Multicultural Australia we were warned two years ago

Mass immigration kills Aussie culture, says demographer Bob Birrell
By staff writers
Herald Sun
March 24, 2010 7:49AM
    * 'Migration causes social problems'
    * Population expected to hit 35 million by 2050
    * Calls for enquiry into migration numbers
    * Aussie asylum seeker numbers buck world trend
TRADITIONS based on heritage, sporting culture and common language are threatened by mass immigration, a leading demographer has warned.
Monash University population expert Dr Bob Birrell  has said the huge influx of people with few or no English skills had created social problems in Melbourne suburbs such as Dandenong, Sunshine and Broadmeadows and most major cities were feeling the population strain, the Herald Sun reported.
"This is not a pretty picture," he said.  "Social divisions are becoming more obvious and geographically concentrated and certain areas are being overlain by an ethnic identification."
Dr Birrell made the explosive comments in an article for Policy,a magazine published by the Centre for Independent Studies,a right-wing think tank.
In a plea to the Rudd Government to slash the current immigrant intake of 180,000 a year, Dr Birrell warned that the predicted population of 35 million by 2050 would be a disaster for urban living and the environment.
"One would have to wander deaf, dumb and blind through Australian capital cities to not notice how urban congestion has already reduced the quality of life," he said.
The intake dominated by people from non-English speaking backgrounds was transforming Australia, Dr Birrell said. 
"We are losing core elements of what was once shared. Almost all could once aspire to a house and land ... and sharing a common language, sporting culture and heritage," he said.
But mass migration was creating ethnic enclaves in suburbs with cheap housing, and planning rules were forcing Australian-born "losers" and non-English speaking background migrants to live in congested neighbourhoods, "cheek by jowl".
Population target
Kevin Rudd has made it clear that he believes in a big Australia. In a recent speech he declared that migration was "good for our national security, good for our long-term prosperity, good in enhancing our role in the region and the world".
But the Federal Opposition and the Greens said questions needed to be asked about Australia's immigration plans.
Opposition immigration spokesman, Scott Morrison, told the ABC there should be an inquiry into how many people the nation can support.
"It's about what the carrying capacity is," he said.  "We need to get that perspective from regional areas as well as metropolitan areas, where issues of congestion and housing affordability are major problems as well as public transport.
"What's more important, is the process for planning. For example, the states and territories have no input into questions of immigration and migration intakes but they're the ones at the end of the day that have to service the needs that are created by it."
Greens Leader Bob Brown said there should be an independent national inquiry into Australia's population target.
"So that politicians do have an idea of the carrying capacity of this country, its infrastructure, its ability to deal with those quite worrying projections of 35 million people by 2050," he said.   "We've got to do better than just say well let it happen."
Other leading academics have also questioned the challenge that mass intake of migrants will pose.
In their book Australia's Immigration Revolution, Andrew Markus, James Jupp and Peter McDonald agrue that while immigration "offers ‘the most immediate and simplest short term measure to deal with labour and skills shortages" it also comes with serious questions about social cohesion.
Prior to the 1950s 80 per cent of immigrants came from the United Kingdom. Between the 50s and the 1960s migrants from continental Europe became the majority.
After the abolition of the White Australia policy in the early 1970s the mixture of migration changed again. Today, the largest proportion of immigrants come from Asia and Oceania.  China and India rival New Zealand and Britian as the biggest source of immigrants.
Many of the catastrophic outcomes alluded to by Bob Birrell are already facts of life in Australia's  “Occupied Territories”, Multicultural ghettos, no go zones for anyone who is, or identifies as Australian.
The South Western suburbs of Sydney are a good example of what Bob Birrell is trying to warn Australians and our Numb Nutted “leaders “of.These suburbs have been colonized predominantly by Middle Eastern “refugees” and escapees from Lebanon sent here by the Syrian Government during the 70’s and later in the 80’ and 90’s by targeted selection by Australian Labor (Socialist) Governments.
These Muslim Middle Eastern immigrants have at every opportunity made known their hatred of Australians,our Judeo Christian based legal and democratic governmental structures and everything that has manifested the Nation that RAN AWAY TOO NOT FROM and hold in such contempt with the exception of Australia’s FREE Hospital and Medical, subsidised Pharmacy,FREE Tax payer provided housing,Life long social security payments for them and their indigent off spring,FREE education,FREE Dental,FREE translation services for LIFE,Subsidised public transport fares for LIFE, Subsidised child minding fees,Subsidised Gas Electricity and Water charges,these are just a few of the parts (hand outs) these Muslim colonialists apparently LIKE about Australia.
The Government of New South Wales has even provided a specialist consanguineous / incest marriage unit at Auburn Hospital (a Public Hospital now part of the Occupied Territories) in order to deal with the tragic and grotesque manifestations of Middle Eastern Muslims sexual preferences.
The Government of NSW has also provided a dedicated Middle Eastern Crime task force within the NSW Police Force / Service to Police the Muslim Middle Eastern Drug importation / Distribution,Car re birthing / export,Protection rackets and Islamic Rape Gangs who target “Aussie Sluts and Pigs” of ANY age.
Ahh!!!! the joys of Multiculturalism. Australians have never known such divisive HATRED and lack of social cohesion since the official imposition of Multiculturalism during  the Socialist Australian Labor Party Government of E.G Whitlam, sold to Australians by Australia's TV and Hollywood Idiot Wannabees, Social Justice Snake Oil Salesmen and various “Christian Religious Leaders” via the mindless slogan / jingle  / bumper sticker  of “It’s Time” over thirty years ago.
Australia has never recovered from culturally and socially from the relatively short time Whitlam and his subversives were in power.
The Muslim inbreeding problem comes to Australia
Within Sydney's Middle Eastern community inter family marriage seems to be on the rise and it is leading to a high incidence of children born with defects: Erin O' Dwyer explores the devastating cost of a tradition that many in the West regard as taboo.
A smile twists across Kaled Assoum's face. Lying in his cot, he gurgles happily as his mother, Randa, tickles his belly and kisses him on the face. The eight-year-old, pictured above with his grandmother, was born with severe intellectual and physical disabilities. He cannot walk or talk, and feeds through a tube in his stomach. He has the mental capacity of a one-year-old. "I still love him day after day" his father Mohammed says. "From the beginning I was a bit sad and she was a bit sad. She started crying but I said in the end we can't do anything. That’s how God created him. Even if we cry from now on until 100 years, you can't do anything."
It is almost two decades since doctors at Sydney's Auburn Hospital began to research a devastating pattern of birth defects among babies born to Lebanese families. Led by pioneering obstetrician Dr Caroline de Costa, the study showed significant increases in birth defects, stillbirths and miscarriages among women who were married to blood relatives, particularly first and second cousins from families who came largely but not exclusively, from the Middle East. The study found that one in three Lebanese women were married to a cousin and, across the hospital's maternity ward, one in 10 women had married a cousin. Even more alarming was the finding that babies born to these women were four times more likely to be stillborn and eight times more likely to suffer serious birth defects.
Ten years later, maternity ward staff reported these marriages were on the rise. De Costa followed up her landmark study, interviewing every pregnant women who booked into the hospital's maternity ward in one year. In 2001 she published her results,revealing that almost 20 per cent of women were consanguineously married. Of those,more than half were married to first cousins and almost 60 per cent were born in Australia. 
Fifteen babies born to consanguineous couples - related by birth - at Auburn Hospital had severe defects, including heart, kidney and liver function problems. Among non-cousin couples there were five disabled babies - one with a cleft lip and two with club feet. Of those babies that died - six in total - all were born to consanguineous couples. "What was interesting," de Costa wrote at the time, "was that the proportion of pregnant women who were consanguineously married had risen from 11 per cent in the 1980s to 19.6 per cent in 1999. "In other words.. .consanguineous marriage is continuing to be commonly practised by the next generation. Accurate information about risks and non-judgemental genetic counselling need to be available."
When loving your family breeds tragic consequences.
For most in the West, consanguinity is abhorrent but across the world it is a respected cultural practice. Globally at least, 20 per cent of people live in places where cousin-to-cousin marriage is preferred, and nearly 10 per cent of people have consanguineous parents. It is accepted in South-East Asia, Japan, Brazil and Africa, and is particularly common in the Middle East among Muslims and Christians. In Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, about half of all marriages are consanguineous while in Lebanon it is about 25 per cent. At Westmead's Children's hospital, people from 14 Middle
Eastern and African nationalities attended genetic counselling. There are no figures on how widespread inter-family marriage is in Australia, but among immigrant communities in Britain and Canada the practice is even more common than in their country of origin.
Researchers say the trend is the same here. Families want to continue cultural traditions, and the small pool of potential spouses makes intermarriage more likely. Traditionally,the practice has been driven by economics. Dowries were reduced, and landholdings were preserved. Spouses had similar social status, and were thus considered more compatible. In modem times, family support has remained a key factor, as well as a practical way of bringing new family members into the country
