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The launch will take place at a book shop in central Ipswich at 1pm.

The author, Helen Dodd, has invited Ms Hanson who will attend and sign books. She is expected to be accompanied by her political adviser, David Oldfield.

I will cover the event with photographs... this should be up on the net tomorrow.

We predicted, days after the High Court decision on Wik, that the whole thing was going to be a disaster for Australia... and it is.

Now leaders in the Anglican and Catholic Churches have joined the fray - accusing Prime Minister John Howard of upsetting the reconciliation process through his ten point plan on Native Title.

Yesterday Howard sympathised with a call by one of his party, Warren Entsch, who said that farmers in the rural sector should boycott their local churches because of the vocal stand of leaders.

Catholic Church leader Cardinal Edward Clancy called the Government's comments inflammatory and rejected Howard's claim that the church was uninformed.

The Cardinal was responding to the following statement by John Howard in Parliament yesterday, "I understand his (Mr Entsch's) sense of frustration and the sense of frustration of people in rural Australia with the way this debate is being conducted. There is also an obligation on church figures who do enter the debate not to create the impression that they speak on behalf of all adherents of their particular church or denomination."

Independent Senator Harradine joined the fray as a staunch Catholic saying, "They're entitled to uplift the downtrodden, as the founder of the Christian church has done, to bring the good news to the poor."

Brisbane's Anglican Archbishop suggested politicians and his fellow church leaders "to take a cold shower". However others refused to be silenced with the Anglican Bishop of Bathurst saying that the effect of the Bill would be racist. The Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, George Pell, said that the answer to Wik was divisive, while the Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide, Ian George, said that the church had been involved in political debate for centuries and that the church was just speaking out for those who were disadvantaged - if the native title amendments passed through the Senate.

There is a very interesting perspective of what is happening in this country right now - not given by an Australian but by a respondent living in Canada. And he should know because the Canadians now have Nunavut.

So where does Australia go from here - do we slide into division and race based regions... is that one nation, one people?

Here is an extract from Roger's letter:

"Years ago some politician said we were a multicultural society and that we were a melting pot for all cultures.

Later on the term was dropped and it was said that we were a mosaic of cultures. This term was also dropped for a patchwork quilt of cultures. You can see what is happening, and it is true. The pieces of culture are getting bigger."

There is only one way out of this mess. Pauline Hanson summed it up in a Press Release headed "We MUST Extinguish Native Title".

The politically correct are already warning that the media's expose of alleged paedophile Dolly Dunn will result in his trial being aborted because he will have been tried before the courts hear his case.

Perhaps more damaging and relevant is the inefficiency of our Australian Federal Police (AFP) who are supposed to be taking care of the Asian drug peddling problem that we have in this country.

There are claims that the AFP were advised about Dolly Dunn's whereabouts in the Honduras by Honduran Interpol back in February - but have refused to act on the report. The AFP claim that the report only arrived in April and through a strange route.

The AFP only acted on the report this month - just days before the Channel Nine crew from that woeful programme called Sixty Minutes arrived to expose Dunn's hiding place.

Whatever the reasons for the delay the tragedy is that Dunn continued with his activities unhindered right up to this month.

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Subject: Lucky he is Black

Dear Sir,

We are told often that Aborigines are peaceful, gentle people and all their woes are solely the fault of the white man.

In a demonstration of their gentleness, Brendan Chapman beat the stuffing out of a soccer referee (well recorded on video) during a match because he objected to the call.

His excuse for his behaviour was attributed to the recent death of his father and the outcome was a three month jail sentence by the court and a lifetime suspension from the sport governing body.

His wife, in what has become a familiar Aboriginal response, is crying foul. Ultimately every person's father dies and that is a sad time. My father died, but I did not become violent and nor do most people.

If Brendan Chapman had been a White Australian then he would have copped an additional sentence.....one that would stick forever.

Racist.... Mr. Chapman, That is what you would have been called if you were unfortunate enough to have been a White Australian and you would have been racially vilified in the media.

In Mr. Chapman's case, the Human Rights Commission and all the bleeding heart organisations were strangely silent.

It probably comes as no surprise that Brendan Chapman's victim was a White Australian but then we have all come to learn that White Australians are fair game.

Allan Doak

Subject: Comments on the Day of Reckoning

Hi.

I have one question about the "Day of Reckoning" stories. If differences of opinion DO arise within the LOYAL membership of One Nation, how do you propose to deal with it? Would there be a vote, or would it be decided within some committee of the party, or would it be a "conscience" vote of individual MPs?

