Samantha Maiden From: Sunday Herald Sun January 30, 2011
JULIA Gillard is locking up more than 1000 children in immigration facilities, beating the Howard Government's "cruel" record.
And rising numbers of boatpeople turning to people smugglers to fast-track their claims are locking out thousands of asylum seekers waiting in overseas refugee camps.
The Coalition will move to guarantee places for asylum seekers who are languishing in overseas refugee camps when Parliament resumes, accusing the Prime Minister of allowing people smugglers to run Australia's refugee intake.
Despite vowing to release women and children from detention when Labor was elected, new figures obtained by the Sunday Herald Sun confirm 1046 minors are being held in detention.The previous high-water mark was nearly 10 years ago when 842 children where held in detention in September, 2001, according to the Human Rights Commission.
After seizing the top job last year, the Prime Minister vowed to adopt a humane approach to asylum seekers, noting her own background as a child migrant.
"Australia's basic decency does not accept the idea of punishing women and children by locking them up behind razor wire," Ms Gillard said in a speech to the Lowy Institute last year.
But Opposition spokesman Scott Morrison said the hypocrisy of Labor's failed border protection policies were exposed by yet another record broken on children in detention.
"There's nothing compassionate about a policy that encourages people to get on boats, especially children," he said.
Refugee advocate Pamela Curr said the Gillard government was "no better than the last".
"The PM announced last year that children will be released from detention. I can tell you I understand four unaccompanied minors have been released," she said.
"I want to know when it starts."
Ms Curr said the Government had suggested 700 women and children would be released by June, but to date she believed only about 20 women who were about to give birth or had very young babies had also been released into community detention.
While the number of refugees Australia accepts has remained static, at about 13,000, the number of applicants who apply from offshore refugee camps has plunged from 7668 six years ago to 3233 people last year, as the number of boatpeople arriving exploded.
Mr Morrison said: "The cruel fact of Labor's failed border protection and immigration policies is to reward asylum seekers who can afford to get on boats at the expense of those who can't.
"The minister's own figures confirm this cruel outcome for the thousands waiting off shore for Australia's protection.
"The Coalition has put forward a motion to quarantine 10,000 places in our refugee and humanitarian program for offshore applicants.
"These places would go to the most deserving cases, as decided by the Australian Government, not people smugglers."
A spokesman for Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said visas granted for asylum seekers arriving by boat had always been taken from the capped Humanitarian Program category, including under the previous government.
He said that, bizarrely, the Opposition would prefer a first-in, best-dressed system, with a cap of 3750 claims for offshore protection in Australia that would create a scramble to make the cut, leaving the rest to go into arbitrary and indefinite detention.
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
AIRPORT ID RISK PROMPTS ELECTRONIC TICKETS AND AUTOMATIC BAGGAGE CHECK-IN RETHINK
Brittany Stack From: Sunday Herald Sun January 09, 2011
Police believe criminals are slipping through the security net at airports. Picture: John Grainger Source: HWT Image Library
ELECTRONIC tickets and automatic baggage check-ins could be banned and non-passengers barred from entering terminals under an airport security crackdown.
A raft of strict new security measures are being thrashed out by federal authorities worried about the ease at which criminal gangs and drug smugglers move through airports undetected.
Among the changes being considered for domestic airports are compulsory passenger identity checks, and even a national ID card.
Police told a federal parliamentary committee that drug-runners are exploiting lax airport security, using fake IDs to buy air tickets and smuggle drugs from Sydney to Melbourne.
Authorities believe criminals are slipping under the radar because airlines do not conduct compulsory identification checks.
Committee chairman Senator Steve Hutchins said there was concern over the growth of e-ticketing and the lack of scrutiny once tickets were issued. "We were surprised at the rapid development of this innovation in air travel and the misuse of it by organised crime figures," Senator Hutchins said.
On the issue of introducing a national ID card, Senator Hutchins said it was important to know the identity of each passenger - which currently was largely not happening.
"There will be no national identity system without the full support of the Coalition, and on every occasion when that has been presented to them they have refused to co-operate," he said.
