Wednesday 20th of March 2024

kids will be kids... and hanson will be an idiot... time to send her back to potty training...

 

hansonite dunny

By Ben Pobjie

It has been clear for some time that children today are soft.

Lazy, flabby and devoid of moral fibre, the modern juvenile is a pale shadow of youngsters of past generations, who loved nothing more than doing an honest day's work down the mine or lying about their age in order to fight on the Western Front.

Today's child would much rather stay in bed playing Call of Duty under a thick coating of Cheezel dust than join the army; surveys show almost no Australians under the age of 14 are even looking for a job, let alone in gainful employment.

The fault, of course, is not with the children themselves, but their parents.

Parents nowadays coddle children. They are lenient when kids misbehave, and too quickly heap on praise when kids do anything even remotely noteworthy.

We have created a world of low expectations, sending our offspring out wrapped in cotton wool in order to cushion them from the constant barrage of trophies we hurl at them regardless of whether they've earned them.

When I was a child, my parents wouldn't even speak to me unless I'd topped my class that week — or at least beaten up the child who had.

Yet these days, parents lavish compliments on their unambitious spawn every time they go to the toilet without setting the house on fire.

read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-22/pauline-hanson-is-right-kids-today...

 

pauline should be removed from the senate...

Parents of children with special needs have reacted strongly to Pauline Hanson's controversial calls for them to be removed from mainstream classrooms, with many calling the comments "offensive".

They say while schools do need more resources to help children with disabilities, Senator Hanson's claims the education of other children is suffering are unwarranted.

They argue that rather than disadvantaging their classmates by monopolising teachers' time, children with special needs actually enrich the learning environment.

But some say mainstream schools simply cannot cope with the demands of children with special needs.

read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-22/what-parents-think-about-pauline-h...

 

Pauline has special needs or her nappies are too tight. She needs to be removed from the Senate... She's not worth the paper, the ink and the internet breath, nor her huge senator salary... She is the biggest disgrace to Australian politics in a disgraceful political environment....

the smelly dead cat is still bouncing...

Something stinks in the heart of Canberra, says managing editor Dave Donovan, and it smells a lot like Malcolm Turnbull and Pauline Hanson''''s politics.

IT SMELLS like politics. It’s the unmistakable stink of dead cats. It winds through Federal Parliament as I aimlessly wander its endless halls, often getting lost, but with the waft enough to guide me onwards.

A dead cat, of course, is a distraction. Drop a dead cat on a table and straight away everybody will be talking about it and not whatever they were discussing before. Or, at least, so the story goes — and I believe it. For I have seen the cat do its work.

As I stood near Pauline Hanson for a late afternoon press conference in the Parliament House gardens today (22/6/17), there was certainly something revolting in the chill air — and I’m not just talking about Hanson’s blouse. Worse was Hanson explaining her abhorrent statements yesterday (21/6/17) about segregating autistic children in schools.

She had been “taken out of context” and “misquoted” — or so she said. How you can take someone out of context and misquote a speech made in Parliament? I don''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''t know.

Hanson making a statement. Says issue has been "blown out of proportion". pic.twitter.com/dKR6HL5Y47

— Dave Donovan (@davrosz) June 22, 2017

She made a half non-apology. “If I have caused anyone with an autistic child any pain, that was not my intention,” she said in her quiet, staccato patter. But in the end, she was defiant.

Autistic kids were holding other kids back, said appalling Pauline:

"These kids have a right to an education by all means. But if there is a number of them, these children should go into a special classroom and be given that special attention because most of the time the teachers spend so much time on them.”

Like most decent people, the assembled press pack was irate. Noticeably, visibly irate. It could have been because Hanson can’t even pronounce autism correctly, but certainly more than that.

Pauline Hanson reads a statement, pronouncing autism as awe-TISM.pic.twitter.com/DICvHkbSbj

— Dave Donovan (@davrosz) June 22, 2017

The journalists there, most of whom looked young to my middle-aged eyes, attempted just one question on the (Gonski 2.0) education funding bill passing through the Senate with Pauline’s vital vote. One. The rest were all angry asks about Pauline’s asinine attitude towards autistic students.

