Their ABC describes Muslim Savages attacks on Coptic Christians as "Religious tensions"

Religious tensions flare in Egypt

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 10/04/2013
Reporter: Matt Brown

The Coptic Christian Pope has launched an attack on Egypt's Islamist President, Mohammed Mursi saying he failed to prevent deaths when Muslims and Christians clashed in the streets of Cairo.

Egypt : 

So, I guess they were just carrying out Egypt leader Mohamed Morsi’s orders to rape non-Muslim protesters?

Not Just in Egypt : 

Traumatized 16-year-old British girl was brutally raped by 90 different Muslim men in one weekend

Transcript
TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Religious tensions in Egypt have entered a new and dangerous phrase. The country's Coptic Christian Pope has launched an extraordinary attack on the Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. Christians say the Government didn't protect them when they were attacked by a mob that included many of the President's supporters. Five Christians and two Muslims were killed in the riots at the weekend. From Cairo, Middle East correspondent Matt Brown reports.

MATT BROWN, REPORTER: In Cairo's back streets, there's an overwhelming sense of unease. In this Coptic Christian household, Simone Hosni Rashid is recovering from the loss of an eye, her face peppered by bird shot from a gun fired by her Muslim neighbour. But she says she has no ill will towards Muslims. Instead, she blames Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. 

SIMONE HOSNI RASHID (voiceover translation): Unfortunately, there is no security or safety and there won't be for along as Mursi continues to rule.

MATT BROWN: It happened as Simone was looking down at her neighbour's wedding in the alley below and he let off a celebratory blast of gunfire. The family insists it was just a stupid accident, not about religion. They say Simone's tragedy is part of a bigger picture of chaos and lawlessness since the fall of the dictator Hosni Mubarak, the rise of the Islamists who replaced him and the bitter dispute with their opponents. The girl's plight epitomises the chaos and confusion engulfing Egypt. 

SANURA IBRAHIM, AUNT (voiceover translation): No-one is guaranteeing security. Anyone can carry a gun and fire it. Those in charge are not running the country properly. 

MATT BROWN: A few blocks away, however, the mourners see a more worrying trend. The spectre of sectarian violence between Muslims and Christians cannot be denied. 

In the Coptic Christian church on Cairo's outskirts, the Hanna family is mourning the loss of their son Mahrous, killed in clashes with a Muslim mob. He was shot in the neck, the fifth Coptic Christian to die in two days of bloodshed over the weekend.

UM ROMANI, MOTHER (voiceover translation): I'm afraid for my children. I don't know what to do now.

MATT BROWN: The Coptic Pope has accused Egypt's Islamist President, Mohamed Mursi, of negligence over the deaths. That's a rare and pointed criticism highlighting the mistrust between the two communities.

UM ROMANI (voiceover translation): Our neighbourhood is usually OK, but now I have no sense of the security.

MATT BROWN: The blood-letting began after Muslim buildings were defaced last week, leading to clashes in which four Christians and at least one Muslim were killed. Then at a service in the Coptic cathedral on Sunday, carried live on television, mourners chanted slogans denouncing the Muslim Brotherhood, the support base for President Mursi.

When the mourners emerged, an angry mob was waiting for them. Mahrous Hana and another man, thought to be a local Muslim, were killed.

ABUNE BAKHOUM, COPTIC PRIEST (voiceover translation): This made people very afraid, even in their own homes. The police did not do enough to protect us.

MATT BROWN: Christian members of Egypt's Upper House say the Interior Minister must resign. The President has promised a full investigation. While 30 people have reportedly been questioned, the violence has opened an already-inflamed wound in Egyptian society. 

From the priests all the way up to the President, official words are about tolerance and cooperation. But for many in this community, fear has become fact and it's a bad omen for Egypt's future. 

Matt Brown, Lateline.

Agenda 21,UN,International Socialism,Anthropogenic Global Warming SCAM,Michael McLaren and Professor David Flint

Adnan Karabegovic Harmony Day / Multiculturalism Ambasador "Get your troops out of Muslim lands you dirty convict pigs".

Accused terrorist wanted to ignite bushfires, court hears

The Age
Adam Cooper
April 8, 2013 - 2:01PM

An accused terrorist had instructional material on how to make a remote control bomb that would ignite a bushfire in Australia, a court has heard.

