Category: News

Sam Newman and Stalin’s Feminist Spetsnaz

As per normal, Sam Newman of The Footy Show has been found guilty of offending the feminists.

In an episode of The Footy Show screened last year, Newman displayed a lingerie wearing mannequin on the show, stating that it was football journalist Caroline Wilson, which he then proceeded to dress.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority investigated the matter and decided it “was likely, in all the circumstances, to have provoked severe ridicule against the journalist on the grounds of gender.”

Seeing the May 8, 2009 story at http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,25448090-10229,00.html and being the opinionated bastard I am, I made a …

Food fights affect Digger morale

Foot [sic] fights affect Digger morale

Ian McPherdran: The Advertiser | April 27, 2009

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25389862-5006301,00.html

DIGGERS risking all on the deadly battlefields of Afghanistan are fighting on a diet of tasteless gruel.

Soldiers bombarded Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon with complaints when he made a secret Anzac Day visit to Oruzgan Province on Friday.

Senior officers have conceded the poor diet is affecting morale and soldiers’ health and have ordered a study into the nutritional value of the food.

The Advertiser took the taste test on Friday at the Dutch-run mess at Tarin Kowt military base after learning of the complaints …

Dr Toben Has No Regrets Fighting For Truth in History

Torben [sic] does not regret defying order on insulting Jews

Sean Fewster, Court Reporter: The Advertiser | April 16, 2009

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25344960-5006301,00.html

REVISIONIST historian Fredrick Toben does not regret defying a court order to stop insulting Jewish people, saying “freedom of speech demands sacrifice”. [sic]

The Federal Court, sitting in Adelaide, today found Toben guilty of 24 counts of contempt of court.

Justice Bruce Lander ruled Toben acted “wilfully and contumaciously” by uploading, to his website, articles implying Jews offended by Holocaust denial were of “limited intelligence”.

Other articles claimed the Auschwitz concentration camp had no gas chambers, and that some …

Federal Government Orders Political Indoctrination of Two Year Olds

Australia: Pre-school guidelines for activists

Susie Obrien, Daniel Wills: The Advertiser | April 13, 2009
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25331336-5006301,00.html

HIGH-PROFILE Labor MP Maxine McKew wants to train toddlers and pre-school children to become political activists.

She has drafted her controversial Early Years Learning Framework which, if adopted, would cover all kindergartens, childcare centres and other early childhood settings. The guidelines would also provide the basis for the education and care of all Australian pre-schoolers and are due to be implemented in July.

Ms McKew, the woman who ousted former Prime Minister John Howard at the 2007 election, is the Parliamentary Secretary for Early …

Hospital removes crosses from chapel

News Limited | April 08, 2009

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,25309064-29277,00.html?from=public_rss

http://mosman-daily.whereilive.com.au/news/story/the-chapel-without-a-crucifix

CRUCIFIXES, Bibles and all other Christian symbols have been banned from a hospital’s chapel when it is not being used for a church service.

The Mosman Daily has learnt that Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney has bes been ordered to remove Christian content by New South Wales bureaucrats to avoid offending Muslims, Hindus or other non-Christian believers who may want to pray in the chapel.

Hospital staff say that while the chapel was built for Christians, they now want the chapel to be completely non-denominational.

An inspection of the chapel last …

Jewish Authors Claim Australia is a Land of Bigots

221 years on we remain a land of bigots

Tory Shepherd, Health Reporter: The Advertiser | March 25, 2009

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25247299-5006301,00.html

MORE than 200 years after Europeans arrived, Aboriginal people face discrimination in public places and institutions, Flinders University researchers have found.

And the distress racism causes affects Aboriginal health.

The authors of In Our Own Backyard said it appeared racism was alive and well, with more than nine in ten Aboriginal people experiencing bias, abuse and violence, and two thirds experiencing it often.

They also found twice as many Aboriginal people were teetotallers, compared to non-Aborigines, while three times as …

Cinema brawls can Lebanese gang flick

Daily Telegraph | March 01, 2009

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25122225-5001021,00.html

GREATER Union has pulled an Australian movie about Lebanese gang violence in Sydney within days of its release after brawls erupted outside screenings.

The film’s distributor, Australian Film Syndicate, said Greater Union informed them of the decision last night following violence outside cinemas, some of which occurred at Parramatta [more …]

Lebanese film star sentenced to prison for violence: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25123833-5001021,00.html

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This movie is being portrayed differently around the country. In Sydney it’s about Lebanese gang violence. In Adelaide it’s portrayed as

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Christians won’t protest as council approves Gold Coast Islamic school

Jeremy Pierce: Courier Mail | February 04, 2009
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25002827-952,00.html

CHRISTIANS opposed to a Muslim school to be built next door to their centre say more protests will be futile after Gold Coast City Council approved the plan.

The proposed Gold Coast Islamic College, to house 60 students at Chisholm Rd, Carrara, made headlines late last year when hundreds of protesters stormed the city’s council chambers shouting Australian slogans while boom boxes blared out Oz rock classics.

The project has attracted more than 1000 objections, with only 67 written submissions in support of the school, even though Mayor Ron Clarke said …

No Room for White Pride in a Multicultural World

Scott Cam blitzes neo-Nazi thugs

Nick Leys: Daily Telegraph | February 01, 2009

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24990558-5001021,00.html

SCOTT Cam pulls no punches about the Southern Cross, a symbol he is proud to wear tattooed across his back.

“Like any working class bloke, I have strong feelings about the Southern Cross,” says the builder, who presents the Nine Network’s popular series, Domestic Blitz.

Steve Price: Our flag hijacked by neo-Nazis

“It instills in me a sense of morality – knowing what it stands for gives you some ethics. It’s that symbol of working hard, helping your mate and slogging it out without complaining.

“Unlike …