Many more reasons to Avoid Australia (Sorry chewed HA HA HA HA)

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Still upset cars in Australia are the same as Singapore ????

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/10/without-vaccine-australia-shrugs-off-swine-flu.htl

Without Vaccine, Australia Shrugs Off Swine Flu.

Kangaroo By David M. Burd

With no vaccine available for H1N1 flu, Australia recently ended its 2009 "Flu Season" (their Winter in our Summer), with 986 flu-associated fatalities of 36,991 Aussies confirmed having H1N1.

The Australia 2009 stats for regular 'seasonal flu' are not final yet, but their Health Dept literature cites annual flu-associated mortality historically has been between 2,500 and 3,000 in spite of universal vaccination programs for regular flu long being established. A logical review of these results strongly suggests next year Australia should initiate a "flu vaccination holiday," promote vitamin D supplements, long known to be effective for preventing Wintertime flu disease, and then compare the outcomes.

Pertinently, experts have also stated that H1N1 was probably already in Australia for their 2008 flu season, but not tested for (which is the nature of the testing world; a great percentage of "flu" cases being presumptive, never tested). In light of Australia clearly showing the pussycat nature of H1N1, can somebody explain why America's media willfully ignores the news from Australia? However, despite the derelict media, I would think U.S. Health Generals would certainly be up on Flu news from Down Under, and certainly from Canada right next door.

Canadian front page news on flu vaccinations has transfixed Canada health authorities, prompting official suspension of regular flu vaccination programs until further notice. This comes from a sweeping study of Canada by research Doctors Danuta Skowronski of the British Columbia Centre of Disease Control and Gaston De Serres of Laval University in Quebec concluding Canadians receiving flu vaccinations have twice the risk of coming down with the flu, compared to those who do not take the shot.

 

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If you are thinking about Australia, you can think again

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26343851-421,00.html

Attacks on Indian students overshadow Kevin Rudd's Delhi visit

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November 13, 2009 07:11am

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A PRESS release suggesting Indian students be invited out for a barbie has been pulled as Kevin Rudd tries to convince India Australia isn't racist.

The Prime Minister's first visit to the subcontinent has been overshadowed by the attacks against Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney, but he's refusing to apologise for the violence.

During his only full day in Delhi, Mr Rudd repeated an assurance that the Government was doing its utmost to prevent the attacks, which he branded disturbing and disgusting.

Indian media have closely followed the whistlestop visit, giving lengthy coverage to his speech to the Indian Council of World Affairs, as well as a late night press conference.

But the inadvertent release of a statement from Mr Rudd and Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard - which was withdrawn by his office - could be seen as making a mockery of the government's claims to be taking serious action.
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It announced a Rotary program where members are meant to invite foreign students in their community to a barbecue or over for dinner to make them feel more at home.

Just minutes after being handed out to journalists, the prime minister's office retrieved the release.

A spokesman for Mr Rudd would not later say whether the Government supported the initiative.

"If we have any announcements to make we will make them in due course," he said.

India wants assurances the attacks won't continue.

But Mr Rudd said it was impossible to make such a guarantee.

"I cannot say to you that ... you can rule out the possibility of future incidents," he said.

"What I can say is the Australian Government that I lead has a zero tolerance approach."

Mr Rudd sidestepped a question about whether he thought students deserved an apology.

"What I say as Australian prime minister is I accept responsibility for the proper enforcement of Australian laws within our country," he said.

He rejected suggestions that growing numbers of young Australians were racist.

"I don't accept there is a growing racism in the Australian community," he said.

The student attacks overshadowed the main aim of the visit - boosting relations between India and Australia.

The two countries agreed to move the relationship to the status of a strategic partnership, covering a broad range of areas including defence co-operation and security.

Mr Rudd announced a boost in diplomatic representation in India, increasing Australian-based staff by a total of 14 in the Australian High Commission's Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai offices.

Mr Rudd said it was the biggest single increase in representation Australia had ever made in India.

"We regard this as an important step forward to putting flesh on the bones of the strategic partnership with the government in New Delhi," he said.

