Tony Abbott first interview since leadership coup with Ray Hadley.

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott interviewed by Ray Hadley

Lanai Scarr National Political Reporter
The Daily Telegraph
September 29,2015.

TONY Abbott is confident he would have won the next election had he been left as Prime Minister.

The dumped PM, who lost his job to Malcolm Turnbull in a coup two weeks ago, this morning dismissed negative opinion polls and said he had never done well in public opinion polls.

“I am confident that if I had continued at head of this government that’s what we would have had (a victory),” Mr Abbott told 2GB’s Ray Hadley.

“If you look at my polling I’ve always done badly in the polls.

“You can be not popular in the ratings and at the same time lead a very effective opposition and government.”

Mr Abbott said internal party polling in the lead up to the Canning by-election showed the Liberal party would have won 57 per cent of the vote which is about what the final result was on the day.

He said the timing of the leadership spill was carefully coordinated to ensure a challenge was successful.

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“Because a strong result in Canning would have put paid to this notion that somehow I wouldn’t survive the next election,” Mr Abbott said.

He said he was doing OK after losing the nation’s top job, however was still not yet ready to make a decision on his future.

“57-years-old is still young,” he said of his age.

“I’m not ready to retire and I still have a lot to contribute to public life.”

Mr Abbott also lamented that he never watched his back while Prime Minister which may have led to his demise.

“I never believed in watching my own back,” Mr Abbott said in his first public interview since being rolled.

“Any leader who is watching his back is not focusing on the main job at hand. If the leader ever starts to play internal politics than the leader is in trouble.

“I always knew that politics was a brutal bruising business. It is a game of snakes and ladders and I’ve got a snake at the moment.”

Mr Abbott urged voters to stick with the Coalition at the next election and Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister.

“I can appreciate there are a lot of people out there who are dismayed by what has happened,” he said.

“But it would be even worse if we end up with the sixth prime minister in six years.”

Mr Abbott also denied that he ever thought about cutting loose former Treasurer Joe Hockey and his chief-of-staff Peta Credlin in order to placate any push for a change of leader.

“The idea that those people hungry for advancement would be mollified by if Joe went or my chief-of-staff is just wrong,” he said.

“They were not going to be put off if they were thrown a few human sacrifices and it is wrong to feed this beast.

“Joe and I were blood brothers when it comes to economic policy. The idea that I would have sacrificed Joe to save myself is just dead wrong.”

Mr Abbott also refused to weigh in on if he felt betrayed by his former deputy Julie Bishop and close ally Scott Morrison.

“I’d rather focus on the good work that they did,” he said.

“In the end all of us have got to answer to God and our consciousnesses and I am not going to get into who should have said what.”

On Scott Morrison in particular, Mr Abbott said: “At some point in time I’m sure we’ll have a conversation and we will resolve these things.”

Mr Abbott also urged politicians to stop the revolving door of prime ministers for the sake of the nation.

“This is a real problem for our country. The government can’t do what is necessary if you are subject to death by polls,” he said.

“We’ve had five prime ministers in five years. We are worse than Italy and only just better than Greece.

“For a country that has always had stable and effective government this is hardly the face we want to put to the world.”


Malcolm Turnbull acted when he did because he knew Canning by-election would strengthen Tony Abbott

Daniel Meers
The Daily Telegraph
September 29 2015.

FORMER Prime Minister Tony Abbott says Malcolm Turnbull executed him the week before the Canning by-election because he was on track for a strong result at the Canning ballot box.

In a 30 minute interview with Radio 2GB host Ray Hadley, aired live on television, Mr Abbott said his executioners were aware internal polling in Canning showed the government was on track for 57 per cent of the vote.

“One of the reasons why the ballot had to be brought on the week it was brought on by the proponents of a ballot was because a strong result in Canning, which is what we were going to get, would have put 

paid to this notion that somehow I was unelectable because of the polls,’’ he said.

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The Truth about Tony Abbott............

