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Channel Ten apologise to David Ettridge
Channel Ten overstepped the mark at the height of the beat up about David Ettridge's salary package... on the night they reported about his salary on the five o'clock news they said "Pauline Hanson's right hand man caught with his fingers in the One Nation till"... an obvious lie and defamatory remark. Yesterday they retracted the remark with an apology to David Ettridge.
Who will the Universities blame this time?
The Soros/IMF inspired meltdown of the Asian currencies has caused a dramatic drop off of overseas students in Australian Universities. The traditional cash cow of cash-strapped Universities is set to fall by an estimated Au$200 million this financial year.
The question is - "Who will the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba blame this time?" This discredited, undemocratic University used the lowest of the low tactics in August last year when it banned One Nation meetings on its campus because, and I quote, "Ms Hanson's views are just wrong," Professor Swannell said. "There is no place for her philosophy in a modern, caring university. Australia is a model of multiculturalism in the Asia-Pacific rim and we have an obligation to protect the interests of our international and indigenous students." Following a call by a group of students for their Association President Paul Barnes to declare the Toowoomba campus a 'Hanson-free' zone and support student protests against the One Nation party, both management and the student association have indicated facilities on campus will not be used for any One Nation meetings.
What is the University going to do now? Ban the IMF, close down the economics department or, best of all, get rid of Professor Swannell and his politically correct band of radical stooges.
Unfortunately, the truth does not matter to the likes of Swannell who has totally ignored the truth as seen in this article in the Herald Sun just weeks later, and I quote:
"Foreign students studying in Australia rose by nearly 19 percent last year and the numbers showed little sign of being affected by the racism debate."
What appears to be looming in Australia now is an Asian led recession which is expected to hit this country by the year 2000.
More on the "so-called" stolen generation
An anthropologist with the Institute of Foreign Affairs, Ron Brunton, has spoken out, like others, about the so-called stolen children report. The extracts below have been taken from an article which appeared in the Sun Herald on the 13th January 1998. They support the comments made by Peter Howson in the Sun Herald just a week earlier:
"When people apologise for actions for which they were not personally responsible, they run the risk of debasing our public moral language.
"The Stolen Generations" Report simply suppressed the fact that at the time of assimilation policies were being formulated in the 1930s and the 1940s, prominent and radical Aboriginal leaders such as Jack Patten and William Ferguson were calling for Aboriginals to be absorbed, both culturally and biologically, into the white world.
"The authors of the report were fully aware of this, because they quoted from material taken from the same page of the book as information about these calls for assimilation was presented."
(this fact was omitted in the Stolen Generations report) and:
"I would suggest that the fundamental problem that lies at the basis of all the injustices that Aborigines have suffered is that they have always been regarded as different from other Australians.
"We have always had, and continue to have, laws and regulations in which people were simply treated differently simply because they were Aborigines.
"As the head of a government that continues this tradition, Mr Howard can reasonably be asked to apologise for perpetuating this situation."
Who needs the multinationals?
Quotable quote from Canada:
Joyce Stokoe, 35, and Peter Pellizzer, 39, are among 9,854 GM workers who lost their jobs in Canada when the firm cut its workforce here by 23 per cent between 1990 and 1996 (the years covered by the latest statistics).
At the same time, says the study, GM hired 20,836 people at its low-wage Mexican maquiladora plants. (Maquiladoras are assembly plants in a free-trade zone set up along the Mexico-U.S. border to encourage foreign investment.)
US starting to fight political correctness?
Extract from the Washington Post
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, covering Georgia, Florida and Alabama, had ruled it was reasonable for Bowers to believe that hiring Shahar could send the wrong message: "The attorney general was . . . entitled to conclude that the public may think that employment of a staff attorney who openly purports to be part of a same-sex `marriage' is, at best, inconsistent with the other positions taken . . . by the attorney general as the state's chief legal officer."
The new role of the IMF:
Extract from article by Michel Chossudovsky, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa
"While the bail-outs are conducive to the building up of public debts (in both the Asian and G7 countries) --thereby reinforcing the stranglehold of the creditors over the conduct of economic policy-- tens of billions of dollars of public money are transferred into the hands of private financial institutions leading to an unprecedented accumulation of private wealth. In turn, the macro-economic reforms imposed in the context of the IMF sponsored bail-outs are conducive to a dramatic collapse of the real economy leading to the impoverishment of millions of people."
Making the
news" -
Long standing Australian Labor Party president Barry Jones was challenged for his role five minutes before nominations for the position closed on Monday night by ALP powerbroker Greg Sword.
ALP leader saw the challenge to Jones as undermining his front that he led a united party saying that he believed that the Victorian "right wing" of the party was trying to hijack it. The challenge is expected to result in a row at next weeks national conference meeting in Hobart.
ALP national secretary Gary Gray said he was sure that Barry Jones would eventually be elected unopposed. The Left are apparently outraged at Sword's challenge while the Right say that Jones has already served two terms as national president of the party.
Another beautiful, but wet, day in paradise.
Have a good one.
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