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  • Thankyou Emma for your good work and humanistic attitude towards others. I could not do your job and be nice to others at the same time, i'v e realized. The other ABC journo's et al should be taking notes.......all the best in your career! - louise
  • Why censor the pictures, Ro? Don't call them "young men" either. They are "vicious animals" as their act so clearly evidences. They are not human at all. Are you saying it is "justifiable" for ethnic Nigerians, who have never been to either Afghanistan or Iraq but grew up on the teat of the British Welfare State, to run down and then Halal butcher a complete stranger walking along the street and minding his own business? How can you possibly draw any connection between what happened in London and the alleged mistreatment of Aborigines in Australia? What a fine example of the "straw man" argument! Do you think NATO and other allies were "unjustified" in invading Afghanistan and liberating it from the Taliban? That same Taliban that banned girls going to school; regularly indulge in female genital mutilation and the sodomising of "dancing boys"; blew up ancient Buddhist monuments; regularly carried out executions by stoning and beheading as half-time entertainment at football matches in Kabul and Kandahar; undertook ethnic cleansing against Hazara muslims; banned music and dancing on pain of death; and provided a base for the racist extremists of Al Qaeda to operate completely unfettered? Do you think it was wrong to overthrow Saddam Hussein who had used poisonous gas on the Kurds of Iraq? Whose two mongrel sons crawled the streets of Baghdad looking for women to rape; who executed his own son-in-law after promising "forgiveness' if he returned from exile; who gained power in a coup and then personally executed scores of his own "party"? The problems in Iraq today have nothing to do with Saddam's overthrow and everything to do with the seething sectarian and ethnic hatreds that have plagued Mesopotamia since the Babylonian Empire. Why didn't those two vicious animals condemn the latest round of sunni-shia bombings and murders in Iraq? If muslim women are subjected to the regular sight of dismembered bodies, those bodies were provided by other muslims. Why is it that only this week we saw Syrian women asking Bob Carr why it is that the USA and the non-Islamic world is not interfering in their current civil war? The war is yet another essentially religious/sectarian conflict between a Sunni majority and an Alawi-Shia minority. Why should any young Americans, Britons or Australians risk their lives for these benighted, backward bastards who regularly tell us how much they hate us? Have you forgotten the spontaneous eruption of glee and happiness that occurred in Iraq, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the "Islamic world" when the 9/11 attack was carried out? It seems to me that you, like so many others, have forgotten the lessons of the period from 1919-1939. Appeasement never works. Trying to trivialise this disgraceful crime; saying that ...well, maybe, it was Britain's fault and maybe if Britain hadn't been and Imperial power 200 years ago and ... really, when you look at that and what happened to the Aborigines here, maybe they were justified in running over a total stranger, who'd done nothing to them or any of their family or relatives, and then hacking off his head with a meat cleaver. The white-washing, the diminution, the trivialising, the justifying has already started in media and the blogosphere. The appeasers and the white-hating racists are already talking this whole thing around so that in a few weeks they'll be wanting to give these two mongrels a medal and have them treated as Prisoners of War. I am so glad the British cops didn't shoot them dead. I want them to suffer in HM Prison System for the rest of their lives. But, knowing the way the British EHRC led by that treacherous hater, Trevor Phillips, operate, they'll probably be named and shamed and given 20 hours community service. - Jack Richards
  • Anyway. So long Latin. I know there will be people close to Hazel who will be feeling sad and confused today. Sad for who she was and confused because she is perhaps better off dead now. And then there is everyone else who were touched by Hazel's contribution to our lives. Thank you Hazel and her supporters. - ro.watson
  • Always thought that Hazel H. was too much in the background type of PM's wife.From the information revealed recently about her I've realised how essential and important she was to Australia. This deception was probably due to the limelight on her ex-husband/PM Bob .He might have been successful politically but how he maintained the persona of god's gift to women for so long, baffles me. He is just another ugly aussie male. He should show more atonement towards such an admiring woman as Hazel. Condolences to her children and their families. - louise
  • Perhaps I am projecting, but there really is something very special about the relationship between a regular cartoonist's work and their readers. A sort of mutual getting to know you abandon. - ro.watson
  • Ordinary folk, extraordinary soul. You'll be remembered Hazel Hawke, for the wonderfully decent, down to earth, inclusive woman you were. You connected with your heart and were justly admired. RIP - gogirl
  • What is that expression? Make hay while the sun is shining? Anyway, many Australian stories which belong to the lives of people and animals have remained submerged for many years until journalists within programs like Four Corners bring them to light. Some of us have been privileged enough (eg through our professions) to carry around these stories for several years and done our best to bring such stories to mainstream attention when it is clear there is some emblematic or systematic pattern emerging of eg suffering here in Australia. These stories and lives are not hard to find. - ro.watson
  • Stirring stuff, sue. Alas, from a bygone era. The www is where it's at. Few outposts are as isolated as they once were and now, with the whizz bang NBN they'll be able to access information from all over the world. The ABC has grown into a monster. The Drum website alone must cost a fortune. Then we've got numerous tv channels, radio, SBS and *hundreds* of journalists and ancillary staff ALL for a population of 22 million? It's a crazy waste of taxpayer dollars. If these journos can't cut it in the private sector, which their ratings indicate they can't, then too bad. Let them get jobs writing blurbs for breakfast cereal and cat food. If you want evidence of ABC bias, check out the poll questions on The Drum. Personally, I want it slashed and burned. And, I repeat, I'm a past Labor member. - Gee
  • I agree Sue. I love ABC Radio National and also ABC tv - from The Night Garden up. Lately I've been tuning in to the drivetime program hosted by Waleed Ali, 7.30 report and Emma on Lateline. All maintain high standards. Cheers, Carmen. - Carmen
 
