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Oops ! I forgot to post this one too :

http://twitter.com/RojavaIC/status/1372518844720353282/photo/1

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Banjo,

I will repeat the question:

"Can you direct us to these "conventions" where it says Australia has responsibilities for citizens who defied the law to leave Australia to join terrorists in a foreign war?"

You have not answered it. You cannot answer it. Going all 'lawyerly' won't help you. Australia is a sovereign country, entitled to make its own decisions as to what it does. The previous government knew this, and refused to bring these people back. There were no repercussions from the tinpot would-be world dictatorship, the UN, because there was nothing they could do about it. They can't do anything about China breaking all the international 'laws' on trade, building illegal islands in the South China Sea, and all the other things China does against "conventions" and "binding" bits of paper.

International 'law' is a crock. It is undemocratic and unenforceable. Russia and China and other non-Western countries give it the middle finger, while Western countries, especially those with leftists governments, cower before the bullying UN.

At the moment, Australia is one of the most gutless because of its wet left government and equally wet left opposition.

Hey ttbn,

"Bringing Terror to Australia"
Who exactly are the terrorists?

Are we talking about Islamic extremists?
Or the pollies, NGO's and other do-gooder wokes?

"Australia to offer six months paid parental leave by 2026"
http://www.9news.com.au/national/australia-paid-parental-leave-to-offer-six-months-leave-by-2026/bf4d4294-b8ea-4499-9748-a210d6861e22
- This doesn't benefit all workers as at least 25% of people in this country are casuals.

These idiot politicians try to fix one problem and just create more.

Or the pollies, NGO's and other do-gooder wokes?
Armchair critics,
Sanctioned by an uncaring public !

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Dear ttbn,

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Australia ratified the ICCPR (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) on 13 August 1980. Under Article 2 of that Covenant, Australia voluntarily signed and accepted an obligation :

“to respect and to ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction the rights recognised in [the Covenant]”.
On 25 September 1991, Australia voluntarily signed and accepted another commitment : the First Optional Protocol to the ICCPR.

Under Article 1 of this Protocol, Australia recognised the competence of the Human Rights Committee “to receive and consider communications from individuals subject to its jurisdiction who claim to be victims of a violation by that State Party of any of the rights set forth in the Covenant”.

The signature and ratification of a treaty is a voluntary action under which a state knowingly contracts to uphold certain obligations.

Complying with a treaty that we, as a nation, have signed and accepted does not entail a violation of sovereignty.

Quite the contrary, the International Court of Justice described a state's entry into international obligations as “an attribute of State sovereignty”.

The notion of sovereignty has evolved, ttbn :

http://opil.ouplaw.com/view/10.1093/law:epil/9780199231690/law-9780199231690-e1472

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Banjo Paterson,
All this waffle flies out the window as soon as a citizen gets grief from incompetent & indifferent bureaudroids in any authority !