Month: October 2015

Save Wharves at Kangaroo Point

For Jagera people, Kangaroo Point is most sacred 
because that is where we could first see 
the morning light (before colonisation)
           
                              - Kevin Vieritz (1958 - 2015)

Today is the last day you can contest the plan for the development of Howard Smith Wharves – a major inner city Brisbane riverside development about to impact us.… Go to Article

Human rights for clients of Qld’s Public Trustee and Public Guardian

To: The Queensland Attorney General Yvette D’Ath and Minister for Disability Services Coralee O’Rourke

The Committee to Expose the Public Trustee is seeking –

1/ That the Disability Services Act and Guardianship and Administration Act be amended to include enforceable human rights for people with impaired capacity for personal decisions.… Go to Article

The cruel detention of plaintiff M68

Refugees ... face all sorts of problems, 
as well as losing their minds 
                     - Pamela Curr 
                       SMH 10 Oct 2015
the plaintiff's detention arises by reason of 
the law of Nauru 
                      Transfield Services 
                      submission to High Court
                      in case M68
“in no meaningful sense” could it be said that 
asylum seekers were still detained on Nauru 
                      Commonwealth solicitor-general 
                      Justin Gleeson, SC, 
                      in HC M68 7 Oct 2015

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The next phase of the refugee debate
She is known only as Plaintiff M68*, a Bangladeshi asylum seeker who was brought to Australia from Nauru with health issues late in pregnancy.… Go to Article

Empire

Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.  
                             -  Ani DiFranco
Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they 
fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, 
and then it turns out not to be what they meant, 
and other men have to fight for what they meant 
under another name.
… Go to Article

Open for Business?

            Is trade with the USA overrated

It is both sad and alarming to see those same attitudes and 
politics return centre stage with the current LNP, 
and together with the lack of urgency and collective outrage 
against the TPP it is very very concerning.
… Go to Article