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Pauline Hanson's One Nation launch policies
Amongst the media gathered at the launch was
the presenter (seen left) for Channel 7's Witness programme.
She had been spending time with Dorothy Pratt in Barambah and meeting with the One Nation leadership... we had time to chat at the policy launch and on the subject of Sixty Minutes she agreed with our collective views on its complete lack of credibility.
Channel 7 will carry the resulting segment on Thursday night at 9.30pm... make sure you watch it.
The policy launch went extremely well with Heather Hill starring and Ian Petersen together with Bill Feldman playing powerful supporting roles.
Full coverage with images, policies etc from this link.
Today the papers are full of comments from the bleeding heart campaign and minority politically correct groups including the following:
Indigenous Advisory Council chairman calling the policies "laughable" after Hill announces about Au$100 million will be cut from the arts and cultural platforms.
Queensland Arts Council executive director Peter Dent calling the proposals (yes, here's that word again) "simplistic".
Queensland Council of Social Services Peter Walsh saying policies were a, "slash and burn approach born out of prejudice, discrimination and absolute ignorance.
Queensland Farmers Federation - QFF - (read multinationals) president Lex Buchanan describing the policies as simplistic with ramifications that would rebound on Australia in the international arena.
The one I like the most is the axing of the Anti-Discrimination Commission - saving the state Au$2.6 million.
The QFF are upset because primary industry spokesman, Ian Petersen, wants to re-introduce tariffs to protect the local farming industry.
Peter Beattie is frothing at the mouth saying that the establishment of a state owned bank offering Au$150 million in loans at 2% will bankrupt the country.... the loans being offered to rural industry and small business.
What a joke Mr Beattie, see what KPMG say below.
Labor's credibility on the ropes
A director of KPMG has confirmed that Labor's plans over a tilt train promised as part of their election platform is Au$638 million underfunded.
Beattie stood firm reckoning that KPMG, the party's auditors, had got it all wrong!
Kid's stuff - want a word with them?
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Subject: Getting lots of email lately? :)
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 06:28:57 PDT
Me and lots of friends at uni and other schools are waasting time subscribing you every mailing list in the world. It's so much fun!!!
As a matter of interest they have acted on their threat and gwb is getting placed on a range of mailing lists.
Making the
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Subject: One Nation Website "Exposed"
Congratulations,
the media have appointed you as this week's shadowy and sinister figure contolling One Nation!
"His (Scott Balson's) undeniable skill with the Internet may make him the most important and influential figure in the One Nation network."
Unfortunately, the rest of us are so stupid we can barely manage to find the switch to turn on our PCs, when we arrive home from our mindless working class jobs, to be brain washed by your conspiracy theories.
It seems that the all knowing, politically correct, self appointed elite are really are starting to descend into a hysterical panic-ridden abyss.
Regards
Gweilo
Subject: The Emperor's New Clothes
Regarding Pauline Hanson, supporters should not worry about Sixty Minutes, because fairytale is the tactical key word. I think it has backfired. The elites are running scared because Pauline Hanson is the equivalent of the little boy in the fairy story of 'The Emperor's New Clothes'. Education has been so lax in recent times that perhaps lots of people haven't even heard the story. Here is a very abbreviated version of a wonderful and timeless story. Enjoy, as they say these days:
Some rascally tailors down on their luck came to a new city. Somehow they managed to get to see the Emperor. They promised him that they were the best tailors ever - that their work was so excellent, their stitching so fine that only people of taste could appreciate it.
Being vain, the Emperor let the rascally tailors measure him up with (non-existing) tapes. He even let them show him (non-existing) fabrics. Though he could not see these fabrics he agreed that they were superb. He invited his chancellor and all his lords to give their opinions upon his choice of (imaginary) fabric. To a man they flattered his choice.
So the tailors pretended to sew the imaginary fabric with their imaginary thread and imaginary needles. All the courtiers were impressed with their industry. Eventually the rascally tailors announced that the Emperors's magnificent costume was ready. Feeling a bit silly, he duly stripped naked. The rascally tailors draped him in their impressive finery. Though he had doubts, they reassured him by saying their workmanship was so good that only the best people, people of the finest taste and refinement would even feel the touch of their craftsmanship. He was satisfied.
