22-09-2014 08:59 AM - edited 22-09-2014 09:00 AM
on 21-10-2014 12:15 PM
@am*3 wrote:
@*julia*2010 wrote:
@am*3 wrote:
"Our federal govt really messed this one up. All they had to do was to ban any form of identity-concealing attire for visitors to Parliament."
They sure did mess up. Didn't engage the brain before reacting. Could have been a Ban for anyone "covering their face". Not that I think that is necessary, but better than the burqa 'hysteria' they caused.i thought that too but ultimately -
only one group of people would be affected
so it would have been seen as targeting those
anyway.
So the Govt calls it a burqa ban and there is no doubt who they are targetting?. Right, that makes sense, not.
what? my point was - even if they did
engage their brain before reacting -
it wouldn't have made much difference.
on 21-10-2014 12:18 PM
@polksaladallie wrote:The "threat" was from a talk-back caller. They are scary, those bogan rednecks.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/25308412/radio-show-behind-burqa-ban/
How do you know who the Media Manipulator (that talk-back caller) is to call him/her a bogan redneck?
Could be anyone from anywhere pretending to be anything.
on 21-10-2014 12:22 PM
Could be someone from here.
on 21-10-2014 12:31 PM
@polksaladallie wrote:Could be someone from here.
Could be. You can't see the colour of a person's neck in cyberspace.
21-10-2014 12:40 PM - edited 21-10-2014 12:41 PM
IT would make a HUGE difference.
Whether a Govt planned to introduce
A ban on face coverings
or
A ban on wearing the burqa and/or
the niqab.
on 21-10-2014 12:43 PM
@icyfroth wrote:
@polksaladallie wrote:Could be someone from here.
Could be. You can't see the colour of a person's neck in cyberspace.
Or in a burqa for that matter.
on 21-10-2014 12:45 PM
I think a good medium has been struck.
Facial coverings to be removed for indentification.
Can't argue with that.
on 21-10-2014 12:47 PM
Hasn't that been happening for quite some time now?
on 21-10-2014 12:52 PM
OM IGGULDEN, REPORTER: The plan to segregate burqa wearers into these glass boxes when watching Parliament was only a few hours old before the Prime Minister effectively shut it down.
TONY ABBOTT, PRIME MINISTER (Oct. 3): I asked the Speaker to rethink that decision.
TOM IGGULDEN: That was flatly contradicted by the Speaker today.
TONY BURKE, MANAGER OF OPP. BUSINESS: Did you, Madame Speaker, receive a request from Prime Minister to reconsider the policy?
BRONWYN BISHOP, SPEAKER: In a word, no.
..................
PENNY WONG: Who first told you that there was an intention to disrupt Question Time?
STEPHEN PARRY: It came from two sources.
PENNY WONG: What were the two sources?
STEPHEN PARRY: The two sources were via the Black Rod ...
PENNY WONG: That's not correct.
STEPHEN PARRY: ... and via the Speaker's office.
PENNY WONG: No. Well that is not correct. You should retract that evidence, Mr President.
..............................................
PENNY WONG: Can I confirm that the Parliament House threat level has not changed since 2010? Is that correct?
CAROL MILLS: That's correct.
PENNY WONG: That is correct.
.....................................................
RICHARD DI NATALE: What we're saying is we may in fact have misinformed people and potentially aggravated some anxieties.
CAROL MILLS: I think that is a higher level of concern than is possibly required of staff at the moment. I certainly have not closed my blinds, nor have I varied my route.
STEPHEN PARRY: I would describe the advice as overcautious.
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2014/s4111098.htm
on 21-10-2014 12:53 PM