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positiveAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849367833331380660noreply@blogger.comBlogger8558125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263444628853001116.post-41909554368509019362018-11-03T16:25:00.000+11:002018-11-03T16:25:10.059+11:00Anglican letter signed by 34 school principles demanding the right to discriminate - suffers backlash<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">So the other day the Anglican leaders got together and wrote a letter to all Canberra politicians demanding that the right to discriminate against gays should be preserved in law. What's more they had the principal's of 34 Anglican schools sign the letter to give it more weight.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Among past students of the Anglican schools there was outrage. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The Anglican Synod last week sent all federal MPs a letter signed by the principals of 34 of its schools. It said while schools would not expel gay students or staff in practice, they wanted to preserve the right to employ people who "support the ethos of the school".</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The letter prompted a backlash from alumni. Ex-students from Abbotsleigh and St Catherine's in Waverley are circulating petitions, while there is also disquiet among graduates of schools such as St Andrew's, Shore and Roseville College.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> A petition begun by St Luke's graduate Max Loomes has attracted more than 2000 signatures from graduates of many of the schools involved in the letter, such as Barker College, Blue Mountains Grammar, Shore, Arden Anglican School and The Kings School.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">"We call on you to retract your open letter and not judge your staff by their sexual orientation but by the quality of their work," the open letter said. Most signatories were past students, although about 10 per cent were worried parents, Mr Loomes said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The Abbotsleigh petition argues it does not matter whether the schools would actually act against gay staff and students. "As alumni, we are concerned that this public display of intolerance could have devastating effects on the girls to whom Abbotsleigh owes a duty of care."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> Felicity Wilson, who graduated from Abbotsleigh in 2009, is also planning a peaceful march from Abbotsleigh to Barker College on November 10, to promote equality in schools and to raise money for struggling teenagers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">"They can say all they like about hiring within their values, but they are supporting a specific law that condones specific discrimination," she said. <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/anglican-heads-letter-gay-discrimination-schools-20181102-p50dpb.html">Sydney Morning Herald</a></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">But perhaps the most telling thing is the way one school principle equated gays with the insane. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">"I am particularly averse however to the notion that the government may dictate to us whom we can and cannot employ," he said. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">"My aversion relates to my experience over 20 years ago as a government school principal, where the Department of Education forced particular teachers on the school I led. I came to the conclusion that some of them were actually clinically insane. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> "They were not effective teachers. They did damage to the interests of children." <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/anglican-heads-letter-gay-discrimination-schools-20181102-p50dpb.html">Sydney Morning Herald</a></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">And there it is, <i>the homophobia</i>. </span></span></span>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849367833331380660noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263444628853001116.post-88419851373340159692018-11-02T11:53:00.000+11:002018-11-02T11:53:23.162+11:00Darling spilled a whole glass of coke on his PC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">It happened last night. David had his drink in front of the PC on the coffee table, I have no idea why it was there like an accident waiting to happen. It was a full glass. He bumped it with the back of his hand and just about the entire contents went on the keyboard and overflowed to underneath.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">There was much shouting and hysteria as I went on a mercy dash to the kitchen for tea towels. But alas despite the frenzied mopping up the PC soon turned itself off. Mopped the keyboard some more and put the PC on top of the still warm oven to dry out. It would start and get to the login thing but the keyboard was soaked and you couldn't log in.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"> This morning it was even worse. Nothing on the screen at all. I think it's likely the sugar in the coke. Despite the drying out of the actual liquid there'd be a sugar residue remain, which I'm guessing conducts electricity. The PC would have to be pulled to bits and cleaned by a professional for any chance of it working again. In other words it's fucked.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Much wailing and gnashing of teeth by David. Luckily though my ancient old one is still working as a media player under the big telly, so I pulled that out for him to use. Told him you have to have quite a bit of patience with it because of it's age.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">It was also lucky that the great PC flooding happened just at the time when I'd got money out of Super. I've ordered a new one Through Kogan which will arrive in a day or two.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Meanwhile the ancient PC is giving him a bit of grief. You see David is one of those people that sets passwords up for everything and tells his PC to remember them. So in a couple of weeks he's completely forgotten all his passwords. Add to that that I stripped the software on it back to the bare minimum so as the poor old thing wouldn't be straining to play videos.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">First thing he wanted to do was download a couple of shows. The bittorent downloader was gone as I'd uninstalled it. I downloaded and installed it again for him to download. David is a very outgoing person and just has no patience with things like that.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Next he wanted to log into Farcebook. Of course he had no idea what his password was. So he had to do the email thing "Forget your password?" to log back in to Farcebook.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Then he had no idea what his email password was, so he had to get an SMS code to log into his email. By this time I was getting pretty gobsmacked, but kept a calm face as I guided him through it all. He was getting an SMS code to get into his email to get the reset password thing to log into Facebook! It all succeeded in the end but that process took nearly half an hour. *sheesh*</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">A bit of advice for people like David who get their PC to save their passwords; <u><i><b>don't</b></i></u>. Even if you have to write them down in a secret place or something, key in the passwords every time yourself. For email, regular sites, everything. That way you're very unlikely to forget them if you spill a whole glass of coke on your PC! </span></span></span>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849367833331380660noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263444628853001116.post-89147359514495051052018-11-01T18:10:00.002+11:002018-11-01T18:28:31.239+11:00"Boy Erased" new trailer, before release this Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">David and I can't afford going to the movies, but this is released on Friday in the US and Nov 8th here in Australia. Perhaps the local cinema would be much cheaper so we'll look into that. Really don't want to wait for a decent torrent to show up before seeing it. </span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849367833331380660noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263444628853001116.post-21495311064972250282018-10-31T11:35:00.001+11:002018-10-31T12:03:24.787+11:00"Don't keep birds in the kitchen" - Tefal frypan instructions :s<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">So I got the next lot of financial hardship money out of my Super to survive whilst waiting on the NSW Housing priority list. Only did $5,000 this time as there's nothing big to pay for and we can use that money towards living. $3,900 after tax but the balance gets paid in my tax return next June.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I've been paying due bills and putting extra on them, put $100 each on David and I's Opal travel cards, and generally been spending money on groceries that we haven't been able to buy for a while. Like Band aids, proper mouthwash, decent shaver heads, pain creams for our back (strangely we both have sore backs at the same time, weird). Pretty bad when you have to draw money out of you super just to afford those things.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Other thing that had gone by the wayside was not having a toaster as it carked it months ago, and a small electric mixer for cooking (we eat just about everything at home) and the big fry pan. It slide off the stove by accident when I was washing up and the handle broke, making it too dangerous to use really. We got the toaster and mixer at Target for really cheap.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The fry pan I got today in the cookware bit at the Coles supermarket down the road. Tefal, which is a good brand and the non-stick won't promptly un-stick not long after using the thing. Got home and briefly read through the instructions bla.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">And that's where the instructions were about birds in a kitchen. Far out. 😕</span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849367833331380660noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263444628853001116.post-22730537020534071632018-10-30T15:10:00.000+11:002018-10-30T15:10:33.298+11:00This is Brazil's new president (video)<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The latest Newspoll came out this morning and it was terrible news for the Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison (ATM) gov. The poll was 54/46 to Labor. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">However the Murdoch media has been concentrating on the preferred prime minister <i>meaningless</i> figure citing that Morrison was ahead in being preferred PM. Apart from going into negative territory for the first time in his brief reign (meaning more people don't like him than do) he's also now only 8 points ahead of opposition Labor's Bill Shorton as preferred PM. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I dunno how many opposition leaders in the last 50 years went into a federal election as being Preferred PM. Gov's <i>in my memory</i> since 1985 (when I came here from NZ) rarely have an Opposition leader as "preferred PM" in polling, leading up to a federal election in which they take office.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">In view of that, I say again that Mad Morrison is <b><u><i>only 8 points</i></u></b> ahead as preferred PM. With no honeymoon on becoming PM because everyone considers him an arrogant, conceited, smirking, Pentecostal prick (which he really really is BTW), even incumbency isn't going to save this gov's pathetic ass.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">This Newspoll is an unfettered disaster. I've never posted anything on this blog from Andrew bolt: far right extremist nutter, who's so far to the right that he can't actually understand anything left at all. One of the most influential right wing media personalities in Australia.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Now Bolt has declared to the far right world of Australia (ie the Liberal Party Base) that it's all over for the gov after this poll. Bolt and Richardson, called "big guns" in the article, both agree that this gov is finished.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">One half of the Big Guns Andrew Bolt tells Deborah Knight “it’s all over” for the Morrison government. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">“What they need to do now is go out with dignity, not doing anything now so they look back with shame once they’re in opposition. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> “I just think they’re in a bit of trouble, real trouble, now. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">“The story now for the rest of the term is of decline, decline of the Morrison government.” </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">And Graham Richardson agrees.
