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9th September 1998
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first daily Internet newspaper.
Since
October 1995
Between the One Nation lines
The One Nation web site continues to draw phenomenal interest with the three
main entry pages and mirrors attracting tens of thousands of visitors each
week.
(Clickable image)
Since the web site was moved to the new Internet service Provider in July
an average of nearly 28,000 hits have been received a day. (The weekends
are marked by lower than average visits in the above chart).
A dramatic escalation in visitors has followed the calling of the Federal
Election with an average of about 45,000 hits per day being received.
But the biggest jump followed the release of the EasyTax with over 67,000
hits being received on the day that it was released by One Nation.
Visitors to the One Nation web sites since April 1997 now exceeds 750,000.
A word of thanks to The Courier Mail today who for the third time
this week have made reference to the One Nation web site. This time under
"The Bottom Line" on the letter page the columnist writes:
"Our own Evita -
"The One Nation Internet web site is getting even stranger.
"Apart from over-blown waffle referring to Pauline
Hanson as "the Evita Peron of Australia", it also has a run down on the gruelling
process
involved
in selecting its Senate team.
"It says
it was so difficult to select the team of six from its 42 hopefuls that it
took "about five minutes" - a passing remark that doesn't say much for the
calibre of the candidates.
"It then lists five people on the team, one of who
is Sue Gordon who may be remembered for her spirited fight in the early 90s
against the Eastlink interstate electricity connection on grounds which included
protecting rare and endangered frogs.
Queensland senate team seen above.
"Sue's environmental bona fides took a hammering a
few years later when she fought a Natural Resources Department move to save
an endangered frog whose habitat was being trampled by her cattle grazing
on a forestry reserve.
"Former premier Rob Borbidge, who at the best of times
struggles to hide his hatred of conservation issues, overrode departmental
advice and allowed cattle to graze on."
Guess there is some truth in the claim that any publicity is good publicity
after all!
One Nation and preferences
With the Laboral factions officially exchanging preferences Pauline Hanson's
One Nation has quietly been working with some more enlightened and honest
members of the Liberal and National parties. The work has borne fruit with
a growing number of candidates and sitting MPs expected to exchange preferences
with One Nation on October 3 in defiance of their parties official standing
on this issue.
Obviously we cannot mention who these members or candidates are but the big
surprise is that some Labor candidates have also made approaches to
exchange preferences on the day in an effort to boost their chances in marginal
seats.
The approach by these Labor candidates comes at a time when ALP Queensland
state secretary Mike Kaiser cried foul against One nation's number one ticket
for the Senate in New South Wales - David Oldfield.
Kaiser ensured that One Nation was put last on all the state tickets - a
move which just stopped excellent candidates like Gympie's Ian Petersen being
elected on June 13.
Courier Mail show consistency - even if is in bias
True to form The Courier Mail continue to run denigrating articles on One
Nation as the Federal election date approaches. Today's political coverage
of One Nation is centered around two articles on page 6 - with the headlines
"Senate ticket fee 'could be illegal'" and
"Polls show taxing time ahead for Hanson" by
Peter Charlton.
Compare this with the Labor headline "Beazley puts
job on line in vow to deliver tax cuts" and the Coalition headline
"Kennett tells voters to take responsibility"....
now when did the Laboral factions ever show any integrity?
The Charlton "analysis" takes up the theme that "One Nation's fortunes are
declining".
What is quite remarkable is that no journalist has been allowed to report
on the rise of One Nation. The statement that the party's "fortunes are
declining" is quite ridiculous when you think back to 1996 when the party
did not even exist.
The media are obsessed at trying to ridicule anybody involved with the party
while they do not explore with any sense of equity why people are flocking
behind what they call a "simplistic, bigoted and racist" party.
Have a large section of Australia's voting public suddenly been transformed
by the mesmerising impact of a woman that we are constantly reminded is
"ignorant"? Somehow I think not.
The major parties know the real reason but as they are both factions of the
same ideals
(Laboral)
both are continuing to ignore the real needs of those they claim to represent.
Roll on people power.
Kennett accused of boosting One Nation's profile
The truth came out yesterday with the coverage of Pauline Hanson and Jeff
Kennett's "Date" getting front page coverage on daily newspapers.
