Dr Laura Murphy’s “claim” that forced labor is a serious in China’s Xinjiang province is just a “claim”. Readily jumped on by the usual suspects the members of the LNP’s anti-renewable faction Angus Taylor etal and the attention-grabbing ALP senator Kerry Kitching. What the article shows is that ABC is certainly not biased and does report news.

However, what’s annoying is the LNP wants its ‘work for the dole’ policies in place with a Job Seeker remittance among the lowest in the OECD, proven next to impossible to live on. What is that, if it’s not modern-day government sponsored slavery? It currently affects indigenous Australians more than any other social group in this country and they represent 3% of Australian’s population. China’s Uyghur minority are far less than 3% of the Chinese population and their living conditions better than Indigenous Australians.

The Chinese have publicly denied their actions are a form of modern-day slavery just as does the LNP who claim their programs would be ‘re-training’ and integration program while denying that the Chinese is.Taylor of course clutches at straws and grabs onto  any unproven statements. He ignores the fact that housing, health, education housing jobs and freedom of movement have improved for 1.3 billion people within China but have fallen for  25 million Australians in the last 8 years. Meanwhile Laura Murphy’s claims still have to be substantiated.

Key points: China has been accused of persecuting the Uyghur minority in the Xinjiang region Xinjiang produces a key ingredient needed to manufacture solar panels A researcher says the solar industry’s exposure to forced labour is clear

Source: Senators push for more oversight after warning solar industry ‘exposed’ to China’s Xinjiang human rights violations – ABC News

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A single case of Private Conservatorship may have been won in the US. The necessity of “arms-length” administration of such trusts in Australia may have been originally for the protection of Brittanies here but they too often end up trapping many unfortunate Australians in the clutches of the Public Trustees and other 3rd parties from which they can’t escape. Often the circumstances no longer apply to those whose trusts were bequeathed into 3rd party administrative charge. Public Trustees have been allowed to become a law unto their own, self-governing, profit-taking corporations against which people have no redress. In many cases control has been handed to them by the state or simply bequeathed by dead in an effort to control from the grave. What may have appeared to be a reasonable course of action once is over time no longer reasonable and rarely heard of.

It’s about time these organizations were revisited and subjected to close examination. To check the numbers of people, threatened, mistreated, charged, prosecuted, and whose funds they have mismanaged without consequence. What began as a post-war service  of care after WW1 has now grown into silent private administering mega-corporations harvesting exhorbitant profits rather than taking simple reasonable fees for service. Profit has become their primary reason for being and not care. Where reasonable fees for service no longer apply and trusts are diminished and the beneficiaries stressed. There are no heroic Brittany tales to be found or reported there. No tales told of escape from this corporate conservatorship are ever told. Isn’t it about time the curtain was drawn on these faux charitable organizations dressed as modern day charities sucking on the teats of wealth that belongs to others?

Britney is free. A Los Angeles judge has ended the conservatorship that has controlled Britney Spears’ life and money for nearly 14 years.

Source: Britney Spears’ conservatorship terminated

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he doesn’t believe he’s told a lie in public life after French President Emmanuel Macron and former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull accused him of lying.

Source: Scott Morrison says he doesn’t believe he’s told a lie in public life