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Culprit 
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Port Melbourne
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| No Syrians should be allowed in. Importing Terrorists is simply madness just ask the French. |
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Morrigu 
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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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Awwwww, you clucky old chook. 
But serious, apparently as it mentions in the article we're putting them through a serious screening process and prioritising families.
I'm happy with that.
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Morrigu
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^Oi you enough of the old!!
I am not usually taken with rug rats - but they have been living in a refugee camp for several years - so it must be exciting and wonderful to know that they will have their own place soon and be able to go to school, play outside without fear of being bombed or shot and well be just like all annoying noisy rug rats
I am very glad we are taking families from the camps 
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stui magpie
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Thank the flying spaghetti monster that we're an island and can put some controls around who we let in.
I'm glad we're taking the families from the camps too, young lady.
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What'sinaname 
Joined: 29 May 2010
Location: Living rent free
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stop the boats!
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Wokko 
Come and take it.
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003
Location: Andromeda
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Paywall. Can we have a short summary of this hit piece?
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Wokko
Come and take it.
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| Quote: | Greens vote against proposal to place refugees in unused buildings in Rozelle
November 26, 2015 5:54pm
Alicia WoodState Political ReporterThe Daily Telegraph
The old Rozelle Hospital at Callan Park - knocked back as a resettlement site.
NIMBY inner-city Greens have voted down a plan to resettle refugees in unused buildings at Callan Park in Rozelle, despite their federal counterparts priding themselves on campaigns to boost Australias refugee intake.
Leichhardt Labor councillor Simon Emsley this week called on council to approach the state and federal governments to create a permanent refugee welcome centre on the site of the former mental hospital at Callan Park, and to create temporary accommodation to increase the Syrian refugee intake in the inner west.
All four Leichhardt council Greens representatives, Rochelle Porteous, Craig Channells, Daniel Kogoy and Michele McKenzie, voted against the proposal.
Mr Emsley said he was shocked the Greens voted against a plan to resettle refugees in Rozelle, and to provide a permanent welcome centre: Given the committed advocacy role played by prominent national leaders of the Greens Party, I had assumed local Greens councillors would have thrown their full support behind the idea of the inner west playing a practical role to support refugee settlement.
The historic Rozelle Hospital at Callan Park.
Greens councillor Rochelle Porteous said she and her colleagues were prepared to support Mr Emsleys plan, if it also contained amendments that included writing to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten calling for an end to mandatory detention, all asylum seekers to be processed onshore and be permitted to stay in the community on bridging visas with the right to work while their refugee status is determined.
The Greens amendments also included writing to the government to close offshore detention centres and to stop children being locked up in immigration detention, and to call on the federal government and opposition to work towards peace in Syria and other areas of conflict in the world.
It is very poor politics to even imply that and Im very disappointed in him.
However, another motion, put up by independent councillor John Stamolis, that included these amendments was also opposed by the Greens.
Ms Porteous said Greens councillors were not informed the amendments had been added to Mr Stamolis motion on refugees and claimed the meeting was poorly chaired.
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Labor Mayor Darcy Byrne accused inner-city Greens of being like Reclaim Australia, after representatives of the anti-immigration party stormed a council meeting this week.
ANTI-IMMIGRATION PROTESTERS STORM INTO COUNCIL MEETING
CALL FOR REFUGEE HUB IN INNER WEST
On the same night Reclaim Australia crashed a council meeting, the Greens have joined forces with them to oppose having asylum seekers in the inner west of Sydney, Mr Byrne said.
Ms Porteous yesterday rebuked Mr Byrne for implying that there is any association between the Greens and Reclaim Australia.
It is very poor politics to even imply that and Im very disappointed in him, she said. |
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stui magpie
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Sounds like those cretins belong back in the student union.
Prefer to express their outrage by writing letters demanding things that aren't going to happen rather than actually doing anything helpful.
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yin-YANG
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Extremism is the issue intolerance and prejudice add to it. Narrow minded thinking led to a leader like Abbott - a little further down the track with more of the same divisive thinking can easily lead to the election of a despot like Hitler!
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Morrigu
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Mugwump
Joined: 28 Jul 2007
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^ indeed, so sad. To have reached a level of peaceful , rational civilisation like that and have it ripped apart by thugs who have no law but power is heartbreaking.
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Wokko
Come and take it.
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Syria, like Lebanon before it was a jewel of the Middle East. Western adventurism, Cold war bullshit and religious nonsense and tribalism have destroyed some wonderful countries and cultures.
Those who were pushing the Arab Spring uprisings and trying to destabilize and unseat Assad are ultimately to blame in Syria. Didn't take a genius to see what would happen after the chaos wrecked on Libya. |
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003
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So, as a libertarian, you'd never join a resistance movement against a brutal dictatorship?
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