The mainstream media have gone out of their way to marginalise One Nation
- presenting the Laboral faction representatives for the media barons as
the only alternatives. The marginalising of One Nation by Packer and Murdoch
is seen by more and more as a deliberate move to ensure that there is no
recurrence of the popular support which fell in behind by party in the
Queensland Elections
earlier this year.
Yesterday Victorian Opposition
leader John Brumby accused Premier Jeff Kennett of giving the One Nation
Party a $100,000 publicity boost during the federal election campaign.
(Kennett seen right with the Liberal's Blair candidate Cameron
Thompson).
Mr Brumby says Mr Kennett's encounter with Pauline Hanson at a Queensland
shopping centre yesterday, gave her front page space in every major newspaper
across the country.
He says the Premier's interstate campaigning for the Federal Coalition has
backfired.
"What Jeffrey did yesterday, I couldn't believe it," Mr Brumby said.
"He went up to Queensland, got chased down in a shopping mall by Pauline
Hanson, got caught in the spotlight, looked like a scared rabbit.
"In the meantime he's put her on the front page of every newspaper in Australia
and she couldn't believe her luck."
Pauline Hanson meanwhile, has launched a scathing attack on the conservation
movement, saying it is too extreme.
Miss Hanson, who supports the establishment of a federal ministry of water
and a ministry of interior and regional infrastructure, says environmentalists
are going too far.
"We've got to look after the environment because that is our future by all
means," Miss Hanson said.
"But you can't have the greenies or anyone else...they go far to right, to
the extreme.
"The fact is we've got to protect it and probably I'm the only one that's
coming out now and saying our precious resource in this country is the water."
How has Howard's GST escaped ridicule?
Here is
an extract from the Sydney Morning Herald article:
The Coalition is attempting to keep the detailed design
of the GST under wraps until after the election by delaying this examination
until after the election, having learnt the lesson of its failed GST-based
campaign of 1993.
The tax package says the Government will appoint a
"distinguished Australian" to chair a Tax Consultative Committee with a brief
to focus on "outstanding GST design issues".
Tax analysts say a plethora of definitional and design
problems would emerge with the introduction of the GST.
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
You say:
Subject:
Primary Industry
Policy
Your primary industry policy forgot one very important
feature os Australian business.
Most manufactured primary products become part of the
customers grocery and fruit and vege purchases
But those manufactures only have three customers to
sell to, Franklins, Coles and Woolworths. With such a small number of customers
the customers have the market power and can keep manufacturers poor using
this market power when making purchases.
Why is it that Australian manufacturers have declined?
- they have lost customers as the big retailers have formed their
triopoly.
How is it then that you have fialed to recognise the
importance of anti trust laws like in the States tp break up this triopoly
to increase the number of customers than manufacturers of primary products
have available to them.
Is this not very important??????????
Trevor Croll
Subject: good stuff
Hi,
I am a 19 year old boy from Adelaide, and after downloading
a copy of your policies, I have to say that I agress with basically most
of it.
Even though my friends call me a racist and all sometime,
which I kind of am I guess, I will voting for One Nation. Good Stuff!
Jonno
Subject: Slipping in the Polls
Scott,
I have a suggestion for you, and the readers of Anot'd
to consider. The combination of the total focus on taxation by the two major
parties, together with the media policy toward One Nation of a complete blackout,
unless it is an item perceived as damaging, could be having an effect in
causing some slippage in One Nation's support.
Therefore, on the understanding that the recent court
case freezing campaign reimbursements for One Nation has been thrown out,
my suggestion is the party should take out paid advertisements in at least
one of the major daily newspapers in each state. Something along the lines
of:
'NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC BY PAULINE HANSON'S ONE
NATION
Recently, widespread national media coverage was given
to allegations against One Nation, and to the two related cases in The Supreme
Court.
The implications contained in the widespread, and
repetitious, coverage given to these claims were that One Nation was guilty
of attempting to dupe the Queensland Electoral Commission and of mislading
its own supporters. This would be damaging to any political party and they
would undoubtedly expect at least reasonably similar coverage of the subsequent
revelations that these claims were not only completely false, but mischievous,
and, possibly, politically motivated.
Whereas the coverage given to the outcome of the court
cases has been virtually nil, compelling the Directors of One Nation to take
the unprecedented step of taking out paid advertisements in all of the major
daily newspapers, in order to disseminate the information to the public that
these both of these cases have been thrown out of Court and the previously
frozen funds released for reimbursement to One Nation.'
