Two Extra Monckton speaking events Perth and Sydney

 

Due to overwhelming interest in Lord Monckton’s lectures and a shortage of venue accommodation we would have liked to have stage additional presentations in every city but can only manage two, Perth and Sydney

Perth

Thanks to the initiative of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (WA) and an available time slot, an extra lecture has been organised.  The details are as follows:

Date:  Tuesday February 9th

Venue: Wesfarmers Lecture Theatre, Business School , University of Western Australia

Address: Hackett Drive (off Stirling Highway at Matilda Bay ) Crawley Perth WA

Parking: Car Parks 6 & 9, Hackett Drive

Time: 6pm – 8pm [Doors open at 5pm for 6pm start]

Cost: $20 per person. No bookings. Cash payment on entry. [Please bring a $20 note]

Note: Charge is for admission only. No provision of food/drinks.

Collection: Payment collected by designated AIIA members on entry

SYDNEY

Date:  Friday, February 12^th

Master of Ceremonies: Alan Jones

Venue: Hilton Hotel,

Address: 488 George Street,  Sydney , Australia 2000

Time: 12:30 – 2:30pm

Cost: $30 per person. No bookings. Cash payment on entry.

Note: Charge is for admission only. No provision of food/drinks.

Collection: Payment collected by volunteer helpers on entry

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Indonesia to remove Statue of Boy Messiah, Hussein Obama

 

Indonesia to remove Obama statue

Daily Telegraph
February 05, 2010 8:32PM 

A STATUE of US President Barack Obama as a boy will be removed from a park in the Indonesian capital due to public opposition, just weeks before Obama visits his old hometown.

Islam’s Boy Messiah / Prophet,in Bronze,at peace and as one with nature and all who worship his image,seen here in Menteng Park.

The Jakarta governor's office confirmed that the two-metre bronze would be removed from Menteng Park and placed at the nearby Menteng One primary school where Mr Obama spent part of his childhood in the late 1960s.

The decision comes after 56,500 people joined a page on social networking website Facebook calling for the statue to be removed and replaced by a memorial to an Indonesian identity.

"The Jakarta administration has decided to remove the Obama statue from Menteng Park and take it to his former school,'' city spokesman Cucu Ahmad Kurnia said.

"We follow the aspirations of the people, who think that the removal of the statue to his former school is more appropriate.''

He said a new site for the statue has not been chosen but it would be somewhere "near the school gate so the public can still view it''.

"We'll remove it as soon as possible, hopefully before Mr Obama's visit to Jakarta,'' the spokesman said.

The statue of "Little Barry'' - as Mr Obama was known to his Indonesian school friends - was designed by Indonesian artists and depicts the boy Obama dressed in shorts and a T-shirt with a butterfly perched on his hand.

Mr Obama, who was born in Hawaii, lived for four years as a child in Jakarta from 1967 after his divorced mother married an Indonesian.

“We're a couple of swells
We stop at the best hotels….”

How long before Beijing’s man on the ground in Australia, Australia’s very own “Dear Leader” Australian PM Lu Kewan aka. Kevin 07 “I have never been a Socialist” Rudd, will commission some nauseating statue or portrait of Hussein Obama,perhaps painted by his grubby little nephew Van Thanh Rudd,as way of proving to the world his total commitment to the Islamic and International Socialism cause. 

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Rudd’s Australia: Internet censorship anti Rudd Labor Facebook site shut down

 

More censorship? Rudd ‘epic fail’ group goes offline

ThePunch

Yesterday, we told you about the South Australian government’s attempts at internet censorship.

Lu Kewan aka. Beijing’s man in Australia,Australian PM Kevin “I have never been a socialist” Rudd

Today, we can reveal that online political speech has been dealt another blow with Facebook, the popular social networking site, being accused of political censorship after it removed the group “KEVIN RUDD = EPIC FAIL”.

Before it was removed the Facebook group is understood to have had over 3000 members and focused on building a list what it described as Kevin Rudd’s broken promises.

Whether or not you agree with the argument of the group, surely in a democracy the creators have the right to express their views and people have a right to join and support that group.

The group is believed to have been banned because it criticised an individual, the Prime Minister.

However, based on Facebook’s terms of reference you would expect a group would only be banned if its views were overtly racist or defamatory.

In the case of the Prime Minister you would have to say he has been accused of worse things than being an “epic failure”.

Facebook has previously removed or banned controversial groups which were viewed as containing racist or Anti-Semitic views.

It has also intervened at the request of law enforcement agencies such as when arson vigilante groups appeared in the wake of the 2009 Victorian Bushfires.

Typically, a Facebook group will be banned following the logging of a complaint directly to Facebook.

The Prime Minister’s office has confirmed to The Punch that it did not lodge a complaint against the Facebook group.

The decision to ban the political group because they were critical of a politician represents a concerning development, online civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia told The Punch.

Electronic Frontiers Australia argue that such disputes over political Facebook groups show that there is a growing fight for political freedom in Australia.

EFA Spokesperson, Geordie Guy said the online environment is currently caught in a battle “between people [who are] online and people who would prefer those people didn’t give their opinions”.

The Facebook controversy comes only a day after the South Australian government backed down on controversial new laws requiring people to provide their name and postcode before posting comments online on news website such as AdelaideNow.

The South Australian laws came only months out from the South Australian State Election and critics argued that the measure would severely limit free speech.

Facebook’s policy on political group at remains unclear as the website has not taken action again other Australian political groups such as “Kevin Rudd is a Communist” and “Tony Abbott is a tosser”.

At the time of posting, Facebook has not responded to a request for comment.

Check out ThePunch website and read the letters to the editor on this story two examples below:

“Liz says:

11:37am | 04/02/10

A friend of mine works in Rudd’s Office and tells me the man is paranoid about criticism. She also hintedthat Punch has been misled. Rudd’s office orchestrated the Facebook removal of this page.

Hugh says:

04:35pm | 04/02/10

An interesting suggestion DG says:02:37pm | 04/02/10, however you forget that Rudd, through his ill-conceived new net filter, can decide which sites appear in Australian searches. Perhaps he has more power over Facebook than you imagine. “

Update on Rudd's internet censorship laws

Rudd Government Minister receives "Internet Villain of the Year" award

Americans BEWARE Australian internet to be CENSORED by Australian Labor Party

 

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