Over the last few days I have witnessed the culmination of a Faustian tragedy that has been slowing growing in Australia over the past few years. I watched as members of our Senate came close to breaking down in tears as their hands were forced to pass one of the ugliest pieces of legislation regarding …
Continue reading “A Faustian Tragedy with Scott Morrison starring as the Devil”
Well as I said in a previous post things have gotten somewhat interesting here in the land of Oz and not in a good way. For a country that is supposed to pride itself about providing a ‘fair go’ for everyone we seem to be failing rather badly on a variety of fronts. I don’t …
How do I begin this post? I typed introduction after introduction and each left me feeling at a loss. It wasn’t until I took a step back that I realized that the issue wasn’t that I didn’t know what I wanted to say it was that I didn’t know how to say it without resorting …
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Well now this is a lovely piece of snark from Smile – Be Happy, aimed at our illustrious Prime Minister and his minions. All of whom have just decided to gut funding into research, revoke funding for the environmental research and planning, increased the cost of medicare along with raising the age of the retirement …
Originally posted on The Australian Independent Media Network:
The Guardian has judged him as ‘’politically incorrect to the point of dementia’’ New Statesman said Abbott represents ‘’politics at its most crass, exploitative and disturbing’’ UK Labour MP Paul Flynn called him ‘’a bigoted airhead’’ The LA Times called itself ‘’scandalised by his prejudices’’ The Sydney…
Huge progress! The NT Government have just announced that they’re accessing options to move Roseanne to appropriate care in Alice Springs. In parliament last night the NT Health Minister said “I am absolutely committed to getting Rosanne Fulton home as soon as it is practicable” – the pressure from more than 104,000 of you who’ve signed the petition …
Detention brings smartass behaviour to the awareness of parents who in my case generally responded to pointing out the glaring stupidity of calling that sort of attention to myself in class by saying something along the lines of: and then wanted me to apologise to the teacher but didn’t feel that as a rule my …
Originally posted on xBorder:
Ever since private superannuation became compulsory in Australia, superannuation funds—and superannuation fund managers—have created an immense pool of investment dollars. Running in the trillions of dollars, these are both significant elements in the economy and, at the same time, they are also the retirement funds of thousands of workers. This is…
Originally posted on xBorder:
March 5th 2014 After much consideration we: Agnieszka Polska, Sara van der Heide, Nicoline van Harskamp and Nathan Gray, have decided to withdraw our works from the 19th Biennale of Sydney, because of its relation to Transfield, a company involved in the Australian government policy of mandatory detention. Our motivations reflect those…
Originally posted on Castan Centre for Human Rights Law :
On 2 March, over 500 academics from more than 30 Australian universities (including Castan Centre Directors and Associates) signed a letter to the Prime Minister calling for the immediate closure of the detention centres on Manus Island and in Nauru. Academics can still add their names at this…
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