 

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How about a terrorism? Tsk Tsk Australia

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/terr-n13.shtml

rial by media in Australian terrorism case
By Mike Head
13 November 2009

Despite objections by defence lawyers, seven volumes of highly-prejudicial and untested prosecution evidence, totalling more than 5,000 pages, was tendered to the Melbourne Magistrates Court late last month in Australia’s latest large-scale terrorist trial.

The only purpose of the public release was to permit the mass media to further blacken the names of the five Lebanese- and Somali-born men, who face possible life sentences if convicted. Predictable headlines depicted the men as religious zealots intent on exacting violent revenge on Australia’s population for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

The media was handed access to the material even though four of the defendants pleaded not guilty, and waived their right to a committal hearing in an apparent attempt to cut short preliminary hearings that could drag on for years. The fifth defendant reserved his right to have a committal proceeding next May.

The men were arrested in highly-publicised dawn house raids on August 4, accompanied by sensational police and Labor government claims of another “imminent” terrorist threat, like the one proclaimed by the previous Howard government in November 2005.

They have been charged with “conspiring to prepare for a terrorist act”. Under the draconian anti-terrorism laws introduced since 2001, this offence requires no proof of any specific terrorist plot; just a vague shared “understanding” to carry out an attack somewhere at some time in the future.

Police allege the men were preparing to storm the Holsworthy army base in southwestern Sydney with automatic weapons on a suicide mission, seeking to kill as many military personnel as possible before they themselves were killed. Yet, the extensive police raids reportedly found no weapons, while the man accused of paying a visit to the military base in March had been in police custody since April 1, on unrelated assault charges.

Two of the men are also charged with either “preparing” to travel to Somalia, their homeland, or helping another man travel there to “engage in hostile activities”. A US-backed government there is confronting considerable popular resistance, including from Islamist groups. Under the post 9/11 legislation, it is “terrorism” to support armed activities directed against any foreign government as well as against federal or state Australian governments.

Lawyers for the men requested that the court refuse a media application for the thousands of documents contained in the brief of evidence against their clients, as well as a prosecution summary. Defence counsel said releasing the documents close to a trial date, envisaged as being next April, could be prejudicial to a potential jury pool.

Some of the material was plainly irrelevant to any terrorism charge. It included statements of political and religious views that provide no evidence whatsoever of any terrorist plan. In one of the men’s police interview—in which he vehemently denied any involvement in terrorism—he denounced the US, Israel and the Australian military. “Why they call us terrorists for no reason? I never kill in my life,” he said. “Your army killer, yes ... why they kill the innocent people in Iraq, Afghanistan?”

Another man, in intercepted telephone conversations, expressed disdain for Australia and attributed the drought, the global financial crisis and the February Victorian bushfires—in which 173 people perished—to a vengeful Allah.

Magistrate Peter Reardon ruled it was in the public interest for the documents to be released to allow for fair and accurate reporting. He said the public had a right to be informed. But where is the “public interest” in a trial by the media, designed only to poison, not inform, public opinion? Meanwhile, the defendants will remain locked away for months, unable to answer the unsubstantiated allegations in court.

Far from “fair and accurate reporting,” the media seized upon the most sensational statements. As usual, the Murdoch outlets were in the forefront, but they were matched by the Melbourne Age and the government-owned Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

“Delight at bombings, fires and drought,” ran the front-page headline on the Age article. It began: “A man accused of plotting a terror attack on a NSW army base joked and laughed about the deaths of two Australians in the July Jakarta hotel bombings, according to court documents.” Paragraph after paragraph followed, indicting the man for his various anti-Western opinions. Likewise, ABC television’s Lateline report highlighted the bushfires comment.

As for the presumption of innocence, that was thrown overboard. Unproven police allegations that some of the men had been secretly recorded speaking of entering a location and “taking out” up to 10 people were presented as proof of a suicide plot to storm the Holsworthy base. From what has been reported from the thousands of pages of documents, however, the evidence against the men remains circumstantial, based primarily on a series of vague and wild statements. They certainly had no weapons, no resources and no plan.

