An unknown painter: Perth's Daisy Wallder
Ignored by Western Australia, and Australia's Arts establishment, this remarkable artist, who exhibited in the Paris Salons alongside Arthur Streeton ought to be celebrated.
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• Retired from a sometimes fierce WA Human Rights Watchdog. Aussie views from this Dutch migrant, but built on my European internationalist origins. Avowed leftie Social Democrat. I block RWNJ's.
An unknown painter: Perth's Daisy Wallder
Ignored by Western Australia, and Australia's Arts establishment, this remarkable artist, who exhibited in the Paris Salons alongside Arthur Streeton ought to be celebrated.
“Indigenous opponents of the voice sought to use the traditional Invasion Day rallies as a de facto launch of a no campaign, arguing that justice can only be achieved via a treaty. It was deeply confusing for many accustomed to attending the gatherings with a unity of purpose, and infuriating for those who felt the events had been co-opted. Marcus Stewart, a member of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria, said the rallies had been “sabotaged” and he felt unable to attend.”
Boatpeople Day 2023.
I'm all for #ChangeTheDate and calling it #InvasionDay, but how's #BoatpeopleDay to "satisfy all takers"?
Mild-mannered, but with a tough message to convey, the new UN high commissioner pledges a return to ‘the basics’ of the Universal Declaration laid down 75 years ago.
Nearly three months into his job as the new human rights chief at the UN, Volker Türk has a lot on his plate.
Türk takes on the trickiest of jobs in an era marked by widespread concern over authoritarian governments, the climate crisis, protracted conflicts, invasive digital tools and the global cost-of-living crisis. All of which are dealing setbacks to human rights, and none of which are problems with an easy solution.
At the start of 2023, Türk is particularly worried about widespread flouting of international humanitarian law, the practical rules of the battlefield that were set out in the Geneva conventions.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jan/05/volker-turk-un-worlds-human-rights
Greta Thunberg's reply gained traction to quickly become one of the top 10 tweets of all time; as I write, it’s been liked 3.5 million times and shared directly 650,000 or so, and the interchange became the topic of countless news stories around the world, from India to Australia.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/31/greta-thunberg-andrew-tate-tweet
“The legal basis of Australia’s system of indefinite immigration detention is set to be challenged in a case that could determine the freedom of hundreds of asylum seekers and people whose visas were cancelled.
“In a judgment earlier in December, federal court Justice Debra Mortimer said Australia’s immigration system has achieved the “disgraceful objective” of desensitising officers to indefinite detention, making preliminary findings in favour of a man she said had “no real likelihood” of being removed from Australia in the near future.
“Mortimer said that departmental officers appear to have taken a “leisurely approach” to removing Tony Sami, a man indefinitely detained after his visa was cancelled, to his country of origin, Egypt.
“Advocates believe Sami’s case prepares the ground for a high court appeal to challenge the controversial 2004 decision in Al Kateb, in which Australia’s highest court held indefinite detention is authorised by the Migration Act.
“The narrow decision, four judges to three, has provided the underpinning in domestic law for an immigration detention system criticised by the UN as illegal in international law.”
“Up to 100 people held in immigration detention have been released over the Christmas period, a move welcomed by advocates calling on Labor to accelerate its commitment to free those who pose a low risk to the public.”
“Lawyers for asylum seekers and people whose visas were cancelled under the Migration Act’s character provisions reported that dozens had been released every day since 23 December from detention centres including Villawood in Sydney and Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation in Broadmeadows.”
“Advocates believe that some releases may have been triggered by the federal government losing a full federal court case on 22 December, in which the court ruled that aggregate sentences should not trigger automatic visa cancellation.” #asylum #auspol
Remember beautiful Peter Andren, the Independent Member for Calare, who became THE ONLY ONE to vote against the TAMPA Bill I and TAMPA Bill II ????
His popularity as the Member for Calare ONLY INCREASED even while John Howard had DIRE PREDICTIONS for him.
I reckon there's something in the water in Calare!
Racist d*cks DON'T get to decide what is racist and what is not racist. That's the job of a social scientist and community psychologist.
It's DECADES OVER TIME for Australian governments and the Public Service to accept a FORMAL definition of racism - and compel EVERYONE in their jobs to to undergo FORMAL training in anti-racism strategies and a FORMAL ASSESSMENT of their own racism levels.
From my other world - that old world of classical music and my past as an organist -- with my BEST WISHES for your Christmas Season and the New Year!
“I don’t have any hope. I don’t know what’s going to happen to me, but I can’t survive this...”
His case is only one of many among the remaining refugee and asylum seeker population on Nauru where medical transfers to Australia have not been permitted.
It would certainly be a plus for Dutton to get rid of the man the great Laurie Oakes recently opined was the worst PM in Australia's history.
"Until now I've not been in much doubt that the honour goes to Billy McMahon", Oakes told an audience in Canberra launching Savva's book.
"But after recent events, and particularly after reading Bulldozed, I think I have to acknowledge that Scott Morrison deserves the title of 'Worse PM Than Billy'. And by a sizeable margin."
Bombshell under ACT Cops:
"Exclusive: Letter from Shane Drumgold to ACT police chief, obtained under FOI, calls for inquiry into ‘political and police conduct’ during investigation of Brittany Higgins claims"
Meanwhile in Georgia, the good guy WON.
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Meanwhile, from some girls in Queensland --
"A group of female graziers from outback Queensland who hunt fossils in their downtime have uncovered the remains of a 100m-year-old creature that palaeontologists are likening to the Rosetta Stone..."
RT from Tamsin Rose @tamsinroses
"Same as it always was" - conservative politicians and w*nkers attack civil protesters for interfering with "Our Way of Life"'
No mate: climate change does that ALL BY ITSELF.
"Exclusive: Emails show how NSW premier Dominic Perrottet’s advisers, along with several other ministers, sought to fast-track bill after media furore..." #FreeVioletCoco #FreeViolet
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