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Since
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Don McKinnon to take Farrer?
One Nation is escalating its campaign to defeat the National Party Leader,
Mr Fischer, in his own seat of Farrer as evidence mounts that his local vote
is collapsing.
This week the One Nation candidate running against Mr Fischer in Farrer won
the critical support of the local Shooters Party. On Wednesday night, key
officials from the Shooters Party in Albury, the main city in Mr Fischer's
electorate, unanimously endorsed One Nation's policy on gun ownership and
will now play a leading role in campaigning against Mr Fischer.
A senior Shooters Party official in Albury is also a campaign manager for
One Nation's candidate in Farrer, Mr Don McKinnon.
The speed with which Mr Fischer is losing support to One Nation has stunned
both parties. Evidence that Mr Fischer's political base is crumbling includes:
Former local National Party officials in Farrer establishing One Nation branches
and recruiting National Party members.
Former National Party campaign workers in towns such as Deniliquin and Mildura
now working as local campaign managers for One Nation.
Recent polling by the local newspaper, The Albury Border Mail, indicating
that Mr Fischer's primary vote has crashed from 66 per cent at the last election
to around 33 per cent, with One Nation's vote surging to 24 per cent.
Financial and logistical support flowing into One Nation in Farrer, including
one local gun lobbyist providing Mr McKinnon with a plane to use for the
election campaign.
On the current polling figures, Mr Fischer would be forced to rely on preferences
to hold his seat. Although his office has been dismissive of the polls, the
Nationals' leader has recently devoted considerable energy to his electorate.
Mr Fischer's One Nation rival is a former loyal National Party supporter
of many years' standing and the mayor of the town of Wentworth. Mr McKinnon
says the gun issue is not the major reason why he and other Nationals turned
against Mr Fischer, "but it was the straw that broke the camel's back". "We
lost our banks, our doctors, everything was downsized," he says.
When Mr McKinnon began going to local One Nation meetings he recognised many
familiar faces. "They were all ex-National Party people."
One Nation's convener in Mildura, Mr Peter Whitfield, is a former National
Party branch official but has now recruited more than 160 members to a new
One Nation branch. His current allies include other former National Party
local officials.
Ms Pauline Hanson's senior adviser, Mr David Oldfield, is not surprised by
the upsurge in One Nation support in Farrer, an electorate Ms Hanson has
already visited and will return to. Other National Party seats in NSW, especially
on the North Coast, have also experienced a boost in One Nation support since
the Queensland election.
Mr Oldfield said One Nation has not yet decided whether to direct preferences
to Mr Fischer or to Labor.
MD
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
You say:
Subject: Petition by email
Dear Prime Minister,
I am a current and financial member of the Liberal
Party. I am also a key seat strategist and have been involved in the
preference issue since well before the Queensland election. I have listened
to many arguements and opinions on the issue of the Liberal Party's preference
position with regard to One Nation. As any political strategist could tell
you, a preference decision is best made close to an election.
The position you have forced through the various
party executives to put One Nation last is ridiculous and weak. Ridiculous
in that it has been made so far out from the Federal and state elections.
Ridiculous because for every so called "liberal" that will be appeased by
such a decision, there's atleast one that will be riled. Ridiculous state
wise due to optional preferential voting systems. Weak because it's pandering
to the very political forces within the Liberal Party that trained and promoted
David Oldfield and have wrenched the party into the center of politics and
so far from it's original principles as laid down by your hero Menzies. The
reason we now have a new political force representing the right or conservative
side of politics. Our old domain.
Prime Minister, I listened to many "moderate" or leftist
liberals arogantly threaten that if the party didn't put One Nation last
they'd refuse to help in the campaign or even contemplate resigning from
the party altogether.
Sir, if we do put One Nation last I promise you
I'll be involved in the campaign. One Nation's!
E (Name withheld)
Subject: assimilation means:
To
clear things up for A.B.:
A demand that migrants forget their various heritages
is not assimilation, it is stupidity. Perhaps I can best illustrate what
assimilation means by using the example of one of my sisters-in-law. She
is proud of her Hungarian ancestry. Her home is festooned with Hungarian
flags, tapestries and embroideries. She cooks a mean goulash and scrumptious
pastries. Her children are bi-lingual. But she is fiercely proud to regard
herself as an Australian first and foremost. Not a Hungaro-Australian, but
simply an Australian. She says migrants can be as ethnic as they like - on
the weekends. At work and at school they should speak English and join in
Australian civic life.
In this light, assimilation means keeping the best
of the migrants' cultural heritages - the cuisine, the music and dance -
but accepting the legal and political systems of Australia. With the policy
of assimilation - a two-way process - everybody benefits. Why do people vie
to come to Australia? Because it is a land of freedom and opportunity. That's
our culture and we're sticking to it. The whole and simple reason for Pauline
Hanson's popularity is because she is a patriot and stands up for the Australian
way of life.
Multiculturalism is different. Though its architect
never intended it to be so, the policy has come to be understood to mean
all cultures are to be given equal status in Australia. Not so. The Australian
culture - its language, laws and customs - is domimant and I make no apology
for using the word. A big part of that Australian culture is tolerance,
traditionally expressed as a 'fair go'. As Paul Sheehan wrote, it's only
under that big umbrella of tolerance in the dominant Australian culture that
'multiculturalism' can flourish. Take away that umbrella and we would revert
to ethnic tribes.
Multiculturalism is bringing about this dangerous state.
Why else did the Chinese community unite to fight Hanson? The Australian
culture she champions is the very one that has provided them with the opportunity
to do well!
