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So it has been announced, by 45 to 41 Malcolm Turnbull, Federal Member for Wentworth has succeeded Brendan Nelson as Leader of the Opposition and parliamentary leader of the Liberals. Kim over at Larvatus Prodeo says "Malcolm Turnbull needs to give up on placating all those who still long ...Read More

Can Turnbull turn the bull?

Written by elliott bledsoe.
Posted on 16 September 2008.
Also filed under Politics rants.
Tagged as Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples, Australian Labor Party, Australian republic debate, Australian Republican Movement, brendan nelson, gunns pulp mill, Howard-era Liberals, john howard, kevin rudd, kyoto protocol, Lavatus Prodeo blog, Liberal Party of Australia, malcolm turnbull, queer politics, same-sex rights, wentworth electorate.
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Human rights are funny things. They are so easily taken for granted. Their existence is so inherent for many of us that it is as if they are around us always, like a protective cocoon. In the West we act ...Read More

Now you see them: The fragility of human rights

Written by elliott bledsoe.
Posted on 4 April 2006.
Also filed under Constitution, Law rants, Legislation, Politics rants.
Tagged as age discrimination, anti/terrorism, Aristotle, arrest without trial, Australian Constitution, Chief Justice Mason, china, Commonwealth v Tasmania, Constitutional heads of power, disability discrimination, discrimination, freedom of association, freedom of expression, freedom of opinion, freedom of speech, Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, human rights, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, human rights violations, international law, Iran, jurisprudence, Justice William Deane, legal interpretation, Legislation, Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Teoh, native title (world-wide), natural law, Nazi Germany, Nepal, Nuremberg Trials, Patrick Chinamasa, Plato, post-September 11, postivism, race discrimination, sedition, sex discrimination, Socrates, United States of America, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Land Reform Program.
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