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I got accosted by a Greenpeace collector today. Normally I don't say a lot to them but anyway I had time to listen.
Seems in QLD they have the demand to mine a lot of coal for China and India and the Gladstone port isn't enough to ship it out, they are going to smash up areas of the Great Barrier reef to allow for more coal ships to leave for export. But that isn't the worst of it, the only people benefiting from all this is the "bigwigs" running the show.. as they will mostly grab 457 visa Phillipinos.. NOT Aussies.

That means the Big wigs will also snap the rental houses up so the locals have to compete with them. The people that do regular jobs like work in retail or a café just can't compete with the mining groups coin!
Greenpeace isn't your most right wing group by any standards but seems to me the only people benefitting here in the scenario are the corporate big wigs!http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/en/news/climate/The-coal-industry-v-everyone-else-who-will-win/

[JUST days after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called for a "positive" campaign, one of his Queensland Labor candidates has accused Tony Abbott of being a racist and secretly wanting to bring back the White Australia policy.]

http://m.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/labor-candidate-for-kennedy-ken-robertson-calls-tony-abbott-racist-bigot/story-fnihsrf2-1226694575381
 
JUST days after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called for a "positive" campaign, one of his Queensland Labor candidates has accused Tony Abbott of being a racist and secretly wanting to bring back the White Australia policy.

Repeatedly referring to the Opposition Leader as "rabbit", Kennedy candidate Ken Robertson described him as a "very, very bigoted person" and said he hoped Australia "never has to suffer his Catholicism".
 
Mr Robertson was recently announced as Labor's candidate to take on Bob Katter after the seat failed to attract any other preselection nominations.

The former rigger in the Mount Isa copper smelter - who also served in the Australian Merchant Navy - slammed Mr Katter as being "past his used by date".
 
When asked to clarify why he thought Mr Abbott was "bigoted" - including whether he thought there were race, gender or sexual orientation issues, he replied: "All of the above."
 
He went on to say that he was convinced Mr Abbott had issues regarding race.
 
"I'm sure there are with him, he'd have the White Australia policy back in a flash, if he could," he told The Courier-Mail.
 
Mr Abbott declined to comment but Fadden MP and Coalition frontbencher Stuart Robert called for an immediate public apology for the "outrageous smear" comments and demanded Mr Rudd "sack" Mr Robertson if there isn't one.
 
Mr Robert said the situation would "test" the "credibility" of Mr Rudd's "new way".
 
"He has called for a campaign based on a new way, his candidate is now way out of line," Mr Robert said, on behalf of the Coalition.
 
"Kevin, are you going to lead on this or not? This is about Kevin now."
 
When asked what he thought about Mr Abbott personally, Mr Robertson accused him of being "bigoted".
 
"I hope Australia never has to suffer his Catholicism and the things that he's doing personally, because I think he's a very, very bigoted person and that's my opinion, he's a very bigoted man," he said.
 
Mr Robertson said he believed Mr Rudd was the better performer during the early days of the campaign.
 
"Mate, I think he's doing good - he's certainly offering a lot better stuff than what Rabbit's doing," he said. "I just can't figure out how Rabbit thinks he's going to be able to pay for a lot of stuff."
 
While he initially backed away from the name "rabbit", he later defended taking a harsher approach with Mr Abbott.
 
"Look at all the names that he called Julia when he was there," he said. "If he's asking for quarter now, well he never gave any before."
 
Mr Robertson - who is hoping to win over voters in the conservative Katter stronghold - said gay marriage was "not on (his) agenda", but also said he would "probably vote for it" and that he "wouldn't be against it".
 
"I don't think it's a big issue," he said.
 
He added that he would support gay marriage, "so long as it was not compulsory". He hastily said the latter part of the comment was a "family joke".
 
Mr Abbott has spent a week each year for a number of years working in remote indigenous communities and has promised to continue to do so.
 
He has also committed to the traditional indigenous affairs portfolio becoming part of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, should he win the election.

Comment was still being sought from Mr Rudd's office last night.


The guy making the comments is a 1st class fool! Is this the sort of people we have going for office?
Abbott is not a bigot. Infact he is  a multiculturalist and is in bed with Israel and the Muslims at once as well as Gina Rinehardt who wants the 457 visa system to stay
 
 

I have just come across this book published at the end of the Howard era.
The book is worth a read and is about how the Australian Government uses its "red tape tools of trade" to silence Australian citizens
"Silencing Dissent" by Clive Hamilton and Sarah Maddison

http://www.amazon.com/Silencing-Dissent-Australian-government-controlling/dp/1741751012/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376175502&sr=8-1&keywords=silencing+dissent

What are the costs when a Government tries to ensure that it's values are the  only values heard in public debate? What are the consequences for a nation whose citizenry is denied essential information that would allow them to develop an informed opinion about controversial policies?
The editors of the book documented 300 non-government organisations that expressed strong views about the way in which Governments subdued often critical voices.

The tactics used are :- bullying, threats to withdraw funding, harassment, intimidation and public denigration. The threats at times came directly from minister's offices.

Other tactics  include threats to destroy the financial viability of dissenting organisations, appointment of party functionaries or friends to key positions, strict interpretation of laws governing the release of information and the targeting of individuals with intense scrutiny from Government bodies like the ATO and Centrelink.

The methods are often personal and people singled out for vilification and slander.
The book takes the next step in documenting how the Government progressively dismantles the democratic process that create the capacity for public debate and accommodate dissenting opinions.

