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Pauline Hanson's One Nation Official home page.Pauline Hanson's Offical Home Page. Extracts from Pauline Hanson's book "THE TRUTH". Borbidge said that the polls showed the start of a rural revolt against John Howard while the federal Liberal bureaucracy blamed Borbidge of "not looking after his own backyard" saying that the Morgan poll showed that the Coalition was faring well in all states except for Queensland.
Howard took the opportunity to dismiss the opinion polls showing that disillusioned voters were flocking to Ms Hanson's One Nation party - sending the government to its lowest level since the March 1996 election.
Howard compared One Nation to the Joh for Canberra push saying, "I can remember the Joh for PM campaign got to 25% in one poll.
"It (Joh for Canberra push) certainly did the coalition a lot of damage but the point I am making is now people look back with embarrassment... saying for heaven's sake, how did that occur?"
In the first survey on One Nation since the April 11th launch the party polled 25% of first preference votes, more than the Australian Democrats - who have been a political force for 20 years and enough for One Nation to win two Senate seats in a double dissolution election.
Howard claimed that Ms Hanson's support would collapse before the next election but Borbidge countered with, "The writings on the wall... the litmus test will be an appropriate response to Wik.
"The polls are showing that people are walking and you ignore trends in the polls at great personal danger.
"Anybody who is having their property taken from them by judicial theft of the High Court and without an adequate response from the democratically elected government of the day would feel very angry."
Ms Hanson said yesterday that she did not rule out blocking Supply if One Nation won the balance of power.
"If you think I'm dead and gone, I think you better have another look. I'm here and I'm here to stay."
Ms Hanson claimed the true level of support for One Nation was closer to 40-50%.
"There are a lot of people out there who never realised the support that I was getting and this has been coming through since I won the seat.
"The polls last week were at 4%, yesterday at 10% and today at 25%."
The leader of the opposition Labor man Kim Beazley said that the poll result was "believable and troubling".
Beazley said, "I am no prophet, but I would take them seriously and I do take them seriously," he said.
Director of the polling group AMR, Dr Don Porritt said, "There's potential for them (One Nation) to carve out a niche position that could be a lot bigger than many of us would like.
"It is very likely that under the stress of establishing a real organisation base and picking candidates that the whole thing could fall apart because the people backing her are very prone to fighting each other."
Alleged Australian paedophile Philip Bell lost his appaeal against extradition in South Africa and has now said that he will take his case to the Supreme Court in Bloemfontein - South Africa's highest law court.
The decision by the big Australian, BHP, on Monday to close down its steel operations in Newcastle by 1999 at the loss of 2,500 jobs has sent shivers through all parts of the Australian system - from the Prime Minister to the blue collar worker.
The reason? The operation will be moved into Asia where labor gets paid about 75 cents an hour "to make BHP more competitive". BHP share prices have risen nearly a dollar to Au$18.08 since the announcement - so obviously someone's onto a winner even if it isn't your average Aussie.
Political:
Prime Minister John Howard yesterday flagged big changes to the Australian Public Service saying on a Melbourne radio station, "We don't have any targets for a particular size of public service.
"We take decisions, some of them which involve redundancies, some involving outsourcing. We are making a dramatic change to the job placement activities of the Commonwealth.
"We're forming a business enterprise to be owned by the Commonwealth to compete with private employment agencies to find people jobs, to replace the Commonwelath Employment Service.
"But as for some kind of target of "X" thousand public servants, no."
"Built upon Thirteen Techniques for Truth Suppression by David Martin, the following may be useful to the initiate in the
world of dealing with truth, lies, and suppression of truth when serious crimes are studied in public forums. Where the crime
involves a conspiracy, or a conspiracy to cover up the crime, there will invariably be a disinformation campaign launched
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Subject: Launch of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party
Thank you for including our photo and comments. We are thrilled pink and
so excited about the prospect of changing the course of this nation. I now
see there is a good chance to hand this country on to our two children in
roughly the same state it was in when our parents handed it to us.
The socialist Fabian trained media and politicians are in for a shock. We
are waiting for our branch kit to arrive so we can start here in
Maryborough.
I hate to tell you but what you said about Tony writing John Howard's
Fightback package is wrong. He was in the Liberals in the 70s and 80s but
has long given them up as a lost cause. You were probably getting mixed up
with him being the editor of the Fight newspaper. He has since changed it
to In the National Interest, and all told has distributed 1.7 million
copies.
It started as a way of telling everyone the real story behind stopping the
logging on Fraser Is. The local media would not print our side of the
story so Tony did what he thought was a one issue paper, but it has grown
like Topsy.
He gave up his successful second hand business to cope with the response to
the paper and to try to educate the people as to what was really going on.
The mainstream media was only telling the people what they wanted them to
know and it wasn't right.
If you have the opportunity to change the webpage it would be good, but it
isn't all that important. Actually Tony was against the Fightback package
and the GST because it was just another tax and we really need to reduce
taxation and the bureaucracy needed to collect it. He is in favour of one
federal, one state and one local government tax and all the rest including
permits, fees, licences etc should be phased out and the people put to
doing productive work instead of shuffling papers.
Did you know that Queenslanders gave $100 M to the state government in
95/96 in the form of dividends from the electricity industry. This is
public information and is available from the annual report of the QTSC and
electricity distribution corporations. The people don't realise just how
much tax they are paying. I believe it is around 68% of their income
(that's the middle income earners). No wonder our standard of living has
gone from one of the best to 23rd.
If you would like a copy of Tony's papers and a video he has made about our
economy, our defence and our laws, let me know.
Again thanks for the mention on the webpage.
Best regards
The West Australian:
The inside page of the West Australian rag today:"Hundreds Rally Against
One Nation Bid", claims that threats of civil war have been made by the
'fascists' who support One Nation.
All such threats I have seen on the net are coming from the parasites that
can see the public teat being removed from their maws, not the 'fascists';
they are the ones paying!
Anyway, if it did come to civil war, the chattering class would come of
second best as it voted to surrender its guns; the poor trusting fools - in
the face of all the evidence - still believe that human nature has been
changed by their chattering.
Ormond
Subject: Sad
I think that it is sad that decent folk can fall for someone like
Pauline Hanson.
Does she know, or do you know, what it's like to be taken from your
parents as a young child never to see them again? Or what it's like to
live in a community with no electricity or no running water? Or what
it's like to be refused service because of your skin colour?
So, what if Aboriginal people were cannibals? What has that got to do
with her One Nation party, or politics today?
Do you know how much unemployment it will cause if ATSIC were abolished?
Why does she want to strip Aboriginal people of land rights? It is
THEIR land!
What does she know about industry and financial matters?
God help you and the country mate, because Pauline Hanson won't.
Roger Campion
Have a good one...
Interesting Internet sites:
Distorting the truth:
Chomsky: I wouldn't say it's typically American, but it's somewhat more striking than in other comparable countries which happen to be a bit more tolerant. This is a business-run society. Business is highly class-conscious; they're fighting a vicious class war, and they know it,
and they want to keep people basically demoralized, and separated and atomized.
Pat PittPersonal trivia, from the global office:
Another perfect day in paradise.
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