The main speech

A very popular in Andrew Carne's speech was the deportation of foreign criminals. Andrew Carne explained the cost of keeping criminals in jail and gave the example of Singapore which has a low tolerance to crime.

There was also a lot of applause when Mr Carne said all Australians should be treated equally, under one set of rules and one flag. Predicably, he said: "we must be one nation."

A great deal of Carne’s speech had to do, directly or indirectly with the media. For instance, he denied One Nation ever said immigration should stop (he said the media misreported it) but more importantly he denied the One Nation party was singling out Asian immigration. He said his party would welcome anyone in Australia as long as they contributed. As a result of his attack on the media, some in the audience shouted "shame! media, shame!" and pointed towards the media assembled on the side of the hall.

When he said the One Nation Party was not anti-Asian, there was a lot of applause. He made a distinction between being anti-Asian and being anti-Asianisation of Australia. He asked the audience: "do you want to work for $1 a day?" There were considerable resentment against the media, most of it spontaneous and from the audience. At times people would shout things like "hey media, did you get that?"

At the beginning and the end of the speech, Andrew Carne emphasised on the difference between criticism and racism as well as the difference between patriotism and racism. At 8:14pm his speech ended with generous applause.