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These international bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government."
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The warning by Theodore Roosevelt has much timeliness today, for the real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation... It seizes in its long and powerful tentacles our executive officers, our legislative bodies, our schools, our courts, our newspapers and every agency created for the public protection....
To depart from mere generalisations let me say that at the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purpose."
They practically control both parties, write political platforms, make catpaws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organisations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be answerable to the dictates of corrupt big business....
These international bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and magazines in this country."
Dock war deepens
The trade union movement is about to set up a series of rolling strikes across the country.
Yesterday a Victorian Court issued an order banning pickets on the Melbourne docks as the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) stepped up the heat by sanctioning national action as a show of support for the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) workers.
Within hours of the court order the ACTU secretary, Bill Kelty, "If people think that we will resile, or fall under and fall down, I'll just say this - we won't. If we fall down, we'll get up again. If we fall back, we'll come back again."
Meanwhile Australian farmers became increasingly concerned as their fresh produce ready for export was delayed and even, in some cases, rotted on the docks.
Yesterday the Victorian Employers Chamber of Commerce criticised Patrick for the manner in which it had bankrupted the companies contracting the MUA workers to ensure that the retrenchments were "clean" and did not cost the company anything.
The organisation said this morning that the move had created widespread concern about the same method being used by other employer groups to "rid themselves" of unwanted staff.
This morning John Coombs said, "It is a civil rights issue," when responding to the comment that the protesters actions were now breaking the law.
The Australian Labor Party's "Minister for families" Cheryl Kernot shows her colours.
Alan Jones summed up the cheap rhetoric expected from Cheryl Kernot when she announces her "new policy" for the over 45s later this week.
Jones was talking on Channel 9s Today programme, and I quote:
"Well apparently Cheryl Kernot is going to deliver her first major policy paper this week on helping the over 45s displaced by economic change. Much was made just recently about Opposition leader Kim Beazley charging Ms Kernot with the responsibility of developing policies to cope with the relationship between work and family and in particular the problems of older unemployed.
Apparently Mrs Kernot will tomorrow launch policy approaches to deal with those caught by industrial dislocation as I have said many times many families are involved in all of this. Yet recently the Australian Family Association wrote to Mrs Kernot pointing out that they were a national voluntary organisation which promotes issues which relate to marriage and the family. The association made the point to Mrs Kernot that they had spent time and effort on these policy issues and that they would appreciate very much the opportunity to meet with her.
The letter was not even answered by Mrs Kernot, but rather by some Labor functionary who said, Quote: "I am unable to arrange a meeting for your association", Unquote.
Well if Mrs Kernot is not meeting with organisations like the Australian Family Association, the largest family organisation in Australia where are the ideas coming from about the problems faced by the over 45s, many of whom are mums and dads.
Now if you are going to organise policies about families without talking to a large and representative organisation like the Australian Family Association how relevant are the answers going to be?
I wonder, knowing how politics operates, if Cheryl Kernot even knows that the Australian Family Association wrote to her or does some administrative officer of the Labor Party purport to speak for Mrs Kernot without Mrs Kernot's authority.
Either way it will be interesting to see if the speech tomorrow might to talk about the problems of the over 45s displaced by economic changes is just rhetoric or reality.
I would have thought that a yarn with the Australian Family Association might have helped in getting policy closer to reality.
I'm Alan Jones.
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| Party | Apr17-19M | Mar 22-29 | Mar 13-15 | Feb 27-Mar 1 | Feb 13-15 | Jan 30-Feb1 |
| Coalition | 41 | 41 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 44 |
| ALP | 41 | 41 | 44 | 45 | 43 | 40 |
| One Nation | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Democrats | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Greens | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| Others | 8 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
Subject: Ports
In response to Ron from Swansea, Sorry to tell you it isn't the same out come. These new workers for Patrick on their first day averaged two containers an hour more than the workers that have been there for years. It is time the wharves are cleaned up and the bludging dead wood thrown out.
John Sintire
Subject: RE : The poor farmers....
I'm confused. The farmers in Australia seem to be generally complaining about being poor and hard pressed to survive but they have enough money to put together a $5M "fighting fund"!
I remember years ago when I worked for the then PMG as a radio tech travelling around NSW conducting radio survey work. I was working out of Burke for a few days during a very hot summer. My team had been out in the field all day where it was so hot the twenty litre container of water we carried got so hot that we were almost unable to drink it.
On our way back to Burke that afternoon I came across something that has stuck in my mind ever since. We came to a dry creek crossing at the same time as a car from the opposite direction. As we passed each other I looked into the car and in the back seat was 4 or 5 sheep.
Nothing strange about this you might say except the car was a long wheelbase Mercedes 600 Pullman S (I think thats the right description). As I sat there slowly dehydrating I found myself wondering about those poor sheep and those poor broke farmers.
Regards
Geoff Stanley
G'day Geoff,
The National Farmers Federation does not necessarily represent the "mums and dads" farmers battling to make ends meet. See Graham Strachan's article on this subject last week.
Editor.
Subject: Comments on Australian News of the Day
Dear Sir,
Pauline Hanson's initiative on the Citizen Based Referenda surely elevates her to the pinnacle of Australian Politics.
She fully deserves the huge vote that she will receive in this( the election that Howard said we had to have but is now looking increasingly , er , not really such a good idea after all )....whenever he gets around to calling it.
I predict that the election will finally be called at the last possible date required by law, as it becomes increasingly clear to the beleaguered and battered liberal party, that it will be nothing short of a bloodbath ,with themselves as the source of all the red stuff!
For All Of Us !!!
Regards
Steve Nichols
Subject: pay rise
Last week's pay slip informed me that I was being paid at a new award rate. Comparing that pay slip with the previous one I noticed that my gross per fortnight had increased by $51. Wowee! Then I studied the figures more closely.
Out of that $51 gross increase per fortnight, I net an extra $11 per fortnight and the taxman takes the extra $40. The government has done very well out of 'my' pay rise, don't you think? I wrote to the 'Australian' asking for financial advice on how best to use the increase. After all, I wouldn't want to squander that $11 a fortnight.
Antonia Feitz
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