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GLOBAL NEWS CIA ADVERTISING FOR SPIES? Thursday, the object was too far south to be | Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. visible from anywhere in the northern | The Commonwealth says the article Most Nexus readers have likely already emisphere. Astronomers at the European | breached legislation allowing prosecution | spotted ASIO advertising for spies in the Southern Observatory in Chile tried to get | for contempt of the commission. local papers. Well it seems as though the ictures of it shortly after its closest (Source: Courier Mail, 5th Dec. '91) | CIA also advertises for spies in the local approach in order to get more precise data media. on its exact path and to make further mea- WHO CAN YOU TRUST? The collapse of the Iron Curtain and the surements of its brightness variations. A new book out on Walt Disney, claims | lack of a Cold War has made it difficult for But as of yesterday, they were unable to | that Walt was a paid informant for the FBI. | the CIA to recruit the right kind of spy find any sign of the object in their pictures. Author Marc Eliot was shattered to find | (whatever that is). Because of the difficulty of the observa- | that Disney's FBI file revealed he was a key So the agency recently began a new, up tion and the faintness of the object, | informant for J. Edgar Hoover, and that he | front advertising campaign directed to eth- astronomers Richard West and Oliver | spied on his friends and helped prepare | nic minorities and using the slogan: "The Hainaut at the observatory in the Chilean | files on sexual and political leanings. CIA. Our Business Is Knowing The Andes continued to examine their images Eliot says that Disney's politics were | World's Business". carefully yesterday. "somewhat to the right of Attila the Hun" No - it's not a joke. “T was hoping it would be natural,” said | and ran to Hoover with every bit of scandal (Source: Sunday Telegraph, 3rd Nov '91) Marsden, because that would make it a | he heard on leftist artists. ; FREEDOM OF INFORMATION very unusual type of asteroid and the It took 14 months of legal battling to smallest ever detected, and therefore inter- | obtain Disney's FBI file, and then the UNIT ABOLISHED IN NSW esting to astronomers. But because of the | courts had to order the FBI to refrain from The next best thing to abolishing an Act brightness changes seen this week, he is | blocking out sections of the file. you don't like, is to abolish the bureaucrats now “90 percent sure” that it is artificial. (Source: Sun Herald, Ist Dec '91) | who are delegated to looking after it - that If it is artificial but not any known rock- PROPOSAL TO is, if you are the NSW State Government. et, that might explain the astronomers TAX "BARTERING" The Government came under heavy crit- inability to locate it in their pictures, icism for the move from Independent MPs, Marsden joked. The Australian Taxation Office has Mr. John Hatton, Ms. Clover Moore and “Maybe that’s why they couldn’t be | issued a draft ruling which if becoming | Dr. Peter Macdonald. found last night,” he said.”Maybe they | law, will tax bartered goods and services. The FOI unit was closed in July last year landed.” Australia's economic climate has seen | (1991), leaving responsibility in the hands (Source: The Boston Globe, | several dynamic "barter" businesses | of officials within other government 7th Dec '91, page 13) | emerge, on of the most popular being | departments. These officials, however, face FREEDOM OF SPEECH - LETS (Local Employment Trading a conflict of interest if information damag- NOT IN AUSTRALIA! Scheme). ing to their departments is sought. * Others include Barter Card, and We wonder if it is because the NSW Australians did not have a guaranteed | ContraBank. Government has something to hide? right to free speech, the High Court was The Taxation Commissioner, Trevor (Source: Sydney Morning Herald, told in early December. The court was told | Boucher said that cashless trading has been 2nd July '91) that although the right of free speech was | used increasingly as a tax loophole by HUGE DEMAND FOR recognised by the courts, the Australian | struggling businesses. Constitution did not guarantee it. Until now, because there was no money AUT ar nes OV EgeAS! Mr David Jackson, for the | exchanged in a barter agreement, the busi- . Commonwealth Government, told the | nesses could avoid paying tax, but the tax At a time when some Aussie farmers are court the Government had the power to | department says that the barter agreement | having it tough, others can't supply the restrict expression to protect itself. was still a commercial transaction where a | market fast enough. Mr Jackson was representing the | "profit" was made, even if no money was Chemical free meat, grains, fruit and Commonwealth in a case which could | transferred. veges are more in demand that supply can determine whether the Australian The transfer of goods to another compa- | cater too, and that is just in Australia. The Constitution guarantees free speech. ny would be seen as an increase in income, | biggest market demand is from overseas The case arose following the 1989 publi- | which was taxable, Mr Boucher said. markets. cation in The Australian of an article by the (Source: Daily Telegraph Mirror, Take for example Mr David Williams, a late Max Newton criticising the then Sth Sept '91) | biodynamic farmer near Gunnedah. Last No - it's not a joke. (Source: Sunday Telegraph, 3rd Nov '91) FREEDOM OF INFORMATION UNIT ABOLISHED IN NSW PROPOSAL TO TAX "BARTERING" landed.” HUGE DEMAND FOR CHEMICAL FREE FOOD IN AUSTRALIA AND OVERSEAS! David for Mr determine whether the NEXUS -7 WHO CAN YOU TRUST? FREEDOM OF SPEECH - NOT IN AUSTRALIA! At a time when some Aussie farmers are JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1992 *- YEAR BOOK