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ted supanova stood its ground hypocritically claiming to support diversity and inclusion while promoting baldwin but he was kept on a tight leash his abhorrent political views weren t given a platform i have little doubt that if he had the groups santos and faruqi disparage would have launched a campaign against him through the immigration department unlike baldwin jeff allen and julien blanc came to australia with one aim appealing to one audience australian men eager to improve their success as sexual predators through any means necessary for faruqi to state progressive campaigners would be better off protesting organising rallies and boycotts and running public awareness campaigns designed to educate the community is an insult to the thousands of people who suffer or work with those impacted by male entitlement to women s bodies including physical contact or intent of physical contact of a sexual nature that a person does not consent to recorded crimes under the definition used australian and new zealand standard offence classification allen and blanc teach men how to commit crimes for profit rsd tours have one aim to put the techniques they promote online into real life the deficients watching youtube in their bedrooms bond together in a room then hunt women in packs emboldened by and with encouragement and approval of a group there is strong evidence that adopting a mob mentality makes men more dangerous to women what could be more empowering than being told you are an alpha male not a z grader that you can convert women into submitting to you sexually by what is at the very least unwanted physical contact that you too can bang babes and when those babes don t want you when the alpha male delusion falls apart the rage must be infernal faruqi goes on to be clear that he is not advocating for the public incitement of violence against women and that other remedies including civil disobedience and criminal law are available to prevent jeff allen from doing so what he fails to consider is that when julien blanc was kicked out of australia on character grounds visible disruptive civil action was possible because activists knew where rsd s seminars were being held this time rsd went to extraordinary lengths to hide the locations of their seminars demanding credit card details doing background checks not releasing times dates people who signed up had to wait for a text messages to find out where they would be inculcated in the ways of the alpha male sex god who can make woman have sex with them it made protest almost impossible it also made it difficult to have him promptly charged with inciting violence so what were progressive campaigners left with in allen s case new matilda editor chris graham made public how difficult it was to gain information about allen s tour faced with the hammer of immigration law or allowing a man to make money from teaching men how to commit crimes they chose the blunt object faruqi links the use of section 501 6 d against allen tl dr it exists to prevent harassment intimidation vilification and inciting discord impacting a section of australian society with the 2011 amendment targeting the character of refugees and asylum seekers advocating s501 6 d be ignored because the minister might use it to target refugees and asylum seekers is specious the provisions faruqi others rely on to argue the slippery slope case are not one and the same arguing against the application of s501 6 d does not stop the department or minister from implementing section 501 6 aa or s197a allowing jeff allen to conduct some sort of covert proselytising operation to affirm to australian men that they are indeed the proper owners of australian women s bodies because peter dutton can apply different powers to target refugees and asylum seekers is a false equivalence very few people argued against the refusal of david irving s visa back in the 1990s irving failed the character test because he denies facts about the holocaust irving argued that this is a crime that only exists in germany the argument that can be made in the allen case is that the character test is being used to limit speech that we should accept this bunch just as we should have allowed troy newman to come here to show the right to life mob how anti abortion action is really done or david irving to come here and deny evidence of the holocaust implied causality between these high profile cases and the application of the character test to refugees and asylum seekers is intellectually disengenuous campaign for the amendments which specifically target refugees and asylum seekers to be removed but do not draw a bow between the treatment of asylum seekers and the treatment of white dudes who make money by teaching other dudes how to commit crimes against women no i didn t sign the petition by the way i despise the toxicity of the people who abused others who expressed discomfort with the character test being applied to allen but i do question the way this argument is structured further there appears to be little space for consideration of an alternate view which holds that australian women deserve to be protected under australian law from people who want to come here and exercise normative social influence on australian men and incite them to commit crimes comments 1 comment tags character test jeff allen julien blanc migration act 1958 osman faruqi real social dynamics categories 2016 violence violence against women belonging 27 09 2014 grand final morning over the past few days i ve been asked how i became an afl fan and reflected on what it means i ve talked about getting a ticket to a game in 2005 fell in love with structures hard slog it fits the narrative that i needed to be converted from old ways wrong paths the truth is it took years involved little change i was never good at sport more accurately in a family of reasonably handy athletic types my only contribution to the trophies displayed on top of the piano was a little medallion dux of redhead public school 1983 i was aware of the differences between my siblings myself my selected sport was tennis i went off to lessons at 7am every saturday for years tennis wasn t a bad fit for a broad shouldered kid who towered over boys my age but i knew i would never be as good as my dad he was the yardstick a local champion in everything he tried but i tried to make my brain fit the programme i tried to be effortless like him i wasn t years of saturday mornings spent in my own head i wouldn t surrender i couldn t just go with it there was no joy so i quit while my brother sisters were inculcated with the real family sport of surf lifesaving i wasn t selected i didn t press my body into action after lying prone on the sand sprinting for a flag i didn t row boats that were throwbacks to the 1930s my family would go to surf carnivals around australia i stayed home my dad s name was on all of the honour boards swimming sprinting rowing i was deeply connected to the achievement but not the culture i understood it i just didn t belong strange girl i d happily spend saturday nights watching match of the day on the little tv in my parents bedroom just for a glimpse of my heroes devils in red robson irwin hughes i remember gary pallister s transfer fee and the signing of the archest enemy the leeds united captain who became le roi cantona and a mop haired boy whose feet fairly skipped down the left wing i loved them but i wasn t at the stretford end i was