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Australia Dossier by Allen Douglas

CEC Launches Federal Campaign portunity Commission’s (HREOC) on LaRouche’s associates have shaken up the country. “Immigration Detention Centers” (IDCs) around (see EIR, May 28, 2004). To clarify the last point, the candidates released infor- mation—for the first time publicly in Australia—that the father of current At a dozen press conferences all page ads in another 15 newspapers PM had been a member over the country on May 19, the Aus- covering all major population centers of the 1930s Synarchist/fascist army tralian associates of Lyndonin Australia. All of the ads featured known as the . “Like fa- LaRouche in the Citizens Electoral a toll-free phone number at the CEC ther, like son,” the candidates Council (CEC) launched their cam-national office in Melbourne, and a charged. paigns for the Federal elections ex- clip-out coupon to send for a free copy Although most major media pected in October. Numerous mediaof the New Citizen; over the following blacked out the conferences, some attended the conferences, along with week, the CEC received 600 calls and good coverage was garnered on local well over 200 Australian citizens sup-300 coupons, and 1,300 people down- radio and regional papers and televi- porting the CEC. Some of these latter loaded the entire 72-page paper from sion. Notwithstanding the blackout, were members of the CEC, but manythe CEC website; 16,000 others read the establishment was stung, as re- were not, reflecting the widespread part of the issue on the site. vealed in a hysterical article appearing disgust with the two “major” parties—At the conferences, the CEC can- on May 23 in Rupert Murdoch’s Sun- the Liberals and the Australian Labor didates emphasized four themes to the day Mail in Brisbane, Queensland. Party (ALP)—and the desire for realpress: 1) that the LaRouche-affiliated Columnist Terry Sweetman featured a national leadership. The Liberal/ALP CEC was launching its largest-ever prominent picture of Howard’s New policies of deregulation, privatization,slate of candidates, with a presence in Guardsman father, Lyall Howard, in and globalization over the last three all eight Australian states and territor- his army uniform, under decades have done much to wreckies, in a campaign amid an extraordi- the title “ ‘Citizens’ take cowardly what used to be called the “Lucky nary period of crisis internationally, way.” Country”; now, with a global financialfor which only U.S. 2004 Democratic Sweetman was apoplectic at the crash fast approaching, the two are Party Presidential pre-candidate Lyn- CEC’s exposure of Prime Minister collaborating to ram through police-don LaRouche had the necessary solu- Howard. After claiming that he, too, state measures identical to those of tions; 2) that the party was determined had been a long-time, fierce opponent Hitler in 1933.to stop the latest of a seemingly-end- of Howard, Sweetman fulminated, The day before the press confer- less barrage of police-state bills, the “However, I will defend Mr. Howard ences, the CEC ran a full-page ad inAnti-Terrorism Bill 2004; 3) that the to my last breath against the scurrilous, the country’s only national newspa- CEC was releasing its most powerful cowardly and irrelevant charges of the per, The Australian, which featured apiece of literature ever, the latest New seriously deranged Citizens Electoral sharp attack on Australian fascist po- Citizen with its extraordinary expose Council.” Furthermore, he spluttered, lice-state laws (see EIR May 14 andof the Synarchy’s drive for fascism in “Maybe Lyall was a 1930s fascist, May 21), and pictures of all 88 CEC Australia in the 1930s, and that the maybe he wasn’t; but what the hell candidates around the center-piece ofsame pro-fascist families and corpora- does that have to do with John the ad—the cover of the CEC’s just- tions of that era are behind the current Howard?” released New Citizen newspaper. Bothpush for police-state laws; and, 4) that Sweetman desperately attempted the paper’s banner headline, “Defeat the party was denouncing the ruling to dismiss the CEC’s extraordinary the Synarchists—Fight for a NationalLiberal Party government of Prime documentation of the continuity of Bank!”, and its second lead, “Fate of Minister John Howard as a “beast- Australia’s Synarchist/fascist net- U.S.A, World Hangs on Lyndonman” entity, both for its commitment works of the 1930s through today, LaRouche,” almost jumped out at the to a fascist police state, and for its sys- of which the Howard family is only reader; and the text of the NC’s wholetematic torture of children, as revealed one egregious example. Another, is front page was clearly legible. The in the just-released report of the Aus- the Murdoch family—who employ same day, the CEC took out quarter-tralian Human Rights and Equal Op- Sweetman himself.

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