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Between the One Nation lines
The dirty tricks of the Labor Party at the recent Queensland State Election
are now coming home to bite the minority Beattie government. anotd readers
will recall how the Labor Party used the same dirty tricks to
confuse
voters in Heather' Hill's seat of Ipswich - with Labor's David Hamill
just squeezing back in with a few hundred votes.
Like in Ipswich the Labor used bogus "How
to Vote cards" (the Ipswich card seen right) in the seat of Mansfield.
The sitting Liberal candidate lost by 83 votes - he was able to show the
court that a number of voters had been deliberately duped by the bogus How
to Vote cards.
Labor's member, Phil Reeves, who took the seat was represented by QC Walter
Soronoff who had this to say to the Court of Disputed Returns, "It is doubtful
there is any election anywhere in Australia which does not include some
misbehaviour on all sides.
Earlier in the week the court decided that there was a case to answer. With
D'Arcy the Labor MP for the seat of Woodridge and Reeves in Mansfield likely
to face new by-elections the minority Labor government is looking decidedly
shaky. The Liberals would most probably regain Mansfield and One Nation the
seat of Woodridge.
Meanwhile Peter James, who stood in for David Oldfield as Pauline Hanson's
media adviser for a while has found the stress and strain a bit much - as
he was also running the State Party as well as policy development. Peter
is taking a back seat for a while - returning to the more mundane role of
leading the State Party.
Heather Hill has taken up the role of Pauline's political adviser following
her recent selection as number choice in Queensland for One Nation in the
Senate.
Media marginalising
The tightly controlled Australian media was at its deceptive best this week
with Pauline Hanson's One Nation tax policy being ridiculed as unworkable
- even though it was quite clearly presented as a discussion document and
an alternative to the policies put forward by Laboral factions.
These factions with the GST, and god know's what Labor's actually represents
except for a grab bag of promises, have been given good coverage by Murdoch's
mob with comparisons on how their packages would affect different sectors
of the voting public. No such luck for the One Nation alternative - although
the figures have been given.
The One Nation tax package has got to be separated from the Laboral policies
and marginalised as "loopy". Luckily with a month to go in the campaign people
will start realising that the 2%EasyTax does really represent a real starting
point alternative for a fairer tax.
Yesterday further information including examples of EasyTax work
were posted
on the Internet.
Media start focussing on the One Nation website
Over 200,000 hits have been recorded on the One Nation web site since the
tax policy was launched just two days ago.
The phenomenal interest in One Nation and the ability for people to see unedited
information free of journalistic editing has obviously got the "gentlemen"
of the press in a right royal frothy.
Yesterday I had a number of phone calls from reporters looking for angles
to discredit the web page content and to try to link me, personally, to racist
comments.
Mid-afternoon I had a call from Matt Horan from Canberra who was phoning
about comments which appeared in the Australian Financial Review
yesterday. The reporter had picked up on a page which said that a candidate
had said at a recent state meeting that "it is okay to lie to the media".
The page has since been removed.
Earlier this week I referred to how the media will re-gurgitate and re-gurgitate
yet again negative stories about One Nation... here we have a classic example
of a really trivial issue when compared with the Labor Party staffer from
Beazley's office being involved in the hacking of the Liberal Party web site
- a story which
has died after the currency of just one day.
Later that same day I had a call from Chris Griffiths of The Sunday Mail
- who have suddenly found renewed interest in the One Nation web site.
Griffiths faxed me a copy of an article that appeared this month in
"Anglican News". Now before relating the story let me tell readers
that I am an Anglican - my wife goes to the local church every Sunday.
The article is headed: "Party HQ email shows "racist"
sentiments".
Focus Exclusive by Paul Osborne
A person using the official email address for the Pauline
Hanson's One Nation Party national office has posted racist comments on a
"newsgroup".
"Newsgroups" are email discussion groups in which one
person poses a question or "posts" a comment and others respond to it.
The email poster who signed off as "Pauline Hanson",
sent three email comments to the soc.culture.australia newsgroup on
May 5 this year.
One of the emails read: "Vote for the One Nation Party.
Say NoNo (sic) to Asian immigration. Pauline Hanson, One Nation Party."
Another, replying to an email from a 21 year old
Singaporean man looking for a pen-pal, said: "Go away you (expletive) chin.
Australia doesnot (sic) want you. (Expletive) off you yellow (expletive.
Pauline Hanson."
A third, replying to a Thai man looking for contracts
in Perth, said: "In this case you need to go to a thai newsgroup. You should
know no more Yellow (sic) people are allowed in Australia. Go away yellow
man. Pauline Hanson."
