Australian taxpayer is funding corrupt individuals

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My name is Nathan Greenup.

My Father is a fake, a fake spy acting as my father. Richard Brodie Greenup, 12 Arnell Street, Keperra,+61 07 33543204

My Uncle is real, my real uncle, he is a spy. David Carey, 137 Blackwood Street, Mitchelton, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA, 4053. PH: 61 07 33559686

Gregory Hdieke is a spy. Former Kelvin Grove State High School principal.

Ivy Carey is a fake grandmother, even in her 80's/90's. Same address as David Carey.

My mother was kidnapped for 10 years, brainwashed over this period so she wouldnt remember what happened to her or the secrets she had knowledge of.

Darren who lives at 5 or 7 Thornhill Street, Springwood, Brisbane, Australia is a spy. A criminal who uses an electronic brain-computer interface in an attempt to kill people. He has weapons. His fake persona is being a drug dealer.

THESE PEOPLE WILL CONTRIBUTE TO MY DEATH!

The Australian taxpayer is funding corrupt individuals to commit kidnap, murder, attempted murder, torture, etc.

The Australian Intelligence Community is corrupt.

PLEASE HELP ME OR I WILL DIE! I NEED TO SPEAK TO SOMEONE! This is important. A lot is at stake here.

Go to 137 Blackwood Street Mitchelton, ask for Jennifer Carey on how to get in contact with me. Or email me kombos@gmail.com

I WILL DIE UNLESS I RECEIVE HELP!

THIS IS NOT A JOKE!
THIS IS NOT A JOKE!
THIS IS NOT A JOKE!

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Talking Headlines - SOOOO DUMB

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ASIO IS SOOOO DUMB

January 14th 2010 04:45

One of Australia's intelligence organisations is very, very dumb. They have taken the word of Sri Lankan security on the worthiness of Tamil refugees. The UN condemn the Sri Lankan refugee camps and their lack of law and order, and even the way security labels those in the camps non-refugees.

Oh and the Tamils have been oppressed for decades,They've been murdered, terrorised and generally treated as untouchable (Yes, Sri Lanka even had India in to murder the Tamils). Strangely enough the Tamils began to fight back. Earlier they were called freedom fighters by the media.

ASIO clerks should do some fucking research themselves.

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Refugee Rights: Submission to Inquiry into Immigration Detention (Aug 2008)

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Domestic Submissions

Refugee Rights: Submission to Inquiry into Immigration Detention (Aug 2008)

On 29 May 2008, the Joint Standing Committee on Migration announced an inquiry into immigration detention in Australia.
The Centre’s Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration focuses on the need for Australia’s immigration detention regime to ensure the full implementation of Australia’s obligations under international human rights law.
The Centre congratulates the Australian Government on its proposed reforms to Australia’s immigration detention scheme as detailed on 29 July 2008.  These reforms signal a significant and positive departure from the previous government’s immigration detention policies which constituted grave breaches of Australia’s obligations under international human rights law.  However, despite considerable improvements, the proposed immigration detention regime falls short of Australia’s international obligations in a number of respects.  The issues of concern are outlined in this submission.
As Australia celebrates the 60th anniversary of the UDHR, the Government must commit to the full implementation of its international obligations through comprehensive and robust domestic legislation that reflects a human rights approach to immigration detention.  Further, the Centre considers that compliance with human rights standards should not be a matter of policy subject to the discretion of the Minister and departmental officers, but should be enshrined in legislation.

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BARNS: “Refuge from double standards”, The Mercury, 18Jan10

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BARNS: “Refuge from double standards”, The Mercury, 18Jan10 January 19, 2010

by Greg Barns  -  The Mercury -  18 January 2010

THERE is hypocrisy in Australia’s decisions on who is let into the country, writes GREG BARNS.

Last week the Right-wing media and their political friends worked themselves up into lather over an assessment by ASIO that a small number of Tamil asylum seekers should not be allowed into this country because they are apparently a security threat.

