Re: Breaking News: Axe168 Involved in Migration Fraud, Arrested in Melbourne!
Ozzieland = Crazy people apply there only
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Re: Neddy Very Red-Faced, dont know what to Say........
Ozzieland People = Crazy, no brain Peoples
Ozzieland People = Crazy, no brain Peoples
Re: So Sad, Neddy/QXD/Satan very Pissed off at Redbull&Shockiok Postings
A hard landing is not predicted, because LKY (
-man) or George Bush (war-monger) are not in charge.
Even if Australia is heading for a hard landing, the blow will be softened by the social policies set in place. But Aussies are a demanding lot which will make anti-OZ simpletons very very jealous indeed
A hard landing is not predicted, because LKY (
-man) or George Bush (war-monger) are not in charge.Even if Australia is heading for a hard landing, the blow will be softened by the social policies set in place. But Aussies are a demanding lot which will make anti-OZ simpletons very very jealous indeed
Resource States (WA & QLD) in Serious Trouble, Worse than Other Oz States
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,24798770-643,00.html
Boom states now face the toughest problems
David Uren, economics correspondent | December 15, 2008
AUSTRALIA may continue to run a two-speed economy, but it will be the resource states that run slow as Queensland and Western Australia supplant NSW as the Rudd Government's biggest economic headache.
The resource states have gained from massive increases in business investment, mining royalties and payroll tax receipts. Booming housing markets lifted their stamp-duty revenue streams.
The reversal that is under way will take time to gather momentum, but will push state budgets into significant deficits, raise unemployment and elevate tension between the states over the distribution of GST.
There will be political implications for the federal Government as the downturn in Queensland gathers speed in the next 18 months. Queensland delivered 40 per cent of the Rudd Government's gains in the last election, whereas it went backwards in Western Australia.
Last week's Queensland budget update was too optimistic, providing little hint of the hard path ahead. It tipped that growth would continue to exceed national averages with only a temporary dip in tax revenue this year. Mining royalties, which leapt from $1.4 billion to $4 billion this year as coking coal prices tripled and thermal coal prices doubled, are expected by Queensland's treasury to fall by 20 per cent next year with a maximum 30 per cent decline over the next three years. This is not credible.
Not only are coal prices likely to reverse all this year's gains, and probably some of the previous year's as well, but volumes will also be reduced.
Commodity prices are around the level they were in 2004. If they stabilised at current levels, it would imply a 45 per cent fall in the terms of trade over the next year. With the dimensions of China's downturn still sinking in, there is every likelihood commodity prices will fall much further.
The commodity collapse will bring big falls in the mining and construction industries. At present, there is just over $50 billion in mining projects either under construction or committed.
The Government and Reserve Bank have been assuming most of the projects under way will be completed.
But Rio Tinto's announcement last week that it would halve its $US9 billion capital spending budget next year means many projects will be halted.
Rio is still in the process of spending $1.9 billion expanding its Yarwun alumina refinery in Queensland, $1.7 billion on the Argyle diamond mine, $1.5 billion on the BS4 iron ore project in the Pilbara, and $900 million upgrading the Cape Lambert iron ore port. Until the middle of last year, construction and mining industry employment was growing at more than 7.5 per cent a year. Those industries boosted the WA economy by 18 per cent over the last four years and Queensland's by 15 per cent, while NSW rose 6.5 per cent and Victoria 8.5 per cent.
As the fastest-growing industries in Australia become the fastest-contracting, the resource states will not just come back to the pack but drop behind it. Their unemployment rates will rise higher and their household consumption fall lower.
There are already a few signs of the downturn creeping into the numbers. The ANZ's job advertisement survey, released last week, showed a 28.3 per cent fall in Queensland in the past two months and a 27.5 per cent fall in WA. There were also falls in NSW (18.9 per cent) and Victoria (22.1 per cent).
Both retail sales and housing finance are weakening more rapidly in both WA and Queensland than in Victoria and at a rate similar to NSW's.
The housing dynamic is more worrying in the resource states than it in the southeastern states. Both had bigger and later housing booms.
House prices rose because of increased availability of credit, not because of increasing numbers of purchasers, and will fall as credit availability is tightened.
