Rudd’s Australia : Proscribed Muslim Terrorist Group permitted to hold HATE FEST in Sydney July 4 2010

 

Hizb ut- Tahrir

When our Federal attorney general is not writing character references for Iranian spy Sheikh Mansour Leghaei that ASIO deems to be a threat to our National Security, his Labor Party is allowing these Islamic Terrorists / Supporters to gather like a pack of Jackals at their Sydney head quarters, 12 Bridge Street Lidcombe in the heart of the Labor Party created, Sydney’s Occupied Territories, to consort and conspire to further the objectives of their Islamic Terrorist Organization.

Good Work Australian Labor Party and your financiers the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australia’s “Working Families” really appreciate the great work you are doing.

Islams maddest of Islamic dogs down under enunciates "........support for military coups and revolutions to overthrow non-Muslim governments worldwide"
Islamist leader in call for revolution
Natalie O'Brien
The Australian
September 26, 2007

THE mysterious sheik behind the Australian chapter of Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir has revealed the organisation's support for military coups and revolutions to overthrow non-Muslim governments worldwide.
Ismail Al Wahwah, who was little known until last month when he was banned from a Hizb ut-Tahrir conference in Indonesia, spoke out on an Arabic radio program that revealed him as the "active member" of the group in Australia.

In an interview conducted in Arabic on SBS radio last month, he attacked the West's lack of values and backed the use of suicide bombings in Iraq and Palestine, even if they killed Australians.
"I say any occupied people have the responsibility to defend their country," he said in the interview, which The Australian had translated into English. "The victim ... should not be asked how he is defending himself."

Sheik Wahwah is understood to be the unofficial leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia. The Australian has obtained the first pictures of the man widely known in the Muslim community as Abu Anas.
Hizb ut-Tahrir's media spokesman, Wassim Doureihi, denied the sheik was the group's leader in Australia, saying Sheik Wahwah was a senior member and that his brother, Ashraf, a civil engineer at North Sydney Council, was the official leader.

But Sheik Wahwah is sent to address senior members of the Islamic community in Sydney on behalf of Hizb ut-Tahrir, and he was Australia's representative for the Indonesian conference.
On the radio program, he was introduced as the "active member" of the party - a statement he did not correct.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is a secretive organisation known as the Party of Islamic Liberation, which advocates the destruction of Western civilisation and the overthrow of governments and their replacement by Islamic rule.
The group is banned in Europe, China and Saudi Arabia, but remains legal in Britain and Australia, actively pushing the idea of a Muslim rule.
It has been investigated by ASIO but there is not enough evidence to proscribe it as a terrorist organisation. Five years ago, most Western observers did not consider Hizb ut-Tahrir a serious threat, but its influence has grown and it now has a presence in about 45 countries.

Sheik Wahwah has refused to speak to the mainstream media in Australia.
In his radio interview, he said the allegations that the failed London bomb plotters were linked to Hizb ut-Tahrir was another example of the clash of civilisations and the West's dropping of one of its most basic values - the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.
Sheik Wahwah expressed support for violent means to overthrow governments to achieve the group's aim of a caliphate.
He said if nations did not respond to the wishes of their people, the people should use all the powers they had, including the army, to usurp the rulers.
"It is up to the Ummah (community) to sort out its own matter with these rulers and remove their ruler in a public manner," he said.
"It could be such as a public revolution, public disobedience or a military coup ...
"We are in the front line with the Ummah. We don't engage in militant activities. Our case is to make the case of Islam the case of the Ummah."

 

Terror Australis:Wassim Doureihi Hizb ut-Tahrir wants a Caliphate

Hizb ut-Tahrir wants a Caliphate

By Wassim Doureihi
Daily Telegraph
July 12, 2007 12:00am

THE debate over Hizb ut-Tahrir has proven to be nothing more than a poorly scripted melodrama.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is a global Islamic political party working to re-establish the Islamic Caliphate within the Muslim world.

Since its inception in 1953, Hizb ut-Tahrir has been subject to the severest of repression by tyrants in the Muslim world. Our members have been consistently persecuted, imprisoned, tortured and murdered.
Despite operating under the most horrendous conditions, Hizb ut-Tahrir continues to oppose all forms of tyranny and dictatorship exclusively through intellectual and political means and in fact considers violence a violation of Islamic law.

Hizb ut-Tahrir's courageous stance in mobilising public opinion in the Muslim world has earned it the universal support of Muslim masses and caused widespread consternation among its opponents.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is now being targeted in the West for three primary reasons: The party continues to courageously expose the crimes of Western governments to a global audience; it unrelentingly challenges the West's neo-liberal interventionist policies in the Muslim world and it works to present Islam as an ideological alternative to Western secular capitalism as a model of governance in the Muslim world.
Critics of Hizb ut-Tahrir are desperately seeking to suppress debate. Our opposition to the illegal state of Israel, for instance, is howled down as anti-Semitism, our displeasure at the West's foreign policy labelled subversion, our challenge to Western-backed dictators characterised as rebellion, our work to generate political awareness described as radicalisation and our call for the affairs of the Muslim world to be governed by Islam branded as extremism.

Governments have even lent sympathetic ears to opportunistic individuals parroting the established government narrative by seeking to draw spurious and unfounded links between Hizb ut-Tahrir and recent events in London and Glasgow.

In the last century, Western governments conducted a brutal and unashamedly interventionist policy in the Muslim world which wreaked havoc on local populations through military occupation, economic exploitation and political repression.
But despite the concerted effort to demonise and silence Hizb ut-Tahrir, we will continue a serious and open debate on the way forward for the Muslim world.
* Wassim Doureihi is the media representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia

Muslim first, Australian second, so leave us alone

SMH
By Lee Glendinning and Tom Allard
July 25, 2005

                                                                                           "I don't choose where I was born" … Wassim Doureihi

Westerners must leave Muslim lands if they want to safeguard themselves against terrorist attacks, says the Sydney leader of the global Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir, Wassim Doureihi.

Although Mr Doureihi says his group espouses non-violence, he warns Australia to "stop interfering in Islamic land, stop enforcing rules over Muslims and allow the Muslims to assume their own political destiny … If we are really serious about protecting the lives of the people in Australia, if you want to remove the possibility of these actions occurring within these countries, then remove the original injustice."

