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Updated 1 May 2014: Shout out and thankyou to the Human Rights Law Centre for making their guide to submissions available and reminder of their invitation to all to provide a public repository for your submission on the Exposure Draft. Submission Deadline  Midnight -  Canberra time  30 April 2014 We’re on the home run now - two hours till the deadline - if you wanted to email your submission on the Exposure Draft of the Racial Discrimination Act  to the Attorney General. See my guide 'How to make a submission' below - I did & it took me 10 minutes. In a nutshell, to repeal 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) would transform ' a bad case into a bad law ' (Gillian Triggs, President, Australian Human Rights Commission) would be morally repugnant (coalition of Australian ethnic groups) and have an adverse effect on the already poor health of Indigenous people (Australia’s peak Indigenous health body). "The...

I was invited by the North Coast Voices to contribute to their blog - on any subject - and I was happy to take up their invitation.  North Coast Voices were one of the first online groups to show an early interest in my work. Newcomers to social media appreciate just how that feels. When you are blogging with no idea if it's working or not, and tweeting mostly to yourself, having people that you don't actually know(!) interested - and when I started in social media my work was highly experimental - is great incentive to keep going. And I'm so glad I did.  Thanks for reading! Siv Siv Parker: Part One - On the RDA & opposing the repeal of 18c If you have an interest in Australian politics, you’d be aware that a Senator from Queensland who is also currently Australia’s Governor General  generated a flood of opinion when he responded to a Question in the Senate with ‘People have a right to be bigots, you know’.   Some days later, following an inter...

An impromptu #tweetyarn - an episode, if you will - of   My Kitchen Rules   ~ #MKR ~  between myself and the fabulous .... Michelle Holstrup   @poppyshel    |   Lady Sonia McMahon   @soniahhh    |    Marchioness Mindy   @mindyhoyden    |   Fluffula   @Fluffula    |   Glennie   @iyamfive No show on Sunday, and now I discover #MKR has been replaced tonight with a show about dog patrols in New Zealand. It's like a bad dream. — Siv Parker (@SivParker) April 14, 2014 @SivParker whaaaat? This is not okay! — Michelle Hostrup (@poppyshel) April 14, 2014 @poppyshel Eating Willy Wonka bar: tastes like disappointment. Rang 000 to report a hoon in the rain but heart wasn't in it. All is meh. — Siv Parker (@SivParker) April 14, 2014 @SivParker yep. Stupid tv programmers. What were they thinking? Dog patrol? Seriously? I want kitchen dra...