Consistent with the assertions of many that the new IR laws will lead to an increase in numbers of the poor and disadvantaged - notwithstanding what Howard and his side-kick Andrews keep on saying - just like the "picture" which has emerged in the so-called "rich" USA, look where America is headed in feeding its poor [or treating them humanely and with a degree of decency] in this article in today's SMH. To say the very least not only are the actions of the Congress scandalous - but it perhaps gives an insight of things to come in Oz.
From Mondoweiss - Israel's supposed "most moral army in the world", the IDF, engaged in immoral, and according to international law, illegal action.... "Israeli forces have demolished every home in the Bedouin village of Khirbet Taha in the northern West Bank district of Nablus during three separate demolitions since the start of the year. Unlike most Bedouin villages, the residents in Khirbet Taha own their own land. However that land falls in Area C, territory in the occupied West Bank under full Israeli control. The village’s only school was also destroyed, leaving children to study in a dilapidated 100-year-old mosque — the only structure left standing in the village. According the United Nations, Israel has demolished half as many Palestinian buildings in the first few months of 2016, as they had in all of 2015. In February alone, the UN found that more Palestinians homes were destroyed than any other month since 2009, when the organization began its docum...
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