//https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_5820174224001
The Australian state of Victoria is governed by politicians that make Trudeau and Turnbull positively statesmanlike. If they were any further left they'd be putting dissidents in labour camps.
Recently Sky News, a cable channel, conducted an interview with a far right activist. Sky provides an edited news service to the rail network.This enraged the loopy lefties, who, in order to protect people from such profanity, immediately banned the cable channel from broadcasting on Victoria's railway stations, to "protect against racism and hatred".
Not only was this censorship, but the vacuous, ideologically motivated Ministerial moron that made this decision on the fly actually lied, by claiming the interview was shown on the rail network.
It never was.
Such is the intellectual vacuum of the left in Australia, who will do anything to remove opposing viewpoints from public display.
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//https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_5820174224001
The Australian state of Victoria is governed by politicians that make Trudeau and Turnbull positively statesmanlike. If they were any further left they'd be putting dissidents in labour camps.
Recently Sky News, a cable channel, conducted an interview with a far right activist. Sky provides an edited news service to the rail network.This enraged the loopy lefties, who, in order to protect people from such profanity, immediately banned the cable channel from broadcasting on Victoria's railway stations, to "protect against racism and hatred".
Not only was this censorship, but the vacuous, ideologically motivated Ministerial moron that made this decision on the fly actually lied, by claiming the interview was shown on the rail network.
It never was.
Such is the intellectual vacuum of the left in Australia, who will do anything to remove opposing viewpoints from public display.
This kind of censorship has become the norm throughout the West.
I thought this was going to be about the city of Victoria, BC taking down the statue of our first prime minister, Sir John A. MacDonald.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/john-a-statue-victoria-helps-1.4777810
Damn. That is awful.
Would a statue of Donald Duck be acceptable? .. or does he have some imaginary problem background
I'll suggest one of Goofy as fitting and representative of the members inside council chamber
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Would a statue of Donald Duck be acceptable? .. or does he have some imaginary problem background
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Just a little helpful hint; Canada is not the only country in the world...and there are a number of locations called Victoria.
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We know that, but the capital of British Columbia is in the news for removing our first prime minister's statue from their city hall..
It was on my mind when i clicked on this thread.
OK.
Just so you know other countries have issues as well.
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Just so you know other countries have issues as well.
They do.
:shock:
We even have a PM comparable to your moron.
Amazing, huh?
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Amazing, huh?
Turnbull is bad, but there is no comparison to OUR moron.
Gee...I don't know. I don't know a lot about Trudope other than what is said here...but our man is a bumbling, effete waste of space.
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We know that, but the capital of British Columbia is in the news for removing our first prime minister's statue from their city hall..
It was on my mind when i clicked on this thread.
I saw that too. And also suggesting changing the name of Vancouver...I think the whole thing is stupid.
Natives always whining...remember this:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/lets-keep-talking-nenshi-weighs-in-on-stoney-nakodas-bid-to-change-calgarys-name/amp
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We know that, but the capital of British Columbia is in the news for removing our first prime minister's statue from their city hall..
It was on my mind when i clicked on this thread.
I saw that too. And also suggesting changing the name of Vancouver...I think the whole thing is stupid.
Natives always whining...remember this:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/lets-keep-talking-nenshi-weighs-in-on-stoney-nakodas-bid-to-change-calgarys-name/amp
Nenshi is an ass anyway.
It's only rightfully so that we remove Sir John A. statue, and instead focus on all the good things that the Natives have contributed to modern Canadian society!
You know, sometimes I get extremely irritated at the Canada-centric focus of this forum. Most of its members are Canucks...I get it. Some are Americans, which are almost Canadians.
There are people from Australia, the UK, Brazil and Hong Kong here. Show them some respect for their political issues and dramas.
There.
Whinge over.
Carry on.
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There are people from Australia, the UK, Brazil and Hong Kong here. Show them some respect for their political issues and dramas.
There.
Whinge over.
Carry on.
As someone who travels internationally for business, I feel your pain.
Thank you!!!
Someone listens!!!
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There are people from Australia, the UK, Brazil and Hong Kong here. Show them some respect for their political issues and dramas.
There.
Whinge over.
Carry on.
It was my fault this thread became Canadianized..
It wasn't intentional though.
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There are people from Australia, the UK, Brazil and Hong Kong here. Show them some respect for their political issues and dramas.
There.
Whinge over.
Carry on.
I am here to help
from cnn
"Australia is the most successful multiculturalism society in the world, it's one of our greatest achievements," Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told the national broadcaster in July.
But following an uproar over a neo-Nazi being interviewed on national television and repeated comments by top politicians over "African gangs," questions are emerging over whether Australia is a more racist country than it would like to believe.
