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Australia was prepared to take refugees from the Falklands during 1982 conflict
Australia’s Malcolm Fraser Government considered taking British refugees from the Falkland Islands at the height of the South Atlantic conflict in 1982, reports the Sydney press based on the release of National Archives. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesLong Live Donald Eastman
Jan 02nd, 2012 - 09:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Long Live Scotland -- Long Live Republic
This is NOT the UK racking up the political pressure on Argentina and actively raising tensions over the Falklands.
Jan 02nd, 2012 - 09:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0The revelations are simply the release of the 30 year documents into the public domain. This is the law in the UK.
The 1982 war was exactly 30 years ago so previously unseen documents from that year find their way to the media exactly now, at the start of the year 2012.
Yes, Alexx. Long live Scotland. And,
Jan 02nd, 2012 - 10:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0England & Wales & lreland & France & Scandinavia & ltaly & Greece & lndia & Russia etc etc etc & Everyone else in the world.
What are you trying to say, my good fellow?
@2 it's also the law in Australia which is where this info came from...
Jan 02nd, 2012 - 11:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0long live longshanks
Jan 02nd, 2012 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0sod offy
are these national archives consist of Malcolm Fraser talks with US
Jan 02nd, 2012 - 07:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0president Gerald Ford after conferring with David Rockefeller......??
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Jan 02nd, 2012 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good job Australia. Although being displaced from your home is a terrible thing, I'm glad to know that a lovely country such as Australia was willing to accept newcomers. Long live the commonwealth!
Jan 02nd, 2012 - 08:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 6 well that could be true... but what about this, geo?
Jan 02nd, 2012 - 08:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-ST-A5-1-63.aspx
and this
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-ST-A5-1-63.aspx
What can you tell us about that?
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Jan 02nd, 2012 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0almost every country politicians have always been eager taking photos at US with US President for global media.....
BUT
Malcolm Fraser's reasons were very different......!!
Same old ...
Jan 03rd, 2012 - 03:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://falklandsnews.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/argentina-claims-the-falklands-again/
a penal colony will never forget what the mother nation did to them nor will they forget their brothers being used as ponds in a war. most nations support the repatriation of their civilians only UK strips them of thier birth rights or even their human rights, the illegal aliens in Islas Malvinas Argentina should go home home or get documented as everyone else in the planet does.
Jan 03rd, 2012 - 03:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0most nations support the repatriation of their civilians
Jan 03rd, 2012 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0tell that to the thousands of criminals in our prisons, and to their ouwn countries who dont want them back,
[ Argentina should go home home or get documented as everyone else in the planet does.][]][
yes they should, but say sorry for the slaughter of the originals population first .
@12 “ponds” What does that mean?
Jan 05th, 2012 - 01:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“UK strips them of thier birth rights or even their human rights”. Once you are in someone else's country, you have no birth rights. And there are no such things as “human rights”.
Yep, the illegal aliens (descendents of imperialist colonialists) in argentina should go home to Spain or Italy or get documented by a proper nation.
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