Human rights and the left
The Rudd Government has decided not to introduce a national Human Rights Act. Typically conservatives have welcomed the decision while liberals have condemned it. Both misunderstand that we live in a...
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Dawn raids see 4 pro-Palestine activists arrested, threatened with imprisonment till Sep 5th Raids carried out at dawn on Tuesday morning by police have seen several pro-Palestine activists arrested,...
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Grandstanding about repression, refugees and money
Sri Lanka stops a number of desperate Tamils fleeing to Australia and the Abbott government is forever grateful. That is why, despite consistent findings of war crimes by the Sri Lankan regime against...
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The Human Rights Commission: the respectable face of systemic abuse
The Abbott government has appointed Tim Wilson as a Human Rights Commissioner and this has excited much of the rights Left. Of course his appointment is an outrage. An outrage I tell you. Imagine...
View ArticleThe Human Rights Commission exposes Australia’s deliberate brutality to...
Here is the press statement by Professor Gillian Triggs, the head of the Human Rights Commission, on the release of its report into asylum seeker children in detention in both Australia and on Manus...
View ArticleWas an inducement offered to get Gillian Triggs, the Human Rights...
I was going to write asking why aren’t the Australian Federal Police investigating if Attorney General George Brandis and the head of his department, Chris Moraitis, have breached the criminal code,...
View ArticleHas Tony Abbott attempted to pervert the course of a police investigation?
According to Ben Doherty in The Guardian today (Thursday 26 February): The Australian federal police has confirmed it is investigating whether the attorney general, George Brandis, broke the law by...
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Gillian Triggs and the political criminals in Canberra
Cathy Wilcox , The Sydney Morning Herald, 8/6/2015 It says much about Australian politics that the Abbott government is attacking, yet again, Gillian Triggs, the head of Australia’s Human Rights...
View ArticleLabor must not support Coalition legislation to save offshore processing
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA RELEASE LABOR MUST NOT SUPPORT COALITION LEGISLATION TO SAVE OFFSHORE PROCESSING Refugee advocates have called on the parliamentary Labor Party not to support any...
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Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act does not restrict the free...
Image via woroni.com.au In Independent Australia I discuss freedom of speech amid calls from right-wing politicians and the Murdoch media for the Turnbull Government to repeal Section 18C of the...
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