Adnan Karabegovic, 24, of Officer, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday on six counts of collecting documents connected with a terrorist act and six counts of possessing documents connected to a terrorist act.

The court heard Mr Karabegovic had copies of an al-Qaeda magazine, Inspire, on his laptop and on a USB device found in his pocket when arrested after his home was raided last September.

"Get your troops out of Muslim lands you dirty convict pigs".

The accused's home was one of at least 11 properties across Melbourne's south-east that were raided on September 12 by the Australian Federal Police.

  
The court heard Inspire was published on the Arabian peninsula for those who declare an "open jihad" and as a "resource manual for those who loathe the tyrants".

Articles in six issues of the magazine in Mr Karabegovic's possession focused on handgun training, poisoning water supplies, making a bomb that would ignite a bushfire and a list of countries at war with Muslims.

Other articles specifically instructed how to make bombs out of common kitchen ingredients, welding blades on to the front of a four-wheel-drive to attack people and the best shooting positions for an AK-47 assault rifle at the Sydney Opera House.

The court heard that in addition to the magazine articles, Mr Karabegovic was overheard by the AFP in telephone conversations with another man saying he wanted to "make a plan and stick to it".

He also spoke of being prepared for war, being happy in jail, of plans to modify items bought at Bunnings into weapons and of his hope to travel to Bosnia for training, the court was told.

It is also alleged he was involved in hanging a banner over a building which read:

"Get your troops out of Muslim lands you dirty convict pigs".

Prosecutor Daniel Gurvich said Mr Karabegovic, when questioned by the AFP, said he thought he had deleted the files from his laptop, and had not looked at articles for months.

He told officers he did not read the instructional articles, but only opinion pieces by commentators.

The committal hearing before magistrate Cathie Lamble was told four witnesses would give evidence: a digital forensic investigator, a translator and two AFP agents.
The hearing continues.

Dr.Amy McGrath speaks with Mike McLaren about Agenda 21,Fabian Society,UN World Government and much more

This Woman should be classified as a National Treasure, thanks so much Dr. McGrath,if only our elected officials had the same Love of Australia in their hearts that you have for  it and its people

Michael McLaren is a fast rising star at Radio 2GB 873 Sydney Australia for someone so young, 25,he is an outstanding credit to himself and his parents, he possesses wisdom way beyond his years and is without doubt a shining example of what a young Conservative can and should be.

Wolves in Sheeps Clothing

The Bolt Report April 7 2013

Labor / Green Loon's Australia 2013: "FORCED child marriage, life-threatening domestic violence and dowry abuse............."

Another "Specialist Multicultural Welfare Industry" that Australians will be forced to pay for with no shortage of Labor Green Loon politicians clawing over each other to be the first to throw any number of millions of $'s at in exchange for votes.

New agency to help abused women of Africa, Middle East origins in Casey, Greater Dandenong

Rachel Flaherty, 
Dandenong Leader 
March 31, 2013 12:00AM

FORCED child marriage, life-threatening domestic violence and dowry abuse are rife in Greater Dandenong and Casey, a welfare agency has warned.

Shakti Migrant and Refugee Women's Support Group Melbourne, which champions the human rights of women of African and Middle Eastern origin, only opened locally in April, but already is overrun with requests for assistance.

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Spokeswoman Hiba Casablanca said the system was failing women of multicultural backgrounds.

"We opened in response to demand from people here and it's increasing every week," Ms Casablanca said.

"We need a specialist refuge catering for the needs of women of colour, run by people who can speak their language and who truly understand and connect with what we're saying, when we talk about cultural practices that violate our rights."

Ms Casablanca said some of the women's stories were heart-breaking.

"One woman, married for 25 years, her husband would physically abuse her by strangling and raping her on a weekly basis," she said.

"Financially abuse her by taking all her money and socially isolate her by preventing her having friends."

Ms Casablana said the woman was terrified, but embarrassed to speak out and felt she had nowhere to turn for help.

"These woman are being treated like slaves here in Dandenong and Casey," she said.

"They are very brave to speak out, but we need a safe place for them so they don't have to return to their abusers."

Progressive's Voodoo places Girls at Risk

Miranda Devine: Generation of girls at risk

Miranda Devine 
The Sunday Telegraph
 April 07, 2013 12:00AM

There is one domain in which woman have always reigned supreme, and that is the business of coupling, procreating and child rearing.

