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[Mork]

The following is the URL for an article I wrote on a Bill of Rights for Australia for F.R.E.E.

http://www.freeaustralia.org/articles/1-latest/149-bill-of-rights-for-australia.html

[Hothead]

very interesting reading Mork

[angry]

well said and well written Mork,but the big issue here is ,as you know,getting the politicians with the guts to introduce such a bill is gonna be near impossible due to the fact that a bill of rights will restrict and control the politicians and parties powers,they seem to be able to legislate around any controlling laws that govern politicians etc. even the majority of pro bill of rights people seem wary of taking power away from the powers that be. until a party that is willing to hand over power to a bill of rights comes along its not gonna happen ,no matter how hard we push. the leaders wont even consider a referendum on it because they know the outcome. they would lose and be forced to consider the wants of the nation.

[Mork]

You are spot on Angry. The bastards do not want to have a referendum let alone an actual Bill of Rights. There are a lot of good people out there who are talking about (and organising) the Freedom Ride for this year and I have it on good authority that a Bill of Rights for the Australian People will be a big feature of this years ride. I know that FREE is getting on board with this and NT is a mover and shaker here. I am sure we will hear more about this subject very soon from people who know a lot more about it than me.

[TR3]

The sooner we get a bill of rights the fucking better

[StomperMagoo]

right now politicians, senior bureacrats, CEOs and top coppers are shitting themselves....

they know their days are numbered....

With the electronic age EVERYONE has a voice, and the more similar voices congregate and take action - the less need for governments to make decisions for us!

bring on electronic popular decision making today!

[Mork]

Good point Stomper, the access people now have to information is great. The government in SA has the media by the nuts in a vice like grip and FREE got no coverage in the major press during the 2010 state election. The Advertiser, adelaidenow, news.com, radio 5AA (talkback, very into politics), all commercial TV stations wanted nothing to do with us. We were out and about at rallies and speaking to minor media. I wrote articles for three regional papers and was given a 30 second video spot on InDaily, a Fairfax publication and part of the Independent Weekly (Fairfax is hardly known in SA).

Check out this melon head...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIHUfb-U0Mw

I am pretty sure all six FREE candidates took advantage of this rare opportunity. I took the opportunity to point the people to our web site and facebook page as there was not much chance in getting a message out in 30 seconds. I held no illusions about winning but was in the running to get info out there and have people think. Every other party in my seat put me last on the how to vote card, I expected that from labor but all of them, what a joke. I never saw or heard of the labor or greens candidates yet they got the lazy votes...I always vote labor/green...NFI some people. In the end I got 2.4% of the vote in a seat held by the then deputy leader of the opposition (who is actually a pretty decent bloke) in a never been anything but liberal seat. That is actually less than the informal vote. BUT...we were out there and because of electronic media more and more people were hearing of us despite the best efforts of government. We also picked up over 3,000 votes in the Upper House.

FREE are still plugging away and I am sure the numbers will rise again at the next election. Access to the internet will continue to increase, it is cheaper to go online than ever before and people want to find shit out and people want to have their say. Look at the amount of comments on articles that appear on the punch and news.com, there are some pretty disillusioned folk out there and some want to make the pollies pay, so they should.

The sooner some of those snouts in the public trough are found out and punished the better.

[IMBACK]

DONT HOLD YOUR BREATHS BUT WELL DONE MATE WE NEED MORE OF THE SAME FROM MORTE PEOPLE

[angry]

the Yanks have just changed their laws and basically chopped their bill of rights to peices, our politicians will do the same thing,allthese Socca type laws are wide ranging, based on terrorism laws, that were introed by Howard,who had a bit of trouble getting them passed and had to modify them pretty heavily,now the govts are using the Socca type laws to bring in all the shit that Howard had to drop. unless something drasticallychanges, a bill of rights will never happen in Oz.