Hizb ut-Tahrir came under scrutiny yesterday after a report it was launching a recruitment drive in Sydney and was linked to one of the London bombers. But Mr Doureihi, 28, an accountant, vehemently denied a London link.

"The Islamic position is very clear - that is, Islam condemns the killing of innocent non-combatants whether it's in London or Iraq," he said at the rented room at Greenacre where his group meets on Friday nights.

However, leaflets handed out to members refer to the "war on Islam being reignited", leading to accusations of inflammatory language. "It's very ironic," Mr Doureihi said, "that certain groups can be targeted with words they use, when at the same time bombs are being dropped on entire villages and yet the world hasn't arisen to condemn that."
He does not believe Muslims can co-exist with Western society. Asked, then, why he chose to stay in Australia, he said: "I was born in this country. I don't choose where I was born … I consider myself as a Muslim first and foremost."

Hizb ut-Tahrir supports a transnational regime under Sharia law. It is banned in a number of Middle Eastern countries, but it is not a proscribed terrorist organisation in Australia, the US or Britain.

The president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, Dr Ameer Ali, said: "Whenever we come across any groups like this, who are openly, blatantly advocating violence, we bring them to the notice of the law-enforcing authorities."

However, Keysar Trad, a founder of the Australian Islamic Friendship Association, said the group was "non-integrationist but not violent".

He does not believe Muslims can co-exist with Western society. Well he‘s  got that right at least.

 

 

 

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Australian Labor Party Icon and role model orders arrest of TV station owner…

Chavez targets critical media mogul
The Australian
June 12, 2010 4:52PM
A VENEZUELAN court has issued an arrest warrant against Guillermo Zuloaga, president of Globovision, a TV network fiercely critical of President Hugo Chavez.
Mr Zuloaga's lawyer Perla Jaimes said that members of Venezuela's intelligence service showed up at the Globovision president's home with an arrest warrant for him and his son.
Neither Mr Zuloaga, 67, nor his son were at home, the lawyer said.
Attorney General Luisa Ortega told reporters that the arrest warrant was related to a May 2009 case in which Mr Zuloaga was accused of illegally storing 24 vehicles.
In March, Mr Zuloaga was arrested for statements he made in the Dutch island of Aruba, and charged with the crime of offending Mr Chavez and spreading false information. A Caracas court also ordered him not to leave the country.
Venezuela on Thursday announced a new government agency with the power to suppress or curtail "any information" deemed of national interest.
International organisations and rights groups, as well as several governments, including the US, have expressed concern over free speech in Venezuela as Mr Chavez expands his socialist agenda.
Who will be the first Australian media / mining   / owner to be charged with the following “………the crime of offending Mr Rudd and spreading false information”
Australian Labor Party members and Union officials and supporters wrote the following invitation to the man who has an arrest warrant out for a man who is accused of committing the crime of “illegally storing 24 vehicles”

              From rear to left, Beijing’s highest ranking official in Australia,Australian Prime Minister Lu Kewen aka. Kevin Rudd, Comrade Garrett,Comrade Swan,and deputy Australian Prime Minister,Madame Gillard.

“Dear President Chávez,
We, the undersigned citizens of Australia, would like to extend a warm invitation for you to visit our country. We have watched developments in Venezuela with great interest. We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. We have also noted with keen attention the moves that your government has begun to make to create a society based on popular participation in all spheres of society—from the workplace up to the national government.
Although we are on the opposite side of the globe we feel that our shared ideals of social justice and democracy bring us close together. Every country has its own traditions and culture and has to find its own solutions, but what Venezuela has been able to achieve in so little time will be a source of inspiration and ideas for many in Australia.
In this light we believe that a visit to our country by yourself would not only help to improve the awareness of the Australian people of developments in Venezuela, but also be an unparalleled opportunity to strengthen the ties of friendship and solidarity between our two peoples.”
Who are  "We the undersigned citizens of Australia " ? well they signed their names to the above invitation and the full list can be read at the link below.

Australian Labor Party’s best friend turns out the lights in Venezuela “Dear President Chávez, We, the undersigned citizens of Australia, would like to extend a warm invitation for you to visit our country…………”

Australian Labor Party, Communisms Fifth Column, led by Kevin“I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist” Rudd

Australia: Lu Kewen aka. Kevin Rudd’s Socialist Labor Policies take effect, $600 Million shut down of mining industry

Australia: Comrade Lu Kewen’s aka. Kevin Rudd’s Internet censorship almost complete

Oliver Stone, Hugo Chavez, Hussein Obama and “European Hollywood Idiots” celebrate Communism at Venice Film Festival

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Lu Kewen aka.Kevin Rudd, Beijing’s very own Australian “Liar for Hire” PM

 

Rudd will pay for voodoo politics

Michael Costa
The Australian
June 01, 2010

ONE of the critical issues at the next federal election will be the character of Kevin Rudd.

After a string of broken promises, the public is asking: is the Prime Minister believable? Is he to be trusted? Does he believe in anything other than himself?

Simon Benson's new book, Betrayal, sheds light on this issue. I and others involved in the attempt to privatise sections of the power industry in NSW to fund an ambitious transport plan have known the answer to these questions for quite a while.

We have been constrained in commenting on these issues because the principal victim of Rudd's failure to display the character one would expect from a national political leader of substance remained quiet.

Morris Iemma's public exposure of the promise Rudd made to him before the previous federal election and his failure to deliver is timely and important in assessing Rudd's character. The revelations will rightly influence the next federal election.

Alan Jones, Costa & Iemma

At a personal level these events are a kind of political morality tale. On one side is Iemma, an honourable man who was motivated by a misguided but strongly held belief in labour solidarity and doing the right thing by the ALP. On the other side is Rudd, a person who made a promise and consequently accrued benefits without reciprocating when he was required to do so. It is about the selflessness and selfishness. It is about character.

Despite claims yesterday by former left-wing deputy premier John Watkins, leading figures in the Iemma state government were well aware of Rudd's promise.

Unfortunately for Watkins and the dysfunctional ALP machine's predictable attempts to place responsibility for the failure on me and my negotiating style, Iemma's revelations finally provide a context. The "Costa won't negotiate", "Costa refused to do a deal" and "Costa is mad" myths no doubt will give comfort to the cabal of self-interested incompetents that brought down a popularly elected premier and replaced him with an inexperienced and ultimately disastrous leader in Nathan Rees.

