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10th September 1998
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Between the One Nation lines
This morning I had a long chat to Pauline Hanson on a range of issues - which
included the article below ELECTIONEERING IN FULL SWING
IN THE QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY LECTURE THEATRE - sent
to me overnight by email.
Yesterday I was contacted on several occasions by one of News Limited's reporters
regarding an email allegedly sent to me by Paul Gill - the ALP staffer who
was sacked for "hacking the Liberal Party web site".
In today's Courier Mail Matthew Horan reports under the headline
"Sacked staffer boasts of Net effect",
"Mr Gill also allegedly sent the email to one of Pauline
Hanson's senior campaign workers who
published it on
one of Ms Hanson's websites." For the record the
anotd has absolutely nothing to do with One Nation - it is my independent
newspaper. The article then goes on to include an extract from Mr Gill's
letter.
National MPs to exchange preferences with One
Nation
Several National Party MPs have confirmed that they will exchange preferences
with One Nation. These include Bob Katter, De-Anne Kelly and Paul Marek.
Unnamed Liberal and Labor candidates are also negotiation preference swaps
with One Nation - in defiance of their factions of the Laboral party machine.
Odd partners in the fight against racism
Here is an extract
from the article by Peter Walsh:
The political cleansing is jointly sponsored by Community
Aid Abroad and the multinational Jewish organisation B'nai B'rith. Could
one be forgiven for suggesting the latter's attention might be more appropriately
directed to the Isreali Government's immigration policy and practice? Community
Aid Abroad seeks, and gets, funds from the Australian Government and from
the private citizens who, like AM interviewer Camille Fannel, "always thought
(CAA) was about raising money for communities abroad".
CAA boss Jeremy Hobbs said no "a lot of poverty and
distress and misery in many of the countries we work in is directly as a
result of racism". True, but would not CAA efforts be more appropriately
directed to those countries rather than Australian election processes?
Our growing expose "Watching
the RaceWatcher" files can be seen here.
MD
ELECTIONEERING IN FULL SWING
IN THE QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY LECTURE THEATRE
Commentator reports:
It was by happen-chance that I dropped by Kelvin Grove campus of Queensland
University of Technology last Monday afternoon 7 September just to sit
in on one of the first year Bachelor of Education mass lectures. The topic
was listed as "Indigenous Education" but was altered on the day to "Race
and Indigenous Education".
The lecture began with the announcement by the lecturer that racism was currently
an election issue and highly controversial and emotional (he meant "emotive").
For 45 minutes the student group was treated to a diet of pre-election
anti-Hansonism in the context of a lecture which was about definition of
race but which appeared to me to have a lot to do with racism, the topic
he identified at the beginning of the lecture. The lecturer said his focus
was on "scientists", "social scientists" and "politicians" who had defined
race since Australia's colonial days, but the only two names he raised were
"Pauline Hanson" and "Charles Darwin".
A ridiculing video of an over made-up fish shop chick (one Pauline Handsdown)
introduced the lecture and this red-head was the recurring focus person of
the lecture. The lecturer stated that the video (which had Japanese subtitles)
might be banned before the afternoon was over. So he appeared to consider
the tape defamatory yet was deliberately using it to focus his teachings
for the afternoon. (I wondered if he had official permission to use the video,
or whether he was breaching copyright.)
Some important comments and questions are raised by the blatant politicking
and public insult to a political candidate in a lecture in education during
the run up to a federal election:
1. The audience was first year Bachelor of Education students, many of whom
are 18 this year. Question: Is this lecturer trying to influence first time
voters who happen to be a captive audience who need to successfully complete
assignments and exam questions on lectures such as these if they are to pass
the subject? If they fail it, they will have to pay HEX again in order to
re-do it so they need to pass.
2. The lecturer was clearly teaching the class, while the country is in
pre-election mode, that Pauline Hanson is racist. Question: Are university
lecturers paid by the Federal Government (with our tax money by the way)
to politic and attempt to influence voting? Or is this actually outside the
scope of their position (even if they are members of what they proudly proclaim
to be the School of Cultural and Policy Studies)?
3. Racists from the 1800s were shown to be brutal murderers and the comment
made was that racists today wouldn't be able to get away with this.
