17-03-92 |
Locals concerned the Accident and Death Fund was being used to buy property and office equipment with the funds they paid into the fund. |
18-03-92 |
Boulder fund suspended |
15-05-92 |
Bruce Wilson and Julia Gillard go to a meeting with the miners in Kalgoorlie |
18-05-92 |
AWU announce it is taking over the fund at Boulder paper article |
13-02-93 |
Contract of sale signed by Bruce Wilson |
13-02-93 |
Purchase of 85 Kerr Street Fitzroy by Julia Gillard and B Wilson who attended the Auction |
13-02-93 |
blewitt-getting-his-addres.html Purchase of 85 Kerr Street Fitzroy by Julia Gillard and Bruce Wilson who attended the Auction |
15-02-93 |
Letter to Slater & Gordon about the 1/85 Kerr Street sale |
15-02-93 |
Ralph Blewitt is appointed Western Australian Branch Secretary in the week 15 to 19 February |
16-02-93 |
Olive Brosnan and Heidi chasing up the Power of Attorney - notes |
17-02-93 |
Olive Brosnan makes this further note regarding Heidi, a sales person with the Real Estate firm GA Thomson. Note that Heidi returns the call and says that she will let Olive Brosnan have the original Power of Attorney (when she gets it?) and will need a certified copy in return |
22-02-93 |
Slater and Gordon acknowledges that it has received the Contract of Sale, Section 32 Statement and the Power of Attorney from GA Thomson. |
23-02-93 |
Olive Brosnan certifies Power of Attorney |
3-03-93 |
A memo from Sylvia to Olive Brosnan about the application for the loan for Ralph Blewitt and the Kerr Street property |
4-03-93 |
Letter/fax from Hewitt & Company stating Ralph Blewitt Wages Ref VB/CS |
9-03-93 |
Memo to Olive Brosnan from Sylvia about the loan approval and the return of the chq for $500 from Ralph Blewitt’s personal account |
10-03-93 |
Letter from Slater & Gordon addressed to Ralph Blewitt explaining mortgage details Page 1, Page 2, Page 3 |
10-03-93 |
Memo Julia Gillard wants details of penalty interest rates |
12-03-93 |
Memo to Julia Gillard from Olive Brosnan about penalty interest rates |
17-03-93 |
Memo of fees for house - Bill of costs |
18-03-93 |
Letter to Ralph Blewitt requesting Cheque for $67,772.30 |
18-03-93 |
The cheque for $67,772.30 |
22-03-93 |
Settlement date for Kerr Street purchase |
23-03-93 |
Land Transfer document |
31-03-94 |
Dawesville project costs |
Aug-Sept 94 |
Julia Gillard went on holidays while Bruce Wilson organised house renovations |
Aug-Sept 94 |
Interview with Slater & Gordon about the Renovations |
6-02-95 |
New bank accounts for Construction Fund |
17-02-95 |
AWU-FIME amalgamate (2 Victorian Branches) |
12-04-95 |
Cheque from AWU WRAI account $46,550 |
27-04-95 |
Cheque for $15000 - $10 000 for K Spyridis and $5000 cash |
30-06-95 |
AWU went back to central funding arrangements |
25-07-95 |
Letter from Robert Smith (AWU) to Ian Cambridge and Steve Harrison about the unknown AWU bank accounts |
27-07-95 |
Letter to the National Executives about the freezing of the accounts |
2-08-95 |
Union National Finance committee meet to discuss what was going on start of investigations into the frozen accounts |
4-08-95 |
Bob Smith wrote to Ian Cambridge to say the AWU was going to charge Bruce Wilson |
10-08-95 |
Ian Cambridge visits QC Richard Kenzie from Maurice Blackburn for discussions to fix it (get union money back) |
14-08-95 |
Internal Review into Julia Gillard’s involvement of the AWU -WRA and she is put on restricted duties |
14/15 Aug 95 |
Other Joint secretaries of the Unions paid out the signatories of the accounts - hand writing on the cheques Link 1 Link 2 |
16-08-95 |
Bruce Wilson redundancy cheque $55,204 |
17-08-95 |
Letter to stop the cheques Ian Cambridge |
17/18 Aug 95 |
All accounts were closed bar 2 general and grants accounts and redundancies given out |
18-08-95 |
Affidavit - Bill Ludwig - Bruce Wilson get sprung |
11-09-95 |
