Tag Archive | Australia
This week has a human rights focus
While you might say this site always has a human rights focus, this week I am the curator for the Twitter handle @HumanRightsRCur so I will be sharing various human rights information. If you are on Twitter and interested in human rights from around the world, please follow! 🙂 One of the aspects of human rights […]
Have you ever had sex on a work trip?
If I ask such a question, I should answer it myself, I suppose. I’m sure I must have at some point but right now I don’t remember any specific instances (so clearly any indiscretions were not that memorable!). I do recall several of us being asked to leave a spa pool at about 3 am […]
Should we send a woman pregnant with twins to Nauru?
Edit October 20: Since this and many other articles were published, Morrison has come out strongly denying there are any pregnant women with twins on Nauru. I note he does not say there never were: Despite this, Mr Morrison used the once-weekly briefing to admonish assembled journalists for misreporting asylum seeker issues, including the widely […]
Are male doctors sexually harassed by patients?
I’d like to know the answer. I’d like to know for two reasons: A) to ensure we look at the issue from both sides of the fence and, B) while I’ve heard of male doctors being penalised professionally for inappropriate relationships (or worse) with female patients, I’ve not heard of the reverse. A survey of […]
I wrote a little opinion piece
I wrote a little opinion piece which has been published on Independent Australia. I love the cartoon! http://www.independentaustralia.net/2013/politics/tony-religion-and-the-dumb-country/ Hope you find it interesting. 🙂 In 24 hours it has proved remarkably popular.
Where, oh where, are the women of calibre?
There must be something really strange happening in the Liberal Party (and, I suggest, the coalition overall). Is there really NOT more than ONE woman of sufficient calibre in the Liberal Party to rate a cabinet position? The ONE woman that did make it has, effectively, been demoted. Julie Bishop was the Deputy Leader of […]
Solution for asylum seekers? Reintroduce slavery
I really don’t get the problem with all this asylum seeker nonsense. The solution is simple and we don’t even have to go and capture or buy them from West Africa like the Americans did back in the day. They come to us for free! In fact, some even pay smugglers to get here, so […]
United Nations smacks Australia’s asylum seeker policies
Congratulations to Professor Ben Saul for an amazing victory. The United Nations Human Rights Committee has found Australia to be in violation of no fewer than 150 points of international law in relation to the indefinite detention of 40 asylum seekers. Professor Saul is quoted as saying: “It is a major embarrassment for Australia, which […]
There are days I despise the human race
There are days I despise the human race: today is one of them. Regular readers know I am a “Criminal Minds” fan. I rarely get to watch it on the actual TV, I tend to catch-up by watching episodes on the computer. Last night I watched episode 19 of series 8 about a guy kidnapping […]
Want to make a political comment? How risky is it really?
The last time I checked, Australia was a democracy. In fact, SO democratic are we that it is compulsory to vote if one is eligible. Is not voting an expression of political opinion? I have long been aware there is no implicit or explicit right to free speech in Australia’s constitution however there has always, […]
Random Observations of Life 