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...Interpol wanted list for alleged bribes to russian military officials. I'm sure that now all those corruption charges will crumble. Russia has placed itself in an awkward situation, but I'm quite willing to help Russia get out of this with the hope that our relationship will be equal and friendly. How will you reassure people in Eastern Ukraine, where many regard you with suspicion, that you're working in their best interests? People in the east lived in a tightly restricted, closed information space. So let's open their information space and replace propaganda with information. Then they...
...What's stopping some observers from getting too excited about the government's plan to enshrine "equal responsibility" in the Act is that it's essentially already there. Amendments in 1995 made explicit that, except in extreme circumstances, "parents share duties and responsibilities concerning the care, welfare and development of their children . . . (and) agree about the future parenting of their children." In addition, says Sydney family lawyer Hamish Cumming, assurances along these lines do little to mollify parents who feel their kids are slipping away from them. "When you try to say, 'Don't worry, you have the same level...
...guaranteed extra time with their kids is all divorced dads are sweating on, they're going to be disappointed. In its report, Every Picture Tells a Story, the parliamentary inquiry rejected the idea that the courts should start from the presumption that children spend equal time with each parent after separation - the holy grail of many lobbyists in both Australia and New Zealand. A presumption of shared time would demolish the premise that, during the week, older children need a stable base from which to travel to and from school and do their homework. Arguments about whether equal time...
...government agreed, so the phrase it's pushing instead is "equal shared parental responsibility." That means separated parents agreeing to discuss, as equals, important issues about their children - what schools they attend, what sports they play. It means parents agreeing to notify each other of big events - speech nights and gala days - and both being welcomed by the other to attend, regardless of whose watch they fall...
...linguist from the University of California Berkley named George Lakoff to help them. And they have a few new phrases themselves. They're going back to describing their views on abortion as "safe, legal and rare" as Bill Clinton did and when asked about gays, invokes the term "equal rights" rather than "gay marriage" or even "civil unions...