State governments are suffering from sharp falls in stamp duty as owners hang on to their properties rather than sell them at a loss. But the number of properties for sale is increasing and as unemployment rises, distressed sales will force prices lower.
The resource states face worsening financial conditions. Both Queensland and WA have committed to large infrastructure programs to be supported with debt funding. Both will soon find their operating budgets also in deficit.
To compound their problems, the Commonwealth Grants Commission works with an averaging formula which means that for the next three years, Queensland and WA will receive less than their per-capita share of GST revenue because they are deemed to have superior access to mineral royalties. They will be subsidising NSW and Victoria.
The Commonwealth has been tardy in recognising the severity of the states' financing difficulties, created by the guarantee it offered to banks. And in the wake of the bond issues by the banks last week, there were no bidders for state government bonds. Unless the commonwealth is prepared to step in and start raising funds on behalf of the states, the states will have trouble financing deficits and will have to raise taxes.
As it deals with resource states that are lifting taxes and cutting services, while households battle rising unemployment and falling real incomes, the Rudd Government may look back with nostalgia at the high poll ratings its economic management brought it at the end of 2008.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,24798770-643,00.html
Boom states now face the toughest problems
David Uren, economics correspondent | December 15, 2008
AUSTRALIA may continue to run a two-speed economy, but it will be the resource states that run slow as Queensland and Western Australia supplant NSW as the Rudd Government's biggest economic headache.
The resource states have gained from massive increases in business investment, mining royalties and payroll tax receipts. Booming housing markets lifted their stamp-duty revenue streams.
The reversal that is under way will take time to gather momentum, but will push state budgets into significant deficits, raise unemployment and elevate tension between the states over the distribution of GST.
There will be political implications for the federal Government as the downturn in Queensland gathers speed in the next 18 months. Queensland delivered 40 per cent of the Rudd Government's gains in the last election, whereas it went backwards in Western Australia.
Last week's Queensland budget update was too optimistic, providing little hint of the hard path ahead. It tipped that growth would continue to exceed national averages with only a temporary dip in tax revenue this year. Mining royalties, which leapt from $1.4 billion to $4 billion this year as coking coal prices tripled and thermal coal prices doubled, are expected by Queensland's treasury to fall by 20 per cent next year with a maximum 30 per cent decline over the next three years. This is not credible.
Not only are coal prices likely to reverse all this year's gains, and probably some of the previous year's as well, but volumes will also be reduced.
Commodity prices are around the level they were in 2004. If they stabilised at current levels, it would imply a 45 per cent fall in the terms of trade over the next year. With the dimensions of China's downturn still sinking in, there is every likelihood commodity prices will fall much further.
The commodity collapse will bring big falls in the mining and construction industries. At present, there is just over $50 billion in mining projects either under construction or committed.
The Government and Reserve Bank have been assuming most of the projects under way will be completed.
But Rio Tinto's announcement last week that it would halve its $US9 billion capital spending budget next year means many projects will be halted.
Rio is still in the process of spending $1.9 billion expanding its Yarwun alumina refinery in Queensland, $1.7 billion on the Argyle diamond mine, $1.5 billion on the BS4 iron ore project in the Pilbara, and $900 million upgrading the Cape Lambert iron ore port. Until the middle of last year, construction and mining industry employment was growing at more than 7.5 per cent a year. Those industries boosted the WA economy by 18 per cent over the last four years and Queensland's by 15 per cent, while NSW rose 6.5 per cent and Victoria 8.5 per cent.
As the fastest-growing industries in Australia become the fastest-contracting, the resource states will not just come back to the pack but drop behind it. Their unemployment rates will rise higher and their household consumption fall lower.
There are already a few signs of the downturn creeping into the numbers. The ANZ's job advertisement survey, released last week, showed a 28.3 per cent fall in Queensland in the past two months and a 27.5 per cent fall in WA. There were also falls in NSW (18.9 per cent) and Victoria (22.1 per cent).
Both retail sales and housing finance are weakening more rapidly in both WA and Queensland than in Victoria and at a rate similar to NSW's.
The housing dynamic is more worrying in the resource states than it in the southeastern states. Both had bigger and later housing booms.
House prices rose because of increased availability of credit, not because of increasing numbers of purchasers, and will fall as credit availability is tightened.
