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Jenny Gilbert

Debatewise - where great minds differ - 0 views

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    This is a good Issues resource site, especially for oral topics. However ensure that your issue has a relevant Australian context and can be supported as much as possible by Australian data. Your audience is Australian - our cares are for our own issues.
Jenny Gilbert

Australian War Memorial - Stolen Years: Australian prisoners of war - 0 views

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    Information about the Australian Nurses
Jenny Gilbert

Unleashed (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - 1 views

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    a place to find good topic issues to read and debate
Jenny Gilbert

EditorialCartoonists.com, Cartoons (AAEC - The Association of American Editorial Cartoo... - 0 views

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    download cartoon evaluation worksheet - useful for all countries. The rest is less useful to aussie classrooms. US history students would get something here though. Wish we had one of these for australian cartoons!!!
Heather S

Sunday School: The Context in VCE English - ABC Melbourne - Australian Broadcasting Cor... - 4 views

  • Continuing our study guide into VCE English. This week we focus "the context", a potentially confusing but creative component of the year 12 curriculum.
Heather S

Sunday School: VCE English curriculum overview - ABC Melbourne - Australian Broadcastin... - 1 views

  • Libbi Gorr and Chief VCE English assessor Bob Hillman of Trinity Grammar discuss the 2012 VCE English curriculum.
Jenny Gilbert

Geoffrey Robertson QC : Recent Articles : Dr Haneef - 0 views

  • This important book chronicles the curious case of Dr Haneef, an innocent man presumed guilty by overzealous police and prosecutors, and over excited politicians and pressmen.
  • nstead, he suffered three weeks of wrongful imprisonment. He was wrongly charged, without evidence, by the Australian federal police and when he applied for bail false statements were made on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent him from obtaining release. John Howard, the Prime Minister, doubtless sensing an early election issue, criticised the Queensland labour government for failing to vet Dr Haneef for terrorist connections, whilst Philip Ruddock stirred up as much prejudice as possible by press statements. It took a courageous magistrate at a second hearing to grant Dr Haneef bail after he had been in detention for ten days, but thereupon the Minister of Immigration, Kevin Andrews, dishonourably and disgracefully contrived to keep him in detention by cancelling his immigration visa on “character” grounds that he should have known to be bogus. A federal court judge, John Clark, later described his action as “astounding”. Meanwhile no less than 600 federal and state police were deployed in an effort to turn over Dr Haneef’s life and contacts in a hunt for “negative” information about him and to give politicians further opportunities for publicising themselves and prejudicing his case by referring to his presumed terrorist associations. And all the time, in secret and in vain, ASIO was reporting to the government that Dr Haneef had no terrorist connections at all.
  • The official report into the Haneef affair, by Judge John Clarke, was an indictment of government ministers for making “astonishing” and “troubling” decisions to deny liberty to an innocent person.
Jenny Gilbert

Australian War Memorial - Information sheets - 0 views

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    Finding out about specific POW's at the war memorial website
Jenny Gilbert

6. Australia's Immigration Detention Policy and Practice - 0 views

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    Australian law requires the detention of all non-citizens who are in Australia without a valid visa (unlawful non-citizens). This means that immigration officials have no choice but to detain persons who arrive without a visa (unauthorised arrivals), or persons who arrive with a visa and subsequently become unlawful because their visa has expired or been cancelled (authorised arrivals).
Jenny Gilbert

Australian Immigration Fact Sheet 82 - Immigration Detention - 1 views

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    The object of Australia's Migration Act 1958 is to regulate, in the national interest, the lawful entry and stay of people in Australia. All non-citizens wanting to visit Australia have to apply for, and be granted, a visa to enter Australia.
Emmet Brown

Encountering conflict - 8 views

I think the 'war on terror' policy is dead in the water. In the early days it was about attacking Afghanistan, Iraq and possibly Iran. This changed to violent overthrowing of governments with a new...

conflict encountering-conflict refugees rugmaker asylum

Jenny Gilbert

Live debate - Intelligence Squared Australia - IQ2 - the Australian forum for live debate - 0 views

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