Politics

According to a message that is circulating via social media, former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh has earned first place in ’50 Photos of Loyal Person In the World’ conducted by the White House in the US.

Circulating message claims that Anzac Day badges were not sold at Mt. Warren Shopping Centre because the owner of the centre is from the Middle East and he refused permission for businesses in the complex to sell the badges.

Widely circulated message claims that, in a February 4, 2013 speech to the Duma, Russian President Vladimir Putin bluntly advised Russian minorities that they should speak Russian and adapt to Russian culture.

Widely circulated message claims that former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard stated that immigrants should adapt to Australian culture, language and beliefs or leave the country.

Circulating protest message decries the “disgusting and un-patriotic” decision of a UK school to ban the wearing of Help for Heroes armbands by pupils after Easter, 2012.

A widely circulated political diatribe that discusses perceived problems with modern Australian social and political life is attributed to conservative independent MP Bob Katter.

Protest message claims that asylum seekers in the UK receive a substantially higher weekly allowance from the British government than do British pensioners.

Circulating protest messages claims that refugees receive a substantially higher monthly payment from the Australian government than do Australian pensioners.