The editors may refuse to carry the advertisements.
At the very least that would give Pauline some real ammunition. If they do
carry them, they will no doubt feel constrained to attempt to justify their
failure to report the outcome. Eitherway it would be a huge plus for the
party I am confident of that. Residing in the A.C.T. I am only aware of the
NSW and Canberra media, plus tv and radio. From that perspective there WAS
no coverage and I only found out by reading Anot'd. Yet the multi media coverage
of the complaints and the complainants was mega, and repeated constantly.
Perhaps readers from other States could advise if the media's treatent of
both the claims and the resulting court case outcomes was any different
there.
If not, if it was pretty much the same Australia wide,
then this would be a real shot across the bows of the media and would open
a few eyes out there in voter land and possibly get back some of that
support.
The above is only a rough cut, and no doubt it could
be expressed better. From my way of thinking, whether the media accept the
ads or refuse them, it would be a very effective strategy. Does anyone else
agree.....disagree? Any other thoughts?
Cheers
Carol Kavanagh
Subject: My vote
You've got my vote Pauline. I am absolutely disgusted
with to days politicians and the way they think that they can promise the
moon and deliver bananas without any one saying "hey you guys youve slipped
up"
The way they tax the Hell out of us and still expect
this ounce great country of our to prosper. ITS A JOKE!
GOOD ON YOU PAULINE!
Subject: GWB and One Nation party issues
I was steered to you by Wayne Hickman
(waynhick@senet.com.au) who suggested that you might find my book, How The
World Really Works, useful enough to organize distribution of it in Australia.
The book is described in my
web page.
It is a convincing expose of the world-wide oligarchy
which wants to rule us. My page describes how the book can be bought via
Amazon.com for your examination. My web page also
links to the
description of a movement just getting started here for electing
politicians who we can know are not beholden to the oligarchs. Look for it
at:
Best wishes,
Alan B. Jones
Subject: Ineaqualities of the Family Court and the
Child Support Agency
I would love to Contribute my thoughts on Family Law,
but after a few moments I become irrational with rage at the current
system!!
If the Family court gave you custody of the child/children
would you seek maintenance from your wife? Most men I have spoken to say
they would crawl over broken glass to get their kids and kiss Good bye to
any maintenance. These days when women are supposedly equal to men, and earn
as much as men, why do they insist on maintenance.
Methinks when the courts decide who is to get the child,
the first question they should ask is, are you prepared to bring up the child
without financial support from your previous partner?
That way the parent who really loves the kids gets
the kids.
I wonder how many mothers would give up their kids,
and how many mothers now unemployed would miraculously find jobs?
Sandy Beard
Subject: Comments on Australian News of the
Day
If One Nation's tax policy had been labelled a 'Cascading
GST' instead of an 'Easy Tax' it would have been much harder for the media
to make the same 'loopy flat tax....silly money flat tax.....etc.' jibes.
Just the very term GST would have prevented that. As it is, after all, a
GST over a broader base, at a lower rate, that removes more other unwanted
other taxes. The media's m.o. around One Nation means that LOTS of thought
has to be given to things like names, and to thinking through how the media
is likely to handle everything from the most negative and damaging perspective
they can manage. Called a Cascading GST, had the media used the same techniques
to discredit it, the public would have had to question how one GST can be
loopy, while another can be what is needed.
Carol
Subject:
Tax
Policy
Just had a read of the One Nation tax policy. What
happens at the Sunday Markets etc.? It would seem rather difficult to collect
any tax on such transactions - as indeed it is now.
There are millions of dollars a day slipping through
the government's hands with cash transactions not being recorded as income.
Your policy it appears will not stop this. For that matter neither will any
of the other two we have been presented with. I rather liked the idea of
the debit tax and am somewhat surprised you did not run with that
scheme.
Seems to me that all these tax schemes would run more
efficiently if cash were abolished as a means of monetry transaction. We
all know we are headed for a cashless society, perhaps it is time for a party
to suggest it. Has some obvious benefits:
. prevents tax avoidance through cash transactions.
. petty larceny, break and enters, illegal drug trade all become difficult
to do.
. computers can do the tax returns.
