When there is largely bi-partisan support for the false God of privatisation (to increase “efficiency”) we shouldn’t be surprised, as Salon reports, that America is being transformed with little public discussion: If you’ve listened to a political pundit predict any election in the last 50 years, you’ve been told that there are Republican small towns…
Desperate Greece still needed to produce deadly weapons
Sigh (via The Independent): As Greece is forced by European leaders to abandon a referendum to allow the people the chance to vote on its latest bailout conditions, the country is preparing for yet another dose of austerity. The conditions of the next €130bn rescue package will be severe, yet there is an elephant in…
What released Serco contract says about Australian government’s lack of standards
Following… our world exclusive revelations yesterday about the Serco contract with the Australian government (stories here,… here and here), last night ABC Radio’s PM featured an interview with the editor of the independent publication that ran the articles, New Matilda: MARK COLVIN: The news website New Matilda has obtained the contracts under which the private company SERCO…
Exclusive: Serco hires untrained guards in Australia
The following exclusive, written with Paul Farrell, appears today in Australian magazine New Matilda: The Gillard Government’s contract with Serco imposes no initial training requirements for security guards, according to documents obtained under FOI – and that’s causing damage to asylum seekers and to the guards themselves Serco security guards in immigration detention centres are…
Exclusive: no audit requirement for Serco in Australia
The following exclusive, written with Paul Farrell, appears today in Australian magazine New Matilda: Running detention centres is an important job. Why are the audit and reporting requirements for Serco so low? Paul Farrell and Antony Loewenstein report Under the contract signed between Serco and the Department of Immigration (DIAC), which New Matilda has obtained…
Exclusive: Australian government contract with Serco revealed
The following global exclusive, written with Paul Farrell and Marni Cordell, appears today in Australian magazine New Matilda: Today NM publishes the contract signed between the Department of Immigration and Serco, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act New Matilda has gained exclusive access to the first publicly available version of the 2009 Department of…
New Australian poll shows support for Palestine growing
The following press release was issued yesterday: Three in five Australians believe the United Nations should now recognise Palestine as one of its member States according to a poll conducted by Roy Morgan Research Pty Ltd. The results are part of an independent national poll done by the respected Roy Morgan Research company. “This is…
Don’t be surprised that Islamophobes see Zionism as friend
The mainstream normalisation of anti-Muslim hatred is finding friends in the most predictable of places; Israel. This is something discussed in the new e-book On Utoya. This piece in Israeli paper Haaretz offers a worrying new development: Marine Le Pen hit the jackpot. She invited about 100 diplomats to a luncheon last week during a…