EDITOR’S COMMENTS PRESIDENT’S WELCOME Affie Adagio John August

I will be your editor As incoming President, again until another thanks to the support comes forward because that people have shown Max and Meg Wallace me in being willing to have relinquished their vote for me and roles. Many thanks to supporting me after both for their efforts. becoming President.

By the time you read this edition I will During my campaign it became clear that have my PhD in hand. Many thanks to all there are many Humanists who have been those who were supportive throughout and members for some time. You rose to the have congratulated me on the outcome. call, and myself and others appreciate it. At the same time, I welcome all recent More good news – the takeover bid I members. warned you about has failed, thanks to your coming together and fighting it at the I have only been a member a few years; I AGM. Dierk von Behrens was our suspect that you, like me, see a need to returning officer and his professional articulate a secular view - one that approach was much appreciated. Now, I emphasises the ability to lead our own happily advise you of the Management lives independently of a belief in God, and Committee for the next year. while we would grant others the freedom to believe what they will, problems arise HUMSOCNSW COMMITTEE: 2007-8 when people try to develop laws or impose their religiously based views on President: John August others. It is clear that religion's hold on Vice Presidents: David Duffy society has become a greater concern in Ann Young recent years. Several decades ago, it was Treasurer: Victor Bien difficult to become a school teacher if you Hon. Secretary: Affie Adagio were an atheist, and access to abortion was Minutes Sec: Angela Drury illegal. Atheists were discriminated Vpts Editor: Affie Adagio against.

Committee: Tony D’Angiolillo, Hugh The world has changed - in Australia, Drewitz, Sturt Duncan, Brian Edwards, atheists are no longer much discriminated Gillian Ellis, Fred Flatow, Noelene against - but new challenges have arisen. George, Harry Giann, Waratah Gillespie, New laws, masquerading as "family Robin Hall, Ian Jones, Mark Pavic values" are a religiously inspired intervention in our lives - and when the intervention is not direct, a range of tax CAHS CONVENTION 2008 benefits and other pressures direct people to lifestyles which the religious The next convention is in Sydney and we irrationally favour. Creationism and are working on having a memorable irrationality generally are on the increase. weekend. As yet we have not finalised the Creationists are more politically active, arrangements, so look out for that lobbying for everyone to be taught information in the first Vpts edition in creationism. Creationism being 2008. indoctrinated to those in religious schools

2 is bad enough - but its even worse that it makes sense to (metaphorically) spread be taught to everyone, including non our eggs between different baskets. believers. But this is the push that some believers have at present. There are many It is a challenge we need to address. We other issues - voluntary euthanasia and need to both increase our membership and others, which I can't consider here in any get to know each other. Compassion is an detail. important foundation, but we don't have to agree on everything - in fact, disagreement But, apart from reacting and defending is healthy. Then, hopefully the flame of against these threats - the joy we have in humanism can be passed from the old knowing who we are and sharing those custodians to the new. At some time in values with each other - are also the future, when we can see ourselves as important. Not only will we lobby for sufficiently cohesive, we might then seek change - but so too will we share each a merger. But we don't need to worry other's company. Humanists have tried to about that in the reasonable future. What change the nature of religious and other we do need to worry about is turning education in schools, by introducing around our financial situation, doing Humanism or ethics lessons as a things (like Darwin Day, for example), replacement to Religious Instructions in and sharing with our members - though Schools. The Queensland Humanists the Newsletter (Vpts), and Humanist pushed for this recently; it was quashed by Viewpoints Afternoon Talk (HuVAT). the religious lobby, with support from These will be the priorities of myself and Canberra. Religious instruction has hopefully the committee. recently become more pernicious with Howard sponsoring religious counsellors As President, I want to facilitate activities in schools. and support members. I found my previous position in the committee But, moving to practical matters - the limiting, and it was part of the reason I business of Ann and Steve is now behind sought the presidency. But now that I am us, and President, I see my task as helping others along with setting direction - I do not plan The new committee has decided to to hold tightly to the privileges of rescind the previous committee’s President. Let us all look forward to a decision which led to the Special bright new future ! Meeting in August. Therefore, there will be no need for the Special Meeting which had been set for CLIMATE ISSUES November 2007. Many thanks to From Dick Clifford those who had participated in the Last Friday I went to meeting held in August regarding see "A Crude this matter and apologies for any Awakening: The Oil inconvenience caused. Crash". I've communicated with the Rationalists, It is a comprehensive doco which sets out and they indicate a willingness to the Peak Oil theory, the history of oil, financially support activities. Much as I dramatic pictures of oil wells in Venezuela did (and still do, in an abstract fashion), and other places showing a field of rusting support the idea of a merger, the derricks - they were in full capacity in the unfortunate reality is that we are too 70s now abandoned and you realise that all susceptible to a takeover at present, and it the fields working now will be reduced to

