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Between the One Nation lines

The dirty tricks of the Labor Party at the recent Queensland State Election are now coming home to bite the minority Beattie government. anotd readers will recall how the Labor Party used the same dirty tricks to confuse voters in Heather' Hill's seat of Ipswich - with Labor's David Hamill just squeezing back in with a few hundred votes.

Like in Ipswich the Labor used bogus "How to Vote cards" (the Ipswich card seen right) in the seat of Mansfield. The sitting Liberal candidate lost by 83 votes - he was able to show the court that a number of voters had been deliberately duped by the bogus How to Vote cards.

Labor's member, Phil Reeves, who took the seat was represented by QC Walter Soronoff who had this to say to the Court of Disputed Returns, "It is doubtful there is any election anywhere in Australia which does not include some misbehaviour on all sides.

Earlier in the week the court decided that there was a case to answer. With D'Arcy the Labor MP for the seat of Woodridge and Reeves in Mansfield likely to face new by-elections the minority Labor government is looking decidedly shaky. The Liberals would most probably regain Mansfield and One Nation the seat of Woodridge.

Meanwhile Peter James, who stood in for David Oldfield as Pauline Hanson's media adviser for a while has found the stress and strain a bit much - as he was also running the State Party as well as policy development. Peter is taking a back seat for a while - returning to the more mundane role of leading the State Party.

Heather Hill has taken up the role of Pauline's political adviser following her recent selection as number choice in Queensland for One Nation in the Senate.

Media marginalising

The tightly controlled Australian media was at its deceptive best this week with Pauline Hanson's One Nation tax policy being ridiculed as unworkable - even though it was quite clearly presented as a discussion document and an alternative to the policies put forward by Laboral factions.

These factions with the GST, and god know's what Labor's actually represents except for a grab bag of promises, have been given good coverage by Murdoch's mob with comparisons on how their packages would affect different sectors of the voting public. No such luck for the One Nation alternative - although the figures have been given.

The One Nation tax package has got to be separated from the Laboral policies and marginalised as "loopy". Luckily with a month to go in the campaign people will start realising that the 2%EasyTax does really represent a real starting point alternative for a fairer tax.

Yesterday further information including examples of EasyTax work were posted on the Internet.

Media start focussing on the One Nation website

Over 200,000 hits have been recorded on the One Nation web site since the tax policy was launched just two days ago.

The phenomenal interest in One Nation and the ability for people to see unedited information free of journalistic editing has obviously got the "gentlemen" of the press in a right royal frothy.

Yesterday I had a number of phone calls from reporters looking for angles to discredit the web page content and to try to link me, personally, to racist comments.

Mid-afternoon I had a call from Matt Horan  from Canberra who was phoning about comments which appeared in the Australian Financial Review yesterday. The reporter had picked up on a page which said that a candidate had said at a recent state meeting that "it is okay to lie to the media". The page has since been removed.

Earlier this week I referred to how the media will re-gurgitate and re-gurgitate yet again negative stories about One Nation... here we have a classic example of a really trivial issue when compared with the Labor Party staffer from Beazley's office being involved in the hacking of the Liberal Party web site - a story which has died after the currency of just one day.

Later that same day I had a call from Chris Griffiths of The Sunday Mail - who have suddenly found renewed interest in the One Nation web site.

Griffiths faxed me a copy of an article that appeared this month in "Anglican News". Now before relating the story let me tell readers that I am an Anglican - my wife goes to the local church every Sunday.

The article is headed: "Party HQ email shows "racist" sentiments".

Focus Exclusive by Paul Osborne

A person using the official email address for the Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party national office has posted racist comments on a "newsgroup".

"Newsgroups" are email discussion groups in which one person poses a question or "posts" a comment and others respond to it.

The email poster who signed off as "Pauline Hanson", sent three email comments to the soc.culture.australia newsgroup on May 5 this year.

One of the emails read: "Vote for the One Nation Party. Say NoNo (sic) to Asian immigration. Pauline Hanson, One Nation Party."

Another, replying to an email from a 21 year old Singaporean man looking for a pen-pal, said: "Go away you (expletive) chin. Australia doesnot (sic) want you. (Expletive) off you yellow (expletive. Pauline Hanson."

A third, replying to a Thai man looking for contracts in Perth, said: "In this case you need to go to a thai newsgroup. You should know no more Yellow (sic) people are allowed in Australia. Go away yellow man. Pauline Hanson."

