A-Infos (en) Anarchist Age Weekly Review No.464

[Phil McCrory <philmcc@melbpc.org.au>]

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Number 464 
 
3rd ­ 9th September, 2001 
  
NO GLOBALISATION WITHOUT DIRECT DEMOCRACY ­ ANARCHIST MEDIA INSTITUTE 
 
FLUSHED WITH PRIDE 
I'm so proud to be standing side by side with my Prime Minister Johnnie 
fifth columnist Howard a man of principle. I'm so proud that the Australian 
government under the direction of the fifth columnist unleashed the special 
Armed Services Australia's crack Anti terrorist unit, the Australian Army, 
Navy and Airforce to deal with the 433 unarmed refugees on the good ship 
Tampa. 
 
I'm so proud we let those people who had been picked up at sea from their 
sinking vessel in the waters between Australia and Indonesia rot in empty 
containers on the Norwegian ship. 
 
I'm so proud of the lesson we have taught all those ships that honour the 
most important code of the sea, to pick up people in distress, do so at your 
own peril, if you do you'll be punished for your efforts by the Australian 
state. 
 
I'm flushed with pride about how Johnnie kept his promise to keep the 
Afghani refugees off Australian soil by striking a deal with Mauru that will 
cost The Australian Tax Payer tens of millions of dollars. What are you 
nerds complaining about, it's only tax payers money and if what it takes is 
tens of millions of dollars for our fifth columnist One Nation Prime 
Minister to save face so be it. Most importantly of all I'm so proud of 
those 75% of Australians who have supported the Prime Ministers actions to 
the hilt. I'm proud of their Naz I like devotion to duty. I'm proud of 
their narrow minded insular opinions and actions. I'm proud of living in a 
nation that has displayed its rancid heart to the world. I'm proud of 
living in a country that would turn away Jesus Christs mum heavy with child 
from any empty stables we may have. Jesus Christ needs to understand that 
although we live in Gods own country he can't come in unless he's got the 
right papers. The only thing I'm not proud about is that those pesky civil 
Libertarians and the Federal Courts may undo all the good work that Johnnies 
done. Let's all cross our fingers and pray that the Federal Courts do us 
proud. 
 
WHERE TO RAYMOND HOSER? 
The law grinds slowly and inextricably when activists are targeted by the 
state. One of Australia's best known corruption authors, Raymond Hoser the 
author of Victoria Police Corruption 1 and 2, finds himself facing 
bankruptcy and a long gaol term. Hoser is no stranger when it comes to 
court appearances. In 1988 he was sentenced to goal on a series of false 
charges which were overturned years later, when the police informant 
confessed that the charges were trumped up. 
 
Hoser's next appearance before the courts is scheduled for the 23rd of 
October. 
Although he won a number of private defamation cases in the Victorian 
Supreme Court last year about material he pushed in Victoria Police 
Corruption 1 and 2, he now faces a charge of contempt brought against him by 
the Victorian Attorney General, Rob Hulls. 
 
You have to wonder why the Attorney General's department is so keen to have 
these books banned? Hoser has won a number of defamation cases about the 
material published in the books. (Both books have been reviewed in previous 
issues of the Anarchist Age Weekly Review). Another very interesting aspect 
of this case is the corporate and state run media blackout of the case. 
Media outlets that are keen to crow about media censorship in third world 
and authoritarian countries are not so keen to open their mouths about 
what's going on. Although the media hordes descended on the Victorian 
Supreme Court of a preliminary hearing on the 13th of August, not one word 
or television image appeared about the case in the corporate and state run 
media. 
 
Raymond's case has profound implications, not only for himself, but for any 
other activists that challenges the state. Like the proposed Peaceful 
Assemblies Bill, the Bracks Labour government is intent on squashing any 
opposition. The freedom to publish is an important right that is 
particularly guaranteed under the Australian Constitution. Attempts to 
remove this right by dragging people before the Courts on contempt charge 
needs to be resisted. 
 