"We are talking about identification of the passenger who purchased the ticket being the bum on the seat and that is what the police force, law-enforcement agencies and other bodies have highlighted as a gap in our domestic airport security."
Any opportunity that may close that loophole must be investigated by any federal agency that has the power to do so."
Electronic check-in machines allow passengers to bypass scrutiny as it is possible to check in from a computer or smartphone, print your own boarding pass and check-in your baggage without being asked for official identification. The Australian Federal Police Association is critical of electronic check-in and recommends the Federal Government close this security loophole immediately.
IRAN CAPTURES US SPY IN IRANIAN TERRITORY
By Michael Byers, Editor-In-Chief, The Mikiverse
34 year old American, Hal Talayan was arrested on January 5th at Jolfa on the Armenian border. It has been alleged that she was acting as a tourist and had been previously denied entry into Iran over visa issues.
More news as it comes to hand.
Friday, January 7, 2011
AMERICAN OWNED, AUSTRALIAN PUBLISHED TABLOID LAUNCHES OUTRAGEOUS ATTACK ON ALEX JONES
Special Edition by Michael Byers Editor-In-Chief, The Mikiverse.
Former Australian,Canadian,Brit, and current American, Rupert Murdoch's Corporate Victorian, tabloid newspaper, The Herald Sun, has launched an extraordinary attack on Radio host and documaentary film maker, Alex Jones, Paul Watson and Prison Planet.com.
This attack, by Helen Davidson, is contained in an article about the spate of animal deaths that have happened in America,Brazil, England and New Zealand recently.
Davidson, wrote that;
"One example is from conspiracy theorists Joseph Watson and Alex Jones of prisonplanet.com who blame it on "the government". According to the site authorities have “routinely engaged in secret testing of biological and electromagnetic weapons that have detrimentally impacted both humans and animals many times in the past”."
As per usual, the Herald Sun has declined to undertake a sober, rational and logical appraisal of the situation that they are writing about.
Nor, do they seek to write in any type of depth, choosing, instead to launch an ad hominim attack on Alex Jones, who is but one, of a growing trend of independent reporters -such as this journalist- committed to freedom of speech and the promulgation of truth throughout our communities.
As more and more people consume their news on-line from independent, truth sources such as the mikiverse, prison planet.com, the crowhouse and various other independent agencies, the less relevant, these archaic, corporate monoliths become, selling less copy, raising less advertising revenue and generally becoming more and more irrelavant to the general community.
Maybe this is why they are all-too-happy to distort facts given to them by the VICTORIA POLICE corporation about Drink driving in an all-too obvious attempt to propagate fear in the community about the intrusions and havoc that booze busses cause in our community in their pathetic attempts at money grabbing.
As the Mikiverse exclucisely revealed in 2009 & 2010, these traffic jam creating "operations" have revealed that only 0.3-0.8% of tested travellers are actually in contravention of their drink driving policies.
Yet, the flimsy excuse offered by Victoria Police is lapped up by the Herald Sun without question and presented to their readers as some type of "truth".
That they then have the temerity to label Alex Jones a 'conspiracy theorist' because he and his staff offers opinions on the strange culling of animals in different corners of the globe, which raises the appearanceof being a rather effective illustration of the fear that alternative news sites are instilling in corporate news boardrooms the world over.
We would do well to remember that the issue of writing a truthful article appears to have nothing to do with this outrageous Herald Sun attack on Jones & co. The LAST thing that Corporate Media Tycoons such as Rupert Murdoch, their editorial, and journalistic staff want is for you to explore the contents of truth sites such as the Mikiverse, Info Wars, Elijah's Challenge, OSTF, ae911truth.org, the World Freemen Society and other alternative sites. It is in places like these that real truth is being shared, whether it be your common law right to travel, 9/11, 7/7, Bali and other events being false flag operations, the manipulation of the economy and currency, 2012, wikileaks and a whole lot more. Learning the truth about events like 9/11 simultaneously expose the hypocrisy and lies that have been served up by the corporate press about these events in their "coverage". This is why they attack like a pack of dogs when someone like Kevin Bracken talks about 9/11 truth, or they refer to 9/11, or Alex Jones - they don't want their lies to be exposed.
