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GST hammered in latest polls
At a time when Murdoch and Packer harvest the government's taxpayer funded
Au$10 million feast of promoting and advertising the GST the new tax has
not fared well.
A survey of Queenslanders came up with the following result:
Tax deal - what you think
| Support GST |
45% |
| Oppose GST |
50% |
| Don't know |
5% |
| Better off |
39% |
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See letters under You Say
The Jewish "club" -
Is it worse in its elitism and discriminatory guidelines than "racism"?
One can only second guess why B'Nai B'rith in Australia who, by
establishing
"Racewatch",
changed the English definition of racism. Their definition of "racist" behaviour
NOW includes those in the Australian community who call for Australians
and immigrants to assimilate into the mainstream population.... many One
Nation voters, including myself, believe that assimilation is the way it
should be to prevent divisive, race based conflict in our society in the
future.
It is only when you see what some well-heeled elite, discriminatory and secular
Jews and Jewish organisations, who are behind the call for this change in
definition to "racist", represent that you start seeing the hidden agenda.
Here are just some on-line examples of clear discrimination within Jewish
organisations globally and Jewry:
The Zionist
Federation of Australia
QUOTE:
INTRODUCTION - The Zionist Federation
of Australia is a national Jewish roof body organisation with a very wide
affiliation base. The ZFA officially represents the Australia Jewish
Community in its objective of upholding and actively pursuing all aspects
of the wide ranging Zionist Programme. The Federation embraces its constituent
State Zionist Councils, each headed by an elected President who in turn is
Vice-President of the Federation.
The goals of the Federation include "the protection
of Jewish rights everywhere" and the Federation is charged by its Constitution
with the task of organising and officially representing Australian Jewry
in carrying out these broad aims.
The ZFA's central work is the promotion of Aliyah
and all levels of Zionist education. To this end, the ZFA, together with
the State Zionist Councils, has created a number of innovative services and
programmes.
And what is the cornerstone of
Aliyah
(Immigration to
Israel)?
The Hagshama Department
The World Zionist Organization web site tells us the first requirement
is:
"Proof that you are Jewish! This can
consist of a ketuba (yours if married, or parents' if not), or a letter written
by your rabbi of your Diaspora congregation, preferably in Hebrew, or your
conversion certificate."
If you are not Jewish you do not meet the criteria of reaching "Aliyah"
- you cannot become an Israeli citizen. Let me repeat that - YOU CANNOT BECOME
AN ISRAELI CITIZEN. Now that, I presume, is not discriminatory.
What are Jews doing to and how are they treating the Palestinians who
are being evicted from their homes in the "new" Isreal?
A classic case of do what I say not what I do.
Executive Council of Australian
Jewry:
QUOTE: The ECAJ is the Australian Affiliate
of the World Jewish Congress, the Asia/Pacific Jewish Association, and the
Commonwealth Jewish Council.
The ECAJ constituent organisations are the Jewish
Boards of Deputies of New South Wales and Queensland, the Jewish Community
Councils of Victoria and South Australia, the Council of Western Australian
Jewry Incorporated, The ACT Jewish Community Inc. and the Hobart Hebrew
Congregation.
Affiliated organisations are the Australasian Union
of Jewish Students, the Australian and New Zealand Union for Progressive
Judaism, the Australian Federation of Wizo, the Federation of Australian
Jewish Community Services, Maccabi Australia Incorporated and the National
Council of Jewish Women of Australia (Federal).
Observer Organisations are B'nai B'rith District
21 of Australia and New Zealand, the New Zealand Jewish Council and the
Zionist Federation of Australia.
Jewry is, by its own definition, clearly based on a framework of
discrimination and exclusion.
One Nation is all about all Australians being treated equally
and immigrants from wherever being required to assimilate into our
society. B'nai B'rith's Racewatch, supposedly established to uplift
our morals, is in reality nothing more than a front to hide the discrimination
that permeates from extremists that hide within the Jewish lobby.
The highly selective and discriminatory immigration requirements for Israeli
citizenship is just one example - but because we fear being called anti-Semetic
by speaking out (just like the fear of being tagged "racist") we are
supposed to remain muzzled by creations such as Racewatch.
