ANZAC Day,the Day Australia’s Finest are detested and attacked by Australia’s LOWEST of the Low.

 

 

“Multicultural Everybody Loves Ray” and some Leftist Arse Clown wearing his handkerchief on his head, for some reason or other, trash Australia on this most Australian Day

Andrew Bolt

Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 08:38am

You know it’s Anzac Day, because so many of the Left are jeering.

Example 1:

FURIOUS ex-servicemen, the Australian War Memorial and NSW Premier Kristina Keneally have accused TV presenter Ray Martin of insensitivity and disrespect for re-igniting debate about the Australian flag on Anzac Day. Martin has angered defenders of the current flag, including many soldiers who will march behind it today, by hosting a television debate on why it should be changed on 60 Minutes tonight.

Example 2:

This afternoon, between 3.01 pm and 5.16 pm, Catherine Deveny (@CatherineDeveny), a columnist for The Age newspaper in Melbourne, posted 14 interesting tweets about ANZAC Day.  One she deleted before I could save it. Here are the rest (warning: strong language):…

Anzac Day. Men only enlisted to fight for the money, for the adventure or because they were racist.

Anyone who lived through war not a [f....] says no parades, no medals, everyone who suffered and struggled remembered. Anzac Day Shits Me.

Anzac Day. Men only enlisted to fight for the money, for the adventure or because they were racist…

Anzac Day. [F...] repect. Respect is just code for ‘support our selective narrative used to prop up our power that we use to oppress.’

Example 3:

Zombie Myths of Australian Military History: The 10 Myths That Will Not Die
Edited by Craig Stockings
UNSW Press, 288pp, $34.95

In Zombie Myths, 10 academics boldly set forth to slaughter myths about Australia’s military past that, in their view, won’t lie down and die… But before elaborating, I have two qualifications: first, some myths won’t die possibly because they contain some truth; second, some writers spend so much time hacking away at their pet zombie—and with so little effect—that perhaps it is they and not the poor, fly-blown creature who resemble the walking dead…

Elizabeth Greenhalgh savages the undead notion that Australians broke the Hindenburg Line and won World War I (they did break the line; but it was not a crucial act)…

Craig Stockings gleefully rips the arms off the myth that we’re a nation of born Diggers ready to jump into a trench at the drop of a slouch hat. Surely few believe this except drunken two-up players down at the local? ...

David Stevens writes with great dollops of hindsight and a sort of wishful thinking when he claims the Japanese never really endangered us.

Example 4 (a):

In [the newly published] What’s Wrong with Anzac?, five historians lament what they say is a relentless, official campaign to elevate war and the Anzac spirit as the seminal forces that have shaped the nation.

They go further, arguing the resurgent interest in military history and the popular embrace of the Anzac myth are officially contrived, with John Howard the chief villain, enshrining militaristic values that prime us to rush off to other people’s wars.

They argue this militarisation of national values ‘’has naturalised our condition of always being at war and thus silenced debate about our current and future wars’’.

Example 4 (b):

Whats Wrong With Anzac?: The Militarisation of Australian History (New South, 2010) is a polemical work that argues that the Anzac legend has an exaggerated and unhealthy predominance in Australian identity, and especially in Australian schools…

The argument goes:

Australian national identity is too much focused on the Anzac legend
It excludes other key elements such as the development of democratic traditions, Indigenous peoples rights, and womens equal rights
What is learned about the Anzac legend is terribly distorted, militaristic and romanticising the idea of war
This distortion is caused by the teaching materials sent to schools by the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
These materials are promoted by a conservative government plot to foster a conservative nationalism rather than a more socially critical one…

Professor Marilyn Lake[’s] assertion is that a veritable tidal wave, a torrent, a bombardment of DVA education resources (four of which I have written over the last five years) are militaristic propaganda created by the evil John Howard to promote his vision of a reactionary nationalism and disarm progressive thought and social action. Her claim is that, through the DVA materials, History has been appropriated in Australia for militarist purposes and comprehensively re-written in the process ...

How does she support this? She lists DVA resources and other government programs (many of them from Labor Governments, by the way)…

Does Lake describe these resources to the reader? No…

Does Lake show how the resources present a militaristic or romantic view of war? She does not.

Does she offer any critical analysis of the resources? Not a word. She does not say one specific thing about the educational nature of the contents of any of the materials she condemns except, very strangely, to quote their description by the DVA as being written by professional history educators ...

Does she show how the resources stifle debate? No.

Does she discuss the inquiry-based approach of the resources, and show how they in fact only pretend to encourage student inquiry, but in fact are subtle and effective propaganda? Not done.

UPDATE

Meanwhile:

VANDALS attacked a war memorial on the eve of Anzac Day, throwing rubbish around the site and snapping a flagpole. Up to a dozen teenagers are believed to have been involved in last night’s incident at the Anzac Cenotaph outside the Arncliffe RSL Club…

Police say they are keen to speak to up to a dozen teenage males, described as Mediterranean/Middle Eastern in appearance, seen in the area before the incident.

