Race riots highlight multicultural failure
Piers Akerman – Wednesday, January 16, 2013 (6:36am)
THE warring Aboriginal and Pacific Islander families of Douglas Street, Woodridge, have again demonstrated the failure of the nation’s insane multicultural policy.
Instead of identifying as Australian, the combatants are resorting to the symbols of their race.
In the case of the Aboriginals, the flag Cathy Freeman made momentarily famous, is being given a thorough workout.
The Islanders say they are being discriminated against as foreigners in the education system, among other gripes.
The violence, fortunately, is local and, by international standards, minimal.
One Aboriginal family, the Briggs, has already said it will move from the state housing dominated area.
State Labor MP Desley Scott has blamed cuts to welfare for the problem – as a Labor MP would.
It was unhelpful of federal LNP MP Andrew Laming, to tweet on Monday: “Mobs tearing up Logan. Did any of them do a day’s work today, or was it business as usual and welfare on tap?”
The Opposition’s spokesman on indigenous health later tweeted: “To clarify: Working together to resolve these riots the priority. Training and a chance for jobs are key.”
But the genesis of the bitter feelings in the Logan community lies beyond the orbit of welfare – around Australia groups which have been encouraged to hang onto the national identities of their former homelands are finding it harder to blend into the mainstream.
The melting pot isn’t a Mixmaster.
Under multiculturalism, some groups have formed ghettos within Australian cities.
Despite the millions thrown at SBS, many of these more recent arrivals can’t speak English and make no attempt to learn the language.
Instead, the government just spends more money providing translations of important documents and translators to assist them retain the languages of their former home nations.
The success of the migration program of the post-WWII period which saw Australia absorb millions of displaced people (as refugees were once called) is being overshadowed by the dysfunctionalism of multiculturalism.
As Australia Day approaches, with its reminder of the racial disharmony promoted from within the Prime Minister’s office last year, the ugly reality of this failed policy is yet again on display.
I don’t feel the issue is to do with multiculturalism policy so much as the issue of minority entitlement where the more important issue of promoting cultural assets has failed. Which may sound like splitting hairs but this stand off is not a first in Australia. I recall a 1992 incident at James Meehan HS. The motto of James Meehan is “survey the fields ahead” because the school is named after the surveyor. A bit like “look before you leap.”
At the time, as I have discussed in my “Picking Cotton” documentary series into the Macquarie Fields riots which happened a few years later, school policy of entitlement promotion of minorities caused intense jealousy in that dysfunctional school which only a few years earlier had students who had killed Cobby and Balding. A school counsellor with special responsibility for Aboriginal students gave those students permission to smoke and go walk about from class. Meanwhile Islander students were carrying the load of sporting success in Rugby League. The resulting Islander strike was reported in the media and the counsellor was dismissed.
Cultural Assets are what need to be promoted to have a healthy community. Cultural diversity should be celebrated. But minority favoritism is old school bigotry and has no place in a modern Australia even though the ALP promote it.
DDBall of Carramar/Sydney (Reply)
Wed 16 Jan 13 (08:05am)
Wed 16 Jan 13 (08:05am)
Nemesis replied to DDBall
Wed 16 Jan 13 (04:57pm)
Wed 16 Jan 13 (04:57pm)
DDBall....I believe you have missed the point with this article. Minority entitlement is a direct result of multicultural policy which also protects and encourages any culture other than the Australian Culture. And I hope you don’t believe there is no such thing as an Australian culture.
Nations are nations only when its people are united together as one culture. No ordered society or culture can survive being divided into tribes of cultures which we are now seeing. There is no success story in all recorded history where multiculturalism was once practised as a uniting factor. The Roman Empire being a classic example.
As Lincoln once stated, a divided house cannot stand.
And we now have a divided house!
-Yes Nemesis, I despise the word "Multiculturalism" preferring cultural diversity .. I despise the history of the concept of Multiculturalism being the brainchild of the ALP and nothing to do with what it purports. Philosophically, the idea is absurd .. people are only of one culture although they may entertain tolerance for others. But, I know where diverse cultures work well together .. and that is my home. -- oddball.
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January 16: Teachers' Day in Thailand
- 27 BC – Gaius Octavianus was given the titleAugustus by the Roman Senate when he became the first Roman emperor.
