tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post3497744782734576516..comments2024-03-28T22:50:02.315+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Frank Vitkovic, angry schizophrenic loser loner! I know -Let's give him a gun!! Helshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-80202463344900874652024-02-12T16:09:07.766+11:002024-02-12T16:09:07.766+11:00Addison
all foul language is banned.Addison<br /><br />all foul language is banned.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-28956622240814023762024-02-12T09:59:58.037+11:002024-02-12T09:59:58.037+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Addison Bortionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02591632974555441172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-36055735365763028522019-12-05T15:31:57.764+11:002019-12-05T15:31:57.764+11:00Well said Hels. We are all. migrants indeed. Well said Hels. We are all. migrants indeed. Munahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17442421056110309805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-78655729949397237772019-12-05T15:09:16.433+11:002019-12-05T15:09:16.433+11:00Anon
many thanks for responding. As you probably ...Anon<br /><br />many thanks for responding. As you probably know, I don't agree with you (re guns) at all. But I believe that almost all opinions should be listened to.<br /><br />Re migration, we are all either migrants ourselves, or the children or grandchildren of migrants. If it wasn't for migration, Australia would have a very small population indeed. Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-20943527435269345212019-12-05T03:09:09.329+11:002019-12-05T03:09:09.329+11:008 shots in 8 seconds (Adler shotgun) is not fast. ...8 shots in 8 seconds (Adler shotgun) is not fast. A seasoned shooter can get similar with just a break-action double barrel shotgun. Rather than blaming inanimate objects entering the country perhaps we should look at stopping some animate ones, especially ones from troubled parts of the world. Why should my tax dollars pay for people newly arriving here I have no connection to whatsoever?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-31195386049047340162019-02-04T18:02:47.939+11:002019-02-04T18:02:47.939+11:00Bill
I have not seen any views similar to those y...Bill<br /><br />I have not seen any views similar to those you expressed, so I wonder if the normal court appeal processes were gone through. And if they were, was the evidence published in the scholarly or the normal newspaper outlets. Although guns in public hands will still remain illegal in Australia, I would be keen to read any appeal documents you know about. Many thanks.<br /><br />Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-79072749457239735762019-02-04T17:29:00.542+11:002019-02-04T17:29:00.542+11:00vinay
Thanks for doing the reading. Except for t...vinay <br /><br />Thanks for doing the reading. Except for the police and army, there is no legal reason to have a gun in this country. So the term "gun safe" is oxymoronic.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-24692239970771174902019-02-04T12:52:29.538+11:002019-02-04T12:52:29.538+11:00AllegedlyAllegedlyBill Fordhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17382987789433532012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-80281452451243975982019-02-04T12:51:55.110+11:002019-02-04T12:51:55.110+11:00Bryant has nothing to do with the events in the Br...Bryant has nothing to do with the events in the Broad Arrow Cafe. Sure, he was found emerging burnt from Sea Scape the next morning, but absolutely NOTHING ties him to the cafe. The only eye-witnesses who ‘saw’ him identified him a month later. The only eye-witness who knew Bryant and was shot, stated categorically that Bryant wasn’t the man who shot him. <br />No DNA either, but I digress....Bill Fordhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17382987789433532012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-49741198007788368132018-10-04T16:40:27.541+10:002018-10-04T16:40:27.541+10:00I got such a good information on this topic its ve...I got such a good information on this topic its very interesting one. You made a good site and more example. I have found a similar website please check this one<a href="https://guardall-safes.com.au/" rel="nofollow"> Gun Safes Melbourne </a> visit the site to know more about Guardall safes.<br />vinay dhakahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03825524342106683055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-66938738596350818942018-03-12T17:43:47.802+11:002018-03-12T17:43:47.802+11:00Muna
you are absolutely correct, about dissidents...Muna<br /><br />you are absolutely correct, about dissidents all over the world. <br /><br />But I am raising two other points. Firstly Australians assume that we have never had much of a gun culture and would not have believed such a massacre could happen here. And secondly that Vitkovic had many mental health crises - depression, schizophrenia, violent ideation and sexually dysfunction. If guns ever became legal here again, Vitkovic still would have been the least appropriate person to sell a gun to.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-62901473694066622812018-03-12T10:21:32.164+11:002018-03-12T10:21:32.164+11:00Putin has also had political opponents and disside...Putin has also had political opponents and dissidents (like Alexander Litvenko, sic) murdered. Munahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17442421056110309805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-76444224171611010252017-01-02T14:51:23.012+11:002017-01-02T14:51:23.012+11:00mem and Parnassus
we in Australia have had some p...mem and Parnassus<br /><br />we in Australia have had some pretty shocking prime ministers, but politicians can be voted into the prime ministership by their party members and voted out just as easily. <br /><br />Trump, on the other hand, has never been a politician. He will be head of state and short of impeachment, there is not a thing that the American House of Representatives can do. When his term finishes, then the electors will vote again (I hope).<br /><br />Putin was originally elected Prime Minister in the normal democratic fashion. But once he was voted in as President and head of state, it all changed. He has accepted a third term as president, extended each term, dissolved the Parliament once (*cough* not unlike Australia) and issued endless Presidential decrees as needed. <br /><br />What a miserable situation. Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-22690159310085599652017-01-02T12:09:12.640+11:002017-01-02T12:09:12.640+11:00Parnassus your comments about Trump are at the roo...Parnassus your comments about Trump are at the root of so much worry in the world right now unfortunately Trump is way more than your president elect .he has so much power . He and Putin between them are downright terrifying . Both elected by very broken political systems where public opinion is manipulated to their own ends .memhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05520080648914042943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-83612249352517182382017-01-02T05:43:35.056+11:002017-01-02T05:43:35.056+11:00mem