What is apparent from the police files is that the five immigrants had troubled backgrounds—sometimes involving drugs, petty crimes and police—were incensed by the atrocities being committed by the US-led forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, and became susceptible to Islamic fundamentalism.

This has been a trial by the media from the outset, with the August 4 police raids coinciding with an exclusive report of the operation in the Australian, prepared in advance by associate editor Cameron Stewart (see “Australia: Media promotes sensationalised ‘terror’ claims”). A sister newspaper, the Sydney Daily Telegraph, declared in an editorial on the same day: “Australian barracks plot signals fresh wave of terror”.

Like John Howard before him, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd did his best to inflame the atmosphere, calling a media conference to state: “The threat of terrorism is alive and well and this requires continued vigilance.”

While trampling over legal principles such as the right to a fair jury trial, the Rudd government is also seeking a pretext to further strengthen the police-state powers contained in the terrorism laws. In recent months Labor has unveiled proposed measures, including outlawing “terrorist hoaxes”, the infliction of psychological harm and “incitement” of political violence. The definition of terrorism is wide enough already to cover many forms of political dissent. Labor’s planned amendments will make it even easier for the terror legislation to be invoked against anyone considered a threat to the government’s program.

Before the end of the year, the government also plans to release a counter-terrorism White Paper that, according to a recent report in the Australian, will shift the focus to “home-grown” terrorism. The Labor government is bolstering the police, intelligence and legal apparatus in anticipation of rising opposition and unrest, particularly over its expanding collaboration with the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and its measures to impose the burden of the global financial crisis on working people through the slashing of jobs, wages, conditions and public spending.

 

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This is the real Australia: Red Neck Drug Dealers who refuse to pay 50% taxes

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/12/2740731.htm

Senior Hells Angel' faces serious drug charges

Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:44am AEDT
Updated Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:03pm AEDT
Members of the motorcycle gang 'Hell's Angels' stand outside court

Police say Schneider is a senior Hells Angel. (Reuters: Wolfgang Rattay, file photo)

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A senior member of the Hells Angels bikie gang has been remanded in custody in a Sydney court.

Wayne Schneider was arrested at Pyrmont in the inner city yesterday.

The 31-year-old faces two charges relating to the possession and supply of a prohibited drug.

It is alleged that his gang is involved in trafficking large amounts of the drug 1,4-Butanediol, which is similar to GHB, between Sydney and Melbourne.

Schneider did not appear at Central Local Court today, remaining in the downstairs cell while his lawyer Avni Djemal told the magistrate there was no bail application.

The case has been adjourned until next week when Schneider's lawyer expects the police informants to be present for a bail application.

Schneider has been the subject of a long-running police investigation.

 

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For shame! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

http://trak.in/news/400-chinese-students-stranded-in-australia-as-four-schools-close-down/21367/


400 Chinese students stranded in Australia as four schools close down
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Source: 400 Chinese students stranded in Australia as four schools close down

Melbourne, Nov 9(ANI): At least 400 Chinese students are stranded in Australia after the closure of four schools, prompting the Chinese consulate in Sydney to warn students and their parents to be careful while choosing their schools in the country.

According to China’s Consulate General, approximately 400 Chinese students were studying at the Meridian International [^] School, one of four schools under the Global Campus Management Group in Sydney and Melbourne, which was forced out of operation [^] on November 5 after it failed to repay its 20 million Australian dollars in debts.

The consulate did not say how many Chinese students were studying in the other three schools, but unconfirmed reports suggest an estimate of nearly 1,000.

The Consulate General also called on authorities in the country to take action.

“Chinese diplomats in Australia have urged that local authorities to properly handle the issue and meet with some of the Chinese students enrolled in the collapsed college group,” The China Daily quoted a consulate statement, as saying.

Chinese students account for 24 percent of international students in Australia.

Meanwhile, the Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations has scheduled meetings on Monday in Melbourne and later in the week in Sydney to brief students affected by the closure.

