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Everyone in Australia has a human right to housing. Denying it must cease.

August 25, 2024 - 14:04 -- Admin

Since January 1976, the UN’s International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has obliged Australia to ensure “particularly … [via] legislative measures” that the rights of everyone (including non-citizens) to the basics of life – food, health, housing, and so on – are fulfilled. But Australia has not ensured the right to housing. To…

Utopian dreams

August 24, 2024 - 20:44 -- Admin

By Bert Hetebry   Utopia dreams are of a perfect world, where everything is ‘just so’ or as the Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines: ‘a place of ideal perfection especially in law, government and social conditions’. The word was first used, in fact coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book, ‘Utopia’ which describes an idyllic…

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