- 1809 – Peninsular War: French forces under Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult attacked the amphibious evacuation of the British under Sir John Moore in Corunna, Galicia, Spain.
- 1919 – The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified by thirty-six of the forty-eight states, establishing the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
- 1938 – Benny Goodman (pictured) performed a concert at New York City's Carnegie Hall which has been considered instrumental in establishing jazz as a legitimate form of music.
- 1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler and his staff moved into theFührerbunker, where he would eventually commit suicide.
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Events
- 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
- 378 – General Fire is Born conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
- 550 – Gothic War (535–554): The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
- 929 – Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III established the Caliphate of Córdoba.
- 1120 – The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- 1362 – A storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German city of Rungholt on the island of Strand.
- 1412 – The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
- 1492 – The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I.
- 1547 – Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Czar of Russia.
- 1556 – Philip II becomes King of Spain.
- 1572 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
- 1581 – The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
- 1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published inMadrid, Spain.
- 1707 – The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
- 1761 – The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
- 1780 – American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
- 1786 – Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
- 1809 – Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
- 1847 – John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
- 1878 – Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) – Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv fromOttoman rule.
- 1883 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.
- 1896 – Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
- 1900 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
- 1909 – Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
- 1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
- 1920 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
- 1924 – Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time.
- 1939 – The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
- 1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
- 1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
- 1956 – President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
- 1964 – Hello, Dolly! (musical) starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
- 1969 – Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
- 1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
- 1970 – Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
- 1973 – Anna Christian Waters disappears from her backyard. She is never found.
- 1973 – Bonanza Final episode airs on NBC.
- 1979 – The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.
- 1986 – First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
- 1991 – The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
- 1992 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000.
- 2001 – Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
- 2001 – US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
- 2002 – The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of theTaliban.
- 2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
- 2005 – Romanian university lecturer and novelist Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world
- 2006 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
[edit]Births
- 1093 – Isaac Komnenos, son of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos
- 1245 – Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (d. 1296)
- 1409 – René I of Naples (d. 1480)
- 1477 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
- 1501 – Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1559)
- 1516 – Bayinnaung, King of Burma (d. 1581)
- 1616 – François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
- 1626 – Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699)
- 1634 – Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716)
- 1675 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755)
- 1691 – Peter Scheemakers, Flemish Roman Catholic sculptor (d. 1781)
- 1728 – Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer (d. 1800)
- 1749 – Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist (d. 1803)
- 1757 – Richard Goodwin Keats, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1834)
- 1807 – Charles Henry Davis, American Civil War Admiral (d. 1877)
- 1815 – Henry W. Halleck, American Civil War general (d. 1872)
- 1821 – John C. Breckinridge, American lawyer and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States and Confederate general (d. 1875)
- 1834 – Robert R. Hitt, American politician (d. 1906)
- 1836 – King Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1894)
- 1838 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
- 1844 – Ismail Qemali, Albanian nationalist (d. 1919)
- 1853 – Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and theatre manager (d. 1937)
- 1853 – Gen Sir Ian Hamilton, British military commander (d. 1947)
- 1853 – André Michelin, French industrialist (d. 1931)
- 1853 – Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Russian philosopher (d. 1900)
- 1872 – Henri Busser, French composer (d. 1973)
- 1872 – Edward Gordon Craig, English actor, producer, director and scenic designer (d. 1966)
- 1874 – Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (d. 1958)
- 1875 – Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947)
- 1878 – Harry Carey, American silent film actor (d. 1947)
- 1880 – Samuel Jones, American athlete (d. 1954)
- 1882 – Robert Lane, Canadian football player (d. 1940)
- 1885 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (d. 1967)
- 1886 – John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958)
- 1888 – Osip Brik, Russian writer (d. 1945)
- 1893 – Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981)
- 1894 – Irving Mills, American jazz music publisher (d. 1985)
- 1895 – Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
- 1896 – Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978)
- 1897 – Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (d. 1977)
- 1898 – Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002)
- 1898 – Irving Rapper, UK-US film director (d. 1999)
- 1900 – Edith Frank, Holocaust victim and mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
- 1901 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973)
- 1901 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
- 1902 – Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945)
- 1903 – William Grover-Williams, English-French racing driver and WWII resistance fighter (d. 1945)
- 1905 – Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989)
- 1906 – Diana Wynyard, British actress (d. 1964)
- 1907 – Alexander Knox, Canadian actor (d. 1995)
- 1907 – Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004)
- 1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)
- 1908 – Günther Prien, German World War II submarine captain (d. 1941)
- 1910 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (d. 1974)
- 1911 – Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (d. 1996)
- 1911 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician (d. 1982)
- 1914 – Roger Wagner, American choral musician (d. 1992)
- 1915 – Leslie H. Martinson, American television and film director.
