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Tuesday 18th August 1998
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Between the One Nation lines
Isn't it quite amazing how News Limited's Courier Mail continues to
blatantly distort history when reporting on political issues.
After several years in power during which the Coalition refused to look at
Citizen Initiated Referendums (CIR) it is now the turn of the minority
Labor government to squirm at the idea. The CIR or Community Based Referendums
(CBR) was first put on the agenda in Queensland by One Nation
and is stated
policy.
It was One nation who brought the issue to the political table and who raised
the issue with the Coalition and the Independents. But in today's Courier
Mail under the front page headline "Borbidge push
for 'rule by the people'" you could be excused for thinking that
the Liberal/National Coalition had suddenly dreamed up the idea.
The groundrules for the CIR which will be put through as a Private Member's
Bill by Peter Wellington will ensure that the Bill is passed despite the
Labor government's opposition for the right to people to have a real say
in policy making.
"If it (CIR) becomes law, it will mean that for the first time in this state
decisions will be made not by the politicians but by the people themselves,"
Wellington said.
His CIR model is blindingly close to the CBR policy first presented by One
nation in the lead up to the June 1998 state election.
Comparisons One Nation to Wellington CIR
|
Qld Voters required to trigger referendum in
electorates |
No of states electorates required for
trigger |
Timing of Referendums |
| One Nation Policy |
2% |
45 |
Local, state or federal elections |
| "Wellington" model |
2.5% |
45 |
Local, state or federal election |
Labor Premier Peter Beattie in dismissing the Private Member's Bill said,
"CIR takes complicated policy problems and reduces them to simple and sometimes
misleading yes/no questions."
Beattie set off for his Asian junket yesterday.
From Hong Kong he started his campaign of "welcoming Asians to Queensland"
after the One Nation fallout. The media inspired hate campaign against One
Nation is now starting to cause problems as the disinformation campaign by
News Limited and the mainstream parties takes on a life of its own.
Some of the most racist countries like Thailand, Japan and Indonesia now
have the gall to point fingers at Australia when it is politically expedient
to do so. The term "racism" has become the equivalent of a social swear word
pointed at Australia when One Nation is raised.
Beattie joined the many in their feeding frenzy of misinformation by saying
yesterday that he was "shocked at reports that One Nation publicity in Singapore
had businessmen there believing they might not be safe in rural Queensland
and that Asian students held similar views".
"I will be telling people that they (One Nation) have no influence in my
government and that about four out of five Queenslanders don't like them
at all," Beattie said.
OK twinkletoes then just where did the CIR Bill idea come from and why were
you forced to re-visit Shreddergate?
Quite simply the real issues here and at a Federal level are political
accountability. And the career politicians don't like that.
Racewatch, what is it? Perspectives:
Yesterday we exposed
the Racewatch judging panel through a third-party page set up in
the US called "Watching the watchers".
Today we look at what "the Racewatch watchers" have to say:
Justice Einfeld (member of Racewatch "judging panel":
Quote from
Background Briefing on ABC Sunday October 12, 1997:
"I am for one nation too. I am a patriot too. I
agree also that all Australians should be treated equally. I just wish
that Aborigines and Islanders could be treated equally with the rest of us.
I know many indigenous people who, like their critics, would also like an
end to 'special treatment'."
Obviously lines stolen from Pauline Hanson's maiden speech.
Yesterday I had an interview with Campaign Aid Abroad
media representative, Vicki Horne about Racewatch:
SB: How will watchers be selected?
VH: Any member of the public can become a race watcher.
It will cover anything in public, speeches, writing etc..
SB: How will the judging panel verify claims of racist
remarks?
VH: B'nai B'rith staff would first verify with the
person being accused. If the claim is confirmed to be true it is then referred
back to the judging panel. Racewatch has already been launched. We have had
lots of calls for RaceWatch packs.
SB: Is it true that racism now encompasses those who
see assimilation as a necessary part of the immigration policy?
VH: Community Aid Abroad are of the view that "assimilation
is racist". If someone says that they could be referred to RaceWatch and
outed. Pauline Hanson's claim that people should assimilate is quite a ridiculous
statement and very racist.