Racewatch should be exposed for what it is: un-Australian and unwelcome
in a society which is trying to come to terms with divisive policies that
have been thrown at the people by politicians and political party machines
which have not represented their best interests.
And B'nai B'rith should be condemned for what it is: unrepresentative
of Australian norms and using the same tactics (through Racewatch) that were
used by the terrible fascist Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler. And we thought
Leibler's list
was bad enough!
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
Political:
You say:
Pearls of wisdom from a left wing loony.
Editor
From:
catherine martin
Reply-To: sati@netspace.net.au
To: gwb@gwb.com.au
Subject:
Pauline Hanson's
Prosper Australia rally
homophobic, ignorant, racist pig
The Northcote 'By-election':
Dirty Tricks, Intolerance and Politicisation...A Report
from the Front Lines...
The true nature of politics in Australia is now emerging,
courtesy of the 'by-election', held in Northcote (an 'inner' North Eastern
Melbourne suburb) on Saturday 15th August, 1998.
The 'lead-up' to this by-election involved the resignation
of the sitting Australian Labour Party member. The Australian Labour Party
then fielded a high-profile candidate from the 'stockbroker belt' of Melbourne's
eastern suburbs: Mary Delahunty (an ex-Australian Broadcasting Commission
'journo', now 'living' in Woodend, a yuppie retreat about 40km from the Melbourne
GPO). This particular person comes from the 'intellectual elite', or
'silver-spoon set'. It is doubtful if she ever done a hard day's work in
her life. Such is the contempt with which the ruling bi-partisan
Labour/Liberal(Laboral) government of Oz views ordinary Australians,however,
that they felt safe to field her in this seat. Doubtless, their confidence
was also bolstered by the fact that the traditional, Australian working-class
residents of this area have been, by and large, forced out and replaced by
a 'rag-tag' mixture of ethnic ghetto-dwellers, ferals,'trendies' and yuppies.
The current political representatives in this 'area' constitute: Theo Theophanus
(described as:'the ethnic warlord of Northcote') and Martin Ferguson (ex
Australian Council of Trade Unions 'hatchet man' and extreme left-wing
sympathiser/collaborator).
On learning that One Nation Party intended to contest
this seat, the cries of outrage and indignation could have been heard in
Mongolia! A well-funded campaign of villification, ostracism and downright
lies ensued in the local and metropolitan media: newspapers, radio and
television. Such was the trepididation that One Nation Party might 'upset
the applecart' in this show-piece of multicultural intolerance, that no expense
was spared. The two major parties(Labour and 'Democrats') that were fielding
candidates(the Democrats deliberately chose an Aboriginal person: who had
a high profile in the large local Aboriginal, or Koori, community) conspired
to 'swap preferences' and to pressure the other minor parties/independents
(a total of seven in all) to _put One Nation last_. A huge quantity of expensive,
full-coloured posters were produced(doubtless, courtesy of the taxpayer-funded
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission) for the Democrat candidate(and
were plastered up in almost every conceivable location in the area) and no
less a personage than Cheryl Kernot(heir-apparent to Kimbo Boozey, 'Leader'
of the Federal Opposition) descended on the benighted suburb of Northcote
to 'assist' MS Delahunty with her campaign. Not to be out-done by these
shenanigans, Premier Jeff Kennet also waded into the fray by mailing (to
_every_ voter in the area) a voluminous letter/brochure explaining just _why_
they should not vote One Nation Party...needless to say, the 'brochure/letter'
was short on facts and logic and long on rhetoric. So much for the partisan
nature of politics in the State of Victoria! Add to this the deliberate
'misinformation' spread by the media (the claim that One Nation Party expected
20+% support....a total lie: the One Nation candidate maintained that he
expected no more than 10% _at most_,and you have a nice little witches brew
on the boil... the One Nation candidate, operating on a shoe-string budget
and with only irregular volunteers to help and up against the combined forces
of the Laboral Party, the ethnic 'lobby' and the multinational-controlled
media, struggled valiantly to have his message heard by the few ordinary,
working-class people[mostly elderly] that remained in the area...)