Raymond Hoser has asked people to come along to the court case on the 23rd 
of October at the Victorian Supreme Court. He has also asked supporters to 
contact the media and hound them until they publish material about the case. 
It's possible he'll be buried by the state unless the public becomes aware 
of what's happening. 
 
EXCELLENT REPRESENTATION OF 
HISTORY AND CULTURE 
The Prime Minister: the man who refuses to apologise to the Stolen 
Generations, the man who extinguished native title on pastoral leases, the 
man who refuses to live at the Lodge in Canberra but lives at Kirrabilli 
House on Sydney Harbour because the move could interfere with his 
childrenısı education (while he expects other peopleıs children to move to 
stay on the dole) ­ this man is at it again. 
 
Marking the centenary of the Australian Flag, the PM raised it in Melbourne 
on Monday. The man who unleashed the S.A.S. and Australian military forces 
to turn away unarmed refugees, expressed some illuminating thoughts and 
sentiments about this flag. He believed that it "..was an excellent 
representation of Australian history and culture". 
 
Excuse me? Did he actually say that? Iım afraid he did. 
 
I looked at the Aussie flag: red, white and blue, the Union Jack in a 
corner, the Southern Cross and a six pointed star representing Australiaıs 
states. I then thought to myself "Good representation of Australiaıs history 
and culture? Whoıs this man kidding?" Where, on the flag, is the 
representation of the 40,000 years of continuous occupation of land by 
Australiaıs indigenous people? I canıt see anything to signify their prior 
occupation of the land. Considering that Australiaıs indigenous population 
are not mentioned in the Constitution, and that it took 67 years for the 
Australian state to recognise that they actually existed and had any rights 
as human beings ­ itıs no surprise to see that John "Fifth Columnist" Howard 
doesnıt believe their existence should be acknowledged on the Australian 
Flag. 
 
Still looking at the flag, I searched for representations of the 
multicultural element of our history and culture. When considering the five 
million immigrants from every corner of the globe, who have entered our 
country since Federation, it becomes clear that the flag does not 
acknowledge their contribution. 
 
We need to remember that the flag is 100 years old and that the "God, Queen 
and Country" brigade who ruled the roost at the time thought, like the Prime 
Minister, that everything good is British. The only part of the Australian 
flag that remains relevant is the Southern Cross. In 1853, the Eureka 
diggers raised the Southern Cross and stated, "We swear, by the Southern 
Cross, to stand truly by each other and fight to defend our rights and 
liberties". John "Fifth Columnist" Howard didnıt mention that it doesnıt 
seem to represent his selective view of our history and cultureŠ. 
 
WHAT PRICE IS A LEG OF LAMB? 
What price is a leg of lamb? It seems that the Australian people are being 
asked to give up what little sovereignty they still enjoy for the privilege 
of selling a leg of lamb to the United States. John Howard the man who 
unleashed the Australian military forces to stop 430 unarmed Afghanistan 
men, women and children from breaching our sovereignty, is about to shuffle 
off to the United States, and like the good deputy he is, is about to hand 
over Australia's sovereignty to the sheriff, on a gilt edged platter. 
 
The Free Trade Agreement that Howard is proposing is a recipe for disaster. 
For the sake of a leg of lamb the Howard government is willing to remove 
quarantine restrictions that have protected Australian agriculture for 
decades. He is willing to remove what little cultural protection the 
Australian media now enjoys and allow the United States entertainment 
industry carte blanche entry into Australia submerging what little cultural 
independence we have in a deluge of United States material. 
 
The coalition is also willing to dilute Australia's new packaging laws 
removing consumer's rights to know whether they are or aren't consuming 
genetically altered food. Most importantly of all the government is willing 
to abolish the Australian Foreign Investment review committee giving United 
States financial markets and corporations open access to all the country's 
corporations, resources and institutions- even those corporations and 
institutions who's takeover by foreign interests would be against the 
national interest. 
 
