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June 13 is going to be a busy time for me. I have been invited to, and accepted, reporting live from the Convention Centre where the Queensland state election results will be recorded.
I will take pictures, supply details and stats and keep you informed on the night.
Malcolm Fraser lashes out at One Nation
One could call it the march of the mindless... The have-been Prime Ministers with hidden agendas who are freaking out over the emergence of One Nation as such a powerful political force. The likes of Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke and Paul Keating who, last year, said the fledgling party would die out within three months.
Now Fraser is blasting the Liberal Party for putting One Nation above Labor in the Queensland State Election... His bigotry is epitomised in this comment yesterday, where Fraser said that the Coalition (in Queensland) had done Australia a great disservice by legitimising One Nation which he said had promoted the evil scourge of racism. That magical "r" throwaway word... not bad from a politician with a record of losing his pants late at night. Of course the Fraser comments has got the likes of Peter Charlton "wetting his pants" with excitement as he tries to throw another missile at a growing force that neither he nor his Murdoch masters can understand. It is, simply put, people power - but these internationalists do not understand democracy.
"I appeal to you all to put decency and principle before the most base political expediency," Fraser said yesterday. Unfortunately for him the genii has been well and truly let out of the bottle with One Nation state leader summing up the party yesterday in The Courier Mail "as a party seeking to save the Australian family and its values".
The reason the star is rising for One Nation is quite simply because the Coalition and the ALP have forgotten the family and are, trashily, pandering to non-family styled minority groups like Chinese, gays and lesbians.
Back home the Liberal party has denied a Sydney Morning Herald report that party campaign committees in at least six electorates had opposed the party's decision to put One Nation above the Labor Party.
State leader Bob Carroll said yesterday that only two branches had recommended putting One Nation last. They were Sunnybank and Greenslopes - the latter a seat where One Nation does not have a candidate.
Meanwhile the Australian Democrats (the ALP centre), a party in its death throes, has decided to put One Nation last on its "How to vote" cards.
John Howard and the GST.
John Howard in 1995: We will never ever introduce a GST.
John Howard in 1998: The GST, if introduced, will never be increased.
Now would you really believe this wimp?
Beattie in a pickle over Wik
ALP State leader Peter Beattie is in a real pickle over his comments yesterday that he would accept John Howard's ten point plan on Wik. The blatantly political move, aimed at minimising a loss of votes in the bush, has received a serve from the Prime Minister.
Howard yesterday called on Beattie to convince his Senate colleagues to support his plan.
Howard told News Limited's Courier Mail "If he really cares about the interests of Queensland, he ought get onto the Labor party senators and tell them to change their position and pass the legislation."
The comment brought the little bull out of his corner with Beattie warning Howard that he faced a "barney of mammoth proportions" if native title legislation left states facing huge compensation payouts. Beattie's comments remind me of those by Saddam Hussein when he warned of the "mother of all wars"...
"When I get elected - if we get elected and I am premier - I will be engaging the Prime Minister in a number of discussions.
"I will be talking about Wik, underfunding for Medicare, underfunding for Queensland health, and I will certainly be discussing tax reform with him."
Well Beattie that's one thing you won't have to worry about, being Premier I mean!
Liz Cunningham to work with One Nation.
The independent for Gladstone, Liz Cunningham, has confirmed that she will be happy to work with One Nation despite the flush and bluster of the major parties.
"I have a reasonable scepticism of judging people by media reports," she said yesterday.
Cunningham has held the balance of power for the last two years and has worked with the Coalition to ensure stable government during this period.
Ms Cunningham has One Nation candidates all around her seat - but, David Oldfield said yesterday, One Nation had deliberately kept away from Gladstone because of the party's admiration for her.
"Any One Nation voter in Gladstone would be well served by putting their vote to Liz Cunningham," Oldfield said.
Internet use exploding in Australia
More than 3 million Australians have used the Internet in the last year according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The survey found that 1 million use it from home, 1.3 million from work and 1.5 million have used it elsewhere (like at a friend's house or an Internet cafe).
Now isn't Bill Taylor a busy boy!
Now the Federal MP for Groom is a busy boy.
First he did not see fit to call me before the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCT) (re the MAI) after my work with Pauline Hanson led to its establishment in the first place.
Here is a copy of the document that I submitted that the JSCT confirmed having received ( downloadable in a word document format). Bill Taylor was the Chair of the JSCT and made that infamous statement about the MAI never being a secret international treaty.
Now we hear that he and others were on another committee...
The Tax Reform Task Force together with Bill Taylor includes:
View 2 pages of a sworn statement regarding this "committee" and see where Australia is going:
That's the democracy we live in in Australia. No wonder we wants these unrepresentative bastards out of their chook run.
QUOTE: "The Treasurer has ruled out a debit tax..."
Making the
news" -
Peter Charlton playing mouthpiece again
Here is a quote from Charlton's article, "Liberals lose sight of principles":
Whatever the motives and the aspirations of its leader and its members, there can be no doubt about the policies of One Nation. They are as former Liberal Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, said yesterday, “anti-Asian, anti-Aboriginal and anti-Semitic. Its policies are racist.