A spokesman for the creators of the party's web site, Global Web Builders, Scott Balson, confirmed the email address (onenation@bigpond.com.au) was that owned by the party's national office in Manly, NSW and is used by party director David Ettridge.

Mr Ettridge told Focus he did not personally use email but his email was managed by Mr Balson.

One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson's email address, according to parliamentary records, is .....

The emails also allegedly breach the Telstra Big Pond (the Internet Service Provider which owns the bigpond.com domain) member agreement, which subscribers accept upon registration.

The member agreement says, in part: "You must not use the service in a way which interferes with other users or defames, harasses or menaces anyone.

"You must not use the service to send unsolicited or unwelcome electronic mail messages to anyone."

Griffiths wanted to know if I had originated the email - which I had not. Subsequent investigations by a One Nation supporter have revealed that the posts were made by someone at netspace - the host for a slime known as James Nguyen who tried to close down my business early last year by contacting my clients. Here is Mr Nguyen's anti-Hanson web page.

So here you have it folks, my church naming me and finding me guilty by implication of being a racist after being judge, jury and executioner simply because of my association with the party.

Oh, and Mr Griffiths seemed to lose all interest in the story when it appeared that the poster was of Asian descent. One wonders if they will bother with the story in The Sunday Mail tomorrow.

Pauline's first day on the campaign trail

Pauline spent her first day meeting the people of Blair yesterday. She made a tour of the centre, handing out leaflets explaining her Easytax package along the way.

Attempts to doorknock a nearby street were less successful with Miss Hanson complaining people did not want to talk to her with reporters and camera crews in tow.

She retreated to her car and then told reporters she would go back to her office to do some work, inviting them to come back and work out how she could handle media demands.

She has suggested she may hold more public meetings in Blair so people can approach her and discuss issues and says she will provide journalists with more details of her itinerary.

Howard challenged over attack on 4X4 tax

The Federal Opposition leader has challenged the Prime Minister to explain why he is attacking Labor's increased sales tax on four- wheel-drives when he wants to put a GST on second-hand vehicles.

Standing beside a four-wheel-drive worth more than $90,000, Mr Howard said yesterday he knew many Australians who could afford one.

Mr Beazley says the Prime Minister is out of touch with the real battlers.

"I mean it'd be nice if Mr Howard, in his efforts to convey a $90,000 four-wheel-drive vehicle as a battler's car, had walked down the road to a second-hand car yard selling four-wheel-drives, second hand and other passenger motor vehicles which in fact 70 per cent of Australians buy, and explain to them why he thought it was a good idea to put a new consumption tax on their second-hand car," he said.

Financial Crises Could Stall Capitalism's Global March

Here is an extract from the Washington Post article:

As the crisis roiling global financial markets spreads and intensifies, signs increasingly suggest it could deal a historic setback to the advance of Western-style capitalism.

The most obvious illustration is Russia. After the virtual collapse of the country's economy last month, pro-Western forces are in full retreat and speculation abounds that socialist policies will be revived.

Another example is Malaysia, which this week effectively cut itself off from global financial markets by imposing tight controls on the flow of capital across its borders. The country had thrived over most of the past decade by welcoming investments by U.S., Japanese and European firms. But Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, furious over the selling wave that has sunk the Malaysian currency and stock market, decreed that the currency -- the ringgit -- could no longer be freely traded.


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Subject: Queensland elections, etc.

Congratulations on the results of the Queensland elections. You're on your way! We in Canada have a party called the Reform Party, which is trying to change the way Canada is governed. When the Party was formed in 1987, it had to endure the same thing you have had to go through: calls of "racist", "bigots", etc. As of the last federal election, the Reform Party is now the Official Opposition of the parliament of Canada. Many Canadians are still too short-sighted (or stupid) to realize the reality of what is happening in Canada. Just like in Australia, the media and political "elites", especially those French-speaking politicians from the province of Quebec, have pulled the wool over the eyes of the populace for a long time. Some of the people are just very slow in perceiving the truth! They have to be worked on. We have a divisive "official bilingualism", a divisive "official multiculturalism", "Human Rights Commissions", "Hate Laws", and a lot of other stuff that is anti-free speech and anti-democratic. Hopefully, you will prevail, and will be an example to those of us in Canada who are striving for the return of true democracy, and working against the threat of globalism and the "new world order". Please add me to your info list, since I can disseminate info to a lot of other Canadians, who will gain confidence from your successes. Keep up the great work! Never falter! Truth is on your side.

