The top 5 signs that your country’s Refugee Policy is a disaster
Australia’s Minister for Saying-We’ve-Stopped-the-Boats – one Mr Peter ‘PDuddy’ Dutton – was out and about this morning defending what he and his government believe is […]
Peter Dutton
The Strange Case Of The Liberal Party!
Perhaps my brain is wired differently, but I tend to notice contradictions in things. Of course it’s pretty easy to notice the contradiction in Peter […]
Reward for achievement?
When Peter Dutton, at age 30, was elected to Federal Parliament in 2001, he said “it brought to a climax a lifetime of hard work […]
Bodies that matter. Bodies that don’t.
It’s profoundly concerning that Abyan, the Somali refugee currently living on Nauru and victim of a rape that left her pregnant, was forbidden to see […]
Turnbull’s actions should carry a trigger warning for all women who have survived sexual violence
At a time when we are struggling in this country with the death of two women every week from male-perpetrated domestic violence, and the physical, […]
Turnbull and Dutton wage war on women
When Tony Abbott was Prime Minister it was difficult to imagine myself feeling more contempt and loathing for any politician than the contempt and loathing […]
Turnbull: women must be respected but only if they are of our tribe
If you can take away the freedom of one man [sic] you strike at the liberty of all. I don’t think the truth of that […]
The relevance of Tony Abbott
By Paul G. Dellit Now That The Lunatic Is No Longer In Charge Of The Asylum . . . That’s unfair. Tony Abbott neither is […]
A letter to Peter Dutton
By Vanessa Kairies Dear Peter Dutton, If your wife was raped in another country by foreigners and they fled that country to their homeland, would […]
Two things I have trouble with involving the Abbott Government … all right, three!
OK, I know it’s obvious, but I want to know why Justice Heydon can say that there was absolutely no reason for him to disqualify […]
Abbott’s Ever Diminishing Campaign Options
I read online Friday morning that Australian Border Force were planning to conduct visa checks across the Melbourne CBD starting the same day and continuing […]
Introducing finger number 3, community safety
Jobs, growth and . . . what was the other one . . . oh yeah, community safety. Has anyone got anything? The government’s backpedalling […]
Dual citizen? Beware the Border Force street patrol
In many cases, buying into a conspiracy theory may result in an instant loss of credibility. However as reality becomes increasingly more absurd and Government […]
They don’t instil confidence any more than they display it
In 2012 Tony Abbott said “Imagine the reaction, for instance, had the Howard government sought to gag naval personnel after ‘children overboard’. But the principle […]
Border Force Farce And The Abbott Government!
Well, the Border Force in Melbourne sort of confirmed it. Either they have no idea, or else they think that they’re writers who believe that […]