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Between the One Nation lines

Today I am releasing the background (with images) of the One Nation meeting held on Monday at which candidates were briefed on the tax policy based on the 2%EasyTax.

Coverage of the event is now on-line.

The media adviser who never was:

The Debbie Beavan mole continues to hound One Nation's state team. The ex-media adviser who, from day one so it would appear, played one role to perfection - leaking information damaging to those she was supposed to be representing.

Her dismissal follows the incident in which one of the state MPs, Jack Paff, was accused of making a "lewd comment".

Today a confidential documents is the basis of a story in The Courier Mail. The document was the centre of a court case yesterday in which lawyers for One Nation MP Charles Rappolt and Miss Higgins, named in the document, sought a Supreme Court injunction to prevent publication of a police report stolen by Mrs Beavan from Bill Feldman's office. Rappolt and his partner were at the centre of a much publicised realtionship controversy earlier the previous month. Rappolt and Higgins took the Supreme Court action against The Courier Mail on the basis that publication of the document would breach the Domestic Violence Act. Despite Judge Martin Moynihan ruling to restrain The Courier Mail from publishing material which breached the Act the paper went ahead regardless.

My understanding is that publicity-seeking Mrs Beavan could fall very hard from her pedastal very, very shortly.

The blocked One Nation state funds:

Yesterday the Electoral Commissioner for Queensland was ordered to release just under Au$500,000 to One Nation after the Supreme Court rejected a legal attempt to block it.

Two disaffected members of One Nation Terry Sharples and Barbara Hazelton (once Mrs Hanson's closest friend) have been behind the attempts. The Liberal Party's Tony Abbott has been instrumental in providing the funds to cover legal expenses for both Hazelton and Sharples.

Justice Richard Chester refused an application for an interim order to freeze the money.

Mr O'Shea confirmed that he had ordered his staff to release the money which had been placed in a trust following the un-Australian actions by the two complainants who claim that One nation was incorrectly registered.

The Labor Party behind the defacing of the Liberal Party website

On Tuesday the Liberal Party website was defaced with several pornographic links being made to MP's on-line pages and derogatory comments replacing the official titles of Cabinet Members.

Yesterday a member of Opposition leader Kim Beazley's staff admitted that he had issued instructions on how to hack into the Liberal party web site on the day that the site was hacked.

Parliament House researcher Paul Gill admitted sending details on how to access the site by FTP to Labor Party members on Monday afternoon.

"I passed on some information that someone had given me on instructions on how it could be done," said Gill who rejected the charge of being behind the hacking.

The Liberal Party shut down the site late Tuesday night - many hours after the hacking had taken place.

Mr Beazley's office released this comment on the issue: "Our preliminary enquiries into this matter have established that no member of Mr Beazley's staff interfered with any Liberal Party Internet facility.

"If any subsequent inquiry establishes that a member of staff did commit such interference they will be dealt with severely."

If a staff member was found to "distribute instructions relating to such interference they would be dealt with". Sounds like Gill could be looking for a new job.

Hanson's flat tax plan

Later today I will be releasing One Nation's flat tax policy on the One Nation web page. This will take place some time around 2pm.

Yesterday, following the unauthorised leaking of the 2%EasyTax based policy to the Courier Mail, the Laboral factions were tearing away like terriers at a bone trying to ridicule the plan.

Both Treasurer Peter Costello and Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer claimed that the proposed tax would "ruin rural markets" - one of One Nation's primary support bases. "This is an incremental tax from cloudland," said Fisher while campaigning in Dubbo, "It is the case of factory farm gate through eleven stages to wharf, then you have eleven times 2% or 22%. It is crazy stuff."

"I am now less worried about the threat of One Nation when I learned of their tax cloudland, a 2% compounding incremental tax cascading up.

"It is actually anti-country, anti-export because of that incremental factor. It is a massive miscalculation if and when this tax policy is affirmed. It won't work."

Meanwhile Council of Small Business Organisation of Australia chief executive Ron Bastion said One Nation was right to explore other alternatives to the GST.

"The point that One nation makes which I think is reasonable is that the Government rolled into this debate about a tax reform with an assumption that a GST is the correct way to go... without any examination of the alternatives post-1993."

