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depends what the goal of the marches is.
If its just to continue the conversation then no. Its achieving its goal proven by your post
According to the march organisers, the objective is to stop the Palestinian genocide by forcing the Australian Government to take action against Israel.
Yep. You just gotta love stats. You can prove almost anything with them.
I suspect that most folk have experienced crime and have suffered as a result.
One of my brothers and I were lucky to survive being stabbed many times, my sister in law was murdered, my sister was raped, another brother was king hit while walking on St Kilda pier, my buck’s night was disrupted by an all in brawl … and all of those incidents occurred last century.
This century has been relatively quiet in contrast, and that’s confirmed by the statistics.
Anxiety about crime is higher now and that’s down to the law and order agenda pushed by the media and politicians - when it suits their electoral ambitions.
Josh Giddey has just signed a four year contract with the Chicago Bulls.
Recognition of his outstanding season.
Malthouse had intruders come in and threaten him in his house overnight, this has to be stopped. Nuffs enuff. This is what we should all be protesting about every weekend, f a r k Gaza!!! Lets worry about our own s h i t show here.
It is more that Russian children were trained from the time of the Tsars not to smile in public. Back in those days, they thought smiling would attract the Okrana, the Tsar's secret police. It was more so during the days of the Sovietskiy Soyuz, where first Lavrenti Beria's NKVD was thought to be attracted to anyone who smiled. Considering that one third of the entire Soviet payroll was working for the NKVD, they always knew of such things.
Yep, my experience with Russians was you dont smile at people you dont know and same with Germans.
I was there in 1997 and people still didn't smile in public: it had become part of the Russian psyche.
I didn't find the same thing in Deutschland, but I could speak some German. They didn't even pick on me for my nice Australian accent (not in German - they knew I was a foreigner because I didn't speak dialect, rather than from my accent. They wanted to practice their English; that's when they noted my accent. I'm sure I affected a significant number of Germans with my English).
Yep, my experience with Russians was you dont smile at people you dont know and same with Germans.In Germany they think only crazy people go around smiling, a polite nod of the head as you pass is considered acceptable but outlandish, the preferred option is head and eyes down look straight ahead and don't run into anybody.
This was quite a challenge, last time I was there it was summer. We were walking down the main road through what is considered the fashion district, a girl came out of a house, actually it was probably an office as old terrace houses are used commercially. She was wearing a bright yellow 60s style one piece miniskirt suit / dress and white thigh boots, the type you might see in a Austin Powers movie. She walked across the footpath in front of us and started unloading a convertible through the passenger side window, to say that certain garments might be optional in Germany is a little short of accurate, either that or she doesn't feel the cold, regardless one of the blokes I was with knackered himself on a rapidly approaching parking meter. We all laughed at him and she berated us for being cruel!
In many countries, smiling at someone you do not know personally is considered offensive or creepy, I suspect the old Soviet block would account for a chunk of them.
Dan always wanted Victoria to be like China.
By my maths, when you take away 5.45M from the TPP for TDK (1.85M), NWM (2M), SOS(0.8M) and Alir (0.8M), , it leaves an average of around 300K for the other 41 players. Enjoy the carnage Saints.
That's all well and good but clubs must spend at least 95% of their TPP. If the Saints had an underspend this year. they must still have forked out at least $16.8M. Next season's TPP is rolled in with an increase of the soft cap but it's set at $18.4M for 2027 so, split the difference and go with $18M. That goes up to $18.9M if they did have a 5% underspend. With Nas and TDK raking in at least $3.8M, they've only got $15.1M to pay the other 40 odd players. Take out $800K for Leek Aleer and possibly another $800K for Silvagni, and that drops their available budget to $13.5M. That's around $350K each and Steele, Hill, King, Sinclair, Wilkie and Marshall all get considerably more than that. Haircuts and frontloading doesn't get you from $16.8M down to $15.1M or lower and they will be pushing players out the door.
I'm not saying that they can't afford to pay players next season but it's not sustainable and they won't be able retain their young talent.
Yep, good on him he was fairly solid all year.
