Thursday, March 31, 2011

Plane Crash in NSW

Comment:

Poor little girl, but doesn't Australian Aviation requires an age limit to fly the plane?

Plane accident or crash happens, especially when:

1- Plane is prone to bad weather (e.g. rain, lightning, mist, fog, etc.).
2- Plane is prone to bad engine problem.
3- Plane is fly at its worst, when fly by an amateur, or an unhealthy person.
4- Even a bird, or clip by a tree can result in catastrophe.

AAP March 31, 2011, 7:25 am

A 13-year-old girl and her 42-year-old father are fighting for their lives in hospital after a light aircraft crash that killed FOUR other people in northern NSW. The single engine Cessna crashed about 900 metres north of Moree Airport about 8pm (AEDT) on Wednesday, police said. It had taken off from Brewarrina, in the state's north, and crashed on approach to the Moree airfield, narrowly missing a caravan park and ending up on its roof. The bodies of a 77-year-old man, his 77-year-old wife, and another woman, who is yet to be formally identified, were found in the wreckage. The body of the male pilot, who has also not yet been formally identified, was also found, police said. They did not specify if he was found in or near the wreckage. The 13-year-old girl is in critical condition in Brisbane's Mater Hospital while her father is in critical injuries in Tamworth Hospital. "It looks like it's come in on the final approach to the airport and looks like, for whatever reason, it's just fallen out of the sky," Moree resident Lex Baguley told AAP. He said there was no sign of fire on or around the aircraft. Another witness told Brisbane's Courier-Mail newspaper it looked as though the aircraft had clipped a tree. "It looks like they've clipped a tree because there's a tree broken and bent nearby," she said. .
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Race Issues and Job Opportunities ?!

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My friends, who are not Caucasians told me that UK is more open to diverse culture and races, and finding decent jobs are sightly better as compare to Australia... Australia has not really come out of the race issues, and are still racists in more ways (as compare to motherland UK). Read news online and also in printed media yourself to discover and see the 'reality'! That's also why Pauline Hanson was surprised when she 'decided to migrate' to the UK, and discovered that the UK is MORE multi-cultural and diverse as compared to Australia (and are already welcoming the new change/paradigm shift of a global village), and later change her mind, and migrate back home to Australia... Hahah old fool ! Nobody see you as 'special' or need a racist old female like Pauline Hanson.

[Note: Also see Pauline Hanson and her racist remarks and anti-multiculturalism at, Wikipedia, 2011, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hanson ]

Furthermore, the local MPs and ministers are very slow in overcoming races issues, look for yourself, and ask, when was the last time, good campaigns/programs on 'races unification' were conducted in the mass-media?? And what are the challenges/strategies that have been laid to overcome the racism issues? (Merely empty talk in the media about 'We are concern about the races issues, and we are commited to overcome it' ... means nothing, IF no concrete and sincere efforts are taken, such as, a concrete action-plan and/or strategic-plan.

Racist = Prejudiced against other races [Oxford Dictionary, 2008; Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved].

Snubbed = Treat somebody rudely: to treat somebody with deliberate coldness or contempt [Oxford Dictionary, 2008; Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved].


Hahah... Caucasians always thought that they are better, just because their skin color are a bit whiter (not necessarily because they are intellectually smarter). In Australian schools, Asians and other races got better scores in their exams, and Asians go to the same universities as their white mates, but at the end of the day, its the white boys/girls that are chosen for job opportunities.

Its IRONY when the whites think that they are better than others, just because they are whiter, go to work, driving Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Kia or Daewoo made cars, when they got home, they use electronic appliances, microwave, washing machine, refrigerator, hot water boiler, shower, television, etc. that are Japanese or Korean brand names Sony, Samsung, Daewoo, Hitachi (or even the cheap China goods for those that could not afford to pay more). So who are smarter (in making money and creating technology)? So why the unnecessary racial 'discrimination' and/or remarks?

I wonder when these will change, soon? BUT not fast enough (or not taken seriously by the local MPs)... talking about multi-cultural Australia and fair opportunities, and equal rights, and Developed and civilized whites?? More questions!!

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/9016848/models-find-skin-colour-a-hazard/
(16th March 2011)

Model Snubbed on Race
LINDSAY McPHEE, The West Australian March 15, 2011, 9:01 pm


She may have graced catwalks and appeared in film and on television in Britain but back home in Perth, model and actress Kema Rajandran has found there is little work around because of her skin colour. Fashion industry figures have admitted non-Caucasian WA models get less work in Perth than their white counterparts and are often forced overseas to pursue their careers.

