Dear Sir,

Hooray for you! I am not familiar with Australian polotics but I am a Floridian and very aware of the issues you are now addressing in your country.

As an example: in the Florida Legislature a black representative from south Florida has introduced legislation that would get rid of our State Song..."Old Folks At Home" or better known to most of the world as "Way Down Upon the Swannee River" - he claims it is a racist song.

Are you familiar with our State Song? Do you think it is racist? It is ridiculous with all the things that need changing or improving in our State that this man has nothing better to do than try and make something into an "issue."

You are right...all people in a democracy should be treated equally. We all know slavery was wrong, but like you, I never owned a slave, nor did my mother or my grandmother or my great grandmother...let's give it all a rest and try and "live and let live"

In our country the "politically correct" are paving the way to Hell. People have lost their sense of humor. We need Will Rogers and Mark Twain to come back to life and give us a good talking to!

Good luck with your efforts to bring equality to all australians...white, brown or otherwise!

As far as the Asian influx goes...they are going everywhere...but then, where can all the people go? We just have too damn many! A little birth control would be good. Of course you don't have a border! Try Mexico! In Florida we just have Cuba at our backdoor. What a beautiful island! My parents spent their honeymoon there. Why can't we all just try and get along? Seems like when one crisis is resolved then a new one pops up! Since it's not Russia for us anymore...I guess it will have to be China. Kinda scary since they are really in your neck of the woods. The sad thing is, the Chinese people are just like you and me...they want to live, raise a family, have a job etc. human beings just aren't that different...it's the governments! who invented those things?

Sorry for all the chatter but I just read your speech and it hit a nerve...I know it took courage to say them in a publlic forum. Good luck with your campaign.

By the way, I've never met an Aussie I didn't like! and I've met them all over this planet! What grand folks!

See ya,
Susan Curtis
Steinhatchee, Florida (a little coastal fishing village on the Gulf of Mexico)

Subject: Aborigines and racism

Dear Sir,

It's been a while since I last dropped you a note, but rest assured, I read this page every day. Pauline Hanson is my local member, and I have followed her rise and rise since before the last federal election.

The one thing I would like to point out is that I really cannot read hatred in anything she says or does. I think she has hit the nail right on the head, when she calls part of her opponents "the aboriginal industry". This is exactly what it is. A bunch of leftist, bleeding heart fat cat bureaucrats and lawyers, sucking off the Australian taxpayer just as hard as they can.

Aboriginal people have generally the same aspirations as the rest of us - financial security, a future for their children, and a roof over their heads. There are a number of aboriginal people who are successful in our community, and this is a credit to their hard work and persistence, in what can be at time an intolerant and prejudiced society.

By the same token, I live in Ipswich, and have had my car broken into twice by aboriginal youths. I understand one of the boys had over 200 convictions, and not a day in jail. He was 17.

I think Paulines point is that despite the expenditure of around $1billion per year for a number of years, there are still aboriginal communities without even the most basic amenities. I know from first hand experience, because in my travels, I have seen and visited communities in northern South Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory.

In South Australia, I saw opthalmia (eye disease), early death from alcoholism, petrol sniffing, and sugar diabetes. I also saw dog-shit squalor, which shocked and sickened me. In north Queensland, I saw much better living conditions, but still great social problems, such as petrol sniffing and murder, due to idleness. In the Northern Territory, I saw poverty, mosquito fever (first hand experience), open latrines and one water tap between five families.

I would have to say in all cases, the aboriginal people I have met and got to know are kind, intelligent, and friendly. But something is missing, and I think it is leadership from within the aboriginal communities - urban and rural. Also, there is no need for these people to be "economically viable", because of the handout mentality engendered by quarter of a century of the welfare state for aborigines.

Despite all the money that has been spent, the problems are as bad as they have ever been. In fact, in terms of health, employment, and self-respect, much of the aboriginal community was probably better off in the old paternalistic, bad old days of missions and "black feller wages".

So rather than trying to "shoot the messenger", more aborigines should stand up and be counted, and be part of the positive change that has to happen.

In terms of words of hate, division within the community, and offensive behaviour, I think we need look no further than some of Pauline's more vocal detractors. If you want to see violent racism, look no further than the feral gangs of aboriginal youths who have beaten up American and Singaporean soldiers visiting Australia over the past six months.

Regards
Brian White

Subject: Launch of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party

Hi,

Pauline Hanson deserves and is intitled to the support of the Australian Community. It is amazing how speaking the basic simple truth terrifies the ones who seek power and influence without the desire to serve the community.

Paul & Marion

I don't know who you are, I do not know anything about you but what I can see from your Pauline Hanson's One Nation page is that you are a complete asshole. By the way just to get the record straight, I am Irish, I am a migrant and I just want to know are you going to publish my letter or are you just going to be a complete racist bigot and only project one image, instead of showing both sides and letting people make up their own minds. That my friend is courage, that would be taking a risk because maybe all of the intelligent people would see straight through the crap you are writing and realise that Australia is a very rich place as a result of its multiculturalism, as a result of its heritage that lies with the Aboriginal and Islanders and if you take that away, you are left with a very empty country that lacks any soul at all.

So I am writing to you to request that you put my mail into the hate mail section of your page or are you too scared that too many people might actually agree with me. If I don't see it there in the next few weeks, I will know that you are the spineless person I first took you for. Here is your chance to prove me wrong and make your page a little less biased. Can you do it?

Sorcha Tormey

To you and yours, you vile pseudo intelligentsia. You think only Asiatics are going to attack you? Wrong. You think you can simply say these things with impunity? Wrong.

Freedom of expression carries with it a responsibility for what you say, so be prepared to reap what ye sow....

Here's a small definition for you:
A racist (racialist) is a person who advocates the concept or 'race'. A racist is a person who ascribes to said 'race' determinates of sociological and cultural behaviour; and of an individuals intelligence potential.

Both of which are precisely what Hanson espouses, pure and simple. I'd go into detail, but I have no doubts whatsoever that you wouldn't comprehend a word.

You really do think that you have rights to this country over its Indeginous inhabitants, dont you. A people with the longest continuous civilisation, and one of the most developed cultures on this planet, should be subservient to the likes of you - caucasiods who have been here for less than 300 years. You really do think that "Australian Culture" equates to "white culture" dont you.

So, I look forward to seeing you and especially the arch _devil bitch_ herself whenever you have the courage to come to Perth. I can assure you, the times of relaxed opposition to the rhetoric you quasi thinking peoples exhibit is drawing to a close.

Me and mine will scatter you and yours to the winds.

Oh and btw, the web pages you claim to author are some of the worst examples of styeless naivety I've seen in some time. Truly pathetic, no doubt indicative of your own mental powers.

No peace devil

As-Salaam-Alaikum -madd politik da sentient one- Ill Crew Universal