Love seeing the comments blaming cops for this.... people are seriously misguided. 

Not that I am aware of (not even fluoride in the water where I live). The three major family murders have been on fairly different social scales too (rural, northern suburb, inner city suburb) ...

Mental health services in WA have been heavily criticised for a few election campaigns now, perhaps this is an accumulation of government ignoring mental health issues in the state???

Is there something in the water in WA? :/

Shocking sad stuff.

-PB

Are VicPol the dodgiest police force in the country or what?

-PB

On Sky News, with his show "The Bolt Report".

He'll tell you it's just a show trial.

And he may be right

Where is old mate who used to defend this terrible man? The guy that believed the Orthodox church was basically infallible.....

Pell is going to trial!

-PB

*In my best snowflake voice* "but sir this is just a LNP beat up to have a go at brown people representing Australians and in any case the LNP is worse so lets just ignore this treasonous behavior".

Go on ABC news FB and look at comments to some of these articles haha

You've completely misrepresented what I've said. 

Read what I wrote again.

Pretty sure noone cared  when the hottest 100 wasnt done on jan 26. It used to be in march and or april. You sound like a dude i know who complained that jan 26 should  stay  aussie day as its sons birthday. 

But...but...he's witty, approachable and makes funny jokes! He's for SSM, there's no way he's morally questionable!

Seriously though he should resign, taking payments from and supporting the policy of communist totalitarians is unforgivable, especially for a public servant 

And Dastiyari is a traitorous, treasonous dog who needs to go now.

Fucking idiot.

Triple J are wankers and I'll tell you why. They want Australia Day moved from Jan 26 BUT according to the ABC charter they have to be apolitical so as a way around this they've moved the hottest 100 instead.  The same way those councils in Victoria have said they won't perform citizenship ceremonies on Jan 26.  (As a stance against Jan 26 as Australia Day.)

What they really should be doing is lobbying for Australia Day to be moved BUT they can't. So they've come up with this abortion of a stance to assuage their little lefty whinging SJW's.

Personally I think that Australia Day should be moved. (And as a bonus it would shut that fat fuck Briggs up).

And I say all of this as a 30 year rabid Triple J listener and supporter.

Is it a bit of a media beat up all this issue regarding Triple J changing the date of the Hottest 100?? I know I was amazed that it was labelled as "breaking news" on the ABC website when it happened (but they are an ABC service so I could understand).

But for the Communications Minister to get involved ... I can't imagine he has listened to the radio station for some 20 plus years.

For me I don't really care, it sounds like Triple J asked their audience and they responded. Most radio stations programs are determined by the listeners, so don't really see the problem. I personally don't listen to Triple J (although I will listen to some of their interview podcasts) and haven't done for over 10 years ... they sort of lose their relevance after your early 20's. Which is fine because their target audience is for the younger generations. The scheduling for Australia Day is now going to focus on Australian music (inc. indigenous artists), crosses to the Australian of the Year awards, and other features relating to the history (and future) of Australia.

Assuming you are talking about Don Burke??

I can't imagine the "victims" would have much to gain from speaking out now other than justice / truth. But every man deserves their presumption of not guilty.

Interesting to see the allegations hitting the newspaper, these stories have been floating around northern Sydney for 25 years, same as they did about Robert Hughes.

It's what happens when elections are based off a fear of brown people rather than actual policies.

I literally voted in small tech based parties. 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-18/nbn-complaints-to-tio-surge-in-last-financial-year/9058336?section=technology

It would be interesting to know how many of these complainers voted for the Coalition and their modified NBN plan. I don't like any particular party, but when the solution to improving our internet infrastructure is to cut costs by reducing the quality of the product being installed can we really be surprised with the number of issues with the service it then provides??

Our NBN at home is slower than the ADLS 2 we use to have. I have notified our service provider but unfortunately they've said it is what it is ...

If people don't wanna marry others that's fine, all the more market share for those that choose too.

-PB

Like he said, dont be naive.

I dont think it matters if it is state or not. 

What happens after this happens? Go for the other churches....

For the church of Sweden, the state religion. Pretty different scenario.

Yeah.

I got married in Australia, to a woman. I found a guy to marry us, thorugh a church. The guy was a pastor, but not head pastor. He married us and we got to choose how much "god" we wanted, from zero to much. This was his private company/business. 

I would not want him forced to perform gay weddings if he didnt see fit. 

I can agree with venues (outside of religous ownerships), restuarants, florists, but not the individual. Why? Because there wont be a shortage of people willing to perfom them any way and state/government should also perform them. Its not like it will be legal but no one will do it. 


If someone can prove membership or connection to church or mosque or temple etc they should be able to say no. Ottherwise I would vote no. 

You are incredibly naive if you don't there will be a push to change that. As Scott21 pointed out they are pushing it in Sweden.

This.

-PB

Why would priests be forced to marry couples that don't follow their religious dogma?? They already don't allow this, why would this change afterwards??

Depends

If you are forcing priests to marry gay couples then you are not impeding religious freedom? 

Wouldn't allowing same sex marriage be seen as gaining freedoms for the individual?

Australia has an anti-discrimination law that already gives religions exemptions for marriage, so doesn't matter if the marriage act changes the anti-discrimination law would also have to remove religious exemptions (which is a completely different matter) and unlikely to happen (then people not of that denomination would also have to married by that religion as otherwise it would be discrimination).

In regards to the individual, no they can't discriminate. That is why we have anti-discrimination laws in Australia. You would have to repeal the anti-discrimination laws to allow the businesses to discriminate against consumers (which then allows them to not serve people because they are black, Asian, different religion, atheists, disabled etc. etc.)