Therefore, if you influence women, you influence the fabric of society. Which is why feminism has been such an important weapon in the armament of the left.

But feminism has now gone well beyond redressing genuine inequality to advocating behaviours and attitudes that damage women, and threaten the health of society.

The evidence is there to be seen for anyone who cares to look, in the annals of psychological disorders that afflict so many young women today.

The zipless f ... eulogised by yesterday's feminists has become the norm for Gen Y in the form of a too-often joyless, mechanical and regret-filled hook-up culture.

Sex and human connection, let alone love and compassion, have effectively been decoupled in the hook-up culture, in which dating has given way to no-strings-attached physical encounters.

The term "hook-up" is exactly as dehumanising it sounds, and a fascinating study by the American Psychological Association last month shows how disconnected are the sexual behaviours and private internal desires of young men, and especially young women.

Yet the establishment's concern and outrage is marshalled against the rare piece of advice from elders that might offer an antidote to despair.

For instance, last week, worldwide mockery and condemnation fell upon Susan Patton, a 1977 graduate of America's Ivy League Princeton university, and a mother of two sons.

Her crime was to write a letter to the college newspaper exhorting women to marry young, and preferably a Princeton man, before they graduate.

"For most of you, the cornerstone of your future and happiness will be inextricably linked to the man you marry, and you will never again have this concentration of men who are worthy of you," she wrote.

She is right.

The fact is that no matter how much we change the social script by which we all live our lives, the mathematics of fertility don't change and IVF is no solution for ageing eggs if you want your own genetic offspring.

Rather than angrily denying the existence of this inconvenient fact, young women are better advised, during that extended period of singledom between early puberty and late marriage, to work out what they really want out of life. And older women owe it to them to speak the unfashionable truth.

To her credit, Patton has stood her ground, pointing out that work-life balance is not just about work.

The other piece of rare courageous advice rejected by the establishment comes from Tony Abbott.

Opposition leader Tony Abbott and his daughters.

Three years ago he said that his three daughters should consider virginity a "gift" that should not be given away lightly.

For this he was pilloried by the usual scolding fem set, led enthusiastically by Julia Gillard, who said the Opposition Leader's comments confirmed women's worst fears about him.

"Australian women want to make their own choices and they don't want to be lectured to by Mr Abbott," she said at the time.

Well, last week, in this newspaper, Abbott's daughters Frances, 21, and Bridget, 20, confirmed their father's comment had been "misconstrued," and that it was not about controlling women but respecting them.

Yet in this month's Madison Magazine  panel, in which Abbott took part with Sarah Murdoch, me, and feminist academic Kate Gleeson, Gleeson sneeringly asked what his advice would have been to his sons, if he had them.

"Don't use people," was his reply, the corollary to his earlier advice to his daughters, which was "Don't be used".

This irritated feminists, too, because it implied that men are the users, whereas the theory is that women equally are capable of using people for their own sexual ends.

Somehow this perverse aspiration has become morally desirable.

The Sexualisation of our Children

This is the sensibility that underpins the hook-up culture that is the defining sexual norm of our time.

In a new book, The End of Sex - How Hook-up Culture Is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled and Confused About Intimacy, Donna Freitas has compiled eight years of research into a revealing exposition of Gen Y life.

"Amid the seemingly endless partying ... lies a thick layer of melancholy, insecurity and isolation that no one can seem to shake. College students have perfected an air of bravado about hook-up culture though a great many of them wish for a world of romance and dating."

Among her most striking findings from American college campuses is that 41 per cent of students "expressed sadness or even despair" about hooking up.

These students suspected it robbed them of healthy, fulfilling sex lives, positive dating experiences and loving relationships.

At its very worst, hooking up made them feel ''miserable'' and ''abused''.

Another revealing aspect of Freitas' book is the extent to which feminist writers claim hook-up culture is "empowering" for women, despite evidence of the opposite.

She quotes Hanna Rosin's book The End of Men which claimed "the perfunctory nature of sex in a hookup is essential to support a wider landscape of sexual empowerment among today's young women".

Ambivalent sex is useful, according to this theory, because it does not tie a young woman down.

