This week we’re giving the Wankley to products that pinkefy themselves with all sorts of glowing promises about their commitment to breast cancer research. Too bad the donations cost less than the feel good advertising it brings them.
Visa
Faris: Boat people put Rudd to the test
This is Australia’s version of the US Green card lottery, writes Peter Faris.
16 months in Baxter detention centre: that’ll cost you $160,000
Former Baxter detainee Kasian Wililo has been invoiced for his time in detention: for $161,684.60, reports Sophie Black.
After 475 visa comes 485 – just don’t call it immigration
There are some 250,000 foreigners studying at Australian tertiary institutions and two-thirds of them don’t want to be. Don’t want to be foreign, that is, writes Michael Pascoe.
The Haneef fiasco: Case adjourned
In my opinion, at 3pm CDPP Damian Bugg will withdraw the charge and that will be the end of this fundamentally flawed prosecution, writes Peter Faris QC.