(Thanks to readers Amy and Matthew,)

UPDATE 2

Age columnist Catherine Deveny damns violence:

Anzac Day IS a glorification of war. They didn’t die for us but because they were risktaking testosterone fuelled men with a pack mentality

Age columnist Catherine Deveny advocates violence:

I’m in a FILTHY F[...] MOOD today. If you need me to punch someone’s head in, let me know.

And of course the “Usual Suspects” are up to their usual “Multicultural” activities.

War memorial vandalised on Anzac eve

PerthNow.com
April 25, 2010

VANDALS attacked a war memorial on the eve of Anzac Day, throwing rubbish around the site and snapping a flagpole.

Up to a dozen teenagers are believed to have been involved in last night's incident at the Anzac Cenotaph outside the Arncliffe RSL Club.

The vandals are believed to have swung on the flagpole until it snapped, police said.

Garbage was also thrown around the memorial site in the southern Sydney suburb.

RSL staff and police cleaned up the rubbish ahead of today's Anzac Day ceremony at the club but the flagpole could not be repaired.

Police will maintain a watch over the memorial during the Anzac Day commemorations.

Police say they are keen to speak to up to a dozen teenage males, described as Mediterranean/Middle Eastern in appearance, seen in the area before the incident.

They have appealed for anyone with information about the vandalism, which occurred between 7.30pm and 7.45pm at the cenotaph in Wollongong Road, to contact St George Police on (02) 8566 7499 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

 

Ray Martin and his co conspirator,the fat,lard arsed ex try hard, Australian Rugby Union "player", who, for reasons best known to himself, insists on wearing his handkerchief on his head instead of placing it in his pocket, may very well be repulsed by the Australian  Flag, so what? who cares what they and their multicultural constituency are repulsed by?

This is Australia, not some Looney Tunes,South American,African, UN created third world leftist UN despot out post.

Australia, a nation of millions of immigrants, the vast overwhelming majority of who are grateful for our positive response to their request for sanctuary following their decision to abandon the social and religious structures of their nation of birth have decided offers them a far better opportunity to live as free people than the European, African,Middle Eastern cesspool they were presently living in.
Perhaps the Dutchman for instance, should have just gone back to Holland and demanded that the Dutch Flag be changed rather live in Australia,Holland,the country his parents decided was not good enough for them and their children to live in, and RAN AWAY FROM, to of all places Australia!!!!
The Dutchman parents and their children (the Dutchman) were permitted to enter Australia, granted sanctuary,not because Australians were in need of their HATRED for us, and our Flag, we offered the Dutchman and his parents,freedom,prosperity and safety, the Dutchman's parents asked if they could join us in Australia's Judeo Christian based Western Democracy, Australia allowed the Dutchman and his parents to enter Australia not because Australians were yearning to be like the nations the Dutchman and his parents ran away from.

Australians have a flag,and legal system, a Judeo Christian social structure, it may not have been the Dutchman’s flag or  Rays flag, it was however the Australian Flag, a flag that represented the Nation where both the Dutchman and Ray were able to make millions of dollars as opposed to their respective preferred homelands and or in the case of Ray “dream time” social structure.

Australians, as opposed to Labor’s Multiculturalists, do not need Ray or the likes of the Dutchman to change OUR Flag irrespective of how many "...... billions of dollars " are up for grabs by Ray, the Dutchman and the rest of the Multicultural industry see dangling before their eyes.

Australia is not the play thing,of some former millionaire ABC reporter and  Mid Day Show host and his Multicultural, new best friends ".....it's going to give us billions and  billions of dollars, right because to me, that is brand Australia"

Australia has never been up for sale by Australians,Dutch or a Poofteenth Aboriginal former Mid Day Host, no matter how many Billions of dollars the Dutchman, Ray or his handkerchief head wearing Rugby try hard think they may be able to make should they be able to rebrand it in their image.

So exactly what will be  Ray  and his Dutchman and Handkerchief Head wearing new best friends  ".... brand Australia"  Australian Flag be....

 

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Beijings most senior representative in Australia,Lu Kewen aka. Australian Labor PM Kevin 07 Rudd, vows to continue Labor’s WAR against Australia’s “working families”

 

Beijing’s most senior official in Australia,Prime Minister Lu Kewen aka.Kevin 07 Rudd, determined to impose the UN’s (Labor, Lu Kewen aka. Rudd Tax") upon Australia’s,”Working Family’s” as soon as possible.

It's not over: Rudd vows to fight for emissions scheme

SMH
April 24, 2010

Climate change is still on the agenda, write Phillip Coorey and Peter Hartcher.

KEVIN RUDD says the great moral challenge posed by climate change is undiminished and he will keep trying to implement an emissions trading scheme if Labor is re-elected.

