Western Australia : Four meter Great White goes hunting along Perth beaches

Aussie's Living and Dieing Down Under : Christine Armstrong, Tathra Shark attack.

Rob Armstrong pays tribute to Shark attack victim wife Christine Armstrong

The Bolt Report April 6 2014

That 60 Minutes Fukushima Report

Has a Queens Guard drawn a line in the sand that his government refused to do?

Queen’s soldier in Buckingham Palace gun drama

Daily Telegraph
April 06, 2014

A QUEEN’S Guard, wearing the distinctive red tunic and tall bearskin hat that tourists come from all over the world to see, has proved he’s more than a pretty face.

The soldier left his post to intervene when a member of the public refused to stop shouting at a police officer stationed outside Buckingham Palace gates on Friday.

The front page of The Sun on Sunday shows the guard pointing his bayonet-fixed rifle towards the man’s face while he stood next to the police officer.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “Police were made aware of a disturbance at the North-Centre Gate of Buckingham Palace at approximately 5.50pm on Friday, April 4.

“Officers from Royalty Protection spoke to a man and he was given words of advice and there were no arrests.’’

The Queen’s Guard is not believed to be facing any action over the incident.

An Army spokesman said: “We are aware of an incident outside Buckingham Palace on Friday and while no one came to any harm and there were no arrests, we are very clear that the Metropolitan Police lead on Royal Security arrangements including outside the Palace itself.’’

Buckingham Palace declined to comment.

The North-Centre Gate is now the everyday entrance to the Palace.

The Queen’s Guard are a contingents of soldiers charged with guarding the Palace but carry a largely ceremonial role.

Still Doohan it for Australia, Two wheel legend Mick Doohan one of Australia's Finest

This Aussie has Guts and Brains, how I wish he was still going around the circuits along with Beattie and Gardiner the best two wheel riders ever.

I wish I could Dance, how SEXY is this Chick?

Australian Immigration Department stands firm against Insurgency and its fifth column supporters.

allah's Zoo

The Muslim Zoo

The Surabaya Zoo in Indonesia  In the most populous Muslim nation on Earth,Indonesia, these pictures represent the manifestation of their Religious and Cultural connection with their "alla's" creations.
The islamic ZOO.

The civilization / morality of any society on earth can be judged by how it treats those at the bottom of it's structure, NOT by how it treats those at the TOP.

These God created Beasts are victims of the Godless followers of islam, the believers of mohammed's "allah" and it's koran, God will one day seek an accounting of it's vile followers sins against his creatures.
God's creations are gifts for Man to use for the benefit of Mankind in a Godly manner, not to Torture,Beat,Humiliate,Starve, Sodomise or engage in acts of male or female bestiality or otherwise abuse for Satanic Rituals or customs.
God's creatures are not for some limp dicked fourth world follower of this allah prick to starve,slaughter, harvest their organs / skins so as to supercharge their muslim asian machismo libido.

I have had the miss fortune to work alongside these Godless Cunts in my own country,Australia, I have heard and seen what their "Religion's" plans are for Western Judeo Christian Democracy are and guess what ? Just like the Tiger and the other creations of God above,their plans have no place for the existing NON muslim residents of Judeo Christian Western  Democracies that they reside in.

Rob Armstrong pays tribute to Shark attack victim wife Christine Armstrong

Australian Defence League Nathan Abela shot at.UPDATED 2

Anti-Islamic shooting victim Nathan Abela has string of detractors

Megan Levy and Rachel Olding
SMH
April 4, 2014 

He's offended countless Muslims, been described as a "grub" on Sydney radio and been in court over a domestic dispute, and that's just in the past fortnight. When it comes to the shooting of Nathan Abela's house, it seems there is no shortage of suspects.

Just last week, Nathan Abela posted footage of himself on YouTube standing outside an Islamic school in Chullora.

