Australian Anti Terror Operation cancelled after Islamic Caliphate supporters riot in Melbourne

Australian PM Tony Abbott has to stand up to these insurgents, illegal aliens, illegal entrants and their Leftist Labor Green Loon facilitators and supporters.

PM Abbott must immediately order that the protection of Australia and it citizens from those who say they are sworn by Religious and                                    ideological obligations to destroy us no longer dictate Australia's                                        border security.

Labor's Finest turn out in support of Islamic Caliphate base in Bendigo in their Peoples Republic of Victoria, and Burn Australian Flag for good measure.

Australian Council of Trade Unions / GetUp funded Labor / Green Loon "Co Party" Anarchists,Fascists,Homosexuals,
"Students" and Islamic Caliphate supporters Burn Australian Flag at
 Bendigo No Mosque rally.
Pepper spray used to subdue rioters.
Bendigo Mayor clueless.



Stop the Mosque in Bendigo

You see the Labor leader Bill Shorten shown above thinks that Australia's destruction can be hastened by importing into Australia as many undocumented single male Muslims aged between eighteen and twenty eight as possible under the guise of illegal entry via boat and Labor's open borders Policy, that was implemented during the Rudd Gillard Rudd Labor Governments.

During this time some 55,000 illegal entrants were successful in breaching Australia's sovereign borders and inducted into Australia.

Eighty Percent of these ILLEGAL entrants were  SINGLE MALE MUSLIM MEN 

aged 18 to 28 years of age.

Why does the Australian Council of Trade Unions/GetUp financed Labor Green Loon Co Party think that Australia should have such UNDOCUMENTED people illegally entering Australia?

Someone should ask Mr Shorten how many MORE of Labor's preferred illegal entrants will the Labor Green Loon Party import into Australia if he is elected at the 2016 Federal Election.

In six years of Rudd Gillard Rudd Labor rule we know that at least 55,000 undocumented illegal entrants 80% single Muslim males aged 18 to 28 years of age,were welcomed into Australia by his party's open borders policy, how many more electorates will become SAFE Labor Green Loon seats following another flood of Labor Green Loon VOTE People under a future Labor Green Loon Federal Governments Open Borders Policy?

The ACTU GetUp funded Labor Green Loons have the same objective that the Islamist insurgents say they have, that is the destruction of Australian Society and Governance by whatever means available to them.Both organisations hate Australia and its non Multicultural citizens and institutions, Labor Green Loons see the Islamists as fellow travellers in their mutually shared objectives and their war on Australia.

Labor Green Loons foolishly believe that "come the Revolution" that they will be in power and that their Islamist allies will simply join hands with Labor Green Loons Gaia worshipping Atheists and Homosexual Earth Mothers and forget all about their "allah"  and fall into line behind some UN led Marxist one world government that will ensure that never again will mankind be permitted to unshackle itself from state imposed slavery or at best Serfdom.

Histrory has shown us so far "come the Revolution" those who did most to facilitate it, the fifth column terrorists aka.useful idiots, are the first against the wall.

Australians Lets us rejoice for we are young and FREE yeah right Not if Labor Green Loons and their "preferred Australians" aka. VOTE People can help it.

Italy TODAY Australia 2016 following the election of an Open Borders ACTU GetUp financed Labor Green Loon Co Party Government.

Hotel Jihad’ – where an invading army of angry, young, strapping illegal alien Muslims are demanding immediate attention to their ‘needs’

Mark Latham offends the professional "Offenderati" and pays the price.

Mark Latham’s foul tirade shocks audience at Melbourne Writers’ Festival 2015

TOM MINEAR
SUNDAY HERALD SUN 
August 22 2015

ONE-TIME prime ministerial aspirant Mark Latham has launched a bizarre tirade of abuse against almost everyone.

Audience members booed, jeered and some even stormed out of the Melbourne Writers Festival Q&A with ABC host Jonathan Green, who could not control Mr Latham’s ranting.
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"Mr Latham’s ranting."  That's leftist code talk for someone saying something that the Marxist's do not want to hear aka they are "Offended"
that Latham did not firstly tell them how marvellously clever,wise and morally superior THEY are than the average Australian before he told them to all get Fucked and Piss Off had Latham had of done that he would have lauded as a sapling spawned of the Lest's new                                      "Tree of Knowledge"

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Mr Latham abused and then ignored Green, berating him for a comment he had shared on Twitter.

“You are a bigot ... You’re a deviant, you’re a hypocrite,” Latham said.

“There’s no way I’m answering your questions in such a forum ... I decide on which format and the manner in which it comes to this country.”

Audience members then grilled Mr Latham, asking about the abusive @RealMarkLatham Twitter account.

He refused to confirm whether he was behind it, suggesting he had a commercial arrangement to be interviewed about the issue.

Asked about his repeated slurs against high-profile women, including Australian of the Year Rosie Batty, Mr Latham was unrepentant and criticised the “left feminist clique”.

He nearly cried as he lashed out at Ms Batty for calling him a misogynist, saying he was a stay-at-home dad and supportive husband.

“If you’re going to suggest to me that’s fair comment, you’ve got a very warped view of fairness,” Latham claimed.

Mr Latham’s slurs against top transgender military official Cate McGregor — who he called “the then Malcolm McGregor” — prompted boos and cannot be published for legal reasons.

Green piped in to say that “I think you need to think about this, whether this is wise” but Mr Latham kept talking.