But when two Israeli political leaders came to Australia shortly before Christmas, those same politicians and media fawned over them, despite the fact they have been identified as possibly having committed crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Right at the outset let’s make it clear that just because ASIO assesses someone as a security threat means nothing. ASIO jumps at shadows and you have no way of knowing if its assessment is correct or not because it is secretive, unaccountable and has a history of getting it horribly wrong in the past.

But ASIO’s secret assessment of these asylum seekers was enough to get the now Far Right Liberal Party jumping. Leader Tony Abbott says the Rudd Government has put the security of Australia at risk, and his chief supporter in the media, The Australian, ran an editorial last week criticising the Rudd Government for failing to “protect our borders”.

Tragically neither The Australian nor Abbott queried for a nanosecond that ASIO might be wrong. But while The Australian or Abbott are running around condemning Tamil asylum seekers on the basis of a secret assessment by “spooks”, neither took issue with the visits just over a month ago by former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and the current Israeli Deputy PM Silvan Shalom.

Yet both these men played a large part in the Gaza Offensive of a year ago. This military operation by Israel against the Palestinians resulted in 1300 Palestinians dying, and hundreds of thousands of others being displaced and injured.

The Gaza Offensive has been the subject of a major investigation and report by eminent South African jurist Richard Goldstone, who found that: “Repeatedly, the Israel defence forces failed to adequately distinguish between combatants and civilians, as the laws of war strictly require.”

Goldstone further noted that “pursuing justice in this case is essential because no state or armed group should be above the law”. Failure to do so “will have a deeply corrosive effect on international justice, and reveal an unacceptable hypocrisy. As a service to hundreds of civilians who needlessly died, and for the equal application of international justice, the perpetrators of serious violations must be held to account,” he said in his report, which he presented to the United Nations on September 29 last year.

Goldstone’s Mission found that those who were responsible for the devising, planning and execution of the Gaza Offensive — and this means Olmert and Shalom — should be held accountable for any crimes committed by Israeli forces.

Goldstone’s Mission said it found that Israel committed grave breaches of the Geneva Convention, including “wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, and extensive destruction of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly”.

And Goldstone’s Mission found that Israeli officials and armed forces should be held accountable for crimes against humanity because of a series of “acts that deprive Palestinians in the Gaza Strip of their means of subsistence, employment, housing and water, that deny their freedom of movement and their right to leave and enter their own country, that limit their rights to access a court of law and an effective remedy”.

Australian law now allows for persons suspected of having committed war crimes or crimes against humanity to be arrested and tried in this country, irrespective of where the alleged offences were committed.

One would have thought that, given the very public findings of the Goldstone report, Australian political leaders and the media would be making it clear to Shalom and Olmert that they risked arrest if they entered Australia.

You can bet if it were a Tamil leader seeking to enter Australia, about whom Goldstone-type findings had been made, that would definitely have been the reaction.

But Abbott and, it has to be said, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his deputy Julia Gillard feted their Israeli guests.

The Australian’s Greg Sheridan conducted a long and sympathetic interview with Olmert and slobbered that he spent “90 minutes in the boardroom of Sydney’s Park Hyatt, and then over a relaxed lunch with his wife, Aliza, at Circular Quay”, while “Olmert talked with remarkable frankness about the military campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon, the historic peace deal he offered the Palestinians, [US] President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy and the options for action against Iran”.

Would Sheridan roll out the read carpet for a Tamil leader? One thinks not. Hypocrisy and double standards are awful things.

Greg Barns is an Australian writer and political commentator who has previously advised Australian governments on policy.

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Rudd faces questions over deals to settle Tamils

TOM ALLARD

January 19, 2010

The last of the asylum seekers from the Oceanic Viking are due to leave Indonesia this week. Most are destined for New Zealand, which originally refused to take any of the 78 Sri Lankans on the customs vessel.

The development ends a challenging saga for the Rudd Government that began when the Tamils refused to get off the Oceanic Viking after being rescued on the high seas.

The situation strained relations with Indonesia, and questions remain about how the Government and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees managed to convince several countries to accept the Tamils so quickly.

Most asylum seekers in Indonesia wait four or five years before being resettled but those involved in the four-week stand-off on the Oceanic Viking will find new homes within two months thanks to a special deal brokered by Australia in exchange for their disembarkation.

