A blog revealing the horrors of Islam,International Socialism,the misery these two evils are inflicting upon the free the world,and those it has already enslaved,along with various articles revealing the attacks from within upon the western Judeo Christian ethic by those we entrusted to preserve it.
Videos and Pictures of many varied subjects from around the world, along with some jokes of mine and any funny ones you want to send me.
An American, Australian ,Israeli, British "Judeo Christian Friendly " blog.
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Warning to all Muslims the world over seeking asylum and protection from the manifestations of their faith.
Do not under any circumstances come to Australia, for we are a Nation founded upon Judeo Christian Law and principles and as such Australia is an anathema to any follower of the Paedophile Slave Trader Mohammad's cult of Islam.
There is no ideology more hated and despised in Australia than Islam.You simply would not like it here.
“ If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
“There may be even a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves” Winston Churchill. Pg.310 “The Hell Makers” John C. Grover ISBN # 0 7316 1918 8
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Hontar: We must work in the world, your eminence. The world is thus.
Altamirano: No, Señor Hontar. Thus have we made the world... thus have I made it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Voltaire said: “If you want to know who rules over you, just find out who you are not permitted to criticize.”
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When those sworn to destroy you,Communism, Socialism,"Change you can Believe in" via their rabid salivating Mongrel Dog,Islam,take away your humanity, your God given Sanctity of Life, Created in His Image , If you are lucky this prayer is maybe all you have left, If you believe in God and his Son,Jesus Christ, then you are, despite the evils that may befall you are better off than most.
Lord, I come before You with a heavy heart. I feel so much and yet sometimes I feel nothing at all. I don't know where to turn, who to talk to, or how to deal with the things going on in my life. You see everything, Lord. You know everything, Lord. Yet when I seek you it is so hard to feel You here with me. Lord, help me through this. I don't see any other way to get out of this. There is no light at the end of my tunnel, yet everyone says You can show it to me. Lord, help me find that light. Let it be Your light. Give me someone to help. Let me feel You with me. Lord, let me see what You provide and see an alternative to taking my life. Let me feel Your blessings and comfort. Amen.
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"The chief weapon in the quiver of all Islamist expansionist movements, is the absolute necessity to keep victims largely unaware of the actual theology plotting their demise. To complete this deception, a large body of ‘moderates’ continue to spew such ridiculous claims as “Islam means Peace” thereby keeping non-Muslims from actually reading the Qur’an, the Sira, the Hadith, or actually looking into the past 1400 years of history. Islamists also deny or dismiss the concept of ‘abrogation’, which is the universal intra-Islamic method of replacing slightly more tolerable aspects of the religion in favor of more violent demands for Muslims to slay and subdue infidels"
Canterbury Bulldogs fans clash with police at Roosters game at Allianz Stadium Ben McClellan The Daily Telegraph September 18, 2015 CANTERBURY Bulldogs fans have been filmed clashing with police during their teams 38-12 NRL semi-final loss at Allianz Stadium on Friday night.
Roosters 38 Dogs 12
In the video posted on You Tube by a fan a large group of police and security are seen trying to control a group of men. When one man is grabbed by police another tries to grab the officers who are holding his friend before stepping on railing and throwing a punch at a police officer’s head. The officers then point out that man while the man who was being held, who by the end of the two minute video has his shirt pulled over his hands. Police could not confirm if any charges had been laid. (Oh Yeah as if) Bulldog fans involved in an altercation with police in the crowd at Allianz Stadium Moore Bulldogs fans brought shame to the sport and their club by hurling bottles at the referees after their side’s close to South Sydney on Good Friday at ANZ Stadium. Eight fans were fined by police. A Souths fan was also shoulder charged as he left the ground. Nektarios Kalaitzakis pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm after he shoulder charged 21-year-old Mathew Makaritis.
Imagine the revulsion Andrew Hastie must have felt when forced to walk the media campaign walk with the traitorous piece of shit on his left,as his by election campaign wound up for today's Canning By Election. A former Australian SAS Officer who was prepared to lay down his life for Australia forced to walk along side that traitorous Bitch and Turnbull Groupie Julie Bishop,must have been difficult for him to say the least. I have not seen her pictured with her "Beard" lately perhaps he, unlike Madame Gillard's male consort Tim what's his name had a little more self respect. Best of luck for Andrew Hastie for today, if he is successful lets hope he is able to rid the Liberal Party of the likes of Bishop and her "dear friend" Turnbull as soon as possible.