Australian-Indian Rajandran, 25, said she was devastated after being warned by one modelling agency that although she was "very photogenic" and they would take her on for casting, her opportunities would be "extremely limited" because she was not Caucasian.

She said while she understood the agency was being frank, she was "truly disappointed" non-Caucasian Australian women were being overlooked in WA. "Working in the UK and being around people of all ethnicities and cultures was an amazing experience," Rajandran said.

"To return to my homeland where almost 46 per cent of society are immigrants and see the majority of people in the media are still Caucasian is disappointing, but to have an agency state it as a normality is truly disheartening."

Chadwick Models manager Tanya Muia said the agency had a wide range of ethnically diverse models but was hamstrung by clients' demands. "We embrace many diverse heritages and nationalities but it comes down to how much work there is for them," she said. "We are dictated by what our clients want."

Catherine Ruze Agency director Shamiso Ruzvidzo said her Malaysian models had been sent back from photo shoots because they did not fit the "European label" and she now had just one dark-skinned model because there simply was not enough work. "It is really hard for ethnic models in Perth," she said. "It is changing but it is changing quite slowly."

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On a different tune, also see:

Girl Missing Fingers Shows off Amazing Talent
(16th March 2011)
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Police Roll Out Hidden Van Cameras !


RONAN O'CONNELL, The West Australian March 9, 2011, 2:25 am

Speed cameras hidden in parked police vans are being rolled out across WA as part of an aggressive speed enforcement strategy. Insp. Colin Murray said a trial of the new tactic had been successful and police had two vans equipped with cameras on the road, with plans to introduce four more vans in the coming months.

It is the first use of covert speed cameras since the 1990s, when police used a similar set-up involving cameras in a van. The van-based cameras are the latest speed enforcement technology to be rolled out in the past year following the introduction of integrated red-light and speed camera systems at intersections and dual-lens speed cameras which photograph front and rear number plates.

Insp. Murray said the van-based devices were more efficient than the usual roadside cameras because they were constantly set up and ready for use. Older-style cameras had to be assembled and taken apart outside the vehicle. He said this made the new ones safer for operators to use because they did not have to spend time assembling them by the roadside near passing cars. By being housed inside a van, the $160,000 cameras were protected from damage.

[Note: Its TIME consumer and road users PAID for these expensive cameras !]

Monash University researcher Max Cameron recommended the use of covert speed cameras along with fixed, overt and point-to-point cameras in a State Governmentcommissioned report released in 2008. Queensland and Victoria have used speed cameras inside vehicles for several years and NSW recently reintroduced them.

[Note: Doesn't meant that something has been in used for several years, necessarily means that it is absolutely correct, and should not be scrapped].

Shadow police minister Margaret Quirk said police were focusing too much on covert cameras and needed to invest in point-to-point cameras, which can be placed up to 30km apart on highways and country roads and measure a vehicle's average speed between two spots.

"Individuals need to realise that when they choose to speed, they are risking not only their own life but the lives of other road users," he said. "My advice is simple - 'Don't speed and you won't be fined."



COMMENT:

Yap... absolutely a VERY good way to make money... Just fine the poor driver (who has families to feed) for at least $200, $300, up to $700 (depending on the charges) for speed driving.

Doesn't the police or government know that a common worker only earns so little from his salaries, only to be taken away by the police, just for exceeding a few kilometers more (speed fine). And who says the cameras are always correct?!

What is the philosophy behind the Traffic Police Department? Is it to make money and more MONEY... or to educate the public?! IF education is the KEY... then keep the strategy straight and place the CAMERA and more NOTICE to help REMIND motorists to be careful of their SPEED limits (as opposed to 'hidden' speed camera!).

Note: Also the way these cameras are covertly placed, example, down a slope road, necessarily means that cars can simply increase in speed even without the driver pressing on the accelerator, or realising that their car speed has increased (due to the sloping hill road).


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Hanson Enters NSW Election Race !

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Australia racist faces and agendas, as per the news, you don't have to take my words for it, see the news and read the newspapers for yourself !
And Pauline Handson thought that by migrating to the motherland UK, she would see 'less' cultural-mixed. How wrong she was, in today's world, the first word you learnt in UNIVERSITY is the term 'cultural-mixed', 'multi-culturalism', 'cultural tolerance', 'corporate culture management', and so forth... Maybe Pauline has MISSED out in her UNI days. (BUT, she is most suitable in the long gone 'wild-wild west'... and cowboy... yehoww!... Poor cow-girl).




