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The ACL and Human Rights

[SOURCE] Jim Wallace from the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) is whinging because his side didn’t win. People responded to the National Human Rights Committee consultation in their droves.  It seems that Amnesty International and GetUp! were able to muster their forces and have a significant impact on the number of submissions made. Jim babes doesn’t […]

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The world changes on #BAD09

Today is Blog Action Day – it’s where thousands of blogs around the world write about the one topic, and this year it’s about climate change. With our climate on the brink of collapse, our whole way of life is under threat.  A couple of degrees rise in the global temperature mightn’t sound like too […]

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AJN Gaywatch

[SOURCE] Tis funny, the AJN Watch is at it again, the opening line: Is Henry Benjamin following the AJN – becoming obsessed with “gayness”. Obsessed? It would seem that the bloke behind the blog is rather obssesed with gay things. most people don’t give a Donald Duck about what this or any other person does […]

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Perilous night visit for pilgrims to holy site

[SOURCE]. Joseph is dead.  He was the son of Jacob.  If he lived, it was a few thousands of years ago. His tomb is in the West Bank – that’s a bit of land that’s controlled by some arab nutters.  The jews want to go to the tomb to do stuff.  I guess they want […]

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Cancer and depression – where do you fit?

Andrew Robb is sick and gets great support, Josh Oram is sick and gets a fight instead of support

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Debt Free Asylum Seekers

[SOURCE] Some years ago the Australian Government, lead by John Howard, passed a law that saw we, the Australian people, bill asylum seekers. When applying for and being successful in obtaining a temporary visa, or even a permanent residency, asylum seekers would find themselves suddenly lumbered with a huge bill.  We were billing them for […]

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How’s your food?

[SOURCE] Let me pick a few key sentences out of the article for you: THE United Nations food aid agency says it will be forced to cut programs even as hunger soars amid the global economic crisis because pledged donations have failed to materialise. we are facing a dangerous and unprecedented shortfall in emergency funding […]

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World wide

This gay Llama has been following two stories with a ‘gay’ theme over the last week. 1.  Last week, in my home paddock of Melbourne, we had the “Equal Love” rally (Already blogged about that one).  5,000 people gathered to protest about the Australian Governments reluctance to allow equality in marriage. 2.  The shooting of […]

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PM stares down gay marriage push

PM stares down gay marriage push | The Australian. So, the PM is happy that a whole range of laws have been changed for ‘gay people’ (Such a nasty term really, I can just hear people spitting the term as they talk about those gays).  It would seem that he’s still very resistant to the […]

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Welcome to Melbourne – Look at our Big M

City of Melbourne – Welcome to Melbourne – Launch of new City of Melbourne corporate identity. I live in metropolitan Melbourne.  The City of Melbourne has launched a new corporate identity.  Did it make your snut twitch? Now this wonderful logo, the blue and green M – the Big M cost a bit of money […]

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