Moving tribute for ousted PM Tony Abbott before last hurrah at Kirribilli House Ben McClellan The Daily Telegraph September 19 2015.
AS he boarded his Royal Australian Air Force VIP jet for the last time, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott was given a round of applause by the crew in military uniform. The touching gesture to a man, known on board as down to earth and polite, at Fairbairn air base in Canberra yesterday afternoon started Mr Abbott’s short trip to Sydney where he joined wife Margie to finish packing up their prime ministerial lives at Kirribilli House. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull departed in another RAAF jet an hour later. Mr Abbott greeted his wife with a hug in the doorway before changing out of his suit and trademark blue tie and donning a blue jumper and jeans before packing his car.
Strapping his kayak to the top of his 1995 Mercedes-Benz 280, which he famously claimed in 2010 did not make him a “silvertail” because it was 15 years old, the former prime minister appeared like any other man moving home. Margie Abbott scooped up their family dog Maisie as she carried flowers and a tennis ball thrower for the dog,
Why Abbott had to GO
Speaking publicly for the second time since his ousting on Monday, Mr Abbott told reporters outside the iconic waterfront property it had been a “tremendous honour” to serve his nation. “Shortly, Margie and I will be driving out of Kirribilli House for the last time as residents,” he said. “To the people of Australia, it has been a tremendous, a tremendous, honour to be your prime minister and I thank you very, very much indeed,” he said. The Abbotts left in separate cars with Mr Abbott waving to the media as he drove off.
Despite driving off , he later returned to host a 40-year reunion for his former St Ignatius College classmates at Kirribilli House. The swanky party for about 60 people was to celebrate a Saint Ignatius College, Riverview school reunion. Mr Abbott could be seen swigging a beer as he eagerly awaited the class of 1975. The first busload of guests arrived at 7.15pm on a Murrays Coach. Mr Abbott barely showed his face outdoors except to meet and greet former school mates. From beyond the gates of Kirribilli House, loud laughter, cheers and the rattling of bottles could be heard. Just before 8pm a Murrays coach full of Mr Abbott’s former classmates arrived at the gate of the lodge. The event had been planned a while ago and is being privately funded. Funds raised will go to charity, The Australian reports. After two years at Kirribilli House, with its charming period setting and stunning harbour views, the Abbotts are set to return to their suburban home in the northern beaches suburb of Forestville.
"Eight out of Ten Australian Journalists do NOT believe in God, Eight out of Ten Australians DO believe in God." Fred Nile
NOW do you understand why the MSM is so Pro Islam and the United Nations?
Its not the owners of the MSM its the majority of the Pig Ignorant shits that pass for journalists that the MSM employ's that is the problem
Even on Sydney's # 1 all time slots Rating "conservative" radio station 2GB 873 When the announcers switch to the news the anti conservative slant in reporting 'facts" is so obvious it's not funny.
I have been told first hand that the off air staff are at odds with the on air staff,as in what their perceptions of reality are, the "news room " dominated by school girls" who still believe in the crap they were sold as an University Education look down on their meal tickets, the on air staff as been right wing conservative loons.
You only have to listen to the leftist slant that is applied to every news service broadcast by 2GB to appreciate the difference between the callers to its announcers and the slant their news readers place on the same stories.
Sydney TV Channel 9 (Seven and Ten are no different) is a classic example of the leftist perversion of "what happened" aka News.
THEIR ABC,SBS, Is free to do and say whatever they wish to do, both these organisations are publicly funded and are able to run their own show irrespective of FACTS.
THEIR ABC, SBS are basically there to espouse the leftist UN Muslim Socialist Green Loon agenda funded by the Australian TAX Payers aka those they SAY they despise the most.