The mass material of the book reflects a systematic strategy by Government to mute opposition to it's policy and control public opinion.

The material in the book argues that the Government is pervaded by an intolerant and anti-democratic sentiment, one that is at times given an ideological justification, which reflects a belief that it has the right to behave in whatever ways it finds appropriate.

[SMOKERS already face Kevin Rudd's $5 a pack tax rise and now cancer experts want them to apply for a licence to smoke.]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/experts-want-smokers-to-have-to-register-for-smart-card-to-light-up/story-e6frea6u-1226691099559

SMOKERS already face Kevin Rudd's $5 a pack tax rise and now cancer experts want them to apply for a licence to smoke.             

Professor Roger Magnusson of the University of Sydney's Law School and Professor David Currow of the Cancer Institute NSW say a smart-card licence would combat teenage smoking.

Retailers would have to check the licence before every sale to verify that every pack sold is purchased by an adult, the authors write in today's Medical Journal of Australia.

Magnusson and Currow also want the smart cards to be used to collect data on smokers that can be used to help them quit.



You can stamp B/S ! all over  ^ this statement! What are those smart cards really going to be used for?



"It will enable rigorous evaluation of smoking cessation programs, ensuring that public health dollars are focused on evidence-based strategies that yield the best returns," they say.

A smart-card licence would also allow the government to see if smokers' purchasing behaviour changed in response to industry incentives such as retail price discounts.



... And no man may buy or sell unless they have the mark of the beast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiQq_XAVPLg

Look at the rubbish they are trying to feed kids. Even little kids know the differences between races,about time they show kids a video of a better song and the video depicts how to deal with politically correct musicians and their followers! 

[ONE of South Australia's oldest farming families faces being kicked off its land by the Federal Government.]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business/french-family-faces-eviction-from-corunna-station-farm-despite-judge8217s-ruling/story-fni6uma6-1226687796561


ONE of South Australia's oldest farming families faces being kicked off its land by the Federal Government.       
      
Not content with losing an eight-year battle to boot the French family off Corunna Station in March, the Government is now appealing against that decision.

The Government wants to take the 576sq km family farm near Iron Knob on the Eyre Peninsula away from the sheep and cattle graziers who have been there for 36 years, and give it to the Bungala Aboriginal group as compensation for land it took from them for use as part of the Cultana defence training area.

Family patriarch Graham French, who wants to hand the farm down to son Brenton, his wife Jo-Anne and grandchildren Jessica, 18, Chloe, 17, and Bailey, 15, is disgusted.

"My family's been in this business 100 years, so it's 100 years of heritage gone,'' Mr French said.
"My son and my grandson were ready to take over, and I'm getting towards retirement age but I'm not ready to sit on my bum.''

To add insult to injury, the family has spent more than $100,000 fighting the Government "to keep what we already own'' and will only get 80 per cent of its costs back if it wins.

And despite winning the Federal Court case in March, it will not get that money back while the appeal continues.

Mr French estimates he might have to spend another $100,000 to fight the appeal, which he expects to drag out until the middle of next year.

"And if we win the next one they could go to the High Court,'' he said.

The family accepted that part of the farm, to the east of the Eyre Highway, would be acquired for Defence Department use, but Mr French said it was unfair to take the rest of his land away to give to someone else.

Mr French said the family had been in limbo during the entire process, not able to invest in the farm while its future was uncertain.

"It's fairly shonky all the way through,'' he said.



  This is bloody disgusting! What right do those government turds think they have to take this man's farm off of him and give it to a mob of useless Abbos? What are they gunna do with it ? Blow fart noises in a stick all day and sit down and drink booze?

If half of it is going to be for defence and the other half for Abbos I think the only good it could be for is for defence to mine the abbo's 1/2 once they all get settle there , then give the other 1/2 back to the farmer when the Abbos are all gone!

[YOUNG job seekers would be forced into army-style boot camps to qualify for the dole with the revelation that Federal Labor - like the CLP here - wants to introduce them.]

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/07/29/323305_ntnews.html
YOUNG job seekers would be forced into army-style boot camps to qualify for the dole with the revelation that Federal Labor - like the CLP here - wants to introduce them.
The Territory Government already plans to trial two youth boot camp programs of its own - one for young people at risk of offending and the other for those who have already committed crimes.
Federal Education Minister Bill Shorten confirmed to the NT News yesterday that the youth boot camps were being proposed.

"The Youth Start proposal would provide motivation, focus and employment skills for young job seekers," Mr Shorten said.

"Every young Australian who is unemployed deserves another chance."
He said they deserve the chance to fulfil their dreams.
     An election policy being considered by the Rudd Government would see young people looking for jobs forced into army-style boot camps in order to qualify for the dole.

If the boot camps go ahead Labor could employ the same providers chosen by the CLP in the Territory, Tangentyere Council and South Australian-based charity Operation Flinders Foundation
.
Other organisations such as the Brahminy Foundation and Boystown could also be given the tender.

Mr Shorten said the youth boot camps were still only a proposal and no provider had been considered but said, "We are committed to consulting with experts on any such proposals. This proposal was raised as part of the Government's ongoing policy development process."





Ha ha! So in the NT if you are at risk of offending or have been convicted of a crime  and you are on the dole you get sent to a boot camp.

The NT's gaols are 85% Indigenous Abbo!

This is going to be interesting to see just how they are going to discipline "the dingo breed" to find a job.. Imagine getting that scum in the boot camp and trying to get them to be motivated to do ANYTHING! Most of the coons don't work or go to school .. what are you going to do to get them to show up!?


