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kingarubin ¡ 3 months
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I feel bad for Sparkle
out of all people, her love rival is Acheron! poor girl never had a chance
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redfurrycat ¡ 11 months
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🔥 ⚽ 🐓 Doctor Mother Goose Bradshaw & Doctor Rooster Bradshaw AU 🐓⚽️🔥
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AU in which Nick Bradshaw never went the RIO road, instead he became a Navy doctor and his first ever patient was one fighter pilot Pete "Maverick" Mitchell.
Friendship at first sight. When Mav ended up at the hospital because of his shenanigans, he got lectured by Dr. Mother Goose every. single. time.
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At some point, the good doctor got to listen to a loopy Mav's impassioned speeches about a blonde ice cube.
He met said blonde pilot who once came to visit Mav with flowers.
Well, he was pushed into Mav's room, rather rudely, by his giant of a RIO.
"Huh. Blonde Ice Cube, I presume?"
"It's Mister Iceman to you doctor!"
"Oh. And you are?"
"Free for a coffee right now. I think it best to leave these two alone."
Thia is how Doctor Mother Goose met Hulking Guy. Instant meet-cute.
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Many years later, his son Bradley became a doctor. Chief Dr Bradshaw loved to dump his idiot best friend into Dr Bradshaw's care.
"What did you do AGAIN, Mav?!".
Then Mav tried to justify himself but it's hard to resist Baby Goose's sad brown eyes. So, he always tried to be on his best behaviour. Only for his favourite godson though.
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Of course one of Mav's precious Daggers had to be hospitalised because of a training accident.
Jake "Hangman" Seresin thought for a moment the accident was way more serious 'cause wasn't he seeing double?
"Wow. Are there two Dr. Mc Steamy & Dreamy Moustache? Wow. Lucky me. Coyote. Do you see that?! Wow. Do you do house visits in case I have a problem later? Yes or Yes?"
"OMG. Don't flirt with my father!"
"But you don't mind my flirting with you, I hope?"
"Nope. He doesn't mind. And he's single."
"OMG. DAD. Don't pimp me?!"
"Ah. You do your best Navy fighter pilot a great service. Much appreciated Older Dr Sexy."
"Uh-huh. I'm out of here. You got it, son?"
"Ooooooh. Dad and son? Nice."
"Oh my god."
"Jake's fine for you, Sugar."
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[Art Commission drawn by the very talented @enthyrea 💖]
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wayfayrr ¡ 11 months
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Gonna ask this RIGHT this time lets GOOO
I’m a bit of a nut when it comes to pyromaniac and explosion obsessed characters, just going absolutely manic with numerous explosions going off around them type of stuff
Can I maybe ask for a reader like that with Time? Just an absolutely tired man who loves seeing them happy, but by god please put the gunpowder down for five minutes
Thank you, and once again bc you deserve it, congratulations :>
thank you again for all the congratulations 🥹💖💖 I swear everyone on here is so sweet. 💖 for this one I hope you don't mind I went with a calmer moment for that type of reader where they're sitting by the fire making explosives relaxing, I hope you like it!!!🔥✨✨
“[name], what are you making over there? Please don’t tell me it’s more explosives…”
“Look you don’t have to mutter under your breath like that.”
“You didn’t answer my question [name].”
“I thought you didn’t want me to tell you.”
The old man seems to be looking his age for once, granted I'm one of the main reasons he's been pushed to his limits like this. Really though, it's in my nature I can't just hold myself back. He should know this with how clear it is that I'm not the most civil when things like this are involved.
"Please stop making explosives from your own world, at least use normal bombs."
"'Normal bombs' don't have the same effect though Time... Look it's not like I'm making the dangerous ones."
Maybe I should stop doing stuff like this, it seems Time really is more stressed than he ever was before I arrived. The chain are taking care of me here, I shouldn't be adding to their stress, well time’s stress more than anything. It’s hard not to feel at least a little guilty about acting like this when he sounds so exhausted. Planting himself down next to me with a sigh, it really feels like I’m about to be given a lecture about my personal safety. It takes a moment to remove my current project away from the heat and to make sure that it’s stable, meaning I can leave it unattended for a while. Better to be over-cautious than the reason Hyrule needs to tire himself out or drain their already low supplies. Nothing would make me feel worse than that after a lecture.
“Just be careful dear, I love you more than anything so I don’t want to lose you.”
“You’re not going to lecture me?”
“No, I love seeing how happy you are. Even if I wish I was the one making you happy rather than the explosives.”
That was unexpected? I swear if Wild was the one in my place he’d have been trapped here for hours while Time went on about his safety, but for me just a simple admission and a blush? Time’s blushing!? Because of me?? How long will it take him to realise how I’m looking at him like he’s both amazing and acting utterly unlike the Time I know? Barely a second it seems.