Meantime, the article Sexual Hook-up Culture in The American Psychological Association's review, Monitor,  shows the disturbing psychological consequences, for both men and women.

 They include unwanted sex (mostly alongside alcohol and substance abuse), profound regret and feelings of shame and depression.

Saddest of all is that while most men and women did not expect a romantic relationship as the outcome of a hook-up, fully one third of men and almost half of women "ideally wanted" such an outcome.

Anyone who has much to do with young people will have observed a sadness beneath the polished, perfected surface of Gen Y's smiling girls.

As the mother of boys I have had only glimpses of the existential pain of young women but it is enough to make my female heart ache.

More "Harmony Days" Down Under : Australian Mourners told to leave Muslims funeral "not welcome"

Non-Muslims 'not welcome' at mosque funeral for former policeman

"All of his friends were not Muslim, so they had to leave - it was a big shock. It upset a lot of people."

Yoni Bashan 
The Sunday Telegraph
April 07, 2013 12:00AM

MOURNERS were told they were "not welcome" by a cleric at a former policeman's funeral because they were non-Muslims.

The family of Erdinc Ozen, a former police officer and member of the navy reserves, are demanding an apology following the incident at Sydney's Auburn Gallipoli Mosque last month.

Mr Ozen, a Turkish-born Australian who served as a policeman until 2011, died from a brain aneurysm last month.

His brother Tunc said a number of senior police and friends from his fishing club at the Seven Hills-Toongabbie RSL left the service after the unexpected directive from acting president Dr Abdurrahman Asaroglu. Others attending included an 87-year-old World War II veteran and former NSW premier Nathan Rees.

"He told everyone it's a Muslim prayer service, all women and non-Muslims were not welcome and they had to leave the mosque area," Tunc Ozen said.

"All of his friends were not Muslim, so they had to leave - it was a big shock. It upset a lot of people."

Most hurtful for his family was that when it came time to move Erdinc's coffin, his closest friends were not allowed to take part in the proceedings.

"These complete strangers were grabbing my brother's coffin, not his mates, as a result of what this bloke had said," Mr Ozen said.

Mr Ozen has written to the mosque and Turkish consulate demanding an apology.

 "He didn't raise any of this with us. There were plenty of opportunities," he said.

"I've spent as much time thanking people for coming as I have apologising to them over what happened."

Islamic Friendship Association president Keysar Trad said: "What was done does not run consistently with our traditions. Our religion teaches us to be compassionate towards people grieving."

QANTAS has brushed aside negative and "RACIST" comments over its decision to take pork off the menu.. What Race is Islam again?

Name Change for Qantas?

Australian Labor Party's Head Office Moves on QANTAS

Latest from a Qantas cabin crew member is that you can pre order a Pork meal BEFORE your flight just like a vegetarian meal or Kosher meal and they MUST provide it.
So better for everyone to keep flying Qantas and make sure they all order a Pork meal.
A better way to protest I believe.

Qantas pork ban after Emirates deal sparks boycott vow on Facebook

Ben Pike, Grant Jones 
Daily Telegraph

April 06, 2013 12:00am

Pork lovers vow to boycott Qantas 
Qantas says new menu shows off multiculturalism 
Qantas bans ham after Emirates deal 

QANTAS has brushed aside negative and racist comments over its decision to take pork off the menu for flights that stopover in Dubai on the way to and from Europe.

QANTAS Goes Halal - Who said Pigs can't fly?

The new menu's architect, Sydney chef Neil Perry, also said the menu change ''shows off the great multiculturalism that Australia has''.

The official Qantas fan page on Facebook yesterday received a number of complaints from people refusing to fly with the airline after it changed its in-flight menu in keeping with the Islamic religion.

Administrators of the site were also forced to remove at least five Facebook threads because of racial abuse. Each thread contained as many as 10 comments.

A Qantas spokesman refused to respond directly to the online criticism and said there has been only positive feedback.

''Our customers tell us that one of the things that sets Qantas apart from other airlines is our high quality in-flight meals,'' he said.

''Feedback from customers who have flown on Qantas to and from Dubai and experienced the in-flight meals has been excellent.

''Qantas flies to every continent around the world and our on board catering is tailored to meet the differing tastes and cultures to each city that we fly to.''