So the Labour government want local people to have jobs? Well how about they do something to bloody stop internal outsourcing of jobs and also stop bigwigs from sending out jobs abroad! That old , Labor bugger Whitlam signed the Lima declaration sending our manufacturing abroad.

Waste of time! Best thing they could do is set up a central Australian Bio diesel plant or fertiliser factory with those useless Abbos they have and give the jobs to people who would turn up and work there!

The only boot you can give the Coons is a boot up the bum hole! Considering in the NT the jobs are in abundance and the second highest performer and if they don't want to endeavour to work them.. a boot in the backside is what they need!

[ABORIGINAL girls as young as 11 have asked to have birth control implants removed so they can become pregnant and receive the baby bonus.]

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/07/26/323257_ntnews.html
ABORIGINAL girls as young as 11 have asked to have birth control implants removed so they can become pregnant and receive the baby bonus.
A health worker has told how they witnessed two girls, aged 11 and 12, asking for their implants to be removed only to be told "no" and that they could no longer get the baby bonus payments if they were to have children.

A school girl at Ali Curung, between Darwin and Alice Springs, said she would be the last in the community to receive the now abandoned baby bonus payment. The girl this week said her payment was due in December.

Mothers and grandparents are forcing their teenage daughters to get birth control implants in a bid to reduce unwanted pregnancies.
Mother-of-two Desmina Miller, 18, said girls as young as 11 in Ali Curung community, 150km southeast of Tennant Creek, had the implant.

"A lot of young people got it. Some don't like it - they want to have babies," Ms Miller said.   

"Sometimes parents tell the nurses, they tell the nurses if their granddaughter or daughter is running around in the night, they tell the nurses to put the implant in."


Abandoned baby pushers, soiled nappies, broken glass and beer cans lay strewn next to the dirt road weaving through the community.

Ms Miller said girls in other communities sometimes wanted to get pregnant to receive the Federal Government's baby bonus.

The baby bonus funding for eligible mothers with newborns or adopted children under 16 will be scrapped by March 1 next year.

Under the bonus, stay-at-home mothers with incomes under $150,000 received $5000 on the birth of their first child and $3000 for each subsequent baby.
Another young mother said she thought the baby bonus should be reinstated.

The mother was in a group including a 15-year-old mum who were warned by a passing police officer not to drive their vehicle with the number of adults and children that were in the car.
Young mother Indira Small said she had her first of three children at the age of 16 "because of the culture".

Now 22, she began using the birth control implant after her youngest child, 2, was born.
"Three kids is enough," she said.
Federal Government data shows little change in the number of pregnancies in remote communities since the scrapping of the baby bonus, according to records at the Ali Curung Clinic.
A health worker said the contraceptive implant, effective for up to three years, suited the lifestyles of women in the community.

The worker said women under the legal age of consent sometimes requested to have the implant even if they were not sexually active.

The worker said young women were also requesting the birth control implant after seeing their friends become pregnant.




Why don't they just dip the contraceptive implant in poison before they insert it into these black clowns? Do the world a favour. They can't look after a kid at 11!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2t4f7QKri8#

American Muslims Stone Christians in Dearborn, MI (Original edit)

Christian's Response to Dearborn Muslims

Muslim Attacks Street Preacher

Now, some folks here don't like Christians, but after you see how they agitate the non white scum here, let's see a show of hands who thinks there aren't good Christians in the world here?Look at how the Muslims behave.. how disgustingly typical! Well, they are doing more than most people would to appease the Muslims. Just seems the cops in the videos want to sweep the problem under the rug and not deal with it though.
enjoy the videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhQK-6iI7cI#

Damned talented kids! I am so glad they got selected to go to Las Vegas ... in the face of the Jigaboo whore from the Spice Girls that voted against them!

If there are kids making that kind of music now, imagine what they are going to be like in 15 years?

Recently I saw a show  was appauled with. It depicts white people as retarded and uncivilised buffoons. It is clear to me it is all orchestrated by the media to make white people appear stupid or whimpy like some of the geeks in "Big bang theory" on TV now and Negroes are the only "tough" looking people there are.

The 2% of white women of a breeding age are being manipulated by the media to breed with Negroes like "50 cent" as they are depicted as being strong/tough/cool. I have included videos that make a clear contrast.

Then you have the Kikes at South park make fun of the feral White Family in "Honey boo boo child". Could you see them poking fun at a disadvantaged Negro family?

"The Electric Jew" and the sh*t they show on there now belong in the rubbish!

Honey Boo Boo - Toddlers & Tiaras

Dumb as Dog Sh*t: Most Disgusting Moments of Honey Boo Boo

South Park - Big Fat White Mama: Honey Boo Boo

50 Cent - Nigger In Da Club

The Islamic Rape of the U K

[WHEN archaeologists Geir Grnnesby and Ellen Grav Ellingsen found a silver button, a set of balance scales and and other artef acts during a dig in mid-Norway, they realised they had intriguing evidence of a Viking-age trading area mentioned in the Norse Sagas.]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/world/tiny-clues-may-prove-viking-sagas-true/story-fni6um3i-1226676731320
                                                           WHEN archaeologists Geir Grnnesby and Ellen Grav Ellingsen found a silver button, a set of balance scales and and other artef acts during a dig in mid-Norway, they realised they had intriguing evidence of a Viking-age trading area mentioned in the Norse Sagas.                                       
The finds came from two separate boat graves in an area in Nord-Trndelag County called L, a farm in part of Steinkjer.
The archaeologists, who both work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's University Museum, were there to conduct a routine investigation because of an upgrade to Norway's main national highway, the E6.