3 the same putrid condition in 30 - 40 years From Victor Gunasekara time. This film is now showing at the Palace, Adelaide and I thoroughly Solar generated electricity recommend it. It is probably showing in and electric cars which other states but you will have to hurry it Dick Clifford is advocating may only last a few days. The Saturday in his Letter to the Editor Advertiser ran an article on Holden's car are things which are under losses and I thought about their stupidity in serious consideration by not building economical cars so I wrote the Governments and Industry following letter to the Editor. Of course even now. The problem is they won’t print it, so I am sending it to that with existing technology power you. Please pass it on to all your contacts derived from the sun, wind, waves etc. and one to your paper signed by yourself will not generate enough power to meet and amended as you feel fit. even base load let alone in addition power an entire transport system. Unless practical ways of how this can be done are ====LETTER TO EDITOR ==== shown merely arguing in the abstract will Industry must Change not be sufficient. Nuclear power is a The report "Holden blames car launch for possible alternative but proving difficult to losses" - the Advertiser 16 6 07 - gives get past environmental considerations. little assurance that they understand the The long-term solution may lie in fusion position. They should instruct a not fission technology. But this has not compulsory viewing for management and even been demonstrated to be feasible in workers of the film "A Crude Awakening: the laboratory. The Oil Crash". (now showing at the Palace) Of course if small electric cars become feasible and cost-efficient there will be They should be designing a crash proof massive congestion on the roads which electric car supplied with batteries and will require massive investment on solar panels to fit on your home roof. 50% transport infrastructure that will cancel any of us should be driving them by 2015. of the gain made by switching to smaller They should be combining with the coal cars. In a capitalist economy it is consumer and oil industries to create a new battery demand that will determine the direction of and fuel-cell industry, invest in innovation and production. While Geothermal power and build very large government regulation can make changes it Concentrating Solar Thermal plants using can rarely bring about a radical change parabolic troughs or power tower arrays such as has been advocated. with 12 hour heat storage capacity. Heat exchangers and turbines could be integrated with the Geothermal plants. From Victor Bien Such a program would ensure full employment. It is said that oil may only Sea levels and ice sheets: last 35 years, less if we go to war, and the Ray Evans points out that price will be prohibitive for most of us Prof Nils Axel-Morner, before then. By changing over to solar head of the power now, oil will be saved for Paleogeophysics and manufacturing plastics, pharmaceuticals, Geodynamics Dept Stockholm U and past paints and much else. president of INQUA

4 Commission on Sea Level Changes and "computer model" incorporated "all the Coastal Evolution debunks sea level relevant factors" - hardly a satisfactory claims. Satellite measurements show no answer. The answer had an arrogant "keep change in sea level over the past decade. out" quality about it. It was an opaque lumpy answer. I knew something about Morner and his team did an exhaustive computer models because a couple of investigation of the claim made by the fellow PhD colleagues were working with IPCC that the Maldives in the Indian them to model molecular behaviour. When Ocean are at risk from sea level rise they talked about their work at accelerated by AGW (Anthropogenic colloquiums they had to give an account of Global Warming). "What is rarely the details of their models. I never got that mentioned is that many of the islands are sort of detail from the climate modellers. near the boundaries of the earth's crustal plates whose movement is responsible for That personal background makes me their uplift or sinking relative to global inclined to acknowledge to people like Ray mean sea level". Evans that "swifties" can conceivably be pulled by climate change cognescenti Evans states that melting ice sheets in the motivated by Kuhnian paradigm reasons. artic should not affect sea level much because the ice is floating in the sea So I have special interest to read and anyway. I thought this was true in the inclination to accept this citation by Evans, Antarctic not in the Arctic? "Australia's Bill Kininmonth, director of Anyway he writes: snow is falling on the the National Climate Change Centre from Antarctic ice sheet thousands of metres 1986 to 1998 writes, 'The apparent ability above sea level; satellite observations show of the computer models to simulate the the Antarctic ice sheet thickness is roughly global surface temperatures of the 20th in balance; the Greenland ice sheet is century comes with too many assumptions thickening. and shortcomings. Despite the IPCC advocacy, it is not possible to isolate The computer models: anthropogenic greenhouse gases as the Evans writes, Reid Bryson, Emeritus prof cause (or even the major cause) for the at the U of Wisconsin wrote, a model is observd warming of the last two and a half nothing more than a formal statement decades of the 20th century...' ". about how the modeller believes the part of the world of his concern actually works ... Tropical diseases: it may be years before computer capacity The gist of this section is that the people and human knowledge are adequate for putting forth this view are not scientists reasonable simulation. who have worked in this field or one who is only published an obscure article. This brings flooding back a concern I had back in the 70s when I first came across Alternative energies: concerns about rising CO2 and AGW. I Evans supports the continued use of coal remember an article in the New Scientist I and when necessary nukes. However, his think where the author questioned the arguments against solar options are not magnitude of the effect of CO2 (if I well informed and not worth mentioning remember rightly). When I tried to follow here. the argument up I essentially got nowhere. There weren't many people interested back then but with someone who was interested the argument was dismissed because some