Loss of Tony Abbott as prime minister is a time of sorrow

Andrew Bolt
The Daily Telegraph
September 28 2015

NOW Tony Abbott is gone I can finally tell the truth about him. Folks, you made a big mistake with this bloke.

No, no. The mistake wasn’t that you voted for him.

In fact, you got one of the finest human beings to be Prime Minister.

In many ways he seemed too moral for the job, yet he achieved more in two years than the last two Labor prime ministers achieved in six.

Compare. Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard left us with record deficits after blowing billions on trash — on overpriced school halls, “free” insulation that killed people, green schemes that collapsed, “stimulus” checks to the dead.

They meanwhile opened our borders to 50,000 illegal immigrants and drowned 1200. They hyped the global warming scare and forced us to pay a job-killing carbon tax just to pretend they were saving us.

But Abbott? I won’t go through the whole list: how he stopped the boats, curbed spending, scrapped the useless carbon and mining taxes, led the world’s defiance of deadly Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and made us safer from terrorism.

He even signed three free trade deals to secure jobs for our kids — including one with China that the last three governments couldn’t clinch.

And he did all this in the face of astonishing heckling and even vilification from our media class, and despite often feral opposition in the Senate.

But your mistake was not to care about all that. Deeds didn’t count with you. Image was all.

And so you told the pollsters you didn’t like Abbott. You believed the vicious crap written about him, until his MPs finally panicked and dumped him.

Your mistake was that you couldn’t look behind the flim flam — the way Abbott looked, the way he spoke, the way he walked, the way he ate an onion — to see what he’d actually done for you and for your country.

You even laughed at some of his finest qualities and emblems of his public service. Journalists ridiculed his work as a lifesaver by mocking his costume and body hair. They dismissed his fire fighting service as just a photo-op. Wrote off his patriotism as bigotry.

When he defended women, he was called insincere. When he warned that our finances were in strife or that terrorism menaced us, they called him a scaremonger.

And you believed them. You let people treat like absolute dirt a man who had a record of volunteerism no prime minister has equalled — working in Aboriginal communities, lifesaving, firefighting, helping people in natural disasters, and raising money for women’s shelters and a hospice for dying children.

And none of it was done just to puff his CV for an election pamphlet.

The only reason I know Abbott helped people secure their homes after one Sydney storm is that my wife’s uncle asked the head of the team getting the tree off his house if that really was Abbott over there, helping to cut it away.

Shush, said the captain. He doesn’t like people knowing.

Now, I must declare straight up — I call Tony Abbott a friend.

So you’ll call me biased. You’ll laugh that I can write this massive praise of him when almost everyone else is horse-laughing. And you’ll say that’s why I see more qualities in Abbott than are actually there.

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But you’ll just be making another mistake.

See, I don’t think Abbott is a great man because he’s my friend. He’s my friend because he’s a great man. Greater than the people who tore him down.

He’s my friend especially because he’s not those things that so many journalists wrote — including some who must have known what they wrote were lies.

Truth is that Abbott is not a thug, bully, racist, fool, liar, woman-hater, homophobe or bigot. He’s not cruel or lacking compassion.

If he were any of those things he would not be my friend. Those are deal breakers for me. Those I love best are people of honour, warmth and kindness.

Tony Abbott is one such man, and that he has been betrayed and deposed doesn’t just break my heart. It makes me fear for this country. I can only hope that Australians will one day wake up to what they’ve tossed away.

Sorry to sound so melodramatic, but here are some glimpses of the man I know — ones that put the lie to the trash that even big-name correspondents peddled about him.

A woman hater? Ask his daughters or female chief of staff. Ask the many women on his staff, so loyal that he had one of the lowest turnovers of modern prime ministers.

A crash-through insensitive bully with no people skills? Ask my children how gentle he was when he called around. Ask one of my 2GB listeners, Pat, who rang in to say how moved he was that Abbott, on the way to a crucial Question Time on the day the carbon tax was repealed, still had the time to ring Pat’s dying brother.

Or consider this: just minutes after Malcolm Turnbull told Abbott he was challenging for his job, Abbott still honoured a promise to meet girl guides, rather than hit the phones to save himself.

