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Sunday 5th July 1998
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Between the One Nation lines
Image right Barbara Hazelton speaking on Face to Face
Today Barbara Hazelton, Pauline Hanson's ex-private secretary appeared
on Channel 7's Face to Face programme.
Being somewhat cynical
after her phone
call to me on Wednesday, I listened to what she had to say and confess
that I could see a side of Barbara that I had not known before.
For someone who knows her quite well it appeared to be a classic "woman scorned"
scenario with the foot going in deeper and deeper.
Fairfax's Sun Herald shows Packer's touch
Well, well, what a headline for a popular Sunday paper:
"Pauline pockets Au$500,000". This paper
in the Fairfax stable has recently found itself with a new boss... Packer's
right hand man and de facto influence on the news that appears within.
The paper's headline is a blatant lie aimed at deceiving and misleading the
public of Australia. The Au$500,000 referred to is the money payable to the
candidates for advertising and promotional outlays placed in the lead up
to the Queensland State Election.
The media are aware (or otherwise they are complete no-hopers) that money
paid on the basis of primary votes received has to be accounted for by the
candidates by way of receipts from newspapers, printers etc.
The money never gets paid to the party's head office. It is a direct refund
on expenses born by the candidates.
The finger should really being pointed at the Labor Party who spent millions
on an expensive television campaign. How are they going to get money to repay
their costs? Will it come from the trade union movement (ie payments forced
from labourers who are forced to be members of union movements?)
But of course the Australian mainstream media are not interested in the truth.
Lies and deception are their main game, and how they come out thick and fast
now that One Nation has gained real power in Australia.
The contrived story in the Sun Herald is based around the One Nation constitution
and the party structure. The claim is made that "Pauline Hanson would receive
the cheque in her capacity as the party's nominated agent."
The truth is so far removed to make the bluster and claims in this paper
beyond contempt. The truth is that One Nation candidates hardly spent any
money on advertising - they didn't need to as the popular support sufficed
in getting eleven members up.
The lack of One Nation advertising dollars in reality paid to the media
baron's coffers by the Australian tax payer did not go unnoticed
by them and is yet another reason why the almighty dollar, power and greed
still tries to triumph over the will of the people.
PERILS OF PAULINE AND HOWARD'S END?
by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1998
If a tree falls in a forest in Australia, out of earshot, does it make a
sound? That old teaser is more than a party riddle today.
For the tree falling in Australia is the conservative coalition of Prime
Minister John Howard. And the ax chopping at the foot of that tree is the
One Nation populist party, the talk of all Australia.
One Nation has existed only 18 months. Last December, The Washington Post
wrote that its popularity seem to have peaked at 4 percent. But in June,
One Nation swept 23 percent of the vote in Queensland -- and ousted the ruling
coalition from power in that northern state.
Just since May, Howard's coalition has watched its country-wide support tumble
18 points to 11 points below Labor. Plans for an August election had to be
dropped, for those elections would have spelled Howard's end. But national
elections must be held by next May; and One Nation may wind up as kingmaker
in Australia.
Why should Americans care about trees falling in Australia? Because many
of the major issues convulsing Australia will explode right here in the U.S.A.,
if the Asian economic flu hits, full force.
As London's Financial Times writes, One Nation "is saying things that would
have been unmentionable 10 years ago: abolish Aboriginal land rights, end
Asian immigration, and restore trade protection. It is campaigning to dismantle
gun controls ... (Its rise) has rocked Mr. Howard's Conservative coalition
... and opened the way for a bruising election focused on race, immigration
and protectionism, as the economy flounders in the wake of the Asian financial
crisis."
U.S. conservatives should take note. Howard's conservative coalition could
be swept from power because of a failure to accommodate a surging populism
of the right, just as were the Bush Republicans, Tories in Great Britain,
Progressive Conservatives in Canada, France's center-right and, this fall,
Chancellor Helmut Kohl's conservative coalition in Bonn.
What is One Nation? It is the creation of a middle-aged high-school dropout,
divorcee and onetime owner of a fish-and-chips shop named Pauline Hanson,
who came from nowhere to become the political sensation of Australia with
her thunderous demands for zero immigration and the abolition of
multiculturalism.
Australia, Hanson warns, is being "swamped by Asians." Her party demands
that any future immigration "not significantly alter the ethnic and cultural
makeup of the country." Her popularity has humiliated an establishment that
is screaming "racism," and angry commentaries against her are pouring in
from as far away as China. Australian leaders are winging here to reassure
nervous Clintonites.
Hanson claims zero immigration would be non-discriminatory and, in George
Wallaceite rhetoric, rips the elites as "a bunch of academic snobs ... who
wouldn't know what a hard damn day's work is." Her party decries the
"Asianization of Australia."
The present immigration mix, says One Nation, is leading to a "bizarre situation
of largely Asian cities on our coast which will be culturally and racially
different from the traditional Australian nature of the rest of the country."
Hanson also calls for repatriation of refugees once the crisis in their homelands
is past and says the constant push for land rights by Aborigines (2 percent
of the population) is "destroying us and splitting us as a people." Australia's
Senate is knotted up over a bill to return to the Aborigines land now held
by ranchers and farmers.
In 1945, Australia had 7 million people, most of Irish and British descent,
and a "White Australia" immigration policy that it abandoned in 1973. Since
then, the population has grown 150 percent. With present immigration trends,
Australia will be 27 percent Asian in 25 years. It is the socioeconomic
consequences of this demographic revolution that have brought Australia to
a boil.
Howard says Hanson's gains are due to the mauling of small business in the
collapsing currency and commodity markets. One Nation's call for an end to
imports explains its dramatic rise, says Howard. Howard himself, however,
came to power by trumpeting Australia's European connections, as Labor emphasised
Australia's future as an Asian nation. But on Howard's last visit to Queensland,
he departed the hall to shouts of "Don't come back!"
Again, why should this matter to us? Well, even with 4 percent unemployment,
the smouldering issue of higher immigration of foreign skilled workers --
to take Silicon Valley computer jobs -- is intruding on the California governor's
race. GOP candidate Dan Lungren favours a near doubling of the annual number
of these "computer braceros." Let a tsunami of Asian imports hit this fall,
and if markets tumble and the economy heads south, Pauline's issues could
be America's issues.
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
Another perfect day in paradise.
Have a good one.
Recent stories exclusive to
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subscribe/rs of the Australian National News of the Day:
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
The backlash to
Ray Martin's unethical behaviour during his interview with Pauline
Hanson.- 4th June 1998
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