Ah, making a clickbait article about a ranking and quoting the experts telling people not to just look at the ranking! Great journing, SBS.
Thanks, Antibait Aktion!
A few further key notes in the article: [some may have been updates added after this post was made]
NSW Police said Mr Jones was charged with a total of 24 offences involving eight alleged victims.
Assistant Commissioner Michael Fitzgerald said:
- Police will allege the youngest victim was 17 years old at the time of the offending.
- Some of the alleged victims were known to Mr Jones personally, but others knew him in a work capacity and were employed by him.
- Other alleged victims did not know Mr Jones at all before the alleged incidents took place.
[NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb:] "I can't speculate in this particular case, but what is often the case is when it is known – the full circumstances and those parties involved – other people may come forward, and we are anticipating that other people may come forward,"
Sickening, although not shocking to learn. It's unfortunate this wasn't brought to light sooner.
Thanks, I rushed and used the wrong link. I've updated the post link now.
Unfortunately had an injury and couldn't walk along with them. Good on them for having the guts and solidarity to walk out together.
Someone in /r/australia noticed that contradiction too:
Mr Park said it would be impossible to "essentially erode the gap in wages in a single year" because it would cost the state several hundred million dollars.
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Their frustrations were heightened when on Monday NSW Police officers were offered an historic pay increase of up to 39 per cent over the next four years, at a cost of almost $700 million.
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Sewell was in contact with the Christchurch mosque shooter too.
More specifically, trying to recruit Tarrant to their organisation.
He is a cunning little thing, very good at walking the line without ever crossing it.
You're giving them too much credit. They've been found guilty (community service only) for attacking a security guard outside Channel 9 in 2021, was jailed for a month for the hiker incident and subsequently their org was raided, they've been beaten down by police in public on parliament steps (only after antifascists intentionally gave the police a premise to intervene) and if you want to count it, their lackeys attempted to attack a fundraiser armed with knives which would have certainly crossed lines if they weren't chased back up the street like the children they are.
What they're very good at is not being punished by the law or the cops. Sewer doesn't deserve credit for that.
Tom Sewer is a terrorist, they just kinda suck at it.
That said, their shift in public rhetoric is noteworthy. They've always been this kind of mask-off behind closed doors (see antifascist leaks and the joint media investigation where someone infiltrated their group with cameras on) but IIRC they tactically saught to play the 'they started it' card, avoiding explicit violence unless hit first. "Optics", you know.
edit: Ah, that lovely loaded quote about protecting the children. It would be easier to take it seriously if there weren't at least two known loud-and-proud child marriage advocates in their ranks, and a member lurking playgrounds to put propaganda stickers in them (10:45). The NSN didn't earn the nickname "Groomerwaffen SS" for nothing.
But Was He Really the First to Fly in Australia?
This kind of question clearly depends on the definition of flight, but it would have been nice for the article to give an honourable mention to Lawrence Hargrave, who lived in Australia since age 15.
Of great significance to those pioneers working toward powered flight, Hargrave successfully lifted himself off the ground under a train of four of his box kites at Stanwell Park Beach on 12 November 1894.
Obviously very different to a piloted and controlled flight like the Wright Brothers and these examples, but certainly notable.
by not using the countries name
"America" is not their country's name either ("USA" is actually closer, now that you mention it)
Can you please share links to China's homelessness statistics? Maybe my search engine is junk because I'm struggling to find any information later than 2011 (before some of the efforts to reduce it).
google (verb):
- To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
It would be great if we had laws which stopped people from doing that (both our own citizens and foreign). I want landleeches to scatter from here just like they did from China. No home for house hoarders.
Yeah, dismal job from the ABC this time. If you want a better account with quotes, there was one shared here.
Further details: the USyd student magazine's article on this.
Perhaps there's a new market for crystal cases then.
This is straight from a think tank commentary site (their words).
ASPI was established by the Australian Government in 2001 and is partially funded by the Department of Defence
The following copypasted from Wikipedia:
In 2020, Myriam Robin in the Australian Financial Review identified three sources of funding, in addition to the Department of Defence. ASPI receives funding from defence contractors such as Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Thales Group and Raytheon Technologies. It also receives funding from technology companies such as Microsoft, Oracle Australia, Telstra, and Google. Finally, it receives funding from foreign governments including Japan, Taiwan and the Netherlands.
For the 2019-2020 financial year, ASPI listed a revenue of $11,412,096.71. The ASPI received from the Australian Department of Defence 35% of its revenue, 32% from federal government agencies, 17% from overseas government agencies, 11% from the private sector, and 3% from the defense industries. Finally, it receives funding from foreign governments including Japan, Israel, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
So it's important to understand the article with that bias in mind - this is sponsored content.