SB: How was the judging panel selected?
VH: We invited distinguished Australians to take part
some did, others declined to become involved.
SB: What do you say about the claims that the judges
represent big business and the hidden agenda is to use intimidation to stop
One Nation from representing a growing number of Australians in this
country?
VH: Definitely not the hidden agenda. This campaign
is aimed at all political parties. One Nation was the catalyst to put racism
back on the agenda - which was good.
SB: Why does your
PR material just refer
to One Nation then?
VH: We are not singling out One nation.
SB: How can Racewatch not be exposed as
un-Australian?
VH: I don't think that spying on people is un-Australian. It is about
people making racist comments on the public record.
SB: Have you thought how this well affect donations
to Community Aid Abroad?
VH: We launched a campaign called Face up to Racism.
It was a good money raiser for Community Aid Abroad. Any excess funds will
be to combat racism.
Firstly, I will shortly be establishing a web page for those who support
the belief that immigrants need to assimilate into Australian society.
I will be the first to sign and comment on it. I do not need an extremist,
discriminatory Jewish group or a "charity" lecturing to me on their definition
of "racism" - a definition which is blatantly dishonest.
Secondly, I would make the point that the basis of Racewatch
- where the eyes and ears of the men and women of Australia become the
intelligence of a Jewish group called B'nai B'rith smacks of Stalinism. Over
100 million people died this century under Stalin and Communism. A figure
which makes even Hitler's terrible atrocities against the Jewish population
in Europe fade by comparison.
Maybe there is a link between B'nai B'rith and Communism that needs to
be explored? After all the same logic applies when the media refer to One
Nation and its followers as racist.
B'nai B'rith Press release in June this year:
Here is the
introduction:
There is growing evidence of One Nation links to:
-
The AUSI Freedom Scouts.
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Beliefs in a UN conspiracy as advanced by far-right
and New Age racist groups.
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The far-right publication The Strategy and League of
Rights publications.
There you go folks, if you believe that the multinationals are raping and
pillaging Australia you have just been segmented into a group called
far-right and New Age racist
groups by B'nai B'rith. Now just who are they trying to protect?
Just who are they trying to shut up? Will the real fascists stand up please!
This group is dangerous, extremist and un-Australian.
Tax gift fails to save King Gee jobs
Read the last paragraph for the sting in the tail. Welcome to globalism
that Laboral claim is good for Australia!
The slide of blue-collar jobs in the Hunter Valley
has been blamed for the demise of even more jobs - from the King Gee factory
at Rutherford, which has closed despite a $550,000 tax gift from the State
Government.
The money, provided as payroll tax relief since May
last year, was meant to help the company which owns the King Gee label, Sara
Lee Clothing, to restructure and save 450 jobs in four factories across the
State.
But yesterday, the managing director of King Gee, Mr
Warren Hill, said that while the plan had been partly successful it was not
enough to counter the loss of the core business of overalls, work shirts
and shorts.
Sales had plateaued since the 1990s through loss of
market share to cheaper imports and industrial downsizing. Loss of domestic
jobs had hit the company particularly hard in the past year: with every job
lost King Gee lost sales of eight or 10 of its traditional garments.
The payroll tax relief was granted after King Gee and
the Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia agreed to the Carr
Government's plan to save jobs across the company's plants at Wollongong,
Rutherford in the Hunter, Kingsgrove and Kempsey.
The company cancelled outsourcing in South Australia,
brought plant back to NSW, and began a second shift at Wollongong.
Mr Hill said: "We moved volume around and we got some
additional business but the core business continued to go away. We continued
to lose volume to downsizing."
Last Friday, the 76 union members and another nine
staff workers were told the factory would close that day. Their departure,
according to Mr Hill, may in "some bizarre way" make the remaining King Gee
jobs more secure.
However, even these are working at about 50 per cent
capacity, according to the Minister Assisting the Premier on Hunter Development,
Mr Face.
Asked why taxpayers' money was provided, given the
closure of the Hunter Valley plant, he said: "You are damned if you do and
damned if you don't. We were genuinely working to do what we could for the
Hunter. We have a serious situation up here ... and it was a genuine effort.