Actor Max Gillies was in the audience and told Mr Latham that he didn’t come to “listen to an afternoon of abuse”.

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"Actor" Max Gillies, (c) seen above surrounded by typical faces that belong to those who attend the Melbourne Writers Festival.

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Mr Latham replied: “Piss off, leave, go, go. It’s a democracy ... Get your lard ass off the seat and go.”

Before he bizarrely offered parenting advice, Mr Latham delivered an unprompted string of swear words.

Mr Latham, who resigned from the Australian Financial Review earlier this week, said the week had been “wonderfully hilarious” and “the theatre of the absurd we call Australian politics”.

He proudly claimed he never made a mistake in his columns and lashed out at “privileged elites” who were “trying to set me up for a fall” and had campaigned for his sacking.

“I stand by my opinions as having a role to play in the public debate and in the future, so they shall,” Mr Latham said.

“I will be charged back into battle. Today is just a prelude, a warm-up.”

So what did he say ?
Listen for yourself WARNING contains AUSTRALIAN language and a few swear words, if you are a Trade Unionist,an "Actor" a Writer or a member of Australia's self described intelligentsia, GetUp, Labor Party Green Loon supporter / activist and or have never been gainfully employed "Jazz Hands" and " Trigger" warnings are
                                 
                  NOT included in following video watch / listen to at your own  risk.                                            

Despite his hour-long tirade, Mr Latham complained about the “terrible corrosion of free speech”.
He provided virtually no political commentary except to say that no voters in key seats gave “two hoots” about issues like gay marriage.

Melbourne Writers Festival organisers tweeted they were “disappointed” with Mr Latham and it was “not the respectful conversation we value”.

Green simply tweeted: “Well that escalated quickly”.

Mr Latham refused to speak to the Sunday Herald Sun after the session.

What is Democracy Mother ?

Indonesia demands immediate cessation of Australian Border Protection and orders Indonesian Navy ships into its Indian Ocean coastline.

This is the best I have ever heard from these clowns. Demanding that the Australian Government of Tony Abbott return to the Union, GetUp funded, Labor / Green Loon Co Party goverment's of Lu Kewen aka. Kevin 07 aka Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard's,six years of open borders and importation into Australia of predominantly single Muslim males 18 to 28 years of age, colonisation of Australia, via their Asylum seeker / refugee SCAM.

Why would these self described "Progressive" Labor Green Loons demand that Australia be colonised by followers a seventh century Mass murderer, Slave Trader, Misogynist Paedophile ? 
Why would "Progressives" demand and indeed facilitate the importation of such people into a Judeo Christian Western Democracy like Australia?

Indonesia threatens Australia, and demands Australia stop defending its borders from Islamic Insurgents. Yeah I know that's not what they said but that's what they mean.

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Stopping Islamic Colonization of Australia: Australian PM Warns Indonesia "that his pledge to turn back the boats is a matter of "sovereignty''

Abbott describes 'disappointment' as Australia accepts boat people in stand-off with Indonesia

Samantha Maiden
National Political Editor
The Daily Telegraph
November 9, 2013 

TONY Abbott has warned Indonesia that his pledge to turn back the boats is a matter of "sovereignty'' after Australia agreed to back down and accept a boatload of 63 asylum seekers.

Sky News Australia, along with "Their SBS " and  "Their ABC" is a Loyal and valued  propaganda / publicity arm of the Progressive Left and  Islamic Sociopath's Inc. Taquiyha network of enlightened and progressive Journalists.

After a three-day ocean stand off, Australia agreed to accept the asylum seekers today despite the fact they were rescued just 43 nautical miles off Java.

Labor has compared the capitulation with Kevin Rudd's disastrous Oceanic Viking saga but the Coalition said Indonesia had agreed to accept a number of asylum-seeker boats back since the Coalition was elected.

Senior Liberal sources have confirmed that the Prime Minister believed it was still possible Indonesia would have eventually accepted the asylum-seekers but did not want the stand-off to drag on into the opening of Parliament and overshadow the carbon tax debate.

While Australia had requested that the boatload of 63 suspected asylum-seekers picked up close to Java be returned, 

Indonesian officials were still considering the request.

"We will have disappointments. But we will succeed,'' Mr Abbott told a Liberal Party Conference in Perth today.

"We will never again tolerate a situation where an important part of our immigration program has been subcontracted out to people smugglers.

"This is an issue of sovereignty for us. We have good relations with Indonesia. But we will stop these boats."

On Friday, an Indonesian official Djoko Suyanto warned Indonesia would not accept the asylum-seekers.

"The Indonesian government NEVER AGREED to such wishes or policies of Australia,'' he said.

"There is NO CHANGE of policy."

After warning on Friday he would not be providing "shipping news'' on the boat stand off, the Abbott Government broke with recent protocol and issued a statement on the resolution of the stand-off.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison confirmed that Border Protection had first responded to a request for assistance on Thursday.

Because the incident took place within close proximity to the Indonesian coast, "a request was made, consistent with our standing practice under Operation Sovereign Borders, to transfer the passengers rescued to Indonesia, in accordance with international search and rescue protocols."

"On two recent occasions, Indonesia has agreed to these requests and facilitated an on water transfer,'' Mr Morrison said.

"The Indonesian Government has advised Australian officials overnight that they are reviewing the request put forward by Australia.

