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Monday 11th August 1997
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Yesterday I stripped off the veil of secrecy that is a Labor Party meeting and went to see for myself what it was all about. My interest? The great Lord Mayor of Brisbane and anti-Pauline Hanson campaigner, Jim Soorley, was the guest speaker.The meeting, at Redcliffe, also marked the first official protest by members of the One Nation party at a political event.
A fourth Australian team member in the Maccabiah Games died yesterday in the intensive care unit of the Sheba Hospital near Tel Aviv.
56 year old Warren Zines died after suffering a stroke on Friday night. The Australian team collapsed a small temporary bridge while waiting to go into the grand opening of the games.
It is believed that Zines died from the polluted water of the Yarkon River - the river had been treated with chemicals to kill off mosquitos.
Miracle man Stuart Diver, 27, who survived the Thredbo disaster is now the focus of a special fund set up to help the families of the victims of the landslide that killed 18 people.
"Now's the chance for all of us to give back to all those who have given so much," said Mr Diver.
Diver was yesterday discharged from his Canberra hospital bed after making an incredible recovery.
New South Wales state premier Bob Carr has said that the state would donate Au$50,000 and the Thredbo Village have said that 10% of all earnings this winter will be donated to the appeal.
If you are Australian you will recall the media tut-tutting about Pauline Hanson's One Nation employing a media director on a federal employment scheme.
Lost in the small print in today's Courier Mail are some interesting revelations.... former Queensland state Coalition politicians Martin Tenni and Beryce Nelson have been appointed to the Borbidge Government's electricity industry board; former Brisbane Lord Mayor Sally Ann Atkinson has been appointed as the State Government's representative of the Austa Energy Board and one I picked up at the Australian Labor Party's Redcliffe meeting on Saturday night... former Federal Attorney General Michael Lavarche is to be Queensland's convenor in the Republic convention taking place later this year...
Jobs for the boys? You be the judge!
Making the news.This is what Colleen McCullogh has to say about CIR:
"To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, government should be of the people, by the people and for the people. Modern government in Australia doesn't even begin to measure up."
Sir!
I was wondering when noted republican Tom Keneally would make use of his position in your Australian Magazine's Revolver column (Sat. 9th August) to shoot himself in the foot. He says "No-one believes that Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party has seriously studied the six volumes of Clark."
Well, I'm a One Nation supporter and I read Manning Clark for enjoyment. Seriously. I like reading history as much as I like reading historical fiction such as Keneally pushes. I also like books on constitutional law, and it seems that Keneally's simplistic and patronising views of One Nation supporters are cut from the same cloth as his views on the republic.
Republicans who think that the Queen occupies a position of power in Australian affairs or that we are somehow run like a colonial branch office of Buckingham Palace obviously haven't read their history books. You'd think that news of the 1931 Statute of Westminster would have penetrated the hidebound fastnesses of the ARM, for instance.
Manning Clark's first of six volumes deals with Australian Aborigines (and other subjects). I urge Keneally to read it and report back in his next column just how much of Clark's views on Aborigines he can support. Perhaps he could mount a defence of Manning Clark's opening sentence, "Civilization did not begin in Australia until the last quarter of the eighteenth century." Much of this first volume is well overdue for a respray, not to put a gloss on any political viewpoint, but simply to reflect the facts rather than the sort of historical fiction that Keneally pushes.
I have the Honour to be
Sir,
your Obedient servant,
Peter Mackay
Subject: Multiculturalism
On "Letter from America" (ABC Radio National, today) It was revealed by Alistair Cook that the Grand Jury in San Francisco has found that Multiculturalism has not worked, and interestingly, the Asian population there was not even mentioned, as they separate themselves out from the rest of society anyway.
Subject: Well Done!
Just a quick note to tell you that I visit your site every day for the daily news. It is just great to get an alternative viewpoint to the bland and distorted material, with suppression, so prevalent in most of the media. I am not a member of the One Nation party, but I do strongly support the democratic process which depends on free flow of information and freedom to debate issues.
I started using the Internet about two months ago. I experienced problems when trying to find a Pro-Hanson Web Site so that I could read her maiden speech. However, these problems could be converted to opportunities with some appropriate action. My search engine produced plenty of anti-Hanson sites, but not your site. (Does this need action?) Logging on via your site certainly raised my political awareness and curiousity.
I then found VicNet, which appears to be run by our Victorian State Library, hence is taxpayer funded. There is a great amount of good information there, but I was quite concerned when clicking on the Politics section to find LeftLink prominently displayed with a separate icon. This was above the general list of political parties. One Nation was not in this list. This list was mostly Left oriented and included some anarchist groups. I discovered the "five clicks to Anarchy" situation about a week before it was publicised on your site. It was obvious how the anti-Hanson protests were organised through various mail lists, many centred on Melbourne and Latrobe universities. This is now much lower key since the situation was exposed.
May I suggest that you approach VicNet requesting the inclusion of a One Nation link in the Politics section of their site. If you do, please keep us informed of progress.
regards,
Bob Laidlaw
P.S. Please do not publish my email address, as I dont want to be harassed by goons and ferals from the anarchist organisations.
I have requested Vic Net to add One Nation to the list of political parties. I will let you know what transpires after our unsuccessful attempt to get One Nation onto Telstra's Springboard.
Editor
For the first time in over twenty tests Australian cricket captain Mark Taylor actually justified his position in the Australian team by scoring some runs.
The study say, "Media reports and personal experience of business downsizing or closing make the community's fears real and immediate.
"Personal experiences of redundancies and business closures amplified the sense of economic malaise and brings broad economic issues into the realm of personal and family life.
"The notions of a lucky or clever country have not yet been extinguished. Associated with such optimistic sentiments, however, is a sense of regret and sadness that Australia is not making the most of its potential and opportunities.
"The implications of the despondent mood in mid-1997 are that the community knows something is amiss - and it will respond to sensible, practical and constructive ideas. There is a strong belief that government and business should be acting in concert to address the community's concerns."
Dropped to about one degree Celsius overnight.
Have a great day.
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