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One Nation launches Queensland state election bid
Pauline Hanson has gained some leading candidates to stand for One Nation
in the upcoming Queensland state elections.
The candidates include:
about twenty more candidates are expected to be nominated by the end of this month.
One Nation has also released the first of its state policies including, education and law and order.
These policy previews together with information on the electorates in which One Nation is fielding candidates are now on-line at the Queensland State One Nation web page.
The general direction of the policies so far released are:
Education - to aim at minimal education levels, return discipline to the classroom and to ensure that all children irrespective of race get an equal chance at a full education.
Law and Order - to ensure that a sentence given is a sentence received (eg 10 years means 10 years), to have a popularly elected board who would have the power to dismiss judges who fail to meet community standards in sentencing, to make jails more secure, to take away any rights from a criminal breaking into a home.
Gay and lesbian group get bent in the Cayman's
Sense prevails in the Cayman's...
Extract from the Los Angeles Times:
It was billed as a typical Caribbean cruise for the moderately well-to-do: dancing in the discotheque, lounging by the pool, volleyball games on deck, and stops for shopping and scuba diving at four tropical ports.
The only difference was that most of the 900 scheduled passengers on the cruise chartered by a West Hollywood, Calif., travel agency are gay men.
And the government of one destination, Grand Cayman, doesn't want them spending seven daytime hours on its streets and coral sand beaches.
Citing fears that gay visitors would fail to "uphold the standards of appropriate behaviour," the Cayman Islands' minister of tourism denied Norwegian Cruise Line's request to land Feb. 1.
"Careful research and prior experience has led us to conclude that we cannot count on this group to uphold the standards of appropriate behaviour expected of our visitors," Tourism Minister Thomas C. Jefferson wrote to the cruise line. "So we regrettably cannot offer our hospitality."
The letter has sparked outrage among gay and civil rights groups in the United States, who along with cruise line officials deny that passengers on gay-chartered cruises have acted particularly rowdy or improper and view this denial as an affront to a growing and affluent tourist sector.
Why it might be too late to save Australia:
Do you remember Malysia's Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad's brave stand against the IMF last year? He has now changed his tune... Read on and you will find out why.
Extract from the Washington Post:
The Clinton administration and the International Monetary Fund last night launched an emergency initiative to pull Indonesia back from the brink of economic disaster and stem Asia's deepening financial crisis.
The IMF announced that its top two officials will travel to Jakarta shortly in an effort to negotiate a "strengthening and acceleration" of Indonesia's $43 billion international bailout -- in effect, rescuing the rescue, as was done for South Korea two weeks ago.
Later, after a fund-raising dinner in New York, President Clinton called Indonesia's President Suharto, the White House announced. The call, which was made from Air Force One and lasted about 20 minutes, was carefully staged to deliver a double-edged message -- that Washington stands ready to support Indonesia at a time of crisis, but only if the Suharto regime stops balking at fulfilling promises to restructure the Indonesian economy.
"The president underscored the importance of Indonesia to the region and to the United States," an administration official told reporters late last night. "And the president made it quite clear that the IMF program needs to be followed." Clinton is sending Deputy Secretary Lawrence H. Summers to Indonesia this weekend, the official added, and Summers will also visit other countries in the region.
The moves came amid mounting fears that Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country, was headed toward political and social chaos because of a free fall in its currency, the rupiah, that threatened to bankrupt hundreds of Indonesian companies and send the once-thriving economy into a prolonged recession. [See story, Page A26].
Also fuelling Washington's sense of urgency was the fact that Indonesia's troubles are threatening to drag down its neighbours' economies. The administration has argued for months that the United States has a major stake in easing the crisis in Asia, in part because economic weakness in the region damages a lucrative market for U.S. exports, and in part because of fears that an economic downturn would spark social unrest and bloody conflict in countries of strategic importance.
The rupiah, which traded at 2,500 per dollar as recently as August, plunged below the 10,000-rupiah-per-dollar level at one point yesterday, and Indonesian stocks fell nearly 12 percent. The turmoil in Indonesia has been widely blamed for driving down currencies and stock markets from Thailand to Hong Kong. But as news spread this morning of the IMF-U.S. initiative, the rupiah soared to around 8,000 per dollar.
The missions by the IMF and Treasury officials are aimed chiefly at convincing Suharto that his country's future -- and his 32-year legacy as Indonesia's ruler -- depend on embracing a series of measures mandated by the IMF to overhaul the nation's ailing banking system and reduce the cronyism and corruption that have marred Indonesia's remarkable economic development during Suharto's tenure.
Making the
news" -
Today Pauline Hanson will be introducing her first state candidates to the media in Brisbane.
I will be their and will report back on the event tomorrow.
Subject: Not if I can stop it.
Dear Sir,
In reply to Caspar's comments of yesterday. Yes we will go like gravel down the shute again but only if we, the people, allow it to happen. These final stages of world domination can be beaten and sanity returned to the world.
We have a couple of good things going for us, namely, about 6 billion people who face a very bleak future and we have the Internet. By shear weight of numbers and an excellent communication medium we can and will do it.
We have no choice.
Allan W. Doak.
Editor,
I saw a Department of Defence memorandum today, number 70/97. It's contents were quite topical, as the current government seems to believe education is for those who can afford it. Any person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent can get a university degree in one of twelve subjects from Arts and Mathematics to Business Management and Law, for no cost to them. The scheme (scam?) is being funded jointly by DEETYA, JET and the Department. This was all inclusive ie HECS, books, etc. even travel to your place of origin during breaks.
The scheme also guaranteed a job with the Federal Government. With a high number of public servants being retrenched, I would hazard a guess that there would be more than just Aboriginals whom would jump at the chance, but sadly they didn't. Annexe A was released with a repeated request for people, as the there was a 'lack of candidates' responding to the first.
Paul Jones
I am aware of an Aboriginal (1/16th) who gets up at about 11am each day, sits around doing nothing all day and gets paid for his lifestyle with full Aboriginal social security benefits.
In December he applied for and secured a job with the Queensland Prison Department. The job paid a salary of Au$36,000 per annum. He turned it down and continues with his holiday-like lifestyle.
Last year he hooked up onto a Greg Norman "become a professional golfer" scheme - all expenses including the professional golf training and professional golf clubs paid for. (This scheme is only available to Aborigines). Got tired of that after a few months but has kept the golf clubs - has not played a round since.
A young fellow who works at the local hardware store has a 5 handicap plays golf all the time but cannot afford to pay for professional training is very bitter - and one can understand why. His dream is to become a professional.
Recently this Aboriginal applied for and got rental assistance - although he has since stopped paying rent to the landlord in December who is now battling to meet his mortgage repayments and is having to go through the Small Claims Court to get him evicted as he is now stuck fast like a clam on a rock.
His attitude quite clearly is rort the system, bugger anybody else but bitch like hell when you get into trouble - because the racist tag can be thrown around with gay abandon.
There is absolutely no incentive to earn an honest living. Makes me wonder I pay taxes!
Editor.
The Chinese swimmers are being roundly thrashed, in a verbal sense, the identification of growth hormone drugs in the baggage of one of the swimmers has raised the anti with Australia's head swimming coach, Don Talbot, saying that the team should be sent packing before they compete in the world championships in Perth.
The growth hormone drug allegedly used by the Chinese is almost impossible to detect but improves an athletes performance quite dramatically.
Another beautiful day in paradise.
Just a sprinkling of rain about but otherwise beautiful.
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