The 24-year-old had made the journey there from his home in Greystanes, apparently aiming to educate people about what he believed was occurring behind the large fence of the Waterloo Road school.

Nathan Abella, Australian Defence League leader home shot up narrowly dodges bullets .

Australian Defence League Shoots itself in the head with both barrels, No doubt Labor Green Loon Embedded Muslim Jihadi's all over Sydney will be rejoicing.

Australian Defence League has a warning for Muslim extremist group ‘Hizb-ut Tahrir’ supporters who plan to disrupt the ADL march tomorrow

 The footage he took, containing his controversial and extremist views, was uploaded online for anyone to see.

"Why have we got a fort in the middle of Sydney?" he asks in the footage.

"...Why do we need Fort f---ing Knox in the middle of Sydney with a mosque in it and children like this? So I daresay they're keeping and locking up people inside there because it's a massive complex."

One week on and it appears that Mr Abela, the president of the western Sydney chapter of the anti-Islamic Australian Defence League, could do with a similar security fence around his home, after it was sprayed with bullets overnight in what police say was a targeted attack.

Mr Abela claims that up to eight bullets were fired through the front window, narrowly missing him as he dived for cover. He suffered a minor injury to his shoulder while diving over a table and doing a commando roll. He was not shot, and neither were his mother and 15-year-old sister, who were upstairs at the time.

The gunman or gunmen then took off in what witnesses told police was a silver Audi.

Targeted shooting: Nathan Abela is a member of an anti-Islamic group.
Targeted shooting: Nathan Abela is a member of an anti-Islamic group. Photo: Facebook
Plenty of detractors

Thursday night's shooting appears to be the culmination of simmering tension between Mr Abela and many people who had taken exception to his and his organisation's extremist views.

The Australian Defence League, based on the emergence in early 2009 of the English

Defence League, says on its Facebook page that its aim is "standing up against Islam now, not when its [sic] too late".

Mr Abela has posted several YouTube clips in the past week that include the slogans "Love of country leads me" and "ban Islam".

His anti-Islamic have led to online threats, including that he should be "demolished", while his mobile phone number was also published online and people were urged to call him at any hour.

"I'm surprised this didn't come sooner," said Wissam Haddad, the owner of the former Al Risalah Bookstore in Bankstown, following Thursday night's shooting.

Mr Haddad said he had been trying to get Mr Abela's public pages closed down to avoid inflaming tensions.

"He's offended 2.8 billion Muslims by insulting our prophet; he has numerous AVOs out against him; he's even offended Ray Hadley."

Mr Abela last week had a verbal stoush with 2GB host Hadley, who accused him of secretly and illegally taping a conversation with Hadley's personal assistant and posting it on YouTube.

Mr Hadley described Mr Abela on air at the time as a “liar”, a “grub” and a "cowardly bastard".

On Friday morning, Hadley once again denounced Mr Abela, as well as the actions of the shooter or shooters.

"To the people that shot up his joint - for God's sake, I mean, you could have killed his mother or his sister who were innocent bystanders," Hadley said on air.

"The simple fact of the matter is that you've now given this lunatic a platform that he doesn't deserve and all of a sudden his hateful, vengeful rantings will be out there for all people to see and that's not good."

After viewing the footage from outside the Islamic school in Chullora, Hadley also suggested that Mr Abela may have some "mental health issues".

Indeed, Mr Abela recently told a local court that he did suffer from mental health issues.

On Wednesday, he applied to have a domestic stalking/intimidating and breach of AVO matter dealt with under mental health legislation in Liverpool Local Court.

The charges relate to a domestic dispute with a woman.

Straight to camera

Following Thursday night's shooting, Mr Abela uploaded a new YouTube clip in which he recounted how the bullets were fired into his loungeroom.

Speaking to the camera, Mr Abela says: "Hello fellow Australians. I've just been shot at. It's not good, but it means nothing, in that we are never going to be silenced for speaking the truth. So I'm bringing you exclusively in my house of what we as Australians now have to put up with for speaking the truth."

