Australia endorses deceit, racism, child detention

[George_S]

Australia endorses deceit, racism, child detention, Iraq invasion and war crimes
by Gideon Polya
(Tuesday 12 October 2004)

"After a cowardly, dishonest and lack-lustre campaign by Australian Labor - which strenuously avoided the issue of Iraq in craven deference to the US administration, the American-dominated Australian press and an ill-informed, prejudiced and conservative Australian electorate - the conservative Coalition Government won a decisive victory thanks to bigotry, ignorance, fear and small-minded selfishness."

On Saturday 9 October 2004 Australia went to the polls and gave a convincing victory and record fourth term to the conservative Liberal and National Party Coalition led by Prime Minister John Howard.

The election campaign was essentially devoted to domestic issues and the winning but false proposition from the Coalition - the Big Lie - was that victory by the Opposition Australian Labor Party led by Mark Latham would increase interest rates on home loans.

Humanitarian and ethical issues relating to the appalling treatment of Muslim refugees, the illegality of the war in Iraq and horrendous civilian casualties in that sorry country are of compelling concern to a large body of decent Australians but were essentially ignored by BOTH PARTIES in the election campaign.

In the run-up to the election, the Labor leader promised that he would bring our soldiers back from Iraq before Christmas. This brought immediate criticism from the US ambassador, the US president and US administration officials - an outrageous intervention in Australia’s internal affairs. Former President Bill Clinton made it clear that he would NOT have behaved thus. The Australian Labor Party leader subsequently all but draped himself in the American flag, declared his loyalty to the US alliance and brought the leading pro-US Labor politician onto his team.

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/10446/

[jdj]

1. So I was watchin' Crocodile Dundee the other night

and that's when I realized how Howard won. Because they have rednecks there too, same gene pool probably, back in the day if you got busted you got sent here or to Australia. I'll be glad when that genetic strain dies off.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

4. Australia is very much "Toby Keith Land of Asia".

It's a sad place.

[JPace]

2. Used to be a time when some Americans would immigrate

to Australia because they wanted to live under
a fairer system. They might as well move back
now.....Australia sure is changing.

[ladybugg33]

3. Kindred spirits with the US.

Shame on both.

[Seabiscuit]

5. What's wrong with our Aussie brothers and sisters?

How could they have allowed that creep to be re-elected???