Monthly Archives: October 2012

Thank God for stupid people! :)

When nothing else can make you laugh, you read something like this, and then you can have a really good laugh!

Thank God, for stupid people!!!
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Ancient doomsday prophecy

October 31, 2012, 6:18 pm Damien Hansen Today Tonight

The ancient Mayans predicted that the world will end on the 21st of December this year, and plenty of people are preparing for the worst.

Aussies prepare for doomsday

The Ancient Mayan calendar predicts the 21st of December is when the world will end, and there are tens of thousands of believers who have prepared for the worst.

While the predictions won’t stop most people from making plans for Christmas, the doomsday preppers are getting a secret hideaway ready.

A global underground movement is preparing for Armageddon, and survivalists across Australia are anticipating the end of days by building underground panic rooms and filling secure bunkers with food and supplies.

For centuries, ancient civilisations have earmarked this year, 2012, for Armageddon. And now, modern day mums and dad are warning the end is nigh.

In Queensland’s picturesque town of Allora, preparations are well underway.

Just like most small towns, you’ll find a supermarket, three pubs, a chemist, a bank, a newsagent and a handful of cafes. But Allora is also the base for the Earth Mother Emissary Council and its devoted group of followers who are busily preparing for the end of the world as we know it.

Across the border in New South Wales there are more preppers. The hills around Tenterfield in northern New South Wales were once riddled with bushrangers, but now they’re being sold as a safe place to sit out the apocalypse.

This reporter is on Twitter at @DamienHansen7

It is embarrassing that these people ask for such a little thing!!!

It is unfair, to condemn people who qualify for public housing to be treated like this!

Most, if not all, these people have worked all their lives, and contributed to the Australian community, which these days, is supporting, more and more drug users, and losers, where whole families have never had paid employment, and therefore, never paid taxes, for three or even more generations.

This is a disgrace! These people are being treated worse than dole bludgers!

Seems this is the message of our times.
Do the right thing, work for a living, pay your taxes, and when you retire, live in squalor like this.
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Be a no count dole bludger where no one has for three, or maybe even more, generations had any paid employment, where they may have provided a benefit to the community through personal exertion. And instead, just taken of the largesse of those who have done the right thing all their lives. And these dole bludgers, the scum of the earth, live better than those that have always done the right thing!

I believe that the first thing a responsible society needs to do, is to make, everyone, until patterns are established, take drug tests each fortnight. Nothing else,…, just this. And if a person has been found to test positive to drug use, for three consecutive tests, to stop paying social service benefits to these people, until they once again have three consecutive negative tests!
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Public housing tenants want a shed as relief from flats

Date   October 31, 2012
On edge: John Russell, a residents at 482 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne.On edge: John Russell, a residents at 482 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne. Photo: Joe Armao

SUMMER can be unbearable for the residents of 482 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne.

One hot day a few years ago, an elderly woman living on the top floor of the decrepit public housing units apparently died of natural causes in her flat.

Although no one suggests the building, or the Victorian government department responsible for maintaining it, caused the woman’s death, the stifling heat and inadequate cooling system would have made her final hours deeply uncomfortable.

Jacob Hapeta: 'Unbelievable.'Jacob Hapeta: ‘Unbelievable.’ Photo: Joe Armao

Jacob Hapeta, a founding member of the 482 Williamstown Road tenants committee, recalls how the undertakers sent by the government lugged the old woman’s body down three flights of stairs.

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He felt it was symbolic of how he and the other residents of the 24 bedsits have been treated by the government in recent years.

”They put her at the top of the stairs and a bloke grabbed her by the feet and pulled her down the steps with her head hitting each step. It was unbelievable,” Mr Hapeta said.

A few years ago, the residents had high hopes as their units had been earmarked for a complete renovation. Then funding was suddenly withdrawn without explanation.

Mr Hapeta and his neighbours are now resigned to more hot summers and freezing winters, more sewage seeping up through their sinks and drains and more water leaking through roofs.

“These units are well passed their used-by date but no one seems to care,” he said.

