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who is behind the dock war? 19th April
One
Nation Birthday Party on Pauline Hanson's farm 10th-12th April
One
Nation state and federal candidates meet in Toowoomba 4th -5th
April
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
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Quotable Quotes:
"It is necessary to go back to some fundamentals in
our history to understand how the modern corporation, initially a creature
of the state, has managed to turn things around so that today, the state
is a creature of the corporation."
Molly Rush, "Rethinking the Corporation, Rethinking
Democracy" workshop participant
"The legal make-believe that the corporation is a person,
the ingenuities by which it has been fitted out with a domicile, the elaborate
web of 'as-ifs' which the courts have woven, have put corporate affairs pretty
largely out of the regulations we decree. [The corporation, unlike real persons
has] no anatomical parts to be kicked or consigned to the calaboose; no
conscience to keep it awake all night; no soul for whose salvation the parson
may struggle; no body to be roasted in hell or purged for celestial enjoyment.
[No one can lay] bodily hands upon General Motors or Westinghouse...or
incarcerate the Pennsylvania Railroad or Standard Oil of New Jersey with
all its works."
Walton H Hamilton, economist and lawyer, in - On
the Composition of the Corporate Veil, written in the 1940's
Pauline Hanson WILL take Blair - Sir James Killen
anotd Readers might recall the hysterical complaints of Anne Scott when she did not gain endorsement as the candidate for the seat of Oxley in January this year.
Well now the so-called warhorse, Sir James Killen, has turned on his own party, the Liberals, after he was not selected by the party to oppose Pauline Hanson in the new seat of Blair.
Yesterday Sir James called the Liberal Party "amateurish" and accused them of "deplorable" behaviour.
He told the Sunday Mail yesterday that he had formally complained to Prime Minister John Howard about the role played by a federal minister for Industry, Science and Technology, John Moore, in upstaging his quest to take on Hanson at the next Federal election.
In his first public comments since he was unceremoniously shown the door by his party, Sir James said, "Present indications are there is not the slightest chance of Liberals winning the seat. The view taken by many people is that Mrs Hanson will win. If that happens, the Liberal party executives in Queensland will be to blame.
"The Prime Minister hasn't responded yet (to my complaint). He's been away in northern Queensland."
Sir James said that Bob Carroll, the new state leader of the Liberal party and John Moore were guilty of "deplorable behaviour".
"I think it is extraordinary that the Liberal executive (in Queensland) is so amateurish in their conduct of public affairs," Said Killen.
Ouch.....
After making overtures to the National Party Killen is now expected to run as an independent in the Senate on an "integrity platform"!
Community Initiative and Referendum
The threat to the media giants of Direct Democracy where the people choose has got the elites all in a tither. (See story below). Here is an extract from the most comprehensive site on Direct Democracy in Australia:
The web site includes a large number of talks by well known politicians and personalities supporting Direct Democracy.
We present the attached precis of our concept of a reasonable and practical application of
the Community Initiative and Referendum.
We do so as a non-aligned and non-Party political lobby group with a genuine desire for
constructive and non-emotional discussion.
We take pride in the fact that since our inception in 1988, we have retained our philosophical
and political autonomy, and through that, our credibility.
Our concept has met with approval and support from both sides of he political fence in most
instances. Academics have found it refreshing, and people of common sense have supported
it.
Generally we have found that those with a genuine interest in improving our system of
Government at all three levels, and those who wish to see an enhancement of our democratic
process, have welcomed our proposal as practical, feasible, and desirable.
Naturally, the concept of this proposal applies to the three levels of government. The system
is the same in each case, hut the terminology would change accordingly.
We present this paper to you, hoping that you will view our proposal with an open mind, and
in an atmosphere which will encourage sincere and genuine discussion.
News Limited's unethical Courier Mail start trying to influence the Queensland State elections
Today's editorial in the Courier Mail is a classic in biased reporting by Murdoch's mouthpiece.
Here is an extract from the editorial:
The Coalition’s refusal to come clean on preferences brings to mind the way in which the Prime Minister ignored Ms Hanson’s maiden speech. That was time when leadership was required to expose the factual fallacies on which it relied and the damage to Australia that her policy proposals would do if they were ever implemented. The Coalition should be saying now that they will put One Nation last. It doesn’t matter that some other candidate might emerge with even worse policies - it is One Nation which poses the threat.
What this unethical paper fails to mention is that the threat One Nation poses is to the undemocratic alliance of the major parties playing puppet to Murdoch and Packer... of course when One Nation's Community Based Referendum policy brings back power to the people and away from the two media barons, the swing of the pendulum to the other side might just reduce their influence in the corridors of power.
This is a scenario Murdoch will do anything to prevent.