- 1916 – Philip Lucock, Australian politician and Presbyterian minister (d. 1996)
- 1917 – Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (d. 2008)
- 1918 – Nel Benschop, Dutch poet (d. 2005)
- 1918 – Allan Ekelund, Swedish film producer (d. 2009)
- 1918 – Clem Jones, Australian Lord Mayor of Brisbane (d. 2007)
- 1918 – Stirling Silliphant, American writer (d. 1996)
- 1919 – Jerome Horwitz, American scientist (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Alberto Crespo, Argentine race car driver (d. 1991)
- 1920 – Elliott Reid, American actor
- 1921 – Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
- 1922 – Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Gene Feist, American actor and producer
- 1923 – Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
- 1924 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
- 1928 – Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996)
- 1928 – William Kennedy, American author
- 1930 – Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (d. 2006)
- 1930 – Norman Podhoretz, US writer, foreign policy adviser
- 1930 – Paula Tilbrook, British actress
- 1931 – Robert L. Park, American physicist
- 1931 – Johannes Rau, German politician (d. 2006)
- 1932 – Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
- 1932 – Victor Ciocâltea, Romanian chess master (d. 1983)
- 1933 – Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004)
- 1934 – Marilyn Horne, American opera singer
- 1935 – A.J. Foyt, American race car driver and team owner
- 1937 – Lorraine Bayly, Australian actress
- 1937 – Luiz Bueno, Brazilian racing driver (d. 2011)
- 1938 – Michael Pataki, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1938 – Jô Soares, Brazilian author, musician and TV personality
- 1942 – René Angélil, Canadian music executive
- 1942 – Barbara Lynn, American singer
- 1943 – Gavin Bryars, English composer and double bassist
- 1943 – Brian Ferneyhough, British composer
- 1944 – Gerd Klier, German footballer (d. 2011)
- 1944 – Jim Stafford, American singer and songwriter
- 1945 – Wim Suurbier, Dutch footballer
- 1946 – Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
- 1946 – Ronnie Milsap, American singer and songwriter
- 1946 – Katia Ricciarelli, Italian soprano
- 1947 – Magdalen Nabb, British author (d. 2007)
- 1947 – Sara Jane Olson, American political activist
- 1947 – Harvey Proctor, British politician
- 1947 – Laura Schlessinger, American radio talk show host
- 1947 – Harald Stabell, Norwegian barrister
- 1948 – John Carpenter, American film director
- 1948 – Dalvanius Prime, New Zealand entertainer (d. 2002)
- 1948 – Ruth Reichl, American magazine editor
- 1948 – Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
- 1949 – Anne F. Beiler, American businesswoman, founded Auntie Anne's
- 1949 – Caroline Munro, British actress
- 1949 – Andrew Refshauge, Australian politician, Deputy Premier of New South Wales
- 1950 – Debbie Allen, American dancer and choreographer
- 1950 – Brian Castro, Australian author
- 1950 – Damo Suzuki, Japanese singer (Can)
- 1950 – Robert Schimmel, American Comedian (d. 2010)
- 1951 – Glenn Ordway, American radio talk show host
- 1952 – King Fuad II of Egypt
- 1952 – L. Blaine Hammond, NASA astronaut
- 1953 – Robert Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi (d. 1984)
- 1955 – Jerry M. Linenger, NASA astronaut
- 1956 – Jennifer Dale, Canadian actress
- 1956 – Martin Jol, Dutch football manager
- 1956 – Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (d. 2007)
- 1957 – Jurijs Andrejevs, Latvian footballer
- 1957 – Ricardo Darin, Argentine actor
- 1958 – Anatoli Boukreev, Russian mountaineer (d. 1997)
- 1958 – Lena Ek, Swedish politician
- 1959 – Juanita Bynum, American televangelist
- 1959 – Sade, Nigerian-born singer
- 1961 – Ronnie Lee Gardner, American criminal (d.2010)
- 1961 – Paul Raven, English musician (Killing Joke, Prong, and Ministry) (d. 2007)
- 1962 – Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian politician
- 1962 – Tracey Moore, voice actress
- 1962 – Denis O'Hare, Irish-American actor
- 1962 – Paul Webb, British musician (Talk Talk, .O.rang)
- 1963 – James May, English television presenter
- 1965 – Maxine Jones, American singer (En Vogue)
- 1965 – Jill Sobule, American singer-songwriter
- 1968 – Danni Ashe, American nude model and stripper
- 1968 – David Chokachi, American actor
- 1969 – Neil Back, England rugby player
- 1969 – Marinus Bester, German footballer
- 1969 – Roy Jones, Jr., American boxer