Polling day dawned and, at each of the 14 Polling Stations,
One Nation Party volunteers were confronted by the combined forces of the
'Opposition'. In every conceivable and strategic location, large, full-colour
placards and banners were placed extolling the merits of either MS Delahunty
and/or the Democrat Koori. One Nation Party was reduced to attaching its
'posters' to isolated trees or inconspicuous lamp-posts!
Every single non-One Nation Party person distributing
How-to-Vote cards confronted prospective voters with the pre-arranged
'speech':"Put One Nation last"...in direct contravention of Electoral Commission
rules and regulations(distributors of How-to-Vote cards are not supposed
to 'tell people how to vote by denigrating other candidates'). Doubtless,
these people felt secure in their not inconsiderable numbers and back-up.
The resident electoral representative was notified of this breach of rules
but, doubtless because of previous displays of excessive violence by anti-One
Nation Party 'protestors', hesitated to act. So much for democracy in
action!
Polling closed at 6p.m. and counting commenced. By
10 p.m., the result was clear: MS Delahunty had won the day. Not to be outdone,
the Koori Democrat candidate congratulated her: claiming a major victory
against One Nation Party! At last the clouds part to reveal the true
sky!
_NOT_ a victory for the Australian Labour Party and
for those people who may aspire(however misinformed) to its dubious ideals:
but a victory _against One Nation_. "This will send a message around the
world that the people of Australia have said 'enough'" spouted Mr Representative
Koori and MS Delahunty during their open slather/media coverage! How a minor
by-election in a highly ethnicised inner urban electorate(helped along by
the combined forces of the multi-national media and the bi-partisan Laboral
Party) could have/reflect any bearing on the electoral results in the looming
Federal election, was(of course) not seriously explained! The fact that One
Nation Party polled the third highest(after Labour and the Democrats) at
6% was not addressed. One would imagine that a signal of such magnitude as
claimed by MS Delahunty and Mr Representative Koori would entail a vote of
.6%,_NOT_ 6%. The fact that the self-effacing and down-to-earth One Nation
candidate polled even that much is a small miracle. Needless to say, the
One Nation candidate did not get time to counter the ludicrous assertions
of MS Delahunty and Mr Representative Koori in his 2 second soundbyte!
One may well add a Postscript to this sorry little
saga: "He who laughs last, laughs the loudest". One Nation Party may well
have lost a (minor) skirmish. They have certainly _NOT_ lost the
war.....!
James Hughes
Subject:
Jewish
Pogroms
Regarding the Jewish pogrom against the rest of Australia,
we should get a good laugh out of their latest attempt at social engineering.
My bet is the prohibitionists will end up with the same result that all
prohibitionists have ever obtained - the thing they tried to suppress just
grow'd and grow'd like Topsy and, the more they flailed at the flames, the
hotter the fire got and the further it spread. Bet they would not be game
to try their ideology in most other places on the face of this earth, or
they would end up face down in the earth. They are bloody lucky we are a
tolerant lot, and will allow them to fail of their own accord; still, if
the boongs keep on calling me a white c--t, I might convert to Judaism. Then
we would see who was and was not racist - try converting to their racist
religion!
The Macquarie dictionary defines 'pissing into the
wind' as; a futile exercise. Spot on! (Must look up what this latest exercise
of the do-gooders equates to, which I reckon is all piss and wind
anyway).
Omega
Subject: Tax and corps
If the government were dikkum about tax reform,
we would pay no personal tax.
It is interesting to note that the Austrialian Tax
Office is to target 200 multinationals who earned a staggering $34 billion
in income but paid only $40 million in tax (i.e. 0.12%). These corporations
are certainly not showing any social responsibility.
They reported losses despite strong growth and account
for 60% of the local and 82% of the overseas interest expense, although they
make up only 1.47% of companies
One transfer pricing exposure yeilded the ATO $45million
in tax and penalties.
If these companies paid 36% tax, this would yield $12.24
billion. This is the value of the proposed tax cuts with NO GST!
Source: Abs, ATO
Professor A H Pollard AO August Australian
Economic Trends
Regards
Peter
Subject: GST - NO!