Mr Abela then describes how he was sitting in his computer room on the ground floor, while his mother and sister were in the upstairs bedrooms, when he heard a knock at the front door and someone yelling his name.

"It was highly suspicious, because people don't knock at the door, and when police do or whatever they don't knock on the door like that, so I knew it was a split-second decision. If I didn't answer it, they were going to shoot upstairs because that's where the bedrooms are and it was 11 o'clock," he said.

Mr Abela said he then walked to the front window, knowing that "they didn't want a friendly discussion, these blokes".

He claims the men yelled: "Nathan, is that you?"

Mr Abela said he responded that it was him, because he did not want the men to target the upstairs bedrooms.

In the video, Mr Abela then dramatically recounts how he leapt over the lounge chair and table as shots rang out.

"The minute I said 'Yes, it's me' I jumped from about here over the lounge, over the table, landed somewhere about here, rolled, was ready," he says.

"I could have either went here, went up, went there, went back here, crouched and ran in the dark," he explains, pointing the camera at his possible escape routes.

"Many options, but I won't tell them what option I was going to take, but I jumped from there to there. It was a pretty far jump, considering I had to jump high. It was an interesting jump."

He says the men fired seven or eight shots before driving off "like it was a circuit".

He then says he believes he was targeted for speaking publicly about his views.

Police said the investigation into the shooting was in its early stages, but they believed it was a targeted attack.

A NSW Police spokeswoman would not comment on whether police believed Mr Abela's involvement in the anti-Islamic group was linked to the shooting.

Police have urged anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or to use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page.

Nathan Abella, Australian Defence League leader home shot up narrowly dodges bullets .

Australian Defence League Shoots itself in the head with both barrels, No doubt Labor Green Loon Embedded Muslim Jihadi's all over Sydney will be rejoicing.

What a Fricking COCK UP !!!!

THEIR ABC We know that 100% of Australian Tax Payers Fund it, So how many Australians watch it ?

Aunty is not the all-conquering audience-snatcher, it’s the great unwatched

CUT & PASTE 
The Australian
April 4 2014 

44 per cent of people watched the ABC for more than four minutes a week.

ABC managing director Mark Scott, Wednesday:

NEARLY five years ago I (delivered a) lecture ... entitled “The Fall of Rome’’ … I looked at why (media) empires fail … The evidence that was clear then is even clearer now.

Decline. ABC annual report 2000:

ABC TV’s five-city weekly reach was 69.9 per cent.

Fall. ABC annual report, 2013:

ABC1’S average weekly (five-city) ... reach in 2012-13 was ... 44 per cent.

Define reach? ABC.net.au:

“REACH” is defined as the number of unique viewers who tune in to a channel for five consecutive minutes or more over a week.

Scott, Wednesday:

COMMERCIAL networks know that winning in news gives you a platform ... and they invest accordingly.

Seems to be paying off. David Dale, The Sydney Morning Herald, March 25:

WHAT Australia watched on Wednesday … 3. Nine News, 4. Nine News 6.30, 5. Seven News, 6. Seven News/ Today Tonight, 7. A Current Affair …

Dismal diet? Scott, Wednesday:

THE ABC offers a different diet — to what remains a large and appreciative audience.

Large? Dale, SMH, March 25:

(IN 10th place) ABC News (with) 848,000 viewers (nationwide).

Scott, Wednesday:

ONLY three certainties remain as a compelling live free-to-air proposition: news, sport and whatever TV marketing departments can convince you to watch tonight.

Michael Idato, the SMH, December 1 last year:

(THE ABC had no shows in the) Top 5 sport broadcasts, Top 5 single events … Top 5 news and current affairs ... Top 5 reality shows ...

Scott, Wednesday:

LAST year all 50 of the top rating programs were Australian ...