So it was for second cousins Randa and Mohammed Assoum. But when Kaled, their fourth son, was born, his severe disabilities shocked them. His birth should have brought joy Instead there was sadness. And questions. "The doctors didn't say it was because we were related, but they did say stop... no more kids," Mohammed says. "We didn't feel angry we just accepted it. It's our faith that makes us accept it."
Their intense love has also seen them through the dark days. The couple remember being sweet on each other as children and when Mohammed emigrated from Lebanon to Australia as a teenager, he knew Randa would one day join him. In Sydney, he worked long hours on construction sites to win her hand in marriage. "Since we were little, our families said, 'She belongs to him and he belongs to her'," Mohammed says.
It was the same story for the couple's siblings. Randa's three brothers married Mohammed's three sisters, and their homes are clustered around the
Auburn area. They are successful, self-sufficient and extremely supportive. But Kaled's disabilities have forced them to reconsider their cultural practices. "What we're hearing from doctors and what happened to us, it's very hard now to let our daughters and sons marry from their family".
Mohammed says. "I wish my sons and daughters would not marry from their family" It is a viewpoint rippling across the Lebanese community
Nonetheless the subject is extremely sensitive, and families fear recrimination for a practice that has long been completely the nor in the East, yet taboo in the West.
The Assoum family was alone in agreeing to tell their story openly to The Sun-Herald but those who spoke on the condition of anonymity admitted they too did not want their children to marry within the family. Lebanese-born mother-of-nine Patima says it is a view supported by the Koran, which states that marriage outside the family helps create new friendships and bonds.
But cousin marriage was common in Fatima's family, and she felt that she and her cousin were well-suited. "But back then I wouldn't have thought about children," Fatima says. "I didn't think of him as a cousin. I was just thinking, is this a partner I can live with?" Fatima says that although her children are all healthy they are ashamed of their parents' marriage. Their grandparents would like the tradition to continue, but Fatima remains opposed. "My children are rejecting it," she says. "They feel ashamed about it so they hide it and they don't talk about it."
Australian-born mother-of-two Salima says she does not explain her family situation to anyone. "For us, it's a very normal situation," she says. "But it's a very difficult topic, because in this society it is unacceptable." Salima was still at university when she first met her older cousin - an engineer from Lebanon who moved to Australia to find work. The pair fell in love and later married. Their youngest son, now 14, is autistic."No one has ever said it is because you are married to your cousin," says Salima, who works in the finance industry "but I've thought about it myself over the years and
I've started to question it. I've learnt to live with the situation, but it's not something I would want my children to do."
It is the wind of change that the medical fraternity has been praying for. The risk of defect or death in babies born to cousin couples is double that of the general population - about 6 per cent compared to 3 percent. Butde Costa's year-long project showed significantly higher risks, perhaps due to the the smaller gene pool in Australian immigrant communities.
Auburn Hospital obstetrician Greg Jenkins who worked with de Costa on the study before she relocated to Queensland - says it is vital that families are educated about the risks, particularly those who face higher risks due to known genetic conditions or a history of intermarriage. In cases where women access high quality ultrasounds early in their pregnancy abnormalities can be identified and couples referred to genetic counselling. They can then decide to terminate - an option allowed in the Muslim faith in the first trimester - or proceed with the pregnancy under expert medical care. But
Jenkins says poor levels of awareness mean that many women book into antenatal clinics too late, and never see trained genetic counsellors or paediatric specialists.
Yet even women with the best medical care have stories that are heartbreaking. Jenkins tells of one woman who learnt at 19 weeks that her baby had a lethal brain abnormality She decided to carry the child. "From her perspective, it was the will of God," Jenkins says. "It broke her heart, but the way she approached it was that she would do the best she could because it was something over which she had no control. "It was a very painful experience.. .a very challenging and confronting situation. My staff kept wanting to send her away for more tests and I said, 'No, that's not -what she wants'." In the end, the woman's baby died an hour after birth. "[But] she got to meet her baby and she got to comfort it," Jenkins says. "She didn't have to make the decision to terminate the life of her child. Her next baby was fine and it brought great joy to everyone involved."
At the children’s hospital at Westmead geneticist Professor David Sillence believes consanguinity may have outlived its usefulness. "When you make the transition from Lebanon to Australia, the bank is on George Street in Parramatta - it's no longer money which the family holds in it own pocket,"
Sillence says. "Consanguinity doesn't necessarily preserve marriages anymore and it doesn't necessarily protect women from abuse within the family
It puts women in a relationship within their household where they not only have a husband but a father-in-law who is related to them because he is the uncle and there is increased pressure on them.
"There is a dysgenic [relating to or causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced] effect that's been shown in repeated studies." One of those is reproductive loss, Sillence says. He has devoted his career to untangling the complicated family tree of Sydney's Middle Eastern community
He tells the story of a Pakistani woman who had five pregnancies, all ending in miscarriage at 16 to 18 weeks. But he was surprised by the depth of grief in the community, particularly among men."I was not prepared for Mediterranean males who sit and cry for one hour about their sadness," he says. Dozens of men spoke to Sillence during a study at Westmead in the late 1990s. He hoped his research would lead to a funding grant to help establish a data bank of rare disorders, and improve screening and testing options.
But September 11 put paid to that. The research funding dried up and the community closed up. Politicians became uninterested in health. Sillence hopes his research will gain momentum again. In the meantime, he mops up the tears and discourages interfamily marriage, except in cases where love is Involved. This is because only love can overcome the vast grief. "You cannot know how much grief there is until you do a study like this," he says. "Your only research cost is Kleenex tissues. Grief can be like a well and that well is very deep for these families."It's grief heaped upon grief.. .the personal grief of a miscarriage, heaped upon the grief of a community, heaped upon grief in an international context."
For Randa and Mohammed Assoum, love has kept them together. And as they sit side by side in the lounge room of their Lidcombe home, their connection is obvious. They giggle, and smile at each other, recounting their courtship. "I loved him," Randa says shyly. "We're still in love and we'll never stop loving each other," Mohammed says. "Not everyone has that we're just lucky,thank God. And we love our children very much." 
The risks are far greater when blood relatives marry
* Consanguinity describes the relationship between blood relatives.Most common is marriage between first cousins.
* Birth defects occur because blood relatives share a greater number of genes, so there is a greater chance of both parents sharing the same faulty gene.
* Children risk inheriting two copies of the same faulty gene, and so being born with a genetic disability.
* Parents who are not related face a 3 per cent risk of having a disabled child. For first cousins, the risk is twice as high.
But, says Dr Kristine Barlow-Stewart, from the centre for Genetics Education, this means the vast majority of children are born healthy. "People think they will automatically have a child with genetic problems and of course that's not so,"she says. "The risk of having a [disabled] child when the parents are first cousins is around 5-6 per cent. "The problem is that where there is a tradition for relatives to marry, you'll get the grandparents who are first cousins,the parents who are first cousins and the children who are first cousins. Then the chance of them sharing the same faulty gene is compounded and there risk is much greater than the 5to 6 per cent risk."
The above article appeared in the Sydney "Sun Herald" on 28 May, 2006, Pgs 77 & 80 under the heading: "The family ties that bind".
Whilst Millions of Dollars are been spent trying to rectify and dealing with the manifestations of Muslim cultural / perversions /bizarre marriage customs and sexual practices, Australian veterans and pensioners are told they cannot access a bed for a knee or hip replacement or even more urgent life saving surgery for up to two or more years, Australian women have given birth to their babies in Hospital Waiting room toilets and in cleaners cupboards because the FREE Medicare health system is unable to cope with the demand for routine medical services for the most needy.
The culture of Islamic inbreeding is so well established and accepted in Australia that a Queens Council appointed at tax payers expense,to defend a member of a Muslim Gang Rape gang,responsible for what Police believe were up to 100 gang rapes of Australian children, known as the Skaf Brothers, used Muslim inbreeding as a defence for his clients participation in the gang rapes of what Muslims described as “ Aussie Sluts and Pigs” citing his physical deformities due to him been one of eleven children born to a mother married to her cousin at the age of 14 as been the cause of his troubled mind and therefore his background should be taken into consideration when sentencing was considered.
To imply that Australia has been diminished and lessened only by the colonization / immigration of Muslims would be incorrect, there are many other separatist cultural groups that have been established in Australia via the myth / ideology of Multiculturalism.
Despite the Australian Labor Party and their Multiculturalism machines non stop insistence that Australians accept without question any and all behaviours illegal or otherwise of their Islamic and other Colonialist friends and indeed guaranteed Australian Labor Party VOTERS has not broken the Australian spirit, Australians will as long as they have breath in their lungs resist the Australian Labor Party sponsored Islamic Intifada and any other Multicultural group the ALP seeks to use to reduce Australia to a third world crap hole like that their new best friends RAN AWAY from.
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Where is Rahma El-Dennaoui ?