Interestingly, while great chunks of the mass media have fanned the public 
flames of discontent about a boatload of refugees breaching the countries 
sovereignty, few if any, will display the same vigour in opposing a Free 
Trade agreement with the United States - an agreement which strips us of 
what little real sovereignty we still enjoy. 
 
ITıS GOOD FOR YOU 
Long live the pokies! Victorian poker machine players lost a staggering 2.3 
billion dollars in the last financial year. A decent amount of loot, in 
anybodyıs language. Listening to our brothers and sisters in the gambling 
industry and the Bracks Labor government, you could be forgiven for thinking 
that this was a bonus for the community. Seven hundred million dollars, the 
largest amount collected by any state, were ploughed back into State revenue 
­ a significant proportion of the Victorian State budget. 
 
Unfortunately, the figures that are being bandied about have more to do with 
spin than reality. Although seven hundred million dollars seems like a lot 
of money, when you look at the costs to the community stemming from the 
gambling industry, you soon realise that more money is spent by the 
Victorian State Government to patch up the problems that are caused by 
gambling, than the revenue raised in taxes. If you compare apples with 
apples, not apples with pears, it soon becomes apparent that the social and 
financial damage caused by the policies far outweigh any gains to the state 
or individual punters. 
 
If you look at the money that is embezzled to feed gambling habits, the cost 
of gambling induced suicides and the cost to the families of gamblers, you 
quickly realise that the social and human costs again outweighs any profits 
that are diverted into the state coffers. If the industry is serious about 
eliminating problem gamblers from the system, and is willing to pay for the 
social and human costs the industry exacts, it would go out of business by 
the end of the year. If the gambling industry was forced to hire 24-hour 
counsellors at every venue, if they were asked to repay the money embezzled 
and to pick up the tab for gambling induced suicides, very few, if any, 
gambling outlets would be able to remain in business. 
 
ANARCHIST QUESTION AND ANSWER 
Q. How would an anarchist society handle a refugee crisis? 
A. Refugees would be welcome within an anarchist community. Their basic 
needs for food, shelter and security would be met by the community. What 
happens to them long term becomes a matter for community discussion. 
Whether they are able to settle permanently will depend on the community's 
access to resources and their need for labour. If there are not enough 
resources to go around, the federation a particular anarchist community 
belongs to, would be asked to provide assistance and, if possible, permanent 
residence to those seeking asylum. 
As the standard of living is relatively uniform within a federation of 
anarchist communities, it's unlikely that economic refugees would knock on 
an anarchist communityıs door. If they do, the individuals inability to 
accumulate personal wealth, would act as both a short term and long-term 
disincentive for refugees who wish to immigrate to improve their personal 
wealth. Refugees presenting to an anarchist community, would do so because 
of political, cultural and social reasons. Those that are willing to share 
the common wealth and participate in the life of the community, would be 
welcome. Those who want to use the community to accumulate personal wealth, 
will soon realise that anarchism is not their cup of tea. 
Anarchist communities extend and expect free passage within the federations 
they belong to. They also grant free passage to whoever wants to travel 
through their community. All refugees are extended basic courtesies; those 
that want to stay are welcome if there are enough resources. If resources 
are limited, they will be directed to other anarchist communities that are 
trying to increase their numbers. Anarchists understand that everybody is a 
potential refugee - that's why they are willing to help those that are 
fleeing from persecution. 
 