The story of the residents of 482 Williamstown Road is just one of many the thousands of Victorians living in decrepit, out-of-date public housing could tell.

Victoria has never had a minimum standard of public housing, according to Auditor-General Des Pearson who, in March, said 10,000 Victorian public housing properties were nearing obsolescence.

Another problem was the changing profile of those seeking public housing, with demand for one or two-bedroom units growing at the same time when 41 per cent of Victoria’s public housing stock were three-bedroom homes.

In response, the Baillieu government is preparing an overhaul of the public housing sector to improve conditions for the tens of thousands of Victorians who depend on it.

Whether the new policy direction will do anything to improve the fortune of Mr Hapeta and his fellow Port Melbourne residents is yet to be seen.

Also in March the Labor MLA for Albert Park, Martin Foley, raised their plight in Parliament with Housing Minister Wendy Lovell. He highlighted the extreme heat in summer, the death of the elderly woman and sewage appearing in showers. He has yet to receive a reply to his question.

He said 482 Williamstown Road had ”outlived its use-by date. It doesn’t fit the standards of either a civilised society or the dignity of those who live there.”

But Ms Lovell has responded to a letter from a Port Phillip community worker who also brought the dire condition of the 482 Williamstown Road units to her attention this year.

Ms Lovell replied: ”The Department of Human Services has advised me that the medium-term plan for this property is to redevelop it. This is subject to funding and future budget commitments. As a result of this intent, there is no current plan to upgrade these units … ”

The tenants have resolved to do what they can to improve their lot.

One year ago they formed a committee and built a communal garden where they now meet each Wednesday and hold a barbecue.

Mr Hapeta said the residents were lobbying for a $10,000 grant to buy a communal shed as a refuge from the summer heat and winter cold of their tiny one-bedroom units and to reduce their high energy bills.

”If we can get a communal shed with heating and cooling it will save a fortune. My last gas bill was $181 and my electricity $151 and I live in a five-metre-by-four-metre room with a kitchen tacked on,” he said.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/public-housing-tenants-want-a-shed-as-relief-from-flats-20121030-28hqn.html#ixzz2AnNYLdVS

Yesssss!!! Let no one ever think they will escape Karma!

Unless you are a stupid person, surely you must, by now, know, that if you have committed these sins in the past, you WILL be brought to account, at some time!

The sins of the past cannot be undone, but surely what is happening now, in this day and age of exposing paedophiles, must, dramatically reduce the numbers of these crimes happening in the future!

Children, MUST be able to reach out for help, when they need it, to trusted members of the community, be they, priests, police, teachers, or relatives, without fear of being abused.

And if anyone, ever, has done the wrong thing, no matter when, to betray this trust, may their lives, become a living hell!  And I know this does not sound very civilised, but I believe these torturer’s, for that is what they are, should be put into the General prison population when convicted. They deserve no more mercy, than they gave their victims!
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Pensioner jailed for historic child rapes

Date  October 27, 2012 – 12:47AM

PAA

An elderly Australian resident extradited to the UK and convicted of multiple counts of historic child sexual assault has been jailed for 11 years.

A London judge on Friday sentenced Reginald Davies, 78, after a three-week jury trial found him guilty of assaulting four young girls between 1949 and 1973.

“You left behind confused and damaged adults and children who grew up with the shadow of what you had done to them haunting them all their lives,” Judge Susan Tapping said in sentencing.

She added that Davies’ crimes were “utterly depraved”.

Originally from Wales, pensioner Davies was extradited from Perth – where he had lived for some 25 years – in September 2011 after an application by British authorities.

The former serviceman was this week convicted of 13 offences: two charges of child rape, two charges of attempted rape, eight counts of indecent assault and one count of indecency with a child.

Davies abused his victims in south Wales when they were between nine and 16 years old, and he was aged 15 to 39.

He maintained his innocence throughout his trial at Kingston Crown Court on London’s western outskirts, where he was seen to walk with the aid of a stick, and listened to evidence using a hearing loop.

“It is the prosecution’s case that (Davies) nurtured a fear of disclosing the abuse in the complainants when they were children,” prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Waters said at the outset of the trial.