In 1999, The Australian reported that support for One Nation had fallen from 22 to 5 percent. She has accounted for her declining popularity by blaming Prime Minister John Howard for stealing her policies. In December 2006 The Age reported that Greens leader, Senator Bob Brown, had labelled Hanson a bloodsucker over her suggestion that Africans are bringing AIDS into Australia.

Former One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has launched a bid for an Upper House seat in the New South Wales state election. She has moved to Corlette, on the state's North Coast, and is running as part of a group of 16 independents in the March 26 poll. New South Wales Premier, Kristina Keneally, says Labor will not direct preferences to Ms Hanson under any circumstances.
Ms Keneally says her party condemns Ms Hanson's divisive approach.

"We completely condemn the sort of racist policies that she promotes," she said. "It's remarkable that in 2011 the Premier, a leader of this state, has to stand up and defend the values of multiculturalism, of diversity, but indeed with someone like Ms Hanson entering the political race, I make clear that that's precisely what I'll do.

"New South Wales is a wonderful place. It's a wonderful place because people from over 200 countries have come here and made this their home. "Our diversity is amongst our greatest strength and I'll stand up and defend that, very much so."

Last year, Ms Hanson said she was selling her home and moving to the United Kingdom, but she later reversed her decision. She made her name as the independent member for Oxley in Queensland between 1996 and 1998, during which time she set up One Nation. Ms Hanson launched a failed bid for a seat in the 2009 Queensland elections, where she gained 21 per cent of the vote in the seat of Beaudesert. She last tried for an Upper House seat in 2003.

[Note: Feeling LONELY in the UK, without being able to freely insult others with her 'racist remarks' ??! ]

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http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/8976194/carbon-tax-ad-campaign-possible/
(9th March 2011)

Carbon Tax ad Campaign Possible
AAP March 9, 2011, 6:47 am


Prime Minister Julia Gillard is not ruling out launching a taxpayer-funded advertising campaign to better sell her carbon tax. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said he suspects it's on the cards given Labor's recent slump in the polls - an apparent backlash to the proposed tax.

Ms Gillard, currently on a week-long visit of the United States, would neither confirm nor deny the move. "Look, on government advertising, from time to time we advertise to get necessary information to people," she told ABC Television on Tuesday.

"I'm not going to rule in or rule out government advertising in the future." Ms Gillard met for talks with US president Barack Obama earlier in the day and confirmed climate change was on the agenda. She insists Australia will go ahead on a carbon price, even if the US does not, potentially reducing the international trade market for emissions permits.



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Friday, March 4, 2011

Royal Vs Common Citizen

(4th March 2011)

Diana's Niece on Assault Charge
The West Australian March 4, 2011, 9:21 am

Princess Diana's 18-year-old niece has appeared in court accused of assaulting a man on crutches at a McDonalds fast food drive through. Lady Amelia, the daughter of Diana’s brother Earl Spencer, was charged with common assault after the incident in Cape Town in December.

She allegedly carried out the attack with a male companion as they waited to buy burgers, according to a report in Britain's Daily Mail newspaper. Court documents revealed that Lady Amelia was accused of "flicking a cigarette butt" into a taxi, then "swearing, smacking and kicking" the car’s passenger, Ricci Cinti.

She was accompanied by one of her sisters – either her twin Lady Eliza or former Tatler cover girl Lady Kitty Spencer, 20 – and two men, the Daily Mail reported. The teenager reportedly flew into a rage when Mr Cinti’s taxi cut in front of a Mini Cooper at a drive-through branch of the burger chain in Cape Town.

Mr Cinti, 27, who was on crutches following a football injury, claims Lady Amelia swore at him and smacked his taxi. He alleges that he was pulled out of the car and knocked to the ground. The self-employed machinist, who lives in Cape Town, said he was knocked out and suffered a swollen jaw in the assault, which led to him undergoing a brain scan.

Lady Amelia and her male companion apparently sped off but police traced the car and arrested her for assault. At the last hearing, Lady Amelia’s lawyer, William Booth, told magistrate Mary-Anne Attridge that Mr Cinti had not suffered any injuries in the alleged assault. He said he would applying to have the case thrown out.

Comment:

YES, have the CASE thrown out, he is just a common taxi driver, he has no rights to mix-up with the royal families and relatives, more kicks and punches and throws... thats the way it is ??!

Thats why, there is the Sudan revolution, the Egypt revolution, the Libya revolution, the Russia revolution, the French revolution, etc... to throw OUT tyrant kings, Queens, and dictators (and their close families) in the past months, decades, and centuries!

One need to be FAIR to ALL !

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