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Saturday, March 16, 2013
Sydney's Occupied Territories : Just another Harmony Day as another member of the "...he's such a good boy he neva do nutting to nobody" shot through the back of head.
Man shot dead in Greenacre street
Sophie Ly and Carleen Frost
The Daily Telegraph
March 16, 2013 12:00AM
A MAN was shot dead in a suburban Sydney street last night in the latest incidence of gun crime to sweep through the city.
Police described the killing of the man, believed to be 25, in Greenacre, in Sydney's southwest, as a targeted attack.
He was shot a number of times, including the back of the head, while sitting in a Silver Mazda 3 on leafy Wilbur Lane about 6.15pm.
His body was found lying next to the car which had bullet holes in the driver's side door and about another three in the windscreen.
"This is not a random incident. This person has been targeted and it's certainly not something that is random," Bankstown police Superintendent Dave Eardley said.
"It's certainly an act that's quite vicious and callous."
In a shocking scene now regularly confronting residents of Sydney's western and southwestern suburbs, the street was shut down as more than 30 police scoured the area for evidence.
Forensic detectives and investigators from the Homicide Squad were also called in to assess the scene. Local residents returning from work were unable to enter their homes as the street was blocked off for about 100m.
Police cars and ambulance vans also clogged the street.
A group, believed to be members of the man's family, arrived on the scene soon after police arrived. There were hysterical scenes as several women in the group made their way towards the police barrier to view the body.
Police said it was too soon to say if the killing was related to motorcycle gangs but Supt Eardley said investigators were "not ruling anything out".
Earlier this week police told The Sunday Telegraph they were preparing for an escalation in gangland violence after a matriarch of the infamous Hamzy crime family was shot at her Auburn home. The woman, an aunt to Supermax inmate Bassam Hamzy, was shot four times in the legs as she opened the front door of her unit at 2.40pm on Saturday.
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Police are yet to determine if the incident was linked to a shooting at nearby Provincial St at 3pm.
Yesterday's killing marks the 35th shooting in NSW this year - more than three a week - with 10 this month alone.
Multicultural Sydney: Pious Muslim, Bassam Hamzy, pleads guilty to ……
Friday, March 15, 2013
Pious Muslim Thug Drug Dealer Kneecapper and Multicultural Diversity Enrichment Ambassador to be released after 9 years in the Can
Brutal story ends as kneecapper freedPaul Bibby
SMH
March 15, 2013
Some time on Friday Saleh Jamal will walk out of the South Coast Correctional Centre at Nowra as a free man.
Few on the street will recognise his bearded face or his name.
But the police who worked at Lakemba police station in November 1998 will remember, and the news of his release is likely to raise more than a few hackles.
In 1998 the notorious ''DK's Boys'' gang carried out a drive-by shooting on the Lakemba police station that left the building a mess of shattered glass, and much of Sydney in a state of uproar.
The shooting had five officers ducking for cover as 16 bullets from semi-automatic pistols passed through the station's foyer windows. Then police commissioner Peter Ryan pledged to track down those responsible and to make the streets of Sydney safe.
In May 2009 Jamal became the only person found guilty over the shooting as charges against the other men were dropped or not proven beyond reasonable doubt. He was later sentenced to a maximum of 12 years' jail for a range of charges including shooting with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Last Friday Jamal was quietly acquitted in the Downing Centre District Court after a 12-day retrial.
''Thank you, your honour, may God bless you and your family,'' a jubilant Jamal said.
The acquittal by Judge Steven Norrish coincided with the end of a nine-year jail sentence Jamal was serving for kneecapping a rival drug dealer at Greenacre in October 1998, a month before the Lakemba shooting.
''God willing I will be released next Friday,'' he told the court.
Jamal's release is a remarkable twist in what has been a dramatic and at times brutal and bloody story. For more than a decade the 37-year-old was one of the key members of DK's Boys, named after their leader Danny Karam, who ultimately perished in a hail of bullets from his own gang mates.
During the 1990s DK's Boys challenged Sydney's major players for a slice of the city's illegal drug market and, briefly, for a piece of the Kings Cross nightclub scene, with a brutal strategy that involved kneecappings and multiple murders.
In 2004, after being arrested and charged over the Lakemba shoot-out, Jamal fled to Lebanon with a false passport while on bail.
There he was subsequently arrested and jailed by the Lebanese government on charges of possessing weapons and explosives, planning acts that endangered state security, and possessing a false passport.
