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Between the One Nation lines
The action by One Nation MPs to focus on the
shredding of the Heiner
Enquiry documents in their maiden speeches has resulted in the first
victory for the mainstream Queenslander. Yesterday, after One Nation member
for Ipswich West, Jack Paff, raised the issue of the Heiner documents and
called on the Beattie Government to release the Cabinet documents relating
to the shredding - the Labor government agreed. And now the government has
agreed to an independent wide-ranging enquiry on the shredding.
Now it has got to be made very, very clear that the scandalous shreddergate
issue has nothing to do with Beattie wanting to present a new "Mr Clean"
outlook and nothing to do with pressure being brought to bear by what is
left of the Coalition.
The Shreddergate issue gaining this profile can be tracked back to contact
that I have been keeping with the whistleblower, Kevin Lindenberg, and the
development of the on-line
"Shreddergate"
files. These files have been on-line now for about a year - and have
been referred to at regular intervals in the anotd during this time.
It was an issue that was
raised by One
Nation days before the State election after the issue was pursued
following discussions that I had had with Peter James, David Oldfield and
others. The media, as usual totally ignored the issue despite conclusive
evidence being supplied to them.
Not that we should be surprised. In a passing reference Mr Beattie said at
the time that the issue was "dead" and too much money had already been wasted
on it. The Coalition kept quite.
Now all of a sudden, with their minority government under pressure from
Independent Peter Wellington, Beattie yesterday released the Cabinet documents
covering the 1990 decision to shred the Heiner documents.
Real credibility had become a real issue not something thrown into the
conversation with a nod and a wink to friendly journalists.
The story as you would read it in today's Courier Mail is presented totally
differently. No reference is made to the speeches by One Nation members -
causing the issue to be faced. No reference is made to the continuing
negotiations between Bill Feldman and Independent Peter Wellington to make
sure that the key player was fully informed about this incident.
The front page story headed "State to act on child
jail abuse" carries the following comments by Peter Beattie:
"I want an inquiry into the kids, into the
institutions and the abuse. I'm not interested in personality clashes."
"The Heiner matter was a stuff-up in 1989 by a National
Party government and it has gone on like Blue Hills."
"That independent inquiry will have the power to
investigate whatever it wants, and John Oxley will not be excluded from
that."
No comment from Bill Feldman, no balance in reporting different perspectives
- no discussion on the role of One nation in forcing Beattie's hand.
Why shouldn't we be surprised? After all News Limited show time and again
that practically every article covering a political issue is as balanced
as a bent spoon.
The only exception to the rule that I could find
is
this article hidden on page 25 of The Courier Mail. Here is an extract:
Endless inquiries, including state investigations and
Senate probes, have failed to throw light on this suspicious episode which
has refused to disappear from the political agenda.
One Nation, however, has managed to shake free some
relevant cabinet submissions and letters from that era which otherwise would
have been hidden in archives until 2020.
In doing so the MPs have succeeded in their debut
performance where people like former premier Rob Borbidge have failed.
Access to these papers previously had been denied by
Peter Beattie, whose permission for release had been sought by then Premier
Borbidge in requests up to the time when Beattie was opposition leader.
MD
One Nation members maiden speeches under the
spotlight
Under the heading "From the mouths from political babes" the Courier Mail
carries selected extracts from speeches by a number of One Nation MPs. Now
let us recall that it was the One Nation MPs speeches which resulted
in the Heiner enquiry becoming a hot issue again - but in the paper's methodical
manner of misreporting you would not believe it from what is presented in
this article:
Charles Rapport: "I am proud to be a militia man or a reservist
in the patriotic sense. I am proud to carry a firearm in defence of my Australia
as done by soldiers through two world wars."
Shaun Nelson: "We will not tolerate this type of systemic corruption
on the body politic of this state, just to save Labor Party hacks and perpetuate
the infectious poison of corruption which lingers over the head of this great
state." (Note the lead-up reference to the
shredding of the Heiner
Enquiry documents is omitted in The Courier Mail's related
news articles.)
