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4th September 1998
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Between the One Nation lines
Pauline Hanson released her party's
tax policy at the Barry Jones auditorium in Ipswich yesterday.
Full story and exclusive coverage of pre-launch meetings with the party faithful
can be seen from this
link.
Image on the right: Pauline Hanson with Heather Hill
in the background at yesterday's press conference.
Pauline Hanson on Channel 9's Today Show (3rd September): "What we are
saying about our tax policy is that we are prepared to put it on the table.
Let everyone have a look at it, let the Australians have a debate about it
because it is not something that should just be brought in you either accept
or you don't (like the GST)."
The choices they make
News Limited's Courier Mail showed their true colours again this morning.
Their bias against One Nation is so blatantly obvious, their unethical reporting
so striking that you would have to be an absolute dill not to see it - but
there again maybe I'm being too simplistic - a tag One Nation members are
labeled with by News Limited.
Firstly, this is how The Courier Mail treats "muck" raked up on One
Nation:
On Tuesday this
week, you might recall, the Courier Mail's one-sided story
was about the dismissal of Debbie Beavan, the One Nation state media adviser
who leaked information to the press gallery, was front page news. The story
accompanied by a feel-good pic of Debbie, husband and baby daughter. Having
Mrs Beavan in the One Nation office was like having the press gallery working
from the office.
There have also been some interesting and confidential documents which have
some fallen off the back of One Nation leader Bill Feldman's desk right onto
the desk of The Courier Mail editor since her dismissal. Mrs Beavan,
surprise, surprise, now works for Queensland Newspapers (owners of that paper).
Secondly, this is how The Courier Mail treats "muck" raked up on the Laboral
factions:
In today's paper a page nine single column article about 25cm long is headed
"Hacker prank "taints" Beazley". It goes
without saying that if the hacker had been myself or someone from within
One Nation, just like Beavan, the story would be front page stuff accompained
by lots of huffing and puffing.
In the hacker story there are plenty of comments from Beazley such as, "The
person who was offering that advice or may well have been offering that advice
- we're not absolutely certain - has been dismissed." The person spreading
the access codes to hack into the Liberal site web pages being a staffer
in Beazley's office. "I, above all, don't want to run a campaign which
is in any way tainted," Beazley said. This after links from the Liberal site
took visitors to pornographic web sites after the hacking by a person known
by the Labor party staffer.
It was ALP campaign manager Gary Gray who dismissed the Beazley staffer,
Paul Gill, after he distributed the information on Monday.
There are no comments or opinions from people in the on-line business. Just
a clinical hatchet job by the paper minimising damage.
Furthermore:
Unlike the tales from the ex-One Nation media adviser this hacker story has
run its course. Negative One Nation stories trend into new territory as they
are regurgitated time and again with subtle twists and turns.
Thirdly, this is how The Courier Mail treats a Laboral faction tax policy
launch:
In the case of both Liberal and Labour factions - front page coverage with
no assessment of what is being said or claimed. Facts and figures simply
regurgitated from press releases for several pages with plenty of statements
from party leaders and their selected, supporting commentators.
Fourthly, this is how The Courier Mail treats a One Nation tax policy
launch:
Relegated to a number of short denigrating articles on page ten of today's
paper. Prime spot on the front page being left to a real hum-dinger of a
story about a "Cash bonus for rural doctors a shot
in the arm".
For a policy promise which financialy affects maybe fifty people at max in
this state the positioning of this front page story supported by a number
of comments by John Howard, Dr Michael Woodridge and a Charleville doctor
(who is pictured sitting on stairs) needs no further explanation.
The page ten stories on One Nation's tax policies are full of statements
by detractors of the policy under headings, "One
Nation's notions of tax fall flat on any account" and
"Policy would kill economy: accountants".
The stories are backed up with a denegrating editorial saying that the "flat
tax would never work".
In summary this is how it works at Murdoch's Courier Mail:
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if it is a negative story about One Nation - guaranteed front page coverage
(re-use whenever you can).
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if it is a positive story about One Nation go to damage control by relegating
it to page ten and look for short stories with negative commentary and use
the editorial to try to kill it off.
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if it is a negative story about one of the Laboral factions hide it in the
body of the paper and quote extensively leaders of the faction involved.
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if it is a positive story about a Laboral faction place it on the front page
and fill the page with comments from leaders of the faction involved.
I will be talking on Radio National on the ABCs
Background Briefing (792AM in Queensland) at 9am on Sunday morning,
The subject is "Why do Australians no longer trust what they read in the
media".