And, as Fraser added: “Where major political parties compromise their basic principles with a racist political party, experience more often than not has shown that the influence of the racist party has grown and, in far too many cases, become dominant.”
Fraser asked Liberal and National Party voters “to think deeply about this issue and to ignore the injunctions of their parties and to place One Nation last”.
You can see why Liz Cunningham says that she has not much time for what is reported in the newspapers.
Subject: Present Trends
With the way things are going these days it seems as though that our troops died in vain in the Second World War.
It seems as though the Japs, Chinese, and other Asians have finally won the war through Political Correctness.
Peter
Subject: Comments on Australian News of the
Day
Dear Sir,
In case you have not seen it, I am including an only
minimally abbreviated version of an article in today's SMH by P. McGuiness,
in which he refers, with occasional tones of shock and horror, to the book
just released by Paul Sheehan as a manual to aid and abet One Nation in future
electoral success. A paperback at $19.95, it is required reading for anyone
who wants to see how the suppression of debate in our (formerly) open and
tolerant society has been hijacked. Anyway to quote McGuiness:
"Pauline Hanson's One Nation party has emerged as
a real threat to the stability of Queensland politics - it now seems that
it will gain sufficient seats, with Labor preferences, (a Freudian slip?)
to hold the balance of power in the Parliament and the next government
will be at the mercy of the Hansonites!
It could even lead to the election of sufficient Hansonites
in Qld to hold the balance of power in the House of Representatives after
what could well be a close election. The fear of such an outcome has led
many to demand that the Coalition should put the Hansonites below Labor on
its tickets. However, this is mere blackmail unless some compensating split
in Democrat and Labor preferences if offered to the Coalition; why should
the Libs and Nats give Labor a free kick to compensate for the problem Labor
has created?
That this is the reality of Hansonism is the main theme
of a new book by a Herald colleague, Paul Sheehan, Among the Barbarians:
(The Dividing of Australia). This is a book whose appearance at this time
will give an enormous boost to the Hansonites - it has been tirelessly plugged
on radio by Alan Jones. Sheehan will inevitably be described as racist, but
this he is not. What he tells is a litany of facts concerning the problems
of immigrants and Aborigines, and the contribution to these problems by the
Labor Party and its favoured spokesmen for Aborigines and ethnics. It has
been a record of blunders, bribery and cover-up.
In effect, Sheehan has written the book that Hanson
and her friends did not have the brains and ability to write. It will rapidly
become the bible of the One Nation party; it will sell enormously in the
provincial towns and the outer suburbs, and it will help shape the debate
on immigration and the treatment of Aborigines from now on. This would be
unfortunate. It would have been better if the issues which Sheehan canvasses
had been more openly debated. (Tell us about it Paddy!!!)
Now we are about to reap the whirlwind. The attempt
to suppress real issues and pretend that Hanson is just an ignorant racist
with no real complaints which touch many people in the community has itself
been an exercises in keeping the community in the mushroom club and is itself
motivated by racism and authoritarianism, especially in the hands of official
human rights and ethnic bodies.
Let me rather unfairly summarise Sheehans book chapter
by chapter in the form most of its readers will take it:
Thus crudely paraphrased, the book corresponds to many
of the prejudices of the ignorant and untutored, especially the 'rednecks'
at whom the political elites like to sneer and whom they deliberately set
out to disfranchise. Sheehan certainly will be subjected to abuse and
denigration......apart from those who will do their best to ignore the book
or pretend it is beneath reply.
Unhappily, there is truth in every one of Sheehan's
charges. In a better state of public debate than that which has prevailed
in Australia in the guise of political correctness all the special problems
of migrant and Aboriginal communities could have been faced and appropriate
policy measure formulated to respond to them. But they were not. Whenever
anybody like Geoffrey Blainey in 1984 tried to signal emerging problems they
were howled down and maltreated. The behaviour of the Melbourne Uni arts
faculty towards Blainey when he retired was a disgrace.
Instead, policy was directed at maximising minority
support. Debate on immigration policy became virtually impossible.
That the Bringing Them Home report was biased and selective
propaganda was simply not believed by those who wanted to accuse all their
forebears of genocide and by doing so retain control of the policy agenda
(not to mention handsome incomes).
Well, they will rue the day - we all will - that one
first rate journalist has been so angered by all of this as to write the
manual for the next five elections.'
And there you have it. It suggest to me that 'the
Hansonites' should get hold of this book, if they have not already done so.
I most certainly already have.
Cheers
Subject: Borbidge condemns democracy
It seems that Borbidge will not accept the will of
the people if they do not do as he tells them, and will call a second Qld
election if he doesn't get the result he wants.
So much for democracy...............
From "The Australian"
Borbidge threat to call second ballot By SCOTT EMERSON,
NATASHA BITA and MEGAN SAUNDERS
26may98
QUEENSLAND Premier Rob Borbidge yesterday threatened
to force a second election if voters delivered One Nation the balance of
power at the June 13 election.
