Monday 28th April 1997
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Pauline Hanson's One Nation Official home page.Pauline Hanson's Offical Home Page. Extracts from Pauline Hanson's book "THE TRUTH". A rememberance service will be held outside the Broad Arrow Cafe.
Olympic officials warned yesterday that Pauline Hanson's book THE TRUTH increased the threat by Aborigines to protest at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
It has got to be remembered that Aborigines have used a threat to protest against the Olympics on just about every grievance that they have had since Sydney won the right to host this major event in the year 2000.
Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates yesterday claimed that the book raised the threat and that mainstream Australia needed to reject it, or risk international condemnation.
"She (Ms Hanson) is entitled to be there - I think we've just got to make sure that it's explained that it doesn't represent mainstream Australia.
"It's a perception of Australia I don't like. The comments that have been made are regularly raised with us when we travel and go to sports meetings."
National leader Tim Fisher also had a go at Hanson.
"Pauline Hanson's agenda now should be scrutinised in more detail when she eventually produces her party platform, because the essence of where she ends up is to tear up our bread ticket for the next century," Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fisher said on Channel 9's Sunday programme yesterday.
Fischer is the leader of the National Party who, according to recent polls, will lose a number of Federal seats to Pauline Hanson in the next Federal election. Comments appear to follow the belief that the National Party are now running scared and will try any trick in the book to destroy Ms Hanson's fledging party.
One Nation National Director David Ettridge said yesterday that Ms Hanson would attend a parliamentary dinner for visiting Japanese Prime Minister Hashimoto in Canberra tonight. He said the comments reagrding the effect that THE TRUTH might have on the Sydney 2000 Olympics did not warrant a response.
Defence Minister Ian McLachlan yesterday confirmed that Australian troops could be sent into fight in internal conflicts taking place in neighbouring Asian countries.
McLachlan flagged a build-up of air and sea strike power - the biggest since the Vietnam War.
He also said that Australia would seek closer military ties with Japan saying, "We believe that the previous government's defence of the coastline was a limited posture.
"If freedom, if you like, liberty or the way that we've liked to live our lives over the last 40 to 50 years is threatened anywhere in the world, we have to consider that.
"We're looking very seriously at what sort of contribution we could or should be making when people come to the United Nations or to NATO and say 'Will you help us?'"
Opposition spokesman Arch Bevis, said in response, "The regional security and mutual confidence-building which Labor developed over the last decade through groups such as APEC are being undermined by the erratic statements from the Howard government."
Mr Fischer said that the Prime Minister's 10-point Wik plan was not the final word on native title but his view was known by and rejected by Howard.
"The framework 10-point agreement is not yet set in concrete, elements of that are the subject of further discussions again with the premiers tomorrow," Fischer said.
"It (Cabinet) approved a negotiable position, nothing yet is finalised, it has to come back to Cabinet.
"I'm not going to dwell on the detail ahead of the premiers' conference (taking place today on Wik), but the states hold the land bank, the states hold the legislative settings as soverieign state parliaments under our Constitution."
Fischer is under pressure to stand up to Howard after his leadership was recently put under threat by backbenchers.
Senator Mal Colston was again in the firing line yesterday this time over allegations that he "switched" three flags signed by Bob Hawke after they had been flown at Gallipoli's ANZAC Cove with others and gave these to RSL branches together with certificates of authenticity - which were clearly fraudulent.
The RSL branches involved were "flabbergasted" when they heard - with the Southport president, Jim Seaman saying, "We thought we had a flag that was flown at Gallipoli. Apparently it was just out of a plastic bag."
Former staffer Andrew Hillard, who is being sued by Colston, blew the whistle on the Senator saying that the originals, such as one that he showed the media, were signed by Hawke. The other two have apparently found their way back to the Senator's home.
Extensive political commentary and links can be found on Palmer's Australian Politics page.
Talk about sucked in. She didn't say she wanted to support Australians she said she wanted to support everyone "apart from aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders". But I guess like her you're a racist and think the original inhabitants of Australia deserve nothing. And don't start peddling her crap to me about equality because that's her code and I guess yours too. I can't imagine why a thinking Australian would be sucked in by her backward looking conspiracy theories. And as for your nonsense about the mainstream press in Australia - definitely a case of shoot the messenger because she is exposed by them as the fool and the dill that she is. Like another former queenslander in 1987 she'll have her time and then her time will be up because in the end I have the hope and the faith that the majority of Australians aren't bigoted, backward looking people.
Please don't bother to reply to me. I feel sorry for you and for other supporters of this woman thinking she has something to offer.
Jenny Hunter
Have a great day.
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