Chef and Rockpool group owner Neil Perry was behind the menu change and said it is a way of forging a ''deeper relationship''.

''It shows off the great multiculturalism that Australia has. It's easy for me to blend dishes from around the world that I have seen in the great restaurants of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane,'' he said.

''The local produce is awesome too. One of the things we really wanted to do was to make this a deeper relationship than just ground facilities and frequent flyer points and I think through food is the way to do it.''

Perry said the exclusion of pork products and alcohol, both considered against the teaching of Islam, did not have a big impact on his business as it was only one major flight a day from Sydney.

He has already created special dishes for Qantas customers flying in and out of Muslim-dominated destinations including Jakarta.

The changes were made as part of the airline's partnership with Middle Eastern Airline Emirates and affect six flights a day between Australia and Europe.

These flights now stopover at Dubai instead of Singapore. All other domestic and international flights are unchanged.

Perry's dishes are created by third-party caterers in Sydney and Dubai and include economy class meals of baby cos salad with tomato, cucumber and cheese, and chicken blanquette with spinach linguine and carrots.

In business class, customers can get seared sea bass with braised fennel and warm zucchini salad, or Arabian lamb with spiced almond rice, artichokes and capsicum. 

QANTAS Goes Halal - Who said Pigs can't fly?

Pigs can't fly - Qantas bans pork on in-flight menu to respect Islam

Alan Joyce is a self outed / confessed Homosexual, as are many of the men and women entertainers and assorted Political and Union Bludgers and Free loaders who were flown to Dubai to "celebrate" this latest Gay Corporate alliance with those who would hang them from light poles and mobile cranes at the first chance they get the moment they feel they have the ascendency,and as such would be subject to arrest immediately upon landing in Dubai.
There is a code of conduct for all Qantas crew to uphold so as to ensure their safety in their employers "new best friends" brave new world of Sharia Law.
How long before Qantas female cabin crew are bagged in the freedom sack like their sista's at Emirates so as to fall into line with their new masters?

Is it an Irish "Australia Hating" Gay Industry,Labor Union thing with their ongoing Love Affair with the UN's Rabid Pit Bull, Islam, or just a case of been so far to the left that anything or any ideology that helps to smear and obliterates Australia's national carriers identity is worth getting into bed with?

No matter what it is : FUCK YAS ALL.

Angela Saurine and Peter Holmes 
The Daily Telegraph
April 05, 2013 12:00AM

QANTAS has removed pork from its in-flight menu on flights to and from Europe as a result of its partnership with Middle Eastern airline Emirates.

No food containing pork or pork products will be served on those flights - which now has a stopover in Dubai - because it is strictly forbidden in Islam and is considered "unholy".

All meals offered on the route in first, business and economy classes will also be prepared without alcohol in keeping with the Islamic religion. A note on the Qantas menus on flights in and out of Dubai states that the meals do not contain pork products or alcohol. The airline has also introduced a mezze plate offering traditional Middle Eastern fare in its upper classes and has Arabic translations after in-flight announcements.

A Qantas spokesman said the decision to remove pork, ham and other related food items had had minimal impact on its menu and it was still offering the same meal choices.

"Qantas in-flight catering often reflects the cultural and regional influences of the international destinations we fly to," he said.

"On flights to and from Hong Kong and China, our menus include regionally inspired dishes such as stir fries and to Singapore we have noodle options."

Qantas also offers meals without pork and alcohol on flights to the Indonesian capital Jakarta, which also has a large Muslim population.

Several other airlines which fly from Australia to the United Arab Emirates and Malaysia do not serve pork either.

Virgin Australia does not serve pork on flights to and from Abu Dhabi and all meals that are prepared are halal accredited, with meat prepared in a way prescribed by Islamic law.

Qantas passengers heading to any European city now fly via Dubai instead of Singapore, as they did under the airline's previous longstanding partnership with British Airways. The Qantas pork ban comes as other airlines - in the wake of the Qantas-Emirates merger - jostle for market share by aggressively discounting fares from Australia to Europe.

British Airways enlisted Mick Jagger's daughter, model Georgia May Jagger, to promote its discounted fares of $1777 to the UK via Singapore.