Mum defend laughing about missing daughter

Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, 
ABC
Updated November 6, 2012, 2:21 pm

An inquest has heard a Sydney mother laughed about the disappearance of her infant daughter.

Rahma El-Dennaoui was 20 months old when she was reported missing in November 2005 from her home at Lurnea, in the city's south-west.

Today her mother Alyaa El-Dennaoui took the stand to give evidence for a second time at the coronial inquest examining her daughter's disappearance.

The Glebe Coroner's Court was played a phone conversation from earlier this year in which Mrs El-Dennaoui laughed when her sister joked that a friend might have abducted the girl.

"Am I not allowed to laugh?" Mrs El-Dennaoui told the inquest when asked whether she saw anything wrong with the conversation.

In another intercepted phone call played today the child's father, Hoseyn El-Dennaoui, discussed the search for his daughter's body and was asked whether police would dig up a property.

"Maybe they will, but god knows how many bodies they'll find," he said.

Counsel assisting the coroner, Robert Bromwich SC, suggested the property in question was a farm owned by the family.

Mrs El-Dennaoui broke down as she told the inquest how police had accused them of killing their daughter.

But Deputy State Coroner Sharon Freund said she found it hard to reconcile Mrs El-Dennaoui's emotion with the jokes she had made about the disappearance.

Mrs El-Dennoui has also been questioned about inconsistencies in her evidence.

The inquest heard Mrs El-Dennaoui told police her daughter must have been taken through her bedroom window by someone standing on a cable drum.

Today Mrs El-Dennaoui said she had moved the drum there in the days before the disappearance, but in her previous evidence last April she told the inquest she had not put it there.

Counsel assisting the coroner, Robert Bromwich SC, accused her of giving "two completely different accounts".

Mrs El-Dennaoui replied that she might not have been paying attention last time.

The inquest continues.


Rahma's family's phone calls 'secretly recorded', inquest hears

Peter Bodkin 
The Daily Telegraph
October 23, 2012 12:56PM

POLICE have been secretly recording the phone calls of Rahma El-Dennaoui's family in an attempt to uncover if her disappearance nearly seven years ago was staged to look like an abduction, a coroner was told this morning.