Here is an extract from the Australian Financial review:

Pauline Hanson is expected to unveil a policy today advocating a cascading tax on exchanges of goods, services, property and labour – to replace most income, company, sales and payroll taxes.

The policy is loosely based on the work of Brisbane civil engineer Mr John McRobert who with a small band of supporters has spent years developing a 2 per cent cascading tax system and publicising it through self-published books, a tax reform society and a website.

Ms Hanson has attacked "multinational" companies for not paying a fair share of taxes in Australia, because their profits are mostly repatriated.

Why Howard's GST is a con

Argument against a GST

While all media commentators have concentrated so far on the 'immediate' weekly savings of Labor's, compared to the Coalition's tax packages, it is equally, if not much more important for every taxpayer to know where they will stand in the next 10 years according to Ray Regan, President of the National Tax & Accountants Association.

The bottom line is under John Howard's 10% GST tax, all full time adult workers will end up being double taxed. That is, over the next decade they will have to pay both the top marginal rate of 48.5%, plus a 10% GST tax, which rate will increase up to 12.5% , then 15% etc.

How safe is your property ownership?

Buying a house in Australia

While in Australia a major concern appears to be the uncertainty resulting from the Mabo and Wik decisions by our court, if we look at how land is registered in Australia it becomes apparent that ordinary people have more to fear from the uncertainty of title resulting from organized crime influences on title registration in surburban subdivisions than they have to fear from Native Title claims.

Judge Ends Busing In Prince George's, USA

Here is an extract: from the Washington Post article

"These are exciting times for Prince George's County," School Superintendent Jerome Clark said. "You're going to see new schools being built in communities. You're going to see the academic performance of our youngsters going up, simply because we can focus our energies and not be divided by this thing we call court-ordered desegregation."

At the height of the Prince George's desegregation effort, 33,277 children were reassigned to schools to achieve racial balance, and the burden of busing fell evenly among white and black students. But by 1996, nearly 92 percent of the 11,332 students mandatorily bused were African American, many of them sent to predominantly black schools outside their neighborhoods.

Malaysia shows the way forward

Trading in the Malaysian ringgit was virtually non-existent in Asia on Wednesday as the foreign exchange market pondered how to settle previous trades following Malaysia's imposition of sweeping foreign exchange controls.

``No-one's touching the ringgit. In that respect the controls have worked. But there's utter confusion about how to settle outstanding trades -- especially in the forward market,'' the head of trading at a European bank in Sydney said.

An exotic-currency trader at a European bank in Singapore said: ``The back office have gone berserk. I think they've been up all night trying to work this one out and they're still nowhere near a solution.''

Traders said the problem was that when the exchange controls were announced on Tuesday, no mention was made of settlement.

Essentially, the market's dilemma is that offshore holdings of ringgit will be become valueless from September 30 -- because they won't be accepted back in Malaysia -- but what happens if someone has an existing forward contract to buy ringgit on November 1?

Early on Wednesday Malaysia's central bank, Bank Negara, began to address the problem by saying that all settlements for transactions executed prior to September 1 would only be allowed to be effected until September 4.

As the trader at a the European bank in Singapore said, ``This doesn't help us with the forward problem.''

Various theories were doing the market rounds as to how the problem could be solved.

Economic consultants I.D.E.A. said in a commentary, ``One possible avenue out would be to net off open positions among players on all the tenors (maturities) and attempting to settle the net balance with Bank Negara.''

There was also talk that a one-year yield curve could be formulated among players with open positions and that open positions could be settled in accordance with their maturities on the curve.

But the exotics currency trader said: ``There'll be no end of argument about what the curve would look like. If you're long ringgit you want a high rate, short ringgit you're the other way around.''

Bank Negara at midday fixed the ringgit at 3.80 to the dollar for an indefinite period of time.

While that may give a starting point for any discussions on settlements, traders said there would still be major obstacles such as agreeing implied interest rates for forwards.

Rumours also swirled that major players were in crisis meetings with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) -- Singapore's de facto central bank.

This could not be confirmed but dealers said it was highly unlikely that the MAS would stand idly by while the forex market was in such confusion.

``The bulk of dollar/ringgit trade took place here. It's inconceivable MAS isn't doing anything about this mess,'' the exotics currency trader said.