ACTION BOX 
INITIATING CAMPAIGNS 
Most campaigns, in which we are involved, are reactive. We are reacting 
because of government or corporate policies. Although reactive campaigns 
are important, itıs also important to extend the envelope and initiate 
campaigns. Itıs essential we extend as well as defend the gains we have 
made. With the blurring of the difference between Government and 
Opposition, and the corporatisation of the private sector, it is becoming 
increasingly difficult to initiate new campaigns, let alone defend what we 
have won. 
Even the Trade Union movement is having difficulty in improving their 
membersı conditions and wages, spending most of their time involved in 
rearguard actions to defend what they have achieved in the past. 
Initiating new campaigns by making new demands for access to power and 
wealth puts both the State and the corporate sector on the back foot. They 
have to respond to you and justify why they canıt meet those demands. They 
have to divert resources; resources which they would normally use to put 
pressure on you to fight the gains you have already made, and use those 
resources to fight the new demands you are making. 
Well-planned attacks can be the best form of defence. The greater the 
pressure to which governments, institutions and the corporate sector are 
exposed, the greater the possibility that they will agree with new 
campaigns, demanding the further sharing of power and wealth. Sit down ­ 
think about the activities you are involved in. Are they all reactive? If 
yes, you need to create and become involved in new campaigns that challenge 
both the corporate sector and the State. Youıll be surprised. The pressures 
applied to you, to give up what you have gained, will quickly dissipate and 
be replaced with the attempts to get you to drop the new set of demands you 
have added to your bowstring. Itıs been proven over and again, that well 
planned attacks can be the best form of defence. 
 
AUSTRALIAN ANARCHIST HISTORY 
Bernard O'Dowd 1866-1953 
O'Dowd a child prodigy that read Milton's, "Paradise Lost", at age 8, was 
born in Beaufort Victoria. He was employed as a head teacher at a Catholic 
School in Ballarat, but was dismissed for heresy. He opened up his own 
school in Beaufort. In 1886, at age 20, he moved to Melbourne where he 
found employment in 1887 as an Assistant - Librarian in the Supreme Court 
Library, working for the Victorian colonial and State government until 1935, 
retiring as Chief Parliamentary Draughtsman. 
He joined the Melbourne Lyceum, the educational and social arm of the 
Australian Secular Society in 1886. In 1888, a number of anarchists 
associated with the A.S.A, who were members of the Melbourne Anarchist club 
(Australia's first anarchist group formed in 1886) were expelled from the 
A.S.A. O'Dowd joined the progressive Lyceum, which was made up of the 
anarchists Monty Miller, Upham, Brookhouse and Nicholls, as well as other 
radical members who had been expelled from the Melbourne Lyceum. He had 
become the editor of the Tetor in 1888 just before the split. 
His poem "Hoist the Flag" Lyceum published in the Lyceum Tutor in 1888, 
outlined ideas that were very similar to anarchism. O'Dowd had become a 
friend of the Melbourne anarcho-communist Jack Andrews, and in 1897, O'Dowd 
and two others set up the radical paper Tocsin. In 1898, he was co-editor 
of Tocsin with Jack Andrews. He continued to be an editor, contributor and 
financial supporter of Tocsin until Andrews died of tuberculosis in 1903. 
During these six years, he published numerous radical poems, and used the 
pages of the Tocsin to express his opposition to Federation and The Boer 
War. In 1902, he issued a pamphlet "Conscience and Democracy" which opposed 
the Boer War. 
Between 1903 to 1921, O'Dowd turned his attention to poetry and published 
six poetry books. Dawnward (1903), The Silent Land (1906), Dominion of the 
Boundary (1907), The Seven Deadly Sins (1909), The Bush (1912) and Alma 
Venus (1921). His most well known pamphlet "a plea for purpose in poetry", 
Poetry Militant, was published in 1909. In it he asks, "Why should poetry 
be militant nowadays? I hear some ask Because Š. This is an Age of Revolt 
and Reconstruction, because the Poet is the father and mother of wise 
rebellion and because he, being in touch with the Infinite, the Permanent is 
most potent and far-reaching stimulator of Reconstruction". 
O'Down was married and had five sons. In 1920, he left his wife and moved 
in with Marie Pitt, the editor of the Victorian Socialist. He lived with 
her until her death in 1948. He and Pitt became members of the Unitarian 
church, denied the trinity and saw the historical Jesus Christ as an 
anarchist. 
Although O'Dowd grappled constantly with the conflict between his work for 
the government and his radical politics, according to the Australian 
Dictionary of Biography (ADB) "His optimism about human destiny never 
failed", and a few months before his death at 87, "he affirmed his almost 
religious belief in anarchist communism". 
I'm heavily in debted to P.D. Gardner, the author of Mountain Echoes 
(confessions of a fellow traveller), No 68, for this article. Mountain 
Echoes appears on the AA website and will appear as an insert in the 
Anarchist Age Weekly Review from this issue No 464. P.D. Gardner, a regional 
historian, who lives in East Gippsland, can be contacted via Nagarak Press 
P.O Box 18 Ensay Victoria Australia tel/fax 03 515 73228 email 
narak@bigpond.com http://www.users.bigpond.com/mgarak/ 
 
