With Guy reminding us that last year's violence in Cronulla is looking like an aberration, it is also worth reminding ourselves that the emergency police powers bill that NSW passed immediately after the incident remains on the books.
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Chris Flynn writes
how multiculturalism is a worn out policy who's time is past
. Not once in the article does he define what multiculturalism is. Multiculturalism is the liberty to pursue your own cultural interests. As a policy it is a natural expression of liberty. The alternative is assimilation, which is by definition coercion.
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Escape from Southern Sydney.
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A comparison of Bill Leak's cartoon on
the ugly face of nationalism
and a photograph of Cronulla. The ethnic fault-lines have moved, and the caricature of the violent, dumb, crass, overweight, balding suburbanite is no longer pertinent.
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The NSW government passed legislation amending the Law Enforcement Act during a special sitting. This is the Hansard for the Assembly special sitting. This is the legislative amendment. It looks like populist legislation to ward off criticism of the NSW Government, both Labor and Liberal backed it, fearing that they would lose their tough on crime credentials. The Hansard doesn't claim why existing laws are not sufficient. (more)
Augusta, Maine
would have to be the coldest place I have ever been to, only Montreal rivalled it. I had long johns on, thermal under-shirt, super-thick woollen socks and I was still cold. It was early on Tuesday morning and I was standing on the top of a hill in Maine with four others. Jeremy, a Cape Codder, came up to me and asked, "What is happening in Sydney? It is all I see on the news."
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