As One Nation nominated candidates for 78 of Queensland's
89 seats, the Premier ruled out any deal with Pauline Hanson's party "before,
during or after the election".
He also said the Coalition's Budget, which has yet
to be passed by parliament and which One Nation has vowed to amend, was not
negotiable.
"There can be no Government. One Nation has made it
clear they will not support our Budget, they therefore would not support
supply and that would make government unworkable," Mr Borbidge said.
"The most likely outcome, should One Nation get the
balance of power, is you wouldn't be able to form a government so the only
possible outcome would be a subsequent election."
Mr Borbidge said that even if One Nation voted to pass
the Coalition's Budget in a hung parliament, an election would be called
as soon as any legislation was rejected.
But One Nation's new Queensland leader, community worker
Heather Hill, insisted her party would reach a compromise with one of the
major parties to govern in a hung parliament.
"I think, given time, they will understand it will
work," she said.
"I really believe that Mr Borbidge and Mr Beattie are
adult enough to sit down with One Nation members to discuss how the government
will run after the election."
Ms Hill refused to say if the Coalition's policies
were more appealing to One Nation than Labor's, and said the party would
urge its supporters not to give preferences to other candidates.
"It's only after an election that we can see what is
realistic, what is achievable and from there we'll make a decision," she
said.
Despite his warning about the instability that would
be caused by One Nation holding the balance of power, Mr Borbidge said he
would still be recommending that it receive Coalition preferences ahead of
Labor.
Scott McLay, the National candidate in the Labor-held
marginal seat of Hervey Bay, where One Nation is polling strongly, said he
was likely to recommend that One Nation receive second preference, with Labor
third. But he would wait until election nominations closed at 4pm today before
making a final decision.
"If it is just the three candidates, I'll probably
put Labor at the bottom because it's a Labor-held seat and I want to win
this election," he said.
Opposition leader Peter Beattie said he was prepared
to lose crucial votes by rejecting support from One Nation and attacked the
Premier for "decorating" his stance on the controversial party with threats
of a second poll.
Mr Beattie scoffed at the Premier's suggestion he would
call a second election if One Nation opposed the Budget, predicting he would
"cling to power" by altering it rather than returning to the polls.
Gweilo
Subject: Ron Hardy
I hope the Courier Mail’s Neil Wiseman has the
decency to publicly apologise when he finds out the truth about Ron Hardy’s
V.C., if he bothers to. All this was aired some time ago and the only reason
that the gutter press would bring it up now is because the establishment
has finally realised that ON is a serious threat to their hold over the
Australian people.
The so- called political adviser to Pauline Hanson
, Mr. David Oldfield has shown his true colours and ON supporters would do
well to take note.
Ron Hardy is far from being a well man, what happened
to him during the war is taking its toll , but he has worked tirelessly for
One Nation since its conception, spending thousands of dollars of his own
money promoting the cause and now this wimp doesn’t want to know him!
How much of Mr. Oldfield’s money has been spent on the same cause?
I daresay Ron would be wondering if the years he spent
fighting for the likes of Oldfield were worth it . I doubt it Ron , I really
doubt it .
Alan Esson.
Subject: Snouts in the trough
Dear Sir,
Your correspondent of yesterday, namely Louise Hogg
must take First Prize as bleeding heart of the week. I wonder if her nose
grew a little longer when she said "The Aborigines do not want much. They
are not in it for the money". I suggest that Louise do a little research
into the Aborigines who don't want much and get back to these pages and explain
to us just what the native title claims all over the continent are about.
While on the job Louise may like to have a read of the Aboriginal Treaty
draughted in 1988 and explain some of the finer points of that proposal to
her fellow Australians. Go on a little further Louise and tell us who "Everyone
else in Australia" may be as I have never seen nor met one of them.
Allan W. Doak
Subject: marks royal commission scandal
If it was such a cover-up by the mainstream media,
why then was Carmen Lawrence so consistently highlighted by the media in
the lead-up to the 1996 election?
This effectively blows apart your conspiracy theory
in relation to the Marks Royal Commission.
Tom
Commonwealth Bank gone to the dogs.
Once the Commonwealth Bank was owned by Australians. Since the Bank was sold
off by the ALP in the early 90s it has become foreign owned through an
amendment to the financial
services industry agreement approved by the Federal Coalition in
December last year.
Commonwealth has now confirmed that it has closed 222 branches around Australia
in the last three years - more than one a week.
Another perfect day in paradise.
Have a good one.
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Personal trivia, from
the global
office:
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
MIGA - son of MAI
exposed - 8th May
Just me and Pauline - 5th May
One Nation breakfast
- 4th May
Just who are the
Mont Pelerin
Society - 3rd May
The Internet and
the DEATH of the MAI - 30th April
Launch of Pauline
Hanson's re-election campaign - 29th April
Second One Nation
protest surprises Bob McMullan - 28th April
Sultan
of Brunei buys up big tracks of Australia - then negotiates Indonesian
"settlements" 25th April
Maritime
Union of Australia win in the Federal Court 22nd April
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