Wherever the followers of the ideology of Islam are resident there is a common thread of acts of Paedophilia committed against the host nations children. The story below is but one of, by now thousands of sexual assaults by "Pious Muslim" Males across all ages of repeated violent sexual assaults upon NON Muslim children. How many Non Muslim children, their mothers our wives our Mothers and sisters will have to be violated, Gang Raped or Assaulted in the name of enforcing their "Holy Koran's" edicts before the Australian Council of Trade Unions, GetUp funded Labor Green Loons Progressives and the various other apologists for ISLAM and its vile putrid Manifestations accept the fact that Multiculturalism is a Failure and that there is no such thing as a "Harmony Day" as long as these savages are permitted to roam our streets and practice their "Holy Koran" given perversions ? These Koran Inspired Paedophiles simply cannot be trusted to live and walk among us. God only know's what they do to their own children when the children of their host / sanctuary nations are not available for them to engage in their re enactment of the life of the "Perfect Man" the Islamic Prophet,History's most infamous Paedophile, Gang Rapist, Genocidal Mass Murderer and Slave Trader Mohammed. Monkey See Monkey Do. Taxi driver Osman Chamseddine jailed for ‘heinous’ sexual assaults of deaf girl, 15 Sarah Crawford The Daily Telegraph September 18, 2015 5:21pm A TAXI driver has been sentenced to at least 10 years in jail for repeatedly sexually assaulting a profoundly deaf girl while dropping her home from her primary school.
Osman Chamseddine, 65, slumped in his chair at Parramatta District Court yesterday and clasped his hands to his face as he was sentenced to 15 years with a non-parole period of 10 years by Judge Brian Knox, who described his offending as “reprehensible” and “heinous”. Chamseddine was found guilty in May of sexually assaulting the girl, when she was aged 10 and 11, as he took her home from school in his mini van for disabled children. The taxi driver, who was a subcontractor for the Education Department, would drop off the other children first, then take the girl to an industrial block in Sydney’s west. It was there that he assaulted her on four occasions between June and November 2009. The girl wrote in a victim impact statement that the attacks made her feel uncomfortable around all men except her father. “I don’t trust men, I don’t like being around men, I don’t trust anyone. I am not comfortable around any man except for my dad,” the now 17-year-old victim wrote. Judge Knox said Chamseddine’s assaults included putting his finger in her vagina, touching her breast and making her touch his erect penis. “When the offender touched her, her body was frozen from fear,” the judge said. “She could not say ‘stop’ and did not know how to say ‘don’t touch me’.” The girl kept the attacks secret until December 2013 when a teacher spoke to students about sexual assault as part of White Ribbon Day. Judge Knox said Chamseddine had “manifestly breached” the trust given to him by the girl, her parents and her school to deliver her safely between her home and classes. The court heard he continued to deny assaulting the girl.
Scott Morrison challenged to swear on Bible he didn’t undermine Abbott
Didn’t understand Abbott move to oust Hockey and give him Treasury
2GB host Ray Hadley insisted Abbott felt “betrayed” by Morrison
SCOTT Morrison has revealed the former Prime Minister Tony Abbott threw Treasurer Joe Hockey “under the bus” in an 11th hour bid to save his leadership.
In a fiery exchange with “good mate” Ray Hadley on 2GB this morning, the Social Services minister said he was shocked Mr Abbott offered him the role of treasurer in the lead up to the leadership spill.
“I didn’t understand it,” Mr Morrison said on 2GB.
“I didn’t understand how if we were to be successful that night, how we would explain that to the Australian people.
“I didn’t understand why he wanted me to pick a fight with Joe Hockey and throw him under the bus.”
Scott Morrison picks up the bible during his fiery debate with Ray Hadley on 2GB this morning.
Before his heated exchange on 2GB, Scott Morrison signed a hard hat that will be auctioned for charity. Picture: Twitter / Stephanie Borys
Mr Hadley pressed Mr Morrison to swear on the Bible that he had not plotted with the new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to overthrow Mr Abbott.
While Mr Morrison initially refused to bring faith into the argument, he flatly denied he undercut Tony Abbot to elevate Mr Turnbull.
“Absolutely not, I had no role in his demise,” Mr Morrison said.
Mr Hadley continued to press him, saying the Australian people had a right to know the truth. and the only way to do that was to swear on a Bible.
“I’m not going to use my faith for a stunt for your program,” Mr Morrison said.
“You get to judge my policies but you don’t get to judge my faith.”
Mr Hadley also revealed Mr Abbott felt “betrayed” by Mr Morrison, saying a source close to the former leader said he felt Mr Morrison had “blotted his copybook”.
“Mr Abbott thinks you ran with the foxes and hunted with the hounds,” Mr Hadley said.
A nonplussed Mr Morrison replied: “Well, he’s wrong ... At the end of the day I voted for Tony Abbott. I gave him utter loyalty for the entire time I served.”