Bank Negara was also having problems.

It had earlier published the phone numbers of what it called its nerve centre for enquiries about the new forex regime.

But the lines were immediately swamped and calls from Reuters in Singapore never got more than the engaged tone.

Negara later said that members of the public should call a different series of numbers. Nevertheless, the engaged tone was the order of the day.

``It's a muck up, a complete muck up,'' the head of trading at the European bank in Sydney said.

Here is an extract from the Australian Financial Review article:

Malaysia tried to isolate itself from the global financial crisis yesterday with wide-ranging controls on capital movements designed to take its economy back to the era of more rigid exchange rates.

The new measures, intended to end all offshore trading in the ringgit, follow similar actions on Monday night to stop offshore trading in Malaysian stocks, especially in Singapore.

In a defiant national television appearance yesterday afternoon the Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, bluntly told Malaysians that if they did not repatriate ringgit held abroad within one month "that money is just wastepaper".

Making the news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest possible levels in Australia.

Political:

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Subject: Site Protection

Hi Scott

I trust you will protect Pauline's site during the Election, because after the Thursday announcement I feel both sites, you probably know which one I am referring to will be subject to assault You are doing a great job, keep up the good work.

I met you personally when you were working at Gil in the early stage.

Best wishes
Peter Colindale

Subject: Lateline

Dear Executive Producer,

ABC Television's Lateline programme tonight devoted much effort to aspects of the up-coming Federal Election but many viewers would not be any less confused after seeing it but at least it was educational.

One wonders whether the subject matter raised has simply further opened up the media-induced focus on One Nation and the appeal being obtained by that party amongst the rebelling voters.

The cynicism of politicians who carp at each other over so called policy differences and who don`t listen to those hurt by the l980`s and l990`s style of social policy is enough to create a climate for a substantial anti- establishment protest vote. Second preference votes will probably determine whether tweedledum or tweedledee gain the power, who will then claim the divine right of "we have a mandate" to do what the voters do not expect.

Major parties must explain in down-to-earth terms, why the measures need to be taken. It is time to be aware that not everyone is interested in the what`s in it for me syndrome. It`s the people who pay the price of Economic Rationalism, not the politicians promoting the concept.

In an uncertain world to have a reasonable plan can bring comfort. Surviving each day can be exhausting in times of dramatic change - thinking the changes and their consequences through, come in a very poor second or third if at all.

This may be why in an election 90% of people use their How to Vote cards. Education is vital and should be the responsibility of a well informed media as well as being provided through the advertising industry`s copious glossies. The many facets of living in today`s society obviously make this difficult. Otherwise why do we have never ending stories about the sexual prowess of international figures, or the perils of the Ips witch cluttering up kilometres of media space - be it electronic or print?

Referring to the National Party`s long term survival. It would indeed, be an odd way to get a better deal by getting rid of the rural community`s champion. Old myths and old certainties are not there any more.

Sincerely,
J o n M. A x t e n s

Subject: Slur against University of Melbourne

Dear Mr Balson,

I notice that you have put your name personally to all research done on your site regarding Pauline Hanson's One Nation party. It is obvious, however, in several places, that your research is sketchy and has not been properly followed through. You use unsubstantiated sources ("undisclosed sources") to legitimise some fairly serious claims and (according to the five minutes of fact-checking I personally undertook) have actually misrepresented at least one piece of evidence. Allow me to demonstrate.

On the page under the heading "Dissension within One Nation Ranks" you talk about David Greason of the Australia-Isreali Review publishing a paper at the University of Melbourne called "I was a teenage fascist". I am making the assumption here that revealing this piece of information is meant to inform the reader of an undisclosed bias on the part of Mr Greason.

Unfortunately, because of inadequate fact-checking, you have succeeded in indirectly casting a slur on the University of Melbourne (by intimating that they support fascist propaganda in their institution) and in identifying Mr Greason's work as a paper which it is not. "I was a teenage fascist" is a book. The information which I gleaned from the University of Melbourne's site is that in 1994 one of their staff by the name of VM Burgmann wrote a review of Greason's book in the "Australian Journal of Politics and History".

