AUSTRALIA Part 2

AUSTRALIA Part 2

1949-59 – Operation MOLE in Australia. Charles Spry was head of ASIO in 1959. Spry was made head of ASIO on its formation in 1949. He had previously been director of military intelligence. He lobbied for an intelligence  gathering agency similar to M15. Defection of the Petrov’s who worked in the cipher section of the Russian embassy in Canberra. Russia broke off diplomatic relations and placed their embassy under Switzerland.

1963 – Charles Bateson. Gold fleet for California 49ers from Australia and New Zealand. Sydney Ure Smith.

1972 – Phyllis Mander Jones ed. Manuscripts in the British isles relating to Australia and New Zealand. Australian national university.

27 January 1980- Frank Nugan was found dead, in his locked car by the side of the road outside Sydney. He had been shot in the head with a rifle. The Nugan Hand bank collapsed within six months. Michael John Hand disappeared. (Who really runs the world ©2005. T Burnett A Games).

1981 – The first fleeters. Sydney Australian document library. PG Fidlon and RJ Ryan eds.

1981 – Genealogical research directory. Library of Australian history 1981-95 Keith A Johnson and Malcolm R Sainty eds.

1985 – Dom Meadley. Writing a family history. Australian institute of genealogical studies Victoria.

1985 – How to write and publish your family history. Joanna Beaumont. Orlando Sydney.

1986 – Bridging the generation gap. Heraldry  and genealogy society Canberra.

1987 – Bound for Australia. D Hawkins. Chichester Phillimore.

1988 – At a  mosque in north Melbourne, Sheikh Mohammed Omran headed the Ahlus Sunnah wal jamaah association, one of the most extreme Islamist groups in Australia. His visitor was Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir future head of the terrorist group Jamaah Islamisah. Australia’s branch of JI. Omran, a Jordanian born migrant to Australia. whose friends included Abu Qatada who he hosted in 1994. Omran acted as a conduit for Bashir and his followers in Australia. (report 18 November 2006).

1988 – The founders of Australia. A biographical dictionary of the first fleet. M Gillen. Sydney. Library of Australian history.

1993 – National register of shipping arrivals. Australia and New Zealand AFF HO Andrew Pearce ed.

1995 – Australian secret intelligence service ASIS also known as M)9 successor agency to the Australian secret intelligence organisation ASIO. Defence signals directorate DSD communications intelligence. (Espionage ©1995 E Volkman).

1995 – Money laundering. A report of the Australian financial intelligence unit Austrac said that 3.5 billion $A were recycled through Australia each year. As little as 1% of this laundered money was seized by the police.

Late 1990’s – Several al-Qaeda fund raising support cells were set up in Sydney Melbourne Adelaide. There was also a significant JI presence in Australia.

11 June 1995 – The men who exposed sex trafficking in Australia. Natalie Craig. Sydney Morning Herald.

2004 – Australia’s first convicted terrorist was British born Muslim Jack Roche. He used his contacts in JI to connect with al-Qaeda. Prosecutors said he went to Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda officials got him to form a terrorist cell in Australia and carry out the bombing of a Canberra synagogue. The trial said that Ba’aysin was the groups leader. The structure of JI in south east Asia. (Simon Jeffrey  9 Sept 2004 The Guardian UK).

5 August 2006 – Jihadis to target Australia. Natalie O’Brien and Stephen Fitzpatrick. The Australian news. Islamic Jihadis Eka Jaya an Indonesian 31 years old who was registered to fight against Israel.

25 August 2006 – Boilivarian book club pro-Chavez Venezuela Marxists. Hasta la Victoria street bookshop 360 Victoria street North Melbourne ph(03) 9326 4280 Australia.

19 September 2006 – Are the wharves the weakest link? Australian maritime security. The Age article.

30 September 2006 – 4^th Latin America solidarity conference in support of Venezuela’s Chavez and Cuba’s Castro, held in Sydney. Attending was Commandante William Izarra former vice minister of foreign affairs in the Chavez regime.