Need I say anymore?
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
You say:
Subject: Comments on Australian News of the
Day
Dear Racewatcher no 110361
Yesterday you mentioned how you found a loans program
that you believe to be racist in the way it is set up.
I'm sorry old son, but if you study the Anti-Discrimination
Acts (both Federal and State), you will find that their are many EXEMPTIONS
for A.T.S.I. people. Employment is another area in which exemptions
apply.
These Acts are supposed to be about making a "fairer
playing-field" for all Australians. Unfortunately, most of us know that they
produced the opposite effect. Rather than focusing on the needs of individuals,
these Acts just placed whole races and cultures into categories.
It would be funny if it wasn't so serious:-
"anti-discrimination Acts that promote discrimination".
Anyway, for being sensible enough to see this and also
being brave enough to mention it, you will no doubt be branded a racist.
(Betcha end up being Ex-racewatcher no. 110361)
S.E. Wagger
Subject: What?
Can u tell me how racism is assisting in world
peace?
why one a group of ppl with different ethnic or social
backgrounds should be refused entry into a country when not that long ago
(7 yrs) my family, white middle class, was apcepted? What is the difference
between myself and another human of asian decent. I'll tell u what. They
have different skin colours and different beliefs. should this decide the
future for these ppl. I think not.
Please feel free to reply with the "one nation" point
of veiw as it is often distorted by the media. I would be very interested
to know ur side of the story.
þaul
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| The views expressed by the author do not |
| necessarily reflect those of the Staff, |
| Students or Board of Governors of Hale School |
|_______________________________________________|
I wish he would take time to look at the One Nation web page.
Editor
Subject: NAB boss
National Australia Bank chief honcho Don Argus is a
confused man. On Wednesday he said voter alienation as expressed in the rise
of One Nation risked winding back the progress of market deregulation, and
threatened government stability. He said it was worrying that Australia appeared
to be moving against the trend towards free market philosophies.
In the same breath he said that Australia has become
a 'corporate supermarket' for overseas predators. As well, our slumping dollar
and rocky share markets were combining to put even major companies at risk
of acquisition.
Well fancy that! Surely he knows these takeovers by
overseas predators are the eminently predictable results of the free market
philosophies he espouses? Surely? Maybe not. After all he finds the push
to renewed regulation "puzzling", given Australia's real growth in living
standards. Yep, that what he said, though the only people with rising living
standards are corporate bosses and ex-prime ministers who somehow have managed
to retire from public office as millionaires (Hazel and Anita must have been
frugal housewives).
Antonia
Subject: One Nation
Dear John
You may not recall the time, but I met you at Ryde
RSL Club back in 1994.
I told you then to listen to the people and that you
would win leadership of the party and government.
I may just be a local pharmacist but I can assure you
that I have the ear of the people.
Either listen to their worries and do something or
you will not be remembered as a good P.M.
Pauline Hanson has tapped in to the "feelings" of the
people and may well control the Senate.
At the very least do not denigrate a commoner who only
has the best interests of the people at heart.
The press at best are a pack of uneducated mongrels
controlled by a few. If you actually tax some of these press barons, maybe
they will sell off some of their empire and allow true competition.
One day the people will get sick of syncophants are
get rid of the lot of you.
It has happened before.
Harry Blackley
Subject: Family law and Child Support
Agency
Dear Editor,
Well Father’s Day is approaching and I would like
to point out some anomalies that do not usually get published by newspapers.
I sincerely hope that you will be able to publish my letter.
A heartfelt appeal – Think about lonely dads
Most children around the country will be able to make
a Father’s Day a happy moment for their father.
Spare a thought on Father’s Day, for the thousands
of dads around the country who will spend their day desperately sad, lonely
and frustrated.
Simply through no fault of their own or their children,
but because their babies have been taken away from them by the Family
Court.
For most of these fathers this day is most depressive.
Like all fathers, they will put on a brave face and get on with life, but
inside they are falling apart through pain and despair. It is no wonder that
some will hit the bottle, take anti-depressants or simply just sit in their
room and cry.
And yes, some will commit suicide. Father’s Day
is very bad day for male suicides. The pain and anguish for some is just
too much.
All this because Family Court clings to its standard
approach that kids should ‘reside’ with one parent (usually the
mother) and just have contact with the other. It is even worse that the Family
Court says this is in “the best interests of the children”. Not
to mention the ‘gestapo tactics’ used by the Child Support Agency.
Divorced father has no rights, no means of appeal, just being
dispensable.
