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NEW South Wales Police are to be given covert search warrants, allowing them to search a property without informing the owners for up to three years.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25137466-29277,00.html


From Information Clearing House

When the outside world thinks about Australia, it generally turns to venerable clichés of innocence - cricket, leaping marsupials, endless sunshine, no worries. Australian governments actively encourage this.

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http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=John+Pilger

In effect, by a 5 to 2 majority, the court has legitimated the police-state measures, includingdetention without trial, that the Howard government and its state Labor counterparts have introduced since 2002 on the pretext of protecting ordinary people from terrorism.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/aug2007/thom-a13.shtml


From Information Clearing House

By John Pilger

John Pilger returns to his homeland, Australia, and described the social regression of a once proud liberal democracy and says that the flag-waving "values" of the neo-con prime minister may be coming unstuck in Guantanamo Bay.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16226.htm

Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser says he never thought he would see the time Australia departed from providing justice to all citizens like it has with David Hicks.

http://tinyurl.com/y4n2yl


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Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has said Australians must steel themselves for the fact the "war on terror" could continue for longer than the Cold War.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1719116.htm


From Information Clearing House

MEDICAL products made from human body parts stolen from funeral homes in New York have been implanted into Australians.

http://tinyurl.com/q39hq


From Information Clearing House

Australian man convicted of “preparing terrorism”: In a case that sets a number of disturbing precedents for the political use of Australian “counter-terrorism” laws, a Sydney Muslim man faces life imprisonment after being convicted on circumstantial evidence of preparing to commit an unspecified terrorist act.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jun2006/terr-j21.shtml


From Information Clearing House

The Iraqi Trade Minister threatened today to impose a national boycott on Australian wheat and other exports after Australian soldiers mistakenly shot dead one of his bodyguards.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2237847,00.html


From Information Clearing House

By John Pilger

Arriving with a force of 2,000, an Australian brigadier flew by helicopter straight to the headquarters of the rebel leader, Major Alfredo Reinado - not to arrest him for attempting to overthrow a democratically elected prime minister but to greet him warmly. Like other rebels, Reinado had been trained in Canberra.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13718.htm
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