Summary: This week on Something Wonky, Stop The Press looks at The Courier Mail’s salacious treatment of murder victim Mayang Prasetyo. Australia versus humanity is still terrible. The Focus Group asks, “Who are we keeping safe?”, finds our government is still incompetent, and does the war bit. Stop The Press The Courier Mail’s salacious treatment of murder victim Mayang Prasetyo. Words Can Be Deadly Mayang Prasetyo’s murder and the problem with domestic violence reporting Courier Mail claims headlines didn’t intend to diminish life of transgender murder victim Tony Abbott apologises to Alan Jones, who was previously found to have “incited hatred, serious contempt and severe ridicule of Lebanese Muslims”, for not acting on ‘hate preachers’ 3AW freaks out over Queen wearing Muslim headscarf on defaced $5 note, and then gets involved in a local strata management dispute. Australia Versus Humanity Four-year budget of $20 million spent in one year to stop the boats Mandatory detention of children ‘abusive’, say Australian paediatricians Outgoing Christmas Island administrator Jon Stanhope - History will treat Australia ‘very poorly’ over its treatment of asylum seekers Scott Morrison announces investigation into Nauru sex abuse claims Save The Children Fires Back At Morrison’s ‘Self Harm Coaching’ Claims Scott Morrison referred to AFP over alleged Nauru detention centre leak by Senator Hanson-Young. LGBTI asylum seekers fear further persecution on Manus Island The Focus Group Keeping Who Safe? Sword removed in counter-terrorism raids a common plastic decoration, owner reveals Preventative detention orders ‘used as a tool to break terrorism suspects’ Anti-terrorism bill: police to get power to secretly search suspect’s house Our First Defence To ‘Threats To Our Freedom’: Dump Freedom Safeguards Where is the security agency tipping point? LNP Government, still not competent. Abetz Takes Pity On Businesses, Drops Punitive Measures Aimed At Jobless | newmatilda.com Who Needs Climate Change Experts When You’ve Got Greg Hunt And Wikipedia The Abbott government’s ‘freedom’ agenda is breathtakingly hypocritical - Ben Saul Australia’s unemployment rate set to be second worst in Asia-Pacific, says IMF Treasurer Joe Hockey pressures Labor to pass stalled budget measures to pay for Iraq war In New Matilda Ralph Cullen asks Prime Minister Tony Abbott: Scholar or Sciolist? The War Bit Mathias Cormann ‘not ruling out’ raising taxes to pay for Iraq mission Tony Abbott rules out tax increases to pay for Australia’s role in Iraq First Australian air strike in Iraq bombs Isis target, says ADF Abbott Was A Wrecker In Opposition; Who’s Surprised He’s A Wrecker In Office? Why would anyone believe we would stop at “humanitarian” military involvement point? Also the who changes their mind on Abbott bc of a war in Syria? A listener asks “What should Australia’s response be to Daesh”?