Julia Gillard interviewed by Geoff Shaw, Peter Gordon and Nick Styant-Browne at Slater and Gordon - It’s recorded and she goes on leave of Absence until May 96 (WA AWU-WRA not yet discovered by AWU yet) |
31-01-96 |
Ian Cambridge addresses AWU Qld Branch meeting |
3-04-96 |
Ian Cambridge talked with Commonwealth Bank - Diary entry - Discovery of Workplace Reform Association INC. WA branch |
6-05-96 |
Discovery of Accounts in AWU name by Ian Cambridge letter from Commonwealth Bank |
7-05-96 |
Fax from Com bank listing the accounts in the AWU name - for Ian Cambridge |
1-06-96 |
Newspaper article about Joe Trio and the AWU fraud article from sometime in 1996 |
3-06-96 |
Ian Cambridge received bank records after the discussions with the bank back in April Ian Cambridge spoke to AWU Officials in Perth and they never heard of the Workplace Reform Association Inc. |
5-07-96 |
Diary entry Ian Cambridge - spoke to Branch Official Russell Frearson about the $400,000 going through the account |
31-07-96 |
Geoff Shaw Slater & Gordon General Manager gets Subpoena to supply all documents relating to purchase of 1/85 Kerr Street |
13-08-96 |
Court proceeding where Geoff Shaw is to produce the documents from the Subpeona Link 1, Link 2 |
6-01-97 |
Memo from Investigating Detective Dave McAlpine about the AWU fraud |
6-02-97 |
Memo to fraud squad from Theiss stating they hadn’t been defrauded Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4 |
17-02-98 |
Memo fraud squad about Theiss - Ralph Blewitt said Theiss auditors required that the WRA needed to be Inc. |
Well done Hungary .
Posted by: Hotrocks | Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 05:49 PM
Michael
OT
Turnbull has to go, no doubt about it, read on;
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/business/work/newspoll-analysis-turnbull-government-support-collapses-across-five-capital-cities/news-story/e095f3e00686a417403f6d7a746b847c
Newspoll analysis: Turnbull Government support collapses across five capital cities
Claire Bickers, National Political Reporter, News Corp Australia Network
December 26, 2017 10:58am
MALCOLM Turnbull will be facing a major electoral battle across several key fronts in 2018 with support for the federal government collapsing across the nation’s five capital cities.
Support for the Coalition has also dropped across all age groups in Australia, and particularly in the party’s key base of voters aged 50 and over, a demographic analysis of Newspolls taken since the 2016 election shows.
The major challenges revealed in the analysis published in The Australiantoday will be the need to win back support in the Prime Minister’s home state of New South Wales, where the primary vote has dropped almost 7 percentage points since the last election.
Queensland will be another key battleground where support has dropped 11.2 points and hit a low of 32 per cent for the first time.
Currently, the analysis shows a 4 per cent swing to Labor nationally, with the party leading 55-45 in Queensland, 54-46 in NSW and Victoria and 53-47 in both South Australia and Western Australia on a two-party-preferred basis.
It could mean a loss of between 20 and 30 seats for the Liberal and Nationals parties if repeated at the next election, The Australian reports.
Malcolm Turnbull will face a personal battle to win back voters’ support, with an increasing number of voters saying they are dissatisfied with his performance.
Support for the Coalition among voters aged 50 and older, the party’s key base, has plunged 9.9 points since the election to 40 per cent.
It has also dropped 6.5 points among voters aged 35 to 49 to 32 per cent, and 1.2 points among voters aged 18 to 34 to 31 per cent.
The number of voters abandoning the major parties also continues to rise, with 27 per cent of voters in the five capital cities saying they would vote for the Greens, One Nation or another minor party, up from 22.1 per cent at the last election.
