The five-two decision on Wednesday creates a precedent applying to Australian media companies, which potentially makes them liable as publishers of comments from social media users as though they made the statements themselves. The ruling comes after an appeal by Nine Entertainment and News Corp in relation to the case …
Read More »Meet the real-life Devil’s advocate battling Australian courts on behalf of Satan after religious education ‘got his goat’
The devilish case, now in Brisbane’s Supreme Court, has attracted international attention, for obvious reasons. The law in Australia allows for state schools to devote one hour a week to religious instruction and the children of a particular religion, specified by their parents, join the class while the rest do not. …
Read More »Australian, 70, fears he will never meet his new grandchildren after becoming ensnared in Qatar’s baffling legal system
Australian Joe Sarlak was not at the side of the mother of his three children when she died from cancer. He has two grandchildren he has never met. He lives unofficially in the servant quarters of someone else’s home, a single room and small bathroom. Sarlak, 70, is a hostage …
Read More »‘Enough’: Australian newspaper The Age comes out against extended lockdown in fiery editorial
On Wednesday, the paper published an editorial headlined “Victoria can’t go on like this.” The piece condemned Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews and the Labor State Government over its extension of harsh lockdown measures and a lack of evidence to back them up. The restrictions were maintained despite officials conceding it …
Read More »‘Lockdowns are over, in the name of Jesus’: Australian police fine church & ban services for openly defying Covid restrictions
The seven-day operations ban was handed to the Christ Embassy church in Blacktown, a suburb of Sydney, the New South Wales (NSW) police said on Wednesday. The officers were alerted on Sunday night that the church was open in violation of public health orders. They said around 60 adults and …
Read More »Citing Covid threat, Australian council SHOT SHELTER DOGS dead instead of allowing volunteers to collect them
The dogs, one of which had just given birth to puppies, were housed in a pound in the northwest of the state, and were due to be picked up by volunteers from a Cobar-based animal shelter. However, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Sunday that workers with the Bourke Shire …
Read More »‘They can’t arrest us all’: Horse-mounted protesters steal the show at Australian anti-lockdown rally (VIDEO)
The epic scene was filmed in Tweed Heads on the border between Queensland and New South Wales (NSW), where around a thousand people gathered on Sunday to decry the ban on crossing state lines, introduced to stem the spread of the coronavirus. A man galloped on a white horse among …
Read More »Australian PM vows to keep lockdowns until 70% of population is vaccinated as more protesters hit streets despite police crackdown
“You can’t live with lockdowns forever and at some point, you need to make that gear change and that is done at 70%,” Morrison stated in an interview with ABC on Sunday. Less than 30% of Australians over the age of 16 are currently fully vaccinated, and just over 51% …
Read More »Clashes & arrests in Sydney, Melbourne as anti-lockdown protesters defy Australian police pledge to unleash ‘full force’ (VIDEOS)
The demonstrations broke out on Saturday afternoon in the two major cities, with groups estimated in the hundreds protesting coronavirus lockdowns and curfew orders, chanting slogans and hoisting signs against the country’s Covid regime. Footage making the rounds online showed crowds making their way through Melbourne, at some points clashing …
Read More »‘Satan works in mysterious ways’: Newscast on Australian TV interrupted by devil-worshipping ceremony (VIDEO)
The excerpt from the news broadcast, posted by ABC Media Watch on Twitter, begins with anchor Yvonne Yong introducing a story about Queensland’s proposal to make it a criminal offense to injure or kill police dogs and horses. As Yong pauses awkwardly, the audience sees silent footage of masked officials …
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