National Farmers Federation (NFF) ready to storm the docks
If the deadlock on the wharves is not broken in the next few days Don McGauchie, the NFF president, said farmers will storm the docks en-masse using hundreds of modified farm trucks to break through the union lines.
Last night several hundred protesters broke through the steel mesh gates at the Fisherman Island Port facilities in Brisbane marching on to the port after a train passed through the picket line.
In other developments over the weekend:
The fascinating case of the beavers and the new UN fresh water agreement
Here are extracts from the above article:
The law enforcer:
We find that dams of this nature are inherently hazardous and cannot
be permitted. The Department therefore orders you to cease and desist all
unauthorised activities at this location, and to restore the stream to a
free-flow condition by removing all wood and brush forming the dams from
the strewn channel. All restoration work shall be completed no later than
January 31, 1998. Please notify this office when the restoration has been
completed so that a follow-up site inspection may be scheduled by our staff.
Failure to comply with this request or any further unauthorised activity
on the site may result in this case being referred for elevated enforcement
action.
The response:
First of all, Mr. Ryan DeVries is not the legal
landowner and/or contractor at 2088 Dagget, Pierson, Michigan - I am
the legal owner and a couple of beavers are in the (State unauthorised) process
of constructing and maintaining two wood "debris" dams across the outlet
stream of my Spring Pond. While I did not pay for, nor authorise
their dam project, I think they would be highly offended you call their skilful
use of natural building materials "debris." I would like to challenge you
to attempt to emulate their dam project any dam time and/or any dam place
you choose. I believe I can safely state there is no dam way you could ever
match their dam skills, their dam resourcefulness, their dam ingenuity, their
dam persistence, their dam determination and/or their dam work ethic.
As to your dam request the beavers first must fill out a dam permit prior to the start of this type of dam activity, my first dam question to you is: are you trying to discriminate against my Spring Pond Beavers or do you require all dam beavers throughout this State to conform to said dam request?
If you are not discriminating against these particular beavers, please send me completed copies of all those other applicable beaver dam permits. Perhaps we will see if there really is a dam violation of Part 301, Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Michigan Compiled Laws annotated.
Making the
news" -
Subject: The MUA the elites and the bush
I am beginning to wonder if those advertisements featuring a list of signatures of prominent persons, such as that which appeared in the Weekend Australian (28-29/3/98) in support of the MUA, really achieve anything. On tonight's news I heard that there is another one coming up tomorrow. Apparently it has been signed by Hazel Hawke (yawn), the usual swag of actors, film directors, writers and churchpersons of both sexes (zz), plus indigenes (zzzz). I strongly suspect that these ads are counter-productive. For a start, why did South African archbishop Desmond Tutu head the list on the first one? Is the cultural cringe still alive and well, albeit with a pc change of colour?
Reading the list of signatories I found it difficult to avoid taking a counter-opinion on the issue out of sheer prejudice. Why? Because on most issues I have rarely agreed with the majority of the signatories. There was no balance in the list. Where were the tradesmen? the accountants? the workers? the small businessmen? the engineers?
I have never noticed any of the signatories - Sydney and Melbourne-based actors, film directors, churchmen, writers, academics, etc - taking out ads to protest against the consequences of economic rationalisation on rural Australia. These luminaries were not moved to protest when Guyra, Grafton and Gunnedah in NSW lost their abattoirs. They did not protest at the enormous pain suffered by those towns in lost income and consequent reduced business activity. They did not object to the cruelty of the blows delivered to the personal pride of the workers, mainly males responsible for families. None of them has ever protested about the ripple effect of such closures on the economies of small towns.
Gunnedah copped a double whammy in losing its mine as well as its abattoir. Lithgow lost its Berlei bra factory, the skilled machinist jobs once done by Australian women irrevocably going offshore. Apart from its industries, rural Australia has also lost all the precious little local clerical jobs once generated by court houses, railway stations and yards, banks, government offices, police stations.
Obviously rural Australia is not glamorously multicultural enough to excite any sympathy. After all, it is well known that we are all red-necked, environment-raping, racist scum. No government gives a tinker's curse about us unless we live in a marginal seat. Think about it.
Antonia Feitz
Subject: Stop the MAI
Its time we had Citizens Initiated Referenda so that the citizens of this country had more say. It seems that the only time the people of Australia know what treaties are signed is when it has already happened and then we are told. Its time we had a political leader that was not a dictator and listened to what the people wanted, then we could say we were a democracy.
Margaret Butler
Subject: Its just not Cricket
New game on the block.
Three Players (Reith, Howard and Patricks). No crowd required. Fixed outcome.
Only the results matter.
This is definitely NOT cricket.
Ron from Swansea.
Another perfect day in paradise. Spent the afternoon on the river with my mum and Viv. Cooler now with covers required at night.
Have a good one.
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