An inquest into the young girl's disappearance and possible death re-started this morning followed several days of hearings in April and May.

Today counsel assisting the coroner Robert Bromwich SC revealed phone calls between Rahma's family members had been intercepted throughout the last court dates - and for at least a month afterwards.

Mr Bromwich said the inquiry would now focus on the theory Rahma's that disappearance had been arranged to look like an abduction had taken place.

The last reported sighting of the 20-month-old girl was at her family's Lurnea home about 2am on November 10, 2005, when her father Hosayn put her to bed next to her two, older sisters.

A hole, large enough for a child to be lifted through, was found cut in the flyscreen above the bed the next morning when her siblings woke to find their sister missing.

Glebe Coroner's Court was this morning played a series of recorded phone calls between the missing girl's aunt Rouba Dennaoui and a family friend.

Speaking in Arabic, the two women discussed rumours Mrs Dennaoui's husband Ahmed - Hosayn El-Dennaoui's brother - "went missing" the night and early morning Rahma disappeared, when he claimed to be at work.

"This will send my husband to the place, behind the sun, do you know what I'm saying?," Mrs Dennaoui told her friend.

The women attributed the claims to another friend Samia El-Nabouche, who today agreed the women were speaking in a "secretive way".

Ms El-Nabouche admitted hearing the rumour about Rahma's uncle, but she denied being the one spreading the story or having discussed the man's absence with Mrs Dennaoui shortly after the disappearance.

"With this case, if something is obviously going to lead to anything - what happened to the girl - obviously it is serious," she said.

"I'm not going to sit there and shut my mouth about it ... because we all have a right to know where this girl's gone."

The inquest continues today.

Missing Tot's Dad joked about Cashing In
AAP
October 24, 2012, 6:53 pm

The father of missing Sydney toddler Rahma El-Dennaoui repeatedly joked about collecting the reward offered for information about the child's disappearance, an inquest has heard.

A secretly-taped telephone conversation between the girl's father, Hosayn El-Dennaoui, and his brother-in-law and cousin, Said Dennaoui, was played in Glebe Coroner's Court on Wednesday.

The 19-month-old was last reported seen at her parents' home in Lurnea, in Sydney's southwest, in the early hours of November 10, 2005.

Police began intercepting relatives' phone calls before an inquest began in April this year and continued until at least June.

Earlier on Wednesday, an aunt of the toddler, Rouba Dennaoui, admitted she referred to the inquest using the phrase "cutting the grass" during phone conversations with Hosayn El-Dennaoui because she "had a feeling" her calls could have been intercepted.

In one call, Hosayn El-Dennaoui is heard talking to his brother-in-law Mr Dennaoui in Arabic about the "150,000, they haven't transferred them to me".

He then suggests that another relative should confess and "we'll collect half the reward money".

Under questioning from counsel assisting the coroner, Peggy Dwyer, Mr Dennaoui admitted this was a reference to the $250,000 reward offered by the NSW government for information about Rahma's disappearance.

Mr Dennaoui said the "jokes" were "very stupid and silly" and that Mr El-Dennaoui was a grieving father.

"He's very upset. He want to know what happened to his own child," he said.

The court heard Mr El-Dennaoui was a strict father who tried to "teach the kids the right way".

But Mr Dennaoui said he had never seen Mr El-Dennaoui lose his temper or demand silence from his many children.

The court also heard that telephone charge sheets showed Mr Dennaoui and his wife Wahede Dennaoui called each other on the night of November 9, 2005, when Mr Dennaoui said he was home and believed his wife to be home.

The court had previously heard from two witnesses, neither of whom can be named for legal reasons, that Wahede Dennaoui had stayed at the El-Dennaoui house until about 2am on November 10, 2005, and that the toddler had been sick with a high fever.

Earlier on Wednesday, Rouba Dennaoui told the court that any suggestion her husband, Ahmed Dennaoui, had gone out for hours on the night of Rahma's disappearance was untrue.

She told counsel assisting the coroner, Robert Bromwich, SC, she was a light sleeper and would have woken if her husband had left the house during the night.

Mr Bromwich told her that by referring in a "secretive" way to the rumour that Ahmed Dennaoui had some involvement in the toddler's disappearance, she appeared concerned "not that it is untrue, but that it's true and you want to suppress it".

The inquest continues before Deputy State Coroner Sharon Freund.


Rahma Witness Grilled over Phone Taps
AAP
Updated October 23, 2012, 5:44 pm

A witness at an inquest into the disappearance of a Sydney toddler has been questioned about taped phone calls in which the role of the little girl's uncle was raised.

Rahma El-Dennaoui was about 20 months-old when she disappeared from her bed in the early hours of November 10, 2005.

She had been sleeping with her sisters in the front room of her family's Lurnea home in Sydney's southwest.

The inquest into her disappearance has previously heard police found large cuts to a flyscreen window in the room, big enough for a toddler to be lifted through.

"The possibility that in fact there was no abduction of Rahma El-Dennaoui at all would be a focus of the inquest," counsel assisting the coroner, Robert Bromwich SC, told Glebe Coroners Court on Tuesday.

Witness Samia El-Nabouche testified that when she last gave evidence to the inquest, in April, she had been aware of a rumour Ahmed Dennaoui, one of Rahma's uncles, took the child.

The court has previously heard evidence Mr Dennaoui was away from home for some or all of the night the toddler disappeared.

Secretly taped telephone conversations revealed Mr Dennaoui's wife, Rouba, was concerned Ms El-Nabouche might repeat the rumour, Mr Bromwich told the court.

"Had you agreed with Rouba that you would, in court, deny knowledge of any such rumour?" he asked Ms El-Nabouche on Tuesday.

"Only because I didn't know anything," Ms El-Nabouche replied.

Under questioning from David Evenden, who represents the missing toddler's father, Hosayn El-Dennaoui, Ms El-Nabouche said she was "scared in case things were going to get bigger".

She also told Coroner Sharon Freund she was "scared in case someone kidnapped my children as well".

Relative "Joked" about missing Rahma
AAP
November 5, 2012, 5:34 pm

A relative of missing Sydney toddler Rahma El-Dennaoui urged the girl's father to tell him if he had "done something" to her so he would know what to say in court, an inquest has heard.

Tamer Dennaoui, a second cousin of Rahma's father Hosayn El-Dennaoui, told him: "If you're hiding something from me and you've done something to this girl, tell me so I know what to say (in the inquest)".