In fact, 2012 receives the Herald Sun serves up a tittilating, teenage style of emotive fare when they find time to glibly include 2012 in the same article, when it intones; "And let’s not even get started on the 2012 end of the world predictions."
As far as I am aware, this is the first article that has directly mentioned Alex Jones in any capacity. Am I being unfair in predicting that the Herald Sun will not be rushing to write any fair and balanced articles about Alex and other members of the truth community in the near future?
And we wonder why they are losing readers every day ham over fist....
Former Australian,Canadian,Brit, and current American, Rupert Murdoch's Corporate Victorian, tabloid newspaper, The Herald Sun, has launched an extraordinary attack on Radio host and documaentary film maker, Alex Jones, Paul Watson and Prison Planet.com.
This attack, by Helen Davidson, is contained in an article about the spate of animal deaths that have happened in America,Brazil, England and New Zealand recently.
Davidson, wrote that;
"One example is from conspiracy theorists Joseph Watson and Alex Jones of prisonplanet.com who blame it on "the government". According to the site authorities have “routinely engaged in secret testing of biological and electromagnetic weapons that have detrimentally impacted both humans and animals many times in the past”."
As per usual, the Herald Sun has declined to undertake a sober, rational and logical appraisal of the situation that they are writing about.
Nor, do they seek to write in any type of depth, choosing, instead to launch an ad hominim attack on Alex Jones, who is but one, of a growing trend of independent reporters -such as this journalist- committed to freedom of speech and the promulgation of truth throughout our communities.
As more and more people consume their news on-line from independent, truth sources such as the mikiverse, prison planet.com, the crowhouse and various other independent agencies, the less relevant, these archaic, corporate monoliths become, selling less copy, raising less advertising revenue and generally becoming more and more irrelavant to the general community.
Maybe this is why they are all-too-happy to distort facts given to them by the VICTORIA POLICE corporation about Drink driving in an all-too obvious attempt to propagate fear in the community about the intrusions and havoc that booze busses cause in our community in their pathetic attempts at money grabbing.
As the Mikiverse exclucisely revealed in 2009 & 2010, these traffic jam creating "operations" have revealed that only 0.3-0.8% of tested travellers are actually in contravention of their drink driving policies.
Yet, the flimsy excuse offered by Victoria Police is lapped up by the Herald Sun without question and presented to their readers as some type of "truth".
That they then have the temerity to label Alex Jones a 'conspiracy theorist' because he and his staff offers opinions on the strange culling of animals in different corners of the globe, which raises the appearanceof being a rather effective illustration of the fear that alternative news sites are instilling in corporate news boardrooms the world over.
We would do well to remember that the issue of writing a truthful article appears to have nothing to do with this outrageous Herald Sun attack on Jones & co. The LAST thing that Corporate Media Tycoons such as Rupert Murdoch, their editorial, and journalistic staff want is for you to explore the contents of truth sites such as the Mikiverse, Info Wars, Elijah's Challenge, OSTF, ae911truth.org, the World Freemen Society and other alternative sites. It is in places like these that real truth is being shared, whether it be your common law right to travel, 9/11, 7/7, Bali and other events being false flag operations, the manipulation of the economy and currency, 2012, wikileaks and a whole lot more. Learning the truth about events like 9/11 simultaneously expose the hypocrisy and lies that have been served up by the corporate press about these events in their "coverage". This is why they attack like a pack of dogs when someone like Kevin Bracken talks about 9/11 truth, or they refer to 9/11, or Alex Jones - they don't want their lies to be exposed.
In fact, 2012 receives the Herald Sun serves up a tittilating, teenage style of emotive fare when they find time to glibly include 2012 in the same article, when it intones; "And let’s not even get started on the 2012 end of the world predictions."
As far as I am aware, this is the first article that has directly mentioned Alex Jones in any capacity. Am I being unfair in predicting that the Herald Sun will not be rushing to write any fair and balanced articles about Alex and other members of the truth community in the near future?
And we wonder why they are losing readers every day ham over fist....
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