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> “I don’t think there’s any mistaking what’s happening. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> “That poll is not simply bad, it is a complete disaster.” <a href="https://www.2gb.com/big-guns-call-it-its-all-over-for-morrison-government/">2GB</a></span></span>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849367833331380660noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263444628853001116.post-32427319158914181652018-10-29T16:22:00.000+11:002018-10-29T16:22:47.326+11:00Migraine problems (video)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Long time readers here will know that I have a problem with migraine headaches. They're not nearly as severe as they were in my teens when I first got them, but they can still be a real bother.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Mostly all I get now is blurred vision to start off with, followed by a bad headache and feeling really sick/nauseous. So it's not like I need to be hospitalised or screaming in pain at home in bed.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">However the frequency the last two days has been really bad. Have had six episodes in 5 days of the blurry vision leading to the headache. One day it happened twice. In such instances I've just had to stop whatever I'm doing, take two or three Panadol, and then go and lie down in bed for a while with the curtains pulled.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">After about 45 minutes it all subsides and I'm OK. Well sort of as I can still be really sick. Lucky I've been at home when it's happened and can do that, instead of down the shops.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I find it really strange though that suddenly out of nowhere I'm getting this cluster. The same sort of thing happens to my daughters husband. He gets migraines but only at certain times of the year. Being much younger than me his are very severe, poor guy.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I guess I should drag myself to the doctor for another visit and get a prescription for those migraine pills. You have to take them at the start when you're vision gets blurry to stop the migraine. I think they would be better than relying on a few Panadol. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I found this video that, although isn't exactly like what a migraine sufferer experience's is very bloody close. </span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849367833331380660noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263444628853001116.post-477862815398829912018-10-27T15:48:00.000+11:002018-10-27T15:48:32.615+11:00Our homophobic neighbours got booted out - Karma strikes :)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">We've had a lot of trouble with the neighbours immediately next door to us for some time now. The other month their 4 year old little girl stood at their doorway and told David "You're not good people". A while back during a disagreement the mother told us "We know what sort of people <i>you</i> are". </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">They were refugees from Bangladesh claiming persecution for their religion. They moved in about 5 years ago and have since become Australian citizens, as well as having their little girl. Lately she's pregnant with their second child.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Beginning of this year they went back to Bangladesh for nearly three months (strange to go back to a country you've got asylum from) without telling any of the neighbours. Stupidly, they left their internet WiFi on (it was viewable on our PC"s), the side windows partially opened about ten cm, and after a while the mail was overflowing into the driveway out of their letterbox. We and two other neighbours after nearly 3 months decided to ring the police in case something had happened to them.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The cops came the next day in full force, headed by detectives. They easily gained access to the place as the bathroom window wasn't even locked. It all looked very suspicious the detectives said and that if was them they'd have rung the cops too. But they found nobody in there. Ironically they arrived back the very next day.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">During the course of this the cops rang the real estate and found out the leaseholder wasn't the couple and their kid living there, but a reverend guy from Bangladesh who hadn't lived their for years. Turns out he'd been the leaseholder for zonks and was using the place to bring in relatives from Bangladesh as "refugees". They were living there illegally and had no leaseholder rights. <i>Busted!</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">In NSW it's illegal to sublet a rental property unless prior arrangement is made with the landlord. As it turned out the landlord had no idea, but evidently when finally finding out must have terminated the lease with the reverend. Thus the reverend and them were evicted. They must of had to move in a hurry given the contents of the flat that they chucked on the street.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">They were also in breach of the reverend's lease by having three people living in there. At one time they had their nephew as well from Bangladesh making 4 people. He came over and worked multiple jobs despite his visa only allowing 20 hours per week. He left after about a year, they said he didn't like it here and went back to Bangladesh, but we suspect he was deported after breaking the conditions of his Visa.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The place is a small divided area of the house David and I live in. You literally couldn't swing a cat in there. Only one bedroom more like the size of a small sun room than a bedroom. Tiny lounge and kitchen, bathroom so small only a shower could fit in it with no bath. The lease agreement with the reverend obviously wouldn't have been for 4 people, so again the reverend was in violation of his lease. It's a one person place really, sort of in between a bedsitter and a one bedroom. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">We heard the landlord "couldn't believe" that they had three people in there. Their little girl had a small bed in the lounge room. The nephew also slept in the lounge room when he was there. In the past before they moved in there there were 5 people living there before them. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">We couldn't believe that the landlord didn't know for all those years. Even before I moved in 11 years ago. That's how long the reverend has been getting away with it.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">On top of that the wife this time was just a fuckin bitch. Late 20's pretty much around my daughter's age. She went off about <i>everything</i> to us. Imagine how we felt when we found out they weren't even leaseholders. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">We pay for a carpark (even though my car went years ago) which we leave for guests coming to visit. They got a car and started parking there, and we objected. She went bananas (even though they don't pay for a carpark), took photos of it and complained to the real estate about us. Turned out he couldn't drive anyway, knocked over the common area washing line trying to get out of the parking lot, had to pay for it, and parked on the street after that. Dunno how he got his P plates but it certainly wasn't legit.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">We have a separate little old laundry shed out the back next to our back door where our washing machine is. They were also storing a whole bunch of their crap in there which sometimes I nearly tripped over getting to the machine. When David moved in, after a while he noticed that it was <i>our</i> hot water going into the shed. He and his ex used to run a body corporate, so he knows what he's talking about. That meant that it was <i>our</i> shed not theirs. Much to their displeasure we therefore told them to remove it from our rental area. The bitch wasn't at all happy, later on asserting that we were "bullying" them.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">In between the washing shed and back door was a little area that before David moved in was full of junk from them. We threw it all out and David made a cactus garden of multiple pots. He's very good at it, very artistic, looks marvelous now. She was pissed off again telling me that David had "taken over" the area. There was just no pleasing her.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Truth is they hated us for being gay. When they first got to know us they thought we were brothers :s After they found out we were gay they changed.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Not long ago, the husband told David "We know that Peter's daughter is the leaseholder". WTF? Were they trying to have one over us so we wouldn't stir any more shit about them having no lease? <i>Don't dob us in or we'll dob you in?</i> *sheesh* I spent about 6 months constantly at David's place after we first met and wasn't seen much here during that time. When David moved in it was like "I'm back". I'd never seen them before as the others had moved out and them in during those 6 months. So I guess they concluded that I moved in after my daughter, who'd been here all the time.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">When David told me I was laughing about it, went and got the lease from 2007 and read through it laughing. Lease agreement between.... oh look it's me! Oh look one car space! Oh look "washing facilities"! David took it, knocked on their door, and showed it to the husband. He stood there and read it from top to bottom in detail, like he didn't really believe what he was seeing.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Now they're gone. Hooray!!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Just a note to finish. I've always supported refugees having a right to come here. I even helped one of the previous tenants get Australian citizenship by writing a character reference for him and his wife. This post isn't meant to detract from that. Am deeply disturbed and offended by the major parties the refugee crisis they have created in offshore detention.