Those seeking a fuller explanation of the failed strategy now have the missing facts. These facts are critical in understanding the government's approach. The historians can fight over their interpretation of these facts. But they cannot be ignored.

The fallout from this disastrous episode of labour history remains.

What are left are unsettled disputes about the relationship between the union base and the parliamentary ALP, and questions about the role of the traditionally anonymous ALP machine in policy formulation.

Ray Hadley talks to Simon Benson

In a broader sense, the failed electricity strategy in NSW provides an insight into the contest that has been occurring in Australian party politics between politicians who believe ideas and policy are the core of politics, and those politicians who believe winning elections at any cost is the measure of success.

The latter group illogically rules out the possibility that you can do the right thing in policy terms and still win elections.

The win-at-any-cost politicians appear to be more interested in the benefits and trappings of office than undertaking diligently the responsibilities of office.

The new machine men think politics is as simple as borrowing techniques and strategies from the product marketing textbook. Politicians are now brands that can be subjected to brand management techniques. In their mind the same techniques used to sell soap powder can be equally successful in selling brand Rudd. It's a kind of voodoo politics that has turned techniques such as focus groups and polling on their head. Instead of using information derived from these techniques to adapt the message around a well-thought-out policy, they use these techniques to develop a policy.

One of the consequences of this type of voodoo politics has been a dramatic change in the status of politicians.The rise in modern political techniques is strongly correlated with the decline in public confidence in politicians.

Political spin and media management eventually catch up with a government. In Rudd's case the speed of this catch-up has been truly dramatic.

Rudd is still advised by the same people who brought down the Iemma government.

The irony is that despite their obsession with brand management techniques, their application of these techniques has been as poor as the Rudd government's administration of its stimulus packages. They've taken brand Rudd from a market share of more than 70 per cent in the last quarter to less than 50 per cent in this quarter.

If they really were in marketing, they would have been sacked for this result. The Prime Minister has only himself to blame for the mess his government confronts. What should be dawning on Rudd is that by reneging on his commitment to Iemma, he also has crippled his own re-election agenda.

The Labor Party is now dysfunctional, particularly in electorally vulnerable NSW.

If Rudd had honoured his promise to Iemma, he would have had a cashed-up state government delivering much needed infrastructure. Rudd had the political authority, after he decisively won the federal election, to deliver on his promise.

He chose to put his political popularity before the policy position. He chose to take the advice of machine men.

These same machine men no doubt are closely watching the opinion polls and planning to politically execute him if his standing in the polls continues to decline.

If this occurs, as in all good morality tales, he will have brought this on himself for not having the character to honour his promise to Iemma.

Michael Costa is a former treasurer of NSW.

Lu Kewen aka. Beijing’s highest ranking official in Australia,Australian PM Kevin Rudd, simply cannot be trusted.

Six years of HARD LABOR ? No Way.

Column - The greatest liar in the Lodge

Andrew Bolt
Daily Telegraph
Wednesday, June 02, 2010

I CAN’T recall when I first knew I could never trust Kevin Rudd to tell the truth.

Was it when he claimed he and his widowed mum were thrown out of their home by a heartless landlord?

Was it when he said he had a memory blank about his night at Scores?

Perhaps it was when he said during the ABC’s cricket coverage he remembered as a 17-year-old standing at the Gabba to watch Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson tear into the English.

He remembered the crowd chanting “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if Thommo don’t get you, then Lillee must”, but even more clearly he remembered 42-year-old Colin Cowdrey bravely walking on to the field and shaking the hand of Thomson.

But “Ashes to ashes” was never a chant, and Cowdrey didn’t play in Brisbane, joining the tour in Perth.

Maybe I’m wrong to seize on such small stuff, or mean to object that he said “sorry” to a “stolen generations” no one can find. Another lie.

But it’s clear the public is also belatedly catching on. In fact, Rudd’s credibility is now shot to pieces.

He was fatally damaged already, having falsely claimed global warming was “the great moral and economic challenge of our time”, only to drop his emissions trading scheme when it got too hard.

But last week finished him off, and even left him exposed to what in normal times is a crime in politics - misleading Parliament. Rudd was accused, credibly, by former NSW premier Morris Iemma and treasurer Michael Costa of having lied when he told Iemma before the last federal election to postpone his plans to sell the state’s electricity assets until Rudd won office, when they’d then join to “f---” the unions. After the election, Rudd welched on that deal.

But more terrible for his reputation have been the deceits to justify his effective embezzlement of $38 million of taxpayers’ money to pay for political advertising for his troubled “super profits” tax on miners.

In how many ways has Rudd again shown his word to be worthless?

He promised before the election to ban such advertising, which he called “a cancer” and gave an “absolute 100 per cent guarantee” the auditor-general would have to approve such spending.

But the auditor-general has been sacked from that job, and Rudd has dipped into your pockets for the very same kind of “cancer”.

To excuse himself, Rudd had Special Minister of State Joe Ludwig last week offer two reasons for an exemption for “extremely urgent action”. And both reasons were frauds.

First, claimed Ludwig, there was “co-ordinated misinformation about the changes (which) is currently being promulgated in paid advertising”, which means the ads by miners.

But Rudd has since been forced to admit he’d approved the cash for these ads as long ago as April 20, weeks before the mining industry ran any of its own.

Ludwig’s second excuse was even dodgier: that the ads were needed since this new tax “involves changes to the value of some capital assets, they impact on financial markets”.

Uh, oh. Ludwig had contradicted what Rudd told Parliament the day before, when he denied his tax plan had hurt the markets: “Share prices around the world have fallen because of the crisis in Greece.”

Costa now asks: “Is the Prime Minister believable? Is he credible? ... This bloke has lost the public.”

He lost me long ago. Now I cannot think of a bigger liar to hold his high office.

