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Solitary confinement will cost you extra
“Australia is the only country in the world which charges innocent people the cost of locking them up,” Julian Burnside QC has told Crikey. And solitary confinement is seperately billed, reports Sophie Black.
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DIAC have raised their student visa risk assessment levels for students from India from three to four commencing 1st September. Four is the highest level, meaning Indian students will have to provide very rigorous documentary evidence to get a visa. Leaving aside how many Indian students must have been skipping out on their visas to force this change, […]
DIAC employee: I can no longer keep silent
I have been a loyal employee for many years. I have welcomed the changes wrought by the Palmer and Comrie reports but I can keep silent no longer, writes a DIAC employee.
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An emission mission. Greenhouse emissions from the Commonwealth’s Department of Environment and Water Resources have increased to 637 kilograms per person per year according to its latest annual report (compared to 544 kilograms per person in 2004-05.) That’s a 14 per cent increase in a single year. The Full Annual report is here.
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