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NSW car crash involving detective charged with drink-driving is being probed by police watchdog (www.theguardian.com)
 

Law Enforcement Conduct Commission is ‘conducting independent investigation of this matter’ following May incident in NorthConnex tunnel

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‘We have listened to the community’: hating and imprisoning children in twenty-first-century Australia (overland.org.au)
 

Contemporary discussions about the lives and care and education of children in Australia are so cooked, so impoverished and hedged about with assumptions of control and paranoia, that writing an essay like this about childhood, about what it means to be a child in modern Australia, feels like I’m presenting evidence of alien life.

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Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Members Vote To Cancel Controversial Police Accord (www.starobserver.com.au)
 

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG) members have voted to cancel the Mardi Gras Police Accord and abolish the controversial decency inspections. At the December 9 SGLMG Annual General Meeting (AGM), an amended motion six, which removed the sentence calling for police abolition, but cancelled the Police Accord, was approved.

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Father of Al-Jazeera's Anas Al-Sharif killed in Gaza after journalist receives threats - Committee to Protect Journalists (cpj.org)
 

Washington, D.C., December 11, 2023—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply saddened by the killing of the father of Anas Al-Sharif, a reporter and videographer for Al-Jazeera Arabic in northern Gaza, and reiterates its call for the protection of journalists in Gaza and their family members.

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Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus in Lebanon attack (www.washingtonpost.com)
 

Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon that injured at least nine civilians in what a rights group says should be investigated as a war crime, according to a Washington Post analysis of shell fragments found in a small village.

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'I may have to resign': Court documents allege NDIS commissioner mistakenly misled Four Corners over autism program (www.abc.net.au)
 

The head of the government watchdog for the NDIS swore and said she might have to resign after she discovered she had made a mistake in telling Four Corners the regulator had shut down a program where children with disabilities were abused, court documents allege.

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Since colonial times Australia has been an incarceration nation where lock ’em up is preferred to rehabilitation – Julianne Schultz (www.theguardian.com)
 

The fearful reaction to the high court decision that people cannot be held in indefinite detention is a classic example

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Creeping politicisation of public sector a reality in Victoria: Ombudsman (www.ombudsman.vic.gov.au)
 

Alleged politicisation of the public sector - Media Release

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Centrelink should consider waiving 100,000 debts that may be unlawful, ombudsman report finds (www.theguardian.com)
 

Watchdog says Services Australia and the Department of Social Services ‘did not act promptly’ to address the issue and calls on agencies to apologise

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‘We’re doing everything but treaty’: Law reform and sovereign refusal in the colonial debtscape (overland.org.au)
 

This is the text of 2023 John Barry Memorial Lecture in Criminology, given at the University of Melbourne on 18 October 2023.

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'It's basically dead': The legacy of decades of logging (www.abc.net.au)
 

An AI-based analysis of 20 years of logging by VicForests, shared exclusively with the ABC, shows for the first time, the potential scale of failed regeneration in Victoria's state forests.

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Clare O’Neil silent on whether ‘missing’ man was told to check in when released from immigration detention (www.theguardian.com)
 

Border force has suggested man was ‘non-compliant’ but Guardian understands he was not read his visa conditions or fitted with ankle bracelet

High Court unanimous in deeming indefinite immigration detention unlawful in c/australia@aussie.zone
Sleeper trains are making a comeback. Why are ours being axed? in c/australia@aussie.zone
[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

The old SEx/MEx sleeper service was better than the XPT ever was. You had the full deluxe cabins if you wanted it with families, a proper dining car, and the slower travel time actually made more sense for overnight.

The problem with the XPT is that it's always been a weird middle ground. It's not a high speed train or anything close, it's just a bit faster, and the road these days is in a state where it's a reasonably ok one day drive if you've reason not to fly.

Government rushes to patch up laws for stripping terrorists of citizenship in c/australia@aussie.zone
[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

The government has fired Michael Pezzullo this morning. But never fear, the systemic abuses he was employed to oversee look set to continue with bipartisan fervour.

Clare O’Neil claims NZYQ could have been deported. Almost all the facts say otherwise in c/australia@aussie.zone
[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

From O’Neil herself, once: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym61tp8AAmc

Dependence on systems of abuse harms all parties.

'Hairdressers, dentists and dining out': The price rises that told the RBA it needed to raise rates again in c/australia@aussie.zone
[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Yup, but for the most part they're levers government needs to pull.

Stage 3 tax cuts still on the go of course.

Labor to reconsider mandatory data retention laws for companies in light of major hacks in c/australia@aussie.zone
Daniel Keneally, son of former NSW premier Kristina Keneally, found guilty of fabricating evidence in c/australia@aussie.zone
[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

If you’re ever wondering what sort of person is content to work in amongst NSW Police’s systemic sexual assault…

Mr Moore was ringing to complain about police strip searches, but Keneally later wrote a detailed statement claiming he had made threats to police.

Our children are victims of road violence. We need to talk about the deadly norms of car use in c/australia@aussie.zone
[–] LineNoise@kbin.social -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is a deeply, deeply stupid article.

‘My heart is chanting’: Palestinian voices ring out at largest anti-war rallies in Australia since Iraq war in c/australia@aussie.zone
[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Good to see these finally get some press coverage. They were enormous rallies and conspicuously ignored, particularly by the ABC.

[Guardian] Victim-blaming is a crime to so many progressives. Except when it comes to Jews in c/worldnews@kbin.social
[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Apartheid as a regime is never the victim by definition.

In binding them by law, in making non-participation in that regime of apartheid the act of a true outlaw, the unwilling and the unaware within the oppressor group are victims. But of the regime, not the oppressed.

Choose who you lash out at carefully lest you find yourself acting for the regime rather than against it.

India has officially labeled Canada an international terrorist sanctuary — “a safe haven for terrorists, for extremists, and for organized crime,” in the words of the Ministry of External Affairs spok in c/worldnews@kbin.social
[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Ethnonationalists sure love DARVO.

Conservative advocacy group targets race-based admissions at West Point - UPI.com in c/news@kbin.social
[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Considering the US far right’s evident interest in insurrection it’s almost a little surprising this wasn’t the lead case. The more non-white military officers the more difficult it would be for US fascists to put together an openly white supremacist coup.

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