http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/nyregion/13detain.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&hp

34 year old man who'd been in the US since he was 17 detained by Department of Homeland Security and put into immigration detention after a court notice was sent to the wrong address.  Accused of faking back pain, taken on hours of bumpy rides to try and show he was faking ( Read more... )

Nice :-)

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/public-servants-win-protest-case/2007/09/06/1188783415733.html:

THE Howard Government's industrial relations department broke its own laws when it ordered public servants not to go to an ACTU protest rally in November 2005.

Federal Court judge Catherine Branson ruled yesterday a written order issued by ( Read more... )

From Getup!

"The Federal Government has passed extraordinary legislation that will close the rolls for new voters at 8pm on the very night the election is officially called. In the last election, 83,000 first-time voters enrolled in the first week after the election was called. Hundreds of thousands more registered at their new address."

Go do the ( Read more... )

Kenneth in The Age:
"The central objective of WorkChoices is to redistribute income from wage and salary earners to profits. The means is not deregulation of the labour market. It is to re-regulate the labour market in a way that increases employers' ability to unilaterally set wages and conditions by criminalising trade unions' function in ( Read more... )

Also via boingboing:
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If only I consumed enough music/movies that switching to pirating them would be satisfying.

Oh noes! 1.3 billion (potential) readers of my lj, removed in one tragic stroke! ;-)

From Wired via boingboing: "The Chinese government began blocking access to the popular blogging site LiveJournal on Friday..."

Via boingboing:

"Gary Wolf's tantalizing piece in this month's Wired concludes that the future of American security lies in ignoring the Department of Homeland Security, with its "rainbow of doom," its magic airport involuntary nudity machines, and its suspension of the Constitution and relying instead on common sense and democratic fundamentals."