In all my years watching the Chinese Communist Party and its ever-growing list of victims, I don't think I have seen a single incident more telling about the weaknesses of Mainstream Media (and, by reflection, the immense value of the Epoch Times - and I'd say that even if they didn't run my columns ...
Statement of the Communist Party of Australia Issued by the Communist Party Central Committee Secretariat Released on the 9th of July 2009 Entitled: CPA Statement on Iran The Communist Party of Australia stands in unity and solidarity with the Iranian people and the forces fighting for peace, progre ...
New IR laws: Anti-worker, anti-union content remains Fair Work Australia (FWA) in name, but still very much WorkChoices in content. The Rudd-Gillard government’s legislation falls far short of restoring basic democratic and trade union rights to Australian workers. The right to take industrial actio ...
Coming to China as a journalism student, I was interested to look more closely at Chinese newspapers. Unfortunately, I can’t actually read any of them. Outside of China, people are probably seeing broader coverage of the Urumqi riots than we are in Beijing. The China Daily, one of the state-owned ne ...
In the worst show of ethnic violence in decades, Han Chinese clashed with members of the Uighur Muslim minority on Tuesday, leaving 156 dead and more than 1,000 injured on the streets of the provincial capitol of Urumqi. The latest in a series of attacks and retaliations, today’s riots were driven b ...
The riots continue in the capital of Xinjiang, Urumqi, and it had spread to other cities in Xinjiang. From the uyghur population the patience is finnish to the chines government who hold Xinjiang in a hard rule, and for a quote a young uyghur: Its time for us to strike back. The Uyghur population in ...
Wait a minute, is calling for "bringing an end" to Obama protected by free speech, or is it a threat against a President, which violates law?Voight rebuts 'hate speech' tagDissent, he says, isn't 'hate'By Jennifer HarperThursday, July 2, 2009 Washington TimesFree speech got a loud boost from Hollywo ...
As I may or may not have written earlier, my last night in GZ I went to dinner with one of my students, Figo. This act in and of itself is significant because I was very careful all year to draw a clear line between myself and my students. However, Figo was one of my favorite students and definitely ...
The Guardian Newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia: The Rudd/Gillard Labor government’s amendments to the Building Construction Industry Improvement Act 2005 (BCII Act) and its other legislation leave in tact the most coercive and anti-union provisions of the Howard government’s WorkChoices ...