Tony Abbott’s global reach, his pride, influence, and "want", for a better word a knighthood, mirrors his moral position that runs counter to that of his Pope who he simply ignores, disrespects, and doesn’t believe is his Catholic leader. Abbott’s Inquisition like legacy now stretches across the English-speaking world and will shame Australia and our history for years to come. His inhumane influence stretched to Trump on the Mexican border and now is being enacted in the UK when it comes down to turning backs on the desperation of those seeking asylum or in danger at sea.
The (UK ) Bill came into being despite warnings from various Australian lawyers, doctors and former civil servants that their country’s refugee model was hardly the sort of thing that should inspire imitations. In the view of Australian Greens Senator Nick McKim and Benali Hamdache of the UK Green Party, the “New Plan for Immigration imports all the worst parts of the Australian government policy.” This includes the possible establishment of offshore processing (read detention) centres to places ranging from Rwanda to the Isle of Man and the creation of a temporary protection scheme. The Bill takes the battering ram to a range of maritime practices, proposing to criminalise the practice of offering voluntary assistance at sea by targeting “those assisting persons to arrive in the UK without a valid clearance.” That good Samaritan service provided by such bodies as the Royal Lifeboat Institution, which has been accused of being a “migrant taxi service” by its detractors, promises to be roped in.
Britannia Turns Back the Boats
With this ruling, the court has lumped together skin colour and nationality – it cemented the idea that to be Dutch is to be white. Of course, this was something racialised Dutch people already knew, but the court ruling made it official. The ruling is the legal, and seemingly sophisticated, stand-in for its uncritical and banal version: “Well, ‘we’ are white, and ‘they’ are Black, is it not so?” As a result of decades of migration and colonialism, thousands of people from different corners of the world – some voluntarily, some not – ended up in the Netherlands. And their presence in the country cracked the notion of “Dutchness as whiteness”. The post-colonial migration from the Dutch East Indies and the Moluccas, and later Suriname and the Dutch Antilles, the labour migration from Turkey and Morocco, and the more recent arrival of refugees from Bosnia, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Congo and so on, shook up the whole idea that being Dutch equals being white. Or so you would think. But, being “white” or “Black” are not objective indicators of anything. These racial classifications are political, not biological. What we are dealing with here is a colonial legacy.
A court just confirmed: To be Dutch is to be white | Opinions | Al Jazeera
Well, I could be wrong, but I suspect that any day now there’ll be media articles about what a mistake it would be to have a Federal Integrity Commission when ICAC is responsible for such a great Premier as Gladys having to stand down when she’s done nothing more than have loyalty to her partner and if we’d had a similar one at federal level then who knows how many of the great performers like Stuart Robert or Richard Colbeck would have lost their portfolios over some minor issue like forgetting where they left it.
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Gladys To Avoid ICAC By Joining Federal Politics
An Investigation "isn't a trial" as Liberals make out and they aren't procedures meant to be done in secret. They are non partisan independent inquiries. Berejiklian decided to fall on her own sword for political reasons entirely of her own making.
Constitutional law expert Anne Twomey says the NSW corruption watchdog acted appropriately by ignoring the political implications and announcing it was investigating Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
“This shows that ICAC was acting regardless of the circumstances at the time, that it was acting on the basis of what it had before it. I would have thought in relation to any integrity body that they should act without taking into account the criticism of any political party,” she said.
“They shouldn’t take into account the politics of the day. ICAC should fulfil its responsibilities and not worry about politics in NSW.”
the demise of a third NSW Liberal Premier over an ICAC investigation has also prompted fresh questions over Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s promise - more than 1000 days ago - to introduce a Commonwealth Integrity Commission.
Federal Labor’s legal affairs spokesman Mark Dreyfus said Ms Berejiklian’s resignation highlighted once again the absence of a federal anti-corruption commission .
Legal expert backs ICAC after criticism over timing of Berejiklian probe
If there were a Federal ICAC would this be deserving of an Investigation?
Australia cautioned the French contractor – hours before the $90bn submarine deal was cancelled – that its achievement of a key contractual milestone did “not provide any authorisation to continue work”. The letter, sent to Naval Group on 15 September, is at the heart of an extraordinary diplomatic rift between France and Australia, with the French foreign minister telling a parliamentary hearing this week that “someone lied”.
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