Nailing it!
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
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As death tolls rises, ministers knowingly responsible
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 …
Rule of Law overturned for Rule of Spies
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 …
Compromising march, with wimper
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 …
Archives hide our history, cloud our identity
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.”
The Child is Father of the Man
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.
Public tenants losing out
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 …
Refugees help us lead on crime prevention
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 …
Sacrificial goats live in tethered island terror
Malcolm Turnbull rejected New Zealand’s offer to resettle 150 Manus Island refugees in New Zealand. The reason is Turnbull would lose 150 out of the 600 “tethered goats” who deter faraway refugees. Once Turnbull loses all his 600 “tethered goats” in Manus, the deterrent effect is gone. No longer could …
Psst! Please tell ‘em: pollies must obey law
The refugees aren’t the illegals. It’s the politicians that are. – John Passant, CLA member, Kambah ACT