I stood off to one side, about two metres away from Pauline, worrying about the potential radioactivity of her poisonous frog motif jacket, but more wanting to ask her a question about her chief of staff James Ashby, who was noticeably not there. I wanted to ask about the allegations made by Senator Derryn Hinch on Tuesday of a “bombshell” being about to drop.

Was inclined to ask Pauline about Ashby and Hinch but didn''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''t quite get a chance. Press pack noticeably irate about her autism comments. pic.twitter.com/5dAKXqZYR7

— Dave Donovan (@davrosz) June 22, 2017

IA had heard these rumours before Hinch said a word to any radio jock on Tuesday. They involved the AFP and an old case and they had been swirling around the press gallery — Hinch was just the one prepared to open his mouth. What is going on there? I still don’t know.

I would have liked to have asked Pauline, but what sort of self-indulgent bastard asks questions about a dodgy staffer when everyone else wants to talk about autistic kids? As for asking about Ashby’s plane or rorting candidates, forget about it. There wasn''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''t a chance.

Pauline’s dead cat did its gruesome work and she slinked away, none of her lives lost.

The Turnbull Government''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''s unfair Budget is stripping $22 billion from education investment, denying our children the education they deserve pic.twitter.com/siCYpm94Fb

— Shayne Neumann (@ShayneNeumannMP) May 24, 2017

Similarly, as the Government’s education bill strips $22 billion out of school funding, the press pursued Turnbull and Birmingham over their attitudes toward the irrelevant opinions of a single stupid crossbencher on a subject they will simply never act upon. No sensible politician would ever do something so obviously idiotic and unpopular. Abbott is no longer in power, after all.

But still, neither the PM or the Education Minister uttered a word to condemn Hanson, inside Parliament or out. This served three important purposes. Firstly, itinfuriated the Opposition and the Greens, who angrily asked and interjected about this censure deficiency all day. Secondly, it kept an angry press gallery focussed on something that was, ultimately, unimportant. Thirdly, it kept Hanson’s vote, needed to pass Gonski 2.0, locked tight away, safe and sound in the clutches of the Coalition. In the greedy paws of a big dirty, smelly, dead cat.

And with the bill being passed, or about to be passed, Turnbull has a bit of good news before the long winter break. Who knows, Malcolm may see a dead cat bounce?

Can you smell that?

Read more at:

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/sketch-paulin...

 

old stʃʊˈpɪdɪti...

Pauline Hanson has long viewed people with disabilities as a threat that needed institutionalisation. Her outburst yesterday against disabled kids, whom she maintains should be withdrawn from mainstream schools, is only the most recent iteration of it.

Back in 1998, Hanson’s One Nation released a policy for “the disabled”ahead of the October federal election. In it, she made clear her dislike of de-institutionalisation of people with disabilities.

“The policy of shifting the emphasis away from ‘centre based care’ of the mentally and physically disadvantaged to community based housing will be reassessed.”

Why did Hanson have a problem with community-based care for people with disabilities?

“Much of the community concern at present stems from fear that residential areas will suffer from inappropriate placement of intellectually disabled people with anti-social behaviour.”

While Hanson was pandering to bigoted stereotypes about disabled people, the tragedy is that people with intellectual disabilities are significantly more likely to be victims of crime than either people with other forms of disability or people without disabilities. Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows that people with an intellectual disability are around twice as likely to be the victim of a crime. This has been backed by other, older studies conducted well before Hanson vaulted to prominence in the 1990s.

And people with intellectual disabilities are massively more likely to be the victims of sexual assault — and much less likely to report it. In particular, as one study found, “it is predominantly women with a disability who continue to be the victims. The gendered pattern of sexual violence persists across diverse abilities and indeed across the lifespan.” A Senate inquiry in to violence, abuse and neglect of people with disabilities in both residential and institutional care unanimously recommended a judicial inquiry or royal commission into the whole area in 2015.

Regardless, Hanson continues to see disabled people as some sort of threat to and problem for the rest of us. Bigotry, it seems, never changes. Stupidity certainly doesn’t.

Read more:

https://www.crikey.com.au/2017/06/22/hansons-lock-em-up-disability-strat...

it's a start...