Jeff Knuth:
On Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen: "Some people begrudge Sir Joh's success. They
were lesser men, greedy men, ambitious men who were frustrated that Sir Joh
really represented the truth."
On Canberra: "What they have done is to fiddle the books to fool themselves
into believing we have no inflation."
On the Prime Minister: "The Prime Minister is more interested in building
castles in Africa."
On One Nation critics: "They use the same vicious techniques, swear words
against Churchill that are now being used to intimidate and smear One Nation."
On the ALP: "The Labor Party or sections of it have mounted a major smear
campaign against Australia and everything Australian while pretending to
be Australian."
The speeches by members of the major parties went without analysis or any
form of derogatory comment. This unique honour was reserved for the One Nation
MPs shown above.
Meanwhile the new Speaker of the House, Ray Hollis, was stirring up the waters
in typical Labor fashion when making much on One nation using a parliamentary
conference room for a party meeting saying, "They haven't distinguished between
party and parliamentary activity. I will speak to Bill Feldman and once I've
explained the difference between party and parliamentary meetings I'm sure
there won't be a problem."
One Nation's senior policy adviser Heather Hill hit the nail on the head
when she said, "I think it would be much more responsible of the speaker
to talk to the people instead of conducting a conference through The Courier
Mail."
Just who do the Ipswich City Council represent?
A few days ago we mentioned that the Ipswich City Council had again reversed
an earlier decision to once again prevent Pauline Hanson from using the Civic
Centre to allow her to address her constituents on 4th August.
Yesterday One Nation state director Peter James said that he had gained
permission from the Police to hold the gathering in the far more dangerous
location of Nicholas street where Mrs Hanson would be exposed to the nuts
in the loony left. One Nation has taken this stance because the party has
been prevented, once too often, from holding meetings.
The council decision took a new twist yesterday when the Ipswich Police
Superintendent Alex Erwin disputed the Ipswich City Council's claim that
police had told them that it was too dangerous for the meeting to go ahead.
He said, after granting One Nation approval to hold the meeting in Nicholas
street outside the Civic Hall, "We at no stage told no one they could not
have a meeting."
The street will be closed during the meeting, Erwin saying, "If they go ahead
with the meeting, we will police it. In my discussions with them (One Nation)
they have been quite happy to do that (discuss security measures for Mrs
Hanson)."
If there is blood in the streets because of violence from protesters who
run amuck in an uncontrollable situation metres from the Civic Hall the blood
will be on the hands of the Ipswich City Councilors because of their decision.
Earlier today Peter James confirmed to me that the meeting would go ahead
and that One Nation would be taking the Council to the Supreme Court over
its decision to bar an elected representative of the people to address her
constituents in a place where safety could be more easily assured (than in
an open street).
I will be covering the rally as usual and report back on Wednesday's anotd.
Blue-collar vote shift towards One Nation
Here is
an extract from the Financial review article:
A significant minority of blue-collar union members
– the Labor Party's traditional constituency – plans to vote for
One Nation at the Federal election, according to an opinion poll of construction
workers.
Thirteen per cent of members of the Construction Forestry
Mining and Energy Union's construction division said One Nation was the party
they were most likely to vote for at the next federal election.
State by State, support for One Nation ranged from
a high of 18.2 per cent of the union members responding to the survey in
Queensland to a low of 8.3 per cent in Victoria. Nationally, support for
One Nation among the CFMEU's membership was second only to the Labor Party,
which attracted the backing of 48 per cent of the 552 union members polled
around the country last month.
The Aboriginal Truth?
Extract
from an article in The Spectator, 20th June 1998:
NATIONS hate having to confront their ugly underbelly.
So all those Englishmen who shrank from the sight of our football supporters
laying waste to Marseilles will sympathise with Australia. The success of
Pauline Hanson's One Nation party in the Queensland state elections
has forced the Aussies to ask themselves whether they are a racist people.
