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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

Mildura River front development - 0 views

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    This article is about the local issue of the development of the riverfront.
Jenny Gilbert

Opposing Views: Issues, Experts, Answers - 1 views

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    good place for examining issues - out of the usa though - can be used for debate and discussion between students, schools and across countries. Remeber you must have topics of relevance to Australia for your orals. Yr 12 must have topics that have been in the media since sept 2010.
Jenny Gilbert

Unleashed (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - 1 views

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    a place to find good topic issues to read and debate
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...

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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

AM - Boy or Girl: Aust parents could soon choose 13/03/2010 - 2 views

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    Swx swlwction trhough IVF - a good topic for your oral presentation. This report will get you started with research.
Jenny Gilbert

Using Language to Persuade (VCE English) - 0 views

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    This is a blog I suspect you may well find worth reading - if the authors keep it up. It is best to add it to your RSS feeds. If you don't know what that is ask the library or me:)
Jenny Gilbert

Cast away kids - 0 views

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    ABC report on orphans in asylum centers.
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