Accountability

Banking Royal Commission Gives the Credit to Credit Card Fraud

Is greed really good hmmm, how money corrupts and how lots of money corrupts lots of people.  If money talks then the Commission is a key talking point about money.

What it really depicts is group think when corruption becomes ‘this is the way we do things around here’ and it is top down.… Continue reading

Are We Losing or Strengthening Our Democracy?

Summary

Amends the: Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 to: establish public registers for key non-party political actors; require non-financial particulars, such as senior staff and discretionary government benefits, to be reported; prohibit donations from foreign governments and state-owned enterprises being used to finance public debate require wholly political actors to verify that… Continue reading

Why Did Britain Train the Burmese Military? Friend, Foe or Fool?

I am feeling moved to research Burma.  I have been to the border myself as a Rotary Peace Scholar meeting with the Association for Political Prisoners in Burma (refer http://aappb.org/) This could do a lot to heal relations between Islam and the rest of the world.  There are some who have made… Continue reading

Control Orders or Democratic Rights and Due Process?

What happens in the scenario that Ministers are funded by corporations or individuals or are operating in their own interests not the public’s interest? What happens to those they deem as a threat?  That threat may have nothing to do with terrorism fears but the fear of voices that may critique in the name… Continue reading

Rosa Parks

Thank God for Rosa.

I note she was not nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

Rosa Parks

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For other uses, see Rosa Parks (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Rose Pak.
Rosa Parks
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Rosa Parks in 1955, with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the background
Born… Continue reading

Breaching Privacy for FEAR or Truth?

 

Breaching Privacy for FEAR of Truth?

 

Who are you?

Who have you become?

You are the silent one,

I hear,

You are smoke and mirrors,

I see,

You are the one following me,

I think therefore I am,

I feel therefore I am not,

For what we think is never true,

It is… Continue reading

Mohandas Gandhi

“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.”

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