Mrs Hanson is opposed to further Asian immigration,
and wants to reverse legislation giving Aborigines special rights. She has
been disowned by the ruling Liberal party, but not, apparently, by the voters
in her home state. Politicians in Canberra have two explanations for this,
depending on their political tack. Right-wingers will tell you that she is
not a racist, and that her supporters are making a misguided economic protest.
Left-wingers will claim that she is a racist, but represents a small minority
of uneducated and ill-informed rural rednecks. Both are wrong.
This former fish-and-chip shop owner's message is indeed
racist, but it cannot be dismissed as a protest from the political fringe.
Outside the metropolitan centres that cling to the seaboard of the world's
largest island, a spreading virus of race hatred threatens to engulf Australia.
This moral and cultural catastrophe is the direct result of the failure of
the policies that have guided the country for a generation.
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
You say:
Subject: Re:
Interim JPSC Report on
MAI .
Hi Scott,
I have just downloaded the Joint Parliamentary
Standing Committee's Interim Report in which the Committee slates the
Treasury for inadequate briefing, reporting, consultation, etc, etc.
You are probably aware of the report, but, in case
you have not, I am attaching the download for your attention. You will probably
need Adobe Reader to view or print the file as it comes from www.aph.com.au
. However, you know far more about these computer things than I do.
Would you also kindly inform me of the url for Oz News.
I tried searching for it without any luck, but it certainly seems to speak
my language.
Your
anotd today (31/07) is extra good!
Regards,
Evan
Subject: Stop The MAI
Get the Govt To Stop This Crap MAI
Let's get this election on and have One Nation in
There with the Balance off Power
For us Australian's
Best of luck Pauline
Bob and Lewis Barnes.
Subject:
traitors
in the treasury
Dear Sir,
what a valuable service you are providing to the people
of Australia. How else would we ever get to hear about the secret doings
of these unelected elitist Traitors in our Treasury.
Through your link to the Austand pages ,I ,and many
others ,have become aware ,for the first time, of the wholesale sellout by
these traitors.
Name withheld
Subject:
O.N.'s First
Day
So Beattie thinks One Nation members in State Parliament
should lift their game does he? Well I can assure him, they will lift their
game alright, that was only a taste of what is to come. These are the type
of people we want in parliament, people who are not sullied by the party
machine. Good on you fella's, keep it up.
Alan Esson
Subject: One Nation
Dear Sir/Madam,
I really enjoy your reporting. Keep up the good
work.
Jon
PS, this link on one page is out of date:
This is what the Democratic Socialists (the over 20s)
side of Resistance have to say about their *Gay and Lesbian policy for
schools:*
Subject:
Comments on Australian
News of the Day
RE: ABC AGAINST NATURE Oh Peter Geraldton,
How strange you claim Greens are in fact a bit Red,
and this show is not biased.
The group behind Against Nature is taking the MARXIST
line on population- technology will help solve all problems, especially
overpopulation (grim for One Nation/AAFI's Neon-Malthusian line of diminishing
resourses, if you think about it). See the Sydney Morning Herald 29/7/98
"Seeing red over attack on greens".
Of course Global Warming is a green myth about how
important humans are, and many do want to stop ALL development rather than
let Third World countries progress.
The point they the show DIDN'T make was that it's not
the telegenic creatures so much we need to save for human survival. Over
here, it's ugly microbacteria etc dying off that can cause huge problems.
It isn't just humans or animals.
Michael Bradley
P.S. There is a hole in the ozone layer. It should be in the Northern hemisphere
though...
