Dear Hassie,

I'm frankly surprised at your being disgusted at the
protest marches and the people who took part.
I would have thought that you'd be an advocate of
"free speech." I don't recall any disgust coming
from you when our previous PM Julia Gillard was being attacked
by the crowd that came in by the bus load into Canberra
and the vulgar signs that were put up against her. In front
of which our then opposition leader Mr Abbott stood.

I guess it all comes down to who's protesting and against
whom doesn't it?

Yes Poirot no doubt the teachers failed to let the kids know of 1200 or so deaths caused by RUdd/GIllard policy. Just tears for one so 15 can wear vulgar t/shirts demonising ABbott. So compassionate!

Yes, Hasbeen,

I don't recall you fainting in hysterics when Tones, Sophie and Bronnie and Co. were doin' their thing here...

http://www.thepoliticalsword.com/image.axd?picture=2013%2F5%2FAbbottDitchWitch.jpg

Faux sensibilities are such a pain, aren't they.

Yeah, runner...Jesus would cheer them on as they stuffed 'em into the orange pods (not)

This "vulgar", you reckon?

http://www.thepoliticalsword.com/image.axd?picture=2013%2F5%2FAbbottDitchWitch.jpg

Dear Foxy,

It was a pretty simple message from the March in march folk and reads as follows;

"A Statement of No Confidence in the Abbott Government
From The People of Australia

Let it be known, and entered into the public record, that on this day, Monday 17 March 2014, the People of Australia delivered this document to the Parliament of Australia.

This document is a “Statement of No Confidence” in the Liberal National Party Coalition Government and is tendered on behalf of the many thousands of people around the nation who marched in rallies and protests on the 15, 16 and 17 March 2014.

The people express their profound dissatisfaction with actions of the Liberal National Party Coalition Government and the Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott, during their term in office.

This document asserts that many decisions made within this Government’s term in office have already resulted in, and will continue to result in, great damage to Australia’s economy, to our social structure, to the deterioration of our country’s international public image and to further devastation of our natural environment and our Heritage listed sites.

The people protest at a great number of policies and decisions being implemented by the Liberal National Party Coalition Government which are in denial of the best interests and image of our nation and an affront to the common good.

This document affirms the public dissatisfaction with policies that are incompatible with our international moral and legal responsibilities and to our way of life as a compassionate and caring people.

The social democracy that represents the very fabric of Australian ideology requires that the Government govern for the common good of all its people.

We believe that decisions have been made in our name which are unfair, lacking in integrity, costly and divisive.

We, the people of Australia, call upon the Government to recognise this Statement of No Confidence."

As to offensive signage I am yet to see the poster that said “Kill Tony Abbott”. Media seems to be reporting it but without images. Hearsay? But the organisers did make it very clear that they wanted posters to “Be kept respectful” and the vast majority were just that.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BikQPMoCUAAjcqK.jpg:medium

"When protesters do emerge in significant numbers, however, it is the job of the news media to report them. It is indeed one of our most basic functions and one which we abjectly failed to perform on the weekend, first ignoring the twenty-thousand citizens who rallied across rural and regional Australia, before ignoring or underreporting the much larger numbers who rallied in the state capitals on Sunday."
Brisbane Times