A spokesman for the creators of the party's web site,
Global Web Builders, Scott Balson, confirmed the email address
(onenation@bigpond.com.au) was that owned by the party's national office
in Manly, NSW and is used by party director David Ettridge.
Mr Ettridge told Focus he did not personally use email
but his email was managed by Mr Balson.
One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson's email address,
according to parliamentary records, is .....
The emails also allegedly breach the Telstra Big Pond
(the Internet Service Provider which owns the bigpond.com domain) member
agreement, which subscribers accept upon registration.
The member agreement says, in part: "You must not use
the service in a way which interferes with other users or defames, harasses
or menaces anyone.
"You must not use the service to send unsolicited or
unwelcome electronic mail messages to anyone."
Griffiths wanted to know if I had originated the email - which I had not.
Subsequent investigations by a One Nation supporter have revealed that the
posts were made by someone at netspace - the host for a slime known
as James Nguyen who
tried to
close down my business early last year by contacting my clients.
Here is Mr Nguyen's
anti-Hanson
web page.
So here you have it folks, my church naming me and finding me guilty by
implication of being a racist after being judge, jury and executioner simply
because of my association with the party.
Oh, and Mr Griffiths seemed to lose all interest in the story when it appeared
that the poster was of Asian descent. One wonders if they will bother with
the story in The Sunday Mail tomorrow.
Pauline's first day on the campaign trail
Pauline spent her first day meeting the people of Blair yesterday. She made
a tour of the centre, handing out leaflets explaining her Easytax package
along the way.
Attempts to doorknock a nearby street were less successful with Miss Hanson
complaining people did not want to talk to her with reporters and camera
crews in tow.
She retreated to her car and then told reporters she would go back to her
office to do some work, inviting them to come back and work out how she could
handle media demands.
She has suggested she may hold more public meetings in Blair so people can
approach her and discuss issues and says she will provide journalists with
more details of her itinerary.
Howard challenged over attack on 4X4 tax
The Federal Opposition leader has challenged the Prime Minister to explain
why he is attacking Labor's increased sales tax on four- wheel-drives when
he wants to put a GST on second-hand vehicles.
Standing beside a four-wheel-drive worth more than $90,000, Mr Howard said
yesterday he knew many Australians who could afford one.
Mr Beazley says the Prime Minister is out of touch with the real battlers.
"I mean it'd be nice if Mr Howard, in his efforts to convey a $90,000
four-wheel-drive vehicle as a battler's car, had walked down the road to
a second-hand car yard selling four-wheel-drives, second hand and other passenger
motor vehicles which in fact 70 per cent of Australians buy, and explain
to them why he thought it was a good idea to put a new consumption tax on
their second-hand car," he said.
Financial Crises Could Stall Capitalism's Global
March
Here
is an extract from the Washington Post article:
As the crisis roiling global financial markets spreads
and intensifies, signs increasingly suggest it could deal a historic setback
to the advance of Western-style capitalism.
The most obvious illustration is Russia. After the
virtual collapse of the country's economy last month, pro-Western forces
are in full retreat and speculation abounds that socialist policies will
be revived.
Another example is Malaysia, which this week effectively
cut itself off from global financial markets by imposing tight controls on
the flow of capital across its borders. The country had thrived over most
of the past decade by welcoming investments by U.S., Japanese and European
firms. But Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, furious over the selling wave
that has sunk the Malaysian currency and stock market, decreed that the currency
-- the ringgit -- could no longer be freely traded.
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
You say:
Subject: Queensland elections, etc.
Congratulations on the results of the Queensland elections.
You're on your way! We in Canada have a party called the Reform Party, which
is trying to change the way Canada is governed. When the Party was formed
in 1987, it had to endure the same thing you have had to go through: calls
of "racist", "bigots", etc. As of the last federal election, the Reform Party
is now the Official Opposition of the parliament of Canada. Many Canadians
are still too short-sighted (or stupid) to realize the reality of what is
happening in Canada. Just like in Australia, the media and political "elites",
especially those French-speaking politicians from the province of Quebec,
have pulled the wool over the eyes of the populace for a long time. Some
of the people are just very slow in perceiving the truth! They have to be
worked on. We have a divisive "official bilingualism", a divisive "official
multiculturalism", "Human Rights Commissions", "Hate Laws", and a lot of
other stuff that is anti-free speech and anti-democratic. Hopefully, you
will prevail, and will be an example to those of us in Canada who are striving
for the return of true democracy, and working against the threat of globalism
and the "new world order". Please add me to your info list, since I can
disseminate info to a lot of other Canadians, who will gain confidence from
your successes. Keep up the great work! Never falter! Truth is on your
side.
