Contemporary discussions about the lives and care and education of children in Australia are so cooked, so impoverished and hedged about with assumptions of control and paranoia, that writing an essay like this about childhood, about what it means to be a child in modern Australia, feels like I’m presenting evidence of alien...
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG) members have voted to cancel the Mardi Gras Police Accord and abolish the controversial decency inspections. At the December 9 SGLMG Annual General Meeting (AGM), an amended motion six, which removed the sentence calling for police abolition, but cancelled the Police Accord, was...
Washington, D.C., December 11, 2023—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply saddened by the killing of the father of Anas Al-Sharif, a reporter and videographer for Al-Jazeera Arabic in northern Gaza, and reiterates its call for the protection of journalists in Gaza and their family members.
“CPJ is deeply alarmed by the pattern of journalists in Gaza reporting receiving threats, and subsequently, their family members being killed,” said CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Sherif Mansour. “The killing of the family members of journalists in Gaza is making it almost impossible for the journalists to continue reporting, as the risk now extends beyond them also to include their beloved ones.”
Bombing civilians is not a trait of Jewish people. Using access to humanitarian aid and water as a weapon of war is not a trait of Jewish people. Destroying the healthcare systems supporting 2 million people is not a trait of Jewish people.
The US has a major party that is stuffed to the gills with Ur-fascists, Christian nationalists and white supremacists. Do you really think there’s no understanding from those elements of the Republican Party of what’s being done in attempting to cast opposition to the crimes of the Israeli government as opposition to Jewish people in general?
Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon that injured at least nine civilians in what a rights group says should be investigated as a war crime, according to a Washington Post analysis of shell fragments found in a small village.
The head of the government watchdog for the NDIS swore and said she might have to resign after she discovered she had made a mistake in telling Four Corners the regulator had shut down a program where children with disabilities were abused, court documents allege.
We’ve actually got an even bigger private prison issue than the US by proportion.
Nearly 40 per cent of Victoria’s prisoner population is housed in three privately managed prisons – Port Philip Prison, Ravenhall Correctional Centre and Fulham Correctional Centre. As a consequence, Victoria has the largest proportion of privately managed prisoners in Australia, while Australia has the largest proportion in the world.
The lobby doesn’t have quite the same financial clout just on population size but it’s a significant factor in Australia’s modern handling of the issue.
A coronial hearing into the death of Noongar man Jeffrey Winmar heard police cancelled a request for paramedics before he died from a suspected heart attack.
An AI-based analysis of 20 years of logging by VicForests, shared exclusively with the ABC, shows for the first time, the potential scale of failed regeneration in Victoria's state forests.
Some US-based executives at accounting giants Deloitte and KPMG have been advised not to use their usual work phones in Hong Kong, the Financial Times has reported, citing unidentified sources with knowledge of the matter. According to the report, some executives said their organisations were “concerned about the risk of hacks...
NSW car crash involving detective charged with drink-driving is being probed by police watchdog (www.theguardian.com)
Law Enforcement Conduct Commission is ‘conducting independent investigation of this matter’ following May incident in NorthConnex tunnel
‘We have listened to the community’: hating and imprisoning children in twenty-first-century Australia (overland.org.au)
Contemporary discussions about the lives and care and education of children in Australia are so cooked, so impoverished and hedged about with assumptions of control and paranoia, that writing an essay like this about childhood, about what it means to be a child in modern Australia, feels like I’m presenting evidence of alien...
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Members Vote To Cancel Controversial Police Accord (www.starobserver.com.au)
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG) members have voted to cancel the Mardi Gras Police Accord and abolish the controversial decency inspections. At the December 9 SGLMG Annual General Meeting (AGM), an amended motion six, which removed the sentence calling for police abolition, but cancelled the Police Accord, was...
Father of Al-Jazeera's Anas Al-Sharif killed in Gaza after journalist receives threats - Committee to Protect Journalists (cpj.org)
Washington, D.C., December 11, 2023—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply saddened by the killing of the father of Anas Al-Sharif, a reporter and videographer for Al-Jazeera Arabic in northern Gaza, and reiterates its call for the protection of journalists in Gaza and their family members.
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Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus in Lebanon attack (www.washingtonpost.com)
Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon that injured at least nine civilians in what a rights group says should be investigated as a war crime, according to a Washington Post analysis of shell fragments found in a small village.
Boy, 15, given official warning after saluting as neo-Nazis marched through Ballarat (www.theguardian.com)
The officers issued him an official warning after determining his actions were not racially motivated.
'I may have to resign': Court documents allege NDIS commissioner mistakenly misled Four Corners over autism program (www.abc.net.au)
The head of the government watchdog for the NDIS swore and said she might have to resign after she discovered she had made a mistake in telling Four Corners the regulator had shut down a program where children with disabilities were abused, court documents allege.
Since colonial times Australia has been an incarceration nation where lock ’em up is preferred to rehabilitation – Julianne Schultz (www.theguardian.com)
The fearful reaction to the high court decision that people cannot be held in indefinite detention is a classic example
Creeping politicisation of public sector a reality in Victoria: Ombudsman (www.ombudsman.vic.gov.au)
Alleged politicisation of the public sector - Media Release
School cleaners in Victoria face jobless new year after contract shake-up (www.theguardian.com)
Hundreds of staff could be out of work when the state’s contract with ISS comes to an end, prompting calls for reform
Ambulance cancelled for man who later died in custody (au.news.yahoo.com)
A coronial hearing into the death of Noongar man Jeffrey Winmar heard police cancelled a request for paramedics before he died from a suspected heart attack.
Centrelink should consider waiving 100,000 debts that may be unlawful, ombudsman report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Watchdog says Services Australia and the Department of Social Services ‘did not act promptly’ to address the issue and calls on agencies to apologise
Victorian police warn drivers of speed cameras as part of wide-ranging industrial action (www.abc.net.au)
‘We’re doing everything but treaty’: Law reform and sovereign refusal in the colonial debtscape (overland.org.au)
This is the text of 2023 John Barry Memorial Lecture in Criminology, given at the University of Melbourne on 18 October 2023.
'It's basically dead': The legacy of decades of logging (www.abc.net.au)
An AI-based analysis of 20 years of logging by VicForests, shared exclusively with the ABC, shows for the first time, the potential scale of failed regeneration in Victoria's state forests.
Executives at international firms Deloitte, KPMG advised to use burner phones for Hong Kong visits - report - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP (hongkongfp.com)
Some US-based executives at accounting giants Deloitte and KPMG have been advised not to use their usual work phones in Hong Kong, the Financial Times has reported, citing unidentified sources with knowledge of the matter. According to the report, some executives said their organisations were “concerned about the risk of hacks...
Clare O’Neil silent on whether ‘missing’ man was told to check in when released from immigration detention (www.theguardian.com)
Border force has suggested man was ‘non-compliant’ but Guardian understands he was not read his visa conditions or fitted with ankle bracelet