Starshark posted:

HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THE 'LICENSE TO PUNT' ADS?

gay picnic defence posted:

quote:

De facto partners don’t need to be in love, judge says January 30, 2016 12:00am Sarah Crawford News Limited

In love or not — it doesn’t matter in a de facto relationship, a court has ruled.

THE government’s attempt to deny an Indonesian woman a partner visa to live with an 89-year-old man has been derailed after a Federal Court judge upheld a ruling that you don’t have to be in love to be in a de facto relationship. Federal Court Chief Justice James Allsop yesterday threw out an appeal by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, upholding a previous ruling that the couple’s de facto relationship was genuine even though it was “calculated for personal advantage on both sides”.

Ang Yenny Angkawijaya had been denied a protection visa several times and a previous application for a partner visa to live with another man had already been refused when she applied in 2009 for a visa, stating she was in a de facto relationship with a Mr Limberiou, who was more than 30 years her senior. She was granted a temporary partner visa in 2009 after which her daughter moved from Indonesia to Australia. But 58-year-old Ms Ankawijaya’s permanent partner visa was refused in 2012 after a Department of Immigration investigation, prompted by an anonymous tip-off that the couple did not live together. Ms Ankawijaya applied for a review by the then-Migration Review Tribunal which, after hearing evidence from Ms Angkawijaya and Mr Limberiou, upheld the decision to deny the application stating it did not consider the pair were committed to a “shared life”.

A summary of the tribunal’s decision stated: “Ms Angkawijaya had agreed to care for Mr Limberiou in ­exchange for permanent residency for her and her children and financial support from Mr Limberiou.” That decision was overturned by the Federal Circuit Court which ruled the tribunal was making a “value judgment” in concluding the couple needed to share a ­romantic love to be in a legitimate de facto relationship. Yesterday, Federal Court Chief Justice Allsop upheld that decision, stating the legislation surrounding partner visas does not require a de facto couple to show love or affection and ordered the minister to pay court costs.

Mr Dutton’s spokesman said the department­ was ­considering the implications of the decision and whether it was appropriate to apply to appeal to the high court.

Redcordial posted:

It was public information provided at a particular point in time, you thick gently caress. If you actually had a sense of positioning and memory you would know it was earlier this month you brain dead slug.

And no, I will not repeat personal information that someone had shared in good confidence, even though it was shared publicly, I am not going to do your loving work for you.

Periphery posted:

Ban all political parties.

SMH posted:

A "neomasculinist" online group whose supporters believe rape should be legalised on private property and that women are biologically determined to follow the orders of men will meet for the first time in real life in Sydney on Saturday.

The meeting, at 8pm in Hyde Park in Sydney and at 43 other locations around the world, is organised by US-based "neomasculinist" and legal rape advocate, Daryush "Roosh" Valizadeh. He has said women, transgender men and homosexual men were not invited.

The meetings are being publicised on Valizadeh's news website, Return of Kings, which was established in 2012 and has more than 12,500 Facebook likes and publishes about 15 articles a month.

It is the first time the Mr Valizadeh has attempted to organise meetings between his supporters face-to-face. "Our views are becoming known enough that we can 'come out' of the shadows and not have to hide behind a computer screen for fear of retaliation," Mr Valizadeh said in a post on the website.

"Let the sixth of February be a clear signal to all that we're not going anywhere. We have finally arrived."

According to the website's About page, the Return of Kings tenets are, "A woman's value significantly depends on her fertility and beauty. A man's value significantly depends on his resources, intellect, and character."

"Elimination of traditional sex roles and the promotion of unlimited mating choice in women unleashes their promiscuity and other negative behaviours that block family formation," it says.

Articles written by Mr Valizadeh and Return of Kings' contributors express views that women should not be able to vote, that rape on private property should be legalised, that transgender women who sleep with heterosexual men are rapists and that women are biologically determined to follow the orders of men.

Other articles suggest that "Asian men need to transcend their race" in order to pick up women and that men who date fat women are partially responsible for increasing obesity rates.

An article published on January 26 said that child sexual abuse and rape were "traditional" in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

At least six Return of Kings contributors have identified themselves as living in Australia.

The Sydney meeting points for the event will be held in three locations - the Hyde Park Fountain, park benches outside the Coogee Beach Pavilion and the shopping strip at Brighton Le Sands. Participants have been instructed to ask men in these areas, "Where is the nearest pet shop?" and wait for the correct response, "The pet shop is here", to identify other supporters. Group coordinators have been organised for each meet-up spot, who will then lead participants to an unknown meeting place. Meeting spots have also been organised in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth. Mr Valizadeh said most final meeting places will be "in bars".

While Mr Valizadeh claims Return of Kings does not promote violence, news website Vice reported last year that the group leader had encouraged his supporters to "seduce and f---" feminist activists, posting the profiles of targeted women in an online forum. Mr Valizadeh has also made posts on Twitter saying he attended a White Supremacist conference and that Neo-Nazis "love" him.

In a post on the Return of Kings website about the meetings, Mr Valizadeh told followers that he "will exact furious retribution upon anyone who challenges you in public on that date" [February 6].
He advised supporters to film protesters and ask for the numbers of any women who attend.

Freudian Slip posted:

What
The
gently caress




What a classy fucker

open24hours posted:

Brisbane is and always has been big enough for light rail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Brisbane

People who advocate for buses instead of trains might as well be advocating for Soviet style tower blocks. They're cheap and they sustain all the basic functions of human life, what more could you ask for?

Cartoon posted:

The British (and some places in the US)were probably worse than the Soviets when it comes to tower blocks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_block

Their main modern proponent was, arguably, French (Le Corbusier's).