“Don’t let me sitting here distract you [name].”
“RIGHT. Yes alright. Um… would you like me to show you some really cool things you can do with fire? There are some safer things in my world that are beautiful.”
“Do you have it recorded on your ‘phone’?”
Rolling my eyes at him with a genuine laugh while reaching for a couple of containers within my bag, he seems a bit scared of what I’m about to pull out of my bag. Like he’s expecting another outburst like the first fight I got into, It's a good thing Hyrule can treat burns. 
“They’re different metal oxides, they change the colours of the fire. And no I’m not going to set the forest alight again not at the moment anyway.”
“[name] I love you but please.”
“...Fine. I promise I won't set the forest alight at all. Now can I show you what these do?”
I didn’t even let him answer this time, preferring to just toss some of the copper chloride powder into the fire waiting for his response to the apple-green flames. He looks stunning with how they reflect off of his armour, and how they highlight his face. Which colours would light him up the most beautifully I wonder, red, green, pink, cutting the colours completely and having him silhouetted by an explosion perhaps? 
“Do you keep things related to all of this on you at all times?”
“Why would you ever assume otherwise?”
“Please hold back from burning entire woods from now on.”
“...I’ll try.”
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sashi-ya ¡ 3 years
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SASHIIIIIIIIII hewo uwu
omggg when I saw the event, my brain went brrrrrrrr me screaming in the midle of the night, sorry mom xD
>\\\\\<💗💗soo uwu for the spicy week may I please have Luffy with a shy f!reader, maybe him masturbing her and making her squirt, in canon au🙈, maybe her being so damn bashfull he made her squirt I dunno omggggg >\\\\\\\\< I cant, god help me, I love so much how u write never stop💗💗💗💗thank u so much, a hug />w</✨✨
My baby!!! Of course darling, I hope you enjoy this little scenario of the next King I wrote just for you. Please enjoy and thank u so so so much for all of your support! Love u lots!! 💖💖💖
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🔥NSFW~ Monkey D. Luffy x F! Reader ~ Goodnight Kisses
Tw: Masturbation. Semi public. Squirting. Canon Au.
Wc: 1005
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After some random adventure, one night at the middle of the Grand Line on the Thousand Sunny Go…
“GOOODNIGHT!!”, “Sleep well!!”, “Oii, Luffy don’t crush me!!”, “Night Luffy!”... As a fact, Luffy kisses every nakama goodnight, each night since the very first time they joined the crew. He gives everybody a kiss on the cheek or the forehead, and with you it is not a difference. Yet, he does it at last. The captain wants you to be on your cot already snuggled up on your sheets before him kissing you goodnight.
“Aaah… what a day!” he shouts, stretching his arms and coming to kiss you. Luffy bends towards you and caresses your cheek with his hand. “Goodnight, (name)” he tells you and plants a sweet kiss on the commissure of your mouth. You smile subtly, cheeks burning hot. No nakama knows about you two, not yet. Not that Luffy doesn’t want the others to know, but he respects your decision of still not making your relationship public… “Can I sleep with you tonight?” he whispers. “Here? Now?” you ask. “When everybody is sleeping, I’m on guard tonight”. “Ok…” you say, a little embarrassed but excited.
You patiently wait for everybody to fall asleep, and even if you were excited you are as exhausted as everyone else and couldn’t stay awake any longer…
“Oi, (Name)” the sweet gum gum boy’s voice wakes you up. He is next to you, already hugging you in bed. “Sorry, Luffy I fell asleep” you say, rubbing your eyes and nuzzling on the scar of his chest. “It’s ok, you were exhausted” he whispers, tracing circles with his hands on your back. There isn’t a better feeling than to be in Luffy's arms. You feel secure, loved, protected. Like nothing could go wrong.
He kisses the crown of your head and holds you even closer. So close you could feel something hard pressing on your lower belly. “L-Luffy?” you ask, all embarrassed. “Hm?”. “Are you… are you using a belt or something hard?”.
“Not a belt, babe…” he giggles.
Your cheeks are once again burning. Your cheeks, your nose, the tip of your ears. Luffy is feeling playful tonight, and you know exactly what that means.
Suddenly one of his hands lifts your leg up, making your thigh rest over his hip. “A better access…” he mumbles. You widen your eyes, still pressing your nose over his chest. He smells so good, so sexy and manly.
“Can I?” he asks for your permission, with a finger already lifting the elastic of your pajama short. “Y-yes… but, what if they hear us?” you ask, really concerned about the proximity of your other nakamas. “They won’t wake up unless you make a bunch of noise… plus I’m sure Zoro and Sanji will wake up fighting and no one will notice us” he says. And he is actually right, for some reason Sanji ends up always sleeping over Zoro and every morning they wake up screaming.