John DeRinzy
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Subject:
EasyTax and exports
Hi
I read with interest your web page about the EasyTax
proposal. I guess I don't have the advantage of having thought about it as
much as you have, but it seems to me that our exports won't be able to compete
on foreign markets and our local producers won't be able to compete with
imports. This is because by the time local products hit the markets the 2%
may well have been paid many times - which would hit rural producers really
hard, and when we try to compete overseas the same problem will arise.
Could you please explain to me how it works? All I
get in the media is the same old stuff about One Nation being irrational
and I've had a gutful. I guess the web page is designed for economists and
journalists and so on, but I haven't been to University and I work for an
organisation that helps people find jobs. We really need some change in this
country and I want to vote for you, but this kind of change really scares
me.
Thank you and good luck with the campaign
Shon Fry
Subject: One Nation Tax Proposal - A
Critique
There seems to be a reasonable assumption out there
that businesses have no scruples at all and no desire to better themselves.
I for one who is part of a partnership tiny business have for some years
had the need of an extra staff member within the office area, but have not
been able to afford this. Periodically we get a casual in. To me this taxing
system would allow me at the very least to spend the savings via tax concessions
to offer a position that until now we have been unable to. So from just one
tiny two person business ON has employed,at the very least a good casual
position with some certainty and given future success of the system probably
a full time position. Now this is a real story so you tell me it does not
work.
As far as big companies and monopolies doing all that
is necessary so as to attract a once only 2% tax from manufacture to retail,
surely legislation to cover this situation could be enacted. e.g.
If a a company wishes to follow the above course to
allow it to retail it's manufactured goods at more than one outlet, then
under enacted deeming laws for such a situation, it would be deemed that
this company was in fact carrying out all facets of such a business and would
then attract a tax rate of 2% X whatever the accepted number of levels the
act deemed would normally have been carried out at. IF WE CAN DEEM AN ELDERLY
PERSONS PENSION IN THE CURRENT SYSTEM WE SURE AS HELL CAN DEEM A CORPORATIONS
TAX LIABILITY UNDER ONE NATION'S TAX SYSTEM.
Duane Langley
Subject: Tax
Please get some help from some "numbers person" for
your wonderfull new approch to tax.
I think it would be great.
Keep going.
Good Luck
R. A. Wenham
Subject: tax
Obviously the 2% EasyTax (designed by a real engineer,
not a priest of some voodoo religion) is the right tax for Australia; the
right people are squealing this time - the parasites.
Omega
Subject: Congratulations
I saw Pauline on Ray Martin's show last night. She
did marvellously! And with a polished professional.
She is the first person to give the major political
parties a kick in the pants in my lifetime of seeing them become more and
more detached and arrogant.
What is your policy on public funding of election
campaigns? I think it has made the "Laboral" party, as I call the two colluding
parties, less dependent on their grass roots support.
Whatever her success, Pauline will certainly go down
as the bravest person in parliament in my lifetime.
Tom Marriott
Subject: Malasia
Hi-There
It seems as though that Australia can now take two
leaves out oh Malasia,s book.
Death penalty for drug pushers and control on our
finances.
Since Keating floated the Dollar, things have got a
lot worse.
Whoever wins the elections should peg the dollar once
more, and remove international control of our country.
Peter
Geraldton
Subject: RaceWatch
Whatever happened to RaceWatch? There we all were,
vying with each other to be outed and named as racists for expressing our
views on assimilation versus multiculturalism.
Don't tell me our defiance has taken the fun out it
for those bullies. Were they looking forward to having us grovel before them?
Did they really expect red-blooded Australians - the most freedom-loving
people in the world - to take that crap? As if.
Antonia
Subject:
FINAL RACEWATCHER REPORT NO
3:
Dear Scott,
It is with some regret that I must inform you that
the warnings of Mr S.E Wagger in yesterdays ANOTD have unfortunately been
proven correct. On my arrival home on Friday afternoon I deeply shocked to
find my '' RACEWATCH '' (Pty Ltd ) company supplied 4WD Range Rover ( very
similar to the one the battlers friend, Little Johnny Howard, was photographed
with in Cairns recently) had been removed from my garage during my
absence.
At first I suspected theft but shortly afterwards
a phone call from my Bank Manager informing me that my expense account was
overdrawn and that the cheque I had issued to the Jet Set Travel Agency for
two first class airline tickets to Cairns had bounced !!!!!!!! I guessed
that my next mission had been terminated !
