Australian Politics
‘Porn’ comic book off Logan library shelves after conservative lobbyist Bernard Gaynor lodges complaint with police, classification board
Logan City Council will review its library policy after complaints were lodged about an allegedly inappropriate comic book which refers to masturbation, gay porn, blow jobs while driving and vagina slime.
Gender Queer: A Memoir, a book which details sexual topics that may affect young people, is aimed at helping them understand their sexuality.
It was taken off Logan City Council library shelves this month following a complaint from conservative political activist Bernard Gaynor.
According to the book’s author Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir, came about after their own experiences searching for answers to questions about nonbinary identities.
“I started questioning these topics when I was like 12, 13 years old, and then didn’t come out as nonbinary until I was 25,” Kobabe said on a podcast with US-based group GLAAD last year.
“Having a book like this, or any book that explored nonbinary identity, would have probably taken 10 years of confusion and uncertainty out of my life,” Kobabe said.
After Mr Gaynor alerted police, QPS referred the book to the Australian Classification Board, which will review the matter and determine what action to take.
Mr Gaynor, who wants the book permanently removed from library shelves, launched a protest outside the council’s Wembley Rd offices.
It is unknown whether all copies have been removed while the council investigation is under way.
Since the initial complaint on March 4, four others books have been targeted.
Logan City councillor Karen Murphy said the council review had already started. “This review will be undertaken with reference to council’s Library Collection Development Policy,” Ms Murphy said online. “This policy is consistent with national public library standards and guidelines.
“Council will make no further comment until the review is completed.”
Mr Gaynor said Logan council should not be loaning out the books to children but he was glad it had been removed from library shelves.
However, he said the council was still keeping Gender Queer and would make it available, upon request, even to children.
“As far as I know, it is the first time this book has been challenged successfully anywhere in Australia,” he said.
“There is a reason these books are written and published and placed on shelves ... in public libraries – none of this is an accident. It happens by design.”
Mr Gaynor said he was determined to see the book banned permanently and said Logan City Council staff had refused to meet with him, telling him there was nothing wrong with Gender Queer.
The classification board, which can censor, restrict or ban content, said it was yet to classify Gender Queer and had not had any requests to do so until recently.
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MARK LATHAM'S no-nonsense election manifesto that will make sense to millions of struggling Aussies: Go nuclear, supply cheap electricity - and teach schoolkids what REALLY matters
We need to return to what worked best: coal and gas-fired power and now, with the advent of Australian nuclear submarines, we also need nuclear electricity generation.
Only dependable, 24/7 baseload power can keep the lights on in NSW and ease the cost of living crisis.
In schools policy, Perrottet and Minns have been just as negligent. The Education Minister, Sarah Mitchell, doesn't do anything unless the Education Department tells her to.
She is totally captive to unelected bureaucrats - the same people who have given NSW the fastest-falling school academic results in the world.
The Labor policy, under orders from the Teachers Federation, is to convert 10,000 casual teachers to permanent positions.
This won't add a single teacher to any classroom or school, or address the teacher shortage crisis.
It simply changes the employment classification of existing teachers, many of whom want to stay as casuals because of the workplace flexibility it delivers.
One Nation has a different approach. We would lift the professional standards of teaching plus pay our best teachers more to bring high-achieving school leavers back into the State's classrooms.
We would also return teaching itself to the evidence base.
It's hard to believe the NSW Government doesn't require any classroom to be taught according to the education research.
We know exactly what works and doesn't work in schools. If we know these things, why doesn't the Minister require every classroom to teach to the evidence?
That means Direct Instruction, phonics in literacy, strong behavioural standards, lots of testing and data assessment and individual student learning plans.
This is how you reverse the State's slide down international league tables and lift student results.
It's not hard to see why the major parties are failing. They have become old, complacent and ineffective.
It's time for change. It's time for the 'minor parties' to become major ones and force into government policy real solutions to longstanding problems.
In NSW, we need intent, not imagery; solutions, not spin.
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Subs hypocrisy shows common sense has left the building
Australia will have five nuclear reactors sailing around our coastlines but it will remain illegal to build nuclear reactors on the mainland.
Over the past year, Germany has reopened 24 coal-fired power stations, China is building more than 100 gigawatts of coal-fired power and the Biden administration just approved a massive expansion of oil drilling in Alaska.
But Australia cannot even contemplate building a coal-fired power station to keep the lights on. It does not make any sense.
And, keeping the lights on might be at the lower end of the risks we face. The Albanese government’s purchase of two (and possibly five) nuclear-powered American submarines received widespread approval, except from the Greens and Paul Keating.
Just a few years ago, it would be impossible to contemplate broad support for nuclear submarines. Opinion has shifted rapidly because of the impending risk of conflict in our region. There remains an alarming gap, however, between the risks of war and what we are doing to prepare our broader economy for such a grim eventuality.
