1. Mum sentenced to life in prison after drugging and killing her nine-year-old daughter in custody dispute.
Laura Coward receives life sentence for drugging, killing daughter. #yyc https://t.co/WATF9vAfTn
— Calgary Herald (@calgaryherald) March 10, 2017
A Canadian mother who drugged, burned and killer her nine-year-old daughter has been sentenced to life in prison, the Calgary Herald reports.
Laura Coward was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 18 years after she plead guilty to the second-degree murder of her daughter, Amber Lucius.
Coward and her ex-husband, Duane Lucius, had been involved in a bitter dispute over the custody of their daughter before Amber was killed.
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My quad bike says in large letters that it's not to be operated by anyone under 16, always wear a helmet and never to carry passengers (as well as not driving under the influence of alcohol and cautions about slopes). How is 'banning' anyone under 16 from ysing them going to make any difference?
Interesting that there doesn't seem to be anything anywhere about the WA election. There are lots of interesting issues coming out of it, economic expectations, the lower than expected One Nation vote, the issue of Roe 8 highway development and why that had such an impact, much like the last time Liberals lost WA over old growth logging issues. The media big-up the power of One Nation but the Greens vote was twice that of One Nation, so media reporting bias makes people think otherwise. I would love to see some articles about the issues around this as I'm sure they impact all of Australian politics, not just WA.
I realise everyone has a bias who writes anything re politics but I suspect One Nations bad results were due to three things, the disarray in their party, scandals or problems with so many of their candidates, including one dropping out last minute, the vaccination remarks, and the Libs preference deal, also they tend to be inconsistent in their message, to the point that whilst their view on Islam and immigration is clear so many other things seem to be thought up as hoc. As a result I think their strength and their weakness is that seem genuine but a shambles at the same time. I say genuine because, whether or not you agree with Hanson or not, her words seem unrehearsed and therefore genuine, on the other hand the fact they appear unrehearsed gives the appearance that little thought has gone into them so it comes across as shambolic.
I know quite a few people from all sides of politics, die hard greens etc, but I know quite a few people who years ago would never have considered voting One Nation, including two left wing Asians actually but every single one of them said they were concerned about Islam. A few are also concerned with too much immigration in general. Only one I know is against climate change (an elderly lady). All of them had no problems with immigrants of any race other than Muslims (yes some expressed concerns about immigration causing overcrowding but didn't have a preference for the British race). None of them were against gay marriage and indeed the elderly white lady I know who is concerned about Muslims and doesn't believe in climate change expressed a fervent desire for gay marriage to be enacted so that gay people could be happy despite the fact she isn't gay and has no close dealings with anyone that she is aware that is gay. This lady usually is a swinging vote with a slight preference for Labor. She was unhappy with Hanson's vaccination remarks and also feels there is no problems with Asian immigration (and as already noted a few of the others I know who voted or were attracted to One Nation are Asian) I do know one other One Nation supporter who is anti Asian immigration, anti welfare and the usual right wing type concerns. She however is young so is happy for gay marriage to go ahead (but not passionate about), she thinks transgender is a bit ridiculous but doesn't have issues with gays as long as they aren't too demanding in your face. Not sure whether she believes I'm climate change or not v
So I would say, on my limited sampling that the major attraction for the majority of those who vote or are attracted to One a Nation is their concern with Islam. Most of them don't have major concerns with other races/religions but are worried about the amount of immigrants in general making cities more congested etc (all of them bar one are city people). I think these issues that attract them to one nation. To a lesser extent I am guessing that some voting one nation are anti climate change. I actually don't think too many are against gay marriage (not to say though they are passionately for it though either). This to some degree makes sense because I don't think one nation supporters are overly religious, yes they would probably see themselves as Christians but not the churchy type so like most Aussies they couldn't care about soneone else's sexual choices.
I therefore suspect that the one driving force behind the One Nation voters is a dislike of Islam, and to lesser extent concerns about immigration in a whole. So if one nation stick to those issues I think they would be a driving force. The problem they have is when they talk about other things, which obviously they need to have policies on other things, but their followers don't have unified agreement on other issues.
I also suspect all of this because they had 13% approval before all the other problems of disunity, vaccination remarks etc.
By the way don't shoot the messenger if anything I said was offensive I am just reporting my observations.
One thing I'm unclear about though, is why the liberals preference deal was such a hurdle, I mean I get that it was unpopular with one nation supporters but all parties have yo preference other parties so to my mind either Hanson had to either preference Libs, Lab etc so either way it was going to be on the nose to some of their voters. Same with the left wing parties greens/labor are going to preference each other,so if you like one but hate the other you still know the reality is that they will preference each other. As a voter you may not like it but it's hardly controversial.