He said the artwork comparing Jesus to bin Laden was "somewhat critical" rather than offensive.
"It raises questions about what they have got in common and how they are different - Jesus himself said there will be many false Christs that will arise," he said.
Christians ought to be cautious about "running to the press" to complain about being offended, he said.
"You need to limit the language of outrage to things that are really outrageous," he said.
"[Politicians] should get on with running the country. Even though they are Christian men it's not an area they should be commenting on."
Starting in Louisiana, an intensifying push by lawmakers has determined pants worn low enough to expose underwear poses a threat to the public, and they have enacted indecency ordinances to stop it.
Since June 11, sagging pants have been against the law in Delcambre, La., a town of 2,231 that is 80 miles southwest of Baton Rouge. The style carries a fine of as much as $500 or up to a six-month sentence. “We used to wear long hair, but I don’t think our trends were ever as bad as sagging,” said Mayor Carol Broussard.
An ordinance in Mansfield, a town of 5,496 near Shreveport, subjects offenders to a fine (as much as $150 plus court costs) or jail time (up to 15 days). Police Chief Don English said the law, which takes effect Sept. 15, will set a good civic image.
Behind the indecency laws may be the real issue — the hip-hop style itself, which critics say is worn as a badge of delinquency, with its distinctive walk conveying thuggish swagger and a disrespect for authority. Also at work is the larger issue of freedom of expression and the questions raised when fashion moves from being merely objectionable to illegal.
THE Philippine Government has called on Australia to modify its 457 skilled visa scheme after the Herald exposed the illegal treatment of immigrants, including two Filipinos who died in workplace accidents.
But the Immigration Minister, Kevin Andrews, defended the visas yesterday and insisted the workers could freely complain about their employment conditions - a claim directly contradicted by a metal fabricator who came forward to say his boss threatened to break his legs and send him "back to India" when he asked for overtime pay.
Mohammed Nayeem, 45, from Singapore, told the Herald he had been forced to work 50-hour weeks but only paid for 38, and had $100 a week deducted to share a two-bedroom converted office space with five other workers while working at a construction firm in western Sydney.
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A beach with sheep, near Cape Coast, Ghana.
Hmmm...Republican US Senator Larry Craig of Idaho said on Tuesday he was not gay and had made a mistake in pleading guilty to disorderly conduct following a June arrest at a Minnesota airport men's toilet.
First elected to the US Senate in 1990, Craig was arrested by a plainclothes police officer investigating complaints of lewd conduct in the men's public restroom at the Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport.
Craig had entered a toilet stall and tapped his foot in "a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct", the investigator in the police incident report was quoted as saying in Roll Call, the US Capitol Hill newspaper.
"I am not gay, I never have been gay,'' he told reporters in Boise, Idaho, and apologised to the people of Idaho for what he said was a "cloud'' placed over Idaho because of the incident.
"I did nothing wrong," he said.
"At the time of this incident, I complained to the police that they were misconstruing my actions. I was not involved in any inappropriate conduct," Craig said.
According to the incident report, Sgt. Dave Karsnia was working as a plainclothes officer on June 11 investigating civilian complaints regarding sexual activity in the men’s public restroom in which Craig was arrested.
Airport police previously had made numerous arrests in the men’s restroom of the Northstar Crossing in the Lindbergh Terminal in connection with sexual activity.
Karsnia entered the bathroom at noon that day and about 13 minutes after taking a seat in a stall, he stated he could see “an older white male with grey hair standing outside my stall.”
The man, who lingered in front of the stall for two minutes, was later identified as Craig.
“I could see Craig look through the crack in the door from his position. Craig would look down at his hands, ‘fidget’ with his fingers, and then look through the crack into my stall again. Craig would repeat this cycle for about two minutes,” the report states.
Craig then entered the stall next to Karsnia’s and placed his roller bag against the front of the stall door.
“My experience has shown that individuals engaging in lewd conduct use their bags to block the view from the front of their stall,” Karsnia stated in his report. “From my seated position, I could observe the shoes and ankles of Craig seated to the left of me.”
Craig was wearing dress pants with black dress shoes.
“At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot. I moved my foot up and down slowly. While this was occurring, the male in the stall to my right was still present. I could hear several unknown persons in the restroom that appeared to use the restroom for its intended use. The presence of others did not seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched the side of my left foot which was within my stall area,” the report states.
