3rd January 1998
The Editor
Queensland Times
Dear Sir,
I read with some considerable amusement the claims by Anne Scott the on-again, off-again preselection candidate for the ALP in the seat of Oxley in the QT on Saturday 03/01.
This is the woman who has refused to accept several (letters in the QT) real-world challenge to demonstrate to her in a public forum of her choosing that the party she speaks so highly of (the ALP) are behind the promotion of a boycott of the Sydney 2000 Olympics, responsible for the violent, undemocratic protests at One Nation meetings, and more recently the cover up of the MAI.
I extend the challenge to Barry Burton President of the Oxley branch of the ALP who is welcome to contact me to set up dates and times - as no candidates appear to be willing to take the risk of being associated with a party exposed of tyranny against the Australian people.
I am sure that neither Mrs Scott nor Mr Burton would have heard of the MAI or if she had and was dinky-di she would be shouting from the roof tops about protecting our sovereignty. She hasn’t because she is ignorant of issues that effect Australia - issues that the major parties leave to the lobbyists and senior bureaucrats to sort out. Issues that Pauline Hanson knows all about and is addressing.
Federal issues. There’s the difference. Their’s the reason that Ms Hanson is so important to all Australians.
Yours faithfully,
Scott Balson, Karana Downs
Letter to the Editor, Queensland Times 19th January
1998
Balson for One Nation?
Has Scott Balson (QT Jan 14) joined David Oldfield
as the second mouthpiece of Pauline Hanson? Is he going to be the next One
Nation candidate to come out of the woodwork? He certainly qualifies.
No, Scott, I will not accept your invitation to surf
the net with you, but you may like to explain to all of us what the MAI
is.
My response to Mr Balson’s unfounded and ridiculous
assertions regarding violence at One Nation meetings was printed in the
Queensland Times last year. I repeat, while I would defend the right of any
person to protest, I do not and would never condone violence of any
kind.
With regards to the last election, every thinking person
in Oxley is well aware of the circumstances of Pauline Hanson’s
win.
She played the race card very successfully, and I have
no doubt that whatever issues John Howard calls the next election on, Pauline
Hanson will run a race-based campaign. She may be the winner, but the Australian
Nation will be the loser
Anne Scott, Labor candidate for pre-selection,
Oxley
Mrs
Scott’s reply was referred to in the Courier Mail on the letters
page the next day under the heading ‘Praise
for Hanson’
Quote: Some Labor rank and file members in Oxley
are a little miffed about the pre-selection candidate Anne Scott conceding
ground to Pauline Hanson in yesterday’s Ipswich paper, The Queensland
Times.
In a letter to the editor, Scott says Hanson played
the race card successfully and will again run a race based campaign at the
next poll. ‘She may be the winner, but the Australian nation will be
the loser,’ says Scott, who jetted off to Hobart for a week to watch
the ALP national conference.
‘We expect some leadership against Hanson, not
acceptance of her position,’ said one Labor activist.
Anne Scott's response:
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