From Destroy the Joint, a call for action at NSW state level: call upon the Attorney General Greg Smith to issue a direction to the NSW DPP under the Director of Public Prosecutions Act to ensure that no one is prosecuted solely for retracting an...
From my friend Mel, an Aussie living in Philadelphia:
Adults who give children guns are as bad as adults who give children porn.
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News that the first priest charged in Australia for failing to report the sex crimes of another priest, has died while awaiting trial, was of much interest to me. Fr. Tom Brennan was the Principal at St Pius X College in Adamstown, NSW, when I was a student there in the mid to late 1970s. He was wholly aware that the now convicted paedophile, Fr.
‘Workplace mobbing is nonsexual harassment of a coworker by a group of members of an organization for the purpose of removing the targeted individual(s) from the organization or at least a particular unit of the organization. Mobbing involves individual, group, and organizational dynamics.
It’s no big secret that many Christian Churches hate us fags with a passion. This is not mere ‘uncomfortableness’ with the idea that two men might get it on differently to how your ma and da did it but utter disgust that such men not only make love, but can actually love each other.
At the same time as the Australian Federal Government is pushing through an inquiry into workplace bullying, comes further news about the culture of violence that has long permeated our defence forces.
This Wednesday is ‘ANZAC Day’ in Australia, a day on which we remember those men and women who marched bravely off to war and especially those who did not return. For those who did, a necessary myth of the unrelenting war machine is that just as young soldiers must be honourably blown to bits by land mines (or whatever), the damaged ex-veterans must carry themselves with quiet dignity.