"For the most part we are a highly cohesive and harmonious society but that doesn't deny for a moment that racism continues to be a significant social problem," Australia's outgoing Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane told CNN.
On Sunday, nationwide broadcaster, Sky, aired an interview with far-right agitator Blair Cottrell, who has previously been accused in local media of calling for a portrait of Adolf Hitler to be hung "in every (Australian) classroom and every school."
The interview was pulled from social media and the network apologized after a large backlash, but the fact it was aired in the first place has raised questions about Australia's attitude to race.
In a speech to the Whitlam Institute in Sydney on Monday, after the interview aired, Soutphommasane said Australia's "racial harmony" was under threat.
"I take no pleasure in saying this, but, right now, it feels like there has never been a more exciting time to be a dog-whistling politician or race-baiting commentator in Australia," the outgoing commissioner told the audience.
Australians: Immigration levels 'too high'
Australia's population is expected to hit a record high of 25 million within days, according to the country's Bureau of Statistics, partially due to an influx of migrants, among them more than 500,000 Australian residents who were born in China.
But this diversity has often come hand-in-hand with discrimination against immigrants, from the infamous White Australia policy in the mid-20th century that effectively banned non-European migrants from settling in Australia, to the One Nation political party formed in 1997 to oppose Asian migration.
Polling by Australian research company Essential shows opinions on immigration are divided -- more than half of Australians considered multiculturalism to have "enriched the social and economic lives of all Australians," in a survey published in April 2018.
But in the same poll, 64% of those surveyed said they thought immigration levels to Australia over the past 10 years were "too high."
"Australia does multiculturalism far better than a lot of comparative countries. But I think Australia's problem, and our potential danger, is our complacency," Asian-Australian writer Benjamin Law told CNN.
Law said the majority of non-anglo Australians had experienced racism in their lifetimes, something the rest of the population might not appreciate.
"I think we are so enamored with the idea of ourselves as successfully multicultural and not racist that when actual racism is presented to us in our media, in our government, we don't recognize it," he said.
Since his term in office began in 2013, Soutphommasane has staunchly opposed a push by conservative politicians, media and commentators to change Australia's Racial Discrimination Act.
Efforts to reform the act have been a signature policy of Australia's conservatives in recent years. The Turnbull government attempted in 2017 to pass a bill which would have made it no longer illegal to "offend, insult or humiliate" people based on their race.
"People do have a right to be bigots, you know," then-Attorney General George Brandis said during a parliamentary debate on the issue in 2014.
African gangs
Not all the recent rhetoric has been focused at a legislative level, however.
In the past eight months, with a state election looming, conservative politicians and media figures have repeatedly claimed gangs of African youths are terrorizing the city of Melbourne.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton told Sydney radio in January "the reality is people (in Melbourne) are scared to go out at night time" due to the gangs.
Statistics from the Crime Statistics Agency do reveal Sudanese residents are over-represented in crime numbers in the state of Victoria, of which Melbourne is the capital.
Lending credence to this, Prime Minister Turnbull said there was a "real concern about Sudanese gangs," during an interview on Melbourne radio station, 3AW, in July.
However, crimes involving Sudanese residents account for just 1% of Victoria's total criminal activity, with the vast majority of crimes committed by Australian-born residents.
"If you were to focus on race and ethnicity only when talking about crime you end up with a distorted and dangerous debate," Soutphommasane told CNN.
Amid the debate around African gangs, Home Affairs Minister Dutton has been leading a campaign to look at potentially allowing special visas for white South African farmers to move to Australia.
In an interview on March 14, the Australian minister said he was concerned by reports of an alleged widespread campaign of violence against the white farmers.
"I've asked my department to look at options and ways in which we can provide some assistance ... I do think on the information I've seen people do need help and they need help from a civilized country," Dutton told Australian newspaper the Daily Telegraph.
'Boundless plains to share'
The less popular second verse of the Australian national anthem contains the lines, "For those who've come across the seas, we've boundless plains to share."
Racism speech shakes up Australia
Racism speech shakes up Australia 02:43
While Soutphommasane said Australia still has an enormous, cohesive multicultural society, he is concerned there was a "very real prospect" of racism becoming normalized in Australian public debate.
"I do take confidence from the enormous support that exists in Australian society for multiculturalism. The majority of Australians believe (it) makes Australia better country," he said.
Law said racism in Australia appears to come in waves, and growing up as a young Asian-Australian in the 1980s it was something he rarely encountered.
But he said he was concerned about what effect the latest round of rhetoric was having on young Australians, from migrant families, growing up in Australia today.
