john pilger.

Contends that Australia has collaborated with Guantanamo more closely than any other western government and is guilty of human rights abuses of its own. Australia's myth of an egalitarian society; Issues of colonialism and racism; Significance of "Australia Day," which celebrates the dispossession of the Aboriginal people by the British in 1770; Efforts of Australia's attorney general, Philip Ruddock, to stop Mamdouh Habib from speaking publicly about his suffering at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Details of the tortures Habib endured while imprisoned by the U.S.; Thoughts on media coverage in Australia; View that many Australian journalists remain silent; Detention of prisoners in Australia under Prime Minister John Howard and Ruddock.