"While we welcome Indonesia's review of our request, in the best interests of the safety of the passengers and crew of the rescued vessel and the Australian vessel that has been rendering assistance, earlier this morning I requested 

Lieutenant General Campbell to transfer the persons rescued from the SAR incident to Christmas Island for rapid onward transfer to Manus Island or Nauru. They will not be resettled in Australia."

But Labor's immigration spokesman Richard Marles said the back down was embarrassing.

"The diplomacy of the Abbott Government with Indonesia around asylum seekers has been absolutely inept.

"What we have seen is the embarrassing spectacle of the Abbott Government seeking to dictate terms to the 

Indonesia Government. This is school year diplomacy backed up by half-hearted resolve and it is a sad embarrassment."

"So today, I call upon the Prime Minister and Minster Morrison to end this farce, to end this culture of secrecy."

The Greens said Mr Abbott's border protection policy was "in tatters."

Indonesia says it will absolutely not take back Insurgents

Australian Federal Election 2013: Abbott to scrap asylum appeal process

Coalition to scrap asylum appeals process

Lanai Scarr,Lauren Novak,Gemma Jones and Jessica Marszalek
The Daily Telegraph
August 16 2013

TONY Abbott has given his clearest time frame yet as to when he will be able to stop the boats should he be elected prime minister on September 7.

The opposition leader today said that by the 2016 election levels of boat arrivals would be back down to the last days of the Howard era when there were just three arrivals a year.

"That's my confidence," he said.

"Obviously idea is having zero boats but if we were able to get it down to three boats a year that would be a good thing."

More than 50,000 Illegal VOTE people have arrived on boats under Kevin 07/ Gillard/Kevin 07 Labor/Green Loon Independent / "Co Party Government"

Mr Abbott and his immigration spokesman Scott Morrison today unveiled more detail on the Coalition's border protection policy, as revealed by News Corp Australia today.

Under the Coalition plan, anyone who arrives in Australia illegally by boat will not get permanent residency, including more than 30,000 people already here.

Anyone arrivals "reasonably believed" to have destroyed their documentation would not be accepted.

A new assessment process, based on a UK model, would see faster removal of illegal arrivals.

Those found to be refugees would be granted temporary protection visas.

They would not be allowed to bring their family to Australia or convert the TPV to permanent residency.

The TPV would last three years after which holders would have to apply for another visa if it was not safe to return home.

They would be required to work for the dole.

The Coalition has also pledged to scrap a $58 million detention centre planned by Labor for Singleton in NSW.

 Tony Abbott channelled his predecessor and mentor, former prime minister John Howard by saying that Australians "were in charge of this country and we'll decide who comes here".

However the Opposition Leader could not rule out that asylum-seekers given refuge in Australia on temporary protection visas would not one day be permitted family reunions.

"I can't say what might happen in ten, twenty, thirty years time," Mr Abbott said.

"But what I can say is if you come here by boat you should never expect to get permanent residency.

"If you turn out not to be a refugee you will be in detention, that's where you'll be. If you are a refugee you will be on a temporary protection visa and you should expect to be on it indefinitely."

Mr Morrison said he was confident the new process would stand up to any future court challenges.

"This is a complicated and detailed area," Mr Morrison said.

"I am very confident that we will get this as right as it can be."

COALITION TO SCRAP ASYLUM APPEALS PROCESS

The removal of failed asylum seekers from Australia would be dramatically fast tracked under a hardline Coalition plan to send them packing in as little as three months.

And any of the 30,000 boat arrivals already in the country who have been found to be genuine refugees would denied a permanent visa.

The Coalition would also scrap plans for a detention centre at Singleton in the NSW Hunter Valley, where Labor plans to house more than 1000 people, and divert almost $60 million to build 2000 places it has promised for offshore processing in Nauru.

Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison plans to adopt a hardline UK-style removal regime and to scrap the refugee review tribunal.

ASYLUM SEEKERS FIND THEIR OWN SOLUTIONS

Asylum seekers would be "triaged" and those considered unlikely to be found to be refugees taken into detention, pending a review by up to two departmental case workers which could take as little as 28 days.

The removal process would be modelled on a scheme in the United Kingdom called Detained Fast Track, Mr Morrison said.

Those considered unlikely to be refugees would have their first assessment inside detention finished within 14 days and if it found against them they would then be able to access a 14 day review by another case worker.

PNG HAS ROOM FOR 10,000 ASYLUM SEEKERS - RUDD

The process would take no more than three months, a Coalition policy document shows.

A failed review would result in the government seeking travel documents in order for the person to be removed.

Failed refugees from countries, such as Iran which refuses to accept involuntary returns, would be left on the Christmas Island indefinitely.

"If there are issues with them being removed from the country we will send them to Christmas Island until they can be removed," Mr Morrison said.

PNG LOOKS AT ASYLUM SEEKER JOB SCHEME

Mr Morrison said the 30,000 asylum seekers who arrived before Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's announcement of the PNG Solution, and who are waiting in the community for their refugee claims to be processed, would be made to work for welfare payments.

They would all be moved onto temporary protection visas for up to three years and given work rights with a work for the dole style regime used in cases where they were unable to secure a job.

Asylum seekers could also be directed to regions where more work was available.

The temporary visas would prevent them bringing family to Australia and if they chose to leave they would be barred from returning, in a policy mirroring the Howard Government's temporary protection visas.