The SCAM Exposed AGAIN.

Al Gore has made $500 Million, so far, out of his and the UN’s Anthropogenic Global Warming SCAM.

How much has Comrade Lu Kewen made ?

Australian’s will  pay an extra 64% (before 2012) on their electricity bills BEFORE the UN’s and Lu Kewen’s aka. Kevin 07 Labor Party’s, Anthropogenic Global Warming TAX is implemented.

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace al  armed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule "

H. L. Mencken

In an interview with the Herald, Mr Rudd rejected growing criticism that he had abandoned the climate change cause because it was no longer a vote winner after the Copenhagen conference and the defeat of his emissions trading scheme.

"It's very clear cut that whether climate change is topical or not, whether it is popular or not, the reality of it does not disappear," he said.

"This remains a fundamental economic, environmental and moral challenge. Whether it's newsworthy or not in a particular season is beside the point. We haven't changed our view of this.''

The Senate has twice blocked legislation for the emissions trading scheme. The legislation is again before the Parliament but the Senate has delayed debate until at least next month and there is next to no chance there will be a vote before the election expected in the spring.

Mr Rudd said that if he is re-elected, he will try again to have a scheme introduced but it would depend on the make-up of the Senate.

''We've got to ensure that we act on climate change and we do so always within the scope of our powers. We maintain our position that this is part of the most efficient and most effective means by which we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions with the least cost to the economy.''

Mr Rudd can use the twice-defeated emissions trading scheme as a trigger for a double dissolution election. While coy on that prospect, he said he would have no problem advocating an emissions trading scheme during a campaign.

He said Australia was playing a key role in trying to forge meaningful international action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: ''National action in the absence of global action doesn't add up to a row of beans.''

He did not agree Copenhagen was a failure. It had produced an accord that temperature increases should not exceed 2 degrees, he said. In the past three months, Australia had been working intensively to get countries to sign up. So far, 74 countries, producing 80 per cent of the world's emissions, have pledged to reduce emissions by 2020.

Mr Rudd spoke to the Herald the day after his meeting this week with the premiers and chief ministers on health - and the day before the government broke its promises on insulation and childcare.

Mr Rudd had promised to put a health plan to the states by mid-2009; then he asked them to accept the plan or face a referendum at the 2010 election.

He said it was unfair to accuse him of breaking a promise just because the health plan was not presented until early March.

''I can never quite understand the criticism from Abbott and others at the time about why there is a six-month delay,'' he said.

''For goodness sake, 12 years of [Howard government] inertia and after two years we've decided to take a further six months to consider the implications for such a big reform, the biggest since the introduction of Medicare.'''

The West Australian Premier, Colin Barnett, has refused to sign the heath deal because he does not want to give the Commonwealth 33 per cent of his GST revenue. He will sign up if his state can contribute the money to the reforms independently.

The Sydney Morning Herald is a supporter of and apologist for, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, ACTU, financed Australian Labor Party

Lu Kewen,aka,Australian PM Kevin Rudd, is the personification of the Australian Labor Party and its ideology and objectives.

A creation of Australia’s MSM, a darling of FM music radio stations and  Socialist Today show hosts,who thought that asking him what colour tie he was going to wear tomorrow was a hard hitting and searching examination of his and his party’s agenda.

This disgraceful LIAR  and PHONY, slotted perfectly into the MSM’s criteria for a new Australian Prime Minister, he did, after all represent the OPPOSITE of the Howard years.

If Australia had an Oprah,Lu Kewen,aka. Kevin 07, would be her choice for Australian PM, after all her choice for the President of the United States of America was Hussein Obama and he said.of Lu Kewen  aka. Kevin 07.Hussein Obama praises Lu Kewen

Lu Kewen aka. Kevin 07 was a trial run for Hussein Obama 08,same ole bumper stickers, slogans and media hype eg. “working families” “change” and all the Socialist / UN promises of anything you want whenever you want it so long as, you vote for me and let me decide what is best for you and your wife and children, after all I am a Marxist Union financed Socialist how could you possibly lose?.

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What does Kim Kardashian's Arse feel like? Australian “celebrity” reveals all.

 

Kim Kardashian's bum like water bomb

The Daily Telegraph
April 23, 2010

A CHANNEL 10 host made international headlines after she got what many men can only dream of, a squeeze of Kim Kardashian's famous rump.

Kardashian has been on a promotional tour in Australia this week and managed to squeeze in a TV appearance on Channel Ten's The Circle.

Talk soon turned to her famous derriere, prompting the US beauty queen's offer of a free feel to Chrissy Swan.

Swan duly obliged, saying that it "felt like a water bomb."

"It feels so juicy and real," the former Big Brother runner up went on.

Water Bomb Bum in Sydney

 

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Lu Kewen aka. Kevin Rudd’s home insulation SCAM.

