11th-14th March 1999


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One Nation press release:
New Door on Democracy Swings Wide Open With Community Referenda!

Here is an extract:

Pauline Hanson's One Nation will introduce a Community Based Referendum Bill to give Queenslander's a direct say in how they are governed and what laws are passed or not passed.

The idea of Community Based Referenda has long enjoyed bipartisan popularity throughout the community but it has never been acted upon by legislators to give electors a say in direct government.

This form of referenda allows law making to be defused from the Parliament into the hands of the people who are most concerned with the laws they must live under.

One Nation March update on-line

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The British National Party tell it as it is

Take this link to see the politically incorrect views of the BNP. Not surprisingly they are portrayed by the media as some "extremist, racist group there. The truth is very, very different. Just like many Australians they are fighting to retain the British culture.

Detaxing Canada

Here is an extract:

Q: What about public service questionaires to Revenue Canada agents?
A: Revenue Canada agents are NOT public servants. They are administrators of private legislation.

Q: What about suits (class action or individual) against Revenue Canada agents?
A: Revenue Canada has control over courts and the justice system. Such suits are expensive, diversionary and unproductive.

Are we headed for world government - and whose?

A few days ago, eight black helicopters belonging to the elite Delta Force hit buildings in Kingsville, Texas with real explosives and live ammunition in a training exercise that scared local civilians. Similar events have occurred in Miami, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Washington, New Orleans, Los Angeles and other U.S. cities, including a Chicago suburb where they bombed an abandoned seminary.

So what's the fuss about a military training exercise? Well, Tomas Sanchez in Texas is concerned, and he's no dummy. Sanchez is emergency management coordinator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and head of the military police unit of the Texas State Guard under the National Guard. He's also had 30 years service in Navy intelligence work with a top secret clearance, and he's one of the few people who've seen Presidential Decision Directive 25.

Here's what he said about the Delta Force special operation: "The scenario if I were creating this ops plan [is that] martial law has been declared through presidential powers and war powers act, and some citizens have refused to give up their weapons. They have taken over two of the buildings in Kingsville. The police cannot handle it. So you call these guys in. They show up and they zap everybody, take all the weapons, and let the local Police Department clean it up." Sanchez and other military experts believe PDD 25 is the document being used to authorize such military action with the U.S., and he said, "It's a done deal. I think there's some UN folks involved in this thing too."

Before you dismiss this as all part of some conspiracy nonsense, you should know that on February 20, 1997, Ronnie Edelman of the U.S. Department of Justice wrote a letter explaining the Clinton administration's views on the Second Amendment and handguns as follows: "The current state of federal law does not recognize that the Second Amendment protects the right of private citizens to possess firearms of any type." Relevant to the UN, when Boutros Boutros-Ghali was secretary-general, he supported the report of the Commission on Global Governance, which said: "We strongly endorse community initiatives to ... encourage the disarming of civilians." We also know that President Clinton has been deferential to the U.N., saying on Oct. 19, 1993, that his administration was engaging in a political process regarding Somalia "to see how we can ... do all the things the United Nations ordered to do." And U.S. Army Specialist Michael New was court-martialed several years later for refusing to wear U.N. insignia on his American military uniform.

Are Americans headed for world government? Over a century ago, Cecil Rhodes developed a plan that would bring about a world government. On July 20, 1992, Bill Clinton's Rhodes scholar roommate, Strobe Talbott, wrote an article for Time, in which he declared: "Perhaps national sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all," and "the case for world government" is "clinched." President Clinton made Talbott number two at the State Department, and in June 1993, the World Federalist Association gave Talbott its Global Governance Award for his article. On June 22 of that year, President Clinton sent a letter to the WFA noting that Norman Cousins, a past WFA president, had worked for world peace and "world government," and President Clinton concluded his letter by wishing the WFA "future success."

All of this in no way means that the president and the U.N. are going to send military forces to your home to break down your door and confiscate your firearms. But the actions and quotations above are troubling and do not auger well for the future of our freedoms, rights, and national sovereignty.

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Why our economy is struggling to survive

The queer life coming to a school near you

A spokeswoman for Education Minister Dean Wells said, "Schools should be about fostering tolerance via the anti-Discrimination Act and anti-bullying programmes."

Call me old fashioned but I think schools should be about teaching reading, writing and arithmatic.

