H J AMES J OHNSON

A USTRALIAN H OUSE OF R EPRESENATIVES

I NDEPENDENT C ANDIDATE FOR L ALOR

Saturday 14 August 2010

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FOI

I have written today to the Australian Electoral Commission, sending the AEC a Freedom of Information Request
for copies of documents lodged by all Australians who sought to nominate themselves either for the House of
Representatives or the (half) Senate election being held on 21 August 2010.

My FOI request is a follow up to my (unanswered) letter to the AEC of 31 July 2010 requesting an explanation
how comes, when the Lists of House of Representatives Candidates for the 2010 Federal Election was
published on the official Government website www.aec.gov.au shortly after 9 pm on Friday evening my name
was missing from the list of Candidates for the electorate of Lalor (Vic).

Burmese Days

Burma announced two days ago that its first general election for 20 years will be held in November 2010.

Burma refuses to let human rights dissidents (such as Daw Aung San Suu Kyi) stand as political candidates.

It seems the Australian Government (a Duocracy) operates just like Burma's Government (a Monocracy, a
military Junta not a cosy 2-party lawyer Junta). The Australian Government also refuses to allow human rights
dissidents (such as me) to stand as political candidates for general elections.

(Via its Australian Electoral Commission) the Australian Government has behaved just like the Burmese
Government, illegally blocking independent candidates, by enacting and operating illegal laws, laws that violate
the Australian Constitution, violate binding international human rights laws, violate divine laws and violate
natural justice (which according to UK, USA and Australia's Highest Courts is the source of all laws).

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We saw a small example of that last week in the unprecedented and extraordinary Full High Court of Australia
judgment (without reasons) handed down at midday on 6 August 2010 in Rowe & Anor v Australian Electoral
Commissioner & Anor. Such cases normally take 2 ½ years. This one was Judged in as little as 2 ½ weeks.
Curiouser and Curiouser. How and why did this case get up in such an unprecedented and extraordinary
hurry? And who were the faceless men and women that were really behind it? True patriots? Fighters for
democracy? Really? Like the reveal-all title to American (global) TV's “real” Judge, Judge Judy (Sheindlin)'s
first book “Don't pee on my leg and tell me its raining”.

It seems that in Australia, like Burma, the Government (via its Australian Electoral Commission) manipulates
voter roles, candidate nominations and even electoral boundaries (more on this third, intergenerational, scam,
later).

I suspect that, when the Australian Government complies with my Freedom of Information Request I will
discover that I am not the only Australian political activist that the Australian Government illegally refused to
allow to stand for political election this Saturday (21 August 2010). I recognise that what should be a 2 ½ week
process (see above) may be a 2 ½ year process (see above). I recognise that this FOI process may require
another unprecedented and extraordinary Full High Court judgment ordering the Australian Electoral
Commission to comply with the Australian Constitution and with Australian privacy and transparency and “first
amendment” laws.

As a top-tier commercial, government, and constitutional human rights lawyer of 20 years good standing, I am
more than up for the challenges. And I am blessed to be young enough to see my efforts and the efforts of
others bearing the fruits of our labours in 3 or 4 decades from now.

Lalor By-Election 2011

The immediate outcome for the people of the Federal Electorate of Lalor is that there will almost certainly be a
By-Election for Lalor in 2011. I recognise that this may require another unprecedented and extraordinary Full
High Court judgment declaring the 21 August 2010 ballot for Lalor as invalid and ordering the Australian
Electoral Commission to call a fresh By-Election.

By-Elections like the upcoming 2011 Lalor By-Election have been called many times during Australia's turbulent
century of unique, kangaroo democracy. Usually this is due to misconduct or mistakes by one or more of the
candidates. Rarely has a By-Election occurred because of misconduct or mistakes by the Government (its
Australian Electoral Commission).

Maybe the Rowe & Anor v Australian Electoral Commissioner & Anor judgment is sufficient grounds to require
the re-calling of a proper full general election in 2011 or 2012 under proper electoral laws and practices. We
might find out when the 7 Full High Court Judges write and publish their reasons for their majority decision last
week, which will probably be in a year or so as is the norm for the Full High Court – eg the 2004 (hearing) 2005
(judgment) in the infamous lawyers v the people case of D'Orta-Ekenaike v Victoria Legal Aid & Anor.

It will be interesting to see how many other legitimate political candidates have been illegally blocked by the
Australian Government (its Australian Electoral Commission) for the national poll on 21 August 2010. If a
pattern emerges from my FOI investigations, we may well see a series of By-Elections across this once great
nation during 2011. I will keep my supporters and followers updated on developments.

Support your (AEC authorised) Local Independent Candidates

As with my letter to Lalor Electorate of 31 July 2010, for now I urge that the Australian Government's Burmese
Ban on my nomination for the 21 August 2010 general election not be a cause for lack of morale.

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Things always have a way of working out for the best. And even the grimmest of crisis (which, by the way, this
isn't) carry the seeds for the greatest opportunities.

