Hermann Wilhelm Göring:Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goering#Quotations
JOHN HOWARD: "I don't want to sound alarmist but we are living in a different world, and something like what occurred in Bali last Saturday night could happen in Australia" Mr Howard said.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/20/1034561390124.html
Days after the Bali bombing, a review of federal anti-terror laws was announced.
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/stories/s702288.htm
Over the next 24 months, the Bali bombing was used in Australia to pass over 30 pieces of anti-terror legislation. But that was just the framework…
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1496107.htm
Today, an unknown connection to a potential crime is now punishable by life imprisonment.
http://www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/Act1.nsf/0/4ED7D914ED94BAC9CA2572960010B
Lhodi was sentenced to… 15 years prison for possessing the Australian electricity grid map. Life imprisonment for seeking information on chemical prices. 15 years prison for possessing a document with information on the manufacture of poisons and incineries.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/lodhi-guilty-of-terror-plot/2006/06/19/1150569264287.html
BRAD PAGE: I don't believe it's possible to bomb the grid as such. The grid is a very extensive network of wires and generators, starting in Cairns, running right down the coast and around to Adelaide, and so the notion of bombing the grid per se, is a little hard to believe. Chief Executive of the Energy Supply Association of Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1093908.htm
Faheem Lodhi's Defence Counsel, Phillip Boulten SC: The combination of ASIO's coercive powers, the broad definition of terrorist offences, the extremely harsh conditions of custody in which terrorist suspects are held, and the running commentary of politicians and the media about the arrest, prosecution and detention of terrorist suspects are all combining to create very difficult conditions for the trials of these people.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1667048.htm
The 2005 anti terror legislation rushed through parliament to prevent Lhodi damaging Australia’s electricity supply also broadened the scope of crime by redefining terrorism. Sedition is now a form of terrorism.
http://www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/Act1.nsf/0/4ED7D914ED94BAC9CA2572960010BE
It was exposed in 2005, that secret records of citizens are kept who promote feelings of ill-will towards the government.
http://infowars.net/Pages/Feb05/150205Aussie_database.html
Former Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, argues the legislation shows up an indifference to due process and the rule of law in Australia.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1439552.htm
Ministers and the Australian Federal Police now have the power to secretly detain people for weeks on end without any charge or evidence of wrongdoing, just that the minister thinks it is necessary. http://www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/Act1.nsf/0/4ED7D914ED94BAC9CA2572960010BEF
Anyone—including family members, lawyers and the media—who reveals that the person has been detained, can be jailed for five years. Parents cannot even inform each other.
http://www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/Act1.nsf/0/4ED7D914ED94BAC9CA2572960010BE
5. AUSSIE TERROR LAWS