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| Australia is a UN signatory for the rights of all children. |
In a forceful speech, the president of the Australian Human Rights Commission argued parliaments had failed to protect democratic rights and many politicians were “breathtakingly inconsistent” in supporting the rule of law.
WARNING SIGNS OF TYRANNY - 'over-reaching executive powers'...
Divert from the evidence, attack personal, the really Honourable Gillian Triggs who ought to be like "Caesar's Wife"(Brandis).
- Minister for Immigration Dutton would like all discretionary power to strip Australian Citizenship from 'suspected' terrorists/foreign fighters. (Unsure of humanitarian workers).http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-27/decision-to-revoke-citizenship-should-be-based-on-conviction/6499582
3. The Prime Minister appoints himself Minister for Women and Indigenous Affairs and is like an absentee landlord - lots of things need fixing but it's not important enough.
DEFENDING DEFENSE - DENYING CLIMATE THREAT
The total cost of sending Australian troops to the most recent Iraq war was about $2.5 billion.
The total commitment to operations in Afghanistan was far more expensive, at $9.3 billion.
Women and children of Australia can suffer: We want to bomb the Muslims to pieces, even though it costs so much!
Women and children of Australia can suffer: We want to bomb the Muslims to pieces, even though it costs so much!
DOOMED TO REPEAT
Alerting us from Crikey media, is Senior reporter Bernard Keane - about signs of more military adventures. Thunderbirds are go, Tory Tony?http://www.crikey.com.au/2015/06/03/keane-australian-neocons-on-the-march-back-to-iraq/Thousands of civilian lives have been lost, and new lives born deformed. Forget what you learn at school - Maslow's hierarchy of needs is destroyed by the Coalition invaders and their allies, corporate profiteers of war. Who wins any war? http://costsofwar.org/article/growth-corporate-power-and-profiteering
You've gotta laugh or you'll cry. Don't listen to the radio so much - dismantle the ABC! Protect your mental health yourself.
Fascists love a starched ironed uniform - In post-WW1 MP Moseley from the West Midlands gathered a few London thugs together, coloquially called The Black Shirts.
Fascists love a starched ironed uniform - In post-WW1 MP Moseley from the West Midlands gathered a few London thugs together, coloquially called The Black Shirts.
Today in Australia Prime Minister Abbott's crew share the pride in Liberal blue, but they are not Liberals
- they are Conservative.
Queensland Labor calls themTories.
Queensland Labor calls themTories.
Who needs to wait in long lines of traffic on the highway for Amberley's Open Day - we don't!
As my husband and I cultivate the garden hearing the bird sounds of kookaburra, double-barred finches, rainbow lorikeets and willy wigtails our peace is shattered by protectors of home security: F1-11's, Super Hornets, Caribou...
Reminds me of a sunny morning with a potential boy-friend in my Elwood/St. Kilda days. I was only 19 and didn't understand why the sound of airforce craft overhead made his body freeze, terror on his face.
He told me it was because he had been in the Israeli army. It was beyond my comprehension, 35 years ago.
AND THE WARS ON MOTHER EARTH demand 'fight or flight' response). Airplanes fly over my house stirring me to write poetry, and play Donovan.
SO,
Is the Abbott Government fascist? | Tasmanian Times asked in 2014. This May Day 2015 saw racist Nationalist men in Melbourne baying for a brawl against recent Muslim immigrants and refugees, encouraged by the rhetoric from Parliamentarians.What about the Truth of daily horrendous abuses evidenced in the Human Rights report and others? No Conscience for breaking international law on torture, children's rights, refugees - only about same sex couples getting married!
Are The Greens now the only decent human beings who will shine the solar lights on the hill to alert injustice to our planet, our people, who would prevent the plight of human victims of persecution and wars?
To spy on a Senator is obviously wrong on every level, including legally seeing as it's a serious offence to interfere in the duties of a Federal Parliamentarian
If this alleged spying on Senator Hanson-Young is the work of rogue Wilson employees then they should be sacked and legal proceedings initiated against them.
A Growing concern for me as a tight-rope walking member of the ALP is the bi-partisan slow waltz between the two "old" parties on so called National Security/border control/mandatory indefinite detention...
| Asylum seeker whistleblowers muzzled by harsh penalties, metadata access | ||
| MYRIAM ROBIN Crikey media reporter in cases of legitimate whistleblowing in the public interest, the Law Council's submission stated, such a provision gave employees no protection: This recommendation was championed by Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young in her speech against the bill. "The bill entrenches secrecy by making it a criminal offence, punishable by two years imprisonment, for Department of Immigration employees to disclose information," she said, noting that employees could be "summarily fired" for leaking, with no right to pursue unfair dismissal. Hanson-Young said:
When Julian Assange Wikileaked footage of war-crimes by U.S.A. soldiers like gunning down civilians and children etc and the then Labor Government under Rudd and Gillard shunned the principles of his actions I was baffled. Even my local branch of left-leaning union and social activists were against the whistle blowing Australian citizen. Fortunatley we have Independent Tasmanian MP former intelligence officer and whistle-blower against Howards foray into the Iraq invasion based on lies who will speak with integrity inn Parliament. With the Liberal backbenchers supporting an authoritarian approach to foreign fighters and populism a favourite political sport, how are we not stealthily stepping towards an Australian fascism? WHO'S GONNA SAVE US? http://winstonclose.me/2015/05/31/australian-democracy-at-a-tipping-point-written-by-paul-g-delitt-aim-network/
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