Thursday, November 18, 2010

Means nothing I'm sure.

This is Professor Jane Kelsy, who I might venture to suggest is not everyones cup of tea though I think that she is OK. She has just last week published a book saying that the Australia and America Free Trade Agreement ( which is going on behind closed doors) will not be good for Oz and New Zild. Under the rules of the agreement Fox News can sue the Oz government if they refuse to sell the Australian Broadcasting Commission (government funded TV), and they will sue in American courts. Classy deal, and since we have a very close relationship with Aussie it will impinge on us.
Now, Jane Kelsey has an active past and has been arrested for protesting against the visit of the South African Rugby team in 1980. She got a suspended sentence but this has not stood in her way in traveling to Australia.
Until now
Professor Jane Kelsey said she was detained at immigration at Sydney airport on Sunday and told she did could not enter visa free like most New Zealanders because she was not an "appropriate person" under Australia's 1994 immigration laws.
Eventually, she was allowed to enter but was told in future she would need a visa.
"I am a constant visitor to Australia for professional and personal reasons - at least eight times in the past two years, including just one month ago for an academic conference on trade," Prof Kelsey said.
"I always tick the box about criminal convictions, which relate to the Springbok tour and Bastion Point in the early 1980s. They have the list on record at Australian immigration. Usually I wait 10 or at most 15 minutes and they wave me on. This twist came completely out of the blue."
In the same week her book comes out.
Means nothing I'm sure.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

All your tv stations is ours.

reamen, men of rea.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

And here I thought Republicans believed in tort reform.
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Whale Chowder said...

Tort reform for you not them.

Unknown said...

Torte reform, let them eat cake.

oidaboo, form of greeting, try it.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

I heard a bit on the radio (I think it was Thom Hartmann) about the US pressuring South Korea to lower auto emissions standards so they can import American cars. Yeah, the US is now setting the bar for Lowest Common Denominator.

Feh!