Luffy passes his hand all inside your shorts, his fingers playfully search for your core entrance guided by the increasing wetness of your panties. “(Name)… were you dreaming of me? You are soaking wet” he murmurs in your ear. “Maybe…” you say, giggling. And before you could say anything else, his index spots your clit and goes up and down, so slow yet so perfect. He alternates circles and pressing. His lips over yours, both breathing into each other's mouths.
“Shh…” he says, smiling with your lips still pressed. You try to lower your moans, praying they won’t wake the others up. But it’s so damn difficult because your lover sneaks two of his fingers inside your entrance. “L-Lu…” you sigh. “Let me… do this…” he says, struggling to take your shorts off. You cover both of you with the sheets up until your heads, creating a little tent of lust to hide.
The future pirate king kisses your neck, bites, and licks your skin. “You taste so good…” he mumbles, and his finger motions increase in speed. In and out he goes, touching your special spot, making you squirm in bed. And it’s almost impossible for you to stay quiet… you moan, louder this time. Luffy instantly covers your mouth with his hand. “Babe… shh” he whispers, and laughs as his fingers go deep, so deep inside you. You nod, completely lost into the pleasure his fingers produce on your core.
“I’m sorry but tomorrow you will have to clean your sheets…shi shi shi” he says and settles over you. “Wha… what?”.
“Spread” he commands, almost mouthing the order. You are burning, burning, and sweating. He is too. The sheets make his black hair all ruffled. One of his strong, muscular arm on the side of your head. Beads of sweat falling over your chest, sloppy eyelids, half spread lips. You fix your eyes on his as he uses a heavenly beckoning motion with his middle and ring finger inside you.
Turning your head to the side, you choose to bite the pillow as you reach climax. And you do it losing complete control of your body, a pressure inside releases with your orgasm as Luffy presses your lower belly. You could feel how the tips of his fingers touch the palm of his other hand and the inevitable consequence of it. You bathe your lover’s forearm with your arousal juices. Honey dripping womb, honey that Luffy feels proud to receive.
He instantly takes his fingers off and pounces back into you. All of his body weight falls over yours and mutes your last moans by sealing your lips with his lips. “That was intense, you squirted so much. Shi shi shi” he giggles, and licks his fingers clean of your juices. “Delicious”.
You can help but cover your eyes with your hands. Blushed as hell, completely embarrassed by such an intense body reaction… you have made everything get damped. “Why are you ashamed, (Name)?”. “Luuuuffy….” you moan, sheepishly.
“(Name) come on, quit the shame. I’m not over with you, you know?...”
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fuwushiguro ¡ 3 years
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AWWWWWWWWWWW BBY CONGRATS CONGRATS im so happy for u💖💖💖
and for ur event, what about kiri being a personal trainer? that would be hot hehehe 🙈🔥
lots of kisses 4 u <3
Notes: AAAAA twinnie!!! Thank you so much 🥺 I've never written Kiri before so I hope this is okay hehe 💕
Warnings: Dubcon, Dry Humping, Exhibitionism, Teasing
PT!Ejiro Kirishima x f!Reader
He's had a crush on you for the longest time. It musn't have been very obvious to you, because if you suspected anything he doubts you would have willingly subjected yourself to him being your trainer.
You were used to coming to the gym alone. Often opting to do cardio over anything else. You saw Kirishima around the gym and always smiled to him. One day when you got on the treadmill you noticed a new marketing campaign on the electronic screens. You saw his face, his details, information about him. The gym was clearly trying to push personal training onto their clients. Normally you wouldn't pay attention, but... God he's cute. What a lovely photo of him, how haven't you noticed how cute he is before? You wrote down his details for later.
He almost choked on his drink at around 9PM that evening when the message came through. How is it possible to sound so cheery through text? You were asking if he could train you! It was like a dream come true! Of course, he'd be happy to do it! He'll even give you a free trial...
He found out pretty quickly that you wanted to add weight lifting to your training. You were sick of just doing cardio. After a few weeks went by, you were practically seeing him everyday of the week. Your sessions together were the best part of his day.
"I can't do it Kiri!" you huffed, completely frustrated that you were struggling doing deadlifts. Your legs were hurting too much.
"Yes you can! I know you can!"
"I can't really I can't..."
A beat of silence went by. You took a hearty swig from your water bottle as he contemplated what he should do next. He almost salivated at the sight of you guzzling down your drink. Water leaking out of the corner of your mouth. He held his eyes shut and composed himself, God forbid he get a hard on right now.
"Let's stretch some more, yeah?" Kirishima suggested. You shook your head.
"It's so embarrassing in front of everyone..."
He scoffed out a laugh at that. What's so embarrassing about stretching? But this might work to his advantage... Finally an opportunity to get you all alone. His finger performed a 'come hither' motion as he exited the main gym, you followed obediently. You found yourself in the yoga studios, he just so happened to have a spare key. He even locked the door after you. You know, so no one would walk in and make you feel embarrassed.