''There's an indication that the movement [of the remaining Sri Lankans] is taking place this week,'' said Teuku Faizasyah, a spokesman for Indonesia's Foreign Ministry. ''It looks like it will be happening this week. If that's the case, it's good.''

Sources at the Tanjung Pinang detention centre said 13 asylum seekers would leave for the Philippines for processing tomorrow before going to New Zealand. The final three will come to Australia. Twenty-eight of the Tamils are heading to the US, 13 to Canada, 13 to New Zealand and three to Norway.

The three at Tanjung Pinang who will come to Australia will join 18 others. Twelve of those processed by Australia have been resettled on the mainland. Four who did not pass ASIO security checks, and two children of one of them, remain on Christmas Island.

New Zealand originally rejected accepting any of the asylum seekers but changed its mind for reasons that remain unclear.

Sources familiar with negotiations said all the nations initially refused to be part of the deal to resettle the ethnic Tamils.

The acting Opposition leader, Julie Bishop, said: ''The Prime Minister must disclose what he has offered to other countries as an inducement to take people from the Oceanic Viking.''

A spokesman for the Immigration Minister, Chris Evans, said Australia had ''assisted the UNHCR to find resettlement solutions for the passengers on board the Oceanic Viking'' but denied there had been any inducements to other countries.

Mr Faizasyah said Indonesia was anxious that the episode was not repeated and suggested his country would not be prepared to accept boat people intercepted by an Australian vessel again.

''We don't foresee a similar situation happening in the future,'' Mr Faizasyah said.

Meanwhile, at the Javan port of Merak, almost 250 Sri Lankan asylum seekers continue to live in squalid conditions and are refusing to disembark from their boat after a 100-day stand-off.

They want the same deal as their fellow countrymen on the Oceanic Viking have received but their demands have been rebuffed by Australia, even though they were detained by the Indonesian Navy following a personal request from Mr Rudd.

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Australia responds to threats of internet war

DAN HARRISON

January 16, 2010

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HACKERS are launching 200 attacks a month on the Defence Department's computer networks, the Defence Minister, John Faulkner, revealed as he unveiled a new centre to co-ordinate the nation's response to online threats.

Journalists were allowed into the Defence Signals Directorate yesterday for the first time since its creation in 1947. The occasion was the opening of the Cyber Security Operations Centre.

The centre, which will cost $14 million a year to run when fully operational, is partly a product of last year's Defence white paper, which highlighted the growing threat of electronic warfare. Its centrepiece, ''The Pit'', resembles a movie set, with three rows of computer terminals overseen at one end by giant screens and at the other by a bank of computers on a raised platform, surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped mezzanine.

Digital clocks show the time in the capitals of the nation's closest allies - Washington, London, Ottawa and Wellington - while signs display messages to motivate staff: ''Reveal Their Secrets - Protect Our Own,'' says one. ''Operate in the slim area between difficult and impossible,'' reads another.

The centre is being opened at a time of heightened interest in cyber security after the internet giant Google threatened to abandon China, citing attacks on the Gmail accounts of human rights activists. More than 30 other US companies, including Adobe, Yahoo! and Symantec, have reportedly fallen victim to attacks and last year the FBI tracked more than 90,000 attacks on the US Defence Department. The attacks were said to have originated in China.

Senator Faulkner said cyber attacks were a worsening global problem. ''Cyber intrusions on government, critical infrastructure and other information networks are a real threat to Australia's national security and national interests.''

Defence, he said, had investigated about 200 electronic security incidents on its own network a month in 2009. ''Defence effectively responded to these activities and I can say that no operations to date were disrupted due to network intrusion.''

The directorate also responded to about 220 incidents reported by other Australian government agencies last year. Senator Faulkner would not be drawn on a suggestion that many cyber attacks originated in China.

''There is some evidence that electronic intrusion of Australian Government sites has been conducted from overseas but I stress that the nature of the internet makes it difficult, perhaps impossible, to attribute those attacks to exact sources.

The centre will employ about 130 information technology experts, engineers and analysts from the directorate.

