| freedom of speech in Oz 09:49 - Jul 30 with 766 views | isawqpratwcity |
for aussies wondering what the suppression order was about today, here it is from wikileaks.
https://wikileaks.org/aus-suppression-order/press.html
Australia bans reporting of multi-nation corruption case involving Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam
Today, 29 July 2014, WikiLeaks releases an unprecedented Australian censorship order concerning a multi-million dollar corruption case explicitly naming the current and past heads of state of Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, their relatives and other senior officials. The super-injunction invokes “national security” grounds to prevent reporting about the case, by anyone, in order to “prevent damage to Australia's international relations”. The court-issued gag order follows the secret 19 June 2014 indictment of seven senior executives from subsidiaries of Australia's central bank, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). The case concerns allegations of multi-million dollar inducements made by agents of the RBA subsidiaries Securency and Note Printing Australia in order to secure contracts for the supply of Australian-style polymer bank notes to the governments of Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and other countries.
The suppression order lists 17 individuals, including "any current or former Prime Minister of Malaysia", “Truong Tan San, currently President of Vietnam", "Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (also known as SBY), currently President of Indonesia (since 2004)", "Megawati Sukarnoputri (also known as Mega), a former President of Indonesia (2001—2004) and current leader of the PDI-P political party" and 14 other senior officials and relatives from those countries, who specifically may not be named in connection with the corruption investigation.
The document also specifically bans the publication of the order itself as well as an affidavit affirmed last month by Australia's representative to ASEAN Gillian Bird, who has just been appointed as Australia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. The gag order effectively blacks out the largest high-level corruption case in Australia and the region.
The last known blanket suppression order of this nature was granted in 1995 and concerned the joint US-Australian intelligence spying operation against the Chinese Embassy in Canberra.
WikiLeaks' publisher Julian Assange said about the order:
"With this order, the worst in living memory, the Australian government is not just gagging the Australian press, it is blindfolding the Australian public. This is not simply a question of the Australian government failing to give this international corruption case the public scrutiny it is due. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop must explain why she is threatening every Australian with imprisonment in an attempt to cover up an embarrassing corruption scandal involving the Australian government."
"The concept of 'national security' is not meant to serve as a blanket phrase to cover up serious corruption allegations involving government officials, in Australia or elsewhere. It is in the public interest for the press to be able to report on this case, which concerns the subsidiaries of the Australian central bank. Who is brokering our deals, and how are we brokering them as a nation? Corruption investigations and secret gag orders for 'national security' reasons are strange bedfellows. It is ironic that it took Tony Abbott to bring the worst of 'Asian Values' to Australia." |  |
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| freedom of speech in Oz on 10:09 - Jul 30 with 722 views | DaBurgh |
Just one of many examples throughout the 'free world' where we are gagged/blindfolded/fed crap in the name of 'national security'. get used to it. Never mind, as long as we have 'The voice', 'BGT' and 'Big Brother' on the telly then all is okay, move along nothing to see here.  |  | | |
| freedom of speech in Oz on 10:17 - Jul 30 with 699 views | isawqpratwcity |
| freedom of speech in Oz on 10:09 - Jul 30 by DaBurgh |
Just one of many examples throughout the 'free world' where we are gagged/blindfolded/fed crap in the name of 'national security'. get used to it. Never mind, as long as we have 'The voice', 'BGT' and 'Big Brother' on the telly then all is okay, move along nothing to see here. |
this is a subsidiary of the government-run Reserve Bank that manufactures polymer banknotes bribing corrupt governments to buy them.
we had the same problem years ago when we were bribing saddam hussein to buy our wheat. | |
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| freedom of speech in Oz on 13:40 - Jul 30 with 569 views | TacticalR |
Thanks for that isawqpratwcity.
We are in an interesting period when the authorities say that individual privacy must be overridden in the name of whatever the latest scare happens to be (unfortunately for the authorities no reliable scare has been found to replace the scarifying power of the Cold War), yet it seems that the secrets of the authorities must be preserved at all costs. |  |
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| freedom of speech in Oz on 13:55 - Jul 30 with 532 views | isawqpratwcity |
| freedom of speech in Oz on 13:40 - Jul 30 by TacticalR |
Thanks for that isawqpratwcity.
We are in an interesting period when the authorities say that individual privacy must be overridden in the name of whatever the latest scare happens to be (unfortunately for the authorities no reliable scare has been found to replace the scarifying power of the Cold War), yet it seems that the secrets of the authorities must be preserved at all costs. |
think how we feel having to go off-shore to get this information.
paraphrase acdc: dirty deeds buried down deep. | |
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