Shadow Minister,

There is so much on the web.

Here is just one link:

http://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/bill-shorten-opens-up-about-rape-allegations-20140821-106r7h.html

You need to stop using language like "lies" and "weasling out."
They are not concepts that are part of my behaviour.

Shadow, pathetic attempt to justify the perverted activity of high profile members of the Coalition government by deflecting to the Greens. The only thing you ever have had to sling mud our way is some indistinguishable ex-member of the Greens who was unsuccessful at a local council election. BTW I understand the fella in question was acquitted of all charges. Unlike Bonking Barnyard, Randy Andy and Fat George, what a disgusting trio.

Dear o sung wu,

I was there as a teenager. Attended the same school as the current president had, in fact he and my mother would exchange books as he was our neighbour.

This was in Davao City and there were certainly plenty of in your words “conventional Aussies male tourists, who are, overweight, and lonely for female company” even back then.

We had several Moro Liberation attacks happen near us during our stay, one landing was just a few kilometres up the beach. I also remember the school being evacuated because of an attack on a chemical plant. We were there at the start of the real insurgency although tensions had been brewing for a while. The Muslim population had not been treated well and the things like the Homestead Program pushed Christians into predominately Muslim areas often displacing whole swathes as traditional land tenure was ignored by the new arrivals.

This left already poor people destitute and often begging for survival. It was the Jabidah massacre in 1968 of Muslim recruits that was the catalyst for armed revolt.

The Muslim Independence Movement it spawned later changed its name to the Mindanao Independence Movement to be inclusive of non-Muslims but its aims were for a separate Muslim state.

There was certainly serious armed conflict during that time which took the lives of more than a few graduates from our school at the time.

The movement ultimately succeeded in getting the Philippine government to hand over a fair amount of autonomy to certain Muslim areas in the Southern Philippines. However there were groups within the organisation which were against the agreement with the government. One of the resultant splinter groups was called the Moro Islamic Liberation Front forming in 1984 so well after my time there.

It has certainly been a vehicle for a more pernicious Islamist ideology, often foreign financed, which has caused an increased unrest in the region. Heavy handed government responses have further served to alienate even those committed to the original agreement. Hopefully it doesn't escalate further.

Hi there STEELEREDUX...

What a tremendous experience you must've had as a teenager. I found the 'pinoy' lovely people, with a very cheerful disposition, and that's despite their poor circumstances. I was utterly dumfounded at the level of poverty, and the harshness of their gaols when juxtaposed to ours. We interviewed several people who were held at the 'Manila City 'Jail' and I was surprised at how overcrowded it was, compared to other western gaols I'd seen. If you have a mind to, Google..'.Manila City Jail' and that'll give you some idea how overcrowded the place is. Steele; thank you for taking the time to explain your own (personal) connection to the RP. I'd go further, but we're right off topic, caused by me, so best I leave it at that. Thanks again Steele.

It's said that Edward VIII who abdicated had a face that was "un-lived in" , without expression or definition, which is like Kim Jong Un with baby-smooth , bland features. Both seem unable to deal with life in a responsible way , as if remote from reality, maybe a form of autism. Kim may abdicate North Korea's existence taking a lot of adults with him.
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Shadow Minister,
Some people are blind to truth and facts.

You could put here the allegations made against Judge Kavanaugh, being case 1.
Followed by case 2 the allegations made against Shorten.

The blind will say and have said on another thread Judge Kavanaugh was guilty we should believe the female.

But when it comes to Shorten we should not believe the female, although in this case her recollection etc is better and more specific.

Thought about doing it would just be a waste of time, blind to the end.