Gareth Smith, 72, is hardly the death cult killer the Abbott government has in mind when it vows to strip dual national terrorists of their Australian citizenship.

In principle the legislation could be made retrospective and, in the case of one man who damaged Commonwealth property in 2000 by spray painting "Shame Australia Shame" on the white marble facade of Parliament House, he could lose Australian citizenship.

THE single biggest client of CLP-linked “slush fund” Foundation 51 is a member of the Pasapils family, who are in turn linked to the wickham pt immigration detention centre.

Local media make gentle links to recent commercial planning approvals in Palmerston, but its hard to ignore the fact that our government is in the pocket of the same millionaires who somehow hold a lease on crown land that is now being rented to the Commonwealth as part of a $200 million detention centre deal.

“HillaryNo Surely smart enough to know she was talking nonsense at yesterday's yesterday.”

Medical experts warn that nonsense text may be an early warning sign of stroke.

Darwin MP Natasha Griggs was elected on a three word slogan, mindlessly bleating 'stop the boats'. Now, in the face of mounting evidence of sex crimes on the prison island concentration camps her government set up to hide unexpected arrivals from public view, her voice has gone silent on the issue of asylum seekers.

Systemic failures have become evident in the department's handling of serious allegations of sexual assault on Nauru, Manus and the mainland.

Reviews by Robert Cornall and Philip Moss into sexual assaults on Manus Island and Nauru have both emphasised that sexual violence in detention centres is under-reported.

Reporting and investigating allegations of sexual assault in detention centres is extremely difficult.

On Nauru, asylum seekers fear speaking out because of reprisals from guards. They have little faith in the ability of the Nauru police force to investigate sexual assaults adequately.

The assaults on Nauru continue to occur, with a female asylum seeker recently raising serious allegations about being sexually assaulted by locals while on day release.

Seven years ago the Feds kicked thousands of Territorians out of paid CDEP positions, and on to quarantined welfare.

Today they've conceded their subsequent remote jobs program is failing, and they've announced a series of changes designed to reverse what they blame as “sit-down money” culture.

About 60 per cent of remote jobseekers had left the program for 'passive' quarantined welfare, Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said. Senator Scullion announced a rebranding of the Remote Jobs and Communities Program (RJCP) at a conference in Darwin on Wednesday.

Instead of acknowledging the foolishness of destroying thousands of jobs in order to enforce the severe intervention measures, and recognising government's failure to develop adequate alternative employment opportunities, they're blaming Territorians for their own policy failures.

“Everyone accepts there were some perverse outcomes that were never anticipated and not accepted (under RJCP), so this is a readjustment of those policies and programs,” Scullion said.

See how easy it is to be a failure in Indigenous Affairs? Everyone expects bad outcomes, and when they become undeniable you just blame it on the Indigenous victims of your bad policies.

Under the new model, a “no work no pay” system will be instituted, and participants will answer to their service providers rather than to Centrelink.