- 1969 – Per "Dead" Ohlin, Swedish singer (Mayhem and Morbid) (d. 1991)
- 1969 – Rich Ward, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Fozzy, Stuck Mojo, and Adrenaline Mob)
- 1970 – Garth Ennis, Irish comic book author
- 1970 – Brendan O'Hare, Scottish drummer (Teenage Fanclub and Telstar Ponies)
- 1970 – Ron Villone, American baseball player
- 1971 – Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player
- 1971 – Jonathan Mangum, American actor
- 1972 – Ruben Bagger, Danish footballer
- 1972 – Ang Christou, Australian footballer
- 1972 – Dameon Clarke, Canadian actor
- 1972 – Yuri Drozdov, Russian footballer
- 1972 – Ezra Hendrickson, Vincentian footballer
- 1972 – Salah Hissou, Moroccan runner
- 1972 – Joe Horn, American football player
- 1972 – Richard T. Jones, American actor
- 1972 – Greg Page, Australian musician and actor (The Wiggles)
- 1972 – Alen Peternac, Croatian footballer
- 1973 – Josie Davis, American actress
- 1974 – Marlon Anderson, American baseball player
- 1974 – Kate Moss, English model
- 1975 – Greg Strause, American visual effects creator
- 1975 – Gillian Iliana Waters, American actress
- 1976 – Viktor Maslov, Russian racing driver
- 1976 – Martina Moravcová, Slovak female swimmer
- 1977 – Ariel Zeevi, Israeli judoka
- 1977 – Jeff Foster, American basketball player
- 1978 – Alfredo Amézaga, Mexican baseball player
- 1979 – Aaliyah, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
- 1979 – Muntadhar al-Zaidi, Iraqi journalist
- 1979 – Mark Anthony Fernandez, Filipino actor
- 1979 – Brenden Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 – Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Seydou Keita, Malian footballer
- 1980 – Lin Manuel Miranda, American actor, composer, lyricist
- 1980 – Albert Pujols, Dominican-born baseball player
- 1980 – Michelle Wild, Hungarian model
- 1981 – Jamie Lundmark, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981 – Nick Valensi, American guitarist (The Strokes)
- 1981 – Bobby Zamora, English footballer
- 1982 – Samuel Preston, British singer (The Ordinary Boys)
- 1982 – Tuncay Şanlı, Turkish footballer
- 1983 – Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
- 1983 – Andriy Rusol, Ukrainian footballer
- 1984 – Stephan Lichtsteiner, Swiss footballer
- 1984 – Jared Slingerland, Canadian musician (Left Spine Down and Front Line Assembly)
- 1985 – Joe Flacco, American football player
- 1985 – Gintaras Janusevicius, Lithuanian pianist
- 1985 – Jonathan Richter, Danish footballer
- 1985 – Simon Richter, Danish footballer
- 1985 – Pablo Zabaleta, Argentine footballer
- 1986 – Mason Gamble, American actor
- 1986 – Mark Trumbo, American baseball player
- 1986 – Irina Kuzmina, Latvian tennis player
- 1986 – Paula Pareto, Argentine judoka
- 1986 – Johannes Rahn, German footballer
- 1986 – Reto Ziegler, Swiss footballer
- 1987 – Lauren McAvoy, British fashion model
- 1988 – Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
- 1988 – Jorge Torres Nilo, Mexican footballer
- 1989 – Yvonne Zima, American actress
- 1991 – Matt Duchene, Canadian hockey player
- 1992 – Maja Keuc, Slovenian singer
- 1993 – Amandine Hesse, French tennis player
- 1995 – Mikaela Turik, Canadian cricketer
[edit]Deaths
- 378 – Great Jaguar Paw, King of Tikal
- 960 – Polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1327 – Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine scholar and statesman (b. 1250/55)
- 1387 – Elizabeth of Bosnia, Hungarian queen and regent (b. 1340)
- 1400 – John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (b. 1352)
- 1545 – George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)
- 1547 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
- 1554 – Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1480)
- 1585 – Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)
- 1659 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
- 1710 – Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
- 1711 – Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651)
- 1747 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
- 1748 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)
- 1750 – Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (b. 1667)
- 1752 – Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
- 1794 – Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737)
- 1809 – John Moore, British general (b. 1761)
- 1817 – Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman (b. 1759)
- 1826 – Lindley Murray, grammarian (b. 1745)
