August 2007
4 posts
3 years
3 years is the magic criminal number. No voting and if you’re a blackfella 3 years is when the ACC steps in. Are there other operations?
“…if a group of Australians had to sit down for an hour or so and come up...”
– Kevin Andrews on the Citizenship Tests. All horror and ludicrousness aside: I guess that’s why polies earn the big bucks, because give them half a year and they can accomplish what any group might come up with in an hour.
Legal Violence
The bit of the FCSIA (NTNER) 2007 Bill that Bob keeps railing against: ”Australian Crime Commission Act 2002 1 Subsection 4(1) Insert: child means any person who is under 18 years of age. 2 Subsection 4(1) Insert: child abuse means an offence relating to the abuse or neglect of a child (including a sexual offence) that is punishable by imprisonment for a period of 3 years or...
Legislation Musing
Each piece of the NTNER legislation contains provisions that designate it special measures for the purposes of the Race Discrimination Act 1975 (RDA), or positive discrimination, but at the same time, separately, it excludes Part 2 (the part that bans racial discrimination) of the RDA from operating. In terms of the RDA this makes the designation of the legislation as “special...
July 2007
4 posts
“Mr Andrews says Dr Haneef is free to move about in the community, but remains...”
– ABC’s coverage, as below.
“The decision will mean Dr Haneef will not be detained at an immigration...”
– From the smh’s swift changing coverage of the haneef’s release. 27/7/2007
The contagion of fat →
Ripping discussion on new research claiming that obesity (or perhaps weight gain?) is contagious through social networks. Hilariously, the study is based on data collected by a study that concluded: “ that there’s no clear link between longevity and BMI, that among non-smokers, obesity was correlated with greater longevity, and that the largest single determinant of longevity was… drumroll…...
EoDNA on the PNT & Wrongful Life →
“In what is being called a “wrongful birth” case, a jury awarded more than $21 million Monday to a couple who claimed a doctor misdiagnosed a severe birth defect in their son, leading them to have a second child with similar problems.” IC , PGD thoughts.