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Defense Minister Stephen Smith recently took a trip to Afghanistan, with a range of reasons cited in the Defense Department media release. What wasn't mentioned there - or anywhere else by the Gillard government - was the finalising of a draft Australian/Afghan Strategic Agreement for post 2014, due to be signed in just five weeks. That was discovered by Melbourne peace activist Simon Moyle in a tweet from TOLOnews, an Afghan news organisation. It appears the Gillard government is keeping this agreement under wraps, hoping no one will notice. After Simon emailed to some journos the story ran in the Age on the 14th of April.

Spread the word: post the Age article to social media, and tell everyone you know that this is happening, we have about a month to cause a ruckus that might bring some transparency, and then accountability.

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Event: Wed 18 April 2012: Parramatta, Sydney, NSW
Free Public Screening of Our Generation
Introduction and Q&A by Jeff McMullen AM
Hosted by Reconciliation for Western Sydney
"Jeff will be talking about the Stronger
Futures legislation, its clash with our
human rights obligations and the
calls by NT Elders for opposition to
the Government's approach."
Event details: http://stoptheintervention.org/#OurGen

On Friday 13th April 2012 in the Supreme Court of Victoria, Associate Justice Gardiner handed down judgement against Ace Parking and Parking Patrols (Vic) Pty Ltd, who had been charged under the Victorian Fair Trading Act with:
- Misleading and deceptive conduct
- False and misleading representations
- Harassment and coercion

Consumer Affairs Victoria alleged that the operators of these car parking companies - Mr Kevin English and Mr James English - breached the Fair Trading Act 1999 by:
- Issuing `fines’ to consumers with no legal authority;

In Melbourne the three monkeys gathered outside the French Consulate at 33/101 Collins St on Friday 13 April. See no evil, Hear no evil and Speak no evil. They represent the way in which the United Nations has turned a blind eye to human rights abuses in occupied Western Sahara, most notably, France.

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By George Venturini

Australia’s official “history is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knave, and soldiers, mostly fools.” - With apologies to Ambrose Bierce, American writer, 1842-1914.

The end of January is the hottest time of the year in Australia. And almost every year, 26 January, Australia’s National Day, is a very hot day.

Warren Mundine, a member and former National President of the ALP, and co-convener of the Australian Uranium Association's Indigenous Dialogue Group, has been promoting the nuclear industry recently. Unfortunately he turns a blind eye to the industry's crude racism, a problem that ought to be core business for the Indigenous Dialogue Group.