Too loyal? Well, true, yet when I once asked why he wouldn’t buy off his critics by sacking Joe Hockey as Treasurer, Abbott told me he knew Hockey actually had the talent to be great, and would be if given another chance.

A homophobe? Abbott actually had a deep friendship with one of my friends, too, the out-and-proud gay commentator Christopher Pearson, and even helped carry the coffin of this much-missed man.

In fact, when one Fairfax writer this year accused Abbott — on entirely fictitious evidence — of having had a “possibly homophobic” moment, a gay adviser on Abbott’s staff texted me in rage: “If PM was so homophobic he wouldn’t be sharing the C1 car with me.”

Every Prime Minister thinks they don’t get the press they deserve. But I bet Abbott’s friends would agree that none could have been so different in the flesh from what you read in the papers — and so much better. Shame on the journalists responsible for this great slander.

Yes, I know Abbott made mistakes, and I was hard on the worst. I know he was too stubborn. And I know he was clumsy in selling himself.

I admit I even quarrelled with him privately when he too-nobly refused to whack Labor leader Bill Shorten over some detail of national security.

No, the country before politics, he declared. I could have shaken the silly bugger, who played politics like it was cricket when everyone else was cage fighting.

God, he wouldn’t even do the populist thing and just promise to build our next submarines in Adelaide, and to hell with the cost or national interest.

But that was Abbott, and for me character always counts in the end.

That’s why I say: this country has despised and rejected a great servant. It is a time of sorrow.

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The Bolt Report: September 27 2015.

Germany's Poor and Homeless demand to be thrown out of Public Housing to make way for 87% Muslim Males

Via http://www.barenakedislam.com/

Just when WILL Sydney's Rev. Bill Cruise (of 2gb.com) lean on his followers and demand that they live on the streets and under bridges so as to welcome HIS Muslim Male friends?

The MSM's Perfect Aussie Blonde Haired "JEWISH" RACIST or is She MAD? .. if only she had blue eyes I can hear the MSM say

Woman charged over racist spitting attacks on trains and buses at North Sydney, Bondi Junction, Edgecliff, Parramatta and Hornsby

Ben McClellan
The Daily Telegraph
September 25, 2015

A WOMAN has been charged over a string of racist verbal rants in which she allegedly spat at her victims on trains and buses across Sydney.

It came after Chinese-Australian Lindsay Li, 29, posted a video online of a woman racially verbally abusing her on bus at Willoughby.

A 55-year-old woman was arrested at Guildford railway station yesterday after a teenage girl was allegedly racially verbally abused and spat on.

The woman was charged with six counts of assault and two counts of using offensive language at transport hubs at North Sydney, Bondi Junction, Edgecliff, Parramatta and Hornsby.

An incident at Eastwood is also being investigated.

She was refused police bail to appear at Parramatta Bail Court today.

The alleged racial abuse started on September 7 at Edgecliff train station when a woman and her son were abused and spat on.

A week later a woman at Bondi Junction was attacked and last Friday a man was spat at on a pedestrian bridge on Florence St, near Hornsby railway station.

Ms Li claimed she was abused on a bus by a woman who struck her with a trolley and spat on her on Wednesday.

“It’s unbelievable the amount of hate one person can spew out,” Ms Li wrote online of her ordeal.

The woman in the video can be heard telling Ms Li “We all know what you are, China” and to “take your f...ng language and piss off, f...ing chink”

Everything this woman is accused of doing and can be seen doing and saying is repulsive by any measure and there is no place in any civilised society for such behaviour.

Is this woman a Racist or is she MAD? 
If she is MAD then why is she held to the same standards of behaviour that sane people* (*the hand full of Australian's who are NOT MAD) are held accountable to?

Will MAD people be held accountable for various other actions they are from time to time want to demonstrate in the broader community?
Will those suffering Downs Syndrome be charged with sexual assault after hugging strangers as is their want from time to time? 
Will Schizophrenics now be charged with Identity fraud?
Will those who slaughter and maim because they are MAD,according to their defence Lawyers, Prosecution indeed the Courts be held accountable?
No, the above won't and rightly should not, but hey give the MSM a Politically Incorrect RACIST NUT JOB Racist and the MSM's PC gloves are off.

