For those "Australians" who want to financially support our enemy....
Para f, sub (i) and sub (ii) got things covered, but would our current left winged federal government do anything??
Australia
Section 80.1 of the Criminal Code, contained in the schedule of the Criminal Code Act 1995, defines treason as follows:
"A person commits an offence, called treason, if the person:
(a) causes the death of the Sovereign, the heir apparent of the Sovereign, the consort of the Sovereign, the Governor-General or the Prime Minister; or
(b) causes harm to the Sovereign, the Governor-General or the Prime Minister resulting in the death of the Sovereign, the Governor-General or the Prime Minister; or
(c) causes harm to the Sovereign, the Governor-General or the Prime Minister, or imprisons or restrains the Sovereign, the Governor-General or the Prime Minister; or
(d) levies war, or does any act preparatory to levying war, against the Commonwealth; or
(e) engages in conduct that assists by any means whatever, with intent to assist, an enemy:
(i) at war with the Commonwealth, whether or not the existence of a state of war has been declared; and
(ii) specified by Proclamation made for the purpose of this paragraph to be an enemy at war with the Commonwealth; or
(f) engages in conduct that assists by any means whatever, with intent to assist:
(i) another country; or
(ii) an organisation;
that is engaged in armed hostilities against the Australian Defence Force; or
(g) instigates a person who is not an Australian citizen to make an armed invasion of the Commonwealth or a Territory of the Commonwealth; or
(h) forms an intention to do any act referred to in a preceding paragraph and manifests that intention by an overt act."
A person is not guilty of treason under paragraphs (e), (f) or (h) if their assistance or intended assistance is purely humanitarian in nature.
The maximum penalty for treason is life imprisonment.
This here is causing a bit of a stir http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/australia-offers-25m-to-taliban-peace-fund/story-e6frfku0-1225824535126
Australia offers $25m to Taliban peace fund
From correspondents in London From: AAP January 29, 2010 6:03AM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Share Add to Digg Add to del.icio.us Add to Facebook Add to Kwoff Add to Myspace Add to Newsvine What are these? AUSTRALIA is among the first countries to donate towards a new fund designed to encourage the Taliban to lay down their guns in Afghanistan, pledging $25 million.
Plans for the $US500 million ($560 million) reintegration and peace fund were unveiled as world leaders and foreign ministers from 70 countries attended a one-day conference on Afghanistan's future in London.
Foreign Minister Stephen Smith pledged $25 million as part of an extra $100 million Australia will pour into a range of Afghan projects from mine clearing to reconstruction.
Australia's donation to the fund was part of $US140 million ($157 million) worth of pledges made at the conference, which also agreed Afghanistan should take more control of its own security from the end of 2010.
The fund was set up by the Afghan government, which hopes to attract $US500 million worth of donations so it can offer money and jobs to entice moderate Taliban members to stop fighting Allied troops in the war-torn country and rejoin mainstream society.
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Conference delegates, including Mr Smith, have demanded they play a part in ensuring the fund is subject to strict financial rules so it is not mismanaged.
Mr Smith denied the fund was designed to effectively bribe the Taliban into giving up their guns.
"It's not about buying them off," he said. "It's about showing to the people of Afghanistan that there is a qualitative difference between a hard-core international terrorist associated with al-Qaeda and a person who wants to partake in Afghanistan society fully ... who eschews violence and who wants to get on with making a better country and a better life for his family.
"We know there are very many people who fight with and support the Taliban who are not international global terrorists, who are not involved in a global jihad but they see no other role for themselves.
"That's why they need to be provided with employment opportunities, they need to be provided with a long-term secure future, they need to be provided with the health and education services that a nation state can provide."
On top of the $25 million donation, Australia will tip another $50 million into the existing Afghanistan reconstruction trust fund and provide $20 million for mine clearance programs.
It will also give $4 million to Asia Foundation programs to support the Afghan Ministry of Agriculture and $1 million to the Afghan Human Rights Commission for projects in Oruzgan province.
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Section 24AA of the Crimes Act 1914 creates the related offence of treachery.
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Now go here.... http://au.messages.yahoo.com/news/politics/683358/ and read what Australians haev to say about it...
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- here's the GoogleEnglish translation from Arabic:
