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Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link News Round-Up Fri Jul 11, 2025 01:32 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Britain ?To Lose a Pub a Day? as Labour?s Tax Raid Bites Thu Jul 10, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
One pub will close every day this year as Labour?s tax raid makes it "impossible to make a profit", with 33% of sales revenue now going to the taxman, the British Beer and Pub Association has warned.
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offsite link The French Handed the Migrants Over ? Then Asked for Their Life Jackets Back Thu Jul 10, 2025 17:56 | Will Jones
On the day Starmer and Macron announce their 'migrant deal', Nigel Farage is in the Channel to witness the French handing 78 migrants over to the British ? though not before asking for their life jackets back.
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offsite link No, 170 Londoners Didn?t ?Die of Climate Change? Last Week Thu Jul 10, 2025 15:38 | Will Jones
According to Imperial College and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 170 Londoners died due to climate change in last week's heatwave. But it's just more modelling make believe, says Ross Clark.
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offsite link Schools Ban Children From Playing Outside During Heatwaves Thu Jul 10, 2025 13:05 | Will Jones
Schools are banning children from?playing outside during heatwaves, keeping them inside for 'hot play' breaks when their playgrounds are deemed to be 'too hot to use safely'.
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Aborigine cooked to death in Australian prison van.

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Sunday June 14, 2009 17:20author by waltzin matilda Report this post to the editors

Western Australia's Attorney General is looking at whether the government can and should terminate a prison transport company's contract in the wake of a scathing coroner's report. The State Coroner Alastair Hope examined the death of an Aboriginal elder in the back of a prison van. Mr Ward was transported across Western Australia from the city of Laverton to Kalgoorlie, a mostly desert region know as Goldfields. Temperatures were recorded at 47º on the day. Although there was no airconditioning he was given 600ml of water to ease his suffering and ensure a comfortable 250 mile or 400 km journey.

He died of heatstroke.
Elder Ward's family will sue - while the government  consider criminal charges and dropping the contract next year.
Elder Ward's family will sue - while the government consider criminal charges and dropping the contract next year.

This alas is not the only recent case of appalling prisoner abuse, which despite the attempts by the Rudd regime in Australia to put brutal disregard for human rights and aboriginals behind, are still clearly present & most worryingly abuse of a racist nature is connected to the subcontracted firm in question.

Indeed serious allegations of abuse which clearly verges on torture were first made in 2005. ABC an Australian TV channel's "Four Corners" program found the company formerly known as "GSL" (now G4S) had been the subject of a damning report by Queensland officials regarding the transportation of immigration detainees in 2005 . The immigration detainees were being transported from Melbourne in the state of Victoria to the notorious Woomera detention centre in the neighbouring state of South Australia. It is a journey of approximately 1,400 kilometres or 868 miles. They were given neither food not water before setting off and one prisoner was reduced to drinking their own urine. Which incidently is a very dangerous thing to do and not recommended in any extreme survival situtation.

a documentary entitled "escape from Woomera" http://aminima.net/wp/?p=409&language=es

The man who wrote that 2005 report, the former head of Queensland's corrective services, Keith Hamburger, says he is concerned about the issues raised by the subsequent death of Mr Ward in Western Australia. Though for the moment the establishment seems to closing ranks on the cost-effectiveness of ending its oursourced contracts rather than colectively hanging its head in utter shame.

But you only get one institutional apology a century........ if you're lucky

(for additional reading I'd recommend looking at Ciaron O'Reilly's 2008 http://www.indymedia.ie/article/89726 and a 2004 http://www.indymedia.ie/article/63521?comment_order=des...=true as well as http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76936 and indeed consider

Sourced from various Oz papers, today's Guardian & bit of background searching and cross-referencing. Put the work in be my motto.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/14/australia-a...n-van

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Aborigine cooked to death in an Australian prison van     Pierre F. Lherisson    Tue Jun 16, 2009 09:42 
   "Who Killed Mr. Ward"     4 Corners    Tue Jun 16, 2009 13:48 
   Caution     Mathematician.    Tue Jun 16, 2009 18:21 
   Response to "Mathemitician"     Ciaron O'Reilly    Wed Jun 17, 2009 00:07 
   Australian Police Tasar Aborignal sniffing petrol who then bursts into flame.     waltzin matilda    Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:18 
   $Aus3.2 million compensation in Ward death in custody case announced     compensation announced    Thu Jul 29, 2010 09:52 
   further on     opus diablos    Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:30 


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