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dreamer_easyAn Australian doctor has given a nightmarish account of the inadequate medical facilities at the prison for refugees* and their children on Manus Island. "From early on I was sending lists ... saying 'look, we desperately need this stuff.' Stuff being oxygen, antibiotics, bladder catheters, suckers, tracheostomy equipment, anaesthetic agents, sedatives, morphine, ketamine, and these things didn't arrive... The oxygen was terribly important and it didn't arrive. "Where was it? Where was it?" We kept asking, 'Could we have it? Send it up.' It never came.' At a cost so far of about $1 million per refugee, you'd think we could afford some fucking oxygen.
ETA: The parliamentary secretary for mental health has called for an independent inquiry into conditions on Manus Island and Nauru.
Seven months pregnant, a floor for a bed and $6 a day for meals. Welcome to Australia. They're not allowed to work. And it's still better than Manus or Nauru - or Iran. You poor devils.
The NRA has successfully killed government funding for gun violence research for close to two decades. ER Doctor Garen Wintemute is one of the few who have continued to study the problem. In Australia, research and laws are both being whittled away by the firearms industry.
Amongst other conservative clampdowns, Hamas is forcing schools to segregate boys and girls. Frankly that's more concerning than last week's nonsense... but it doesn't fit the "they're coming for our women" narrative which sells papers and buys votes. (Professor Bulbeck's essay on Australia's illusion of gender equality is worth reading.)
Medicine! Hundreds get jabs after UK measles death | Why fat-shaming doesn't work. Well if it did, we'd all be skinny as a stick of macaroni by now.
Science! 20th century 'hottest in 1400 years' | Greenhouse gas levels highest in 3m years | Is race perception automatic?
Witch hunts! Reddit apologises for Boston online witch hunts | Teen wrongly identified as person connected with Boston Marathon blasts
Literal witch hunts! In Papua New Guinea, women accused of sorcery are being tortured and burned alive.
... fucking hell, what a world.
* Technically, of course, they are still asylum seekers. However, since nine in ten of them will be found to be genuine refugees and thus will eventually become Australians, assuming they survive, it often seems pointless making the distinction.
ETA: The parliamentary secretary for mental health has called for an independent inquiry into conditions on Manus Island and Nauru.
Seven months pregnant, a floor for a bed and $6 a day for meals. Welcome to Australia. They're not allowed to work. And it's still better than Manus or Nauru - or Iran. You poor devils.
The NRA has successfully killed government funding for gun violence research for close to two decades. ER Doctor Garen Wintemute is one of the few who have continued to study the problem. In Australia, research and laws are both being whittled away by the firearms industry.
Amongst other conservative clampdowns, Hamas is forcing schools to segregate boys and girls. Frankly that's more concerning than last week's nonsense... but it doesn't fit the "they're coming for our women" narrative which sells papers and buys votes. (Professor Bulbeck's essay on Australia's illusion of gender equality is worth reading.)
Medicine! Hundreds get jabs after UK measles death | Why fat-shaming doesn't work. Well if it did, we'd all be skinny as a stick of macaroni by now.
Science! 20th century 'hottest in 1400 years' | Greenhouse gas levels highest in 3m years | Is race perception automatic?
Witch hunts! Reddit apologises for Boston online witch hunts | Teen wrongly identified as person connected with Boston Marathon blasts
Literal witch hunts! In Papua New Guinea, women accused of sorcery are being tortured and burned alive.
... fucking hell, what a world.
* Technically, of course, they are still asylum seekers. However, since nine in ten of them will be found to be genuine refugees and thus will eventually become Australians, assuming they survive, it often seems pointless making the distinction.
