http://www.thepunch.com.au/tags/uighurs/ Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/china-exports-censorship-to-an-australian-film-festival/ Superficially, it’s an arthouse issue that affects a small number of culture vultures and cineastes who won’t see a movie unless it’s got subtitles. It’s actually one of the most compelling and alarming stories in Australia today, as it shows how the most pernicious features of a totalitarian regime have been imported into our own country. And we should all be rallying behind its victim, the Melbourne Film Festival, as it tries to defend freedom of expression and assembly in the face of intimidation on behalf of the Chinese dictatorship. The Punch spoke last night with the director of the festival, Richard Moore, who is trying to manage this event against a backdrop of website hacking, telephone sabotage, suspected surveillance and direct threats, all from supporters of Beijing who want the festival to pull one of its movies and cancel the Melbourne visit by the woman it profiles. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/china-exports-censorship-to-an-australian-film-festival/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/china-exports-censorship-to-an-australian-film-festival/#item798 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 The Uyghurs need a good spin doctor.  These forgotten people of northwest China are the Tibetans the world doesn’t care about. It might be because they’re Muslims. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/at-last-a-voice-for-the-latest-victims-of-chinese-brutality/ The Uyghurs need a good spin doctor.  These forgotten people of northwest China are the Tibetans the world doesn’t care about. It might be because they’re Muslims. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/at-last-a-voice-for-the-latest-victims-of-chinese-brutality/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/at-last-a-voice-for-the-latest-victims-of-chinese-brutality/#item765 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 The Uyghurs need a good spin doctor.  These forgotten people of northwest China are the Tibetans the world doesn’t care about. It might be because they’re Muslims. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/haneef-lawyer-let-guantanamo-inmates-come-to-australia/ Like Peter denying Jesus after the arrest, as dawn was breaking and the cock was getting ready to crow, Australia is given a third chance to acknowledge its inconvenient associations. Will we, like Peter, deny any association with or responsibility with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the detainees in Guantanamo? We probably will. We denied our own citizens in Guantanamo until the opinion polls started to turn dirty. Australia, through the support of the Howard government for the actions of the Bush Administration’s war on terror, has as much responsibility for the Uighurs, who were found to have been wrongly detained, as does the US and the Bush Administration. We should accept the Uighurs as refugees and permanent residents. If they are returned to China, they face certain persecution and, possibly, death. To do otherwise would display a flaw in our national character. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Tory Shepherd) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/haneef-lawyer-let-guantanamo-inmates-come-to-australia/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/haneef-lawyer-let-guantanamo-inmates-come-to-australia/#item185 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:28 +0000 The Uyghurs need a good spin doctor.  These forgotten people of northwest China are the Tibetans the world doesn’t care about. It might be because they’re Muslims.