In the regions, support for the minor parties has jumped from 25 per cent to 29 per cent over the period.
Malcolm Turnbull will also face a personal battle to win back voters’ support, with an increasing number of voters saying they are dissatisfied with his performance.
In the capital cities, 56 per cent of voters in the capital cities say they are dissatisfied with his performance, a two point rise over the period.
Malcolm Turnbull continues to hold his lead over Opposition leader Bill Shorten as preferred Prime Minister, although the gap has narrowed.
In the regions, the number has jumped four points to 60 per cent of voters.
Among voters aged 50 and older, just over a quarter of voters (26 per cent) say they are satisfied with Mr Turnbull’s time in the top job, a drop of five points over the period.
Younger voters aged 18 to 34 have marked the PM up however, with a 2 point rise in the number of voters satisfied with his performance to 39 per cent.
Mr Turnbull continues to hold his lead over Opposition leader Bill Shorten as preferred Prime Minister, although the gap has narrowed to 40-33 per cent from 44-32 per cent.
Voters have slightly marked Mr Shorten’s performance up, with the number of voters saying they are satisfied with his performance rising 1 point over the period to 33 per cent in the December quarter.
Posted by: JackC | Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 06:15 PM
Michael
OT
If my earlier post got up, ref support falling dramatically for LNP, the following surely means Turnbull must be axed. Interesting how it shows Shorten in a negative situation as well.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/business/work/malcolm-turnbull-bill-shorten-break-tony-abbotts-negative-satisfaction-ratings-streak/news-story/de937a54abe42a5bca817d09d0a53f1c
Malcolm Turnbull, Bill Shorten break Tony Abbott’s negative satisfaction ratings streak
Staff writer, News Corp Australia Network December 27, 2017 10:23am
MALCOLM Turnbull and Bill Shorten have overtaken Tony Abbott in the poor public opinion stakes.
Both leaders have racked up more days with negative satisfaction ratings in their roles as Prime Minister and Opposition Leader than Mr Abbott did in either position, The Australian reports.
An analysis of Newspoll results by the publication shows Mr Turnbull has spent 640 days in negative public opinion territory over 36 Newspolls since March 2016.
This month he overtook Mr Abbott, who spent 639 days in the top job with a negative satisfaction between December 2013 and when he was rolled by Mr Turnbull in September 2015.
Both are far from breaking the record for the Prime Minister with the longest streak of poor satisfaction ratings.
Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating holds that title with a whopping 1504 days of negative satisfaction ratings between 1992 and 1996.
Julia Gillard also spent longer in negative territory than either Mr Abbott or Mr Turnbull at 842 days between March 2011 and June 2013.
Meanwhile, the Newspoll analysis shows Mr Shorten has overtaken Mr Abbott this month as the opposition leader with the second-longest streak of negative satisfaction ratings.
Bill Shorten has overtaken Mr Abbott this month as the opposition leader with the second-longest streak of negative satisfaction ratings.
He has now spent 1032 days in negative territory over 58 polls since February 2015.
Only John Howard had a longer streak of poor satisfaction ratings when he was opposition leader at 1256 days between November 1985 and May 1989.
The poor results round out a rocky 2017 for both Mr Turnbull and Mr Shorten, with the federal government now at 25 straight Newspolls trailing Labor.
Meanwhile, the Opposition has recorded an uptick in public support but Mr Shorten still trails Mr Turnbull in the preferred prime minister ranking.
Read more at The Australian.
Posted by: JackC | Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 06:25 PM
Hungarians understand what a Muslim invasion means.
The Ottoman period is burned into their collective consciousness.
Where are our Charles Martel's or Jan Sobieski's??
Posted by: Steve J | Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 07:31 PM
6.5 million people have been displaced by conflict in Iraq and Syria since the invasion (on a lie) in 2003. Did you support the invasion of Iraq, Michael?
Read some history - old mate.
After the invasion of Vietnam, millions displaced, 170000 of whom came to this country, many on boats, and were welcomed.
