Australians don’t torture. But what if we do?
Aussies like to think we’re a reasonable people. We don’t torture. That’s something they do elsewhere. But what if we do torture? What if torture is being done in our name?
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Six degrees of engagement
At the last federal election, a guy in Brisbane set up a site called dontbeafuckingidiot.com, which the author described as being a ‘sweary, angry, yet accurate comparison of policy’. He received nearly half a million hits. Old news now – but it’s relevance today is the letter he wrote following the election. Here’s some of what he said: The strength
Read moreHave asylum seeker deaths at sea really ended?
Last Monday, when questioned about the UNHCR’s report on the torture of asylum seekers in our care, Tony Abbott dismissed the report, saying that rather than lecturing him, the UN should be congratulating him because: We have stopped the boats, and by stopping the boats we have ended the deaths at sea. It’s a phrase we’re all familiar with now. And
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