FC: Australian tax $$$ at work: Gov't funds "prison break" videogame

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: "Nathan Cochrane" <ncochrane () theage fairfax com au>
To: "Declan McCullagh \(E-mail\)" <declan () well com>
Subject: Prison break game gets $25,000 in funding from Australian government
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:39:57 +1000

Hi Declan

This is too good to miss.

Escape game wires the minister
By Sean Nicholls
April 30 2003
It's a dose of virtual reality that the Immigration Minister could probably
do without: a computer game in which players try to escape from Australian
detention centres has received $25,000 in federal funding.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/29/1051381951157.html

The policy of mandatory incarceration of refugees has divided Australians,
and led to violent protests equalled only by the anti-Iraq invasion
protests. Refugees are locked up in desert high security prison camps, or
fired upon by Australian military vessels on the open seas. Their crime is
coming to Australia to seek a better life.

Immigration issues page at The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/issues/immigration/

Children Overboard
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/03/13/1015909869446.html

Photo file of January Woomera protests
http://www.theage.com.au/photogallery/2003/01/03/1041196778197.html


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Nathan Cochrane
Deputy IT Editor
:Next:
The Age and Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.next.theage.com.au



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