Freudian Slip posted:

What
The
gently caress




What a classy fucker

BlitzkriegOfColour posted:

I've had it up to here with people making GBS threads on the Soviets. I'd like to see you do better to prevent all homelessness.


What's up my Tankie buddy?

Anidav posted:

Traitor Island looks like a fun place to live at the moment.

Pickled Tink posted:

First Dog:

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

You know the funniest thing about the RoK thing, is that it's supposed to be for really under confident, socially anxious people to 'reclaim their masculinity' right? And they're expecting to get a turn out when they're asking these complete losers to walk up to complete strangers and pretend they're in a badly written spy film?

Anidav posted:

It's funny, my girlfriend was watching the Taiwanese election on the TV Pad and the Anti-Chinese party won and she was like "hmph, idiots"

Guardian AU posted:

Dio Wang aims to create 'national Icac' by amending building watchdog bill
Senator says a federal corruption body would focus not just on unions but public officials, politicians and white-collar crime

The Palmer United Party senator Dio Wang will attempt to amend the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) bill to create a national corruption body, similar to the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac).

The Turnbull government will present a bill to reinstate the ABCC as its first piece of legislation this year when parliament resumes on Tuesday.

The Senate blocked the legislation last year but the employment minister, Michaelia Cash, is hoping to use the secret sixth volume of the Trade Union Royal Commission report to convince senate crossbenchers to support the building industry watchdog.

Labor and the Greens will not have access to the confidential briefings, which, according to the government, must remain secret to protect witnesses named in the report.

But Wang is in the process of drafting an amendment to broaden the legislation to create a federal corruption commission, although he has yet to discuss the proposal with the government.

“Obviously the current situation with the building and construction industry is quite daunting given that the royal commission has made some serious findings,” Wang told Guardian Australia.

“But also there is corruption anywhere and everywhere so a national Icac would be a really good authority to deal with it.”

He said the ABCC approach was too narrow and there was a need for a federal corruption body to focus not just on unions but on public officials, politicians and white-collar crime.

“Given the royal commission has done its work and the government has had two or three years talking about this issue, I think it’s the right time,” he said. “We have enough momentum to talk about a national Icac now.”

The government needs six of the eight senate crossbenchers to pass the ABCC bill. If it is rejected again by the Senate, it provides another potential trigger for a double-dissolution election.

Asked whether the government would consider using the issue for a double dissolution, Cash said: “That is a thing that the PM would obviously need to authorise himself but certainly we have said we will take both of these policies to the next election whether that be sooner or later. We are prepared to go back to the Australian people as we did in 2013.”

The independent senator John Madigan also called on the Turnbull government to take a broader approach to corruption but would not comment on the federal corruption commission proposal until he had seen more details.

“When constituents approach me complaining of corruption, unfair practices and unconscionable conduct their complaints inevitably relate to their treatment at the hands of banks, financial planners, lawyers, accountants, valuers, doctors, builders, major supermarket chains or government departments,” he said.

“Not once has a constituent approached me to complain that they were ripped off by their union, yet this seems to be the government’s exclusive focus.”

Madigan said that illegal activities needed to be “stamped out” but criticised the Turnbull government’s approach as having “more than a whiff of ideology about it”.

He said if the government’s ABCC bill was aimed at corruption across the board he would sign up tomorrow.

“It is not just a happy coincidence for the Coalition that [Dyson] Heydon’s report appeared at the beginning of an election year,” he said.

“This gives it ammunition to, firstly, pressure the Senate to pass anti-union laws it previously rejected and, secondly, to fight an election campaign on this issue against an opponent it hopes will be sullied through its association with the union movement.”

The independent senator Jacqui Lambie told the ABC she would not support the ABCC bill while the government was considering making cuts to Medicare.

And the Liberal Democratic senator David Leyonhjelm wants to place an eight-year sunset clause on the legislation so it does not stay on the statute books indefinitely.

When the Greens tried to introduce a bill to establish a federal commission against corruption in 2014, Coalition senators argued the current multi-agency approach was sufficient to fight corruption while Labor senators argued that it was “premature”.

At the federal Labor conference last year, a former party vice-president, Tony Sheldon, who is the national secretary of the Transport Workers Union, included a motion for a federal Icac but it was taken down at the last minute.

At that time, the shadow special minister of state, Gary Gray, echoed the Coalition by saying the existing agencies were already working.

Redcordial posted:

Has anyone decided on making a new thread by any chance? I'm not complaining about the delay or anything, just curious as I'm too lazy to ever write up an OP of mine own.

Birb Katter posted:

The month has changed? Why is the poo poo still the same then?

You Am I posted:

Because of your posting

Birb Katter posted:

The month has changed? Why is the poo poo still the same then?

Redcordial posted:

I only remembered this morning because I knew that the first episode of QandA for the year fell on the 1st of feb... I don't know what to make of this.

Cartoon posted:

Don't make me do the OP. There will be tears.

Cartoon posted:

Don't make me do the OP. There will be tears.

Anidav posted:

It's funny, my girlfriend was watching the Taiwanese election on the TV Pad and the Anti-Chinese party won and she was like "hmph, idiots"

SadisTech posted:

Those the Return of Kings or w/e fuckers have one primary motivating factor for all their bullshit: If women have choices, they will not be chosen. A more pathetic bunch of inept wankers has never existed.

Gorilla Salad posted:

How can they be anti-Cina when Taiwan is Real China

Gorilla Salad posted:

I strongly recommend http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com for anyone who wants to see what these loving lunatics are doing.

The site isn't a hate site, but it finds the "best" men's rights posts and articles and links to them.