After the invasion of Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands (mostly Hazara), displaced.
We reap what we sow......
Posted by: 1735099 | Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 07:33 PM
Michael
OT
Turnbull carry's on about Chinese influence in Australia.
Look what has been happening in our backyard.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/aviation/aviation-outrage-over-chinese-ownership-of-merredin-airport/news-story/d448db14c1c697a05d02b2d3154d8100
Aviation outrage over Chinese ownership of Merredin airport
The Australian 12:00AM December 27, 2017 Andrew Burrell
Merredin airport in Western Australia is effectively under the control of a Chinese government enterprise, prompting outrage in aviation circles, as safety concerns shut down its pilot training school.
The airport’s runways, control tower, hangars and all of its assets are 50 per cent owned, and may soon be fully owned, by China’s biggest airline, state-owned China Southern Airlines.
In 1993, the secretive company quietly paid $1 to the WA government to lease the airport for 100 years to use as a base to train thousands of Chinese pilots for employment in the world’s fastest- growing aviation market.
In recent years it has owned the flight school with Canadian company CAE. So far, more than 2000 pilots have graduated from the facility, making it China Southern Airlines’ biggest training base in the world.
For an Australian town’s sole airstrip to be effectively controlled by the Chinese government is unusual.
Anyone who wishes to land at the aerodrome, 260km east of Perth, must seek approval from the flying school. Locals say permission has never been denied, but aviation veteran and businessman Dick Smith believes the airport should not be owned by a foreign company or government.
“It is outrageous that an Aussie pilot can’t go to a country airport without getting approval from the Chinese to land there,” he said.
“I’ve never heard of this happening anywhere.” In recent months, however, the Chinese flying school has suspended its operations in WA after the Civil Aviation Safety Authority raised safety concerns.
Aviation industry sources say the company has continued to pay millions of dollars in wages — without any students — since March this year.
One source said he believed a dispute between Guangzhou-based China Southern Airlines and CAE could lead to China Southern taking full ownership of the flying school within months.
A spokesman for China Southern West Australian Flying College declined to comment.
Merredin shire president Ken Hooper said nobody in town had been able to find out when the flying school would reopen.
“It’s quite important for our economy here but we just can’t get any information,” he said.
A CASA spokesman said the regulator would not publicly discuss details of its dealings with aviation organisations unless serious action was taken, such as suspending or cancelling a certificate.
“CASA and China Southern have been working to address identified safety and regulatory issues over a period of time,” the spokesman said. “CASA is hopeful that China Southern can meet all requirements as soon as possible.”
There is broader concern in the aviation industry about growing foreign ownership and control of pilot training schools in Australia.
With a looming shortage of commercial pilots predicted, there are fears Australia will have to import pilots while foreign-controlled pilot schools in this country send their graduates to China and elsewhere in Asia.
At the same time, flight schools claim they are being crippled by skyrocketing costs and over-regulation.
Posted by: JackC | Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 07:40 PM
What to do when it is your own government working against your freedoms????
Hmmm! vote them out of existence and put in someone that will correct all the wrongs they did..
Calling on Archangel Michael for assistance to protect all souls that are caught or are going to get caught in the resistance..
Give them strength and courage to always speak the truth and push these dark masters back in the holes they came out of..
Give strength and courage also to the politicians that have to overthrow the government before it is too late, but the snake has to rise in order to be defeated it will come out of the hole the more the truth is exposed they won't be able to escape their own energy of illusion they have created, because the more they try and control others the more they will be controlled by the dark masters that are pulling their strings.. they have created so much fear energy and the ideology revolves around their illusion so it will have them trapped the more souls the world over know the truth of their plans to capture and enslave the resources and energy supplies as well as your soul energy if you let them have that power by not standing up for yourself and your belief system and walk in integrity you will be caught in the undercurrent and in the 3d matrix as souls ascend to a higher consciousness their wisdom will come out to defeat the dark force and its slaves who are still hidden and the whole picture has not been exposed yet it will be so the more this darkforce tries to control humanity the more the souls caught up in the darkness will feel the wrath of the people they have betrayed in their plan and the agenda they push .. love and light xx
Watch as these souls are being exposed for their true selves as we go into the new year the lies will be apparent so will their ego's and addiction to the material gains they have made on this path of self-destruction that they have not yet realised as the changes are already in the air and Trump is a leader that will draw this snake (or snakes) out of their dens so you know which side of the fence they sit on.. they will either be for Freedom, love and peace or be working against all those things to bring in the fear energy ideology they feed the sheeple with..
