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One Nation members respond to Sun Herald article 

The following is an extract from an article that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday:

Fear and loathing splits One Nation By GREG ROBERTS

"Mrs Pauline Hanson's One Nation party is in turmoil, with rebel members forming a rival party and police investigations involving her supporters under way in three States and federally.

"The party of the Independent MP for Oxley shows signs of imploding amid allegations being levelled by members against each other ranging from secretly taping private telephone conversations to making animal pornography videos.

"The rebel party, the Australian One Nation Party, was launched at a meeting yesterday in Cessnock attended by 75 people.

"Representatives from eight Queensland branches and three South Australian branches of the Hanson party met simultaneously in Rockhampton and Adelaide to endorse the rebels.

"The new party claims to be backed by the leadership of 67 of Mrs Hanson's 220 branches.

"In a move which could erode the already falling support for Mrs Hanson at the next election, the rebels plan to stand candidates for the Senate and House of Representatives in direct competition with her candidates.

"The breakaway party is being established in response to what the rebels describe as the "ruthless" suppression of dissident opinion by the One Nation party leadership, comprising Mrs Hanson, her senior adviser, Mr David Oldfield, and the national director, Mr David Ettridge.

"Mr Peter Archer said he was sacked as Hunter Valley region organiser last month largely because of concerns he expressed about the growing influence in the party of right-wing extremists, particularly Mr Tony Pitt, publisher of the journal Wake Up Australia.

Mr Peter Archer was the ambitious convener of the launch of Pauline Hanson's One Nation branch at Newcastle in may this year - what is ironic is that David Ettridge supplied us with the report on the launch. Here is an  extract:

"We closed the meeting with everyone singing Advance Australia with a level of patriotism and emotion that is rarely seen. The verdict? Pauline Hanson won the hearts of at least 1500 Newcastle residents and at the next election they have at least one chance to vote for someone who will make some changes to their lives and futures."

I have had reports from several people who attended Sunday's meeting of the rebel group. Interesting that all of them are staunch One Nation members who just went there to cause trouble for Archer. It appears they succeeded. Only 75 people turned up after Archer had promised in his promotional material that "at least 160 would attend".

Of those that turned  up all but a few made Archer's new "Australian One Nation Party" inaugural meeting a joke, with the meeting breaking down half way through and large numbers of people leaving - leaving just a small core of Archer supporters.

As David Ettridge put it, "You get a handful of members going against the party and the media makes it out as if the whole party has deserted Pauline Hanson's One Nation." The claims highlighted above are totally refuted and my intelligence is that Archer has totally blown it - not just with Pauline Hanson's One Nation but with the other .....

Well, that's the "credible" Australian media for you.

An update and interview on this story is now on-line.

The Queensland State Coalition tell porkies.

For Queensland readers this is a must read story. It tells of the Coalition rushing through special legislation on the last day of Parliament to stifle the objections of local residents in Warwick against the development of a Au$70 million foreign owned piggery farm.

Danpork entered the Australian pig market when they bailed out ex-Prime Minister Paul Keating from his financially disasterous move into pig farming.

Here is a small extract from the full story, a poem by Tony Price:

The Pork Sandwich

I heard some disturbing talk
about a project called Danpork.

Don’t you worry about the smell
it’s so high tech you can’t tell.

Say there’s water there to spare
so throw your hats up in the air.

Now foreign ownership’s all the trend
the smell over there we cannot send.

Ozone friendly - so they say
like the smell of new mown hay.

Tell Shire elections are next year
‘cos glossy brochures in full gear.

See Keating's role in getting foreign-owned Danpork a foothold in Australia.

Cheryl Kernot the king muckraker - Janet Powell

The woman who gave away the leadership of the Democrats to join the Australian Labor Party was all the news yesterday with the jaundiced ALP journalists showing their true colours in reports that praised a woman who should be rightfully scorned for the way she handled the revelation of her schoolboy affair expose.

Yesterday this is what Kernot trumpeted to anyone who would listen, "I think this is the politics of muckraking at its worst and it's the kind of thing that deters good people, decent people from nominating for public office in this country."

Today we learn that Kernot is the king of muckrakers. When she had her eyes set on the leadership of the Democrats she plunged a few well aimed knives at her senior member Janet Powell in 1991 effectively killed Powell's chances of the leadership putting Kernot next in line. Rumours were spread about Powell's affair with another Democrat Senator, Sid Spindler, by Kernot and her cohorts.

"Cheryl's complaints of muckraking are ironic to say the least when this was exactly the process engaged in, against me, by Cheryl and her supporters in their successful campaign to remove me from the Democrat leadership in 1991," said Powell on Channel Seven last night.

How about this abuse of power by Kernot:

"Then Bornhurst (a sacked ABC journalist who had claimed wrongful dismissal) heard a whisper that Kernot had been asked to do what her more honourable colleagues were not prepared to do - table the (unsubstantiated ABC dirt file on Bornhurst) file in the Senate and thus give it the parliamentary privilege required for the muck to be published."

