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Tuesday 2nd October 1996
Tuesday 2nd October 1996
Olympic News today find out about the exclusive "Gold Passes" to the Stadium.
The Canberra academics (bureaucrats) and political press are in cahoots pushing out anti-Hanson drivle which has got to be seen to be believed. In today's paper they are calling the Prime Minister to act, saying that his handling of the "Pauline Hanson" issue has been his worst political misjudgement to date.
This because he refuses to tackle her on her stance related to immigration and Aboriginal issues. They claim that there will be a "grass roots backlash" if Hanson is allowed to run the agenda on these issues.... what these journos forget is that most Aussies agree with her general point of view, and she, nor we, are racist.
Pauline Hanson's message: "One people, One nation, One flag"... makes good sense to me, but.....
In a day of heated controvery during which the deputy Prime Minister and leader of the National Party, Tim Fischer, accused Hanson of threatening our relations with Asia, because of her anti-Asian immigration stance, the Mansfield branch of the National Party invited Pauline to address them.
This she did and received a standing ovation after the completion of her talk to a packed room of Nationalist supporters. The Liberal Member for the area, Frank Carroll, presented Pauline Hanson with a bunch of flowers at the end of her talk.
Mr Fischer declined to comment on Mrs Hanson's address to a Queensland branch of his party but National Party Federal President John Paterson defended the decision saying that it was up to individual branches to decide who they wanted to address their meetings.
"Some things Pauline says would get applause at a lot of meetings, but I think that that's a sad reflection on things," Mr Paterson said.
The overall message that Hanson gave was "One people, one nation, one flag".... which the overriding Australian populous agree with yet we still get the silly 5% factor, the Democrats, led by motormouth leader Cheryl Kernot who said that Mrs Hanson's views were blatantly untrue and that, "evil flourishes where good men and women sit and do nothing"..... perhaps that should read "politicians get overpaid, fat and lazy when good men and women sit and do nothing", don't you think Cheryl?
Managing Director Peter Bartells put on a brave face at the AGM saying that the dramatic drop in profitability had nothing to do with poor moral of senior staff allegedly related to the Yannon affair.
The big losers were Myer Grace Brother and K-Mart stores and the failure of the World-4-Kids initiative which has since been scrapped.
Coles Myer shares yesterday slipped 2 cents to Au$4.57.
Rugby League is going back to court again on Friday... there is heaps of background on the fracas between the Australian Rugby League (ARL) and the News Limited led Super League in the news archive... search on Super League.
On Friday Super League is appearing before the Federal Court to appeal against a Au$100 million damages case won by the ARL. Super League is also asking the court to back its entry into rugby league in Australia in 1997.
The historic decision handed down by Justices John Lockhart, Ronald Sackville and John van Doussa at 2.15pm in Federal Court 21A in Sydney on Friday will have a profound effect on the future of Australian sport administration.
The ruling will decide the legality or otherwise under trade practices law of arrangements between many sporting associations and their members to preserve their positions.
Pay TV interests will also be vitally effected with Super League becoming a big attracting for News Limited's Foxtel should their application be successful. However, if they lose, Kerry Packer and Optus will be the big winners.
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