5 A JUST AUSTRALIA, OXFAM & poorer mental health and general well- OXFAM NOVIB: being, both in the immediate and longer EXECUTIVE SUMMARY term.

A price too high: the cost of Australia's There are also higher costs borne by the approach to asylum seekers August broader Australian community as a result 2007. The Australian Government's policy of having to integrate people who have of offshore processing of asylum seekers been damaged by prolonged isolation in on Nauru, Manus Island and Christmas offshore processing centres. Longer Island - a research project funded by A Just processing times in more isolated locations Australia, Oxfam Australia and Oxfam tend to hinder the integration of asylum- Novib seekers when they do finally resettle in Australia, and often cause loss of skills and Authors: Kazimierz Bem, Nina Field, Nic livelihood opportunities and hence a Maclellan, Sarah Meyer, Tony Morris heavier reliance on community and government care. Executive Summary In the six years since the Tampa crisis in Medical studies, figures from the August 2001, Australian taxpayers have Department of Immigration and spent more than $1 billion to process less Citizenship (DIAC), testimony from staff than 1,700 asylum seekers in offshore and former asylum seekers on Nauru all locations - or more than half a million paint a shocking picture of psychological dollars per person. Most, if not all, of these damage for the detainees - including 45 asylum seekers have paid a substantial people engaged in a serious hunger strike, personal toll through poor mental and multiple incidents of actual self-harm and physical health and wellbeing. There have dozens of detainees suffering from also been detrimental impacts on depression and other psychological Australia's democratic and legal system, conditions each year and being treated with Australia's regional relationships and the anti-depressants or anti-psychotic international system of protection of medication. refugees and asylum seekers. In October 2005, Immigration Minister This report - a joint project of A Just Vanstone agreed that 25 of the remaining Australia and Oxfam Australia, with 27 detainees on Nauru should be brought support from Oxfam Novib in the to Australia 'on the expert advice of health Netherlands - analyses the costs of the professionals because of serious mental policy known as the 'Pacific Solution'. It health concerns.' The fact that their critiques government claims that the policy detention on Nauru had caused mental is an efficient and effective means of health problems was recognised to a achieving refugee protection and limited degree by the Australian immigration control. Government when it requested the Red The costs examined in the report are Cross to deliver six weeks of initial human costs, financial costs, cost to settlement support including casework, Australian rule of law and democratic information and referral, assistance with system, costs to the region and the cost to housing and referral to mental health the international system of protection. support as required.

Human Cost: A lack of hospital infrastructure and a lack Detainees held in offshore locations often of timely access to adequate physical bear the brunt of the policies through health care saw at least 40 people airlifted

6 to Australia from Nauru for medical LIVING WITH THE INVADER treatment. A 26-year old asylum seeker Gordon Frederick Syron with no known physical or mental health [Paper Presented at National Museum, Canberra, - a 20 problems died on Nauru in August 2002. minute paper with questions and answers: 6 Jul 2007 to Forum 70% Urban.]

