I am trying to work out which part of the Good Emeritus Professor Stuart Reess'present Job Descriptionis appearing here ?

As Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney.is it the Peace part coming through in the Article.. or the CONFLICT ?

"Many of the asylum seekers were receiving better treatment than most people in Australia. (Eg swimming pools, air conditioning, TV's and videos, free food etc). In fact someone would have to pay considerable amounts of money at a tourist resort to receive such treatment."
vanna do you have the same contempt for the British royal family as you have for asylum seekers. After all the royals have been living off the public purse for centuries, no swimming pool or air conditioner can compare to having your very own string of 500 room palaces, crown jewels, servants galore, $80 million weddings etc, and no one is ever going to ask you to get a real job. Can I ask your view on these royals who have their snouts well and truly fixed in the public trough.

Paul1405,
Well I believe a certain Prince now has 3 chauffers employed, after his dear wife wanted an extra 2.

However, I like the idea that there has never been a war between any two commonwealth countries, although the queen herself doesn’t enter into politics much at all.

As for our present Prime Minister (still keep forgetting her name), her appearing on TV to say that she was allowing a permanent US military base in Darwin was the last time I ever saw her on TV.

Seems like a good summation of the negative legacy of the lying rodent.

After all in 2004 even the former president of the federal liberal party, John Valder quite correctly called the rodent a war criminal.

Peace studies institutions throughout the world do of course study violent conflicts of all kinds. Such is a necessary part of their job description (as it were).

The first Peace Studies institute was set up in Stockholm after the founder did a review of the then available literature on the topic of peace and found out that there was none. There was of course heaps on the topic of war. In response he created what was the first peace research institution - the first of many.

In my view the award says everything that needs to be said about the values that pertain in our monarchy, and about the anachronistic nature of our relationship with it.

J.Howard et al started shaky but evolved to become an effective body that tried to bring Australia back to its proper place in the world and happier people within.

First to bring into law shared care parenting...opposed by who...no surprise, the office for women(OFW), but increasing father death toll in separation allowed bill to become law...eversince OFW trying to dismantle it...

Aboriginal children death rate higher than the third world...mostly from diseases...so intervention...guess who disrupted it...yep...OFW, by forcing creating 'sexual predator' clause as main cause they tunrned inot 'women all good(so no need to assess their part), men all bad(remove and isolate them as threats)...tried 'befriended'(if such is possible with ofw) aboriginal women, empowered them to grab and remove child, where did we see this?...oh yes...us...now no one knows the real death rate...and 90% of billions spend went into 'administration'...then declared a failure...

create proper education in Australia by making teachers accountable, than the 'trained flow chart following monkeys products' thats happening now including health sector...who interfered at every opportunity...yep ofw...largest teacher percentage is women...and at this time, at height of their popularity in Australia, they mysteriously loose the election badly...

these are some that jump to mind...

Agree the Iraq debacle is a negative...but the trade center was wiped out...and who new the genocidal maniacs controlling the american military execution had no value for human life and condition since world over...cant blame J.Howard et al for this, but Rudd/Gillard when this fact became obvious...include Libya now, soon all middle east...

I agree there is great dishonour...but get your facts right MrS.Rees before your labelled another tool of ofw and more...

sam