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STUDENTS LIED! HYDROCARBONS FRIED!
Australian National Union of Students (classy acronym) president Rose Jackson promised that yesterday’s demonstration wouldn’t block Sydney traffic:
“We will still be disrupting traffic, but we won’t be blocking a busy intersection.”
Promise broken:
Twenty-four students protesting against the Federal Government’s higher education policy have been arrested during a sit-in at one of Sydney’s busiest intersections.
The protesters sat down in the middle of the intersection at Railway Square, near Central Station and refused to move.
Chiraq probably agreed to their demands—until he was told they were Australian students. Keep that white flag handy.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 04 12 at 02:45 PM • permalinkThe protesters sat down in the middle of the intersection at Railway Square, near Central Station and refused to move.
What, you expect ANUS to do it standing up? At least they refused to move. Be grateful for small blessings.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 04 12 at 02:56 PM • permalinkMan. When I was a student in the 80’s I was a dickhead, but at least I was smart enough to start becoming a Reaganite. These kids are hopeless.
Posted by Monroe Doctrine on 2006 04 12 at 03:44 PM • permalinkA
RoseANUS by any other name, would smell as sweet ...
The pruning of funds to these moonbat hatcheries was long overdue.
It is laughable how suddenly their every endeavour was painted by many in the media as “sporting, social or cultural”, and an indispensible benefit to students.
This sort of exercise is really what attracted tyro activists to the student union movement.Prime Minister Harold Holt had the right idea when protesters lay down in front of LBJ’s motorcade when he visited Oz:
“Run the bastards over!”
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 04 12 at 06:48 PM • permalinkOops - it was Premier Bob Askin who suggested that the protesters be made one with the roadway.
Harold Holt was “All the way with LBJ”
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 04 12 at 07:15 PM • permalinkIn fact it was Premier Askin. But he never really said it. The press just said he said it in an attempt to smear him but he never denied it or said he didn’t say it because he knew if he had said it, it would do him no harm at all.
So it was Askin who didn’t say it. Not Holt. Holt never didn’t say anything.
Can’t blame them on the US or Bush, Australia it’s your ANUS this time.
Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 04 12 at 07:58 PM • permalinkIn other news, Abbo ‘activists’ and their supporters have revealed themselves as the scumbags that they are…..
Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2006 04 12 at 08:00 PM • permalinkNow, see, this is the problem with living in a tropical paradise like Australia… you don’t have any snowplows available when you really need them…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 04 12 at 08:08 PM • permalinkI’d protest only to find that the university degree/subject that was offered dosn’t exist in the real world at all.
After all, Human resource degree didn’t exist aprox ten years ago, now it’s a complete industry.
I’d protest if third world students pass, and I have to pay and not get a visa to work in their country! or get automatic funding.
I think we should protest about students attending a well known real estate school called John Mac——-grave (sic.) and pay bucket loads of money to learn how to make money, from advertising and inflating false markets….
Now that’s worth it…
Next time take a page out of an old Stewart Granger film, bhowani Junction, where he had a gaggle(?) of untouchables toss buckets of water(or something much worse) onto a group of Brahmins who were staging a sit-in on the railroad tracks.
Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 04 12 at 08:29 PM • permalinkCan’t take the blame for sit-ins either, blame that on the Mahatma.
Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 04 12 at 08:41 PM • permalinkNational Day of Action against ... student poverty issues
Students should be impoverished, it’s character building and forces you to make decisions. eg back in the 60’s I could not afford both cigarettes and beer on my paltry Govt stipend. I opted for cigarettes and concentrated on darts and pool to obtain the other.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 04 12 at 08:59 PM • permalinkI quite like this quote from one of their discussion email lists prior to today forwarded onto me:
“If we put up the same level of protest as the French students we might achieve something instead of boring people to death with small, insignificant rallies involving the same people saying the same stuff over and over again. Is anyone interested in getting together to discuss some different tactics ? Not necesserily violent protest (although I think we need to be more aggressive and challenge the cops more) maybe some non violent direct action, street theatre, critical mass etc etc etc ???????????. ”
Posted by Yet Another Tim on 2006 04 12 at 09:13 PM • permalinkIf you had a Bachelor of Arts, you’d be protesting too!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 04 12 at 09:13 PM • permalink#16 Geoff:
Phooey. Remember “Fake but accurate”.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 04 12 at 09:21 PM • permalinkShoot, was I wrong the sit-ins are all our fault. This proves it’s all America’s responsibility. This
Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 04 12 at 09:21 PM • permalink#30 The street theatre threat must be taken seriously.