Emirates competitor Abu Dhabi-based carrier Etihad has return fares to Manchester or London from $1727 including taxes. Virgin was also promoting discounted fares to London out of Sydney ($1845) and Brisbane ($1869) this week. Qantas fares to London were yesterday priced about $1900 out of most capital cities - still around $100 more than its new partner Emirates is advertising.

I was told at least ten years ago by a senior Qantas executive that Qantas was going to be put out of business,what better way to smear its reputation than partnering with these Savages and pandering to their Moon / Occult Worshipping superstitions.

How does any western airline compete with any airline that basically gets free fuel for its fleet? For all the Dumb Arsed Australians gloating how they managed to get a cheaper fare from one of these Muslim airlines when Qantas is gone or fully owned by them,what price do you think you will pay for a fare then?

To all my fellow Australians I urge you to support OUR Airline at every opportunity irrespective of the price difference but do not Fly through Dubai take the longer road through Singapore,it is far safer and you are not supporting those have sworn to destroy us at any and every opportunity available to them.

Marxiist's now demanding even more money to "fix" the problems they have created in our schools ------The Gonski illusion

The Gonski illusion

Miranda Devine –
Daily Telegraph
Tuesday, April 02, 2013 (7:52pm)

THE most despicable thing about the “I give a Gonski” ads on TV is their dishonest use of a young boy struggling to read. This struggle is a tragedy going on in our classrooms every day.

As many as 30 per cent of Australian children leave school functionally illiterate. Children of normal intelligence can’t read because their teachers have not been taught the most effective way to teach them - which is systematic, explicit phonics instruction, linking the letters in our alphabet to sounds.

If these children are unlucky enough to come from a home where their parents can’t overcome the schooling deficit, they are doomed to illiteracy and consigned to the margins.

The militant left-wing Australian Education Union that pays for the ads offers a self-serving lie for a solution. It pretends that more money will magically fix the problems.

“If public schools don’t get urgent funding more of our kids will get left behind,” intones the narrator, exhorting parents to “give a gonski”.

The noun in that catchphrase refers to businessman David Gonski, whose report into school funding has become a magic wand of mythical proportions. It recommended the federal government spend $6.5 billion a year extra on smaller classes and more specialist 
teachers.

Julia Gillard, who wants to be known as the “education prime minister”, will finalise funding with the states on April 19, at the Council of Australian Governments meeting, trying to create the illusion of Gonski billions, despite the fact the government is broke.

But the fact is that more money does not equal better education. It’s how you spend the money that counts.

Australia increased spending on schools by more than 40 per cent last decade and the results are a disgrace . The reading skills of our Year 4 students are the worst of every English-speaking country tested in the first Progress in 

International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) last year of 325,000 students. One quarter of our students couldn’t even manage to read at the basic minimum standard for their age group.

These are children whose entire school life has been under the Labor government, which promised an education revolution and instead provided some overpriced school halls and laptop computers.

The revolution needed is not in bricks and silicon chips. What’s needed is the destruction of the progressive education ideology that has held sway at teacher training institutions for more than 40 years.

The man who you might genetically design for that brutal job is Christopher Pyne, who is likely to become the federal minister for education after the next election, if the polls are any indication. Unlike most of his predecessors, Pyne is unlikely to be bullied or 
hoodwinked by the education establishment into accepting its most destructive intellectual fads.

For Pyne, 45, the reading wars - between phonics advocates and whole language devotees - is deeply personal.

His father, Dr Remington Pyne, was an eye surgeon who took a special interest in dyslexia when Christopher’s oldest brother was diagnosed with reading problems - and helped found SPELD, a non-profit group to help people with learning difficulties.

Pyne also has four children of his own at school in Adelaide, from kindergarten to Year 7. His 12-year-old twins, Eleanor and Barnaby, are dyslexic , and he says his life experience has “given me a particular insight into education”.

He says Gonski has been a “distraction from the real debate which is the quality of education (which is) determined by the quality of teachers, parental engagement, a robust curriculum and decisions being made as locally as possible by principals and leadership teams”.

On teacher quality he says: “We need to recognise that teacher training in the last 10 or 20 years not been what the market tells us we need… There’s been a battle in education departments and universities since the 1970s about the direction of education, and one side has been winning.”

That winner is, “the progressive side that rejects traditional teaching methods and a traditional curriculum. Student-centred learning is part of that and an acceptance of lowest common denominator outcomes, a specific rejection of excellence and a view schools are not about knowledge but about skills, which I think is poisonous. Students have to be about knowledge first and skills second”.