The comments were made during secretly recorded phone calls between Mr El-Dennaoui and his cousin last May that were played in Glebe Coroners Court on Monday.

Rahma disappeared from her home in Lurnea in Sydney's southwest in the early hours of November 10, 2005.

The 20-month-old had been sleeping alongside her sisters in the front of the house, and police found cuts to a flyscreen window above their bed that were big enough for a toddler to be lifted through.

Speaking through an interpreter, Mr Dennaoui said his comments to Mr El-Dennaoui were a "joke" to make him laugh.

"Making him laugh about his missing baby child is a good thing?" Deputy State Coroner Sharon Freund asked.

Mr Dennaoui denied this.

Earlier he told the inquest, "If we don't laugh we would die. We need to laugh."

Counsel assisting the coroner, Robert Bromwich SC, put it to Mr Dennaoui that he was offering to help cover up any possible wrongdoing by Mr El-Dennaoui.

"You seem to be asking him to let you know if he's done something to Rahma and for him to tell you what your evidence should be when you come to court," Mr Bromwich said.

"If he told me anything he had done to his daughter, I would come to court and tell the truth," Mr Dennaoui replied.

He said he knew "100 per cent" that Mr El-Dennaoui had nothing to do with Rahma's disappearance.

"But because of what the media was saying and the police, we had our suspicions," he said.

"We had our doubts and I just wanted to make sure."

Mr Denaoui also told the inquest he was aware that police were at one point "digging up the farms of all the relatives who had farms".

"(That's) because the police have this idea that Hosayn killed his daughter," Mr Dennaoui said.

Mr Dennaoui gave evidence to the inquest in May this year.

The inquest continues on Tuesday.

The 2012 American Presidential Election an Australian 60 Minutes Perspective

Americans have the opportunity to do NOW what Australians have to wait for another twelve months to do................that is vote for an American / Australian to the highest office in their respective lands.

A Federal leader who sees his job as been that of representing the best interests of the people who elected him as opposed to representing the interests of those sworn (self declared) to destroy those he represents.

60 Minutes Australia is a notoriously left wing slanted "news" service, so I think that this story is reasonably good, around 55 - 45 in favour of their favourite son,His Royal Heighness, Huessine Obama.

Could it be they are trying to report the news rather than re write the news because they are sensing that the UN's and their Boy is in trouble?

"We need an America with a strong leader, Obama is not that person." Four years of Community Organizing aka Communism, It's time to vote for an American, dont you think?

Multicultural Australia where every day is a Harmony Day.Faalau Pisu, He was such a goooood boy, he neva do nuttun to nobody

Slain Comanchero Faalau Pisu a loving son, family says

Rosemarie Lentini and Mark Morri
The Daily Telegraph
November 06, 201212:00AM

TO his family, he was a "joker" idolised by his younger siblings and a "loving father" to his girlfriend's young daughter.

But to police, gunshot victim Faalau Pisu was an active member of the Comanchero Outlaw Motorcycle Gang.

The 23-year-old died in Liverpool hospital yesterday, hours after he was shot twice in the head while leaving a wedding reception in Sydney's southwest about 12.20am.

It is understood that before the shooting, the forklift driver and churchgoer had attended the wedding of a fellow Comanchero member named "Rok" at the Serbian National Defence Council function centre in Canley Vale. Police had monitored the function for several hours because of fears of possible violence.

Two other men - a 27-year-old gang associate and 25-year-old gang member - were also shot but survived.

Mr Pisu's death has "devastated" his extended family, who gathered yesterday at his parents' Mt Pritchard home to mourn. The family said Mr Pisu had been acting "strange" and appeared agitated in the days before the shooting.

"He was a tough kid but he would do anything for his family," Mr Pisu's adopted sister Faye Faimai Ale said.

"He was the joker of the family and all the little boys' idol. He was the guy who would pick them up and take them anywhere they want to go.

"My parents could never stay mad at him because he would turn everything into a joke. "When they went to lecture him, he'd always laugh and turn it into something funny."

Ms Ale said the amateur boxer was a "like a stepfather" to his girlfriend Linda Hinton's daughter Leati, 3, and split his time between her Smithfield home and his parents' house.

Ms Ale said her family - who were not aware of the wedding and denied Mr Pisu was a bikie - worried about her brother for several days before the attack.

He was last seen by the family about 1pm on Sunday when he borrowed his parents' car.

"We hadn't heard from him all weekend. He was acting a little strange though," Ms Ale said.

"He normally calls us and finds out what we were doing that weekend. Everything was short answers. So everyone had a bad feeling leading up to this."

Acting Chief Superintendent Arthur Katsogiannis yesterday said a "number" of the estimated 100 guests at the wedding were Comanchero members or associates.

It is understood Mr Pisu was a member of the Milperra chapter of the outlaw gang, which has had an ongoing feud with the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.

The culprits, believed to have been wearing black balaclavas, fled in a blue ute after the triple shooting. Strike Force Raptor had monitored the event earlier in the night and pulled over some guests on their way to the wedding. However, the officers left the function centre several hours before the shootings.

Supt Katsogiannis said Strike Force Pindamir, comprising State Crime Command detectives and the Homicide Squad, was now investigating the incident.

Serbian National Defence Council function centre officials did not return calls yesterday.

"We need an America with a strong leader, Obama is not that person." Four years of Community Organizing aka Communism, It's time to vote for an American, dont you think?

US voters need to put Romney in White House

Piers Akerman 
The Sunday Telegraph
November 03, 2012 5:27PM

TUESDAY will be crunch time for the voters of America and the thoughts of many Gillard government supporters will be with them.

Incumbent President Barack Obama has failed to deliver on his 2008 promises, just as Prime Minister Julia Gillard has failed her 2010 promises.

In both the US and Australia, largely Left-leaning media organisations have played down the failures of leadership and attempted to drive attacks on the personalities of their challengers.

In the US, the Obama campaign has tried to discredit successful businessman and politician Mitt Romney with bitter attacks on his religion and his standing with women.

Hopefully both these Godless pieces of Communist Shit are headed for the Exit door of Governance over any free people on Earth

Ditto in Australia, where Labor has mounted an unprecedented and baseless campaign alleging that Opposition leader Tony Abbott is a misogynist and hinting darkly that his Catholicism affects his judgment.

Why is this "Hag in a Bag" so enamoured with Barack Hussein Obama? Why does she want Barack Hussein Obama to be re elected ? It's like Nazis campaigning for THEIR preferred US Presidential Candidate in WW2 on the streets of America.

Surely it's time an American was back in charge of the White House instead of a self described "Community Organizer" 4 years of a President who HATES America, Americans and all it and they represent. 

Both Romney and Abbott have been pilloried for speaking the truth.

