With the inimitable Lindsay Tanner about to rule on the merits of Crikey’s Slideshow Alley initiative, we thought it was time to bring out the big guns and shine a light on three instances of pollie and media egregiousness over the week that was.
Fred Nile
NSW Parliament’s flawed porn hunt
NSW Christian Democrat leader Fred Nile says he didn’t access pornography from his parliamentary computer. There was an audit, yes. A flawed audit. Of a flawed internet usage policy.
Nile’s porn excuse doesn’t hold water
We shouldn’t be surprised that Christian Democrat leader Fred Nile was fingered as the Legislative Council’s biggest accessor of porn. US research has shown that social conservatives are the heaviest consumers of online pornography.
Fresh calls from Fred Nile to ban the burqa
Anti-burqa advocate New South Wales MP Reverend Fred Nile has introduced a private members bill to the state’s parliament in his latest attempt to ban people from wearing full-face covering in public places.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: McLucas returns?
Is Jan McLucas planning a comeback? Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital loses some big bucks, Fred Nile polls the electorate and more tips from Crikey readers.
Fred Nile’s kooky survey in Bradfield
Fred Nile has sent out a survey to voters in Bradfield, asking whether they support or oppose statements like “Jesus Christ is the Son of God” an “Australia needs a ten-year moratorium on Muslim immigration”.
Fred Nile turns people smuggler
Christian Democrat Fred Nile is getting into the people smuggling business, with plans to smuggle 2000 Christian asylum seekers by boat into Australia from Indonesia.
Nile expells Flash but he won’t be silenced
The Reverend “Flash” Gordon Moyes has been expelled from Fred Nile’s Christian Democrat Party.
Kim Il Nile v Dr Moyes: Two reverends go to war
Relations between the two Christian Democratic MPs in the NSW upper house, the Rev Fred Nile and the Rev Gordon Moyes, have deteriorated rapidly into state of all-out war, writes Alex Mitchell.
Fred Nile’s coup inside Christian Democrats
In extraordinary developments inside the Christian Democratic Party, Rev Fred Nile has become President for Life and his critics have been purged, writes Alex Mitchell.
Competition Revs up between NSW parliament’s odd couple
The Rev Fred Nile and the Rev Gordon Moyes, who collectively constitute the Christian Democratic Party in the NSW Legislative Council, are state parliament’s odd couple, writes Alex Mitchell.
Camden: Kevin07′s silent Kristallnacht
Two NSW MPS joined hundreds of angry residents at protests against the construction of a Jewish school in Camden in Sydney’s southwest. “The Jews have already taken over Sydney,” one protester explained. “We don’t want them coming here and doing the same thing.” Had this appeared in our daily papers, do you suppose Kevin Rudd would have added his voice to those denouncing the school?
Islam not as new to Camden as some may think
Today’s papers report on a meeting by Camden locals unhappy at proposals to build an Islamic school in their neighbourhood. However, Islam – albeit in a somewhat unconventional form – is not as new to the area as Camden residents might think, writes Shakira Hussein.
Why prostitutes love Reverend Fred Nile
Reverend Fred Nile he would not have foreseen that his amendment to the NSW brothel laws this year would have had so many unintended consequences such as creating havens for tax cheats, welfare fraudsters and peddlers of unsafe s-x, writes Chris Seage.
Scorecard of the day: Australian Christian Values Institute
It’s easier to carry into the polling both and refer to than the Book of Leviticus. It’s our election scorecard for today, an offering from the Australian Christian Values Institute.
