The stain of racist inhumanity on our country is reflected in the historically barbarous treatment of our Aboriginal population.
Peter Hartcher’s analytical piece on the current growth of anti-semitism in Australia concludes with “Australia is a sanctuary from racial hatreds ”. We have a documented history of displacement, massacre and exploitation of the original inhabitants of this place. Hartcher contends that sanctuary begins with respect for all. Paying lip service to such sentiments in our time is well meaning but, very clearly, not good enough.
The US and Australian governments keep saying Israel has a right to defend itself. Do the Palestinians have the same right? Israelis have the right to live in peace on their own land. Do Palestinians have the same right?According to Peter Hartcher, the Executive Council of Jewry has reported a 700 per cent increase in antisemitic incidents following Hamas’ murderous incursion into Israel this time last year.
There are no longer any words which adequately describe the savage brutality of political and military men who react to enemy attacks with even more force which can eventually get out of hand. Dispute resolution, hideous destruction, conflict, retaliatory retribution, warfare – all weasel words which can never describe the unimaginable suffering and loss of those souls who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Women have turned history around before, and must do it again as their male counterparts obviously don’t have the will to stop., October 5). What on earth have Sussan Ley and Bronwyn Bishop done, or achieved, to mark them as local “women warriors” in the same sphere as New Zealand’s WWII hero Nancy Wake?Adrian Bell must have known he would to get a response to citing Sussan Ley and Bronwyn Bishop as strong women. Puhlease! Mum Shirl any day, for instance.
”, October 5)? There is already a co-ed high school, a boys’ school and a girls’ school, a co-ed year 11 and 12 school, and a co-ed selective school in the group. All these schools are at full capacity and are achieving great HSC results, with Balgowlah Boys High being one of the best-performing schools in the state.
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