Craig then proceeded to swipe his hand under the stall divider several times, and Karsnia noted in his report that “I could ... see Craig had a gold ring on his ring finger as his hand was on my side of the stall divider.”
Karsnia then held his police identification down by the floor so that Craig could see it.
“With my left hand near the floor, I pointed towards the exit. Craig responded, ‘No!’ I again pointed towards the exit. Craig exited the stall with his roller bags without flushing the toilet. ... Craig said he would not go. I told Craig that he was under arrest, he had to go, and that I didn’t want to make a scene. Craig then left the restroom.”
In a recorded interview after his arrest, Craig “either disagreed with me or ‘didn’t recall’ the events as they happened,” the report states.
Craig stated “that he has a wide stance when going to the bathroom and that his foot may have touched mine,” the report states. Craig also told the arresting officer that he reached down with his right hand to pick up a piece of paper that was on the floor.
“It should be noted that there was not a piece of paper on the bathroom floor, nor did Craig pick up a piece of paper,” the arresting officer said in the report.
Labor would also retain Work Choices' restrictions on union officials' rights to enter workplaces and sanctions against illegal strikes such as secondary boycotts and pattern bargaining where unions pursue industry-wide agreements.
The Australian Mines and Metals Association was scathing. Its chief executive, Steve Knott, said the plan was "an anti-business transition to the past" which would jeopardise productivity and industrial harmony in the resources sector.
Mr Knott said two-thirds of employees in the resources industry earned less than $100,000 and Labor's policy would deny them access to individual agreements which overrode awards.
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Preparations for the [construction of a $210 million toll bridge] began in March when Cr Quirk and Lord Mayor Campbell Newman turned off the T3 transit lanes on Coronation Drive for the duration of construction.
The controversial decision was made to relieve congestion on the busy riverside stretch, which carries about 92,000 vehicles per day.
A research report presented to the Roads, TransApex and Traffic committee today found the change had improved traffic flow at the Toowong end of Coronation Drive but had actually doubled average bus travel times during the peak morning period.
KEVIN Rudd has surged in popularity despite repeated reports about his strip club visit and a record surplus by the Howard Government.
The Labor Party now leads the Government by an extraordinary 14 points on a two-party preferred vote in the latest Herald Sun/Galaxy poll - a result that would see a landslide ALP win if repeated at the coming election.
Instead of damaging Mr Rudd's standing, revelations of a visit to the strip club appear to have helped him, with 85 per cent of voters polled saying it showed he was "a normal bloke".
A third said he was unlucky to be caught out. Just 10 per cent said it showed poor morals - and opinion was almost universal with male and female voters taking a similar view.
However in more bad news for the Howard Government, its economic credentials have taken a battering after Treasurer Peter Costello unveiled a $17 billion surplus last week.
Rather than attributing the surplus to good economic management, 51 per cent of those polled believe the Government accumulated its surplus by setting taxes too high.
Even 29 per cent of Coalition voters said the surplus had been achieved by excessive taxing.
Just 32 per cent of voters overall gave the Government credit for building the surplus through good economic management.
The Australian
Just heard an interview with "journalist" Glenn Milne where he refused to deny that Downer put him onto this four year old story that apparently been common knowledge among the press corps. The rest of the govt. is staying quiet about this because, unlike Downer, the slow kid who always eats his crayons, they have learned that smear attacks on Rudd don't work because he hasn't been around as long as they have. The story that Rudd being the last Queenslander to go to a strip club is laughable reason to not vote for him, especially compared to the moral lodestars in the current govt.
THE Democrats will paint the Greens as a party that has done nothing but oppose the Howard Government and is therefore not capable of holding the balance of power in the Senate.Democrats leader Lyn Allison told The Australian the Greens would be targeted in the election campaign as having done little in parliament and of trying to block everything the Government did.
Most pundits believe the Australian Democrats are facing political extinction.
"There's only one occasion where (the Greens have) supported the Government," Senator Allison said, "whereas we've engaged with the Government and engaged in the process of making the legislation on so many occasions.
"We are going to be running on how responsibly we've acted with balance of power and the record demonstrates that. We won't attack the Greens, but we do need to draw a comparison between them and us because to suggest that the Greens would work with the Government on balance of power is frankly nonsensical."
