An excerpt from the Qld. Sunday Mail 4/11/06
“A confidential staff survey, obtained by the (Qld.) State Opposition under Freedom of Information, revealed serious problems in the embattled department (of Child Safety), including an exodus of experienced officers and lack of funding.
The annual report of the independent child-death case review committee, tabled in Parliament on Thursday, [...]
Entries from November 2006
November 5, 2006
In the child’s best interest?
November 4, 2006
Watch this space!
Starting in January 2007 this blog will be run from Palm Island (an Aboriginal community in Queensland, just off the coast of Townsville).
Between now and then I will put a few posts up and the comments are open. However I will not breath life into it until January. At this stage it [...]
November 4, 2006
Rednecks and Dreadlocks
By John Tracey
Earlier this year I had the honour of initiating an indigenous issues discussion on the John Butler Trio fan website. Not long after I had the greater honor of being banned from the forum. Not long after that the indigenous forum was removed altogether. Ill tell you the [...]
November 3, 2006
Click up for David Hicks
Australian citizen David Hicks has been detained in Guantánamo Bay for nearly five years. The Australian government must act to bring David Hicks home to face a fair trail or be released.
Click here to Amnesty International’s David Hicks campaign and send an email to the Prime Minister
November 3, 2006
The Errol Wyles Justice Foundation – Building Bridges to Justice
The Errol Wyles Justice Foundation is a non-profit, community based, non-Government organisation established in 2006.
Named in remembrance of an Aboriginal boy, Errol Wyles Junior, who was killed in violent and tragic circumstances in 2003, the Foundation provides legal redress for Aboriginal victims of crime and injustice and promotes the equal protection and treatment of Aborigines [...]
