18 jun 09:19pm

The HomepageDAILY community likes to co-create both content and process. What are you thinking right now about what we do and how we do it? Tell us about the news, videos and stories and anything else you see on HPD. What you like, what you don't like, what you'd like to see in future. Recommend a website, video or article; send us pix, new stories - share it with us and by so doing you are giving us permission to share it with the world.

Leave Feedback here

               ********************************

Re: Strings Attached

Loved this satirical piece. Pissed myself over Uncle Tom Pierson and Bral Mough's new paternalism being branded "radicalism". But why stop with the "Blackfellas" - all dole bludgers should be fined when they hit the piss or when their kids truant. Maybe we should bring back the lash. . . - Peter Greenland

               ********************************

Re: Jesus Loves Torture Porn

That's a great article! I like your website mysterious homepageDAILY people. Keep up the good werk - 'Sideshow' Bob Roberts

               ********************************

Re: Shut Up and Sing

If Gen Xers didn't care about the Dixie Chicks that's probably because we thought their music was crappy soft country/rock which appealed to right-wing Bible Belt American boomers - like Keith Urban who nobody in Australia would have pissed on if he was on fire until he hooked up with Nicole Kidman. And if you're going to anger your Republican voting evangelical Christian record buying audience (which was the Dixie's market pre-backlash) with an anti-Bush rant then you reap what you sow.

The fact that a few US radio stations banned their music should be worn as a badge of honour and they've sold millions of records and won loads of awards since becoming 'political', so what's their whinge? Oh what - their multi-million selling hit single is the whinge. It still sounds like the same old crap Dixie Chicks to me, but now they've got lefties as an audience rather than right-wingers. Can we move on now? I haven't seen the doco by the way, but what do you expect, I'm a dumb apathetic Gen Xer - Slacka, Sydney

                 ********************************

Re: Shut Up and Sing

Oy! Lighten up on the boomers, buddy! I think you will find that it's largely boomers who carry the flag against censorship and are more liberal than your "modern" Gen X/Y conservatives. All the boomers I know were outraged (but not surprised) by the treatment the Chicks got - Roger

                ********************************

Re: Fess Up, Feds!

It appears that the Foreign Minister of Australia, Alexander Downer, as well as the Federal Attorney General, Philip Ruddock and his Secretary, Robert Cornwall, and others, have repeatedly made statements they knew to be false relating to a series of criminal acts allegedly committed against Australian citizen, Mamdouh Habib. These official statements served to cover up the brutal crimes allegedly committed against Habib, widely supported by investigators, and had the effect of impeding a proper Australia Federal Police investigation.

Hindering an investigation is itself unlawful and could well be the basis of a prima facie case against the above mentioned office holders. The crimes alleged against Habib include kidnap on foreign soil, beating, drugging, binding and transportation across international borders, for the purpose of false imprisonment and the infliction of torture. A blood thirsty account is contained in the transcript of the ABC's Four Corners, June 11, available here - Stephen R, Melbourne