Category: News

Priest Wants Government to Do More for Aborigines to Prevent Crime

David Cappo blasts government inaction over Gang of 49

Maria Moscaritolo: The Advertiser | July 28, 2008

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THE new Families and Communities Minister has conceded her department has more to do in addressing the Gang of 49 crime culture in Adelaide.

Earlier today, the man charged with addressing the social ills behind the Gang of 49 – Monsignor David Cappo – said government departments were not doing enough to help.

Father Cappo, the chairman of the State Government’s Social Inclusion Board, singled out the Family and Communities Department as not doing enough and not working quickly enough.

Jennifer Rankine, …

Blind Man Beats Discriminating Muslim Cabby in Court – Then Refused Entry into Cab Again

Blind man, guide dog win court action

Andrew Dowdell, Court Reporter: The Advertiser | July 23, 2008

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A BLIND man who won a lawsuit after his guide dog was refused entry into a taxi is happy with the result – even though it means he lost a potential windfall.

Peter Ellson was today awarded $2300 in compensation and damages after the Equal Opportunity Tribunal found he had been discriminated against by a cabbie working for PBL Taxis in February 2006.

However, Mr Ellson could have made $25,000 more by settling out of court.

Mr Ellson said he took the …

Racists Attack Australian and British TV – Neighbours is “Too White”

Neighbours TV show ‘too white’

The Daily Telegraph | 17 July 2008

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HIT Australian TV soap Neighbours in which Kylie Minogue first found fame has been branded “too white” by black and Asian viewers in Britain.

A report by the nation’s racial equality chief found many ethnic viewers felt were under-represented in some of Britain’s most popular shows.

Neighbours, which is screened on the Five network, and the BBC comedy The Vicar of Dibley starring Dawn French were singled out for being “all white”.

Other popular soaps including the BBC’s Eastenders and ITV’s Coronation Street also came under attack …

Adelaide Club Succumbs to Jewish Supremacism

Adelaide Club move ends Jewish tension

Miles Kemp: The Advertiser | July 16, 2008

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A PROMINENT member of the Jewish community has been granted membership of the Adelaide Club, easing recent tensions between the two organisations.

Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce President and accountant Allen Bolaffi will be welcomed to the club at a new members lunch next month, nominated by several of his colleagues.

The acceptance will help end years of ill-feeling within the Jewish community and criticisms levelled at the club after managing director of Shiels [SACreator EDIT: and Grahams] Jewellers and Adelaide personality Albert Bensimon complained he …

SA Govt Refuses to Train Unemployed Australians – Imports 50,000 Filipinos Instead

An Anti-White Government – Whitey Not Welcome!
Jobs coup in 50,000 Filipino worker deal for South Australia

Michael Owen – SA Political Reporter
The Adelaide Advertiser (South Australia) | 10 July 2008

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ADELAIDENOW SCOOP: AN IMMIGRATION agreement with the Philippines will deliver up to 50,000 skilled workers to South Australia over the next decade.

SA Govt Refuses to Train Unemployed Australians – Imports 50,000 Filipinos InsteadDeputy Premier Kevin Foley, who is on a nine-day trade mission to Malaysia and the Philippines, told The Advertiser yesterday a memorandum of understanding between the two governments would help streamline the immigration process.

A special program will be introduced by the Philippines, under its …

Jews Demand the Holohoax be Taught in Australian Schools

Schools failing to teach on Holocaust

Justine Ferrari, Education writer: The Australian | July 10, 2008

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23996561-2702,00.html

AN obsession with Australian history in curriculums has left students able to leave school without knowing that the Holocaust occurred.

In a speech to high school principals, NSW education department head Michael Coutts-Trotter regretted the omission of the Holocaust from the state’s mandatory history course.

“I discovered for the first time about a month ago that you can get through compulsory schooling in NSW and never know that the Holocaust, the destruction of Jews in Europe, actually happened,” he said. “You will know …

White Australian Helps Africans – Gets Murdered for His Efforts

Shot kills the dream of aid worker Darren Stratti

The Advertiser | July 03, 2008

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A SYDNEY man who followed his dream to build a village where African orphans could be fed, educated and given health care has been shot dead by robbers.

Darren Stratti, 36, a father of two teenage boys and a passionate musician, was just months away from finishing the village in remote northern Tanzania with his partner Rebecka Delforce.

The couple had given up the idea of settling down in Australia with a mortgage and instead raised funds for their not-for-profit organisation, foodwatershelter Inc.

A …

Adelaide Woman Treated Like a Dog in US Detention Center – Illegal Mexican Invaders Treated Like Kings

Laura’s holiday nightmare

Chantelle Kroehn | The Messenger | July 2, 2008
http://www.messengerwest.com.au/article/2008/07/02/5582_west_news.html

Mestizos in Prison treated like Latin Kings

A WESTERN suburbs (Adelaide) woman who was stuck in US detention centres for nearly three weeks over an entry card mix-up says she was treated worse than the illegal Mexican immigrants with whom she shared a holding cell.

Laura McKenzie, 21, says she had to eat food with her hands, sleep on a concrete floor and, unlike the Mexicans, she was not given a proper chance to explain her situation.

Ms McKenzie, who has worked as an aerobics instructor at a Royal Park gym (formerly Zest – …

When Asians Attack

Two violent stabbings overnight

Michael Milnes, Police Reporter: The Advertiser | June 29, 2008

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A VICTORIAN man was chased by a group of up to six Asian men and stabbed several times early this morning in the western suburbs.

The man in his 20s was chased along Hanson Rd by the group and into Alison St where he was stabbed numerous times.

The man “received severe lacerations to his hands, arms and body and is in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital undergoing emergency surgery,” police spokesman Senior Constable Mick Abbott said.

It was the second stabbing in the city overnight, …