“He made them feel that they would not be believed, that they were to blame and, on occasion, he threatened that they would be removed from their parents if they were to report his abuse of them.”

Davies’ four victims held hands and sobbed in the court as the sentence was read on Friday.

The court heard Davies was confronted by two of his victims in 2008 while they holidayed in Australia.

A third victim later came forward to police, who found the fourth woman after an investigation was launched.

Davies was arrested at his adopted home of Wanneroo.

“You are the one who must now face your day of reckoning. Maybe you thought you were safe from justice half way around the world, but you were not,” Judge Tapping told Davies.

The allegations against Davies were “the oldest charges ever to be heard in a UK court”, British police said.

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Just love this!

And here’s the news: My bum’s got nothing to do with the story

Date  October 26, 2012
Tracey Spicer

A career in broadcasting has been great, apart from the misogynist men I met along the way.

Sexism still exists,…, and so does the silence

Former broadcast journalist Tracey Spicer says since her letter went viral, many women have contacted her to share their own experiences, but often privately.

DEAR Mr Misogynist,

I’d like to thank you for everything you’ve taught me over the past 25 years.

Why, I had no idea I was so fat, ugly and stupid. I thought being a size 12 was perfectly acceptable.

Tracey Spicer at Channel 10.Tracey Spicer at Channel 10.

But when you yelled across the newsroom, ”I want two inches off your hair and two inches off your arse”, suddenly, a light went on.

Of course! The size of my posterior is directly related to the content and credibility of the stories I’m reporting on for this network. Silly me. You’re right. I’ll never make it as a TV journalist.

Those wise words of yours from 1986 are still ringing in my ears: ”That’s why you don’t see blonde newsreaders,” you explained patiently. ”People don’t take them seriously.”

It reminded me of another sage piece of advice, from a radio boss during a job interview some years ago.

He put it simply yet eloquently: ”There’s a reason why you don’t hear women on commercial talkback radio,” he said. ”No one wants to hear the whiny sound of a female voice. Us blokes get enough nagging at home!”

Really, in retrospect, it was foolish to think I was worthy of such a role.

Like all women, I only have two areas of specialisation: shoes and handbags. We all know high heels are a patriarchal construct to disempower us by constricting movement. (Oh dear. Must stop having thoughts like that. Sorry, I have no idea where that came from.)

Anyway, through some quirk of fate, I managed to land a newsreading job.

I know what you’re thinking. I finally decided to speak into that flesh-coloured microphone you were always pointing in my direction.

Oddly enough, I was offered the job by a woman. Who would have thought? Initially, I was wary. You always said you’d never work for a female boss because, ”You can’t trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn’t die”.

Hilarious! It’s a good thing I was wearing a corset or my sides would have split.

Fortunately, there were enough blokes around to keep me on the straight and narrow.

On my first night, the station manager came down and said, ”You need to stick your tits out more”. Once again, my brain wasn’t working properly.

In between the raging bushfires, the political crises and savage cuts to welfare, I’d forgotten to flirt with the camera.

A couple of years later – I’m ashamed to say this – I ”porked up”, according to one of the producers.

My new boss quickly raced out and arranged sponsorship from the local gym.

Frankly, I was unsightly. I stood out like a bull in a china shop, around those fragile lollipop ladies with their skinny bodies and massive heads.

Speaking of heads, I got a nasty shock when I looked in the mirror one day. Wrinkles around my eyes and on my forehead. Too much thinking? Surely not.

I remember you reviewing a video tape of one of my colleagues – clever girl, Walkley Award winner as I recall – and saying, ”The problems seem to be here and here,” pointing to her ghastly crow’s feet.

As it turns out, wrinkles were the least of my worries. I’d gotten myself knocked up.

I wanted to go back to work when bubby was three months old but, once again, it took a man to show me the error of my ways.

”Women should be at home with their children,” my news director said. ”Or the fabric of society will be rent asunder.

”Anyway Trace. You’re getting a bit long in the tooth. Why don’t you give some of the younger girls an opportunity?”

