Richard Flanagan’s speech – at the Garma Festival in August 2018 should be reproduced in bronze on a monument in Canberra, along with the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Copies of both should be a mandatory presence in every school in the country, that every child/student be aware of the …
My interests and concerns include (but are not limited to): – the thickening web of wider police powers, increasing surveillance and greater secrecy in the name of security and anti-terrorism; – the rising tide of attacks on independent journalism and investigative reporting, particularly attacks on the ABC which is the …
What a truly rotten, despicable, cowardly, unprincipled, corrupt and wicked government we have (‘Former ASIS spy charged after exposing East Timor bugging, MP reveals’, Fairfax Online). While the former prime minister, whose government initiated the singular crimes against our neighbour East Timor, dog-whistles China from a dark corner, the former head …
Selling off the ABC would be the final nail in the coffin of what used to feel like a fair-minded country. – Frances Marel, CLa member, Curl Curl NSW
To: Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Turnbull: Yet another refugee has suicided on Nauru. What is your policy? To wait until all the refugees on Manus Island and Nauru, one way or another, are dead and then to proclaim “Mission Accomplished”? Your claim to be ‘Stopping the Boats’ is an outright …
With the “massive expansion of espionage, which will now include any information that compromises Australia’s political and economic interests” we see another step in the inexorable march by the Coalition government to turn Australia into a totalitarian state whilst Labor acquiesces without a whimper. – Reg Murray, CLA Member, Glen …
With the “massive expansion of espionage, which will now include “any information that compromises Australia’s political and economic interests” we see another step in the inexorable march by the Turnbull government to turn Australia into a totalitarian state whilst Labor acquiesces without a whimper. – Reg Murray, CLA member, Glen …
Who benefits? (“Federal Court deals blow to early release of Palace Papers”, Canberra Times, 17 March 2018)
The website of the National Archives of Australia proudly boasts: “We are the nation’s memory – a living collection of government records illuminating our history and identity.”
Considering the ‘Me Too’ campaign, it seems to me that the problems associated with it, in Australia anyway, require long- term solutions rather than expressions of anger.
The Commonwealth government ran Canberra until 1988. From 1988, the Australian Capital Territory has been self-governing. Unlike the six state governments, the ACT government relies heavily on revenues from land-based taxes, rates, levies and stamp duties. Now to The Canberra Times: (“Land plan bit rich: Greens”, February 21, p1). The Greens …
Until Australia was elected to the UN Human Rights Council, with the resulting increased attention on our treatment of refugees, I hadn’t realised what a world leader in crime prevention we really are. As Australian politicians have repeatedly said, the indefinite detention in concentration camps for the refugees who were …