According to a press release by the department, international students at the colleges will be offered a place in a similar course at another institution or a refund of their outstanding fees. (ANI)

Source: 400 Chinese students stranded in Australia as four schools close down

 

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The kind of youth in Australia (very Bad!)

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ixex4pG-Kp6h_Ap6tNwVoiFSvQ7Q

Australian students 'pro-rape' Facebook scandal

(AFP) – 3 days ago

SYDNEY — Members of an elite Australian college linked to Sydney University provoked outrage Tuesday after it was revealed they had set up a "pro-rape" group on social networking site Facebook.

The page, set up by mostly past and present students at the all-male residential college St Paul's, called itself "Define Statutory" and described itself as "pro-rape, anti-consent", local media reports said.

It has since been taken down.

Former sex discrimination commissioner, now New South Wales state parliamentarian, Pru Goward said she understood the site was designed to "draw an analogy between rape and competing with another football team".

"If that is a case, that they have very foolishly used the metaphor of rape to encourage people to be aggressive and competitive on the sporting field, then it shows an extreme insensitivity," she told The Sydney Morning Herald.

"(The) college has got to take extremely strong action. It is a shocking reflection on the culture."

Sydney University vice-chancellor Michael Spence said he was "appalled by the reported behaviour and apparent attitudes of some students".

"There can be no excuses for sexual assault," he said in a statement.

"The university and the residential colleges have been working hard to bring about a change in attitudes and behaviour. Obviously we still have much to do."

St Paul's, founded in 1956 as an Anglican college, said it condemned all forms of sexual assault and that disciplinary action could be taken against those students involved in the Facebook page.

The university's student body has urged a review of residential colleges.

"It is widely recognised that there is a real problem with sexism and sexual harassment within the University of Sydney college system," Student Council president Noah White said.

"While this behaviour is not representative of college students as a whole, it is certainly representative of a subculture that is alive and well at these institutions," he told The Sydney Morning Herald.

 

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And this is the true McCoy Australia the racist

http://www.smh.com.au/national/racist-yobbos-escape-jail-for-night-of-madness-20091113-ie56.html

Racist 'yobbos' escape jail for night of madness
November 13, 2009 - 3:10PM
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Two men who racially abused, spat on and punched an Indian student taxi driver have been spared jail time by a judge who said they were yobbos on a "night of madness".

Robert Lee Kleyn, 26, and Dean James Henry Leo Cooper, 20, both pleaded guilty to two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm while in company and one count of stealing in the Brisbane District Court today.

The offences occurred after the pair took a 25km cab ride from the north Brisbane suburb of Albany Creek to Margate on the night of June 29, 2008.

The sentencing comes a day after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, in a speech in Delhi, repeated an assurance the government was doing its utmost to prevent attacks on Indian students.

Prosecutor Amelia Loode told the court the pair, who were in the back seat of the cab, began to racially vilify the driver, a nightshift worker from India on a student visa.

Ms Loode said after the duo spat food over the driver, he became distressed and pulled over. They then physically threatened him and told him to keep driving.

The driver pressed the emergency button in his cab and continued on to a service station, before pulling over again.

The duo then punched him and stole his mobile phone, the court heard.

Ms Loode said a second cab driver who came to the aid of his colleague was also punched by Kleyn.

Judge David Searles labelled the incident as a "night of madness".

"Both of you were carrying on like yobbos in the back of the taxi and things started to escalate," he said.

"You displayed hallmarks of conduct that is antithetical to the Australian way of life.

"Calling this an act of animals is a disservice to animals."

Kleyn was given a prison term of nine months and Cooper a sentence of six months. Both were granted parole, effective immediately.

While the driver received only minor injuries in the assault, he said in a victim impact statement lodged to the court that he had been left traumatised.

 

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PM must apologize to Indian PM next will travel to China to apologize....

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Australian-PM-Rudd-to-meet-Manmohan-Singh-today/540605/

Australian PM Rudd to meet Manmohan Singh today
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Australian Prime Minister (PM) Kevin Rudd will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday evening and will discuss issues of bilateral and international importance.

Rudd, who arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday night on a two-day visit, is expected to hold talks on maritime security.