Suddenly, all the lights went on. And it was so bright – it made your light look like a limp insipid flicker.

This is difficult for me to put into words but if I had to, it would sound a bit like this: F— you.

F— you, you misogynist bully with your archaic beliefs, intellect of a pygmy, and tiny dick.

The reason I am writing this letter is to thank you.

Among others – too many to mention – you lit a fire in my belly that’s become an inferno and these days, I don’t cop shit from anyone. When I was sacked by email after the birth of my second baby, I fought the lot of them.

I do hope you receive this correspondence. I had trouble finding a forwarding address after you lost your house due to that unfortunate sexual harassment case.

(I’m sure the bitch was asking for it.)

Yours in emancipation,

Tracey.

Tracey Spicer has worked as a television news presenter and radio broadcaster for more than 25 years.

This is an edited version of a speech she gave at a Women of Letters presentation – a series of performances aimed at reviving the art of letter writing. It was first published on thehoopla.com.au

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/and-heres-the-news-my-bums-got-nothing-to-do-with-the-story-20121025-28837.html#ixzz2ANQjbLz6

Tony (Bl)Abbott now an international embarrassment!

And now, even the UK Press have picked up on Tony Blabbott’s character! And laughing!
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  • 12:46AM   Wednesday Oct 24, 2012

‘Sexist’ Tony makes waves abroad

Date  October 24, 2012

Vince Chadwick

Abbott baby comment backfires

Was Opposition leader Tony Abbott referring to PM Julia Gillard when he accused the government of inexperience in caring for babies?

“‘Misogynist’ politician in new row”. That’s how The Guardian website summed up the latest chapter in Australian politics today.

Michelle Grattan: Abbott gives birth to another faux pas

Correspondent Alison Rourke wrote that Opposition Leader Tony Abbott had “plunged himself into a new row over his attitude towards women” by remarking the government lacked experience raising children.

From the <i>Guardian's</i> website.From the Guardian’s website.

Mr Abbott later said he was referring to his own experience raising daughters and not the fact that Prime Minister Julia Gillard did not have children.

A video of Mr Abbott’s comments also featured prominently on the Guardian site, while the article attracted hundreds of likes, comments and tweets. It hovered around the fifth most-read story on one of the most-read news sites in the world, for much of the day.

One English woman tweeted of Mr Abbott, “Who IS this guy?!”

The Guardian carried two more stories on sexism in Australia. One covered Ms Gillard’s recent positive polls in the wake of her speech against misogyny. The other, “How Australian women are standing up to ‘Mr Sexist”‘, referred to journalist Tracey Spicer’s letter to a fictitious Mr Sexist, based on her experience in newsrooms in Australia.

Poll: Was Tony Abbott having a dig at Julia Gillard?

Yes 74%
No 26%

Total votes: 511.

Disclaimer:These polls are not scientific and reflect the opinion only of visitors who have chosen to participate.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/sexist-tony-makes-waves-abroad-20121023-283w0.html#ixzz2A88KalmJ

Tony Blabbott is not only a clown, and an idiot, domestically; He is becoming known also as one, on the world stage. 

And this comment by this top Asian politician, is a direct threat to Australia, if Blabbott’s boat policy is adopted. 

Australia can ill afford this idiot’s continued presence as a leader of anything, never mind, the Australian people! 
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Coalition boat plan attacked

Date  October 24, 2012

Daniel Flitton

A packed asylum-seeker boat in distress earlier this year.A packed asylum-seeker boat in distress earlier this year. Photo: Reuters

SOUTH-EAST Asia’s top diplomat has rejected as  ‘‘counterproductive’’ the Liberal  policy to tow back asylum seeker boats to Indonesia, warning the plan could jeopardise Australia’s ties with its neighbours.

But Surin Pitsuwan, head of the 10-nation association that covers south-east Asia, has cast doubts whether an Abbott government would   actually carry out its threat to force asylum seekers to return to Indonesia.

‘‘It will be counterproductive,’’ he told The Age. ‘‘Just to impose certain decisions on the neighbours at the risk of losing many … other issues on the international agenda. I don’t think it’s worth it.’’

