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“Make your Parliament debate Assange’s plight in 2023” (1/1/233) hxxps://candobetter.net/james-sinnamon/blog/6531/make-your-parliament-debate-assanges-plight-2023
This year our parliament must be made to debate what it is going to allow to happen to Julian Assange. There are 40 members of parliament who want to put a motion calling on the Australian government to use a power vested in it to make the United Kingdom end its illegal imprisonment of Julian Assange and allow him to come home to Australia.
If the other members of Parliament believe that those 40 members are wrong, then why can’t they just say so on the floor of parliament, in the course of such a debate?
Whatever their reasons, it is clearly not good enough in what purports to be a parliamentary democracy for the opinions of those within the parliament who support Julian Assange to be suppressed, their voices all but unheard.
The Australian Parliament will be sitting again on 6 February. Those within the Australian community and the international community must do all they can to make their parliamentary representatives at least allow this issue to be formally discussed. It can best be discussed by allowing a motion in support of Julian Assange to be put and thence debated (see Appendix 1 below). This is what independent Senator Andrew Wilkie attempted to do on 2 December 2021, however the ‘procedural motion’ to allow his motion to be put was outrageously voted down.
It is urgent that when Parliament meets again on 6 February 2023, a procedural motion be put to suspend Standing Orders to allow Andrew Wilkie’s motion, or an updated version, to be put to the house – i.e. to actually be debated.
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Good idea Mr. Sinnamon.
Also on 20th Jan the “Belmarsh Tribunal” will be in Washington:
hxxps://progressive.international/wire/2022-12-19-the-belmarsh-tribunal-is-coming-to-washington-d-c/en
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James Sinnamon:
“The Australian Parliament will be sitting again on 6 February. Those within the Australian community and the international community must do all they can to make their parliamentary representatives at least allow this issue to be formally discussed. It can best be discussed by allowing a motion in support of Julian Assange to be put and thence debated (see Appendix 1 below). This is what independent Senator Andrew Wilkie attempted to do on 2 December 2021, however the ‘procedural motion’ to allow his motion to be put was outrageously voted down.
“It is urgent that when Parliament meets again on 6 February 2023, a procedural motion be put to suspend Standing Orders to allow Andrew Wilkie’s motion, or an updated version, to be put to the house – i.e. to actually be debated.”
With all due respect, leaving to the representatives of a parliamentary democracy whether a discussion of the Assange case will be ALLOWED cedes too much power to the parliament. Whether to discuss the case cannot be left to the parliament, whose members may demur for any number of political reasons. If the parliament truly represents the voices of the Australian people, the question is not whether a discussion will be ALLOWED by the parliament, but whether a discussion will be ENABLED by an aroused electorate seeking justice for Assange and demanding nothing less than the exercise of “a power vested in it to make the United Kingdom end its illegal imprisonment of Julian Assange and allow him to come home to Australia.”
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Yes, but whilst ignoring them is tempting, unfortunately sites like Newsguard cannot just be ignored no matter how much we want to. This is a slippery slope. How long before the browser extensions are switched ‘on’ by default? How long before many people particularly the young, start to believe and accept (and told) that organisations like Newsguard are the default places to go to to when reading important news stories? Organisations like Newsguard MUST be challenged by sites such as CN. This will of course use up valuable time that CN journolists would rather put to better use, but the future is looking more dystopian if they do not. Of course ALL media including ‘mainstream’ should challenge Newsguard and any others which may/will appear in the future, not just roll over and tailor their content just to Please Newsguard and/or their advertisers. (Of course I know CN do not do that).