You aren't sure why you were so surprised that he was so limber. He is a personal trainer after all. But when you voiced your surprise, he told you that he takes yoga classes too. You feel so very lucky to have such a talented PT.
He's losing it. He's totally losing it because your body is so beautiful when you're following all of the poses and stretches he's telling you to perform. He needs to keep it together. He needs to. He can't. He can't... He won't.
"Come here for me sweetheart." he instructs.
This is new. His arms are wrapped around your torso. Your back is being held tightly against his chest. Is he trying to correct your posture? You go along with it for a little while. Your eyes bulge when you realise what's going on. A deep grunt erupts from his chest directly into your ear as he gyrates his hips slowly against your ass. His dick hardens perfectly between your cheeks. You try to pull away, but he's too strong for you.
He's even too strong with one hand wrapped around your torso. He moves his other to find your cunt above your lycra leggings. The moan that erupts from him as he discovers how wet the area is makes slick pump out of you almost instantly. Is your intimate area sweaty from working out or are you just so wet for him already? It's both.
"Kiri..." you mewl, matching his movements. So you're into this too after all? That's all he needs to hear. He spins you around and kisses you deeply. You want him too, it's so messy and heated. He helps lower you to the ground.
You're on your back with your legs spread wide for him. Kirishima grinds his cock against your damp crotch and the feeling is ecstacy. It doesn't matter that you've both got clothes on. This is enough. He sucks and bites at your neck. He knew you'd have pretty moans.
"Waited so long for this baby." he admits. You giggle at that. "You're so noisy... super sensitive huh?" he asks. You nod. It's embarrassing, but it's been so long since you've been touched. You're so desperate and needy.
"'m gonna... gonna..."
"Do it. Cum for me princess." he hums into your ear.
"Nngh!" you were powerless to his words. The way his fat cockhead perfectly nudged at your clit even through his shorts. You didn't stand a chance at holding out any longer. His large hand forced your face to his so he could kiss you through your orgasm. He digested your moans, he'd been waiting for them for so long.
"What would people think if they walked in on you getting dry fucked in the yoga rooms?" he teased.
He rolled off of you onto his back. He wanted to cum, so badly. But he couldn't. He couldn't be dealing with his work shorts filled to the brim with his sticky backed up load for the rest of his shift. He's got you now, doesn't he? You'll let him have you again. He's sure you'll be kind enough to relieve him when his shift is over. He doesn't know how he'll get through it. None of his clients are as fun as you...
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this is part of my ON THE JOB event
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marlaluster ¡ 6 years
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Support The  Guardian The Guardian - Back to homeNewsOpinionSportCultureLifestyleMenu Vietnamese asylum seeker pleads to stay in Australia with baby daughter Huyen Tran, who arrived on a boat while fleeing religious persecution, says she could be killed if deported Australian Associated Press Mon 1 Oct 2018 03.31 EDT A Vietnamese asylum seeker faces an anxious wait to learn if a Melbourne judge will support her proposed deportation and separation from her baby daughter. Huyen Tran, 29, arrived in Australia on a boat in 2011 after fleeing religious persecution in her home country. She has spent almost a year in detention and, in that time, gave birth to her daughter, Isabella, who is six-months-old. “If I would be deported to Vietnam I could be sent to jail or even killed,” Tran said through an interpreter in Melbourne’s federal circuit court on Monday. “I don’t want that to happen because if I was killed my daughter wouldn’t have a mother.”  Huyen Tran’s husband, Paul Lee, outside the court. Photograph: Stefan Postles/AAP Tran said that, as a Catholic in a communist and non-religious country, she had been targeted and was not able to speak freely. “In the past because I just try to protect the statue of Jesus’s mother I was assaulted,” she said. “I was given a hard time and I still have a scar on my head.” Lawyer Christopher McDermott, representing the federal home affairs minister, said there had been “no evidence” of an assault after trying to protect a state of the Virgin Mary. Tran claimed she was a street child and a minor when she entered Australia, he said. An assessment could find no evidence to suggest Tran would be harmed if she was returned to Vietnam, McDermott said. Dozens of protesters rallied outside the court before the hearing in support Tran and her family. “It’s very hard as I only see them two hours every day and, if Huyen leaves, we don’t know what will happen,” her husband, Paul Lee, said. “The worst part is they won’t even let us baptise our baby in the church because she’s not allowed out of detention.” Judge Philip Burchardt reserved the decision for a future date. Topics Australian immigration and asylum Vietnam news Share on LinkedInShare on PinterestShare on Google+Share on WhatsAppShare on Messenger View on theguardian.com back to top jobsmake a contributionsubscribeguardian labs about uswork for uscontact usadvertise with us helpterms & conditionsprivacy policycookie policysecuredropcomplaints & corrections all topicsall contributorsfacebooktwitterdigital newspaper archive Š 2018 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 7. https://www.devex.com/news/can-faith-groups-convince-australia-to-act-on-foreign-aid-93540 8. Can faith groups convince Australia to act on foreign aid Christian women leaders meeting with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at Parliament House, Canberra, in September. Photo by: Micah Australia CANBERRA — What is the best way to engage Australia’s new