Senator Faulkner would not be drawn on whether Australia had also launched cyber attacks. ''I am not prepared to address the issue of Defence's cyber activities or capabilities,'' he said.

''I will not do that … I will not be placed in a position … where I would jeopardise Australia's national security.''

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

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Refugee vigils to be held globally

January 17, 2010 - 7:09PM

AAP

Protest vigils will be held around the world to mark 100 days since a group of Sri Lankans were intercepted and returned to Indonesia at Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's request.

Refugee activists will gather outside Mr Rudd's Sydney office at 12.30pm (AEDT) on Monday ahead of vigils in Newcastle, Melbourne and Perth.

There will also be vigils outside Australian consulates in Auckland, Toronto and London.

The Tamils, intercepted by the Indonesian navy at Australia's request and taken to the Javan port of Merak in October, do not want to come ashore because they fear they will be forced to wait years for resettlement.

They instead want to be given a rapid resettlement deal like that given to the 78 Sri Lankans who spent a month aboard Australia's Oceanic Viking vessel.

"Kevin Rudd should never have made that call," Refugee Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul said of the prime minister's request to turn the boat around.

"Their rights as refugees cannot be guaranteed in Indonesia."

As of Monday, the asylum seekers will have spent 100 days holed up on their rickety cargo boat and protesters will use the occasion to call for them to be brought to Australia.

They are also demanding there be no "Indonesian solution" to illegal boat arrivals, no offshore processing and the closing of the Christmas Island detention centre.

The federal government has said it will take its fair share of the Merak asylum seekers if they are found to be refugees by the United Nations.

Mr Rintoul said a proposal from the Indonesian government to resolve the Merak situation was expected later this week.

"It's attracted a lot of international attention and I think there's going to be more," he said.

Refugee groups in both Indonesia and Australia have put forward a number of demands required for a resolution to the stand-off, including details on the adverse security findings against four Tamils on the Oceanic Viking.

Mr Rintoul said the group - currently being held on Christmas Island after adverse findings by ASIO - should be allowed immediate access to lawyers.

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Tamils safe to return home - Foreign Secretary

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Tamils safe to return home - Foreign Secretary

Sri Lanka has pledged that the five Tamil refugees on Christmas Island who have been deemed threats to national security can return to their homeland without fear of death or persecution.

The promise came as the Rudd government, which says the Tamils will never be granted visas in Australia, searched for a country willing to resettle them, and an expert on the Tamil Tigers said it was not surprising one of the five rated a security risk by ASIO was a woman.

Romesh Jayasingha, the permanent secretary to Sri Lanka’s Foreign Affairs Minister, told The Australian that fears the five would be at risk if they returned home were misplaced.

“Sri Lankais a democracy - it is governed by the rule of law,” Mr Jayasingha said yesterday.

“If they have committed any offences, there will be a due and equitable process.”

Mr Jayasingha rejected claims by refugee advocates that the Sri Lankan government’s mistreatment of the Tamil minority was the reason the five, along with hundreds of their countrymen, had fled to Australia over the past year. “There is no persecution in Sri Lanka,” he said. “All citizens are equal before the law.”

The Australian revealed on Tuesday that four of the 78 Tamils rescued by the Oceanic Viking last October, including a woman with two children, had been deemed security risks by ASIO.

The four flew to Christmas Island after the 78 Tamils negotiated a deal with the Rudd government to end the four-week stand-off. There they joined a fifth man, the woman’s husband, who was also barred by ASIO.

Shanaka Jayasekara, a lecturer at Macquarie University’s Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism, said the Tigers did not distinguish between male and female fighters.

“They had special regiments of women in their combat operations,” Mr Jayasekara said. “Women were specifically used for suicide missions. The Rajiv Gandhi assassination was conducted by an LTTE woman.”

Immigration Minister Chris Evans said on Wednesday there was no suggestion the five Tamils were hardened terrorists.

Refugee Council president John Gibson called on ASIO to give reasons for its rulings.

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Calls for ASIO reports to be made public

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ASIO is coming under increasing pressure to make public the security assessments of asylum seekers after refusing five Tamils entry.