Posted by: Michelle Two | Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 07:47 PM
This is how emboldened and brazen they have become - gutless attack on a cop arresting another one for shoplifting.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/cctv-footage-released-of-highpoint-police-assault-on-boxing-day-20171227-h0amqr.html
Posted by: Gary | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 02:14 AM
Will never happen here in AU why because we are muzzled, threatened with Jail or fines or both,because we can not say the words MUslim ,terrorists, .
Again our praying Mantis is groveling at the UN did we give her the power to speak her thoughts on our behalf NOT that i am aware of.
IT is happening here in AU and we must not speak the words even the bloody Vic Police will not say them .
I look forward to the day we GOD willing not old MO we have politicians with the guts to speak up,and stop the inward flow of those that can not accept our way of life,or are grateful for the chance to live free of an arcade system still in the age of Old MO
curse his name
Bet this does not get published as have referred to OLD MO and cursed his name .
I ask one question of our latest Imports do you follow the Koran to the letter and the Hadith if the answer is yes then out you go, as you will not fit into my country or its people or our way of life your wish is t change all to what you left behind when offered freedom GO BACK and be Happy don't stay and be forced to live free
Posted by: tallyrand | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 06:38 AM
Scary as all get out. From what we read, the streets and beaches around St.Kilda before long.
Posted by: greatgranny | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 08:23 AM
Michael,
This "slime-ball" will say & do anything to try to ingratiate herself to the
UN (United Nations)& if that means compromising The Country for her very own incredibly selfish..,
self-interests, it appears that she will do it ! (Probably trying to get a big UN job "over there", at our expense).
"Ditto" for some of the slime also in that now compromised & that(now)
"rat-hole" on the hill, & run by "Turncoat"& Co. of "Libor"" & (Helped along by Labor)... (& in all of this recent outrage,
....you can only speculate but,.... who knows) ?
Is this what happens when a lot of sloppy & unthinking People, who
"sheep like" follow the lazy option & use "The How to Vote-Card" ?
In addition to this if you vote via "The Card" you are putting MP,s/Senators in that suit only the "Party" & may well be directly be working against your & our National Interest.
Wake-Up ...People ! ...., because at this rate "We" are being very subtly
Sold-Out !
PS:
Anyone thought of this one ?
If, all this "Stuff" is then implemented you may find if you say nasty things about the UN (United Nations) you may well end up in Jail !
......Anybody feel like being under the thumb of the UN ? .... rather than our Own Australian Federal Constitution.
This has to be, an obvious flagrant abuse of Power !
