With stocks of Atlantic bluefin tuna down 75 per cent due to over-fishing, the European Commission said the trade ban’s rejection threatened the survival of the ocean predator. Environmental group Greenpeace also warned the vote ”sets the species on a pathway to extinction”.
Politics
Noel Pearson v. Abbott: welcomes to country and acknowledgment of traditional owners
If you can’t sit through those few minutes or few seconds it is unlikely that you are only annoyed with the occasional political correctness or silliness of it.
Canberra’s great communicators
I have found the last few weeks of relentless spin about Rudd’s sudden transition from last year’s alleged cynical spinmeister whose soundbites mesmerised a malleable public to this year’s alleged droning word-salad-tosser who can’t convey his vision to the voters to be the most tedious period of media non-analysis for years.
Taxi driver will pay $3250 for refusing Commissioner’s guide dog
Taxi driver James Young should probably not be buying any Lotto tickets. A Sydney cabbie is in the doghouse after refusing to allow a guide dog and its high-profile owner – Disability Discrimination Commissioner Graeme Innes – into his vehicle…. Read More ›
Rape complaints versus rape convictions – UK review and response
Some campaigners said that the recommendation effectively let the criminal justice system off the hook, when women were still receiving “shocking” treatment. “What she’s proposing is to cover up what’s happening in the criminal justice system just at the time when women are finally getting the truth out,” said Ruth Hall of Women Against Rape.
Quickhit: Ex-magistrate dismayed by sex offender visit
A former Children’s Court magistrate says she is dismayed by a decision to reunite two young girls with their father, a registered sex offender.
WA Government to apologise for abusive, illegal adoption system
The West Australian today reports that the WA government may become the first State government to publicly acknowledge and fully apologise to all mothers and children forced into adoptions, and harmed by illegal adoption practices. For decades in the mid… Read More ›
Between two senior politicians and three journalists, none of us knows how to make it work
The media narrative over the last few days has been remarkably replete with Abbott the Adventurer articles and astonishingly bare of Lost In The Political Wilderness articles. Why is that, I wonder?
Quickhit: Trans men still fighting mandatory sterilisation in WA
Amanda Banks writes in The West Australian: Transsexuals in landmark case Two female-to-male transsexuals should be able to keep female organs that allow them to bear children and still be legally recognised as men, it was argued in a landmark… Read More ›
Breastfeeding children and women a “low priority” – Western Australian parliament
Remember the protests in Perth last year about Premier Barnett’s party failing to bring WA into line with the rest of Australia with laws protecting breastfeeding families from harassment? In which Barnett insisted that there would be no need for… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 