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Thursday 4th September 1997
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It goes without saying that the four pillars of Australia's Trojan Horse are currently feeding off each other to the detriment of every Australian who has the power to vote.
The link above demonstrates exactly how powerful that hold is over the men and women who are supposed to represent all Australians but in effect jump to the every whim of just an elite handful whose media power is now so great that they can shape the way in which you and I think about matters through distortion and biased reporting.
A disgusting criminal case has resulted in a mother and father being found guilty yesterday in an Ipswich Court of procuring their 11 year old daughter for sex.
Judge John Robertson described the trial as one of the most distressing one could wish to encounter saying, "You may in your lifetime never come across a case so distressing".
The man who paid Au$20 to rape their daughter was a 67 year old lawnmower mechanic, Roy Schloss. Schloss has been found guilty of two cases of attempted rape, one count of rape and one count of procuring a child for unlawful carnal knowledge.
The three, who pleaded not guilty, will be sentenced on September 11th.
Foot in mouth Foreign Minister Alexander Downer is to attend Princess Diana's funeral as Australia's official representative. The funeral will take place on Saturday with about 2.5 billion people from around the world expected to watch the event on television.
Making the
news" -Secretary Bill Kelty told an ACTU Congress in Brisbane, "Why is this a campaign against the union? I didn't think it was a crime in this country to be inefficient."
This after it was earlier revealed that union dockside workers in Sydney move only half the containers shifted in the most productive ports around the world.
"We are not in the business of protecting people who won't and can't change," Kelty continued.
"But the day we give away that support is the day we rip out our own heart and leave it pumping with irrelevancy."
Kelty was also critical with the Australian Labor Party saying that its previous efforts to reform the waterfront "for an instant forgetting the debt" owed to the workers for militant support provided in the past.
Howard responded yesterday to Kelty's call saying that the threat to strike was exactly the reason why people were leaving the trade union movement.
The Prime Minister said that dock workers on salaries of Au$30,000 were walking home with between Au$80 to Au$90,000 per annum because of overtime - as a result of inefficiency.
"You are talking about the elite of the trade union movement," Howard said.
An interesting development at this ACTU Congress was the invitation, for the first time, for Democrats leader Cheryl Kernot to speak. She took the opportunity to say that the Democrats would take a stand against any further attempts by the Coalition to deregulate the labor market resulting in "unacceptable erosion of workers wages and conditions".
Courier Mail Page 6
"Jet Lag Blamed"
Aboriginal leader Ken Colbung has denied reports that he believes Diana's death to be a "punishment" for Britain for its treatment of his people. Mr Colbung was speaking when tired and jetlagged after a long flight home from Britain after retrieving the head of Aboriginal hero Yagan, and his reported words did not reflect his true thoughts, his spokesman said yesterday.
BTW Mr Colbung is a member of the mailing list I gave you earlier in August. The rhetoric he used when exiting his plane are frequently used on that list. I suppose he forgot he was talking to reporters..
Shane
The Nyungah tribe, of which Ken Colbung is a member, has its own web site... perhaps the racist statement on its home page sums up the sick one-sided racist debate that dominates the pages of the mainstream media. "The smell of the whiteman is killing us." But I better not call it racist... my apologies Ken, its all about reconciliation isn't it?Editor.
Subject: USA exports
Dear Sir,
My Moorooka friend clipped and sent me the pictures from
the Courier-Mail, of Lorenzo Evins, "Ex-Panther jailed in
Brisbane" and Nancy Lynn Patton, "US trade guru familiar
with Hanson".
After reading the details of Evins' proposed
Sydney Olympic 2000 boycott, I am convinced that anyone
who does not come to Sydney Olympics because of it, will
be doing Sydney a favor.
Nancy Patton was in Australia representing our own left
leaning Clinton Government. A great deal more potential harm
to Australia as a whole could be done, if your leaders take advice from
her and her ilk that are sent by Clinton's team for visits.
John Hamilton
Subject: Comments on Australian News of the Day
Oh, Come on!!! Get some CLUES!!!!!!!!! Why doesn't Pauline Hanson act
like other politicians probably would have, and have done so in the past,
and just bloody ignored it! How do you think the people of Australia think
about her outburst regarding Aboriginals and Homosexuals?? Maybe they
should try and take her to court!
I wonder how Cheryl Kernot would take to being put into song with the words that Pauline Hanson landed up with... you can bet one thing for sure and that is that the media would have treated the story differently.
Editor
Have a great day.
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