Australia

McCarthyism Down Under

June 28, 2020 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Educate! Australia, China, McCarthyism, Police

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison held a somber press conference on Friday to announce that the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) had conducted a raid on a sitting member of the New South Wales parliament all because, so far, he’d said favorable things about China and had traveled to the country. The Murdoch-owned Australian newspaper reported that the office and Sydney home of NSW Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane had been raided because he “has repeatedly praised Beijing, even describing Chinese President Xi Jingping’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic as ’emphatic’ and ‘decisive.’” Moslemane was portrayed as an “extremely serious” threat because he had written about China: “Failure to contain the epidemic could mean thousands if not hundreds of thousands of lives would be lost.

COVID-19: Isolation Is A Marathon, Not A Sprint

April 8, 2020 Catherine Hanrahan and Matt Liddy, ABC Australia. Educate! Australia, COVID-19, Health Care, Physical distancing

Australia is only a few days into its latest regime of strict self-isolation measures designed to fight the coronavirus pandemic, but already, many people are asking — when will they end? Not before late July at the very earliest, modelling from the University of Sydney suggests. The model, first published last week and now updated, shows: Strict physical-distancing measures are beginning to work and Australians appear to have been about 90 per cent compliant with advice to stay at home wherever possible However, scaling back our isolation regime would cause case numbers to spike dramatically — until such time as new measures, especially more testing, are in place With the current measures, Australia should be close to the peak of new infections

‘Forced Labor’ Stories On China Drive Cold War PR Blitz

March 29, 2020 Ajit Singh, The Grayzone. Educate! Australia, China, NATO, Propaganda

A recent surge in stories in the Western press accuse China of implementing an oppressive program of “forced labor” against the country’s Uyghur Muslim ethnic minority. The titanic crime China is accused of has been called “Xinjiang’s new slavery.” This alleged coercive system is said to encompass more than 80,000 laborers and implicate the supply chains of 83 global brands, including Apple, Amazon, Nike, BMW, Gap, Samsung, Sony, and Volkswagen. Featured in Western news outlets from Foreign Policy to the Washington Post to Democracy Now!, the reports rely on a series of questionable studies by purportedly “independent, nonpartisan” think tanks and crank experts backed by the West’s military-intelligence apparatus.

John Pilger: It Is Time For Julian Assange To Be Saved, Not Betrayed

February 20, 2020 John Pilger, Thegrayzone.com Resist! Australia, Courts, Julian Assange, Repression

This February 22, there will be a march from Australia House in London to Parliament Square, the centre of British democracy. People will carry pictures of the Australian publisher and journalist Julian Assange who, on 24 February, faces a court that will decide whether or not he is to be extradited to the United States and a living death.

The Refugee Industry & Australia’s Still Burning – Coal

January 17, 2020 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Australia, Coal, Oil, Refugees

Caged for seeking freedom – migrants and refugees in the land of the free. Next, zooming out on the global refugee industry – because yes, that too – is a booming business. Finally, global droughts, and the fires of human folly; coal scare tactics leading Australia's climate policy and how grassroots climate activists are fighting a massive mining project in the midst of a firestorm.

Fossil Fuel Producers Should Pay For Australia’s Fires

January 8, 2020 Staff, Yubanet.com Create! Australia, Fossil Fuels, Wildfires

January 6, 2020 – The Australia Institute has welcomed the Government’s $2 billion bushfire recovery fund announcement, but has questioned why regular Australian taxpayers are being asked to pay when a levy on fossil fuel producers would be a more appropriate way to raise the required funding. “Regular Australians should not be forced to pay while fossil fuel producers are being let off scot-free,” says Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director of The Australia Institute.

Australian Political Leaders Urge End To Assange Prosecution

January 7, 2020 Rob Harris, Smh.com.au Resist! Australia, Julian Assange, Repression, Whistleblowers

Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has joined calls for the Morrison government to try to halt Julian Assange's potential extradition from Britain to the United States on espionage charges, as the WikiLeaks founder's supporters intensify their campaign to bring him to Australia. Mr Joyce joined former foreign minister Bob Carr in voicing concerns over US attempts to have the 48-year-old Australian stand trial in America, where he faces a sentence of 175 years if found guilty of computer fraud and obtaining and disclosing national defence information.

Ruling Class Bereft Of Answers While Catastrophic Fires Escalate Across Australia

January 6, 2020 James Cogan, Wsws.org Educate! Australia, Climate Change, Ruling Class, Wildfires

Catastrophic fire conditions exist today throughout much of Australia, from the southwest of Western Australia, across South Australia, to Victoria, the island state of Tasmania, and New South Wales (NSW), to the southeast of Queensland and areas of the tropical north. Another severe heat wave is moving across the continent, generating temperatures that may breach historical records that were broken only a few weeks ago. New fires are expected to ignite, while strong winds are predicted to fan the hundreds of blazes that are already burning.

