The Tamil family’s eleventh-hour Federal Court bid to prevent their deportation has been pushed to 4pm Friday, with an injunction granted.
Pure evil.
Michael Guider, the man who murdered 9 year old Samantha Knight will walk out of jail this Thursday.
He's never revealed the location of Samantha's body. It's heartbreaking to listen to Sam's mum today.
Take a moment to listen to Tess Knight reacting to the news that her nine-year-old daughter’s killer, serial paedophile Michael Guider, is allowed to walk free from jail on Thursday. The anger is palpable. @newscomauHQ pic.twitter.com/TbaBWbLv6a
— Sarah McPhee (@_SarahMcPhee) September 3, 2019
Here are the conditions under which he'll be released.
Guider Conditions (Final He... by Michael Smith on Scribd
Here are the full reasons he's being released.
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We pay more than $1BN per year for society-destabilising rubbish like this?????
“White women being agents of white supremacy/settler colonialism is well proven in the USA... how has this manifested in contemporary Australia?” #QandA pic.twitter.com/ZSPull4Stj
— ABC Q&A (@QandA) September 2, 2019
To All Flag Marshals: Action Australia-wide
Day of National Celebration
Australian National Flag Day
3 September 2019
Tuesday, 3 September 2019 is Australian National Flag Day.
Australian National Flag Day celebrates the first time the flag was flown, over the dome of the Exhibition Building in Melbourne on 3 September 1901. On this day Australia’s first Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Sir Edmund Barton, announced the winners of a competition to design a national flag for Australia.
3 September is an opportunity for all Australians to celebrate the anniversary of the Australian National Flag by flying or displaying the Flag.
In accordance with flag protocol, Australian Government departments and portfolio agencies are requested to fly or display the Australian National Flag on 3 September 2019 to join in the celebration of the Australian National Flag. If facilities permit, you may wish to consider displaying multiple Australian National Flags on this day. Other organisations are encouraged to follow this protocol.
3 September also marks Merchant Navy Day. It is an opportunity to remember the service and sacrifice of thousands of Australia’s merchant mariners during wartime. Organisations and individuals commemorating Merchant Navy Day may fly the Australian Red Ensign. When the Australian Red Ensign is flown along with the Australian National Flag, the Australian National Flag should be flown in the position of honour.
Additional information on how to celebrate Australian National Flag Day and the protocols for flying the flag can be found on the Department’s website at www.pmc.gov.au/flag.
Commonwealth Flag Officer
Feel an irresistible urge to book tickets to Adelaide?
Me neither.
I'm struggling to see who this ad might appeal to.
Therapeutic Albo will be loving this.
That's the original audio, as broadcast on every national and commercial radio station across Australia, 9.15PM 3 September, 1939.
Here's the Australian War Memorial's edited transcript:
Fellow Australians, it is my melancholy duty to inform you officially that, in consequence of the persistence of Germany in her invasion of Poland, Great Britain has declared war upon her, and that, as a result, Australia is also at war. No harder task can fall to the lot of a democratic leader than to make such an announcement. Great Britain and France, with the cooperation of the British Dominions, have struggled to avoid this tragedy. They have, as I firmly believe, been patient; they have kept the door of negotiation open; they have given no cause for aggression. But in the result their efforts have failed and we are, therefore, as a great family of nations, involved in a struggle which we must at all costs win, and which we believe in our hearts we will win ...
It is plain - indeed it is brutally plain - that the Hitler ambition has been, not as he once said, to unite the German peoples under one rule, but to bring under that rule as many European countries, even of alien race, as can be subdued by force.
If such a policy were allowed to go unchecked there could be no security in Europe, and there could be no just peace for the world.
A halt has been called. Force has had to be resorted to check the march of force. Honest dealing, the peaceful adjustment of differences, the rights of independent peoples to live their own lives, the honouring of international obligations and promises - all these things are at stake.
There was never any doubt as to where Great Britain stood in relation to them. There can be no doubt that where Great Britain stands there stand the people of the entire British world.
Bitter as we all feel at this wanton crime, this is not a moment for rhetoric; prompt as the action of many thousands must be, it is for the rest a moment for quiet thinking; for that calm fortitude which rests not upon the beating of drums, but upon the unconquerable spirit of man, created by God in His own image. What may be before us we do not know, nor how long the journey. But this we do know, that Truth is our companion on that journey; that Truth is with us in the battle, and that Truth must win.
Before I end, may I say this to you? In the bitter months that are to come, calmness, resoluteness, confidence and hard work will be required as never before. This war will involve not only soldiers and sailors and airmen, but supplies, foodstuffs, money. Our staying power, and particularly the staying power of the mother country, will be best assisted by keeping our production going; by continuing our avocations and our business as fully as we can; by maintaining employment and with it our strength.
I know that, in spite of the emotions we are all feeling, you will show that Australia is ready to see it through. May God in His mercy and compassion grant that the world may soon be delivered from this agony.
Therapeutic Albo's not going to be quiet about it.........
I'm not going to be quiet about this. This family has made Australia their home. Their two beautiful girls were born here. They deserve our protection, not publicly funded cruelty from a Government that has lost its humanity. #LetThemStay https://t.co/I0zWnNxDXH
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) September 1, 2019
...nor will Kristina
Immigration Minister @DavidColemanMP must end this cruelty now and use his powers of ministerial intervention to allow Priya, Nades and their two girls to stay in Australia.
— Kristina Keneally (@KKeneally) August 31, 2019
Contact him now:
Email- [email protected]
Sign the petition- https://t.co/fOXp7WDGA3 pic.twitter.com/VrWQrPEhC0
Maybe they'll wish they had been.
However, the Department of Home Affairs said the family had been comprehensively assessed a number of times and had consistently been found not to be genuine refugees.
Christopher Tran, a lawyer for the Government, told the court last week the family's application to be recognised as refugees was "manifestly hopeless".
Simon Jeans, an immigration lawyer who worked with the past 10 immigration ministers, has been following the unfolding situation. He said several errors were made in the family's bid to stay in Australia.
"Observing this case over the past 18 months has been like watching a train wreck in slow motion," Mr Jeans said.
He said the family have not been truthful in visa applications and said evidence suggested they came to Australia in 2012 and 2013 by boat as economic refugees.
The family have been fighting their case on the grounds they face persecution in Sri Lanka due to links to the militant Tamil Tigers (LTTE).
According to court documents from June 2018, Nades claimed he was forced to join the LTTE in 2001 and was harassed by the Sri Lankan military.
However, he frequently travelled between Sri Lanka, Kuwait and Qatar between 2004 and 2010 for work, during the civil war that ended in 2009.
As a result, the Immigration Assessment Authority (IAA) did not accept he had links to the LTTE and would not be "of concern to the Sri Lankan authorities."
"Anyone who was associated with the LTTE or was suspected of being with the LTTE, would not have been coming and going into Sri Lanka," Mr Jeans said.
"They would have been picked up by security forces."
Mr Jeans said boat arrivals tended to exaggerate their stories so they could get permanent residence.
ENDS
And plenty more from Albo who doesn't care about the merits of the case, he just wants these people and more like them to come and stay.
This family has made this country home. It's the only place their two little girls have ever known. They are part of our community and they always should be. It's time for @ScottMorrisonMP to act and #LetThemStay. pic.twitter.com/EG7T9QOGQI
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) August 30, 2019