 

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Australian Labor Party’s best friend turns out the lights in Venezuela “Dear President Chávez, We, the undersigned citizens of Australia, would like to extend a warm invitation for you to visit our country…………”

Red Oil… “Redistributive” Government

 

Is this like Barack Hugo Chavez Hussein Obama’s million strong civilian civil service “army” “There are so many different military forces at Chavez’s disposal – the parade seems endless.  And although they’re not marching here today - Chavez has recently armed a 30,000-strong civilian militia.  Venezuela! Venezuela! He told them there were plots to kill him, and if it happened - they would know what to do. The message here today is crystal clear - both to his enemies abroad and his opponents at home. In the stands, Cuba's President Raul Castro would certainly approve. Chavez, Socialist, Motherland or death! It leaves the President's political opponents like Dr Douglas Leon very worried. “

Comrade Hugo Mr 30% inflation Chavez,the role model for the Australian Labor Party.

Australian Labor Party, Communisms Fifth Column, led by Kevin“I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist” Rudd

Will someone please explain to me how you can be elected to the leadership of the largest Socialist / Communist Party in Australia, Lu Kewen aka Kevin Rudd,and claim to not believe in its ideology and manifesto ? or is this yet another example of the Labor Party’s most adhered to commandment of “whatever it takes” Chk – chk- BOOM The Australian Labor Party,ALP,is funded by the Australian Council of Trade Unions,ACTU,these bankers and financiers of the ALP are without question radical left in ideology and actions, are we to believe that they are unaware they have a man leading the political party they finance and SCAM for does not believe in or subscribe to their social and political objectives ? An invitation to President Chavez by the undersigned cabal of Labor Party officials, Parliamentarians,Union officials and leftist beard strokers and “Religious” leaders. For the latest developments in the Socialist Utopia of Venezuela,see SheikYerMami’s Winds of Jihad http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org/?q=node/160 Dear President Chávez, We, the undersigned citizens of Australia, would like to extend a warm invitation for you to visit our country. We have watched developments in Venezuela with great interest. We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. We have also noted with keen attention the moves that your government has begun to make to create a society based on popular participation in all spheres of society—from the workplace up to the national government. Although we are on the opposite side of the globe we feel that our shared ideals of social justice and democracy bring us close together. Every country has its own traditions and culture and has to find its own solutions, but what Venezuela has been able to achieve in so little time will be a source of inspiration and ideas for many in Australia.

“that our shared ideals of social justice and democracy bring us close together”

“…..source of inspiration and ideas for many in Australia.”

Venezuelan President for life wannabe, “Mad Dog” Hugo Chavez, seen here with one of his advisors,Senorita Parrot.

“I’m not sick,but I’m not well.”

In this light we believe that a visit to our country by yourself would not only help to improve the awareness of the Australian people of developments in Venezuela, but also be an unparalleled opportunity to strengthen the ties of friendship and solidarity between our two peoples. All signatures will be posted to Nelson Davila, Venezuela’s charge d’affaires in Australia, Canberra.(Todas las firmas de invitación serán enviadas a Nelson Dávila, Encargado de Negocios de Venezuela en Australia, Canberra) If you would like to confirm the signature of yourself or you organisation for identification and for promotion of President Chavez' visit please contact us: Jody Betzien 0425 887 078 or email info@venezuelasolidarity.org Signatories include Andrew Ferguson NSW Secretary, CFMEU Construction and General Division, John Pilger - Independent Journalist, Warren Mundine - National President of the ALP in 2006, Sylvia Hale - Member of the Legislative Council NSW (Greens), Steve Dargavel - Acting State Secretary, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Victoria, Meredith Burgmann - President of the Legislative Council of NSW, Wayne Berry - MLA (ALP) Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly, Tim Gooden - Geelong Trades Hall Secretary, Van Thanh Rudd - Visual Artist  Nephew of Australian PM Lu Kewen aka.Kevin 07 Rudd Labor’s, Rudd’s coveted economic,social plan for Australia. Australian Council of Trade Unions President Comrade Darling! Sharan Burrow, in the centre with ASU National Chairperson Alison Peters front right, Fran Teirney of the ASU-NSW & ACT (Services) Branch front left and others.

“Organisers as Educators”

"The only way you'll fly is with the ASU!" Airlines organisers showing the way.”