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">At the same time Australia has people like this playing the system and giving them all a bad name. Refugees fleeing genuine persecution are being done no favours by people like this. People who are intent on doing things illegally rather than follow Australian law, and think they have every right to do so. </span></span></span>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849367833331380660noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263444628853001116.post-27715959462275097742018-10-25T20:54:00.001+11:002018-10-25T20:54:55.318+11:00Gov has abandoned DSP crackdown for lack of success in savings :)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Mad Morrison as treasurer in last years budget was touting savings of $61 million over 5 years by cracking down on people who were supposedly ripping off the system by claiming the Disability Support Pension (DSP). </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">However these grand supposed savings have come to nought with the whole crackdown being abandoned because it found there was in fact hardly anyone who was claiming the DSP who was ineligible to do so. A mere less than 2% in fact, making the clampdown administrative process more expensive than any savings gained.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">As someone who's been on the DSP since 2012, I honestly have no idea how anyone could be granted it when they're ineligible for it. You have to go through so much to get the thing in the first place it seems beyond bizarre that a faker could succeed. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Then there's what would be the absolute drama of being a vulnerable sick person having to go through the mental torture of proving all over again that you do indeed qualify for the DSP. Do they honestly think that someone would chose to go into likely poverty and jump through all those Centrelink hoops in an evil plot to steal a pittance to survive on? It's just nonsensical.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">So next time you hear some RWNJ banging on about us evil DSP'ers ripping off the system, you can tell them it's just not true. Any so called crackdown on us is just pointless nitpicking and entrenches the narrative that we're all a bunch of scam artists.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The federal government has scrapped a policy to review the medical condition of 90,000 people on the disability support pension (DSP) after less than 2% people were found to be ineligible. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> During the 2016-17 budget, the government said plans to conduct a medical review of 30,000 DSP recipients a year for three years would result in 2,300 people having their benefits cancelled each year, with 1,800 moved onto a lower Newstart allowance payment. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> The measure was forecast to save the budget $61.2m over five years but amid worse-than-expected initial results a government-controlled parliamentary committee last year said the reviews could end up costing more than it saved. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">On Thursday, the Department of Social Services revealed the crackdown had been scrapped – but did not reveal if the review had incurred a net loss. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Officials said of the 30,056 reviews that had begun, 28,784 had been finalised, and only 555 people were found to be no longer eligible for the DSP – a success rate of less than 2%. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> “In May, I indicated that the department was monitoring that process … and the government has decided not to continue with that measure,” the department secretary, Kathryn Campbell, told the hearing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The decision was made earlier this month. </span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849367833331380660noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263444628853001116.post-81717051395691851212018-10-24T20:12:00.000+11:002018-10-24T20:12:59.457+11:00Should schools refusing gay teachers lose government funding? - Q&A bonus question (video)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-KmUkPUotteeujV-MMXk8iCPZadXXDjBThNJbpxhaO50buUzur_Fs8cKDmodEy26Hm12mKygchfKAMXPYDbtp_-zbhfeiW_Fv6pEPHOf-tYOe-LL511DwrMJ69iG1w-j46fA4uesvhvw/s1600/DO9HBj_UEAAxrrM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="460" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-KmUkPUotteeujV-MMXk8iCPZadXXDjBThNJbpxhaO50buUzur_Fs8cKDmodEy26Hm12mKygchfKAMXPYDbtp_-zbhfeiW_Fv6pEPHOf-tYOe-LL511DwrMJ69iG1w-j46fA4uesvhvw/s640/DO9HBj_UEAAxrrM.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The ABC's <i>Question And Answer</i> show on Monday nights often has a "bonus question" that they put on YouTube after running out of time on the broadcast program. Sometimes those questions not seen except online can be one of the most interesting in the whole show, as is this one.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">We all know in Australia how the leaking of a part of the Philip Ruddock (above) religious freedom review caused Mad Morrison all sorts of problems when he at first backed the existing right of religious schools in some states to expel gay students because of their sexuality. There was such an uproar that within a couple of days Mad Morrison completely back flipped and promised federal legislation to make this illegal Australia wide. That "urgent" legislation however has still not been presented to the parliament.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The next logical question following that was why should gay teachers be discriminated against by religious schools, where it's still fine in parts of Australia (NSW a prime example) to either not hire a teacher or sack them because they're gay. After all, what would a gay student think about seeing a teacher in the religious school fired by the school because the teacher was gay? Obviously it follows that the school fired the teacher because the school considered that there was something wrong with the teacher; their sexuality. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">What would that do to a vulnerable teenager? When all their friends knew why the teacher was fired, would they then look at the gay student like there must be something wrong with him too? Would that instigate a situation of bullying against the gay student by homophobic bully's in the school? What would the gay student's life be like after that knowing the school was against them at the highest level?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">So now that the Australian public is aware of this discrimination, has soundly supported the LGBT in the (unnecessary) postal survey, is it right that religious schools who receive gov funding to continue to be allowed to discriminate against LGBT teachers in 2018? Is state funded discrimination still OK in a modern secular Australia, where 30% of all Australians don't identify with any religion at all?</span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849367833331380660noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263444628853001116.post-91298973002297947862018-10-24T16:01:00.000+11:002018-10-24T16:01:14.096+11:00Hannah Gadsby - "Nanette" (video)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Hannah Gadsby is a gay Australian comedian of some years. She grew up in Tasmania during the terrible debate Tasmania was having about gay people, a debate which she's said in the past scarred her for life.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Recently she's been performing her solo stand up show "Nanette", which has received rave reviews from around the world for it's honesty and candidness. It's on Netflix <a href="https://www.limetorrents.info/Hannah-Gadsby-Nanette-2018-720p-WEB-x264-AMRAP-torrent-11000629.html">but you can download the torrent here</a>. <i>I highly recommend it</i>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Here she is in a video about it on the Australian show <i>The Weekly</i>. </span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849367833331380660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263444628853001116.post-6246270478228293092018-10-24T15:31:00.002+11:002018-10-24T18:09:10.519+11:00Lagy Gaga's deeply moving speech on being a survivor of sexual assault (video)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Lady Gaga makes a very emotional speech in relation to the pain she endured as being a survivor of sexual assault.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">There is indeed much more to Lady Gaga than simply being an artist. </span></span></span><br />