Prime Minister Scott Morrison, on issues of aid and development? It is a question that is being asked across the development sector. New Assistant Minister for International Development and the Pacific Anne Ruston, has presented herself as particularly receptive to a development audience. But since the aid budget is often an easy cut for Australian governments, achieving an audience with the prime minister has not been a guarantee. Anne Ruston on Australia's changing aid program In her first sit-down interview since taking on the role of assistant minister for international development and the Pacific, Ruston talks about the impact of changing political leadership on the aid program, Australia's commitment to climate, and what her new role means for Australian aid. On Sept. 20, a group of Christian women leaders representing Hillsong Church, Baptist Church, Citipointe Church, The Grainery, Anglican Deaconess Ministries, and The Salvation Army headed to Parliament House to discuss the foreign aid budget and offshore asylum seeker detention with senior ministers and members of parliament. The group of women was facilitated by Micah Australia Executive Director Tim Costello to provide a unified faith-based message on development and humanitarian crises. Their audience included the prime minister. The discussion with him was brief — only five minutes — with foreign aid the main point to discuss. It was organized late in the day but considered an achievement that surprised many in Australia’s development sector. And it has provided an important foot in the door to emphasize the large portion of the Australian population supporting international development. Achieving an audience with the prime minister could have simply been because one delegate, Eloise Wellings, founder of NGO Love Mercy, was from the prime minister’s electorate. But it came at a time when the prime minister has been showing his strong affinity with religious groups — including increased funding for Catholic education and proposed changes to discrimination law to cover religious freedom. Asked what may have influenced the premier’s decision to meet with them, Beck Wilesmith, senior adviser at Micah, said: “I’m not sure, to be honest.” “We were organizing this [event] before the leadership spill and had to re-issue the invites. But we were upfront in every meeting that these were women of faith and church leaders.” Insights from the meetings Kate Harrison Brennan, CEO of Anglican Deaconess Ministries, discussed with Devex the nature of the meetings and key outcomes, saying there was an “openness right now” to hearing from faith-based groups. Bringing together women from across different churches was an important part of opening doors for meetings, she believes, showing uniformity in messaging from the sector. And the asks were kept consistent, with slight tweaks on how particular parties could go about addressing those concerns. “Our messages were really consistent — starting with, we believe in foreign aid because we believe in life,” Brennan said. “This is a significant component on that in wanting to see Australia take a strong position in how much we gave. That message was really consistent as well as the message about wanting to see children off Nauru — this is a humanitarian crisis, with 102 children there and it is obviously no place for a child. Across government, the message can have a different tune from speaking with opposition where we were calling for Labour to create a policy platform that puts aid back in the center of foreign policy.” With Australia’s government struggling to understand their “political base” and what their electorates want, the group came in highlighting that their views are representative of at least 15 percent of the population who attend church on a monthly basis — approximately 3.75 million people. Get development's most important headlines in your inbox every day. “There is always room for improvement in engaging with politicians,” Brennan said. “Especially among those who feel their constituency doesn’t really perhaps understand the point of foreign aid. Pressure is often from those who voice an opposition to foreign aid. It is important for us to ask for meetings with those who feel really constrained by what they hear from some of their constituency and feedback from churches in their electorate. We can give them a different picture — to show that members of their electorate are incredibly supportive of aid.” With the openness to hear from Christian leaders, Brennan said it was clear that hearing from a united group of church leaders under the Micah banner was an important avenue for discussion and impact. They plan to continue that work and have a prophetic voice into federal parliament. “There was real interest in keeping the discussion going,” Brennan said. It also means going back to the various church groups to communicate the importance of the impact they can make — locally and internationally — through their programs of work and a unified voice. And though the day was focused on a messaging of the aid budget and children on Nauru, the leaders they met with wanted to get into the finer points of aid policy — what makes an effective aid program, what ensures Australians can be confident in what we are doing. “We hope to follow up on that,” Brennan said. Keeping the conversation moving In December, Micah will be continuing the conversation as part of the Voices for Justice conference, with the anticipation that politicians will be involved in discussing development challenges from a faith-based perspective. Based in Canberra, the conference will allow attendees to lobby their local members of parliament. With Australia now entering a period where politicians are focusing on the 2019 federal election, it is timely for development to be under discussion with influential politicians. “It’s incredible what the whole sector does, but the faith-based component is an element of unique to what Micah does and we don’t shy away from that,” Wilesmith said. “As a sector, we all have to do our bit.” But beyond that, Brennan said there is a focus on ensuring long-term relationships are formed to support a bipartisan approach to aid, to achieve sustainable development outcomes. You have 2 free articles left 9. https://www.bing.