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Wednesday 8th July 1998
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Between the One Nation lines
The media have suddenly had the blow torch turned back on them following
Pauline Hanson's remarkable
expulsion of Ipswich's
Queensland Times reporters at a press conference on Monday. The move
by Pauline Hanson has now given the party a platform on which to expose the
blatant media bias shown by the media barons' intellectual prostitutes in
their daily barrage of trash dished up to the Australian population as "balanced"
reporting day after day.
Despite the expose life goes on amongst the deceivers with the media now
making much of One Nation's plans to fund the next Federal election platform.
Today, the issue of a major campaign by One Nation to push their message
becomes, once again, mixed up with lies and disinformation as they try to
establish their twist around One Nation's director, David Ettridge's, salary
package.
Never in Australian history has the spotlight been shone so brightly into
the fund raising and distribution of a political party. Whatever happened
to the factual story about the Au$4.65 million "loan" to the Liberal party
by an unnamed source. "Loaned" so that the donor's name would not have to
be revealed to the Australian Electoral Commission. Whatever happened to
the story about the role of the trade unions in funding the Labor Party.
Funds raised from salaried staff in occupations like education who have no
option but to be financial members - irrespective of their political leanings.
In both these cases the funds are to be used to fund their advertising campaign
in the upcoming Federal election.
All this is overlooked while the intellectual prostitutes regurgitate for
the umpteenth time the alleged 12.5% salary package that David Ettridge receives
through an agreement with Pauline Hanson's One Nation.
In starter kits issued to branches David Ettridge refers to the goal to "raise
Au$10 million for advertising to support One Nation's federal election campaign".
This suddenly becomes distorted to a major financial windfall for Ettridge
- despite the earlier comment by Pauline Hanson's political adviser, David
Oldfield that, "I don't think it is as high as 12.5% but it might be. It
might be for the first million (of funds raised)."
Last word from Ettridge who yesterday told me that the claims that he earned
12.5% on funds raised was "absolute bullshit".
Now I wonder why the papers don't look into the financial arrangements of
the like of Graeme Richardson and Michael Kroger and expose what they get
from their bossman Kerry Packer in exchange for using their political contacts
to garnish favours.
This is where the heart of corruption in Australia's political system lies
- not in the determined drive by Australians who care about this country's
future.
Let the Chinese go home to racist China
Well, well. Now we have the racist Chinese telling us how we should run our
democracy. In a blatant attempt to undermine the democratic system the Australian
Chinese Association of Hong Kong has written to its members calling on them
to boycott Queensland because of the success of "racist" One Nation in this
state.
The real story could not be further from the truth. The elites in that country
represent Asian multinationals who want to rape and pillage our country -
something that they have been allowed to do under the tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee
of politics. They are now terrified because One Nation will make them, and
all other multinationals for that matter, accountable to the Australian people.
In their letter to their thousand strong membership the association has
urged members:
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to boycott Australian products from Queensland or made with Queensland materials.
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to avoid Queensland when travelling or investing in Australia.
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choose states other than Queensland when taking up residence.
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avoid sending children to Queensland schools.
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lobby other Asians not to reside or invest in the state.
Quite simply the Chinese people are recognised as one of the most racist
peoples in the world. They look down on "whites" as inferior in intellect
and in culture. Here in Australia we are expected to and do, freely, accept
them into our midst without the colour of their skin being an issue, but
the courtesy is not returned by a large number of their population - including
those who now reside in this country.
Is it any wonder that the divisiveness building in this country is not because
of the accommodating nature of the traditional ocker Aussie but because of
the racist attitudes of many Chinese who will now use any tool that they
can to try to stunt this country's democracy.
IMF report may be kept secret
The Federal Government has signalled that it is opposed to the public release
of a report on the economy by the International Monetary Fund. The report
follows a visit last month by a delegation of senior IMF officials, during
which they raised concerns about the pace of economic reform.
Senior Treasury officials and advisers to the Treasurer, Mr Costello, have
said privately that they are opposed to the release of the report on the
IMF's Internet page.
The report is expected to be ready for release in late September, which could
be close to the election.
One adviser said the New Zealand dollar fell following the release of the
IMF report on that country in January, while others have said that 40 per
cent of countries surveyed by the IMF choose not to have the reports published.
The Federal Government has the final say over whether the report will be
published.
The IMF says its public statements, known as press information notices (PIN),
"are issued, at the request of a member country, following the conclusion
of the Article IV consultation for countries seeking to make known the views
of the IMF to the public".
The delegation's report must be prepared for consideration by the IMF board
within 90 days of its visit. This means the board would consider its report
on Australia in late September, and a summary of the considerations would
then be ready for release on the Internet.
The IMF's "Article IV" consultations - which ran for a week from June 19
- raised concerns about the willingness of the Government to pursue tough
reforms of the economy, according to sources who spoke with the delegation.
These fears were heightened by the Queensland election, which triggered a
backlash from the National Party about competition policy and the privatisation
of Telstra.
But even before this the Government has taken a soft line on tariffs, and
the IMF is concerned that the projected Budget surplus of $15 billion will
be eroded by election promises.
While the IMF was generally impressed with what had been achieved by the
Government in reforming workplace relations, it suggested that more could
be done.
Delegation members asked what else could be done to free up the labour market
and reduce unemployment if political constraints were not as formidable.
The high-level delegation was led by the deputy director for the Asia-Pacific
region, Mr Bijan Aghevli, and comprised at least five other senior IMF officials.
One official was Mr John McDermott, who published a study that warned Australia
must lift national saving by up to $20 billion to arrest rising foreign debt.
One way of increasing national saving is to maintain a Budget surplus.
The IMF's concern follows a warning last week by the governor of the Reserve
Bank, Mr Ian Macfarlane, that the Asia crisis had raised questions as to
"whether this is an appropriate time to be undertaking further reforms".
A spokeswoman for Mr Costello declined to comment.
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
You say:
The Editor,
The Australian,
Dear Editor,
Readers of "The party must be called to account" in
the Opinion supplement in the July 6 issue of The Australian must be greatly
indebted to the political mouthpiece from Seven Television network for such
lucidity.
Australians are embracing change even when, sometimes,
it seems to be only for change's own sake or to pamper to the whims of some
impotent or irrelevant politicians.
The era when political parties such as Liberal and
Labor could continue to be controlled by a clique or a group of "faceless
men" (the unaccountable, non-parliamentary party machine hierarchs) does
indeed seem to be coming to an end. The "life and (political) death" control
that is exercised over their pompous parliamentary puppets, who, between
them, and with the backing of a financial membership that is now probably
less than one and a half percent (1.5%) of the nation's population, are perceived
to control the Federal, State and many Local Government legislatures.
Some are already equating the OPM (Other People's Money)
game that Directors of public companies play, effectively unchecked, with
investors funds, with the way Liberal and Labor manipulate the on and off
budget "government" revenues and expenditures.
Sincerely,
J o n M. A x t e n s
Another perfect day in paradise.
Have a good one.
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"Paul" (Big "K")
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Live coverage
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Beattie's preference
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Launch of
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Sixty Minutes break
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