All the courtiers bowed and scrapped and tried to out-do each other in their praises for the sheer magnificence of the Emperor's new clothes. He was so satisfied he decided to parade his magnificence before the common masses.
So, stark naked, he paraded in his imaginary finery in public and all the common people too, not wanting to be thought ignorant, let alone people of no taste, admired his glory, trying to out-do each other in praises. But a small boy, tugging at his father's sleeve said, "But the Emperor is naked. He has no clothes!" With that everybody was ashamed.
In Australian political life Pauline Hanson is the small boy who has made everybody who has connived in political correctness face the shame of it. It's time to make amends.
Antonia Feitz
Subject: 60 minutes segment "call to arms"
Dear Sir,
It was with great anticipation ,that I waited ,last night to watch 60 minutes and the segment "call to arms" ,of which we have heard so much about.
The program started and i settled down in the recliner rocker ,cuppa at the ready and snacks a'plenty for my favourite politically correct , factually deficient, innuendo laden piece of gutter journalism.
Well , we suffered through the stuff on the wandering embryo's and wayward spermatozoa, the endless bloody advertisements and smug looking commentators, till finally ...it started..."call to Arms"...great stuff...except ...after perhaps..5 seconds...a wild electrical storm cranked up over head and......nothing...
The huge cold front sweeping WA blew GWN's TV signal off the air and gave the poor cat a bad case of sore ribs .
Later, reconciled, with the fact that I had missed the greatest hatchet job of the year and puddums too, I was outside looking for the bedraggled fur ball , when a flash of lightning illuminated the night sky and what I swear was a colossal cloud in the image of a laughing red headed woman ,swathed in the Southern Cross and with the Torch of Victory in her upraised hand.
Regards
T.Benge
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Subject: Re: Queensland State Elections Live
I'm not a One Nation supporter. I don't even know what One Nation is.
Please stop sending me these.
Subject: Saturday 13/6/98
Good luck on Saturday guys,
I've just surfed your pages. Hard to disagree with the info. The more the media slanders One Nation, the stronger it will grow. As for 60 minutes and ACA, why even consent to interviews? One ambush too many has occurred. Once again all the best for Saturday.
Kind Regards
Shane.
QLD
Subject: Sixty Minutes sponsorship
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to express my concerns regarding this weeks Sixty Minutes unethical reporting. As a sponsor, I hope you are concerned by Sixty Minutes dirty tactics.
Not giving One Nation the opportunity to reply during the programme for that night is most clearly unfair, considering the State election is only a week away. This type of journalism doesn't fool thinking informed Australians. More and more Australians are sick and tired of continued biased negative reporting of One Nation.
I am not a One Nation member, but from my extensive research of the party, this link to the extreme groups in the US is a lot of unproven speculation.
One Nation may not have all the solutions to Australia's problems, but they still should be given a fair hearing. Most journalists pick and choose the most perceived negative aspects of One Nation. Australian's are waking up, as recent polls are showing. I would hope you distance your company from this unethical behaviour and condemn Sixty Minutes gutter journalism. This would facilitate improved Toyota sales amongst the growing number of Australian's who are crying out for integrity and honesty in journalism and politics.
Yours sincerely
Jeremy Beck
Subject: sponsorship
To the Executive in Charge of Advertising :
Dear Sir/Madam,
As an owner , past and present , of several Toyota vehicles , I am distressed to see that Toyota continues to support the program "60 Minutes" with advertising .
As many have pointed out , this program continues to plumb new depths in muckraking, innuendo and outright untruths , whilst masquerading as a current affairs program.
The most recent of this gutter level sniping which is aimed Pauline Hanson and the One Nation party , does your fine company no credit by the association .
If Toyota continues to support "60 Minutes" policies by this association , it is with reluctance that I would have to consider purchasing a brand other than Toyota when I buy my next vehicle . I thank you for your consideration of this matter .
Yours Sincerely ,
J. R. Spick
Subject: ASIO monitoring One Nation
Dear Sir ,
it was interesting to hear that Attorney General Williams, a Political Appointee and Member of the Howard Liberal Government, has chosen this particular time to announce that One Nation ,could be ,might be, maybe ...being "monitored" by our sleuthing team, ASIO.
