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Post by Runa on Jun 7, 2011 4:54:11 GMT -5
riseupaustraliaparty.com/Seriously, I'm reading this, and I feel like I'm reading something from America. 1. Protect freedom of speech.
2. Establish full employment and fair wages; support/re-establish manufacturing industries in Australia.
3. Reduce the cost of living by limiting the size of government and limiting the levels of taxation, with the least possible intrusion of governments into the lives of individuals and businesses.
4. Reaffirm our Constitutional right to freedom of religion.
5. Recognise and affirm our Judeo-Christian heritage.
6. No religion or religious practices are to be forced upon another person.
7. Faith-based schools are to have the right to employ people of their choice.
8. Schools to have faith-based chaplains.
9. School curriculums to include the teaching of the history of Western civilization and our Judeo-Christian heritage.
10. Improve discipline in our schools.
11. Protect the traditional family unit – father, mother, and children.
12. Parents have the right to discipline their children, within sensible historical, non-abusive guidelines.
13. Protect children from homosexuality as it creates health problems. Promote children’s rights – children have the right to have both male and female role models as parents (father and mother).
14. We wish to make abortion history by providing those social conditions that support women in their lives to become fulfilled and not being forced into situations where they feel there is no option but to have an abortion.
15. Protect Australia from multiculturalism. People who live in Australia should become Australian – we are multi-ethnic, not multi-cultural. We do not advocate homogenising – immigrants are free to celebrate their own backgrounds, but must respect the Australian culture. We are opposed to a dual legal system, i.e. we oppose introduction of Sharia law in Australia. We will educate people about the implications of radical Islamic teaching. We advocate no Centrelink benefits for polygamists.
16. All boats trying to enter Australian waters by illegal means should be stopped to preserve the lives put at risk by people smugglers.
17. Protect the environment, as God gave it to mankind to look after.
18. We support the right for Israel to exist with Jerusalem as its undivided capital.
19. All elected Members of Parliament for RUA Party are encouraged to donate a percentage of their salary to the poor and the needy.
20. While we recognise the Aboriginal people as the first people of Australia, we encourage them to accept our Government’s apology and invite them to issue a statement of thanks for the good that the British heritage has brought to our nation. Yeah. As a feminist bisexual Norse pagan with Aboriginal ancestry, I'd be effectively outlawed by these jerks.
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Post by Parabola on Jun 7, 2011 5:12:45 GMT -5
The list started out okay. Nothing wrong with freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Even a few scattered items seemed reasonable. Protecting the environment is a good thing too.
Of course, the rest of it reads like typical Teabagger agenda. Even though I'm not Australian, I feel bad that you have to put up with them now.
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Post by Runa on Jun 7, 2011 5:13:40 GMT -5
Ironically, I think Nailah's a Yank.
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Post by lighthorseman on Jun 7, 2011 5:17:40 GMT -5
Does... Australia actually have a constitutional right to freedom of religion?
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Post by kmc on Jun 7, 2011 5:25:08 GMT -5
Lawl at #5. Australia has Christian heritage? I thought Australia, as far as the West is concerned, was started as a prison for England?