Signatories to invite Chavez to Australia Ali Kazak - Former Ambassador of Palestine Andrew Ferguson NSW Secretary, CFMEU Construction and General Division Angela Briant - Secretary Independent Education Union (Tasmania) Antony Loewenstein - Independent Journalist Barry Carr - Director of la Trobe University, Institute of Latin American Studies Belinda Selke - NTEU, Wollongong Blake Stephens - Organier, CPSU NSW Brendan Hewson - President, Community & Public Sector Union /CSA Buranjali David Allie - Council of Elders, Indigenious Land Council Cameron Durnsford - LMHU, Qld Caroline Risely - Monash University Welfare Officer Carolyn Smith - Childcare Union Assistant Secretary, WA Liqor Hospitality Miscellaneous workers Union Casper Cumming - Swinborne Student Union President 2006 Charlotte Boss-Walker -Peace Activist (Tas) Cheryl Dillon - NTEU, Wollongong Chris Game - Secretary, NTEU NSW, Clare Ozich - Industrial Officer, Unions WA Craig Bulley - Worker's Radio Craig Johnson - Cultural Studies, Macquarie University. Darren Mathewson - director of Organising CPSU Dave Robinson - Secretary, Unions WA David O’Byrne - Sectretary LHMU Deb Foskey - Greens Member of the Legislative Assembly (ACT) Dick Nichols - National Co-ordinator, Socialist Alliance Doreen Shenman - Peace Activist (Tas) Dr Alastair Grieg Senior Lecturer, Australian National University: Faculty of Arts Dr Coral Wynter - biochemist, Brisbane Dr Rhonda Forrest - Lecturer, Charles Sturt University Dr. Anthony Ashbolt - NTEU, Wollongong Dr. Henk Eijkman - Empowered Learning International Dr. Peter Ross - Spanish & Latin American Studies, UNSW Erick Maldonado - NTEU, Wollongong Federico Fuentes - National Co-ordinator, Resistance socialist youth organisation Fay Hannah - Cuba Friendship Society Geoff Hull - LMHU (NT) Gil Anderson - Secretary ACT Branch LHMU Graciela Nogues - ASU workplace delegate & L.A Solidarity Committe Graham Pallot - organiser, CFMEU WA Grahame McCulloch - General Secretaty, NTEU Glenda Mejía - Spanish Co-ordinator at RMIT Humphrey McQueen - Historian Ian Bray - WA assistant branch secretary, Maritime Union of Australia WA Ian Cohen - MLC NSW, Greens Ian Newman - Peace Activist (Tas) J Keith Atkinson - Associate Professor emeritus, UQ; Healer Jack Mundey - Environmentalist Jade Mason - LMHU (Qld) Janine Aitkens -President, Cairns Campus, James Cook University Student Assoc. Jakalene X - Indigenous community activist Jake Wishart - Student Activist Alliance Jenni Bond - Peace Activist (Tas) Jenny Forward - Organiser CPSU (Tasmania) Jim McIlroy - journalist, Brisbane Jim Mellor - Communications/Projects, CFMEU WA Jim Reid - organiser, CFMEU WA Jo Maree Coghlan - Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong Joan Doyle - Victorian Branch Secretary of the CEPU Communications Division Joe Cambria - The Australian Global Warming and Fair Pay Institute Joe McDonald - Assistant Secretary, CFMEU WA Joel Asphar - AMWU WA Organiser John Pilger - Independent Journalist John Sutton - National Secretary, CFMEU, Construction & Gernaral Division Jose Munoz - Organiser ACT Branch LHMU Judith Pabian - President ACT Branch NTEU Keith Peckham - Industrial development officer, UnionsWA Kerry Nettle - Australian Greens Senator for NSW Kerryn Williams - Editor, Green Left Weekly Kevin Ennor - organiser, CFMEU WA Keysar Trad - Islamic Friendship Association Kim Sattler - Secretary UnionsACT Kiraz Janicke - National Co-ordinating Committee Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network Lee Rhiannon - Member of the Legislative Council NSW (Greens)Len Palmer - Lecturer, Charles Sturt University Lisa Darmanin, ASU Assistant Branch Secretary, Lisa Darmanin Linda Briskman - Professor, Curtin Centre for Human Rights Education Linda Seaborn - Welfare worker, and HACSU delegate Lisa MacDonald - National Co-ordinating Committee Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network Mark Taylor - Australian Services Union (Qld) Marree O'Halloran - President, NSW Teachers Federation Michele McKenzie - Greens Councillor, Leichhardt Council Michelle O'Neil - TCFUA State secretary Megan Clement - Newcastle University Students Association, Education Officer 2006 Meredith Burgmann - President of the Legislative Council of NSW Mick Baker - MUA WA organiser Mick Buchan - Organiser, CFMEU WA Mick Campion - President, NTEU Murdoch Univeristy Branch Mike Donaldson - NTEU, Wollongong Naomi Arrowsmith - Australian Services Union, Assistant State Secretary (NSW) Narendra Mohan Kommalapati - Journalist Natasha Stott-Despoja - SA Australian Democrats Senator Neil Mudford - Secretary ACT Branch NTEU Nicholas Kafer - Education Campaigns Coordinator - Wollonongong Undergraduate Students' Association (WUSA) Noah Bassil - Associate of the Centre for Middle East & North African Studies Paul Halfpenny - WA Organiser, NTEU Paul Lynch - State member for Liverpool Paul Gonzalez - Pablo Neruda Cultural Centre (Melb) Paul Obohoov - Trade Union Voices Choir, ACTU Phillip Adams - Journalist, Republican of the Year 2005 Peter Boyle - National Secretary, Democratic Socialist Perspective Raul Bassi - Transport Workers Union delegate, Sydney Ray Jackson - Indigenous Social Justice Association Reverend Alex Gator Robert Austin - Honorary Fellow Department of History, University of Melbourne Robyn Francis -Permaculture Education, Erda Institute Inc Ryan Ardill - Your Rights at Work, Kingston Division Saeb Ali - Peace For Lebanon (Wollongong) Sam Watson - Indigenous Murri Activist Scott Poynting - Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Education, UW Shelley Watson-Harris - Executive Officer, Unions WA Simon Cocker - Secretary, Unions Tasmania Stephen Weber - ASU (Alice Springs) Steve Dargavel - Acting State Secretary, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Victoria. Steve McCartney - State President, AMWU WA Steven Arditto - Organiser CPSU (Tasmania) Susan Engel - NTEU Wollongong Susan Hopgood - Federal Secretary, AEU Susan Price - UNSW National Tertiary Education Union, Branch President Sylvia Hale - Member of the Legislative Council NSW (Greens) Tania Jorquera - Youth Worker Thirza White - Campaign Coordinator Unions WA Tim Anderson - Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney Tim Gooden - Geelong Trades Hall Secretary Van Thanh Rudd - Visual Artist Vinnie Molina Organiser, CFMEU WA Viviana Ramírez - Senior Teacher of Spanish, Beerwah State High School Warren Mundine - National President of the ALP in 2006 Warren Smith - Assistant Sydney Branch Secretary, Maritime Union of Australia Wayne Berry - MLA (ALP) Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly Wendy Jopson - Lecturer, University of Technology Sydne Yvette Berry - Organiser ACT Branch LHMU Rudd backtracks on socialist label Samantha Maiden and Verity Edwards The Australian December 15, 2006 KEVIN Rudd has junked a pledge to remove the word socialism from the Labor Party's constitution just a day after denouncing it as an "arcane, 19th-century" doctrine. Three years ago he declared himself "an old-fashioned Christian socialist", but yesterday he was busily denouncing socialism and also backflipping on a 2001 push to remove it from the ALP's constitution. Mr Rudd has previously declared the ALP's socialist dogma of controlling "production, distribution and exchange" had nostalgia value only and was "entirely unmemorable". When asked yesterday whether he would now take action, the Labor leader changed tack and said he had no plans to pursue the reforms at next year's ALP national conference. "I have no plans of doing so," he said in Adelaide yesterday. "I've already indicated where I stand philosophically in terms of the questions of my own beliefs, my own values and the priorities and objectives which I believe for a modern, progressive, democratic party. "These are core social democratic values and I'm proud to be a committed social democrat as I have been all my life." Mr Rudd's emphatic rejection of socialism was frontpage news in Melbourne's The Age yesterday. The newspaper's website also included video images of the Labor leader denouncing socialism but admitting he did not want workers being left to the "dung heap of the market". "I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist," Mr Rudd said. However, his bold statement of values was immediately undermined by the emergence of another declaration in 2003, when he was quoted in another Fairfax newspaper as saying: "I am an old-fashioned Christian socialist." Mr Rudd also cites Keir Hardie, founder of the 19th century British Christian socialist movement, as one of his heroes. In a homage to another of his political heroes, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who fought to expunge socialism from the British Labour Party's constitution in 1994, Mr Rudd has repeatedly said the ALP should follow suit. "The socialist objective ... should be abolished," he said in 2002. "While we may not have taken the socialist objective seriously ... there are others outside the party who have - and have been fundamentally alienated by it." Socialism has clearly been on the Labor leader's mind for a while. In his maiden speech to parliament, Mr Rudd said: "Nambour, for those of you who are unfamiliar with it, was not a major centre of revolutionary socialism in the 1970s - the cane growers hall even less so." Former Labor Party president Barry Jones said yesterday the ALP's constitution had already been updated during a special national conference in 1981. "(But) if there's going to be a broad debate about what we stand for that's terrific because, in a way, for some decades we just haven't talked about it," he said. Mr Jones pointed to a discussion in his autobiography, A Thinking Reed, which refers to comments by Polish philosopher Leszek Kilakowski, who said: "The trouble with the social democratic idea is that it does not stock and does not sell any of the existing ideological commodities which various totalitarian movements offer dream-hungry youth."

