Re: [-empyre-] February 2006 on -empyre- soft-skinned space

[traceyb@byte-time.net]

I find that the term un-australian has been used continuously by the Howard
government to describe any act or section of society that they don't 
agree with
- asylum seekers, Aboriginal activists, the cricket?!

Argus (Canberra based street zine) put together an 'unaustralian' 
campaign a few
years ago that still has currency today...

http://www.argusonline.com.au/unoz.htm

unaustralian, treasonous, seditious - all seem to have definitions 
(legally and
colloquially) that can and are manipulated to suit political agendas - same
with free speech and democracy


Quoting Komninos Zervos <k.zervos@griffith.edu.au>:

> if you carry a back pack and your hair is black
> watch out you don't get a bullet in the back!
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> mr howard says "it's un-australian for an aboriginal activist to burn the
> australian flag" go figure.
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> komninos zervos
> http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos
> http://users.bigpond.net.au/mangolegs
> http://spokenword.blog-city.com
> "Our Workplace Rights are NOT for sale."
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