It's time to kill off the ugly m-word which has only
created division. Apart from being a more euphonious word, assimilation as
a policy makes it clearer for migrants to understand what their rights and
responsibilities are. Surely a Good Thing.
Antonia
Subject: Suggestion for Scott
Briefly Scott..
congratulations we're proud of you. I have begun to
print out all these reports and have established a growing network of interested
supporters who are passing on the printed copies to those who can't access
the www. You may consider telling fellow supporters to do the same if there's
no legal problems with that.
Regards
Darryl Hetherington
For the record the anotd may be printed, copied and distributed freely
by One Nation supporters.
Editor
Subject:
Germ
Greer
Dear Sir,
Why would Germaine Greer give a stuff ?
Australia is not even a good enough place for her to
live in.
She would be better served concentrating on doing the
things that she does best, only nobody has ever known what they
are.
Allan W. Doak
Subject: 60 minutes
Scott. It rather pains me to have to ask this question
but since we have been given such a hard time by 60 minutes in the past and
it was my understanding that we were going to have nothing more to do with
them why were we so stupid as to front up again? You know what is going to
happen so why do it? I get angry when I see the party maligned in the media
and I expect people like David Oldfield to only deal with media that will
make some effort at fair play in panel discussions. How many times do you
have to be kicked by a mule before you learn not to stand near it?
Please do not take offence at this letter because
I like what you write and appreciate the effort you make for the party. I'm
just a bit irritated by our apparent inability to learn from experience.
Cheers, Hayden.
Subject: Thanks
I am just writing to you Scott ( the silent achiever)
to commend you . for you efforts you must be a special Australian committed
to free speech and equality ! common plain old fashioned horse sence . !.
Hard work must be rewarded, you deserved to be told brother and all of us
in the mining industry are rooting for you/us. ! please continue you have
no idea how much your name is appreciated :) , for the sake of our nation.
LOVE the worker !
Liberty
Subject: keep up the good work
Scott,
keep up the good work bringing the truth out it is
a pleasure to see what is happening and we just hope that the truth can overcome
all the hostility and bias shown by the general media.
Bill Edwards
Subject: undemocratic elections
Sir
The actions of the established political parties are
those of very frightened people when they stoop to such undignified acts
such as placing the One Nation candidates last on the lists.
What have they/you done that you must hide from those
who at last are trying to speak out with honesty against those who are attempting
tyranny by stealth. Peter Reith is an everlasting example of such deception
on a grand scale. What are you doing?
Max E Webb
Subject: Leave the garbage on the dump
Hello Scott,
I agree with Victor J. Bridger the garbage should
be left on the dump.We know there are a lot of sick people with warped minds
but I for one am not interested in their garbage, so please don't encourage
them.
Alan Esson.
Subject: One nation, another reason for the
upsurge.
One Nation, the Upsurge Another reason for the upsurge
in One Nation, constantly overlooked by many within the Government and Media
are the Social and Cultural factors pertaining to Anglo Saxons.
Most imported cultures would strongly resist any watering
down of their own cultures, (ably assisted by Government) but totally ignore
Anglo Saxon Australians the right to question the preservation of their own
traditions and cultures.
When authorities get together in their political correct
think tanks and pass regulations in our schools preventing traditional Christian
values being taught, all on the premise that this would offend children from
other religious backgrounds, they are in fact undermining and denying Australians
pracising traditional Western cultures long established in Australia.
Would the same authorities dare to tell children from
an Islamic background that they should not wear veils over their heads, or
alter their traditional teaching methods because it is a sign of a different
religion that it may offend Christians? What about Western Culture and Sacred
Things? are they not of equal importance?
(Quote) Emile Durkheim, one of the fathers of sociology
believed that individuals are products of complex social forces and cannot
be considered outside the context of the society in which they live.
Durkheim believed Sacred things are those objects and
symbols, including principles and beliefs, that these things must be preserved
from violation because they represent all that is of most value to the
community.
All cultures hold something sacred. In secular Western
societies, the sacred might be embodied in certain principles, such as individual
rights, freedom, justice or equality. In Durkheims view, therefore, religion
is not a matter of claims about the universe that are either true or false,
but is the normal way that a society constructs and maintains its cherished
tradition and moral values.(end of quote)
Governments and the media are never heard to express
any desire to preserve the cultures of traditional Anglo Saxon Australians
as they so desperately seek to promote Multiculturalism and the destruction
of the Anglo Saxon Culture.
Most One nation Supporters are not the radical deranged
people the Government and the media would have the public believe, but are
mostly made up of a distinct society and culture rising in anger at being
denied their equal rights in the law as well as culturally.
Tony
Subject:
Re stephen
martin
>Dear Dickhead
>I have lived in Australia for the past 25 year.
Is suppose I should
>point out that the colour of my skin is white
>and my parents are both Anglo-Australians.
>I am travelling to a country called Kazakhstan
(you probably don't know
>where that is) to work in a 5 star hotel.
>I will not miss Australia. You and the people you
support have made this
>the most racially divided country I have
>ever had the misfortune to witness.
>Get fu***d
>Stephen Martin
What is this idiot talking about? I have been doing
business with companies in the region he mentions for the past five years
and to the best of my knowledge, there is no 5 star hotel there. I suggest
that stephen martin is doing to himself or having done to him, exactly what
he sugests you do. Will the real stephen martin please stand up so we can
all see what an idiot really looks like?
Jason
Another perfect day in paradise.
Have a good one.
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