Cünt is getting fisted. 

Just checked and his page is getting bombed, not surprising really. 

Dude's FB page been found :
Dimitrious Gargasoulas

The guy's clearly out of his mind.

This bloke in Melbourne should be executed.

Wait for bleeding hearts to tell us that youth detention is too harsh and that's why they're acting out etc etc....

Fuck me, these kids really have to run riot to even get sent their. For them to be acting out means they haven't learnt anything and should remain isolated from the community until it changes.

I see youth crims in centres are going burko in Vic like they are up here in NQ

-PB

Alcohol bans on Coogee beach after impromptu rave on Christmas Day->
http://www.afr.com/real-estate/residential/nsw/coogee-bans-alcohol-after-christmas-backpacker-rave-dumps-15-tonnes-of-garbage-on-beach-20161227-gtimic

Nice work, dipshits!

Indeed.

I find it weird how he apparently stopped killing

Have been following this case for some time, genuinely surprised that they caught the guy after all this time. 

claremont serial killer arrested in Perth, pretty big news in Perth

For a start they are enemy no.1 for anyone in Australia campaigning for gay marriage and well up the list for supporters of the Safe Schools program.

What has the Christian lobby ever achieved anyway? Do they currently have anything going which may have brought about this attack (if it is one)?

I assumed it was wanting to send a message, not cause casualties.

Now reports are saying that it isn't politically or terrorism related.

I smell a cover-up already - unless there is some amazing explanation as to how someone detonating a bomb on the premises of a political lobby group isn't politically related.

Want to send a message only but not actually hurt anyone?? Or a conspiracy (that is being done by fundamentalist Christians to look like a terror attack)

Bit weird to do it later at night lol

-PB

Car bomb at the Australian Christian Lobby headquarters in Canberra. Well, either that or someone driving a van laden with gas bottles at 11pm at night feel asleep behind the well and jumped the median strip.

Rainbow terrorism or out of control driver?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-07/costa-weighs-in-on-urban-food-street-controversy/8099868

It is a shame that community based initiatives are being derailed by local governments and regulations. This is something that a local government should be doing everything in their power to enable and work with the community to ensure they can continue to provide a resource to not only build a community but provide local produce to residents.

How would be what they are doing be any different to a community garden??? Surely the local government could cover the street-side gardens under similar land use rules.

Geez time has flown, didn't realise it was that long. Would love to see some research from those states.

Been legal in Colorado and Washington since 2012 (almost 5 years). How are they holding up compared to the rest of the USA??

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/13/heres-how-legal-pot-changed-colorado-and-washington/

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/02/21/from-colorado-glimpse-life-after-marijuana-legalization/rcccuzhMDWV74UC4IxXIYJ/story.html

Seems the sky hasn't fallen down, yet ... I would imagine in Australia our passive smoking laws might be stricter than some US states too.

Definitely something that needs to be relooked at, but let's let the Americans be the testing ground. Let's wait and see how their trial states hold up after 5 years of legalisation.

Got to weigh up the social costs though, and in America I'd imagine the cost expenditure on law enforcement of marijuana would be significantly higher than Australia. I remember some absurd stat where a significant proportion of America's prison population is made up of marijuana users (not suppliers). That though is partly because prisons in America are big money makers too.

I'd want it legalized solely for the revenue it'd raise lol.

Look at some of the figures that have been produced in America, albeit with larger populations of course.

That's the kinda stuff that pays for roads, schools, hospitals etc.

-PB

I love this quote by the government health minister:

"The Australian government will never legalise a drug that destroys brain function, mental wellbeing, general health, employment, relationships, lives and families."

Well then why is alcohol legal under the Australian government??

Cigarettes "destroy" general health too ... pretty sure they are legal under the Australian government.

Also what the Greens actually want is not to legalise marijuana, the article actually states "The Greens want a new independent national regulatory authority to assess and reduce the harm of illicit drugs - an approach that would likely lead to the decriminalisation or legalisation of drugs like cannabis."

The crux of the argument in my mind is stated in the second paragraph by the AMA rep: "Association president Michael Gannon told Fairfax Media he welcomed any initiative that shifted the public conversation about illicit drugs towards rehabilitation and treatment instead of policing and the justice system" Under the current government (and past) we have never even gone close to this ... drugs should be a health issue not a law enforcement issue.

Greens want to legalise mara-ju-wana

lol here



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They're artists ... they either want to push the boundaries, express themselves or do anything for attention.

Nothing wrong with the topless performance, if we can't be comfortable with the human body then we probably need to have a good hard look at ourselves (in the mirror)!

I personally don't like electronic music, but the ARIA's aren't decided by me ... so if the Australian people bought their music and so forth can't really complain can we.

Not really surprising Sia's "stunt" either ... she uses it more as an attention grabber than a statement nowadays (her no show or turning to face away ... getting a bit old).

What about all this furore over the Arias? 

"Topless" performers, politically charged statements everywhere, electronic dudes winning shitloads of awards, some award winners not even collecting them and the odd occasional Aussie rock legends getting inducted into the hall of fame.

-PB

Dutton has come out today to defend his comments, with the following:

"The vast majority of Lebanese-Australians are law-abiding, hard-working, good, decent people who are besmirched by a small element within their community who are doing the wrong thing"

Which again is a balanced and informed comment, however not sure what this has to do with his original comments regarding immigration in the 1970's. He said mistakes were made ... yet has not elaborated on what he means by that, thus his original comments still across as suggesting that allowing migrants from Lebanon at that time was a mistake. Which is what most took umbrage to.

I think the problem is that he is stereotyping and generalising.

"The advice I have is that out of the last 33 people who have been charged with terrorist-related offences in this country, 22 of those people are from second and third generation Lebanese-Muslim background"

Nothing wrong here, he is simply stating a stat (we'll assume that it is correct/factual). The problem was that he then implies by allowing Lebanese/Muslims into the country during the 1970's as a part of an immigration policy was "wrong". This unfairly labels them all as "terrorists". Many thousands of these migrants have made positive contributions to the Australian community since their immigration. He probably should have been more specific about what he thought was "wrong" about the immigration policy in the 1970's (but specifics may have condemned him even more).

Welcome to the modern day.

-PB