Last month, Obama voters made much of a frank response Romney gave to a supporter at a private gathering.

He had been asked how the election was shaping and replied: "Well, there are 47 per cent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

"There are 47 per cent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.

"That that's an entitlement and government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. I mean, the president starts off with 48, 49 ... I mean, he starts off with a huge number.

"These are people who pay no income tax; 47 per cent of Americans pay no income tax.

"So our message of low taxes doesn't connect. He'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich.

"I mean, that's what they sell every four years. And so my job is not to worry about those people.

"I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.

"What I have to do is convince the 5 to 10 per cent in the centre, that are independents, that are thoughtful, that look at voting one way or the other depending upon, in some cases, emotion, whether they like the guy or not, what he looks like."

There were predictable media claims Romney was being disrespectful of low-income workers but the underlying truth about the spread of the entitlement mentality in the US was unchallenged. Yet Romney had the gumption to stand by his comments, though he admitted they were "not elegantly stated". His campaign, he said, was "about helping people take more responsibility and becoming employed again, particularly those who don't have work".

Many Americans and Australians would see nothing wrong with his approach. As one chatroom commentator noted: "Did I miss something? Since when is what Romney said surprising? Isn't this what we hear on discussion boards and forums, day in and day out from the Right? 'You're on welfare. You want a free handout. I work for a living, you don't. You're lazy. Get a job'.

"Who the hell thinks this is something new? The only thing new about it is hearing it being said in such stark terms from a presidential candidate in this day and age."

Obama promised to lift poor Americans out of the welfare trap but there are now more people on food stamps than ever before.

Gillard's record is just as bad, with more people on benefits and more long-term unemployed.

Obama inherited what he thought was a poorly-performing economy with annual deficits of around $US400 billion. Today they run at more than a trillion. Gillard inherited Treasurer Wayne Swan from her predecessor Kevin Rudd. As Treasurer, Swan has managed to convert a $70 billion surplus into a gross debt of more than $250 billion.

Obama's budgets rely on the US printing more money and borrowing more cash from the Chinese. Gillard's budgets rely on borrowing and money-shuffling accounting tricks.

Both leaders essentially believe in wealth redistribution through big central government.

During the 2008 campaign, Obama notoriously told Joe Wurzelbacher - Joe the Plumber - "when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody". But the Obama experiment has failed Americans, just as the Rudd-Gillard experiment has failed Australians.

Obama's monument to wealth redistribution is his Obamacare package that would centralise greater control of the American population in Washington. Gillard's monument is the carbon tax that affects every Australian, not just the 500 "biggest polluters" she claimed when she introduced it. Both have been responsible for introducing green energy policies that have cost jobs and hobbled their economies.

Neither Obama nor Gillard understand how economies work or how wealth is created. Both think their respective federal governments are the solution, their opponents think they are part of the problem.

Neither leader has shown either a great interest in, or an understanding of, foreign policy.

On Obama's watch, Osama bin Laden was killed by US troops but Obama tried to take credit for the operation. Gillard's foreign forays from East Timor to Malaysia and Indonesia have been embarrassing.

Obama is running on promises of change, just as he did four years ago. His years in office offer little to recommend him.

Romney had an enviable career in private business and a laudable record as governor of Massachusetts. He can point to achievements.

America remains Australia's most important international partner.

We need an America with a strong leader, Obama is not that person.

Australia: NSW Schools now teaching that Hetrosexuality is not NORMAL

Being straight no longer normal, students taught

EXCLUSIVE by Miranda Devine 
The Daily Telegraph
October 17, 2012 12:00AM

STUDENTS at 12 NSW high schools are being taught it is wrong and "heterosexist" to regard heterosexuality as the norm for human relationships.

The "Proud Schools" pilot program, implemented in 12 government schools in Sydney and the Hunter, is designed to stamp out "homophobia, transphobia (fear of transsexuals) and heterosexism".

Teachers are given professional development to learn to identify and stamp out any instances of "heterosexist" language in the playground, such as "that's so gay".

But at least 10 Liberal MPs are "extremely concerned" about the program, and will complain to Education Minister Adrian Piccoli this week.

The program defines "heterosexism" as the practice of "positioning heterosexuality as the norm for human relationship," according to the Proud Schools Consultation Report.

"It involves ignoring, making invisible or discriminating against non-heterosexual people, their relationships and their interests. Heterosexism feeds homophobia."

The program should "focus on the dominance of heterosexism rather than on homophobia," according to the minutes from the Proud Schools steering committee on March 22, 2011.

The $250,000 pilot program was initiated by the Labor government but Mr Piccoli has overseen its implementation in terms three and four this year at six high schools in Sydney and six in the Hunter.

"It is envisaged that this program will be made available to non-government schools as well," he said last year.

Upper house MP Fred Nile yesterday attacked the program, calling it "propaganda" and promised to raise the issue in parliament.

"I'm totally opposed to the brainwashing of high school students, especially when they are going through puberty," Mr Nile said.

"Homosexuals at most make up 2 per cent of the population - I don't know why the education department would give priority to promoting this (program).

"We will have more confused teenagers than ever ... children should be allowed to develop themselves."

In June, Mr Piccoli pledged the government's ongoing support of the pilot.

But last night his spokesman distanced the Coalition from the project, saying it was launched by his Labor predecessor Verity Firth in 2010.

"Minister Piccoli has continued to support the initiative. Professional learning is being developed to assist schools provide a safe and supportive environment for all students. All schools encourage their students to speak to each other and treat each other in a respectful manner."

He said any material prepared by a "third party" would not be approved for use in NSW.

The pilot drew on a similar program in Victoria, the "Safe Schools Coalition" to "support sexual diversity" in schools, which holds that gender and sexuality are not fixed but fluid concepts. In Victoria, each participating school is advised to erect a noticeboard specifically for gay, lesbian, transgender and "gender-questioning" young people.

Mr Piccoli's spokesman said Proud Schools was not based on the Victorian model, and noticeboards would not be required in NSW.

A Proud Schools consultation report also recommended that schools review existing PDHPE programs from Year 7 to "incorporate learning about same-sex attraction and sexual diversity".

The program was based on LaTrobe University research that schools are the "primary site of homophobic abuse".

Australia: From the West to the East Coast, Every Day is a Harmony Day............

Labor's Cultural Enrichment Ambassadors hard at work ensuring that every day is a "Harmony Day" from Perth on the West coast through to Sydney's Occupied Territories on the East Coast.
Cultural Enrichment at its finest.

Bali Desecration : The URINATOR from Kingsley Football Club SHAME SHAME SHAME. Who is this FILTHY BUM?