 

Death of insulation scheme to result in closures, sackings

By Miles Godfrey
Daily Telegraph
April 22, 2010

THE Federal Government's decision to end its bungled $2.45 billion home insulation scheme will force dozens of companies into bankruptcy and result in hundreds of workers being sacked, accredited Sydney insulation firms say.

The scheme was open to fraud and never about aiding the environment, but rather a chance to splurge unprecedented amounts of public cash, Tony Arundell, manager of Hoxton Park-based Eureka Insulation, said.

"Blind Freddy could have seen the scheme was open to fraud from day one," he said.

"It was a scheme to get people working but all it's done is hurt the real workers of this country and I think the Government deserves to be punished."

Doug Mill, owner of Chatswood-based The Demand Group, added: "We're all looking at the likelihood of failing and today's announcement will push us all further towards that."

Federal Energy Efficiency Minister Greg Combet confirmed today that the controversial home insulation scheme was being canned.

The Federal Government suspended it in February after evidence of shonky installation came to light, but had said it could resume in a modified form in June.

Mr Combet blamed the scheme's failure on "unscrupulous operators" and admitted a significant number of jobs would be lost.

But Mr Mill and Mr Arundell both said "cowboys" found the scheme easy to rort and that sufficient auditing was not in place until it was too late.

"Anybody with a white card, which takes five hours to obtain, and the ability to get insurance was able to get in on the game," Mr Mill told AAP.

Mr Arundell admitted the scheme initially worked well, with home insulation firms almost universally making extra cash.

But cowboys had quickly exploited loopholes, he added.

Eureka Insulation upped its staff from 16 to 40 to meet increased demand and splashed out on advertising, marketing and stock.

The Demand Group upped its headcount from six to 20 and is now back to five, with the likelihood of shedding at least one more job.

Eureka owes about $200,000 in advertising costs directly associated with the insulation scheme.

Mr Arundell says his firm will survive but says other firms will be liable for millions of dollars and are likely to cease trading now the scheme has ended.

At least two Sydney-based insulation manufacturing firms have also closed with the loss of hundreds of workers, he said.

"It was a complete joke. We became acutely aware that it was not about the long-term standing of the industry but about putting cash into the community.

"It really wasn't about the environment either but about throwing money out there," he said.

"We knew that it was fraught with danger. The murkiest crystal ball could have picked it up."

So far everything Lu Kewen aka. Kevin Rudd’s Government has touched, they have Fucked,Australia is fast becoming the third world basket case that Lu Kewen’s head office in Beijing thinks should be our destiny.

 

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Australian Aboriginal Industry claiming Australian’s HOMES. SCAM exposed on ACA.

The league star, a pile of shells and the house auction day farce
Nick Tabakoff
The Daily Telegraph
April 22, 2010
IT started like any regular auction of a Sydney house in need of an update. It ended barely 30 minutes later in chaos.
A group of Aboriginal men and women turned up in a minibus and handed out documents to startled potential bidders claiming that the property could be a sacred indigenous heritage site.
 
All of this over a Sans Souci property the agent admits is about as far from a palace as it gets.
At the centre of one of the most bizarre auctions in memory - 12 days ago - was former Balmain, Gold Coast and South Sydney rugby league star Wes Patten.
Patten lodged a caveat on the property a day before the auction, claiming it contains potentially priceless Aboriginal artefacts.
The sale is now in limbo after the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council sent letters backing Patten's claims. In one letter, the council's CEO Paul Morris said the site has "possible evidence of significant Aboriginal midden" at the back of the property.
The council claims it has found "a number of older shells and other possible remnants of sharpened rocks which could be spear tips".
The letter asked a "buffer zone of at least 30m" be installed around the potential artefacts. Patten's caveat claimed that he had an "equitable interest" in the property under the "Aboriginal objects" provisions of the National Parks and Wildlife Act.
Patten, a first cousin of Anthony Mundine, spoke up in front of those gathered for the auction.
(“Mundine was the subject of further controversy when he was asked by a television interviewer for his opinion, as a Muslim, on the 9/11 attacks on the United States. "It's not about terrorism, it's about fighting for God's laws and America's brought it upon themselves for what they've done," he replied, according to Kathy Marks in London's Independent newspaper. The reaction, both public and official, was swift and severe: he was stripped of his world ranking of No. 26 by the World Boxing Council, and the International Boxing Federation advised him not to visit the United States any time soon.”)
"I just wanted to inform the people about the site's Aboriginal significance," he said.
His claim was lodged for the Gadigal people, who occupied much of southern Sydney.
Patten said there could be Gadigal artefacts in other backyards around Botany Bay. "It's near the waters and it's near the settlement where Captain Cook invaded our land," he said.
Auctioneer Zac Imisides, the principal of Belgrave Properties, was furious with the actions of Patten and his group.
"I believe a fair auction was obstructed. There's no way a bidder would have felt comfortable to bid on that day," he said.
Patten claimed he simply wanted to have the house's Aboriginal heritage status examined before the property was sold. He said he would have no problem with the sale of the house ultimately proceeding, "as long as they protect the artefacts".

