Pauline Hanson calls for ban on Muslim immigration

[davidc4430]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-14/politics-blog-september-14/7842756

Does she not realise the muslims are here after hearing of us being over run by asians, they have come to throw the asians out of australia!

isnt that what she wanted last time she was in parliment?

just can't please some people, sheeesh!

[*tippy*toes*]

I agree, that's why we pull our horns in when certain colleagues are around. We'd also never behave like that in public, only because someone will take offence to it, or get offended on someone else's behalf. The sad part is, the people that would take offence to you in the street, are the same ones that would keep their mouth shut and head down if someone from another country was being racially abused by someone on a bus or train.

I'm not sure if I agree that political correctness means good manners. I believe I have good manners in general (mum and nana taught me well!), yet I'm probably one of the most politically uncorrect people you could meet. There are plenty of the political correctness brigade who have appalling manners and often offend more people than they are trying to protect. They are often members of the chronically outraged brigade. The ones that are outraged because someone calls the hole in your ceiling a man hole, or a ship she.

They are the ones that push for the removal of Easter hat parades in schools, or the banning of Christmas decorations in shopping centres because it might upset/offend the Muslims (they just forgot to tell the Muslims they were supposed to be offended by it).

[not_for_sale2025]

IMO, whether it be political correctness, racial correctness or religious correctness, we need to recognise that people are out there who have very bent and dangerous beliefs on what is correct in the world at the moment. I took part in a newspaper discussion a few weeks ago on a Stephen Hawking article about his latest findings on black holes. Many of the comments left me numb and shocked. Some people, clearly coming from a Christianity perspective, made the most vile, offensive and disgusting comments about Mr Hawking. It was like something straight out of the Old Testament. Their words were evil. Yet they professed to be defending the religious view that the universe is as described in the Bible and that Mr Hawking is in fact the evil one and should be punished. One person even suggested that his physical condition is due to the justifiable wrath of God.

My point, I guess, is that while correctness appears to be somewhat complex at the moment when we think about it from a social perspective, the greater concern is the reality that there are still many people out there who passionately believe and follow their teachings, as they understand them. I know they represent the minority. However, it worries me that individuals like Ms Hanson who promotes discrimination and divisiveness may influence young impressionable people to rise up and join the growing army of martyrs. I know this is the 21st Century, but not everybody is living in it.

Sorry for the scroller.

[lind9650]

i understand some peoples outrage over Government descissions without consulting with the people about projects that concern them and will affect them personally.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/pauline-hanson-labels-refugee-retirement-h...

My reply to this would be a scroller and has nothing to do with racism, or agreeing with Pauline Hanson. Just plain common sense.

Erica

[village_person]

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@lind9650 wrote:

i understand some peoples outrage over Government descissions without consulting with the people about projects that concern them and will affect them personally.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/pauline-hanson-labels-refugee-retirement-h...

My reply to this would be a scroller and has nothing to do with racism, or agreeing with Pauline Hanson. Just plain common sense.

Erica

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From your link Erica: Pauline Hanson labels refugee retirement home housing plan a ‘disgrace’

Juxtapose that story with this:

Stephanie's story:

When we first met Stephanie*, she was living with her three-year-old daughter in a car. Nothing can prepare our outreach workers for the shock of finding someone who is in this position. It is difficult to imagine having to spend just one night sleeping in your car. Can you imagine raising a toddler in a car for months on end?

Despite her circumstances, Stephanie was a good mother as she tried to cover up the stark reality of their circumstances from her small child, and she drove around until her daughter fell asleep so that she wouldn't know that they were homeless.

[...]

http://openfamily.com.au/the-facts/stories-from-the-street/stephanie-s-story.html

I wonder if it would help Stephanie if she changed her nationality from Australian to Syrian?

[davidc4430]

seems to me St Vincent’s Health Australia Group is not a govt entity but a subsidery of the catholic church and as such can put whoever it wants into its home.

[lind9650]

Yes, David, but they had to have Government permission and cooperation to bring the imigrants to Eltham.

I think it is false charity by a so called christian organisation.

Erica

[davidc4430]

i honestly dont see a problem. if any resident or residents family doesnt like it move. your not forced to live there.

i'd wait and see if anything bad happens before crying wolf.

[lyndal1838]

I can't vouch for other states but here in NSW if you are lucky enough to get accommodation in a half way decent retirement village/nursing home or whatever it is called you don't just give it up.   It is too darned hard to get and waiting lists are long.

[johcaschro]

Yes, I know that accomodation in aged care facilities (nursing homes) is very scarce which is why so many old folks remain in hospitals awaiting placement (a factor which blocks those hospiatl beds for others who need them, by the way.)

I find it curious that St Vincents, Eltham has   " . . . the 60 refurbished units on the site, which have been vacant for a number of years, (which) are stand-alone and separate from the residential aged care and independent living facilities."

and that . . . . "St Vincent’s said the refugees would be paying “an affordable level of rent” from their Centrelink payments, with the refugee housing project set to run for two years."

(from lind9650's link, above)

http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/pauline-hanson-labels-refugee-retirement-h...

Does anyone else think it odd that St Vincents let these units stand vacant for a number of years and didn't think to offer them to Australai's already down and out and homeless people?

Or is it that those people couldn't provide an "affordable level of rent" from their centrelink benefits?

Aside from everything else, I wonder just why did St Vincents let these units stand empty for so long?

[lind9650]

Just another thought.

How many Australian women with children are in temporary Shelters, having escaped domestic violence and now are without a home?

Who is helping those women and children?

Erica