Walshie

The queer life coming to a school near you

Scott,

I thought you and anotd readers might be interested to know that after reading the Courier Mail article and that the Queensland Teachers Union supported this move (as they always do) I rung to ask what they were doing to our children. I spoke to a Mr. Murray Briggs, Media spokesperson for the QTU. When I made my point of how I was sick of having homosexuality promoted in our schools he was very defensive and guaranteed me, yes quaranteed, that there is no promotion of homosexuality in Queensland schools. I laughed at this and sited a couple of instances, one in particular where high school girls were taken to a "Womens Expo" a couple of years ago which was opened by Wayne Goss' wife Roisin(?) and amongst other things, were handed out lubricant, condoms, and a calendar with a "how to" sex, "how to" drugs, and a steroid dose chart in it, and references to homosexuality throughout. For example "We do all sorts of things. We are all different, but we are all queer. Whatever you do, when it comes to sex, drugs and everything, remember you are queer and you are excellent!" And this was done without parents permission. I for one am sick of having this sort of sick lifestyle forced upon my children. For anybody to say there is no homosexual promotion in our Queensland schools they must get around with their head in a south pointing orifice.

Regards,
Ridge.

Go for it Pauline

I am a firm believer in Pauline Hanson's policies, and would like to congratulate her for a job well done. I hope you can continue to stick it up the politicians that I and many other Australians are so Friggin' sick of. I voted for you and will continue to. Good Luck with the Future Elections.

Brett

Pine Brush National Estate scandal

We wish inform you of a critical but little-known environmental issue here in Clarence that we feel you should know about.

This is an open letter to you, published on the Internet. We also wish to publish your responses, in an effort to inform the community as to your views on a globally important public issue. At the same time, we hope to give our international readership an insight into the extent that your party is up to date with this revolutionary medium of communications. To this end, we draw your attention to our web site and ask you to comment on the fact that a botanically critical piece of our precious National Estate, known as the proposed Pine Brush Nature Reserve, was converted to freehold (from a grazing lease, against the advice of three government departments) and sold for a dollar an acre, to be damaged by mysteriously lit fires, overgrazing, unlawful sandstone rock removal, gravel quarrying and logging.

Responses to questions on notice asked of the NSW Minister for the Environment contain grave errors of fact which constitute a serious misleading of Parliament and continue to jeopardise the last vestige of the Clarence Valley riparian rainforest, and the world’s largest communities of Schedule #1 Threatened Species, in contravention of section 118d of the 1995 NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act, which Ms. Allan seems unwilling to enforce.

Given that this matter has now come to the attention of a far wider global community, we speak for them when we hope that your response will be prompt and well-considered.

Thank you for your valuable time.

Yours faithfully,
Dyson Devine and Vivienne Legg

Small town blues

Dear Scott,

By the 30th of June this year a new Regional Forestry Agreement will be signed after months of protracted and intricate negotiations between Federal and State [QLD] Governments and representatives of environmental groups, unions and many large and small businesses involved in the QLD timber industry. The agreement once signed will regulate and distribute available log quotas and determine accessibility to forestry resources that will be made available to the timber industry. The agreement once signed could remain in force for up to 20 years.

In what will be a severe test of QLD Premier Peter Beattie's '' JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, " pledge made during the election campaign as he attempts to balance the pressure applied by environmentalists with the voting power of rural Queenslanders who await finalisation of this agreement. When the Carr Labor government in NSW caved in to sustained green pressure it forced many mill closures in NSW and the loss of thousands of jobs in the industry. A similar lock up of forestry resources in QLD will produce a similar devastating result.

As an employee who has worked in the industry for 12 years I have followed the negotiation process closely through consultation with management, unions and through the network of concerned timber workers and their family members who formed the Forest Protection Society in an effort to counteract arguments presented by the extremely well organised and politically powerful environmental movement. The welfare of timber workers and their families and the abilities of small communities to economically sustain themselves is an important factor of the overall environmental debate. An argument often overlooked by radical greens.

Pressure applied by environmentalists and treaties signed by our government at Kyoto in Japan as a result of UN sponsored Environmental summit meetings in Rio, 1992, and Cairo in 1995 has tied Australia to treaties designed to reduce ozone layer depletion and protect environmentally significant and sensitive areas. Fraser Island in 1991 was closed for logging and was World Heritage listed. It was once explained to me that countries in debt were being pressured by international bankers to lock away natural resources as collateral against debt default. It sounded far fetched at the time but it tends to make one wonder about that claim as more and more of our resources are locked away either through heritage listing or native title.

