More from the news

I was pleased to discover that companies have concerns about the proposed engineer's registration  bill. In the end, I couldn't face putting in a submission, although I will finish another post for this blog. 

On other matters: 

• a letter calling for dignity to be a key feature of campaigns for better treatment of minorities;
  
• an "Awakening Humanity" award for a mother-daughter team doing wonderful work in Somalia; 
• good articles from a blog I have just found here, here, and here; 
• appalling violence by CCP officials against a Taiwanese diplomat raises serious questions about the enforcement of international law; 
• Sudan is moving closer to being a member of the international community; 
• staggering evidence that police in Victoria are treated differently to others - that there is either, effectively, a second system of laws for them, or they are being treated as above the law - which comes on top of weak responses to assaults by police, including against a disability pensioner. This problem - domestic violence by serving police officers - is one that former Commissioner Christine Nixon talked about: was that part of why she was driven out?
  There are a disturbing number of police who have shown themselves to be homophobic, transphobic, racist (see this from NSW), misogynistic or otherwise UNFIT to wear the uniform. That the number may be minor is irrelevant given the power that police have to kill or harm others - the bigotry of some has left me with lifelong scars, and I know others who have been similarly traumatised.
  Their arrogance, and all acts of omission or commission by others in the justice system, that treats police differently to others MUST stop, and redress to the victims - including the many people of this society who cannot rely of the police for aid - made; 
• our national neolib nitwit government are continuing their attack against democracy - specifically, by trying to stop us being able to access accurate information; 
• a call for support on NDIS matters; 
• what is, in effect, an act of appalling abuse of refugees; and
  
• "how the best bosses interrupt bias".