Senator Allison, who has been worried about her party's chances at the federal poll, expected in October or November, said she would urge the major parties to allocate preferences to the Democrats ahead of the Greens.
"(Senator Bob) Brown has only used his vote to assist the Government on one occasion; it was the plebiscite for the republican convention," she said.
"The Greens are saying we are finished and they are ready to step into the field, and we need to challenge that."
She said the Greens had not been active enough in Senate committee work.
Senator Brown rejected Senator Allison's claims.
"It is true that the Democrats have supported the Howard Government on issues like the GST that we've opposed and it's also true that they are repositioning themselves," he said. "There is a long list of bills where we haven't opposed the Government."
The Australian
There is no doubt Rudd’s current plan makes for extremely smart “headline” politics, striking as it does at the inherent health policy timidity of the Howard Government. Ironically that policy caution was only underlined by Howard’s own foray into the same area - his piecemeal attempt to take over the Mersey Hospital in Tasmania for no good reason other than it was in a marginal seat. But closer examination suggests Rudd’s initiative has opened up vulnerabilities for Labor on two fronts.
The approach is this; craft superficially attractive commitments with immediate voter appeal. But then push them so far out into the future that they are rendered almost meaningless in budget terms. And hope in the meantime the electorate doesn’t read the fine print.
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The essence of what Rudd announced runs thus; a national health and hospital reform plan would be drawn up in the first 100 days of a Labor government. At the same time the states would be paid a $2 billion incentive to bring their hospital services up to an agreed standard. If the states do not agree to the reform plan the commonwealth takeover would begin in 2009 with the full takeover to be put to a referendum at the 2010 election. To make the plan work, the GST component of health spending on hospitals - estimated at $20 billion covering 750 hospitals - would have to be clawed back from the states. It’s important that this be understood. Rudd is proposing not only to take defining powers away from the states he wants $20 billion back from them as well.
Er, if the GST component of health spending won't actually be being spent by the states, hospitals having been taken over, why would this be a claw back? This looks like a false dilemma Glenn.
Since the hospitals plan was unveiled we’ve been assured by a succession of Labor figures that it will never come to this. This relies on the blithe notion that Rudd will be able to successfully negotiate with the states because they too are all run by Labor....
The question then arises, if Rudd can’t wrest the $20 billion back from the states in order to fund his hospitals takeover, where does he get the additional money to make his plan work? Labor has been relishing the prospect of rubbing Tony Abbott’s nose in the fact that Abbott proposed doing much the same with hospitals in 2005 only to be rebuffed by the Prime Minister. What is not generally known, and what Kevin Rudd certainly doesn’t know, is why.
The impression has been that Howard dismissed Abbott out of hand. In fact serious work was done on the proposal. It’s now emerged cabinet finally decided it wouldn’t work because it would be politically impossible to rewrite the GST revenue deal with the states
The Australian - do read the comments, they're hilarious.So Rudd’s proud boast in unveiling his hospital plan - that “the buck stops with me” - may come back to haunt him in ways he hadn’t anticipated. Rudd, of course, will argue that this scare campaign is irrelevant because his reforms don’t really begin to bite until 2010 - after the next election. And that’s if he wins it.
Secondary teacher, unionist and Australian Labor Party member for 35 years. 8 years teaching in the Northern Territory: 4 in Katherine, followed by 4 in Maningrida, an aboriginal community in Arnhem Land. Broome resident since January 2007.
KEVIN ANDREWS has fudged his CV. Both his parliamentary and ministerial websites claim he was "co-author" of three books in the days before he entered Parliament. All appear to have been pumped out by the then Melbourne barrister in a remarkable creative outburst in 1990.
But the publishers do not see his role that way. They credit other authors and editors with assembling these collections. The name Kevin Andrews is not on the title pages. He appears to have done no more then contribute one paper to each. He does not even have top billing.
Over the past week, the Immigration Minister has been scathing about irregularities in the CV of Dr Mohamed Haneef's former Gold Coast colleague Dr Mohammed Asif Ali. The doctor is reported to have left the country and lost his job for exaggerating his employment in India by three months.
"This only came to light because of an Australian Federal Police investigation," Mr Andrews told the ABC.
"I think that Premier Beattie should be assuring the people of Queensland that this is an isolated case - that there is no other case in which somebody has falsified their information."
