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AVIAN FLU: China obstructs fight against flu pandemic

China has vetoed the participation of Taiwan in the World Health Organization (WHO). Osman Chia shows that the consequences could be disastrous. Avian influenza (bird flu) is now acknowledged as a global threat. According to Dr David Nabarro, United Nations System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza, deaths from a possible pandemic could reach between 5 to 150 million. Even the rather conservative World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that the number could fall between 2 to 7.4 million deaths. The social and economic ramifications could be equally, if not more, catastrophic. Avian influenza is, undoubtedly, a trans-national threat that poses…

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AUSTRALIAN EXPORTS: AWB Iraq wheat sales debacle – whose responsibility now?

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It is the Government – not the AWB – which is responsible for the present debacle in the selling of wheat to Iraq, writes former secretary of the Department of Trade, Colin Teese. What had become known as the “wheat scandal” is, in some respects, an unfolding saga. But the essential facts now seem clear…

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COVER STORY: AWB biggest scandal to hit the Howard Government

COVER STORY, News Weekly

The Government should not escape taking some responsibility for the AWB fiasco. The Howard Government has been strangely and dangerously complacent about the political fallout from the AWB affair. All last year senior ministers from the Prime Minister down staunchly defended AWB executives and backed its claims that no bribes were paid and that the…

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EAST TIMOR: Will Indonesian military be let off the hook?

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Approximately 180,000 civilians perished during the Indonesian military occupation of East Timor between 1975 and 1999. Massacre, execution, torture, rape, mutilation, chemical weapons and deliberate campaigns of slavery, relocation and starvation – these have all been sheeted home to the Indonesian military occupation of East Timor, between 1975 and 1999, during which approximately 180,000 civilians perished. Titled Chega (“Enough”), the 2,500-page report to the United Nations from East Timor’s Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation is the result of more than 8,000 interviews, documentary research and consultation with foreign intelligence sources. It took three-and-a-half years to complete and contains incontrovertible…

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OPINION: ‘Human rights’ charter a backward step

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Charters of rights are meaningless in dictatorships, and in democracies their effect is to transfer power from parliaments to unelected, life-tenured judges whose interpretation of laws may be based solely on their personal preferences. Such charters create multi-million-dollar bureaucracies – “human rights” units in every government department – and a plethora of “advisers” and “consultants”.…

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CANBERRA OBSERVED: Unanswered questions about oil-for-food scam

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Washington warned the Howard Government as far back as January 2000 on United Nations concerns about what AWB was up to. The Cole Inquiry into kickbacks made to the Saddam Hussein régime by AWB (formerly the Australian Wheat Board) poses some extremely serious problems for the Howard Government. Australia went to war against Iraq on…

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