State governments are suffering from sharp falls in stamp duty as owners hang on to their properties rather than sell them at a loss. But the number of properties for sale is increasing and as unemployment rises, distressed sales will force prices lower.
The resource states face worsening financial conditions. Both Queensland and WA have committed to large infrastructure programs to be supported with debt funding. Both will soon find their operating budgets also in deficit.
To compound their problems, the Commonwealth Grants Commission works with an averaging formula which means that for the next three years, Queensland and WA will receive less than their per-capita share of GST revenue because they are deemed to have superior access to mineral royalties. They will be subsidising NSW and Victoria.
The Commonwealth has been tardy in recognising the severity of the states' financing difficulties, created by the guarantee it offered to banks. And in the wake of the bond issues by the banks last week, there were no bidders for state government bonds. Unless the commonwealth is prepared to step in and start raising funds on behalf of the states, the states will have trouble financing deficits and will have to raise taxes.
As it deals with resource states that are lifting taxes and cutting services, while households battle rising unemployment and falling real incomes, the Rudd Government may look back with nostalgia at the high poll ratings its economic management brought it at the end of 2008.
Re: Breaking News: Axe168 Involved in Migration Fraud, Arrested in Melbourne!
Agree. SG still the best.
They will turn your run-away chickens into Hainanese Chicken Rice, cooked by FTs.
Agree. SG still the best.
They will turn your run-away chickens into Hainanese Chicken Rice, cooked by FTs.
Australia bad - Petrol to hit $3 per litre
This is fun
Living with petrol at $3/litre
DAVID NANKERVIS
May 01, 2008 12:30am
AUSTRALIANS will increasingly be forced to adopt European-style lifestyles because of skyrocketing petrol prices which could hit $3 a litre, experts believe.
While life won't quite come to a halt when petrol hits $3 a litre, it will no longer be lived as we know it, social analysts and economists say.
They predict massive changes, from the type of cars Australians drive, to where we live and how we work and play. DAVID NANKERVIS reports:
TRANSPORT
MANY Europeans already live with petrol prices approaching $3 a litre, and countries like Britain and the Czech Republic provide pointers to our future, according to respected demographer Bernard Salt.
The State Government could look to this region for solutions to the huge pressure public transport would be under if petrol prices were to double by 2013, Mr Salt said.
"Demand for public transport will soar and more people will be getting crammed on to buses and trains," he said.
"So maybe the Government should look at (the Czech capital) Prague. It has a population of around one million and has a three-line metro system – maybe Adelaide public transport could go underground too?
"And there are other aspects of European lifestyles we may see adopted when petrol prices reach the $3 mark."
The price rise would prompt an increase in car pooling, he said. Free national website www.thecarpool.com.au has already experienced a steady increase in inquiries.
Website spokesman Bruce Crawford said: "As petrol prices increase so to does the number of inquiries we get.
"We've had around 100 new members register in the past month, but when petrol hits $3 a litre car pooling will become much more common.
"Petrol will become a luxury item rather than a basic cost . . ."
VEHICLE CHOICE
THE use of the urban family's four-wheel-drive looks set to be curtailed by fuel costs.
AMP capital chief economist Shane Oliver said smaller, more fuel efficient cars would start to dominate Australian roads as soon as petrol hit $2 a litre.
Dr Oliver has predicted prices could pass the ugly milestone within six months.
"As the oil prices go higher and higher, that makes more fuel-efficient cars more viable and once we go through $2 (a litre) that would have a huge psychological impact on the cars motorists drive and their driving habits," he said.
These changing habits would include a further increase in sales of scooters and motorbikes.
HOUSING
MR SALT said the European trends of having more high-rise apartments near train stations, people limiting their social life to local entertainment destinations and service stations becoming more secure were on the Australian horizon.
"Other changes include people seeking to work from home more often – one or two days a week – and spending money turning the spare bedroom into an office," Mr Salt said.
He said demand for homes in car-commuter areas like Mt Barker would fall while those homes near trains stations would become more sought after.
Petrol stations might end up becoming more fortified.
In Britain, for example, service stations are already installing pop-up spikes to catch motorists trying to drive off without paying.
LIFESTYLE
MARKET Research firm AustraliaSCAN said householders would have to make significant lifestyle sacrifices to cope with petrol prices doubling in the next five years.