A gunman has stormed a house party and killed...mem<br /><br />A gunman has stormed a house party and killed at least 11 people plus himself during New Year celebrations yesterday in the SE Brasilian city of Campinas. Although Brasil struggles with high rates of crime and gun deaths are frequent in heists etc, mass murder shooting sprees like those often seen in the USA are not prevalent.<br /><br />Hmmm that is exactly what we used to say in Australia, until Julian Knight, Frank Vitkovic and Martin Bryant proved that when we used to have guns, we too had mass murders. Now in 2017 a few influential people seem to have forgotten our mass murders, back in the 1980s and 90s :(Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-26188700121856360732017-01-01T21:58:47.514+11:002017-01-01T21:58:47.514+11:00I thank god often that I live in Australiaand not ...I thank god often that I live in Australiaand not in the US I find their mania for individual rights with regard to guns amazingly selfish and totally out of step with the evidence right before them. They believe what confirms their wish to bear arms against all the evidence that this is directly associated with 30 thousand shootings per year .There are elements in our senate noww who are elected by a relatively small group if citizens who MUST be blocked from undoing some of the legislation which has made Australia avrelatively civil society . Thank you John Howard you stepped up when you had to . It was your finest hour . memhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05520080648914042943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-51060943084825790012016-12-31T17:08:15.482+11:002016-12-31T17:08:15.482+11:00Parnassus
In polls all over this country, Austral...Parnassus<br /><br />In polls all over this country, Australian citizens voted between 84-86% to reduce gun ownership to the police and army, and to allow other cases only when examined and supervised eg farmers facing wild animals, Olympic shooters in training. <br /><br />I assumed that once the gun legislation came into place in 1996, it would never EVER be rescinded or made ineffective. But then I assumed Clinton would be your next President. I know sod all, apparently :(Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-86789108918686367182016-12-31T17:01:10.692+11:002016-12-31T17:01:10.692+11:00Annie
Spot on! That expression, "going posta...Annie<br /><br />Spot on! That expression, "going postal", came from a series of massacres starting in the USA in 1986 in which United States Postal Service workers shot and killed managers, workers and customers in acts of mass murder at the workplace. What a perfect expression for the Queen Street massacre since a] the timing was similar to those events in the USA (1987) and b] the gunman murdered his victims inside the central Australia Post office building.<br /><br />Hopefully 2017 will be safer and more peaceful. <br />Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-35348597171161154612016-12-31T16:52:13.111+11:002016-12-31T16:52:13.111+11:00Student
most of my information came from newspape...Student<br /><br />most of my information came from newspaper contemporary coverage, but I can find very little about the University of Melbourne's Law School. Nigel Cawthorne's book The Most Barbaric Murders of Our Times says (p50): Vitkovic won a place in Law in 1984, lost it in 1986, returned to Law in 1987 and was thrown out of Law later that same year. He sought help from the professionals in the University Counselling Service during this period. He neither studied nor worked, after that.<br /><br />Perhaps the lecturers and tutors had no formal responsibility to report a severely disturbed student, but I bet the counsellors did.<br /> Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-52745418083550851342016-12-31T16:48:39.394+11:002016-12-31T16:48:39.394+11:00Hello Hels, I thought that Trump became presiden...Hello Hels, I thought that Trump became president of the U.S., not Australia--although you can have him if you want him. After a murder, people always say that the violent attitude should have been recognized and acted upon, but this is not so easy. Many people might sublimate negative feelings with an unpleasant demeanor, but never act on it. <br /><br />Despite all this, I wish you and your family a happy (and safe!) New Year and 2017.<br />--JimParnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-30954309998468608672016-12-31T16:40:25.569+11:002016-12-31T16:40:25.569+11:00Andrew
Sep 1984 - 7 people were killed in a bikie...Andrew<br /><br />Sep 1984 - 7 people were killed in a bikie shootout in Sydney <br />Aug 1987 - seven people shot dead in Melbourne in Hoddle St;<br />Dec 1987 - 8 people killed in Melbourne in Queen St massacre;<br />Feb 1992 - 4 people hacked to death at farmhouse north of Perth;<br />Aug 1993 - 3 people shot dead by a gunman in inner west Sydney;<br />Jan 1996 - 7 people shot dead in a murder-suicide in Brisbane.<br />Oct 2002 - 2 students shot dead at Monash Uni by another student<br /><br />These catastrophes provoked a great amount of community concern and resulted in the establishment of the National Committee on Violence in 1988. But it took until 1996 for all states to subscribe to the National Firearms Agreement! John Howard may never have done another good thing in his entire career as prime minister, but he did well with gun control.<br /><br />It took such a long time to get the legislation in place. What happens if Senator David Leyonhjelm and his henchmen get the legislation undone???<br /><br />Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-83269758168676420712016-12-31T15:04:57.363+11:002016-12-31T15:04:57.363+11:00'Going postal'
Wishing you a happy peacefu...<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal" rel="nofollow">'Going postal'</a><br />Wishing you a happy peaceful new year dear Hels.Ann ODynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159263330547329077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-28934478244303793582016-12-31T12:17:36.738+11:002016-12-31T12:17:36.738+11:00How many years was Vitkovic at uni, studying Law? ...How many years was Vitkovic at uni, studying Law? Did his legally astute lecturers, tutors and colleagues not suspect that violence was imminent?Another studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-56399300138674750162016-12-31T10:36:03.233+11:002016-12-31T10:36:03.233+11:00While of course I remember it from when it happene...While of course I remember it from when it happened, having it laid out neatly makes it all the more shocking. It is an excellent concluding paragraph. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com