Posted by: "The Global Serf" | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 09:23 AM
Mike its pretty hard to fight against an invading army when you have the Government , Police ,Judiciary and media supporting them and BETRAYING THE PEOPLE . Every country that has helped Muslims and allowed them in now has major criminal ,Rape and violent behavior problems . This IDEOLOGY HAS NO INTENTION OF ASSIMILATING ,THEY ARE HERE TO TAKE OVER . AUSTRALIAS SO CALLED GOVERNMENTS ARE BETRAYING US AND ALLOWING OUR CULTURE ,WAY OF LIFE AND FREEDOM TO BE TAKEN FROM US . THE POLICE AND MEDIA LIE AND HIDE THE TRUTH ABOUT MAJOR CRIMES AND THE JUDICIARY LET OFF REPEAT OFFENDERS WITH LITTLE OR NO PENALTY . THIS TREASONOUS BEHAVIOR MUST STOP NOW ,OUR COUNTRY IS A CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY AND OUR LAWS AND TRADITIONS MUST BE RESPECTED . Who will lead us to take back our country, we need a man with morals and guts to stand and give Australia the chance to regain our pride . AND WHEN WILL THE POLICE REALIZE THEY WORK FOR US THE PEOPLE ,NOT THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY . TURDBALL/SHORTEN AND THE GREEN SLIME HAVE ALL SIGNED UP TO THE UN NEW WORLD ORDER WITHOUT ASKING US, THIS IS TREASON AND THEY SHOULD ALL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT AND WHERE IS THE GG ,Mr Cosgrove you are the head of OUR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT ,WHY HAVE YOU SAT AND WATCHED THIS TREASON UNFOLD ,WHY DIDNT YOU SUSPEND GOVERNMENT WHEN WE HAVE PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT THAT ARE ILLEGAL UNDER OUR CONSTITUTION ,HAVE YOU BETRAYED US AS WELL OR ARE YOU JUST ANOTHER COWARDLY TRAITOR ?.. FINALLY WE HAVE THE MEDIA , THE ABC MUST BE DEFUNDED AND SOLD OFF AND THE MSM MUST BE FORCED TO REPORT THE NEWS IMPARTIALLY ,THE SOCIALIST LEFTIST BIAS IS DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY AND KEEPING THE REAL TRUTH FROM THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE . IT MUST BE STOPPED. THANK GOD THAT WE AT LEAST HAVE PEOPLE LIKE YOU MIKE THAT EXPOSE THE TRUTH ,UNFORTUNATELY YOU AND THE HANDFUL OF OTHER TRUTHFUL REPORTERS ARE GREATLY OUT NUMBERED AND FACE AN ALMIGHTY BATTLE AGAINST THESE TRAITORS. ONE CAN ONLY SAY GOD HELP AUSTRALIA , BECAUSE OUR SO CALLED GOVERNMENT CERTAINLY WONT .
Posted by: stevo | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 10:57 AM
When I was a kid we used Rat Sack !!🐀🐁🐁.
Posted by: Wayne shaft | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 12:45 PM
Golly, and they have a lease on the Darwin Port. The politicians are selling us down the drain.
Posted by: Mon | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 01:50 PM
Stevo, why are you shouting?
Posted by: Ron of Brighton | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 03:15 PM
From the SMH - March 30, 2013
"For hundreds of years, Afghan Hazaras have fled for the relative safety of Quetta, on Pakistan's restive western border. The latest wave of refugees has been driven out of Afghanistan by Taliban violence.
But Quetta is no sanctuary. This year there has been an alarming increase in the rate and severity of attacks on Hazaras in Pakistan. In eight attacks, 216 Hazaras have been killed and more than 300 injured."
http://www.smh.com.au/world/hazaras-flee-systematic-genocide-in-pakistan-20130329-2gyyv.html
Wrong on why Hazaras fled Afghanistan - it was not because of the "invasion".
This Feb 3, 2013 article by an Australian immigration law firm might also broaden your knowledge -
Afghan Hazara Fleeing Taliban Becomes Refugee
Publish Date: Feb 03, 2013
This is one of a series of articles dealing with issues which we have confronted in cases where this firm has acted.
In the course of our immigration law practice we acted for a father from Afghanistan who claimed refugee status in Australia because he faced persecution from the Taliban. Our client had lived in Pakistan most of his life and would have been unable to travel back to Afghanistan safely.
Members of our client’s family had been detained by the Taliban. He has been persecuted as a Shi’a Muslim and Hazara.
Taking detailed instructions from our client and compiling relevant research we managed to demonstrate that Hazaras who return to Afghanistan are at risk of persecution by the Taliban.
The Taliban target Hazaras on the roads leading to and from Jaghori, Ghazni district. The Taliban will target Hazaras whether they have been involved in political activities or not and will believe they are opposed to the Taliban purely because they are Hazara.
We also managed to convince the reviewer that Afghanistan will become increasingly unstable for Hazaras and Shi’a Muslims following the troop withdrawal in 2014 and the Taliban will continue to commit atrocities when this occurs.