"They won't get a protection visa from us, they will be desperately hoping a Labor government gets elected," Mr Morrison said.

He said a Coalition government wanted to scrap the refugee review tribunal to help achieve its policy of "getting out of the country" people rejected as refugees under its single case worker review model.

Courts and tribunals have overturned up to 80 percent of departmental decisions to refuse a protection visa and cases have had to be re examined, Mr Morrison said.

"Our objective would be to get back to a single case officer decision and review system," he said.

In addition to other hard line measures, boat arrivals who came without paperwork would be rejected as refugees if it was found they had deliberately thrown their identification out.

About 90 per cent of people have arrived without paperwork at times under the current government.

The Coalition says the investment in a new detention centre for Singleton wasn't needed.

"Under the Coalition, offshore processing will be done on Nauru and PNG, not in Singleton," Mr Morrison said.

"That's why we will shut down Labor's plan to spend almost $60 million at Singleton and create that capacity where it's needed offshore.

"Kevin Rudd is making more room for people coming illegally on boats in Australia, at places like Singleton than he is offshore on PNG."

Mr Morrison said scrapping Singleton would allow the Coalition to fund plans it announced last month to house an extra 2000 asylum seekers in 

Nauru, including accommodating refugees in refurbished homes in the nation's slum district while Australia searched for third country resettlement options.

Almost 2500 asylum seekers have arrived in almost a month since Mr Rudd announced his PNG solution with only a few hundred sent to Manus Island after health checks so far.

Single adult men have been sent to the remote island while the government works to bring accommodation up to standard for families.

More than 50,000 people have arrived on boats under Labor.

Labor's VOTE People charged with sexual assault of three Women at Ricky Martin performance

Sri Lankan asylum seekers charged with indecent assault

Gemma Jones
Daily Telegraph

May 10, 201311:00AM

TWO Sri Lankan asylum seekers have been charged with indecent assaults on two women and a girl at a Ricky Martin performance in Sydney last night.

The women aged 39 and 31 and a 14-year-old girl were in the crowd at Parramatta Westfield when they were allegedly attacked by the men who are on bridging visas and living in the community at Westmead.

Police swooped on the Sri Lankans, aged 47 and 20.

A police spokesman has confirmed the men were asylum seekers living in the community.

They were charged with indecent assault and common assault and granted conditional bail and will be required to report daily to Parramatta police station.

The men are due to appear in Parramatta Local Court on June 26.

It is the second time a Sri Lankan asylum seeker living in the community has allegedly committed indecent assault this year after a university student was allegedly set upon in her dorm.

Victim and witness reports confirm that while one of the accused performed the assaults the other looked on laughing at the actions of his accomplice

The 14 year old girl was not in the company of the two older women

Alan Jones Terry McCrann on Madame Gillard and the Australian Labor Party

Remember It's "Their ABC" and why that is so.

Many years ago whilst attempting to enter a polling booth to cast my vote in an Australian federal election I was accosted by some bearded arse clown wearing an ABC tee shirt and the obligatory faux Akubra Hat and RM Williams boots,that's what these types are known to wear to prove their "Tru Blue Aussie" cred to scruffy "Tradesman types" like me,demanding I vote for one of their approved candidates as opposed to my approved candidate.
Needless to say I told him and his fellow dissidents get out of my way and POQ, as did many others in my vicinity who were also harassed by these arse clowns much to their surprise.
Some years later I was engaged in an on air radio discussion,where I coined the phrase " It's "Their ABC" in response to an in house promo by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on its Television and Radio networks that went something like "Blah Blah Blah oppose funding cuts for .........its your ABC " "...just 8 cents a day (week) is all it costs taxpayers" blah blah so keep supporting the ABC  and oppose any government that is talking about budget cuts.

Evan at eight cents a day / week it is priced way too high, back then, as it is now,the ABC is more like the public relations arm of the Australian Labor Party / Green Loons / left Independents / The Australian Council of Trade Unions / GetUp / Arse Clown Feminists / assorted Loon ratbags and Multicultural Industry free loaders,their apologists and more recently, the voice / advocate of illegal,predominantly Muslim male "immigrants" from the middle east.

The article below by Geoffrey Luck reveals how the ABC has been reduced to a plaything of the progressives paid for by the very people they hate the most... Australians.

Boston Muslim Terrorist Bombing: "Their ABC" rallies to defend their Savages of Choice,

How the left colonised the ABC

by Geoffrey Luck
Quadrant
April 27, 2013

This week The Australian newspaper gave a page to an extract from Nick Cater's forthcoming book The Lucky Culture  – and the Rise of an Australian Ruling Class. It dealt with the radicalisation of the ABC, one of the essential steps – along with the subversion of school curricula and the authority of the universities – in the progressive movement's rise to  power.

In the extract, Nick expertly traced the process by which the young turks of Current Affairs achieved their goal, defeating a disinterested and bewildered management. But Nick wasn’t here when this happened; his analysis depended on working backwards from what he sees today. As a result he misses some crucial points – he doesn’t see how management fell into a trap of its own making; he doesn’t understand how the News Division, which was intended as the bulwark against the intrusion of subversive news techniques, was hobbled by policy and therefore contributed to the fall.

