September 2010
6 posts
Age of Reason: The Coffee Cup Analogy →
ageofreason:
The Coffee Cup Analogy
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and...
just a Q (Submitted by Cameron)
I am just wondering what your stance as the youth democrats of Australia, on issues such as same sex marriage and rights within family and contractual law etc.
btw. You guys are doing great keep going :)
Cameron, our stance on said subjects most definitely aligns with the policies of the Australian Democrats. They can be found here http://www.democrats.org.au/policies/.
June 2010
4 posts
This nation, so caught up and comfortable with the normal two choices it has seen itself presented with over the past 109 years, now, more than ever, needs another. We see opinion polls telling us that more Australians are turning to the Greens because of their severe dissatisfaction with Labor and the Liberals. But the best choice for Australia, the best choice for tomorrow, the best choice to...
Australia: Nanny State
http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/life-ruined-by-customs-porn-confiscation-20100602-wymn.html
A Melbourne man says his life has been ruined after Customs officers took his hard drive from him because it contained pornography.
Customs has recently started asking incoming travellers if they are carrying pornography in a bid to block illegal pornographic material entering the country.
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The Gaza issue; update
The NSW Young Australian Democrats would like to clarify their position in light of recent evidence indicating:
Both IDF personnel and protestors acted violently and in a matter inconclusive to the cause of peace;
The Israeli government offered to disembark aid and transfer it under the supervision of the protestors as early as a month ago; and
Israeli troops boarded after repeated...
May 2010
3 posts
Earth deserves better
You’d think that, perhaps, they would have got the point by now. You’d think that they would have woken up and done something about it, that they’d try to lessen the impact, that they’d at least acknowledge it in some form. But they have not.
They, and us, mankind, are so deluded by our own ignorance and prejudice that we don’t realise we are destroying the very thing that gave us life. We are...
Public money has no place funding Rudds political...
Spending $38 million of public, tax payer money to fund an ad campaign is in NO way excusable, especially for something that will, rest assured, be detrimental to our strong, Capitalist economy.
Rudd and Labor need to stop their disgusting, detrimental habit of lying to the vox populi, and begin to act like a real Democratic Government, if they think they have any semblance of a chance to win the...
Clubs & knives against guns and warships?
Last night, Israeli Marines boarded the lead ship of six vessels bound for Gaza, the inhabitants of which were part of a peaceful aid envoy of over 600 people called the Free Gaza Movement. These aid workers had hoisted white flags as the Israeli Marine helicopter hoisted down soldiers armed to the teeth, in the dead of night, in International waters.
Why on Earth would a nation board a peace...
April 2010
4 posts
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first...”
– Thomas Jefferson
“The State has no right to define love, and certain leaders have no right to...”
– Julia Melland, (President, Australian Democrats)