ACA Sydney exposes this SCAM, and we find out where the sea shells came from, Rudd’s “SORRY Industry” has a lot to answer for.

Note the desecration of the Iwo Jima flag raising by US troops in WW2,via a poster hanging on the wall of their Lawyers office .

The claimed midden site is at the rear of the land under a lemon tree.
Mr Imisides said he believed the property was worth in excess of $700,000 but it had attracted just two bids of $150,000 and $200,000, with the first from Patten's group.
The auctioneer said these bids were "ridiculous".
A group of other bidders, who he believes were willing to pay full market value, were "scared off".
Mr Imisides said the sale was now in limbo. The beneficial owner of the property, Perpetual Trustees, was keen to resume the sales process but would seek clarification on the Aboriginal heritage.
Who’s home will be next? I am going to bury my Prawn Heads as deep as I can in future.How did Wes and Co know to walk straight through the house to where the shells were to be found?
I don’t believe that these Arse Clowns are this stupid,I believe there is a lot more, to what on the surface, appears to be the “usual suspects” in the Aboriginal Industry,trying on another SCAM to justify their existence.
I am sure there will be more to this SCAM to come.

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France stands Tall

 

France set to ban full Islamic veil

Daily Telegraph

April 21, 2010

FRANCE is drawing up a law to ban the full-face Islamic veil from all public spaces, despite a warning from experts that it could face a legal challenge.

 

Government spokesman Luc Chatel said the bill would be presented to ministers next month and would go beyond a mere ban on women wearing the niqab and the burqa while dealing with French officials.

"We're legislating for the future. Wearing a full veil is a sign of a community closing in on itself and a rejection of our values," he said.

Last month, the State Council - France's top administrative authority - warned President Nicolas Sarkozy against a full ban on the veil, suggesting instead an order that women uncover their faces for identity checks or for state business.

But there remains broad support in parliament for a full ban and the Government is determined to press on with legislation, which it says would affect only around 2000 Muslim French women who cover their faces.

 

Technorati Tags: niqab,burqa,France,President Nicolas Sarkozy,Luc Chatel

Israel Memorial Day lest we, the west, forget at our peril

 

Memorial Day, 2010

By Naomi Ragen
http://www.NaomiRagen.com

I have just sat down after the fading notes of the siren have finally
disappeared.  It is another  Memorial Day for Israel's Fallen.  We have lost
22, 684 sons and daughters.  For a little country like Israel, that is an
enormous and incalculable loss.  Over the years, I have told all those ready
to listen Israel's well-kept secret: there is no Israeli army.  There is
only my son and your daughter, and the neighbor's kids.  Every loss is the
loss of not only an individual, but of  generations: the children who will
never be born, the grandchildren that will never snuggle in the laps of
grandparents.  It is the destruction of not only young lives full of
promise, but of their families: mothers and fathers whose lives are forever
shattered, grandparents who must bear the unthinkable, young girls who lost
their boyfriends, wives who lost their husbands, children who lost their
fathers.  Young women who died before they could experience anything of
life's promises.
After the words and ceremonies and sad music and films of remembrance, one
comes to the conclusion that Israel itself is bereaved, and does not know
how to comfort itself.  The ongoing and seemingly neverending price for our
freedom in the land God promised us is inhumanly high.

Only yesterday Achmadinijad spoke clearly of destroying Israel, uprooting us
like a "cancer."  The King of Jordan proclaimed there would be another war
in July.  And Syria is boldly transferring long range scud missiles once
again to Hezbollah in Lebanon. 

Only a week ago, we went through Holocaust Remembrance Day.  I remember
walking from my home to the Kotel.  And on the way back, I stepped inside
the newly rebuilt Hurva Synagogue, destroyed by the Arab Legion in 1948.  As
I stepped into the women's section, I looked with wonder at how the once
empty, destroyed shell, was filled anew with praying, chanting Jews.  It
reminded me of  Ezekiel's vision of dry bones rising from the dead full of
life once more.   They destroy, and we rebuild.  So it has been for every
generation of Jews.
That Europeans, who killed and tortured our families with unprecedented
barbarism, destroying one-third of the Jewish people, do not rejoice at what
we have done with our little country, but instead do all they can to see us
die again, shows me all their tears over our dead are fake, all their
Holocaust memorials empty shells.  That Americans, who did nothing to  stop
the trains to Auschwitz or to destroy the gas chambers, should ask us to
prove our desire for peace by appeasing our enemies, leading to more of our
beautiful sons and daughters being killed, shows me that America too has not
learned its history lessons.