 BOOK REVIEW 
Gippsland Massacres 
The Destruction of the Kurnai Tribes 1800-1860, By P. D. Gardner 
3rd edition 2001 Ngarok Press 
1st published 1983 
ISBN 1875 54 315 
It's appropriate that I review Gippsland Massacres in the same week that 
over 95% of callers to talkback radio in Australia support the Australian 
Governmentıs decision to not extend the hand of welcome to 460 refugees who 
were rescued from the high seas by a Norwegian cargo ship. P. D. Gardner's 
meticulous research, clearly highlights that similar viewpoint that drive 
this inhumane response, were held by the early European colonists. Over 95% 
of the early Gippsland settlers participated massacres that reduced the 
Kurnai people who lived in Gippsland for over 30,000 years, from a 
population of over 3000, to little more than 200. 
P. D. Gardner describes a frontier war - nothing more, nothing less. The 
Kurnai men, women and children were seen as little more than vermin, who 
were getting in the way the pastoralistıs expansionary plans. As soon as 
the pastoralistıs intruded on Kurnai land in October 1840, their cattle were 
speared and the stockman dispersed. As the pastoralistıs moved in with 
their cattle, the Kurnais' traditional food supplies dried up and they were 
forced to spear cattle to survive. This put in motion a series of events 
that saw the almost total destruction of the Kurnai clans within a 20-year 
period. 
Isolated murders of shepherds and stockman were followed by massacres of the 
local inhabitants. The squatters who moved into Gippsland were surprised by 
the ferocity of the resistance of the Kurnai. Sailors, whalers and 
castaways had hardened the Gippsland tribes with 40 years of raids. They 
understood that their very survival was at stake as they had been shown no 
quarter by Europeans who carried out raids to kidnap Kurnai women to use as 
concubines while they setup sealing and whaling camps along the Gippsland 
coastline. After the initial massacres, the native police were brought in 
by the Victorian colonial authorities to finish the job of killing the 
Kurnai under the direction of the colonial authorities. They did. 
The clashes in Gippsland were, according to P.D. Gardner, a clash between 
two cultures, expansionary capitalism and the balanced economy. 
Expansionary capitalism won. P.D. Gardner makes the strong point that, 
"Šthe so called blooding in of Australian history and which many historians 
see as the beginning of Australian history, is not to be found in the 
courageous rebellion of Eureka or the futile valour of Gallipoli, but in the 
cowardly murders of Warrigul Creek", - the scene of one of the worst 
massacres that has occurred in Australian history. 
P.D. Gardnerıs Gippsland Massacres, is a microcosm of the hidden and secret 
history of the European colonisation of Australia. Within this well 
documented and extensively referenced book, are buried the reasons that 
shape the heart of a people who cannot recognise their past, apologise for 
the harm they have caused and who's representatives are incapable of 
extending a helping hand to the most disadvantaged in our community. 
This excellent book is available from the publishers. Ngarak Press, P.O. Box 
18, Ensay, Victoria Australia. 
Note: Mountain Echoes No. 72 in this issue of the Anarchist Age Weekly 
Review for the authors' opinion about quadrants attempts to deny that 
Australian massacres ever occurred. 
 
