Friday 13th June 1997
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Queensland State Premier Rob Borbidge came up with comments from left field that this on-line newspaper has been suggesting for years. Namely that damage to Australia's reputation is being done by Australia's media. In particular Borbidge singled out the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) saying, "In my view what the ABC put to air and beamed into Indonesia last night did us more damage than half a dozen Pauline Hanson's.
"Australian taxpayers are footing the bill for a service which is not acting in the national interest in the region in which we live."
Borbidge was leading a delegation of businessmen in Indonesia who reported that while leading Indonesian businessmen did refer to Pauline Hanson and the media reports that her views had created racial intolerance in Australia, "... but in the large part, the issues they were raising were coming off the satellite dish. In official talks with Indonesian government ministers today, the (Pauline Hanson) matter has not come up."
You might recall that the ABC reported on the manner in which Soharto family members had screwed Au$3 million of tax payers money through an "agency arrangement".
ABC Queensland manager Bob Wurth last night reacted to Borbidge's statement by saying, "the ABC does not censor its programmes."
Australian officials will attend the handover of Hong Kong to China despite the boycott of the event by US and British officials.
Prime Minister John Howard said last night that he and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer would both go to Hong Kong to represent Australia.
The Hong Kong Democrats labelled the decision by Howard as weak calling him a coward. "Mr Howard is giving the Australian stamp of approval in the destruction of democracy in Hong Kong," said a spokesman for the party.
One thing everybody fails to notice in this beat-up is that the USA still recognise China by giving her "most favoured trading partner" rights - a rare honour that secures the position of the only people who really matter in the US - the multinationals.
The biased reporting continues in the mainstream media with a report headed by a picture featuring a group of "Youth Affairs Network Members"(YAN) showing an Asian, a clone protester - so eloquently described in the report on the launch of One Nation in Adelaide and a Koori sitting around a table reports a YAN spokeswoman, Sandra Field, as saying, "All the young people I have spoken with before talk of this youth wing (Young Nation) began, are horrified about Pauline Hanson's attitude to indigenous relations and her general attitude towards Australia.
"I can't see any positives in this Young Nation and it may support people to be racist towards each other and not tolerate different cultures."
An interesting letter in yesterday's Queensland Times regarding the "stolen generation reads:
I contributed towards the benefit of disadvantaged Aborigines to give them a better future in life from what was classified as appalling conditions such as hook worm and other medical faults. What class of people would strive to trash their benefactors? I believe many of the so-called lost generation are alive today due to the generosity of people who had the Aborigines' welfare at heart and believe me it is now under stress.
T S Spowart, Fernvale.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Official home page.The latest figures show that despite the lowering of the interest rates unemployment has risen by 40,000 last month.,
The latest out of work figures, by state, are:
"Next year we will see a much stronger employment situation, "Howard told ABC's 7.30 report. "The impact of falling interest rates has yet to be felt."
It is expected that the Reserve Bank will now cut interest rates by a further 0.5% in the next few weeks - a factor that was taken into account by financial markets as soon as the unemployment figures were released with the Au$ dropping by a large margin to just over 75 US cents and the Australian Stock Exchange jumping to 2638.1 a new record.
Hi,
Thank you for making a site that believes in reporting the _facts_ about One Nation. With the mainstream press more interested in _creating_ news rather than reporting it, the lack of bias in your journalism is refreshing.
I am an Australian citizen, born in Zimbabwe who moved here as a child. I may not agree with everything Pauline Hanson says (although I agree with much of it), but if she makes people think for themselves rather than just repeating what the media says they should believe, she has done her job.
It's amazing what the fear of being non-politically correct will do to people, isn't it?
Cheers,
Simon
Subject: Pauline, don't bother!
Pauline,
Don't bother! Plan an escape route for your children and then help the neo-tribals demolish the place. Reverse your policies. Make sure they give 42% of the country back to the Aborigines and fill the remainder with Asians.
Help them flog off every single economic asset in the country to foreigners so they can slave in the interests of monopoly capital for evermore. They value neither freedom nor dignity and would gladly live with neither. They don't want a better society, they just don't want this one. They neither want nor deserve a country.
Don't waste your life trying to save it. Help them lose it!
Graham Strachan.
Why - well here is a summary:
Have a good one.
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