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JP work Sunday morning.
I’ve just authorized a Search Warrant for the police to search the residence of a woman who has been accused of injecting heroin and using methamphetamines (Ice) in the presence of her 12 month old baby. She has also been accused of telling her older kids that they can get their first heroin hit when their age reaches double figures.
As in 10 years old!
My daughter and her 1 month old baby should be here soon for coffee – that should cheer me up.
Turnbull says we invaded Australia- Abbott said we occupied.
If it was an invasion then the 245 marines that accompanied Phillip would have been the greatest force multiplier ever assembled. Statistically greater than the D Day force at Normanby or Ghengis Khan’s mob that overrun Europe.
7.7million square kilometers, hundreds of thousands of locals and 245 Marines sorted them out.
Not only did they do this but they did it with Phillip stating Rules of Engagement that ordered them to treat the Aboriginals kindly and to establish harmonious relations with them.
Abbott is right and the Invasion mob should stop playing around with the English language.
Eddie McGuire drops a line and the perpetually offended attack. Twitter explodes and the CEO of the AFL gets confused about what the letters AFL actually mean.
Just days after the AFL launched a women’s league to begin next year and also signed up to the Our Watch campaign aimed at stamping out violence towards women, the AFL chief conceded the league still had much work to do.
“We still have a long way to go. Our sport must lead,” he said.
“Casual language and jokes about threats to women are part of the problem.
“Footy has to be an increasing part of the solution.”
“Footy has to be an increasing part of the solution.” No it doesn’t footy has to be footy! I’m sick of AFL playing the social justice card – they are there to entertain the masses with football.
Just play football and leave the rest to the Social Justice Warriors. There’s plenty of them and they need something to maintain their angst.
Cultural sensitivity training fails, as it should.
The vast majority of Australian Defence Force personnel believes the Muslim religion promotes violence and terrorism, despite “cultural sensitivity training” by the ADF to have its soldiers take the view that Islam is a religion of peace.
Good. I see they’re not swayed by the views of the politically correct brigade.
The bombshell new study sponsored by the army finds that such “anti-Muslim sentiments” are “probably quite widespread” among Australian frontline troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that the military’s efforts to reverse this trend are counter-productive.
It might be a bombshell to some but those who inhabit the real world would wonder why on earth any one would be surprised that an Army that has been fighting Muslims for more than ten years would not think they are a religion of peace.
All Muslim’s aren’t peaceful and Islam isn’t a religion of peace.
The term Cultural Sensitivity Training is cop-out to the politically correct however Cultural Training by itself is fine. Prior to my sojourns to South East Asia I was lectured and read all I could about the Vietnamese culture and whereas I accepted the Vietnamese civilians were sometimes peaceful I didn’t trust them.
And no one suggested that communism was a peaceful ideology.
The good Doctor’s final sentence is enlightening.
Dr Miller said more work should be done by the ADF to get a better understanding of the issue, but the problem was that “the open expression of anti-Muslim sentiment in the ADF can and has led to disciplinary charges and dismissal.”
So it’s an offence to be anti-enemy.
Wow – we used to encourage it.
Picture show Religion of Peace chaps winning hearts and minds
Perth, WA. A shark described by witnesses as more than 5.3m long has killed a 60-year-old woman at a popular reef off Perth’s northern suburbs, the second fatal shark attack in five days in Western Australia.
Yesterday’s death, the 15th fatal shark attack in Western Australia since 2000, has brought fresh scrutiny to the Barnett government’s divisive shark mitigation strategy.
The scrutiny is from the Greens and their mates on Sea Sheppard who believe that sharks are higher up the food chain than humans and that no one should try and make beaches safe.
It is the shark’s domain, don’t you know!
Well yes, it is. Just as the North Queensland rivers are the croc’s territory, however it is also ours. Humans have been going down to the sea and rivers since we started and using them as a transport route or a source of food.
So doing nothing is not an answer. Crocs in the northern part of Australia need culling. There are more than 150,000 of the critters and local tourist mobs say there are more in the north than anywhere in the world.
More than anywhere else because the Greens have the power of veto with anything that you can tag the word “Eco” on.
I’m not sure that longstanding use of baited hooks – or drum lines – in regions such as Queensland is the way to go. This article says no but since 2000 there have been 5 Queensland deaths compared to WA’s 10 and considering Queensland has a greater population then there has to be something in it.
Australia has more crocodiles than anywhere else and more shark fatalities . Surely that’s a case to do something.
Maybe this gives us hope- from Wikipedia;
Shark Shield is a personal electronic device that creates an electromagnetic field to deter shark attacks and is used by surfers, scuba divers,spearfishing, and ocean kayak fishing. The electrical wave-form used in the Shark Shield is based on a technology originally invented by theKwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board of South Africa in the 1990s, releasing the SharkPOD (Protective Oceanic Device or simply POD).The Shark Shield device was developed by the Australian company SeaChange Technology Pty Ltd, and commercialized by its trading company Shark Shield Pty Ltd established in October 2006.