PERSONAL OBSERVATION 
Yellow taxis, slowing down, parking. Drivers emerge and walk towards a 
plain glass door. All day, seven days a week, taxi drivers pull up near 
this glass door, alight from their Money Making Machines and walk through 
that door. Short, dark men with untidy beards and wavy hair, are drawn to a 
squat brick building that has seen better days. Worried looking men 
hurriedly pass through the door into another world. 
Drug den? House of ill repute? Something else ­ who knows? All I know is 
that a steady stream of men go through that door, day in ­ day out. 
After years of wondering, curiosity got the better of me. I stopped behind 
a parked Yellow taxi and peered at the door. Two men strode through it and 
headed towards another parked Yellow taxi. A woman, her hair covered, 
crossed their path and walked in. I was too far from the action and I 
couldnıt make out what was written across the door. Pedestrians moved past, 
not even glancing at the yellow portal that caused me such consternation. 
Another Yellow taxi pulled up behind me and a serious-looking, clean-shaven 
young man leapt out of the taxi and bolted straight for the door. Maybe he 
had a full bladder? 
I couldnıt stand not knowing what was going on within, so I made a move and 
headed toward the door. Upstairs coffee shop, brothel, Yellow taxi depot ­ 
what will it be? My money was on the inner city brothel. As I came closer 
to the door, I could make out the plain white writing on the glass ­ "City 
Mosque". 
I turned around, hopped back into my car and drove off, reflecting on my 
imagination and how it had bettered me. 
 
STOP PRESS 
UNFINISHED BUSINESS 
The ferocity of many Australianıs responses to the 460 refugees on the 
Tampa, and the inability and unwillingness of the same group to say sorry to 
the stolen generations, is interlinked. The Prime Minister and his 
supporterıs responses are fuelled by a series of myths that define the 
Australian character. Myth piled upon myth has created the necessary 
conditions that give decent, responsible people an intellectual and 
emotional justification for words and actions that deny the most 
disadvantaged basic human rights. 
Our inability as a people to acknowledge the brutality of a past, which has 
been denied by successive generations of leaders, has created conditions 
that allow opinions to flourish that wouldnıt have been out of place in Nazi 
Germany. Itıs important to remember that atrocities are not committed by 
monsters but by ordinary people who have been told and believe that their 
future and their childrenıs future is dependent on doing whatever it takes 
to protect their way of life. 
Until the unfinished business of Reconciliation between indigenous and 
non-indigenous Australians is resolved, we will be plagued by the 
uncertainties that we, as a nation of thieves, feels every time our 
occupation of this land is threatened. The fair go society will only become 
a reality when we sign a treaty with the countryıs indigenous people. Until 
this is done, we will never be able to move forward and build a society that 
rests on solid foundations ­ not whimsical, ephemeral myths about who we are 
and where we come from. 
 
 
Joseph TOSCANO / Libertarian Workers for a Self-Managed Society. 
  
                    
 
ANARCHIST PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED THIS WEEK 
o REBEL WORKER Vol.20 No.3 (172) Aug ­ Sept 2001, Paper of the Anarcho ­ 
Syndicalist Network, P.O. Box 92, BROADWAY 2007, Sydney, Australia, Email 
rworker@chaos.apana.org.au 
o C.N.T. No.268 June 2001, Apdo due Correos 4040, 18080 GRANADA, SPAIN, Tel 
9582 89 009, Fax 9582 88 992 
o ROJO Y NEGRO No.134 June 2001, C.G.T. Publcicion Mensual 
Anarcosindicilista, Compania 9ş 1ş, 129 31001, PAMPLONA / IRUNA, SPAIN, Tel 
948 224 766, Fax 948 212 399, Email rojoynegro@ctv.es 
o TIERRA Y LIBERTAD No.154 May 2001, Periodico Anarquista, Apartado 7.056 de 
Madrid, 28080, SPAIN, Tel 91 797 04 24, Fax 91 505 21 83, Email 
tierraylibertad@lycomail.com 
 
