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| An Introduction To Myself And My Blog |
| 08.25.05 (4:43 pm) [edit] |
G'day everyone, please allow me to introduce myself. I am Matthew and I live in Perth, capital of Western Australia. I don't often get to see the Swan River, it is beautiful and as people more interested in Australian history might know, is indeed home to the Black Swans that gave the river it's name. Before the late 19th century, Perth was known as the "Swan River Colony". It's population remained pretty small before the Minerals Boom in WA came in the 1960's with the discovery of Iron Ore in the state's North. Since then the population has jumped to around 2 million.
You're probably wondering what this blog is about, and what sorts of interests I have. I have several. I usually read more then one book at a time, but spend most of my time doing various political activities for the Socialist Alliance. I also like helping out a party called the Socialist Alternative when I can. They have a stall at the University of Western Australia every Wednesday from 12 on to around 2, and hold regular public meetings. For many years I was an active member of the Socialist Party, sometimes known as the Committee For A Workers International, and although I made a lot of friends that way, I had to give that away because of poor health. But now I've bounced back.
I guess this blog is devoted to those sorts of interests, political and literary, but hopefully there will be some humor, some world news, sports, other stuff that gets my attention. If you check back every few days, you should be able to find something that would give you joy.
I have a couple of events to report on this week, on Sunday there is a rally happening to comemmorate Tampa Day, that's on at the Murray Street Mall. Tampa Day is held all around Australia by refugee rights activists. In 2001, the Howard government won an election largely on the lies they told about the sinking of the Tampa, fasely accusing the women in the refugee boat of throwing their children overboard to generate media attention. This was exposed by a parliamentary inquiry, when naval officers testifed they were gagged from telling the truth. Over the last 15 years, both the ALP and the Liberal Party have attacked refugees, turing the former reception centres into detention centres and returning refugees back to warzones in Iraq, Afghanistan, and several other countries - Iran for example - with shocking human rights records. A large protest movement has built up calling for an end to mandatory detention and the restoration of social rights. Recently the Howard government decided to end the seperation of children from their mothers and took other reforms to speed up the determination process, but the policy of mandatory detention remains. I should add that Australia only takes in just over 10,000 refugees per year, and over 95% of these successfully process their claims for citizenship.
I'll give a brief report back on that protest probably Monday. I'll also be dropping into the Perth office of the Swan Valley Nyungah Community, who are engaged in a land rights dispute with the Gallop state Labor government around the Desalination Plants being built at Coogee. I'll also show you my article I'll send off to various left wing papers on Malaysian politics sometime during the next 10 days or so. On Monday Australia's largest progressive media the Green Left Weekly comes out online, so with a fair amount of luck - for it's a high rejection rate - they might be carrying my article on the continuing campaign to get the US government to clean up it's toxic mess and transfer their land at Vieques back to the islanders themselves.
So lots to talk about in the near future. Your comments are welcome so long as they are constructive, otherwise if obviously offensive to people they will of course be deleted ASAP.
With Affection,
Matthew
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