OLSH STATEMENT: DECLARE PEACE ON REFUGEES We are all well aware of the plight of refuges in our own country. One has only to pick up a paper or switch on the TV, to read or see something of the current thinking of Australians on the issue of refugees and…

  An alarming aspect of the pictures drawn by children detained on Christmas Island, and revealed by the Human Rights Commission's national investigation into their plight, is what is blanked out – the children’s boat IDs. In every detention facility I have visited, children sign their artworks with this ID;…

HANNAH ARENDT The MSC Justice Desk recently printed quotes from philosopher, Hannah Arendt. The quotes are featured. Around Australia, a film, called Hannah Arendt, who coined the phrase, 'The Banality of Evil' after witnessing the trial of Adolf Eichmann.  The SIGNIS review is included below. 'Education is the point at…

GLOBAL FREEDOM NETWORK Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest has launched a global network, along with the Vatican, the Anglican Communion and a leading Muslim institution, to end human trafficking worldwide by 2020, reports CNS/The Sydney Morning Herald. The new accord, signed during a Vatican news conference yesterday, launched the beginning…