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Questions to answer as live export cruelty charges to be dropped by WA Government

November 12, 2023 - 10:55 -- Admin

Australian Alliance for Animals Media Release The Australian Alliance for Animals is today calling for an immediate inquiry following revelations by Nine newspapers that the WA Government intends to drop animal cruelty charges against the state’s largest live sheep exporter just days before a long-awaited trial was due to commence. Emanuel Exports was charged with…

Foolish Exclusions: China and the Bletchley Declaration on AI

November 12, 2023 - 10:31 -- Admin

At the conclusion of the Second World War, debates raged on how best to regulate the destructive power of the atom. Splitting it had been used most savagely against the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, thereby ending, to date, the globe’s costliest war. Visions also abounded on the promise and glory of…

Who is this guy?

November 10, 2023 - 06:00 -- Admin

1 Who but a devotee of Trump would say such a thing?: “I have just called President Trump to say this: “Stay strong and keep fighting, sir! The nation is depending upon your resolve. We must exhaust every available legal remedy to restore Americans’ trust in the fairness of our election system.”  That anyone could,…

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Judges fail to understand: people must pay a price for choosing to act as a Nazi

November 9, 2023 - 12:45 -- Admin

Victoria’s leading Neo Nazi left the County Court in Melbourne recently with the judge’s message, “Good luck with the future, Gentlemen” ringing in his ears, laughing at the judge’s assertion that he and his co-offender have good prospects for rehabilitation. They greeted reporters outside the court with the observation that they were innocent, followed by…

Why Qld Seats like Oodgeroo or Bowman may flip towards a 3rd Option: Eventually! A gauge of what’s to come?

November 9, 2023 - 12:35 -- Admin

By Callen Sorensen Karklis   Given the state of federal and state politics in Australia and Qld, it’s hard to see the trend towards Teal independents and Greens as an alternative to the major parties phasing out anytime soon. 1 in 3 Australian voters voted for other options. In fact, in Qld the Greens won three…

Viciousness Regnant: Humanitarianism as a Weasel Word

November 9, 2023 - 09:00 -- Admin

It may be time to reconsider the use of such words as “humanitarian” and “humanitarianism”. There has been little of that sort evidenced in the Israel-Hamas War, marked by industrial-mechanised atrocities, enforced deprivation and starvation, orders to evacuate (read expulsion and banishment), preceded by massacres most haunting and visceral. Its constant evocation by various sides…

North Into the Night

November 9, 2023 - 08:31 -- Admin

By James Moore   I remember his face. I will always remember his face. The border patrol had agreed to let our TV station ride with them along the Rio Grande on long stretches of the river as the water course bent northwesterly. Two agents in their olive drab uniforms sat in the front seat and…

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The Voice of the Coalition

November 9, 2023 - 02:36 -- Admin

By Dr. Martha Knox-Haly and John Haly The failure of the Coalition’s Voice to Parliament has been an unusual congruence of events. No doubt some of you will think we made a mistake in that first sentence. The Uluru page was created in 2017, during the Coalition Government’s tenure. The now resigned coalition minister, Ken…

Why Mr Albanese Needs To Go To Israel And Other Just So Stories…

November 8, 2023 - 19:42 -- Admin

One thing that I’ve come to believe about politics is that it helps to have a strong narrative. Note that I said “strong” and not “plausible”. And the reason for that is simple. Think of all the successful Hollywood blockbusters of the past few decades. For every one of them that’s had a completely plausible…

Refugee women walk for a fair go

November 8, 2023 - 17:32 -- Admin

We are a group of 15 refugee women of Tamil and Iranian backgrounds who were processed through the flawed Fast Track process introduced by the previous government. We were very happy to hear that the ALP agreed that it did not provide a fair, thorough and robust assessment process for persons seeking asylum. When the…

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