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“As a woman who was conditioned at a very young age to listen to what men told me to do, I decided today I wanted to take the power back. Today I wear the pants”-<a href="https://twitter.com/ladygaga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ladygaga</a> speaks on sexual abuse at ‘ELLE’s Women In Hollywood Awards’ <a href="https://t.co/JQeG6WEsJg">pic.twitter.com/JQeG6WEsJg</a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849367833331380660noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263444628853001116.post-83868117797844097462018-10-21T14:58:00.001+11:002018-10-21T16:12:40.329+11:00Nail biter Wentworth bi-election (video)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Independent Kerryn Phelps it looks like will take the seat of Wentworth in what has turned out to be a nail biter close contest between her and Liberal Sharma.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Last night Phelps was well ahead in the count and claimed victory, but overnight pre-polling and postal votes were counted which significantly narrowed the race. She's currently ahead by only 884 votes, or 50.6/49.4 two party preferred.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Election analyst Anthony Green says more will be known later tonight as counting continues. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;">After much digging around, I've worked out the following. The AEC is currently re-counting the Bondi Beach, Bellevue Hill and Vaucluse polling places. At 3pm they will begin a count of and additional 1,200 postal votes. The result will be clearer or closer by tonight.</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;">— Antony Green (@AntonyGreenABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AntonyGreenABC/status/1053840457464049666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2018</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">There has been currently an 18.4% swing away from the Liberals in the 6th safest of their seats, which they've held for many decades. Major issues were climate change and Australia's offshore refugee gulags. The Morrison gov doesn't even have a climate change plan, and refugees in jail offshore are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis at the hands of this gov.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Will losing Wentworth spark another Liberal leadership spill? It would be utter insanity, but who knows with this gov? Wentworth is one of their jewels in the crown and it's loss would be crushing. The swing away from the gov in Wentworth is already by far the largest ever in a by-election.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">So far what has Morrison done in reaction? Shouted meaningless slogans to the converted, and that bloody smirk still hasn't been wiped off his sniveling face. </span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849367833331380660noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263444628853001116.post-71957526779868540852018-10-20T19:52:00.000+11:002018-10-20T19:52:03.917+11:00The pathetic Australian gov attempt to block torrent sites <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">This all came about under the Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison (ATM) gov. The bright sparks, no doubt at the urging of their glorious leader Rupert Murdoch, decided that they would try to block overseas torrent downloading sites. I guess Rupert was all pissed off that Australians are the highest per capita pirates in the world and regularly download his Foxtel shows for nothing.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">So anyway the gov to block such sites had to go to the federal court and get it decreed that the list of sites they wanted blocked were in fact blocked. They do this by making it law that the ISP has to block the site that the court has told them to. Yes it all sounds like snail mail going up against email or something.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Out of curiosity though I thought I might try it on the recently download Firefox browser I have now trying it out. It doesn't have a VPN, and so I tried to see what it was like to get blocked by the great wall of Australia. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Surprisingly I found it quite difficult to do so. Tried a few saved sites I had on Opera (Limetorrents, x1337x, and even the Torrentz2 site where you can search the entire web for torrents) and Firefox went straight to them. They were entirely unblocked. I thought surely eztv would come up with some blocked thing, and I was right. Which is where I got the header above for this post :)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Thing is, I don't hardly ever use eztv anyway. The torrents that go up on there are generally a bit later than other sites that have TV series. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">It's looking very much like gay independent Kerryn Phelps will tomorrow win the seat of Wentworth in the by election; forced by Malcolm Turnbull after he was booted from the prime minstership and left politics. This is because Phelps will get Labor preferences if she comes second putting her over the line and denying Liberal candidate Sharma the seat. If she does win the gov will lose it's majority in the House of Representatives and have to rely on cross-benchers for supply. A very tenuous situation indeed, particularly so as the federal election has to be called in about 6 months at the latest.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The Liberals are absolutely panicking. They've even dug up the fossil John Howard to campaign in Wentworth; Mr WorkChoices who's departure from Canberra was when he lost a federal election and his own seat in 2007. <a href="https://www.theage.com.au/national/astonishing-shambles-nothing-is-working-for-the-morrison-government-20181018-p50agc.html">Meanwhile the Mad Morrison gov is blundering along at a rate of knots</a>, falling over it's own feet just about every single day to the lead up. In fact the National party is even considering having it's own leadership spill shortly to bring back the vile Barnaby Joyce *faints*</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">There has been a number of dirty tricks pulled during the campaign. Of course the Liberals deny any involvement at all.... But the one that has shocked everyone is an email that was sent to heaps of people <i>saying Phelps was pulling out of the race as she was diagnosed with HIV the day before</i>. She is neither HIV+ or pulling out of the race. If not for one of the email recipients informing the Phelps campaign of this it may very well have gone unnoticed and unreported by the media, the truth only being found out after election day.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">This is wrong on so many levels I barely know where to start.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">My first reaction was so what if she did have HIV anyway? And then I realised the stigma involved in using HIV as a smear against a political opponent. The email was assuming that being diagnosed with HIV supposedly meant having to drop out of life or something.The inference being that it was still a death sentence and you had to put your life in order as you'd eventually die of the disease.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">On a wider scale it was stoking the fires of HIV stigma in the community. To this day there's still a huge amount of ignorance against HIV even amongst progressive Australians such as in the seat of Wentworth. People still think an HIV diagnosis means you're going to die a terrible death in the not so distant future. This email, instead of educating people about the reality of living with HIV today, built on that stigma and reinforced it. How could one vote for someone who's got a fatal disease?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">People in Australia have worked long and hard to address the problem of HIV stigma here, Kerryn Phelps among them. With the Wentworth by-election gaining national attention (for it's implications in Canberra) it's appalling this stigma dog whistle has been thrust onto the national stage.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">To his credit, even Sharma condemned it.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">An email falsely claiming independent candidate Dr Kerryn Phelps has pulled out of the Wentworth by-election because she has HIV has emerged, in what the candidate says is just one of the "dirty tricks" being deployed in the campaign. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The email, obtained by the ABC, was sent to hundreds of constituents and organisations from a fake address on Sunday and urges recipients to divert their vote to Liberal candidate Dave Sharma. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The ABC does not suggest Mr Sharma or anyone involved with his campaign was behind the email. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Dr Phelps said it was the latest tactic in a campaign being waged against her. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> She told the ABC the email was "shocking and disturbing". </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> "When I went into this campaign people warned me that there would be dirty tricks, but this is next level," Dr Phelps said. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The email said Dr Phelps was no longer running for Wentworth. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> The email also requests that the recipient help remove Dr Phelps' posters. <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-17/wentworth-by-election-fake-email-claims-kerryn-phelps-has-hiv/10382406?fbclid=IwAR3L-TU_kFxPUfTSUsoNwKk9wl9wglBLUq8vAN3yblKCea1Yi-5pSU2pFqg">ABC</a></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">I am disgusted and appalled at the despicable email circulated against fellow Wentworth candidate Kerryn Phelps. I condemn it for its smears and dishonesty. And I condemn it for its stigmatisation of people living with HIV.</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">— Dave Sharma (@DaveSharma) <a href="https://twitter.com/DaveSharma/status/1052514642268905473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2018</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849367833331380660noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263444628853001116.post-7473937774151587042018-10-19T11:44:00.002+11:002018-10-19T17:12:35.202+11:00Arguments against amyl use a homophobic attack on gays<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The TGA is proposing to put amyl into the same category of drugs as heroin, turning a large proportion of gay and bisexual men into criminals over night.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Being as the reasons they give for wanting to implement this proposal as largely based on homophobic lies about us from the past, it hardly seems that a decision to ban amyl would be based on sound evidence.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;">For the uninitiated, these inhalants expand blood vessels and lower blood pressure, and are used recreationally in dance culture to produce a very brief “high”. Poppers additionally have analgesic and muscle relaxant effects which make sex, particularly anal sex, more comfortable and pleasurable. