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Equality for women? Don’t make me laugh : Comments
By Lin Hatfield Dodds, published 28/6/2011Unless and until we acknowledge the inherent dignity of each person by a practical and persistent commitment to rights-based policy and practice we will never close the gaps.
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Disappointed she fails to mention the unreasonably high and destructive %tax rate - sorry centrelink income %reduction rate, as applied to earnings of people with centrelink their primary income.
Fail to understand why Uniting Church remains silent, not critical towards several large corporate landowners which either receive or are direct beneficiaries from the public monies allocated to contruct and provide housing upon their lands.
Such buildings belong to the landowners, except where leases provided.
Land titles firmly retained by these corporate entities.
These corporate landowners are NOT held accountable for ongoing refusals to issue valid leases to their tenants.
NOT held accountable for dismal condition of this housing, when constructed to normal standards and funded with public funds...
NOT held accountable for refusing their tenants otherwise held basic rights to have family, friends, tradespeople - even religious activists, visit - or reside with them, at times of their choosing.
Still experience difficulty understanding why Uniting Church continues to remain silent thus supports separation - segregation, of Australian families using racial testing, such as when tenants on such properties mentioned above, as experienced by our family...
Perhaps we forget all this must be acceptable as it is being done to help us... ?
We have our own Talibab, our own Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi's, our own control freaks...