His five-year sentence for these crimes was later cut to two years after a Lebanese court ruled that only the passport conviction could be upheld.
In October 2006 he was extradited to Sydney where, in 2008, he was sentenced to nine years' jail for the 1998 kneecapping of a rival drug dealer at Greenacre.
The gang combusted in a fight with police on a White City tennis court in December 2008.
Last year, Jamal's conviction was quashed on appeal and a re-trial ordered.
Among the main reasons for the decision by the three-judge panel of the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal was that Jamal had not been permitted to accompany the jury when, as part of the trial, it visited the scene of the alleged crime.
In the Downing District Court this month Jamal faced the lesser charge of discharging a firearm in a public place.
He was found not guilty by Judge Norrish, hearing the matter without a jury.
He will hand down his reasons for the decision later this month.
Man jailed over cop shop shooting attack
By Janet Fife-Yeomans
The Daily Telegraph
May 28, 2010
A FORMER gang member has been jailed twelve years after a shooting attack on a Sydney police station.
Saleh Jamal will be behind bars at least until 2016 for his role in the attack on Lakemba police station in 1998.
Officers dived for their lives as a volley of bullets smashed into the station glass doors.
“This attack was committed as an act of revenge against the police out of a misguided belief that they were unfairly targeting Lebanese,” she said.
The judge said they aimed to intimidate police and deter them from carrying out heir lawful duties.
Jamal, 35, was convicted by jury of discharging a firearm with intend to cause grievous bodily harm
He was a member of “DK’s Boys” an organised crime outfit headed by Danny Karam and was the get away driver when they targeted Lakemba police station in the night-time attack.
Judge Morgan rejected Jamal’s please for mercy on the grounds that it has taken so long for the case to come to trial.
She said that he was the architect of his own downfall.
His earlier trail in 2004, was aborted after he said he was ill.
He then fled to Lebanon on a false passport where he was jailed in Beirut after being convicted of terrorism offences.
The terrorism convictions was overturned on appeal and he was extradited in 2006 and in 2007 jailed in NSW for up to nine years for kidnapping arrival during a shootout at Greenacre in 1998.
His brother Mohammed Omar Jamal was convicted last year over a terrorist plot targeting Sydney Lucas Heights’ nuclear reactor.
Judge Morgan sentenced Jamal to a total of 12 years with a minimum of six and a half.
She said although he was the getaway driver he was as culpable as the gun who fired the shots into the police station.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Australian Labor Party's Head Office Moves on QANTAS
Not a word from the Transport Workers Union (too busy pilfering passengers baggage and disabling security cameras,shifting drugs and contraband throughout Australia,Bali and other international destinations) No demands for the beneficiaries of their members Union fees (The Australian Labor Party and the UN) to protect QANTAS from SCAB / Third World Labor rates and "Non Union" Pay and Conditions no not a word, you see the Australian Council of Trade Unions and their Political Puppets the Australian Labor Party have received another call from Head Office... pants down bum up this time it's QANTAS... WHO'S NEXT?
But hey if you are a "Progressive" as opposed to been an Australian QANTAS is everything a "Progressive" is not.
The great haul of China as China Southern Airlines offers flights from Sydney to London
Phil Jacob
The Daily Telegraph
March 14, 2013 12:00am
THE Kangaroo Route is about to become the Dragon Route.
And with yum cha, Chinese tea and bok choy on the menu, travelling to Europe will have a different taste after China's largest airline confirmed flights to the region up to 50 per cent cheaper than their locally owned rivals.
As national carrier Qantas seeks to shore up its Australasian routes through its recent tie-up with Emirates, China Southern Airlines has offered stand-alone flights from Sydney to London at a discount.
Once dubbed the "Kangaroo Route", the Chinese airline's cheapest economy-class return fare between Sydney and London, with a three-hour stopover in Guangzhou, for a two-week trip starting early May was $1442.
A Qantas spokesman last night confirmed a comparable return fare on Qantas to London started at $2207.
Henry He, China Southern's managing director for Australia, last night told The Daily Telegraph the region was "vitally important" going forward, particularly given the strong "visiting friends and relatives" factor.
"Our research has shown a strong Cantonese population in both Sydney and Melbourne dating back to the gold rush in the 1850s," Mr He said.
From April 1, the Guangzhou-based airline will also operate more flights to Europe than Qantas - in a bid to lure traffic from Singapore and Hong Kong.