"The first thing to go will be discretionary spending items – going out to the cinema, to restaurants and impulse buying," the firm's social analyst, David Chalke, said. "People will also be downsizing their lifestyle by purchasing home brands instead of premium brands and spending more time at work by picking up second jobs."
The petrol price crisis would hurt domestic tourism and change the way Australians spend their leisure time, experts predict.
Access Economics director Chris Richardson said: "In the future, fewer people will be taking driving holidays, which is not good news for tourism business.
"We are already starting to see people economising on fuel bills by taking public transport where they can, or doing one shopping trip a week instead of two.
"With the level of road transport in Australia, high fuel bills put inflationary pressure on the price of everything we consume."
This inflation would keep pressure on interest rates, according to Adelaide University doctor of economics Colin Rogers.
"Increasing interest rates will induce consumers to cut consumption, and cases of mortgage stress will intensify," he said.
This is fun Living with petrol at $3/litre
DAVID NANKERVIS
May 01, 2008 12:30am
AUSTRALIANS will increasingly be forced to adopt European-style lifestyles because of skyrocketing petrol prices which could hit $3 a litre, experts believe.
While life won't quite come to a halt when petrol hits $3 a litre, it will no longer be lived as we know it, social analysts and economists say.
They predict massive changes, from the type of cars Australians drive, to where we live and how we work and play. DAVID NANKERVIS reports:
TRANSPORT
MANY Europeans already live with petrol prices approaching $3 a litre, and countries like Britain and the Czech Republic provide pointers to our future, according to respected demographer Bernard Salt.
The State Government could look to this region for solutions to the huge pressure public transport would be under if petrol prices were to double by 2013, Mr Salt said.
"Demand for public transport will soar and more people will be getting crammed on to buses and trains," he said.
"So maybe the Government should look at (the Czech capital) Prague. It has a population of around one million and has a three-line metro system – maybe Adelaide public transport could go underground too?
"And there are other aspects of European lifestyles we may see adopted when petrol prices reach the $3 mark."
The price rise would prompt an increase in car pooling, he said. Free national website www.thecarpool.com.au has already experienced a steady increase in inquiries.
Website spokesman Bruce Crawford said: "As petrol prices increase so to does the number of inquiries we get.
"We've had around 100 new members register in the past month, but when petrol hits $3 a litre car pooling will become much more common.
"Petrol will become a luxury item rather than a basic cost . . ."
VEHICLE CHOICE
THE use of the urban family's four-wheel-drive looks set to be curtailed by fuel costs.
AMP capital chief economist Shane Oliver said smaller, more fuel efficient cars would start to dominate Australian roads as soon as petrol hit $2 a litre.
Dr Oliver has predicted prices could pass the ugly milestone within six months.
"As the oil prices go higher and higher, that makes more fuel-efficient cars more viable and once we go through $2 (a litre) that would have a huge psychological impact on the cars motorists drive and their driving habits," he said.
These changing habits would include a further increase in sales of scooters and motorbikes.
HOUSING
MR SALT said the European trends of having more high-rise apartments near train stations, people limiting their social life to local entertainment destinations and service stations becoming more secure were on the Australian horizon.
"Other changes include people seeking to work from home more often – one or two days a week – and spending money turning the spare bedroom into an office," Mr Salt said.
He said demand for homes in car-commuter areas like Mt Barker would fall while those homes near trains stations would become more sought after.
Petrol stations might end up becoming more fortified.
In Britain, for example, service stations are already installing pop-up spikes to catch motorists trying to drive off without paying.
LIFESTYLE
MARKET Research firm AustraliaSCAN said householders would have to make significant lifestyle sacrifices to cope with petrol prices doubling in the next five years.
"The first thing to go will be discretionary spending items – going out to the cinema, to restaurants and impulse buying," the firm's social analyst, David Chalke, said. "People will also be downsizing their lifestyle by purchasing home brands instead of premium brands and spending more time at work by picking up second jobs."
The petrol price crisis would hurt domestic tourism and change the way Australians spend their leisure time, experts predict.
Access Economics director Chris Richardson said: "In the future, fewer people will be taking driving holidays, which is not good news for tourism business.
"We are already starting to see people economising on fuel bills by taking public transport where they can, or doing one shopping trip a week instead of two.
