Friday 13th December 1996
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Dodson said, "How dare a Prime Minister of Australia say Aboriginal people are hurting reconciliation simply by exercising their rights?
"I think that much of what they say, and I analyse it in my reports, accords with the views that are expressed by her (Pauline Hanson).
"When you look at the things that, particularly, Mt Howard has said, they're almost identical to what the Member for Oxley says."
Well just maybe on some issues - like the misappropriation of tax payer funds provided to ATSIC they have reason to voice the same tune....
Mr Howard last night hit back at Mr Dodson saying that his comments were "intemperate and immoderate".
Howard said, "Mr Dodson's remark do no justice to indigenous Australians nor the process of reconciliation."
Mr Dodson's comments were part of a furious outburst in Canberra where he was launching the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Commission's (ATSIC) fourth annual report.
Mr Reith has introduced amendments into Parliament to restrict eligibility for stress claims, which rose in cost by more than 54% to Au$37 million in the three years to 1994-95.
The crackdown has coincided with a Community and Public Sector Union survey of about 1100 Australian Tax Office employees which shows that more than 32% took leave in the past year because of stress!
As in the West our MP for Kalgoorie has an reputation for making blunt, ill-informed statements, I would have predicted many West Australians would have dismissed comments Mr Campbell might have made of Asians buying up our land some devious conspiracy, as being the rumblings of a man who has spent too long in the Nullabor sun. Myself included.
The funny thing is that there *were* strange happenings involving one group of Japanese property investors, that seemed too far-fetched to be reality. Yet the Japanese Aum Shinri-kyo cult, who carried out the 22nd March 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo underground, had before managed to operate a clandestine chemical-testing labratory for several years -right in Mr. Campbell's constituency - without ever being investigated.
Martin Landauer.
It is a massive windfall for policy holders with Au$8 billion across the board being added to the value of their policies.
The report was commissioned by the Institute of Chartered Accountants coming up with the following weekly spending habits over the last twenty years: (in Au$)
| Item | 1975-76 | 1984 | 1988-89 | 1993-94 |
| Beer | $4.76 | $7.47 | $9.74 | $9.29 |
| Wine | $0.94 | $2.26 | $3.07 | $3.76 |
| Tobacco | $3.70 | $5.73 | $6.89 | $9.19 |
| Video Hire | N/A | $0.66 | $1.16 | $1.43 |
| Films/theatre | N/A | $1.21 | $1.63 | $2.48 |
| Restaurants | $3.03 | $7.68 | $10.64 | $17.36 |
| Takeaways | $2.95 | $7.48 | $12.35 | $11.95 |
| Gambling | $1.52 | $3.26 | $3.55 | $5.17 |
Oh life is so hard.... have a great day wherever you might be!
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