Both leaders will sign agreements on maritime security and counter- terrorism measures. Both leaders could also declare the start of negotiations for a free trade agreement.

Energy starved India, which is pressing hard to ensure sufficient nuclear fuel supply for its drying nuclear reactors, is likely to persuade Rudd to sell uranium to it.

Australia is one of the largest uranium producers of the world and its Olympic Dam mine (in south Australia) alone has the capacity to produce 35 per cent of the world's uranium. Its reserves could last for 100-150 years.

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India derives consolation from the fact that Australia had supported India in getting clean waiver at the Nuclear Suppliers'' Group (NSG) and also at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last year.

However, in spite of exemptions and lifting of sanctions on India for doing nuclear trade, Canberra is sticking to "No Uranium Sale to India" on the ground that India is non-signatory to the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Australia is not only one of the largest reservoirs of uranium; it also possesses huge reserves of clean coal and natural gas, which India is eyeing on.

Off late, Australia and India have signed first long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply deal with India, with India's Petronet LNG signing a 20-year agreement to take gas from the massive Gorgon project.

 

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rioting in this overpriced craphole!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/09/2736894.htm?section=justin

ree kick sparks riot involving 500 people

By Emma Masters

Posted Mon Nov 9, 2009 10:09am AEDT
Northern Territory Police

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The situation degenerated into a large-scale disturbance

– Duty Superintendent John Emeny

Northern Territory Police say a riot at an Australian Rules football match on Groote Eylandt, about 650 kilometres east of Darwin, was sparked when an umpire awarded a free kick.

About 500 people were involved in the riot at the Angurugu sports oval yesterday afternoon, many of them armed with axes and spears, police say.

It started after a player was awarded a free kick which upset the opposing player who threw the ball at him, they say.

Duty Superintendent John Emeny says a third player became involved and the situation escalated.

"The situation degenerated into a large-scale disturbance ," he said.

"The match was called off but the disturbance worsened when community members began producing weapons including axes and spears."

Seven police officers were involved in bringing the incident under control.

"Several people received some minor injuries in the skirmishes," he said, adding that the umpire escaped unscathed.

No arrests have been made but investigations are continuing and meetings will be held with community elders today, he said.

 

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Oh please will the bad news ever stop?

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/26/2474732.htm

Riot police called in as Australia Day celebrations turn ugly

Posted Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:43pm AEDT
Updated Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:32am AEDT
The police riot squad was called in after up to 80 drunk young people rioted on Manly's Corso.

The police riot squad was called in after up to 80 drunk young people rioted on Manly's Corso. (ABC News)

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Australia Day celebrations took a turn for the worse when a crowd of teenagers clashed with police in the Sydney suburb of Manly.

The police riot squad was called in yesterday afternoon when up to 80 drunk young people jumped on top of cars and smashed windows as they ran up and down Manly's Corso.

One girl received cuts after some of the people involved smashed her car window, and was taken to hospital for treatment.

Despite reports that some teenagers yelled racial abuse, the police say the group were boisterous and patriotic but not racist.

Locals say the rowdy behaviour of the group was not indicative of the area.

Manly mayor Jean Hay says it was a rare incident for the area.

"I do not believe for one moment that this would have been racially motivated because we've never had any problems like that down here ever in the past," she said.

Police say most of the group were from the Hawkesbury area and they are now trying to identify who was involved.

Councillor Hay says the alleged racist behaviour does not represent the area.

She says the group's behaviour marred an otherwise good-natured celebration.

"From what I can gather these youths, somewhere between 50 and 80 of them, came from the Windsor area and caused these problems," she said.

"As I say this is an isolated incident and fortunately we don't see that type of thing happening down here normally."

Echoing the mayor's comments, Police said they were generally pleased with the crowds of people celebrating Australia day in Manly.

Celebrations also got out of hand on Queensland's Gold Coast with a massive brawl erupting.

Police say about 1,000 people were involved in the fight at Burleigh Heads which started at 3:30pm AEST.

They have charged one man with affray and are searching for another.

Officers had to call for reinforcements but it is understood no weapons were involved and no-one was injured.