The move is the first push in an ever-increasing aviation war, with China Southern recently signalling their intentions by recruiting more Australians as cabin crews and setting up a local school for "elite stewards".
The airline has leased one of Sydney Airport's most expensive billboards for three years.
China Southern has 42 weekly flights out of Australia, while Qantas will reduce its service to 28 a week as part of the Emirates alliance.
Chinese tourists, who spent $105 billion overseas in 2012, are forecast to make 94 million trips this year, almost double the level in 2009, statistics from the China Tourism Academy have shown.
Qantas last night acknowledged the increased competition on the route, but cited its "evolving service", which matched what its customers wanted.
"We've been flying Australians to London for more than 50 years and we've always evolved our services to match what customers have told us they want," a spokesman said.
"A comfortable seat, friendly and familiar service, plenty of in-flight entertainment options, good food and wine - these are important things that make a big difference when you're on an aircraft for 20 hours."
Aviation analyst Oliver Lamb last night said the rise of Chinese airlines would soon pose an "enormous challenge" for Virgin and Qantas.
"They're an enormous market and China Southern is the third-biggest airline in the world," Mr Lamb said.
"Their margins on transferring customers to London via Guangzhou will be lower than their rivals.
"So it's going to be very competitive going forward."
Muslims using 10 year olds to plant bombs
Police detain child 'bombers' in Pakistan
Daily Telegraph
March 14, 2013 12:14AM
PAKISTANI police have arrested around a dozen children, some as young as 10, suspected of being used to plant bombs for separatist militants, officers say.
The arrests were made in raids over the past 24 hours, local police chief Mir Zubair Mahmood said while presenting the children at a news conference in Quetta, the capital of the restive province of Baluchistan.
A Baluch militant organisation had lured the children, who came from poor families, to leave packages containing home-made bombs in markets, dustbins and on routes used by police and security forces, Mahmood said.
Mahmood said the militants chose the youngsters knowing that police would not suspect small children or garbage collectors.
"Some of the children said they did not know what the packets contained and what they are doing," he said.
"They said they were happy they would get a small amount of money for dropping the packets."
Some of the boys, aged between 10 and 17, have confessed to involvement in about a dozen blasts in the city including a bombing near a vehicle of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC), he said.
The January 10 bomb blast killed two FC soldiers and nine civilians.
Baluchistan has been hit by an insurgency in recent years by Baluch nationalists demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the province's wealth of natural oil, gas and mineral resources.
The province has also been the focus of rising sectarian violence and Quetta has been hit by two huge bombings this year targeting minority Shi'ite Muslims that have killed nearly 200 people.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Sydney's Occupied Territories: "Cultural Enrichment and Harmony Day Ambassadors" "Living the Dream" Down Under
Gang Hamzy family matriarch shot at home in Auburn
YONI BASHAN POLICE REPORTER
March 11, 2013 12:00AM
POLICE are bracing for an escalation in gangland violence after a matriarch of the infamous Hamzy crime family was shot four times at her front door yesterday.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal the woman, an aunt to Supermax prison inmate Bassam Hamzy, was shot at point blank range in the legs as she opened the front door of her unit on Auburn Rd, Auburn, in a targeted and direct attack at 2.40pm.
Police have unofficially linked the shooting with another that occurred 20 minutes later, also in Auburn, when shots were fired at the house next door to that of convicted drug dealer Hakan Goktas, 39.
The main line of inquiry for both shootings is Goktas's co-operation with police when he was the victim of a road rage shooting last August.
Sydney's Occupied Territories: Muslims attack Police after shooting woman...
A police source said the victim of yesterday's first shooting was shot four times after opening the door of her unit, which has the letters "BFL" chalked on a wall outside, a reference to street gang Brothers For Life, of which her son is a member.
Police confirmed yesterday that Goktas's co-operation may be at the heart of the tit-for-tat violence.
His alleged attacker in the road rage incident was arrested in Queensland nine weeks later and extradited to Sydney.
The two shootings took place hours before revelations emerged in yesterday's The Sunday Telegraph that police were left shocked and angered after a senior member of the BFL gang was granted bail last week over a kneecapping at Bass Hill on February 9 this year.
Their 24-year-old victim in the case has gone into police protection after becoming a Crown witness and investigators fear the decision to grant bail may jeopardise his safety.
