The Editor
The Queensland Times
Dear Sir,
There are two paths that Australia can take. Unfortunately like blind fools, because of the callous attitudes of the major parties, we don’t even know that we stand at the cross-roads.
Pauline Hanson has expoused her thoughts in the name of her party ‘One Nation’... we can go forth as one nation. This is one of the paths open to Australia. For presenting this she has been vilified by an antagonistic media protecting their privileged status quo with the Liberal and Labor elite. She has been labelled divisive and racist by this media for suggesting that all people should be treated equally.
The other path is one that Canada is currently progressing along. It is no fairytale to suggest that a new nation called Nunavut taking up 20% of Canada becomes reality in 1999. Nunavut will be governed by the indigenous Inuit commonly known as the Eskimos. The architect of Nunavut now lives in Brisbane and advises the Central Land Council on the development of an Australian equivalent which will be funded by the Australian tax payer.
Here in Australia things will not be as easy as there are hundred of Aboriginal tribes who will all want independence. Financial feasibility is just one consideration.
Can you imagine an Australia partitioned by states? Can you imagine an Australia partitioned by culture (this move has now been approved in Quebec where local councils are being planned specifically for Chinese and other communities). In thirty years time if we don’t get off our backsides our kids will grow up in a country which will resemble the mess that was once Europe - and the reason why Europe is unifying under one union.
There is an old saying ‘United we stand, divided we fall’.... the Labor and Liberal Parties have divisive policies which embrace the role of the United Nations over the rights of Australian voters. The divvying up of Australia is on the drawing board, and like my other unanswered challenge to the ALP to allow me to prove that they are promoting a boycott to the Sydney 2000 Olympics I can say without hesitation that the most destructive element in our nation today are the invisible committees of political powerbrokers with hidden agendas who steer our nation blindly into the future.
Scott Balson, Karana Downs