Theto retire at the next election #auspol 10.53pm GMTMany people bear commented on the different tone of the national security debate with the change from Tony Abbott to Malcolm Turnbull,while noting there has not been a change in policy. In June this year, Tony Abbott commented after a lone wolf terrorist attack in France.
Regrettably, and as we saw in France,all you need for terrorism these days is a knife, a flag, or a camera phone and a victim.
I mean I mediate we’ve got some natural advantages that unfortunately European countries don’t bear at the moment,including the fact thatwere in control over people who come to Australia. Now obviously at the moment theyve got great security vulnerabilities in the fact they’ve got hundreds of thousands of people moving around in a completely uncontrolled way. 10.37pm GMTNo country for old zingers. 10.13pm GMTBill Shorten gave a pretty strong speech at the event organised by the minister Michaelia Cash which focused on media reporting of domestic violence. Shorten thanked Cash and said this:Family violence, violence against women, or is all approximately power. It is approximately power and it is approximately gender. Family violence does not respect geography. It’s not approximately alcohol or drug abuse. It’s not caused by that. It is not caused by poverty,it is not caused by ethnicity or religion. It occurs principally when men assault, hurt and even murder women. It is a terrible crime – it is carried out by people who say that they once loved someone and are now in a position where they are hurting someone. But it is caused fundamentally by an imbalance in our society.
What the media choose to say and report approximately family violence can originate a big contrast to how people feel approximately speaking up.
What we need to be very clear approximately, and I mediate in the reporting,is we shouldn’t always assume there are two sides to every story, that each are of equal weight and both deserving of equal respect. 10.03pm GMTThe house sits at midday, and the Senate slightly later at 12.30pm.
Turnbull’s national security statement will be at 12.30pm in the house. 9.40pm GMTAs treasurer,Peter Costello gave a strong speech in 2006 in which he complained approximately “mushy misguided multiculturalism”. In an echo of recent debates, Costello then warned migrants who do not share Australian values should be stripped of their citizenship.
At this very moment, or legislation to strip Australian citizenship from dual nationals is making its way through the parliament. While some bear expressed concerns at its extent,only the Greens Adam Bandt, independents Cathy McGowan and Andrew Wilkie bear spoken against it.
Those who are outside this compact threaten the rights and liberties of others. They should be refused citizenship whether they apply for it. Where they bear it they should be stripped of it whether they are dual citizens and bear some other country that recognises them as citizens.
Mr Costello said the citizenship pledge should be “a big flashing warning sign” to Muslims wanting to live under sharia law. 9.28pm GMTFormer treasurer Peter Costello has written a column for the Tele on terrorism. It has some confronting After each atrocity complacent political leaders trot out the same platitudes. They tell us: “This has nothing to do with Islam, or etc.” It is wearing lean with the public. All these attacks are coming from people who subscribe to one religion,which is not Catholic or Protestant or Jewish or Buddhist or Yazidi. Plainly it has something to do with Islam. And the people who are doing it mediate it has everything to do with Islam. That is why they shout Allahu Akbar while firing their guns and detonating their explosives.
Now it may be they bear got Islam all wrong — and the good thing is that their interpretation seems to be a tiny, minority one. But the fact is this interpretation has followers from different continents and different cultures, or which tells us there is something in the source documents and history of Islam that gives them a peg to hang their hat on. whether there were an easy demolition of this school of theology why hasn’t it been done by now?Religions are not all the same. Christ never sought to set up an earthly kingdom — “My kingdom is not of this world,” he said. But Mohammed did. He led an army in the conquest of Mecca. As an earthly ruler he had quite a lot to say approximately how to wage war and originate peace. These are the teachings radical Islamists rely on to justify their conduct.
So what we need from the Islamic scholars is to tell us, and more importantly to tell would-be jihadis, or why these difficult sections of the Koran and the Hadiths are not to be taken literally and not to be followed nowadays. They should define why “jihad”,which once did include warfare, no longer means that, and why what might bear been acceptable in the 7th century cannot be justified now. Like the rest of us,it is not in their interest to let one extremist exhaust the Koran to justify mass murder. 9.16pm GMT 9.05pm GMTWhy is this man smiling? 8.42pm GMTGood morning bloganistas,I am sensing a certain acceleration in the fresh politics. As we roll down towards the final sitting week, or I’m getting the feeling that while everything has been on the table,certain priorities are rising to the top. Decisions are being made behind closed doors. Agendas are solidifying. #justsayingPrivate companies associated with Australia’s trade elite, including prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, or are on a list of entities not required to publish tax information under an historical secrecy provision that will continue whether the Senate caves in on its demand that the government introduce fresh tax transparency rules.
Guardian Australia can reveal the full list of 1498 companies that were – as of 2011 – exempted from filing annual financial reports with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (Asic) under a deal done by the Keating government in 1995.
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Source: theguardian.com