The three books Mr Andrews claims to have co-authored are:
* Rights and Freedoms in Australia, published by The Federation Press. The title page names the Melbourne lawyers Jude Wallace and Tony Pagone, QC, as editors of this collection of 25 papers. Mr Andrews's lone contribution is titled "You as an Elderly Person".
* Trends in Biomedical Regulation, published by Butterworths. The title page says this collection was edited by Hiram Caton, then of Griffith University. Mr Andrews contributed one of 21 papers: "Regulating Embryo Experimentation".
* Issues in Biomedical Ethics, published by Macmillan in India. This record of proceedings of an international congress of the Festival of Life was edited by Dr C. J. Vas and E. J. De Souza, leaders of a Catholic ethics centre in Mumbai. Mr Andrews's contribution, one of 39, was "In-vitro Fertilisation and Genetic Manipulation - Australian Developments."
Publishers consulted by the Herald said they would regard Mr Andrews as merely a contributor to these collections. The definition of authorship in the Vancouver Protocol cited by academic bodies like the National Health and Medical Research Council requires at a minimum: "substantial participation [in] conception and design … drafting … and final approval of the version to be published".
That is not the minister's view of the situation. He stands by his claims of co-authorship.
"The minister did not ever claim to be a lead author," explained his spokeswoman, Kate Walsh. "He is the co-author of publications that have no lead author, that have a series of chapters written by different people."
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That's funny, his website doesn't mention any of those other people, leaving the impression that he wrote those books himself.
Publications
Rights and Freedoms in Australia (co-author), Sydney: Federation Press, 1990.
Trends in Biomedical Regulation (co-author), Sydney: Butterworths, 1990.
Issues in Biomedical Ethics (co-author), Delhi: Macmillan, 1990.
Andrews' Ministerial Website
Fireworks - but not for you August 25, 2007 - 1:07PM Fireworks over Sydney Harbour will mark the closure of APEC but the public have been told not to attend.
Tall ships also will grace the harbour for the display named "River of Fire" but organisers moved today to ensure that it was staged for VIP eyes only, citing the security crackdown.
"This short five-minute firework display, accompanied by some tall ships and yachts on the harbour, will feature a colourful display fired from barges only, not from the Sydney Harbour Bridge," APEC spokeswoman Anne Fulwood said.
"It will complement the APEC logo that will shine from the Sydney Harbour Bridge from September 2 to 9.
"The fireworks are a very short part of the evening and I would not suggest that it's worthwhile for the public to try to view the display."
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Ms Fulwood said the concert and fireworks were designed to "show our guests from the Asia-Pacific a celebration of a confident nation rejoicing and proud of a wealth of talented performers".
But she said the best place for others to see the fireworks was on television "to minimise possible disruption".
The opera house is in the centre of a locked-down security zone during APEC.
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Energy efficiency may be on the agenda at APEC but it not in practised when Mr Bush hits the road. His motorcade, if anyone gets close enough to see it, will comprise more than a dozen cars, including the armour-plated presidential limousine, a Cadillac DTS fitted with the latest in secure communications devices. An identical decoy car is always included.
A normal Cadillac DTS sedan consumes 13 litres of petrol per 100 kilometres in the city, and 8.7 litres on the highway. But that is before it is stretched, and fitted with bullet-proof glass and armour plating.
The Chevy Suburbans are even less thrifty, consuming nearly 16 litres per 100 kilometres in the city, and that again is before they are modified. The last Suburban in the line often has its tailgate up and is bristling with machineguns. In front and along the sides it is flanked with motorcycles.
Protesters will be kept in what are known in the US as free-speech zones - well away from the man himself. Chances are, Mr Bush will be oblivious to any protests, as they are usually kept 500 metres to a kilometre from the venues. Anyone entering the secure zone, even with a permit, will be searched for placards or other material critical of the President.
Dear SBS,
It's time for us to come clean on just how much we think your new 6.30pm news format stinks. We've been watching SBS news since the broadcast range was extended to non-metropolitan areas of NSW (late 90s?), and none of the changes made to the news program since that time have been to its obvious detriment up until the recent addition of advertisements and the change to a soft 1 hour news format. When we first heard that the news would run for an hour we were pleased, thinking it would be merely more of the quality we had come to expect from SBS news over the years. Wrong!
