Feminists are disputing how to relate transsexuals to feminism.

It should be clear that "feeling like a woman" (i.e., being drawn to female gender) is a completely separate matter from "understanding what life as a (typical non-trans, in a given society) woman is like", or how such women experience that life. But that difference is no problem unless we make the mistake of confusing the two.

The Australian government is not concerned that refugees it imprisons on Nauru are raped.

Here's more about the Australian government's campaign against the president of its human rights commission.

This is a prime example of hounding a dissident over minor details of rhetoric to distract attention from important substantive issues. Critics of the free software movement use the same approach towards me.

Note also the way that they present their own hostility towards Triggs as if it were a failing on her part; for instance, by saying that they have "lost confidence" in her for criticizing them. It is another common pattern. Thus, articles about the economic war on Greece often say that "Greece has no more friends" when what is really happening is that various regimes and institutions (Spain, France, US, IMF) support the banksters.

Those criticizing Triggs back up their distraction campaign by keeping a large part of the Australian government's treatment of refugees secret, or hidden on Nauru. This makes it hard for her to raise the issues that really matter.

A refugee in Australia, facing imprisonment in Nauru, is considering an abortion to avoid raising a child in prison.

People in desperate circumstances should not have children, but that is no excuse for putting people in such desperate circumstances.

Tony "suppository of all greenhouse gases" Abbott boasted of cutting the growth of wind farms, and says he wishes he could have cut them more.

It pretty much shows he was lying when he said he supported wind power.

This is par for the course with plutocratist governments. We have seen the same thing in the UK and, partly, with the Obama regime.

Google, Facebook and Apple are so involved in distribution of journalism that they are in a special position to corrupt it.

Perhaps use of GNU Taler for paid anonymous downloads will help journalistic sites remain independent of those powerful companies.