It can all be laid at the feet of Talbot Duckmanton – the urbane, pipe-smoking eminence grise who ruled the ABC with an iron hand in a kid glove from 1965 until 1982. Duckmanton had begun his career as a sporting commentator, but as I realised many years later at a reception in London, he had always wanted to be a journalist. He was almost pathetic in his admiration of peers such as the BBC's Director General Charles Curran who had been a distinguished foreign correspondent.

In 1951, a year after I joined the ABC in Brisbane, Duckmanton was appointed Assistant Manager for Queensland. Despite my lowly status as a cadet, I came to his notice, leading to his assessment of me as "prickly" which he never thought necessary to review. Promotion to Manager Tasmania followed, and then a prestigious appointment to join the BBC commentary team for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Soon after was appointed a member of the three-man team sent around the world to study television, followed by the role of Co-ordinator of television. His career was already seen as on a fast track to senior management.

What Duckmanton brought back from that television study was a profound fear of the impact of television film on broadcast standards, especially in News. In staff lectures and policy statements, the warning was given that pictures of exciting but irrelevant events could easily distort news values. Techniques then current in BBC interview programmes, such as the "talking head" that filled the screen were to be banned. "Jump cuts" - rapid transition from one frame to another scene were also out. BBC programmes which had journalists interviewing, commenting and backgrounding had alarmed him as corrupting the purity of delivered reports. It was for the ABC to provide the facts, the public to make up its mind.

So when television began in Australia in 1956, television news on the ABC was launched as radio news in vision. The reports were read in the order dictated by news values set by the Controller of News for both radio and TV; Illustration was restricted to three minutes of film in the 15-minute bulletin, and there were graphic cards to convey headline facts and figures. These sometimes got out of order – one night as director of the 7pm bulletin, I called for a card with the Prime Minister's name to be superimposed on his photograph, only to see a pair of ram's horns sprout from Mr Menzies head!

Despite bulletin restrictions, News launched two programmes of film. The first, Newsreel, scripted on overseas newsfilm flown in daily from BCINA (the British Commonwealth Newsfilm Agency, later Visnews) ran immediately after the nightly news bulletin. (I have documented elsewhere that when Four Corners began in 1960, Michael Charlton or Bob Raymond would try to steal Newsreel film from the rack in the editing room). On Sunday evenings, News presented Weekend Magazine, a 15-minute programme produced, reported and scripted by News journalists from around Australia, and later, from overseas offices. Stuart Littlemore, who featured in The Australian's photograph of the 1973 TDT team, cut his teeth in Australian television on W.E.M. This gives the lie to those – including the later current affairs teams and academics – who have promoted the false history that News journalists had no experience in broadcasting. As long ago as 1953 in Longreach, I compiled and read a daily 7-minute bulletin of regional news. I also recorded reports for News Review, the Talks Department programme on a Minifon wire recorder and later the first portable machine, the Emitape.

When Duckmanton was appointed General Manager in 1965 to succeed Sir Charles Moses, he was already acutely aware of the growing pressures to introduce a new way of backgrounding and interpreting the news. The BBC which was very much the ABC's model for broadcasting had showed the way. He was also determined to get his hands on the levers of power in news matters. The changing of the guard gave him his chance. When the Controller of News, W.S. ("Wally") Hamilton was elevated to the position of Assistant General Manager (Administration), Duckmanton did not permit him to take responsibility for News with him (as we all hoped), but appointed himself Editor in Chief. Every Friday morning, the new Controller of News, Gil Oakley, and the Directors of Radio and TV News, Russ Handley and Jack Gulley, were summoned to Broadcast House for a review of the week's output, and a briefing on policy. "The Friday Follies", they called it, and came back to their offices to pass on the latest petty dictates of a man with determined ideas, but no understanding.

It was there that Duckmanton ring-fenced the News Division, prohibiting it from expanding into the dangerous waters of what was then termed Public Affairs. News was to be the bulwark against the forces that could destroy the ABC's credibility – programmes that introduced interpretation, comment, opinion and analysis. News bulletins were to be read, reporters’ voices were not to be heard. This misinterpretation of the social forces at work, and a complete inability to comprehend how to apply journalistic training, principles and ethics in the new age, resulted in the debacle that Cater describes. Duckmanton could not separate interpretation and background from opinion; when the crisis came he had no principle or theory of news on which to rely. These are facts that you won’t find in the official ABC histories, biased as they are in favour of the Current Affairs people who swayed the historians.

In radio, The Talks Department ran parallel to News, and their paths rarely crossed. News Commentary and Notes on the News had always been written and delivered by contract outsiders, academics and specialists. Their views had been kept quite separate from the evening News Review, a 15-minute collection of reports, mostly from around Australia, by Talks officers who had been trained as broadcasters, not journalists. These, like the news bulletins were factual and un-opinionated. They contained interviews, but the programme was pre-recorded and often stale.

The dam broke in 1967 with the launch of TDT. This came about from a management power play in head office, not from a journalistic revolt as commonly believed. Ken Watts, a former schoolteacher who had come up through education broadcasting won the powerful position of head of television programmes in the managerial shuffle that followed Duckmanton’s appointment. The Commission had become alarmed at the ABC’s poor market share and was demanding brighter, more attractive programmes.