The reviewer accepted that our client would be unable to relocate his family to Afghanistan due to fear from the Taliban because they are Hazara. Further, our client did not have the resources, connections or skills to re-establish himself in Afghanistan which contributed to the finding that he is a refugee.
His status as a Hazara Shi’a in Afghanistan made him a target for groups like the Taliban.
Our client’s refugee claim was accepted and he was granted a protection visa. He is one of many Shi’a Hazaras from Afghanistan who our firm has represented successfully.
http://www.immigrationlaw.com.au/document-361/afghan-hazara-fleeing-taliban-becomes-refugee
So it was safer for the Hazaras to have the Western troops on the ground.
It is Muslim tribal warfare in the Middle East and Afghanistan and some African countries that is the cause of citizens being displaced in these nations. Western nations and now Russia and Iran have to come in and clean up the mess and put order into these Muslim countries.
As for those displaced persons in Vietnam, they were being persecuted and killed by the communists. To survive, they had to flee their own country. It was an internal war based on political ideology and not religious ideology.
https://changeisvietnam.wordpress.com/human-changes-to-political-vietnam/
You forgot about the displaced persons from Cambodia. Again this was not caused by an invasion by Western troops but by the political ideology of its leaders, especially Pol Pot with his agrarian communism.
It appears that the main cause for displaced persons is internal politics or religious politics. The invasions come after to solve the situation and bring peace back to the nation so the citizens don't have to flee.
Posted by: seeker of truth | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 03:52 PM
But we were only trying to HELP ! 😬😬😬. The world 🌎 would be a better place if Saddam and Gaddafi were still alive ! The ARAB Spring was Bullshit ! And if Assad Falls things will get worse !! 👺👺👺
Posted by: Wayne shaft | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 04:47 PM
Meanwhile, in deepest, darkest Victoriastan where the Premier’s wife is still exempt from the breathalyser, the Crims’ Party Police Farce is making radio announcements that this morning the “terrorist attack warning system loudspeakers” will be tested in the C.B.D. (Central Bullshitting District) for the first time.
These are the speakers installed by Dodgy Dan’s C.F.M.E.U. pals at great taxpayer cost (isn’t everything?) to inform us that this week’s latest scheduled murderous terrorist attack on innocent civilians is currently underway, and everybody should RUN!, PANIC!, COWER! HIDE! lest you become the latest in the long line of victims of the A.L.P.’s (Allah’s Local Party’s) imported, Labor-voting, “lone wolves with a mental health plan”.
Prime Quisling, Halal Mal the Head-Loppers’ Pal proposes to once again steadfastly “stand behind” the families and victims of the latest terrorist atrocity (as he routinely promises every week) and he intends to import even more devout Musbyterian International Centrelink-Seekers to vote Labor and tell us what tragic “victims” the murderous perpetrators are.
I wonder what Sir Henry Bolte would have done if he were still about today?
He’d probably try to “clear the swamp” by arranging prompt introductions for some of Labor’s “lone wolves with mental health plans”, to their famous 72 x sixteen-hundred-year-old virgins, after first stretching their necks just a bit.
I wonder whose plan would be the more effective?
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Posted by: Up The Workers! | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 06:21 PM
So numbers...you apparently went to Vietnam and helped displace these people...so you are partly to blame ?
Posted by: Glenn | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 08:02 PM
"Wrong on why Hazaras fled Afghanistan - it was not because of the "invasion".
Suggest you compare the displacement figures before and after the Soviet invasion, after the Taliban takeover, and since 2003 invasion.
You will note three surges, the first and last stimulated by foreign invaders, and the second by a local (Talib) reaction to the first.
detail here - https://thediplomat.com/2015/09/afghanistans-32-year-refugee-crisis/
"Western nations and now Russia and Iran have to come in and clean up the mess and put order into these Muslim countries.'
What business is it of "Western Countries", and Russia to "clean up the mess and put order" in any country external to their borders?
