Category: General

NineMSN: Gurshan ‘knocked out by opening door’

The man charged over the death of a Melbourne toddler has told his father in India that he panicked when he accidentally knocked the boy unconscious while opening a door….

His father Pragat Singh Dhillon has told the Indian media that the toddler had been standing behind the front door of the house when the accused opened it, knocking the boy unconscious.

“He then called out to Gurshan’s mother, who was taking a bath, and his own wife, Simrat Kaur, who was in the kitchen at the time, but both couldn’t hear his calls,” he said in an interview with the Indian Express newspaper.

“He then put the child in his car to take him to hospital.”

Yeah, he put the child in the BOOT of the car to take him to hospital. He didn’t think to get the mother from the shower, or his Mrs to help.

BOLLOCKS.

Lets not forget, the kid to that point had been screaming.

Manslaughter my arse.

Why bother?

New Dr Who to make online debut

Australian Doctor Who fans will be able to legally watch new episodes of the sci-fi series online before they air on television.

Date to appear in iView: April 16.

Date first episode airs in the UK: April 4.

Running a VPN or proxy to watch the stream from the BBC website April 5: not illegal at all.

If the ABC was serious about attracting Doctor Who fans, they’d run it on iView April 5.

Despite the Indian Media, local Indian representatives, and even family members calling racism this week, guess what.

The tragic death of the 3 yr old child (and I don’t give a shit what colour his is, he’s 3) came about due to an Indian national in the house.

Yeah, terrible racism again Indian media. And Indian student association head.

Enough is enough.

I don’t doubt that a very small number of attacks here might have been racially motivated. But I’m sick and tired of the whole racist meme, when most attacks weren’t.

And low and behold, like the last murder, the murder was within the Indian community.

Where’s the apologies Indian media. Where’s the apologies Indian community reps on ABC radio who called racism?

Here’s the important thing: he lived in the same house as the kid who died. That kid never disappeared, the guy took him, and I’d hope the others in the house are charged because given the “screaming” there is NO way the rest didn’t know.

Love this graphic from the BOM today. “This thunderstorm is very dangerous”…and it’s red as well:

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!

So you’re stuck in the middle of whoop whoop. Literally. You might be stuck for the night, under dressed, surrounded by scrub and god knows what else. So what do you ask for?

via The Age

As the light was fading, the chopper pilot wouldn’t be able to land but could drop some supplies.

“Beer, water, food and rugs. Especially beer,” quipped the Opposition Leader.

You just can’t imagine Rudd saying anything close.

Where do Fairfax find these people?

The Age: W-class shake and rattle should be rolled into retirement

It’s quite possible that any resident of San Francisco, Vienna or even Bendigo – all of which have trams – might have seen photographs of the flying W-class at the Commonwealth Games and thought Melburnians a tad backward.

October last year

Second Melbourne tram joins San Francisco’s historic streetcar fleet

One of Melbourne’s iconic W-Class trams was presented to San Francisco as a gift to run on the city’s heritage streetcar service.

Yes, they think us so backward they ask for more W class trams.

The Age: Airport road won’t cope with demand, study shows

In its brief to IMIS, the Department of Transport specified it must measure the likely popularity of the train line based on a $16 one-way fare (the cost of the existing SkyBus).

It found few people who now drive to the airport would be convinced to use the rail line, and it would instead take passengers off existing bus services and taxis.

It also found an airport rail link would ruin the taxi industry, which relies on 7000 trips a day to the airport.

Wrong. So very wrong.

Sure, it would kill the Sky Bus, but it wouldn’t ruin the taxi industry. When was the last time anyone could say they visited an airport with a rail link and not found a busy cab rank. I haven’t been into Brisbane that often but always see cabs. Have been to Sydney fairly regularly, and I always have to queue for cabs, even though there’s a perfectly good rail line that connects into the city.

The misunderstanding is one of taxi use: people catch a cab now because it’s quicker and drops you to your door.

The Sky Bus on the other hand gets caught in traffic and is piss poor.

If you had an express train to the city from the airport, you’d actually have more users than the Sky Bus.

Would some switch from cabs: yes. But likewise it may also force Melbourne cabs to reduce charges to the airport as well, which in my experience traveling are some of the worst in the world price wise.

To get from Mont Albert to the airport costs me a staggering $90 in a cab…to travel 38kms. If I could get on a train that takes 10 mins into town, and a 25 minute trip out, hell I’d consider using it…because in traffic and thanks to a piss poor situation at the end of the Eastern Freeway, it takes just as long, if not longer in a cab, unless it’s early morning or late night.

I’m not anti-freeway or anti-car by any means: connect the Eastern to Citylink tomorrow I say, but likewise if Melbourne believes it’s a serious city in a global sense, it would also build a line to the airport.

PS: and it should connect to the Doncaster line, which should ALSO be built ASAP.

The Age: Most attacks on Indians not racial: report

One in seven assaults on Indians in Australia in the past 14 months has been racially motivated, an Indian government report claims.

But here’s the kicker which The Age completely ignores:

A list collated by the Indian high commission in Canberra and tabled in the Indian Parliament, records 152 assaults on Indians in Australia since the start of last year.

The 152 is a very significant number, because the assault rate in Australia is (according to NationMaster) 702 per 100,000 people.

According to Wikipedia, there are 235,000 people of “Indian origin” living in Australia.

If the 152 figure is correct, that’s an assault rate of 66 people per 100,000.

Indians are assaulted in Australia at a rate 10 times less than the “average” person.

Does that sound like a racist crime wave to you? Indian media, does that sound like Indian students are being singled out vs non-Indian residents.

Let me repeat that: the assault rate against people of Indian origin living in Australia would appear, at least according to an INDIAN GOVERNMENT REPORT to be more than 10x less than the average in Australia.

Game over.

The Age: Local-born more at risk of assault

PEOPLE born overseas are less likely to be assaulted than those born in Australia, according to new Australian Bureau of Statistics data…

It showed an assault rate of 3.6 per cent for Australian-born people, or 445,000 victims, compared with an assault rate of 1.7 per cent, or 82,000, for those born in other countries.

Wait, if local born people are assaulted at twice the rate, isn’t that discriminatory against Australians? Or maybe we just treat our visitors with more respect?