Described by the ABC’s historian Ken Inglis as having a reputation “for being ruthless, for encouraging, drinking with and promoting clever young people, and for caring about the quality and popularity of programmes,” by 1964 Watts had already assumed control of Four Corners (which had got into serious political trouble for its bias and irresponsibility). Then in1966 he proposed a daily programme of current affairs, modelled on the BBC’s Tonight show. It went to air in 1967 as TDT -This Day Tonight.  TDT. It had a huge budget, resources denied to other divisions, especially News, and with Ken Watts, who knew nothing of news, its disciplines, responsibilities or ethics as editor-in-chief. The brief was to break the mould of news reporting; its first Executive Director, New Zealander Allan Martin was given free rein. Some News journalists such as John Crew and Ken Chown, appalled that the News Division was being hog-tied to bulletins, defected to TDT.

The resultant programme - chirpy, irreverent, critical, intrusive and rude, provided a confusing mix of serious items and interviews and undergraduate humour, but it quickly won a big audience. TDT took the mickey out of politicians and soon had both ministers and ABC management on the edge of their chairs each night. It was the beginning of the new era, when ABC staff first took it upon themselves to declare what was wrong with the country; “what needs changing” as Martin said at the time. The Vietnam War, which TDT opposed, directly in comment and indirectly through choice of interviewees, accelerated the process. By 1969 the Commission was heavily criticising Watts and his TDT baby for editorialising, and mistakes of taste and judgement.

News journalists could only look on aghast as TDT became embroiled in one crisis after another – most traceable to breaches of ethics or news principles in sensationalist pursuit of ratings. There is no doubt the News Division either could or would ever have mounted such a programme. Watts was funded to the extent of a fresh team of fifty people, hand-picked from newspapers and broadcasters in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Front man Bill Peach had been trained in the ABC but was poached from Channel 10 where he compered a current affairs programme that pre-dated TDT but like it, modelled on the BBC’s Tonight. TDT lasted until 1978, gradually smoothing its rough edges and increasing in respectability. Its contribution to broadcasting had been to crush the power of political interference in the ABC, and  making politicians answerable to the news cycle. But the other, more sinister enduring legacy had been the propensity to blur reporting and editorialising, interpreting and commenting, analysing and opinionising.

If Four Corners and TDT showed that the ABC had been careless about allowing two parallel news organisations to flourish, the launch of radio’s AM, five months after TDT, and PM two years later, proved that management did not know what it was doing. It provoked a demarcation issue that wasted resources, set off decades of hostility within the ABC over broadcast news that took the first strike by journalists to begin a rationalisation and integration.

The ABC needed a programme like AM, to bring actuality and voices to the reporting of news. It was under the command of Selwyn (“Dan”) Speight a seasoned newspaper man – a type that critics of the News Division like Tim Bowden later condescendingly described as not broadcasters. Speight however had studied the BBC’s Today programme and was sound enough a journalist to adapt to audio practices without compromising principles. He quickly saw the value of high-quality circuits available from new undersea cables to deliver voice reports and interviews about the major world events to Australian breakfast-time audiences. At the political level, a major turf war had begun – a war which the News Division’s incompetent management was unable to fight. They had missed the bus.

Wally Hamilton, no longer working from his power base as head of News, saw his journalists being side-lined. He fought against Duckmanton’s objections to establish the principle of reporters’ voice reports in radio bulletins. The grudging concession was a limited number of News circuits from overseas offices, mainly London and New York.

In 1968 I was appointed London Editor and sent off with a strong message from Hamilton to develop voice reporting for radio and increase contributions to television’s Weekend Magazine.

When I arrived, I found that the separate Current Affairs group had a nightly circuit to Sydney at 8pm and refused to allow News to send reports on it. At 8.30pm the BBC used the Sydney circuit to transmit World RoundUp, a quarter-hour collection of correspondents’ reports specially produced for the ABC. These two bookings effectively blocked News reporting. We had only two booked circuits a week – on Sunday and Tuesday nights. My protests that it was absurd to expect news to happen to our convenience on those two days met apologies, but no success in gaining access to the Current Affairs circuits when necessary.

I solved the problem by persuading the BBC to transmit World RoundUp an hour earlier, a solution that suited them since its programme was produced live, exclusively for Australia. The change meant that Current Affairs could no longer refuse to extend the circuit time for my reporters to send their voice reports. This became vital as major news stories developed – the Northern Ireland troubles, the first terrorist hi-jacking of aircraft, the 1970 British elections, the Common Market negotiations and much more.

The so-called studio in London had been built by a contractor specialising in public address systems and could not handle live broadcasts. Current Affairs staff had to first record their items, and then play the tape down the line to Sydney. The first time Wally Hamilton visited London, I persuaded him of the impracticability of a studio that couldn’t broadcast. He found me £3000 from his budget, I found a couple of moonlighting BBC engineers, and we re-built the studio to the latest standards. I was pretty sure most of the cabling and switchgear came from a BBC warehouse somewhere, but I didn’t ask.

The change in direction was not without problems. As we pumped more and more reports down the cable to Sydney, Duckmanton rebelled. Famously, he passed the message back up the line through News executives: “There’s too much talking in the bulletins!” In Sydney, the money spent leasing a new building and installing new studios with the latest switching equipment for Current Affairs had been denied to News, which had to struggle with antiquated recording gear in an inadequate booth. It could not record telephone calls. Sydney sub-editors didn’t adapt well either. Used to handling news on paper, they were incapable of editing tape on the run as inserts for the morning bulletins. So an instruction was issued that no voice report could be put to air until it had first been transcribed! Few of our London reports got to air before the 7.45am bulletin.

