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Australia’s refugee policy – reforms needed to reflect humane approach and national spirit of welcome

Media Release International and national refugee sector experts and advocates have identified four urgent areas of reform needed to address ongoing disadvantage and exclusion caused by Australia’s policies towards refugees and people seeking asylum. Two hundred delegates gathered in Kyneton, Victoria (11-13 October) for the two-yearly Rural Australians for Refugees conference which brings 75 groups…

Israel’s War on the United Nations

The United Nations is an easy body to hate. At times, it seems to be effusion without substance, body with no backbone. It was conceived in a fit of post-war idealism, when egos were humbled and hatred briefly stemmed. Over the ruins of the Second World War, the builders were favoured over the destroyers and…

What is Justice?

By Bert Hetebry As I recall, the opening scene of the 2005 movie “Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman” see a woman who had been executed, hanged, removed from the hangman’s rope and prepared for burial. The care, the gentleness of that scene belies the violence of the death which had been ordered as punishment for murder.…

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It Takes A Village: that village is our Heritage and Legacy

By Jane Salmon Killara is a place of beautifully appointed private spaces. My grandmother (born in 1902) shared an old horse with her siblings. They rode to school together reciting Shakespeare to the clop of the hooves. Elocution was popular. It is her parents and folk like them that helped pay for our first theatre.…

Reflections on the Referendum for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament

La Trobe University Media Release Where: Online series Cost: Free Bookings here One year ago, the referendum for an Aboriginal Voice to Parliament failed.  La Trobe University’s Ideas and Society this month delves into what the referendum campaign and its result revealed about the contemporary attitude of non-Indigenous Australians to the Indigenous peoples. What can…

Construction nightmares: How builder bankruptcies are costing Aussie homeowners millions

UNSW Sydney Media Release If there is an industry in Australia that needs confidence right now, it’s the residential construction sector. Yet, at a time of unprecedented need to build, construction companies are collapsing like houses of cards, leaving consumers with lost deposits and half-finished homes. For consumers, embarking on building or renovating a home…

Donny is Done

By James Moore I will not believe it. I cannot. There is nothing left to know about Donald Trump. And I will not accept that even the most base and uneducated of Americans will offer him enough support to restore him to the White House. Just after writing those sentences, I went to the betting…

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Protecting Core Institutions

By Denis Hay Description Protecting core institutions by strengthen unions, regulatory bodies, policing, and military for public good and prevent abuse of power. Introduction Protecting core institutions such as Australia’s labour unions, regulatory bodies, policing services, and military are foundational institutions that support societal stability and safeguard the public good. However, in recent decades, external…

Australia should make speeding fines fair with proportional model: Report

Media Release: The Australia Institute Making traffic fines proportional to drivers’ incomes, as is done in Finland, is a fairer system according to a new report from The Australia Institute, supported by Uniting Vic Tas and Financial Counselling Victoria. With cost of living already pushing many Australians into financial difficulties, traffic fines can force low-income people into choosing…

Will we be in the future?

A few coming events in our planet’s future – some predicted, some certain – will see the human race wiped off the face of the earth, literally. Of course there’s also the unpredictable, such as a rogue comet sending us the way of the dinosaurs or the absurd such as the sky eventually crashing down…

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