Racism has created a market. The market grows by encouraging racism. Continue reading “Australia’s growing racial confinement industry | #Serco”
Antira – Antifa
Liz Thompson explains why she is not speaking at the Close Manus rally on Saturday
I am not speaking at the Close Manus rally on Saturday, organised by RAC [Refugee Action Collective]. Without thinking, I agreed to do it, thinking there could be no harm. But in fact the reaction to me speaking on Dateline has made me reconsider. Continue reading “Liz Thompson explains why she is not speaking at the Close Manus rally on Saturday”
“No Way”? No War – Let Them In You Bastards
“No way. They will not make Australia home.”
In case there was any doubt about the racist, nationalist agenda of Australia’s asylum seeker policy, a new government website emerges.
Australian connection to UK Minister responsible for racist ‘Go Home’ van
Mark Harper, the immigration minister behind the controversial campaign that put “go home” adverts on vans to urge illegal immigrants to leave Britain, has resigned after learning that his private cleaner for seven years did not have permission to work in the UK. [more] Continue reading “Australian connection to UK Minister responsible for racist ‘Go Home’ van”
“He’s not even Australian.”
Responding to the reiteration, in detail, of claims that Australian officials deliberately burned asylum seekers’ hands during an ‘on water’ operation, Senator David Johnston urged the public not to trust the witness, Mr Fasher. The Australian reports:
Senator Johnson [sic] dismissed a report published by Fairfax Media yesterday in which Somalian man Yousif Ibrahim Fasher said he was a witness to brutality, where asylum-seekers allegedly had their hands deliberately burned.
“He’s not even Australian,” Senator Johnson [sic] said. “I mean, it’s all very well, but these people are desperate people, we are winning this battle, and I expect there will be more aspersions cast as they lose money, lose face and lose opportunity.”
Who do you believe?
Sen Johnstone (Photo: Alex Ellinghausen)
Yousif Ibrahim Fasher, right (Photo: Michael Bachelard)
The Australian Defence League and the Australian Navy
“Who are the Australian Defence League,” by Andrew Fleming:
The recent revelation that members of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) responsible for carrying out “Operation Sovereign Borders” are also members or supporters of the anti-Muslim Australian Defence League (ADL) has caused a great deal of embarrassment to the authorities. It has also generated no small amount of concern among the broader public.
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