Either the above story is guilty of OMISSION of FACTS or the story below is guilty of INCLUSION of FACTS.

Police arrest woman who allegedly racially abused Chinese-Australian on Sydney bus

9news
September 25, 2015

A woman who was filmed allegedly racially abusing a Chinese-Australian woman a public bus in Sydney earlier this week has been arrested.

Police say the woman was arrested earlier today and taken to Merrylands train station.

The victim, Lindsay Li, said she was shocked that nobody - including the bus driver - intervened while she was subjected to the foul abuse.

Ms Li says she was waiting for a city-bound bus around lunchtime yesterday in Willoughby when an older white woman with blonde hair approached her and unleashed a racist attack at her, before following 

her onto the bus to continue her tirade.

“This woman walks straight up to me, makes this spitting motion at me, so she’s seen me on the bus, and she’s walked back down, taken the seat right in front of me, and gone off screaming,” Ms Li said.

Shocked over what was occurring, Ms Li took out her phone and began filming the woman’s insults.

She then uploaded the video to her Facebook page and wrote “it’s unbelievable the amount of hate one person can spew out” in an accompanying caption.

In the video, the woman can be heard screaming abuse.

“I’m Jewish from Israel, are you f****ing nothing,” the woman can be heard yelling.

“We all know what you are, China…take your f****ing language and piss off."

The woman also uses a derogatory term for Asians.

Ms Li said she told the bus driver the woman was yelling and swearing in front of passengers, including children.

However, she said he refused to stop the vehicle or take any intervening action.

“I went to the bus driver and he completely ignored me and kept driving, and I’m screaming at him saying you need to stop the bus now.”

Ms Li said the abuse was so intense, she feared for her physical safety.

“The woman was so unstable, I thought she could attack me,” she said.

Despite the length and savagery of the tirade, Ms Li said no one on the bus intervened.

A police spokesperson confirmed they had received a complaint about offensive behaviour by a woman on a bus travelling through Willoughby.

The spokesperson said the matter was under investigation.

State Transit said they worked alongside local police to reduce instances of “antisocial behaviour” on public buses and that racism was not condoned in any way.
Police arrest woman who allegedly racially abused Chinese-Australian on Sydney bus

Police arrest woman who allegedly racially abused Chinese-Australian on Sydney bus

9news
September 25, 2015

A woman who was filmed allegedly racially abusing a Chinese-Australian woman a public bus in Sydney earlier this week has been arrested.

Police say the woman was arrested earlier today and taken to Merrylands train station.

The victim, Lindsay Li, said she was shocked that nobody - including the bus driver - intervened while she was subjected to the foul abuse.

Ms Li says she was waiting for a city-bound bus around lunchtime yesterday in Willoughby when an older white woman with blonde hair approached her and unleashed a racist attack at her, before following 

her onto the bus to continue her tirade.

“This woman walks straight up to me, makes this spitting motion at me, so she’s seen me on the bus, and she’s walked back down, taken the seat right in front of me, and gone off screaming,” Ms Li said.

Shocked over what was occurring, Ms Li took out her phone and began filming the woman’s insults.

She then uploaded the video to her Facebook page and wrote “it’s unbelievable the amount of hate one person can spew out” in an accompanying caption.

In the video, the woman can be heard screaming abuse.

“I’m Jewish from Israel, are you f****ing nothing,” the woman can be heard yelling.

“We all know what you are, China…take your f****ing language and piss off."

The woman also uses a derogatory term for Asians.

Ms Li said she told the bus driver the woman was yelling and swearing in front of passengers, including children.

However, she said he refused to stop the vehicle or take any intervening action.

“I went to the bus driver and he completely ignored me and kept driving, and I’m screaming at him saying you need to stop the bus now.”

Ms Li said the abuse was so intense, she feared for her physical safety.