John DeRinzy
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Subject: EasyTax and exports

Hi

I read with interest your web page about the EasyTax proposal. I guess I don't have the advantage of having thought about it as much as you have, but it seems to me that our exports won't be able to compete on foreign markets and our local producers won't be able to compete with imports. This is because by the time local products hit the markets the 2% may well have been paid many times - which would hit rural producers really hard, and when we try to compete overseas the same problem will arise.

Could you please explain to me how it works? All I get in the media is the same old stuff about One Nation being irrational and I've had a gutful. I guess the web page is designed for economists and journalists and so on, but I haven't been to University and I work for an organisation that helps people find jobs. We really need some change in this country and I want to vote for you, but this kind of change really scares me.

Thank you and good luck with the campaign

Shon Fry

Subject: One Nation Tax Proposal - A Critique

There seems to be a reasonable assumption out there that businesses have no scruples at all and no desire to better themselves. I for one who is part of a partnership tiny business have for some years had the need of an extra staff member within the office area, but have not been able to afford this. Periodically we get a casual in. To me this taxing system would allow me at the very least to spend the savings via tax concessions to offer a position that until now we have been unable to. So from just one tiny two person business ON has employed,at the very least a good casual position with some certainty and given future success of the system probably a full time position. Now this is a real story so you tell me it does not work.

As far as big companies and monopolies doing all that is necessary so as to attract a once only 2% tax from manufacture to retail, surely legislation to cover this situation could be enacted. e.g.

If a a company wishes to follow the above course to allow it to retail it's manufactured goods at more than one outlet, then under enacted deeming laws for such a situation, it would be deemed that this company was in fact carrying out all facets of such a business and would then attract a tax rate of 2% X whatever the accepted number of levels the act deemed would normally have been carried out at. IF WE CAN DEEM AN ELDERLY PERSONS PENSION IN THE CURRENT SYSTEM WE SURE AS HELL CAN DEEM A CORPORATIONS TAX LIABILITY UNDER ONE NATION'S TAX SYSTEM.

Duane Langley

Subject: Tax

Please get some help from some "numbers person" for your wonderfull new approch to tax.

I think it would be great.

Keep going.

Good Luck
R. A. Wenham

Subject: tax

Obviously the 2% EasyTax (designed by a real engineer, not a priest of some voodoo religion) is the right tax for Australia; the right people are squealing this time - the parasites.

Omega

Subject: Congratulations

I saw Pauline on Ray Martin's show last night. She did marvellously! And with a polished professional.

She is the first person to give the major political parties a kick in the pants in my lifetime of seeing them become more and more detached and arrogant.

What is your policy on public funding of election campaigns? I think it has made the "Laboral" party, as I call the two colluding parties, less dependent on their grass roots support.

Whatever her success, Pauline will certainly go down as the bravest person in parliament in my lifetime.

Tom Marriott

Subject: Malasia

Hi-There

It seems as though that Australia can now take two leaves out oh Malasia,s book.

Death penalty for drug pushers and control on our finances.

Since Keating floated the Dollar, things have got a lot worse.

Whoever wins the elections should peg the dollar once more, and remove international control of our country.

Peter
Geraldton

Subject: RaceWatch

Whatever happened to RaceWatch? There we all were, vying with each other to be outed and named as racists for expressing our views on assimilation versus multiculturalism.

Don't tell me our defiance has taken the fun out it for those bullies. Were they looking forward to having us grovel before them? Did they really expect red-blooded Australians - the most freedom-loving people in the world - to take that crap? As if.

Antonia

Subject: FINAL RACEWATCHER REPORT NO 3:

Dear Scott,

It is with some regret that I must inform you that the warnings of Mr S.E Wagger in yesterdays ANOTD have unfortunately been proven correct. On my arrival home on Friday afternoon I deeply shocked to find my '' RACEWATCH '' (Pty Ltd ) company supplied 4WD Range Rover ( very similar to the one the battlers friend, Little Johnny Howard, was photographed with in Cairns recently) had been removed from my garage during my absence.

At first I suspected theft but shortly afterwards a phone call from my Bank Manager informing me that my expense account was overdrawn and that the cheque I had issued to the Jet Set Travel Agency for two first class airline tickets to Cairns had bounced !!!!!!!! I guessed that my next mission had been terminated !