in a real life summer bay in which i didn t belong i moved to europe in my mid 20s how my south london local heaved the night at the nou camp the night scholes keane spent on the sidelines the sublime substitutes sheringham solskjær a fearsome dane cartwheeling in front of a goal he d deserted been ordered back to defend i knew that this was how it felt to belong to something it was glorious i came back from europe found a new team a new game defending governments came naturally i d always loved defenders or any kind the ones prepared to break a leg their own or an opponent s to save a goal for five years i believed in something i defended it to journalists and turned defence into offense with words delivered across a brass barrier i watched smiled as another team was skewered by mine i belonged i was part of something a team with one purpose and then i wasn t even when i came out of retirement it was over i defended ideas people i had no faith in i was there but i didn t belong then things went very wrong for me there was no belonging to anything or anyone i needed a purpose to stop the aloneness not to break not to stay in my head i found it in a sea of red white as a way of forcing myself to open the door to my flat i became a member of a club within a club i paid so much for my membership that i dare not miss a game a function no matter how badly the metallic taste of panic surged of course i m a fan i would die in a ditch rather than hear them denigrated for daring to be more than blokes chasing a ball i ll ask for a photo secretly smile when i see a like on my twitter feed or instagram but i hate watching the same people year after year chasing them across rooms to sign things i know they have a dozen of are probably flogging for a premium i have superstitions which probably qualify as ocd i wear the colours i will travel across the country to finals knowing that my little rituals are meaningless that they can t hear me shout cheer or clap but i like to be there if even for a moment they sense that someone else is on their side i belong to something which has given me more than i can ever repay may the best team win but let it be my bloodstained angels comments leave a comment categories uncategorized celebrities speak out for suicide prevention 10 09 2014 a little plug for an organisation i am so proud to have worked with on some different projects suicide prevention australia to learn more about spa visit the website here media release for world suicide prevention day contact kim borrowdale on 02 9223 3333 australian celebrities have joined together to voice the importance of reaching out and getting connected this world suicide prevention day suicide prevention australia spa supporter trish heagerty lost her husband to suicide last year she came to spa wanting to raise awareness of suicide prevention services and support in a bid to spare others from the pain she and her loved ones have endured since his death as well as the pain he experienced trish is a food stylist and used her media contacts to partner with creative and passionate crew and celebrities including steve waugh commando steve willis jessica rowe justine clarke luke carroll alex perry jesinta campbell and mia freedman convenor of the national coalition for suicide prevention and suicide prevention australia ceo sue murray said of the video in australia more than 2500 people take their lives a year with every 1 suicide death it is estimated that between 10 and 100 people are directly impacted that is 10 100 people that knew that person this year s world suicide prevention day theme is all about making the connection sadly we are all connected to suicide and at some time in our lives will be looking to access the right services at the right time for others or ourselves sue went on to add on a personal note we are so grateful to people like trish with a lived experience of suicide who have the strength to constructively share their story to raise awareness thank you to everyone involved in this powerful and moving project key facts every year over 800 000 people in the world die from suicide this roughly corresponds to one death every 40 seconds the number of lives lost each year through suicide exceeds the number of deaths due to homicide and war combined each year 65 000 australian s attempt to take their own lives there are on average 130 000 total deaths per year in australia of these attempts australia loses approximately 2 500 loved ones the australian national coalition for suicide prevention is working to half this in ten years but they need help from every australian as you can see from the numbers everyone is connected to suicide it is everyone s business comments 1 comment tags suicide prevention australia world suicide prevention day categories 2014 mental health september suicide prevention no fairytales 7 09 2014 after last weekend s three point win against the sydney swans sealed its ninth win in a row and eighth place on the ladder the richmond tigers second finals appearance in five years was widely hailed as the fairytale of the 2014 afl season it s a projection richmond carried through today on its banner the only thing those wearing yellow black ran through this afternoon at adelaide oval there was no fairytale to steal from sam seaborn port adelaide did not seek nor did they provoke such a story instead they rose and mastered the occasion and reminded all that their capacity may well be limitless on paper both clubs results over the last five seasons are strikingly similar two finals appearances and three fairly wretched home and away seasons both boast some remarkable individual talent richmond s cotchin deledio martin rance and dual coleman medalist jack riewoldt port adelaide s wingard westhoff trengove harlett and boaks each faced financial ruin port adelaide s red staunched thanks to the sanfl afl underwriting millions in debt richmond saved from liquidation in 1990 by its members and its football department s stocks boosted by supporters in 2011 the difference the gulf between the top four and the rest should really be the top five while port adelaide s apparatus will likely hang precariously for the next five to 10 years a list that has not changed much since the arrival of senior coach ken hinkley in 2013 is going onto the second week of the finals for the second consecutive year richmond s onfield performance in the last two finals series doesn t reflect the energy and ability of its ceo brendon gale or the commitment of its 60 000 members to erase its debt and give the club a decent shot at a flag those members deserve to collect more than the insipid performance delivered today by players who celebrated like they had won the flag last week and they deserve better than to represent themselves as australian football s traumatic bonders that the record shows a 57 point loss is bad enough the reality is port scored 57 points in the first quarter and played to protect themselves from injury for the final 30 minutes if i hadn t been at the scg to see the sydney swans beat geelong by 110 points in round 11 i d say this was not the worst performance of the season but the most shocking port took adelaide oval like a panzer division richmond had the ignition timing of a datsun 180b in 1890 port adelaide were crowned the first champions of australia defeating the victorian football association premiers south melbourne by three points at adelaide oval i don t 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