How many from Aunty? Idato, SMH, December 1 last year:

(OF the) Top 5 Australian dramas (only number) 5. The Dr Blake Mysteries (ABC) 1.03 million.

Proud of this? Scott, Wednesday:

AND, I might add, not one of those Top 50 rating shows was on the ABC — a fact conveniently lost on those who persist in depicting the ABC as an all-conquering, audience-snatching competitor.

Audience snatcher? Idato, SMH, December 1ast year:

ABC (with ABC2, ABC3 and ABC News 24) (had) an 18.1 per cent share.

Scott, The Australian Financial Review, Wednesday:

NO other media organisation has a more comprehensive process for detailing with audience complaints …

Marc Hendrickx, The Australian, March 14, 2012:

THE ABC has turned the process of correcting even the most basic factual errors into a saga ... In 2010-11, the ABC received 41,258 complaints ... only 463 … were upheld.

The future? Scott, Wednesday:

THERE are countless examples of iconic brands ... that failed to see what the technologically changing world meant for their business models.

The future. Daniel Hannan, The (UK) Telegraph, March 25:

THE (UK) government has indic­ated … the BBC will become, in practice, a pay-on-demand service … It won’t be political objections that do for the BBC monopoly, but technological progress. And, of course, you can’t argue with progress.

Aussie's Living and Dieing Down Under : Christine Armstrong, Tathra Shark attack.

Rob Armstrong spotted the shark that took the life of his wife Christine at Tathra Wharf

Geoff Chambers and Patrick Lion 
The Daily Telegraph

April 4,2014

FOR the past 14 years, Christine and Rob Armstrong made the short trek down to the Tathra Surf Club for their daily swim.

As they swam past the breakers yesterday morning on the 600m journey to the Tathra Wharf, the pair took their last few strokes together before Mrs Armstrong made the fateful decision to return to shore alone.

At the 200m mark, the 63-year-old had told the group she was not feeling well.Mr Armstrong continued towards the wharf as part of his morning routine — he would never see his wife of 44 years again.

47 DEATHS IN 100 YEARS: HISTORY OF NSW SHARK ATTACKS

FROM YESTERDAY: WOMAN KILLED BY SHARK AT TATHRA 

It was Mr Armstrong who spotted the shark — up to 4m long — lurking. As he made his way toward shore with the other swimmers they formed a huddle and kept a close watch for the shark.

Residents yesterday told The Daily Telegraph there was a resident great white shark that had been sighted near the wharf.

When Mr Armstrong could not locate his wife he started a frantic search — looking for her distinctive pink and orange cap.



At 8.40am police, ambulance and surf lifesavers were informed of a fatal shark attack — the second in NSW in less than five months.

An orange buoy was dropped on the spot where it was believed Mrs Armstrong had been attacked by the shark, likely to be either a great white or bronze whaler.

Late yesterday dye was dropped in the water to determine the currents as they continued searching for Mrs Armstrong’s body.

A witness has told police he saw Mrs Armstrong being attacked by the shark from nearby rocks but was too far away to help.

Inspector Jason Edmunds confirmed Mr Armstrong had seen a shark: “Rob was part of the group of five people. He did see a shape of a shark he described as three to four metres long and quite big.’’

As Mr Armstrong and other swimmers were treated for shock on the beach, the tight-knit town of Tathra, with a population of 1500, pulled together.

Mrs Armstrong, who helped run the surf club’s bronze medallion courses, was described as being “very loved by many people”.

“She has been swimming at Tathra Beach for 14 years and was an experienced and committed member of the surf club,” the club said.

“She was a senior surf club trainer for many years. Swimming brought her much joy and many friends.”

Her fellow clubbies from the Tathra, Narooma, Bermagui and Pambula surf clubs put aside their grief and jumped in five IRBs and two Jet Skis to search for the recently retired and popular member.

Far South Coast director of lifesaving Andrew Edmunds said club members were “extremely upset”.