In what is the sharpest critique to date from a senior figure in the region, Dr Surin also said countries understood that the Opposition Leader was primarily targeting an audience at home.

Dr Surin is the secretary-general of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), a group of 10 nations that includes Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, all grappling with the explosion of asylum seekers crossing their territory en route to Australia.

‘‘Rhetoric, political rhetoric, you have to take [Abbott’s comments] as such,’’ he said. ‘‘I think South-East Asia or ASEAN is really mature enough to appreciate that some of them are internal rhetoric for internal consumption, for internal political communication.’’

The Coalition’s pledge to turn back boats — when safe — is the most controversial of its border protection plan.

Dr Surin, who meets Prime Minister Julia Gillard today, said Australia did not have a record of pushing problems back on south-east Asia.

He said only a regional approach — not ‘‘by divorcing, by turning your back to us’’ — could solve the challenge from people smugglers and other cross-border crimes, such as drug trafficking.

Dr Surin said: ‘‘You will have to think about others. A lot of this cannot be resolved by one party alone.’’

Mr Abbott scored a rare diplomatic coup last week, meeting  Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Jakarta.

But Labor seized on Indonesian remarks afterwards revealing Mr Abbott did not directly raise the tow-back policy with Mr Yudhoyono, accusing the Opposition Leader of talking tough at home but lacking guts while abroad.

Dr Surin, a former foreign minister of Thailand, is coming to the end of a five-year term as ASEAN secretary-general.

He said the region’s ties with Australia had grown stronger, and Australia could now  more comfortably claim to be an Asian nation than it could in the 1970s.

‘‘Australia came from a background of being rather distant and divorced from east Asia, from Asia in general. The perception earlier on before ASEAN … was that it is a European country that happens to be in the East, and orientation, sentiments, emotional attachments always have gone to the West. But things have changed,’’ he said.

He praised Australia’s efforts in engaging with diplomatic institutions in the region  and helping countries work together to tackle problems.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/coalition-boat-plan-attacked-20121023-283k5.html#ixzz2A81pBRWg

It just goes on and on!

This is what happens when animals are allowed to imitate humans. They just can’t get it right!!!

And this is no Afghan man! An Afghan man would not do this. But an animal would. Coincidence that these events are all driven by Islam worshippers???
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Afghan man kills wife for working: police

Date    October 23, 2012 – 10:20AM

An Afghan man has stabbed his wife to death because she worked for a non-government organisation (NGO) outside the home, police said after arresting the suspect in the western province of Herat.

“Kulsoom was stabbed eight times by her husband on Friday afternoon because she was working,” provincial police spokesman Noor Khan Nekzad told AFP.

“We have arrested the murderer, Abdul Rahim, who killed his wife,” Nekzad said.

The couple had been married for six years and had two children.

The killing occurred nearly a week after a 20-year-old woman, Mah Gul, was beheaded in the same province by her in-laws after she refused to go into prostitution.

Abdul Qader Rahimi, the regional director of the government-backed human rights commission in western Afghanistan, said violence against women had dramatically increased in the region recently.

“There is no doubt violence against women has increased. So far this year we have registered 100 cases of violence against women in the western regions,” he said, adding that many cases go unreported.

Last year, in a case that made international headlines, police rescued a teenage girl who was beaten and locked up in a toilet for five months after she defied her in-laws, who tried to force her into prostitution.

AFP

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/afghan-man-kills-wife-for-working-police-20121023-2829x.html#ixzz2A6D4J3Na

Tony Blabbott simply cannot help himself!

And there are some sections of the community that would vote him in as PRIME MINISTER??? The mind boggles at the mentality of the public!!!  And these are the FIRST people that will complain when Blabbott continues to stuff things up, even more than they are now!

I know it shouldn’t but,…, despair!!!
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Labor does not understand cost of raising children: Abbott

Date   October 23, 2012 – 12:54PM
Judith Ireland

Judith Ireland

Breaking News Reporter

Abbott baby comment backfires

Was Opposition leader Tony Abbott referring to PM Julia Gillard when he accused the government of inexperience in caring for babies?

