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Tuesday 23rd September 1997
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The headline reads "Racists hit streets.. poster outrage"
What a beat up... when you see what gets put on the public notice boards! The offending poster says, "This Nation was built by white men... This Nation belongs to white men" is in poor taste - that is without question, but to glorify it by giving it front page headlines is a quick way to get idiots like the "luney left" creating posters with similar messages... as they are, after all, some of the most racist people in disguise in Australia.
The story behind the posters is as follows. Over the weekend they appeared on walls and boards in the suburb of Goodna. The suburb is populated by a large number of Samoan, Vietnamese and Aboriginal people.
The poster also has a picture of a man in a hard hat standing in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and an insignia representing the Celtic Cross.
Of course the Ipswich Anti-Racism Committee spokesman was quick to respond blaming Pauline Hanson's One Nation for the poster.
"The unfortunate thing is whether she is to blame or not, these are the sorts of things she and her adviser David Oldfield have been saying... they do use that civil war rhetoric," Arndt said.
"This group, whoever they are, has attached themselves to what Pauline Hanson's One Nation is talking about, and that is attracting extreme right wing groups who are dangerous."
Now haven't you heard that statement trotted out before?
David Oldfield responded to Arndt and the posters by saying, "Pauline Hanson does not attract racial hatred. Racial hatred exists, that is a fact of life. What Pauline Hanson is trying to do is get rid of racial hatred through policies that treat all Australians equally regardless of race.
"Pauline Hanson says that we must all be Australians together and think of ourselves as Australians and that we are equal and should be treated equally or our country has no future."
Pauline Hanson has demanded that foot-in-mouth Foreign Minister Alexander Downer be sacked after he made the following most outrageous comment last Thursday. "I'm not sure if the corollary of all this is that she (Hanson) has to be taken out and shot or jailed."
Ms Hanson said that this time Downer had gone too far.
Last night the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) 4 Corners Program blew the whistle on the dodgy dealings of one Victorian state premier Jeff Kennett. What was interesting was how his media mates (ala Kerry Packer) have refused to cover the serious allegations raised by the ABC in the report.
Of course Packer's dislike of 4 Corners for exposing his dodgy dealings is on the public record.
The bottom line for Channel 7's Victorian Today Tonight team at the centre of the Kennett expose was that seven of their number were fired within months... and Channel 7 boss, Kerry Stokes, who appeared to have done well through his association with Jeff Kennett expressed quite clearly that he was "not amused" that the programme was aired by his television station.
At the centre of the program was dodgy share deals where Kennett was able to use his influence to obtain shares after floats had been closed and, in fact, according to a report in today's Australian newspaper (obviously not in the Kennett sphere of influence yet) the premier phoned the chairman of the Australian Stock Exchange to secure Au$20,000 worth of shares in a 1993 float after it had been announced as being "fully taken".
Kennett's former press secretary, Stephen Mayne, alleged that Kennett had contacted a raft of people in the right places to secure shares that were guaranteed to do well on the day more than one listed company went public.
In the case of Guangdong Corporation the shares rose 50% above the purchase price paid on the day they floated and Jeff Kennett's wife, Felicity, had managed to acquire some 50,000 through her husbands wheeling and dealing.
Of course Kennett's influence has not stopped with Channel 7 axing its Today Tonight crew who dared show the programme last year... Channel 7 did not, of course, mention the 4 Corners report in today's news... there were far more important things to talk about like sport, fairies and the whims of their chairman Kerry Stokes who now obviously has a beady eye on harnessing the damage.
Not long ago The Melbourne Age finally rid itself of a Kennett "detractor" - editor Guthrie could no longer take the demands he received from above and left.... honest journalism at the top? No they've all gone - its the crook ones that are left as you will see from the next story which relates specifically to how Murdoch operates.
The ABC's Media Watch presenter Stuart Littlemore interviewed Phillip Knightley last night. The programme was all about the growth of the News Limited empire and how power is used to distort what we hear.
But first, Knightley has just written a book about his experiences as a journalist. These include working with young Rupert Murdoch on the Melbourne Herald many years ago... and being amazed at the access that the Murdoch's had to Menzies.
Here is a short sampling of what was said during Littlemore's interview with Knightley.
Littlemore: Phillip Knightley's book on Rupert Murdoch dictating policy to his editors. They are wrong. It doesn't work like that. Firstly Murdoch chooses editors who basically agree with his outlook on life. Who think like he does. Then he holds an annual conference for those staff and they sit around for days in an opulent hotel and talk and in the end every editor knows exactly what Murdoch's views are on just about everything."
Knightley: "They (the editors) know what they need to do. I give an example in the book where Murdoch said to the assembled editors, 'What's the biggest story in the world today?' Someone said, 'Drugs', 'NO', said Murdoch. Someone else said, 'Increasing feminism', 'NO', said Murdoch. 'Globalisation of the world', 'NO', said Murdoch, 'The biggest story in the world today is the coming collapse of Communism'.
"My source said that he got knocked over in the rush of editors running to the phone to order stories on the coming collapse of Communism."
Says it all doesn't it.
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Political:
Howard launched his campaign against European countries pushing for uniform greenhouse gas emission targets saying that the price of petrol would rise 70 cents a litre and that electricity prices would double.
Former Queensland Premier Wayne Goss is suffering from a brain tumour and will undergo surgery this afternoon.
Following worsening headaches over the weekend the Mater Private Hospital diagnosed the tumour after Goss' wife Roisin took him there early Sunday morning.
The latest NewsPoll results:
| Party | Sep 19-21 | Sep 5-7 | Aug 22-24 | Aug 8-10 | Jul 25-27 | Jul 11-13 | June 27-29 | June 13-15 | May 30-June 1 | May 16-18 | Election - March 1997 |
| Coalition | 43% | 41% | 42% | 43% | 42% | 42 | 43% | 44% | 43% | 41% | 47% |
| ALP | 37% | 40% | 39% | 37% | 36% | 40% | 37% | 36% | 37% | 37% | 38.7% |
| One Nation | 4% | 4% | 5% | 6% | 7% | 6% | 6% | 7% | 7% | 9% | N/A |
| Democrats | 6% | 5% | 5% | 4% | 5% | 4% | 6% | 3% | 5% | 4% | 6.8% |
| Greens | 2% | 3% | 2% | 2% | 3% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 1.7% |
| Others | 8% | 7% | 7% | 8% | 7% | 6% | 8% | 8% | 7% | 7% | 5.8% |
Have a good one.
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