Bogan King posted:

The ABC are keeping it loving classy by calling the Shahada hand sign an 'Islamic State salute'

Bogan King posted:

For some light hearted comedy in the interlude I present

https://twitter.com/theboltreport/status/847367739752693760

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Yeah nah, I wouldn't even be surprised if it's not even the same group. Just some edgy loving Nazi who saw the USyd video and wanted to make the right look more cohesive by using the same propganda.

Anidav posted:

You just put your nuts in the nut sack and milk your nuts and drink it.

It's simple and delicious and a cheap source of nourishment.

iajanus posted:

https://twitter.com/australian/status/860930771418263552

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All of this has not gone down well with the conservative clergy. Glen Tattersall, a Melbourne priest and a member of the Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, says Sullivan is cynically using the issue of child abuse to push his liberal agenda. “It’s really the liberal-minded and their fellow travellers who have been wrecking the church over a number of years and we’re just going to get more of the same,” says Tattersall. “In a way, ­Francis Sullivan strikes me as a kind of wannabe bishop, a lay bishop.”

The revelations of widespread child abuse exposed by the royal commission have largely been a hatchet job on the church, Tattersall ­contends. “I think people are quite angry about the way the church has been dealt with, actually,” he says. “They consider this has been pretty much a set-up.” Does he feel any guilt for the abuse that has taken place? “No, why should we be ashamed about something we didn’t do?”

Tattersall blames liberals within the church and homosexuals for the church’s woes. “If you’re saying, ‘Let’s have an all libertarian view to sexuality’ well then of course you’re going to get issues like this. Those who are more conservatively inclined, they’re the ones who are going to uphold the church’s teachings in this area.

“There are many people who are saying we need to lighten up about same-sex marriage, and same-sex relationships generally, and yet they’re railing against sexual abuse – that’s sexual abuse, isn’t it?” he insists. “If there’s a relationship between a priest and a boy in his late teens, how is it sexual abuse when a person is 16 or 17 and then it’s a wonderful relationship when you’re 19? I mean, it’s ridiculous.

“I think what’s been missed out in all of this is the link between homosexuality and abuse… Now, on the one hand, you have a situation where he [Sullivan] is promoting a loose sexuality and on the other hand he’s railing against sexual abuse. Well, to me that makes absolutely no sense; it’s contradictory.”

If Sullivan doesn’t like the Catholic Church the way it is, he should leave, Tattersall says, ­adding that there’s a church for married clergy and women in positions of power: “It’s called Anglicanism.” Does he think Sullivan is dangerous? “Put it this way, I don’t think he enjoys the confidence of the best priests in Australia… He strikes me as a typical post-Vatican-II bureaucrat. He’s paid a big salary, no doubt, and he’s going to push us all about. And he’s got his own ideas about what Catholicism is and it’s not helping the victims of sexual abuse. How’s it helping them?”

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Broadcaster and prominent Catholic Geraldine Doogue says the abuse revelations made many Catholics feel like good Germans did after World War II. “They looked around and they could see the catastrophe that had occurred. They may not have believed they had any role in it, but the point is they were still German.”

She agrees with many of the things Sullivan is trying to achieve and says he is “utterly honourable”. But she thinks he should be telling a broader story. “The church in Australia is the greatest ­supplier of social welfare outside the ­government… I think Francis has decided that he can’t say anything good. It’s a tactic in my opinion. I applaud it [what he’s trying to achieve], but I don’t think it’s the whole story of the Catholic Church.”

Anidav posted:

adamantium|wang posted:

https://twitter.com/David_Speers/status/861501572613758976

Lid posted:

There is no sign of respite for the nation's struggling retailers, particularly department stores, as shoppers refuse to spend in the face on an uncertain economy.

The latest retail sales data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed a 0.1 per cent fall in March at the same time as many economists had been tipping a rise.

So now not only are people not buying houses, they aren't buying anything else either. Hmmm.

tithin posted:

I can't remember why I started writing this, but it's a bit cathartic tbh

open24hours posted:

They're not taking away bridging courses or mature age entry are they?

BCR posted:

Hi all,

I've got an international student who's had a death in the family, and has taken it hard, what with being away from home and not able to attend the funeral. They're in Sydney, and I don't know the mental health support for NSW, and beyond messages I can't be there to help out.

Besides going through her university international student support system which may or may not be crap. What other free resources are they that they can use?

I've got

Mental Health Line - Phone 1800 011 511 and something called http://www.nalag.org.au

I don't think shes in danger of suicide, and don't know if Lifeline is appropriate.

Cheers all

Bogan King posted:

https://twitter.com/MattCowgill/status/787617660498432001

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.

JBP posted:

I sometimes let avocados go bad in my fruit bowl because I am literally Emperor Gaius Caligula irl.

JBP posted:

That happens everywhere. People are dickheads.

I was riding my motorbike one day and a man attempted to strike me with his car because I dared to filter past him at a set of lights. I don't drive or motor/push-bike unless I absolutely have to after 7 years of driving for >5 hours every day. People are hosed up.