Lance Wearmouth
Subject: Six wise men?....or, six
stooges?
'Six prominent business leaders agree One Nation's
tax package is a joke' confided that well known organ of 'political correctness',
minority lobby groups and multicultural intolerance[viz: The Melbourne 'Age']
on Pg 8 of yesterday's edition.
The 'six' in question(Rodney Adler[CEO FAI Insurance
Group], David Edwards[CEO, Employers' Chamber of Commerce and Industry],
Mark Leibler[Arnold, Blochs & Leibler:
solicitors], Ian Dunlop[CEO,
Australian Institute of Company Directors], Craig Drummond[Director of Research,
J.B.Were]and David Crawford[National
Chairman, KPMG]) addressed a number of issues, amongst them:
employment, instability in Indonesia, GST and overall industry policy.
Two of the six(Rodney Adler and Craig Drummond) did
not mention One Nation Party at all.
[perhaps Mr Drummond has lost interest in 'politically
correct' issuesafter being 'forced' to recently
cast adrift two of his main operatives, courtesy of the Thought Police].
Of the remaining four, Ian Dunlop merely noted that the One Nation Party
Tax Policy 'has been around for quite a long time'[this in itself would seem
to indicate that it is not totally 'lunatic fringe': if one assumes that
it has previously been discussed and evaluated seriously by economists] 'but
it has some problems in terms of its economic credibility'. Mr Dunlop did
not venture to indicate what these problems might be.
One could be forgiven for asking whether or not the
GST _also_ has problems with its 'economic credibility' seeing as how it
has not been noted to work 100% successfully anywhere, and that many
countries(exmpl: Canada) have voted in anti-GST governments. That only leaves
Leibler and Crawford. Leibler(as might be expected) blasted away at One Nation
Party before the first paragraph ends! 'One Nation tax policy is a joke'
according to this doyen of the chardonnay set and quasi-High Priest of political
correctness.
Not even a hint, or a smidgin, of evidence to say exactly
'why'. Please explain, Herr Leibler! Similarly, Crawford 'puts the boots
in' to One Nation Party, describing their policy as 'showing how totally
unfit they are to have a say in the formation of any government going into
the future'. Really? There speaks a true intellectual elite! Unless a 'policy'
has got the 'good housekeeping seal of approval' from these ivory tower wankers
and their globalist bedfellows, then that party/group is 'unfit' to govern!
How very Nietzschean of you, Mr Crawford! Never mind if the average punter
thinks a tax policy _might just work_ (or is willing to 'give it a go'),
it's this small clique of unelected, unrepresentative, chardonnay-swilling,
pontificating, academics, mutinationals and socio-political parasites who
determine the way things should be. How indicative of the arrogant garbage
continually spewed forth by these lackeys of internationalism. Best they
better _WAKE UP!_ to the fact that a large minority of Australians have seen
through their charade and have had enough. OTW, 'the light at the end of
the tunnel' may turn out to be the headlamp of an oncoming train, ready to
flatten any sycophantic 'stooges' who block the tracks!
James Hughes
Subject: Comments on Australian News of the Day:
Campaign suggestion
Telstra:
The Coalition in its run up to the 1996 election values
the third sale of TELSTRA at $4-5 billion. When the float was conducted the
Government received about $14 billion.
That same equity is now valued at well over $30
billion. All in the space of 2 years. The Coalition is talking boldly
about its economic and financial management.
How can they promote themselves as believable economic
managers when they under-valued, under-estimated, and forfeited billions
of dollars in future revenues and capital growth from Australians that would
be a legacy for future generations?
I believe that the political mileage on this issue
is genuine. Labour sales of the Commonwealth Bank in the early 90's which
would be the automatic counter, are in a different era, recession environment,
struggling Banks in the aftermath of the '87 crash, and the need to free
the Government from the free market place.
Let me know what u think.
My
Weekly Comment on the Telstra salei is a millennium style proposal
for Tax Reform:
regards:
Ian J BLEYS,
Another perfect day in paradise. The last week has been quite warm - bordering
on hot. Last night we had a wonderful infestation of fireflies on the bank
in the valley below our home.
Have a good one.
Recent stories exclusive to
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A brief lunch time
controntation with Jeff Kennett- 8th September 1998
One Nation's
Primary Industry Policy- 7th September 1998
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
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