There exists no comfort for the loss of our children as soldiers fighting
just wars.  But there is even less comfort for the loss of our children at
the hands of slaughterers, terrorists, and evil regimes.  Our young soldiers
have given their lives to save us from that.  May God bless their memories,
and comfort their families.  We owe them everything that makes our lives in
this world as Jews possible. Let's remember that more than one day a year.

 

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Lu Kewen aka. Australian Labor PM Kevin 07 Rudd follows, adopts? UK Labor’s Immigration Policy

 

Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser
Labour threw open Britain's borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a "truly multicultural" country, a former Government adviser has revealed.

By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor
Telegraph.co.uk
Published: 6:42PM BST 23 Oct 2009

The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and "rub the Right's nose in diversity", according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.

He said Labour's relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to "open up the UK to mass migration" but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate its "core working class vote".
As a result, the public argument for immigration concentrated instead on the economic benefits and need for more migrants.

Critics said the revelations showed a "conspiracy" within Government to impose mass immigration for "cynical" political reasons.

Mr Neather was a speech writer who worked in Downing Street for Tony Blair and in the Home Office for Jack Straw and David Blunkett, in the early 2000s.

Writing in the Evening Standard, he revealed the "major shift" in immigration policy came after the publication of a policy paper from the Performance and Innovation Unit, a Downing Street think tank based in the Cabinet Office, in 2001.

He wrote a major speech for Barbara Roche, the then immigration minister, in 2000, which was largely based on drafts of the report.

He said the final published version of the report promoted the labour market case for immigration but unpublished versions contained additional reasons, he said.

He wrote: "Earlier drafts I saw also included a driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural.

"I remember coming away from some discussions with the clear sense that the policy was intended – even if this wasn't its main purpose – to rub the Right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date."

The "deliberate policy", from late 2000 until "at least February last year", when the new points based system was introduced, was to open up the UK to mass migration, he said.

Some 2.3 million migrants have been added to the population since then, according to Whitehall estimates quietly slipped out last month.

On Question Time on Thursday, Mr Straw was repeatedly quizzed about whether Labour's immigration policies had left the door open for the BNP.

In his column, Mr Neather said that as well as bringing in hundreds of thousands more migrants to plug labour market gaps, there was also a "driving political purpose" behind immigration policy.

He defended the policy, saying mass immigration has "enriched" Britain, and made London a more attractive and cosmopolitan place.

But he acknowledged that "nervous" ministers made no mention of the policy at the time for fear of alienating Labour voters.

"Part by accident, part by design, the Government had created its longed-for immigration boom.

"But ministers wouldn't talk about it. In part they probably realised the conservatism of their core voters: while ministers might have been passionately in favour of a more diverse society, it wasn't necessarily a debate they wanted to have in working men's clubs in Sheffield or Sunderland."

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the Migrationwatch think tank, said: "Now at least the truth is out, and it's dynamite.

"Many have long suspected that mass immigration under Labour was not just a cock up but also a conspiracy. They were right.

"This Government has admitted three million immigrants for cynical political reasons concealed by dodgy economic camouflage."

The chairmen of the cross-party Group for Balanced Migration, MPs Frank Field and Nicholas Soames, said: "We welcome this statement by an ex-adviser, which the whole country knows to be true.

"It is the first beam of truth that has officially been shone on the immigration issue in Britain."

A Home Office spokesman said: “Our new flexible points based system gives us greater control on those coming to work or study from outside Europe, ensuring that only those that Britain need can come.

“Britain's borders are stronger than ever before and we are rolling out ID cards to foreign nationals, we have introduced civil penalties for those employing illegal workers and from the end of next year our electronic border system will monitor 95 per cent of journeys in and out of the UK.

“The British people can be confident that immigration is under control.”

The Consequences of UK Labor’s Immigration Policy (I am pretending that they were not aware of the following when they introduced this immigration policy aka Mass Suicide Note) Australia’s very own Lu Kewen aka. Australia’s PM Kevin Rudd, is committed to a “big Australia” some 36 million in population and presently has an open border immigration policy with a preference for Muslim illegals.

Australia

We'll be a nation of new migrants

By NICK GARDNER
The Sunday Telegraph
April 18, 2010

THE Australian-born family will become a minority group within 15 years - outnumbered by a surging wave of migrants from Europe and Asia.

Figures from demographic consultants Macroplan Australia show record overseas migration and an ageing population mean migrant families will overtake the number of locally born residents by 2025 - far sooner than previously imagined.

The news will infuriate some Australian citizens, who claim the population is already too big and infrastucture is buckling under the strain.

According to 2006 census data, 40 per cent of the nation's population was either born overseas or had at least one parent who was born abroad.

But at present immigration levels, that proportion will jump to more than 50 per cent by 2025.

The news comes a few days after the appointment of Tony Burke as Australia's first population minister

He faces the task of managing the influx of migrants, which is expected to swell the population from 22 million today to 36 million by 2050.