Question: Is this lecturer, by highlighting Pauline Hanson in a lecture
on racism implying that Pauline Hanson would be a murderess in another age
because she would be able to get away with it at that time?
Question: Are these students paying for a degree in education, or
to be subject to the politics of this lecturer (and any others like him)?
Question: Did the lecturer have the permission of the Head of his
school and the Dean of the Faculty to participate in electioneering, because,
after all, they are responsible for the deeds of their staff.
Question: How else are these highly educated people using their positions
of influence to take advantage of their young students?
Question: How do the students feel about paying to learn the politics
of the lecturer - or do they usually begin to walk out of the lecture theatre,
in dribs and drabs, before the lecture is over?
What are these people up to? Log in again soon and read more about our
'intellectual elite' and their use of tax payers' money (that's your money
and mine) granted with the authority of the government.
- The Independent Observer -
Democrats plan to ban guns
GUNS BAN PLAN - Suburban gun owners would be banned from keeping firearms
at home under an Australian Democrats plan to strengthen gun control.
Democrats leader Meg Lees said reform of gun laws was necessary to avoid
an incidence of "American-style school-yard shooting"
"Right across Australia I cannot see the need for ordinary Australian families
to need a handgun in any way, shape or form Ms Lees said.It's essential that
Australia moves on this now, before we go down the American road".
Under Democrat policy, all guns owned by city based people would be kept
at central gun repositories. The guns would only be released for a limited
period if the owner could provide a genuine reason for their use.
The Democrats also plan to hold a referendum to hand over gun control powers
from the States to the Commonwealth.
Continuing their public shoush with One Nation, Ms Lees blasted One Nation's
firearm policies, saying they read "like a manifesto for the gun lobby. A
vote for One Nation is a vote to take Australia down a path of death and
gun-related violence," she said. "If One Nation continues to win seats at
various levels of government, all that we have worked so hard to achieve
in the aftermath of Port Arthur may well be lost."
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
You say:
Who's dumb?
Oh savour the sweetness of this small and rare triumph,
gentle anotd readers.
Yesterday the Australian reported that academic and
business lobby groups had attacked Pauline Hanson for claiming that tertiary
educated people were forcing less educated people on to the dole. A spokesman
for the Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee described Hanson's claim as
"just dumb".
Let's name them: the AVCC's executive director Stuart
Hamilton stupidly asked: "is she ... proposing ... that we should send kids
down the mines at the age of six?" Well no, Stuart, she's not proposing that
actually. Not to be outdone in slamming Hanson, Mark Paterson, chief of the
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry described Hanson's comments as
"fanciful".
Well, well, well, guess who is looking very stupid
and prejudiced today? Unfortunately for Hamilton and Paterson I have this
absurd and compulsive habit of making newspaper cuttings, and guess what
I turned up?
Just this year a study by DEETYA (the Department of
Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs) titled 'Graduate Labour
Trends' - found that "university graduates are pushing less skilled workers
out of jobs as the squeeze on employment continues" (More Degree-holders
take Mundane Jobs, Australian, 29/7/98). The study cited an increase in graduates
working as labourers, clerks and sales assistants - positions usually regarded
as the domain of school-leavers. "Arts graduates particularly have swelled
the ranks of sales staff: about 27 per cent were employed in this area in
1997, up from 19 per cent in 1993".
While the study suggested that these jobs "may be changing
in ways that use the skills graduates can offer", the fact remains that the
less-educated are indeed being pushed out by the tertiary educated as Pauline
Hanson has claimed. She is right.
The AVCC and ACCI spokesmen's response to Hanson's
comment provides an interesting insight into their mind-set. Had somebody
like the respected social researcher Hugh Mackay made the same comment it
would not have attracted such a rude dismissal. Obviously it is not what
Hanson says that so irritates her critics, it is just the woman herself and
the threat that One Nation poses to the cosy politics of consensus.
Finally to rub salt into the wound I must ask the obvious
question: why didn't Hamilton and Paterson slam the DEETYA report? If they
call Hanson 'dumb', why didn't they call the DEETYA report which said exactly
the same thing, 'dumb'? Hmm? Their prejudices are showing.
Antonia
Take it steady g'day
I am a One Nation voter. ( or should I say...I WILL
be!)
re- the tax release......I think you are trying to
do too much too soon. Don't worry about tax and things like that.. Just
concentrate on the things that have made the party so popular.....and keep
it there. It worries me to hear support is starting to fall down a
little.