“The woman was so unstable, I thought she could attack me,” she said.

Despite the length and savagery of the tirade, Ms Li said no one on the bus intervened.

A police spokesperson confirmed they had received a complaint about offensive behaviour by a woman on a bus travelling through Willoughby.

The spokesperson said the matter was under investigation.

State Transit said they worked alongside local police to reduce instances of “antisocial behaviour” on public buses and that racism was not condoned in any way.

*The woman's face has been blurred in the video because it is understood she is suffering from mental health issues.




"The woman's face has been blurred in the video because it is understood she is suffering from mental health issues."

So now Australia's MAD People are RACISTS AS WELL? 
Full marks to the 9news crew for reporting the FACTS as opposed to the Daily Telegraph's OMISSION of one very important FACT.
This MAD Woman has  been out and about for many months doing what she does best, insulting Non Anglo Saxon Australians at every opportunity available to her.
She has been "taken into care" many times before her arrest today.

In Australia you can be a s MAD as a cut Snake if you want to just so long as your Madness does not cross racial boundaries.

If this Racist had of been a Non Anglo Saxon woman abusing an Anglo Saxon Women it would be a case of "Nothing to see here move along please" hey the "Aussie Pig and Slut" probably deserved it anyway.

"Mother" sentenced to two years jail after baby son beaten to death

Mother jailed for at least two years after failing to seek medical aid for battered toddler

9News
September 25,2015


A mother from Sydney’s north-west has been sentenced to at least two years behind bars over her failure to immediately act after her toddler was allegedly bashed by his father.

A Sydney court has heard the 25-year-old North Rocks mother heard her two-year-old son being attacked but did not intervene or immediately seek medical attention in July last year.

The mother confessed to hearing "four or five bangs inside the bedroom and...the victim screaming".

"If anyone causes one of these little ones--those who believe in me--to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea."

 The boy was not taken to hospital until two days after the alleged incident that left him with a severe brain injury and a bruised face, arms, leg and feet.

In the meantime the toddler also suffered a stroke which has subsequently left him severely disabled.

The mother was in tears as her sentence was handed down, waving to supporters as she was led away.

Lawyer Jimmy Singh has stated she regrets her actions.

“She expressed a tremendous amount of remorse and guilt for what she did and she's undergoing extensive counselling sessions at the moment,” he said.

Her de-facto partner has pleaded not guilty and will face trial next year.

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There are warnings about a fatal flaw in one key area of Australia's infrastructure that could prove deadly if a busy population centre were hit by a big earthquake.

REFUGEES in Nauru believe Malcolm Turnbull is their ticket to freedom .....

Nauru: Boat people cheer as Turnbull coup news hits detention centre

Daniel Meers
The Daily Telegraph
September 25 2015.

REFUGEES in Nauru believe Malcolm Turnbull is their ticket to freedom as it emerged the PM’s comments suggesting border protection policy was open to change were sent around global people-smuggling networks.

Multiple sources have told The Daily Telegraph the mood inside Nauru’s detention centre was now “buoyant” after Mr Turnbull ousted the hardline Tony Abbott.

Officials in Nauru said there was a perception Mr Turnbull’s elevation would give the occupants a greater chance for freedom.

“Chatter” among people smugglers has intensified in the last week with a perception, right or wrong, that Mr Turnbull will soften border protection policy.

Border Protection agencies are on high alert for people — smuggling ventures after Indonesian authorities intercepted a vessel trying to reach Christmas Island.

Mr Turnbull said in an interview on Wednesday morning that he had “concerns” about the situation on Nauru and Manus Island and conceded “all policies change”.

He came out that afternoon to toughen his language and declare “we cannot take a backward step on this issue” and that nobody who arrived illegally would ever be settled in Australia.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton yesterday insisted there would be no change.

“The Prime Minister has made it very clear that people who try to come to our country illegally by boat will never be settled here,’’ he said.

“I want the people-smugglers in Indonesia and Sri Lanka and elsewhere to get that very clear message.”

Mr Dutton conceded comments made by all ministers about border protection were quickly sent around people smuggling networks.