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Post by lighthorseman on Jun 7, 2011 5:28:42 GMT -5
Lawl at #5. Australia has Christian heritage? I thought Australia, as far as the West is concerned, was started as a prison for England? Common misconception. Australia did have a large number of convict settlers in the early days of the colony, but this was a continuation of the long standing practice of transportation that built the American colonies. If one insists on characterising Australia as a "prison", one must realise that America, South Africa and the West Indies share identical heritage. |
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Post by kmc on Jun 7, 2011 5:35:24 GMT -5
Lawl at #5. Australia has Christian heritage? I thought Australia, as far as the West is concerned, was started as a prison for England? Common misconception. Australia did have a large number of convict settlers in the early days of the colony, but this was a continuation of the long standing practice of transportation that built the American colonies. If one insists on characterising Australia as a "prison", one must realise that America, South Africa and the West Indies share identical heritage. Interesting. Yes I'd been taught that about Australia. |
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Post by lighthorseman on Jun 7, 2011 5:59:22 GMT -5
Common misconception. Australia did have a large number of convict settlers in the early days of the colony, but this was a continuation of the long standing practice of transportation that built the American colonies. If one insists on characterising Australia as a "prison", one must realise that America, South Africa and the West Indies share identical heritage. Interesting. Yes I'd been taught that about Australia. The convict aspect of Australia's history seems to get played up. The convict aspect of other countries originally colonised by Great Britain seems to get played down. Why WE are the one's who's convict history is seen as such a integral part, I don 't know. |
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Post by ltfred on Jun 7, 2011 6:35:04 GMT -5
Does... Australia actually have a constitutional right to freedom of religion? Yep. Our only one*. *Also speech, but that's just an 'implied' right. Religion is actually written down. |
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Post by lighthorseman on Jun 7, 2011 6:53:41 GMT -5
Does... Australia actually have a constitutional right to freedom of religion? Yep. Our only one*. *Also speech, but that's just an 'implied' right. Religion is actually written down. There you go. Always good to learn. |
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Post by ltfred on Jun 7, 2011 7:01:39 GMT -5
Yes. Agreed. Freedom of speech is a good thing. Without speech, you can't have democracy or liberalism or any of those good thing. But by freedom of speech do you mean, you know, everyone? Or do you mean just you? Well, let's see.
Agreed. Good policy. Not much detail on how this will be achieved (protectionism, government regulation, some kind of clever heterodox economic thingy?). What kind of actually effective policy are we looking at to achieve this?
Oh. Cut taxes! Lower taxes and zero regulation will solve every problem! That's why Somalians are so wealthy!
Everyone to have that freedom or just you?
Right. Just you.
Except Muslims, atheists, Buddhists... In fact, everyone but Jews and Christians.
Christians and Jews can be discriminated against too!
How many? One for every different religion, including an invisable chaplin for atheists?
Strange. That's exactly what I got when I did history.
How? By beating children for fun and profit?
We have our answer- by beating children.
Forcing more religious beliefs at gunpoint! Yay! Hypocracy!
How are we going to recognise that right? Given the existance millions of single-parent children and adoptees? What are we going to do? Mass import mothers and fathers? Child theft at gunpoint? Forced marriage?
Which social conditions? Legalised abortion? Is that what you mean by a 'social condition'?
After all this reasoned political ideals- generic pseudo-respect for freedom of speech and religion, and specific infringement of those rights, what else can we expect?
Racism!
Meaningless semantic differences!
Clear self-contradiction!
Total bullshit lies!
Ridiculous non-solutions to a problem that doesn't exist!
I wonder what their policy on real hot button issues are. Something well-thought through and rational, no doubt.
Illegally forcing people not to flee deadly persecution by abusing innocent people for votes. Dishonest appeals to emotion with a policy that would clearly threaten far more lives that it would save. That is, after all, the intention.
They get a pass on this since this is everyone's policy but the Greens.
Yay! Generic nice things!
And Germany with it's capital in Moscow! Whee!
Meaningless symbolic nonsense used as a thin, small loincloth semi-hiding the vast, diseased testicles of your pro-poverty policies!
Hypothetical indigenous Australian:
"Thank you, white people. Thankyou for stealing our land. Thankyou for stealing our labour, for paying us less. Thankyou for taking our children, our votes, our tax dollars our lives as conscripts. Thankyou for gunning down tens of thousands of us, for wiping nearly all Tasmans- their survival not for lack of trying. Thankyou for forgetting this. Thankyou for making up bullshit legal justifications for all this. Above all, thankyou for believing - to this day- we are less than human.
Thankyou for doing all these things, because clearly white settlement- let alone modern civilisation- could never have happened without them!"
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Post by DarkfireTaimatsu on Jun 7, 2011 7:20:33 GMT -5
18. We support the right for Israel to exist with Jerusalem as its undivided capital. What does this have to do with Australia or, indeed, the price of fish? |
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Post by Mantorok on Jun 7, 2011 7:30:04 GMT -5
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Post by tolpuddlemartyr on Jun 7, 2011 7:38:12 GMT -5
Oh THOSE fucktards, now this steaming pile of fail makes sense! |
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Post by Runa on Jun 7, 2011 7:54:23 GMT -5
Yeah...
....Danny Nailah deserves to be bitch-slapped by Peter Dinklage while receiving a 'Reason You Suck Speech'.
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