I returned from London in 1971 to report economic and financial news for both radio and television, and broadcast a weekly radio programme The Week in Business (TWIB). I was the only finance or economic reporter in the ABC, and Russell Warner, who had taken over the running of Public Affairs Radio in 1972, tried to attract me to work for AM and PM. So much for News journalists not being broadcasters!

News continued to train its cadets in microphone and recorder work and send its experienced reporters to overseas posts from which they broadcast – radio and television reports, special mid-year and year-end roundups and increasingly hard-hitting Weekend Magazine essays. The News/Current Affairs divide was simmering in the background.

Then came The Dismissal, November 11, 1975, and war broke out. Warner got approval from Ken Watts (who was by then Controller of Programmes) to seize the two landlines from Canberra to “cover” the event, preventing News journalists in Canberra filing copy or voicepieces. Duckmanton, self-proclaimed editor-in-chief stood idly by while this hijacking of a breaking news story by a programme unit designated as providing depth and analysis excluded the very people trained and responsible for such coverage. The three and a half hours broadcast has gone down in ABC mythology as a triumph of modern broadcasting. However, for listeners, it was a disastrous breach of the most basic rules of broadcasting, because it failed to tell them what had happened.

I was on study leave at the time and driving back into town from a field trip. On the car radio I heard an endless list of academics, constitutional experts and psephologists pontificating about the significance of something which they never stopped to explain or recap. It was hugely unintelligible. A brief news bulletin on the half hour reported that the Whitlam Government had been dismissed, but without explanation or details. The Canberra bureau could not update, political correspondent Ken Begg got one brief report out. There was no actuality sound. The event lit the fuse for a major confrontation over the responsibilities of the two sections, and in effect, the right to report news. A four-hour stop-work of journalists ensued, the first in the history of the ABC. Viewed impartially, the Dismissal broadcast was a demonstration of the power of fiefdoms, and a colossal failure of senior management.

Earlier that same year News had launched Newsvoice, a belated attempt to show how reporters around Australia and overseas could present a broadcast programme that was not a read bulletin. It was developed by Duncan Fairweather, and Terry Brown, who had reported from New York as an ABC correspondent. With no studio in the News building, they had to run up the hill with their tapes to the main Forbes Street studios – as I had to do every Friday night with TWIB.  But management quarantined Newsvoice at the dead hour of 5pm where it languished without proper support or facilities.

The crisis point was reached in 1976 when management, under Warner’s influence, decreed that Current Affairs would broadcast the National Wage Case decision. Journalists around Australia threatened to strike. It took ten days of negotiations and heated meetings to hammer out a compromise. News Division specialist reporters won the right to break the story live on air and explain the judgement; Current Affairs then interviewed politicians, unionists and businessmen. At last a sensible definition of roles was emerging, and the power of Current Affairs was broken.

Later that year, I persuaded one of Australia’s leading behavioural scientists Dr John Hunt, to conduct a seminar for News journalists to consider their future in broadcast news. Overwhelmingly, they supported the integration of News and Current Affairs; demanded the right of News journalists to report in voice and vision, and a clear delineation of the roles. They called for the Commission to recognise the initiative and endorse the principles. But the Commissioners never saw the document. Talbot Duckmanton, ever the bureaucratic manipulator, headed it off. It was to be many years before News and Current Affairs were rationalised, all ABC recruits were trained as broadcasters, and the organisation caught up, thirty or forty years late, with the rest of the world.

But the damage had been done. There is not space here to detail all the stages of insidious penetration of the ABC’s integrity: Alan Ashbolt’s Marxist influence on the young impressionables of his Special Projects Unit; the recruitment of graduates and others without the discipline of news training; the incompetence of News executives in failing to train and fight for the right, in a changing world, to provide news interpretation without opinion. Yet the principal blame falls on senior management – Talbot Duckmanton the wily mandarin intent on manipulating the Commission and keeping his nose clean; Clem Semmler the effete intellectual who wanted the ABC to remain stuck in radio aspic, Daryl Miley, the old stager of programme shuffling, Keith Mackriell and Graham White the ultimate fence-sitters, and Ken Watts, the aggressive ambitious game-changer who created programmes that trampled balance, fairness and impartiality to death in the name of news entertainment. 

Geoffrey Luck was an ABC Journalist from 1950 until 1976. During that time he was the first ABC cadet, Queensland; Journalist in Charge, Longreach; Journalist in Charge, Mt Moresby; Sub-editor National Radio News; TV News scriptwriter & director; News Editor, Papua New Guinea; Chief of Staff National Newsroom; London Editor; Economics & Finance Correspondent

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Droopy eye repair among non urgent medical treatment provided to asylum seekers detained

Gemma Jones
Daily Telegraph
March 28, 201312:00AM

A PREGNANT asylum seeker deemed a security risk by ASIO was offered free domestic help and childcare while another detainee has had drooping eyelids fixed by taxpayers.

An array of non urgent medical treatment provided to detainees has been revealed including a suspected war criminal who had his impacted wisdom teeth removed at no cost to him.

Details of treatment were contained in Ombudsman's reports on long term detainees and come as the government announced the latest asylum boat detected yesterday had 147 passengers on board, the biggest arrival since October last year.

Most of the detainees who have been given everything from free glasses and orthotics to dietary counselling to combat high cholesterol, have been rejected as refugees and are exhausting appeals or have received a negative ASIO security assessment.

