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Every chapter of the Rebels in Queensland is doing it. They are doing it anonymously. While I’m coming out and saying why I did it, there are hundreds of others who are doing it anonymously and he won’t know who they are, but they are definitely bikies and he (Newman) is taking their money. He can’t screen the money that is going to him.”

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LNP state director Brad Henderson insisted the party had received only two donations from bikies and had refunded the money.

“The party is unaware of any donation from bikies apart from two who admitted it was a deliberate stunt to distract from the established links between bikies and some unions,’’ he said.

“That donation has been refunded.

You Am I posted:

I have never seen such a disjointed, messy election in my life. The QLD election seems like some uni student election, but in a bigger scale.

You Am I posted:

I have never seen such a disjointed, messy election in my life. The QLD election seems like some uni student election, but in a bigger scale.

Mithranderp posted:

Didn't get a photo, but today the Courier Mail front headline/page was a human interest story about Newman and his wife. "SHE'S MY ROCK". They're getting fairly desperate with these attempts to humanise Newman.

WARNING CREEPY BOLT ALERT posted:

CAMPBELL Newman has lots to offer as a politician. For a start, he gropes his wife in public after 20 years of marriage.

Youths may blush and prudes frown, but many of us stand taller in our comfortable shoes when we see the fondling Newmans at play.

And it’s extraordinary just how often that is.

For instance, Newman - leader of the Queensland Liberal National Party and Brisbane’s former lord mayor - exchanged a passionate kiss with wife Lisa as he entered his pre-selection interview last April.

Since then, Lisa Newman has been often filmed stroking her husband during interviews or public events, a lusty look in her eye for the shaven-headed 47-year-old father of her two daughters.

In return, Newman repeatedly clutched and cupped his wife’s firm backside at the Liberal National Party state conference last weekend.

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The head of the Northern Territory Labor Party has left Australia intending on joining Kurdish fighters in the battle against Islamic State militants in Syria, the ABC has confirmed.

Matthew Gardiner was also the secretary of hospitality, childcare and emergency services union United Voice in the NT, as well as the treasurer of peak body Unions NT.

The 43-year-old served as Australian Army combat engineer in Somalia in the early 1990s.

The ABC understands Mr Gardiner was able to leave the country because he was not on any watch list.

About 90 Australians are now thought to be overseas fighting with Islamic State or similar terrorist groups, which has prompted the Government to repeat its warning against people joining the conflict.

A spokesperson for Attorney-General George Brandis said it was illegal for Australian citizens to support any armed group in Syria, even though the Australian Defence Force and Kurdish rebels may share a common enemy.

"It is illegal to fight in Syria for either side of the conflict," the spokesperson said.

"If you fight illegally in overseas conflicts, you face up to life in prison upon your return to Australia.

"We know there are some Australians who think they've made the right choice in becoming involved in overseas conflicts, but that choice only adds to the suffering in Syria and Iraq and it's putting those Australians and others in mortal danger."

The spokesperson urged people concerned about the conflict to donate to charities.

The Australian Federal Police has refused to discuss any detail, saying the matter is part of an ongoing investigation.

Mr Gardiner recently befriended a woman on Facebook whose page is littered with support for Kurdish militias fighting Islamic State.

A spokesperson from United Voice's national branch confirmed Mr Gardiner had resigned, but the ABC has confirmed he is still the president of the NT branch of the Labor Party.

Colleagues contacted by the ABC had been suspicious, with Mr Gardiner not being seen for weeks and his mobile phone has been switched off.

duck monster posted:

I'm 90% certain thats Ross "The Skull" May. Old neo-nazi who's hung around Jim Saleam since forever. (Or he's an Opponent of Jims, since everyone wants to be the fuhror. I cant remember)

Heres Ross as a young man.





(To the right of that photo its Jim Saleam and The Skull

Frogfingers posted:

I see nothing wrong, despite the article abandoning the fact that he joined Peshmerga et al, and painting him as some sort of extremist. Kurds need all the help they can get.

Zenithe posted:

From a legal point of view, the problem is most likely that the Peshmerga are currently allied with the PKK, and they are on the terrorist list.

Splode posted:

I really want to see that NT paper's front page on this.

Goodpart posted:

ASIC v Danny Bro posted:

I saw this in Dymocks the other day...

http://www.bookworld.com.au/books/w...eYbsxoCut7w_wcB

You Am I posted:

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/25/domestic-violence-campaigner-rosie-batty-named-australian-of-the-year

It is horrible what happened to Rosie Batty, however all the work she has done to bring domestic violence out into the public's view is absolutely worth the Australian of the Year award.

Bloody hell, Abbott looks like he has some terminal disease in that photo.

Good to see females taking out every category this year.

drunkill posted:

ewe2 posted:

https://www.gg.gov.au/australia-day-2015-honours-list

David Stratton, George Negus, Jessica Rowe, Gerald Stone and Judy Nunn all got AMs. So did Anne Henderson (wife of Gerard. I wonder why he didn't get one).

Fruity Gordo posted:

Everyone burn a flag tomorrow. You can get those little flag toothpicks everywhere. Every cigarette I smoked on Invasion Day last year was lit with a little burning flag, and I intend to continue that tradition tomorrow.