August - 2015

Race Powers Surrounding Australian Constitution

There are two provisions under dispute in the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution. The first provision is s25 which allows a state government to prevent someone based upon their race from voting for the House of Representatives and s51(XXVI) which allows Federal Parliament to make laws based on race to protect ‘peace and order.’ Australia’s first people the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are further debased due to these provisions. The first Prime Minister of Austr

Government Reviews Foreign Actors Work Visa Application Process – How will this affect Australian a

Jon-Claire Lee is an actor and talent agent, known for Muriel's Wedding (1994), Nim's Island (2008), Liu Awaiting Spring (1999) and his role as Song Johnson on Home and Away. In January 2015, the Ministry for the Arts, Attorney General’s Department and the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) put out a Review Paper on Temporary Work (Entertainment) Visa (Subclass 420). It allows visa holders to work temporarily here in the entertainment industry in film, te

Why Booing Adam Goodes is racist

Sport is like combat. It’s competitive, it’s adversarial, it is aggressive. But what sport should not be is a chance for our more base human emotions to come out, under the guise of competition. In recent times, the Adam Goodes saga has dominated discussion in the general media and at the water-coolers of offices everywhere. For the record, Sydney Swans star player Goodes, who is of indigenous descent, continually gets heavily booed by the crowd whenever he touches the ball d