Mar 06 2009
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Mar 05 2009
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The APEC wall that couldn’t keep The Chaser out cost $2m
THE steel and concrete fence that became a symbol of the 2007 Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation summit, cost an amazing $2 million to hire for seven days, documents released under Freedom of Information laws reveal. Read more at news.com.au here.
This is my first story for news.com.au. I have reported previously on the farce of the APEC excludable person’s list and a botched police attempt to blackmail an activist into spying. Read more here.
Read more about Freedom of Information laws at Peter Timmon’s excellent Open and Shut blog here. He has written a short piece about my article here.
Sep 06 2008
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The farce of the APEC excludable person’s list
In the months before the 2007 APEC forum, the NSW Government passed special legislation so police could create a list of “excludable persons”, who were considered so dangerous they would be immediately arrested if they entered Martin Place and other public areas around the Opera House during APEC Leaders’ Week.
It turns out that university activists and Greenpeace members made up a third of the secret list of 61 people. Pictured above are nine of the excluded. Read more at The Sydney Morning Herald.
This was a freedom-of-information request that came back with a useful police document.
A blog link to this story.
Other stories I’ve done about police and APEC for The Sydney Morning Herald.
August 24, 2007: Cheney protester convicted
June 18, 2007: Spy for us and we’ll drop charge
June 19, 2007: Those on APEC black list ‘know who they are’
June 21, 2007: Protesting at APEC a bad idea, activists told
June 29, 2007: Cages on wheels: APEC plan to keep the peace