He said Mrs Armstrong “was a capable, active lifesaver”.

“Our hearts go out to Christine’s family and friends and we are doing all we can to support club members at this time,” Mr Edmunds said.

Earlier this year Mrs Armstrong competed in the Wharf to Waves annual swimming competition and finished fourth in the 60 to 69 years age group.

Tathra Beach will remain closed today as the search resumes early this morning.

The Department of Primary Industries has appointed a shark biologist to assist investigators and attempt to identify what species of shark was responsible for the attack.

Mrs Armstrong is the 47th person to be killed by a shark in NSW waters in the past 100 years.

HISTORIC WHARF A BELOVED LANDMARK THAT’S SEEN SOME SORROW

THE Tathra Wharf is one of the Sapphire Coast’s best-known landmarks — but recently, it has become known more for tragedy than its historical significance.

On November 18, 2008, Shane O’Neill leapt from the 5m-high jetty into the ocean after his four-year-old son Riley and 15-month-old son Travis fell from the wharf.

Mr O’Neill, 28, struggled to find his boys in the darkness and himself succumbed to the water.

He was declared dead at the scene and his sons were located and taken to Bega Hospital but sadly did not survive.

The tragedy shattered the small town but the wharf remains an important part of the community.

Every year, more than 400 people compete in the 1.2km Tathra Wharf to Waves ocean swim. Construction of the wharf dates back to 1860 and it serviced the local farming industry before being decommissioned as a coastal steamer wharf in the 1950s.

After that, a push to pull the wharf down was defeated by the Tathra Wharf Action Group and money was raised to restore part of it. In the 1990s, the wharf came to prominence after shocking photos of shark fishing appeared.

BAITING BAN WAS AIMED AT SAFETY Geoff Chambers

TATHRA lifeguards raised concerns about fishermen setting illegal baits and attracting big sharks close to the beach.

In 2012, Tathra Surf Life Saving Club surf boat captain Sharon Clarke expressed concern for a group of 20 swimmers — including Christine Armstrong — who swam 1.2km between the beach and the wharf every morning.

At the time, the surf club found a black balloon floating 150m off the beach, which was holding bait to lure in sharks.

“We all swim in the ocean knowing there are sharks, but you don’t like the idea that there are people luring and attracting sharks in so close,” Ms Clarke said at the time.

For decades, fishermen from across the country would come to Tathra wharf to catch great white sharks and bronze whalers hunting bait fish in the cool channels off the coast.

In 1996, after a push by locals, Bega Valley Shire Council banned shark fishing from the wharf and a sign was erected on the edge of the wharf. Off the wharf, fishermen would place a perimeter of bait settings between 600m to 1000m.

The Daily Telegraph has been told there is still some shark fishing but that it was smaller sharks being caught. A Department of Primary Industries spokeswoman said the fines for illegal shark fishing vary from $500 to $220,000 and possibly a two-year prison sentence if a threatened shark is caught.

Local oyster fisherman Brad Ellison said he did not think anyone fished for sharks from the wharf anymore after it was previously banned.

The Islamic Juggernaut

THE ISLAMIC JUGGERNAUT MARCHES ON

... and you can't even hear the footsteps

Like bacteria in a petri dish, an all-pervasive Sharia law has silently, overnight, eaten into your life-style and bank account. A bacterial bath of Islamic “culture” is feeding on its host’s nutrients and, when sated, it is programmed to move on to the next host.

 

LARRY PICKERING

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Paedophilia again excused as “cultural differences”

Twisted view of life and justice

Miranda Devine 
The Daily Telegraph
April 2 2014

HOW can “cultural differences” be an excuse for child sexual offences? Yet, as Patrick Lion reported in The Daily Telegraph yesterday, this is the excuse a Victorian magistrate has accepted as a “mitigating factor” in the case of an Afghan man charged with the attempted kidnap of a four-year-old girl.