Lu Kewen.

Australia: Comrade Lu Kewen’s aka. Kevin Rudd’s Internet censorship almost complete

Oliver Stone, Hugo Chavez, Hussein Obama and “European Hollywood Idiots” celebrate Communism at Venice Film Festival

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Australia: Alan Jones on Muslim Immigration

 

Alan Jones

I support "the right of return" for all Muslims to what ever country it was they or the parents / grand parents ran away from, where all the Religious and social structures that they demand be imposed on Australian society are already in place... it's a win win as we say.

Australia: Kevin Rudd “QUIETLY” asking Christian Churches to take in Illegal immigrants….

Australian Education: accommodating Ignoble Islam again.

MORE AT Australia Invaded
by Sheikyermami on May 20, 2010

 

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Labor Party Transport Minister resigns after Homosexual Club revelations.

 

Progressives up to their old tricks again

 

“The club has a $22 entry fee and assures clients discretion as they offer services for men who prefer men.”

Daily Telegraph. “TimeOut Sydney described Ken's as "today's most popular gay sauna ... The iconic sauna has been servicing queer Sydney's sexual appetites for more than 25 years. Between the dimly lit steam room, sizzling sauna, glory hole maze, dark room and porn theatre, Kens caters for every taste ... Butt Naked nights are towel-free so patrons get to size up their prey before they commit to getting a room, while weekday Lunchtime Specials pull in a crowd who take the concept of Happy Meal to a whole new level."

Kens

Biography

Political Party Activity - Member Corrimal Branch of the A.L.P. since 1976 holding numerous branch and electorate Council executive positions.

Community Activity - Chair, Illawarra Regional Development Board; and Wollongong City Gallery Board. Deputy Chair, Tourism Wollongong; the Local Government Superannuation Scheme; and the Wollongong Sportsground Trust. Former Director Port Kembla Port Corporation. Patron of numerous sporting clubs and cultural organisations.

Local Government Activity - Lord Mayor of Wollongong, Sept. 1991 to 1999; and Alderman 1987-91. Member of the Executive of the NSW Local Government Association.

Personal - Married to Edna with two sons.

Qualifications, Occupations and Interests - Appointed a Fellow of the University of Wollongong 1995. Worked in Local Government for over 10 years, previously staff member to a Federal Member. Interests include: regional economic development, urban planning, community access, indigenous and community service issues.

 

The Hon. David Campbell MP

Minister for Transport and Roads

The Honourable David Andrew Campbell MP

David Campbell was born in Bulli and grew up in Corrimal in the heart of the seat he now represents in the NSW Parliament. He is married to Edna and they have two adult sons.

After four years as councillor on Wollongong City Council, and eight years as the Lord Mayor of Wollongong, he was elected as the Member for Keira in March 1999.

He was re-elected in March 2003, and became the Minister for Regional Development, Small Business and the Illawarra. The portfolio of Water Utilities was added in February 2006 and the following October he was appointed Leader of the House.

He has chaired the trustee board of the Parliamentary Superannuation Fund since 2003.

David was re-elected in March 2007 and on 2 April was sworn in as Minister for Police and Minister for the Illawarra. On 8 September 2008, David was sworn in as the Minister for Transport.

David recognises that passengers, customer service and accountability are key focus areas for the Transport Portfolio. He is working to deliver improved services to commuters and better public transport outcomes for all NSW.

In the Illawarra David has worked tirelessly to secure the evolution of the port of Port Kembla into Australia’s leading car import centre. He remains dedicated to ensuring his region receives a fair share of Government resources.

David was appointed a Fellow of the University of Wollongong in 1995. He has been a member of the University of Wollongong Council since 2003.

Prior to entering parliament David had experience as:

• a member of the executive of the NSW Local Government Association
• deputy chair of the Local Government Superannuation Scheme
• director, Port Kembla Port Corporation
• chair, Illawarra Regional Development Board
• chair, Wollongong City Gallery Board
• deputy chair, Wollongong Sportsground Trust
• deputy chair, Tourism Wollongong.

He is the patron of numerous sporting clubs and cultural organisations and is an avid sports fan, and a recreational swimmer.

 

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Australia: Comrade Lu Kewen’s aka. Kevin Rudd’s Internet censorship almost complete

 

Access Denied Pt 1.

“The idea that the Internet is this scary place that parents don't understand, that everybody needs protection from, isn't a view that's held by most of society.

What it actually is, is a scary place that politicians don't understand, that politicians need protection from and that's why we're having this debate now.”

Access Denied Pt.2

 

Beijing’s highest ranking official in Australia, Australian Prime Minister Lu Kewen, aka. Kevin Rudd.

