Free Australia

As a result of this governments anti-civil rights laws which are embodied in the Serious Organised Crime Control Act (08) a massive protest ride organised by REBELS motor cycle club, and attended by many other clubs, supporters, and onlookers, took place to challenge this growing draconian trend of governance of Australia.

The FREE AUSTRALIA PARTY supports the right of ANY Australian individual, group, sub culture, to lodge a petition to parliament as is their right, and strongly condemns this government for refusing to accept the petition after several requests from concerned citizens to do so.  As a result of a refusal to accept a petition from the REBELS MC a protest ensued.

The FREE AUSTRALIA PARTY categoriaclly rejects the Serious Organised Crime Control Act (08) when it says that the prosecution need not prove that any association an Australian engages in with a so called "declared" member of a motor cycle club as being due to it being an outright attack upon democracy and our Australian way of life.

The South Australian premier Mike Rann provides evidence of his disdain for the right of Australians to protest by attempting to marry up their valid concerns about what a Victorian Attorney General has identified as "Draconian" laws with defense of crime in a recent press release entitled "Defending the right of Bikers to bash, kill, steal, deal".  A cheap shot at best, and obvious propaganda tactics.  It appears neccessary for our premier to employ such strategies to keep the voting public on side.  It is an age old trick of making a scape goat of a minority group, and then villifying any who would dare to object.  Even in parliament terms like "sympathiser"  are bandied around as a derogative term for individuals who speak out against heavy handed dealings, causing good men and women to operate clandestinely for fear of repercussions.  Parliamentary privelege is used as a cover to launch crusades against hard working tax paying individuals based upon spurious evidence, as was seen by the SA Attorney General, Michael Atkinson, accusing the FREE AUSTRALIA PARTY of holding a celebratory event over an incident of which they had nothing to do with.  Not content with having slandered the executive of a new political party, a publican, and a small country newspaper, Michael Atkinson went above and beyond the call of duty to personally telephone the newspaper asking why they had not drawn the "obvious" links and connected the FREE AUSTRALIA PARTY sign up day in Paskeville with some violent incident the occurred the year before.

It is a sad day when a South Australian premier can berate other Australian citizens so publicly and not have his fellow ministers call him to task.  Rann sardonically adds a caption under a photo in which an overt Christian group, the "Longriders", is protrayed with other protesters stating "peace-loving civil libertarians protest in Adelaide last month".  The simple response to this is that Yes, they were peace-loving civil liberatarians protesting.  It was a peaceful protest attempting to present a petition to parliament in challenge of these laws.  The question that needs answered is why the government refused to accept the petition, and why it took a member of the democrats going out on a limb politically to do what was right.

The FREE AUSTRALIA PARTY represents the people.  It was formed by the people for the people, as such it condemns in the strongest terms the wayward policies of an errant government.  It calls for an Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), and agrees with the Labor government when it says "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

REFERENCES

M. Rann, 09 "Defending the right of bikers to bash, kill, steal, deal" (online) Available: http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/defending-the-rights-of-bikers-to-bash-steal-kill/ accessed 2 June 2009.