Marie Seeman

Subject: Comments on Australian News of the Day

Greetings from the great white north of Canada. I decided to look up that Hanson woman and found your web site at the same place. I don't whether you are connected to her or not. I've only read a few things on the Hanson woman and I think she has a good point with her thoughts. Like all thoughts, it starts off meaning well but somewhere along the line it changes. Look at democracy. I don't really think we (in Canada or Aus) have the Democracy that the Greeks first thought of but at least it started. The reason I think Hanson has a point is that I have travelled around the world and found that people generally do NOT get along with each other. Put up with each other, yes! How many couples get along with each other? It is a sad fact, but a fact, that people in general compete constantly with each other and in general there is always a pecking order. Pecking orders are everywhere, whether it is jobs, clothing, money, location, housing and looks etc.etc.

I seem to be wandering a bit but here in Canada we are watching the possible break up of a country. Years ago some politician said we were a multicultural society and that we were a melting pot for all cultures. Later on the term was dropped and it was said that we were a mosaic of cultures. This term was also dropped for a patchwork quilt of cultures. You can see what is happening, and it is true. The pieces of culture are getting bigger.

In Australia you can see it. If the English came over very slowly, you might have some different looking aborigines but because they came over and kept the their own culture they became different from the existing ones. Take a look at the China towns in your big cities. For many years, I believe you had little or no oriental immigrants but their society stayed and got bigger without any new additions. How much blending of societies do people really think takes place??? In Canada, the French were beaten in a war and were taken over by the English. Though they had won the war, the English were greatly outnumbered by the French in Canada .The English Generals decided t make things easier for themselves decided not to implement some of the rules about changing culture and allowed the French to maintain their own culture.

THAT is why we have the problems today in Canada.

That is why a Sikh who joined the RCMP was allowed to wear his turban instead of the flat hat. Canada's traditions are being eroded for everyone else's tradition. Things are happening that we didn't think could be possible. Things that you couldn't even imagine.

So I can understand where Ms Hanson is coming from to a degree. Just look at the USA and you can see the problems that are lurking around the corner. We wintered in Texas for a few years and the greater majority of those people are Hispanic. There is talk of them separating!!

Other states have similar problems. I wish Ms Hanson well. I tried for several years to immigrate to Australia and was turned down many times. One worker in the immigration office said to me on the sly was that there was was 4 reasons why I wasn't and wouldn't be getting into Australia. I was white. I spoke English, I had money and I had an education. If I had been escaping communism and wanted freedom there wouldn't be a country that would refuse me. The fact I had spent thousands of dollars to come to Australia and look around and stay for months was irrelevant. They would rather have someone who had never even seen a picture of Australia. The guy had a point and so does Ms Hanson.

I really enjoyed your website and will visit again if I can remember how I did it

Roger

Subject: Latest news from ABC's Newslink

I've just downloaded two stories:

The first story indicates that Treasurer Costello isn't happy with just giving away millions of dollars of OUR money to Thailand, and then giving away even more millions of dollars of OUR money to Indonesia.

Now he wants to give away even more again to South Korea!!! This moron obviously has an ambition to become as arrogant as Keating, and he is well on his way. Is a lobotomy a mandatory prerequisite for becoming treasurer of Australia?

The other story is about some whining from the Australian Republican Movement that the Constitutional Convention ballot paper is too complicated, and some people can't understand it, especially if English isn't their first language.

What are they on about? You don't have to be a rocket scientist to write a number in a box. If people haven't got the intellectual capacity to understand a ballot paper, then maybe their opinion isn't worth very much anyway.

A similar argument applies for people who can't understand English, as their language deficiency would have isolated them from the national debate of the issues, and therefore they would not be capable of making an informed decision.

Gweilo

Pauline Hanson yesterday released an interesting press statement on the Australian Electoral Commission's handling of queries on this new constitution thing. Check it out.

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Business:

However policy holders were more than unhappy with the level of renumeration paid to the chief executive George Trumbull who earns a massive Au$2.4 million a year and one million free shares in AMP over the next three years.

Trumbull had the last laugh saying that AMP members were "greedy" because they quibbled over the number of shares they would receive in the group's Au$10 billion demutualisation.

Greedy... one wonders where the greed actually lies!

Personal trivia, from the global office:

Looking forward to the launch of Hanson's book later today.

Have a great day.

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