The timing is as much a coincidence as the timing of 60 minute's Call to Arms fiasco.
Howard is now totally desperate with the knowledge that his support is bleeding away faster even than his old pal Soeharto's is. He now knows that it is flowing straight into One Nation.
Such an announcement by the A.G is calculated to put the fear of prosecution into us .It is a last ditch effort by john howard to scare a few voters back to the fold.
Thats why they cant just come right out and say that we are "under investigation". Then they would have to justify it....and of course they cant..
In fact ASIO would have been monitoring us for ages, naturally. They have a job to do, to protect us from enemies of Australia, who lets face it ,could latch on to such a phenomenon as Pauline Hansons One Nation, to see if they could somehow gain some advantage from it.
Of course , the A.G being the main man with ASIO, would also be aware that One Nation has absolutely nothing to hide and that the sole aim of this rapidly growing peoples movement is the advancement of this magnificent country and ALL its people, by democratic means.
Rest assured , was there anything illegal going on ,it would have been headline news for months and 60 minutes wouldn't be making fools of themselves by manufacturing patently transparent rubbish.
What has happened in fact ,is that through ASIO ,howard has been privy to the true nature and strength of the support for Pauline Hanson, which is why he is absolutely stunned into silence by it.
He has been informed ,all along , by an impeccable source, of the cold hard fact ,that there is a genuine, Australia- wide ,movement by millions of Australians, who have heard enough bullshit from him and his mates and are now listening to someone who speaks the truth, giving voice to their own thoughts.
The fact is ,that over the last 20 years , both liberal and labour governments have just about bought this country to its knees. They are both obviously incompetent at managing our affairs . They are selling the farm to cover their debts and deals. Our farm. We have had enough of their bungled morass. We are voting with our hearts AND our heads this time, and howard knows it. Nothing less than a revolution is sweeping this country and it is clear that One Nation WILL form the next government of Australia.
So, we should be thankful that ASIO have been hard at work ,protecting us from evil and keeping howard up to date on his demise. After all, the next Attorney General , will have access to all the files on the matter and it is only proper that the new Prime Minister be fully briefed on the historic events. I'm sure she and many other Australians would be fascinated to hear even a little about the work of our vigilant protectors.
Regards
Steve Nichols
Subject: Secret Police
Now the government is threatening to set its secret police onto One Nation supporters!!!
Where was the concern about "politically motivated violence" last year, when the rent a mob rabble was busy throwing eggs and urine, and fracturing people's skulls outside One Nation meetings?
Why didn't the government send its Gestapo after the violent mob? Doesn't its intelligence extend to watching the daily news reports on TV?
I've got a message for the mealy mouthed Mr Williams: Put up or shut up! Your desperate smear campaign is transparently thin.
Gweilo
Subject: Comments on Australian News of the Day
re: the sixty seconds report.
It must have been a slow night for me, or maybe I just had a hard day: but where was the proof of links between U.S. militia and One Nation. I'm sorry, I just wasn't convinced. but then, I never am by any thing Jeff Mc Muggins says.
As I the girl in the TV for women's underwear said SIC 'EM.(Pauline)
The Curlew
Subject: Re: Queensland State Elections Live
Dear Scott
Thankyou for the comprehensive updates we receive about all the current activities from the party. I recently attended the rally in Gympie which was the first event I have been able to attend. I really enjoyed being part of this history making party. I have also been campaigning for June Woodward in Redlands, and have enjoyed all aspects, even folding and delivering thousands of pamphlets......I hope on election night we will have good news for all candidates and all Australians....
Thanks Maryse Pronk
Subject: Equality for all Australians.
Dear Sir,
Australia is supposed to be a predominantly Christian country and as far as I can remember God and his son Jesus cared for all people and regarded all his subjects as equal ,he especially cared for the young, the old ,the sick and the poor. All Australians come within these definitions they are not the sole right of any colour ,race or religion so why do we have Laws that discriminate against White people ,Men ,English speaking Australians , Legal migrants etc.
I feel it is now time for our Political Parties ,Religious Denominations etc. to start applying Gods ideas of equality or do they consider themselves above their God !