 

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Australia treat Asylum seekers like garbage. Human rights? In Australia? HA HA HA HA HA

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...l-warehouse-asylum-seekers-20090916-fqqe.html

Australia's ugly secret: we still warehouse asylum seekers
JULIAN BURNSIDE
September 16, 2009

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Australia's detention laws are still open to criticism.

Australia's detention laws are still open to criticism.

The past week has seen a significant change in the treatment of asylum seekers in Australia. The grotesque practice of charging refugees for the daily cost of their imprisonment in our detention centres has now ended (despite the resistance of the Opposition). The degrading indignity of a visa which denies refugees the right to work or to receive Medicare or Centrelink benefits has ended. For these reforms the Government must be warmly congratulated.

But despite these welcome developments, the Government has an ugly secret: it is involved in warehousing asylum seekers in Indonesia in order to prevent them from seeking protection here. This is well documented, but not widely known.

Warehousing is not a new feature of Australia's refugee policy. The Pacific Solution pioneered the idea. Nauru was a textbook example: an offshore place where asylum seekers could be kept at a distance, outside Australia so as not to trigger any legal rights, at a price that far outweighs the normal cost of processing and resettling refugees onshore.

The Rudd government has enjoyed widespread praise for closing the Nauru camp quickly. However, through the continued use of Indonesia for warehousing people, Rudd and Evans are emulating the darkest, meanest and most cynical practices of Howard and Ruddock.

There is one difference: under Howard, Nauru was closed to the outside world. Australia controlled who could go there and who could not. Indonesia is not so servile, and it is possible to visit the detention centres there to see what is being done in our name, with our taxes.

Jessie Taylor is a lawyer and refugee activist who recently travelled to Indonesia. She met more than 250 people, in 11 places of detention across the country. There were infants and young children in maximum security jails, with faeces and fungus in their drinking water. There were rodents, spiders and cockroaches in their living areas. Skin diseases, vomiting, diarrhoea, dramatic weight loss and unidentified tumour-like growths are fairly common. Despair is universal.

While in Indonesia, Jessie Taylor met a flustered, overworked UN Refugee Agency representative in a Jakarta prison. The UNHCR representative informed her that she had conducted 20 interviews the previous day. Based on an eight-hour day, this allows 24 minutes per interview. The interview is the only opportunity asylum seekers have to present their full claims to the UNHCR. Twenty-four minutes is a hopelessly short time for such an interview, but half of that time is taken up by the process of interpreting, and half of the remaining time is taken up by the UNHCR representative explaining the process and asking questions. That leaves the applicant just six minutes to explain the circumstances which forced them to flee. Any qualified migration agent or solicitor will attest to the fact that this process, done properly, normally takes many hours, over a number of interviews, allowing the applicant to go slowly and carefully when describing the trauma that has caused them to leave their homelands in search of safety.

Asylum seekers are being processed in this perfunctory way and many are being rejected and sent back to extreme danger based on information gleaned from a six minute statement. The UNHCR, International Organisation for Migration and Australia are involved in a serious breach of human rights made all the worse because it has the superficial appearance of due process. It is a charade. Australia really can do better than this.

The asylum seekers are held, mostly, by the IOM. We pay it to look after them. They can wait several years before even the brief interview they receive, and may wait another year before getting a decision on their status.

That Australia is responsible for these conditions is a fact that should keep the Immigration Minister awake at night.

Most of the asylum seekers are Iraqis, and Afghan Hazaras. Hazaras are the ethnic group considered by the Taliban to be overdue for genocide. A modest number of Hazaras have managed to get to Australia already: more than 95% of them have been found to be genuine refugees. They have been quickly resettled in Australia and are already contributing to Australian society. So here we are, paying the IOM about $8 million dollars of Australian taxpayers' money to hold people in shocking conditions, potentially for many years.

