Tuesday 10th June 1997
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But first a bit of background. About a week ago a young Asian boy was found comatose on his bed at the Hills Language College in Jimboomba. The Hills Language College has about 400 students of which at least 90% are Asian or have parents living in Asia. Students from Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, etc... all board at this school in the Gold Coast hinterland.
I know an Asian family whose son attends the school - in fact they moved to Jimboomba to be nearer his new school. He had been sent there because he had been expelled from the Ipswich Boys Grammar School and the parents considered that sending him to this strict school would help mend his ways. We happened to, unfortunately, live next door to the family for a while. I say unfortunately because the boy was always causing trouble, more than once breaking and damaging things on our property. He also used filthy language with the "f" word being shouted at us over our fence on regular occasions - especially when we had guests staying with us. The verbal abuse by the boy was not provoked by us in any way but started after we told his parents he was not welcome on our property after he damaged it.
We all celebrated when the family left.
Friends of the family are friends of ours and we started getting reports back of bashings by Asians against Asians at this school with gangs of Koreans, for example, ganging up against a Japanese and beating the fellow up. As the overseas parents were paying Au$35,000 a year to send their children to the school we were told that there were very few expulsions and beatings were allegedly covered up.
So it was that last week an Asian boy was beating up so badly at the school that he was found comatose by school authorities who did not call the police in to investigate for a yet unexplained period of time. The boy was taken to a hospital in Brisbane where, a week later, he is still in a critical and comatose state with bruises all over his body.
Last night Channel Seven reported briefly on the state of the boy and then launched into a number of interviews with Asian students at the school who said that they had been spat upon when they visited Brisbane because of Ms Hanson, called names because of Ms Hanson etc... They even interviewed a staff member who accused Ms Hanson of threatening the school's livelihood because of the "racism" issue turning parents away from sending their children to the school.
The story into how the attack happened has been one of the neatest media cover-ups that I have seen in a long while. One fact we do know "police investigations are being hampered because of language barriers".
When I contacted the head master of Hills Language College, Albert Fielding, this morning he declined to comment on the incident but offered this statement when I explained to him the thrust of the Channel Seven report last night, "Well that figures, I don't have a great deal of respect for the media and the manner in which they report on issues. This is just another example of that."
Sign of the times. The last six salespeople employed by Encyclopaedia Brittanica (EB) in the world lost their jobs over the weekend. The six, based in Sydney, have been trying to sell the hardcopy version for about Au$3,000 against the CD-Rom version which sells for just Au$300.
In the last year only 350 copies of EB have been sold in the USA.
Queensland is all set to launch a new trade office in Jakarta when premier Rob Borbidge leads a delegation of sixty business people up to Java later this week.
"Indonesia is currently seventh amongst Queensland's merchandise trading partners with two-way trade growing from Au$336.7 million to almost Au$1 billion in the last five years," Borbidge said.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Official home page.
Dear Sir,
Referring to Aimi Abass's letter (8/6/97), I need to clarify one very important matter: I never address all Malays as "lazy bones". This is not true! There are many hard working Malays whom I know. Please read my earlier letter, I refer to those lazy Chinese as "lazy bones" too. I have absolutely no intention to pick on any race, Chinese or Malay. They are the same humankind having equal rights. I apologise if my previous statement confuses the readers.
Sincerely,
Dr Wan Kai Tak, Singapore.
Loyalty to an Australian institution and the higher price tag of Au$265 million that they offered for the business should have seen NAB take the business - and this matched the common feeling of those being lobbied at Axiom. In fact it was all over bar the shouting until NAB made its final presentation to Axiom by producing the proposed organisational chart which showed that not only would senior Axiom staff be laid off but the head of the group, Elizabeth Bryan, would not report directly to NAB chief Don Argus but to some senior management wonder boy back in Victoria.
With one presentation slide the Au$19 billion business was lost and now the 750,000 New South Wales public servants superannuation is managed by a German asset management company.
This is an exercise normally undertaken by transsexuals or those embarrassed by their name.
John, Alan and Barry have become Kitty, Aleyisha and Barbera while in Victoria and New South Wales people have adopted the names of Steve McQueen, Herr Hitler, Atomic Tommy Jesus Christ Superstar, O Santa Claus, Sub Paragraph Three, Harley F Davidson, Kim Novak, Mohammed Ali, George Washington and Mona Lisa.
Last year 1,086 Queenslanders changed their names.
Have a great day.
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