Letters to the Editor
EMERALD - (Saturday, August 15, 1998) - Now that some
of the John Howard and Peter Costello “Goods and Services” plans
have been revealed, it is time for the electorate to respond appropriately.
The plans as outlined todate are only a small dose of what can and will follow.
Once the initial legislation is in place and Goods and Services Tax becomes
a fact of life its administration will be the sole province of the then
Treasurer. As time goes by Howard, Costello and their successors will manipulate
our lives by taxing us out of existence, comrade Lennin of the 1917 Russian
revolution would have approved. In Norway the Tax has now reached a high
25% whilst in Britain it is 17.5%. No government irrespect of political
persuasion can be trusted with a Goods and Tax. There are plans to eventually
abolish the Senate, the States and Local Government as we presently know
them. Any State politician who supports the abolition of state taxes and
who embraces the Howard/Costello proposal is in fact aiding and abetting
the destruction of their state as a separate entity. With one vote one value,
living in the country will be impossible. All of the parliamentary seats
will be located in the more populous area. The members of parliament will
represent constituencies who will give a dam about their country cousins.
The solution, write to your Federal Member of Parliament and Senator seeking
an undertaking that they will not support the introduction of the Howard/Costello
reeking plan. If you don’t get a positive reply, you will then know
what to do at the next election.
Yours,
V. (Vic.) B. Cominos
Subject: G.S.T. rate conjob.
Regarding Mr. Howard's statement that the G,S,T.rate
won't rise while his Government is in power.
Nat. Senator John Stone has attacked Howard's mechanism
to lock in the rate of 10% and so he should.
Prime Minister Howard says the rate can't be lifted
unless it has the unanimous support of State and Federal Governments and
the Senate. Mr Howard is on record for repeatedly telling Lies,{I will
never,never support a G.S.T.}and many others,just like the rest of the deceitful
Polititians which we are burdened with and who have proved they care for
no-one but themselves.
He will simply do what he did when he wanted support
for his Rotten Gun Law, the law that made criminals of so many patrioticAussies.
He will just give the States Etc., an offer they can't refuse. I.E. Do what
you are told or I will with- hold Grants, reduce State payments and generally
treat you as Pariahs and make life hard for you,or perhaps with hold
pre-selection from you at the next State election etc. Never forget , Never,
never forget, what these people have done to the citizens, and the once great
and independant Nation of Australia. It is true what they say. "People have
short memories" But this time we MUST REMEMBER. Australian citizens must
show their power at the ballot box and never again allow themselves to be
slowly but surely manipulated to the point that we accept almost anything
thrown at us by a small group of self serving 'Silvertails', who are more
interested in kow-towing to Forign concepts and signing International Aggreements
and promoting Multiculturism and all the National degradation that goes with
it than they are interested in the welfare of the citizens and the integrity
of our great country.
I LOVE THIS SUNBURNT COUNTY, THIS LAND OF SWEEPING
PLAINS, but I fear we are losing it!
Don Stuart
Subject: The Goose that laid the golden
egg
Dear Scott,
Just a few thoughts on the Abbot and Costello Tax
Package:-
1: I was under the impression the GST rate of 10% was
to replace all the existing "hidden" sales taxes ! What happened to petrol,
beer and cigarettes ? Any others I' ve missed Mr. Howard?
2:The Great Aussie Dream of buying your first home seems to be a little bit
harder to reach, a $7000 rebate when the costs of the real estate has risen
by $20,000 ?
3: A lot of people are going to offer cash minus 10% for services . Cracking
down on the black-market cash economy are you Mr. Howard? I bet a lot of
business people and tradesmen (who have just been appointed as tax collectors)
are all ready planning to open Swiss accounts!
4:Helping the average Aussie family Mr. Howard ? It seems to me those on
the higher end of the wage and salary scale have just been given a , very
substantial, helping hand. (the rich get richer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! )
5: I hope our pensioners are happy!
6: I hope that these two geese have taken into account the potential disaster
that is brewing in the worlds financial institutions? Who knows what state
our economy will be in by the mid- year 2,000 , perhaps some of the "sweeteners"
may just have be delayed until things ecover,( sorry about that
.......,circumstances beyond our control............)