This is a far cry from the University of Melbourne allowing one of their staff members to write an article condoning fascism. You obviously have little understanding of how academic work is referenced and published. Either that, or you deliberately misunderstood. Regardless, this is an inexcusable error which I suggest you correct immediately, with all appropriate apologies included.

In academic life, and in almost any area of endeavour where one wishes to be taken seriously, plagiarism and misrepresentation are considered most serious offences. If, in the course of my own studies, I had misrepresented something to this degree in one of my assignments, I would undoubtedly have been expelled from the University.

Take more care in the future please. You will only bring down disrepute on the head of your cherished cause if you do not.

I hope that you take what I have said seriously and do not simply brush it aside as "yet-another-anti-hanson" letter, because it is not. I refuse to participate in the polarisation of Australian society which is currently occurring. I send you this information in good faith, not to abuse you or the One Nation supporters and not to try to quell free speech. The information on your site shows that you are at least a thoughtful person. I hope that as a thoughtful person, you are also open to constructive criticism.

Sincerely,
Miffy Coghill

Subject: Internet coverage of Election sites

Dear Scott,

congrats on the recognition by "other media" of your excellent work with regards this site........at least the Age has the "ticker" to acknowledge competence in its competitors!

Meanwhile ,it appears the rest of the media in this country are trying their hardest to totally ignore One nation, no doubt hoping that we will just evaporate and leave the politics to the REAL parties. They WISH!

One Nation is about to make the most historic move into Australian Federal politics ,that this country has ever seen, one that will be regarded,rightly, as a turning point in our history for generations to come,yet the Media cartel is showing true colors by almost blanket blackout.

It is incredible, that almost from the moment the Bennelong bandit called the election,news coverage of ON stopped dead!

>From being cited as one of the main reasons for concern over election timing,One Nation was immediatly classified ,by the media ,as being of so little importance that it hardly rated a mention! Out came the funeral clobber and ON was piped into an early grave!

Now, I might be as gullible as the next dinky di Australian, but I smell a 3 week old rodent cadaver behind the fridge.

Far from reporting the news, the marketing Cartel of Packer and Murdoch , and their ABC lapdogs have undertaken the most blatant manipulation exercise ever attempted in this country.

So contemptous are they of the Australian public ,that they actually think they can bury a movement as fundamental and grassroots driven as One Nation. How out of touch they are!

I suppose that years and years of feeding us bullshit and setting their own agenda is finally coming home to roost in their rafters. They really have lost touch with us ...and the separation that they have initiated and maintained between us and them will now turn around and start dropping large lumps of messy ,smelly stuff all over the plush pile berber.

It is true that the media are the arch marketers of this age. They sell us what they want to ,when they want to and it is a fact that good marketers can influence and manipulate the market. But it is equally true that to remain successful in the market ,you must do your RESEARCH, and you must LISTEN to it!

Our politicomedia have closed their ears to their polling...US! They do not want to hear what we are saying, so they ignore it and fall back on a rearguard action of manipulation of opinion.........marketing Hari Kiri!

So...it is obviously time for the dinosoars to look up and wonder about the meteor shower that is lighting up the sky,as they no doubt wonder about the shining head of red hair that is approaching ,glowing over the landscape like a beacon in the night.

Yours truely
Steven

Subject: Comments on Australian News of the Day

Regarding the new pro-multicultural pro-diversity party called "The Unity Party".

My thesaurus says that diversity is the opposite of unity. Can these people get their facts straight? Are they in favour of unity (assimilation) or diversity (multiculturalism). Perhaps they should re-name themselves the division party - being those people in favour of diversity.

Seriously, for people to accuse a party which is openly in favour of "One" Nation to be causing "Division" is ludicrous. How can promoting Oneness be a cause of division?

Then we have the four stooges... Ooops, I mean ex-PMs. Very EX PMs arguing that we must avoid voting for racist parties. Ok, Ok I promise already. I'll never vote Liberal or Labor again. Cross my heart.

Ben

Subject: RACEWATCH REPORT NO: 2

ATTENTION RACEWATCH TRIBUNAL.
MS MOSS, MR BOUCHER & JUSTICE EINFELD.

