Friday 3rd April 1998

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Hindmarsh Island Bridge case thrown out by High Court 2nd April
The Hindmarsh Island Bridge farce revealed 31st March
UN agrees to make our fresh water a "global commodity".... beware farmers - your fresh water dam WILL cost you! 28th March
Courier Mail's national affairs reporter Peter Charlton attacks MAI concerns and breaches ethics guidelines 28th March
The US Government's global "Cablesplice" project, fact or fantasy? 26th March
Pauline Hanson endorses 12 state candidates. 22nd March
News Limited bucket opposition to the MAI. 21st March
The proposed privatisation of Telstra 16th March 1998
Queensland State Candidates meet the people 15th March 1998
One Nation, the First Year 12th March 1998


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One Nation candidates meet tomorrow:

Over 50 candidates in the Queensland State Election will gather at Toowoomba this weekend.

The meeting will be aimed at focussing candidates on the tasks ahead. I will be there and will be reporting live from the event.

Apologies if the news of the day is erratic over the weekend but there will be plenty of pics, commentary and action to make up for any irregularity in the news.

On a federal level the National party have come in behind Sir James Killen to tackle Pauline Hanson in the Federal seat of Blair. Liberal sources have said that Cameron Thompson, a former adviser to Liberal Party treasurer Joan Sheldon will probably get the nod.

Thompson's supporters said that the party would be a laughing stock if they resorted to electing a man who retired from politics 15 years ago. The Nationals, meanwhile, do not want to alienate One Nation supporters as they will need to negotiate preferences with the party in key seats.

The Multinationals pay little or no tax - Alan Jones on Channel 9.

Regular readers will be aware of our expose of the fact that multinationals are raping and pillaging Australia. Among them is News Corporation which is currently being investigated by the Australian Tax Office. The Austand document, referred to by Alan Jones below just shows how these corporate hooligans are throwing their weight around while the tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee of Australian politics, the ALP and Coalition play catch me if you can in Parliament.

Here is a transcript of Alan Jones comments:

"Don't tell me that the Tax Office is waking up. PAYE taxpayers are fed up to the back teeth with paying their fair share of tax while the perception is that multinational companies come to Australia, take what they including massive profits want then pay next to no tax. The perception is that foreign ownership has increased massively over the last twenty years so much so that in 1986 the treasury virtually told the Australian Bureau of Statistics to stop publishing foreign ownership figures.

Some estimates put foreign ownership as nearly as high as 90%. Some estimates are that nearly Au$200 billion leaves this country each year in the hands of foreign ownership. Well the tax office's international tax division may at last be on our side.

They have undertaken an audit and produced some alarming figures around 4,300 multinationals investigated paid no tax in 1995/96. A third investigated had interest free loans from related parties. 15.4% said that they had no documentation to support mechanisms which reduced their tax liabilities. 420 firms provided no answers to how they justified their transfer pricing arrangements and so it goes on.

Think of what this means to ordinary tax payers. I'll tell you what it means, massive revenue losses. If these companies are taking something like Au$200 billion a year profit out of this country and if they, on average, paid only 20% tax we would have Au$40 billion. This is a scandal, this is a rort and it is time the government had the guts to stop it.

Young male teacher ostracised for following in Kernot's footsteps

Unlike the well publicised case of Cheryl Kernot's dalliances with schoolboys a young male teachers relationship with schoolgirls has resulted in a top level Criminal Justice Commission (CJC) investigation into the allegations.

The teacher, Bradley Douglas, 31, allegedly has sex with a couple of school girls, one while she was only 15 years old.

The CJC has now handed the file over to the Director of Public Prosecutions to decide whether the teacher should be formally charged over his relationship with the 15 year old.

The girl, now 17, said yesterday that the teacher gave her his phone number when she was leaving Grade 10 to go to TAFE.

"He said to keep in contact. All the girls thought he was like a mega-babe, and I felt pretty special with him giving me his phone number."

Mr Douglas meantime has told the media that he knows of other teachers who have had sex with students saying, "If I go down, there are others who will go down with me."

The Department of Employment's Dr Sharon Winocur said yesterday, "We take any allegation of misconduct very seriously, particularly, when it involves the welfare of students."

  


Making the news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest possible levels in Australia.


Political:

Gareth Evans out for a cheap headline.

