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Why does Australia imprison innocent women, children and men?
Originally posted on Oosterman Treats Blog: https://newmatilda.com//2013/10/21/echoes-white-australia What motivates a democratic, peace-time government to imprison innocent men, women and children? Former Liberal MP Judi Moylan looks at the divisive history of Australian border policy. Few matters have been more fiercely debated in the Australian Parliament or more unsparingly ventilated in the media than the recent… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 16, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences May The Farce Be With You We were going to be nice about it all, really we were. APEC, we mean. It was so important to Bali, after all. All those lovely delegates were sure to be so impressed by the event and the island… Continue reading
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Treatment of Asylum seekers by Sayomi Ariyawansa
Originally posted on Oosterman Treats Blog: UNExtract by Sayomi Ariyawansa From Future Leaders Detention-centre advocates tell us that our tough attitude towards “boat people” is a deterrent for others who may consider seeking asylum here. They tell us these people are a burden that we don’t want, and the best way to stop them is… Continue reading
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What Happens When Only 1.2% of Chinese Women Take the Pill: 13 Million Abortions
Taking a pregnancy-preventing pill is sensible, Serial abortion is not. Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 2, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Barking Mad The real story behind the precipitate action by Bali’s authorities to close down BAWA – the Bali Animal Welfare Association – will probably never be known. It cannot have been licensing irregularities alone, surely? The only people who get pinged over licence issues… Continue reading
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Mary Lou and My Catharsis
I saw your lips I heard your voice Believe me I just had no choice Wild horses couldn’t make me stay away I thought about a moonlit night Arms around you good and tight That’s all I had to see for me to say Hey hey Hello Mary Lou, goodbye heart Sweet Mary Lou I’m… Continue reading
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Not for Profits Face Familiar Challenges | Private Portfolio Managers – PPM
Not for Profits Face Familiar Challenges | Private Portfolio Managers – PPM. Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser September 18, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Golly! It’s Scribbler Time Again Coming up soon are several jamborees – including Miss World, see below – that are set to put Bali (however briefly) in the world spotlight. The primary one is the APEC summit, of which we have written before. But… Continue reading
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AUSTRALIA’S ELECTION: Why I’ll be voting Liberal on Saturday (and no, it’s not because I usually do)
It’s fair to say that neither of the major parties – Labor and the Coalition (taken collectively this is sometimes a fractious prospect as we have seen demonstrated in recent days) – totally inspire confidence. But that’s democracy. You get a choice, but it is never a clear one between inexhaustible excellence on one hand… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser Sept. 4, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Ugly and Over It Australian tourists get a bad rap in Bali. In some ways that’s understandable. The appalling behaviour of some of them in the more licentious parts of the tourist strip and (to be brutally honest) the astonishingly gauche naivety of a… Continue reading
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