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Australian Indymedia covers a powerful demonstration:
Thanks to Melbourne cartoonist Michael Leunig, the guileless figure of My Curly, seated in a barbed-wire boat, led marchers through Fitzroy to mark World refugee Day ...
At right, a spectator searches frantically for cyanide capsules. The report continues:
Along the route people’s responses were generally very positive, with applause and shouts of encouragement, the only exception two men who emerged from a laneway of Gertude Street to shout “Get a job” and “Send ‘em all back”.
This happened in Fitzroy, a Melbourne suburb so left-soaked that Berkeley appears almost Rovian by comparison. The infiltration continues.
(Via Dan L.)
“Labor for refugees”
I’m sure that happens every day in Oz; and it’s particularly tough on legal immigrants doing lesser-paying labour but who are still taxed to take care of the non-working refugee. Oh, what’s that? “Labor”, as used in the slogan, is a noun and not a verb. Never mind.Posted by andycanuck on 2006 06 19 at 12:44 PM • permalinkTexas Bob, that’s 40 kilometers an hour, which is about 25 miles an hour. Same as in the US.
Posted by daddy dave on 2006 06 19 at 12:49 PM • permalinkMy Curly
So, the doodle’s named after pubic hairs?
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 06 19 at 12:51 PM • permalink#5 sorry Texas Bob, I had an attack of lefty earnestness. It was the cartoon that did it. It took me back…
Posted by daddy dave on 2006 06 19 at 02:30 PM • permalink#16—That might explain the declining numbers of boat people arriving on our shores ...
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2006 06 19 at 05:38 PM • permalinkThat’d be Mr Curly, Tim.
Ooops! That was Indymedia’s sic original. Sorry Tim!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 06 19 at 05:58 PM • permalinkAs a metaphor, the image speaks to me of the extreme peril of remaining clueless (Mr. Curly) in dangerous waters, while the ideas you are counting on to protect you (the barbed wire boat), despite the fierce appearance of the barbs, are of so little substance that you will surely drown.
Is that what they meant?
Refugees? How about the Sudanese Shoe shop owner from Sudan living in Toowoomba on Today tonight tomorrow whenever the time… How does a (sic.) refugee afford to open a shop?
Government funding: are we suckers..
Today tonight should report more detail on the taxi story yesterday.
Was the taxi driver of what origon? The Chinese woman was racist… The perspective is always on the Anglo’s or Host culture.
ah, it’s always heart warming to see the Socialist International at a refugee protest, I mean, those guys knew how run proper camps with real barb wire boats and everything. That’s why so many refugee’s flee into the Democratic people’s republic of North Korea, because of it’s fine welfare system and open border policy.
I wonder if this banner also represents the polar bear tragics?Give Leunig a break, his soul-mate has recently expressed an opinion on his work.
If memory serves, before the hard line policies came about, serious numbers of Afghani used car dealers were drowning in their attempt to reach Australia.
HoWARds immigration policies have almost certainly saved many lives - once again, using the “sound policy” strategy in a sickening attempt to remain in power. By the way, does anyone remember Beazley’s fearless predictions that Howard’s immigration policies would not stop the illegals from coming?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 06 19 at 07:00 PM • permalink...“a spectator searches frantically for cyanide capsules”...
Considering the locale, he might be shooting up.Posted by Honkie Hammer on 2006 06 19 at 07:00 PM • permalinkJeez chaps, go easy. My daughter left home two weeks back to move into a ‘studio apartment’ in North Fitzroy, and cycles down Brunswick St to her job in an independent film distributor in Collingwood. I’m worried that ‘Fitzroy’ might be catching. Or is to too late?
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 06 19 at 07:22 PM • permalinkit’s always heart warming to see the Socialist International at a refugee protest, I mean, those guys knew how run proper camps with real barb wire boats and everything.
And they’d be quite capable of organizing some “labor for refugees”, too.
Incidentally, I wholly support placing Michael Leunig in a boat as depicted by the idiot protesters. I’m sure you Aussies could come up with a suitably large body of water to put the whole contraption into.
“...two men emerged…”
THAT’s all the acknowledgment I get for finally get a full day’s work out of wronwright and that Stoop guy who doesn’t really exist?
Tim, I’m this close to letting you run your own VRWC, buddy…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 19 at 08:18 PM • permalink#s 31 & 32. It could be worse. She could have moved to St Kilda or Prahran.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 06 19 at 08:39 PM • permalinkThe stupid dingbats can’t even get the name of their character right.
Mr Curly has a curly head, unlike the figure in their protest.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2006 06 19 at 08:44 PM • permalinkYears ago, I had a school buddy who lived up the northern end of Brunswick Street. I’d regularly walk the entire length of that street to reach his place, encountering
deroscosmopolitan citizenry of every possible description along the way. Nothing like a walk through Fitzroy to make you feel like you need a shower.Posted by Stone Cold on 2006 06 19 at 09:00 PM • permalinkThat is absolutely the most idiotic and pathetic excuse for a demonstration that I’ve ever seen.
PS: Texas Bob—in Florida the speed zone through school zones can be as low as 15 miles per hour, which is nearly impossible to maintain in a modern car. When I drove I used to put my automatic in first gear (a gear that generally never gets used in a state as flat as mine) just to keep the car from idling up to 20 mph. I suspect they do this not so much out of concern for street-diving tots—when I was crossing the street to school we made out fine with volunteer crossing guards and no special speed limit other than the normal 30 mph for residential streets—but to pad the city’s coffers with revenue from hapless “speeders” who slipped up over the 15 mph mark, but I’m just cynical.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 06 19 at 09:39 PM • permalinkTim,
I love the filename you have given that image.
