----- Original Message ----- From: "Trudy Bray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "BoxMedia-clips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 10:33 AM Subject: The Age: Ruddock's hour of power on refugees SNIP > > THE AGE > Ruddock's hour of power on refugees > > By MURRAY MOTTRAM > Tuesday 8 January 2002 > > Philip Ruddock began 2002 right where he left his > government's victorious election year: staring down his > critics; telling Australians they should be proud of the > way the country treats refugees; and being lauded as a > national hero by the Liberal faithful.
It is the people who support Ruddock, Howard etc who have to change if Australia is to become a less selfish and fearful society-----the majority of Australians who voted for the Coalition or support similar racist and xenophobic policies in the ALP have to be changed if we aspire to a more sharing and caring society. The effective control of the media must be wrested from the hands of the mega-wealthy by goverenment legislation--- and that is the difficulty---Murdoch , Packer and Co scream the house down at the first suggestion of government funding for a media independent of the multi-millionaires, but there can be no democratic process without the freeflow of ideas and opinions to the community ,untainted by the vested interests of the media proprietors. Laurie. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/ until 11 March, 2001 and Recoznettwo is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznettwo%40green.net.au/ from that date. This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use."