If there is anyone out there who has employment for one very diligent EX RACEWATCH agent could you please leave details with Scott ( I regret to say references may be a problem ) . Is there any future in freelance racewatching ?

Steve

Subject: Farmers hit again on their capital assets....

Under the Coalition GST plan, farmers WILL pay a 10% GST less input costs on the development profits of a property that is sold as 5 acre non farming lots or for residential use. So if you have a nice holding near a town or city, & have been calculating your potential development property, be warned.

It works like this. Say you buy a property for $100,000. You spend $220,000 (includes GST) in development costs. You sell all the development for $1,000,000 all up. Your GST is calculated on the "margin system". That is, $900,000 (differential between the purchase & final price) at 10% is $90,000. Less the $20,000 input cost, which is refunded. So you are now out of pocket $70,000. It is also not realistic to say that you can "add the GST on", as the market will only bear a certain price. To top it off, once you have been parted of your GST, you then pay Capital Gains Tax.

2% Easytax is looking better all the time.....

Pauline-The first honest politician?

I have just read the "Simplicity or ignorance?" discussion thread, and I wonder - simplicity or ignorance? Is that the only two choices we have when we're searching for an explanation to this whole Hanson phenomenon? I hope not. For a start, I wouldn't like to call one quarter of my fellow Queenslanders "simple" and/or "ignorant". I like to think that it's a sense of fairness, and not just a healthy instinct of self-preservation, that causes me to feel this way.

However, despite the rather poor choice of title for that discussion thread, there were many interesting points made on both sides.

Unfortunately, at the moment I only have time to address one of them, so here goes (your comments most welcome.)

2% LOANS FOR FARMERS - How on earth can we afford to grant loans to people at an interest rate of 2%, when the going rate in the real world is at least three times as high? Well, I'd answer by saying, how on earth can we afford to keep giving away money (far more than the proposed 250 million dollars farmers and small business loans) to the unemployed, money which is not even required to be repaid, never mind that it's zero interest. Even John Anderson was forced to admit that at least 30 families per week are having to walk away from their farms. We can't afford to let this continue. 2% subsidised loans seem like a good investment in the future of this country, if we can keep more people on the land, and therefore off the "dole".

Interestingly enough, we can lend money at low or zero interest to bail out the currency speculators who destroyed Korea and Indonesia, but not to help our owen farmers to weather out the destruction caused by something far more damaging than droughts and floods - I refer of course to Keating's and Howard's and Beazley's "Globalism" and "Economic Rationalism".

Australian farmers don't want charity. Don't 2% loans sound a whole lot like handouts? Well, no, not when you consider that some of our Australian farmers are having to compete against Canadian or USA or EC farmers who are actually being subsidised by their governments.

Anyway, I look forward to your comments. Thanks.

Alan

Subject: What about the farmers

While I understand the problems that some people have with Pauline Hanson, a common thread seems to be that her party has some genuine concerns for the plight of farmers. This is not to say that her policies are all sound, but a party is supposed to be made up of members who influence the direction and policy formation from the grass roots, not just the leader and everything he/she espouses.

A case in point is the democrats, they started as "Don Chipps" vision of the future and keeping the bastards honest and ended up as the balance of power junkyard dogs yapping at the heels of the major parties.

I was a member of the national party for some 10 years and I saw how the system works. It's difficult to make the politicians answerable to the grass roots. Politicians manipulate what the grass roots wants into something else which fits their own worldview.

The point that I think needs to be said is that the farmers have for too long been neglected by successive governments, fallen victim to falling commodity prices and increasing costs. We cannot afford to let them slip away. As farmers lose their grip on their business and go on the dole queue who will be left to look after the land?

Subject: National Sorry Day

Hi Scott,

When you talk to RN could you please try to get a word in for the non-custodial fathers who will be listening on Sunday. A glimmer of hope may save a life.

I posted this to aus.politics. Thought it would be appropriate on anotd.

Fathers day is fast approaching. Many men will commit suicide this Sunday. It may be a close friend, an acquaintance, a work colleague, or even me.

So while all you 'normal' families enjoy fathers day, spare a thought for the 900,000 NCPs who are putting on a brave face while they are being wrenched apart inside by all the fathers day marketting bullshit.

ALP and Liberal supporters can follow up this post with their own personal apology for their support of the Family Court/Child Support Agency that causes more deaths per year than guns.

Cheers
Tony Hancock

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Another perfect day in paradise.

Have a good one.


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