As Mr Burke was sworn in, a survey of 3000 people revealed 70 per cent of Australians do not want a bigger population. Fewer than a quarter favoured immigration as the main contributor.

But experts say a migrant majority will be healthy for Australian culture and attitudes.

"It all adds to the cosmopolitan nature of modern Australia," KPMG demographer Bernard Salt said. "It means our views become less blinkered, and we become more tolerant, confident, engaged, opportunistic and optimistic because we are open to new ideas, not obsessed with keeping things the same."

Macroplan chief executive Brian Haratsis said Australians tended to "stare at our shoes and say we're the best in the world".

"While immigration needs to be managed with better infrastructure, we also need high immigration for sound economic reasons - if we don't, we'll all end up paying higher taxes."

Dr Bob Birrell, co-director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research and reader in sociology at Monash University, said the ratio of foreign-born residents was already higher in Sydney and Melbourne because they were the two most popular destinations for new arrivals.

"We're getting lots more Indian and Chinese immigrants coming to study, but many of those will end up settling here," Dr Birrell said.

The Federal Government estimates that cutting immigration from 280,000 to its target of 180,000 will result in a population of 36 million by 2050.

But it also means the number of working taxpayers will halve in relation to the number of people aged over 65.

Most migrants come from Britain (14.2 per cent), followed by New Zealand (11.4 per cent), India (11.2), China (10.5) South Africa (5.3) and the Philippines (4.1).

Mr Salt said there would be more Iraqi and Afghan migrants.

 

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Lu Kewen aka.Australian PM.Kevin Rudd’s Nephew Van-Thanh-Rudd Trashes Australia (again)

 

Australian Open 26 1 2010

Van-Thanh-Rudd

Lu Kewen

Australian Federal Election Poster, Hong Kong 2007.

Rudd nephew in 'disgusting' art controversy

Sunday Herald Sun
January 30, 2010 11:43PM

PMs nephew in new controversy
Art work called 'disgusting'
Lampoons dead Aussie soldiers

FRESH from being evicted from the Australian Open Tennis, Kevin Rudd's nephew is embroiled in fresh controversy over art works that lampoon dead Australian soldiers.

Van Thanh Rudd, who last week was ejected from the open for wearing a Ku Klux Klan costume with the logo "Australian Made", has been attacked over "disrespectful and disgraceful art".

The art work juxtaposes a picture of Shane Warne making an impassioned appeal for a wicket against a coffin of a Digger draped in an Australian flag being carried to a Hercules transport plane for the journey home.

Another montage entitled The Rape depicts real pictures of identifiable rugby league players positioned so they look as if they are engaged in sex acts.

Mr Rudd is the son of the Prime Minister's older brother, Malcolm. According to his website which displays the art works, Mr Van Thanh Rudd was born in the Queensland coastal town of Nambour - the Prime Minister's home town - and now resides in Melbourne.
In what appeared to be a veiled reference to the Prime Minister, Mr Baldwin said anyone with any influence on Mr Van Thanh Rudd or his family should get him to pull the website down.

Prime Minister Rudd has previously condemned artist Bill Henson over his erotic depictions of children describing them as "disgusting". But presented with Mr Van Thanh Rudd's images a spokesman would only say: "The Prime Minister believes all Australians should respect the service and sacrifice of our Australian servicemen and women."

Mr Van Thanh was fined $234 by police for his Klu Klux Klan protest at the Australian Tennis Open. But he could also be facing possible civil action from the Australian Made campaign if he ignores a legal warning to stop using its logo for his anti-racism protests.

Mr Rudd, 36, was fined by police for "riotous behaviour"' after he and fellow Revolutionary Socialist Party member Sam King staged a protest against the treatment of Indian students and immigration policies.

Australian Made campaign chief executive Ian Harrison said the organisation had told lawyers to write to Mr Rudd requiring a commitment from him not to "misuse" the logo.

The Prime Minister's nephew said the protest was aimed at drawing attention to racism in Melbourne and the incarceration of asylum-seekers.

"We don't see why Australia has the right to be the most racist country in the world," he told the ABC.

"Australia funds the genocidal Sri Lankan regime and then rejects the refugees who flee. In this country you could not get away with doing that against whites. So they're the basic reasons we're having the protest today," he told the ABC.

Mr King said the idea for the demonstration stemmed from a cartoon in an Indian newspaper that likened Victorian police to the Ku Klux Klan.

Kevin Rudd defends nephew Van Thanh Rudd's right to protest

Herald Sun
February 05, 2010

KEVIN Rudd has defended the right of his nephew to use controversial protest tactics, even though he disagrees with him.

Van Thanh Rudd, a Melbourne-based artist, made headlines in the Indian media after dressing up in a Ku Klux Klan hood on Australia

Day to protest against violence directed at Indian students.

