A rare outburst of unity on the Bourke Street horror — except for cloth-eared Annie
A relatively unified view between our leaders? The Age, Saturday:
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called on Muslim leaders to take “special responsibility” for stamping out radicalism in their communities, saying they must be proactive and “call this out for what it is”. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said Australia needed to be “ruthless” against people who carried out violence in the name of a “twisted” … version of religion.
The Weekend Australian followed up an appearance by Labor MP Anne Aly on Sky News, Saturday:
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been slammed for his remarks singling out radical Islam in the wake of the Bourke Street terror attack. Labor MP and counter-terrorism expert Anne Aly said the PM’s response to the events in Melbourne was ignorant and “politically desperate”, after he called Islamic extremism the greatest threat to Australia’s national security … “I don’t care how politically desperate you are, now is not the right time to divide the community.”
Guardian Australia quoted Victoria’s Daniel Andrews, Saturday:
I want to point out that what we saw yesterday was an act of terror … (describing it as) pure evil.
Also in Guardian Australia that day:
Andrews said he had congratulated Scott Morrison for his comments earlier today condemning “radical, violent extremist Islam that opposes our very way of life”.
AFP acting deputy commissioner for national security Ian McCartney, The Age, Saturday:
(The perpetrator) came with his family (and) had links to the Islamic State terrorist group. It’s fair to say he was inspired.
ABC Four Corners looked at Melbourne’s African gangs. Interviewee Titan Debirioun, November 5:
You feel like you’re representing your skin colour for everyone that’s just like you. So you have to be an extra nice person, extra smart. Even if you’re not feeling it that day, you just have to have a smile on, because if you don’t you look scary.
Reviewing David Kemp’s Land of Dreams, Quadrant brings us some of Debirioun’s lyrics:
Soning every body since life has been a science / My middle name is violence I can ooze it from sinus / Tell these niggas call me uncle or your sexy Royal highness / Googled up my L’s and I still couldn’t find / It
The Daily Caller’s website adds extra evidence for global warming sceptics’ armoury, November 7:
The recent headline-grabbing study that claimed global warming was heating the oceans up faster than expected suffers from a major math error, according to two researchers. The study, which was published in a prestigious scientific journal (Nature) at the end of October, put forward results suggesting global warming was much worse than previously believed. The media ate the results up. Independent scientist Nic Lewis found the study had “apparently serious (but surely inadvertent) errors in the underlying calculations”.
The New York Times: October 31:
(The study suggested global warming) has been more closely in line with scientists’ worst-case scenarios.
The Daily Caller again:
Lewis found the study’s authors, led by Princeton scientist Laure Resplandy, erred in calculating the linear trend of estimated ocean warming between 1991 and 2016. Lewis has also criticised climate model predictions … (that) over-predict warming.