In a report released today, the US State Department outlined a human rights abuses around the world, including concerns in Australia. They are as follows:

• prolonged detention of unsuccessful asylum seekers who could not be returned to their home country
• domestic violence against women, particularly in Aboriginal communities
• societal discrimination against Aboriginal people
• trafficking in persons
• a few interrelated incidents of interethnic societal violence in December
• labor law reform including restrictions on the right to strike

Missing was, as far as I could see, any analysis, let alone criticism of the US itself. That aside, I'm awaiting JH's response to the criticism of his IR laws, which I though he modeled on the US in the first place, at least in spirit.