Fighting Race-Hate in Australia and New Zealand
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From Stuff.co.nz:
Unprovoked, racially motivated attacks brings jail
A West Coast man who beat two brothers in an unprovoked, racially motivated attack has been jailed for one year in Greymouth District Court.
Cody Allyn Robinson , 20, of Kumara Junction, approached a man in the Greymouth town centre, the court was told.
Telling him “I don’t like niggers”, he punched the man three times, then knocked down the victim’s 14-year-old brother.
From The Oz:
Holocaust denier launches public appeal for cash
By Richard Sproull
February 07, 2007HOLOCAUST revisionist Frederick Toben will launch a public appeal so he can defend a Federal Court action alleging his Adelaide Institute website raises doubts the Holocaust occurred.
Dr Toben, a retired high school teacher, said while he had financial backing from supporters, his legal defence would be expensive but he would not defend himself in court.
“It’s beyond me to defend myself,” Dr Toben said. British author David Irving defended himself when he attempted to challenge charges of Holocaust denial in Austria. Irving was jailed for nine months.
The other day we asked whether Australia First would be disassociating themselves from National Vanguard.
Quite aside from the fact that National Vanguard is a violent neo-Nazi group, there was the small matter of their founder recently being charged with possessing child pornography and their Boston unit leader recently being charged with raping a 14 year old girl.
It would seem that we have an answer.
From the Oz:
Ku Klux Klan logo used on party website
By Greg Roberts
February 05, 2007THE Australia First Party has defended its sale of merchandise featuring Ku Klux Klan symbols and its association with a group headed by an American neo-Nazi leader facing child pornography charges.
The AFP is supporting a campaign by independent candidate and party member John Moffat in the southern Sydney seat of Cronulla in next month’s NSW election.
The AFP website shows the party is selling T-shirts displaying the Celtic Cross with the words, “Our Race Is Our Nation”.
The cross and the slogan have long been identified with the Ku Klux Klan.
Mr Moffat has based his campaign for the election on what he describes as a “civil uprising of the Australian people” - the December 2005 riots at Cronulla.
Anti-racism campaigner Cam Smith said Mr Moffat should disassociate himself and the AFP from the KKK.
“The use of this slogan and symbol makes it clear the first loyalty of these people is to their race, not to Australia,” Mr Smith said.
But Mr Moffat yesterday said he was not concerned about the association of the slogan and symbol with the KKK. “A lot of people are using that slogan these days,” Mr Moffat said. “It represents what we stand for.”
The Australian reported last month that Mr Moffat had posted messages attacking Muslims on the extremist right-wing National Vanguard website.
National Vanguard leader Kevin Strom has appeared before a court in West Virginia on child pornography and witness tampering charges.
From the Oz:
Group ordered to stop Holocaust-denial
February 02, 2007THE leader of a New South Wales-based group known as the Bible Believers’ Church has been ordered to remove material from his website denying the Holocaust took place.
The Federal Court today found that Anthony Grigor-Scott, whose church is based at Tamworth in NSW, was in breach of the Racial Discrimination Act in posting anti-Semitic material on a website newsletter.
The complaint was brought by Jeremy Jones, who was president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) when the material first appeared in 2005.
The hearings brought to remove it have run since September 2005.
We get the feeling that the so-called ‘president’ of Australia First, Diane Teasdale, will be terribly pleased with this news. Shepparton is her turf after all.
From the Shepparton News:
Settlement a model of success
Bianca HallShepparton’s Congolese refugee settlement program has been so successful it will be used as an Australia-wide model.
Ten Congolese families, comprising 60 people, settled in Shepparton between October 2005 and August last year.
Most had no English skills and few belongins, and all were traumatised from their experiences in their war-torn homeland and years spent in African refugee camps.
But one year on, all have recieved English language lessons, and are continuing to rebuild their lives.
From the Australian Jewish News:
Assault victim files historic complaint against police
Melissa SingerAN Orthodox man who was physically and verbally attacked by a group of footballers last October has filed a historic complaint against Victoria Police with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC).
Menachem Vorchheimer, who suffered antisemitic abuse and an assault that left him with facial injuries as he walked to shul on Simchat Torah (October 14), has claimed that an off-duty police officer who was present during the attack, and by extension his employer, authorised and assisted the racial vilification against him.
From the SMH:
Bid to go from Guantanamo Bay to MP
Former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib is to stand in next month’s NSW election for the seat of Auburn.
Mr Habib will run as an independent, supported by the Auburn Human Rights Group (AHRG).
In a statement issued today, Mr Habib said he would be campaigning for “the right of freedom of expression and in opposition to the anti-terrorist laws, state and federal”.
“The right to fight racism, the end of scapegoating of Aborigines, Muslims and migrants,” Mr Habib said.
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