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Nvt Requesting Efforts to Promote the Understanding and Practice of Nonviolence NONVIOLENCE This magazine is printed on recycled paper 888SHE]SHE]SHE] • Action • Reviews • Tax Resistance • National Gathering No. 63 June/July/August 1999 (Patria/Credo/Bona) Print Post PP408233/00020. ISSN 1031-6434. 2 About the Cover Thanks to our The cover artwork and other original drawings are by Zdzislaw Genek. Supporting Subscribers Brian Martin Wollongong, NSW Printing by UniPrint, Griffith University. Jan De Voogd Sydney, NSW Janet Mayer Foxground, NSW Greg Heys Shortland, NSW Louise Finegan Laurieton, NSW Contents Shorona de Mbessakwini Byron Bay, NSW Kevin Thomasson Herberton, QLD Terry Pinnell Brisbane, QLD Tax Resistance Michael Oldmeadow Rosanna, VIC 3 The Hearing of David Keenan Dr. Mark Hayes Peter Jones Hobart, TAS Daniel Boase-Jelinek Perth, WA Howard Wheatley Perth, WA Action 6 Samoan Symphony Siobhán McHugh Maniacal Subscribers Greg Bird Sydney, NSW. Francoise Matter & Reflection Hugh Paterson Sydney, NSW 10 Nonviolence and Relationships Peter D. Jones Denis Klein Sydney, NSW David Keenan Brisbane, QLD. Jo Vallentine Perth, WA. National Gathering Neville Watson Perth, WA. 11 National Nonviolence Gathering 2000 Yumiko Kanebako Yokahama, Japan Jennifer Cargill ??? Reviews Pat Finegan ??? 12 Gandhi’s Peace Army Margo Keenan If you know Jennifer or Pat, please tell them 13 People Power Margo Keenan we don't have their current address. 13 Undercurrents - A News Sensation Margo Keenan Supported… 14 Information Liberation Dr. Mark Hayes India Vigil Devi Prasad Sarvodayya Friendship Centre Babu Mathew Gandhi Marg Narayan Desai USA Thailand Mubarak Awad Nv International Sri Lanka Nonviolent Direct Action Group Adopted… Uni of Papua New Guinea, PNG The Commonweal Collection, England Geoff Harris IFOR, Netherlands Louise Finnegan Alba Kor, Hungary Thomas Weber Izmir War Resisters' Association, Turkey Alexandra Perry Coalition for Peace & Reconciliation, Cambodia Society for Peace & Development, Bangladesh Pan-African Reconciliation Council, Nigeria Sulak Sivaraksa, Thailand ECT Resource Centre, South Africa Editorial Collective Swati & Michael, India K Arunachalam, India We hope Nonviolence Today will promote nonviolence in a broad sense. It is strictly V Ramachandran, India nonprofit and all editors donate their time and use of personal resources. The editors The Dalai Lama, India for this issue were Jan, Janelle and David. We hope you will continue to support our Anyone can write to NvT requesting efforts to promote the understanding and practice of nonviolence. adoption Nonviolence Today #63 June/July/August 1999 PO Box 5292, West End QLD 4101, Australia 3 The Hearing of David Keenan The cliché of ‘David versus Goliath’ is inevitable, so let’s deal with that from the start. That’s the last of that cliché. Picture the scene: The Australian Tax Office turned up in force. There’s the large barrister, Mr. P. E. Hack, resplend- ent in his undergraduate robe. (I’ve got to note this ‘cos, as a Doctor of Philosophy, I’m entitled to wear a much more colour- ful and elaborate robe on appropriate formal occasions. I call it my ‘dressing gown’.) There’s the instructing solicitor, who reminds me of a rather corpulent Mr. Bean, whispering in Mr. Hack’s ear when the going gets rough. Behind them are two Tax Office people, the desk laden with papers, and well-thumbed copes of the very large volume ‘Bloggs on Bank- ruptcy’ (I can’t read sideways) with lots of yellow ‘stickies’ hanging out of it. There’s a third Tax Office adviser. They’ve run out of space, so he’s sitting at the end of the public gallery, trying I don’t want to describe a Dickensian Another point worth mentioning now is hard to look like he’s not there and hav- situation, but when the stern court offi- just what this case was not all about, ‘cos ing nothing to do with the untidy gaggle cial stalked up and warned us that if the some readers may have probably read the of Dave’s supporters and assorted noisy children made too much noise he’d have only press report of the result of the case, children, or the few ‘reptiles of the me- to ask us to leave, I was tempted to tell in The Australian Financial Review for dia’ who have bothered to attend. (That’s him that his court was about as friendly Wednesday, May 5, 1999, at Page 5. This not my phrase, it’s from ABC TV’s ‘Me- as a tomb. case had nothing whatsoever to do with dia Watch’.) whether or not conscientious objection To the left, where the defendant stands, is to paying income tax, on the basis of A formidable array aligned before the one skinny person. Our Hero. Wearing international conventions endorsing