Acting Assistant Commissioner Arthur Katsogiannis said a review of that decision was being sought.
"All we can do is enforce the law and bring those responsible before the courts," Mr Katsogiannis told The Daily Telegraph.
"In relation to that decision, we'll be liasing with the DPP and seeking a review."
Saturday, March 09, 2013
Visiting Paris ? Don't forget your bullet proof vest.. but you already knew that right?
From Bare Naked Islam
Thanks to Muslim immigration, French tourists should not enter certain areas of Paris without wearing a bullet-proof vestby BareNakedIslam |
There are suburbs of Paris, where police are forced use military-style armored vehicles to enter the multicultural 'Sensitive Zones' aka 'Islamic No-Go Zones.' The largest of these Parisian districts is urging the deployment of the Army due to the continuously increasing number of armed conflicts. There are districts in which police do not dare enter [...]
So if a Muslim school headmaster chases a woman around a Park with his dick out should "Progressive" Sweden be allowed to complain ?
Unashamedly copy and pasted From Bare Naked Islam.
SWEDEN: Muslim school leader pulls out his penis and chases 23-year-old woman around the park ......................... as any Pious Muslim would, does "Progressive" Sweden have a problem with their Progressive Multiculturalism ? or are the Swedes so up tight that a Muslim Headmaster chasing a woman around a park with his dick out is suddenly a crime .. hey lighten up you Swedes your Wives Women and Daughters and Sons are there for the taking by your new masters the Islamic Supremists your Government has imported into Sweden What part of Islamic Colonization of Europe did you not understand?
The Muslim man, from Denmark who is the headmaster of a private school in Nørrebro, is known in the Danish public for his distinctive, Muslim attitudes, specifically that women not wearing headbags are asking to be raped.
Sydney's Occupied Territories: Muslims attack Police after shooting woman...
New South Wales Police Middle Eastern Crime Squad is investigating...
Woman severely injured in shooting in Auburn
Caroline Marcus
The Daily Telegraph
March 09, 2013 6:14PM
A WOMAN was shot in the suffered gunshot wounds to her eg - seven months after her teenage son almost died in a shooting at the same address in Auburn.
Police are also investigating whether the shooting of the woman in Auburn Rd at 2.40pm Saturday was linked to a drive-by attack 20 minutes later in nearby Provincial St.
A 43-year-old woman was admitted to Auburn Hospital in a stable condition following the incident in Auburn Rd, Auburn.
Police said shots were fired from a moving vehicle at a house on Provincial Street in the same suburb at 3pm Saturday. No one was injured.
Police established crime scenes at both addresses.
An officer at Flemington local area command, who asked not to be named, said it was unclear whether the two incidents were connected but police had received different descriptions for the cars involved in each shooting.
"We've got no way of knowing (if they are linked) at this moment,'' the officer said.
"There were two different vehicles described. Both black cars. One is described as something and one is described as something else.''
Woman severely injured in shooting in Auburn
Caroline Marcus
The Daily Telegraph
March 09, 2013 6:14PM
A WOMAN was shot in the suffered gunshot wounds to her eg - seven months after her teenage son almost died in a shooting at the same address in Auburn.
Police are also investigating whether the shooting of the woman in Auburn Rd at 2.40pm Saturday was linked to a drive-by attack 20 minutes later in nearby Provincial St.
A 43-year-old woman was admitted to Auburn Hospital in a stable condition following the incident in Auburn Rd, Auburn.
So what do you do you do when someone you know or a relative has been SHOT ?
Attack the Police of course, hey that will fix everything!!!! the shooter/s will immediately come forward and surrender to Police, the victims injuries will be immediately healed, and before you know it it will be like nothing ever happened .. "nothing to see here, please move along" Just another Harmony Day in Sydney's Labor Green Loon Multicultural Occupied Territories of Sydney.
Her son, 16, had undergone life-saving surgery after he was shot in the stomach last August.
Police established crime scenes at both addresses.
An officer at Flemington local area command, who asked not to be named, said it was unclear whether the two incidents were connected but police had received different descriptions for the cars involved in each shooting.
"We've got no way of knowing (if they are linked) at this moment,'' the officer said.
"There were two different vehicles described. Both black cars. One is described as something and one is described as something else.''
Australia's "First Bludger" at it AGAIN.
