Ian Winthorpe III posted:

the ancient Sunni/Shia vendetta is being played out on the streets of Sydney, a severe rebuke to the ideals of multiculturalism

Ian Winthorpe III posted:

I don't recall Orthodox Jews shooting reform synagogues with guns, link?

Ian Winthorpe III posted:

Very hard to define as you would know but I would venture that they do not include Sectarian shootings in parallel with a war happening half the world away.

Ian Winthorpe III posted:

In Australia, yuk ow the country we live in. I do agree that Australian citizens shouldn't fight in the IDF.


ok then: peaceful relationships between different communities.

Ian Winthorpe III posted:

I don't recall Orthodox Jews shooting reform synagogues with guns, link?

Ian Winthorpe III posted:

drat, in calling me a racist you appear to have won the debate and addressed the issue. You should Call your mum and tell her

Ian Winthorpe III posted:

Again, this is not comparable. If what you are getting at is that The Jewish community here may have divided loyalties in the same way I am implying Muslims are then yes I agree. Au citizens should be banned from going to serve in the IDF and our policy towards Palestine and settlements can be unduly influenced by the Jewish lobby, I agree with you.

But just put away contrarianism mr blitzkrieg because I would like your genuine opinion on this. It troubles me that sectarian violence is being played out in this way and it troubles me that we seem to lack the mechanism to address it.

Ian Winthorpe III posted:

What's Devils advocacy? Its a given that sectarian shooting at families is a legitimate concern, this being Sydney rather than Beirut.

Palmersaurus posted:

Bold the whole thing:

A QUEENSLAND domestic violence hotline has been so overwhelmed by women calling for help that some calls have had to go unanswered.

The startling revelation was made by DV Connect Queensland, which also told a public hearing of the Senate inquiry into domestic violence in Australia yesterday that the situation was so dire now that unless a woman had broken bones her situation was not considered “serious”.

The organisation can handle up to 120 calls daily but on Wednesday was snowed under with more than 300 calls seeking help.

DV Connect CEO Di Mangan said not only was the volume of calls increasing but the women’s situations were worsening.

“Most of them are serious to the point now where you think if someone doesn’t have fractures or serious injuries we’re actually starting to see them as not so serious,” Ms Mangan said. “We’re beyond capacity in Queensland.”

She said workers had to juggle up to nine cases at once and were forced on Wednesday to let calls go unanswered.

“I just had to send an email to the workers yesterday, for the first time, (saying) ‘and I hate to have to say this to you as a work group but you have to leave calls’,” Ms Mangan said. “I’ve been watching this trend going up over the year.”

During the hearing, Liberal senator Cory Bernardi sparked anger from Greens senator Larissa Waters when he told representatives of the state’s oldest women’s refuge they were not “experts” and there were times it was appropriate for a man to put his partner in a headlock.

Women’s House Shelta’s Barbara Crossing told the hearing a man had a protection order taken out against his partner using evidence she bit him under the arm.

Ms Crossing, a support worker since 1991, said the injury could only have been caused by the man having the woman in a headlock.

Senator Bernardi said police considered headlocks an “appropriate means of deferring an aggressor” and Ms Crossing was second-guessing the police who were the “experts”.

Senator Waters said Ms Crossing was the expert and a headlock was an example of domestic violence.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

I got an international Chinese student pregnant, I don't want the child or be with her, but she would not get an abortion. I don't know what her intentions are, but I think she might want to use it to get Australian residency, but I don't really care about that.

I want to know, will the child be an Australian citizen if born here and will I have to pay child support for the next 18 years??

Gough Suppressant posted:

Yeah, if you don't feel comfortable with directly challenging their racism then playing it completely straight/dumb is the best option imo

Quasimango posted:

This is my ignorant/ cliched idea of each of the state Green parties:

NSW Greens: ex-communists
Victoria Greens: latte sipping/craft beer swilling hipsters
Queensland Greens: anti-GMO, anti vax, anti fluoride hippies
Tasmania Greens: tree-huggers
WA Greens: Scott Ludlam personality cult
SA Greens: um...something Sarah Hanson-Young
NT Greens: lol

Adnar posted:

Another great day in Australian-Islamic relations.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...s-1227134304876




I'm a fan of the fella who is opposing it only for infrastructure reasons.



Antifa made a good showing, which is impressive as they're not exactly on home turf out there

CrazyTolradi posted:

Was this after you wasted a bunch of his time at Harvey Norman?

Amethyst posted:

You're a brainless twit. I apologized promptly for my careless initial use of a gendered term. Not that it stopped the resident loudmouth dullard from chiming in with pointless insults.

WebDog posted:

Jonah Galtberg posted:

Isn't this like the second or third time you've made this post?

Murodese posted:

They tried killing her once but she just rose again

Starshark posted:

Now you're just ganging up on me to play gotcha!