free- severe Justice Susan Kiefel, her Wesley- The Suit and The Tie. More than once dom of conscience and belief, was al- an preacher’s tails gracing her under- this morning he’s been chipped by his lowed under Australian domestic law. graduate gown, dark hair combed back friends, helpfully saying, “I’ve never seen and tied, peering down into the well of you in a suit before! Is it yours?” Of Very simply, the Tax Office wanted to the court through her glasses. Her Hon- course he looks uncomfortable. David have Dave declared bankrupt so it could our is in complete control. ‘Don’t mess Keenan in a suit and tie is like a wombat quite easily and cheaply get the money he with me,’ her entire presentation shouts. wearing an aqualung. He hides it well, owes them. Dave had to show that he had but he’s terrified. the money, and could pay, but won’t. The I’m there wearing my several hats, main- Tax Office can still get their dough, but if ly as a supporter of Dave; declaring my Maybe the barrister is having a bad day, he won, it would take longer, cost more, interest, I’m his ‘media advisor’, guiding but for somebody commanding a lavish cause them more hassles, and could set a Dave on how to deal with journalists; as fee for being a highly qualified and sup- precedent other, less honourable, mis- a possible character witness ‘cos we’ve posedly articulate ‘mouth for hire’, I’m creants could exploit for their own mis- been mates for years; as his ‘tame peace thinking that this character has trouble chievous ends. researcher’ or somebody who knows a articulating complex sentences. Listen- few things about several of the issues ing to Parliament on the wireless often It follows that, at least as I was taught traversed by his case and has a PhD to has me thinking the same thing about not when I was in journalism school some prove it, and as a sometime reptile of the a few of our politicians. I’d be thinking of twenty years ago so I admit my training press myself. Oh, yeah, I’m also on occa- asking for my deposit back if I’d hired might be out of date, if you are going to sional crowd control, grabbing a toddler, this learned person for his eloquence and report on something complicated like a dandling a baby, and explaining to friends loquacity. court case, it’s usually a good idea to unused to courts what’s going on. actually attend the court case and take Nonviolence Today #63 June/July/August 1999 PO Box 5292, West End QLD 4101, Australia 4 lots of notes. Ms. Fiona Buffini, AFR owed taxes, the bit he estimates funds the enough.] But the fact that it’s public reporter, wasn’t in Court 7 in the Com- military, and hasn’t kept a cent of it for revenue at stake rather than private debts monwealth Law Courts building between himself. This year he paid it by donating is a relevant factor. It carries more weight. 10:15am and 11:51am on Wednesday, books on nonviolent defence to the Aus- Her Honour: The small business com- April 28, 1999. Had she actually been tralian Defence Academy Library [Two munity might not agree with you on that. there, or even read the judgment on the of which are reviewed in this issue. eds.]. Mr. Hack: Well, that is so but the Web later, which in my professional view The double takes in the court are palpa- Parliament has struck a budget which as a journalist and tertiary journalism ble, from Her Honour to the public gal- requires the raising of taxes to fund the educator is unprofessional as well as lery, now minus noisy or bored children. activities of government. One can’t, as it cheating, she should have been able to The reptiles of the media lean forward, were, opt out of the system because one figure out what the case was actually all intent on what’s happening. has a view about the desirability or other- about and written her report accordingly, wise... as well as have it published the next day Her Honour is not amused. She says that Her Honour: Is there any decision that instead of a week later, and faked the she would be inclined to grant Mr Keen- supports the philosophy that you are ad- newsworthiness of her report by not in- an an adjournment. David suggests that vancing. cluding any date of when the actual case the ATO have failed to take into account Mr. Hack: Not that I could take your occurred. This kind of behaviour helps his recent Application to Vary Provi- Honour to. Your Honour, in my submis- give journalism its bad name, annoys the sional Tax. Rather than risk an adjourn- sion, would not exercise the discretion hell out of types like me who take our ment the tax office agrees to accept the favourably to the respondent in the present standards, practice, and ethics seriously.
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