Subject: QUICK SUGGESTION
Scott
there is a letter from 'Peter from Geraldton' on ANOTD
today, about the ABC documentary 'Against Nature'. Would you consider posting
that letter at the APF One Nation Forum? I think it would attract some
interesting debate.
all the best
Byron Stander
Subject: good job scott ....
every one is behind you to keep it simple....cutting
edge technology it is not as long as this tech....can....you are on the cutting
edge as far as the detractors go ....no rating they willstride to compete
....good effort scott ....competing with the best over to you ....
as you know a lot of supporters realise that you are
one of the most subtle media people in this country with professional ideology
....that can be any no. of ways do,not use the word bullet.bullets you have
probably been told already...
fatwombat
Subject: Keep me informed
Iam one off your voter's or will be when the time is
right, let's have this election quick so we can get some decent Pollies in
this Country
your's Sincerly
Lewis Barnes
Subject: Comments on Australian News of the
Day
Dear Scott
A hypothetical for you : while surfing the internet,
you come across a daily publication which has a repeated photo of Kim Beasley
running down the sidebar (instead of, say, Pauline Hanson). Would you call
it (a) an independent newspaper or (b) a propoganda sheet? Answer honestly,
now, Scott.
Best Wishes,
SIMON HUNT
Subject: 2 items.
Dear GWB
(1) I was coming home on a train and watched as a lady
(approx 60-65 yrs old) was eating an apple. She was cutting slices from it
with a pocket knife that would have had a blade about 1.5" long. It was then
that I realised she was breaking the law. Not only was she in possession
of a knife but it was one with a fold-away blade so as to be concealed. What
a desperado this knife concealing woman must have been. Then I started to
worry about me. Here I was with information about a law breaker. Should I
get off at the next station and inform the Police????
How sick and pathetic has this society become? How
long before BoB Carr and the rest of the wankers make us all wear shoes with
vel-croe? After all, shoe laces are pretty dangerous. They can be used by
60 year old women to tie up and strangle victims while they stab them. (But
only after they've eaten their apples).
(2) In the Daily Telegraph (31/07/98) there's a story
about a Unionist(CFMEU) who is a member of One Nation. As I have mentioned
before to this on-line news service, "There's a HUGE disillusioned blue collar
vote out there in Oz. One that has been betrayed by Labour at Federal and
State level. The farmers are not the only one's doing it tough. If One Nation
does not concentrate some effort towards these Australians, then good votes
are going to "go begging".
We know where Ms. Hanson stands on Industrial Relations
issues because she says what she means. As for Cheryl the Rat, she(her ex-party)
voted the Workplace reforms through the Senate and then jumps into bed with
the party who voted against the reforms. It shows the calibre of Labour who
will embrace a dope who votes against them.
C'mon One Nation, offer the Aussie worker some concrete
to stand on instead of the straws that Libs and Labour are offering us. You'll
be surprised by the support you'll get if you do.
regards
Wags
Subject: Water water...
Here I sit in Australia's first Third World capital
unable to drink the water. Why? Because a massive influx of migrants and
the Bob Carr "urban consolidation" policies have pushed more people into
a Water and Sewerage infrastructure that just can't take anymore. Many ON
supporters will say they saw it coming. It is simply the by product of long
years of weak government appeasement to Big Business and the Multicultural
industry. Will they learn? I doubt it. But I can say one thing is for sure.
There are a LOT of ordinary folks in the Olympic City right now who are not
very bloody amused!
Roll on One Nation,
Bozo the Barbarian
Another perfect day in paradise - but very cold.
Have a good one.
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The One Nation
mailing list published in the Australia/Israeli Review - 9th July
1998
The Barbara Hazelton
betrayal - 2nd July 1998
Pauline Hanson's
One Nation Queensland State MPs meet in Parliament - 27th June 1998
QANTAS censor Pauline
Hanson - 24th June 1998
"Paul" (Big "K")
Costello's lies - 22nd June 1998
Live coverage
of Queensland State Elections - 13th June 1998
Beattie's preference
lies exposed - 11th June 1998
Launch of
One Nation state policies - 8th June 1998
Sixty Minutes break
new barriers in unethical reporting - 6th June 1998
Ray Martin revelas
his spots when challenging Pauline Hanson on A Current Affair - 4th
June 1998
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Ray Martin's unethical behaviour during his interview with Pauline
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