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What Thinking Australian Are Thinking
Prior to reading the interview with new ABC chairman Justin Milne (27/3), I was under the misapprehension that our national broadcaster was operating in a green-left echo chamber and that its broadcasts were biased. Now he has pointed out my mistake, I share his view that it is actually doing a good job and that it reports the news right down the middle. I realise that in perceiving bias I was guilty of old-think and probably thought crime, simply because I had not mastered the art of double-think. However, now I understand how to interpret the world correctly, and can see that war is peace, ignorance is strength, and subjectivity is objectivity. It is therefore clear that bias at the ABC is impossible.
Australian Muslim leader calls for murder during Bankstown Hizb ut-Tahrir meeting.
We’re not in Kansas anymore Toto. This is in Sydney, last Saturday night. Check the actual video half way down the page. “….A leader of a hard-line Islamist group which campaigns for sharia law says Muslims who leave the religion should be put to death…”
Better Late Than Never — Next year the meme will feature The Peoples Republic of Victoria
The Only Staggering Stat You Need To Know
In amongst all the numbers and percentages in Tony Shepherds report for The Menzies Research Centre, the one standout, staggering stat, the only thing we really need to know is this: More than 50% of Australians pay no net tax.
That is, whatever tax they do pay, is eclipsed by what they receive in benefits. In all the blather about sustainability in recent years, this is the standout and if doesn’t make Australians wake in fright then all hope is lost. With the government on a one seat knife edge and Labor ramping up and fine tuning their harum scarum robo calls and more concerned with identity politics, there’ll be no getting the toothpaste back in the tube any time soon.
Sexist Pre-Schoolers Targeted — The Australian
Four-year-olds who exhibit sexist behaviour at preschool are the latest targets of the Victorian government’s crusade against family violence, with early childhood educators to be taught how to eradicate gendered norms and stereotypes from the classrooms.
The Future We Cannot Afford — Nick Cater, The Australian
The Shepherd Review released yesterday confirms that government is already borrowing to pay its daily bills. The time for self-delusion is over; seven consecutive budget deficits and an eighth around the corner cannot be explained away as a mere fluctuation in the cycle. We are running out of time to make the hard choices, the ones we’ve been putting off through wilful blindness or because of populist political headwinds that so far have proved impossible to overcome.
Mark Latham Cuts Loose In The Daily Telegraph — The Lefts Division Defeats Democracy
Today’s Labor/Green orthodoxy is to turn people against each other on the basis of their gender, race and sexuality. Within the gay lobby, a militant tendency has also emerged, using boycotts and intimidatory tactics to censor anyone who disagrees with them. The group that, more than any other in Australian politics, has pleaded with people to respect “difference” has become intolerant of differing points of view. The pigs are in the farmhouse, walking upright on their hind legs
Random Note #189,579 — If the senate WON’T change, it must BE changed, or NOTHING will change
If the senate WON’T change, it MUST be changed, or NOTHING will change and although it is fraught with danger under a progressive government, altering section 57 of the constitution via a referendum, as suggested by Tony Abbott does have merit. The plan would streamline and simplify the entire process of dealing with the senate and allow legislation that has been twice rejected, to go directly to a joint sitting, without the need, complexity or expense of going to a double dissolution election.
Random Note #213,672 — 18C, Whack-A-Mole, A Crapshoot
There’s no rhyme, reason or logic just as with Labor’s workshopped, loaded and fiendishly slippery talking points question “what do you want to say that you can’t say now.”
Because of the capricious and subjective nature of 18C, we simply don’t know and can’t possibly know until after the fact
Random Note #189,642 — Under Attack From Both Islamic And Cultural Jihadists
We know that the actions of the Islamist jihadist as that of an irrational and twisted mind bent out of shape by religion, but how to explain Labor’s Shadow Attorney General Mark Dreyfus and his sinister and secret plan to extend 18C? Its seems that he is a cultural jihadist with his mind twisted and bent out of shape by the religion of political correctness and identity politics.