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-10-01/australia-s-property-downturn-chalks-up-one-year-anniversary 10. Bloomberg Markets Australia's Property Downturn Chalks Up One-Year AnniversaryBy  Matthew Burgess September 30, 2018, 8:29 PM EDT Dwelling values have fallen 2.7 percent since Sept. 2017 peak Sydney and Melbourne are now the primary drag, says CoreLogic Apartment buildings in the suburb of Wolli Creek in Sydney. Photographer: Lisa Maree Williams/Bloomberg Australia’s property slump has reached the one-year mark as the nation’s two major cities have become the biggest drag. National dwelling values dropped 0.5 percent last month, weighed by declines in Sydney and Melbourne, according to CoreLogic Inc. data released Monday. Prices in the two east coast cities, which make up more than half of the national value of housing, have fallen 6.1 percent and 3.4 percent respectively from a year earlier. “Sydney and Melbourne are now the primary drag on the national housing market performance,” taking over from regions that were impacted by the mining downturn, CoreLogic’s head of research Tim Lawless said. Values have fallen greatest among the most expensive properties as lenders curb their appetite for high debt to income ratio lending, he said. Dwelling values in Australia have fallen for 12 straight months, down 2.7 percent from the peak in September last year as tougher credit rules, increased supply and subdued wage growth combine to put an end to Australia’s housing boom. Still, that’s “hardly a crash” as the decline is slower than the last fall between June 2010 and February 2012, according to CoreLogic. 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(Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images) Senate Republicans have agreed to allow votes on two potential gun control measures, following a 15-hour filibuster led by Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut. Twenty years ago, after a mass shooting in Australia that killed 35 people, the government there enacted strict gun laws. Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson speaks to the former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Tim Fischer, about the challenges they faced and the lessons the U.S. government could learn. Hear our original conversation with Tim Fischer from July 2014 Interview Highlights: Tim Fischer On the success of the Australian buyback program No legislation can claim to be adopted without someone breaking the law and some have been apprehended in breaking the law, but it made a difference in two ways. Essentially, it did take out the semi-automatics, the over-sized, over-powered weapons from the suburbs of Australia. It also caused people to think, 'Well, do I really need a gun? If I do, I'll apply and get it, but if I don't, then I won't go down that pathway.' So we really did walk away from a policy of more and more guns. On U.S. misconceptions of safety 'If more guns made us safer, the U.S. would be the safest nation in the world.' You are not; you are 10 to 15 times more likely to be shot dead in the U.S.A. per capita than Australia. And by the way, you are even safer in Italy than the U.S.A. with regard to guns, when looked at like-for-like on a per capita basis. "'If more guns made us safer, the U.S. would be the safest nation in the world.' You are not; you are 10 to 15 times more likely to be shot dead in the USA per capita than Australia." Tim Fischer, former deputy prime minister of Australia On what U.S. gun control advocates should do I would ask Michael Bloomberg to stand up and challenge John Bolton to a debate in the public square on the East Coast, in Chicago, and on the West Coast, sooner rather than later. And I know Bloomberg is taking steps. That's the only way you'll turn the tide. That, and sadly, a massacre that goes beyond the pale. A massacre that hits up towards a hundred dead. A massacre that occurs in a peaceful suburb, as one did in Texas this week. Suddenly, suddenly, there will be a will there, and the NRA will be regretting that it did not at least seek the reinstatement of magazine limitations that have existed for 10 years and weren't construed as being a breach of the second amendment. At least a background check at gun shows. No intelligent person can justify allowing no check whatsoever for people to buy guns in the 21st century. On whether tighter gun laws are possible in the U.S. It will take enormous will. It will take an enormous effort by people like Bloomberg and others. It needs to be taken to the Main Street, to the High Street, to the public square ... Because, actually, when you see some of the more accurate polling, more balanced polling, around the suburbs of Chicago and elsewhere, I think it's a case that can be mounted and can be won, and can be won within the context of the second amendment. Guest Tim Fischer, former deputy prime minister of Australia. This segment aired on June 16, 2016. 19. Australia's new anti-immigrant leader | Euronews Australia's new anti-immigrant leader Now Reading: Australia's new anti-immigrant leader Australia's new prime minister Scott Morrison has held three ministerial posts - but it's his time as minister of immigration and border protection that he'll be remembered for. In 2013 he began the "Sovereign Frontiers" operation. Boat people were routinely turned back to sea and asylum-seekers driven to remote Pacific detention centres on the Manus Islands in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. And in a sign that the government meant business it tasked the navy with patrolling Australia's coastline. Refugees who did manage to slip through the cracks and reach Australia suffered the same fate. This policy brought down the number of arrivals but it divided public opinion. It tarnished the international reputation of Australia. and Human rights organizations condemned it. Amnesty International described the detention centres as open prisons. Some have questioned how Morrison, who is a committed Christian, can square his actions with his beliefs. But he's said that the migrants and refugees are preyed on by people smuggling gangs and that he wants to stop people risking their safety by taking to boats that are often unseaworthy. But since 1996 Australia has steadily tightened its immigration policy, whichever party has been in power and he is not alone in his hardline attitude. And now this Australian policy of zero tolerance has gained a new fan - far-right Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. He has said he wants Italy to pursue the same policy. 