“This is a very hard row to hoe in Australia because most educators today have been trained in this progressive approach to education and nobody wants to disagree.”

As a model for the rest of the country, he points to Western Australia, where the Barnett government has given schools the option to take control of their budgets. Principals now have the power to choose the best teachers and spend their money the way that suits 
students.

“This is anathema to anyone who wants central control of education ... my intention, should I be fortunate enough to become education minister, will be to radically alter the way we think about education in Australia, to place competition, the individual and 
self-reliance at the centre of our education system,” he says.

To do any good, Pyne will have to nuke the progressive education establishment. But if anyone has the courage and cunning to win that war, it’s him.

UPDATE: In comments, below, teacher-librarian Sandra claims that “at no time have I ever come across a teacher who has not included phonics as part of their Reading program in any Primary school in which I have taught.”

This is one of the most insidious developments of the so-called reading wars - the incorporation of incidental phonics as a sop to shut up the critics. It has led well-meaning teachers down the wrong path.

The evidence-based research on reading shows that “including” some token phonics instruction in what is essentially a whole language program is not optimal. What is needed, as found by the National inquiry into the teaching of literacy ,chaired by the eminent late Professor Ken Rowe, is: “[early] systematic, direct and explicit phonics instruction so that children master the essential alphabetic code-breaking skills required for foundational reading proficiency.” Systematic. Direct. Explicit. Not incidental.

(I was a member of the inquiry committee.)

Miranda Devine 
Wed 03 Apr 13 (02:21pm)

More Harmony Day's Down Under...Ahmed Elomar,

Ahmed Elomar - a hit to a brawler's defence

Vanda Carson 
The Daily Telegraph
 April 04, 2013 12:00AM

A FORMER champion boxer accused of attacking a policeman during the Hyde Park Muslim riots has claimed other assault charges against him should be dismissed because he is "easily led" to commit crime because of blows to the head inflicted while boxing.

Ahmed Elomar, 30, the only man still in custody before facing trial over the September clashes, made the claim in Central Local Court yesterday as he was due to be sentenced over a brawl at a Bankstown juice bar on June 28, 2012. Elomar, from Denham Court, was charged with two counts of assault and one of affray, as well as two counts of driving while disqualified and one of possessing a mobile phone in his cell at Long Bay jail.

The court heard Elomar was among a group of 20 men - including an armed man - who assaulted Juicylicious juice bar owner Ali Issawi on June 28. He also threatened to burn down the juice bar, throwing a firecracker into the store the following day.

Elomar's lawyer Winston Terracini SC argued the charges should be dismissed under the Mental Health Act because Elomar was "easily led to take part in" criminal behaviour because of head injuries suffered during his teenage boxing career.

Mr Terracini said Elomar may have suffered "cognitive impairment" from boxing.

He needed to be taken to a "specialist teaching hospital" for MRI scans and "neurological" testing. Aside from any boxing injury, doctors should test to see if he had a "developmental disability", Mr Terracini said.

Mr Elomar may have "mild mental retardation" and post-traumatic stress disorder from "experiences some time ago in Lebanon", Mr Terracini said.

Magistrate Elizabeth Ryan dismissed Mr Terracini's application under the Mental Health Act and gave Elomar a one-year jail term for all the offences. He had been in jail since September last year awaiting trial on the riot charges, and so would be eligible for release from this sentence in September.

These latest charges of affray and assault were brought by the Counter-Terrorism Squad, which said in documents tendered to court that the crime was a religiously motivated attack by a group of Sunni Muslims.

It said Mr Issawi was targeted because he is a Shia Muslim and was believed to be a supporter of Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad.

"(Elomar) took hold of Ali Issawi by the throat and said 'Are you the owner of the shop?' We are going to burn it down," the documents said.

An unknown man who was with Elomar, and who had a gun tucked into his pants, said to Mr Issawi: "We are going to slaughter your necks, all of you, one at a time."

The documents state the group of 20 men who attacked the store emerged from the neighbouring business - the Al Risalah book store.

Bookstore owner Wisam Haddad asked Mr Issawi to prove he was not supporting Mr Al-Assad by donating money to Syria via the bookstore. Mr Issawi did not donate.

