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The election of Pauline Hanson's executive at her home base, Ipswich dominates the news today. The link above carries about 20 images taken at the launch as well as an overview of events.
The meeting of over 100 members warmly welcomed Pauline Hanson who spoke for about half an hour.
A major rally will be held in Brisbane early next month.
Pauline Hanson will join other speakers at "Prosper Australia", information and booking details are available.
Not my words, that honour goes to David Brindley on aus.politics:
Mother Theresa of Calcutta has died, aged 87.
How much of a loss is she?
Well, her spirit is gone, but her work will continue through some 500
groups she established in her lifetime.
There will be no mass outpourings of grief on the tv talk shows, in
the women's mags or our tabloidier newspapers. There will be no
internationally televised funeral.
After all, she was a simple women, who devoted her life to helping the
poorest of the poor, the outcast and downtrodden.
Not for her the glitzy life of a celebrity fundraiser, international
playgirl or plaything of the rich and famous. She just got on with the
job.
What a week... what a day... the day I bought a Packer publication dated September 8th 1997 called New Weekly which bares the front page headline "Di and Dodi making love for the cameras..."
Mother Theresa loved Princess Di and the love was returned but greed is good.
Yesterday I had a surprise phone call from a journalist at the Sunday Mail, Syd Mahr, who appears to have been given the task by News Limited of bringing me into line. To quote one of my regular contributors "I will keep my powder dry" but report on what actually transpired as well as a full transcript of his article - if and when it appears. If it does it will be interesting to see how this News Limited paper handles the twist that followed his initial phone call!
Today we learn that "racism" has cost Australia multimillion dollar deals of potential Malaysian investment which has now been re-directed to New Zealand.
The President of the Australia-Malaysian Business Council, Peter Yeoh, said, "She (Hanson) has created a lot of misunderstanding in Malaysia because the papers print so much of her views.
"People there read about it and worry whether its safe to put their money in Australia, because this country may be racist."
Not bad coming from one of the most racist Asian countries in this sector.
The old falling tourist numbers line was trotted out again by Yeoh who said, "If this sort of thing had happened in Kuala Lumpur she would have been jailed, never to speak like this again. But this is a democracy, so she can say what she wants."
OK so now we know that Malaysia is not only racist but also undemocratic, what next?
Borbidge in response to Yeoh's outlandish statements brought some sort of sanity back into the debate at the celebration of Malaysia's 40th anniversary of independence (not democracy mind you), saying, "The debate about immigration policy, a proper debate in a democratic society - must not be permitted to degenerate into a slanging match or become a forum for prejudice and misunderstanding.
"Australians are confident about their culture and their place in the world. So are Malaysians. From that solid base, I believe investors can feel confident about their future and that of their funds in this country."
Making the
news" -
Brierley Investments Limited (BIL) has lost its court bid to block the Australian Securities Commission (ASC) initiated probe into their share trade in Fairfax shares.
BIL had three claims thrown out by Justice Emmett over the ASC's move saying, "it is open to the ASC to conclude that unacceptable circumstances may have occurred as a result of conduct in relation to shares in Fairfax".
Mr Don Conway, BIL's Australian General Manager said, ""I think once (the ASC appointed panel) sees all the submissions... and asks other experts in the marketplace, they'll see that these are just totally commercial transactions at arm's length."
Another beautiful day in paradise.
Have a good one
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