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Australia: Call for skilled migrants to be sent to the ADF

Parrot Press | 12.04.2007 22:19 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | World

Prime Minister John Howard wants the migrants to help fill chronic shortages in the Defence [WAR] Force.

Chronic shortages in the Defence
Chronic shortages in the Defence


The Federal Government is under pressure to import 20,000 skilled migrants from overseas to join the Australian Defence [WAR] Force (ADF).

Its plan to import 20,000 skilled migrants from overseas.

The initiative is part of the Federal Government's billion-dollar overhaul of recruitment and retention schemes in the ADF.

Prime Minister John Howard wants the migrants to help fill chronic shortages in the Defence [WAR] Force.

"No capitalists, politicians, landlords, newspaper editors, or any other stay at home nationalists have applied. So I've decided to import them from overseas", he said.

"No one wants to kill these days."

"What do they want, a legal war?"

James Ferryman reports:

"The Prime Minister says he's in favour of bringing in migrant workers to help ease Australia's recruitment shortage in the ADF.

"But US President George Bush says he needs the migrants just as much as Australia, and he'll raise with John Howard an idea to gear the scheme to target third world countries."

"Target it to some of those poverty specific areas that have a need focus.

"Have a points system: give people higher points if they commit to the SAS."

"But Mr Bush says the migrant push won't help to win the war on Iraq now because the current recruits are struggling to fill posts not only in Iraq but in Afghanistan.

"For that he says the Australian Government must consider a formal short-term international migrant exchange program.

"Labor's Kevin Rudd says a family reunion scheme where overseas migrants can bring their families to Australia should also be considered to help attract military recruits."

SATIRE

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Afghanistan war political slaughter

Former British serviceman opined that most of what British troops do in Afghanistan is not constructive at all and it only works to further alienate Afghan population.

 http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143316.php

Time to go to war with your country?

Unemployed to be offered jobs in war forces. She says the scheme will provide opportunities to unemployed people who would not otherwise have considered a job in the ADF?

 http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143481.php

Unemployed to be offered jobs in defence forces

Employment service providers will be encouraged to work with the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to help more people take on a military career.

 http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143466_comment.php#143477

US pays $40m for civilian deaths

The US Army says the military has paid at least $US33 million ($40 million) to civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan for wrongful deaths and injuries.

 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1895982.htm

Two NATO soldiers, 24 Taliban killed in Afghanistan

Two NATO soldiers were killed in separate explosions in Afghanistan, as US-led warplanes and soldiers killed 24 Taliban hiding in caves in the south, officials said.

 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1895971.htm

Iran condemns 'inhuman and satanic' Iraq attack

Iran has condemned the suicide bombing attack on the Iraq Parliment buliding that killed two MPs as inhuman and satanic, the official IRNA news agency has reported.

 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1895972.htm

Eight dead as suicide bomber hits Iraqi Parliament

A suicide bomber blew himself up at the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad's Green Zone, killing eight people including at least two MPs in a staggering breach of security at Iraq's most heavily guarded site.

 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1895962.htm

Iraqi PM condemns suicide attack inside parliament building

Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki has condemned a suicide attack inside Iraq's parliament building that killed three people including at least two MPs as a "criminal and cowardly act".

 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1895954.htm

Pakistan's Musharraf says tribes killed 300 militants

President Pervez Musharraf says that Pakistani tribesmen have killed around 300 foreign Al Qaeda militants near the Afghan border and admitted that the army had helped the tribal fighters.

 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1895942.htm

Bodies of British soldiers killed in Basra repatriated

The bodies of four British soldiers killed last week in southern Iraq have arrived home, receiving military honours in a ceremony at an Royal Air Force (RAF) base in southern England.

 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1895934.htm

Blast in Baghdad's Green Zone kills two MPs

An explosion has occurred in a canteen in the Iraqi parliament complex inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.

 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1895921.htm

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Opposition:

Where was the opposition to Social Services Reform? Desperate and disabled to work? 6 week social security payments cut off's? Work for the dole instead of not getting better education and skills for better employment opportunities?

Where was the opposition to rorting the social security system by corporate greed?

The Real Dole Bludgers

 http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/142867.php

Where is the opposition to war?

THE ANZAC MYTH - PART 1

"Hundreds of thousands bitterly opposed Australia's participation in WWI"

The ANZAC myth has become an integral part of Australian folklore, as the last living witnesses to the carnage that occurred cannot personally challenge the idealised sanitised accounts that are being trotted out each ANZAC Day...

 http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=54774

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Pentagon extends tours for US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan

13.04.2007 04:07

The Bush administration has announced that all members of the Army currently deployed in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa, will have their standard tour of duty extended from 12 months to 15 months. The decision will also affect all Army soldiers sent to these regions in the future.

 http://wsws.org/articles/2007/apr2007/iraq-a13.shtml

Joe Kay


Canadian govts to provide mental health funding for militants' families

14.04.2007 04:28

Governments in Canada have agreed to provide proper funding for the families of militants fighting in Afghanistan who suffer from mental health problems.

Ombudsman of the province of Ontario, Andre Marin, began an investigation two months ago into the care provided to spouses and children of militants who are fighting in Afghanistan, particularly those 53 families who have lost a family member.

His initial report said that mental health care was seriously lacking as governments squabbled over funding, but today he announced a resolution which he says will go a long toward solving the problem.

"It is obvious that this kind of collateral damage can not entirely be avoided," Mr Marin said.

"Stress and anxiety are among the costs of war."

Mr Marin says while the damage cannot always be avoided, it the responsibility of governments to ensure the families are properly cared for after the fact.

 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1897248.htm

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