The purchase of submarines is one thing, but we cannot defend Australia without a functioning industrial economy.
Last month, the Australian energy regulator, known as the Australian Energy Market Operator, warned that Australia would be 8 gigawatts short of reliable power over the next decade, which is roughly an amount of power equal to four large coal-fired power stations. Wind and solar cannot fill this gap. We need power options that can be on all the time.
So where is our “nuclear submarine” answer to this impending crisis for our industrial economy?
I suppose one option could be that we park the nuclear submarines in Sydney Harbour and run a long extension cord to the mainland to help. That would at least deliver one-eighth of the power gap from the nuclear reactors on board.
While a joke, this underscores the absurdity of our situation. We are going to permit up to five nuclear reactors to sail around our coastlines, and dock in our harbours, but it would remain illegal to build a nuclear reactor on the mainland. Make it make sense!
We do not have the time to protect sacred cows.
Scott Morrison made a courageous decision to overturn decades of perceived political wisdom on nuclear submarines. He was rewarded for his courage with barely a whimper of political opposition. It is time for the courage of politicians to lift to match the level of the crisis we face.
Instead, we continue to pointlessly fight a climate war almost alone even though we have no chance of winning it on our own. How does it make sense to think that we can trust China to act on climate change while we also spend more than $300bn because we are worried they will start a war in our region?
If we cannot trust China on coronavirus, if we cannot trust them to reduce the risks of conflict, we cannot trust them on climate.
And, if China does not act on climate, all our costly climate policies, which are increasing the cost of living, mean nothing.
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Super betrayal: it’s not a tax on the rich, it’s a tax on the young
Throughout my twenty years as a financial planner, a frequent objection to my strategies is, ‘I don’t trust super’. The proposed new taxes from the Labor government further erodes trust in the Australian superannuation system. And in politicians.
However, despite what the Australian Labor Party want you to believe, and no matter how much they downplay the changes, this great big new tax isn’t tinkering around the edges. It goes to the very heart of our superannuation system and will prevent many Australians from securing a self-funded retirement.
This is because the socialists deliberately did not index the $3 million level where the tax will kick in. So as inflation occurs, the $3 million will have a reducing present value.
Contrast this with the 1 July 2017 introduction of Morrison’s maximum $1.6 million limit which people could place in pension phase. This limit was indexed and will be moving to $1.9 million in July of this year. That’s 18.75 per cent higher in just 6 years; if the same had applied to $3 million, it would now be $3,562,500.
This illustrates how quickly inflation devalues money.
Let’s say you’re 60 now. If inflation averages 5 per cent over the next 7 years, the $3 million will have a present value of $2,132,044. And if, after the RBA has crushed the economy, the inflation rate then drops to 3.0 per cent, by the time a 50-year-old reaches 67, the $3 million limit will be $1,586,441 today’s dollars. For a 40 year old it’ll be $1,180,461.
Sure, still healthy balances, but not astronomically high.
In fact, it is getting very close to the current asset level where a single non-homeowner can start receiving some aged pension – $846,750. And in twenty years’ time, factoring in increases to the pension eligibility levels, it’ll be lower. The government will be taxing people’s superannuation at 30 per cent, whilst giving them pension payments. Classic socialist Labor.
This bastard move from Anthony Albanese and the ALP is very deliberate. They know full well what they are doing; how could they not? The government’s current proposed legislation on the objective of superannuation gives the game away:
They then define adequacy as ‘to support a minimum standard of living in retirement’.
This is what Labor want the super system to be; something that gives you a minimum standard of living. And as a matter of course, if their new tax is legislated, within a few decades they will have achieved their objective. There won’t be fully self-funded retirees, and everyone will be reliant on at least some payment ‘from’ the government.
Whilst ALP politicians try and make this a class war, the only war going on is between the politicians and the people. Albanese and his pension will not be impacted, many public servants on defined benefits won’t either, but average Australians certainly will.
Unfortunately, the lobby group for most of the actual superannuation funds hasn’t even put out a media release on Labor’s proposed new tax, or worked out what the impacts will be. This could be because the majority of member funds are union funds. But the AFSA show their priority by stating any assessment will factor in ‘importantly, the extent to which the associated tax savings will be used to address the gender retirement gap and to boost super balances for low-income earners’. You can see a list of what I believe to be activist super funds here.
To anyone under 50, your chances of a fully self-funded retirement just got significantly more unlikely.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/super-betrayal-its-not-a-tax-on-the-rich-its-a-tax-on-the-young
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http://dissectleft.blogspot.com (DISSECTING LEFTISM -- daily)
http://antigreen.blogspot.com (GREENIE WATCH)
http://pcwatch.blogspot.com (POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH)
http://edwatch.blogspot.com (EDUCATION WATCH)
http://snorphty.blogspot.com/ (TONGUE-TIED)
http://jonjayray.com/blogall.html More blogs
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