But instead of a simple highway dig, the researchers found themselves with a potential answer to an unsolved puzzle about a mysterious Viking trading place that is named in ancient sagas, but that has never before been located.

"These finds got us thinking about the descriptions in the Sagas that describe Steinkjer as a trading place,"

   
the researchers wrote of their findings in Vitark, an academic journal published by the University Museum.

"The Sagas say that Steinkjer, under the rule of Eirik Jarl, was brief ly even more important than Nidaros, before Olav Haraldsson re-established Nidaros as the king's residence and trading city."

Norway's medieval capital Nidaros, now the modern city of Trondheim, was Norway's capital during Viking times, and the country's religious centre. The world's northernmost Gothic Cathedral, Nidarosdomen, was built in Trondheim, with its first stones laid in 1070 over the grave of Olav Haraldsson. The oldest existing parts of the cathedral date from 1183.

As a medieval city and a religious capital, Nidaros played an important role in international trade throughout the Middle Ages. The Lewis Chessmen, an exquisite set of 12th century chess pieces worked out of walrus ivory and whales' teeth, are widely believed to have been crafted in the Trondheim/Nidaros area.
             The delicate measuring scales suggest trade in the area.                           Olav Haraldsson was the Norwegian king who is often credited with bringing Christianity to Norway and whose sainthood, proclaimed in 1031, a year after his death, was confirmed by Pope Alexander III in 1164.

Not surprisingly, he features in a number of different Norse and Icelandic sagas. It was these sagas that mention a major trading place in Steinkjer that was even larger than Nidaros. But until archaeologists started the dig in L, they had f ew clues as to where this Viking-age commercial powerhouse might be.

Apart f rom obvious clues, such as coins or metal or glass items that were clearly from foreign lands, archeologists have to rely on much more subtle evidence that can stand the test of time.

One such hint that a location might be a trading place is the geography of the place itself , the researchers wrote in Vitark.
"Even though there is no archaeological proof that there was a trading place in Steinkjer during Viking times, there are several aspects that support this idea," the researchers wrote.

Most importantly, they note, Steinjker is located in a natural trading areas, at the mouth of a river at the innermost part of Trondheim fjord. It is also in a place where f armers have been working flat fields for centuries.

The researchers also plotted all relevant finds from Nord-Trndelag County, and again and again, the finds suggested a major trading area in Steinkjer.

Beads made of amber and glass are commonly traded, and the area around Steinkjer was rich with finds of these goods, with 254 beads found in 28 different locales, the researchers said.                          While beads, swords and imported jewelry help suggest that Steinkjer was home to a major trading place, two specific finds, in boat graves in L, were among the most persuasive finds.

One, a silver button made of braided silver threads that appears to have originated in the British Isles, suggests that the person in the grave had a high status.

The second is a set of balance scales found in another boat grave. The balance scales were constructed in a way that led the archaeologists to believe it came from the west, not from Norway
.
Scales themselves naturally suggest trade, and when the researchers looked at all the scales found in Nord-Trndelag, they again found a clear concentration in the Steinkjer area.

If all of these concentrations of finds support the location of a major trading place in Steinkjer as mentioned in the Norse sagas, then where is it?
Here, the archaeologists can only make an educated guess. Based on the f act that sea levels were four or five metres higher in this area 1000 years ago, the location of the existing church in Steinkjer is the most logical place for the trading place to have been, the researchers say.

But confirmation of the fact that Steinkjer was a major trading area in the Viking age raises yet another puzzle: If Steinkjer was such an important area for international trade, why did trade eventually shift to Trondheim, as it did?

Grnnesby says that the shift in trading areas was surely due to the tremendous power struggles between different rulers in the area. Nidaros along with Levanger, another trading area, simply had more support than Steinkjer. "We see that Steinkjer disappears in the sources in the Middle Ages while the same sources show that (nearby) Levanger was a trading post," he notes.

Nevertheless, determining the exact answer will require finding more than silver buttons, scales and beads, and may be an answer that we will never really know.
Vikings                 Some of the objects uncovered in the dig on the site of a future highway in Norway.                   Source: Supplied

[TWO Territory show stalwarts will go head to head before this weekend's Tennant Creek Show.]

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/07/09/322612_ntnews.html

TWO Territory show stalwarts will go head to head before this weekend's Tennant Creek Show.

Roy Bell's Touring Tent, which was started in 1924, has been banned from attending the show, much to the chagrin of Bell's direct descendant Michael Karaitiana.

According to Mr Karaitiana, the secretary and site manager told him it was because his event "attracted too many drunk Aboriginal people" and it was "earning too much money" that was then taken out of town.

But Tennant Creek Show president Greg Marlowe refuted those claims, saying it was expected that an attraction like the boxing tent would entice quite a few Aboriginal people considering 50 per cent of the Tennant Creek population was indigenous.

Mr Marlowe said the banning of the boxing tent was related to the alleged verbal abuse of show staff, Mr Karaitiana's inability to disclose whether he was a member of the Showman's Guild, an alleged attack by one of his dogs and claims of under-age patronage of the attraction.

The show president claims Mr Karaitiana was involved in an argument with the secretary and site manager before last year's Tennant Creek Show. "They didn't want the boxing tent back there last year and they called the police on me," Mr Karaitiana said.

