Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/greens-m ... z3FmrZFF8O" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"Prevention is much better than cure when it comes to keeping us all safe from risks associated with terrorism," she said, arguing that maintaining a "cohesive, tolerant and inclusive community in Australia should be the government's top priority to protect Australia's much-loved multiculturalism".
I hear they are going to call it the Kum Bah Ya CentreGreens want to counter extremism among youth using outreach body
Christine Milne announces legislation to create a centre for ‘social cohesion’ to help counter radicalisation, crime and gangs
Daniel Hurst, political correspondent
theguardian.com, Saturday 11 October 2014 09.29 AEST
Australians at risk of disengaging from the mainstream and becoming attracted to violent extremism would be targeted by a new national outreach body under a proposal suggested by the Greens.
The party plans to present legislation to parliament to create what it has called the Australian Centre for Social Cohesion. This body would oversee preventative programs to address social exclusion and stop young people from becoming radicalised.
The Greens have strongly criticised the Abbott government’s “extreme” measures toughening anti-terrorism laws and the decision to commit to military action against Islamic State (Isis) in Iraq.
On Saturday the Greens leader, Christine Milne, published her proposal to promote social cohesion, arguing the new centre could take early steps to assist people who might otherwise be vulnerable to extremism.
She said the government’s priorities were wrong because just $13.4m of the $630m security funding package announced in August was allocated to programs to counter extremism.
Milne said young people who were feeling alienated might be attracted to “gangs, crime, jihadism or any number of behaviours which are highly destructive of them personally and also of our social fabric”.
“What we need is a centre that reaches out, works with the policing agencies, works with community leaders, works with government agencies to make sure that we identify young people who are feeling disengaged, feeling angry, who are vulnerable to anti-social behaviour of all kinds,” she said.
“It’s a centre for social cohesion: it applies across the board.”
The centre would focus on early intervention and individual and community engagement, according to a policy paper issued by the Greens. It would bring together experts to share their knowledge, foster dialogue about violent extremism, and design and implement community programs after thorough consultation.
The federal government is moving to give police and intelligence agencies more powers, including changes to search warrant processes and new provisions against terrorism advocacy.
The prime minister, Tony Abbott, has emphasised the domestic security risk posed by citizens who travel to Iraq and Syria to join groups like Isis and later seek to return to Australia.
Terrorism was one of the topics discussed at the Council of Australian Governments (Coag) meeting in Canberra on Friday, with several premiers affirming the importance of reaching out to disengaged Australians.
Abbott said he expected state parliaments to mirror the federal government’s new counter-terrorism measures, in a similar way to the harmonisation approach taken after the Howard government’s security reforms.
Of course it's a good idea in theory, but it's been tried before and hasn't worked. It's not just Islam creating this rebellion in their jihardi kids - it's boredom and hormones too. A kid who's a bit dysfunctional would be drawn to the spruiked rewards and excitement of being part of IS or a similar group. Like these girls - many of them will want to come back here with their tails between their legs - if they're allowed."Prevention is much better than cure when it comes to keeping us all safe from risks associated with terrorism," she said, arguing that maintaining a "cohesive, tolerant and inclusive community in Australia should be the government's top priority to protect Australia's much-loved multiculturalism".
"If Tony Abbott and the Labor party are serious about making Australians safer, they should invest in programs that bring young Australians of all walks of life together. Money to build communities rather than to implement divisive new laws is what is required."
Two Austrian teenagers who became poster girls for Islamic State are now desperate to come home after reportedly becoming disillusioned with their jihadi lifestyle.
Samra Kesinovic, 17, and her friend Sabina Selimovic, 15, were persuaded to travel to war-torn Syria in April.
The girls, who are the children of Bosnian migrants, had started lecturing schoolmates in Vienna about their Islamic beliefs and left behind a note telling their parents: “Don’t look for us. We will serve Allah – and we will die for him”.
Once they arrived it is believed they were married off to local fighters and both the girls are thought to be pregnant.
Police in their homeland Austria say that the girls' social media accounts were taken over and manipulated to broadcast what they now think were fake messages about the life they were having, and using them as poster girls to encourage other young girls to head to Syria.
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The ABC is helping to promote the government's agenda now. If they don't - they'll lose even more funding and there will be more program and staff cuts. Abbott's done a good hatchet job on them. A year ago - Lateline wouldn't have allowed such aggressive tactics to be used to enhance a government doctrine.GeorgeH wrote:You racist morons might like to read this:
http://zorahzorah.wordpress.com/2014/10 ... bic-stunt/
It's not as though all our Aussie non-Muslim youth are well behaved. We've had quite a few deaths through king hits, knifings, robbery and then there are the bikie gangs and a variety of ethnic gangs on the streets. Just because they don't go overseas to fight doesn't mean they're not a menace to our society.Rorschach wrote:Care to name any non-Muslim children with the same problems?
Please go away you abusive pest.GeorgeH wrote:You racist morons might like to read this:
http://zorahzorah.wordpress.com/2014/10 ... bic-stunt/
Last Thursday, the host Emma Alberici decided to interview Wassim Doureihi, a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir. Now, I know absolutely nothing about Doureihi, nor Hizb ut-Tahrir, and nor am I accusing Lateline of being the sole purveyors of Islamophobia in this country. But in this Lateline episode, Alberici delivered an absolute masterclass on how to stage a classic dog-whistling Islamophobic stunt. It had every possible ingredient you would expect in an anti-Muslim spectacle: racism, orientalism, condescension, and outright contempt, delivered in the only ways mainstream white Australian “journalists” know how: smearing, obfuscating, and demonising.
Rubbish mantra.... have you learned nothing about spouting rubbish since you've been away. Forgotten how Leigh Sales tore into tony Abbott did you. Mind you Emma just tried to get this moron to answer some questions the aggression and overtalking was almost all his. Or did you fall for his Charisma? if Abbott behaved like that you cry misogynistmantra wrote:The ABC is helping to promote the government's agenda now. If they don't - they'll lose even more funding and there will be more program and staff cuts. Abbott's done a good hatchet job on them. A year ago - Lateline wouldn't have allowed such aggressive tactics to be used to enhance a government doctrine.GeorgeH wrote:You racist morons might like to read this:
http://zorahzorah.wordpress.com/2014/10 ... bic-stunt/
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