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[Yoink]

I liked it better when Scottish drug laws accidentally legalised MDMA.

[Descan]

I think that was the Irish, too...

[Yoink]

The Irish just dgaf about laws to begin with I guess. *shrug*

[feelotraveller]

Better dead than... green?

It's not easy being... dead? 

[Edmus]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-09/china-lodges-official-complaint-after-turnbulls-comments/9242630
Big new anti-espionage laws are really agitating China.

[feelotraveller]

And the political donations laws are agitating the charities and environmental organisations.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/chilling-effect-charities-slam-foreign-donations-ban-20171205-gzyyc0.html
But unsurprisingly not the big corporate sponsors of the government, they are cheering for it.

[Jimmy]

Personally I think it's fair. If they're gonna get dirty in the political game, they should reveal whose team they're playing for.

[smjjames]

And the political donations laws are agitating the charities and environmental organisations.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/chilling-effect-charities-slam-foreign-donations-ban-20171205-gzyyc0.html
But unsurprisingly not the big corporate sponsors of the government, they are cheering for it.

I don't know the legal specifics of how it works in the US, but here in the US, it's illegal to accept donations from foriegn sources. Obviously, big charitable and environmental organizations that work worldwide would get some donations from overseas, but as I mentioned, I don't know the specifics of how that would be handled over here.

[Jimmy]

Working in the healthcare industry, I know that anyone that publishes research supporting a change to current best practice guidelines for medical treatment is supposed to report any funding they are given by big pharma. Don't see why charities that want to change political policies shouldn't do the same for foreign donations.

[smjjames]

Transparency is fine and I'm sure they'd agree to be transparent, but that's not what the Australian government is asking them to do.

[Jimmy]

Really? The news article linked said that they're just expected to play by the same rules as any other political party when they choose to get political.

[martinuzz]

In response to an advisory rapport by a special commission instated to investigate and research sexual child abuse, the Australian government has ordered Australian catholic bishops to demand from the Vatican that they get rid of mandatory celibacy for priests.
The rapport found out that 7% of Australian priests are guilty of sexual abuse of minor boys and girls, between 1950 and 2010. Tens of thousands of children have been abused in this period.

Another recommendation in the rapport is to revoke parts of the right to silence that priests have when taking confession. the government is advised to create a new law that makes reporting child abuse mandatory, including confessions made in confidence to another priest.

Archbishop Denis Hart, one of the leaders of the Australian church, has already protested, and stated that any priest that breaks the vow of silence after confession will be immediatly excommunicated.

[Reudh]

Although I should probably be rational and evenhanded in my response;

Denis Hart is incredible scum. We don't know that he's a paedo priest, but he's an arch-conservative arch-bishop, so he's perfectly happy covering for kiddy fiddlers, and even if he isn't one, he's still as bad by association.

[Reelya]

https://newmatilda.com/2018/01/10/sad-mark-latham-predicts-free-meat-for-all-in-stunning-save-australia-day-ad

Mark Latham has launched a "save Australia Day" advert, that's plainly as bonkers as Mark Latham is. It's not on TV yet but I saw it on Tom Ballard's show last night. A woman goes into a butchers and orders a pile of meat, the butcher asks here if she's throwing a party, she starts to speak, but then glances up at security cameras placed around the butcher's shop, her face drains of colour, and she makes her excuses and hurries out. e.g. Latham's ad is saying that scrapping Australia Day will lead to a full-on Stalinist surveillance state. When, of course, that won't happen at all. The date will just be moved a bit.

When pressed, Latham said it wasn't meant to be taken literally. However, it's done in a completely serious tone, so the actual impression you get from the ad is that whoever made it is a raving lunatic. That's just Latham however: tone deaf mental nutjob who has a thought process completely different to everyone else, then doesn't get why nobody gets it. He's so pathologically tone deaf compared to pretty much every other politician that I'm starting to suspect he might have a mental condition, e.g. slight Asperger's syndrome.

[Jimmy]

In my opinion, scrapping Australia Day because it's offensive to a minority of Australians makes about as much sense as scrapping Easter or Christmas due to potentially offending non-Christians. There's always gonna be a subset of society that gets up in arms over something they see as contrary to their own private set of standards.