For more than a decade, the Taliban has terrorised the Afghan people. Many Australians have fought and died in battle against the Taliban. Australia recognises the terrible deeds this group has committed against their countrymen. Why is it that so many Australians can readily recognise the evils of the Taliban or other oppressive forces, but they cannot extend that understanding to the the victims of those groups? Most Australians denounce the Taliban's shocking human rights abuses, but few are willing to welcome the victims of those abuses, and provide them with safety and protection.

It is to our eternal shame that the best bet for the men, women and children held at our expense in Indonesia is to get on a leaky boat and make for Christmas Island. Instead we should be contributing to swift and safe processing and resettlement directly from Indonesia; not a game of maritime Russian roulette.

Many of the people held at our expense in Indonesia have plausible ties to Australia: some were caught up in the Pacific Solution but were forced back to Afghanistan or Iraq; some have family here. Australia should assess their claims for protection and resettle them here without delay: not only is it the decent thing to do, it will be cheaper. And it will go some way to restoring our tarnished reputation.

 

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What the typical piece of shit Australia is really like:

http://fletcherbeaver.blogspot.com/2007/07/ugly-australia.html

Ugly Australia
I was the victim of flying rage, however. The ugly, drunk face of Australia came to stand next to me on the aeroplane, 3/4's into the flight. I was seated just by the toilets and this drunken Australia scrubber was sitting on the toilet, pants down with the door open, in all her glory. My first impression of her. She then came over, in her putrid drunkenness, and asked me for a light for the cigarette she had in her hand. When I told her she couldn't smoke (paraphrasing here) on the plane, she punched me in the throat and then, when I asked her to keep away from me, she scratched me down the left side of the face with her finger nails. I bled from 4 scratch marks, 2 on my cheek and 2 on my forehead. She had to be restrained by the cabin crew and lead away.
For her trouble, I reported her the the authorities and she was met by the men in suits and was taken away. Of course, I had to give a statement, speak to officials, hang around. I hope she was sent home. Oh fuck it, Vietnam is a communist country, after all, I hope she was taken out and shot.
Drunks! Sheesh! I don't really care what happened to her, really. I just wanted her to be shown that there were consequences to her actions. In my opinion, drunks often get away with such bad behaviour.

 

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More Australian Bullshit

Treat people like shit because that is what Australia is: Shit

http://intercontinentalcry.org/australias-ugly-indigenous-land-grab/

Australia’s Ugly Indigenous Land Grab
Posted by Ahni on March 16, 2009 at 6:35am 2 comments 1,416 views

Two years ago, when Australia’s current Prime Minister was elected, we were filled with hope that it marked an end to years of paternalism and racist colonial policies on part of John Howard’s government.

Well, turns out it that wasn’t hope at all. Just a bad case of gas. Reprinted below, an article by Nigel Carney on Rudd’s Ugly Indigenous Land Grab
Rudd’s Ugly Indigenous Land Grab

The Rudd cabinet is rushing through a national land grab in a proposed compulsory forty year scheme holding Aboriginal communities ransom. In the very week that Australia must answer to the UN in response to human rights complaints of an ongoing nature, latest developments put the plan into perspective and expose the earlier machinations of a comprehensive assault on Indiginous Australia. Howard’s NT intervention looks more like an entre as Rudd delivers the main course, an all out offensive against the indigenous nations by means of government coercion and withheld supply to assume control of lands for commercial and other ‘in confidence’ purposes. As the government sells its doom and gloom messages to an arrested nation, Australian history enters another dark alleyway of secret deals, racism and more layers of questionable legislation in an attempt to control remote communities.

While state Aboriginal Lands legislation is being urgently reviewed across the country, there has been no media commentary on either the sudden motivation of these reviews or the apparent synchronisation with NT intervention and several pending Native Title deals in nuclear industry hot-spots. While these issues are being brushed aside, the process of endorsing commercial interests in the equation is being lubricated by a distorted ‘YES’ campaign. The proposed serial legislation is of highly dubious intent and we need to take a good look at where this road is taking us and start asking serious questions as to why any government would knowingly inflict harm upon ‘its’ people. Are we witnessing a mineral war via commercialised legislation feigning legitimacy in what would otherwise be described as acts of acquisition by deception? Despite the Australian media currently sticking its head in the sand, the issue is fast gathering international media attention as the UN puts the spotlight on human rights abuses in remote Australia. Time will tell if Jenny Macklin’s ill-conceived land grab plan will hold up against international scutiny on both legal and moral grounds.

