Here's Why

You can read the notes from my May 2006 talk about the 2005 Australian Terror Laws at the Philorum website. link

"Philorum is a philosophy forum where everyone has an equal opportunity to have their ideas engaged by strangers and friends."
1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month. 18:15 for a 18:30 Start. Finish 21:30
The Members Bar, Floor 1
(Keep winding up to the top of the stairs.)
The Gaelic Club
64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills
Sydney, Australia
(100 metres from a Central railway station exit.)

You can read the notes from my April 2006 talk about the July 2006 Welfare laws at the Sydney Shove website.

In today's news the Australian charity organisations have balked at the Federal Government telling them that 18 000 people will have their payments stopped for 8 weeks from July 1st, and that the charities should be looking after these people the Howard regime is starving.

Meanwhile Howard's favourite advertising company is getting a $9 million hand-out to advertise the "Work To Death" policy for disabled people. This isn't about informing people on the Disability Support Pension, who will be sent a letter, but to comfort the voting public about how mean we are as a nation, as we starve disadvantaged people to death instead of helping them.

The Australian Federation of Homeless Organisations (AFHO) warned that the changes could force up to 14,000 people into homelessness.

James Roney at the University of California, Santa Barbara, US and his colleagues at the University of Chicago believe their research shows that women judge a potential mate accurately by his face. Ian Woolf checks out why talking with a woman before you get that Internet dating photo taken is a good idea.