100+ Doctors Demand Assange Go To Australian Hospital ‘Before It Is Too Late’

December 18, 2019 Doctors for Assange, Medium.com Resist! Australia, Doctors, Hospitals, Julian Assange, Solidarity

We, the undersigned medical doctors, wrote to the UK Home Secretary on 22 November 2019, and to the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice on 4 December 2019, expressing our serious and unanimous concerns that an Australian citizen, Mr Julian Assange, is at risk of death due to the conditions of his detention in a UK prison. Our open letter received worldwide media coverage and we received letters of support from doctors and others around the world. Now, having received no response from the UK Government, we call upon you to intervene as a matter of urgency.

Julian Assange’s Lawyer Pleads With Australians To Help Bring Him Home

August 12, 2019 Cait Kelly, Thenewdaily.com.au Educate! Australia, Courts, Julian Assange, Repression

After Julian Assange’s lawyer failed to drum up political support in Canberra last week, she is now asking the Australian public to help bring him home. London-based human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson visited the capital last week to dine with Anthony Albanese and speak to more than 30 MPs to raise support for the Townsville-born Assange. Despite her lobbying attempts, none of the major parties has publicly supported the embattled Australian. Ms Robinson is calling on Australians to take an interest in the case. Last month, Assange, 48, dropped an appeal against his 50-week jail term in Britain for jumping bail when he sought asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy.

‘Despair Ends And Tactics Begin’: Extinction Rebellion Aims To Shut Down Brisbane With Mass Civil Disobedience

August 6, 2019 By Jake Johnson, Commondreams.org Resist! Australia, Civil Disobedience, Climate Change

On the heels of the hottest month in recorded history, activists with the global Extinction Rebellion movement are planning to grind the city of Brisbane, Australia to a halt Tuesday to pressure political leaders to act on the climate crisis. "The climate crisis is already affecting lives and destroying ecosystems," Extinction Rebellion said in a statement ahead of the city-wide demonstrations, which are set to kick off at 7am local time Tuesday morning (5pm ET Monday).

I Live-Tweeted The AFP’s Every Move As They Raided The ABC’s Sydney Headquarters

June 8, 2019 John Lyons, Abc.net.au Educate! Australia, Journalism, Repression

It was a surreal moment: standing with a group of Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers around a big screen, sifting through 9,214 emails and documents belonging to my colleagues. I felt like I was having surgery but was still conscious. I was seeing and hearing things which I'd rather not be. It felt a complete violation of us both as journalists and citizens — and it had nothing to do with national security. It was at that moment that I felt there was something sick about modern Australia — that an institution as important as the media had come to this.

When Sydney Was Touched By Workers’ Democracy

May 15, 2019 Jerome Small, Redflag.org.au Educate! Australia, Class Struggle, History, Unions, Workers

If working class people had real power, what would society look like? If you live in Australia’s largest city, you don’t have to look far to find an answer. If you’ve ever seen the Sydney Opera House, you’ve seen a building constructed under workers’ control. If you’ve ever strolled through the the Rocks, you’ve walked though a historic area that organised workers saved from demolition. If you head over to nearby Woolloomooloo, you’ll see one of the few communities left in inner Sydney where low paid workers can live – and it’s there only because of the actions of militant construction workers. And the giant Centennial Park, the lungs of inner Sydney...

SEP (Australia) To Hold Election Rally And Meetings In Defence Of Assange

April 23, 2019 Staff, Wsws.org Resist! Australia, Electoral Politics, Julian Assange, Revisionism, Socialism, Socialist Equality Party, Wikileaks

As part of its campaign in the federal election, the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) is holding a rally and meetings demanding freedom for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and for Chelsea Manning, the courageous whistleblower who has been detained by the Trump administration for more than five weeks. The illegal arrest of Assange, by British police in London’s Ecuador embassy on April 11, is a major attack on the democratic rights of the working class. It is aimed at facilitating Assange’s extradition to the US, where he will face concocted charges over WikiLeaks exposures of US war crimes, mass surveillance operations and diplomatic intrigues.

Traditional Owners Fighting Adani Coal Mine Mount Fresh Legal Challenge

April 17, 2019 By Ella Archibald-Binge, Sbs.com.au Resist! Australia, Coal Mining, Courts

Adani gained federal government approval for its controversial mine project but could be stopped by a courtroom confrontation from Traditional Owners. Traditional Owners opposed to the Carmichael mine will mount a legal challenge in the federal court next month to overturn Adani's crucial agreement with Indigenous landholders. The mining company's groundwater management plan was approved this week by Federal Environment Melissa Price and before construction can begin the Queensland government needs to sign off on environmental approvals.

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