"I am kind of worried about how laissez-faire we've become with tolerating hate speech in this country," he said.[/quote]
Australia is one of the best examples in the world of a harmonious, prosperous society. A handful of people shooting their mouths off does not change that for the millions of people around the world who want to make Australia their home.
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//https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_5820174224001
The Australian state of Victoria is governed by politicians that make Trudeau and Turnbull positively statesmanlike.
Recently Sky News, a cable channel, conducted an interview with a far right activist. Sky provides an edited news service to the rail network.This enraged the loopy lefties, who, in order to protect people from such profanity, immediately banned the cable channel from broadcasting on Victoria's railway stations, to "protect against racism and hatred".
Not only was this censorship, but the vacuous, ideologically motivated Ministerial moron that made this decision on the fly actually lied, by claiming the interview was shown on the rail network.
It never was.
Such is the intellectual vacuum of the left in Australia, who will do anything to remove opposing viewpoints from public display.
Give it time. :laugh:
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//https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_5820174224001
The Australian state of Victoria is governed by politicians that make Trudeau and Turnbull positively statesmanlike.
Recently Sky News, a cable channel, conducted an interview with a far right activist. Sky provides an edited news service to the rail network.This enraged the loopy lefties, who, in order to protect people from such profanity, immediately banned the cable channel from broadcasting on Victoria's railway stations, to "protect against racism and hatred".
Not only was this censorship, but the vacuous, ideologically motivated Ministerial moron that made this decision on the fly actually lied, by claiming the interview was shown on the rail network.
It never was.
Such is the intellectual vacuum of the left in Australia, who will do anything to remove opposing viewpoints from public display.
Give it time. :laugh:
I hope the people of the Australian state of Victoria value free speech.
Now, there's a littany of lies worthy of a Pulitzer.
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Are you saying Victoria is a hopeless case like California?
Very much so. Despite the utter tyranny, racism, corruption (17 people arrested for electoral fraud) and socialism displayed by its government, Victorians are still likely to vote them back in at the next election.
However, Freud is Victorian, and seems unnaturally silent on the issue.
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However, Freud is Victorian, and seems unnaturally silent on the issue.
DD is probably pissed off by the his state government. I can relate to that. For the past fifteen years we had a job killing, tax raising, corrupt regime that turned this once engine of the Canadian economy into a have-not province. We kicked them out this year in favour of a populist conservative government headed by Doug Ford. So far, so good.
I suspect he's in accord with my summation. However, as he lives there, his observations would no doubt trump mine, as I can only form a view from the information gleaned from the media. However, I think there is enough fact amongst the fluff to form a reasonable opinion that his State is one step removed from Communism.
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At least Australian states can't impose and raise taxes like Canadian provinces can.
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However, Freud is Victorian, and seems unnaturally silent on the issue.
Victoria is a prog state alright.
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Oh, but they can.
Indirectly.
They charge "stamp duty", "service fees", "licence fees", "payroll tax" and hundreds of other imposts, merely to pay for a government we don't need.
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Oh, but they can.
Indirectly.
They charge "
I am not sure what that is..
Provinces have income tax, sales tax and corporate tax just like the federal government.
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However, Freud is Victorian, and seems unnaturally silent on the issue.
It sounds exactly like Victoria, BC. :laugh:
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However, Freud is Victorian, and seems unnaturally silent on the issue.
It sounds exactly like Victoria, BC. :laugh:
I suppose it could be.
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Oh, but they can.
Indirectly.
They charge "
I am not sure what that is..
Provinces have income tax, sales tax and corporate tax just like the federal government.
In the old days, collecting taxes on transactions such as the sale of properties was somewhat problematic.
So, when documents certifying the sale of property were lodged with the Land Titles Office (or similar in various legislations), the had to pay the duty by purchasing stamps equal to the value of the duty imposed, and adhere the stamps to the title application.
This then changed when payment could be made directly with the lodgement, so the payment was certified by a stamp on the deed papers.
Hence the anachronistic term "stamp duty", when "duty" applies equally as well.
Our State governments cannot collect income or sales tax.
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Oh, but they can.
Indirectly.
They charge "
I am not sure what that is..
Provinces have income tax, sales tax and corporate tax just like the federal government.
In the old days, collecting taxes on transactions such as the sale of properties was somewhat problematic.
So, when documents certifying the sale of property were lodged with the Land Titles Office (or similar in various legislations), the had to pay the duty by purchasing stamps equal to the value of the duty imposed, and adhere the stamps to the title application.
This then changed when payment could be made directly with the lodgement, so the payment was certified by a stamp on the deed papers.
Hence the anachronistic term "stamp duty", when "duty" applies equally as well.
