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Parliamentary Skills Inquiry Report Misses Opportunity to Focus on Students

Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia (ITECA) Media Release A Federal Parliamentary committee report into the perceptions and status of vocational education and training offers mixed outcomes for students, according to the Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia (ITECA), the peak body representing independent skills training, higher education, and international providers. The report highlights the need to…

Palm Sunday wrap

By Jane Salmon Palm Sunday rallies bring together Jew and Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist, many varieties of Christian, humanists and atheists to share a vision of ecumenical cooperation and tolerance. The rallies traditionally promote human rights and equity while also condemning war. Sydney’s rally today was no exception. Josephite Sister Susan Connelly had plenty to say…

The Art of Hypocrisy

By James Moore There are only 1500 people living in Brooklyn, Iowa, situated along the old transcontinental route of U.S. Highway 6 and north of Interstate 80, east of Des Moines. Calling itself a “community of flags,” Brooklyn does not have a profile that might suggest violent crime. Mollie Tibbetts certainly would have had no…

Team Dutton duds women; snubs gender equality, bipartisanship and democracy

Actions speak louder than words if not nearly as often, while inactions can speak louder than both. The Liberals are paying lip service to a target of fifty percent women in ten years, after Morrison’s catastrophic election hot mess-dumpster-fire-trainwreck in 2022 triggered an independent review from Peta Credlin’s manbag, Brian Loughnane and jolly Jane Hume.…

Analysis of the 2024 Qld Council Elections

By Callen Sorensen Karklis The election results of the local government elections are in. Some will be despairing on both the progressive and conservative sides in some key areas around the state, while others on each side will be content with the results. One thing despite it all is obvious: QLD Premier Steven Miles should…

Julian Assange and the Plea Nibble

Be wary of what Washington offers in negotiations at the best of times. The empire gives and takes when it can; the hegemon proffers and in equal measure and withdraws offers it deems fit. This is all well known to the legal team of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, who, the Wall Street Journal “exclusively” reveals,…

What has age got to do with it?

The ongoing commentary about the relative ages of the two Presidential candidates is becoming tedious. What matters most is their ability to lead. By the time of the election, Trump and Biden would have each spent a term in office. So, there has been sufficient time for the American people to have formed an opinion…

Palm Sunday Walk for Justice and Peace

The Refugee Advocacy Network About the Palm Sunday Walk for Justice and Peace – Melbourne, 24 March 2024 Since 2014, the Refugee Advocacy Network, has brought together a wide range of groups to plan the Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees. During the 1970s and 80s there was a tradition of holding Peace rallies…

Human potential is crushed by disaster capitalism

We must speak to people who require assistance and listen to their needs instead of speaking over them. In the case of Australia’s refugee policy, we wasted billions on toxic cruelty when we could have done much better by cooperating internationally and supporting people humanely. One of the “greatest pre-resettlement programs in the world” for…

Censors Celebrated: Misinformation and Disinformation Down Under

The heralded arrival of the Internet caused flutters of enthusiasm, streaks of heart-felt hope. Unregulated, and supposedly all powerful, an information medium never before seen on such scale could be used to liberate mind and spirit. With almost disconcerting reliability, humankind would coddle and fawn over a technology which would, as Langdon Winner writes, “bring…

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