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All rights reserved. https://www.devex.com/news/can-faith-groups-convince-australia-to-act-on-foreign-aid-93540 Can faith groups convince Australia to act on foreign aid Christian women leaders meeting with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at Parliament House, Canberra, in September. Photo by: Micah Australia CANBERRA — What is the best way to engage Australia’s new Prime Minister Scott Morrison, on issues of aid and development? It is a question that is being asked across the development sector. New Assistant Minister for International Development and the Pacific Anne Ruston, has presented herself as particularly receptive to a development audience. But since the aid budget is often an easy cut for Australian governments, achieving an audience with the prime minister has not been a guarantee. Anne Ruston on Australia's changing aid program In her first sit-down interview since taking on the role of assistant minister for international development and the Pacific, Ruston talks about the impact of changing political leadership on the aid program, Australia's commitment to climate, and what her new role means for Australian aid. On Sept. 20, a group of Christian women leaders representing Hillsong Church, Baptist Church, Citipointe Church, The Grainery, Anglican Deaconess Ministries, and The Salvation Army headed to Parliament House to discuss the foreign aid budget and offshore asylum seeker detention with senior ministers and members of parliament. The group of women was facilitated by Micah Australia Executive Director Tim Costello to provide a unified faith-based message on development and humanitarian crises. Their audience included the prime minister. The discussion with him was brief — only five minutes — with foreign aid the main point to discuss. It was organized late in the day but considered an achievement that surprised many in Australia’s development sector. And it has provided an important foot in the door to emphasize the large portion of the Australian population supporting international development. Achieving an audience with the prime minister could have simply been because one delegate, Eloise Wellings, founder of NGO Love Mercy, was from the prime minister’s electorate. But it came at a time when the prime minister has been showing his strong affinity with religious groups — including increased funding for Catholic education and proposed changes to discrimination law to cover religious freedom. Asked what may have influenced the premier’s decision to meet with them, Beck Wilesmith, senior adviser at Micah, said: “I’m not sure, to be honest.” “We were organizing this [event] before the leadership spill and had to re-issue the invites. But we were upfront in every meeting that these were women of faith and church leaders.” Insights from the meetings Kate Harrison Brennan, CEO of Anglican Deaconess Ministries, discussed with Devex the nature of the meetings and key outcomes, saying there was an “openness right now” to hearing from faith-based groups. Bringing together women from across different churches was an important part of opening doors for meetings, she believes, showing uniformity in messaging from the sector. And the asks were kept consistent, with slight tweaks on how particular parties could go about addressing those concerns. “Our messages were really consistent — starting with, we believe in foreign aid because we believe in life,” Brennan said. “This is a significant component on that in wanting to see Australia take a strong position in how much we gave. That message was really consistent as well as the message about wanting to see children off Nauru — this is a humanitarian crisis, with 102 children there and it is obviously no place for a child. Across government, the message can have a different tune from speaking with opposition where we were calling for Labour to create a policy platform that puts aid back in the center of foreign policy.” With Australia’s government struggling to understand their “political base” and what their electorates want, the group came in highlighting that their views are representative of at least 15 percent of the population who attend church on a monthly basis — approximately 3.75 million people. Get development's most important headlines in your inbox every day. “There is always room for improvement in engaging with politicians,” Brennan said. “Especially among those who feel their constituency doesn’t really perhaps understand the point of foreign aid. Pressure is often from those who voice an opposition to foreign aid. It is important for us to ask for meetings with those who feel really constrained by what they hear from some of their constituency and feedback from churches in their electorate. We can give them a different picture — to show that members of their electorate are incredibly supportive of aid.” With the openness to hear from Christian leaders, Brennan said it was clear that hearing from a united group of church leaders under the Micah banner was an important avenue for discussion and impact. They plan to continue that work and have a prophetic voice into federal parliament. “There was real interest in keeping the discussion going,” Brennan said. It also means going back to the various church groups to communicate