Track Replacement Services Lacking
By Jane Salmon “Fast Track” Visa Process DeRailed, Connecting Service Missing: Mass Transit to PR Overdue, Tony Burke. The clunky “Fast Track” visa processing “system“ […]
Refugees
Here’s how it is
By Jane Salmon 10,000 people have no rights in Australia because they have been mishandled by Morrison’s fast track system. There is no pathway to […]
Human potential is crushed by disaster capitalism
We must speak to people who require assistance and listen to their needs instead of speaking over them. In the case of Australia’s refugee policy, […]
Prison hulks and river blades: fortress building in the climate-catastrophe era
Britain has commissioned a prison hulk to house immigrants, in a cruel re-enactment of history. Meanwhile, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has implemented two strategies to […]
Dutton: pedophile hysteria and child protection
Dutton is the right politician for the post-QAnon age: in fact the radical right zeitgeist caught up with him. His decision to drum up (another) […]
The AAT: abolishing a system of indefinite torment
The abolition of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) is a crucial part of Attorney General Mark Dreyfus KC’s integrity platform. In the last decade of […]
From 2016: Captained by Crusaders
This account of an event at the Melbourne Club in 2016 was published on the New Matilda site. That site has ceased to exist, so […]
Asylum seekers languish through the job summit
In the week of the Albanese government’s job summit, the immigration department again sent out a raft of letters to bridging visa holders in Queensland […]
Australia’s Orban Sycophants
Australians welcoming the defeat of our nascent religious right in the May election need to pay attention to the echoes of the American right-wing strategies […]
The Évian Conference
By Dr George Venturini The Évian Conference In 1930, with the Great Depression severely affecting Australia’s workforce, the Scullin Government (1929 – 1932) tightened up […]
Dystopian Reality – a Climate Change Future
A Climate Change Future Predicting the future is a no-win scenario. There are so many variables that virtually anything is possible. Futurism inevitably becomes a […]
Is the Bible the same as the Koran?
By Bob Rafto The Paris terrorist attacks were horrific and like any other terrorist attack they leave a trail of grief for the victims’ families […]
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 […]
Nauru: What do bird poop, the Russian Mafia and Australia’s refugee policy have in common?
Nauru was described by The Economist in 2001 as a hotbed of incompetence – as “Paradise Lost … an enormous moth-eaten fedora: a ghastly grey mound of rock […]
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 […]