First they came for Steve Bray
There is a small, but worrying, groundswell of opinion developing at present that suggests that the whole of the government’s anti-protest legislation is simply an attack on the activities of Steve Bray, who has been a persistent nuisance to the government with his one-man campaign against Brexit and Tory abuse since 2016.
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AUSTRAC has mobilised a dedicated team of mandarins to assist DFAT’s Australian Sanctions Office (ASO), AFP, and other commonwealth partners with detecting economic sanctions evasion.
The government entity said the intelligence team would watch and triage financial reporting about Russian sanctions, including reports concerning suspicious matters and international funds transfers.
“Australia’s sanctions regime relies on effective monitoring and reporting of sanctions non-compliance and financial crime risk mitigation from industry,” a statement on the AUSTRAC website said.
“[This ensures] that those responsible for Russia’s actions are unable to benefit from access to the Australian financial system.”
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my son, who died aged 29 of ALS/Lou Gehrig’s disease.
I’ll just dream these lines, since you’re no longer here;
your voice, your laughter and your soul
are sunflowers in the summer air; I know you stole
their light to fill my waking hours with Irish cheer.
My love for you is wedded to the morning’s
elemental time, a coffee cup and friendly chat.
I spy the raindrops sparkling on your jaunty cap
my heart recalls each time the doorbell rings
three times. I hear the lively flute you’d play
for many radiant years; and in the knowledge
that you were going to die, I prized Commencement Day,
the youngster in the park who sketched your image
on artist’s paper. I know God shows the way,
absence, instants in life’s troubled pilgrimage.
What draws applause for the most celebrated elegies is a control on emotional chaos: the heart’s restraint so that art can commence. This control is what we experience in this carefully crafted elegy for a son. The loss of a loved one alters our daily lives – and, as this poem portrays, the most ordinary sights and sounds can become an unending requiem: “my heart recalls each time the doorbell rings/ three times. I hear the lively flute you'd play … and in the knowledge/ that you were going to die, I prized Commencement Day.” Plenty of room for sentimentality here –and yet, in verse lines that attend to a measured form, this poem achieves a beautifully-measured portrait of enduring love. --M.B. McLatchey
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