If there is anyone out there who has employment for
one very diligent EX RACEWATCH agent could you please leave details with
Scott ( I regret to say references may be a problem ) . Is there any future
in freelance racewatching ?
Steve
Subject: Farmers hit again on their capital assets....
Under the Coalition GST plan, farmers WILL pay a 10%
GST less input costs on the development profits of a property that is sold
as 5 acre non farming lots or for residential use. So if you have a nice
holding near a town or city, & have been calculating your potential
development property, be warned.
It works like this. Say you buy a property for $100,000.
You spend $220,000 (includes GST) in development costs. You sell all the
development for $1,000,000 all up. Your GST is calculated on the "margin
system". That is, $900,000 (differential between the purchase & final
price) at 10% is $90,000. Less the $20,000 input cost, which is refunded.
So you are now out of pocket $70,000. It is also not realistic to say that
you can "add the GST on", as the market will only bear a certain price. To
top it off, once you have been parted of your GST, you then pay Capital Gains
Tax.
2% Easytax is looking better all the time.....
Pauline-The first honest politician?
I have just read the "Simplicity or ignorance?" discussion
thread, and I wonder - simplicity or ignorance? Is that the only two choices
we have when we're searching for an explanation to this whole Hanson phenomenon?
I hope not. For a start, I wouldn't like to call one quarter of my fellow
Queenslanders "simple" and/or "ignorant". I like to think that it's a sense
of fairness, and not just a healthy instinct of self-preservation, that causes
me to feel this way.
However, despite the rather poor choice of title for
that discussion thread, there were many interesting points made on both
sides.
Unfortunately, at the moment I only have time to address
one of them, so here goes (your comments most welcome.)
2% LOANS FOR FARMERS - How on earth can we afford to
grant loans to people at an interest rate of 2%, when the going rate in the
real world is at least three times as high? Well, I'd answer by saying, how
on earth can we afford to keep giving away money (far more than the proposed
250 million dollars farmers and small business loans) to the unemployed,
money which is not even required to be repaid, never mind that it's zero
interest. Even John Anderson was forced to admit that at least 30 families
per week are having to walk away from their farms. We can't afford to let
this continue. 2% subsidised loans seem like a good investment in the future
of this country, if we can keep more people on the land, and therefore off
the "dole".
Interestingly enough, we can lend money at low or zero
interest to bail out the currency speculators who destroyed Korea and Indonesia,
but not to help our owen farmers to weather out the destruction caused by
something far more damaging than droughts and floods - I refer of course
to Keating's and Howard's and Beazley's "Globalism" and "Economic
Rationalism".
Australian farmers don't want charity. Don't 2% loans
sound a whole lot like handouts? Well, no, not when you consider that some
of our Australian farmers are having to compete against Canadian or USA or
EC farmers who are actually being subsidised by their governments.
Anyway, I look forward to your comments. Thanks.
Alan
Subject: What about the farmers
While I understand the problems that some people have
with Pauline Hanson, a common thread seems to be that her party has some
genuine concerns for the plight of farmers. This is not to say that her policies
are all sound, but a party is supposed to be made up of members who influence
the direction and policy formation from the grass roots, not just the leader
and everything he/she espouses.
A case in point is the democrats, they started as "Don
Chipps" vision of the future and keeping the bastards honest and ended up
as the balance of power junkyard dogs yapping at the heels of the major
parties.
I was a member of the national party for some 10 years
and I saw how the system works. It's difficult to make the politicians answerable
to the grass roots. Politicians manipulate what the grass roots wants into
something else which fits their own worldview.
The point that I think needs to be said is that the
farmers have for too long been neglected by successive governments, fallen
victim to falling commodity prices and increasing costs. We cannot afford
to let them slip away. As farmers lose their grip on their business and go
on the dole queue who will be left to look after the land?
Subject: National Sorry Day
Hi Scott,
When you talk to RN could you please try to get a word
in for the non-custodial fathers who will be listening on Sunday. A glimmer
of hope may save a life.
I posted this to aus.politics. Thought it would be
appropriate on anotd.
Fathers day is fast approaching. Many men will commit
suicide this Sunday. It may be a close friend, an acquaintance, a work colleague,
or even me.
So while all you 'normal' families enjoy fathers day,
spare a thought for the 900,000 NCPs who are putting on a brave face while
they are being wrenched apart inside by all the fathers day marketting
bullshit.
ALP and Liberal supporters can follow up this post
with their own personal apology for their support of the Family Court/Child
Support Agency that causes more deaths per year than guns.
Cheers
Tony Hancock
Another perfect day in paradise.
Have a good one.
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