ALL THE BEST LUCK IN THE ELECTION.....
regards,
Jeff Langtip
Political follies... or Australian Goverment
??
Its remarkable how similar the cavortings of our major
Pollies are... they obviously use their mind-mass collectively... take byway
of example the 'election date twinkle'.... that smirking "I don't know when"
of the PM , the fake watchdog approach of #2.. Could you expect a replay
if the #2's were in power ? you bet If we didn't see the parade every day
we would think it absurd.. but we do and so they rehearse... normally.
Oh... One Nation...political renagades , can't rely
on them following the traditional performances ?.. good I say everyone has
to make some mistakes... I'd like to try something else... maybe its my
turn.
Franco
Pauline Hanson
I realise you probably recieve a hundred letters like
this each day but I nevertheless wish to congratulte you on your Queensland
electoral win. You deserve it for sticking up for the honest battlers in
this country who have had a gutful of the rorting and uncountability that
is rife within this grand country of ours. I also agree that immigration
should be halted until we can start finding jobs for our own people or to
put in your words "clean up our own backyard first". I must also commend
you on recruiting the slick and resourceful David Oldfield as your senior
adviser- a very wise move indeed.
Overall, I believe you a breath of fresh air on Australia's
political landscape and certainly not the "black cloud" Jeff Kennett describes;
a man who seems have more to say about Queensland than his own state. Keep
up the good work despite all the knockbacks you recieve. Oh and good luck
for the federal election- you have my vote.
Student
Our Nation
Dear Ms Hanson:
First of all I would like to say that for the first
time in many years I feel just a tinge of excitement and relief concerning
the political system and its future in this country. I really believe that
"One Nation" is on the right track in many areas of its policy. I also admire
your courage in the work that you are doing and particularly considering
the maturity or rather the lack of maturity of many of our present government
and opposition members, with whom you have to contend with.
I believe that our nation is destined for self- destruction
if something isn't done in the very near future. There is a statement well
worth noting from the Bible. It says that "a house divided against itself
cannot stand". With our present system of legislated theft (taxation) which
has been in place for many years now, is it surprising to hear of so many
people in the workforce generally and especially the public service, who
feel it is their duty to do as little as possible, and have little or no
hesitation in taking whatever is not bolted down? With this attitude endemic
nationwide, mere cosmetic alterations to the tax system proposed by both
major parties, will I believe, only result in further disincentive and even
more resentment .The only way I believe to see this attitude change is to
return or give back what has been stolen from them over many years.
I believe you are on the right track with the flat
rate tax system .However I believe that it needs to be applied to the income
tax of every Australian worker in such a way that each one will benefit directly
and immediately. Whatever percentage is ultimately arrived at should be less
than 10%.While this presents obvious shortfalls in government revenue for
an unknown time, I believe the offsets of increased productivity, incentive
to invest in local businesses, increased employment, etc. etc. will far outweigh
this. .Moreover a sense of unity ,of working together to build One Nation
will once again begin to be fostered.
Sincerely, Craig Szabadics
Liberal Hypocrisy
Last week we had the deputy Prime Minister scathingly
dismissive of the 2% Easytax because "the 2% easy tax will kill
exports".
Hypocrits!!!!
As it turns out, Liberal/National party GST policy
also applies to exported service-based products. For example, if an engineer,
architect, software company etc, performs contracted work for an overseas
client, that work will be subject to the 10% GST because the services were
performed locally.
So much for being the clever country! Not content with
destructional of the local manufacturing industry, the Liberal party now
has its sights set on destruction of the local service based "clever" industries.
So much for encouraging forward thinking technological development and export
opportunities.
And don't think the Labor party are any better - they're
worse. Or are they? I never can decide.
The poignant question in this election is not so much
which major party to put first, as which one do you want last?
The Sydney Morning Herald wrote on 9/9/98:
>The Institution of Engineers highlighted another problem
>yesterday in making exports free of GST. The package says
>that services must be performed "outside Australia" for
>them to escape the GST net. "This means that any aspect of
>engineering work that an Australian firm might perform in
>this country for an overseas client will attract a 10 per cent
>tax hike," it said.
Name Withheld on request
Another perfect day in paradise.
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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