Telling the truth said Paolo Coelho is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. Only from an informed context can there be a legitimate political reality engaging with the ways forward in the name of the common good. Our days on this earth are however many they will be and in those days […]
September 2015
I think it is fair to say that in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull we have a progressive and forward thinking person in all the areas that his predecessor was not. Advocates in the areas of refugee policy, republican positions, Aboriginal relations, marriage equality and other areas are waiting to see where this man will take […]
Wheelchairs for Kids is a one of kind charity that thus far has helped nearly 33,000 children in 71 countries – the project is sustained by more than 150 retirees – volunteers. I have enjoyed a ten year association with Wheelchairs for Kids, including volunteer managing their Foundation arm for a couple of years, so […]
The majority of Australians do not realise the extensiveness of large homeless families on our streets. I have met families of up to 13 children – homeless, but fighting to stay together rather than be torn apart by government departments. If only our governments spent on the homeless and on public housing what they spend […]
If the sun drowns in a sea of clouds And extends a wave of darkness onto the world And vision dies in the eyes of the vigilant And the road is lost in lines and circles O shrewd traveler in straight lines and in circles, You have no guide but the eyes of speech Ahmed […]
Last week I wrote this piece about attempts by Transfield Chair Dianne Gander-Smith to silence Anglican Priest Rod Bowers whose tweets and signs outside his church in Gosford (about Transfield’s alleged culpability and involvement in the abuse and mistreatment of asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru) had angered and upset the Transfield Chair. The Transfield Chairperson sought […]
“Victims and their families have been fighting for recognition and justice for decades and great victories were achieved when the Victorian Inquiry and the Royal Commission were established. But ‘for what’ they say.” Judy Courtin The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is after 2 years, at its halfway mark. The Commission […]
There are many things that the United Nations does that cause me to shake my head in disbelief. I have to say that their latest feat leaves me completely nonplussed. “States which are based on religion confine their people in the circle of faith and fear”. – Raif Badawi (about Saudi Arabia) To set the […]
The presumption that Australia’s modernist racist past is being whittled away has long been a fallacy and every once and a while shows its hand. The modern Australian nation arrived on the back of invasion, apartheid, genocidal policies – justified by the worst forms of racisms. The invaders continued on as oppressors and wrapped racist […]
#Enough! Fatima needs food and proper medical care, not war! Kabul—Some days ago, at the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ Borderfree Center, I met Jamila, the mother of a little girl, Fatima, who comes to the Street Kids School, a program designed to help children working on the streets go to school. Jamila, a young mother of […]
General News
- When are we Australians? – Xenophon, Australian born and bred
23 Aug 2017
Racism is a beast that threatens those whom it stares down and it regularly mauls its prey. This beast remains at all times as a firmament in the institutions of this Australian nation. Racism has many veils and layers – […]
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- Suicide toll – stop the shameless research, just disaggregate
12 Jun 2017
Funding researchers & advocacy start-ups over outreach & the coalface is killing people. Funding should be directed to providing people with the various support needed and with tangible improvements to their life circumstances. Governments should stop funding supposed research into suicide […]
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- Schapelle Corby – presumption of innocence
29 May 2017
Schapelle Corby is innocent – part 12 – The interview that should have launched a Royal Commission The Wheeler report, the Kessing reports, Stratfor’s Marko Primorac’s report, and former Justice Minister Jason Clare have described extensive corruption of Australian airport […]
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- If we are to reduce suicides and miserableness let us differentiate who is mentally unwell and who is not
13 May 2017
More Australians suicided in the one year, 2015, than in any other year and sadly it may soon be reported that just as many or more suicided in 2016. Though I pray I am proven wrong it is likely that […]
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- Suicide prevention needs people on the ground, not just talk
10 May 2017
There is more disseminated today than ever before about suicide. However understanding suicide prevention is still a journey to be had for the majority of Australians. The most important understanding is that more people are needed on the ground to […]
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- Former US Congressional staffer, MIT research affiliate, discredits 2013 UN report on Ghouta chemical attack
15 Apr 2017
Do not trust anyone. Assad is not responsible for the abominable chemical gas attacks in Ghouta in 2013 and in Idlib in 2017. War is an abomination. Bombs and missiles are an abomination. The US led coalition has ‘dropped’ more […]
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- WikiLeaks – in the face of betrayal they remain heroic
13 Apr 2017
WikiLeaks Publishing is one of the world’s most remarkable organisations. It continues despite numerous attempts to shut it down. Its founder is a political prisoner. The world’s media should have been transformed by WikiLeaks courageous downloads in its taking on […]
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- Corrective Services Minister Fran Logan correct with how to reduce incarceration rates – “don’t build more prisons”
10 Apr 2017
In the most profound statement by a Corrective Services minister in this nation, Western Australia’s Fran Logan said there’d be no new jail for the state. He stated that a review of remand prisoners was needed to free those […]
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- Not true that Assad gassed his people but millions pay the price in a world of lies
9 Apr 2017
In a world of lies, the ability to discover the truth is outstripped by the capacity to manifest deceit. All wars are an abomination and within these abominations, without fail, there are litanies of lies to further pollute the air, […]
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- Syria – millions pay the price
8 Apr 2017
The media and commentators are carrying on as if American missiles have hit Syria for the first time, as if the tragic score of casualties to US missiles and bombs are a recent first. There have been tens of […]
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