GDay World 208 – Civil Liberty in Australia

by | Mar 5, 2007 | Australian media, Australian politics, censorship, Podcast, US politics

My guests today are Dr Kris Klugman PhD and Bill Rowlings from Civil Liberties Australia. I invited them onto the show to help me understand what’s happening with a variety of civil liberty matters such as:

    David Hicks
    Dr Phillip Nitschke’s book
    Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock
    Banning of Muslim books
    Sedition and other “anti-terrorism” laws passed in Australia
    The use of fear as a tool of manipulation
    Free Speech
    An Australian Bill of Rights
    The troubling rise of the Christian Right in Australia
    Gay marriage

If you are troubled, as I am, by these issues, then get off your backside and DO something about it. Join the CLA, write a blog, record a podcast, run for politics, create some street art, just DO SOMETHING non-violent. Don’t get sucked into this bullshit mindset of “what difference does it make?”. That’s what “they” want you to think. Remember – you boil a frog slowly.

John Howard War On Truth

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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me” by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.

anthem

by | Mar 3, 2007 | Uncategorized

I can’t run no more
with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they’ve summoned, they’ve summoned up
a thundercloud
and they’re going to hear from me.

Leonard Cohen, Anthem

Phillip Nitschke – Make It An E-Book!

by | Mar 2, 2007 | Australian politics, censorship

I was just thinking tonight that someone should get a copy of Nitschke’s “The Peaceful Pill Handbook”, scan it, pdf it, and release it on the web as a free e-book. Then, I thought, why doesn’t Nitschke do it himself? I’m pretty sure he doesn’t see the book as a big money maker. Why not make it available as a free e-book? If he released it as an Acrobat document (or even as a Microsoft Word document), people in Australia could print their own copies and hand them to elderly relatives.

So if any of my readers in Canada or the USA want to assist in the euthanasia of an immoral law, pick up a copy of the book here. Read it and tell us what’s in it.