The green movement has applied the brakes to an industry which in the past has at times been guilty of indiscriminately clearing forests with little regard for future generations of Australians and native wildlife. The timber industry has as a result of this sustained pressure from environmentalists endeavored to developed policies in conjunction with the Forestry Dept. to selectively log old growth forests with a view towards a sustainable and renewable supply of timber. Farmers with spare acreage are being encouraged to invest in plantations of fast growing and quality hardwood species. This is a long term solution and doesn't address the ever diminishing resources available at this point in time.

The industry does have a public relations problem. Even old hands blush with embarrassment at the sight of quality logs being chipped and exported to Japan for $70 a tonne.

My workplace is Cooroy, a small but reasonably prosperous town situated in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland about 20 kms west of Noosa [QLD] . Boral currently owns two mills in the township employing directly about 90 people and indirectly many more if you count the truckies, timber cutters and local tradesmen who earn a good percentage of their living from these mills. The plant where I work was established in the early 1920's and was a family owned concern until a succession of owners from 1985 onwards in quick succession acquired and divested their interest. I have lost count of the number of owners since I commenced work in here in 1987 but for a brief time the infamous Christopher Skase held the title deeds long enough to strip away any saleable assets and for us to produce enough "very cheap" timber to build his resorts in Nth QLD. But thats another story.

Boral, the current owners, have been caught in the explosion of green power over the last five or six years. Due to a combination of uncertainty over a continuance of supply of quality millable timber ( with many old growth compartments being progressively locked up in NSW ) and the heritage listing of Fraser Island [QLD] in the early 90's, they have been caught in a classic ''catch 22''.

Unable to commit the necessary capital required to modernise a mill ( that is literally a working museum ) due to a combination of an intransigent "green'' local council imposing development restrictions and the deteriorating quality of saw logs as a result of having to harvest increasingly smaller trees The overall profitability and long term viability to a company with such diverse interests as Boral is questionable. Tony Berg, Borals General manager is under pressure from shareholders to rationalise poorly performing subsiduaries from the Boral conglomerate. The hardwood timber industry being one of the major poor performers.

This is where the '' catch 22 '' then comes into effect.

Boral management at a meeting last year outlined some of the difficulties facing the timber industry in Australia. Stiff competition from new and cheaper building products and the trend towards slab on ground construction , steel frames, compressed particle board flooring materials and the convenience of using pine as a framing material over hardwoods has impacted heavily on sales in the marketplace. Rising costs in producing a quality hardwood product and poor recovery rates due to the indifferent quality and immaturity of saw logs had also contributed to falling sales. For the hardwood industry to survive alternative marketplaces would need to be found. Boral was targeting the much larger Japanese housing market as an alternative. Japanese customers having a fondness for high quality, well presented Australian hardwoods and would pay top dollars for a quality product.

We cannot be profitable with poor quality raw materials. Our recovery rates from immature hardwood trees being accessed from present forestry reserves are declining. As more old growth forests are locked away and the maximum circumference of permittable trees for logging is further decreased, wastage at our site dramatically increases. Profit margins shrink and accountants in head offices reach for the red ink.

Environmentalists have started negotiations on the new RFA demanding that all present Crown Forestry reserves are to be locked away. The major timber companies have started at the opposite end of the spectrum and in a state of war address late last year our General manager informed us that Boral was bending over backwards in an effort to reach a mutually beneficial working arrangement with the greens. Six environmentalists were subsequently appointed to the Boral Board of directors and as new shareholders in the company it was hoped a more cordial and mutually beneficial working environment could be achieved. This we were informed is how business is done in the 90's.

As the battle heats up in the next few months prior to the RFA document being signed, 90 workers and the prosperity of this small hinterland is being held to ransom. Similar reverberations are being felt in other rural communities. Many already hard hit by the rural recession will struggle to survive if mills are closed down.

Cooroy was, as the old-timers tell me , once was a thriving and very productive agriculturally based community. Producing butter for export and milk for local markets. Trains departed daily for the Brisbane marketplace loaded with fruit and vegetables from small holdings in the hinterland. Dairy farms some as small as 120 acres could support mum and dad and a tribe of kids.

Farmers grew beans and bananas on the steep hills surrounding Noosa .Self employed and passing on productive businesses to their children. Today those farms are long gone . Many of the dairies have gone as well , cut up into smaller lots during the land boom of the eighties as speculators cashed in on the flood of southern immigrants keen to escape bankrupt southern state governments to settle in the new promised land.The Golden Triangle formed between Noosa, Eumundi and Cooroy contains some of the most sort after real estate in Australia. Southern immigration , real estate speculation and the tourist industry now fuel much of the local economy. The urbanisation continues unabated.

