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Letter to Christine Milne - Are the Greens The Insurgents?

Dear Senator, I know what you are trying to say to me accompanied by Sarah Hanson Young, the tearful little girl but please do not distort the truth in the process. These people spent hundreds of thousands to smugglers who, if they were refugees as you say, could have used that money in attempts to turn their situation around so please do not pull at my heart strings for them when nothing is done for the old guys sleeping rough in the doorways west of the city and the Vietnam vet behind the gardeners shed covered in newspapers from the cold in the West Tce cemetery at 2 am.

I belonged s few years ago to a small team of volunteers who roam the area with an offduty policewoman between 2am and 4 am on Sunday mornings with hot pie floaters and soup. We were the Ghost Busters. Allow me to address the problem of those already in the country in detention.

Stop the politicking for a change. It does you and Greens no credit to ignore the very simple fact that it is the children with our children to provide the harmony of integration. Start calling the “Detention Centers”, Hostels. Separate the men over 16 from the rest. Open the gates during the day. Call for volunteers as Mentors, pay them to accompany mothers with children and all unaccompanied children under the age of 16 to the local school. Make time for it to be set up with harmony the key purpose. Issue the TPV’s to them.

That leaves males above 16 who are in the majority who should be put to small Council work teams or fruit harvest etc. to qualify for their food shelter etc. Get them all to name themselves for new identity TPV’s. That will fix the destruction of real identity. What’s in a name anyway? Not much evidently, if the original one has been thrown away for it would be an impossible task for the AFP. Hardly an issue methinks, for what would we do if they came from the moon?

You must as a Senator play a part as custodian of the Nation with a duty to be seen as protecting it above all else. It is way above your Party politics. There are Afghanis. Yet our own have been dying to protect the Afghanis from themselves. What does that make you and the Greens? There is enough written to describe first hand observation of the ways of life and death in regions of Islamia. Would you know for sure if they were running away from it or bringing it with them? It would be prudent to be hard nosed about it when an Imam in Sydney one time described Australian women by the way they dress as “covered meat”

With Best Wishes and Good Luck
Bob Stewart

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Permalink Reply by Rob Moore on July 1, 2012 at 8:00am

A constructive letter Bob offering some practical ideas.

These green girls have either grown up in cotton wool or some other twisted up bringing- to have such a limp view of the world and its people. They should read a bit of history for some real clues!

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 1, 2012 at 9:01am

Rob, I put the letter here because every link to the Senators on the Greens website that I brought up rejected any attempts to get the letter to them. I was appalled at the reaction of Sarah Hanson-Young, an elected Senator. Custodian of the Nation in the Parliament. I spent 2 years in the bush in Islamia 73-74. The 15 year old Afghani boy that caused her to lose it may yet have been one to join in killing his 11 or 12 year old sister for "family honor" if she were to run away after having been sold for marriage.

But there is that other dimension. Afghanis arriving here with plenty of money who chose to run away may yet be insurgents. Not in a military sense of the word but a social sense and it is for that reason I continue to push hard for integration of the children for it is through them that the mothers will see and feel the safety and security they sought.

Rob Moore said:

A constructive letter Bob offering some practical ideas.

These green girls have either grown up in cotton wool or some other twisted up bringing- to have such a limp view of the world and its people. They should read a bit of history for some real clues!

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 1, 2012 at 2:48pm

Not too sure about Olga's Bare Delights Bro.Al. Do you mean that cake and gateau shop in Gouger St.? If you ask for a vanilla slice they take you upstairs? I think it has moved to "more spacious" premises.

alan mikkelsen said:

Yes, Senator Milne's office is right on the harbour, as I have posted here (with pic) a number of times over the past couple of years. She obviously doesn't expect to spend too long in politics does she, given the Green's conviction that her address (and next door, Uncle Bob's) will be under water in a few years time, what with catastrophic global warming, sea level rise and all! :-)

Cheers bro' al

PS Next week, will probably wander past while in Hobart, and have a peek in. And Bob, agrree with the compliments re your letter, and great to hear that pie floaters are still alive and well in the City of Churches. (And Olga's Bare Delights, if still open). al.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 1, 2012 at 3:50pm

It was/is for real a few years ago Beverley but of course I never saw any lady customers going upstairs in the few minutes I was there. I remember about 8-10 sales girls behind the glass top counter with flashing eyes, dressed in starched uniforms, little white caps and pinafores. The place was spotlessly clean, soft music in the background and a sort of French decor, Moulin Rouge I think, covered all the walls and very very busy. But I have no idea what was upstairs. I was not partial to vanilla slice but the raspberry gateau and coffee was superb and it was quite awhile before I knew about the vanilla slice being somewhere else in the building.

Beverley Prescott said:

That Olga's Bare Delights sounds a bit sus.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 1, 2012 at 4:28pm

Well at 82 Dr Caroline I suppose it is normal at my age to have both a few ails.... and ales too!. I must admit. It is a long time though since a grumpy old Country Dr who eventually removed my appendix greeted me with, "...and what ails you? Well, of course I told him, and in no uncertain language, after he poked his forefinger in the direction of my McBurney's while my mother was watching. She almost fainted.

Dr Caroline Wright said:

The above dialogue demonstrates that laughter is the best medicine for what ails you .... well given the above.... almost the best for most of what ails you.

Kind regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 1, 2012 at 6:23pm

Bro Al is the legend., I don't recall anything about fork in eye. But fork in road I know because there was one time I should have taken it. As for france eyes, I suppose that accounts for the Moulin Rouge on the walls. I sure would have like to know what was upstairs though

Dr Caroline Wright said:

Me thinks I have heard from a few male legends today!!

Kind regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Dr Caroline Wright on July 5, 2012 at 8:11pm

Bob if you would really like to know what was upstairs it was 'Moi'!!

Kind regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 6, 2012 at 7:04am

Taswegian! I might have known.

Beverley Prescott said:

senator.hanson-young@aph.gov.au

senator.milne@aph.gov.au

Electorate Office

(Principal Office)

Level 1, Murray Street Pier
Murray Street
Hobart, TAS, 7000

Postal address
GPO Box 896
Hobart, TAS, 7001

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 6, 2012 at 7:12am

Thanks Caroline. Now I can die happy.

Dr Caroline Wright said:

Bob if you would really like to know what was upstairs it was 'Moi'!!

Kind regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 6, 2012 at 10:57am

Tsk! tsk! Caroline, what would your Mother have said.

Dr Caroline Wright said:

Bob if you would really like to know what was upstairs it was 'Moi'!!

Kind regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Dr Caroline Wright on July 6, 2012 at 1:09pm

Dear Bob

Have only been a Taswegian for 16 years since my husband and I retired down here from Sydney. Had to get away from the 'rat race' and settle in a quiet little country town on a small hobby farm that we set up ourselves. But love Tasmania and the people except the politicians.

Re my mother ...she was probably there with me to cater to the older clientelle.

Kind regards

Caroline

Bob Stewart said:

Thanks Caroline. Now I can die happy.

Dr Caroline Wright said:

Bob if you would really like to know what was upstairs it was 'Moi'!!

Kind regards

Caroline