Will Australia get a slap on the wrist, or a kick in the crutch?...

United Nations to query Australia on possible human rights breaches

PARTS of Australia's immigration and indigenous policies have been named potential human rights violations by the United Nations.

The UN also has concerns about Australia's anti-terror laws and will ask the Federal Government to explain how it is ensuring they don't contravene international law.

The listing of potential international law breaches comes as the UN Human Rights Committee prepares to hold a review into Australia's human rights record in New York over the next fortnight.

The UN panel has made particular note of the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act for the indigenous intervention in the Northern Territory and whether there is any plan to close the Christmas Island detention centre, which has recently been reactivated.

The Government's preliminary response to the UN's concerns said asylum seekers detained on Christmas Island now had access to legal rights and their visa application would be processed within 90 days.

The Government has also defended its anti-terror laws, saying there was sufficient supervision to ensure human rights conventions were met.

Lawyers from the Melbourne-based Human Rights Law Resource Centre flew to New York yesterday and will meet UN officials on Monday for a formal briefing.

One of the lawyers, Ben Schokman, told The Age that he would present concerns in eight areas of government policy.

Mr Schokman said the Christmas Island detention centre and the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act were likely to be the subject of criticism by the UN when the report was handed down at the end of March.

"But we will get a better picture of where the UN is likely to really criticise Australia's human rights record after Monday because they will be asking us questions in those areas," Mr Schokman said.

The Government will send members of the Attorney-General's Department to present its case, but Attorney-General Robert McClelland will not attend.

Mr Schokman said former Howard government attorney-general Philip Ruddock went over for the review of the racial discrimination tribunal.

"That didn't go so well, so ever since they haven't sent ministers."

Government officials will brief the UN in two meetings on March 23 and 24 in what has been called a "constructive dialogue".

As a signatory to the UN's International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Australia's human rights record is reviewed every four years.

From little things big things grow applies to oppression as well.// Corporate Prostitute says sorry..

Get up (which is funded by a labour party advisor and supposedly run independently. Decide for yourself) has released the White Apologist version of the Land rights anthem "From little things, big things grow". This is the Australien people's attempt to alleviate itself from the guilt of "The stolen generation".

To say sorry is to give respect and:

-Allow SELF DETERMINATION to occur
-Make amends
-Repatriate
-Fully acknowledge the crime of Genocide
-Out law Genocide in Australia
-Convict all criminals who knowingly protracted the genocide.
-Make a treaty to end the violence of occupation
-Repeal the amendment to the racial discrimination act
-Institute full national uniform free hold land rights
-Convict at least one pig for over two centuries of deaths in custody
-Undo the lie of Terra Nullius
-Demand real Justice
-Etc..etc..etc.. see the last 237 years of Australian history for more reasons to apologise.

I'm sorry / to be so blunt. NOT!

In an era where corporations and governments are oppressing in leaps and bounds, the Australian population is patting itself on the back for taking a small step and making a shallow and meaningless apology.

Lets reflect on a possible alternative reason for the apology:

A mass convergence against the Northern Territory intervention (3 months in the planning), was making its way to the first sitting of the new Parliament of Australia. The new Prime Minister eager to please his new corporate bosses by assuring their newly acquired mining rights, soon realized the magnitude of the protest and its potential effects in highlighting to the world the apartheid state created by the NT Intervention. Kevin Rudd made an astute political decision to steal the thunder from the massive convergence by ceremoniously apologising to the Stolen Generations without compensation (2 weeks in the planning). In true fascist style he cunningly made thousands of protesters appear as supporters. Howard eat your heart out.

Call me paranoid if you will; then take another sleeping pill and get the fuck off my blog.

I'm sorry / Australians are such tools.

The fact is little things have been growing for many decades, and now they are big things. There is a mass movement of Indigenous justice supporters actively resisting the injustice, we shouldn't wait for the retards to feel like its time to make a change. Get up should adopt a hard line and not play a hand in prolonging the ignorance or else it’s just part of the governments agenda to pander to the ego's of the most apathetic population on earth, by plastic wrapping the struggle for freedom.
While the real struggle for self determination goes backwards over 40 years, back to the mission days.

Get Up and get of your fat arses. Buying a record can only help to achieve real change if you freesbie it at a politician.

I'm sorry / as a crime acknowledger of Australia. Who has benefited from the land theft and ongoing oppression of the indigenous inhabitants. I'M SORRY.

Here is the real version.. Notice the difference.

Respect to uncle Kev Karmody and Paul Kelly.

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