Sea Change Technology are in South Australia
The field is projected from two electrodes, which create an elliptical field that surrounds the user. Both electrodes must be immersed in the water for the field to be created. Research conducted by The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) in 2012 estimated the Shark Shield electrical field to be approximately four to five meters in diameter.
Wow! The Safas have a space agency – who knew.
The generated field doesn’t seem big enough to protect an entire beach but if the Safa’s Space Agency(I still can’t believe it) can do something, can CSIRO or private enterprise extend the range?
Whatever, we need to do something and soon. Stop listening to the Greens, ignore Sea Sheppard, net the beaches and do some serious research.
Here’s a chance for Malcom or Bill to do something to really help. In the midst of a frenzied spendathon how about a bit of seed money for research.
Link to The South African National Space Agency (SANSA). A search for Shark Shield doesn’t get any results but it does prove it exists
During the big wars of the last century Australian soldiers killed in action were interred in war cemeteries overseas. The cost of repatriating 100,000 plus killed in WW1 and WW2 would have been prohibitive so the government policy remained as interment overseas.
The soldiers were buried with their mates close to where they fell.
During the Vietnam War when soldiers started being killed this protocol was still in place and soldiers were interred in War Cemetrys in SEA, notably Terendak, Malaysia.
In May 1968 everything changed. A National Serviceman, Private Noack, was killed and when his father was told he would be interred overseas he demanded he be brought back home.
The Government complied but over the course of the war 32 soldiers were interred at Terendak Malaysia and one, Warrant Officer Conway, the first Aussie killed in Vietnam, was interred at Kranji, Singapore. Up until 1966 Next of Kin were told they would even have to pay 500 Pounds to have their sons repatriated.
An uncaring and unfeeling attitude by a government having trouble catching up with the times.
After this date all of our mates killed were repatriated. As a Infantry Sgt in 7RAR in Holsworthy NSW I led many a Burial Party for diggers of our sister Battalion, 5RAR.
Bring them Home became a movement started by Jim Bourke who, against all odds, managed to locate all our MIAs and bring them home. Developing from that various RSLs including the Northern Territory branch and other veteran organizations started agitating for the repatriation of those guys buried at Terendak and Kranji.
It has finally happened.
One of those coming home is Private Norman George Allen, a member of my Battalion, 7RAR, who was Killed in Action on 10 November, 1967
Welcome home Norm.
A full list of those coming home can be read here
Australian of the Year and former Army chief David Morrison says the term “guys” should no longer be used in workplaces.
This man never ceases to amaze me with his disconnect with the world as we know it.
Apparently we can’t call a mob of girls “girls” either.
Exclusive language, gender-based language or inappropriate language, has as much a deleterious or disadvantaged effect as something where you’re saying something blatantly inappropriate to another human being,” General Morrison told ABC News Breakfast.
The #WordsAtWork campaign video depicts a group of women rolling their eyes at being called “girls” by a male colleague.
He aims to crack down on language which excludes minority groups.
What minority groups? Guys or girls covers all the groups. There are only two if we are talking about gender. It doesn’t matter what your sexual proclivities are; it doesn’t matter how you identify, the vast majority of humans are born male or female.
Yes, there hermaphrodites, babies born with Congenital adrenal hypoplasia, Gonadal dysgenesis or Androgen insensitivity syndrome but seriously how often will someone have occasion to address a group of these poor people in the workplace?
If this very unlikely chance come your way I’m sure everyone would be talking about how to address them and one simply takes heed of context.
But in the workplace I think we can assume everyone is either male or female and thus could be addresses by any generic term that doesn’t offend. If you are offended by being referred to as a girl or guy then better you seek employment at a University where these matters are deemed important.
In the real world they don’t count, which, thinking about it, describes David Morrison
Stupid letters to the Editor.
It is both bemusing and amusing to read once again about the supposed weakness of wind power being that the wind doesn’t always blow (Letters, 6/1). It doesn’t always rain, but every time I turn the tap on, water comes out.
A group of white Americans occupy government property and get called “militiamen” yet, if a group of Muslims did the same thing, they would be “terrorists”. Go figure.
Had a visitor last night. Nearly stood on him as it was late and I had just turned the patio lights off. He struck at me and hit my unshod foot causing me to rush to Google and find out who he is. According to Snake Catchers Brisbane he is a White Crowned Snake
Species name: (Cacophis harriettae)
Weakly venomous
Other Common names: Crowned Snake.
They go on to say;
Not considered dangerous to humans. All crowned snakes are reluctant biters, relying more on bluff display than bite. They are weakly venomous and have tiny mouths and short fangs. They will generally rear up & ‘mock strike’ with mouth closed, more of a ‘head butt’. If bitten, as with any snake bite, apply correct first aid and seek medical attention.
All OK, no fang marks but it made me wary. Big tough old soldier weakens at the knees when confronted with snakes and it matters not at all that he wasn’t even half a meter long.
Possibly they are the most abundant of Brisbane’s smaller snake species and they are nocturnal which might explain why I have never, ever seen one.
Keep an eye out for the little critters.