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Update on Rudd's internet censorship laws

Americans BEWARE Australian internet to be CENSORED by Australian Labor Party

 

The Washington Times
www.washingtontimes.com
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U.N. group seeks control of Internet
By John Zarocostas

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Published November 18, 2003
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GENEVA -- Governments spearheaded by China, Brazil, India, Russia and Saudi Arabia are trying to place the Internet under the control of the United Nations or its member governments, a move that the United States and other developed countries are determined to resist.

The issue has cropped up in preparatory talks for a world summit on the information society to be held from Dec. 10 to 12 in Geneva, with the stated goal of advancing the management and worldwide use of the Internet, especially in poorer nations.
Delegates from rich and developing nations remained divided on the matter at the end of the latest round of talks on Friday, senior diplomats said.

"We will continue to fight hard to ensure that Internet governance remains a balanced enterprise among all stakeholders and continues to be private-sector-led," said the chief of the U.S. delegation, Ambassador David A. Gross.
Pierre Gagne, executive director of the world summit, earlier identified control of the Internet as one of two key issues in the talks, adding that control and financial issues "will probably be the last issues to be resolved" at the summit.
Many developing countries argue that governments need to play a greater role in managing and setting policy for the Internet, while the United States, the European Union and Japan, among others, say government interference could stifle the development of the dynamic medium.
The Internet, at present, is loosely managed by a private organization in California named the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which coordinates such matters as Internet servers and domain names.
Countries with developing and emerging economies would like to hand over that authority to a U.N. agency, such as the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
The Internet medium is too important to be left in the hands of one major power, some argue, and others say problems such as cybercrime and protection of intellectual property rights require greater government involvement.
Yoshio Utsumi, secretary-general of the ITU, which will host the December summit, said in an interview that Brazil is "a very strong advocate" of his agency taking over the Internet.
China, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Senegal and many other African countries were also "keen" for the United Nations to have a role, he said.
But, he said, the differences of opinion were "too big" to be settled before the delegates meet in Geneva next month. Other diplomats said there might be no decision even then.
The summit also will deal with questions such as how to block the spread of viruses, prevent unwanted "spam" and prevent the use of the medium for criminal purposes such as identity theft, Western officials said.
Russia has proposed that the final declaration address Internet security in both "civil and security fields," but many countries fear that any reference to military security could limit freedom of expression, Mr. Utsumi said.
There also is pressure for a strong statement in support of free expression on the Internet but sources said that is being resisted by China and other countries that want to maintain strong oversight of the medium.
Nitin Desai, special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said the core purpose of the summit is to establish a common vision for the information society, to utilize new technologies to overcome poverty and to find ways to make Internet access affordable to all.
The president of Senegal has proposed the creation of a "global digital solidarity fund" to help poor countries establish Internet access. The ITU estimates that fewer than 1 percent of low-income country residents are Internet subscribers.
The United States and other industrialized countries say the existing mechanisms are sufficient and argue that funding a new international bureaucracy would not be an effective way to spread information technology.
Poor countries would be better served by establishing an environment in which the private sector would develop the needed infrastructure, the industrialized countries say.

 

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Australia: Lu Kewen’s (aka. Kevin Rudd’s) Multicultural Zoo erupts.

 

Up to 30 asylum seekers in brawl

Daily Telegraph
May 15, 2010

THREE people have been taken to hospital after up to 30 teenage asylum seekers brawled at a Melbourne accommodation centre.

The fight broke out at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation facility in Broadmeadows at 9.30pm (AEST) on Friday after an argument between two groups got out of control.

A Department of Immigration spokesperson said staff had the brawl under control before police arrived.

Two teenagers who suffered cuts to their upper bodies have been released from hospital. Another is waiting to be treated.

The facility houses family groups and unaccompanied minors.

Police are investigating the incident while the private contractor which runs the centre, Serco, is also investigating.

The immigration department says the facility, which holds 50 people, remains calm.

The spokesperson would not reveal the nationalities of the teenagers in the brawl.

Lu Kewen’s latest shipment of imported Labor voters,life long Social Security recepients and Muslim colonialists, should know better,after all they are predominantly members of the “Religion of Peace” and as such should at least wait until they are let loose on the Australian community by Lu Kewen and his Union funded Australian Labor Party, before they start spreading their version of “Peace” aka. Gang Rape of “Aussie Pigs and Sluts”,Drug importation and distribution,Motor Vehicle theft and rebirthing, kneecappings, stabbings, home invasions,armed hold ups,common assaults, Social Security fraud and anything else the “Religion of Peace” and its Australian Labor Party,Multicultural Industry apologists throughout Australia, give them permission to engage in, in the name of all cultures, Religions, belief’s, value systems are equal.

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Australia, UK: United Nations, aka. International Socialism’s agenda EXPOSED.

 

Thought police muscle up in Britain

Hal G. P. Colebatch
The Australian
April 21, 2009

BRITAIN appears to be evolving into the first modern soft totalitarian state. As a sometime teacher of political science and international law, I do not use the term totalitarian loosely.

There are no concentration camps or gulags but there are thought police with unprecedented powers to dictate ways of thinking and sniff out heresy, and there can be harsh punishments for dissent.

Nikolai Bukharin claimed one of the Bolshevik Revolution's principal tasks was "to alter people's actual psychology". Britain is not Bolshevik, but a campaign to alter people's psychology and create a new Homo britannicus is under way without even a fig leaf of disguise.

The Government is pushing ahead with legislation that will criminalise politically incorrect jokes, with a maximum punishment of up to seven years' prison. The House of Lords tried to insert a free-speech amendment, but Justice Secretary Jack Straw knocked it out. It was Straw who previously called for a redefinition of Englishness and suggested the "global baggage of empire" was linked to soccer violence by "racist and xenophobic white males". He claimed the English "propensity for violence" was used to subjugate Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and that the English as a race were "potentially very aggressive".

In the past 10 years I have collected reports of many instances of draconian punishments, including the arrest and criminal prosecution of children, for thought-crimes and offences against political correctness.

Countryside Restoration Trust chairman and columnist Robin Page said at a rally against the Government's anti-hunting laws in Gloucestershire in 2002: "If you are a black vegetarian Muslim asylum-seeking one-legged lesbian lorry driver, I want the same rights as you." Page was arrested, and after four months he received a letter saying no charges would be pressed, but that: "If further evidence comes to our attention whereby your involvement is implicated, we will seek to initiate proceedings." It took him five years to clear his name.

