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Maritime
Union of Australia win in the Federal Court 22nd
April
Just
who is behind the dock war? 19th April
One
Nation Birthday Party on Pauline Hanson's farm 10th-12th April
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
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One Nation state candidate for Ipswich, Heather Hill, holds historic public meeting.
A historic meeting was held by Pauline Hanson's One Nation in the Ipswich City Council's (ICC) Global Info-Links building last night.
It was in July last year that the ICC banned One Nation meetings "because of damage to property and danger to staff" - following the launch of the party in April 1997.
In January this year I was involved in a move to challenge the directive with the Ipswich branch of One Nation requesting, in writing, bookings at the Barry Jones theatre in the Global Info-Links. The request resulted in the issue again being debated by the Councillors and permission being given.
If the Council had refused permission we had made it known that the issue would have been taken to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC)... a move which would have severely embarrassed the ICC. The ICC revoked its earlier decision.
Last night's 7.30pm meeting was attended by about 100 people - mostly not One Nation members - following a wide letter drop by Heather Hill, the state candidate for Ipswich.
Following a short introduction I gave a presentation on the MAI and international treaties. The links to the on-line presentation can be viewed here. Several guests joined One Nation following the meeting and the decision was made to hold more evenings like this one which had been a PR and financial success.
Prime Minister John Howard demands the right to open the 2000 Olympic Games
The Coalition have demanded that John Howard be selected to open the Olympic Games or else they won't provide the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) with a Au$70 million relief package involving military fly overs, departmental aid in immigration and other areas. The secret demand would mean that the tradition of openings of note by the State's Premier would be overruled.
What a scandal! What could be worse for our reputation than this little squirt of a man mumbling his way through the opening (as his want), live, in front of hundreds of millions of viewers from all over the world.
Also, it is "comforting" to know that while Australia is facing a major crisis over the wharves that Howard and his cronies have the time to barrack for support to try to boost his own ego in front of a massive global audience.
Whatever happened to the "honest John" tag"?
Patrick Stevedores win a 24 hour reprieve.
Patrick succeeded in gaining a 24 hour reprieve yesterday stopping the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) workers from gaining access to their docks. The full bench of the Federal Court will hand down their decision later today.
Following yesterday's ruling the shares in holding company, Lang Corporation, have been suspended.
Anti-MAI marchers storm bridge in New Zealand
Refusal of permission to ANTI-MAI MARCHERS to cross the Auckland Harbour Bridge in New Zealand developed into a dispute between police and Anti MAI Marchers yesterday.
As protesters moved on to the bridge they were met by a blockade of police attempting to thwart the progress of the march.
The march led by the Alliance group of Mana Motuhake left the Northern town of Te Hapua on the 13th of April and proceeded down the North Island reaching the Northern side of the Harbour Bridge yesterday morning.
16 ANTI-MAI marchers were arrested whilst crossing the Harbour Bridge charges including resisting arrest, & obstruction. The marchers successfully crossed the bridge and then proceeded through inner city suburb of Ponsoby and marched down Queen Street to hold a rally in the Aotea Centre Square.
They stayed overnight in the University Marae before setting out for the long march to Wellington where they will join with Southern Anti-Mai groups in Wellington on the 28-29th of April. The purpose of the march is to publicise this evil agreement and to demonstrate public anger at the New Zealand government's secret MAI negotiations, and their refusal to debate the issue publicly, or consult either with fellow parliamentarians or the public of New Zealand.
Making the
news" -
Cheryl Kernot launches her "baby boomers" policy.
The politician who refused to meet with the Australian Family Association (AFA), Cheryl Kernot, launched her "over 45s" policy yesterday.
Speaking in Sydney Kernot stumbled her way, almost apologetically, through the report stating:
"I think we have forgotten many Australians of the 45 plus generation.
"I think we are guilty of standing by and letting a great many Australians in their 40s and 50s pay a high price for workforce and workplace change."