7: Inflation? A slight rise will quickly eat away any" perceived "gains.It
would also appear that a lot of "cuts" in personal income tax has been made
possible by the present surplus. This surplus has been created by deliberately
cutting funds to our public services, Schools, Hospitals etc .Mr. Howard
let it slip on T.V that with the extra money in our pockets we should be
able to afford Private Health insurance . I have a feeling that our public
Health system is under threat.
8: Privatisation ? ( I think we are already on that track). The new hospitals
in Port Macquarie and (the soon to open ) Noosa, are both owned and operated
by Mayne Nicklas. I believe that the privatisation of our Public Health system
has already begun. Education ? Our youth are already competing for places
in our Universities with foreign students. Whatever happened to the "old
fashioned" idea that we look after our own first !
Having seen enough of this farce already I think that
THE $10 MILLION taxpayer funded advertising campaign is a total waste of
money . That $10 million would make a nice little first installment towards
funding a peoples bank that would aid our small business people and farmers.
Are there any other areas where the odd $5 or $10 million dollars currently
earmarked for similarly public minded exercises could be saved and diverted
towards this concept ?
Many of Howard's "much loved battlers" are already
rejecting this insult. The Lib/Lab coalition thinks that they can win the
voters back through an auction directed towards the hip pocket . It may fool
many , but I feel that most thinking Aussies believe that there are many
more issues that need to be addressed and fairly debated. Why is our tax
system so unworkable in the first place ?, especially since we have been
told that all this foreign capital that has flooded our country since WW2
is to OUR benefit. Why have we suffered continous high levels of unemployment
and have such a high dependency on welfare in the most asset rich nation
in the world ? Why is the burden on the PAYE taxpayer so great when the
Multinationals , that have been favourably treated , are siphoning the wealth
of our country, relatively tax free ! ? To whose benefit is this Mr Howard
? Certainly not the battler, nor our small business people and farmers and
certainly not our young who have to live with the realities of your
policies.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the whole charade
are the tactics I believe will be used in the short lead up to the
election.
One Nation having done the Laborals dirty work in
destroying their little country cousin, the Nats, and taking the brunt as
scapegoats (ie: the phony racist - anti Asian smokescreen) for their own
failures, will find that the attention of the media will shift to the Democrats
. The "keep the bastards honest" party will be offered as the safe alternative
to One Nation in the event of a cliffhanger. The media will be directed to
spotlight the Democrats , and ignore One Nation policies. Opinion polls will
be skewed to show One Nation's support base slipping.
We will be told If we elect a hung parliament with
One Nation holding the balance of power will our promised tax cuts may be
endangered by One Nation obstucting it's passage in the senate in an attempt
to implement their own policies . Remember, despite the media, Pauline has
been the only effective opposition in our Parliament. Democracy only works
if we have an effective and informed opposition as a balance against political
oppression.
Keep up the good work, Scott . ........... and have
a good weekend all.......and good luck in Kennett country,
Steve
The Hon. Peter Costello, MHR
Federal Treasurer,
Parliament House,
CANBERRA A.C.T. 2600
Dear Minister,
Following our Principals instructions, we write to
congratulate you on your recently leaked decision to ensure that the operation
of the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) is facilitated by providing
Small Business with a stationery pack, a Compact Disk or a 3.5inch "floppy"
from which the proprietors can produce the records necessary for the lodgement
of GST Returns and claims for recoupment of tax paid on business
consumables.
Our Principals were, of course, somewhat surprised
that you or your team would be so far advanced with the project, and aware
of the need to cater for such mundane aspects of the process, given that
you still have to convince the Senate to endorse the concept of the GST.
They were, naturally, delighted by the smart move of allocating all the nett
proceeds of the GST to the States and Territories as they, regardless of
their political affiliations, will then be perceived by the electorate to
be the real villains when the tax burden is felt by the citizenry.
Retailers of goods may indeed be used to preparing
or paying for the preparation of sales (and other) tax returns but for those
who provide services this will mostly be a new experience and so they will
value any package that takes the pain out of the steep learning curve that
they have to travel and provides a series of simple forms that can be called
up on their computers and facsimilied or electronically mailed to the ATO
along with the electronic funds transfer.
