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Thursday 7th August 1997
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George J Merritt, a member of Graeme Campbell's right wing Australia First Party is named as the editor of the new edition.
Merritt was expelled from One Nation earlier this year as he was found to be not a "proper person to represent the party," according to the party's National Director David Ettridge.
"We will be taking out an injunction or whatever is necessary to stop this. We know the League of Rights is distributing it and that's one of the annoying aspects," Ettridge said.
He went on to say that the book was produced without Ms Hanson's knowledge or approval.
The founding director of the League of Rights, Eric Butler, told a 48-strong group at the Country Women's Association offices in Brisbane on Monday that "every objective political commentator agrees that she is perhaps the most remarkable political phenomenon in Australian political history," according to today's Courier Mail reporter Tony Koch.
Following the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Four Corners Report on Asian crime on Monday I am pleased to say that the lid is starting to be lifted on the whole sick cancer eating away at our society.
The prevalence of Asian crime gangs in the industry should cast no reflection on the great majority of honest and hard working Asians in Australia, but the truth needs to be revealed without the tag of "racist" being bandied about like some flailing stick at anybody who identifies the heart of the problem.
A recent National Crime Authority report into Asian crime revealed that 96% of heroin in Australia originated from Asia.
Yesterday we received a very disturbing email about the embedded Asian crime problem on the Gold Coast.
This is just a small part of the lengthy letter:
To my knowledge these individuals have only been here for approximately 2 weeks. These individuals are by far the most dangerous here because they are new and the pecking order is yet to be established. This combined with the fact that they are fresh out of a "combat zone" and their confidence is high, can only result in bloodshed. It should be noted that this group
contains at least one Australian member."
"The Cabramatta problem has resulted in some of the Vietnamese relocating here. They boasted to me as to how the courts here are ignorant of their previous convictions and as such they are issuing lighter penalties. I am bewildered as to how this could occur. They likened this environment to heaven and said that they had freedoms here they didn't have in Cabramatta.
This weekend I understand that newspapers will lift the lid on Asian crime in Cabramatta I hope to be able to help in doing the same here before the problem becomes entrenched on the Gold Coast.
Ipswich Councillor and anti-Hanson campaigner Paul Tully (seen in the picture left at the Gold Coast launch of One Nation) was last night censured by the full council for bringing bad publicity to Ipswich.
Mayor John Nugent said that Cr Tully could be sacked as a committee chairman "as the very last resort if the message isn't heard".
The censure motion was adopted unanimously and drew strong applause from the public gallery.
Cr Nugent read from transcripts of radio interviews with Cr Tully during an hour in which he was savaged by his council colleagues. The censure motion was apparently triggered by Tully's media release on Council's decision to restrict meetings at council buildings where violence was likely. Tully's release described the resolution as a ban on One Nation meetings.
Tully reported sick - obviously aware of what was to come.
Here are the words of the controversial council resolution:
In the meeting of the Special Corporate Services Committee held on July 25th it was resolved:
"In order for Council to meet its duty of care obligations to staff, public safety and property, that Council determine to refuse bookings for events at the Ipswich Civic Hall or other Council public facilities, which are determined to compromise Council's "duty of care" responsibility."
The Thredbo rescue drew to a close yesterday as the last of the 18 bodies were retrieved from the landslide that occurred a week ago.
There was just one survivor, Stuart Diver, who was pulled out of a small cavity on Saturday after being entombed for over 65 hours.
The twentieth "missing" person was discovered alive and well earlier this week. The woman, walking with her husband late at night, did not realise that she was listed among the missing. She had not been caught up in the landslide.
As the weather deteriorates in Thredbo, with rain and snow expected today, it is unlikely that any more work other than shoring up the sight will now take place.
With a hide thicker than the proverbial rhino Queensland State Premier Rob Borbidge now wants to continue with the aborted inquiry into the Criminal Justice Commission (CJC) after the Supreme Court threw out the Au$11 million Connolly-Ryan inquiry into the CJC for political bias.
