This week the question has been firmly put. Should there be more Nazis on television or less, or for the grammar pedants out there, fuhrer?
All right. That’s a really bad joke. The point is that so many people including journalists have got this horribly wrong.
Cotterill needs to be confronted, subjected to scrutiny and forensically cross-examined.
What to call him then? The media has cobbled together several terms, all of them fairly unhelpful, including activist, patriot and ultra-right wing extremist. On Channel 7 he was described as one member of a group who were planning to put “a neighbourhood watch group together”.
Let’s start with what he is. Mr Cottrell is a violent criminal, having been convicted of arson, stalking, aggravated burglary, trafficking in steroids and breaching interventions orders. He added racial vilification to his rap sheet earlier this year.
Full column here.
Anning represents just 19 people. Why then is his opinion getting such airtime? The speech should have been met with icy silence and the fool just ignored.
That’s one way but the more you let these appalling episodes slude, the more extremism is normalised.
more coalition and dutton’s lies exposed. 107,000 More temporary visas granted in the last 12 months than the previous year. 40,000 more Bridging visas last year. Temporary Graduate visas also at Record highs. The most people ever came into the country last year. Meanwhile wages grew by just 0.47% of one percent. Less than half a percent. There goes what were already bizarrely made up Budget assumptions. Meanwhile Sanjay Gupta starts work on his $1.4 Billion investments into Renewable Energy and a new worlds biggest battery near Whyalla in South Australia to amongst other things run the steel works. But the nation is still stuck with a disgracefully dishonest conservative coalition and them and their supporters refuse to allow New technology to be used to progress the Nation. No Surprises.
really enjoyed the Helen Dale piece in the Aus this morning, she is a gifted writer.
I think I still have a copy of The Hand that Signed the Paper somewhere, probably going mouldy in a storage unit in Sydney.
I haven’t followed the detail of this new NEG thing, but it appears to me that an acronym, the RET, had unfortunate consequences that were not foreseen, at least by it’s proposers, and now we have to come up with another acronym to fix up the mess.
Of course, it’s odds on that this acronym will have “unforeseen” consequences as well.
Government acronyms generally fail because people haven’t the faintest idea what they stand for. I doubt more than 1 per cent of the population could tell you what the plan is.
It interests me and I can’t tell you
Derryn Hinch was truly pathetic trying to disassociate himself from his handshake once he realised the collective disgust at Anning’s speech..
I posted this elsewhere in the Blog, Boadicea. “Senator Derryn Hinch said after hearing Fraser Anning’s speech, Mr. Insider, he shook Anning’s hand then went home to wash his hands so appalled was he. Are there no hand washing facilities in Parliament House. Or mores the point was old Derryn actually listening to Anning? Methinks he wasn’t. He loves a good headline does Deryn. Annings a fool, a featherweight”
Cheers
Jean Baptiste says:
August 13, 2018 at 10:02 PM
“Could you be outraged at the current 25 odd million children dying of preventable causes every single year Carl?”
Yes, I am outraged JB, by those who violate the first principles of life in the context raised by HB. Including the widely reported despotic actions by your “Kimmie” who you have commented on here with levity and mirth in recent times.
Strange you never mention your outrage where we might have some influence isn’t it , but never let up about the past or places where we can have no influence. You fraud.
I’ll ignore the personal aspersion JB, and put it down to your temporary loss of gentlemanly debating composure me old mate.
the coalition not content with making life harder for the lowest paid in Australia now are going after the disabled and those with mental health and other health issues by sending out robo-debt notices to them. the coalition have absolutely Wrecked the roll out of the, as the treasurer admitted, fully funded NDIS, They are refusing terminally ill people the disability pension, they have removed access to Child Care for the poorest in the community who need it the most to break the poverty cycle as all the research and evidence highlights so those earning the most can have more open ended subsidisation. This government is a disgrace. Those supporting this coalition are as bad as the worst government in this nations history.
Senator Derryn Hinch said after hearing Fraser Anning’s speech, Mr. Insider, he shook Anning’s hand then went home to wash his hands so appalled was he. Are there no hand washing facilities in Parliament House. Or mores the point was old Derryn actually listening to Anning? Methinks he wasn’t. He loves a good headline does Deryn. Annings a fool, a featherweight.
I see Tony Burke charged the taxpayers $7,600 to charter a plane to view the Tarkine wilderness with activist group GetUp in 2012.
He likes his junkets it seems. Most ordinary folk would fly to Launceston, pick up hire car and take a beautiful drive to Waratah and Corinna. Cost? Maybe $1500 at most.
When Rudd went o/seas he often stayed at the Oz Ambassador’s digs. Not Howard though. He, his entourage and his handbag would shack up at the $9000 a night London Claridge hotel staterooms. Always enthusiastic, the travelling Howards were at their best in calendar 2002 when they racked up overseas visits costing a total $3,551,000, during which John and his Bride went to the US twice – for 10 days in January-February (cost: $1.15 million), that included stops in Singapore and Indonesia, and a week in June 2002 (cost: $467,480). They also visited Britain twice, in March and April (cost: $323,730).
The “Wet Mules”, Mr. Insider our hero Aussie Cave Divers and here is how they do it. Not for me am afraid.
https://tinyurl.com/yasdcb4t