They must be getting some insanely good welfare benefits!

Lid posted:

Launching a business, although high risk, is one way money experts say it’s possible to turn a small amount of savings into something more substantial. A growing number of millennials have turned to entrepreneurship in a shaky job market, but against the backdrop of rocketing house prices, many see business and property as a fork in the financial road.

CAN'T INVEST IN HOUSES, BEST START A BUSINESS

Zenithe posted:

"Can't afford a housing deposit, better start a loving business" (Nobody et.al, ever)

Brown Paper Bag posted:

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