School Zones in Sydney are a disaster waiting to happen. I obey them when I am aware of them, however so many times I have seen the sign advising I am leaving a school zone, yet I had no idea I had entered one.
So there I am, eyes firmly glued to the speedometer to avoid a fine (rather than looking up and out for young children) getting beeped at by cars behind wondering why I am driving so slowly.
I now turn on my hazard lights in school zones and reckon the idea might take off.
“Fitzroy, a Melbourne suburb so left-soaked that Berkeley appears almost Rovian by comparison”
So it must be heaven on earth then, being run and inhabited entirely by lefties unfettered by the selfish evil right! Much like New Orleans and Detroit and Wash DC and LA. No crime, no racism, no inequality, social justice for all, clean air and water…
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 06 19 at 10:00 PM • permalinkGeez, Fitzroy wasn’t lefty back in the days I lived there. It was more like a…whats the word…slum.
Posted by Pig Head Sucker on 2006 06 19 at 10:07 PM • permalink‘Let the boats land’ - then burn them.
Posted by Islam/cancer-Chuck Norris/answer on 2006 06 19 at 10:24 PM • permalink“I live in the street in that photo but somehow I missed the show.”
Presumably you were at work, Andrew R?
Posted by Steve at the pub on 2006 06 19 at 10:41 PM • permalink’Let the boats land’
Typical confused protestors.
Wire boats sink offshore, just as some did [deliberately scuttled or overloaded], and drowned people.
‘Labor for Refugees’
A big problem, as our Moslems are already out-breeding us by a long way.
They may be French Euro-communists wanting voters.Isn’t Bush being criticised for an open border policy?
Mr Curly has a curly head, unlike the figure in their protest.
That’s what I thought; isn’t that Vasco Pyjama, or any other Leunig character? (apart from the duck)
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 06 19 at 11:39 PM • permalinkAlso ...
About a thousand people assembled outside the Museum to hear addresses from, amongst others, Senator Lyn Allison and Bishop Hilton Deakin, before setting off as in previous years, along Gertrude and Brunswick Streets, stopping at the intersection with Johnstone Street for more speeches, before joining the annual multicultural fiesta at Fitzroy Town Hall.
The comical mispelling of place names seems to indicates that the Indymedia people who covered this were not locals. I quite like Fitzroy, actually - partly because of the evil capitalist scum who line Brunswick and Smith Streets with their sweatshops, cafes, and what-not.
#55 The US Military uses the metric system.
US industry, science, technology, military, &c.,—all metric. It’s only the General Public (including James Taranto) who can’t cope.
Funny, but the US manages OK with metric currency.
Here, it was avoidupois one day, dual for a while, then metric. Didn’t seem to pose a problem. We coped. There are few hangovers, eg, timber is marketed in 300mm increments.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 06 20 at 03:31 AM • permalinkThere are few hangovers, eg, timber is marketed in 300mm increments.
Which, if it were an honest hangover, would be 304.8mm increments.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 06 20 at 04:04 AM • permalinkYou Americans should be thankful you haven’t adopted ‘Metric Time’ like us Aussies-
One hundred minute hours are really long.Posted by Islam/cancer-Chuck Norris/answer on 2006 06 20 at 04:59 AM • permalinkI guess Mr Curly is up shit creek.
#25Oh Where’s the Duck float ?
upside-down
oh, wait, you said where is not how does…
#33
...suitably large body of water to put the whole contraption into.
Bass Strait?
#41
Same deal here with surviving childhood without getting cleaned up by a car (we were taught how to cross the road, and our parents watched us carefully when we were let loose in dangerous situations), and the swelling of the coffers with speeding fines.
School limit here is 15mph which is bad enough, but a number of years ago I was pulled over in a housing area where the speed limit was 10mph. I was clocked at 12mph. After a lengthy lecture from the policeman about my excessive speed (because of the children) he allowed me to leave with just a warning. Good thing he pulled me over. At 12 mph, my stopping distance is about 4 inches.
Posted by jeff mccabe on 2006 06 20 at 10:01 AM • permalink“One hundred minute hours are really long.”
They are, but the one hundred hour days are great! You can get so much more done, and have time to party afterwards. And of course, sleep in as long as you like.
Posted by daddy dave on 2006 06 20 at 11:37 AM • permalinkYojimbo’s right. No way can I get done what I once could in a 60-minute hour. Bring on the 100-minute hours!
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 06 20 at 11:47 AM • permalink#23: Refugees? How about the Sudanese Shoe shop owner from Sudan living in Toowoomba….
My experience with Sudanese refugees is that they are legal immigrants (ie come through the front door) and not afraid of hard work. Though as with any community, I guess there will be some slackers.
The Toowoomba Sudanese community has been building for about 10 years, so it doesn’t surprise me that one of their number has made good.
Re. #23,#24,#25 - am I the only one who has problems understanding what 1.618 comes out with much of the time?
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 06 20 at 08:08 PM • permalink#57 Maybe the “General Public” have no wish to live under a new ruler.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 06 20 at 10:00 PM • permalink
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Geez! You guys drive 40 though a School Zone??? That’s down right dangerous.
What’s the Australian standard speed for plowing through a parade of Love-In spawnlets?