Australia

U.S. war criminals in Oz as Australia boosts its involvement in U.S. war machine

Submitted by Flowerpower on Sat, 06/11/2010 - 5:52pm

Hillary Clinton arrived in Melbourne today (6/11/2010) and will soon be joined by Secretary of Defence Robert Gates. These high level U.S. war criminals will then be meeting the Prime Minister and other politicians as part of the annual AUSMIN talks in Canberra on Monday. The whole visit and itinerary has been kept secret, supposedly for "security" but more likely to prevent any public protests against U.S. imperialism and the U.S. Australian alliance. On the agenda for the talks include the development of new U.S. bases in Australia, escalation of the conflict with Iran and of course Australia's involvement in the increasingly bloody Afghan war. If anyone has any details of any snap protests planned please post ASAP.

Geography: 
Canberra
Melbourne
Australia
Keywords: 
U.S. Imperialism

[ De ] Nachrichten Kommentar 2010-11-04 mp3

Submitted by huxwell on Fri, 05/11/2010 - 1:01pm

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[ German language ]

Australischer Nachrichten Kommentar mit Wolfgang

14:33 min 128 kbps stereo 13.3 MB

[ By the way, re query for uploading mp3/4 files to IMC Australia:

please check with admin ppl ]

Geography: 
Australia
Keywords: 
Australian news commentary in German language

Culture of bigotry hindered Australia’s ability to integrate with its Asian neighbours

Submitted by Wei Ling Chua on Thu, 04/11/2010 - 2:39pm

The recent reaction by the Australian politicians toward the proposed merger between the Singapore Stock exchange (SGX) and the Australia Stock Exchange (ASX) is a typical example of a bigotry culture in this country.

The very minute the news of SGX intention to merge with ASX was leaked to the public arena, our politicians begin to jump up and down against the idea without even trying to find out in detail the rationale of the proposed merger, and the possible benefits to Australia. Their responses are so pathetically predictable in a habitually hysterical manner.

Geography: 
Global/International
Australia
Keywords: 
human rights
racism

BD News: Australian PM seeks support from Asian leaders for asylum centre in Timor-Leste

Submitted by Back Door e-new... on Sun, 31/10/2010 - 12:08pm

Update on Australian PM's proposal for Asylum-seeker Processing in Timor-Leste (31 Oct 10)

BACK DOOR Newsletter on Timor-Leste:
http://members.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/Index.htm

Australian PM's proposal for Asylum-seeker Processing in Timor-Leste:
http://members.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/asylum.html

Sentru Prosesamentu ba Refujiadu iha Timor-Leste ka lae?:
http://members.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/tetunasylum.html

Um Centro de Processamento de Refugiados em Timor-Leste?:
http://members.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/portasylum.html

31 October 2010

Geography: 
Global/International
Australia
Keywords: 
refugees
asylum seekers
asylum seeker
australian government
East Timor
timor
Timor-Leste
Timor Lorosae

"We have to take our share of the blame"

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 29/10/2010 - 4:55pm

By Aunty Bess Price

(A speach given in Alice Spings on 22 October by this senior Warlpiri woman from Yuendumu.)

My mother and father were born in the desert. They lived their childhood out of contact with whitefellas. They were terrified when they first saw a whitefella.

They taught me the Old Law that our people lived by. That Law worked when we were living in tiny family groups taking everything that we needed from the desert.

It is Sacred Law. There was strong Law for sacred business. If the sacred Law was broken both men and women could be killed.

Geography: 
Australia

Writers and creatives get published in Vibewire!!!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 29/10/2010 - 11:02am

Vibewire is calling for submissions from aspiring writers, journalists, photographers and artists.

We are giving writers and other creatives the chance to be published online and in print.
Our current November Theme is Failure.

We are looking for submissions that somehow reflect that theme, from under 30's.
A 1000 word limit applies, and images should be submitted in 300 DPI format.
Deadline is November 28th.

Writers can get themselves published online by submitting their work to Vibewire's Portal website.

Geography: 
Australia
Keywords: 
journalism
independent media
anthology
poetry
social change
creative
photography
failure
young
writing
online
print
Vibewire
articles
photos

[ De ] Nachrichten Kommentar 2010-10-28 mp3

Submitted by huxwell on Thu, 28/10/2010 - 1:23pm

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Australischer Nachrichten Kommentar mit Wolfgang

Afghanistan Krieg Debatte, Wiki Leaks Iraq War Logs, Joe Hockey's Bank Bashing,
ASX und Singapore Stock Exchange Merger, Corruption Index von Transparancy
International, John Howard's Schuhe werfen Konzept UND MEHR...

14:25 min 128 kbps stereo 13.3 MB

Schuh Werfer on Youtube:

Geography: 
Australia
Keywords: 
news commentary

Campaign continues for parliamentary seats for Aborigines

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 27/10/2010 - 10:33am

High-profile lawyer and activist Michael Mansell from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre argues for seats to be reserved in Parliament specifically for indigenous Australians. "If you're going to have representative democracy it's got to be real, not imagined. And the best way to do that is to allow Aboriginal people to elect our own people to represent us in the federal parliament," Mansell told the IPS news agency. The concept is not a new one.

Geography: 
Australia

Anti-war activist throws shoes at John Howard - NICE WORK!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 26/10/2010 - 7:57pm

Peter Gray an anti-war activist should be congratulated on first verbally confronting John Howard the war criminal over his decision to send Australian troops to the illegal invasion of Iraq and then throwing his shoes at him - live on television, on the ABC's Q & A show.

See the Footage of the shoe throwing on Youtube

He yelled "This is for the Iraqi dead" as he threw his shoes.

To read more about his action and his subsequent comments read:

Geography: 
Australia
Keywords: 
iraq war
shoe throwing