Dear Sirs' and Ms,

As a diligent and active member of your racewatcher organisation , I , in the course of investigating ways and means of refinancing my families mortgage as a safeguard against potentially disastrous interest rate rises, and with the knowledge that my employment, in the timber industry, is threatened by cutbacks to logging quotas , discovered a Government organisation that is offering very attractive financial packages to people in similar need. Reading through the document I was amazed to discover that the lending authority had available $442 million a year to lend to "organisations and individuals who want to improve their own situation or that of their community, increase job opportunities and ensure a good future" needless to say I was impressed. Feeling like I just stumbled on a lending organisation that truly had my interests at heart I was even more impressed by the very attractive terms and interest rates offered: Interest rates for BFS (business finance scheme) loans are low. As of I August 1995, the rates are:

a.. 1.5% for loans up to $50,000;
b.. 3% for loans of $50,001 to $100,000; and
c.. 6.5% for loans of $100,001 to $500,000.
Depending on the size of the loan, a borrower has up to ten years to repay. People who receive BFS loans can get ongoing advice and support from a business mentor.

The lenders also offered to fund schemes like the following: CEIS community Economic Initiatives scheme, Land Acquisition & Maintenance Grants, Business Funding Scheme (BFS) Subsidy grants and others. HOWEVER on reading the eligibility requirements I was shocked to discover that any application submitted by myself would possibly be rejected as I do not meet the stated requirement that applicants must be of Aboriginal or Torres Straight Islander extraction. This requirement ( as you can see on the attached ATSIC document ) I believe is racist and discriminatory and as such I feel warrants the attention of your RACEWATCH organisation for clarification.

I would appreciate an immediate response to my concerns as 60 of my fellow workmates who are also in danger of being downsized and rationalised would certainly appreciate the benefits that these schemes offer. Do I also have a case for further adjudication from the EQUAL RIGHTS COMMISSION?

YOURS FAITHFULLY
Racewatcher no 110361

Subject: Appreciation

I have to congratulate the webmater on well managed and efficient program its great- keep it up

Regards
Eugen vajtauer

Subject: Checkmate!

Pauline - There is one card you have not yet played which would ensure you success at the coming election - NON-CUSTODIAL PARENTS.

I've noticed that you've said many sensible things about this in the past, but this is the issue that could really double your support overnight. Anybody who is a non-custodial parent would undoubtedly support One-Nation if they knew of the party's sensible stand on this issue. PLAY THIS CARD!

As is what now should be common knowledge, this group of people are the most discriminated against of any group in society. They are taxed like single people, they are left penniless by their ex-spouse and often denied the right to see their children. This group is BIG and this group is DESPERATE.

It also has got to be one of the top economic problems in the country. Wives are pretty much bribed (heavily) to leave their husbands. They go onto expensive solo mother pension. The children are denied a father. Twice as many dwellings are needed by the family. The father is left destitute. Inevitably the father gives up working because there is no longer any incentive. (Effective marginal rates of this group also reaches 98-100%. The figures are easy to prove). The result? A formally productive, self-sufficient family becomes two separate families on welfare, with two housing commission houses, tens of thousands of dollars in legal-aid expended, and desperately unhappy non- custodial parents.

All of the above is condoned by the government in the form of a virtual bribe for custodial parents to leave their spouse. While I'm sure there are many cases of violence where the spouse has to leave, in most cases they leave simply because it is convenient and financially beneficial to do so.

Pauline, I know you have a lot of good ideas in this area. Publicise them better and you are on a winner.MSubject: Checkmate!

Pauline - There is one card you have not yet played which would ensure you success at the coming election - NON-CUSTODIAL PARENTS.

Pauline, I know you have a lot of good ideas in this area. Publicise them better and you are on a winner.

Name Withheld on request

Subject: Re: One Nation in the upcoming Federal Election

In Cairns yesterday Warren Entsch Liberal member for Leichhardt made a statement in the Cairns Post that a 'Vote for One Nation is a vote for Labor" If the State voting pattern holds as it probably will. Mr Entsch is likely to come second to One Nations Beth Hudson and if his followers follow the directions of the Liberal Party, a vote for Warren Entsch will be a vote for Labor in truth. If we must have revolving door members for a while until the Liberal Party gets sensible then so be it.

After WWII the English Liberals were annihilated from being the government to 9 members in the Commons. What about here!!!

Peter Gargan
Cairns.

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