I suggest we plead with them and then give them whatever they want.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 04 12 at 09:25 PM • permalinkfrom #19’s link:
“This flame here is 1000 times more powerful than that flame (at the Shrine of Remembrance),” he said.”
do you really wanna flaming contest buddy? and who was the untermensch that doused the remembrance flame?, eh ?
Asked what Anzac meant, Mr Thorpe said he did not know.
“Why would I know? That’s not really my interest. That’s not a war that I’m interested in.”
.....
“My great-grandfather fought on the Western Front (in World War I) and died there.
I thought you weren’t interested in the war?
All the whitefellas hid behind the blackfellas in the trenches because they were afraid.”
That’s quite feat, given there were around 400 Aboriginal servicemen across all major engagements that Australia was involved in and will all due respect to the Aboringinal servicemen, they didn’t go to war for pissants like you Robbie Thorpe. Excrement does as Excrement is.
You reckon this is bad, just wait until the Students Protesting Howard’s Infantile Nationalist-Conservative Tertiary Education Repression (SPHINCTER) meet up with the ANUS, then the Tertiary Union Resistance Demonstration (TURD) will be set in full motion. We may even see members of the Fight Academic Repression Today (FART) faction who were recently emitted from the ANUS due to internal pressure.
If one thing’s certain it’s that we’re in for some very stinky business in the coming weeks.
Speaking of protests, the subway in Washington was packed the other day when all the immigration demonstrations were going on. There were A.N.S.W.E.R. placards everywhere, and an abundance of signs demanding amnesty. The notion of illegal aliens demanding anything brought my temper to the boiling point. I’m not against regularizing the citizenship of illegals, but unless we staunch the flow and secure the borders I fear that we’re going to turn into France.
Now, see, this is the problem with living in a tropical paradise like Australia… you don’t have any snowplows available when you really need them…
well, richard, whenglobal warming global coolingclimate change sends the glaciers south, that will certainly change in Australia…...Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 04 12 at 10:44 PM • permalinkWhy isn’t David Marr busy writing about the expressions of the ANUS. I mean, he has more experience in that area than most.
Posted by The (WHMECDM) President on 2006 04 12 at 11:09 PM • permalinkThere were posters all over UWA campus for the last month advertising the protest. Juding by the feeble quality of the chanting that reached my first floor window, there couldn’t have been more than a couple of hundred students turned up to participate. More posters than protesters!
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 04 12 at 11:17 PM • permalink#38 Means of transport for these organisations to reach the forming up point is to be via the Branch UnderGround Great Eastern Railway - Metropolitan Extension. (BUGGER ME) An appropriate mode of transport for the ANUS contingent.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 04 12 at 11:24 PM • permalinkAfter all these centuries of worldly and mystical contemplation, my perverted Weltanschauung and concomittant Weltschmerz—nourished by ungrieved and unforgiven hurts—I have not had a good laugh, I mean a real belly laugh in a long (I mean long) time.
After the descent from Ararat, I’ve pretty much stayed drunk (except for that short stint as a shoemaker).
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Tim Blair and some of the more inventive and witty contributors to this site.
It seems like years since I’ve chuckled, decades since I’ve chortled, centuries since I’ve actually guffawed—but a daily visit here provides this old Wandering Jew much solace.
Laughter is indeed the best medicine.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 04 12 at 11:36 PM • permalink...maybe some non violent direct action, street theatre, critical mass etc etc etc ???????????. “
Hey, threaten me with a mime and I’ll do about anything.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 04 12 at 11:52 PM • permalink#45 MentalFloss
Geez that was a relief. For a moment there I thought you said - after the descent from Arafat.
An honour and a privilege MF. I know you didn’t mention me and I’m not being presumptuous. It’s still an honour and a privilege to have just been a part of something that has helped you so much even if I had nothing whatsoever to do with it.
I had a friend on the ANUS council. She tells me that during one meeting they spent the whole time finding a substitute word for chairman (so as to be politically correct). possible names suggested where chairperson (dismissed because the son part is masculine)and Comrade Chair (and these people thought they deserved my hard earn’t cash). Finally the agreed on chairperchild.
#51,
“I had a friend on the ANUS council. She tells me that during one meeting they spent the whole time finding a substitute word for chairman (so as to be politically correct). possible names suggested where chairperson (dismissed because the son part is masculine)and Comrade Chair (and these people thought they deserved my hard earn’t cash). Finally the agreed on chairperchild.” (Emphasis mine)Read that again and consider what “politically correct” really is. These people spent all that time coming up with “chairperchild”, while do something they all supposedly felt was important. And they did it specifically in the name of being politically correct. If this isn’t perfect mind control, I don’t know what is. The victim spends all of their time on nothing of any real moment. While they bicker over something like “chairperchild”, they certainly aren’t giving anything else any scrutiny. And once they are trained up to do this all the time, it won’t even dawn on them that they have been given meaningless tasks to perform, much less ask why.