"But one way or the other the CJC will be meeting the Parliament later this year and there will be amendments to the Criminal Justices Act so the Government honours its election commitment of 1995," Borbidge said.
"There has to be checks and balances in the system. There has to be a higher degree of accountability.
"About the only people that do not accept that in Queensland there appears to be two or three people that run the CJC and I am not referring to the commissioners.
"I do not believe any democratic society can tolerate a situation where a non-appointed body believes it is the State and that it is the Government".
Yesterday the State opposition leader Peter Beattie warned that he was planning to censure the government over the Supreme Court findings and to call for the dissolution of Parliament.
To achieve this aim he only needs the support on the Independent member Liz Cunningham.
Making the news.
Dear Sir,
I believe that we as a nation are really at rock bottom. I was horrified at the antics of the media last year during the aftermath of the Port Arthur shootings and at that time thought that they had had really sunk to an all time low with their crass reporting of the event.
The terribly sad episode of the Thredbo landslide has provided the ammunition for these blood suckers to yet again prove just what a low and despicable lot of cretins they are. Have we sunk so low as a nation that we are going to tolerate for example, the anchorman of "Business Sunday" presenting his show from the Thredbo disaster site.
Do we have to have every frontline presenter on site asking inane questions repeatedly and then crossing back to the studio for the Dow - Jones, the FTSE100 and the weather reports. Is this news? Is this what Australians want to see? Do we need to trade in human misery and suffering?
Let's get real ! Journalist appear to be "Logie Driven" these days and all other matters seem to be pushed to the bottom of the heap. Whatever happened to honesty, decency, respect and sensitivity towards ones fellow human beings. Don't they care about the personal feelings and sufferings of the victims and their relatives and friends.
I call on all journalists to stop, step back a few paces and have a clear look at what they are doing and ask themselves if it would be alright for others to treat them and their families and friends with the same pathetic standards given similar circumstances.
Allan W. Doak.
Subject: Bank Fees
Hi There
I cannot understand why bank fees are allowed. Electronic banking was introduced to save the banks money by cutting staff numbers, which it has done very successfully.
To then turn-around and charge for use of these services is a blatant money grab. It would appear that the banks have paid off the government to allow this 'robbery'.
The government should be encouraging the banks to get off their bums , go to Asia and make money their rather than slug the average consumer.
Rgds
Ken Pedlow
Subject: Brisbane river canoeing
Scott,
Your anticipated pleasure at the prospect of canoeing on the river came thru loud and clear when you announced the plan on Friday. It must have been a classic indeed, when it resulted in the opportunity to rescue "Diver, the Doomed Dingo" from certain death on the riverside mud bank. Please keep your readers informed of Diver's health and welfare as he(?) grows to adulthood on the farm.
Best wishes to your family and to Diver,
john hamilton
Subject: THE LAW. AND THE CONSTITUTION
IF A LAW IS NOT CLEAR CUT ENOUGH FOR ALL JUDGES TO TO ARRIVE AT THE SAME DECISION OR INTERPRETATION, THEN IT IS EITHER
WHAT'S MORE, MOST PEOPLE WHICH INCLUDES OUR LEGAL PROFESSION (JUDGES) HAVE NOT HAD THE BENEFIT OF THE REALLY GOOD EDUCATION SUCH AS WAS AVAILABLE AT THE TIME WHEN THE CONSTITUTION WAS WRITTEN..
OUR CONSTITUTION IS CLEAR CUT TO ORDINARY PEOPLE, WRITTEN BY ORDINARY PEOPLE TO PROTECT US. OTHERS WANT TO SUBVERT THIS TO EXERCISE EVEN MORE CONTROL, AND FURTHER ENTRENCH THEIR POWER.
THE PEOPLE SHOULD BE TREMBLING. I FEAR FOR ME AND MINE.
HOW ONE MAN (JUDGE) OUT OF SEVEN CAN THROW OUR NATION'S TAX SYSTEM INTO CHAOS---
PHILIP MADSEN.
Wilkie says that this stress is often undetected, but there are signs:
Have a good one.
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