"The police came down and tried to remove me from the showgrounds, but I spelt it out to them that I actually had an appointment with the president, so he just let it go.

"The president arrived and there was no problems with him. I told him what his secretary and assistant said."


Mr Marlowe claimed that when he arrived Mr Karaitiana was swearing.

It was eventually agreed to let Mr Karaitiana set up his tent in the location of his choice to stop the situation getting out of hand.

But the situation quickly went from bad to worse when a visitor was allegedly attacked by one of Mr Karaitiana's unleashed dogs.

"When he reported the incident to us on the Friday at the secretary's office, I was absolutely gob-smacked," Mr Marlowe said. "He showed me the bite marks.

"I immediately went to the Barkly Shire Council, where the CEO and two councillors were on the stand (at the show). I said that I wanted the dog destroyed.

"The CEO contacted the animal control officer, who came out to have a chat with the victim, who for whatever reason didn't proceed in identifying the dog.

"I'm assuming he didn't want to identify the dog because of Mr Karaitiana. "I'm pretty sure he knows which dog attacked him."

In response to the attack, the Barkly Shire Council put in an official complaint that led the council to introduce dog by-laws.

The NT Show Council, of which Mr Marlowe is the chairman, also introduced new terms and conditions on the control of animals at all Northern Territory shows.

"I raised in my report from the Tennant Creek Show that this is an issue that happened, and it might be an idea that we have the rules for our show. We decided rather than have one rule, we might as well have the same rule for everyone," Mr Marlowe said.

A Tennant Creek Show committee member who is also a high school teacher saw some of her students participating in the event.

"It's not a practice that should be accepted," Mr Marlowe said.
The banning has been called unfair by Mr Karaitiana because his family has played a pivotal part in the Tennant Creek Show.

"My family started the Tennant Creek Show, the Bell family and my grandfather started 'carnivalling' in that town long before the show ever came to light," he said.

"We have been supporting that show for many years."

Mr Marlowe said although the tent has been at the Tennant Creek Show for the past two years, it hadn't been around for 10-15 years prior to that time.

Despite Mr Karaitiana's banning, Mr Marlowe said the rest of the Bell's Amusement rides were more than welcome to attend this weekend's show.

[Aboriginal Peak Organisations of the Northern Territory]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-04/nt-aboriginal-peak-service-body-on-need-for-smart-court/4800110
The Aboriginal Peak Organisations of the Northern Territory is urging the Government to consider reintroducing diversionary options for magistrates sentencing people with drug and alcohol problems.
Earlier this week, outgoing Chief Magistrate Hilary Hannam criticised the Country Liberals for scrapping the drug and alcohol Smart Court without consultation.
The group's Roslyn Cook, who is advocacy manager of the Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, says the government has spent too much money on its mandatory alcohol rehabilitation program.
She says it has ignored the scale of alcohol and drug abuse among people already before the courts.
"We would like to see a range of programs that can help support people to address their drug and alcohol issues," she said.
"We'd like those services to be available to people after they are charged and we'd like magistrates to be able to access them, so they don't have to lock people up on remand so they can get treatment."
Ms Cook says the Government has dumped strategies that diverted offenders who had substance abuse problems in favour of detaining people who have not committed a crime.
"The Government's entire strategy has been focused on this new mandatory alcohol treatment, which isn't even available to people going through the courts," she said.
"If someone is an offender, they are not eligible for that rehabilitation program and it really just provides another pathway to prison for really vulnerable people."



:'(  :'(  :'(

[A TAXI driver has had a gutful after a passenger racially abused him and refused to pay a $9 fare.]

A TAXI driver has had a gutful after a passenger racially abused him and refused to pay a $9 fare.
City Radio Taxis driver Abdul Karim had his licence ripped in half in a tussle because he failed to engage a customer and the customer's wife in conversation in a three-minute ride between Darwin's Casino and nearby Cullen Bay about 7pm on Friday.
He said it was a regular occurrence.


"He started asking me where I'm from,'' Mr Karim, from Marrakai in Darwin's rural area, said.
"I don't have to tell anyone anything about me.
"Then he asked me why I'm not driving properly and speeding.''     Mr Karim, 49, said he was driving his Toyota Prius safely.


"He grabbed my licence and refused to let go,'' he said.
"He slammed the door and was standing next to the car saying 'go back to where you came from' and 'you don't deserve to live here'.
"We are not there to be treated like that.
"I'm only doing my job.''


Mr Karim said he was sick of passengers racially abusing and discriminating against him, which he said happens a few times a week.
"It very much happens in taxis very often,'' he said.
"I'm constantly asking Transport to make stickers to say don't ask private information of the driver so they just leave you alone.
"Drivers don't like to be interrogated.''


Transport Department spokesman Martin Bennett said taxi drivers can refuse to carry drunk or offensive passengers, and that this is displayed on the prominent tariff indicator sticker.
"The Department of Transport will discuss the matter of information on passenger behaviour standards at its next meeting with the Taxi Council,'' he said.

"Drivers who feel they have been racially abused should contact the Anti-Discrimination Commission.''
Mr Bennett also said in-car camera images can be used for police prosecutions.
Taxi drivers called a snap strike last July after a spate of racist attacks on drivers.

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Racist White Driver.wmv

  Like what else can you expect from such a hot headed race?Such a "coup de grace " of a broadcast this ape makes! Watch the video and see who's the racist here? " Some people are coming into this nation to sort you out" and "Go back to England where all the racists come from".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbppTv4pCGQ

Just look what that lazy nigger is dreaming of in the illustration!