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MINI PORK BUNS WITH WATERMELON DAIQUIRI

By The Hoopla
January 13, 2012

With roast pork, fresh herbs, salad and a hint of chilli, these Mini Vietnamese Pork Buns from blogger Christina Soong-Kroeger will be the hit of your next cocktail party.

Extra points for anyone who makes these and delivers them to The Hoopla office.

Mini Vietnamese Pork Buns

• 1 packet of 10 soft, slightly sweet buns (from Asian grocer)
• Half jar mayonnaise
• 1/2 white radish, peeled and cut into matchsticks
• 1 carrot, peeled and cut into matchsticks
• 1 continental cucumber, cut into matchsticks
• 250 grams sliced mixed Roast Belly Pork with Crackling and Chinese Roast Pork [Cha Sui] (from specialist Chinese shop or restaurant)
• Half bunch fresh mint
• Half bunch fresh coriander
• 3 birds eye chillies, seeds removed and thinly sliced (optional)
• soy sauce

Method

1. Slice buns in half without completely cutting through the bun.
2. Butter base of bun with mayonnaise.
3. Add a small amount of radish, carrot and cucumber to the base of each bun.
4. Top with 3-4 slices of mixed roast pork.
5. Add a few fresh mint and coriander leaves, and chillies, if desired.
6. Add a dash of soy sauce and close the top of the bun.

Makes 10 buns.

 

The Hungry Australian’s Watermelon Daiquiri

• 2 cups of watermelon chunks, seeds removed
• 100 ml white rum
• Juice of half a lime or 30-50mls fresh lime juice (to taste)
• 4-6 teaspoons caster sugar (to taste)
• 2 large handfuls of ice
• Mint sprigs, to garnish

Method

1. Put first five ingredients in blender and blend until smooth and frothy.
2. Pour into martini glasses and garnish with a mint sprig.

Makes 2 large serves (4 martini glasses).

* Christina Soong-Kroeger is the publisher of popular food blog, The Hungry Australian, which features recipes, reviews and stories about food in Australia and beyond. She is the Dining Down Under columnist at new American food magazine, Honest Cooking, and a regular contributor to Sumptuous. After eating her way around Shanghai, London, Hong Kong, Leeds and Melbourne, she now calls Adelaide home again.

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  • louise: Thankyou Emma for your good work and humanistic attitude towards others. I could not do your job and be nice to others a...

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