"With the level of road transport in Australia, high fuel bills put inflationary pressure on the price of everything we consume."
This inflation would keep pressure on interest rates, according to Adelaide University doctor of economics Colin Rogers.
"Increasing interest rates will induce consumers to cut consumption, and cases of mortgage stress will intensify," he said.
Re: Resource States (WA & QLD) in Serious Trouble, Worse than Other Oz States
oh yes, the stamp duty and other receipts are causing a majot drain on west australia especially. perth will come to a standstill in 2009, and many will lose thier jobs in the next 2 years. i feel very sad for anyone in perth in the next 2 years.
oh yes, the stamp duty and other receipts are causing a majot drain on west australia especially. perth will come to a standstill in 2009, and many will lose thier jobs in the next 2 years. i feel very sad for anyone in perth in the next 2 years.
Re: More breaking news: shockshiok and Redbull313 upset over neddy's post
Good going bro. You have really upsetted shockshit (aka redbullshit aka Ozsucks aka busy body 123). It is not a 'they' but a 'he' because they are all the same loser cockroach. Notice how he childishly dished out several other threads for just this one thread of yours. Score 1 for you bro.
Good going bro. You have really upsetted shockshit (aka redbullshit aka Ozsucks aka busy body 123). It is not a 'they' but a 'he' because they are all the same loser cockroach. Notice how he childishly dished out several other threads for just this one thread of yours. Score 1 for you bro.
Re: More breaking news: shockshiok and Redbull313 upset over neddy's post
sorry, not upset. laughing and enjoying all the attention. please more threads like this, i just loooooove it.
hee hee
sorry, not upset. laughing and enjoying all the attention. please more threads like this, i just loooooove it.
hee hee
Re: Neddy Very Red-Faced, dont know what to Say........
you seem to have upset neddy very much. keep up the good work. see how fun it is?
hee hee
you seem to have upset neddy very much. keep up the good work. see how fun it is?
hee hee
Re: Neddy Crying, Mining crash signals “unmitigated disaster” for Australian economy
great post! one of the best yet! the news from australia continues to show us all that australia truly is the worst country in the world.
hee hee
great post! one of the best yet! the news from australia continues to show us all that australia truly is the worst country in the world.
hee hee
Re: More breaking news: shockshiok and Redbull313 upset over neddy's post
I see ... actually he is quite boh liao.
Too bad, I do not have much time to wack him, consider that he is quite sporting.
But I must say ... he is very dedicated to his cause.
I see ... actually he is quite boh liao.
Too bad, I do not have much time to wack him, consider that he is quite sporting.
But I must say ... he is very dedicated to his cause.
Re: More breaking news: shockshiok and Redbull313 upset over neddy's post
Welcome to this thread. Glad to keep you happy. Australia must be making you insane. But never mind, we just looooove laughing at you.
Welcome to this thread. Glad to keep you happy. Australia must be making you insane. But never mind, we just looooove laughing at you.
Re: Consolidated Thread - Make Neddy Upset
its actually very cathartic - very healthy. but i suppose since its at your expense, it bad for you
hee hee
Welcome to my thread. Glad to make your day anytime.
Ausssie bashing is a form of therapy for mental illness and heart disease.
Keep up the good work! 5 stars for you!
its actually very cathartic - very healthy. but i suppose since its at your expense, it bad for you
hee hee
Re: More breaking news: shockshiok and Redbull313 upset over neddy's post
yes, thanks for the laughs. please more threads like this. people in the office are now laughing so hard people are now staring. hee hee. dont take it personally, now. whoops. too late.
hee hee hee hee hee hee hee
yes, thanks for the laughs. please more threads like this. people in the office are now laughing so hard people are now staring. hee hee. dont take it personally, now. whoops. too late.
hee hee hee hee hee hee hee
Report:80% of Muslims Have Experienced Racism/Attack in Australia, Feel Unsafe.
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081229/FOREIGN/718180339/1015/ART
Australia no sanctuary for Muslims
Blayne Slabbert, Correspondent
* Last Updated: December 29. 2008 9:30AM UAE / December 29. 2008 5:30AM GMT
Muslims appear to be bearing the brunt of racism in Australia, with a new report revealing 80 per cent feel unsafe and unwelcome in the country and some describing their lives as similar to living in a conflict situation.