“They’ve got Facebook pages, they send out text messages and they will manipulate anything. When I took over from Scott Morrison we had intelligence (people-smugglers were) saying a softer minister has replaced the harder minister. They found that not to be the case,’’ he said.

“And they will do the same in relation to the change in Prime Minister. We have to make sure we stare that down.”

Nauru’s Justice Minister David Adeang welcomed Mr Dutton’s continued service: “He understands the progress our government has made, and is always available.”

Toy Rifle carried at Eid al-Adha Festival in Sydney's Occupied Territories THEIR ABC taken by surprise.

Lakemba mosque: Live ABC TV cross shows woman brandishing toy gun during Muslim festival

Doug Conway
The Daily Telegraph
September 25 2015.

THOUSANDS of television viewers were alarmed by the image of a toy gun being brandished among the crowd at a major Muslim religious festival in Sydney.

The gun was seen being carried by a woman and a child in the background of a live ABC TV breakfast cross yesterday from Lakemba mosque.

Its appearance left a jarring note on a family day of peace, prayer and celebration as thousands gathered for the Eid al-Adha festival marking the end of Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca.

NSW Deputy Labor Opposition Leader Linda Burney, the MP for nearby Canterbury, told the crowd the Eid celebrations were a testament to Australian multiculturalism: “Our community has something that could teach the rest of the world.”

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“Why, in the current environment of extremism, would parents allow children to carry a replica machine gun to a Muslim religious festival?” one viewer asked in a social media post.

“What is being celebrated that needs a gun?”

One member of the Muslim community said toys, including toy guns, were sometimes sold by people at unofficial stalls that appeared at some festivities.

ABC reporter Bonny Symons-Brown said she did not see the toy gun at the festival, and was only alerted to its appearance later.

The Lebanese Muslim Association declined to comment.

The toy gun was starkly at odds with the tone of the day and public speeches. Roads were closed around the mosque as an estimated 15,000 people gathered for the festival, many unfurling their prayer mats as Arabic prayers were broadcast over loudspeakers.

NSW Deputy Opposition Leader Linda Burney, the MP for nearby Canterbury, told the crowd the Eid celebrations were a testament to Australian multiculturalism: “Our community has something that could teach the rest of the world.”

HALAL SCAM Down Under: Senator Cory Bernardi demands vigilance on halal certification in Australia

Senator Cory Bernardi demands vigilance on halal certification in Australia

The Daily Telegraph
September 25 2015.

LIBERAL Senator Cory Bernardi has challenged Australian national security organisations, saying they did not know if the certification of halal food indirectly funds terrorism.

The Senate’s halal inquiry heard yesterday the Crime Commission and the financial intelligence work of AUSTRAC had failed to find direct links between halal certification fees and terrorists.

AUSTRAC compliance manager Angela Jamieson said the organisation “has no information that indicates halal certification is linked to terrorism”.

But Senator Bernardi said halal certifiers were hiding their funding of terrorist groups through charities and not-for profit organisation.

“There are a number of halal certifiers who are not-for-profit bodies and that are involved in establishing mosques, schools ... they receive halal certification funds, it then flows through the system and where it ends up no one really knows,” Mr Bernardi said.

“But we do know extremist organisations in Australia are funded and they are linked in many cases back to these not-for-profit bodies.

“Surely there is a link then between some of the funding that these not-for-profit bodies receive and the end outcome of extremism in some of their organisations.”

Mr Bernardi said AUSTRAC was not tracking where halal certification money ended up and “it’s not too long a bow to draw to say the product, the profits of halal certification are linked to organisations that are not acting in Australia’s interest”.

THE BIG BUSINESS OF HALAL CERTIFICATION

HALAL A GOOD BUY? I DON’T KNOW WHY

Senate Economics References Committee chair Labor Senator Sam Dastyari got into a heated exchange with Mr Bernardi, asking: “You have the government agency responsible for finding the money here telling us that they believe there is no reasonable link between the two. What more do you want?”