I encourage the people of Lalor to investigate and to support one or more of their four “AEC approved“ local
independent candidates, who appear at numbers 2, 6, 7 and 9 on the official AEC Ballot paper for Lalor:

1. (Secular Party of Australia) 2. SHAW, Brian William (Independent)

3. (Liberal) 4. (Family First)

5. (Australian Labor Party) 6. RUDD, Van (nephew of Kevin Rudd MHR)

7. AUSSIE-STONE, Marc (Independent) 8. (Australian Greens)

9. CLARKE, Joanne (Independent)

Unlike the Lab(or)-machine Lib(eral)-machine TweedleDum TweedleDee Political Parties, independent

candidates do not have millions of dollars for advertising and pork-barreling. Nor do they get paid by taxpayers
for running for office. Not even the minor parties get paid by the taxpayers for running for parliament. Pauline
Hanson's One Nation was very much a novelty in this regard. Only the TweedleDum and TweedleDee of the
Lib-Lab Duocracy (under unconstitutional Acts of Parliament that they passed and nurture) get the right
percentage of primary votes to get paid to run for election. How rather undemocratic this must seem to those in
the know.

Nor do independent candidates have lots (generations of accumulated) of paid and unpaid staffers and
followers to hand out how to vote cards at the polling booths or to sit as scrutineers and observe the counting of
each and every ballot paper (at least 3 different times) by Australian Electoral Commission full-time and co-
opted (univ student) employees.

No, all Australians are not equal under our lawyers v the people laws. And not all Australian political candidates
are equal under our lawyers (name 6 out of 200 liberal or labor politicians who are not lawyers) v the people
electoral laws and practices (including taxpayer funding for candidates).

Become a “How to Vote Card” Volunteer or a Voting Count Scrutineer for your Independent Candidate(s)

The ideal number of how to vote card handlers for a candidate is 5 people for every voting place in the
electorate for the whole of the Saturday 21 August day's voting.

Scrutineering is an ideal way to see democracy (or Australia's wonky kangaroo version of it) in action. You get
to see what goes on inside the Australian Government (Australian Electoral Commission) counting houses on
the night of the general election. Just remember to pack your own sandwiches and thermos (and don't count on
finding a kettle or microwave oven there).

So becoming a scrutineer and/or handing out how to vote cards for independent candidates is a great way to
get politically and civilly active, to meet new people who deserve respect for the civic minds and interest in
public affairs and the future of this once great country of ours – regardless of whether they support the
TweedleDee's or TweedleDum's or one of the minor parties, or are people of open and independent minds).
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All Political Candidates, independents as well as those “endorsed” (owned?) by the two major and the four
minor senate parties are forbidden by law (its a crime, actually under our untested and probably illegal election
laws) from being at or near a place where voting occurs, except one time only for the very specific and brief
purposes of lodging their own personal vote.

I can't see the constitutional, international, divine or natural justice reasons or support for this prohibition on
normal civil liberties of movement and association. But even if it is mindless (another great Australian political
tradition shared in common by the Lib(eral)-machine and the Lab(or)-machine of the past 3 decades) these
electoral laws, are applied and observed irrespective of whether they are actually legitimate or are illegal laws.

Clearly these illegal (?) laws operate as a much bigger discrimination against independent political candidates
who are under resourced and under “personned” compared to the (lab)or-machine and lib(eral) machines of our
TweedleDee TweedleDum Duocratic Government. And unlike 30 years ago, take a great big bow if you can tell
me which machine is Dee and which one is Dum these days.

Independent Candidates Deserve Respect, Fair Hearing and Fair Support

Here are the contact details for each of Lalor's 4 “AEC approved” independents. Seize the initiative and contact
one or all of them by phone and, or, by email.

I assume each independent intends to steer their voters' final preferences to the Liberal Party endorsed
(? owned?) Ms Sheridan Ingram rather than the Labor Party manufactured Chair Lady Mao Tse Mack the
Knife Macbeth. Otherwise, why would they bother standing? Ask them. If this is correct, offer to hand out their
how to vote cards and to scrutineer for them on 21 August 2010.

Remember each of these four independent candidates paid a $500 deposit (a quaint name for an illegal tax on
democracy). And each of them collected 50+ signatures from Lalor registered voters (another unconstitutional
quantitative non-price barrier to democracy) in less than 3 days after the election date was announced (more
illegal Government electoral process) in order to get Australian Government (It's Australian Electoral
Commission) to accept their nominations, under the Australian Governments unconstitutional electoral laws and
rules. So each of them (including the anti-racist campaigner sporting the full Klu Klux Klan evening dinner wear
at the Werribee Railway Station), each of them deserve respect, fair hearing and fair support from us in the
electorate. Much more than the Dees and the Dums do.

It is important to remember that a “protest vote” to the Australian Greens will end up on a two-party
preferred basis as a vote for the TweedleDums (ie incumbent Julia Gillard).

● AUSSIE-STONE, Marc Independent. Regional Tourism Developer PO Box 185 Strawberry Hill NSW 2012

● CLARKE, Joanne Independent. Lawyer Mobile: 0407088810 Email: joclark54@westnet.com.au

● RUDD, Van Visual Artist Mobile: 0430 397 074 Email: van.rudd1@gmail.com

● SHAW, Brian William Independent. Farmer P O Box 800 WERRIBEE VIC 3030 Phone (work): 03 9394 1116
Mobile: 0457 457 979 Email: election2010@elijahschallenge.net

Best wishes
JAMES JOHNSON

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