Australian

The unusual or moving stories that dominated the news in 1997.

January 1997 The Vendee Globe Solo Yacht Race abuses the goodwill of Australian tax payers.
February 1997 Murrandoo Yanner single handedly roles a Au$1billion mining project.
March 1997 Political correctness - a sign of a sick society and a travesty of justice in Australia.
March 1997 Papua New Guinea in revolt.
March 1997 Telstra's timed local calls.
April 1997 Kerry Packer and Four Corners.
April 1997 Launch of Pauline Hanson's One Nation party.
April 1997 A staff member at the University of Melbourne illegally hacks into Pauline Hanson's One Nation web site and gets caught red-handed.
April 1997 What's wrong with Australian Superannuation laws.
May 1997 Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation.
May 1997 Howard's ten point plan for Native Title.
May 1997 "The world according to Hanson" - an interview with the Courier Mail's Tony Koch.
May 1997 Queensland Chinese Community Voice - takes over the "rally agaisnt racism".
June 1997 Source of "extremist pro-Hanson group" letter challenged by One Nation.
July 1997 Launch of One Nation on the Gold Coast
July 1997 5 "clicks to anarchy" courtesy of the Australian Labor Party.
July 1997 Pauline Hanson visits us for dinner and drinks.
July 1997 "Making the News" - an expose on the "mainstream media".
July 1997 Tongue in cheek look at Maiden Speech of Pauline Anti-Hanson.
August 1997 Ipswich branch launch of One Nation.
August 1997 One Nation confronts Brisbane Lord Mayor Jim Soorley.
August 1997 Channel Nine's A Current Affair report results in another suicide.
August 1997 "The Ghosts of Griffith" - just who is behind the Australian Mafia?
October 1997 Prosper Australia - Brisbane - One Nation rally
October 1997 One Nation - the Day of Reckoning.
November 1997 The 1997 Australian Financial Review/Telstra Internet awards.
November 1997 Book launch - "Pauline The Hanson Phenomenon" by Helen Dodd.
December 1997 The MAI - an indepth expose on the multilateral agreement on investment.
December 1997 Subversion Noel Pearson's "race war" - an insight into reports of Aboriginal "war mongering".
December 1997 Pauline Hanson's One Nation Christmas Party - Sunday 14th December 1997.
December 1997 Freehold title subject to native title - - Wednesday 17th December 1997.
December 1997 Australia's One Nation tell porky pies - Thursday 18th December 1997.
December 1997 Wayne Goss and the shredding scandal - Thursday 25th December 1997.
December 1997 MAI links - Friday 5th December 1997.





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