Spooks, coons, gins. terminology found exclusively in the Australian vernacular.
Mate, itâs the police here doing that under the state sponsored racism in Australia
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Hard to burn down refugee centres when they build them on islands off the mainland and send them all thereâŚ
as for racist marchesâŚ
I do find the âReclaim Australiaâ group a bit ironic. They want to reclaim Australia for all the white immigrants who took the country and committed massive atrocities on indigenous people. If anyone should have a reclaim Australia group, its the indigenous population of Australia that should be doing it.
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clean up your own backyard mate
theyâre all cunts mate.
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Itâs fair to say that both Eire and Australia are very racist.
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I donât hear many Irish people call it âwogballâ.
knackerball brings up a few posts on here. Hardly any worse than wogball.
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Bogball would be the common one
That photo must be 10 years old? Itâs been doing the rounds for a while. I think Reclaim Australia have fuck all backing these days and havenât staged a rally in 5 or 6 years.
What do you think of Australiaâs immigration policies, pal?
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Kathleen Folbigg: Woman jailed over infant deaths pardoned
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Kathleen Folbigg always maintained she was innocent.
By Tom Housden
BBC News, Sydney
A woman once branded âAustraliaâs worst female serial killerâ has been pardoned after new evidence suggested she did not kill her four infant children.
Kathleen Folbigg spent 20 years in prison after a jury found she killed sons Caleb and Patrick and daughters Sarah and Laura over a decade.
But a recent inquiry heard scientists believe they may have died naturally.
The 55-year-oldâs case has been described as one of Australiaâs greatest miscarriages of justice.
Ms Folbigg, who has always maintained her innocence, was jailed for 25 years in 2003 for the murders of three of the children, and the manslaughter of her first son, Caleb.
Each child died suddenly between 1989 and 1999, aged between 19 days and 18 months, with prosecutors at her trial alleging she had smothered them.
Previous appeals and a separate 2019 inquiry into the case found no grounds for reasonable doubt, and gave greater weight to circumstantial evidence in Ms Folbiggâs original trial.
But at the fresh inquiry, headed by retired judge Tom Bathurst, prosecutors accepted that research on gene mutations had changed their understanding of the childrenâs deaths.
On Monday, New South Wales Attorney General Michael Daley said Mr Bathurst had concluded that there was reasonable doubt that Ms Folbigg was guilty.
As a result, the NSW governor had signed a full pardon, and ordered Ms Folbiggâs immediate release from prison.
âIt has been a 20-year-long ordeal for her⌠I wish her peace,â Mr Daley said, adding his thoughts were also with the childrenâs father, Craig Folbigg.
At the latest inquiry, Mr Folbiggâs lawyers pointed to the âfundamental implausibilityâ of four children from one family dying of natural causes under the age of two.
The unconditional pardon does not quash Ms Folbiggâs convictions, Mr Daley said. That would be a decision for the Court of Criminal Appeal, if Mr Bathurst chooses to refer the case to it - a process which could take up to a year.
If her convictions are overturned, she could then potentially sue the government for millions of dollars in compensation.
Her case has been compared to that of Lindy Chamberlain, who in 1982 was found guilty of the murder of her nine-week-old daughter, despite her claim that a dingo had taken the baby. She was awarded A$1.3m (ÂŁ690,000, $US 858,000) in 1992 for her wrongful conviction.
But some advocates say the case of Ms Chamberlain, imprisoned for three years, pales in comparison with Ms Folbiggâs.
âIt is impossible to comprehend the injury that has been inflicted upon Kathleen Folbigg - the pain of losing her children [and] close to two decades locked away in maximum security prisons,â said her lawyer, Rhanee Rego.
Law must be more âscience sensitiveâ
Ms Folbiggâs 2003 trial centred on circumstantial evidence, most notably diaries which expressed her struggles with motherhood.
Those diaries were given to police in 1999 by her then husband, Mr Folbigg, who in time became convinced that his wife was guilty. The pair separated in 2000.
The diary entries - in which she agonises over the death of her children and describes how the âguilt about them all haunts meâ - would form the basis of the prosecutorâs case.
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Two of Ms Folbiggâs children, Laura (left) and Patrick (right)
But there was no physical evidence of smothering or injuries to the children.
A campaign led by some of her friends prompted a petition to review her convictions based on forensic pathology findings.
At the recent inquiry, a team of immunologists found that Ms Folbiggâs daughters shared a genetic mutation - called CALM2 G114R - that can cause sudden cardiac death.
Evidence was also uncovered that her sons possessed a different genetic mutation, linked to sudden-onset epilepsy in mice. The inquiry heard Patrick had epileptic seizures in months before his death.
Prof Carola Vinuesa, who led the research team from the Australian National University, said an unusual genetic sequence was immediately obvious in Ms Folbiggâs DNA.
âWe did the first test and found a [gene] variant that looked very suspicious⌠even then in November 2018, we thought this [a] very high likelihood, if found in the children, to be the culprit,â she told the BBC.
Prof Vinuesa said there were only 134 known cases worldwide of the potentially deadly heart condition, known as calmodulinopathy, linked to the genetic mutation.
She described the decision to pardon Ms Folbigg as a âbeautiful momentâ that could offer hope to other women in similar situations.
âWeâve been approached about women who have lost children, or who have been accused of inflicting harm, and the cases look as if theyâre also children with severe genetic conditions,â she said.
The Australian Academy of Science says the case shows the need for reform that makes the legal system more âscience sensitiveâ, a call echoed by Ms Folbiggâs lawyer.
Thatâs a tough read. The poor woman.
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Spent a couple of great weekends there. Wild old spot.
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