A former Special Air Services commander turned conservative Christian commentator has used Anzac Day to attack homosexuals and Muslims.
Just hope that as we remember servicemen and women today we remember the Australia they fought for – wasn’t gay marriage and Islamic!
said Jim Wallace, the head of the Australian Christian Lobby, on Twitter.
Followers of Mr Wallace soon attacked him — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One Nation founder Pauline Hanson has failed in her bid to win a seat in the New South Wales Upper House — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A member of parliament from an Islamic party which promoted anti-pornography legislation has resigned after being caught watching porn in parliament.
Mr Arifinto of the Islamic Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) was photographed looking at the images on Friday.
He said he had inadvertently opened an email link which led him to the images.
Pornography has become one of the testing grounds of conservative Islam’s influence over politics in Indonesia.
For the recent developing media coverage, I apologise to all members of the party and parliament,
Mr Arifinto – who goes by one name – told a news conference — via richardfarner.newsvine.com
Department official Christine Pinto informed Mr Heasley that they were obligated to offer the classes, if approached by an accredited instructor, and that they were forbidden from scheduling alternate classes for students not taking part.
While this seems somewhat wasteful – students not taking part in SRI classes are described in the VCAT complaint launched by Heasley and fellow parents at Hawthorn West as being given free time, which involves playing with Lego, drawing and reading
– I’m more worried about the fact that schools are forced to offer these classes if approached by accredited organisations. I hold concerns about the group responsible for 96 per cent of all SRI classes offered. Furthermore, I’m worried about how little training representatives of this group require to be allowed in front of children — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Treasurer Wayne Swan has officially prohibited the merger of the Australian and Singapore stock exchanges — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A simmering conflict between The Australian newspaper and the Greens has become open warfare, with Greens leader Bob Brown accusing the national broadsheet of a vendetta against his party and telling it to grow up
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google and Facebook are among a group of net heavyweights taking the French government to court this week.
The legal challenge has been brought by The French Association of Internet Community Services (ASIC) and relates to government plans to keep web users’ personal data for a year.
The case will be heard by the State Council, France’s highest judicial body.
More than 20 firms are involved, including eBay and Dailymotion — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The seizure of file-sharing related domain names by the US Government in recent months have stirred up a lot of controversy. Despite heavy critique from various sides, the responsible authorities justified their actions and claimed that it is an effective tool to clamp down on Internet piracy. However, those who take a good look at the end result soon notice that reality paints a different picture — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a sign of the times, Newport Beach is considering closing the city’s original library and replacing it with a community center that would offer all the same features — except for the books.
Instead of a reference librarian, patrons would be greeted by a kiosk equipped with video-calling software that would allow them to speak with employees elsewhere. And books — when ordered — would be dropped off at a locker for pickup.
The proposed bookless library is a reflection of how both the economy and a shift in visitors’ habits are forcing city libraries to redefine their services — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Cyber-shoppers are costing the federal government $1.3 million a day by buying tax-free imports over the internet, the Treasury has revealed.
Lost revenue from the GST — and the savings to consumers — are forecast to grow 10 per cent each year to hit $610m by 2013-14 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Less than a week after her investiture ceremony, US District Court Judge Beryl Howell laid down a landmark verdict that will make it easy for copyright holders to send cash demands to people they suspect of copyright infringement. Many people called the decision into doubt, and the revelation that Judge Howell previously worked as an RIAA lobbyist and as the Managing Director of a pirate-chasing outfit hints at a conflict of interest — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Erin Brockovich, a US consumer health advocate whose life story was the basis for an Academy Award-winning film, urged senators Tuesday to pass a law to document disease clusters in the United States.
A disease cluster is an unusual number of health events, such as reports of cancer, grouped together in a time and location, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Brockovich, who came to prominence investigating the prevalence of cancer cases in Hinkley, California, said she has become an informal reporting agency for those who worry that something in their immediate environment is a health hazard — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Twitter’s lawyers are trying to block US authorities from accessing personal data as part of a WikiLeaks probe — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Federal Labor MP Ed Husic last week criticised Apple and other technology giants for asking more in Australia for their products than they do in the US, noting that he would write to the managing director of Apple Australia to demand why the mark-ups occur — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This is a secret document. It is dated September 29, 2009. It was leaked by the Ministry of Defence in London to WikiLeaks. It identifies what it calls the greatest threats
to the national security of the West.
At the top of the list, a terrorist and Russian spies. Yes, Russian spies.
But by far the biggest threat is said to come from one group: journalists. Investigative journalists! How gratifying that is.
In other words, journalists who do their job, who tell you, the public, how and why politicians lie to you and start wars in your name and threaten our security must somehow be stopped. Coerced, even smeared — via redwolf.newsvine.com
My mother used to have a homely saying for it: Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are
.
If this adage is to be applied to the events of last week, it would appear that Tony Abbott is raving ratbag, a ranting bigot whose ignorance of science is matched only by his lack of manners.
The howling mob who surrounded him at the mini-rally outside Parliament House last Wednesday undoubtedly included some who were genuinely concerned about the impact a carbon tax might have on their household budgets and the wider economy, but the ones making the noise – including the majority of the speakers – came straight from la-la land — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Victorian Education Department is forcing public primary schools to run Christian education classes taught by volunteers, angering parents and schools that do not want to host them.
An email exchange, obtained by The Sunday Age, reveals the department told one parent that his school must
keep its Christian religious instructor whether it wanted to or not — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Gunns, once the billion dollar super company of Tasmania, is today on its knees and needing its pulp mill — a project now seven years old and still without finance — to simply stay in existence. Its share price is abysmal and it reportedly owes millions to its principal supplier of trees, Forestry Tasmania.
Ironically, to get a funding partner that will help finance the mill Gunns now desperately needs the support of conservationists — the much-vaunted social licence — via redwolf.newsvine.com
All stray cats in the north German city of Bremen are to be neutered under plans by the local council which campaigners hope could be extended to the whole country.
The drastic measure has been proposed by Bremen’s interior minister, Ulrich Mäurer, in an attempt to control the city’s burgeoning feline population, which is threatening local songbirds — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Don’t expect Google to remove apps that help users avoid DUI checkpoints — the company says it is leaving the controversial apps on its Android Marketplace.
A source said the company only removes apps that violate its Android content policies and the apps in question do not appear to violate these policies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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