- 1834 – Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
- 1856 – Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)
- 1864 – Anton Schindler, Austrian biographer of Beethoven (b. 1795)
- 1865 – Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828)
- 1879 – Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827)
- 1886 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian opera composer (b. 1834)
- 1891 – Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)
- 1898 – Charles Pelham Villiers, British Member of Parliament (b. 1802)
- 1901 – Jules Barbier, French opera librettist (b. 1825)
- 1901 – Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter (b. 1827)
- 1901 – Hiram Revels, first African-American to serve in the U. S. Senate (b. 1822)
- 1906 – Marshall Field, American entrepreneur (b. 1834)
- 1917 – George Dewey, American admiral (b. 1837)
- 1917 – Herbert von Petersdorff, German swimmer (b. 1882)
- 1919 – Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (b. 1848)
- 1920 – Reginald De Koven, American music critic and operetta composer (b. 1859)
- 1924 – Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, Scottish philanthropist (b. 1859)
- 1935 – Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
- 1936 – Albert Fish, American serial killer (b. 1870)
- 1938 – Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay Indian Writer (b.1876)
- 1939 – William O'Connor, American fencer (b. 1864)
- 1942 – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, son of Queen Victoria (b. 1850)
- 1942 – Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)
- 1942 – Ernst Scheller, German Nazi politician (b. 1899)
- 1957 – 1st Earl of Athlone, British royal, brother of Queen Mary (b. 1874)
- 1957 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
- 1959 – Phan Khoi, Vietnamese intellectual (b. 1887)
- 1960 – Arthur Darby, British rugby player (b. 1876)
- 1961 – Max Schöne, German swimmer (b. 1880)
- 1962 – Frank Hurley, Australian photographer (b. 1885)
- 1962 – Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (b. 1883)
- 1963 – Ike Quebec, American tenor-saxophone player (b. 1918)
- 1967 – Robert J. Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist (b. 1901)
- 1968 – Bob Jones, Sr, American evangelist (b. 1883)
- 1968 – Panagiotis Poulitsas, Greek judge, head of an interim government (b. 1881)
- 1969 – Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (b. 1903)
- 1971 – Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
- 1972 – Teller Ammons, American politician (b. 1895)
- 1972 – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. (David Seville), American actor (b. 1919)
- 1975 – Israel Abramofsky, Russian-born American artist (b. 1888)
- 1979 – Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932)
- 1979 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)
- 1981 – Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
- 1982 – Red Smith, American sports columnist (b. 1905)
- 1985 – Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator (b. 1910)
- 1986 – Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)
- 1987 – Bertram Wainer, Australian abortion rights campaigner (b. 1928)
- 1988 – Andrija Artuković, Croatian war criminal (b. 1899)
- 1988 – Ballard Berkeley, English actor (b. 1904)
- 1989 – Prem Nazir, Malayalam actor (b. 1926)
- 1993 – Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930)
- 1993 – Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (b. 1960)
- 1995 – Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor (b. 1924)
- 1996 – Marcia Davenport, American author and music critic (b. 1903)
- 1997 – Ennis Cosby, son of entertainer Bill Cosby (b. 1969)
- 1997 – Markus Hoffmann, German actor (b. 1971)
- 1998 – Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (b. 1921)
- 1999 – Jim McClelland, Australian solicitor and politician (b. 1915)
- 2000 – Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1928)
- 2000 – John Morris Rankin, Canadian musical entertainer (b. 1959)
- 2000 – Robert R. Wilson, American physicist and a group leader on the Manhattan Project (b. 1914)
- 2001 – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
- 2001 – Auberon Waugh, British author and journalist (b. 1939)
- 2002 – Robert Hanbury Brown, British astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
- 2002 – Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)
- 2002 – Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (b. 1948)
- 2002 – Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)