Asked about those tactics, the Prime Minister said he had a broad family.

"We all believe in free speech but I don't agree with what he said," Mr Rudd told Fairfax Radio today.

"I haven't had a chat with him for quite some months."

Mr Rudd pointed out that his 36-year-old nephew had two brothers - a policeman and a member of the Australian Defence Force.

They are the sons of the Prime Minister's brother Malcolm, a Vietnam veteran, and his wife Tuoi.

"I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist," Mr Rudd said.

“The Fruit does not falls far from the tree.”

Rudd’s Illegal’s on their way to Australia

HMAS Childers finally a chance to speak the truth.

Prof.Bob Birrell Speaks for Australia and Australians

 

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Islamic Scholar discovers cause of recent spat of Earth Quakes

 

Sex fuels earthquakes, says Iran cleric

Yahoo7
18 4 2010

A senior Iranian cleric has claimed that dolled-up women incite extramarital sex, causing more earthquakes in Iran, a country that straddles several fault lines, newspapers reported on Saturday.

"Many women who dress inappropriately ... cause youths to go astray, taint their chastity and incite extramarital sex in society, which increases earthquakes," Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi told worshippers at Friday prayers in Tehran.

"Calamities are the result of people's deeds," he was quoted as saying by reformist Aftab-e Yazd newspaper. "We have no way but conform to Islam to ward off dangers."

The Islamic dress code is mandatory in Iran, which has been under clerical rule for more than three decades.

Every post-pubescent woman regardless of her religion or nationality must cover her hair and bodily contours in public. Offenders face punishment and fine.

But this has not stopped urban women from appearing in the streets wearing tight coats and flimsy headscarves and layers of skilfully applied makeup.

Iran is prone to frequent quakes, many of which have been devastating.
The worst in recent times hit the southern city of Bam in December 2003, killing 31,000 people - about a quarter of the population - and destroying its ancient mud-built citadel.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury I rest my case.

 

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Muhammed’s descendents to pay for their for their ideology’s Godless savagery ?

 

Full Story Here

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Labor,Rudd’s Australia.

 

We'll be a nation of new migrants

By NICK GARDNER
The Sunday Telegraph
April 18, 2010

THE Australian-born family will become a minority group within 15 years - outnumbered by a surging wave of migrants from Europe and Asia.

Figures from demographic consultants Macroplan Australia show record overseas migration and an ageing population mean migrant families will overtake the number of locally born residents by 2025 - far sooner than previously imagined.

 

The news will infuriate some Australian citizens, who claim the population is already too big and infrastucture is buckling under the strain.

According to 2006 census data, 40 per cent of the nation's population was either born overseas or had at least one parent who was born abroad.

But at present immigration levels, that proportion will jump to more than 50 per cent by 2025.

The news comes a few days after the appointment of Tony Burke as Australia's first population minister

He faces the task of managing the influx of migrants, which is expected to swell the population from 22 million today to 36 million by 2050.

As Mr Burke was sworn in, a survey of 3000 people revealed 70 per cent of Australians do not want a bigger population. Fewer than a quarter favoured immigration as the main contributor.

But experts say a migrant majority will be healthy for Australian culture and attitudes.

"It all adds to the cosmopolitan nature of modern Australia," KPMG demographer Bernard Salt said. "It means our views become less blinkered, and we become more tolerant, confident, engaged, opportunistic and optimistic because we are open to new ideas, not obsessed with keeping things the same."

Macroplan chief executive Brian Haratsis said Australians tended to "stare at our shoes and say we're the best in the world".

"While immigration needs to be managed with better infrastructure, we also need high immigration for sound economic reasons - if we don't, we'll all end up paying higher taxes."

Dr Bob Birrell, co-director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research and reader in sociology at Monash University, said the ratio of foreign-born residents was already higher in Sydney and Melbourne because they were the two most popular destinations for new arrivals.

"We're getting lots more Indian and Chinese immigrants coming to study, but many of those will end up settling here," Dr Birrell said.

The Federal Government estimates that cutting immigration from 280,000 to its target of 180,000 will result in a population of 36 million by 2050.

But it also means the number of working taxpayers will halve in relation to the number of people aged over 65.

Most migrants come from Britain (14.2 per cent), followed by New Zealand (11.4 per cent), India (11.2), China (10.5) South Africa (5.3) and the Philippines (4.1).

Mr Salt said there would be more Iraqi and Afghan migrants.

Rudd’s Illegal’s on their way to Australia

HMAS Childers finally a chance to speak the truth.

Prof.Bob Birrell Speaks for Australia and Australians

Technorati Tags: Kevin Rudd,Australian Labor Party,Muslim Immigration,Colonization by Stealth,Socialism,Multiculturalism

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.”

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.

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Lord Christopher Monckton speaks to Alan Jones about his up coming USA Tea Party appearance

 

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