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The world must Boycott Australia!

Ashamed Australian | 01.09.2001 01:11

Until the Australian Governement allows asylum seekers on a Norwegian cargo ship to land on the Australian teritory of Christmas Island. BOYCOTT ALL THINGS AUSTRALIAN!

The Australian Government refuses to allow the landing of asylum seekers aboard the Norwegian ship the MS Tampa into Australia. Australia is arguably the richest and most powerful nation in the region and until recently considered one of the most compasionate.

IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THE WORLD KNOWS THAT NOT ALL AUSTRALIANS AGREE WITH THE ACTIONS OF OUR GOVERNMENT.

The world must now help those of us in Australia put presure on our Government to stop the inhumane treatment of the people aboard the cargo ship.

BOYCOTT EVERYTHING AUSTRALIAN.

Get your Union or Community to place bans on all Australian products and services until our government comes to the aid of these people.

Boycott the use or delay:
Every Australian aeroplane,
Every Australian registered ship,
Every shipping container sitting on a dock,
Every delivery to an Australian Embassy,
and Every delivery or service to an Australian Company.

Ashamed Australian
Homepage: www.melbourne.indymedia.org

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Racism is Rife

01.09.2001 11:28

Australia has an intake of approx 3,000 refugees per year. This is a drop in the ocean, although Australia would clearly rather drop it's immigrants into the ocean.

Asylum seekers have been vilified in the media to justify Australia's intolerance, xzenophobia and prison camps for 'foreigners.'

Politicians are using people's lives for political advantage in coming elections, playing to the racists.

This is pretty much a universal problem now, in the 'First World.'

Dingo

make the immigrants go back home

01.09.2001 12:35

it was only a few generations ago that ships full of white european immigrants, not legitimate refugees of oppression or poverty, settled on australian shores.did they politely ask thew permission of the then present inhabitants? no they raped, killed, stole land from and inslaved them! i for one can never take a single word a australian politician has to say on immigration seriously, untill they give australia back to the true australians, or at least they give them the same human rights! e.g not testing nuclear devices in areas known to be inhabited by aboriginals without even the politeness of an eviction notice and sending the baliffs in! just becuase they didnt have a flag or a national anthem or a constitution doesnt mean they didn't have rights.

euan

SHAME ON AUSSIES!!!

02.09.2001 17:01

Australians should really bury their heads in total shame!!!!The Earth belong to God, and was created by God. No one has any right!!! to own an ounce of land on this planet!!. The Aussies are immigrants themselves, and has no right to claim that land!!Majority of them are British, and Australia truly belong to the Aborigines. That is clear. Now, to prevent those assylum seekers landing in Australia is barbaric and evil. The world should boycott Australia for their action.The world is getting smaller. The issue of globalisation is what led the assylum seekers migrating to another land for better way of life. Everyone is entitle to live anywhere on earth, and not be restricted. Wake up Australia, wake up first World, wake up, you so called developed World.

Paul

UK Indymedia

The world must Boycott Australia!

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Racism is Rife

make the immigrants go back home

SHAME ON AUSSIES!!!

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