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By Kim on July 25, 2011
Chris Bowen and Malaysian Home Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Hussein signed the long foreshadowed agreement for a swap of asylum seekers at 2.30pm. There are some details, though not a lot, at the ABC.
Posted in Featured, Immigration, International | Tagged asylum seekers, Chris Bowen, human rights, Immigration, Malaysia, Malaysian solution, refugees, roundtable |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 1, 2011
In thinking about Rob’s post on the decade ahead, it occurred to me that one of the current forces at work in the world most denied and, indeed, repressed is the death of Western liberal universalism. In his fantastic little [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Ethics, Feminism, Imperialism, International, Politics, Religion, Sociology, War | Tagged celebritism, cultural diversity, human rights, roundtable, Wikileaks |
By Guest Poster on August 3, 2010
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, International, Policy | Tagged asia pacific, CPD, Federal Election 2010, Foreign policy, human rights, phil lynch, Thinking Points |
By Guest Poster on July 27, 2010
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s upcoming collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next [...]
Posted in Australiana, federal election 2010, Foreign policy, Immigration, International, War | Tagged Afghanistan, asylum seekers, CPD, Federal Election 2010, Foreign policy, human rights, identity, leaders debate, phil lynch, Thinking Points, Timor, UN Security Council, values, War |
By Idiot/Savant on May 26, 2010
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak has just completed a fact-finding mission to Papua New Guinea, uncovering widespread and systematic torture by law-enforcement agencies, including beatings, maimings, hamstringing, and rape. Criminal suspects were routinely beaten on arrest, escapees [...]
Posted in Developing world, Foreign policy, Government, International, Politics | Tagged aid, human rights, Papua New Guinea, torture |
By Kim on April 21, 2010
The Australian Labor Party has long had a commitment to entrenching the protection of human rights, driven by a continuing tradition of legal liberalism associated with luminaries such as Gough Whitlam and Gareth Evans. Yet the ALP has also had [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Law, Policy, Politics | Tagged ALP, bill of rights, Cardinal Pell, civil liberties, Frank Brennan, Gareth Evans, Gough Whitlam, Guy Beres, human rights, human rights consultation, John Howard, Labor, labor party, legal liberalism, NSW Right, Policy, public consultation, robert mcclelland, Rudd government, Tony Abbott |
By Idiot/Savant on April 11, 2010
Crossposted from No Right Turn. The above, which translates as “not twice for the same”, is one of the fundamental principles of modern law. Once you’ve been tried for something, and that trial has reached a final verdict (either to [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Law, NSW Government | Tagged Crime, human rights, Kristina Keneally, Labor, NSW ALP, politics&govt |
By Kim on March 30, 2010
So, it wasn’t just me that noticed a prime piece of fear mongering occupying the front page of Brisbane’s Sunday Mail (now with new editor!): <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/03/29-03-2010-10-50-17-AM1.jpg" The image of the paper’s Sunday cover comes courtesy of Crikey:
Posted in Howardia, Immigration, Politics, Polls, Race | Tagged asylum seekers, boat people, border protection, civil rights, Crikey, debate, dog whistling, economic policy, great health debate, headland speech, human rights, humanitarianism, Immigration, John Howard, Lilley, News Limited, Newspoll, Policy, public opinion, refugees, scare campaigns, shopping centre, Speech, Sunday Mail, temporary protection visas, Tony Abbott, Toombul, tpvs, Wayne Swan, xenophobia |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 3, 2010
Open Democracy has asked a range of its contributors to answer the following questions: A volcanic decade in global politics ends amid deep unease about the world’s ability to rise to key 21st-century challenges. openDemocracy writers draw breath and look [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Climate change, Developing world, Economics, Environment, International, Markets, Politics, Security, Sociology, Terrorism, The Web, War | Tagged agriculture, Authoritarianism, barack obama, China, civil liberties, Climate change, conflict resolution, Copenhagen, decade, democratisation, Developing world, development, ecology, end of history, food security, GFC, global financial crisis, global politics, globalisation, human rights, humanitarianism, inequality, international law, Madagascar, Mark Lynas, millennium goals, neo-liberalism, Open Democracy, peacekeeping, retrospective, statism, Terrorism, torture, UN, USA, War, world economy |
By Idiot/Savant on August 28, 2009
Crossposted from No Right Turn. In the run-up to the 2007 election, then-Australian Prime Minister John Howard decided to repeat his successful racial wedge tactics with Aborigines as the victims, declaring a “state of emergency” in Northern Australia, taking over [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Indigenous, Politics, Race | Tagged authoritarian, Culture Wars, human rights, Indigenous policy & reconciliation, intolerance, Kevin Rudd, racism, United Nations |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 20, 2009
One of the most interesting teaching assignments I’ve had for a while is tutoring in a course in New Communications Technologies offered through the School of Humanities at Griffith. Some of the class discussions we’ve had so far this semester [...]
Posted in Blogging, Culture, Language, Life, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged cultural studies, dedifferentiation, digital natives, distributed cognition, employers, facebook, Facebook privacy, figurational sociology, Griffith University, historical sociology, human rights, informalisation, Law, Legal Eagle, Melissa Gregg, modernity, New communications technologies, New Communications Technology, Norbert Elias, personality, privacy, recruitment, School of Humanities, self, skepticlawyer, social media, Sociology, subjectivity, Sydney University, web 2.0, workplace rights |
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