Tag: December 2023

Australian Politics

Actuarial Justice: Released Refugees and Secondary Punishment – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Isn’t this a case of the dog wagging the tail the only political strategy the LNP pursues whether in Opposition or in Government which has been a total disservice to this nation for the whole of this century. The ALP in the meantime does what is required of responsible management to carry out its promises without media support. How on earth can we believe the likes of Dutton and Cash they need to go the way of Price and Mundine so heavily promoted in the media before the referendum but gone like smoke immediately after.

While the government has included the judiciary in the process of seeking re-detention, the process has a distinctly punitive flavor, constituting a form of secondary punishment. It is also especially discriminatory, applying to non-Australian citizens. Yet again, the non-citizen is being treated as a non-person. As Michelle Peterie and Amy Nethery pertinently observe, “Australians with the same criminal histories and risk profiles will not be subject to the preventative detention regime under this legislation.” A potential legal challenge, for precisely that reason, maybe in the offing.

Source: Actuarial Justice: Released Refugees and Secondary Punishment – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Climate Change

Carbon emissions at a record high, new report finds – » The Australian Independent Media Network

World War 3

Total fossil carbon dioxide emissions are projected to be at a record high of 36.8 billion tonnes in 2023, as outlined in the annual Global Carbon Budget released at the United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP28) in Dubai.

Source: Carbon emissions at a record high, new report finds – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Israel

Academic Freedom Under Fire as Gaza Burns

Academic freedom and freedom of expression on university campuses across the Anglosphere have continued to come under attack in the past week with Israeli lobbyists conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.

As Israel resumed its bombing campaign, now focusing on southern Gaza, the push to hold back the growing tide of disgust is intensifying, as the official Palestinian death toll in the strip nears 16,000.

On Tuesday, the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are being hauled before a U.S. congressional committee to face accusations that protests on their campuses were anti-Semitic in nature.

Source: Academic Freedom Under Fire as Gaza Burns