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The federal election is history, and those who had counted on a Labor government to focus on reducing inequality and easing poverty were disappointed. Scott Morrisons government has made clear it has no intention of increasing the base rate of the Newstart payment for unemployed Australians 鈥?the most intense welfare campaign of the election 鈥?even though it has seen no real increase for a quarter of a century, and despite suggestions from the Reserve Bank governor, Philip Lowe, that an increase would be good for the economy .Yet the 10% of Australians living in income poverty remain 13% if you take the stanley cup becher cost of housing into account , with up to a million of us living in persistent and entrenched poverty, unable to participate fully in stanley taza life.As the Productivity Commission has noted, our poverty rate has remained stubbornly high for 30 years, despite Australia being one of the wealthiest countries in the world and enjoying decades of economic growth. As its former chairman Peter Harris has said: Perhaps simply shifting money around and doing more of the same is not sufficient. View image in fullscreenScott Morrisons government has made clear it has no intention of increasing the base rate of the Newstart payment stanley thermos for unemployed Australians. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAPThere are dozens of ideas about what we could do to reduce poverty. Here are five we could do now, if we chose.1. Scale up things that work Its not a knowing problem; its very much a doing problem, says Matthew Cox Lsdf Names of judges found guilty of misconduct to stay secret
The new generation of secret courts proposed by the government could suppress evidence of British stanley becher collusion in torture, according to the chief UN official responsible for investigating wrongdoing by security and intelligence agencies.Concern about the government s plan 鈥?contained in the justice and security bill 鈥?was expressed by Prof Juan M茅ndez, the UN s special rapporteur on torture. If a country is in possession of information about human rights abuses, but isn t in a position to mention them, it hampers the ability to deal effectively with torture, he said. M茅ndez, himself a victim of torture in his native Argentina in the 1970s, was speaking at the thinktank Chatham House on Monday night.After attacking the US for what he called the extensive use of state secrets to suppress evidence of torture and other abuses, M茅ndez referred to the so-called control principle, which allows governments to determine how its intelligence can be used once shared with another state.Ministers maintain that the new secret courts are needed to protect its intelligence-sharing relationship with the US and other governments, while critics say they are intended to conceal evidence of crimes committed by the British government, including involvement in the rendition and torture of British citizens stanley cup romania suspected of being terrorists.The issue was at the centre of high court hearings about the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, the stanley cupe Ethiopian-born UK resident secretly rendered to Gua |
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