Page was at least an adult. In September 2006, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, Codie Stott, asked a teacher if she could sit with another group to do a science project as all the girls with her spoke only Urdu. The teacher's first response, according to Stott, was to scream at her: "It's racist, you're going to get done by the police!" Upset and terrified, the schoolgirl went outside to calm down. The teacher called the police and a few days later, presumably after officialdom had thought the matter over, she was arrested and taken to a police station, where she was fingerprinted and photographed. According to her mother, she was placed in a bare cell for 3 1/2 hours. She was questioned on suspicion of committing a racial public order offence and then released without charge. The school was said to be investigating what further action to take, not against the teacher, but against Stott. Headmaster Anthony Edkins reportedly said: "An allegation of a serious nature was made concerning a racially motivated remark. We aim to ensure a caring and tolerant attitude towards pupils of all ethnic backgrounds and will not stand for racism in any form."

A 10-year-old child was arrested and brought before a judge, for having allegedly called an 11-year-old boya "Paki" and "bin Laden" during a playground argument at a primary school (the other boy had called him a skunk and a Teletubby). When it reached the court the case had cost taxpayers pound stg. 25,000. The accused was so distressed that he had stopped attending school. The judge, Jonathan Finestein, said: "Have we really got to the stage where we are prosecuting 10-year-old boys because of political correctness? There are major crimes out there and the police don't bother to prosecute. This is nonsense."

Finestein was fiercely attacked by teaching union leaders, as in those witch-hunt trials where any who spoke in defence of an accused or pointed to defects in the prosecution were immediately targeted as witches and candidates for burning.

Hate-crime police investigated Basil Brush, a puppet fox on children's television, who had made a joke about Gypsies. The BBC confessed that Brush had behaved inappropriately and assured police that the episode would be banned.

A bishop was warned by the police for not having done enough to "celebrate diversity", the enforcing of which is now apparently a police function. A Christian home for retired clergy and religious workers lost a grant because it would not reveal to official snoopers how many of the residents were homosexual. That they had never been asked was taken as evidence of homophobia.

Muslim parents who objected to young children being given books advocating same-sex marriage and adoption at one school last year had their wishes respected and the offending material withdrawn. This year, Muslim and Christian parents at another school objecting to the same material have not only had their objections ignored but have been threatened with prosecution if they withdraw their children.

There have been innumerable cases in recent months of people in schools, hospitals and other institutions losing their jobs because of various religious scruples, often, as in the East Germany of yore, not shouted fanatically from the rooftops but betrayed in private conversations and reported to authorities. The crime of one nurse was to offer to pray for a patient, who did not complain but merely mentioned the matter to another nurse. A primary school receptionist, Jennie Cain, whose five-year-old daughter was told off for talking about Jesus in class, faces the sack for seeking support from her church. A private email from her to other members of the church asking for prayers fell into the hands of school authorities.

Permissiveness as well as draconianism can be deployed to destroy socially accepted norms and values. The Royal Navy, for instance, has installed a satanist chapel in a warship to accommodate the proclivities of a satanist crew member. "What would Nelson have said?" is a British newspaper cliche about navy scandals, but in this case seems a legitimate question. Satanist paraphernalia is also supplied to prison inmates who need it.

This campaign seems to come from unelected or quasi-governmental bodies controlling various institutions, which are more or less unanswerable to electors, more than it does directly from the Government, although the Government helps drive it and condones it in a fudged and deniable manner.

Any one of these incidents might be dismissed as an aberration, but taken together - and I have only mentioned a tiny sample; more are reported almost every day - they add up to a pretty clear picture.

Hal G. P. Colebatch's Blair's Britain was chosen as a book of the year by The Spectator in 1999.

Australia… New Strategies

 

Labor’s Paedophiles of the Mind

Students being directed to pro-asylum seeker websites in new campaign

John Masanauskas
Herald Sun
April 28, 2010

EDUCATION Minister Julia Gillard has urged schools to teach a "balanced'' curriculum after Victorian students were directed to a pro-asylum seeker website and encouraged to create political campaigns in a new multicultural agenda for state schools.

A resource kit urges students to design slogans, badges, bumper stickers and posters for display in classrooms and to question terms such as "boat people", "queue jumpers" and "illegals".

It also says schools should display welcome signs in different languages, become involved in events like National Sorry Day and Refugee Week, and invites students to spend quiet time meditating on their core beliefs and values.

Ms Gillard says a new national curriculum is under consideration and schools should be encouraging their students to learn every side of each story.

"We want to see people getting balanced information,'' she said.

"Thinking their way through, discussing questions - that's the journey of education ... We would expect them to be debating and to (be) looking at all sides of any proposition.''

Ms Gillard said research projects should be designed for students to draw their own conclusions on major issues.

"If you set a research project for students, you'd obviously want them to go to all potential sources of information. You'd want them to have the skills to evaluate the sources of information,'' she said.

The program, dubbed All of Us - Multicultural Perspectives in Victorian Schools, was devised by the Victorian Multicultural Commission and is endorsed by high-profile citizens including Governor David de Kretser.

The kit is part of a Brumby Government policy that calls for cultural diversity to be integrated into the curriculum rather than just experienced through dress-up days and food festivals.

The Education Department resource kit recommends that secondary students go to websites such as A Just Australia for myths and facts about asylum seekers.

AJA is a refugee lobby group founded by Left-wing broadcaster Phillip Adams that does not support mandatory detention of asylum seekers.

Students are asked to show support for refugees by writing personal action plans and to "brainstorm" ideas that could be taken up by the school council.

Swinburne University sociologist Dr Katherine Betts said the kit seemed biased.

"This is rather heavy duty stuff for school children and I'd worry that they would be in a position to evaluate the arguments that they're being exposed to," she said. "It's surprising that they're not being directed to alternative sources of information."

Liberal education spokesman Martin Dixon said the policy showed how out of touch the Government was on mainstream issues.

"Teachers and students are only being encouraged to explore one side of the refugee/illegal immigrant debate," he said. "It's not encouraging students to bring an open mind to the debate, it's guiding their thoughts towards what the Education Department says."

But Education Minister Bronwyn Pike said: "It is appalling that the Liberal Party want to stop Victorian students from learning about cultural diversity."

 

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