Our State governments cannot collect income or sales tax.
It sounds like a tax municipalities would collect here through property taxes..
Maybe it's different.
No. Its a property tax. An insidious and immoral theft of our own money.
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And in my city it keeps going up every year.
As it does here...as property values rise, so does the tax, because its based on the selling price of the property. How many properties are sold less than what they cost?
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//https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_5820174224001
The Australian state of Victoria is governed by politicians that make Trudeau and Turnbull positively statesmanlike. If they were any further left they'd be putting dissidents in labour camps.
Recently Sky News, a cable channel, conducted an interview with a far right activist. Sky provides an edited news service to the rail network.This enraged the loopy lefties, who, in order to protect people from such profanity, immediately banned the cable channel from broadcasting on Victoria's railway stations, to "protect against racism and hatred".
Not only was this censorship, but the vacuous, ideologically motivated Ministerial moron that made this decision on the fly actually lied, by claiming the interview was shown on the rail network.
It never was.
Such is the intellectual vacuum of the left in Australia, who will do anything to remove opposing viewpoints from public display.
This kind of censorship has become the norm throughout the West.
Exactly right. The left in every western nation is doubling and tripling and quadrupling down on doing everything they can to shut people up whose views they don't like. the left is showing in plain sight their hunger for power knows no bounds, there is no freedom they won't sacrifice to gain control. They will turn western society into a soviet or Nazi-like society of they are not stopped.
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/10/melbourne-residents-lock-doors-africans/
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According to The Age, there was a heavy police presence at the scene for several hours, including cavalry officers and a helicopter, with traffic diverted away from the area as gangs hurled rocks at authorities and law enforcement vehicles, smashing the window of a patrol car.
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Victoria isn't a Republic but it has its share of retarded progressivism. Australia itself is not a Republic. It's a constitutional monarchy. There have been pushes over the decades to move towards a Republic but we're a divided nation of pro suckle and anti suckle on the Queen's tit and our version of a Republic would end up being worse than the Chinese example so it's best that nothing happens until such time as a great pandemic wipes out the sardine tin living progressives in our capital cities or teaches them that nothing is ever truly free or should be.
Bricktop is a Federalist and believes that regional governance ie individual States and Territories should bow down to the mighty cock of authoritarianism, and that nobody except military or security services should have the means to defend themselves or put down aggressive action, including their own aggressive action which they refuse to rightfully acknowledge as authoritarian actions.
Bricktop has rocks in his head. On one hand he eschews socialism and mob rule but then on the other harangues the right of regional self determination, checks and balances, and the human right of self defence.
He's all over the place like a cop on LSD.
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According to The Age, there was a heavy police presence at the scene for several hours, including cavalry officers and a helicopter, with traffic diverted away from the area as gangs hurled rocks at authorities and law enforcement vehicles, smashing the window of a patrol car.
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Jesus Christ. Melbourne is getting no go zones.
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Bricktop is a Federalist and believes that regional governance ie individual States and Territories should bow down to the mighty cock of authoritarianism, and that nobody except military or security services should have the means to defend themselves or put down aggressive action, including their own aggressive action which they refuse to rightfully acknowledge as authoritarian actions.
Bricktop has rocks in his head. On one hand he eschews socialism and mob rule but then on the other harangues the right of regional self determination, checks and balances, and the human right of self defence.
He's all over the place like a cop on LSD.
:crazy:
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https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/10/melbourne-residents-lock-doors-africans/
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According to The Age, there was a heavy police presence at the scene for several hours, including cavalry officers and a helicopter, with traffic diverted away from the area as gangs hurled rocks at authorities and law enforcement vehicles, smashing the window of a patrol car.
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Jesus Christ. Melbourne is getting no go zones.
Indeed it does look that way. and just like Europe in Aus (at least according to the following "unbiased" cnn article) its "racist" to talk about this reality--
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/07/australia/australia-racism-interview-intl/index.html
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Certainly the political situation is better there than the US and Europe But the same kind of people who have been tightening the screws here are trying to do it there as well. Its a world wide western problem IMO.
As I've been saying.
And as an interesting side issue...the rampaging black Sudanese youths are Christian. Not muslim.
Any time you have a significant number of Blacks, expect problems. It doesn't matter where they are, they cause problems, ALWAYS. Luckily there are very few Blacks around here...
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The cops do nothing. The citizens cannot arm themselves to protect their families from these scum. Sounds very 'progressive' to me.
If a group of savage 'groids threatened me in my home like this, the first (and perhaps last) fucking thing they'd see is the barrel of a 12 gauge, and I'd be justified in doing so under Canadian Law.
Then again, I'm also wise enough to know to move