The National Indigenous Times reports ‘Native Title Under Attack from ALP’, but is that the full extent of the story and where lies the cause? One need not be a scholar of Australian history to see the effects of Native Title in creating strife and division in affected communities. Native Title was, from its inception, a commercial venture to enable mining. The inevitable negative social outcomes needed to be distanced from the enterprise and repackaged as a divisive blame game, paving the way for suspension of the Anti-Discrimation Act and military interventions. In this attempt at a commercial clean up of the northern and central zones, the government has crossed a serious line in tampering with both human and common law rights.

In the National Indigenous Times article, Chris Graham describes the urgency of the situation and details of the leaked plan:

In a move that will outrage Aboriginal groups around the nation, aspirant landholders in remote regions are also being targeted, with the government planning to refuse to release Commonwealth housing funds for construction of homes on land that is the subject of an unresolved native title claim or claims.

The plan is currently being restricted to remote regions, and will affect about one quarter of the Australian Indigenous population.

The details of the plan are contained in a startling letter from federal Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin to all state and territory housing ministers last month, a copy of which has been obtained by the National Indigenous Times.

In broad terms, it represents a national roll-out of one of the most controversial parts of the Northern Territory intervention — the compulsory acquisition of Aboriginal land for the reconstruction of townships.

It’s also an extension of the Northern Territory Aboriginal land rights act amendments, which were introduced by the Howard government in 2007, and strongly opposed by Labor while in opposition.

And it becomes quickly evident that Native Title processing is part of the agenda,

If the plan is enforced, the practice is almost certain to be challenged legally.

But the greatest outrage about the scheme is likely to be directed at the native title provisions, which will fuel growing suspicions Labor is planning to introduce a sunset clause, or deadline, on the native title claims process.

Labor indicated in opposition it would move to speed up the native title process, but preventing the construction of public housing on “undetermined” land is a major policy shift.

The government will also be accused of holding access to an essential service — namely public housing — over the heads of the nation’s poorest citizens to try to leverage quicker native title outcomes through rushed negotiated settlements.

Currently, almost half the Australian land mass is subject to some sort of native title claim process, although not all of that land is situated in remote regions.

 

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Just see for yourself what Australia is really like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRNyhvLhsn8

 

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What is wrong with this stupid country?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_D7EXc2vRI

AUSTRALIAN SUPERMARKETS: THE MOST EXPENSIVE IN THE WORLD!

 

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I tell my family I am very thankful I am not in Australia!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSPTwNbwQGI

!AUSTRALIA:FATHER OF TWO ACCUSED OF RAPING 6-YR-OLD GIRL!!

 

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This is the kind of crazy people you will find there:

http://blog.taragana.com/law/2009/1...off-bridge-pleads-not-guilty-to-murder-13985/

Australian father accused of throwing daughter off bridge pleads not guilty to murder
Bureau News
October 8th, 2009

Aussie dad on trial for dropping girl off bridge

MELBOURNE, Australia — A man accused of throwing his 4-year-old daughter off of a Melbourne bridge has pleaded not guilty to her murder.

Arthur Phillip Freeman was ordered to stand trial Thursday in the death of his daughter, Darcey, in January.

Prosecutors told the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court that 36-year-old Freeman was driving his three children across the West Gate Bridge when he stopped, lifted Darcey out and allegedly tossed her from the bridge.

Darcey Freeman fell 190 feet (58 meters) into the Yarra River and later died in the hospital.

Prosecutor Gavin Silbert said the incident happened moments after Freeman phoned his ex-wife and told her she would never see their children again.

 

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And the racism assholes admit they hate Asians!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5fTFEbf5oo

 

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A real live attack on Asians in Sydney. Now, now how terrible. Just like Australia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcM6akpZmeI

 

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A white guy saying we dont want asians here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcM6akpZmeI