Tony Blair’s former campaign director likens US president’s administration to Third Reich and warns ‘seeds of fascism are being sown’
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Category: Q&A
Demands that we be kept “safe” by governments play into the hands of conservatives who simultaneously, and with an alarming degree of cognitive dissonance, express their distaste for a nanny state while instigating extreme measures they claim will fulfil both our expectations of safety, and their responsibility to fulfil those expectations. All too often…
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Newly-elected senator Malcolm Roberts has argued with scientist Brian Cox about the existence of climate change on ABC’s Q&A on Monday night.
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Comment: As the savage reaction to a seemingly simple question subsided, a new response emerged.
Source: Crowds bite back at savage response to Duncan Storrar’s simple Q&A question
How might Malcolm Turnbull’s life have turned out if he was sexually abused as a child, which caused him to suffer post-traumatic stress, making it difficult for him to get a good education and find a good job, leading him to part-time work on the minimum wage, failed relationships, living with his mother in a…
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Exclusive: Review headed by broadcaster Ray Martin and former SBS executive Shaun Brown effectively dismisses widespread criticism from Coalition MPs over the show’s political balance
Source: Q&A does not have ‘leftwing anti-Coalition bias’, leaked report finds | Media | The Guardian
Young Muslim less literate than Steve Ciobo MP was provoked into an angered response by the minister who discredited the Supreme Court of Australia’s decision on finding Zacky Mallah innocent of terrorism after he’d been held in maximum security detention for two years. Language, lack of Education and being Muslim Zacky’s only crime for asking the minister a question on Q&A. Tony Abbott attacked the ABC for allowing such despicable Australian on the show. Today in Australia it would appear a crime for not accepting the insults of this government.
It should be noted that when an indigenous Australian from a remote community asked the the minister a question about Native Title he could only plead ignorance on the subject.
Referencing his own case, Mr Mallah asked: “What would have happened if my case had been decided by the minister himself and not the courts?”
Mr Ciobo said he would be happy to see Mr Mallah kicked out of the country.
“I got to tell you … my understanding of your case was that you were acquitted because at that point in time the laws weren’t retrospective but I am happy to look you straight in the eye and say I’d be pleased to be part of a government that would see you out of the country as far as I am concerned.”
“The Liberals have just justified to many Australian Muslims in the community tonight to leave and go to Syria and join ISIL because of ministers like (Mr Ciobo).” was Zacky’s reply.
The exchange appears to be out of character for the Sydney man who declared a “jihad of peace” in 2012 after visiting Syria and spending time on the frontline.
During his visit, Mr Mallah met with fighters from the Free Syrian Army and filmed footage for his YouTube channel. He was photographed holding an assault rifle but says he did not fight and had no intention of fighting.
Back home he has spoken out against clashes between the Islamic community and police and actively discouraged radicalised Australian Muslims from joining the Islamic State.
Zacky has some experience in understanding how ignorant men like Steve Ciobo MP have the ability by political stupidity alone to radicalize Muslims, the poor, the disadvantaged and even the educated and well off when openly strutting their vigilante attitudes.
Whose anger was justified in this case?
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