October 1995
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Pauline Hanson to run for Blair.
One Nation's leader Pauline Hanson advised yesterday that she had decided to run for the seat of Blair. Pauline made her announcement at Esk the centre of the new seat - created by a break up of her old seat "Oxley" by the Australian Electoral Commission.
A local resident of Esk, Trevor Furner, 30, believed that Pauline will get significant support saying, "My wife just loves her - thinks she's a decent politician and doesn't hide from the truth."
Labor Party state secretary Mike Kaiser said that Ms Hanson's decision to run in Blair would be a "massive problem for the Coalition.
"Blair is a 68% conservative seat and it will now be fought out between the Liberals, Nationals and Pauline Hanson," Kaiser said. Beazley had committed his party to directing preferences away from Pauline Hanson's One Nation, Kaiser said. What Kaiser overlooked is the massive number of Labor Party voters who are sick and tired of the corruption in their party - voters who will back One Nation.
Kaiser continued, "But that might not be enough to ensure the success of the Coalition candidate. John Howard is now paying the price for years of going soft on Pauline Hanson."
Liberal Party Greg Goebels claimed that Ms Hanson had deserted her seat of Oxley totally overlooking the fact that she lives in Blair and that half her old electorate is in Blair.
Australian Democrats Senator John Woodley, speaking for the party which is destined for irrelevance now that One Nation has taken Australian politics by the scruff of the neck and given it a good shake, said Ms Hanson's political future was in the hands of the Liberal and National parties who should do "the right thing" and deny her preferences.
Meanwhile the ALP's on-again, off-again pre-selection candidate for the seat of Oxley, Anne Scott, commented yesterday that Ms Hanson was a "spent force" and, "Pauline's decision to run for Blair is confirmation that she has taken no interest whatsoever in the electorate of Oxley during the last two years she has been in Parliament."
I can tell you that a number of federal lower house and upper house candidates have already been chosen to represent One Nation at the next federal election and this party is not only here to stay, but with the support of disillusioned Labor and Coalition voters is destined to take hold of this country's future.
The irony of "Clean up Australia"
Last night Ian Kiernan, the father of "Clean Up the World" - which stemmed from "Clean up Australia" started ten years ago, made a very interesting comment on Channel 9's A Current Affair last night.
"I get very depressed when I see Australia being trashed."
This morning I looked up the "Clean up Australia" web site to see who the sponsors are. The primary sponsors are Westpac - foreign owned and trashing Australia's economy and MacDonalds - again foreign owned and one of the multinationals claimed to be trashing the forests of Brazil for beef farming.
While I fully support the wonderful work that Kiernan and his massive clean up team do it is a trifle hypocritical to have sponsors who have nothing more than the interest of their public profile in mind.
A very strong comparison can be drawn to the Australian Labor Party's new recruit, Cheryl Kernot, portrayed as representing the families of middle Australia while, in reality, she is a driving force behind the divisive gay and lesbian movement.
How the mixed-blood Aborigines have hijacked the native title debate.
The book "Our Land is Our Life" is the biggest bunch of hocus-pocus that the politically correct in collusion with mixed-blood Aborigines have turfed out to date.
"The book, Our Land is Our Life, is a collection of speeches given at a conference in Canberra last August to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act and among the contributors are Lois O’Donoghue, Mick Dodson, Tracker Tilmouth, Peter Yu, Noel Pearson, Marcia Langton and the book’s editor, Galarrwuy Yunupingu.
"Included also are a series of "talking histories", which offer personal insights into the land rights struggle, archival photos and summaries of key documents such as the 1974 Aboriginal Land Rights Commission Report, the High Court's Mabo decision and a comparison of the Native Title and Northern Territory Land Rights Acts.
"Launching the book in Canberra recently, the Governor General, Sir William Deane (pictured at the launch), said its contributors all convey a heartfelt message which must be heard by all Australians."
Get the gist... wonder if they covered the issue of Mabo and tribal law... on native title. Don't have to read the book to win this bet!
This is what Governor Deane has to say:
"As this book makes clear, a just and lasting resolution of the issues involved in land rights is critical to achieving reconciliation."
"I have on many occasions, including my recent Australia Day address, been at pains to stress how important it is that we achieve a goal of genuine reconciliation by the year 2001."
Making the
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Another perfect day in paradise.
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