Tag: Human rights
Facebook censors me – the first step in my action against them
Posted by John, March 14th, 2019 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Censorship, Facebook, Human rights
Comments: 2
Dear Readers, this is a copy of the letter I sent to the A.C.T Human Rights Commission about Facebook censoring me and one of my posts. To: The Human Rights Commission Dear Dr Watchirs and staff On Monday 11 March 2019 Facebook advised me, and I quote: ‘You’re temporarily restricted from joining and posting to […]
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Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act does not restrict the free speech of the 1%
Posted by John, November 7th, 2016 - under Islamophobia, Racism.
Tags: Anti-semitism, Human rights, Human Rights Commission
Comments: none
In Independent Australia I discuss freedom of speech amid calls from right-wing politicians and the Murdoch media for the Turnbull Government to repeal Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. I float a few other ideas as well, including the possibility that the new ‘anti-Semitism’ for the ruling class is Islamophobia.
Labor must not support Coalition legislation to save offshore processing
Posted by John, June 24th, 2015 - under Labor Party, Refugees.
Tags: Asylum seekers, Concentration camps, Detention centres, High Court, Human rights
Comments: none
Refugee advocates have called on the parliamentary Labor Party not to support any Coalition legislation aimed at saving offshore processing from a successful High Court challenge. The Human Rights Legal Centre’s challenge seems to have exposed what so many felt for a long time – that offshore processing is illegal. It certainly has exploded the lie that offshore processing is the responsibility of Nauru and PNG.
Gillian Triggs and the political criminals in Canberra
Posted by John, June 8th, 2015 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Gillian Triggs, Human rights, Human Rights Commission
Comments: none
Gillian Triggs is standing up to the bullying, dictatorial Abbott government. She has garnered a lot of support. There is a lesson in this for Labor.
Has Tony Abbott attempted to pervert the course of a police investigation?
Posted by John, February 26th, 2015 - under Justice, Tony Abbott.
Tags: Gillian Triggs, Human rights, Human Rights Commission
Comments: 1
Given that the AFP is investigating whether Gillian Triggs was asked to resign and if an inducement was offered to get her to do so, isn’t Tony Abbott’s categorical and unequivocal statement that ‘she was not asked to resign and no inducement has been offered’ itself possibly an attempt to influence and perhaps pervert the course of the investigation? Will he too be investigated?
Was an inducement offered to get Gillian Triggs, the Human Rights Commissioner, to resign?
Posted by John, February 24th, 2015 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: George Brandis, Gillian Triggs, Human rights, Human Rights Commission
Comments: 3
If or when the Australian Federal Police refuses to investigate, or finds no breach, can we mount a private prosecution against Attorney General George Brandis? And if the meeting took place in Canberra, can the ACT Attorney General, and Labor Party Deputy Chief Minister, Simon Corbell, launch a prosecution?
The Human Rights Commission exposes Australia’s deliberate brutality to asylum seeker children in detention
Posted by John, February 13th, 2015 - under Refugees.
Tags: Asylum seekers, Children, Children in detention, Human rights, Human Rights Commission
Comments: 13
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott immediately rejected the call for a royal commission into asylum seeker children in detention. While I will more write about this in the next few days, Abbott rejected it because this level of shocking cruelty to children is a deliberate part of the Australian government’s refugee policies. That is as true of Labor as it is of the Liberals. You won’t see Labor supporting the call for a royal commission either. It would expose them as much as it exposes the Liberals in their grotesque bipartisan brutality.
The Human Rights Commission: the respectable face of systemic abuse
Posted by John, December 22nd, 2013 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Fighting back, Human rights, Human Rights Commission
Comments: 1
The problem of human rights abuses goes well beyond the power of any government body. Government in Australia is the major human rights abuser. Instead of worrying about Tim Wilson defending free speech for Rupert Murdoch, maybe the time has come for the Human Rights Commission to mobilise the many against the few to defend human rights on the ground and ultimately to challenge the very system that produces human rights abuse after human rights abuse.
Grandstanding about repression, refugees and money
Posted by John, October 8th, 2013 - under Indonesia, Sri Lanka, West Papua.
Tags: Genocide, Human rights
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When Tony Abbott says Australia is open for business what he means is that Australian profits built on the bones of dead West Papuans are OK by him.
Victoria: the state of repression
Posted by John, August 9th, 2011 - under Max Brenner, Palestine, Ted Baillieu, Zionism.
Tags: BDS, Human rights
Comments: 1
Raids carried out at dawn this morning by police have seen several pro-Palestine activists arrested, in the most severe crack-down on civil liberties in decades.
The activists are being targeted because of their involvement in protests against chocolate shop Max Brenner, a chain store with strong ties to the Israeli military