- 2003 – Richard Wainwright, English politician (b. 1918)
- 2004 – Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
- 2005 – Marjorie Williams, American journalist (b. 1958)
- 2006 – Stanley Biber, American surgeon (b. 1923)
- 2007 – Ron Carey, American actor (b. 1935)
- 2007 – Benny Parsons, American racecar driver and commentator (b. 1941)
- 2009 – Joe Erskine, American boxer and long distance runner (b. 1930)
- 2009 – John Mortimer, British barrister, screenwriter and author. (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Andrew Wyeth, American realist painter (b. 1917)
- 2010 – Glen Bell, American businessman, founder of Taco Bell. (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Gustav Leonhardt, Dutch keyboardist, conductor and musicologist. (b. 1928)
[edit]Holidays and observances
- Christian Feast Day:
- Flag Day or Magen David Day (Israel)
- Teachers' Day (Thailand)
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MARK IT WELL
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 16, 2013 (3:53pm)
Ten years on, Judge William Young’s sentencing of stupid shoebomber Richard Reid still rocks:
You’re a big fellow. But you’re not that big. You’re no warrior. I know warriors. You are a terrorist. A species of criminal guilty of multiple attempted murders …See that flag, Mr. Reid? That’s the flag of the United States of America. That flag will fly there long after this is all forgotten. That flag still stands for freedom. You know it always will. Custody, Mr. Officer. Stand him down.
Read on.
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JUST WHAT AUSTRALIA NEEDS
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 16, 2013 (1:09pm)
British daily newspaper The Guardian has announced its intention to launch a digital edition in Australia.Due to start up this year, the operation aims to capitalise on an existing substantial Australian readership, launch editor Katharine Viner said …The operation will launch with the help of “founding investor” and chair of not-for-profit news and features website The Global Mail, Graeme Wood.
Outgoing director of editorial policies at the ABC Paul Chadwick will become non-executive director of the Guardian’s Australian entity.
This’ll be fun.
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DISAGREEMENT DOWN
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 16, 2013 (1:04pm)
Email response to this week’s column is unusually large and disappointingly positive. Here’s Wollongong’s Phil R.:
Congratulations on your article in today’s Daily Telegraph. While, to be truly honest, I don’t often agree with your point of view I feel that your article has revealed the truth of this matter perfectly.I was astounded when I read the comments from the Greens. Comparing what this idiot did to the actions of the “true heroes” referred to in your article is a sick joke.Thanks for the article, and while I’ll probably continue to disagree with you in the future (I am after all a bit of a lefty) I will continue to read your articles to get a contrary approach.One thing’s for sure, I’ll vote for Fred Flintstone before I’d vote for the Greens or anyone who would enter into a coalition with them.
Well said, sir. Meanwhile, the worship of St. Moylan continued earlier this week:
Anti-coal lobbyists have staged a protest outside an ANZ branch in Melbourne in solidarity with the activist behind the Whitehaven Coal hoax.Protesters from Quit Coal played dead on the floor of the ANZ branch in Melbourne’s Bourke St Mall, to be carried out on stretchers by members dressed as paramedics.Comedian MC Rod Quantock told onlookers outside the branch the bodies represented victims of climate change as he accused ANZ of funding major coal projects.
Two puzzling terms: anti-coal “lobbyists” and “comedian” Rod Quantock.
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UNIVERSITY LECHERS
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 16, 2013 (11:58am)
What is it with academics and 11-year-olds? In Melbourne:
A university lecturer has today been committed to stand trial on child sex charges.The academic, 52, is accused of preying on an 11-year-old friend of his daughter after they had watched the film, Rio: The Movie, at his home in their underwear.
And in Canberra:
A former university lecturer has been found guilty of putting his hands down the pants of an 11-year-old.Augusto Ricardo Tamayo-Del Solar was on Tuesday found guilty in the ACT Supreme Court of committing an act of indecency on a child.