That great internationalist and shadow treasurer, Gareth Evans, made a major blue yesterday when he tried to create a headline. In yesterday's Herald paper a photograph of Prime Minister John Howard laughing in Parliament was incorrectly captioned as his response to the High Court's decision over Wik.

"This bloke (the Prime Minister) is never so happy as when he is bashing black fellows," said Evans as he came into Parliament yesterday.

The response in Parliament was immediate with Evans being challenged to apologise by the Prime Minister. Evans has so far refused to do so - with even his mates in the media saying that his move was "racist" and a mistake.

Fancy that Gareth Evans a racist!

email the editor

You say:

Subject: West Australian Abortion

After last nights passing of the abortion bill in the State Parliament, West Australia can boast about being the most barbaric state in the Western World, along side China.

Makes me ashamed of my state. The sooner that One Nation can field candidates in my electorates, then they will get my votes at elections.

Peter

Subject: Re: Is "Cablesplice" just a conspiracy theory? If not, where doesthe MAI fit in?

I would treat this document with extreme caution if I were you.

The real "Operation Cable Splice" deals with the military assumption of control over civilian affairs, and is a partner to "Operation Garden Plot", the US Army's plans for controlling major civilian disturbances. It is given practical form in the US Army's FM41-10, a manual which is now - deliberately - virtually unobtainable and which was originally restricted in its circulation.

The fact that the author of this piece should attach the name of a completely separate and vaguely-known US Army Operational Plan to it should tell you something!

Name withheld on request. (USA)

Subject: Re: SINCE 1953, "MULTINATIONALS HAVE PAID LITTLE OR NO TAX"

Dear GWB and Scott Balson,

I have read the article entitled "The Great Australian Swindle MK II" in your web site, and I must say it is very alarming. If only half this material is true then it is political dynamite. I would therefore be grateful if you could provide me with photocopies of at least some of the documentation that you mentioned in the article as evidence for the validity of your statements. I will be very happy to pay the photocopying and postage costs.

Regards,

John Hermann
Economic Reform Australia (ERA)

Subject: Please!!!!!

Please Mr Howard don't try to ruin Pauline

Heath Muller

Subject: MAI

I would like to voice my concern about the signing of the MAI. DON"T LET IT HAPPEN. What is taking place in this world.......whole world over........has got to stop! I'm just sorry that the general populace is so underinformed..........not by chance, but by deliberation!!!!...........consequently...........MAY GOD HELP US.

Judy Dowd.
Tamworth.
NSW.

Subject: BE OBJECTIVE!

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

I was surfing on the net and suddenly i saw your website titled as "i am so sorry Pauline Hanson". I am wondering if you get any mails saying "i am NOT sorry Pauline Hanson" or " Go to H.. Pauline". It is not possible that every single person in this country supports her. I hope you are objective enough to let my mail be in that site as well. I DON'T SUPPORT P.H. and I DON'T HAVE TO do so and I am (obviously) not sorry for her- i was not sorry for Diana as well).

Now it is your problem to let this mail be there or not. As being objective you let it or just continue to lie yourself.

your sincerely
All human races are equal..

I AM NOT SORRY, P.H.

I saw many e mails saying that "i am sorry PH". Why? what is the point to be sorry for her? What has she done? she just said that australia belongs to anglo- saxons and she said that she doesnt want to see many asians in that country. Well dear, close your eyes then! but watch out for that tree!!

Anyway as everybody knows- if you have studied history- that aboriginies were the owners of this land, and the first anglo used to be mentally diabled because he couldn't understand that Abo. were human beings as well. She said that many asians are taking our jobs from us. It is only 20% of all immigrations. the rest is not problem of course, cos they are white .Come on PH!! You are a ...you know what she is. By the way please wake up! IF 10 people in hundred likes her the rest 90 hates her! got that?

and i saw that true australian stuff as well in one of e mails. what is true australian? there is not only one race in australia. try to live with all together in peace as brothers and sisters .There is no point to say that Australia belongs to me or us or whoever. Australia is a country where all the races live together in harmony and This country is a good example for all the world. keep it up mate!

to all brothers and sisters

Isn't it funny how the politically correct can use terms like "Abo" with gay abandon while if a One Nation person said that he would be called a racist.

Editor.

Personal trivia, from the global office:

Another perfect day in paradise. Lovely rain overnight... the grass is green, the river is full... even it is now a commodity in the eyes of the United Nations.

Have a good one.


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