Please let us all be equal in the eyes of our Government !
God bless all Australians !
Archie Morrison
Subject: The Force is with us
Scott:
I have only recently discovered your site and to say that it is refreshing is a grand understatement. To read the "Your say" letters confirms what I hoped was prevalent in mainstream Australia, an enormous amount of rational thought. It's out there, but as illustrated by your informed commentary, it is hidden from us by the media.
Keep up the good work! And to keep your readers encouraged I'll share a favourite quote of mine from Ayn Rand.
"AS LONG AS MEN ARE FREE TO SPEAK, A SMALL RATIONAL MINORITY WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL OVER AN IRRATIONAL MAJORITY."
Go get 'em Pauline!
Bob Thompson
Channel 9
To The Editor,
I was watching a program on Channel Nine on the Queens birthday holiday. The program was discussing the recipients of the Queens Birthday awards to women
A guest on the program was the well-known gaunt and clearly aging Ita of women’s magazine fame. Her opinion and comment was being sought on the awards made to women on this traditional day.
I was not at all surprised when each woman was identified using a pen circling each recipient on an open newspaper. Surprise, surprise when each recipient had been mentioned Pauline Hanson was then mentioned to Ita and a view of Pauline solicited at this point.
Ita immediately launched into a series of comments as if reading from a blackboard, criticising Pauline Hanson and her idea’s, stating the Federal Liberal Government should take heed of the Queensland election and using it as an indicator in directing preferences away from Paulines One nation.
It was immediately clear the comments were pre-determined and planned to link the greatness of the awards to a putdown of Pauline. I find this a sad exploitation of these award recipients to use them to draw Attention to a pre-planned political statement, it ran almost like an advertisement with each word having being pre-written for both the presenter and the guest.
Ita appeared tense and drawn, I felt that she appeared uncomfortable during the whole affair, and so she should have been.
The whole tone of the interview reminded me of the aging actress taking any bit part to help make up the rent, the falling star firing an arrow at the new light on the block. (I guess this could apply to several of the Channels presenters)
After Ita’s great work in the past helping less fortunate persons, my respect for her has evaporated and I feel a great deal of pity for her. It gives me no pleasure in seeing Ita being used in such a manner in this shoddy, dirty campaign by Channel Nine.
Tony.
Subject: Current 'policies' and One Nation
At an anti-One Nation rally in Brisbane last Sunday which attracted a pathetic crowd of three hundred, Green senator, 'gay' Bob Brown (who as I've previously remarked, always looks miserable to me), said: "One Nation might win a seat or two [nice of you to admit it, Bob], but Pauline Hanson's policies, or lack of them, will come under close scrutiny and she will be exposed".
Come again? Is he suggesting that Australia is currently running according to intelligent policies? Really?
This would mean that the destruction of our industries is deliberate. That exporting jobs is deliberate. That selling off to foreigners all our public assets and utilities (previously owned by all Australians), is deliberate. That ripping the guts out of regional Australia is deliberate. That ceding national sovereignity is deliberate. That undermining marriage so that governments, instead of individual men become the husbands and providers of loose-living single women, is deliberate. That manipulation of the immigration program to deliberately enhance a party's electoral prospects (as related by Paul Sheehan) is deliberate. Etc, etc, etc.
Senator Brown might be surprised to discover that many people disapprove of such 'policies'. And that is why they are turning to One Nation.
Apparantly there was a parallel rally in Sydney. There must have been a woeful turnout because the 'Australian' didn't even give the figures. Nevertheless, Green senate candidate John Sutton, hysterically said that the Coalition had enabled racists [yawn] in the community to come out of the closet and through Ms Hanson, to start banging on the doors of parliament.
An impressive image. I wonder if he won the 'creative writing' prize in Year 10?
Antonia Feitz
Subject: ATO and standards
Nine Network Television's Sunday's Tax Files story etc.
Ross Coulthart
Your name was specifically mentioned on air as being responsible for the full-on attack on the Australian Taxation Office and its apparent mismanagement of its role.
Whilst it is undoubtedly a "good story" and obviously meets the requirement of the media to provide lots of entertainment value for viewers, the question has to be asked: "Do you or your organisation perceive of there being any obligation to be constructive and to advocate any action which might help to resolve the problems that you so gleefully expose?"