[AUSTRALIA will fire off a "please explain" to the Chinese Government following evidence of "highly dangerous" worker conditions at its top-secret new embassy in Canberra.]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/chinese-embassy-under-scrutiny-as-photos-show-8216highly-dangerous8217-worker-conditions/story-fncz7kyc-1226668060345

AUSTRALIA will fire off a "please explain" to the Chinese Government following evidence of "highly dangerous" worker conditions at its top-secret new embassy in Canberra.

In a move that could strain relations with the communist superpower, China has been accused of playing "Russian roulette" with workers' lives and breaching a confidential agreement.

Foreign Minister Bob Carr has ordered his department to "immediately" contact the Chinese Embassy and raise concerns over safety following an investigation by News.com.au.

A series of photos - taken by News.com.au photographer Gary Ramage - reveals construction workers operating in what experts claim are highly unsafe "third world" conditions.

In a deal struck while Kevin Rudd was Prime Minister, China is allowed to ship in a team of workers on diplomatic visas to build the embassy - with local workplace safety officers and union officials banned from the site.

But photographic evidence reveals a raft of likely breaches of Australian building standards and occupational health and safety laws.

Three workers are viewed digging a deep overhead trench which has not been reinforced to prevent dangerous cave-ins. Under Australian laws, any trench with a depth of 1.5 metres or more must undergo a series of safety measures.

And two of the three workers also appear to be without even basic safety gear, such as hard hats and other protective equipment.

ACT Work Safety Commissioner, Mark McCabe, said the photos raised "serious concerns" over safety and suggested it showed China's "poor culture" when it came to building standards.

Dean Hall, head of the Construction Forestry Mining and Engineering Union's ACT branch, accused China of playing "Russian roulette" with the workers, who are understood to number around 30 and who are immune from local laws.

"These photos leave little doubt that China is breaching local building and OH &S standards," Mr Hall said, calling for the site - just a few minutes from federal parliament - to be closed down.

"Just taking (the photos) at face value, it would appear to be evidence that the Chinese construction process is not complying with Australian law," Mr McCabe said.                                                   

He met with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to raise his concerns after being shown copies of the photos.
The revelations of unsafe working conditions comes as China has come under attack - particularly from the United States - for alleged cyber-hacking activities.

Senior US officials in Canberra are deeply intrigued by the new Chinese embassy - which is off-limits to Australian workers and union officials.

A spokesman for the Foreign Minister said the Government "would be very concerned if there were any breaches of OH &S laws".

"The Minister will instruct his Department (DFAT) to raise this matter immediately with the Chinese, in accordance with our agreement with them," Senator Carr's spokesman said.

Despite repeated requests for comment, the Chinese Embassy in Canberra declined to respond to allegations that it had compromised safety conditions on the site, which will act as an extension to its existing consul.

Originally built in the 1970s, the Chinese Embassy was the subject of a mid-1990s scandal when it was revealed Australia had bugged the building - in cooperation with other countries.

A spokeswoman for DFAT said the "arrangement with China requires that the new Chinese Embassy project complies with Australian occupational health and safety requirements. A requirement to comply with ACT building standards, inspections and occupancy certifications has also been agreed".

"In meetings with the Embassy that have been about or touched on this project, we have consistently underlined our expectations on this matter, and if necessary will do so again," the spokeswoman said.



Why the hell have the Chinks been given the all clear to bring in their own construction workers?
Why the hell are they immune to being punished by our laws when this building is on our turf?
What the hell is going on around here?

[THOUSANDS of people have marched through Adelaide in a national day in support of a multicultural Australia.]

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THOUSANDS of people have marched through Adelaide in a national day in support of a multicultural Australia.                                       
Party lines were checked at the door this afternoon as politicians from major parties joined thousands in Adelaide and across Australia in the annual Walk Together event, organised by Welcome to Australia.
Among those joining Jay Weatherill for the event were Adelaide United players Osama Malik and Jake Barker-Daish, Opposition Leader Steven Marshall, Federal Labor MPs Kate Ellis and SA Greens MLC Tammy Franks.
The Walk Together march, from Parliament House to Rymill Park, put an exclamation point on Refugee Week in SA with similar rallies held around Australia today.

[ASYLUM seekers could be placed on a work for the dole scheme, which would include income management, under plans announced by the opposition and supported by the government.]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/work-for-the-dole-plan-for-asylum-seekers/story-fni0xqi3-1226655444646
ASYLUM seekers could be placed on a work for the dole scheme, which would include income management, under plans announced by the opposition and supported by the government.                                       
Under the deal, asylum seekers would be paid welfare in the form of food and accommodation vouchers in return for their labour, opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said.
They would work on community projects to earn the vouchers, worth about 89 per cent of the Newstart allowance, he said.
"Everything from planting trees to volunteer work in nursing homes, things of that nature," Mr Morrison told the Seven network on Sunday.
But he's adamant that a normal wage will not be paid.
"Cash in hand can just simply be cash for people smugglers' debts," he said.
Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor indicated support for the move from the government.
"We've got people that might be on bridging visas and I would like to see them participate and contribute," he told the Seven network.
   
"It's worth considering."
But he added, "We need to look at the costs and we need to know how this would work."
Refugee advocate Pamela Curr told the Seven network the opposition's plan might help the growing underclass of asylum seekers who are prohibited from working.
She is calling for asylum seekers to be paid a wage under the scheme, but both sides of politics have ruled this out.