The research exposed bleak tales of racism, including being spat on, having cigarettes put out on them, verbal abuse and having their hijab pulled.
Nearly half of the women interviewed for the report by Islamic Women’s Welfare Council of Victoria said they were victims of racism and 90 per cent said they knew of other Muslim women who had experienced racism.
The report, Race, Faith and Gender: Converging Discriminations against Muslims in Victoria, said some women are hiding at home for up to a month following overseas terror attacks so as to avoid racist incidents directed at them.
Joumanah el Matrah, the report’s co-author, said while researchers had been aware racism was prevalent in the community, they did not know to what level it existed.
“What we were surprised by was the extent of the racism Muslims were experiencing, that it was a daily occurrence,” she said in an interview with The National. “We were also surprised the level of apprehension and fear the women lived under.”
However, Ms El Matrah, who is also the executive director of the Islamic Women’s Welfare Council of Victoria, said the biggest shock was the level of racism inflicted on children.
“The women felt quite disempowered by their children’s experiences of racism and how to deal with them. They were very good at protecting their children, but they didn’t know how do deal with the psychological and emotional victimisation of their children.”
The study involved holding focus groups in the state of Victoria with more than 300 Muslim women who were from low socio-economic groups and predominantly non-English speakers. Many had recently arrived in Australia.
One of those interviewed told the following story: “I was going shopping with my son, he is blind. These men followed us and one extinguished his cigarette on my head. I felt it burning. I started to run with my son. They came up and surrounded us, six of them, Australian and white.”
Another said: “I didn’t speak to anyone about it, just people in my community. I didn’t know who to go to. Besides, it’s not as if it happens once in a blue moon, it happens all the time – they spit at us and pull our hijabs and call us black.”
Kevin Dunn, a professor in human geography and urban studies at the University of Western Sydney, said the report confirmed findings in other western countries of a rise in racism following the September 11 attacks.
“Those attacks and the political statements and debates that swirl around those events provide perpetrators of racism with some sort of licence to act,” he said in the report. “The experiences of racism in the latter part of 2001 are shocking and the everyday racist incivilities that have carried on since reveal the unacceptable exposure of Australian Muslim women to racism. These hate crimes and incivilities against Australians should have been seen as a national emergency.”
Other findings from the report showed Muslim women were more likely to experience racism on the street, in shops and shopping malls. The wearing of the hijab was the most frequently cited reason for experiencing racism. Many said they experienced a consistent sense of low-grade fear and vulnerability and they no longer travelled alone.
Ms El Matrah said while physical attacks were becoming rare, verbal abuse and such acts as spitting were still happening.
“What we have to do is a great deal of anti-racism education so that people no longer felt they could do that and get away with it.”
The report made several recommendations to the government on how to deal with the problem, including setting up a not-for-profit centre against racism that monitors and evaluates the impact of bigotry, producing a racism survival kit for Muslim women and children and education programmes.
“For women it’s all about a practical response to their situation and their concerns. At the moment it is wait and see, but we are definitely going to pursue the government in this regard.”
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081229/FOREIGN/718180339/1015/ART
Australia no sanctuary for Muslims
Blayne Slabbert, Correspondent
* Last Updated: December 29. 2008 9:30AM UAE / December 29. 2008 5:30AM GMT
Muslims appear to be bearing the brunt of racism in Australia, with a new report revealing 80 per cent feel unsafe and unwelcome in the country and some describing their lives as similar to living in a conflict situation.
The research exposed bleak tales of racism, including being spat on, having cigarettes put out on them, verbal abuse and having their hijab pulled.
Nearly half of the women interviewed for the report by Islamic Women’s Welfare Council of Victoria said they were victims of racism and 90 per cent said they knew of other Muslim women who had experienced racism.
The report, Race, Faith and Gender: Converging Discriminations against Muslims in Victoria, said some women are hiding at home for up to a month following overseas terror attacks so as to avoid racist incidents directed at them.
Joumanah el Matrah, the report’s co-author, said while researchers had been aware racism was prevalent in the community, they did not know to what level it existed.
“What we were surprised by was the extent of the racism Muslims were experiencing, that it was a daily occurrence,” she said in an interview with The National. “We were also surprised the level of apprehension and fear the women lived under.”