Both the Labour and Liberal parties had failed to properly
overhaul the system for the benefit of all, not just one side.
It is no wonder that these same fathers are turning
to One Nation Party for support and a voice.
“Happy Father’s Day”
Paul Muckarovski
Subject: Land Rights
Dear Sir,
I am a first generation Australian and fiercely proud
of our country and it's beliefs.
I took my family for a trip to the country around Alice
Springs and received a bit of a shock at the impact the land rights legislation
is having upon this country.
Firstly when in designated aboriginal owned tourist
resorts like Uluru we were appalled to see the distinct lack of indigineous
Australians in the area. When we went to the more remote sites where there
were communities established we were further appalled by the lack of pride
and care for the environment by these so called protectors of our land.
We visited one of the truly unique sights in central
Australia at Palm Valley where the ranger (white) gave a brilliant talk to
the camping guests about how this valley was established. Our compliments
to the Parks and Wildlife personnel for a superb cultural and educational
offering.
What made an impression on me was the description of
how the palms in this location were not transported but remnants of a period
many millions of years ago. Because of a quirk of geology the conditions
necessary to sustain them remained in this valley enabling them to survive
throughout the centuries.
Likewise our Aboriginals after coming to what we now
call Australia became stranded as the continents separated and whereas,in
the rest of the world people were forced to develop or perish, Aboriginals
survived through their isolation until the arrival of the first settlers.
Whereas I felt a distinct sympathy with a culture thus threatened I cannot
condone the now reverse discrimination that is being heaped upon these
peoples.
I feel that now the next generation of Australians
like my children are being positively discriminated against by the spokespeople
of a minority group. My family bears no grudge to these people and feels
no guilt as we did not mistreat them so why should my children be disadvantaged
by actions of generations ago.
As many new migrants have said the beauty of Australia
is that old prejudices can be left behind. I for one am delighted that the
prejudices against me in my youth have been dispelled. Let us not generate
a new set by elevating a minority group with undeserved privileges.
I believe Palm valley is destined to become the latest
"sacred sight". It would be very fitting to have this sight kept free for
ALL Australians to revere.
Yours sincerely,
A Kalatzis
Subject: Encouragement
Stick with it Pauline. Much of what you say makes sense
and many, many of us out here support you. I like your tax plan. It makes
much more sense to me than the incredibly complex and convoluted systems
the other parties offer. More than anything I support you because you say
what you think.
I'll give you a go in the elections.
Con Perakis
Subject: taxation and examples
Hi there One nation,
annoyed to find reference to your tax policy in a
"quote of the day" section of the Adelaide Advertiser - but no other reference
in the whole paper. Is the media trying to ignore you ?
However, I found your web site and hence your taxation
policy. I cannot however find the examples / attachments referred to in the
articles. Since these are of more than just passing interest could you Email
them you please Email them to me ? I've less than 30 days to make a decision
and the principle of taxing turnover rather than profit is - as you say -
"different" - and intruiging.
Kindest Regards,
Ron
Subject: Democrats?
The Democrats have shown themselves to be anything
but democratic. Their election slogan is "Keep the Bastards Out", referring
to candidates for the perfectly legitimate Australian political party, One
Nation. Nice.
Antonia
Subject: 7:30 Report
I have just finished watching the 7-30 Report and it
has reinforced my intentions of voting for One Nation at the upcoming Federal
Election.
I hope there is a One Nation Representative for my
Federal Seat that I can vote for in the upcoming Federal Election as to my
disappointment there was not one in my area (Brookfield, Brisbane) for the
State Election.
I fully support Pauline Hanson and the One Nation Party
in their attempts to "Put Australia Right".
Congratulations on receiving the $500,000 that was
rightfully owed to you by the Electoral Commission. Hopefully now you will
get your word across to the Australian Public without Media bias.
Regards
Gloria Mullins
Another perfect day in paradise.
Have a good one.
Recent stories exclusive to
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One Nation's Tax Policy- 4th September 1998
One Nation
"Media Adviser" shows true colours- 1st September 1998
One Nation
Federal Fund Raiser - 21st August 1998
B'nai B'rith's
discriminatory and un-Australian "Racewatch" - 18th August 1998
Four Corners become
"Flawed" Corners - 11th August 1998
The Nicholas
Street Rally - 4th August 1998
Their first
day in Parliament - 28th July 1998
The 60 Minutes debate/debacle - 26th July 1998
Hawthorn - where
the hooligans won - 21st July 1998
The Ipswich City
Council re-institute a ban against Pauline Hanson - 19th July 1998
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
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