Great.. your ill mother in a nursing home has some shabby illegal invader helping her out, giving her baths, feeding her medicine.. oh sounds like a great idea eh? Now boys and girls go hold hands and form a circle and sing "kumbayah" under the rainbow.

Australia in 2 Minutes

[TERRITORY footballer Daniel Motlop has found out that racism can strike close to home.]

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/05/31/321544_ntnews.html
TERRITORY footballer Daniel Motlop has found out that racism can strike close to home.
Motlop tweeted that his son Jesse was told by a student at his school in Perth that he could not play soccer because he was Aboriginal.
"SO ... My oldest son goes to school today and gets told by another kid he can't join in soccer because he's an Aboriginal," he tweeted.
"I was pretty annoyed and shocked at the time, mainly because it upset Jesse," the former Port Adelaide forward said.
"He didn't end up playing the game and started crying. It sort of hit him, I don't think he knew how to react to it."
Motlop said the frustrating thing was families did not grow up teaching their kids how to react if something like that was said.    "And the reason for that is you don't expect things like that to be said to a kid," he said.
"We notified the school when it happened. Hopefully my son will get an apology.
"It's important they teach that boy it is wrong and hopefully that message will be passed on to the other kids at the school."
Motlop listened to Eddie McGuire's "King Kong" promotion opportunity for Sydney Swans' Adam Goodes.
"Eddie has done plenty of work for indigenous Australians so hopefully a slap on the wrist will be enough in this case," he said.



*LoL* even little kids know Abbos are not desirable people to be around! *~*BOO-HOO~*~*

[TERRITORY actor David Gulpilil has been given a prestigious Australia Council arts award worth $50,000, but it's almost a case of too little, too late.]

TERRITORY actor David Gulpilil has been given a prestigious Australia Council arts award worth $50,000, but it's almost a case of too little, too late.
"I am angry at this country. For forgetting about me. For forgetting about the Aboriginal people. That's why we are poor and homeless," he said in Sydney yesterday.
"I'm like a broken car. Who is going to put the piston back to my heart?"
Gulpilil said he would use his $50,000 Red Ochre Award prize to return home to Arnhem Land.
He has at times in the past two years been living in a chook shed at Darwin's One Mile Dam.
The prizemoney will go towards the water tank and generator that are necessary for him to live on his traditional land, 500km east of Darwin.     The star of Walkabout, Storm Boy, Crocodile Dundee and Australia hasn't touched alcohol since being jailed in September 2011 for assaulting his wife.
On a personal level, however, he is still grappling with issues.
The trail-blazing actor, dancer, choreographer and painter said his successful career had not lead to a lifestyle of comfort.
"I have no home. No money. Nothing," he said.



You got paid money ! bloody spend it wisely and quit grizzling! take some responsibility for your actions and quit blaming us you ugly boong!


Here he be heard saying " ehhhhh look ere stormboy whiie fella gib me a ciggy or a dolla for da bus or I'll smack you ! you whiiie carrrnnn!"

"No I habbn'y gort any munny! just dese sticks so gib me some of your whiie fella munny!"

[MORE than a thousand people have now tried to reach Darwin this year by boat - almost a third of the population of Tennant Creek.]

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/05/27/321322_ntnews.html
MORE than a thousand people have now tried to reach Darwin this year by boat - almost a third of the population of Tennant Creek.
Up to 40 asylum seekers were seen disembarking two customs vessels yesterday at Darwin's Larrakeyah Naval Base.
They are believed to be among 183 picked up from two foreign boats near Ashmore Islands by Navy ship HMAS Broome under Border Protection Command.
The first boat was found on May 22 with 85 people on board. The second was intercepted nearby on May 24 with 98 people on board.
Customs said the detainees were to be taken to Darwin for security, health and identity checks.
But less than a third of that number was seen disembarking.     It is not known what happened to the rest as Government departments including Customs, Immigration and Defence refused to answer direct questions about them and have silenced their workers from speaking to the media.
A source who cannot be named said the vessels bringing the people to Darwin were the HMAS Ararat and the HMAS Armidale.
The source said the Armidale had to sail to Ashmore last Thursday in rough seas to pick up 13 people from a Customs vessel that was only allowed to have 20 on board.
In the process, it sustained a 15cm hole that is likely to cost $20,000 to fix and used up 36,000 litres of fuel.
The source said that the Ararat had dropped off the women and children and had gone back out for another run.
Federal Member for Solomon Natasha Griggs said people smugglers were rushing to sell their product before the next election.

[A SUDDEN influx of African asylum seekers on two boats in two days has sparked new questions about Australia's border protection.]

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A SUDDEN influx of African asylum seekers on two boats in two days has sparked new questions about Australia's border protection.
Three vessels carrying Africans have now arrived this month with the boats, detected near Christmas Island, leaving from Indonesia.
A vessel spotted by federal police at Christmas Island on Friday had 33 Congolese, Somali and Sudanese asylum seekers on board and two Indonesian crew.
Another was intercepted by HMAS Larrakia north of Christmas Island on Saturday with 30 Somali asylum seekers and three Indonesian crew on board.
The third vessel carrying Africans arrived about a week ago.
So few Africans have previously arrived on boats there are no statistics available from the Department of Immigration which breakdown African arrivals.
However, a Department of Immigration spokeswoman said people of African descent had on occasion reached Australia by boat previously.



So every 3rd world pest is busting our door down whether we like it or not. The bloody people smugglers are being allowed to hand pick the next generation of Australians.

[ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe criticises Nelson Mandela for being too soft on whites, in a documentary giving a rare look into his private life.]

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ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe criticises Nelson Mandela for being too soft on whites, in a documentary giving a rare look into his private life.
In a cosy lunch setting with his wife and children, the 89-year old speaks on a wide range of issues from his controversial hold on power, to his relationships with former British premiers Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher.
The two-and-a-half hour interview, described in detail by British and South African media ahead of its airing, shows the usually bellicose and sharp-tongued Mugabe as a loving family man.
Dali Tambo, the son of South African anti-apartheid hero Oliver Tambo, produced the documentary, which will be broadcast on South African public television next Sunday.
In the programme, Tambo dines with Mugabe's family at his wife Grace's dairy farm.
The interview comes just months before crucial general elections in the country which in recent decades has gone from being the breadbasket of southern Africa to its biggest problem child.
One of Africa's most popular liberation leaders, Mugabe has clashed with the West over controversial policies which saw white-owned farms violently seized over a decade ago.



  No one would even think about calling this dirty Jigaboo a "racist"?

[A SERVING British soldier was hacked to death in south east London metres away from his barracks by two men with meat cleavers ranting "we swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you".]

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A SERVING British soldier was hacked to death in south east London metres away from his barracks by two  men with meat cleavers ranting "we swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you".                                
      
In extraordinary broad daylight scenes in Woolwich, the men allegedly ran the man down in a car then tried to hack the man's head off and have their own crime filmed.

They then waited 20 minutes for police to turn up before charging at them with meat cleavers, knives and a hand gun.

Both men, shouting "Allah Akbar" or "God is great" in Arabic, were shot by police snipers including a female officer, and were this morning (AEST) in hospital under guard in a serious but stable condition.

Scotland Yard has confirmed two men were arrested over the  "shocking and horrific" murder.

Witnesses have given terrifying accounts of what they saw on the main street in the suburb at 2.20pm (London time, 11.20pm AEST), describing two men chopping at the victim "like a piece of meat".

"They were hacking at this poor guy, literally," said one witness, identified only as James as he fought back tears.

"They were hacking at him, chopping him, cutting him. These two guys were crazed."

The men then apparently stood around the body and demanded shocked witnesses take photographs of them.

TV network ITV News aired footage of one of the men walking away carrying a knife with blood on his hands and ranting.

[A US Senate committee has approved far-reaching immigration legislation that gives a chance at citizenship to millions living in the country illegally.]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/breaking-news/us-immigration-bill-clears-committee/story-e6frea7u-1226648174564
A US Senate committee has approved far-reaching immigration legislation that gives a chance at citizenship to millions living in the country illegally.                                       
The 13-5 vote clears the bill for a Senate debate expected to begin early next month.
Committee approval came after the panel's chairman sidestepped a showdown on the rights of gay spouses, heeding appeals from the White House and others who feared such a vote could lead to the bill's demise in the Senate.
The panel also agreed to a last-minute compromise covering an increase in the visa program for high-tech workers.
The landmark legislation creates new provisions to bring workers to the US legally and to tackle illegal immigration, as well as creating a path to citizenship for 11 million who are illegally in the nation.



WHAT A FREE FOR ALL!... GOODBYE AMERICA!

[ADAM Giles has made an unprecedented offer to Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory: Open your towns to the world, and he will make them a priority major project and personally lobby banks and businesses to leverage their success.]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/adam-giles-tells-aboriginal-towns-ill-do-everything-to-help-them-develop-increase-tourism-options/story-fncz7kyc-1226645632238

ADAM Giles has made an unprecedented offer to Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory: Open your towns to the world, and he will make them a priority major project and personally lobby banks and businesses to leverage their success.                                       
"If someone comes to me, any community in the Northern Territory, with a viable economic future, and says we want to be part of a bold new approach, I'll put them down as a major project and I'll do everything I can to help them out," the Chief Minister said in an interview with News Limited.

"I'll do everything."
Mr Giles, the country's first indigenous state or territory leader, is two months in the job leading the Country Liberals after overthrowing Terry Mills.

He is anxious that economic development finally arrives in the bush, and says major tourism projects are the first step.

"If the Tiwi Islands come to me, or Wadeye or Maningrida or Borroloola or Yuendumu or even Mutitjulu come to me and says, 'Adam, we want to be part of a whole new approach to life, we want business development, we want jobs, we want every single one of our kids to go to school, we want our health system operating,' I would move heaven and earth to make that happen.

"If they were prepared to make tough decisions, and tough changes, and to lead their people, I would do it.

"And that would include making sure we had land - tenure arrangements that allowed investment. It's not about taking people's land, or access to cultural sites, but a CBD and township that allowed for growth and got rid of native title implications that stopped development in that area.

"I would do everything. I would redirect road funding. I'd go to the banks and beg them to provide private sector loans. I'd arrange head leases. I'd remove stamp duties. I'd do whatever I could to invite businesses."

Mr Giles, said he would take traditional owners on tours of successful indigenous style tourism operations so they could see the possibilities for themselves.



Ah! O.K so he thinks everyone in the world is going to go to the Abbo communities in the middle of nowhere and marvel at what these apes do in these places? Who's money is going to make it all happen? The Chinese? The Indians? The Japanese? He's saying the Abbos want to work? I don't see any of them doing any of that.
The places he's mentioned have to be some of the worst "neighbourhoods" in Australia going to take a lot of work to turn them from a desert to an oasis! But typical boong! Just has big ideas that go nowhere!