Tim Blair

It goes on forever and never stops, the boongs screaming for recognition in society while the 'elders' continue to execise their rights to 'break in' the young gins.
Confrontationalist language?
Go to the WA children's court.if you are allowed in, (highly unlikely) otherwise stand outside,and wait for the outcome, watch the young girls, (gins,for our US readers) crying their eyes out. being bashed by their 'aunties' -"It happened to me, why should you bitch about it" -"You'll cop his shit when *uncle* -b---- finds out you went to court!"
I quit my job there because I was carrying a gun and despite 20 years of discipline, I couldn't trust myself not to shoot these mongrels.
Pete,out.

"But they can stop an important story getting wide mainstream coverage."

there are two things wrong with that thesis:
1. even the murdoch papers didn't run this story; this is the first i've heard of "progressive people" having any influence whatsoever at news corp.
2. the one outlet that did run it was the age, which you have told us in the past is under the influence of progressives.

so maybe you should explain again how progressives are stopping this story getting covered.

Well, the progressives have to fight the apartheid-like structures put in place by conservative whites, don't they?
The Age's regional sibling, the Warrnambool Standard, http://the.standard.net.au/articles/2003/07/18/1058035182791.html reported yesterday on the latest effort by the progressive Victorian socialist government to combat conservative policies that treat indigenous people as a separate minority. You know, like the fascist racists used to in South Africa.

Excerpt from the Standard:

WARRNAMBOOL'S long-awaited Koori court will be operating by November.

The development, three years after the idea was first mooted, was announced by Attorney-General Rob Hulls at a Regional Aboriginal Justice Agreement Committee function in Warrnambool last night.

Mr Hulls said the Koori court aimed to minimise the number of indigenous people in the criminal justice system.

"We can't, as a community, continue to stand by and do nothing when indigenous Victorians are still 11 times more likely to be incarcerated than non-indigenous Victorians," Mr Hulls said.

Unlike Adam, I've worked at News Ltd.

Never underestimate the effectiveness of the so called progressive lobbies, to destroy the life chances of those whom they genuinely set out to help. It happened with working class kids, when the do-gooders, who had no concept of the problems faced by these youngsters pushed 'progressive' ideas which undermined both the families in which they grew up, and the schools they attended.
It happened with migrant kids, who were no longer as likely to acquire language skills, and become part of the society in which they'd one day have to participate, as effectively and quickly as was once the case.
With indigenous communities, --- surprise, surprise --- ideas which might have worked in Toorak or Vaucluse [but would have been disater in ANY underpriveliged suburb, helped destroy the lives of the sort of successful aboriginal families I knew well in my younger days.
And the further you moved from the urban indigenous elites, the sadder the picture becomes ---- but we call it "Progress".

I'm glad Pete quit his job. Shooting the "mongrel" "boongs" and "gins" probably wouldn't help raise their life expectancy.

That's a fascinating letter.

Speaking of urban progressives, I went to see A Mighty Wind at Broadway (Sydney) last night and the place was filled with freaky lefties who laughed at everything that wasn't funny.

Then I went to a cafe at Glebe and I was the only one drinking a coffee that wasn't a friggin' latte. The place is Hades.

Fascinating. And very relevant to the New World as well.

hey tim, why are you so damn evasive? why not say, "Unlike Adam, I've worked at News Ltd, and i can tell you that it is greatly influenced by progressives", or in the alternative "Unlike Adam, I've worked at News Ltd, and I can tell you that you're right, progressives have very little influence at the murdoch papers."

resting with "Unlike Adam, I've worked at News Ltd" says nothing.

I've got an idea for those indigenous Victorian's who are 11 times more likely to be incarcerated than non-indigenous people.

Stop commiting crime, its a great way to stay out of gaol.

Now the lefties may start with their - "its all white mans fault" that their are aborignes in gaol.

I've said it before, the population of gaol is 100% criminal - stop going on about what colour the prisoners are and making excuses for their woeful behaviour.

Gabor, consider that if you're the only one laughing, you may be the one with the problem.

Adam, it says "Adam's an ignorant prick who doesn't know what he's talking about," without conceding that you're probably right. Tim's like that (hi Tim!)

And Pete, I think you did the right thing quitting your job. Y'know, just in case you accidentally shot some "boong" who wasn't a "mongrel". I mean, surely courts serve some purpose?

Why am I so evasive? Surely not just to cause Adam so much grief. No, that couldn't be the reason.

Tim, your and your regular readers/commenters seeming acceptance of the asshole who wrote the racist bullshit at the top of these comments speaks volumes.

Tom,

I don't think regular commenter Adam would agree that he accepts Pete's racist bullshit. Regulars Robert and Mark plainly reject it outright.

Bottom line: I'm not responsible for what people write in comments. Most comments I don't even read. Don't interpret silence as acceptance.

That being said, a repeat performance from Pete will earn him a ban. Site boss Andrea was alerted to this earlier.

Actually, I was waiting for me to translate Pete's comments. I was pretty sure he was spewing some racist bile, but since I am not up on all Australian neologisms, I wanted to be sure. Thanks for the confirmation, and here's a warning to Petey and all his bigoted friends: we aren't interested, and the next episode will get the spewer banned.