Omar Halaby 19 year old Muslim Insurgent / Rioter and Disability Pensioner.

Muslim rioter and vandal Omar Halaby spared jail following September 15 2012 Sydney CBD Muslim Insurgency Riots..Life on the pension is a riot for Omar

What makes the "Mufti of Sydney's Occupied Territories and his fellow insurgents "feel like we is on cloud nine" ?

Sydney's Muslim Insurgency Riots Aftermath: Spin Doctors and apologists still performing CPR on Multiculturalism.

Sydney's Occupied Territories: Four more Women arrested following Genital Mutilation of two girls

Australia Shut the Gate before it IS too late.

Green Loon says Geert Wilders not welcome in Australia

Sydney Muslim Insurgency Riots: Ahmed Elomar refused Bail again

Sydney Riots: The radicalization of Muslim children you have when you are not radicalizing Muslim Children

Sydney CBD Muslim Insurgent Riot Govt. and apologists start the SPIN

Muslim Insurgent refused Bail over Sydney CBD Riot

Australia's Freedom FROM Information Minister calls for Video Ban

The Bolt Report, September 16 2012 Pt's 1,2 and 3

Why would the Australian Government help facilitate this.......

September 15 2012 : Sydney's "Harmony Day" who's responsible ?

The Australian in this Coffin.......

Muslim Insurgents Sydney Riot latest Video and Pictures

Sydney under attack from Muslim Insurgents

Sydney's Occupied Territories erupt with bucket loads of Taqiya and Harmony Day Spin

Sydney's Occupied Territories:Sheik Shabbir Mohammedbhai Vaziri and Helen Magennis, charged with Female Genital Mutilation

Terror Australia: Terror Suspect admitted to Hospital with Stomach ( Period ? ) Pain

From Sydney's Occupied Territories: Sheik and a Nurse charged over Female Genital Mutilation

Terror Australis:Syrian linked Muslims arrested in Australian Terroro raid

More Harmony Day's Down Under

Sydney's Occupied Territories:Swaggering Muslim Rat with a Gold Tooth,Mahmoud Mariam, gets away with Murder sniggers and laughs at sentencing in Sydney Court.

Sydney's Occupied Territories:"...accidents are being staged,baseball bats used to add damage to vehicles,assessors threatened or bashed,"

1982 Sydney PA (Harmony Day celebration ? ) Bombing investigation re opened

Daniel Pipes speaks with Alan Jones

Melbourne Australia:Sudanese and Somali Refugees Crime five times that of Australians and Greens call for increased refugee intake

If only it were ONLY 10,000 predominantly Muslims massing in Malaysia preparing to invade Australia

Now it's Tamil (Tiger ?) Colonization of Australia, why not ? everyone else is brought here by the Government.

From Sydney's Occupied Territories:10,000 Muslim Insurgents mass to worship Paedophile Pirate Slave Trader and Prophet "Tonight is the Laylat al-Qadr,''

The Labor Governments Islamic Colonization of Australia continues unabated

Labor Green Loons latest Illegal entrant filled boat arrives with 211 illegal's aboard

Convicted Islamic Terrorist,Belal Saadallah Khazaal, High Court of Australia denies appeal.

Pious Muslims riot and attack Police at another Harmony Day Cultural Enrichment Ramadan Holy Festival in Sydney;s Occupied Territories

Labor Green Loon Islamic Colonization of Australia

Labor Green Loon's Islamic Colonization of Australia :Truth worse than the Fiction

Australia's Labor Green Loon Co Party Government sets new Olympic Record for Islamic Colonization of Australia 

Pious Muslims Iftikhar Ahmed, 52, and his wife Farzana Murder Daughter because she was too westernised

Malek Fahd Islamic School, Ordered to repay $9 Million to Australian Tax Payers

Bolt Report Piers Akerman Maj Gen Jim Molan Australia up for grabs

Islamic Sociopaths Inc. London on Terror alert ahead of Olympic Games.

Mohammed Fouani: Jilted man's plan to burn his girl alive

Indian "Cultural Enrichment" and "Harmony Day" ambassador Extradited to Australia to face Rape Charges

When too much of the Religion of Peace is barely enough : Shocking acts of Godless Satan inspired savagery..........