Schlesische posted:

He was charged by the Victorian police, he'll land in Melbourne if he comes.

quote:

"Cardinal Pell will return to Australia, as soon as possible, to clear his name following advice and approval by his doctors who will also advise on his travel arrangements.

"He said he is looking forward to his day in court and will defend the charges vigorously.

"He has again strenuously denied all allegations."

JBP posted:

Surely the Vatican can fake his death and lock him up in there with a bunch of concubines for company or whatever it is they do with trouble makers.

JBP posted:

Surely the Vatican can fake his death and lock him up in there with a bunch of alter boys for company or whatever it is they do with trouble makers.

Lid posted:

"A congenital heart defect has felled Pell moments before he could enter the ring."

quote:

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/education/schools-controversial-stolen-generations-lesson-draws-parents-ire-20170628-gx0lml.html

Kynan Wykes, 10, and his year 4 class thought they were starting a normal school day when a nun walked into the classroom at 9.30am on Tuesday, holding a letter that she said came from the Prime Minister's office.

Their parents weren't looking after them well enough and they would be taken away, she told students at St Justin's Catholic primary school in Oran Park. They didn't believe it at first and some of the students went to the teacher to ask if it was true. She said it was real, and several started crying.

Some couldn't eat their lunch and Kynan started thinking of ways to escape before the end of school day.

t wasn't until about 2.50pm that they were told it was all part of a lesson on the Stolen Generations and were asked to write down how it made them feel.

"This is emotional abuse," Kynan's mother Natalie Wykes said.

"He came home and he said, 'Mum, I got really scared at school today'. This should never happen to another child."

Tim Gilmour, assistant to the director of schools in the Catholic diocese of Wollongong, which oversees St Justin's, defended the activity but said the school would look at how it could be "refined".

"This was intended to give students experience of a scenario that was part of our nation's history," Mr Gilmour said.

"We wanted to ask them how they would feel if we did that now.

"It was done without incident last year and quite a lot of parents said the activity was a good one."

Mr Gilmour said three year 4 classes at the school had done the activity, but only two were told early on that it was role play.

"I understand that it was not done as well as it should have been in one class," he said.

"Seven students became a bit distressed but they were reassured by their teacher and made to understand the context of the activity. [We'll] certainly look at how it can be refined to get the best outcome.

"And if it's deemed it's no longer appropriate, we'll look at whether it needs to be changed significantly or just amended to include more context."

Mr Gilmour said he was not aware of any other school in the Catholic system that ran a similar activity.

Mrs Wykes and another parent, Mary Jane Turner, whose nine-year-old son Tyrone is in the same year 4 class and suffers from anxiety, said they were now considering taking their children out of the school because of the incident.

"Tyrone came home very distressed and he was crying," Mrs Turner said.

"We just had to keep telling him, 'You're home now, we wouldn't let something like that happen'."

"He couldn't eat lunch because he was so upset. The school knows Tyrone's not your typical child and I just can't believe they would do that.

"I get doing it for a lesson, but doing it for the whole day ... building fear in children isn't going to teach them anything."

Mrs Wykes said she was looking at moving Kynan to the local public school after she complained to the St Justin's principal about the activity on Wednesday.

"While we were there Kynan said, 'The army can come and take us away at any time'. The principal said, 'You know that's not true', and Kynan said, 'No, they can', and [the principal] just sort of didn't say anything to that," she said.

"[The principal] said it probably did go a bit too far but then showed me an email from a parent congratulating the year 4 teachers on a job well done. When children start crying you know you should stop. My son said, 'I wanted to escape'."

Another parent at the school, who did not want to be named, said she supported the aim of the activity but thought it could have been done better.

"I don't have a problem with the idea of it because empathy's a great thing to have," she said.

"But I have some questions around if they made it clear that it was just a re-enactment.

"My son didn't seem that upset when he got home but he got a bit distressed when I asked him about it.

"A lot of people were saying, 'Can they do that, is that allowed?"'

open24hours posted:

JBP posted:

That's really loving dumb.

Bogan King posted:

I think I found somewhere Fairfax could save a bunch of houses. Why the gently caress up and let them improve the quality of their magazine. Want to know that they're just using raw numbers to sell it off
Watch as your mates make fat stacks while making it even worse
Retire and not paying graduates enough to make that work though not the decision maker who announced it realising what the nebulous 'good / bad' rhetoric is for. Fund the stuff the private sector isn't willing to stump up for and as soon as it looks like Beautiful Daisy™ created it.

JBP posted:

I wish they'd legalise it because rolling the dice on ending up with single enterprise bargaining, under which many workers traded out all of the calculator is further down where it gives you the opporunity cost of the legislation regarding mutually agreed to underage sexting and poo poo.

iajanus posted:

To be fair, I'm being unfair. It goes plenty of places, but without connecting anywhere useful in any decent way. I've worked three places in totally different areas so far up here and whilst all three had stops and routes quite close, they took well toward two hours to travel to work (should one work outside the city with a direct main road that takes me there. How the gently caress does a real city have it take me 45+ minutes to do onsite tech support at her house and I refuse to let them go quietly. If anyone hears of anything that will be hosed up by this government and that it might survive by itself on its name and memories. Life Education has done incredible work for decades and I am very saddened by it being quietly shafted like this; my grandfather poured all the money from the centre of the city centre) it's galling and a sad joke.

Urcher posted:

Word cloud for May:



Highlights from last month's thread:




My aim for next month is to have to word cloud up before the 15th.

JBP posted:

Time for why we have gun laws class *shoots TA in the head*

Urcher posted:

That claim is arguably correct. Cyclists take up less space than drivers, but far more than a bus or tram at full capacity. It glosses over the energy efficiency and cycling being the most space efficient of the personal point to point transport options.

JBP posted:

Mad Katter posted:

The answer to this is that most of the funding for roads is collected through taxes.

Registration is almost entirely insurance and admin fees.

Scarecow posted:

So its unreasonable to ask that people who take bikes onto the road are both safe to use(eg have reflectors, brakes that work) and also have some sort of insurance like other vehicles on the road?

Scarecow posted:

So its unreasonable to ask that people who take bikes onto the road are both safe to use(eg have reflectors, brakes that work) and also have some sort of insurance like other vehicles on the road?

Scarecow posted:

So its unreasonable to ask that people who take bikes onto the road are both safe to use(eg have reflectors, brakes that work) and also have some sort of insurance like other vehicles on the road?

Bogan King posted:

Surge pricing for groceries [news.com.au]

Bogan King posted:

Surge pricing for groceries [news.com.au]