The detention of over 1,500 asylum seekers on Nauru has placed extra burdens on a community of only 10,000 people that was already facing major economic and political problems. The hunger strike on Nauru in December 2003 placed unacceptable burdens on Nauru's health system and medical staff. Similarly, the small Christmas Island community of 1,200 could not meet the complex physical Forum: Who you calling Urban? and mental health needs of asylum seekers, I wish to discuss why Aboriginal People nor did it have adequate resources to are angry? provide community detention and other services to the detainees. The Australian people have taken so much culture from us, Aboriginal people that This section also documents the long soon there will be none left to take. delays in resettling people found to be Howard refuses to say sorry because he is refugees, with case studies of Palestinian not genuinely sorry. He and his Aladdin Sisalem in Papua New Guinea, government have been sitting on 12 long and two Iraqis Mohammed Sagar and years of reports. All Howard cares about is Muhammad Faisal on Nauru. The majority getting control over all aboriginal land. Do of detainees have spent two years on you think that Bennelong was angry? Yes, Nauru, with a smaller number being held he was angry and they didn't even tell him for up to six years. As one Iraqi refugee that they were going to take all the land told the authors: Two years? It was 2,000 and then in the year of 1967, well the years. Every moment was like a year. Australian people voted to make him a Financial Cost: citizen in his own land. Aboriginal people get shuffled to the bottom of the deck all Offshore processing in Nauru, Manus the time. Why can't there be an Aboriginal Island and Christmas Island has amounted statue by an Aboriginal sculptor near to at least $1 billion since 2001. By Bennelong Point, say in Elizabeth Bay comparison, the latest estimates from Park which is being re-developed right DIAC suggest that to process 1,700 asylum now? seekers for 90 days each at Villawood detention centre in Sydney would have I saw books for sale at auctions that tell a cost around $35 million - around 3.5 per different history to the one taught to me at cent of the cost of processing them school. Why can't these early books be in a offshore. whole library in every school? They tell about the way the land was taken and the severe and horrible way that Aboriginal people were treated. Unless people know the truth about Terra Nullius and the settlement of this continent by modern man, they will never change their stereo-

7 typed views. This early history needs to be to the next generation, to fight for our basic available to Aboriginal people and rights to have our true history told, to have Australians generally so that we can fit into a free-standing museum, with real history this urban society and feel good about our books and artworks that has a lot of history. I had a dream that I did not have to Aboriginal curators, Aboriginal sell my paintings so cheap to collectors, to storytellers, Aboriginal dancers and gallery owners, to the white boss. Aboriginal security guards, and a whole lot of trainees coming through graduating JUDGEMENT BY HIS PEERS is "The from our programs, a job for every Real Australian Story". I painted this in Aboriginal that wants a job. 1978 while serving a life sentence in prison. I believe I would not have been If the Iraq War never happened well think sentenced at all, had I been judged by an how much money could have been put Aboriginal jury. In British law each man is into supporting the arts in this country. judged by his "peers". When I asked to have one or more Aboriginal people on the If I am successful and sell JUDGEMENT jury well one lawyer said, I wasn't black BY HIS PEERS then I will create an enough to be black, and another lawyer Artists & Writers Retreat out of my home said, I wasn't white enough to be white. and large shed on 10 acres on Magnetic This was so disrespectful to my family, Island, Qld. Artists and writers need especially to my 2 Aboriginal support so it will not just be for Aboriginal Grandmothers. So now when someone people, so it will be multi-cultural. says to me, "You don't look white, or you don't look black", I just say "are you I hope it will be a place where Aboriginal calling me a half a WOG, are you??" people can have a lot of jobs and be able to JUDGEMENT BY HIS PEERS, oil on exchange ideas and techniques. Where we canvas, painted in year 1978 is for sale can have a bush boxing ring, and families now on my Web Site. I had a dream to are welcome. Magnetic Island is the next keep my best paintings, then somehow I island to Palm Island. Some of my couldn't stand to sell other Black Fella’s paintings are about Redfern, a link from paintings cheaply in my gallery and I tried the country to the city. Redfern is a to keep the best of their work and it turned stepping-stone for THE DREAMING into Black Fella's Dreaming Museum. The MAN, about an Aboriginal man that comes name is Black Fella's Dreaming = one to Redfern "the big Smoke" from the bush Black fella, me. It was my dream. to look for a job. He is surprised that Redfern is not as nice as the place he is Well my gallery and my museum was a from and there are no jobs, no money to financial failure. get back home. His chances of being stranded, on alcohol, drugs or the police is So now I am selling the great. He dreams of London or New York. most precious artwork of my But most of all he dreams of home. He is museum: JUDGEMENT BY stuck and cannot get anywhere. HIS PEERS. In 1995, the Minister of Aboriginal Well that is me, a self-portrait except now I Affairs, Robert Tickner have been invited to exhibit my paintings called JUDGEMENT BY in Paris in Sept - and in Dubai in Oct.of HIS PEERS, a national icon this year, 2007.

