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The S.A. Government is attempting to recruit workers to the State from the commercial centre of India.
Addressing a seminar on ''Living, Working and Studying in South Australia'' in Mumbai this week, S.A. Trade and Industry Minister Paul Holloway said bio-science, automotive, manufacturing, medical research and hospitality were sectors where his country could employ people from the developing countries. Mr Holloway said that South Australia offers varied job opportunities for overseas workers across a range of key industries including defence, healthcare and engineering. ''If you have skills in these areas, South Australia invites you to be a part of our cutting-edge defence industry,'' he enthused. The Trade Minister referred to S.A. as the high technology centre of Australia's defence industry, leading the country in shipbuilding, submarine support, aerospace and defence research and development. In a statement released last March, S.A. Premier Mike Rann said his Government had set a target to boost the number of people employed in the State’s defence industry from 16 000 to 28 000. Mr Rann said that" Positioning ourselves to win more contracts will help us to achieve so many of South Australia’s Strategic Plan targets on job creation, economic growth, investment, interstate migration, exports, strategic infrastructure and establishing co-operative research centres and centres of excellence."
P.M. Funds National Terror InitiativesPrime Minister John Howard today announced funding for a new counterterrorsm package. The funding will support measures agreed upon between the Federal Government and the nations' State Premiers. Following
today's meeting of the Council of Australian Governments’ meeting
(COAG) to discuss national counter-terrorism arrangements Mr Howard
announced $40 million in additional funding for a range of measures "to
deliver increased safety and security to all Australians."
And they all decided to rough up justice...
an elementary moral truism .....‘What is right for us is right for others: if it is right for our Western governments to reserve the right to attack a sovereign nation for either perceived crimes committed or possible future crimes, then it is right for the enemy to do the same.
In this case, Iran would be well within their rights to attack the US, pre-emptively, now. The patent aggression being openly directed towards Iran, mirroring the aggression shown toward pre-invasion Iraq, under our elementary moral truism becomes a valid policy avenue for Iran itself. Inversely, if we declare that it is right for us to have security, not be under external threat, to guarantee the prosperity of our citizens, then it is also a right for the government of Iran. Ideological differences apart, dedication to our notion of liberal democracy apart, it should not be on the personal judgement calls of our leaders, or on the desires of our business communities that a regime is deemed different to us & therefore subject to different courses of action, but on our commitment to a moral integrity, based on our elementary moral truism.
Halliburton Stuffs UpWhen you read this L.A. Times story, think about possible ramifications in an area near you:: [Excerpt]
HICKS SEEKS U.K. CITIZENSHIP FOR FREEDOM
An Adelaide man is seeking to change his nationality in a bid for release from U..S imprisonment.
David Hicks was arrested in Afghanistan in 2001, and has since been imprisoned at the U..S.'s Halliburton-constructed Guantanemo Bay installation. Hicks is one of only five Guantanemo prisoners to be charged of the 500 currently incarcerated there. Hick's U.S. lawyer Major Michael Mori says that Hick's application would be granted automatically because he has an English mother. This information only came to light when Hicks was discussing the recent Australia-England cricket matches. David's father, Adelaide resident Terry Hicks said that on being asked how he felt about Australia's recent match loss"David's answer was that he didn't feel that patriotic as far as the Australians and the English go because his mother was still a British national and still carried a UK passport. It threw Major Mori." While Prime Minister John Howard has refused to comment on the matter, Foreign Affairs minister Alexander Downer said that ""If Mr Hicks and his lawyers want to try to circumvent justice by going to some other country and they think that will help them, that's a matter between him and that country," Mr Downer has revealed that he has been aware of Hick's intention since the start of the month. and told ABC Radio that the issue was raised in his meeting with U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Shadow Attorney-General Nicola Roxon has accused the Government of trying to pre-empt Mr Hicks's application, saying that "Have they actually been making comments in the last month urging the US to speed up Mr Hicks' trial, all along thinking that they had to get this going before some embarrassing story like today's revelations came out?"
Halliburton And WMDs- September 2001The day before the tragedy of September 11 2001, Halliburton announced a Russian WMD reduction program. The media release is interesting to read in hindsight I.t's worth wondering how many related programs might be being implemented in different locations.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 10, 2001 HALLIBURTON UNIT PICKED TO PARTICIPATE IN PROGRAM TO REDUCE THREAT OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION DALLAS, Texas The KBR team is one of five contracting teams chosen to provide support The objectives of the contract include the acceleration of strategic The KBR team includes Devonport Management Limited; Black & Veatch To perform the tasks related to the contract objectives, KBR will set "We are committed to assisting the government in providing a safe and KBR opened a corporate office in Moscow in 1991. Kellogg Brown & Root’s Government Operations is one of the world's Halliburton Company, founded in 1919, is the world's largest provider
Letter From Scott ParkinSorry, I am so late in writing this email to all of you. I have been kind of overwhelmed with media calls, reading emails and catching up on sleep. When I set out for Australia last May, I had thought I might have a memorable trip, maybe a little snorkling, learn to surf and maybe network with some activists and do some skillshares. And then this happened. Never in my wildest dreams. This has been a combination of the most surreal yet inspiring week of my life. I am completely overwhelmed and blown away by all of the events and even more so by the response of all of you and lots of other people in your country and around the world.
brave new world‘At last history hits pay dirt. For years it was pap for television. The nation's rulers needed scientists for guns, linguists for trade and economists for mistakes. History was for nuts and numismatists. Now up pops Charles Clarke jingling bags of gold. The home secretary has promised the prime minister that he will lock away for five years anyone who "glorifies, exalts or celebrates" a terrorist act committed in the past 20 years. He does not care if glorification was not meant. If someone, somewhere takes anything that I say or write as encouraging to terror, even if they do not act on it, I have committed a criminal act.
Sadly, Kimboy agreed with the scarecrow for more protection...
hearts & minds .....‘Government officials & American media officials have repeatedly denounced the al-Jazeera network for airing grisly footage of Iraqi war casualties & American prisoners of war.
The legal fight over whether to release the remaining photographs of atrocities at Abu Ghraib has dragged on for months, with no less a figure than Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Meyers arguing that the release of such images will inflame the Muslim world & drive untold numbers to join al-Qaeda. But none of these can compare to the prospect of American troops casually bartering pictures of suffering & death for porn.
Australian Greens and Democrats Call Parkin Senate inquiry, Scott Parkin;s Media ReleaseHow to disassociate Parkin from Halliburton? Don't mention the comany's name any more. As this story continues to play throught the media, where once you'd see at least one mention, if not several, of the company Parkin had been protesting in Australia against. instead we see, at the end of two weeks of print and airplay, the man but not the cause. It will be interesting, in the new Howard Government, to see if Bob Brown's motion for a Senate inquiry over the Parkin incident results in any action.
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