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END OF THE ROAD
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 16, 2013 (11:45am)
The big two enter doom mode:
Ford’s Falcon and Holden’s Commodore will likely be phased out within months of each other in 2016.Ford has said for some time the future of the Falcon and its Broadmeadows manufacturing facility are not guaranteed beyond the end of 2016. Overnight at the Detroit motor show, Holden inadvertently confirmed the Commodore’s run is due to come to an end about the same time.
Holden boss Mike Devereux:
“I think the Prime Minister and the Industry Minister of Australia, if we had a better plan, would certainly want to look at a better plan.”
The core problems of the Australian car industry are made clear in that dire sentence.
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Who might I approach on creating a research project into government policy creation? I'm interested in undertaking a PhD and to do so I need to secure funding. I am thinking of doing it within the Education Faculty at Sydney University.
Broadly, I would look at policy creation, how the NSW 2004 code of conduct came into being. What other similar legislation was enacted elsewhere and why. How has it been applied and what is its effectiveness.
My school friend, Philip Berry, claimed to be author in 2005 and it was used to make my life difficult as a teacher. That is insight to me. I can weigh the assertion with facts and look at the issue of transparency in government and effectiveness of public policy. I can contrast it with new policy aphorism 'Cultural Asset'
As for the peanut allergy policy, I can compare the new policy practice with old to see if there is any difference other than between legal blame shifting. I note it is an ongoing issue. >
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Gary Morgan says:
“Today’s Morgan Poll shows the L-NP (52%, up 4.5%) regaining a winning two-party preferred lead over the ALP (48%, down 4.5%) in the first Morgan Poll for the 2013 Election Year. This reverses the lead held by the ALP in the weeks before Christmas.
“It is obvious that the Gillard Government’s decision to abandon a long-promised Budget Surplus for 2012/13 has cost the Government support after Treasurer Wayne Swan discarded Labor’s commitment to deliver a Federal Budget Surplus for 2012/13 only a few days before Christmas.
“In addition, nearly 100,000 single parents had their Government support pension removed to start 2013 and replaced by Newstart payments — at a lower level. The issue (which involved cuts of up to $200 per week to some single parents) was highlighted on January 1 when Families Minister Jenny Macklin claimed she could live on the $35 per day payments ($246 per week).>
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THE POLLS ARE POLES APART .. Larry Pickering
There’s no need to worry, relax and enjoy the ride.
Despite Gillard’s multiple makeovers, new clothes and what looks suspiciously like a reduction in something, she is without hope.
Despite the avalanche of feel-good, unfunded promises and the muckraking filth of McTernan, despite her blistering gender fury, despite the support of the ABC and the Left Press and despite her newly-found art of the sweet smile and doggy doting, she cannot win the next election.
You can fool an intelligent Aussie once, but not twice.
Those who will vote for her again have always voted ALP but there are not enough of them now.
To itemise the dismal failures, immorality, incompetence (and in some cases pure evil) of this Government is nigh impossible. Suffice it to say that this lady makes Whitlam look like Menzies.
Forget Newspoll, they regularly get it wrong. Polling by phone during work hours results in skewed figures. The only accurate polls involve clipboard interviews of 1400 people in Martin Place during lunch hour, but they don’t do that anymore.
Phone polling means you only get to interview people who have time to talk to you. Those at work can’t talk to you. Those who do have the time are home on benefits and those returning from work are dog tired and too busy preparing dinner and getting the kids to bed.
There is only one unemotional poll that can invariably be relied on; the bookmaker’s. Money is the truest indicator of someone’s intentions.
With the ALP quoted at $4.20 and the Coalition at $1.28 we need look no further to gauge the result of the next election.
It’s not the bookmaker who determines the dividend, it’s the punter... you and me!
Once it was rude to broach the subject of who you intended voting for, it was a private matter. Not now. The anger in the electorate remains white hot as the lady, Moses like, divides a once tranquil sea in two.
Polarisation is intensely bitter but has the silver lining of the Greens losing seriouss ground. All minor parties suffer when the electorate vents its fury on a major party.
On another matter. I saw a news item recently where a rust-coloured dog was actually trained to drive a car. It was remarkable.
Now, no-one will own up, but someone in the Gillard household has picked up a whole bunch of speeding tickets in a taxpayer-subsidised car.
It couldn’t be, could it?
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A man jumped into a cab in London.
He said, "Take me to Waterloo".
The cabbie said, "The station?"
The bloke replied, "Well, I'm a bit late for the fucking battle!"
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