Wednesday 23rd April 1997
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Pauline Hanson's One Nation Official home page.Pauline Hanson's Offical Home Page. Well here is a new one lodged by the Kombumerri people who have lodged a native title claim over the entire Gold Coast.
Yes, that's right, the entire Gold Coast.
The claim stretches from Surfer's Paradise to northern New South Wales - so if you own a property there watch out.....
The Kombumerri spokesman David Dillon, who looks part Aboriginal at best, said that there would be no turnstiles in the sand and beach access would remain open if their claim succeeded.
Now this is not a joke, it is just sad, the claim has already passed the first hurdle by being accepted by the Native Title Tribunal which weeds out "frivolous claims" before they get to court.
The claim takes in beaches, sea beds, the sea and its resources, any undersea minerals, canals fronted by luxury homes and units, state forest, wetlands, national parks, recreation reserves, marine conservation areas, fish habitats, all associated land and part of Moreton Bay islands.
Not surprisingly the Gold Coast City Council has said that it will fight the claim.
National Party senator Bill O'Chee said the land under claim was worth "untold millions". "The National Party is happy for them to make this claim, but they should leave waters, rivers and national parks alone," he said.
Claims on canals which were specially developed for luxury home development were ridiculous he said - as they are less than 25 years old.
Dillon called for calm saying that he was happy for the Gold Coast City Council to administer the beaches.... he said that the entire Gold Coast was included because that was the easiest way of determining what was valid native title (we know who is NOT paying the legal bills in the process).
The allegations of cannabilism by Aborigines in Pauline Hanson's book "The Truth" has created ripples throughout the media in Australia with the acaedmics and historians now fighting each other about the accuracy of the statements.
Eric Rolls the historian quoted in the book has conceded that there was cannibalism amongst Aborigines but said that his writing had been taken out of context and that he was not happy about the claims.
"Yes, there was some cannibalism among Australian Aborigines, but it was a very minor thing," Dr Rolls said.
Dr Rolls indicated that first hand accounts of Aboriginal women eating their children indicated it was done for ceremonial reasons, not for food. "That was more a ritual thing. When she had no milk for her baby, absorbing the flesh of the baby seemed to be the most natural thing to do with what she loved."
An extract which seemed to be overlooked by the mainstream media and historians in the book is the comment that:
Some Aboriginal tribes killed mixed-race babies by placing them on ants nests" - source Paul Raffaele, "This History is real bunk," page 12 of The Australian, October 30th 1996.
It is interesting how small extracts from "The Truth" are focussed on while others, like the one we will be posting later this week on special benefits provided by ATSIC to Aborigines only, are totally overlooked.... it is taking time to copy because the number and scope of the "special" benefits is enormous.
About 1.7 million workers in the retail, liquor, hospitality, rural, childcare and clothing industries will be eligible for a "safety net" increase under the decision.
The ACTU claimed yesterday the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) decision was a major rebuff and that its claim for a Au$20 per week safety-net increase had been overlooked.
The new minimum wage rate is set at Au$359.40 per week.
The decision was apparently influenced by the Reserve Bank's warning that the ACTU's original claim would effect inflation with a flow on effect to interest rates.
There were also concerns about the effect that a larger increase would have on keeping unemployment levels high.
Bankers Trust chief Dr Chris Caton said, "It raises the possibility of another rate cut and makes it less likely that there will be a rate rise in the foreseeable future. And by holding down the cost of labour it will be good for employment prospects."
A former secretary of the ACTU, Mr Ross, warned that there were at least 200,000 Australians working below the official poverty line (a figure set at Au$530 per week).
Extensive political commentary and links can be found on Palmer's Australian Politics page.
Quote from 'The UNCONSCIOUS CIVILIZATION' by John Ralston Saul. Penguin. ISBN 0 14 026464 7:
*Listen to Emile Durkheim again. The corporations are to become the "elementary division of the state, the fundamental political unit." They will "efface the distinction between public and private, dissect the democratic citizenry into discreet functional groupings which are no longer capable of joint political action." Through the corporations, "scientific rationality [will] achieve its rightful standing as the creator of collective reality."*......
*Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany,
Italy and France during the 1920's. These were developed by the people who went
on to become part of the Fascist experience:
(1) shift power directly to economic and social interest groups;
(2) push entrepreneurial initiative in areas normally reserved for public bodies;
(3) obliterate the boundaries between public and private interest - that is, challenge
the idea of public interest.*
*This sounds like the official program of most contemporary Western Governments.*
Hi,
I went over the one nation webpage and here are my thought.
1. Who is the TALENTLESS loser who designed the page?
j.n.
Reply-To: noam@bluewin.ch
Subject: (no subject)
>Pauline Hanson's One Nation party is sponsored and proudly supported
by:
FUCK YA FUCKUNG NAZISUCKERS
2. Look at my webpage. It has only ONE hyperlink, two htmls and one gif and it has over 10,000 visits.
3. GWB comapny background etc..etc...- What a crock of utter unadulterated bullshit.
Organization: SHIN BETH
On leaving parliament Packer got into the wrong limousine, something which made the driver of the limousine turn several shades of pale with Australia's richest man suddenly inside his car and the television media hounds baying on the outside.
Packer's goal is to take over Fairfax - a goal commonly shared by the media proprietor of Australian Provincial Newspapers (APN) Irishman Tony O'Reilly.
Packer's wealth stems from his father's father.. the story going that at the races one day his grandfather found a ten bob note lying on the ground - put it on at 12-1 and won, with the money he went to Sydney and got into the newspaper industry.
Kerry Stokes has been the most vocal opponent of Packer, who appears to have Senator Alston and all the politicians of influence eating out of his pocket. And why wouldn't Packer? He visited Parliament on the day that his Channel Nine A Current Affair program ran a story exposing the travel and other claims made by those in federal parliament....
Getting back to Stokes who said, "Surely the very thought of any other networks - Seven, Nine or Ten - being able to own the dominant newspaper in the city in which they are also own a broadcast channel should set off alarm bells.
"The fact that the print and television mediums can criticise and compete with each other ensures the public is provided with the widest range of alternatives.
"A common thread between television and gambling is that each is the subject of public benefaction. In other words, each relies on the government of the day for the way it is regulated and controlled. And without doubt, the governments of the day are influenced by newspapers. To my mind the combination of media and gambling are unhealthy bedfellows."
APN's Dr Tony O'Reilly said yesterday that he wanted foreign media ownership rules relaxed - something that Packer is vigorously trying to prevent.
"There appears to be an increasing consensus that people want to have diversity of media ownership," O'Reilly said.
"It appears, from what I can see, the only way to achieve that or to maintain whatever diversity we do have is to keep the existing (cross-media) laws.
"While imperfect, at least from a practical point of view, they seem to maintain a status quo."
Communication Minister Senator Richard Alston is expected to hand down a decision within weeks.
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