Tim Mathieson pressured Richmond to snub Tony Abbott
CHRIS KENNY AND KATE LEGGE
The Australian
March 09, 2013 12:00AM
AN email obtained exclusively by The Weekend Australian reveals Julia Gillard's partner, Tim Mathieson, sought to involve her office in pressuring a major sporting club to freeze out Tony Abbott.
After attending an AFL clash at the MCG as a guest of the Richmond Football Club, Mr Mathieson emailed its chief executive, Brendon Gale, copying in the Prime Minister's office, to complain about the Opposition Leader's access to the team's inner sanctum and his prominent seating at a pre-game function.
Mr Mathieson demanded that Mr Gale raise the matter with the Prime Minister's chief of staff, Ben Hubbard.
His fiery outburst occurred on a Sunday evening after the Dreamtime AFL match between Essendon and Richmond on May 19 last year. The Dreamtime game is one of the highlights of the AFL calendar for its social and cultural significance in promoting reconciliation.
"Mate u need to speak with Ben Hubbard on why abboott was taken down to the rooms ... " Mr Mathieson fumed. " ... it's just not on Who authorised it < it was a shocker it was a Don's function and he should not have gone down there
That same weekend Ms Gillard was travelling to Chicago for top-level security talks with Barack Obama and other NATO leaders to plan the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.
Ms Gillard's office declined to respond to questions about Mr Mathieson's complaint.
Mr Mathieson is a fanatical supporter of the Richmond "Tigers" while the PM barracks for the Western Bulldogs. They are often seen at games together in their respective club colours.
Richmond has accommodated Mr Mathieson's requests for tickets, hospitality and memorabilia since his move into The Lodge.
At the Dreamtime game in Melbourne, the first bloke invited ABC Insiders host Barrie Cassidy to join him on the Richmond table. Both men visited the Richmond room before the contest, where they crossed paths with Mr Abbott, who was a guest of Essendon's chairman David Evans.
Essendon was hosting the pre-game function for the Dreamtime game and in charge of protocol. The Opposition Leader was accompanied to the event by two of his three daughters and his chief of staff, Peta Credlin.
The rooms for rival teams at the MCG are not far apart and after visiting Essendon players, Mr Abbott was escorted across to the Richmond bunker.
Clubs embrace politicians from all sides of politics and dignitaries who are invited to pre-game functions usually get taken to visit players in the room before the match.
The Weekend Australian understands that Mr Gale responded politely to Mr Mathieson's email protest, explaining that Richmond was staunchly bipartisan and happy to accord Mr Abbott the very same privileges that the Prime Minister's partner enjoyed on a regular basis. He signed off by confirming Mr Mathieson's attendance at an upcoming pre-game cocktail, party in Sydney.
Mr Gale would not comment on the email exchange. "He will not discuss private communications," his spokesman said.
Government sources say Mr Mathieson has a habit of firing off emails and texts to Ms Gillard's personal staff when he senses a perceived injustice. His email to Mr Gale was copied to a senior public servant working in Ms Gillard's office at the time.
Thursday, March 07, 2013
Labor, Green Loon's, VOTE PERSON aka. asylum seeker,refused Bail again for SEX attack on a sleeping female student.
Sri Lankan asylum seeker Daxchan Selvarajah refused bail in Macquarie University sex case
""There is, in my view, a strong likelihood of further offending."
Peter Bodkin
The Daily Telegraph
March 07, 2013 1:56PM
A SRI Lankan asylum seeker had been out of immigration detention for eight days and had been living in university accommodation without authorities' knowledge when he allegedly sexually assaulted a sleeping female student.
A magistrate this afternoon ordered Daxchan Selvarajah, 21, to remain in custody on charges of breaking into the woman's unit at Macquarie University and indecently assaulting her early on February 21.
During a bail application today, Parramatta Local Court was told the Sri Lankan national, who is living in Australia on a bridging visa, was released into the community on February 13 after about five months in a Queensland detention centre.
Selvarajah was required to notify immigration officials if he moved from the Auburn address he was initially living at, but within two days he began staying with a friend at the northern Sydney university without their knowledge, the court heard.
Six days later he allegedly broke into the 20-year-old woman's unit and slipped his hand down her pyjama shorts before she awoke and screamed – causing the attacker to flee.
About 55 asylum seekers were living in the student accommodation under a Red Cross scheme at the time of the alleged assault.
Suspect arrested despite Macquarie Uni. Sex Assault attempted cover up?..........