Today the old butter factory is a TAFE college, recently purchased by the shire council and situated next door to my mill. It houses a collection of painters and sculptors who spend the day transforming their erotic fantasies onto canvas and clay.

Agricultural activity is now confined to hobby farms and a few struggling canefarmers under pressure from rising property valuations, low returns and imports.

The brickworks which used to employ over 200 locals is winding down. Currently about 25 still hold jobs there and will in all probability be shut down at the years end.

The local hospital where my wife has worked for 15 years has operated as a Friendly Society since the local business community in the 1930s pooled resources and opened a community based hospital to service the needs of the district. Its charter ensures that all profits are ploughed back into improving and expanding the facilities. In 15 years I have witnessed the original old weatherboard building transformed into a thoroughly modern and well equipped medical facility through a combination of good management and community involvement.

In a few months time a new public / private hospital opens down the road owned and operated by Mayne Nicklas and whilst details of the contract are sketchy it will probably operate similarly to the Mayne Nicklas owned hospital in Port Macquarie NSW .With the State government allegedly liable to top up from the public purse any losses. With the decline in Private health membership and pressure already being felt from the new competition, the maternity and medical wards of Cooroy Hospital have closed in the last two years. Its future viability stands on the crossroads. Management and staff are currently working on ways to ensure its survival.

90 jobs in the overall global scheme of things is probably insignificant. Another blow to a small rural community as the effects flow on through to local businesses. Cooroy with its proximity to the booming tourist and rapid growth areas of Noosa , Caloundra, Maroochydore will probably weather the loss, adapt and survive the transition. Some towns will not.

Despite claims that tourism and southern state immigration will create jobs, youth unemployment currently stands on the coast at at around 30% . Urbanisation destroys much of the original charm that attracted new settlers here in the first place, and with the influx of tourists in peak holiday periods strains are placed on basic infrastructures like water supply, sewage and roads, and on police resources. With the downturn in Asian tourism the cargo cultists threw their arms and more dollars in the air in an effort to attract new business.

Unemployed youth resort to vandalism out of boredom and frustration and drugs once a big city problem is now a real threat to our children in local schools. Murder and violence is now an increasingly unwelcome addition to the landscape.

As any timber worker will tell you, we work a hard fortnight to earn what the government statisticians euphemistically refer to as the average weekly wage. If the new RFA forces the closure of mills throughout QLD as it has in NSW and other states, workers will probably not be pocketing the large compensation payouts that public servants receive when made redundant. Or taxpayer funded payouts to retrench wharfies to further Peter Reith's waterfront reform agenda. At best probably a few weeks severance pay, unused long service leave and holiday pay. Whilst affected companies will no doubt be negotiating suitable government compensation for the closures. Larger companies will in all probability have their eyes fixed on foreign shores where labour is cheaper and interference from government and environmental organisations less intrusive to their operations. Workers sometimes feel like the meat in the sandwich. Pawns in a much bigger game.

I have no doubt there will be more twists and turns in this saga before the 30th of June deadline. I hope ON's MP's are keeping an eye open in parliament as negotiations on the RFA draws to a conclusion.

Have a good day
Steve Milson

Australia Trip Second Report.

IF YOU ARE A REGIONAL COORDINATOR IN AUSTRALIA YOU ARE ASKED TO FORWARD THIS BROADLY.

(Most people receiving this report will receive it because they are on one of my e-mail lists. If you receive it as a forwarded document, it may be useful to you to know that I have been engaged in fundamental social change work for over forty years. My latest effort is around resilient communities (www.resilientcommunities.org) My latest book is Reworking Success a short easy summary of why radically changed directions are necessary now. If you want to be put on an underload mailing list, please let me know.)

I have one overwhelming feeling as a result of this trip. Most social change agents are directing their efforts in the wrong direction. We are still aiming to convince people of the need for change. Those of us who are beyond this point are still assuming that there is a particular group, often called the cultural creatives, who are ready while others are still supporting the current priorities.

I am now convinced that this pattern of thinking is obsolete. It is certainly wrong for Australia (see some of the evidence below) and I strongly suspect that this is true elsewhere. A wide variety of people are ready for change from all parts of society. The challenge at this point is to provide people with approaches and models that permit them to see how their activities will make a difference.

People are not apathetic. They are baffled, frustrated and angry. The turbulence to be expected this year will make things even more difficult. Our challenge is to invite and inspire people to be creative in their own situations and to recognize that success in one geographical or subject area can spread through the power of our networks.