The secretive agency is tasked with checking the background of all asylum seekers as they arrive at Christmas Island and elsewhere.

Refugee activist Pamela Curr is worried the five who have been knocked back could be stuck in detention for years.

The rising concern was met by a denial from the Department of Immigration that its Christmas Island detention centre was overcrowded.

"The centre is calm and there is good order," a department spokesman, who did not want to be named, said in a statement.

Capacity in the island's centre is 1,832, the department said.

The arrival of 42 more asylum seekers on Wednesday meant 189 asylum seekers had been intercepted in the 13 days of 2010, all part of a $654 million program the government described last year as "the largest surveillance and detection operation against people smuggling in Australian history".

Opposition Customs spokesman Michael Keenan said the growing numbers at Christmas Island would force the government to bring asylum seekers to the mainland and into murky law.

"The government will claim that it won't affect any rights of appeal, however they know full well it is murky legal territory and that is why they have always tried to create the impression that they wanted people processed offshore," Mr Keenan said in a statement.

Ms Curr says it is possible the five Tamils will face a similar fate to two Iraqi men who were held under the Howard government on Nauru for five years before being freed.

"This is an example of where things can go terribly wrong," Ms Curr told ABC Radio, adding that the initial findings should have been made public.

"ASIO operates ... as a secret organisation, beyond the reach of law."

Philip Ruddock was the attorney-general at the time of the Iraqi men's detention.

He offered stoic defence of the need for secrecy when dealing with the ASIO clearances.

"The Australian community would expect that the security organisation should be able to make those judgments unfettered."

The Tamils will remain on Christmas Island until a third country is found to take them as well as two children whose parents are part of the group.

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Immigration Department warns Federal Government to start processing asylum-seekers on mainland

• Steve Lewis, Ben Packham 
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• January 14, 2010 12:00AM

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An asylum seeker hangs out washing on a Hills Hoist on Christmas Island. Picture: Andy Tyndall Source: Herald Sun

EXCLUSIVE: THE Rudd Government has been warned to start processing asylum-seekers on the mainland or risk further riots and disturbances at Christmas Island's detention centre.

In a major challenge to the Government's border protection policies, the Immigration Department has given high-level advice that conditions at the frontline centre are close to boiling point.

As Christmas Island approaches 95 per cent capacity, the department is warning of the potential for riots following last year's melee involving Tamil and Afghan detainees.

And with intelligence agencies warning Canberra to brace for further boatloads of detainees, the Government is being urged to open spill-over facilities at Darwin.

It is understood Immigration Minister Chris Evans received the departmental warning about the deteriorating situation on Christmas Island in the past month.

The fifth unauthorised boat to enter Australian waters this year was intercepted on Wednesday, placing further strain on the crowded detention centre.

Amid growing signs of crisis, Cabinet's border security committee met in Canberra on Wednesday.

The PM's national security adviser Duncan Lewis and Australian Secret Intelligence Service chief Nick Warner are understood to have attended the meeting.

It followed the admission by the Government that four Tamil asylum-seekers were brought to Christmas Island despite failing ASIO security checks. They joined a fifth Tamil on Christmas Island who also failed security checks.

Immigration Minister Chris Evans said: "This was an ordinary meeting, but we were dealing with all those issues as you'd expect us to."

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott wrote to the holidaying Mr Rudd, demanding an "urgent briefing" on the security breach.

He also accused Mr Rudd of covering up the adverse security assessments and placing the nation at risk.

The latest arrivals pushed the number of detainees on Christmas Island to 1766, leaving just 54 spare beds.

But 53 detainees were due to leave the centre, including 22 whose visas had been granted. Another five were taken for medical treatment in Perth, three agreed to be voluntarily returned home, and 23 Indonesian crewmen were to be relocated to Darwin.

"We've still got some spare capacity at Christmas Island and we've been expanding that to meet demand," Senator Evans told Perth radio.

"I've always made clear: we have a detention centre at Darwin with capacity for 500 that is purpose-built and been used in the past.

"If we need to do that for the final stages of processing (we can) ... They'll be treated as offshore entry arrivals."

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