Australians strengthen liar Howard

http://sydney.indymedia.org/ 10.10.2004 16:02 Themen: Soziale Kämpfe
Australian voters have chosen John Howard's deceptively named "Liberal" party to rule the nation for another 3 years. This comes despite the fact that his lies are well documented, he has followed semi-literate George W. Bush and Tony BLiar into an illegal and immoral war and his party's policy is to detain indefinitely foreign children who travel without the necessary paperwork.
Australian voters have chosen the destruction of their forests for woodchips, funding for private schools over public education, funding for private health care over public hospitals, a strengtening of the dangerous alliance with George Bush's America and the selling off of public assets such as the Telstra phone company.

There is no way Australian voters could have missed knowing about the lies and deception the Howard government delivers. Australian voters have chosen a man they all know to be a cunningly devious, untrustworthy toad who blames his underlings when caught out lying.

The Labor opposition's "social and environment policies were just no match for an effective fear propaganda strategy." In an election dominated by cowardice, Australian voters have known full well a vote for Howard has meant more time behind razor wire for people like Peter Qasim, who has spent over six years in detention because he lost his papers in India.

They have chosen short term economic gain over long term sustainability. They have chosen a racist, illegal war for Iraq's oil over international diplomacy. They have chosen to further reinforce the criminalisation of political dissent and the consolidation of the powers of ASIO, the secret intelligence agency.

In the Sydney IMC there are links to the various themes mentioned above.


(Cross-posted here by Diet Simon.)
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Fascist preferred over Aborigine

Diet Simon 10.10.2004 - 19:34
You may remember my postings about a prominent Aborigine trying to unseat the deputy prime minister. (Aborigine wants Deputy Prime Minister's seat,  http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2004/07/20562.shtml.)

Sadly, Ghillar failed badly.

Out of 82,099 electors on the register, 2,585 voted for him – less than the 2,734 of a Colin Rogers who stood for the racist One Nation Party (ONP) and the 3,001 of an Independent, Bruce Haigh, a former diplomat. That says a lot about the redneck attitudes of rural Australians! Rather a fascist than an Aborigine!

In that connection you might be interested in  http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2004/02/16778.shtml, Australian UN human rights chair ‘a shame’.

For information on the fascist/racist party go to
 http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1997/272/272cen.htm. It has even profited financially from the election – see  http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11033926%255E36275,00.html.

We are mystified over what happened to a potential 7,000 Aboriginal votes in this electorate.

Ghillar wrote me: “I have learnt a lot from this. One thing is for sure. It is so fucking corrupt.
I now realise that the postal vote is so important. John Anderson [the minister and sitting member] and his mob place a lot of emphasis on their use. Next time I know how to make sure as many blackfellas vote in order to gain the maximum.”

Some of the issues Ghillar was putting forward are at  http://www.greens.org.au/gwydir/.

The full results in the electorate are at  http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2004/results/gwyd.htm