Ali Jaffari, 35, had already been convicted last year of sexually molesting two boys, aged 12 and 13, at a Geelong beach. Despite the fact he showed no remorse and the prosecution wanted him jailed, Magistrate Ann McGarvie let him off with a two-year community corrections order, saying he had a low risk of re offending.

Jaffari was back in Geelong Magistrate’s Court after he allegedly snatched a four-year-old girl at a cricket oval in Geelong last year while her father and brother were distracted.

But in February Magistrate Ron Saines threw out the child stealing charge and cited “cultural differences”.

In what culture is their any different view to ours, that preying on children is unacceptable? Child sexual abuse in Afghanistan might be “endemic”, as a US State department report puts it.

But that doesn’t mean it is culturally acceptable, especially not to parents and children. There is no culture on Earth in which it is normal or innocent for a stranger to molest little boys or allegedly kidnap a little girl.

And, if there were, the last thing we should do is calibrate our justice system to accommodate such a despicable culture.

Jaffari arrived in Australia by boat in 2010 and spent 15 months in a detention centre before being released into the community and granted a permanent protection visa at a time when the Gillard government had lost control of the borders. Immigration Minister Scott Morrison is now trying to find a way to strengthen his power to cancel visas on character grounds.

But there is only so much he can do if courts are going to excuse child predators on cultural grounds.

Q&A Fat Eqyptian Vandal, Mona Eltahawy appears on THEIR ABC

Their ABC'S,Q&A: a celebration of self-loathing and Leftist bias

Andrew Bolt – 
Tuesday, April 01, 2014 

Last night’s episode of Q&A was one of the most outrageously and offensively biased of an ABC show that has been uniformly biased.

It was also an insight into the broad Left’s loathing of free speech and the West, and into the racism that informs its anti-racist posturing.

Jewish readers should note one part in particular: the unchallenged account of one panellist telling how anti-"hate-speech" activism can be used against defenders of Israel. This is a point I’ve tried to warn Jewish leaders about again and again. Here is how the show unfolded.

FIRST, STACK THE PANEL

Host Tony Jones stacked the panel with known Leftists:  Egyptian activist and commentator Mona Eltahawy, Somalian peace and human rights advocate Ilwad Elman; The Observer’s ethics columnist Lucy Siegle; and the international head of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth. Add Jones and the count was five people of the Left to a single panellist, Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson, who is not.

NEXT, ATTACK THE TOKEN NON-LEFTIST

Even those odds - five to one - were still not good enough for Jones, who ambushed Wilson with a set-up. Jones devoted the second question to hostile videos from viewers attacking Wilson like no other panellist was attacked:


ROBERT MAYNARD: Tim Wilson’s comments to The Age this weekend calling it bizarre that racial terms may be used freely within communities of colour but not by white people and claiming free use of the N word would restore equality, revealed a breathtaking lack of comprehension…
ATTACK EVERY “BIGOTRY” BUT THE LEFT’S 
Everyone agreed abusing people was wrong and no one had a right to be a bigot: 

KENNETH ROTH: … the Attorney-General … should be saying “Bigotry is wrong.” That’s what a public officials should do.
MONA ELTAHAWY: Yes.

ILWAD ELMAN: I think that particular statement people have the right to become bigots is very worrisome… At what point is the right to freedom of speech crossing on hate?

But not a single panellist then protested at the bigotry of one panellist who twice vilified free speech advocates as “old, rich, white men”, who must of course be racist and sexist:

MONA ELTAHAWY:  First of all, in the United States, the people who go on the most about freedom of expression and it’s my right to say this and my right to say that are usually old, rich, white men who parade under the term libertarian. And what it ends up basically meaning is: I have the right to be a racist and sexist shit and I’m protected by the first amendment…

MONA ELTAHAWY: The reason that they said that, actually, you know, this is actually all about the free market. This is why I am bringing in the rich, old, white men.