Australian Crime Commission acting strategic intelligence manager Hamish Hansford said the organisation had been on “heightened lookout” for links between halal certification and terrorism but “to date we have not found any’’.

When pressed by Mr Bernardi about indirect links between halal certification fees and terrorism, Mr Hansford said: “Wherever there is a sector with large amounts of cash being remitted there’s an opportunity for either organised crime or people sympathetic with terrorism to utilise and exploit that sector.”

Consumer advocate Kirralie Smith from Halal Choices Inc told the inquiry the evidence from AUSTRAC and the Crime Commission did not “put (her) fears to rest”.

Muslims Gone Wild Down Under : Hamza Cheikho Facebook page support of ISIS "not written by him"

Hamza Cheikho: I don’t support ISIS, says Muslim Hyde Park protester

Amy DaleChief Court Reporter
The Daily Telegraph
September 25 2015.

A MAN who participated in Sydney’s Hyde Park Muslim protests has rejected the suggestion he’s a supporter of Islamic State, or ISIS, claiming several posts on his Facebook profile — some of which appeared to be sympathetic to ISIS — had not been written by him, a court was told yesterday.

The claim by Hamza Cheikho, 22, follows evidence he gave on Tuesday and yesterday when he said his comments on a TV interview at the time of the protests in 2012 suggesting he supported beheading the maker of a YouTube video had been “taken out of context” — and also that he “wasn’t paying attention” to the reporter’s question.

Mr Cheikho is suing Nationwide News, the publisher of The Daily Telegraph, in the NSW ­Supreme Court in relation to four articles that appeared in the fortnight following the protests, during which several police officers were injured and Mr Cheikho was photographed with Khaled Sharrouf, who went on to become one of Islamic State’s most brutal terrorists in the Middle East.

The publisher is defending the case on grounds including truth and honest opinion.

The Subversive Second Phase of Islam: Lawfare And Shari’a Compliance

Muslims Gone Wild Down Under: Hamza Cheikho “taken out of context”.

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Under re-examination by his counsel Tom Molomby SC, Mr Cheikho again addressed an ABC news bulletin in which he replied “yeah” in answer to the question “So you agree the person who made the video (which sparked the riots) should be beheaded?”

Mr Cheikho said he had been “giving an explanation for Sharia law” during the interview. “(The reporter) asked me something about beheading,” he said. “I agreed to what (the reporter) was saying but I didn’t pay attention to the actual question he was asking me.”

Mr Cheikho spent much of the day yesterday being cross-examined by counsel for Nationwide News Tom Blackburn SC, largely about the contents of his Facebook page. The jury of two men and two women was shown a series of posts and updates made on Mr Cheikho’s public Facebook profile, some of which he denied posting himself.

In one post, the profile shared a photo made by a group titled ­“Debunking lies against ISIS”. “ISIS haters are getting so desperate they are photoshopping,” the post’s caption read. When questioned by Mr Blackburn, he said: “I’m not sure I wrote that.”

However, when questioned further, he then denied writing it.

He said he didn’t remove comments from Facebook friends saying “LOL” and “LMAO” in response to a photo of Muslim leader Dr Jamal Rifi leading prayers at the Martin Place siege memorial in the days following the ­December siege.

“It’s (the friend’s) opinion and I didn’t want to have an argument with him,” he said. He also said that he “doesn’t know” how to delete comments made by others.

The jury heard his page contained links to articles about the rumoured death in Syria of Sharrouf.

The hearing continues today.

THEIR Malcolm: How long can Malcolm Turnbull stick with his new 'conservative" message, before he reverts to type?

Malcolm Turnbull’s rise is a defeat for conservatives that looks a lot like victory


Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun
September 24 2015.


THE media Left is gloating. They’ve won and knuckle-dragging conservatives like me and

Alan Jones have lost. Our man, Tony Abbott, is gone as prime minister. Their man, Malcolm Turnbull, rules.

“Ha, ha, ha,” they point out.

Or as the ABC, the taxpayer-funded voice of the Left, put it on Monday, suck it up, Jones and Bolt.