Man caught urinating on Bali bombing site

Phil Hickey
PerthNow
October 15, 20123:00AM

A MAN in the company of Kingsley Football Club players commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Bali bombings has been pictured urinating on the Sari Club site.

OUTRAGE: A man has been pictured urinating on the Sari Club site, on the 10th anniversary of the Bali bombings. Source:PerthNow

PerthNow has obtained a photograph showing a man urinating on the Sari Club bombing site, not long after a minute’s silence was held at the site on Friday night.

The damning photograph comes amid outrage after it was revealed last week that the site of the Sari Club was being used as a car park and public urinal.

David Marshall, whose father Robert Marshall was killed in the blasts and was a trainer at South Australia's Sturt Football Club at the time, said the photo was repulsive and should be publicised.

“I for one am extremely disgusted that he has no respect what so ever for the lives that were lost as a result of the bombing,” Mr Marshall said on Sunday.

“I believe every effort should be taken to find this person, even as far as printing the photo to try and get leads to whoever he is and have him totally shamed.”

Several Kingsley players gathered in Bali last week to remember the seven players from the club, who were among the 88 Australian who lost their lives.

The emergence of the photo comes just days after Bali bombing survivors, including former Kingsley Football Club captain Phil Britten, labelled the current state of the Sari Club “disgraceful” and “disrespectful” to those affected because too many people are desecrating it with their urine and treating like a public toilet.

Hunting Down the Bali Bombers

Bali Bombing Ten Years On, Whats Changed?

There were fresh calls this week for the site to become a peace park and an area of reflection and remembrance for the 202 victims killed in the bombs.

Witnesses who saw the man in the photograph urinating claim he was in the company of Kingsley Football Club members on Friday night and in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The photograph clearly shows the man urinating with a bottle of Bintang beer resting on a wall above his head.

Mr Nimmo, who attended the 10th anniversary memorial service in Bali at the weekend, said he would be disappointed if the man photographed urinating was associated with the club.

“It’s pretty disappointing to be honest,” Mr Nimmo said initially, when told of the photograph’s existence by PerthNow.

Mr Nimmo was sent a copy of the photograph via e mail on Sunday afternoon by PerthNow asking him if the photographed man is a member of the football club.

Mr Nimmo later confirmed he had received a copy of the photograph but could not comment further on the matter.

“My hands are tied,” he said after viewing the photo.

It’s understood as many as eight players from the Kingsley Football Club travelled to Bali for the 10th anniversary of the bombings.

Phil Britten was captain of the Kingsley Football Club when he was caught up in the bombings.

Seven of his teammates who were on an end of season trip were killed in the blasts.

Mr Britten is now president of the Bali Peace Park Association, a non-profit organisation founded in 2008 assisting victims, families and friends who suffered as a result of the bombings.

He could not be reached for comment today but was quoted in the media earlier in the week as saying the Sari Club site should be better established as a place to pray and mourn those lost.

He said the Bali Peace Park Association remained positive that a park would eventually be built on the site.

Kingsley Football Club president Keith Pearce could also not be reached for comment today.

Labor's phony hysteria all over the place like a mad Womans S**t a Real Piece of Work.

PM's phoney hysteria over personal dust-up

Piers Akerman 
The Daily Telegraph
October 12, 2012 12:00AM

IN what seems a very long 10 years ago, prime minister John Howard, deputy prime minister John Anderson and opposition leader Simon Crean flew to Bali to do what they possibly could to comfort the surviving victims of the first Bali bombing.

This week marks the 10th anniversary of that atrocity; the three senior politicians flew up four or five days later, as soon as the already-overworked Balinese officials could handle the extra load of a top-level visit.

Howard, Anderson and Crean travelled in a small aircraft from the government's VIP fleet. They sat together, to and from Bali.

For the first anniversary, a year later, Howard and Crean and their wives, Janette and Carole, again flew to Bali.

Howard invited the Creans to travel with him and his wife. It was the decent thing to do, the civil thing to do.

Not an eyebrow was raised; Howard - despite being the butt of a sneer campaign by almost all media commentators and the nation's leading comedians - observed standards of behaviour that were above reproach.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott will be in Bali for the anniversary memorial service. They will travel separately.

The Howards will also be present, flying with the Abbotts.

Civility in federal politics seems to have died with the end of the Howard government.

As opposition leader, Howard had a good relationship with prime minister Hawke. The bovver boy from Bankstown, Paul Keating, set things back, but it is well-known that Howard, as PM, and the then opposition leader Kim Beazley were able to work together, as were Howard and Crean, despite the latter's narrow union background.

Mark Latham, who notoriously claimed he wanted to teach his children to hate, introduced an unprecedented nastiness to federal politics. Kevin Rudd, who one of his own colleagues was later to label a "psychopath", did nothing to remedy the situation and Gillard has now taken the bar below the most supple limbo dancer's reach.

Thursday morning, Howard spoke to broadcaster Alan Jones about the trip he took to Bali as prime minister in the immediate aftermath of the bombing.

Yes we did have Adults in charge of the Australian Government at one time in our history and it was not all that long ago.

It was an apolitical discussion and Jones' program received a number of messages subsequently from listeners who remarked upon the former prime minister's measured and restrained tone - the "voice of sanity", one said.

The contrast between Howard's sober pitch, mature character and reflective comments and the shrill tenor and venomous remarks delivered by the current PM this week could not be greater.

Labor women claim that Gillard spoke for them when she accused Abbott of misogyny.

They overlook Gillard's own confession to ABC radio's Philip Clark on September 15, 2011, in which she said: "I'm always happy to accept responsibility for my role and my actions."

Then, when asked about "the level of vituperation directed against you personally and the office of the prime minister" and whether "it's due to some deep-seated misogyny", she said, "I don't "spend much of my time thinking about that".

But clearly she has been obsessed with remarks made about her lack of leadership ability as she had her speech attacking Abbott for his alleged misogyny ready to run when she needed to divert attention from Labor's ongoing support for the grossly offensive former Speaker Peter Slipper despite evidence of his obscene text messages.

Last year she said: "I've got very broad shoulders and what I spend my time thinking about and doing is implementing the policies and plans our nation needs."

The vitriolic personal attack she made on Tuesday would indicate that her shoulders have shrunk and her thinking has narrowed considerably in the past 12 months.

"I didn't come to this position hankering for people to say nice things about me every day," she said last year. "I came to this position absolutely determined to do what we need to as a nation to make sure that we've got opportunity for all, right around the country, whether that's the chance to get a job, the chance to get a better job, the chance for a kid from a disadvantaged home to get a great education.