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The TGA identifies the use of poppers for euphoric, analgesic and muscle relaxant purposes as “illicit” – questionable language when discussing something typically used by the LGBTI community. A 2017 report from the Flux study showed that 32% of gay and bisexual men self-reported using amyl nitrite in the previous six months. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;">We can easily see that Australia’s old opium laws prejudicially targeted a racial minority and, in the same way, we can consider how the proposed ban on poppers might implicitly criminalise homosexual sex. Indeed, some of the justifications for the prohibition are grounded in homophobic tropes, such as the common stereotype that gay men are sexual predators, paedophiles or endanger children. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The TGA’s September report argues that the “sweet” aroma of poppers poses a risk to child safety through the possibility of accidental ingestion, which happened 10 times between 2004-2014. To put this in perspective, 20 children are admitted to hospital each week after ingesting button batteries. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Moving past the fact that poppers more accurately smell like paint thinner, the implication is that gay and bisexual men are a threat to children. Further, the report goes on to repeat the assertion that paedophiles use nitrites to sexually assault children no fewer than six times, citing a report from 1993 that concluded there was no evidence for this claim. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The TGA additionally argues for criminalising poppers on the basis that misuse can cause headaches, dizziness and nausea, or exacerbate glaucoma and circulation problems. This is mostly true. However, the same can be said of the sex aid Viagra, mainly used by heterosexual men, which can cause headaches, dizziness, congestion, diarrhoea and rashes in addition to exacerbating existing conditions but which is, nevertheless, approved by the TGA. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;">It is difficult to argue that a ban on poppers does not directly discriminate against gay and bisexual men, or, more broadly, people wishing to engage in pleasurable sex. Additionally, there is no reason to believe that a ban would be effective. As the former Australian federal police chief Mick Palmer explained: “Nothing we’ve banned for the illicit drug marketplace has had much difference and this will be no different.” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/17/amyl-nitrite-the-ban-on-poppers-is-a-discriminatory-attack-on-gay-and-bisexual-men">The Guardian</a><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"> </span></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">It's Spring in Sydney and we've had two weeks of rain. Today the rain cleared and it got hot and muggy, before we had more rain yet again this afternoon. Perfect weather for Spring with plants growing green and flowers doing their thing.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">With that the birds outside have gone crazy chirping and mating. Casper and Zac are glued to the back door as much as they can watching it all in amazement. Cat TV. Zac meows at us to let him out to have a go at them all, but they're way to smart for him. They have like a bird warning system that when a bird sees a cat it sits up high and squawks it's head off like an alarm to all the other birds. Casper on the other hand just crouches down low, no noise or movement. Think he'd be an excellent hunter in the wild. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I noticed <a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/2018/10/17/05/11/donald-trump-calls-stormy-daniels-horseface-on-twitter">an article posted only a half hour before</a> in which Trump called Stormy "Horseface". WTF? So I went to the news item and both Trump's tweet and Stormy's reply, both embedded in the article. It was therefore very easy to click through the tweets and reply to both of them. I follow Stormy on Twitter you know and would gallantly come to her Twitter rescue any day.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">So the Trump tweet and the Stormy reply are contained thus:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present your president. In addition to his...umm...shortcomings, he has demonstrated his incompetence, hatred of women and lack of self control on Twitter AGAIN! And perhaps a penchant for bestiality. Game on, Tiny. <a href="https://t.co/6DpDD5ELtj">https://t.co/6DpDD5ELtj</a></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) <a href="https://twitter.com/StormyDaniels/status/1052224021855637505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2018</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I could not resist, and replied to Stormy with the above picture of Trump. Saying how an Australian artist got it exactly right back in 2016. It initially went up without the "sensitive" warning and was extremely visible for at least half an hour, before the twitter moderators made it so you had to click on it to see it, warning the Trum-pet snowflakes over there of their delicate sensibilities to freedom of speech/art.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">From Australia, the artist got it exactly right Stormy :) <a href="https://t.co/mwnOgRoY5m">pic.twitter.com/mwnOgRoY5m</a></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;">— Peter Hiv (@HivPeter) <a href="https://twitter.com/HivPeter/status/1052272171764969472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2018</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">And my my didn't the picture set the cat amongst the pigeons! And didn't they go bananas! Of course much more anti-Trump people had a huge laugh. But I'll tell you, the so called big tough bully Trum-pets were all a bunch of bloody crybabies.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The artist who made the picture is Australian Illma Gore, <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/australian-artist-behind-unflattering-donald-trump-nude-assaulted-in-los-angeles-street-20160503-gol1jz.html">who received death threats and was bashed by a Trump supporter near her Los Angeles home over the picture</a>. My don't these Trump people just loooooooove freedom of speech :s</span></span></span><br />
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A post shared by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/illmagore/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading" style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" target="_blank"> Illma Gore</a> (@illmagore) on <time datetime="2016-04-29T23:10:23+00:00" style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">Apr 29, 2016 at 4:10pm PDT</time></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">That's over 4 million Australians.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Welcome to life in Australia with a gov beholden to the far right. Where welfare recipients are demonised and support services defunded or underfunded. Where mortgages are so high from the property bubble that we have the working poor. Where the gov is happy to see wages cut or stagnant. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">And where those running the show in Canberra have their snouts fully in the trough. Where our Pentecostal happy clappy delusional prime minister gets $500,000 a year and clams to be just like us. This gov hasn't the faintest idea what it's like.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">David and I are at least lucky that we can both cook and have an Aldi down the road. We spend between $150-180 a fortnight on groceries. Got to know what to buy and where. A 5 kilo bag of brushed potatoes from the greengrocer up the road for $5 is way cheaper than even Aldi. Surprisingly you can get some really cheap stuff at Coles too.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Perhaps I should start sharing a few simple meals we make for $10 or less for the two of us.... Just basic meals that would feed even up to 4 people for less than $10, but taste lovely.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Quite something of a video. Riot police in Poland had to break up a crowd of nut job angry gay hating men who were trying to block the progress of the gay pride parade there. They used tear gas, a water canon, capsicum spray and concussion grenades, along with the usual riot formation with shields to push back the protestors.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">What got me was how insanely angry the gay hating protestors were. I couldn't understand a word they were saying but it was clear they were totally enraged by the pride march. You have to wonder what makes them so like that. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Polish police used tear gas and a water cannon Saturday against right-wing extremists who were trying to block the first equality parade in the city of Lublin in eastern Poland.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;">More than 1,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights activists with rainbow-colored flags and banners gathered Saturday in Lublin for the parade, while around 300 right-wing opponents stood in the march’s way. Police used tear gas, concussion grenades and high-pressured water to disperse them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The right-wing protesters pelted police with stones and dispersed, but some small groups tried to get through the police cordon that was protecting the march.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The colorful parade then proceeded undisturbed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The march took place after Lublin’s Court of Appeals on Friday overruled a ban by Mayor Krzysztof Zuk, who had cited security concerns as his reason for banning the parade. <a href="https://apnews.com/f6b2929a0d0c443a9d9cc16dce344e42">AP</a></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The backfire of the marriage equality postal survey continues on against the far RWNJ's in the gov. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">First they thought the plebiscite would delay action on marriage equality into the foreseeable future as the senate rejected it. Then they became so pressured to act on it, they dreamed up the postal survey brain fart, thinking that only old people mail letters and the results would be skewed against gay marriage and that there was a "silent majority" out there that were to scared to say they were against it. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Then when the postal survey returned a resounding Yes vote, they thought they could replace the months long negotiated bill with a lunar right marriage inequality bill penned by the Australian Christian Lobby and Lyle Shelton. When that failed they thought they could get through amendments to the marriage equality bill to protect religion. </span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwRjzNKnh7WPCMklahs3zrIcV98caRDrrzNdimRUJY2kxVhfRDHIiJYcKMJjbONA0FsbrNgNeO7lrkYymu2Tb9D-XeQIWHdHmazzaf-NMrCnAvqCb98QA-L2OqFAa3XxIeQlKS_BAj3g/s1600/689f01273a2d5354b0ad52e86dfb5a14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1479" height="467" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwRjzNKnh7WPCMklahs3zrIcV98caRDrrzNdimRUJY2kxVhfRDHIiJYcKMJjbONA0FsbrNgNeO7lrkYymu2Tb9D-XeQIWHdHmazzaf-NMrCnAvqCb98QA-L2OqFAa3XxIeQlKS_BAj3g/s640/689f01273a2d5354b0ad52e86dfb5a14.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">When that failed they then demanded the Ruddock religious freedom review (done without LGBT representation) thinking that they could get their religious freedom amendments through the parliament that way. And when some of the religious freedom review's recommendations were recently leaked to the media, they completely underestimated the strong reaction of Australians against them.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">At first PM Mad Morrison (one of the far RWNJ's) stood steadfastly saying repeatedly that to discriminate against LGBT kids in religious schools was "existing law" and all he wanted to do was to enshrine that in Federal legislation that would override any state laws already in place. Well we all know how that worked out.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Australian's were so aghast that these laws were actually in existence in some states that there was a forthright demand in the public space to ditch these outdated laws. With the gov in trouble in this weekend's Wentworth by election Mad Morrison had no choice but to capitulate. And so was the latest backfire from the far right of the gov.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;">No better example than the recommendation that garnered headlines last week: adjustments to the Sex Discrimination Act that would enshrine, but also clarify, the ability for schools to reject or expel gay students. It's a freedom religious schools have long enjoyed under federal law, because they are exempt from the usual anti-discrimination rules. However, some states deny schools this power.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Regardless of the law, it's not an area schools want to get into. Catholic educators immediately made it clear they've got no desire to punt kids for being gay. Many people – probably most people – didn't even realise this power exists. Ruddock proposed tinkering with a religious freedom most voters didn't know about – and now that they do, they probably think it should be scrapped altogether.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> It took a day or two, but Morrison now wants it scrapped too. It appeared untenable on Thursday when he told radio host Neil Mitchell he didn't think it was a good law but he wasn't going to get rid of it, just "fine tune" it. By Friday, Morrison remembered he is now chief-law-making-guy and vowed to kill off religious schools' right to expel students because of their sexuality.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;">And so the great irony of Ruddock's religious freedom review is that its first consequence has been a reduction in religious freedom, spurred by the realisation that even the current latitude given to the churches is out of step with the community. The narrative has turned around: existing exemptions are now under the microscope. The whole thing has spectacularly backfired. <a href="https://www.canberratimes.com.au/politics/federal/ruddock-review-the-booby-trap-that-trips-everyone-up-before-backfiring-20181012-p50993.html">Canberra Times</a></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">But it continues now. After the long held privilege of religious schools being legally able to discriminate against gay students was so suddenly killed off, it took a mere number of hours for the question to be asked in the national debate, why is it OK for religious schools to discriminate against teachers? Who can be fired for being gay.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The Greens have long held this position, but now the Labor opposition has decided that now is the time to also remove the right of religious schools to discriminate against LGBT staff.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Mr Shorten this morning called on the government to extend the legislation, to stop religious schools discriminating against gay students, to include teachers. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;">With the Government and Opposition united in a move to remove the power, Bill Shorten today flagged his intention to go further. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;">And while Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, and Wentworth candidate, Dave Sharma, have both backed teachers, Mr Morrison didn’t. <a href="https://www.9news.com.au/2018/10/15/12/31/labor-leader-bill-shorten-extend-legislation-protect-gay-teachers-and-students">Nine News</a></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">And so the dominoes begin to fall.... </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Yet Mad Morrison still resists, even going against members of his own party. As he would being a Pentecostal fundie. This is hallowed turf for him. Surely religious schools shouldn't have to hire people on merit instead of their sexuality! What blasphemy is this? He's made it clear his kids are in a private religious school to keep them away from the dreaded gays. And now the dreaded gays may be at the doors!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">But again he puts himself in an impossible situation. He wants the Australian people to accept that religion, and religion alone, should have the special privilege of discriminating against hard working teachers who've dedicated their working lives to teaching children. Discrimination only on the basis of their sexuality. Well that's going to go down like a lead balloon. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Indeed people are asking now, that why in a secular society that Australia is, do these archaic laws even exist anymore? The religious freedom review has had the exact opposite effect that the far RWNJ's wanted; namely to reduce religious freedom.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Even if the opposition doesn't get the teacher's bit included in the legislation, Labor has promised to pass it if it wins gov. And I don't think that time is too far off. Only about 6 months left now if the gov stretches it right out until May when it must go to the polls. </span></span></span><br />
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BREAKING: Labor will remove the exemption that would allow a teacher or school staff member to be sacked or refused employment because of their sexual orientation.<br />
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It's a terrible thing to turn someone away because of something so intrinsic to who they are as a human being.</div>
— Tanya Plibersek (@tanya_plibersek) <a href="https://twitter.com/tanya_plibersek/status/1051618645049131008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2018</a></blockquote>
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As a father, I try to teach my children to treat everyone with respect, and to view everyone as equal. Our laws should reflect that too. <a href="https://t.co/7aOKxFJD71">pic.twitter.com/7aOKxFJD71</a></div>
— Bill Shorten (@billshortenmp) <a href="https://twitter.com/billshortenmp/status/1051669457163059200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Greens?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Greens</a> have pushed for years to stop non-gov schools being able to sack teachers & staff because of their sexuality.<br />
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Now there are reports ALP coming on board as well as some Senate xbenchers.<br />
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Let's get this done.<a href="https://t.co/AwbQvzkK7G">https://t.co/AwbQvzkK7G</a></div>