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says his comments today about the government’s inexperience on family matters were not a reference to Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s childlessness, but says he will apologise “if she would like me to say sorry”.

Ms Gillard earlier called on Mr Abbott to explain a comment he made, interpreted as a thinly veiled reference to the Prime Minister’s lack of children, in the mid-year budget debate.

This followed comments from Treasurer Wayne Swan yesterday when he announced a raft of budget cuts including plans to cut the baby bonus from $5000 to $3000 for the second and each subsequent child.

”We believe that these changes to the baby bonus will bring it more into line with actual costs of having children.  After the first child you’ve already bought the cot, the pram and other items you can use again,” Mr Swan explained.

In criticising the government’s plans to cut the baby bonus, Mr Abbott told Channel Seven this morning: ”[Often] one child is still in the cot when the other one comes along, one child is still in the pram when the second one comes along, so you actually need to get an extra cot or a double-sized pram.”

In comments that have been been perceived as a reference to Ms Gillard, Mr Abbott added: ”I think if the government was a bit more experienced in this area, they wouldn’t come out with glib lines like that.”

This morning, Ms Gillard would not specifically address Mr Abbott’s comment.

”I think Mr Abbott can explain what he meant by that line,” she told ABC Radio.

Following Ms Gillard’s response, Mr Abbott explained to Fairfax Radio that his comment referred to his own experience with his daughters Louise and Frances and that he was not in any way referring to the Prime Minister’s lack of children.

”If she wants to take offence, of course I’m sorry about that. And if she would like me to say sorry, I’m sorry.”

Mr Abbott said he thought “a lot of people” were very ready to read far too much into entirely innocent comments. “And this was as innocent as a comment can be,” he said.

Trade Minister Craig Emerson said the Opposition Leader’s comment was “curious”.

“Mr Abbott does need to explain what he meant by that statement,” he told Sky News.

“He was a bit indignant about personality politics over the last few weeks … but Mr Abbott’s back in there making inferences.”

Dr Emerson said he and Mr Swan each had several children.

“So what’s he [Mr Abbott] really on about to suggest this government isn’t experienced at having children?”

Mr Abbott said that his daughters, Louise and Frances, were only 15 months apart and needed a double pram. He also maintained that the Gillard government was “out of touch” when it came to families.

“The idea that you can have second and subsequent children on the cheap is just wrong,” Mr Abbott said, adding that Labor should have been upfront about the cuts to the baby bonus when it was discussing its carbon tax compensation.

Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey said Mr Abbott’s remarks were not directed at Ms Gillard, but at ”the whole government”.

”If they had more experience on a range of different areas, they would understand the pressures,” Mr Hockey told reporters in Melbourne.

Mr Hockey accused Labor of being over-sensitive.

”This is pathetic. This whole rhetoric is pathetic,” he said. ”If we’re at the point now where we can’t refer to the Government and families in the same breath, surely the debate has got to an absurd point.”

Shadow attorney-general George Brandis said Mr Abbott’s comment about inexperience wasn’t a personal dig at Ms Gillard.

“You wonder what planet some of these people come from when you have a Treasurer who is able to say … that the more children you have, the less it costs you,” Senator Brandis told Sky News.

But the Prime Minister said the government was making a ”structural save on the baby bonus, that’s absolutely true” for the long-term health of the budget.

Ms Gillard added that the government was working with Australian families on cost of living pressures, citing the example of the Schoolkids Bonus.

The Coalition says it needs more time to consider the government’s “vicious and savage” cuts – which also include changes to private health insurance and company tax – but has warned Labor faces a battle ahead to negotiate the changes with the crossbenches.

”I think much of these changes will be opposed by the crossbenches, delayed,” manager of opposition business Christopher Pyne told ABC Radio this morning.

Independent Queensland MP Bob Katter does not look likely to support the baby bonus cut. He said he was “tenaciously opposed” to any cuts to the payment.

“Those poor struggling little mothers, they can’t get men to shoulder their responsibilities,” he said.