From Phillip Adams

 

 

Some of the spookiest film characters have been children. The Exorcist comes to mind, its star a charming child with a spinning head, the gift of psychokinetic furniture arrangement and a talent for projectile vomiting. Then there were the chilling, blue-eyed blondes in Village of the Damned… and the thoroughly unpleasant brats in Henry James’s novella The Turn of the Screw, memorably depicted in the 1961 horror film The Innocents. I found them more disturbing than Dracula or Frankenstein. Or even The Blob.

It’s not only menacing movies that alert us to the fact that infants aren’t invariably adorable. In addition to cute and cuddly, kids can be creepy. Without getting into theological arguments about Original Sin, one’s own memories of childhood should remind us of the dark side of pre-pubescent humans. Of ourselves. I remember the horrors of the playground (what a misnomer for the killing fields of East Kew State) as if they were yesterday. The strident bigotry of chanting “Catholic dogs stink like frogs” at the “Micks” of the RC school over the road. Or “Go back to your own country” to the first wave of post-war “reffos”. Our hostility to refugees has a long history.

Lunch was the time to launch cruel attacks on anyone made vulnerable by difference. Racism is a problem, but so is differencism. It is very dangerous to be different… different by appearance, skin colour, religion, sexuality, poverty or personality.

I see the tear-stained face of John, our primary school’s oddball, an early model “geek”, and of Valerie, the six-year-old who came to school in the shabbiest clothes. And 70 years later I remain deeply ashamed of the way we’d taunt the Down syndrome boy we’d find on the swings at the park. (In much of the cruelty and hatred aimed at “the other” there is an element of fear. Which can be easily intensified, organised for political advantage, as pogroms and genocides attest. As does the current crop of ultra-right politics here and around the world. Fires are so easy to ignite, so hard to stop.

Later, at Yarra Park State, I was happy to see the abuse aimed at the eccentric who grew up to be Adrian Rawlins, because it deflected the abuse from me. Adrian arrived in that blackboard jungle fat, Jewish and effeminate – the softest of targets. (Later in life he’d be honoured for his contributions to poetry and music with a statue in Brunswick Street.) Escaping to Eltham High, I’d find myself on the receiving end of mob abuse, fighting losing battles with the school bully.

Yes, children can be angelic. But the romanticising or sentimentalising of childhood is a comforting delusion. All too often it is characterised by the conflicts of evolutionary tooth-and-claw.

Now childhood’s brutal, bullying behaviour is intensified and amplified in the vast and vicious playground of social media. In the US, cruelty drives kids to kill their classmates in massacres. In Australia, cruelty drives kids to kill themselves. All too often the victims are youngsters suffering the torments of sexual identity and unable to endure the cruelty of other kids – face-to-face or on Facebook. Hence the increasingly desperate campaigns against bullying

We can’t blame children for echoing the views of their parents: “Go back to your own country, you reffo!” But equally, can’t we blame children for maintaining their playground hostilities into adulthood?

Tolerance? An interesting and unlovely word. “I will tolerate you” is hardly a celebration of difference. But it’s a start.

read more:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine/little-terrors/news-story/27706b07feeeb6c6f1a11f67f9fd501a

 

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see: http://www.portrait.gov.au/people/adrian-rawlins-1939

 

the krappy kids in kanbra...

There is a picture of a smiling Pauline Hanson with her Senate team at Parliament House in August 2016.

There they all are: Senator Hanson, er, Brian Burston, er, Malcolm Roberts, er, Rod Culleton.

Less than two years ago and they are all gone. In between there has been the spectre of Fraser Anning (who was to replace Mr Roberts, who had fallen foul of Section 44 of the Constitution) coming in — and then going, even before he literally took his seat in the red chamber.

By Friday, the focus was on whether Peter Georgiou — Mr Culleton's replacement and brother-in-law — would also peel off from One Nation. The Government was certainly hoping so.

Senator Hanson has not just lost individual parliamentarians in this process of course but what once appeared as a potentially potent balance-of-power bloc.

 

Read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-02/pauline-hanson-not-the-only-politi...