Comments on: Australia To Ban Rest Of World, Probably.

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By: James T

James T — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:11:46 +0000

Speaking as an Abo myself (*draws flag around shoulders*), the need to “do something” does not warrant sending soldiers to do social workers’ jobs. That’s fucking idiocy. I think bringing the army in was a sign that Howard appreciated the scale of the problem, but had no clue what to do about it except throw a handy supply of meatheads at it — no surprise that a bloody privatisation-happy neoliberal wouldn’t have a clue what to even try to fix a social problem (“Shouldn’t the Market have sorted this out? I sold our telecommunications infrastructure and everything! The outback should be doing great!”). Meanwhile, I really couldn’t give a shit if Noel Pearson was impressed; I wonder if he still is.
The situation’s not analogous to apartheid, no — there’s no official structure splitting blacks from whites. The problem is more one of class — black and white communities of similar income levels are strikingly similar, in my experience — but this is exacerbated by an unthinking racism. Would a prime minister dare send the army in to clean up those dirty Westies?

Drewski, saying the ALP are ‘left wing’ because our available spectrum has shifted so hideously to the right is ridiculous; it’s a lame capitulation to anyone who want to put certain ideas beyond the pale. The “spectrum” still exists in its entirety, no matter which parts of it are thriving at this particular moment, in this particular place.

Meanwhile, as for the net filter bullshit, I’m not worried; coming from a party whose main election plank was the rejuvenation of our telecom infrastructure, a program which would catastrophically sabotage said infrastructure is the most blaringly obvious case of political suicide I can imagine. No amount of “won’t someone think of the children”-s can turn around the universal hatred for this scheme. The ALP, insanely, decided to attack the only thing the Australian electorate gives enough of a shit about that it’ll actually get up off its collective arse to protect — its luxuries. They’re holding a knife to their own throats and daring the Australian people to come closer. “Go on, take one more step! I’ll do it!”

By: Horhe

Horhe — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:21:08 +0000

I’m australian, and the internet censorship proposal has been around for a while, and now there’s talk that they’ll start inplementing it without voting :S but i’m pretty sure there are some important politicians who are heavily against it so it probably wont go ahead.
@Railick: I hear australian characters all the time in games. Anytime people want ‘international’ characters in their games they use australia coz we’re so damn cool.
I cant think of any R18 games that i’d want to play, but having the rating would stop shit like the Fallout 3 censorship happening again (australia said no, so they changed every copy in the world).

By: video games

video games — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:32:26 +0000

I doubt they’ll get away with Internet censorship. It’s not like they’re Korea. Their people should be too used to freedom to allow this to happen.

By: drewski

drewski — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:42:20 +0000

The misinformation on the Aboriginal question is terrible in this thread as well.

Yes, pornography (and alcohol) is banned in some remote Aboriginal communities – but it’s not because of a “few” Aboriginal men, it’s because of a systemic culture of child abuse and rape. And it wasn’t “swept under the carpet”, it was a giant political firestorm that essentially forced then (then Liberal) government to take action.

And the “intervention”, as it was called, was broadly supported by Aboriginal groups, although not supported by many Aboriginal groups as well.

It is absolutely nothing like apartheidt.

Personally, I think there has to be a better way of changing the culture of Aboriginal communities, but I don’t know what that is and I am absolutely positive that they had to do something.