“You get to judge my policies but you don’t get to judge my faith” — Scott Morrison
He also said he had not used the automatic deleting Wikr messaging service to secretly bolster support for Mr Turnbull with factional allies and had in fact warned Mr Abbott of an impending coup.
“I said on Friday to the PM’s office that things were pretty febrile and they should be on high alert,” he said.
Scott Morrison conceded Tony Abbott offered him the role of Treasurer in a bid to save himself
Ray Hadley had a fiery interview with Scott Morrison on his role in the Abbott coup
Mr Morrison also revealed he has not spoken to Mr Abbott since Monday night’s leadership ballot.
“I said good luck after the ballot and we shook hands,” he said.
Mr Morrison has been accused of deliberately “running dead” in the lead-up to the coup when he could have been rallying coalition troops to support the ousted leader.
It was revealed earlier this week that Mr Abbott had been warned by allies not to trust Mr Morrison as far back as May amid fears he would two-face the leader — offering support but allegedly double dealing behind his back.
Social Services Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media after a radio interview with Ray Hadley in which he revealed Tony Abbott had offered him the position of Treasurer in a last-minute bid to save
himself.
Concerns escalated last week before Mr Turnbull’s leadership challenge when it became obvious the Social Services Minister was not actively supporting Mr Abbott.
However witnesses told The Australian they saw Mr Morrison’s ballot paper in the Liberal Party room on Monday night and it showed he voted for Mr Abbott.
Mr Morrison is likely to benefit from the change of leadership having been tipped to take on the role of treasurer from Mr Hockey.
It comes as Liberal frontbencher Christopher Pyne told Mr Abbott he didn’t expect there would be a leadership challenge this week, 24 hours before he jumped ship and sided with Malcolm Turnbull.
The eduction minister confirmed on Friday that Mr Abbott had his support the day before the spill which resulted in him losing the prime ministership.
“The truth is on Sunday there was no leadership ballot, on Monday there was, then I made an assessment,” Mr Pyne told the Nine Network’s Today show this morning.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Minister for Social Services Scott Morrison at Parliament House in Canberra. Mr Morrison has been tipped to take on the new role of Treasurer.
Mr Pyne said Mr Abbott was given a warning by the party room in February and seven months later things still weren’t any better.
“It was very hard for anyone to argue that he wasn’t given absolutely every opportunity to prove that he was the best person to lead the party,” he said.
Mr Pyne, who has been mooted as a possible replacement for Kevin Andrew as Defence Minister, was one of the more high-profile Liberal MPs to back Mr Turnbull in Monday’s leadership vote.
Originally published as Hadley and Morrison in bible bust-up
Dennis Nona: Indigenous artist hailed as role model despite convictions for raping 12-year-old girl Exclusive : Janet Fife-Yeomans The Daily Telegraph September 18, 2015 12:00am
THE arts community has rallied behind a world-renowned indigenous artist who is challenging convictions for repeatedly raping a 12-year-old girl, claiming he was never told sex with a child was wrong. Dennis Nona has already won one retrial over legal points after claiming the girl had sex with him while he was on a three-day drunken binge — without him knowing it. Hailed as a “role model” for other Torres Strait artists, 42-year-old Nona has also blamed his abuse of the girl and her sister, 14, on the traditional practice of polygamy he grew up with on Badu Island. The girl subsequently fell pregnant to him. “I’m very supportive of him,” art historian and valuer Frances Cummings, who provided written character references to the court for Nona, said yesterday. “He is a genius of an artist and the things he committed were when he was a very young man.” Nona’s former arts manager, Michael Kershaw, told the ACT Supreme Court when Nona was sentenced in April that he was a “role model”. “My role model reference was in the context of his art practice. He has always been very generous in helping other Torres Strait artists,” Mr Kershaw, who runs Australian Art Network, said yesterday. Nona’s artwork sells for as much as $200,000 and in 2008 he won the $40,000 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
He has been refused bail pending his appeal against convictions in the ACT Supreme Court for raping the 12-year-old girl in Canberra in 1996 and sexually assaulting her sister. He is also appealing his total jail sentence of nine years with a minimum term of four years six months. Nona was doing a two-year art degree in Canberra when he assaulted the girls. Jailing him in April, ACT Chief Justice Helen Murrell said the 12-year-old had a late termination after discovering at 20 weeks that she was pregnant. A DNA analysis revealed Nona was the father, although Nona has since challenged the DNA evidence.