More to the point, it turns out it's not just the two of us with this opinion. You guys aren't reporting on the furore that's erupted over Mary Kostakidis, but it's a sure bet you're watching more carefully than anyone what others are reporting. If that's the case you may well have noticed that she has almost universal support and good will from the public and her media colleagues.
We'll leave you with a taste of what some of your regular viewers think of this matter:6 Comments:
(from http://todaysapatheticyouth.blogspot.com/2007/08/no-mary.html)
By Gam, at 21/8/07 4:24 PM
Oh, I can't stand George Negus! What a fuckstick.
I'll be disappointed if she leaves too. And Lee Lin Chin's hair always deserves it's own special mention.By Magic Bellybutton, at 21/8/07 7:14 PM
Fuck oath, man. The new hour long format sucks donkey's balls.
It's all fucking filler - "your say": since when did a goddamn web-survey and the comments of the few deranged tools worked up enough to comment qualify as "news".
Jesus H. Christ, I watched SBS to get away from all that non-news bullshit that pollutes the majors - and to get some real international news.
Sadly, both seem to be disappearing. The interviews are even worse - dodgy, arguably bias or unqualified people rambling to stupid prepared questions by Stan Grant, desperately trying to give his best Witness impression.
Pah. I hate it.By patrick, at 21/8/07 9:23 PM
Patrick- I totally agree! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so. Whenever Stan Grant is doing one of his stupid interviews I'll even flick channels to see what's on Today Tonight or A Current Affair in preference to watching him! And more often than not I'll switch to the ABC at 7pm when SBS has yet another ad break. And the 'your say' bit shits me too. I feel sorry for the original SBS newsreaders because they are all highly qualified, multi-talented individuals, not bimbos whose sole qualification is a nice coiff and the ability to read off an autocue.
By Sarah, at 21/8/07 11:17 PM
Say it isn't so.
I *love* Mary Kostakidis. She's professional and smart, but you can tell that she could rip you a new arse hole if you pissed her off enough, and that's why I like her. Poor dear should do what she feels is best, but I agree that it just won't be SBS News Australia without her.
Oh, lamentations!By , at 21/8/07 11:24 PM
Lamentations here too! Mary K rocks, and Lee Lin Chin - the hair, the marvelous, spikey, grey wonderful hair! She is so utterly stylish and whatsisname is a total wanker. Gah.
By Rebekka, at 22/8/07 11:38 AM
It also wouldn't be a bad idea if you guys checked out the Mary Kostakidis support groups on facebook; already hundreds of people have joined up. We're saying this as big fans of SBS and most of its programming, and no doubt everyone else is too. By screwing over Mary Kostakidis you're screwing over your viewers. You won't find the same sort of support for Stan Grant and you know it.
Yours in hope that this will be sorted out ASAP,
Sarah and Gam
If this was a real farewell for Johnny he'd be digging his fingernails into the podium while they dragged him out by his ankles...That same year, the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint accusing Mr. Murray of violating federal labor laws at one of his companies, Maple Creek Mining, in Bentleyville, Pa., about 20 miles south of Pittsburgh. The United Mine Workers said Mr. Murray had threatened to replace union workers at the mine after they talked publicly about a labor dispute.
Mr. Murray has said that none of his miners have ever died in an accident, but federal mine records show otherwise. In April 2001, Thomas M. Ciszewski, a 45-year-old foreman, bled to death in the Powhatan No. 6 mine in Alledonia, Ohio, owned and operated by Mr. Murray’s Ohio Valley Coal Company.
Federal investigators determined that Mr. Ciszewski, a 22-year mining veteran, was on a routine job when a conveyer belt cut off his arm, and was “bleeding profusely from the loss of the limb.” He died, in part, because there was not adequate first aid.
The company was fined a total of $15,000.
SES volunteer Jamie Sterckx told an inquest into the deaths of all five people aboard the Immigration vessel he had seen a man waving at the search plane he was in.
"To me, it looked like a person in the water, a person sort of waving. It was only a fleeting moment," Mr Sterckx said.
The testimony drew gasps from family members of one of the deceased.
Mr Sterckx's testimony supports that of fellow SES volunteer Deborah Marshall and pilot Nathan Coote, who were also on the plane and who also said they saw a person in the water.
The Malu Sara disappeared on October 14 after becoming lost in fog while traversing 74km of open sea between Saibai and Badu islands.