Asylum Seeker Attack :The Union/ GetUp funded Federal Labor Green Loon Independent minority Co Party Government has placed 80 illegal immigrant males next door to teenage female students. WHY?
Sydney Australia, Labor's Malmo in the Pacific?
Defence lawyer Greg Barns today said the charges would be "vigorously fought" despite fingerprint evidence allegedly linking Selvarajah to the crime scene.
He said there was a possibility his client's fingerprints had been illegally obtained in breach of the Migration Act.
David Keegan, from Settlement Services International, which had been providing the asylum seeker financial support and "basic casework", said the 21-year-old had left the Auburn property after having a "falling out" with another person living there.
He said if Selvarajah was released on bail he would live at a Toongabbie apartment complex where SSI housed asylum seekers and would receive an allowance of about $441 a fortnight from the organisation.
"He (would be) free to leave at any time, but that is the same for any other person unless they're incarcerated," Mr Keegan said.
"He is in a position where there is a considerable economic incentive for him to remain at the address provided for him by SSI."
But magistrate Michelle Goodwin said the case against Selvarajah was strong and the asylum seeker had no links to Australia "whatsoever".
"Of concern to me is the lack of any ties to the community by (him) and, most importantly, the protection and welfare of the witnesses in this matter," she said.
"There is, in my view, a strong likelihood of further offending."
She refused bail for Selvarajah, who appeared in court via a video link from Silverwater prison.
The 21-year-old will return to court next month.
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Madame Gillard and her Mummy Blogger's (Beggars) Banquet
Not a crumb from the PM's table for locals
Miranda Devine
The Daily Telegraph
March 06, 2013 12:00AM
THE insider-outsider divide in politics is rarely so starkly defined as it has been by Prime Minister Julia Gillard moving her campaign roadshow, if not her government, to Rooty Hill RSL.
It's a mere 47-minute drive from Kirribilli House, but so far removed from the sensibility of the political class that, when Gillard's luggage was delivered to the Novotel for the five-night stay, it bore the tag: "Prime Minister's overseas visit."
Bemused locals have watched as satellite dishes fill the car park, radio stations broadcast from the Fred Chubb lounge - yet sightings of the prime minister have been as rare as Elvis.On Monday night, Sky presenter Paul Murray captured a fleeting 23 seconds of footage on his mobile phone of Gillard and her entourage speed-walking through the RSL's Zest Wok n' Grill and disappearing into a private dining room.
Murray pointed out the prime minister had bypassed the opportunity to mingle with a couple of dozen locals dining in the bistro.
Instead she chose a closed-door private dining room with a group of women he said looked just like her and were wearing the same glasses.
He wasn't far wrong. The five women handpicked by Gillard to feast on "vegetable tarte tatin" and Alaskan king crab were "mummy bloggers" who had previously dined with the PM at Kirribilli house in December, and none of whom appears to live anywhere near
Rooty Hill.
This comment below found on the Woogsworld Blog site pretty well sums up the high esteem Labor's Madame Gillard is held in by the Australian people,the poster could have added that no matter what Madame Gillard promised these elite Mummy Bloggers in exchange for their glowing praise of her, would count for nothing as she is a well known pathological liar.
Madame Gillard at the "Mummy Bloggers" Banquet.
The Bolt Report Premier Show for 2013 3313
Labor's Rooty Hill Jihad : "Good Luck BITCHES you will be lucky to walk out."
One guest was "Mrs Woog" of the Woogsworld blog. A former publishing executive who lives on Sydney's lower north shore, her motto is "Making the most out of the mundane". She posted a review of the dinner on her blog with photos of the PM's roasted chicken
supreme, potato gratin and sun-dried tomato jus main course.
"We've met her a few times before," blogger Eden Riley, a dead ringer for the PM with her red bob and glasses, said after the dinner.
"But I had my glasses before her."
They all had a lovely time, sequestered away from the great unwashed of Rooty Hill who were sitting a few metres away in the bistro or next door watching Murray's live show.
So far, so farcical. The PM's Rooty Hill sleepover is showing how out of touch and on the nose her government is with the people who were once Labor's core constituency.
Polls point to the unthinkable prospect that Labor could lose four safe seats in western Sydney, leading Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to claim this week that Sydney's west has become "Liberal heartland".
That sounds unwisely hubristic but when I spoke at random to about 30 people within a 5km radius of Rooty Hill RSL last week, not one had a good word to say about Gillard or her government.
