Access to better, usually more expensive, legal representation, subconcious bias in the judiciary in favour of the accused, greater to access to privacy provide better outcomes and are but a few reasons why the wealthy’s experience of ‘justice’ is very different from that of the poor’s. This is unfair, of course, and extremely serious, undermining…
Selective Humanism, pro-Ukraine and Sinophobia: Australian-style racism
Stop the Ruscism. The Chinese has Australia in its pockets. The Chinese and the Russians are colluding. Ukraine will win. Some tens of people chorused on the stoops of Sydney’s Town Hall. I’ve been to too many of these protests. There is a brand of Sinophobia and Asian racism that is acceptable and tolerated in…
Australia will recognise the State of Palestine
More than three quarters of a century later, and in characteristic snail-speed, Australia has finally woken to the fact that Resolution 181 will never see the light of day if the Palestinians and the Israelis are left to settle what should been resolved decades ago – the creation of two states, one Jewish, one Palestinian….