Saturday 28th June 1997
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Interesting that it did get coverage in Fairfax on Friday... the last bastion of editorial independence.
Sorry, let me rephrase that. Not interesting but sad. Sad that unsubstantiated reports, such as the alleged extremist right wing group letter from Pauline Hanson supporters was given such wide coverage - because it discredited One Nation while the subsequent rebuttal by One Nation did not even get an airing.
The duplicity and deviousness of the mainstream media is not supported by ethical journalists who are throwing their hands up in despair because of the censorship now being widely applied to Australia's newspapers in what was once a democratic society.
The only reference to Pauline Hanson in News Limited's biased reporting was a comment that Poppy King (better known for her garish lipstick which sells well) said that she was ashamed of being an Australian saying, "It is a very different Australia now than what I had hoped it would be. I hoped we would be coming into the new millennium if not as a republic then well on the way to becoming one, and I hoped we would be looked to as a real model for multiculturalism.
"Our reputation is being affected by the whole Pauline Hanson issue and the disgraceful way in which the Government has been handling Aboriginal reconciliation.
"I'm really glad I was awarded Australian of the Year in 1995, because I would not accept it now."
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Official home page.Yesterday a spokesman for Mr Howard, who is in Washington, said "Mr Howard believes he has complied with the guidelines (on ministerial responsibility) and the opposition has been completely unable to sustain any allegation of wrongdoing or impropriety."
Howard's trip to the US has been dogged by the UN Earth Summit on greenhouse gas emissions... a forum that the US President Bill Clinton fully supported by pledging US$1 billion to assist the move to cut gas emissions.
The President's move is seen as a severe blow to Howard's stance that Australia cannot afford to cut greenhouse gas emissions because it would have disastrous implications on the economy.
He found a friend, however, in US Lower House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, who said he feared that the European Union was playing a "double game" - in protecting European jobs at the expense of US and Australian jobs.
Have a great day.
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