— Adam Bandt (@AdamBandt) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamBandt/status/1051639258576957441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Ex Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull's old seat of Wentworth is facing a by-election, after he was so unceremoniously turfed from the prime ministership by his own party and he spat the dummy and quit parliament altogether. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Not that it was any great loss as far as I'm concerned. The guy was a spineless lech who clung to power by any means he could, usually putting the people and their well being last. The whole marriage equality postal survey debacle for example.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Wentworth voters also, despite being wealthy overall, have very leftist policies that they care about. In fact climate change is the most important issue for them, yet they now have a Liberal party prime minister who denies climate change and is in love with coal. Wentworth also had the highest Yes vote for marriage equality in the country, which Mad Morrison campaigned strongly against and even walked out on the last division in disgust.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Turnbull held the seat for quite some years and built up the vote because he was popular within the electorate (go figure) to the point that the seat is held by the Liberals by a massive 17% two party preferred. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Then came the knifing of Turnbull, with a lame assed unpopular Liberal party character (Sharma) to replace Turnbull. Labor is also running a candidate, which to me seems a bit unusual in what until now has been a very safe Liberal seat. A popular local independent Kerryn Phelps has also entered the race and is polling very strongly; in a long term same sex relationship and long time advocate of the LGBT.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Less than a week to voting, </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">a new poll out will send a deep shiver down the spine of the federal gov:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;">In the Voter Choice Project poll, Mr Sharma received 38.8 per cent of the likely first preference vote in comparison to Dr Phelps' 23.5 per cent, the projected two party preferred figures showed the independent candidate pulling ahead to 55.4 per cent to his 44.6 per cent.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Researcher Raphaella Kathryn Crosby said the results revealed that Mr Sharma would lose the by-election if the Liberal primary vote was not over 40 per cent.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;">"It is unclear whether it will be Sharma vs Phelps or Sharma vs Murray, but it doesn't matter because whoever ends up [against Sharma] will win," Ms Crosby said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;">If Dr Phelps "survives the preference count, she will win over Dave Sharma", Ms Crosby said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> Dr Phelps said she found the results "heartening" and said she stood for "strong policies the people of Wentworth actually care about".</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;">"Like climate change action, like the treatment of asylum seekers, supporting small businesses, an economy considerate of all people, social justice issues and of course the religious freedoms bill," she said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;">"There's a mood for change." <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-13/liberals-fall-behind-in-wentworth-by-election-poll/10373508">ABC</a></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">So what have the Liberals got in response to this? Basically <i>vote for them to avoid instability</i>. If they lose the seat they'll no longer have a parliamentary majority and will have to rely on cross bench support to govern. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;">But Mr Morrison claimed a Liberal Party loss in next weekend's Wentworth by-election would cause "unnecessary instability" because his party would no longer hold the majority of federal seats. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;">"Liberals who are thinking about voting for the independent [candidate] should think about that very carefully, because she's [Dr Phelps] clearly running strongly second," he said. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;">"[If] she continues in that place, she can still be a long way behind in primaries … [and then] come over the top and win that by-election. <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-13/liberals-fall-behind-in-wentworth-by-election-poll/10373508">ABC</a></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"><i>That's it?</i> That's all they've got left? No policies? Just vote for us because we'll be stable? After all that's happened over the last 5 years of this gov, having the gov tell us to vote for them for "stability" is the stuff of Monty Python! </span></span></span>
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/DaveSharma?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DaveSharma</a> REFUSES to talk about the number 1 issue in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WentworthVotes?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WentworthVotes</a> - climate change. People want to know, will he stand up for climate action and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopAdani?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StopAdani</a>? <a href="https://t.co/58guiUVbJ8">pic.twitter.com/58guiUVbJ8</a></div>
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We tried chat to <a href="https://twitter.com/DaveSharma?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DaveSharma</a> about climate action but he ran away - why you gotta be so afraid Dave? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Wentworthvotes?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Wentworthvotes</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopAdani?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StopAdani</a> <a href="https://t.co/93pBUOvWs2">pic.twitter.com/93pBUOvWs2</a></div>
— AYCC New South Wales (@ayccnsw) <a href="https://twitter.com/ayccnsw/status/1051315890329870337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #20124d; font-family: "comic sans ms";">The ineptitude of PM Mad Morrison is now on stunning display, as the leaking of part of the religious freedom review in Australia sent shock waves around the nation. With the review wanting to put in place federal legislation that would override state law, allowing religious schools to discriminate against LGBT students on the basis of their sexuality. At least two states have laws that make this illegal to do so in those states; being Tasmania and Queensland. A federal law allowing discrimination against LGBT students would override those state laws.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Of course Mad Morrison, Pentecostal happy clapper he is, was very supportive of the idea. He claimed it was already "existing law" in a doorstop that is now legendary for the amount of times he repeated "existing law". Gone was the "daggy dad" image he's been trying to proselytise onto us, replaced by the arrogant backed into the corner non-caring Pentecostal asshole that sits under the thin veneer. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #20124d;">Prime Minister Scott Morrison has backed the right of religious schools to discriminate against gay students in a political row over a confidential government report into religious freedom.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #20124d;"> Mr Morrison played down the storm over the report by pointing to existing law that allows religious schools to discriminate against some staff and students.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #20124d;"> The Prime Minister stood by this power in the face of a fierce debate over whether church groups and religious schools should continue to hold exemptions from discrimination law on the grounds of personal conscience. <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/scott-morrison-stands-by-exemptions-for-religious-schools-in-sex-discrimination-laws-20181010-p508sw.html">Sydney Morning Herald</a> </span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #20124d; font-family: "comic sans ms";">Of course Australian's were aghast at all of this. Not the least of which was the spectacle of the prime minister wanting to make a new federal law to entrench discrimination of kids by religious schools on the basis of their sexuality. The picture could not have been more stark in it's contrast. Whilst the population was demanding urgent action on climate change (the gov presently has no policy at all on that after rolling Turnbull) all Mad Morrison wanted to do was to pick on vulnerable LGBT school kids. Kids that under this new law could well be kicked out of their school in front of their peers because the school was saying that there was something wrong with them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">That the prime minister supported this cruelty against kids was <i>appalling</i>. What if two brothers went to the same religious school for instance, and one of them was gay? The school could kick out the gay brother legally because of that. The psychological damage wrought on the gay student in such a case cannot be understated.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">But what's come out of all of this is that the spotlight has been turned onto the fact that many religious schools in Australia can do just that under their present state law. New South Wales for example is apparently open slather for religious schools to discriminate however the hell they like against anyone, including vulnerable students. The only thing curbing this are the sensibilities of the religious school staff not to utilise such laws. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Hence we now have a situation where public outrage at Mad Morrison wanting to enshrine in federal law discrimination against kids, has been now turned to outrage against religious schools who still in 2018 have the power to enact just such discrimination. <i>Legally</i>. There are now demands for these anachronistic laws to be addressed and once and for all taken off the books entirely in Australia. In fact the opposition Labor party (no doubt gleeful at how stupid this gov is) has gone for the jugular on this, demanding just the above.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Now Mad Morrison has done a full backflip reverse somersault trying not to look entirely stupid saying that he's <i>"not comfortable"</i> with kids being treated that way. Note the piss weak language there; "not comfortable"; sounding like someone is actually pulling the words out of his reluctant voice box. Simple fact is he's a gay hating Pentecostal and try as he might he can't hide that from the public. Now he's in all sorts of stupid strife, all of his own making.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #20124d;">Morrison said the Ruddock review was focused on “what is necessary to ensure a positive right of freedom of religion but at the same time not to disrespect or disenfranchise the rights of other Australians” including on the grounds of sexuality.