Many will assume that you have also been consulting
at some length with your Colleague Minister for Education about the appropriate-
ness of special supplementary material, relative to the GST, being prepared
for despatch to Universities, Schools and Colleges for use by Lecturers and
Teachers in accounting, economics and similar courses.
Surely you intend to make more political capital out
of the consequences for the participants in the "black economy" who will
now be caught by the GST every time that they buy goods or services from
legitimate commerce and industry, but that, of course, is an issue for another
time.
Sincerely,
J o n M. A x t e n s
Subject: Anti-family ALP's loony left
Hi,
It shouldn't surprise anybody that the ALP's loony
left is anti-family, but here's some proof for anyone who's interested. I
came across one of their web sites where their twisted boast was made.
The web site is about an Adela Pankhurst (1885-1961)
who, according to ALP's loony left, was "a good socialist who became a rotten
tory".
Adela Pankhurst formed the Australian Women's Guild
of Empire, which the ALP's loony left seemed to be quite distraught about.
This is what they had to say about the Women's Guild, "....which, every bit
as bad as it sounds, stood for anti-communism, the family,
Christianity...".
So, "a good socialist" is anti-family and anti-Christian.
We already know that they are self-serving political opportunists who promote
violent rallies and label all opponents with whatever slur they think will
intimidate the most.
Obviously a "good socialist" = un-Australian scum.
No wonder Adela Pankhurst dumped such a bunch of
losers.
Peter W.
Subject: Oz: now a safe place?
Johnny coward said in Adelaide today(Saturday 15th)
that he was "immensely proud of the new national gun laws" and that "they
have made Australia a safer place"...really, Mr Coward?
Want to provide some evidence to back that up? Safe
for whom? _Of course_, its _always_ been safe for Laboral Party politicians
who have unlimited access to 24-hr Federal police bodyguards, or Protective
Services police. How about old age pensioners barricaded inside mini-fortresses
and afraid to walk the streets?
How about people in isolated communities, where the
nearest Police Station is half-an-hour or more away?
Hmmmm....I suggest that Australia is now safe for the
following: psychotic teenage thugs, career criminals,rapists and any foreign
power or dictatorial domestic regime which sees a disarmed populace as a
green light to 'deal with' a country that it now sees as 'ripe for the
picking'....itz certainly _not safe_ for the average Australian. As the saying
goes:"when guns are outlawed, only outlaw will have guns" Perhaps, if some
of those misguided and deluded people who voted solidly _against_ ON Party
at the Northcote by-election, realised just how vulnerable they are, courtesy
of the Laboral 'government', they would be screaming to have the first
by-election declared invalid and another one held to replace it....
cheers!
(jimbo!)
Subject: Congratulations - Well Done on a Good
Job
Dear Sir / Madam,
It is refreshing to hear that a political party like
"One Nation" has the voice of reason.
Although I now reside in the United Kingdom, I have
been very interested in the local and international exposure that the party
has achieved.
In June / July I was visiting Queensland and could
not believe that a party that raises and speaks the issues that are affecting
the populous without the fear of retribution can exists.
We are all now use to either voting Labour / Liberal
or Labour / Conservative (as in the UK) and having a change of faces but
not change of policy or are willing to settle back into a nice comfortable
3 or 4 years and say and do nothing about the areas that really affect the
populous.
However, I believe "One Nation" and especially Pauline
Hanson have the right idea.
Congratulations again.
It appears that Canberra requires a Queensland Point
of View and Pauline Hanson is the right person to deliver it.
Thank you again.
James Forbes, UK
Subject: What value is our constitution?
Hello to all you Very Important Politicians,
I am a citizen of Australia of Very Little
Consequence
In Brisbane Magistrates court on the 11th August 1998
I was in court 12 on a charge under the Queensland Weapons Act 1990 (Unlicenced
possession). The Act is a Queensland Act and I am of the belief that the
Act in Question is unconstitutional.
Whether it is or not is immaterial to my complaint.