Recently there has been an increase in the awareness that the nation's (and state's) representatives in parliament have been magnificent role models for the community at large when it comes to avoiding taking any stance on morality or ethics.
Although few indeed would doubt that organised crime including the Mafia, the Triads, the Yakusa etc have infiltrated the halls of power and influence, there is a growing army of disorganised crime as well. This latter includes some Ministers of the Crown (and will include Ministers of the Republic when it comes) who have not been provided with any standards of behaviour, by which to live, by their parents or their schooling or their peers or their political party hierarchies. Are the Fabian Society and the H.R.Nicholls Society subversive bodies. Has the former Imperial but now Commonwealth Corps of Frontiersmen recently been re-financed? (it exists in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada has its Commanding Officer in the United Kingdom)
There are groups like Civil Liberties, Human Rights, Equal Opportunities and Anti-discrimination all of whom seem dedicated to the furtherance of unfettered anarchy and corrupt practices. Those who seek to (re)establish a code of ethical conduct are rubbished by the media not supported and so perhaps the next question is: "What is the logic (or the money) behind the media's stance?"
Jon Axtens
Subject: ASIO suspects
I nearly choked on my Uncle Toby's oats this morning when I read that the Federal Attorney-General is considering getting ASIO to investigate FAR RIGHT WING groups associated with the One Nation Party. As Alan Easson asks, "What Far Right Wing Groups? The dreaded LEAGUE of RIGHTS, even the Australia First Party or maybe even the Ladies Bowls Club?"
It is hilarious actually. I am a greying mother of five, a church organist, voluntary music teacher in the local school, part-time librarian, subscriber to Quadrant and Santamaria's AD2000 - so now it appears I am now under ASIO surveillance for supporting One Nation!
I am chuffed beyond measure. Thank you, Attorney-General, for making me feel so important!
Antonia Feitz
Law and Order
I believe an excellent opportunity exists for One Nation to promote it's tough stance on crime in Qld, and in fact Australia.
On Sunday night a young professional couple were tragically killed when the car in which they were travelling was hit by joy riders. According to media reports, the drive of the stolen vehicle was 14 and he was accompanied by 3 girls of a younger age.
I saw the young man, who was killed, parents interviewed on the nightly news, all they could say was "where were the parents of the young joyriders", in other words, to be letting their young children out so late at night.
It is my belief that so called main stream Australia is sick and tired of being the victims of young criminals who are really to young to be charged under the full extent of the law, therefore it is time that parents of young offenders were brought to account for the actions of their young children.
It is unfortunate that this appears to be taking advantage of a very tragic situation in order to further the ambitions of a political party, however, at least One Nation is willing to voice such ideas.
Perhaps a statement from a senior member of One Nation to the extent that the charging of the parents of young offenders will be a part of the platform of One Nation will reinforce the tough, but realistic in these times, approach which One Nation has.
Regards
John Letch
Australian dollar slips below 60 cents.
The dollar has been targeted by the greed driven US hedging funds who are now speculating and making billions of dollars by hurting the Australian currency.
This is the type of activity that the major parties would have you believe is "good" and "unstoppable".
Another perfect day in paradise.
Have a good one.
Recent stories exclusive to (how to) subscribe/rs of the Australian National News of the Day:
Launch of
One Nation state policies - 8th June
1998
Sixty Minutes break
new barriers in unethical reporting - 6th June 1998
Ray Martin revelas
his spots when challenging Pauline Hanson on A Current Affair - 4th
June 1998
The backlash to
Ray Martin's unethical behaviour during his interview with Pauline
Hanson.- 4th June 1998
Queensland candidates
gather in Gympie - 31st May 1998
Political Correctness
and "racism" exposed.- 30th May 1998
Taking on News
Limited at the Australian Press Council in Sydney.- 23rd May 1998
Launch of One Nation's
Queensland leadership.- 22nd May 1998
Protest over
closure of National Australia Bank branch in Ipswich - 21st May
1998
Pauline Hanson meets the people of Blair - 20th May 1998
Unethical trifecta
expose Courier Mail's intellectual prostitutes - 9th May 1998
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