3rd December 1999
A One Nation member hacked into and published a fraudulent article which purports to have been written by me. Measures have been taken to ensure that this hacking action cannot happen again.
An extract from my "confession" published on the @notd reports:
The last few weeks has been a difficult time for me and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party. Through listening to the legal arguments in the appeal court case recently I have begun to realise that things are not quite the way that I have presented to you people.
Somebody today has given me some wonderful counselling help that I should have had months or years ago before a lot of the things in my life went astray.
I’d like to put a few things straight. I apologise to David Oldfield and David Ettridge and many others that I have been too hasty to criticise recently. I now realise that I have treated them worse than the ways I have accused the Packer and Murdoch media groups of treating One Nation.
Unfortunately I allowed things to go to my head and affect my judgment. I now realise that I should be a lot more careful to listen to all sides of a story before rushing in with harsh and often unfounded accusations.
I also realise that I have been manipulated and used by other people such as John Pasquerelli and Bruce Whiteside who are obviously biased and vindictive.
It is sadly true that most of what I have published has been merely gossip and the rest I have contorted the little evidence dishonestly for my own means. I guess when one is emotionally distressed you hear things the way you want them to be, and jump to the conclusions that I wanted to see. I have come to realise how erratic, unreasonable and spiteful I have been.
Financial difficulties have badly affected me. I have been pressing to get paid a lot more than the $xxx per month that I was being paid to run the website. I became aware that David Oldfield was against me getting paid more because One Nation has paid staff that could do the website and I was no longer affordable. I took David’s actions personally when in fact I realise he was being financially responsible. I allowed this to make me bitter and for some weeks now I have unjustly sought revenge.
The words of the article reflect a familiar style that some One nation members might recognise and some of the information, such as the payment I received, was only known by the Manly office and myself.
There is more to the article than the piece reproduced above. The article then goes on to talk about my personal life and to make claims which are not only highly defamatory but false as well.
I contacted the Federal Police in NSW at 10am today. They are now investigating the hacking.
Posted 3.30pm Queensland time:
It has come to my attention that hard copies of the hacked document are now being circulated by certain One Nation members. John Webeck, a member of the state executive in NSW confirmed that he was shown a copy this morning. The Federal police have advised that they will begin their investigations into the hacking on Monday.
I reserve the right to take legal action following their investigations.