In August last year immigration official offered the pregnant 33-year-old, whose third son was born in January, free "domestic assistance, occasional childcare support and assistance with (her daily) routine" on the advice of an occupational therapist and a psychologist.

The woman, who had attended ante-natal appointments at Fairfield Hospital while living in residential housing in the Villawood complex, rejected the offer.

She and her two sons arrived by boat in May 2010 and were in community detention, where she married her husband in April last year, until her release was revoked in April after ASIO delivered an adverse security assessment.
A 27-year-old Tamil Tiger had his impacted wisdom teeth extracted in June at Whyalla in South Australia, two months after he complained of dental pain.

He has been in detention since arriving by boat in December 2009 and was rejected as a refugee after Department of Immigration officials found "serious reasons for considering (the man) had committed a war crime or a crime against humanity."

A Department spokesman declined to comment on the man's case.The 38-year-old with drooping eyelids overstayed a business visa before being rejected as a refugee, prompting attempts to remove him.

While he has been in detention in Sydney, the man has had three rounds of surgery between December 2009 and January 2011 to correct his eyelids.

A Department spokeswoman said surgery was never provided for "purely cosmetic reasons."

Other cases include a 35-year-old with two wives who has been treated for everything from hearing problems to reflux and insomnia since arriving by boat in 2009.

"These cases, especially that of that of a suspected war criminal will do more than test the patience of the Australian public," Opposition Immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Immigration said it had a "non delegable duty of care" to ensure the health and welfare of detainees and that care "is funded by the Australian Government."

She said treatment had to be clinically recommended by "health professionals such as GPs, dentists and medical specialists."

Meanwhile, the government is reportedly considering a plan to move families out of community detention onto bridging visas to save money in the May budget.

Families would be treated the same as single asylum seekers who receive about $440 a fortnight and some rent assistance to live in the community.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard would only say yesterday that a decision had not been taken.

97 asylum seekers caught Australia-bound by Sri Lanka

Daily Telegraph
March 27, 201310:33PM

SRI Lanka's navy says it has seized a fishing trawler carrying at least 97 asylum seekers on their way to Australia.

The boatload of migrants belonging to Sri Lanka's Tamil minority was intercepted at Oluvil off the country's eastern coast on Wednesday, navy spokesman Commander Kosala Warnakulasuriya told AFP.

"In the arrested lot were 39 men, 18 women and also 40 children," Warnakulasuriya said.

They will be handed over to Sri Lankan police later in the day, he added.

Last year some 16,770 asylum seekers arrived on Australia's shores, with Sri Lankans the biggest group, numbering about 6360.

Hundreds have died making the treacherous journey over the past few years.

Canberra is struggling to contain the numbers and has set up processing centres on Nauru and Papua New Guinea.

Sri Lankans pay up to $US3000 ($A2800) for a place on trawlers that take around two weeks to make the treacherous crossing to Australia. Some migrants travel by air to Indonesia and then take rickety wooden vessels to the Australian coast.

On Monday two people including a young child died when an asylum-seeker boat capsized. More than 90 were plucked to safety and taken ashore.


The payments are rich on refugee gravy boat

Gemma Jones 
The Daily Telegraph 
November 23, 2012 12:00AM

LARGE families released from immigration detention into the community on bridging visas will be entitled to more than $700 in equivalent welfare payments and rent assistance each fortnight.

A single parent with four or more children could receive as much as $706, the Department of Immigration confirmed yesterday.

The first boat to arrive since the government announced it was retreating from its policy to send asylum seekers to Nauru and Manus Island was intercepted on Wednesday.

Customs spotted a vessel with 37 asylum seekers and two crew southeast of Christmas Island. They will be among almost 7000 asylum seekers to have arrived since the offshore policy came into effect on August 13.

The latest arrivals can now be considered for release into the community, where they will be paid the equivalent of a welfare benefit, after the government backdown.

The government's policy reversal came after the flood of arrivals overwhelmed capacity offshore and in Australian detention centres.
All asylum seekers released into the community can be considered for 89 per cent of the Newstart allowance and 89 per cent of the applicable rent assistance offered by Centrelink.

In addition, free basic health care will be provided through the government's Asylum Seeker Assistance scheme and the Community Assistance Support program.

A department spokeswoman said the assistance could go as high as $700 in the cases of large families, but said usually only small family groupings arrived on boats, meaning they would be entitled to a lower rate of benefit and rent assistance.

The lowest rate for singles is about $440 a fortnight and they would also be eligible for a small amount of rent assistance of $72 if they are single and sharing a home, and $108 if they are single and living on their own.

The Red Cross has been the lead agency providing services to those in the community on bridging visas after Immigration Minister Chris Bowen announced last November at least 100 people a month would be released from detention. The number of asylum seekers on bridging visas had swelled to more than 5200 at the end of last week.

The department appointed an extra five service providers in August to work alongside the Red Cross, the department spokeswoman said.

New providers working with those on bridging visas include the Multicultural Development Association, Settlement Services International, Access Community Services, Adult Migration Education and the Migrant Resource Centre of SA.

Meanwhile, the government flew another charter jet to Colombo yesterday to return 40 Sri Lankans, taking the number of those returned to 466 since August 13.

"People who pay smugglers are risking their lives and throwing their money away," Mr Bowen said yesterday.

"There is no visa on arrival, no speedy outcome, and no special treatment."