This year’s “tough budget” theme is about to be replayed over and over to get us in the mood to accept cutbacks. It is as good a time as any to ask about certain expenditures made in our name which are without merit or reason. Two thousand asylum seekers are being locked up on Christmas Island
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Two cents is what it cost each taxpayer to pay for Christmas Island funerals in Sydney last week. Two cents for little orphaned nine year old Seena to say goodbye to his dad who drowned in the Christmas Island tragedy. Two cents for Madian to bury his beautiful eight month old baby Zahra. As I
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In the aftermath of Wednesday’s disaster there is much to mourn. At least 30 men, women and children died in the rough waters surrounding Christmas Island. As yet, the authorities have not yet been able to ascertain the exact number of people on the boat. Survivors have given estimates of 70-100 on board. With only
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After nine years of fighting in Afghanistan there is growing recognition that whatever semblance of victory is still possible will not be achieved militarily. In recognition of this reality, NATO forces and the Karzai Government have for months been engaged in talks with a ‘senior Taliban leader’ in the hope of attaining a political resolution
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Last week the ASRC published a blog revealing how the The Sunday Telegraph was fuelling myths that asylum seekers were unlawful queue jumpers who cheat Australia’s otherwise generous and orderly refugee program. The Telegraph was at it again last weekend (06 Nov 2010) with an article by Piers Akerman who wrote, “Gillard has been forced
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