He returned to the Torres Strait and a warrant was taken out for his arrest. He was charged in 2008. He lost a fight to stop the case on grounds of excessive delay but won a retrial on a number of points including the Appeal Court ruled the trial judge had not properly instructed the jury about his claims the girl had sex with him when he was drunk, which she denied. Support from the arts community has continued, even as the National Gallery of Australia has removed his artworks. “He invented the visual language of his people,” art gallery owner Andrew Baker said yesterday. ---------------------------------------------
Australia's "Arts Community" and "Beautiful People" has a proud record of standing by its members accused of Paedophilia /Child Pornography,this story below from 2008 is a good example of their solidarity with each when one of their number is exposed and dragged before the courts. Cate Blanchett backs photographer Bill Henson Michelle Cazzulino and Neil Keene The Daily Telegraph May 28,2008 OSCAR-winning actress Cate Blanchett yesterday mounted an impassioned defence of Bill Henson, urging Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and NSW Premier Morris Iemma to reconsider their comments on the controversial artist's work. The mother-of-three was among more than 40 signatories, including writer Peter Goldsworthy and economist Saul Eslake, to an open letter by the Creative Australia 2020 Summit representatives. The missive was released just hours after a third NSW gallery removed a number of Henson's works from display. Mr Bill Henson below, I am unable to post the photographs that are the subject of the Cate Blanchett open letter of support for Bill Henson,due to child pornography / Paedophilia laws. Why I photograph children: Henson on video
Police last week raided the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Paddington, closing down an exhibition of the artist's works just before it was due to open. In depth: The Arts
On Friday, officers seized 20 of Henson's images, some featuring a naked girl, said to be aged just 13. The artworks were criticised by a number of politicians, with Mr Rudd describing them as "revolting". But the letter signed by Blanchett said the Prime Minister, along with Mr Iemma, should "rethink their public comments". It also warned that pursuing criminal charges against Henson could harm the children depicted in the seized images. "The potential prosecution of one of our most respected artists . . . does untold damage to our culture reputation," the letter said. "We suggest that the. . . criminalisation of laying charges against Mr Henson, his gallery and the parents of the young people depicted in his work would be far more traumatic for the young people concerned than anything Mr Henson has done." A spokesman for Mr Rudd last night said the Prime Minister did not resile from his remarks. "He was asked to express a personal opinion and he did that," the spokesman said. Mr Iemma was also unrepentant: "My opinion is clear - these photographs crossed the line and they were inappropriate. I'm all for free speech but never at the expense of a child's safety and innocence." NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione yesterday told The Daily Telegraph the force's legal division was still considering whether criminal charges should be laid against Henson or the owners of the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. He said he found the images objectionable. "I've got my own personal view and it's one that's not inconsistent with those police who have been out and taken those pictures into their possession," he said. " . . . I support the police in what they've done." In Victoria, Adrian Maiolla, the acting president of the Life Models Society, said he, too, had found Henson's images distasteful. His organisation did not allow models aged under 18 to become members and would not supply them to artists, he added. At the Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, staff yesterday removed a giant print by Henson, featuring a naked and seemingly unconscious female being carried by two other naked subjects. Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox, from Newcastle police, said the images were regarded as suspicious.
TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2008 Open Letter of Support for Bill Henson http://billhensonletterofsupport.blogspot.com.au/ PRESS RELEASE: MAY 27, 2008 Open Letter in support of Bill Henson From Creative Australia 2020 Summit representatives Wednesday, May 28, 2008 As members of the Creative Stream of the Australia 2020 Summit, we wish to express our dismay at the police raid on Bill Henson’s recent Sydney exhibition, the allegations that he is a child pornographer, and the subsequent reports that he and others may be charged with obscenity. The potential prosecution of one of our most respected artists is no way to build a Creative Australia, and does untold damage to our cultural reputation. The public debate prompted by the Henson exhibition is welcome and important. We need to discuss the ethics of art and the issues that it raises. That is one of the things art is for: it is valuable because it gives rise to such debate and difference, because it raises difficult, sometimes unanswerable, questions about who we are, as individuals and as members of society. However, this on-going discussion, which is crucial to the healthy functioning of our democracy, cannot take place in a court of law. We invite the Prime Minister, Mr Rudd, and the NSW Premier, Mr Iemma, to rethink their public comments about Mr Henson’s work. We understand that they were made in the context of deep community concern about the sexual exploitation of children. We understand and respect also that they have every right to their personal opinions. However, as political leaders they are influential in forming public opinion, and we believe their words should be well considered. We also call on the Minister for Environment Heritage and the Arts, Mr Garrett, to stand up for artists against a trend of encroaching censorship which has recently resulted in the closure of this and other exhibitions. We wish to make absolutely clear that none of us endorses, in any way, the abuse of children. Mr Henson’s work has nothing to do with child pornography and, according to the judgment of some of the most respected curators and critics in the world, it is certainly art. We ask for the following points to be fairly considered: 1. Mr Henson is a highly distinguished artist. His work is held in all major Australian collections including the Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery of SA, Art Gallery of WA, National Gallery of Victoria and the National Gallery of Australia. Among international collections, his work is held in the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Denver Art Museum; the Houston Museum of Fine Art; 21C Museum, Louisville; the Montreal Museum of Fine Art; Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris; the DG Bank Collection in Frankfurt and the Sammlung Volpinum and the Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna. Major retrospectives of Mr Henson’s work at the Art Galleries of NSW and Victoria attracted more than 115,000 people, and produced not one complaint of obscenity. His work has also been studied widely in schools for many years. 2. Mr Henson has been photographing young models for more than 15 years. Until now, there has been no suggestion by any of his subjects or their families of any abusive practices. On the contrary, his models have strongly defended his practice and the feeling of safety generated in his process, and have expressed pride in his work. We suggest that the media sensationalism and the criminalisation of laying charges against Mr Henson, his gallery and the parents of the young people depicted in his work, would be far more traumatic for the young people concerned than anything Mr Henson has done. 3. The work itself is not pornographic, even though it includes depictions of naked human beings. It is more justly seen in a tradition of the nude in art that stretches back to the ancient Greeks, and which includes painters such as Caravaggio and Michelangelo. Many of Henson’s controversial images are not in fact sexual at all. Others depict the sexuality of young people, but in ways that are fundamentally different from how naked bodies are depicted in pornography. The intention of the art is not to titillate or to gratify perverse sexual desires, but rather to make the viewer consider the fragility, beauty, mystery and inviolabilty of the human body. In contrast, the defining essence of pornography is that it endorses, condones or encourages abusive sexual practice. We respectfully suggest that Henson’s work, even when it is disturbing, does nothing of the sort. I would personally argue that, in its respect for the autonomy of its subjects, the work is a counter-argument to the exploitation and commodification of young people in both commercial media and in pornographic images. Many of us have children of our own. The sexual abuse and exploitation of children fills us all with abhorrence. But it is equally damaging to deny the obvious fact that adolescents are sexual beings. This very denial contributes to abusive behaviour, because it is part of the denial of the personhood of the young. In my opinion, Mr Henson’s work shows the delicacy of the transition from childhood to adulthood, its troubledness and its beauty, in ways which do not violate the essential innocence of his subjects. It can be confronting, but that does not mean that it is pornography. Legal opinion is that if charges were laid against Mr Henson, he would be unlikely to be found guilty. The seizure of the photographs, and the possible prosecution of Mr Henson, the Rosyln Oxley9 Gallery or the parents of Henson’s subjects, takes up valuable police and court time that would be much better spent pursuing those who actually do abuse children. 