“Once again, it’s remarkable that Abbott was felled despite their support,” crowed Media Watch host Paul Barry. “And it shows how little power they actually have.”

He’s right. Alan and I are shocked we couldn’t get every single Australian to back Abbott, when the only thing against us was the $1 billion-a-year ABC, the anti-Abbott smear factory of Fairfax and the rest of the army of media orcs: SBS, Guardian, Daily Mail, The Monthly, The Project, FM hosts, half the News Corp empire and the Canberra bureaus of every TV station.

Humiliating, I know, but Alan and I proved in the end surprisingly powerless against the others, too — the academics, the race industry, the professional victims, the climate cranks, the multicultural commissars, the free speech police and all the other arbiters of Good Taste.

So boo hoo hoo, we cry. We helped get Abbott elected, but couldn’t save him. But at the ABC it’s party, party. Abbott used to be treated like filth there, but it’s all hugs and kisses now for Turnbull, the ABC’s favourite Liberal.

This, swear to God, is an actual transcript from Monday’s 7.30:

Host Leigh Sales (giggling): I’m sorry I’m laughing, but you’re not at the dispatch box and you’re not at the bar, so I’ve got to squeeze in one more question before we run out of time.

Turnbull (beaming): One more question. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Sales (looking flirtatious): I’m sorry. I’m sorry to be rude like that too.

Turnbull: You’re not being rude at all. It’s quite understandable.

Sales: The — no, no, I did cut you directly off.

Turnbull: That’s fine.

So, yes, I should feel like Samson after a haircut. But here’s the funny thing. We’ve actually won. Me and Alan. We’ve house-trained Turnbull.

Remember what Turnbull used to be like? He headed the Australian Republican Movement and even donated to Labor’s campaign against the Howard government. He trashed opponents of same-sex marriage. He backed Labor’s carbon tax.

But we knocked him into shape, Alan and I. Now behold our neo-Turnbull. This new model refuses to back Labor’s carbon tax and promises to let the public, not the politicians, decide on same-sex marriage.

Turnbull yesterday seemed even to be reading our script on unions and Labor, attacking Labor leader Bill Shorten as just “a cork in the slipstream of the CFMEU”, the most lawless of unions.

And his new ministers stuck to our messages, too. His Communications Minister, who once called for the ABC to be privatised, said yesterday the Abbott government had been right to slash the ABC’s budget.

The Islamic State was still our great threat, assured the new Defence Minister. We’re spending too much, repeated the new Treasurer. And the penny is dropping with some on the Left. Where’s Malcolm? Where’s their Malcolm?

Take warmist Bernie Fraser, former chairman of the Government’s Climate Change Authority. Turnbull “is just sticking with the status quo” on global warming, Fraser groaned this week. “His courage deserted him.”

But Alan and I aren’t kidding ourselves. Yes, we’ve tamed the Turnbull and painted new spots on him. But we know that underneath that painted fur remains a leopard of the Left, fighting his natural instincts.

Take yesterday. Asked by a journalist if he’d change the policies that stopped the boats, Turnbull couldn’t say no — the clear answer that deters people smugglers best, but jars at Point Piper dinners parties.

“I have the same concerns about the situation of people on Nauru and Manus as you do,” he pleaded. (Code: It’s really me, Malcolm, under these Right-wing spots.) “(But) we are not going to make policy changes — particularly the type you’re talking about — on the run.”

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton had to clean up afterwards, insisting Turnbull was “resolute” and illegal immigrants would not land.

Alan and I also remember how easily Kevin Rudd shook off his own training. Rudd promised us before the 2007 election he, too, would be a John Howard-lite and that “this sort of reckless spending must stop”.

Yet after the election was won, the real Rudd re-emerged, even lavishing “stimulus” cheques on the dead.

Perhaps we’ll see the same backsliding with Turnbull, but until then, Alan and I will bask in our success.

Behold our neo-Turnbull. Let the Left weep.

Alan Jones and Lord Monckton on why Australian PM Had to go

Alan Jones and Lord Monckton, September 23 2015

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