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Sunday 17th August 1997
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Pauline Hanson's One Nation party will launch a campaign this week targeting three key federal seats in rural New South Wales.

Amongst the seats targeted is that of National Party deputy leader and Federal Primary Industries Minister, John Anderson, who holds the seat of Gwydir.

One Nation will target this and the seats of Parks and Calare.

A shocking dossier on the sex lives of senior Queensland bureaucrats and politicians in the late 1980s has been turned over to authorities. The dossier was maintained by the now jailed commissioner of police, Terry Lewis, during this time. A personal aide of Lewis during the 80s Greg Early denied any knowledge of the dossier which included some quite startling allegations including paedophilia.

Now the Australian Labor Party's cohorts are hosting free classes for people who want to find out about Marxist theory... Don't believe me? Look for yourself!... yes it's that anarchist body Left Link at it again.

On the subject of Left Link another post today takes you to a web site advocating violence.

Here is an extract from an article headed "THE SECOND COMING: AN OPEN LETTER TO REVOLUTIONARIES"

"Violence is a tactic though, not a strategy. We are in favour of mass working class violence, out in the open; not created or led by Class War or others, but developing according to its own dynamic, as a means of self-empowerment, a means amongst others of giving people a belief in their ability to overthrow the state. The violence of a working class community in struggle is always preferable to that of an elitist armed struggle group."

If that doesn't sicken you then try this one:

We believe that a great deal of what we have said politically has been right. Our task is still one of getting rid of capitalism. What we mean by that is getting rid of money, wage labour, commodities, the market system, and all of the other social relations of capitalism. The world we put in its place will be stateless."


Making the news.

Political:

While John Howard was laid up in bed and having meetings with Rupert Murdoch his deputy, Tim Fischer, was creaming it.

Fischer claimed an extra Au$1190 bonus per week while acting in the role - this on top of his normal salary of Au$3,112 per week.

Unlike any other Australians MPs do not have to account for their sick leave - Howard could have taken a couple of months off on full pay and he would have been breaking no laws!

Unions yesterday accused the Federal politicians of hypocrisy saying that the government was cutting back workers sick leave to the minimum of two weeks while nothing was being done to stop the politicians claiming extra sick leave - a hidden bonus of the job.

Another hidden "bonus" of the job for Federal MPs appears to be the guaranteed anonymity when you are caught red-handed by the police in a brothel. The man left the building during a police raid and confirmed that he had used the services of a lady inside.

Queensland police spokesman Terry Swift said yesterday that it was "probable" that the man had done nothing illegal while visiting the New Farm haunt.

So it is interesting that Queensland law carries a maximum sentence of three years jail for a first offence for any person who "without reasonable excuse, is found in, or leaving after having been found in a place suspected on reasonable grounds of being used for the purposes of prostitution by two or more prostitutes".

The cap fits but the position doesn't - ie a Federal MP.

It's also interesting that little Johnny Howard is in Brisbane at the moment... it couldn't be him could it? I guess not - does rather remind me of Graeme Richardson and his little slip with ladies from the oldest profession known to man.

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You say:

Subject: Comments on Australian News of the Day

The Australian government has proved that it is all for Profits before people.

They give $1.35b to help the Thai economy while most of North Korea starves to death, The difference is that Thailand will pay back the loan with interest while helping North Korea only helps save human lives and earn a few Brownie points with voters.

And what about helping out in your own back yard, 2000 jobs to go in Newcastle over the next couple of years and they only get $5m to help their economy.

Wake up Little Johnny, Australia needs some fair dinkum solutions to their own economic problems before we go bailing out some other country.

Steve

Subject: Dictators

So little Johnny Howard and his fellow traveller Labor, Democrat, National and Green parties consider using the military against the unions. Now we see the real reason for gun control that we are led to believe the average mug in Oz voted for (probably they did too, they are stupid enough).

Of course they would use the military to enforce the policies of transnational corporations, seeing that those companies, their banks and media, bought the government anyway, after all, that is the way 'Democracy' works.

The mugs now get what they voted for: Third World living standards and wages, and if they do not like it, then out comes the military in a typical Third World government's style, and those same mugs will easily believe (the corporate media will tell them so) that it is only to control recalcitrant unions, then the guns will be put away.

I wonder how many in China will protest to Canberra about human rights when we have another Eureka Stockade massacre.

Ormond Thomas

Subject: Launch of One Nation at Geelong

I THINK PAULINE HANSON IS AN ABSOLUTE FXXXHEAD AND IF SHE CAN HONESTLY BELIEVE HER IGNORANT VIEWS HAVE ANY PLACE IN AUSTRALIA THEN SHE IS AN EVEN BIGGER FXXXHEAD. DOESN'T SHE REALISE THAT IT IS ALL THE DIFFERENT CULTURES AND DIVERSITY OF AUSTRALIA THAT MAKES IT SUCH A GREAT COUNTRY. SHE SHOULD THINK HERSELF LUCKY THAT SHE DOESN'T NEED GOVERNMENT HELP TO STAY ALIVE LIKE MANY ABORIGINES DO, RATHER THAN BE ENVIOUS OF THE SUPPOSED BENEFITS THEY RECEIVE. WAKE UP TO YOURSELF PAULINE, BEFORE THINGS TURN NASTY.

"Tony van Loon" VANSAN@onaustralia.com.au

Well I know what we think of you young man that's why I left your email address up. (By the way this article is censored).

Editor

Social:

Summary of the impact of a General Sales Tax on Australians.

Cheaper: Motor vehicles, computers, jewellery, watches, television sets, stereos, beer, wine, spirits, petrol, soft drinks.

More expensive: Books, medicine, clothing, holidays, restaurant meals, concert tickets, building materials, magazines, and concert tickets.

The General Sales Tax will adversely effect the poor while benefiting the rich.

Personal trivia, from the global office:

Another beautiful day in paradise.

Have a good one.


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