9 October 2006 – Poison in cooking powder, a substance was identified after tests and five people were sent to hospital after adding the powder to their food.

1 November 2006 – Food tampering, fruit and vegetables were recalled in Melbourne’s Safeway scare.

7 November 2006 – The FBI opened an office in Sydney. Thomas Fuentes special agent in charge of international operations at a press conference. (The Australian AAP news.com.au).

23 January 2007 – Nine terrorist suspects in Sydney conspiring to make explosives for a terrorist attack. (13 November 2006 AAP The Age Melbourne NSW Terror suspects case adjourned).

7 June 2006 – Paul Richard Anthony Slack. Director of football for Christchurch NZ based Mainland soccer. He left his job in May 2006 and went to Australia. He was under investigation as part of an international child pornography sting in 2005. He was wanted on child porn charges. He was picked up during Operation Falcon, a US Department of homeland security investigation into child porn. Operation Falcon sparked Operation Tercel in New Zealand. Slack left New Zealand for Brisbane on 7 June 2006. After being made aware he was under investigation. He has not returned to NZ. Manchester born Slack holds British, Canadian and NZ passports. Slack was living on the Gold coast. (NZPA John Henzell Christchurch Press 9 February 2007).

14 April 2007 – Jihadists praised by cleric Richard Kerbaj. Weekend Australian Canberra ACT p2.

23 April 2007 – Australia Islam prisons The Daily Telegraph Surry hill NSW article by Kate Sikora about Bassam Hamzy and Ron Woodham.

11 November 2011 – US marines to be stationed at Australian base Darwin. Sydney Morning Herald.

16 November 2011 Human trafficking in western Sydney by Callan Lawrence Penrith city star. Asian women.

17 November 2011 – US troop deployments digging into data CNN Ally Barnard.

23 November 2011 – Public comment sought on slavery laws. Crime of sex slavery and trafficking. ABC Melbourne.

1 December 2011 – Australia urged to work with Asia to combat trafficking. UN ABC radio.

1 December 2011 – The Age.com.au Victoria. UN official urges human trafficking unbit. Maris Beck Victoria police.

3 December 2011 – Corruption fight stuck in vacume under office of police integrity. The Australian national affairs. John Ferguson Victorian police editor.

4 December 2011 – UN calls on Australia to better assist victims of human trafficking. Many are children. Child trafficking news.

5 December 2011 – Scoop New Zealand. Australian trafficking focuses of needs of victims UN press release human rights office Geneva Canberra.

6 December 2011 – Sydney Morning Herlad. Australia adopts more sanctions on Iran. AFP.

9 October 2012 – VOA Sex trafficking thriving in Australia.

9 November 2012 – IOC news. Nurse held for drug smuggling freed. Kuala Lumpur Australian nurse Malaysian court.

11 November 2012 – ABC news Australian Paul Freeman held in Bulgarian prison. Article by Thea Lowie.

12 November 2012 – ABC news. Google to pay damages over underworld link $200,000 damages. Melbourne underworld shooting unsolved in 2004.

21 November 2012 – AFP busts $237m international drug ring. ABC A Canadian and an American yahoo 7 news.

22 November 2012 – Canadians arrested   in Sydney. The Mirror UK by Natalie Evans. Smugglers steamroller haul of drugs worth 154 million pounds, found stashed inside machinery in Australia. Cocaine shipped from China.

22 November 2012 – Herald Sun. European ATM skimming machine your credit cards worst enemy in Australia crime first by David Murray.

24 November 2012 – Wall street journal Australia targets China’s rich with millionaire visa by David Rogers. If you have $5 million to invest Australia accepts applications.

 December 2012 – Sydney Morning  Herald. Richard Baker. Australian Catholic church uses smokescreen to hide paedophiles. Safe world for women  Katerva.

7 December 2012 – AM Australia Tony Eastley. Sugar cane farmer seeks recognition for buried slaves. The Queensland sugar industry was built on slavery.