Yesterday we learnt that Kernot was 27 when she embarked on the affair with a student, Tony Sinclair, who was legally just able to drive a car. Sinclair is now executive producer of Channel Nine Sport.

Snivelling Kernot has laid the muckraking attack at the feet of the Liberal Party... who only hold the seat of Dickson in Queensland by a very narrow margin. I can now reveal that incumbent Dickson member, Liberal MP Tony Smith, contacted me on Thursday last week.

Then we have Mr Terry Sweetman, the columnist in the Courier Mail who mixes stories with opportunities to have a go at Hanson. Under the heading "What's the big deal about an old affair," Sweetman says:

"Australians should be enormously encouraged by the news that renegade Democrat now Labor-hopeful Cheryl Kernot had a red-hot love affair with a former student some decades ago.

"It would make a wonderful change if we were to have a parliament full of people with warm blood coursing through their veins instead of the ice water of economic rationalism and social Darwinism.

"A tender love affair between a young teacher (and a good sort, too judging by the photographs) and a handsome young former school captain seems to me to be somewhat foolish but still more wholesome than some of the unauthorised grappling that wisdom would tell us passes for romance in the halls of power."  etc...etc... etc...

What a load of... you know what!

Isn't it amazing when this same paper tried a snow job on Pauline Hanson over unsubstantiated allegations resulting from her bitter ex-husband's comments no one came to her support.

Here we have substantiated claims - and from what I can gather this is just the tip of a big iceberg... and the bleeding hearts are already running to Kernot's defence like she is some vulnerable little lamb not the dangerous, self-seeking political animal that she really is.

Give me a  break Sweetman!

On Race, a Court Transformed - affirmative action in the US.

Extract from the Washington Post:

"The Piscataway school board case would have taken the Supreme Court into the nation's workplace, both public and private, and potentially created an opportunity for the justices to limit the role that affirmative action plays there.

For that reason, civil rights groups intervened with a $433,000 deal to pay off the white teacher so that she would drop her suit. She had been laid off by the school board to save the job of an equally qualified black teacher in the interest of racial diversity. A federal appeals court ruled that the white teacher had been subject to illegal discrimination and that racial diversity can never be sufficient legal grounds for such an employment decision."

Mahathir falls on his sword.

It is sad, no a tragedy to see Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad fall on his sword yesterday.

After speaking out so strongly about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the money power brokers like George Soros earlier this year, Mahathir went begging to the IMF for support.

He, together with other Asian leaders, meeting during the 30th anniversary of ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations) released a report which read:

"It is therefore urgent that global efforts be undertaken (to support our currencies), including the central role of the IMF, to arrest the currency slide and restore stability to the currency  markets."  

Political:

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Coalition	41%	40%	37%	39%	39%	39%	43%	42%	43%	41%	42%	43%	42%	42	43%	44%	43%	41%	47%
ALP	41%	44%	45%	43%	45%	45%	39%	37%	37%	40%	39%	37%	36%	40%	37%	36%	37%	37%	38.7%
One Nation	3%	2%	4%	3%	2%	3%	3%	5%	4%	4%	5%	6%	7%	6%	6%	7%	7%	9%	N/A
Democrats	5%	5%	3%	4%	4%	5%	5	5%	6%	5%	5%	4%	5%	4%	6%	3%	5%	4%	6.8%
Greens	3%	2%	2%	2%	1%	1%	2%	1%	2%	3%	2%	2%	3%	2%	2%	2%	1%	2%	1.7%
Others	7%	7%	9%	9%	9%	7%	8%	10%	8%	7%	7%	8%	7%	6%	8%	8%	7%	7%	5.8%

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Subject: Ethnic Cleansing

The following is a copy of a posting I made to aus.politics, but the content of what Thisk had to say - coming from such an august authority with a degree from the university of life - on the ethics of journalism and the complete failure of the theories, and practice of, ideologies that persist today, was of such import, that I thought you might like to use what he said - or what he may further want to say - as a demolisher of the dream time stuff that is infecting the minds of many naive - or less experienced - Aussies. viz:

There are some valuable lessons that COULD be learned (but probably will not, simply because ideologues can not be wrong in their own minds, as they have the answers to humanity's problems, and degrees to prove their superior knowledge) from an interview with Robert Thisk by Phillip Adams on Late Night Live tonight (Mon. Dec. 15).

Auntie does not do a transcript of LNL for reasons best known to herself, but if you get a chance to hear it, make a tape of it, and play it continuously - FULL VOLUME - in the ears of any do-gooder preaching the good news of their brand of salvation for the world; you will not convert them from their folly, any more than you could convert an economic or christian fundamentalist from theirs, but at least Thisk will drown out their diatribe!

Omega

Omega

Business:

The Australian dollar and gold continue their free fall with the Au$ dropping to another four year low at below 66 cents and gold to just Au$284.

Personal trivia, from the global office:

Another beautiful day in paradise.

Have a great day.

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