The shift we need to make is in terms of consciousness and affects all of our patterns of thought and behavior. Unless we change the ways we think and act at the most fundamental level, current crises will continue and deepen. The first step is to build relationships across boundaries.

Here are some specifics.

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I spent two days in Canberra. They were an eyeopener. I worked with the Australian Tax Office and the Department of Industry. In both cases there was considerable awareness of the real issues and also frustration with the "Treasury" people who are still imposing economic rationality. The recognition of the inevitability of truly profound change was startling.
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I also met with the Vive-Chancellor (President in US Terms) of the University of Canberra. He is interested in exploring several possibilities, including serving as an intellectual center for resilient communities work. We are also looking at a conference on visions for Australia and on the nature of professionalism in the twenty-first century.

I spent one evening with the core group of Reworking Tomorrow people in Canberra this the name given to our Australia work. They are ready to jump levels and see what can be done on a broader scale. On the other evening, I did an Australia-wide radio broadcast which went well: the interviewer wants to feature me next time I'm back.

The next day was in Sydney with a small group of influential people. There was a strong sense that Sydney was only thinking as far as the Olympics this was the sort of issue that had also caused the suggestion for a visioning conference in Canberra. We looked at a number of ways of tackling this problem it is not clear if there will be any follow-up at this time but we are exploring possibilities.

I then spent three days in Northern Rivers. This is a unique area of Australia which has gathered a very large number of forward thinking people. The total population is about 100,000 and we have already attracted some 400 to Reworking Tomorrow and have touched a lot more. A magazine is now being published in the area and one of the towns has an ongoing community forum. Much of our time was spent thinking about the next steps to jump to having over 2% of the community involved: this is often seen as the percentage required to have a significant impact.

I also spoke to the Southern Cross University Press. It seems highly probable that they will publish a revised text of Turning the Century and also The Healing Century lectures. If this happened, they would be available during my September/November Australia trip.

I got an experience of the wet season: it poured most of the time I was there but this allowed me to see the Minyon falls when they were running strongly: a beautiful site. I had also not realised how beautiful the trees would be in the full summer: some truly wonderful flowers.

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On Tuesday last I was interviewed by a person from the Financial Review. It turned into more of a conversation. I was being very clear with her about my views: she told me that a very large percentage of the reporters would agree but that management did not. It is this sort of feedback which reinforces my belief that the current worldview is held in place by a very thin and brittle structure.
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Wednesday was hectic. Two groups on one day: one in Sydney and one in Melbourne. The Sydney group was created to learn about new leadership styles and was at a level where the people could make a difference. Most of the group was enthusiastic although there were a few people who wanted "answers."

The Melbourne group dealt with superannuation: a way of providing Australians with pensions through investing in the stock market. There was good news and bad news. The good news was that a large percentage of those present listened intently: the bad news was that the ideas were very new to most of them.

I'm writing this on the coast above Sydney above Pearl Beach. After three days of hot sun, it's raining and cool. I've been resting and relaxing and letting my brain chill out and my body do what it wants while occasionally dealing with the backlog on the computer.

I am so lucky getting to see so much of Australia.

Blessings and Peace,
Robert
East 202 Rockwood Blvd, #1,
Spokane, Wa 99202, USA
509-835-3569
e-mail:theobald@iea.com

avagoyamugs

Was it Paulines pulchritude or policies or both that converted John Elliot and Bernie Frazer to the cause of One Nation? Johnno knows the real enemy of Oz too, when he describes them as "insular" and "the most stupid race on earth" (or words to that effect); Muammar Qaddafi in his book "Escape to Hell" describes the mutton-heads he returned the land to - after he took it off the NYLon consortium - in similar terms; he had to find out the hard way who the real enemy was.

The inventors of the real Democracy obviously knew way back then who the real enemy of civilisation was too, when they disallowed the vote to slaves and women - smart move by smart blokes then and, as Australia seems to be down by the head with slaves, effeminates and variegated PC insular and moronic hermaphrodites instead of the Herrenvolk we once were, maybe we need to restrict voting rights severely until democracy has been wrested off the dictatorship of the proletariat.

A second "Troika" of the likes of Hanson, Elliot and Frazer, may just return the landownunder to its "glittering prize" status of the land of wonder.

Omega

from the global office:

Another perfect day in paradise.

I will be driving down to Inverell in northern New South Wales early tomorrow. I will be addressing the Inverell Forum at the Saturday night dinner.

Have a good one.

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