4. Perhaps the most distressing aspect of the trial-by-media to which Mr Henson and his work has been subject over the past few days, is how his art has been diminished and corrupted. The allegations that he is making child pornography have done more to promote his work to possible paedophiles than any art gallery, where the work is seen in its proper, contemplative context. It is notable that the attacks on Mr Henson’s work have, almost without exception, come from those who are unfamiliar with the photographs, or who have seen them in mutilated or reduced images on the internet. If an example is made of Bill Henson, one of Australia’s most prominent artists, it is hard to believe that those who have sought to bring these charges will stop with him. Rather, this action will encourage a repressive climate of hysterical condemnation, backed by the threat of prosecution. We are already seeing troubling signs in the pre-emptive self-censorship of some galleries. This is not the hallmark of an open democracy nor of a decent and civilised society. We should remember that an important index of social freedom, in earlier times or in repressive regimes elsewhere in the world, is how artists and art are treated by the state. We urge our political leaders to follow the example of Neville Wran, when in 1982 a similar outcry greeted paintings by Juan Davila. At that time, Mr Wran said: “I do not believe that art has anything to do with the vice squad”. With Mr Wran, we believe the proper place for debate is outside the courts of law. Alison Croggon Writer Signatories: Louise Adler, CEO & Publisher-in-Chief, Melbourne University Publishing Geoffery Atherden, Writer Neil Armfield, Artistic director, Belvoir St Theatre Stephen Armstrong, Executive Producer, Malthouse Theatre James Baker, Tax advisor and accountant Geraldine Barlow, Curator Larissa Behrendt, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney Cate Blanchett, Actor Daryl Buckley, Musician Leticia Cacares, Theatre Director Karen Casey, Visual Artist Kate Champion, Choreographer, Artistic Director Force Majeure Rachel Dixon, New media developer Phoebe Dunn, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Commercial Galleries Association Jo Dyer, Executive Producer, Sydney Theatre Company Kristy Edmunds, Artistic Director, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts Saul Eslake, Economist Richard Gill, Artistic Director, Victorian Opera Peter Goldsworthy, Writer Marieke Hardy, Writer and broadcaster Sam Haren, Artistic Director, The Border Project Frank Howarth Cathy Hunt, Creative consultant Nicholas Jose, Writer Andrew Kay, Producer Ana Kokkinos, Film maker Sandra Levy Matthew Lutton, Theatre director Nick Marchand, Artistic Director, Griffin Theatre Sue Maslin, Producer, Film Art Doco Pty Ltd Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Callum Morton, Visual Artist Rosemary Myers, Artistic Director, Windmill Performing Arts Rachel Healy, Director Performing Arts, Sydney Opera House Liza Lim, Composer Jan Minchin, Director, Tolarno Galleries Helen O’Neil, Executive producer Charles Parkinson, Artistic Director, Tasmanian Theatre Company David Pledger, Theatre director Marion Potts, Theatre Director Katrina Sedgwick, Festival Director, Adelaide Film Festival David Throsby, Academic Mary Vallentine, Arts manager Additional signatories: The following support the appeal contained in this letter without necessarily endorsing the detailed argument: John Coetzee, Novelist Anna Haebich, Writer Ramona Koval, Writer and broadcaster Julianne Schultz, Writer Marcus Westbury, writer and broadcaster Monday June 2: Those who would also like to sign this letter are invited to do so below. 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Malcolm Turnbull will fail if he can’t heal the Liberal Party Andrew Bolt The Daily Telegraph September 17, 2015
PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s biggest problem isn’t Bill Shorten. No, knocking off that soiled Labor leader should be a cinch. Far more dangerous to Turnbull are the Liberals disgusted by the treachery and deceit that went into assassinating former leader Tony Abbott. There is almost a revulsion among influential MPs, not just with Turnbull but his deputy, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop. There is even anger with Scott Morrison, until now a hero of conservatives and about to become Turnbull’s treasurer. For some this is now a moral question. They know they should be loyal to their party. They know Turnbull can beat Shorten. And they know their duty is to help Turnbull do that, given how unfit Shorten is to lead this country. Yet Turnbull’s plotters make their skin crawl. I’ve talked to MPs, even moderates, who are sickened. Some wonder why they got into politics or even whether they should join a new party. That just adds venom to the anger that many conservative Liberals already feel for Turnbull — for a man of the Left they think has hijacked their party. Let me give three examples of the scheming that makes it hard for Turnbull to expect much loyalty in return. First, there was Julie Bishop’s disloyal silence. As deputy Liberal leader, Bishop had a duty to warn Abbott of threats to his leadership. Yet on Channel 10’s The Project this week, she admitted she had heard of the planned challenge to Abbott — announced on Monday — “in the days beforehand”, although she later claimed “I had no idea of the timing until the day before”. But Bishop did not warn Abbott of Turnbull’s plot until Monday. She’d been waiting to have the reports “confirmed by others”, she said. Oh, really? To add to the suspicion, when Abbott rang Bishop’s mobile last Saturday to discuss rumours of this challenge, Bishop did not answer and took a full day to ring back. No wonder, perhaps. Bishop had spent that Saturday at a Sydney charity event where she’d met Turnbull. That’s been too much for Liberal Premier Colin Barnett, of Bishop’s home state of Western Australia. He accused her of “duplicity”, adding: “And there’s probably been some disloyalty.” Second, there was Scott Morrison’s refusal to help Abbott defeat Turnbull. Morrison, the Liberal who stopped the boats, was emerging as Abbott’s natural successor and the star of the Liberals’ conservative wing. On Monday morning, just hours before Turnbull sprang his trap, Morrison insisted on 2GB he had “no idea” of any possible challenge. He said he was an Abbott supporter, so “if they were (plotting) they would not be talking to me”.
