MANUS ISLAND, NAURU, AUSTRALIAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND RELATIONSHIP TO DEATH CAMPS.

The Manus Island concentration camp in Papua New Guinea has now had its 4th death in custody.

The people in the concentration camps have not been tried in criminal courts or in any sort of tribunal, but life has been removed from them so that they will die tortured deaths from a variety of reasons.

The British have got a proud history of concentration camps, having developed them in South Africa between 1899 and 1902 in what is known in some history records as the Boer War.

The people locked up in them, men, women and children, died from all manner of causes such as Typhoid and other diseases, starvation, and brutal treatment at the hands of their jailers. The Afrikaans population of South African never got over their treatment at the hands of the victors of that war, and their bitterness persisted even after the end of official apartheid in 1994, when Nelson Mandela's ANC party became the government of South Africa.

On Nauru, where some people are not actually locked up in the concentration camps there, if they have limited freedom to walk around the country, the Nauruan population resent their presence and attack them and harass them and their so-called freedom becomes non-existent. There have been some gay people walking around who have been assaulted so badly that they have feared for their lives and are now petrified to walk around the island.

Compare the current Australian government with other concentration camp governments - Israel - think Gaza and the West Bank, UK, USA - think Guantanamo, and others too numerous to mention - and you end up with the appalling state of the Australian camps which are apparently worse than some of Australia's worst prisons.

Added to the total inhumanity of the situation is the fact that these concentration camps cost an absolute fortune to maintain and the government tells us that we have to tighten our belts - parliamentarians excepted. In order to rob the poor and pay the rich, organisations such as those who run the concentration camps, no doubt keep offshore accounts and don't pay taxes in Australia.

And, as ever, religions continue to live tax-free existences, costing the community billions to pay for what these organisations don't pay for, and what are these religions doing for the people in our concentration camps to make their lives easier - well of course - exactly nothing.

THE GREATEST LIES ANY AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT HAS EVER TOLD!

If you think that Australians - most of us who are not in the "millionaire" class - are being lied to about the budget and what previous governments have done to ruin the income of the government to be able to fund everything that governments are usually responsible for - think again!

It is not so much that we are being lied to so much as we are not being told the truth about anything. This and previous governments since 1992 have always had enough money for all the organisations and everything else that governments are supposed to be responsible for to run the country.

However, everything is now being sold off and privatised so that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the gap widens. Obviously we don't need local workers any more - everything can be outsourced to countries where wages are a fraction of Australia's, taxes are not levied in the same way, and/or corruption flourishes - and who says there is no corruption in Australia?

But think about two organisations which, on their own, would fill the government's coffers over and over and over again until they would be overflowing.

What are these two organisations?

Well the most obvious one is religion. Religions have tax exemption and are probably worth more than all government assets put together.

The other obvious one is the concentration camps in foreign countries, set up by the Australian government and run by private companies who run them for huge profits and the more people incarcerated, the richer these companies get.

But the government has to pay for these concentration camps in foreign countries by paying those governments money for occupying some of their territory and incarcerating our legitimate asylum seekers who should be inside Australia and being part of Australian life.

Closing the concentration camps and bringing all asylum seekers into Australia would save the government billions, if not trillions of dollars making Australia even richer than it already is.

Taxing religions as all other organisations are taxed - properties and other holdings - and Australia would become twice as rich as if it only closed the concentration camps.

Paul Keating started the rot in 1992 and every government since has compounded it.

Australia is rotten to the core and corrupt into the bargain - in fact it is no bargain!

And all the so-called justification for levying new taxes on those who can least afford it is corruption of the worst sort. Australia is not only emulating the Tea Party, it is becoming the Tea Party!

TAX RELIGION! TAX RELIGION! TAX RELIGION!

Joe Hockey wants to alter the age pension. He wants to increase pension age from 65 to 70.

Many people, because of the nature of the work they have done ovcr their lifetimes are unable to work till they drop!

Joe Hockey, like others before him, refuses to tax religions.

The main reason of course is that so many of the likes of Hockey belong to religions which have never had to pay tax and are, of course, inordinately wealthy.

If religions were to be taxed, governments would lose their votes - or would they?

Considering what some of the largest religions of this country have done to some of their younger parishioners - and got away with - and not had to pay for their misdeeds - it is a disgrace that governments have not imposed taxes on them.

Instead, governments of all persuasions deem it easier to scapegoat the poorest and most vulnerable members of the community and lower their incomes, one way or another, to increase their budgets.

Do they increase taxes to the already fabulously wealthy? Of course not!

It is time voters showed governments that they mean business when they tell them to tax the wealthy - and religions - but too many of the voting public seem to be fearful and intimidated by those in power.

...........and what is desperately needed is for taxes on alcoholic drinks to be magnified, durgs to be legalised and taxed, and governments to wake up to themselves and start actually governing!

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LEGISLATION IS DISCRIMINATORY AND ENTRENCHES APARTHEID IN AUSTRALIA EVEN FURTHER!

In their scramble to put five different pieces of anti-discrimination legislation into one basic anti-discrimination law, the Australian Federal Government is further entrenching discrimination and apartheid.

Apartheid has been one of the basic modus vivendi of Australian politics since 1788, but it gets further entrenched with every government in every state and territory since that date.

In a country as rich and prosperous as Australia there is no excuse whatever for the Indigenous population to suffer the indignities, poverty, ill-health, lack of education and all the other diseases from which the poorest people in the world suffer.

Many people and groups have made submissions to the government's proposed changes to the legislation, but one of the groups which was given assurances by the prime minister from the outset was one of the religious lobby groups who were assured that the discriminations which they have perpetrated against certain groups in the communities would be allowed to continue as before and no legislation would be introduced to change those exemptions.

Oh, the hypocrisy coming from an atheist prime minister - and an unmarried one - to organisations which discriminate in employment against atheists and unmarried people, whether male or female!

All of these discriminatory practices might have some modicum of acceptability if these religious organisations paid taxes as most other organisations and indviduals are forced to do by legislation in order for public infrastructures to be financed.

But the horror of it all is that not only are there thses tax exemptions but many of the project carried out by the religious organisations receive government support funding.

The perfidy is endless and the government should be sxposed by the main stream media for its behaviour. But the main stream media is in thrall to its ownership and "friendship" with the conservative politicians - roughly about 95% of them,and so remains silent on the apartheid "anti-discrimination" proposals.

In South Africa, during the worst years of the apartheid government, every time they introduced more and more repressive legislation it was given titles such as "The equal Education" law and one knew straight away that the government was making laws which became worse and worse as "separate development" developed the country between 1948 and 1994.

Now the same process is well under way in Australia and the gay, lesbian, transgender and HIV communities can expect the worst outcomes from legislation which further enshrines inequality.