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Australia’s refugee intake – Budget 2012
I’ll admit tonight I am VERY confused. I happened to notice the budget statement in relation to our humanitarian visa program for the 2012 -2013 year. “‘Australia resettles the third largest number of refugees of any country, and we resettle more refugees, per capita, than any other nation” http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/media/cb/2012/cb186539.htm Now this seemed, to me, to […]
Entitlement Mentality: a personal perspective
All forms of media has been nothing short of drowning in Joe Hockey’s suggestion that Australia has an entitlement mentality which needs to be cut back. I am only going to link to one article, for the benefit of our many overseas readers, because this is my personal perspective. I am not entering into the […]
Equal Pay for women at risk?
Equal pay for women just took a beating in some backwoods state of the USA on March 31, 2012 in a very quiet way. My apologies to followers of ours who live in Wisconsin (I know there are a few) but for goodness sake, how the hell did this happen? I don’t often stray from […]
Would you prefer to be a Rinehart or a sex slave?
Today I read two newspaper articles. Not an unusual event, I know. In one article three young (believed to be under 18), vulnerable women had been allegedly lured from Thailand on the promise of student visas only to become sex slaves in Australia. Due to a tip-off to the Salvation Army, the poor young women […]
I’m not a scary guy
Safe in your nice living room are you? No threat of having your hand cut off at the next election? Haven’t seen your wife, sister or mother raped lately? Not about to have your house burned or bombed? What if any of this applied to you? 150 (approx) people died recently trying to find freedom and […]
Random Observations of Life 