"And to make sure we don't leave people behind, which is why I'm so passionate about things like a national disability insurance scheme (NDIS). And I also don't think it's in us as a nation to really cower in the face of the challenges of the future, which is why it's so important we stump up to big changes, but important changes, like pricing carbon.

"So it's those things that drive me every day, not debates about what is said in politics, or personal matters. It's not what drives me."

That's good to know, except she announced the NDIS policy with no real funding in place, she told a bare-faced lie about the introduction of the carbon tax and, as we witnessed this week it is clear personal matters are driving her.

In perhaps the most farcical example of the phoney hysteria Gillard has tried to evoke in her followers to support her bizarre accusations of sexism against the opposition, she demanded Abbott withdraw a remark he made on Wednesday: "What a piece of work," he said.

Indeed. It is actually one of my favourite quotes from Shakespeare, whose works so enrich the English language. It can be found in Hamlet and reads:

"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals - and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"

In finding the expression "piece of work" unparliamentary and disrespectful, Gillard must have been offended by the reference to "quintessence of dust".

In this case, the truth must surely have hurt.

So what does entertain Australian Labor Politicians,their media apologists and sycophants ?

Labor's Finest

Misogynist Labor and their Financiers are at it again

10 December 2009

Mr Hawke was joined last night by about 150 friends and former Labor colleagues, including fellow occupants of the top job Kevin Rudd, Paul Keating and Gough Whitlam, at a black-tie gala in his honour at Sydney Opera House's restaurant, Guillaume At Bennelong.

The after-dinner performer, who has become known for her shows dressed as Mr Howard, was reportedly arranged to reflect the character of the birthday boy, who was known for his twin fancies of alcohol and women.

Mr Hawke (r) and his wife Blanche d'Alpuget (l)

The burlesque artist previously performed a similar show in Sydney two years ago, the night before Mr Howard's election loss, in which a fellow stripper posing as former US president George Bush also featured.

A tuxedo-clad Mr Rudd arrived late and without wife Therese Rein, but was there just in time for dinner.

"Bob? Fantastic - an Australian legend from central casting," Mr Rudd told media outside the gathering.

"He's reached 80. I reckon he's got another 20 in him yet. Watch out Australia."

Other prominent Labor Party figures at the birthday celebration included former opposition leader Kim Beazley, Trade Minister Simon Crean, Minister for Defence Personnel Greg Combet, parliamentary secretary for infrastructure Maxine McKew and trade unionist Bill Kelty.

The pre-drinks part of the evening lasted nearly two hours but Mr Hawke and his wife Blanche d'Alpuget were among the first to arrive.

In his 1994 autobiography, The Hawke Memoirs, he downplayed the role of alcohol in his life even though he had a reputation for being a heavy drinker at times.

Advertising guru John Singleton and partner Yvett Hartman rocked up to the birthday gala in style, with Singleton reminiscing to the media about the bad old days with his fellow larrikin Mr Hawke.

When asked what he expected from the evening in the way of a good time, he predicted a "Blanche" night.

"I think it will be more unlike Bob than like Bob," Singleton told reporters.

"Like the real Bob I've been with in a public bar somewhere, we wouldn't have paparazzi. It's actually (going to be) one of those Blanche nights."

Singleton took the opportunity to recommend Mr Hawke as the people's choice to occupy his former job.

"He should still be prime minister," Singleton said.

Mr Hawke, one of the country's most popular leaders, has remained politically active since retiring from Parliament soon after losing the prime ministership to Mr Keating in December 1991.

In August this year, he was awarded life membership of the ALP at the party's national conference.

Source 

Hunting Down the Bali Bombers

Bali Bombing Ten Years On, Whats Changed?

Misogynist Labor and their Financiers are at it again

Offensive joke about Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's female Chief of Staff Peta Credlin

SIMON BENSON and GEMMA JONES 
The Daily Telegraph
October 11, 2012 3:02PM

A COMPANY representing a comedian has apologised to Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and his chief of staff Peta Credlin for what Prime Minister Julia Gillard has described as an "offensive" joke.

A co author of this story, Simon Benson, refused to allude to,in anyway, as to the nature and contents of the "joke" in anyway shape or form because of litigation concerns.

A distasteful and offensive joke about Ms Credlin was made at  a union dinner in Canberra last night attended by Julia Gillard and senior Cabinet Ministers.

Manic Studios this afternoon said in a statement it unreservedly apologised to Ms Credlin and Mr Abbott for the joke made at the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union dinner at Parliament House.

"The joke was a last-minute inclusion and crossed the line," spokesperson Piers Grove said.

"We did not run the joke past anyone. Nobody from the CFMEU or the Labor party or anyone else in attendance at the dinner knew of the joke until it was told.

"The poor reaction the joke received is testament to the fact that we exercised poor judgment.

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"We unreservedly apologise to all parties for any offence."

Treasurer Wayne Swan was still present when the joke was made and made a speech after the comedian's performance.

"The comedian’s comments were clearly very inappropriate and offensive.  There’s no place for those kinds of comments and I made that clear to the union this morning," Mr Swan said.

The PM this morning called the union and expressed her anger at the joke.

“I was not in attendance when these remarks were made at the CFMEU dinner last night but I did hear this morning that offensive remarks had been made and let me be very clear, reports to me the remarks were made are deeply offensive, they’re wrong," she said.

"The comments should never have been made.

"It was wrong for them to have been made and offensive for them to have been made.

"In those circumstances as soon as I possibly could I rang the national secretary of the CFMEU and indicated I thought these comments were offensive.

"I understand the CFMEU has put out a statement in relation to this matter but clearly there is no place for offensive comments of this nature.”

The joke delivered by a comedian known as Fair Go For Billionaires, hired by the CFMEU, contained lewd and offensive references to Ms Credlin. Offensive remarks were also made about Mr Abbott.

The Prime Minister and senior Ministers had left the function, held in Canberra, before the joke was made.

However, several Labor MPs were believed to be still in attendance.

"It was very distasteful,'' said one Labor source present.

"No one was happy about it.''

A senior Government source said the PM had already left the dinner before the comedian began.

According to another source a "silence'' descended over the room when the joke was made.

The CFMEU this morning distanced itself from the comedian, with a senior official saying he was "horrified'.

"We did not know what he was going to say, had we known we would have pulled him of stage."

"Its not the form of our union...and it’s not something we would tolerate.''

Bali Bombing Ten Years On, Whats Changed?

Australia: The best country in the world to RIP OFF tax payer funded Welfare bar none

Madame Gillard and her Green Loon co conspirators are importing into Australia as many of these welfare bludgers as she can and no prize for guessing who they are all going to vote for once they are settled on the welfare teat for life.