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Archive - Sep 2007Submitted by Margo Kingston on September 9, 2007 - 10:39am.
The APEC thuggery results from a Labor and
Liberal conspiracy to destroy our civil liberties and give police
untrammelled power to serve political ends. I've been warning of this on Webdiary for many
years. We saw with Haneef that now, police and/or government lawyers
are prepared to lie under oath to the Courts to get their way. And the NSW
Labor Government's disgrace started long before Iemma.Have a look at the start of the rot, under Bob Carr, in 2002, when Howard was revving up his 'terror' laws.
Submitted by Margo Kingston on September 9, 2007 - 8:45am.
On August 3, Penguin's publisher Bob Sessions rang me with a shock request - could I update Not Happy, John! in three weeks? Huh? I said I could if my old Webdiary friend and collaborator Jack Robertson agreed to come on board. He did, and the book goes to the printer this week. So, it's hardly in my personal interest for Howard to resign before the election. The book is a critique of his government, sure, but John Howard is the symbol of that government. And then there's the title! My guess is that he'll stay on. What's yours?
Submitted by David Davis on September 8, 2007 - 9:30pm.
Later I saw another old lady asking police if she could go to David
Jones. They told her it would be always there and it would be best if
she went home. Kindly old ladies being discouraged from David Jones?
That's not the Australia I grew up in! I saw the reassuring sign that
"it costs no more to shop at David Jones" but security guards blocked
me from leaving via the Elizabeth Street doors. How bizarre.
Submitted by Richard Tonkin on September 8, 2007 - 8:26pm.
Then it got really ugly. The police moved into the centre of the
intersection and formed an outward moving circle, forcing the
protesters to the curb. I ended up trapped amidst protesters and
media, shepherded into a corner with armed and mostly unidentifiable
police (many police on the day had no ID badges, and I have footage).
Nowhere to move to, and cops in riot gear moving in behind them, and
the chopper overhead, I was beginning to get scared.
Submitted by PF Journey on September 8, 2007 - 12:49am.
"In the 80s, my wife and I, together with our daughter, went to China
to work. We particularly like Beijing. We like the atmosphere of
Beijing, her people and her culture. Twenty years later, my little
daughter has now married an Australian Chinese. My son is also now
enrolled to study at the Fudan University in Shanghai. My youngest son,
who is still in junior high school, usually he is rather naughty and
does not like to do home work, but recently he has also started to
learn the Chinese language." Rudd to Hu
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Submitted by Margo Kingston on September 7, 2007 - 5:52pm.
7 August 2005 Margo update: Janet Albrechtsen has joined Bolt - see 'Pass baton to Costello'. Last weekend's Newspoll was a shocker for the government, and
speculation is rife that next week Howard will either call an election
or stand down. The Chaser proved that the emperor has no clothes - eerily reminiscent of the Bush visit
to Canberra in 2003, when security waved what looked like a camera in without a
security check and the AFP dressed civilians up to look like cops. Howard is
about appearances, not reality.
Submitted by Democratic Audit on September 5, 2007 - 10:31am.
The latest update from the Democratic Audit program at ANU on how our democracy is working, including 'Be honest, Minister!' Restoring faith in government in Australia
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Submitted by Kerryn Higgs on September 4, 2007 - 11:32am.
Anybody who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist (Kenneth Boulding).
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Submitted by Stephen Smith on September 2, 2007 - 5:29pm.
It seems incongruous that constant warnings about the terrorist threat should lead to APEC staging
itself in the very place most likely to be a magnet for such acts.
However, APEC has good reason for not meeting on some tropical island.
Far from seeking to avoid the week long APEC chaos diary, the event
seems to have a fetish with securing these set pieces. As I shall
argue here, APEC serves the cause of military urbanism.
Submitted by Margo Kingston on September 1, 2007 - 8:09pm.
'In a landmark decision, handed down on 30 August 2007, the High Court
has upheld the fundamental human right to vote, finding that the Howard
Government had acted unlawfully and unconstitutionally in imposing a
blanket ban denying prisoners the vote.'
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Submitted by Margo Kingston on September 1, 2007 - 11:45am.
Hello, and welcome to Spring! I'm finishing off my project this weekend before getting back to
Webdiary, but just couldn't resist posting this transcript - an
interview between Charles Wooley and the PM on the pulp mill. How
tricky is this for our tricky PM?
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