Of course, they aren’t to be trusted with anything really important. I mean, you wouldn’t want them working in a nuclear power plant, or even working as a mechanic fixing the car you drive your children around in, but they won’t outshine their
rulers betters...er…well, we’ll all get along like good little egalitarian drones.ANUS is perfect. That’s real language in action.
#51 And what exactly was wrong with using plain old “chair”.
The answer was right under their
noseANUS the whole time.To think compulsory fees went to mobs like this is beyond comprehension.
Posted by The (WHMECDM) President on 2006 04 13 at 02:44 AM • permalinkAaahhh, student protests aka how to do an Arts degree, never go to class and still get a passing GPA by handing in an essay about factions and the ALP one week late.
Sob, I’m misting up with the memories.
I thought they were just called NUS, but things might have changed since my day. I have no experience with NUS, other than paying for it. My understanding is that the conferences are just factional grandstanding (see above reference to factions and the ALP) and fun and games for NOLS, Labor Unity, Socialist Alliance, Liberal Students, Greens, blah blah blah
Its failure to do anything but create future politicians reminds one of Kent Brockman’s famous dictum: “I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: democracy just doesn’t work.”
Thanks, Kent.
Totally off topic, but mentioning The Simpsons also reminds of the brilliant repeat episode of Tuesday night in which Homer becomes a Catholic. The scene where he goes to confession is truly hilarious.
I’m sure lots of Catholics go to confession and say, “I’ve masturbated eight million times and I have no intention of giving up” or words to that effect.
Posted by Major Anya on 2006 04 13 at 03:15 AM • permalink#54
Yeah, I had to work with these cretins (mainly Labour right) during uni. In my own defence it was only to stop <contempt>The socialist alliance</contempt> from getting in.Basically the guys marching are either marching because A: they are stupid, or B: they are Stupid and have dreams of returning to their good old days of free food/alcohol at the expense of the rest of us.
Serves them right; they F***ed with the system and now the System F***ed the ANUS
(yeah i know it a bad pun, but everyone else was having so much fun)
#51 #53
I’m not sure how much of that is parody or genuine. I just went over to Nazimedia for their wrapup of the protest. Check this out:
The cops arrested us with fairly extreme force, and continued to hold us in that fucked up stress-position that brings excrutiating pain to your wrists, for about five minutes before they sorted their shit out as to which vehicles to put us in. A couple of the womyn arrested next to me were extremely anxious, but the police refused their pleas to lessen their painful hold on them.
Apparently “womyn” is the new PC term for women, without the “men” bit. As in: “all the womyn I hang out with smell bad”.
The person who wrote it was completely genuine.
#57 Dan Lewis
I wonder what was wrong with “wimmin” the PC term of choice when I was at Uni, er, decades ago.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 04 13 at 04:42 AM • permalinkWhy do wyminn wear purfume and makeup??
Cos their ugly and they smell…
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 04 13 at 05:17 AM • permalink#57 Dan, when I was pregnant, I spent a lot of time online in pregnancy and birth forums. As I’m a believer in ‘attachment parenting’ (ie mum stays home with baby and does the nurturing stuff) I was looking for likeminded spirits.
Unfortunately, it was Moonbat Central. Where womyn were womyn and myn were sissies.
On one list there was a discussion of (oxymoron alert) homeopathic vaccination and how it was much better than regular vaccination. Mercury in the MMR and autism was the big kicker.
Until I put my two bobs’ worth in about how MMR vaccine does not cause autism, and in any case there has been no mercury in it for over 20 years.
Stopped the debate cold (after a couple of snarky replies). So much for open debate.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 04 13 at 05:29 AM • permalinkNobody has realised that Rose is daughter of Liz…of Media Watch fame
Posted by The Other Rex on 2006 04 13 at 05:52 AM • permalinkApparently “womyn” is the new PC term for women, without the “men” bit. As in: “all the womyn I hang out with smell bad”.
It’s been “womyn” for years, at least back when I was at uni.
Posted by Quentin George on 2006 04 13 at 06:33 AM • permalinkThat quote by Askin has piqued my interest.
If a person hits a pedestrian who is crossing the road illegally, they are not at fault right? The driver of the vehicle would feel like shit, but they wouldn’t be legally culpable.
What if you decided to run the little spoilt prats over then? After all, they arent on the road legally, and as such, if they get hit it’s their own bloody fault.
Just curious, tis all.>:)
#66 RhikoR
I’m not sure how the wording goes, but I think the intent / objective of the “road rules” is that cars ALWAYS give way to pedestrians - legal or not.
