THE GIST. Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has admitted that the government discussed giving Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs an "international" role in exchange for her resignation from the HRC. 

THE REPORT. The HRC released a report about the treatment of asylum seeker children in Australian detention. Spoiler alert: it's not good. The controversial point is that while the number of kids in detention has fallen under the Coalition government (from about 2000, down to under 200), they're staying there longer.

THE RESPONSE. Tony Abbott called the report a 'political stitch up', and Attorney General George Brandis asked her to resign. Here's the interesting part: offering somebody an 'inducement' to resign is a crime, with a five-year penalty. 

THE OFFER. George Brandis claimed that he didn't offer an inducement, and Triggs denied it too. Smelling blood in the water, Labor said it wanted the Australian Federal Police to investigate the possible "corrupt and unlawful conduct." That probably won't happen though, because George Brandis's secretary Chris Moraitis seems to have 'lost' his notes from the 'offer' meeting with Triggs (as in, the only evidence).

THE GIST. The Indian government's Centre for Communication Governance has argued before the country's Supreme Court for stricter controls over what people can post on the internet.

THE LAW. The Centre is arguing in support of a controversial law, section 66A of the Information Technology Act, which makes it illegal to post offensive material on social networking sites.

THE CASE. The Centre says that the law, which imposes jail terms of up to three years, is needed to stop evildoers from being able to "outrage someone's modesty." Responding to criticism that the law is vague and draconian, they said "People have to take the medicine as it is for their benefit."

THE ORDER. Last year a Court held the 2012 arrest of two Mumbai girls to be an abuse of 66A. The girls used Facebook to criticise a government decision to shut down the city to mourn a public figure's death. Also in 2012, a man was arrested for sending a tweet about the wealth of India's Finance Minister, and another for posting a cartoon about the railway Minister. That's some serious medicine.

Tempestuous. A US study has found that female-named hurricanes are far deadlier than those with male names, because people don't take them as seriously. Even worse: for every relief dollar spent on male hurricanes, the women got 75 cents.

Unfair trade. The Libyan Prime Minister has complained publicly about the U.S refusing to supply arms to his government, in its fight against rebel forces. He said, "We have plenty of money to spend, but can't get our hands on any American weapons. That's literally never happened to anyone."

Under a rock. A Christian singer who sold his song to Fifty Shades of Grey had no idea about its sexual content, and "thought it was a rom-com." He had in fact read the book, but missed some of the tale's subtler metaphors, by applying a literal interpretation to the phrase 'Anastasia's inner goddess', and thinking that Mr. Grey's 'member' meant 'in his congregation.'