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See that is pretty bad stuff, and I don't approve of injecting your religion into any secular system, but it is interesting that when it is Muslims suddenly there is genuine need to panic, but when it is Christians they call it the weekly scripture class. When I was in public primary school a guy came around every week and taught us all about the bible and how great Jesus was and all that crap, and nobody bat an eyelid.
Then again it is hard to tell if this is a real double standard, or if society in general has matured a little from when I was that young, and now actually expects a secular education system.

To my understanding we haven't had a night of long knives... Yet. That comes April the 5th with the senate do-over when the Libs loose a senator. The question is to whom... I swear if Fiona Patten takes the seat from Scott Ludlam thanks to Labor giving preferences to the Sex Party instead of the Greens, there will be blood to pay.
To be honest I voted for them first preference in 2013, but it was safe to do so knowing they wouldn't get the seat and it would make a statement about gay marriage when they looked at the numbers, but I still want a Greenie. Ludlam loosing his seat now would send the left half of the nation into a fit of rage after the support he is pulling.


EDIT: Ok, something interesting is going on. Two news articles have been taken down from The Guardian and SBS
http://www.theguardian.com/info/2014/mar/22/1
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/03/21/deportation-notice-asylum-seeker-data-breach-case
I can't recall if I ever posted the story, but a while ago the personal details of thousands of asylum seekers was accidentally leaked to the public. Releasing information about people and their families trying to escape terrorist groups is a pretty serious problem, and that alone would make grounds for having their refugee status granted. Many of these asylum seekers took legal action against the department of immigration, and the cases are all still ongoing. Anyway turns out these articles were about a Chinese asylum seeker who had his details released publicly, and mid legal action received a deportation notice and a fine of $5,000 for his troubles. Now these stories have been taken down... Normally if a paper finds it has been reporting something false it issues a statement about it, but no such luck, this looks a lot more like a court suppression.


Oh hey, a cached version! Thank you google!
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3AFq2eTOngcVgJ%3Awww.sbs.com.au%2Fnews%2Farticle%2F2014%2F03%2F21%2Fdeportation-notice-asylum-seeker-data-breach-case+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au


EDIT: The ABC saga continues...
ABC interviews with turned back refugees, including allegations of abuse and drownings at sea.
Also a detainee tells the inquiry about having to eat bread infested with worms.

So basically Labor takes government by a shoestring...

So that happened.

In other news, asylum seekers will no longer be given access to human rights lawyers... So yea, I don't need to make analogies, they are Godwining themselves.

Good news is you can! Just join the RSPCA! Old news, but one of those things that is kind of shocking to find you missed.

In other news, revenge against the SBS.

Hmm, I wouldn't say it is that much... It isn't that everything is hilarious, it is just you are set to being happy. You can still find things sad, you just don't feel sad.

Totally worth it for the massive boost to CHA though... Seriously I sound like Morgan Freeman.

It's a myth. And not a very good one either, since its popularity is pretty obviously "lol oblivious hood rats acting gay".

So this is a pretty cool site... Turns out out many rumors are verifiably true. Anyway yea, that rumor always rang of "Don't do this because it is the homo! You don't want to catch the homo do you?"