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webdiary.com.au » Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston - Webdiary - Independent, Ethical, Accountable and Transparent - Aug 17, 2008
It’s an irony that Australian law provides for mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse by professionals – and mandatory locking up of child asylum seekers. We call both these practices government policy. One …
Also tagged: federal politics
webdiary.com.au » Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston - Webdiary - Independent, Ethical, Accountable and Transparent - Aug 10, 2008
It’s unconscionable that a country could and did do this thing to a child, any child. In discussion with the group I feel we should be able to try harder to find his family, a desire he expressed to me at the …
webdiary.com.au » Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston - Webdiary - Independent, Ethical, Accountable and Transparent - Jul 29, 2008
In the future the immigration system will be characterised by strong border security, firm deterrence of unauthorised arrivals, effective and robust immigration processes and respect for the rule of law and the …
Also tagged: federal politics, defending democracy
webdiary.com.au » Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston - Webdiary - Independent, Ethical, Accountable and Transparent - Jun 22, 2008
Whilst there is now plenty of discussion about the responses that governments should be making to address the predicted consequences of climate change, the focus seems to have been largely on the economic, trade and …
Also tagged: health and medicine, federal politics, regional affairs, australian society, politics abroad, environment and resources, economy and globalisation
webdiary.com.au » Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston - Webdiary - Independent, Ethical, Accountable and Transparent - Jun 4, 2008
This story is impossibly sad - Amal died of breast cancer in Australia after surviving Saddam Hussein, the water, Indonesia for months and years of anxiety. She did not survive Australia. read more
webdiary.com.au » Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston - Webdiary - Independent, Ethical, Accountable and Transparent - May 18, 2008
The real threats to international peace and security are no longer confined to violations of state sovereignty for which the UN collective security system was created. Rather, genocide, massive violations of human …
Also tagged: health and medicine, regional affairs, politics abroad, environment and resources, economy and globalisation
webdiary.com.au » Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston - Webdiary - Independent, Ethical, Accountable and Transparent - Apr 17, 2008
It seems our ex Prime Miniature is now a cult hero amongst born again Aryans. They have distilled some of his punchier lines and it seems are constructing a new credo around his, err, stirring speeches. Readers of …
Also tagged: philosophy, federal politics, australian society, politics abroad, defending democracy
webdiary.com.au » Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston - Webdiary - Independent, Ethical, Accountable and Transparent - Apr 4, 2008
Australia is rapidly increasing its population through immigration, yet there is little debate as to what is a sustainable population would be. It is high time we decided just what is the optimum population level for …
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webdiary.com.au » Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston - Webdiary - Independent, Ethical, Accountable and Transparent - Dec 19, 2007
The question that needs to be posed today [about immigration] is not the conventional one, is it Left or is it Right? But rather, do we accept that there are Limits, or do we continue to persist in the fantasy that …
webdiary.com.au » Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston - Webdiary - Independent, Ethical, Accountable and Transparent - Dec 8, 2007
Just three days after many people started contacting new immigration minister Chris Evans to raise the issue of the swathe of refugees holed up on Nauru, he declared his hand.
Also tagged: federal politics