But fellow independent Tony Windsor said the baby bonus had been a badly designed policy from the start, arguing there were better ways of helping parents.

Mr Windsor – who along with other independents and the Greens was first briefed about the mid-year budget update last week – told ABC Radio he would now look at the detail of all the mid-year budget measures.

Ms Gillard said the government needed clarity from the opposition on its position.

The Prime Minister said that while the Coalition was full of its usual  negative ”huff and puff”, they had a track record of ending up supporting budget measures in the Parliament.

In light of the public focus on Ms Gillard’s ”misogyny” speech earlier this month, she was asked if she regretted using the term.

Ms Gillard admitted she was a ”bit taken aback by the dimension of the public reaction” both in Australia and overseas, but said she meant every word of the speech.

”I stand by every word that I put in the Parliament,” she said.

A Fairfax/Nielsen poll released yesterday found 42 per cent of respondents thought Mr Abbott was sexist, while 17 per cent said the same of the Prime Minister.

with Dan Harrison, AAP

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/labor-does-not-understand-cost-of-raising-children-abbott-20121023-2829d.html#ixzz2A5X0Z2BO

Only in Muslim countries!

This disgusting incident, where mobs have groped, and in at least two previously internationally reported incidents, attacked, stripped and sexually assaulted female reporter’s, has never happened in non-muslim countries.

WTF is wrong with these people, these animals??? Seems to me, that every day, more and more examples of cowardly behaviour emerge from Islamist dominated countries. No wonder the women have to cover themselves up from head to toe in unflattering dark robes and headgear.

Perhaps this is their only defence when living amongst wild animals who have taken human form, but whose brains, have still not developed beyond embryo stage.

When will the good people of Islam, start taking action, to protect the rights of their women, and other innocent men, woman and children?

And we will once again, hear the words from various Muslim speakers saying that this is not what Islam is about! And ONCE AGAIN, IT WILL ONLY BE WORDS that are said.  AGAIN, NO ACTION will be taken to eliminate this grotesque behaviour by the followers of Islam!
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MOB GROPES REPORTER DURING LIVE BROADCAST

Yahoo!7   October 22, 2012, 2:21 pm

A France 24 TV correspondent was ‘savagely attacked’ by a mob of men while reporting live on protests in Cairo.

Sonia Dridi was attacked on Friday night, a statement from the television station during a live broadcast from Tahrir Square

No further details of the incident were released, although the news channel said its employees were safe, but ‘extremely shocked’, reports Associated Press.

“More frightened than hurt,” wrote Dridi in French on her Twitter page.

In English she later tweeted: “Thanks to (at)ashrafkhalil for protecting me in (hash)Tahrir last nite. Mob was pretty intense. thanks to him I escaped from the unleashed hands.”

Her colleague, Ashraf Khalil said around 30 men were involved.

“The crowd surged in and then it went crazy. It was basically me keeping her in a bear hug, both arms around her and face-to-face,” he told AP.

“It was hard to tell who was helping and who was groping her.

“It didn’t feel organized or targeted. It felt disorganized,” he added.

“I felt angry. I love Tahrir. I have a lot of nostalgia for Tahrir. I am still angry. I know this is not the first time this happened; it happened to other people I know. Still, it was a shock.”

Speaking to The Guardian, he added: “”Usually one of us goes first then the other, Sonia does the French and I do the English.

“Usually we don’t do Tahrir live shots from street level, normally we’re on a balcony. We had done an earlier live shot and even then the crowd was annoying.

“When we went back for the second live shot the crowd was worse, it was really hard to control the crowd. If you see the video you can see me popping up on the fringe telling people let her work. By the time it was finished everybody was too close and no one was listening to us.

“I told Sonia to just go straight to [the shop] Hardee’s and wait for me because I didn’t want her to wait with this crowd of feral youths.”

The incident is just the latest case of violence against women reported in Tahrir Square during protests.

During the uprising against longtime Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, US correspondent Lara Logan was sexually assaulted and beaten in Tahrir Square, needing hospital treatment.