Oz has signed its biggest ever export deal:
supplying coal to China. With
lots of associated infrastructure.
But TAbb seems to be
doing good things for the Coalition’s polling.
Farmer Peter Spencer
has ended his hunger strike. It was about
who owns property. Talking to Peter Spencer and
what it was about.
The Brumby Government
has decided to
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When the RWH says it sees 600-700 women per year who have experienced FGM, that means that of the thousands (tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands?) of women who use its services each years, 600-700 of them have been genitally mutilated. At some point. And it doesn't mention how many of them come back to be counted next year.
What it most certainly does not say is that there are 600-700 new cases of FGM each year in Melbourne alone.
Those two numbers are not amenable to comparison: the 600-700 pa of women who visit the RWH and have, at some point of their lives, suffered FGM, and the abominable, but unspecified number of children who suffer it in Australia.
Obviously, it should go without saying that even one case is an abomination. But I don't think it's quite as common as one might come away from that article believing.
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It's the shonky contractors who are to blame, not Garret. Making a scapegoat out of him is just going to whitewash over dodgy operators who refuse to follow safety standards.
It's a weird situation that makes me feel sorry for Peter Garrett, but it's managed to come about.
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If X is hiring out Y to do things for Z, then X has particular responsibility to ensure that things are done properly.
So, no, I do not have sympathy for PGarr. Particularly when poor tendering procedures seem to be a bit of a feature of this Government.
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