Advocacy Lead at Asylum Seekers Centre Sydney | Human rights & civil liberties enthusiast | Brit in Australia | Views here are my ownhttps://bsky.app/profile/markjohnson.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/markjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mr274owagk2yBeware Australians - London is awash with this technology now, with all of the human rights ramifications including misidentifications, bias and an end to privacy on the high street. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/20/western-australia-police-real-time-facial-recognition-trial-privacy-ntwnfb20 Jul 2026 02:00 +0000at://did:plc:noukrtup3w2bpoxfpypdwtey/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr274owagk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/markjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mpifbx52us2y"The Albanese Labor government accepted just 128 of the 332 recommendations it received (38 percent). This is a lower acceptance rate than at the 2021 UPR, when the former Coalition government accepted 51 percent of the recommendations." https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/06/29/australia-un-human-rights-recommendations-ignored?mc_cid=f868b00070&mc_eid=ed8d11e48d30 Jun 2026 06:37 +0000at://did:plc:noukrtup3w2bpoxfpypdwtey/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpifbx52us2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/markjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mp5jfnnvq226As a Scottish person with an English accent I thought I might give my two pence worth on this one - judge politicians on their words and their actions, not on how they speak. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cj4g1ewx1l2o25 Jun 2026 22:52 +0000at://did:plc:noukrtup3w2bpoxfpypdwtey/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp5jfnnvq226https://bsky.app/profile/markjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mmb6fstmf22w"What makes this proposal significant is not only who it excludes, but how it reshapes[...]the social contract. It suggests that contribution before citizenship matters less than formal status. That paying into a system does not necessarily guarantee access to it" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/14/angus-taylor-ndis-plan-citizens-only-bar-migrants-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url20 May 2026 05:30 +0000at://did:plc:noukrtup3w2bpoxfpypdwtey/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmb6fstmf22whttps://bsky.app/profile/markjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mgt6hcwrds2p"As a refugee, I have lived in limbo for 13 years. Why are only some Iranian women worthy of Australia’s protection?" - Powerful words by Fatemeh Lahmidi, an Iranian refugee living in Australia https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/12/iranian-women-refugee-asylum-visa-australia-nauru12 Mar 2026 00:47 +0000at://did:plc:noukrtup3w2bpoxfpypdwtey/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgt6hcwrds2p