I have this in writing. I need a studio, a I paint about Aboriginal history and the place to paint, I need to pass on my dreams black/white relationship. What causes

8 Aboriginal Deaths in Custody? Why are change and was very clever like a the jails full of Aboriginal men and cleverfoot. These emus carried messages women? Why are Aboriginal people so and warnings. Gadachi Men are very wise angry? Some jails are more than 50% and cover their tracks. They wear emu Aboriginal, yet Aboriginals are only 1 or feathers on their feet. The male emu sits on 2% of the population. the eggs and then raises the young while Through my paintbrush, I can tell stories. the female goes off to breed again. In times Titles like: of drought they drop their eggs and do not hatch them. The poisoning of the waterholes of Australia The emu has been pushed back away from where the urban centres are just like the Living conditions Aboriginal people. The emus had to live and survive with the invader. ...I just don't It's a white man's world paint dots and I don't feel comfortable with Eveleigh st I, II, III it. My paintings are urban or contemporary as they tell the true stories what is The gender of god happening and what I remember about the past. As an Aboriginal artist, I feel a The death of Nita Blankett responsibility to paint the truth and these paintings reflect the society I live in. Protest at old Parliament House LIVING WITH THE INVADER is an urban problem that Aboriginal people had The black bastards are coming to deal with and cope with. LIVING WITH THE INVADER is now, living with A toast to the federation 2000 turning on the news and listening to our Prime Minister invading our Aboriginal The successful taking of the land by Queen communities. Every time I listen to the Elizabeth & prime minister Howard news I feel like re-writing this speech. where the wildflowers once grew LIVING WITH THE INVADER is something that all of Australia needs to Here comes the judge come to grips with. We still have a long way to go. Urban Aboriginal Artists are at Aboriginal fairies for Aboriginal kids the forefront to expose the continuing plan to usurp our culture, to take our land. So Summer dreaming hopefully through our art then our stories and our voices will be heard. Thank you The 2 paintings of mine at the Bejing for inviting me and listening to me. Olympics are titled Terror nullius & Invasion day IHEU NEWS I paint portraits of the Emu. The Emu is very special to Aboriginal people. I found This is a monthly update of news from Bill Harney, an Aboriginal author and International Humanist and Ethical storyteller in Katharine, Northern Territory Union (IHEU). You can find the full and he told me about other names versions of these news on the IHEU Aboriginal people call Emus. One was website. featherfoot and I also remember my Grandmother's stories about the IHEU appeals to UN again: condemn featherfoot. It was about an emu that could calls to kill in the name of god. IHEU has

9 appealed to the United Nations Council on threats were launched against Taslima, but Human Rights, UN Secretary-General Ban fortunately she was not injured as the Ki-moon and UN High Commissioner attackers were unable to get very close to Louise Arbour to condemn calls to kill in her. The Humanist activist Dr Innaiah was the name of god injured on the face by objects thrown by the protesters: they were throwing Humanism provides alternatives for whatever they could lay their hands on, scavengers in India. IHEU member including flower bouquets, handbags and organization Social Development other items. They were even picking up Foundation (SDF) held a Humanist chairs to threaten Taslima. workshop at Ghazipur, India with the Dalit community on 15 and 16 of August 2007. Dalits, Humanism and Human Sacrifice SDF's project in Ghazipur has provided In the latest article in his series The Human education and training for over 60 girls Angle, Babu Gogineni reports from who would otherwise have been Suryapet, India on a leadership training condemned to a lifetime of demeaning camp for Dalits and alarming talk of manual scavenging. SDF's director, V B human sacrifice in rural India. In his Rawat writes: "The issues we discussed illustrated article, he brings news from the included inculcating the spirit of critical front line of the war against superstition analysis in our life, Humanism, rationalism and charlatans. and how we can use these practices in improving our life. We honoured the girls International Humanist and Ethical Union who were part of our scholarship scheme (IHEU) is the world umbrella organisation as well as learning computer skills and for humanist, ethical culture, rationalist, sewing at our centre." secularist and freethought groups. Based in London, it is an international NGO with Creationists censor blogs in Turkey. In Special Consultative Status with the UN the August 2007 International Humanist (New York, Geneva, Vienna), General News, Taner Edis wrote about creationism Consultative Status at UNICEF (New in the Islamic world and in particular York) and the Council of Europe "Harun Yahya". Now we hear that the man (Strasbourg), and it maintains operational behind the Yahya franchise has obtained a relations with UNESCO (Paris). Its legal block on Internet access to all mission is to build and represent the global Wordpress blogs from Turkey. (However, Humanist movement, to defend human a number of technical workarounds have rights and to promote humanist values been suggested.) world-wide. IHEU sponsors and runs the triennial Humanist World Congress. Taslima Nasreen attacked in Forward this message to a friend, - to sign Hyderabad, India. Bangladeshi writer-in- up for IHEU newsletters, or to read more exile Taslima Nasreen was attacked at the about these articles please visit Hyderabad Press Club today (Babu http://www.iheu.org/newsletter Gogineni reports), where she was launching the Telegu translation of her book Shodh ("Getting Even"). The A MESSAGE FROM MALCOLM attackers were members of the radical FRASER, FORMER PRIME MINISTER of political group Majlis Ittehad-ul- AUSTRALIA Muslimeen (MIM), led by three elected Relayed by Dorothy Buckland-Fuller members of the Legislative Assembly. She responded, "Come what may, I will never Dear GetUp Members, be silenced." Both missiles and obscene The situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate with more loss of lives, with

