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Showing posts with label refugees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label refugees. Show all posts
12 November 2015

A royal commission into the mandatory detention of asylum-seekers

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The system of mandatory detention of asylum-seekers began in 1992, when Paul Keating was PM and Labor Left inner-city Melbourne MP Gerry Han...
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11 August 2015

Friends on the other side

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Tony Smith became Speaker with the backing of Scott Morrison, according to Abbott cipher Chris Uhlmann. Smith's main opponent in the par...
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16 May 2015

No flies on Scott Morrison

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The one sure way to tell that a politician is on the rise is when nothing they do blows back on them. They say clumsy things, they do clumsy...
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13 May 2015

Have a go ya mugs

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Coverage of the budget is always dreadful. The entire Australian media relies far too heavily upon the lines the Treasurer's office want...
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19 January 2014

Scott Morrison should be sacked

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... but he won't be, and that's why the Abbott government is pretty much done for. It is not OK to conduct military incursions int...
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15 October 2013

Nothing if not pragmatic

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Two examples why press gallery journalists just don't matter when it comes to covering politics: Clementine Ford and Hugh White ran ri...
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25 July 2013

National service

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Shou'd foreign foe e'er sight our coast, Or dare a foot to land, We'll rouse to arms like sires of yore To guard our native ...
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05 January 2013

Reasons to be cheerful, part 2013

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Dear Alex White, I disagree with most of your post , and its basic argument. I realise your job is to gee up people on the left and get th...
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21 December 2012

Just doing your job

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The Howard Government's policy on deterring and discouraging asylum seekers from coming to Australia by boat was widely regarded as both...
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13 August 2012

The no-win situation

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On the release of the Report of the Expert Panel on Asylum Seekers I am in no position to make legal or practical judgments on what it migh...
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