She said that 171,000 workers are over 45 and were unemployed in Australia.. and that over 60% of these were men.
Mrs Kernot's 19 point plan included the following points:
Making it easier for sacked baby boomers to receive the dole by reversing the waiting periods introduced by the Coalition and excluding superannuation entitlements as part of the dole test.
Launching an inquiry into the distribution of working hours and how working hours relate to quality of life.
A campaign to make employers more aware of the value of experienced labour.
The creation of a mature age apprenticeship and traineeship programme and employment unit within the employment department.
Going ahead with Labor's previously announced plans to nurture and encourage volunteer work by older people.
Cheryl Kernot is the great destroyer of family values. Her controversial private life has not been improved by her stand on gay and lesbian families - she believes that queers should be able to raise children on the same basis as normal families.
If she is the best that the Australian Labor Party could drum up to represent the views of traditional "baby boomers" then it proves, without doubt, that there is something very sick in that sinking ship.
Subject: Re PH in Townsville
An interesting report on TEN news last night re PH introducing candidates in Townsville. The report was accurate and well balanced. However, right at the end of the report came the statement "the luncheon was a "media-free" event because many local businessmen did not want to be seen associating with Pauline Hanson".
Could this have been because of the two men sitting in a somewhat bedraggled white kingswood (registration 143 C??) taking photographs with what could only be described as a VERY long lens?
Jason
Subject: Qld - Pomona
Much of which Pauline has to say has credence. The big problem is that she isn't a lawyer or some loudmouthed "wharfie", to make a scene. She only had a fish & chip shop!! How innocent that is!!!!!!!!!
Lawyers and wharfies are used to bashing people, verbally or physically - fish and chip people try to keep people fed!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a simple anomaly we have here! Feed people and keep them happy or have them at each others throats as we have now!
Pauline, go for it - you have the opportunity RIGHT NOW!!!!!!
Good luck!
Mike
Subject: day2,3. etc.
Am grateful for your arrangement with my ISP host & for /gwb/news/history/ etc. & etc. Am glad to see, notwithstanding your high-tech. proclivities, you have a poetic soul, senses of irony & humour, & a true social conscience. As for the "few words" you invite, how does one express the yearnings of the spirit at all except between the lines?... And just en passent, I trust you consistently take to heart your own prudential words as in /4.html re the geegee of Illium... regards
d.b.
Subject: nine polls
Packer's "Young Gun" (Ray Martin) has done it again. There's nothing like the good old "A Current Affair" phone poll. (Remember the capital punishment one after having the victims of crime on tele for an hour???)
Well Mr and Mrs Australia have rang up again to say 70% for Patricks and 30% for the MUA.
Funny thing is that ninemsn.news had it at 61 to 39 and ninemsn.sunday had it at 50-50. Don't ya' just love these Channel Nine Polls?
Anyway, here's something I've found;
Talkback Radio:
Media monitoring shows, talkback radio callers, commenting on the dispute
since 7 April, are running steadily in favour of the MUA - with the majority
on 20 April [44% women and 39% men] commenting positively. There is a large
neutral component ringing in to talkback.
Facts about the Dispute:
How does Australian wharf productivity really compare with other
countries?
In bulk handling [coal, grains etc], Australian ports are on a par with world's best practice. The BIE Report, in 1994-95, found that Australia's low terminal charges are supported by high labour productivity and capital utilisation. In container terminals, international comparisons are hazardous because of differences in capital equipment, dock layout, cargo layout, average ship size and other factors. The 1995 BIE Report found, however, that, On a t.e.u. basis, comparisons of terminal labour productivity indicate that Australian ports are in the middle of the pack... [p.62] "
Isn't it funny that the Young Guns don't mention this sort of stuff on their shows?
I watch the Today Show every morning and I'd like to see something other than the Wharffy stuff. For a change, I wonder if one of the star commentators will ever make a comment about British Public toilets.
N. Daniel
Another perfect day in paradise.
Have a good one.
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