Unfortunately in some cases.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 04 13 at 08:11 AM • permalinkot
BBC uses the T word at last.
to describe the new laws that caome into force today.
you wander how many of the BBC’s own staff will now get arrested for promoting support of islamic terrorism.bbc
Of course its ok to stop suspected yobs from travelling abroad to soccer matches without legislation, but arresting supporters of terror , well that’s an infringement of human rights.Considering the ANUS protest in Sydney alone cost $20,000 (by a conservative estimate), and got approximatly 200 students to attend, and the liberal counter-protest cost $20, with 40 students, by my calculation, its a case of each students attendee costing $100 for the left, as opposed to 50 cents for the liberals. Would this be correct?
Posted by Yet Another Tim on 2006 04 13 at 02:27 PM • permalinkI wonder what was wrong with “wimmin” the PC term of choice when I was at Uni, er, decades ago.
As in I love to go swimmin’ with barenaked wimmin, I’m Popeye the Sailor Man? Wow, I’m surprised the ANUS chairperchild approved that one.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 04 13 at 02:55 PM • permalinkThere is a strategy behind all this apparent madness.
No normal person can sit through a whole meeting of any student committee. It is physically impossible. You have to be a ratbag by definition. No normal person would seek office that obliged attendance at such meetings.
Therefore the ratbags are permanently in control.
Ya shoulda been around for uni at a third tier Berkeley wannabee in the 70’s. Nothing but tax eaters, dorm-room peaceniks, and cultural theorists (and that was just the faculty!) Can’t imagine its much worse now.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 04 14 at 12:10 AM • permalinkNo, no, no. It’s Progressyve Womyn, damnit!
Plus, those idiots got it all wrong. ‘Child’ is an ageist term of oppression, putting a being in a subordinate position merely due to being chronologically challenged.
The proper term for the individual leading a meeting (although there really should be a co-leader individual representing each of the important sexes—myn, womyn, gay, bi-, transgendered, confused, fucked-up, etc, but their meeting may have beent too sparsely attended to have a representative of each group present) is ‘CHAIRPEROFFSPRING’.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 04 14 at 12:45 AM • permalink#12
But I bet you’re not a dickhead now.
#21
After all, Human resource degree didn’t exist aprox ten years ago, now it’s a complete industry.
I call it “Human Remains” - discussing the benefits of a degree with a friend (who has a 4 year environmental management degree and works in the University as an Admin Officer), I said that the only reason you need a f*king degree, like arts, is if you want a job in the f*king uni above a level 4.
It’s true.
Speaking of new degrees, there are now new Forensic Science degrees. If I am correct to do forensic type stuff you used to need some sort of specialisation, like pathology or ballistics, and you would use that skill in a specific area of forensics. Now, the forensic degrees are filling up every year. Can someone tell me how many people are needed as Forensic investigators for say, the coroner? (Hint, I think each state has one coroner, don’t they?)
Another degree that everyone wants to do, but many will not be able to use.And overseas students who pay for their tertiary qualification only to become an Australian citizen; they ask the admin officers all the time what they should do to accelerate their
residencypermanent residency.#26
Geoff, I can beat that. In the 70s I didn’t go to uni. Maybe I should have, and I’d be up there with some illustrious peers… like, um, er, earrrgh…
I have it, some of you chaps and chapettes!#37
Onya darrinh.
#77 kae
So you just spent the seventies lazing around, drinking, doing drugs, gatecrashing, partying, pontificating about nothing in particular, bludging food and money off anybody silly enough to give you a handout and engaging in promiscuous sex necessitating frequent visits to Qld’s free health service, did you?
Hang on a second.
I thought you said you didn’t go to uni?
#78
So you just spent the seventies lazing around, drinking,
doing drugs,gatecrashing, partying, pontificating about nothing in particular,bludging food and money off anybody silly enough to give you a handoutand engaging inpromiscuoussexnecessitating frequent visits to Qld’s free health service, did you?
No Geoff, I got a job when I left high school and I’ve been working ever since.But I did have friends who attended Uni who I spent time with. And I am employed in a tertiary institution* now.
Institution, a good name. It could be a euphemism for a sheltered workshop or a special school.
My comment on illustrious uni attendees refers to a recent reaqauintance with a few people I knew in the 70s who seem to have advanced rather higher in the dung-pile of their working life than I have which has triggered a bit of a mid-life crisis (bloody hell, not again!!).
And the people I meet here at Tim’s give me lots of laughs and make me think, and they are smart and savvy. (Though I am a little concerned about Wron and his associates - mucking around with time machines can be pretty dangerous; one slip up in the past and people can just disapp
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What are they protesting exactly?
That you have a higher education policy or the fact that they don’t qualify.
I’m confused.