SLANDER GADFLIES, SATIRISTS, CONSERVATIVES, ENEMIES OF JIHAD AND FRIENDS OF ISRAEL AND DEMAND THEY BE SILENCED 
Everyone bar Tim Wilson seemed to agree using the law to silence certain people they vilify as “bigots” or racists was great:

LUCY SIEGLE:  So what I would like to say is that there are a lot of contrarian columnists around. I have worked in newspapers for years… From the moment the printing press was invented there were people who worked out if you take a contrarian, shock jock point of view, you’re going to get a lot of attention and a lot of money. I don’t think we should change laws to protect their freedom of speech. We have a similar issue in the UK, where we have contrarian columnists and certain comedians who aren’t very funny but bigotry is part of their act and the whole debate is centred around how we can protect them and enable their free speech and I think we’re looking at protecting the wrong people…
But one panellist, Eltahawy, demonstrated how dangerously loose the term “bigot” now is – how it can actually be used to attack those fighting bigotry.  Eltahawy seemed to argue that to support a democracy against a fascist terrorist movement was actually racist, and the position of “hate groups”:

Many Say that this is Mona's finest hour

MONA ELTAHAWY [speaking of a subway sign she defaced]: It said: “In the war between the civilised man and the savage, always choose the civilised man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.” And I thought: are you f…ing kidding me? In my subway? How can you put this up?  And the subway - the subway authorities did not want this ad, because they said it was going to incite people and so they took it to the hate group and it’s been classified as a hate group by the - it’s the Southern [Poverty] Law Centre… They have deemed it a hate group. They have deep pockets, these libertarian, you know, old rich white men. And they took it to a judge and the judge deemed it protected political speech. I am fine with protected political speech but surely it should be my right to protest racism and bigotry? … But my fight here is the kind of language used in the ad and what is acceptable now and you were saying earlier that it’s not just the law…

(NOTE: The poster was not at all the work of an “old, rich white man” but of a Jewish woman, Pamela Geller.)

HATE THE WEST 
Eltahawy painted the West as the home of bigots and sell-outs. No speakers protested, and some added further condemnation of Australia:


MONA ELTAHAWY:  I now live in Egypt but I was in the US for 13 years, Muslims are fair game.
MONA ELTAHAWY: I would like to know, one, the name of at least one western country that has this so-called ethical foreign policy that we often hear about. I think most western countries have disgraceful records … I think your main concern is to sell our regimes and our dictators weapons. You turn a blind eye to torture…

MONA ELTAHAWY: … none of you do absolutely anything to help us. You’ve always sold us out, so what’s new?…

MONA ELTAHAWY: I think sometimes it helps in these discussions to get really down to the bare bones and just say it as it is and that is people are scared of brown and black people coming into your country. And that’s essentially what it is.

(Note:  Eltahawy protested for the removal of the democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt. Now she protests against the military regime that inevitably replaced it.)

ABUSE AUSTRALIA, AND ESPECIALLY ITS LIBERAL GOVERNMENT:

All but Tim Wilson agreed the Government was hopeless and anachronistic, even the host:


TONY JONES: Yeah. Are you surprised, though, that we would go for such an anachronistic form or return to such an anachronistic form of honours?
KENNETH ROTH: Well, it’s sadly characteristic of this Government now…

ILWAD ELMAN: …it seems like Australia is regressing a little bit …

MONA ELTAHAWY:  …I think, you know, your Prime Minister is a walking anachronistic - I don’t know what else to call him - Prime Minister …

ILWAD ELMAN: I think Australia is taking a lot of very horrific positions and putting itself in very difficult situations. They’re cuddling up with Sri Lanka, cutting off the boats and celebrating they haven’t had - they have had 100 days of no boats coming in, talking about how Australians should be bigots…

LUCY SIEGLE: Just, as Ilwad said, some of the positions that the Australian Government is taking on behalf of the nation, they sound toxic to outsiders.

