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Tony Abbott rebuffs Victorian coal mining magnate Twiggy Palmcock

Submitted by takver on Sat, 03/11/2012 - 10:03pm

Did you hear that Tony Abbott got heckled at Melbourne University the other day during his red tape speech? Actually it was just two young coal businessmen keen to meet their hero! Yes, Victorian mining magnate Twiggy Palmcock, CEO of Excretum Mining and sidekick Michael Higgins Beaumont, founder of Australia's Young Coal Champions, who were both keen to meet their hero and leader of the Liberal Party .

They attended the Secure the Future Conference to thank Tony Abbott personally for his "unwavering support of the fossil fuel industry".

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The Judge is wrong - Tell it to Malala, to Soraya, to the many dead and tortured

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 23/10/2012 - 10:07am

Judge Stephen Scott during sentencing of an Iranian-Australian (to 14 years) for his role in assisting Asylum Seekers to our shores (others mistakenly ill-define this as 'people-smuggling') said that there were greater risks for Asylum Seekers fleeing by boat than there are in if they remained in the country they were fleeing from.

The sentenced man was jailed for his part in several voyages in assisting people to Asylum, one which tragically ended in the 2010 Christmas Island disaster where thereabouts 50 people drowned.

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Prime Minister Julia Gillard

I see no riot or attack on Australia Day but police aggression, how about you?

Submitted by Wei Ling Chua on Mon, 30/01/2012 - 10:42pm

The incident where Prime Minister Gillard was dragged away by the security forces to the car and speeded away has been portrayed by the media as an attack or riot in Australia Day.

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Aboriginal Tent Embassy - New website launched

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 27/12/2011 - 10:21am

Aboriginal Tent Embassy will be massive and we need to be there on January 26 starting with the march from Alinga to Parliament at 9am

People will be coming from all over Australia and some from overseas and I and others from WA will be on our way to stand alongside - A number of social justice groups will be there in numbers with our banners calling loud for justice and for an end to tragic incarceration rates as Gerry Georgatos and Ray Jackson often describe on this site.

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Abbott's 'Community Forum' in Bendigo neither open nor community focussed

Submitted by takver on Sat, 08/10/2011 - 10:03pm

On Wednesday October 5 Tony Abbott attended a 'community forum' at the Capital Theatre in Bendigo (See Report in Bendigo Advertiser - Bendigo forum a chance for some sticky questions). Attendance was by a selected audience of about 190 who attended by invite only. Unfortunately the 'community forum' was neither representative of the community nor very open.

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Human Rights Alliance Media Release: Crises of our National Identity - Racism on show - Australian Mandatory Detention horrors.

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 09/08/2011 - 9:21pm

The Human Rights Alliance Media Release:

Unprecedented crises of the Australian racist identity looming - Christmas Island Detention Centre a war zone.

Even with the transient relief of the High Court legal injunction various reports and a plethora of desperate pleas are rampaging out of Christmas Island Detention Centre, from Asylum Seekers and from some of those who work there.

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HADI KURNIAWAN - one of 100 children in Australian adult prisons.

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 11:52pm

An impoverished Indonesian mother, in front of an Australian journalist, lies on a cement floor clutching a photograph of her 16 year old son who is now in an Australian adult prison and whom she hasn't seen since he was fourteen. Abject and acute poverty ravages Indonesia, a country where only 10% of the population has a refrigerator, where most people do not have electricity let alone a television, where many people live half lives working in sulphur mines and where most folk will never rise out of the shanty towns and villages they are born to die in.

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To the beleaguered league from the future

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 25/06/2011 - 12:18pm

by Christian Bentley

It is easy to notice that we have two Coalitions in this country, as the ever so observing Mr. Abbott so politely feels the need to whine about to every corner of Australia.

But who cares? Both are incompetent. Both are unwilling to change for the better. Both are old, both are obsolete, both are clueless, and both are so desperate to cling on to every and any form of power that they have left, so much so as that they'd sell their souls to keep it.

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URGENT: Please reply in the comments section of this link. Asylum Seekers and Refugees - we need someone to break rank in the ALP. Please, comment today, I am meeting with Labor Politicians in the coming days.

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 18/05/2011 - 3:27pm

PLEASE URGENTLY GO TO THIS LINK AND IF YOU WISH PLEASE ADD YOUR CONSIDERED COMMENT:

http://www.inmycommunity.com.au/news-and-views/letters/Call-made-to-Park...

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HRA media release: The frontiers are ugly, violence and deaths on the horizon

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 02/05/2011 - 6:33pm

The Human Rights Alliance
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Urgent Action Required to Stop Detention Centre Deaths in Custody and the rise of mental illnesses. DETENTION CENTRES AT CRISIS POINT. Violence on the horizon.

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