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One
Nation state and federal candidates meet in Toowoomba 4th -5th
April
Hindmarsh
Island Bridge case thrown out by High Court 2nd April
The
Hindmarsh Island Bridge farce revealed 31st March
UN
agrees to make our fresh water a "global commodity".... beware farmers -
your fresh water dam WILL cost you! 28th March
Courier
Mail's national affairs reporter Peter Charlton attacks MAI concerns and
breaches ethics guidelines 28th March
The
US Government's global "Cablesplice" project, fact or fantasy? 26th
March
Pauline
Hanson endorses 12 state candidates. 22nd March
News
Limited bucket opposition to the MAI. 21st March
The proposed privatisation of
Telstra 16th March 1998
Queensland State Candidates meet the
people 15th March 1998
One Nation, the First Year
12th March 1998
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an Aussie's viewpoint on Australia's
first daily Internet newspaper.
Since
October 1995
Toowoomba gathering great success, but best kept secret in Queensland
Well there I was with a large group
of free-thinking, well informed Australians who realised that we are on the
road to ruin. A path being forged by the tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum of politics,
the Australian Labor Party and the Coalition, a path being promoted by the
media barons who are sucking the lifeblood out of all that is good in Australia.
(Picture right, the candidates gather for a Courier Mail photograph
which never got published)
The Toowoomba conference had attracted
Pauline Hanson's One
Nation candidates from all over Queensland. Pauline Hanson was in
Lightening Ridge addressing 700 miners over the weekend.
(Extensive
background and about 100 images of the conference here).
Story includes coverage of the meetings, the banquet and the comments by the Mayoress of Pine Rivers, Yvonne Chapman (seen left with David Oldfield).
In many ways today's Courier Mail aptly sums up the unethical role that the Murdoch media are playing to re-write and distort history.
Reporter Jeff Summerfield was invited to write a story on this remarkable phenomenon - people power in action. But not just a story, an exclusive, ensuring the story's important nature for Queensland's largest daily. Jeff came up, on cue, and spoke to and recorded the background material for a story that should have been carried in today's paper - but wasn't.
In fact Jeff, because of his straight down the line approach in reporting (ie he does not try to distort or present negative images against One Nation), has again found a scoop being overlooked by the paper's unethical chiefs-of-staff. They have their instructions from their Murdoch masters - and a story which portrayed the truth of the explosive growth of One Nation - contrary to their line of a party in decay - could not be carried.
It was John Swinton, chief of staff of the New York Times who said:
"The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting to an independent press? We are the tools and vassals for rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes'."
For a start they continue to run articles promoting the MAI as being "good" or "unstoppable". Something that Australians must accept no matter how undemocratic the process.
Today's article in the Perspectives section entitled "Dealing with the new world order" presents such a picture.
Here is a quote: "Yet, the MAI, like many components of globalisation, has the important characteristic of being almost unstoppable."
In the meantime I have now received a formal reply from the Australian Press Council about The Courier Mail's unethical treatment of my right of reply to an earlier Courier Mail article headed "Conspiracy Theories" by Peter Charlton.
Here are extracts:
"I will accept the matter for processing.... I can accept a complaint about the newspaper's actions.... The council notes that where its 2 or 8 principles have been breached there is a greater onus on a newspaper to provide the opportunity for response to the reader...... I will take up your complaint by writing to the newspaper, seeking its response to the matters you have raised." (Signed by Jack Herman Executive Secretary)
On page three of today's Courier Mail we have a headline article "Killen fights on with swipe at Libs" (this after he lost the race to represent the Libs for the seat of Blair) and in today's editorial includes the following statements (about Sir James Killen) the man they promoted to take on Pauline Hanson in the seat of Blair):
"Sir James was prepared to emerge from retirement because he considered he had the best chance of preventing the re-election of Pauline Hanson, who is moving from her current seat of Oxley. Blair will include some parts of her former seat near Ipswich, but it essentially is a rural seat...
"Sir James polled very well in this area (and others like it) in the election for the Constitutional Convention late last year. He has precisely the conservative credentials which the Coalition need to resist the appeal Ms Hanson presents to older electors. ...
"On the hustings, he would have been a devastating opponent for Ms Hanson, much more knowledgeable than she, with superior political skills and a manner which would have put her down without exciting sympathy for her.
"But Ms Hanson is not the only candidate in Blair. The chances are that Labor, the Nationals and some other Independents will be in the field, plus the Liberals and Ms Hanson. Ms Hanson's chances of winning the seat are small. The real battle will be between the Coalition partners."
Balanced ethical reporting? Somehow I think not - but that's fine because a growing number of Australians are realising that reading the paper is the quickest way to become uninformed or misled... much better word of mouth. The growing concern about the MAI is just one example of how the media has lost its image as an ethical form of news with the population... despite their continuing one sided diatribe about the MAI "being good" for Australia Australians haven't bought their argument.
So what do we call the media? The term is in itself a lie - I would feel that they are best described as agents of selected propaganda". So perhaps from now on I will refer to them as "propedia".
Aboriginal "leaders" set up a fighting fund?
What a joke! The television stations yesterday and today showed the usual rat-bag mob of so-called Aboriginal leaders including Peter Yu passing a hat around and saying that they were collecting money for a fighting fund to combat John Howard's proposed ten point plan on Wik. When did the Aborigines have to pay one cent towards the native title claims? It is, of course, the Australian taxpayer who carries the can. A better image, I believe, was recently portrayed by Peter Mackay in his weekly article "The Canberra Column" when he said,
"A small group of obviously intoxicated Aboriginal Australians left the tent embassy and suggested that the party members either leave or ask permission. They then went off in the direction of Kingston.
"Five minutes later a group of seven residents left the camping area and approached, bearing boomerangs, spears and a plastic container of water.
"They extinguished the fires, picked up the barbecues, eskies and other equipment, throwing everything onto the roadway, spilling smouldering embers, smashing a bottle of beer and damaging some of the equipment."
Getting back to the Wik debate, it will be debated in the Senate tonight. It is expected that Howard's plan will be rejected setting up another trigger for a double dissolution.
Last word from part-Aboriginal Peter Yu, who said he was setting up the "Co-existence fund" to fight claims by mining companies over land being claimed under native title. I am willing to bet that, based on past history, the few dollars collected in the hat for the media did not get past the first pub they came across in Canberra.
Making the
news" -
Another perfect day in paradise.
Have a good one.
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