the importance of the impact they can make — locally and internationally — through their programs of work and a unified voice. And though the day was focused on a messaging of the aid budget and children on Nauru, the leaders they met with wanted to get into the finer points of aid policy — what makes an effective aid program, what ensures Australians can be confident in what we are doing. “We hope to follow up on that,” Brennan said. Keeping the conversation moving In December, Micah will be continuing the conversation as part of the Voices for Justice conference, with the anticipation that politicians will be involved in discussing development challenges from a faith-based perspective. Based in Canberra, the conference will allow attendees to lobby their local members of parliament. With Australia now entering a period where politicians are focusing on the 2019 federal election, it is timely for development to be under discussion with influential politicians. “It’s incredible what the whole sector does, but the faith-based component is an element of unique to what Micah does and we don’t shy away from that,” Wilesmith said. “As a sector, we all have to do our bit.” But beyond that, Brennan said there is a focus on ensuring long-term relationships are formed to support a bipartisan approach to aid, to achieve sustainable development outcomes. You have 2 free articles left https://www.bing.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-10-01/australia-s-property-downturn-chalks-up-one-year-anniversary Bloomberg Markets Australia's Property Downturn Chalks Up One-Year AnniversaryBy  Matthew Burgess September 30, 2018, 8:29 PM EDT Dwelling values have fallen 2.7 percent since Sept. 2017 peak Sydney and Melbourne are now the primary drag, says CoreLogic Apartment buildings in the suburb of Wolli Creek in Sydney. Photographer: Lisa Maree Williams/Bloomberg Australia’s property slump has reached the one-year mark as the nation’s two major cities have become the biggest drag. National dwelling values dropped 0.5 percent last month, weighed by declines in Sydney and Melbourne, according to CoreLogic Inc. data released Monday. Prices in the two east coast cities, which make up more than half of the national value of housing, have fallen 6.1 percent and 3.4 percent respectively from a year earlier. “Sydney and Melbourne are now the primary drag on the national housing market performance,” taking over from regions that were impacted by the mining downturn, CoreLogic’s head of research Tim Lawless said. Values have fallen greatest among the most expensive properties as lenders curb their appetite for high debt to income ratio lending, he said. Dwelling values in Australia have fallen for 12 straight months, down 2.7 percent from the peak in September last year as tougher credit rules, increased supply and subdued wage growth combine to put an end to Australia’s housing boom. Still, that’s “hardly a crash” as the decline is slower than the last fall between June 2010 and February 2012, according to CoreLogic. 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Twenty years ago, after a mass shooting in Australia that killed 35 people, the government there enacted strict gun laws. Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson speaks to the former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Tim Fischer, about the challenges they faced and the lessons the U.S. government could learn. Hear our original conversation with Tim Fischer from July 2014 Interview Highlights: Tim Fischer On the success of the Australian buyback program No legislation can claim to be adopted without someone breaking the law and some have been apprehended in breaking the law, but it made a difference in two ways. Essentially, it did take out the semi-automatics, the over-sized, over-powered weapons from the suburbs of Australia. It also caused people to think, 'Well, do I really need a gun? If I do, I'll apply and get it, but if I don't, then I won't go down that pathway.' So we really did walk away from a policy of more and more guns. On U.S. misconceptions of safety 'If more guns made us safer, the U.S. would be the safest nation in the world.' You are not; you are 10 to 15 times more likely to be shot dead in the U.S.A. per capita than Australia. And by the way, you are even safer in Italy than the U.S.A. with regard to guns, when looked at like-for-like on a per capita basis. "'If more guns made us safer, the U.S. would be the safest nation in the world.' You are not; you are 10 to 15 times more likely to be shot dead in the USA per capita than Australia." Tim Fischer, former deputy prime minister of Australia On what U.S. gun control advocates should do I would ask Michael Bloomberg to stand up and challenge John Bolton to a debate in the public square on the East Coast, in Chicago, and on the West Coast, sooner rather than later. And I know Bloomberg is taking steps. That's the only way you'll turn the tide. That, and sadly, a massacre that goes beyond the pale. A massacre that hits up towards a hundred dead. A massacre that occurs in a peaceful suburb, as one did in Texas this week. Suddenly, suddenly, there will be a will there, and the NRA will be regretting that it did not at least seek the reinstatement of magazine limitations that have existed for 10 years and weren't construed as being a breach of the second amendment. At least a background check at gun shows. No intelligent person can justify allowing no check whatsoever for people to buy guns in the 21st century. On whether tighter gun laws are possible in the U.S. It will take enormous will. It will take an enormous effort by people like Bloomberg and others. It needs to be taken to the Main Street, to the High Street, to the public square ... Because, actually, when you see some of the more accurate polling, more balanced polling, around the suburbs of Chicago and elsewhere, I think it's a case that can be mounted and can be won, and can be won within the context of the second amendment. 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