The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was not designed to "clean up any mess". It was a response to American pride being hurt by 9/11, even though there was no link between Al Quaida and Saddam Hussein. The concoction
of WMDs was simply an excuse. To quote Hans Blix - "There were about 700 inspections, and in no case did we find weapons of mass destruction," - http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/03/18_blix.shtml
"It was an internal war based on political ideology and not religious ideology".
You're correct about the "internal" part. Again, the conflict was nobody's business except the Vietnamese.
"You forgot about the displaced persons from Cambodia. Again this was not caused by an invasion by Western troops but by the political ideology of its leaders".
The humanitarian tragedy that became the killing fields was triggered by the remorseless bombing of Cambodia in 1970 - https://thewalrus.ca/2006-10-history/
"The invasions come after to solve the situation and bring peace back to the nation so the citizens don't have to flee."
And that's worked out well hasn't it?
Ask any refugee from Iraqi, Syria, Cambodia or Vietnam.....
Posted by: 1735099 | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 08:56 PM
Soon, it will be Christians and other indigenous Western Europeans seeking refuge in Eastern Europe.
Posted by: shoehorn | Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 10:27 PM
OK.... & so what,
Probably shouting to try to get through to a lot of the vast scads of "Bone-Heads" out there who still continue to stay mute & very stupidly keep the current "Filth" still operating !
You go & figure it out !
Posted by: Grey Coat | Friday, 29 December 2017 at 07:51 AM
It's a sign of his utter frustration at the craven and treasonous jelly fish we have running and ruining our country.
Posted by: Jordan | Friday, 29 December 2017 at 08:39 AM
2 Stevo,
You, are spot-on with your comments (& who cares if you use upper-case)
probably, an attempt to get through to a lot of Rusted-On, mindless numb-skull morons & other
Party-Hacks & other various dopey Neanderthals (out there) & ultimately others who's IQ would be about 18 above a Rock !
(Stevo is entitled to express his views on this "Blog" as much as anyone else !)
The Quicker a lot of the lazy & sloppy, don't care &
"couldn't give a stuff" People wake-up from very their long sleep & very quickly realise the dire threat of the subversives & the threats that the pose (& that are now unfortunately embedded in amongst us) .....the better !
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, when he was arrested, stripped of his Soviet citizenship,& finally exiled & then settled in Zurich Switzerland ,commented when he visited the USA for the first time in mid 1975 amongst other things & warnings simply said this ,
"We didn't value our Freedom enough" !
Posted by: "The Global Serf" | Friday, 29 December 2017 at 10:15 AM
Are you referring to the invasion of South Viet Nam, by the North, in 1975 - the invasion in flagrant violation of the Paris Peace Accords?
Posted by: ZK2A | Friday, 29 December 2017 at 01:43 PM
All starting with Poland slamming the door on Muslims. You are right about Jan 111 Sobieski, a Polish king who stopped and destroyed the muslims at Vienna!
Posted by: brizziebussie | Friday, 29 December 2017 at 02:24 PM
Perhaps the concerned citizens of Melbourne and other cities where bollards are being placed should follow the Irish example and inform the public the reason for their placement:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/12/irish-activists-target-anti-jihadi-truck-barriers-merkel-lego-becomes-norm-across-europe/
Posted by: Jeff of FNQ | Friday, 29 December 2017 at 06:11 PM
"Triggered by the remorseless bombing of Cambodia" - the bombing of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong rear areas and sanctuaries?
Posted by: ZK2A | Friday, 29 December 2017 at 06:48 PM
"The North" was, I assume, North Vietnam. How can any country "invade" itself?
Posted by: 1735099 | Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 07:43 AM
No, the indiscriminate bombing of vast tracts of countryside on the suspicion that there may have been sanctuaries. From October 4, 1965, to August 15, 1973, the United States dropped 2,756,941 tons of ordinance, in 230,516 sorties on 113,716 sites. Much of this bombing was indiscriminate, with 3,580 of the sites listed as having “unknown” targets and another 8,238 sites having no target listed at all.
The Yanks had NFI of what they were doing, or what the likely outcome would be.
Posted by: 1735099 | Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 07:49 AM