The sightings, which, according to testimony in the inquiry this week, occurred at about 1.30pm on October 15, more than 20 hours after the Malu Sara began making distress calls, indicate it is possible that people could have been saved had authorities acted sooner.
The Howard government's Valentine to big business."The Howard Government introduced a scheme to guarantee payment of employee entitlements, where the employee had redundancy provisions and the company became insolvent. More than 68,000 workers have received $770million in payments since 2000."
Research published in recent years has shown noise can increase the levels of stress hormones such as cortisol, adrenaline and noradrenaline in the body, even during sleep. The longer these hormones stay in circulation around the bloodstream, the more likely they are to cause life-threatening physiological problems. High stress levels can lead to heart failure, strokes, high blood pressure and immune problems."All this is happening imperceptibly," Professor Prasher said. "Even when you think you are used to the noise, these physiological changes are still happening."
Just because they didn't say 'jews' doesn't mean that racists will start being selective...
Two men, who remain at large, bashed 17-year-old Alon Tam with baseball bats near Mister Glick's takeaway shop in Carlisle Street.
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The men had returned to the scene after earlier confronting Ephraim Manshari, 17, who had seen them chasing an Indian Sikh down the road shouting "f***ing Arab" at him.
THE Prime Minister has met in private the most senior leaders of the Exclusive Brethren, including a man who is being investigated by police over his huge spending on Mr Howard's election campaign in 2004.
In his parliamentary office two weeks ago Mr Howard met Mark Mackenzie, a Sydney pump salesman whose former company Willmac funnelled $370,000 into pro-Howard advertising at the last election. Willmac's spending was subsequently investigated by the Australian Electoral Commission and then referred to the Australian Federal Police for a criminal investigation, which is continuing.
Also at the August 8 meeting were the secretive sect's world leader, or "Elect Vessel", Bruce Hales, his brother Stephen, and elder Warwick John. A Brethren spokesman confirmed yesterday that the meeting with Mr Howard had taken place, but denied they had asked for Mr Howard's help on the police investigation, or offered support for his campaign in Bennelong.
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A Greens campaigner in Bennelong, Matthew Henderson, said the sect was already working on Mr Howard's campaign. At the Prime Minister's recent walk-through at the Eastwood Plaza shopping centre in his electorate, "there were a bunch of people I went to school with, and who I recognise as Brethren, and they appeared to be more than familiar with the Liberal Party supporters' group".
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In the 2004 Australian federal election the Raven-Taylor-Hales Brethren were linked to political advertisements campaigning for the re-election of John Howard.[17][19] The advertisements were funded by Willmac Enterprises Pty Ltd, a company wholly owned by Mark William Mackenzie who is a member of the Brethren.[20] Willmac's contribution to John Howard's election campaign, totaling $340,000, were later investigated by the Australian Electoral Commission and are currently the source of an ongoing criminal investigation by the Australian Federal Police.[21] In March 2006, members of the Brethren placed press advertisements and distributed leaflets[22] attacking the Australian Tasmanian Greens in the Tasmanian state election.[23]
Prime Minister John Howard has confirmed that he has met with the Raven-Taylor-Hales Brethren, stating he has no problem with the group and that they are "entitled to put their views to the Government".[24] In December 2006, The Age reported that Brethren representatives met with the Australian Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock lobbying for family law changes to "ensure that a child is not subject to a radical lifestyle change without compelling reason".[25] It has also been reported by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that John Howard had a meeting with Brethren representatives in his parliamentary office on short notice early August 2007. [26] It is known that the Brethren contributed significant money to the Liberal Party at the 2004 election, although the amount has not been disclosed; rumours range between about half a million to about ten million Australian dollars. Thus, it is possible that this latest meeting between the Prime Minister and the Bretheren was related to funding for the 2007 election campaign but the Prime Minister refuses to disclose any information about the subject of the meeting.
And morons keep going on about how Muslims are trying to change Australia. There will be a pay off. That money isn't free, some secret deal has been done to allow a criminal cult to whisper in the government's ear. Seriously, anyone who plans on voting Liberal at the next election is either ignorant or insane.
stan grant is a useless news reader and an even worse interviewer. he comes across as a pompous, untalented tool, which is presumably what got him on cnn. wish he'd go back there and we could get mary back. sbs really seems to be going down the commercial gurgler these days. first negus now this.