What I am very annoyed about is the way the matter of Constitutionality was
dealt with by the magistrate.
As Parliamentarians you should be concerned at the
way the Queensland Magistrate concerned, dealt with the matter. They are
obliged, whenever the Constitution is invoked in a matter, to adjourn the
matter for a reasonable time to allow notice to be given to the Attorneys
General of the Commonwealth and of the States of the raising of the Constitution
as a defence. By passing judgement without doing so, the aforesaid magistrate
has offended the Federal Law enacted to ensure obedience to the
Constitution,
That law is the Crimes Act 1914. At a time when Queensland
Crown Law is under fire in Parliament for advising certain Cabinet Members
to break the law and shred documents it is strange that a magistrate feels
free to ignore his obligations as an Australian and act like he is serving
a Sovereign State. This is lawlessness by a Government servant.
The Questions I would like you all to answer is this
- Has the State of Queensland seceded from the Commonwealth and is it no
longer bound by the Constitution? Is the action of a magistrate in total
disregard for the Constitution a deliberate act of State or was it just the
expression of personal arrogance by the magistrate himself?
The Credibility of the Rule of Law in Australia is
on trial here. If a citizen cannot get a magistrate to obey the law and the
Judiciary Act 1903 section 78B clearly imposes a duty on the Magistrate to
adjourn the matter for a reasonable time to allow service, what is the point
of having a system of justice?
I believe that there is a crisis of morality in the
magistrates that are sitting in Queensland. They appear to be the servant
not of Justice but of Treasury. I believe there is a crisis of morality in
Crown Law that it has allowed this to happen, and a crisis in the morality
of the Police Prosecutors who seek a conviction at any cost despite having
a law that says they must not do such a thing.
Will you refer the matter to the Australian Federal
Police so that they may investigate the complaint. Their Act is quite clear
on their obligation. I extract the following from- the Australian Federal
Police Act 1979 Reprint no 4 8 Functions
(1)Subject to subsection (2C), the functions of the Australian Federal Police
are:
(a)subject to subsection (1A), the provision of police services in relation
to the Australian Capital Territory; and
(aa) the provision of police services in relation to the Jervis Bay Territory;
and
(b) the provision of police services in relation to:
(i) laws of the Commonwealth;
(ii) property of the Commonwealth (including Commonwealth places) and property
of authorities of the Commonwealth; and
(iii) the safeguarding of Commonwealth interests; and
(ba) the provision of services in accordance with arrangements entered into
under subsection (1C) and doing anything else included in the arrangements
that is incidental or conducive to the provision of the services; and
(bb) to perform the functions conferred by the Witness Protection Act 1994;
and
This is a case where the laws of the Commonwealth have
been trodden underfoot by paid servants of the State of Queensland. My affidavit,
which was ignored, clearly claimed my rights as an Australian. The issue
here is not the rights and wrongs of my case. The issue is the way it was
dealt with.
The Magistrate has felt comfortable offending
Commonwealth Law. He has offended;
1. CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 43 Attempting to pervert
justice Any person who attempts, in any way not specially defined in this
Act, to obstruct, prevent, pervert, or defeat, the course of justice in relation
to the judicial power of the Commonwealth, shall be guilty of an offence.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.
CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 32 Judicial corruption Any
person who:
(a) being the holder of a judicial office, corruptly asks, receives or obtains,
or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain, any property or benefit of any
kind for himself, or any other person, on account of anything already done
or omitted to be done or to be afterwards done or omitted to be done by him
in his judicial capacity; or
(b) corruptly gives, confers, or procures, or promises
or offers to give, confer, procure, or attempt to procure, to, upon, or for,
any person holding a judicial office, any property or benefit of any kind
on account of any such act or omission on the part of the person holding
the judicial office; shall be guilty of an indictable offence. Penalty:
Imprisonment for 10 years.
This Magistrate, undoubtedly being the holder of a
judicial office, in dereliction of his public Duty and his Sworn Oath of
Office, without granting due process has conferred on the State of Queensland,
a Person in law by the application of Section 64 of the Judiciary Act 1903,
a benefit, namely the proceeds of a fine in the sum of $400 in contravention
of the laws of the Commonwealth of Australia.