Interesting to hear Morrison talking to Hadley the morning of the coup he maintains total ignorance of. Tomorrow he will again appear on the Hadley show It will be an interesting show to say the least.
Yet later that day Morrison refused Abbott’s offer to be deputy Liberal leader on a joint ticket with Abbott against Turnbull and Bishop. He was also effectively refusing to be Abbott’s new treasurer, since the deputy has their pick of portfolios. True, Abbott was even then still foolishly reluctant to sack his existing Treasurer, the embattled Joe Hockey. His offer really meant it was up to Morrison to sack Hockey and run against Bishop. But had Morrison said yes to Abbott’s offer, he and his five supporters would have helped to defeat Turnbull and would have encouraged other Liberal waverers to join them. A yes would also have meant that Morrison, a Pentecostal Christian conservative opposed to gay marriage, would have saved a fellow conservative from a Leftist and gay-marriage crusader
Yet Morrison chose not to fight for Abbott or for his beliefs. While privately telling Liberals and some journalists he remained an Abbott supporter, he gave no press conference to defend him and his coterie of MPs voted for Turnbull. True, Morrison figured Abbott had poor judgment and was not a long-term bet. He also didn’t want to be in a contest with Bishop or in Abbott’s fight with Turnbull and will still get his reward — Hockey’s job as Treasurer. But where was the fighting for principle? And then there was the sabotage. Abbott, at his farewell press conference, denounced the “white-anting” by Liberal MPs, the “self-serving claims” peddled to journalists by his anonymous critics to do the work of “the assassin’s knife”. It is too easily forgotten that Abbott by May had largely recovered in the polls, even drawing level with Labor in one. Journalists had started to question Shorten’s leadership instead. But Abbott’s recovery was then blown up. He was rocked by another burst of leaks, destabilisation and distractions by his own side that continued right up until Monday. For instance, friendly journalists were told Bishop had warned Abbott to sack Hockey and that she’d told colleagues that Labor seemed to be running dead in next Saturday’s Canning by-election (allegedly to ensure the unpopular Abbott stayed prime minister until next year’s election). Abbott’s poll figures collapsed. They’d got him. But, sure, no change of leaders is painless. And Turnbull’s plotters are right: they have given the Liberals a leader more popular than the man he replaced. By making the Liberals more electable, they may have done the party a big favour. And isn’t their higher loyalty to the party, not to Abbott, whose mistakes caused more damage than anything done by the plotters? Yet many Liberal voters seem red-hot with anger. On Monday, more than 1000 sent me angry emails and messages, almost all abusing Turnbull and most saying they could never vote for the Liberals again if he led them. Callers to conservative talk shows are also spitting chips. Conservatives were always going to be furious about having their party stolen by the Left. But many are now appalled by the treachery as well.
Alternative Conservative Party for disaffected Liberal Voters with the final say going to Stephanie Legendary Conservative 2GB caller
So this is now Turnbull’s great challenge. It will take all his charm and persuasiveness to heal a division that could wreck his campaign and even split his party. He has already had one expensive reminder that many government MPs simply do not trust his word or his instincts. Take the Nationals, whose 15 House of Representatives MPs are needed by the Liberals to form government. The Nationals on Tuesday arced up at Turnbull’s election as Liberal leader. They refused to back any government led by him until he’d signed a deal with them. They know Turnbull is a warming alarmist and a bit carried away by his own brilliance. So they made Turnbull not only promise to spend $2 billion more on the Nationals’ pet schemes, but to guarantee he would not change Abbott’s policies on gay marriage and global warming. Oh, and he had to give Nationals deputy leader Barnaby Joyce control over water policy. That’s why Abbott took so long on Tuesday to formally resign. He had to wait for Turnbull to sign the Nationals’ deal. Until then, Turnbull couldn’t guarantee he had support in Parliament to form government. That is just one sign of the tensions that threatens Turnbull most. So forget Shorten. He won’t much bother Turnbull. No, Turnbull’s first big campaign must be not to destroy Labor but to heal the Liberals he now leads.