<br /><br /> “I don’t think if someone’s at a school they should be kicked out because they have a different sexuality to what might be believed to be the appropriate thing by a particular religious group.<br /><br /> “We do not think that children should be discriminated against.”<br /><br /> Earlier on Thursday, Morrison told 3AW that “religious schools should be able to run their schools based on their religious principles” and claimed that “no one” is calling for existing exemptions to be repealed.<br /><br /> The comments leave Morrison in the precarious position of having stated a principled opposition to religious schools discriminating on the grounds of sexuality while backing a call to enshrine a right to do just that in federal law, albeit with safeguards.<br /><br /> The Greens have announced they will introduce a bill to abolish the religious exemption to discrimination law, while crossbenchers Derryn Hinch and Centre Alliance’s Rex Patrick have also expressed opposition to the ability to discriminate.<br /><br /> The attorney general Christian Porter has said that the current balance of rights “probably could do with a little bit of fine tuning, but I don’t think that, and it’s not recommended, that the balance be shifted further towards schools being able to discriminate”.<br /><br /> On Friday Labor deputy leader and education spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek said it was “wrong and irresponsible” for schools to turn away gay students and “frankly abhorrent to send that message to a child that something is wrong with them”. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/12/scott-morrison-backtracks-law-expel-gay-students">The Guardian</a>
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #20124d; font-family: "comic sans ms";">Once again the Liberal party, by it's complete ineptitude and ideological dramatics, has scored another spectacular own goal. *Sheesh* What a bunch of rank amateurs. </span><br />
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It's great our leaders are worried about the kids, but what message does it send them when their great teacher is sacked for who they love? That THEY could be fired for who they love?<br />
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The petition: <a href="https://t.co/sbeZoSmpZs">https://t.co/sbeZoSmpZs</a><br />
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The story: <a href="https://t.co/L6Fes7WLFz">https://t.co/L6Fes7WLFz</a> <a href="https://t.co/fUHPg8rQfy">pic.twitter.com/fUHPg8rQfy</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #20124d; font-family: "comic sans ms";">I was about to email my local federal member of parliament Matt Thistlewaite to thank him for his role in getting David and I on the Priority Housing list, when I opened an email from my daughter. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #20124d; font-family: "comic sans ms";">What a surprise it was to see her there with new granddaughter next to Matt Thistlethwaite himself. He had some kind of welcome to the community thing for new babies in the area, a regular thing he does. So now he's met David and I, and unknowingly my daughter and granddaughter as well. What a laugh.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #20124d; font-family: "comic sans ms";">So I sent the thank you email about the Priority Housing list, and also included the picture of him with my granddaughter and daughter. I'm sure he'll be very surprised when he see's it as we never talked about our families.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05849367833331380660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263444628853001116.post-42860825666657348342018-10-10T21:35:00.000+11:002018-10-11T21:04:30.862+11:00Religious Freedom Review leaked - 2 unacceptable things about it<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #20124d; font-family: "comic sans ms";">The so called "open gov" of Mad Morrison hasn't released the findings of the Religious Freedom Review since it was released to the gov itself in May. However <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/religious-freedom-review-enshrines-right-of-schools-to-turn-away-gay-children-and-teachers-20181009-p508o7.html">the review has been leaked</a>, and so once again with this "open" gov we rely on the free press to enlighten us about it's shenanigans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Well the review isn't good. I'll put it into 2 simple quotes from the article why it's completely unfair to the LGBT community.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Firstly, the review suggests giving the right of religious schools to expel a student on the basis of their sexuality:</span>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #20124d;">The report calls for the federal Sex Discrimination Act to be amended to allow religious schools to discriminate against students on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or relationship status - something some but not all states already allow.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #20124d;"> “There is a wide variety of religious schools in Australia and ... to some school communities, cultivating an environment and ethos which conforms to their religious beliefs is of paramount importance,” the report noted.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #20124d;"> “To the extent that this can be done in the context of appropriate safeguards for the rights and mental health of the child, the panel accepts their right to select, or preference, students who uphold the religious convictions of that school community.” <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/religious-freedom-review-enshrines-right-of-schools-to-turn-away-gay-children-and-teachers-20181009-p508o7.html">Sydney Morning Herald</a>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #20124d; font-family: "comic sans ms";">Since when have religious institutions given a flying fuck about gay young people's mental health?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Secondly, they want to make a new Religious Discrimination act where people can't discriminate against them on the basis of their religion:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #20124d;">However it did recommend the government amend the Racial Discrimination Act or create a new Religious Discrimination Act, which would make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of a person’s religious belief or lack thereof.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #20124d;"> The panel said it had heard a broad range of concerns about people’s ability to “manifest their faith publicly without suffering discrimination”.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #20124d;"> This included wearing religious symbols and dress at school or work, communicating views based on religious understandings, obtaining goods and services and engaging in public life without fear of discrimination.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #20124d;"> The report also recommends federal legislation “to make it clear” that religious schools cannot be forced to lease their facilities for a same-sex marriage, as long as the refusal is made in the name of religious doctrine. <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/religious-freedom-review-enshrines-right-of-schools-to-turn-away-gay-children-and-teachers-20181009-p508o7.html">Sydney Morning Herald</a>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #20124d; font-family: "comic sans ms";">I rest my case. They want to make it <i><u><b>legal</b></u> </i>to discriminate against LGBT people on the basis of their sexuality in religious schools, but make it <i><u><b>illegal</b></u></i> to discriminate against someone proselytising at a secular workplace or in secular society generally. How bloody unfair is that! What an unacceptable intrusion of the church into the lives of secular Australians who have every right to be free from religion in their daily lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"><a href="https://greens.org.au/campaigns/ruddock-review?utm_source=civi&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ruddock-review&utm_term=button&utm_content=26708">The Greens have a petition going against it all which you can sign here</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #20124d;">The Greens have already come out strongly against the recommendations.<br /><br /> “Last year in the marriage equality postal survey Australians voted for equality for LGBTIQ+ Australians, not for more discrimination,” Greens LGBTIQ spokesperson Senator Janet Rice said.<br />
<br /><br />“The Ruddock review recommendations to change our laws to allow religious schools to expel students on the basis of who they are or who they love at a time when they are already vulnerable is unacceptable.”<br /><br /> “The Greens support the right of people to practice religion, but that should not come at the expense of the human rights of LGBTIQ+ people.” <a href="https://junkee.com/religious-freedom-gay-students/177664?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Waleed_has__nailed_it_1539149501&utm_content=Waleed_has__nailed_it_1539149501%20CID_e812a6beb9ba120740087db5362865a7&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=The%20Governments%20Religious%20Freedom%20Review%20Is%20Exactly%20As%20Bad%20As%20We%20All%20Expected">Junkee</a></span></blockquote>
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Legislated <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/homophobia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#homophobia</a> is not <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/religiousfreedom?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#religiousfreedom</a> because true religious freedom is the freedom not to discriminate <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Auspol?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Auspol</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LGBT?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LGBT</a> <a href="https://t.co/MEaOQlXEfL">pic.twitter.com/MEaOQlXEfL</a></div>
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