However, Ms El Matrah, who is also the executive director of the Islamic Women’s Welfare Council of Victoria, said the biggest shock was the level of racism inflicted on children.
“The women felt quite disempowered by their children’s experiences of racism and how to deal with them. They were very good at protecting their children, but they didn’t know how do deal with the psychological and emotional victimisation of their children.”
The study involved holding focus groups in the state of Victoria with more than 300 Muslim women who were from low socio-economic groups and predominantly non-English speakers. Many had recently arrived in Australia.
One of those interviewed told the following story: “I was going shopping with my son, he is blind. These men followed us and one extinguished his cigarette on my head. I felt it burning. I started to run with my son. They came up and surrounded us, six of them, Australian and white.”
Another said: “I didn’t speak to anyone about it, just people in my community. I didn’t know who to go to. Besides, it’s not as if it happens once in a blue moon, it happens all the time – they spit at us and pull our hijabs and call us black.”
Kevin Dunn, a professor in human geography and urban studies at the University of Western Sydney, said the report confirmed findings in other western countries of a rise in racism following the September 11 attacks.
“Those attacks and the political statements and debates that swirl around those events provide perpetrators of racism with some sort of licence to act,” he said in the report. “The experiences of racism in the latter part of 2001 are shocking and the everyday racist incivilities that have carried on since reveal the unacceptable exposure of Australian Muslim women to racism. These hate crimes and incivilities against Australians should have been seen as a national emergency.”
Other findings from the report showed Muslim women were more likely to experience racism on the street, in shops and shopping malls. The wearing of the hijab was the most frequently cited reason for experiencing racism. Many said they experienced a consistent sense of low-grade fear and vulnerability and they no longer travelled alone.
Ms El Matrah said while physical attacks were becoming rare, verbal abuse and such acts as spitting were still happening.
“What we have to do is a great deal of anti-racism education so that people no longer felt they could do that and get away with it.”
The report made several recommendations to the government on how to deal with the problem, including setting up a not-for-profit centre against racism that monitors and evaluates the impact of bigotry, producing a racism survival kit for Muslim women and children and education programmes.
“For women it’s all about a practical response to their situation and their concerns. At the moment it is wait and see, but we are definitely going to pursue the government in this regard.”
Re: Breaking News: Axe168 Involved in Migration Fraud, Arrested in Melbourne!
I have to admit.. i am a loser.. heehee. During my idle time, I choose to read up Act/Legislation.. to enhance my knowledge. When the time is right, I'll try to take on the mighty elephants and make them bleed.. As long as I "gain" during the process.. I dont really care about the moral grounds.. What the Court really wants is the proof and evidence.. In the eyes of the law, local authority shall be innocent unless proven guilty... It is my role to proof them guilty
If i lost, I have to pay their legal fees.. (I can declare bankrupt, heehee. My asset already converted into Family trust run by a Tan Ah Kow company) if i win, I win big time :p
I have to admit.. i am a loser.. heehee. During my idle time, I choose to read up Act/Legislation.. to enhance my knowledge. When the time is right, I'll try to take on the mighty elephants and make them bleed.. As long as I "gain" during the process.. I dont really care about the moral grounds.. What the Court really wants is the proof and evidence.. In the eyes of the law, local authority shall be innocent unless proven guilty... It is my role to proof them guilty
If i lost, I have to pay their legal fees.. (I can declare bankrupt, heehee. My asset already converted into Family trust run by a Tan Ah Kow company) if i win, I win big time :pRe: Breaking News: Axe168 Involved in Migration Fraud, Arrested in Melbourne!
U can call me crazy or dodgy.. I believe in human rights, freedom of CHOICE and diversity..
U can call me crazy or dodgy.. I believe in human rights, freedom of CHOICE and diversity..
Re: Breaking News: Axe168 Involved in Migration Fraud, Arrested in Melbourne!
No lah... SG will cut away the D cup breast and chicken ties for their consumption.. remaining the bones for you.. YET, you cannot sue.. coz they enjoy immunity.
Agree. SG still the best.
They will turn your run-away chickens into Hainanese Chicken Rice, cooked by FTs.
No lah... SG will cut away the D cup breast and chicken ties for their consumption.. remaining the bones for you.. YET, you cannot sue.. coz they enjoy immunity.