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I've gotten a series of anarchist books and articles and saved them on disk. 
The disk can be mailed within Australia, or emailed to any address. There 
is no charge (but sending a couple of stamps would be much appreciated of 
course). The files are txt files, which should work on virtually all 
computers. The disk should work on all PCs or iMacs. 
The disk includes 'ABC of Anarchism', 'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know 
About Anarchy But Were Afraid to Ask', Peter Kropotkin's 'An Appeal to the 
Young', 'The Spanish Civil War: Anarchism in Action' and a lot of smaller 
articles on work, unemployment, racism, sexism, the environment, and more. 
Email jameshutchings@hotmail.com, or write to 
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PS: Any suggestions for other things I could include, please contact me. In 
particular I've had a lot of trouble finding anarchist articles on queer/gay 
issues. 
 
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Topic: BLUE PRINTS FOR CHANGE? 
Anarchism in Ancient Greece ­ Steve Reghenzani 
Anarchism in Spain ­ 1936 ­ 1939 ­ Dave 
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o Five minutes to explain your group / yourself, what you believe, what 
youıre doing etc. 
o Followed by general discussion re CHOGM or general networking according to 
the desires of the present 
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MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA and we will pass on the mail. 
 
ANARCHIST MEDIA INSTITUTE OBSCENITY OF THE WEEK 
Has been unanimously awarded to the Pauline Hanson Nation fifth columnist 
John Chuckie Howard, the Prime Minister of Australia for unleashing 
Australiaıs pride and joy, the SAS on unarmed refugees stranded on the 
Norwegian tanker TAMPA in Australian waters off Christmas Island ­ good one 
Johnnie!! 
 
All the News That Fits 
 
At least three Liberal Party branches made false claims for GST credits. 
One branch which has admitted making a false claim is in the Groom 
electorate, held by Ian McFarlane, the Minister for Small Business. The 
branch claimed the credits despite a party official warning it was "cheating 
on the government". 
SOURCE: The Age. 
 
At least one South Australian psychiatric hospital is refusing to treat 
people from the refugee detention centres. Ten refugee applicants at 
Woomera detention centre have been treated for psychological illness in the 
last month. Most are believed to have attempted suicide or serious 
self-harm. Workers at the centre say that suicide and self-mutilation are 
daily occurrences. 
SOURCE: ABC News website, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald. 
 
438 refugees on board a Norwegian freighter have been refused permission to 
land in Australia. SAS troops have boarded the boat, and the government 
intends to force the refugees to be towed to another country such as Nauru. 
The refugees are mostly fleeing Afghanistan, which is ruled by a religious 
fundamentalist dictatorship called the Taliban. The refugees are stuck off 
the coast of Christmas Island. The were rescued by the freighter after 
their boat started to sink. Prime Minister John Howard said at least some 
of the refugees were faking or exaggerating illness. Captain Arne Rinnan 
contradicted this, saying there were four people unconscious and two 
pregnant women complaining of stomach pains. A later message from the ship 
said that fifteen people were now unconscious. 
One Nation MP David Oldfield congratulated the government. He said the 
refugees were sea-going troublemakers. Mr Oldfield said it might be 
considered Christian charity to help them, but it should not be lost on 
anyone that they were largely Moslems. Immigration Minister Phillip Ruddock 
compared the refugees to hijackers. Labor leader Kim Beazley also backed 
the government. 
A group representing about 80% of the people of Christmas Island issued a 
statement saying the government should let the refugees land. Gordon 
Thomson of the Union of Christmas Island Workers, one of the groups signing 
the statement, said the islanders were sympathetic to the refugees and the 
crew of the freighter. They also said that the government's actions would 
discourage ships from rescuing people at sea. 
SOURCE: The Age. 
 
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