How Far are we Willing to Go? Pelican1 May 2016 The Australian Government's offshore processing policy - introduced under Rudd and currently holding bipartisan support - is a project to side-step our humanitarian obligations by dumping the victims of global conflict into some of the most hopeless, isolated, and remote circumstances any individual could face. Ed Smith writes on the financial and human costs of this hard line strategy of so-called deterrence, and finds them hard to stomach. PoliticsVoice1 Comment16 views
Criminalising Peaceful Protest Pelican23 July 2015 A new anti-protest bill currently being debated in the Western Australian Legislative Council is starting to create a bit of a furore, due largely to its vague ... Voice0 Comments10 views
