Senior public servants – earning hundreds of thousands of dollars
already – received an up-to 19% pay increase; those earning minimum
wage got a mere 4% increase, an additional AU$21 per week swallowed by
increasing petrol and food prices.
Provi…
Where did Paul Daley dredge up his fantasies (“Accountability takes no prisoners”, The Sunday Canberra Times, June 29, p27) about Australia being threatened by stateless armies of terrorists, and stateless hoons with speedboats and dirty bombs? This kin…
In the last 10 years Australia has had an Inquiry into the detention of asylum seekers every year. Will this one be any different? Let’s hope it is not yet another of Kevin Rudd’s all-words-no-action stuff ups, in order to make us think he’s doing someth…
Would the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Labor Party, please explain where the 40-hour work week evaporated for public servants? From the mid-1800s forward, labourers – and ultimately the Labor Party – advocated the eight-hour workday, w…
I’ve not seen Bill Henson’s photographs, so I cannot express an opinion one Way or another … unlike far too many politicians from all parties. But … if we are going to protest against photographing young kids nude, shouldn’t we equally protest again…
As the Olympic torch girded the world, it proffered peace through sporting games. But in some places, relay-escorting thugs extinguished goodwill as they demonstrated some people have a lot yet to learn about the right to peaceful protest.
Part of a s…
Civil Liberties Australia supports peaceful, non-violent demonstrations, by protesters on either side of the Olympic Games and Tibet issue, or by police with the difficult job of being in the middle. With the torch relay, we’re delighted that many Chine…
Freedom for gay couples to celebrate their unions – great. Good luck to the ACT Government in resisting federal intervention in this (“Showdown looks for gay union negotiation”, February 8, p3).
Freedom for terminally ill older people to choose to die w…
Who the heck is Don Bradman anyway? … Testing does *NOT* "play a valuable role" in helping anybody understand
rights and responsibilities.
According to Immigration’s statistics, merely 1% – 3% of candidate citizens from English-spea…
It is difficult to believe Alexander Downer when he claimed on ABC radio on Monday that Australia was unaware of the extent of the corruption of former Indonesian president Suharto….. Senator Evans was proposing to continue the work of his predecessor…