10 even more hardship to Iraqi civilians. The MEMBER NEWS serious divisions within Iraq, unleashed by Angela Drury the war itself, have not been reduced. The Iraqi government has made no significant Great Fundraiser: Thank steps towards reconciliation and you to all who have accommodation between the warring purchased “Off my parties. Shoulders”, the Vicky Potempa autobiography. This is a situation that cannot be Copies still available from controlled by military force. The troop Humanist House for $35. surge, such as it was, failed. There were A great fundraiser for the Humanist over half a million Americans in Vietnam. Society of NSW. We thank Vicky for her They failed. With only a fraction of that donation and for her fascinating story. number in Iraq it should be no surprise that continued reliance on military means is not New Members: A warm welcome to succeeding. More and more Americans are Robin Holliday, Marcus Butler, Robert coming to accept that withdrawal must Henry and Margaret McNiven, Colin take place. Senior and highly respected Lamerton, Dean Hainsworth, Peter Republican Senators are deserting Campbell, Rebecca Murray, John President Bush on this issue. Mckenna, Scott Mullins and Karl Lehman. The original objectives are almost entirely forgotten. There is no talk of Iraq Generous Donations: Sincere thanks to establishing a benign, American style these responses to our special appeal letter: democracy that will spread to the rest of Max and Meg Wallace, Fred Flatow, the Middle East. Lorraine Crane, Michael J Shegog, John Dillon, H. Grifiin, Angela Jones, Joan Our withdrawal must be carefully Vaughan-Taylor, Barry Barnett, Vincent planned, as a precipitous withdrawal in a Phelan, Alice Volans, David & Elva Blair, week or a month would add to the chaos. Lyne Harsanyi, John Wilkes, B. Beiboer, And as the Baker-Hamilton Committee Trynte Bostick, Lola Archer, Corbett & reported to Congress, all regional players, Helen Shaw, Fiona Galbraith, Mollie including Iran and Syria, must be drawn Campbell, Joy Edmonds, F. Diehl, Geoff into discussions before we leave. Stowell, Susan Molesworth, Dierk & Diplomacy now offers the only chance of a Rosemarie von Behrens, Brendan withdrawal accompanied by relative calm Kavanagh, David Jenkins, Alistair Emmett and peace. One of the things we should and non member John Goldbaum (Secular say to the Americans, quite simply, is Party). This was a magnificent response that if the United States is not prepared which raised a total of $3520 to date for to involve itself in high level diplomacy Humanist Society funds and projects. concerning Iraq and other Middle East questions, our forces will be withdrawn Farewell to Stanley Badcock. Heather before Christmas. I encourage you to London, his step daughter, writes “it is support GetUp's campaign for a change in with deepest regret that I must inform you policy. Add your voice below to the of the passing of Mr Stanley Herbert thousands who have spoken already. If Badcock on 16/5/07. he was a long enough speak, the Government has to standing member of your society and an listen. avid believer.” We have sent her a https://www.getup.org.au/campaign/OurO message of sympathy from the Society. wnPlanForIraq

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