They nominated three main complaints: jobs, the carbon tax and "boats". They see the government lacking integrity because of the broken promise on carbon tax and because of the way Gillard came to power after ousting Kevin Rudd.
They see unfairness in soaring electricity prices and job losses, and incompetence in billions squandered as a result of failed border protection.
I heard more clear-eyed political wisdom in Rooty Hill than you hear in a month of insider commentary on the ABC, which all week has been in a lather over the opposition's supposed "dog whistle" to racist western Sydney voters.
Here we go again. Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison is under fire for making the obvious point that the government has lost control of Australia's borders to such an extent that there is no room left in detention centres, and so it has been forced to release asylum seekers prematurely into the community before their bona fides are established, and with negligible oversight or support.The Immigration Department didn't even know that Sri Lankan men were being housed in student accommodation at Macquarie University next door to female students.
This chaotic circumstance is a recipe for disaster, and sure enough, what emerged was an allegation that a 21-year-old Sri Lankan man had sexually molested a young female student as she was sleeping.
The case is before the courts, but it is extraordinary how the ordeal of the alleged victim has been played down by the compassionistas. It took 2GB's Ray Hadley to uncover the squalid living conditions of asylum seekers in a disused office in Parramatta, with 20 men sharing one bathroom.
Yet he was slammed as a racist, inciting hatred, by Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young. She just doesn't seem to want to face the inconvenient truth that the chaos created jointly by Labor and the Greens has resulted in more suffering, not less, for everyone involved.
No amount of mock moral outrage hides the fact that when the Howard government left office there were just four people in detention centres who had arrived by boat. Since then, thousands of asylum seekers have drowned en route to Australia. Those who have made it to shore have found themselves sweltering indefinitely in overcrowded detention centres, or left to fend for themselves in slumlord conditions in the community, forbidden to work or find any meaning or purpose to their lives.
In western Sydney, many people are first- and second- generation migrants. They are not racists and are not without compassion.
But they see the consequences of the government's bungled policies up close and personal, and they tune out insider justifications.
No wonder the prime minister prefers the company of mummy bloggers.
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
18 Year Old Gang Raped by 5 males
Victim called mum after three hours of terror at the hands of rape gang
CLEMENTINE CUNEO and MARK MORRI
The Daily Telegraph
March 05, 2013 12:00AM
DUMPED on the side of the road in a quiet suburban street - bloodied and distraught after being gang raped for hours - a young woman made a heartbreaking call to her mum for help.
The 18-year-old was confused and hysterical.
She was snatched about 1am on Sunday off a well-lit street while walking home from a house party at Baulkham Hills and dragged into a car full of men.
Inside the vehicle she was forced to lie across the laps of three back-seat passengers as a "chubby Caucasian male" driver took them to an undisclosed location.
Once there she was repeatedly sexually and physically assaulted by multiple men for up to three hours before they threw her back in the car and dumped her in a Castle Hill street, not far from her home.
"It is horrendous. It doesn't get much worse than this," sex crime squad commander Detective Superintendent John Kerlatec said.
The victim's ordeal began soon after she left a friend's house in Merindah Rd, Baulkham Hills, when a green-coloured sedan with a P-plate pulled up beside her. Police said the five men in the vehicle called out to the woman and asked for directions to a local shopping centre.
They asked her to hop into the car and take them there but she refused.
One of the men then jumped out, grabbed the woman and dragged her into the vehicle.
"It's an horrendous incident for anyone to be subjected to," Supt Kerlatec said.
"A young lady walking along the street, regardless of the time of day, regardless of the place, should be able to walk safely."
After calling her mother for help from the side of Waterloo Ave at Castle Hill, the victim was taken to Westmead Hospital, where she spent Sunday being treated for various injuries and being counselled.
Police have obtained some information about the attack but said the woman was so traumatised they were waiting until she was well enough to give a full statement.
However police believe the carload of males had been seen staking out the party earlier in the evening.
They said there was no information yet to suggest the men knew the victim or anyone at the party, describing the attack as "opportunistic".
Supt Kerlatec played down fears the rape gang could strike again but urged women to take extra safety precautions when walking the streets at night.
He advised women to walk with friends, stay in well-lit areas, keep mobile telephones with them and not get close to anyone asking directions.
Police are desperate to speak to anyone who might have seen anything, or who might have seen the vehicle in the Baulkham Hills or Castle Hill areas.
Anyone with further information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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