“Men are respectable only as they respect”
So says Ralph Waldo Emerson, but what do the police and bureaucracy say in Australia? Well it’s something like: “If you don’t give us the respect we believe you owe…
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October 18, 2010
Domestic violence
The abuse of human rights comes in many forms and places. It wears the face of the average neighbour just as easily as it does that of authority or a…
October 16, 2010
Tasers and the marganilised
Mr. Anand Grover, UN Special Raporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health findings on Australia’s treatment of its…
October 15, 2010
To Taser or not to Taser … is it even a question?
All those who have been following the Australian news in the last few weeks will no doubt be aware that there has been an absolute spate of police taserings right…
October 15, 2010
Courage Western Australian style
Police using Tasers for wrong reasons (thewest.com.au 4 October, 2010); the headline screams out from the screen as I stumble onto yet another instance of police brutality against Aboriginal Australians…
October 4, 2010