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Tony Abbott and the Tent Embassy

Posted On Saturday, 28 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Indigenous Australia, Politics  Tags: Abbott comments about Tent Embassy, Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Indigenous, John Turnbull, Julia Gillard, protests, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott  
Tony Abbott and the Tent Embassy Why did Tony Abbott retract his comments about it being time for the Aboriginal Tent Embassy to move on? John Turnbull comments.

Gillard and Abbott were never really threatened by Aboriginal protestors

Posted On Thursday, 26 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Discrimination, Indigenous Australia, Politics  Tags: Canberra, demonstration, Gillard jostled, Indigenous, John Passant, Julia Gillard, Land rights, Porkbarrel Café, protests, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott, Treaty  
Gillard and Abbott were never really threatened by Aboriginal protestors The official account portrays Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott as being attacked by violent Aboriginal demonstrators today in Canberra. Present at the demonstrations was John Passant — who paints a rather different picture of events.

Moral dwarf Mayor bashes Occupy Melbourne protestors for the Queen

Posted On Tuesday, 25 Oct 2011 By admin. Under Human rights, Victoria  Tags: Herald Sun, Jon Faine, Liberal party, Melbourne, Mike Stuchbery, Nick Carson, Occupy Melbourne, Occupy Melbourne eviction, Occupy protests, police bruality, police brutality, protests, Robert Doyle, The Queen, Victoria Police  
Moral dwarf Mayor bashes Occupy Melbourne protestors for the Queen On Saturday, schoolteacher/writer Mike Stuchbery was punched by a cop as police brutally removed peaceful Occupy Melbourne protestors from a Melbourne Park (see his account of the incident at the bottom of the page). It all came about because Lord Mayor Robert Doyle was “desperate not to have the eyesore of a few tents when the Queen arrives”. Yesterday, Doyle mendaciously defamed protestors to justify his actions. Here is Mike’s response.

Occupy Movement has the 1 per cent scared

Posted On Monday, 10 Oct 2011 By admin. Under International, Media, Politics  Tags: banks, demonstrations, Ghandi, Keith Olbermann, Lawrence O'Donnell, Mahatma Ghandi, media silence, Occupy Movement, Occupy San Francisco, Occupy Wall Street, protests, Rachel Maddow, Wall Street, William Rivers Pitt  
Occupy Movement has the 1 per cent scared Wealthy vested interests have tried to ignore and ridicule the Occupy Movement, but it hasn't worked — now they're scared, says William Rivers Pitt.
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