The Bilderberg Council--annual meetings of the high priests of globalisation
"Its 120 members are some of the most powerful people on the global stage. It meets amid unparalleled secrecy to discuss the future of the world." --Punch, May 1998
[Since 1954,] an elite group of the West's most powerful men and women, a shadow world government, have met in secret. Tony Blair is in the club. Every US president since Ike Eisenhower has been too. So are top members of the British Government. So are the people who control what you watch and read - the media barons. Which is why you may never have heard of Bilderberg. --Big Issue leak, 1999

Bilderberg Meetings 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999. Earlier reports and articles.

The End of Imagination
The brilliant 1996 essay by Indian authoress Arundhati Roy
"If there is a nuclear war, our foe will not be China or America or even each other. Our foe will be the earth herself. The very elements--the sky, the air, the land, the wind and water--will all turn against us."

Official explanation of Port Arthur massacre left questions unanswered
The late Joe Vialls queried the ability of untrained Martin Bryant to carry out the massacre with the extraordinary level of skill exhibited. Out of the 20 fatalities in the Broad Arrow Cafe on Sunday, 28 April, 1996, 19 died from the effects of a shot to the head, fired from the gunman's right hip without benefit of a laser sight. [Joe Vialls died in Perth in July 2005 but his website remains online.]
References: Joe Vialls, Joe's interview with Martin's mother, Carleen Bryant.

Police impunity in fatal consequence of "lack of care"
Refusal of 17 Western Australian police officers to testify at the inquest into the 1988 lock-up death of Stephen Wardle raised the question of whether this death was an "extra-legal, arbitrary and summary execution". The victim's parents agitated loud and long for justice--and were themselves targeted for police retaliation.
References: Reports by Amnesty International and journalist Liam Bartlett

In February 2003, following 15 years of public anxiety and representations to successive State governments, the matter was examined by a royal commission, during which one of the 17 police officers, Sgt Lucas, tendered an apology to Stephen Wardle's parents--which they accepted (7.30 Report). The commission's relevant transcript (10 Feb 02) shows the apology on page 34 of the published PDF. Surrounding transcripts are available here.

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