Keeping the Peace

At first glance, the use of water cannon and stadium prisons during the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit suggests Australia has become a police state
Nothing could be further from the truth. The Howard government values human rights. The meas…

A lift in standards

So the standard of service the AFP provide to the people of the ACT under the policing purchasing agreement is yet again under question.
This time forensics or the lack thereof (CT, Magistrate slams delay in forensic analysis, pg3 28 May 07).
Is th…

Egalitarian myth

Submitted Letter to the Editor – The Australian. While celebrating the 40th anniversary of the referendum on indigenous Australians it is fitting to recall your newspaper`s moving editorial on 29 April 1970 which expressed the dark side of the Endea…

Aussies are walking targets

Of course Australian soldiers are being targeted in Iraq! [Defence
Minister Nelson, 21 May]. They are part of an invading and occupying force in a formerly sovereign nation.
Australian soldiers are not being targeted “because they are doing an excell…

A ‘proper’ trial!

John Howard says because Saddam was given a “proper trial” we should all support his subsequent execution. Does he seriously think the travesty which took place in Baghdad was a proper trial?
So if we now follow his logic, the si…

Gag on Hicks

John Howard, Alexander Downer and Philip Ruddock succeeded in having David Hicks gagged until after the election. They say it is a coincidence, but if you believe that, I have a Harbour Bridge I would like to sell you.
They are now lo…