To confer that benefit upon the State of Queensland
the magistrate was obliged to disobey a lawful Statutory command of the
Parliament of the Commonwealth binding upon him by Section 5 and 109 of the
CONSTITUTION in a place that became a Commonwealth Place by the application
of Section 70 of the Constitution the moment I presented the affidavit to
the Court.
There is a crisis in law in this country. When a State
sets out to deliberately, without compunction to break the laws of the
Commonwealth then it is time that the Federal Police, supported by the Federal
Army under the Command of the Governor General stepped in if neccessary,
to ensure that the people the Police and Army are sworn to serve are not
treated with contempt by petty officials of this State.
Queensland is like the State of Alabama in the USA
which refused to apply the Laws of the Congress and which was then occupied
by the Army of the United States until it did obey those laws. In Alabama
it was racial equality that was to be enforced. Here it is legal equality.
Every citizen of Australia is entitled to be treated equally, fairly and
impartially before the Courts of the land.
When this corrupt magistrate is prosecuted the transcripts
of the day are admissible as evidence against him by the application of Section
129 (5) Evidence Act 1995.
In the event that no public servant will prosecute
this offender, will you, as Parliamentarians confirm that my common law right
to insist on obedience to the laws of Australia and my Statutory right under
section 13 of the Crimes Act 1914 to prosecute an offender detected breaching
those laws, will not be deliberately frustrated by Commonwealth and State
public servants.
Yours faithfully
Martin Essenberg
Subject: Shopfront Sharebrokers
Dear Editor,
There used to be publicity for a notional book titled
"The Rape of the South Pacific" by Burns Philp and some long time investors
may remember a ditty (or doggerel) that described a widow who, having approached
the sharebroker for advice, was reputed to have been raped by "Merrill, Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner and Bean".
However, if we are now to believe the article by John
Kavanagh titled "Shopfront Sharebroking" in the Personal Finance supplement
of The Weekend Australian (August 15-16, 1998) Macquarie Bank and
Merrill Lynch Private are "taking investor services to the streets".
Lismore, the Capital City of Summerland and a University
town, in North Eastern New South Wales, and several other regions that used
to have personalized Sharebroking services locally available via offices
of Merrill Lynch, for example, we understand, have very recently had those
facilities withdrawn.
It must now be three or four decades since the last
burst of real enthusiasm of investing in "equities" Back in those days the
locally owned sharebroking firms (yes, there really used to be some Australian
brokers before the growth of the international banking Mafia, globalization
and the "level playing field" of the new world order) used to push Investment
Clubs as the place for investors to gain an education and Monthly Investment
Plans for them to buy shares by instalments.
Some people, convinced that there should have been
greater access to a market for shares/stock units, even proposed, back then
that there should be an over- the-counter market or a series of regionally
organized share markets but the vested interests in the exclusive club running
the Australian Associated Stock Exchanges brought pressure to bear on the
politicians to squash the moves. Oh, how times change if there are votes
or money in it!
Given that both Federal and State governments are now
opting to sell virtually all public sector (taxpayer owned) enterprises,
without due authority from the equitable owners, to sections of the community
(possibly enroute to eventual foreign ownership as the investors "hip-pocket
nerves" receive offers "too good to refuse") there seems certain to be a
period of increased interest in trading securities.
OPM (playing with "other people's money") has always
been a "sport" enjoyed by the, often entrenched and even occasionally in-bred,
"professional" directors of major corporations and this will now become a
widely played game given the impotence and irrelevance of the QANGOs (quasi
autonomous notionally government organ- izations) delegated the supervisory
role. Readers should contemplate the reality of who decides just how to divert
their funds, including their fair share of the company's income, which are
invested in publicly listed corporations, into perks for the Board and a
mere handful of senior corporate bureaucrats, whilst shareholders/investors
are treated like mere unsecured creditors to be cast a few crumbs occasionally
by way of dividends or interest.
Your forebearance, dear Editor, in publishing this
comment and risking reaction from the vested interests is appreciated.
Sincerely.
J o n M. A x t e n s
Business:
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