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The ALP must breed a Petro Georgiou

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 11/05/2011 - 5:54pm

I was sharing a coffee with Simon Mead, Secretary of the WA State Labor Party on the morning of the day that Kevin Rudd would enjoy his last full day as Prime Minister when I put to him a question that Simon would laugh off. Earlier that morning a trusted insider in the ALP told me that Kevin Rudd would be deposed as Prime Minister by the evening's end and that if he did not go quietly there would be a spill/vote the next morning. Though Simon and I met for other yarns I did put this to him in passing.

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Detainee dies at Curtin detention centre

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 31/08/2010 - 6:46pm

The World Socialist Web has written a good analysis of how the racist mandatory detention policies of the Rudd/Gillard government contributed to the death of an Afghan detainee on August 22nd at the recently re-opened Curtin Detention Centre in remote WA. read the article at the WSWS or the text below

Australia: Detained refugee dies in Perth hospital
By Leticia Marshall
31 August 2010

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Rudd government to reopen 'human rights hellhole'

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 18/04/2010 - 3:55pm

Refugee and Human Rights advocates are in shock at the Rudd Government announcement that Curtin, the Howard era hellhole is to be reopened. Curtin Detention Centre was the worst of Australia's hellholes. It was the most secret, most isolsted and the most brutal. Curtin is 28 hours by road from Perth. It is 1/2 hour by road from Derby and 6 hours from Port Hedland. The Rudd government may think that they can detain and hide people in an isolated hellhole but they underestimate the decency and determination of the human rights community in Australia.

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