USE ABUSIVE LANGUAGE, THE LANGUAGE OF BARBARIANS

One panelist had no trouble with using offensive language after all, and no one dared protest her lack of courtesy and civility:

MONA ELTAHAWY: ...  they asked us if we wanted to join the Commonwealth, we said “F… no"…. And I thought: are you f…ing kidding me?....  we’re truly well and truly f…ed… So you can see why I say we are well and truly f…ed

DEMONISE OUR ATTEMPTS TO CONTROL OUR BORDERS
Everyone seemed critical of the Abbott Government’s boat people policy, and when one audience member put a contrary view a panellist and the host badgered him and misled and misinformed him with a grossly offensive analogies and what a judge would call factual inaccuracies:


ANDREW WILSON [audience member]: The death at Manus Island was a tragedy. People are obviously desperate when they have paid thousands of dollars to people smugglers and have no hope of coming here. Yet, why did the ABC show no similar outrage for the thousands of deaths caused by the dismantling of the Pacific Solution?
TONY JONES: I will go to Ken Roth on this and this is the justification for stopping the boats, that thousands of people died at sea. Before we do, I will just quickly take issue with your point there, because I reject the characterisation of the ABC’s role in this. In fact, some of the most graphic reporting on this was done by ABC reporters, including finding ships that nobody even knew had been lost at sea and finding the detail on those. So I just discount what you are saying.

ANDREW WILSON: Well, I take issue with that. You never once opposed the previous Government’s policy in my reading of the ABC…

(NOTE: Wilson is right. I do not recall the ABC covering any of the first drownings. I recall the ABC instead running for years with the Labor Government’s deceitful claim that boat people weren’t actually being lured to their deaths by the policies made too soft. I recall the ABC mocking Abbott’s promise to turn back the boats, a promise he’s actually fulfilled. And note, seconds earlier Jones was still attacking as too harsh the measures the Government took to stop the boats – and the drownings.)

TONY JONES: OK. Alright. Ken Roth?
KENNETH ROTH: Well, first, if I could, just let me address the 100 days without a boat because, you know, the question really is how did that happen. You know, if I said we’re going to execute everybody who shows up in a boat, the boats would stop. Is that a fair way to do it? No.

(NOTE: What an utterly bizarre analogy. Nothing remotely so cruel is being proposed and never would be. Fact: the harm averted outweights the harm caused. Fewer people are drowning, fewer people are in detention, and fewer boat people are taking the places of genuine refugees.)

ANDREW WILSON: Look, we can take a lot - immigration has been great for the country and we can take a lot more immigrants but you can’t take people to put them onto the dole....
KENNETH ROTH: Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So what is the assumption here: that because somebody seeks asylum they go on the dole?

ANDREW WILSON: No. But…

KENNETH ROTH: I mean, please… My father was an asylum seeker....  He fled Nazi Germany. He went to New York… Do you think he was ever, for one minute of his life, on the dole? And I think that is the norm for asylum seekers.

(NOTE: Completely false. A Department of Immigration survey in 2011 confirmed that 85 per cent of refugees were on social security payments even after five years here – including 94 per cent of all Afghan refugees. Wilson was right, Roth very wrong.)
AND ADD GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISM

And what’s a Q&A episode without some global warming alarmism? 

LUCY SIEGLE:  If you saw the intergovernmental panel on climate change issuing today the 300 scientists who have come to the consensus on what’s happening with climate change, it is not good news. And one of the things that it will mean is that more and more people will have to migrate. So we are looking at increasingly large numbers of people who need somewhere else to be, need somewhere else to live for environmental reasons …
Look at Q&A and despair. A culture of savage nihilism is engulfing us, and our right to even protest is being stripped away.

UPDATE

More from Tim Blair.

ABC managing director Mark Scott is about to deliver a big lecture tonight on the media. He will say that claims the ABC is biased are exaggerated.