It is just one of those things."
There had been a rigorous assessment by the Department
of State and Regional Development of the plan before the relief - which
represents less than half the company's annual payroll tax bill - was
granted.
"It wasn't money thrown at them, it was payroll tax
relief."
Mr John Owen, the assistant secretary of the NSW branch
of the union, said the company had done everything it could to stay open
but had not been able to diversify quickly enough to provide corporate rather
than industrial clothing.
The exercise had shown that "you can throw as much
money as you like but you can't compete with wages of 50c an hour" in countries
like China.
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
Political:
The latest Newspoll
Percentage Support for major parties
| Party |
August 4-16 |
August 7-9 |
July 24-26 |
July 10-12 |
June 26-29 |
June 12-14 |
May 29-31 |
May 15-17 |
May 1-3 |
Apr
17-19 |
Mar 22-29 |
Mar 13-15 |
| Coalition |
44 |
39 |
35 |
37 |
34 |
37 |
43 |
46 |
43 |
41 |
41 |
40 |
| ALP |
39 |
39 |
41 |
40 |
45 |
40 |
40 |
39 |
41 |
41 |
41 |
44 |
| One Nation |
7 |
11 |
12 |
11 |
13 |
11 |
7 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
2 |
| Democrats |
4 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
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4 |
2 |
3 |
| Greens |
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
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2 |
2 |
| Others |
5 |
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5 |
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You say:
Subject: RACEWATCH
'....this Racewatch appears to be a Jewish driven
thing....' Allan Doak, ANOTD, 15/8
Wrong, Allan. Don't assume that Jewish people in general
support the actions of Leibler, Einfeld and their ilk. Check out for mainstream,
non-PC views on current
affairs. And for a fierce defence of the
right to own firearms. These sites
prove the wide range of views within the Jewish community.....
Byron Stander
Subject: David Oldfield at Bexley Meeting
16/8/98
Please record for your daily electronic newsletter
that David Oldfield was the guest speaker last night to One Nation - Barton
Branch. This meeting in the Bexley Masonic Hall was packed with around 250
members & guests who had all paid in advance $10.
This was one of the largest meetings that has been
put on by a branch in Inner Sydney. Channel 7, 2UE, The Daily Telegraph and
The Australian were present.
The meeting was a great success. While the Resistance
has only 70 people outside getting thoroughly drenched in a huge downpour,
our members had the pleasure of hearing David speak at lenght and answer
questions. We had many members there from NESB countries.
There were no hecklers in the meeting, no disturbances
at all. David got a standing ovation at the end.
There were officials & other members from the following
branches also present: Burwood (Helen Fearn), Parramatta (Ian Hale - Pres.
& Linda Farrell), Blaxland (Albert Piper - Pres. & Husseing Ghaida
- a nominee for the seat), Cook / Hughes (Keith Bawden - Pres. & Peter
Cook Sec.), SW Sydney Branch (Shane & Kane O'Connor), among others.
N Baird
Subject: Pauline vs Goliath
Dear Scott,
As a recently enlisted reader and now contributor
to your National News of the day service I was interested to read the comments
in Mondays edition
(The watcher ) being slightly critical of your services ability to
match the circulation and dollar power of the mainstream media .
While the comments were partially correct I feel that
outlets like your newspaper give "ordinary people" whose views are largely
ignored or edited in the mainstream media an opportunity to debate and express
publicly their ideologies .Whether we choose to agree or disagree with a
particular point of view we have forum to debate these differences and hopefully
we will understand our fellow humans a little more. We may also find common
ground.
I have copied information on the
MAI and other treaties
( I hope with your approval Scott ) and posted it to friends involved in
community based environmental disputes with local and state government
departments and they were quite surprised to learn that it originated from
Pauline Hanson's One nation web site , I couldn't resist the opportunity
of passing on a couple of Paulines policies and speeches relevant to their
dispute. I hope a few of them check out the site for themselves !
Remember One Nation sprung from one tough little red
head with a bee in her bonnet and a sting in her tail and DESPITE the Dollars
and the mass media hysteria thrown up against her , now has 25% Queensland
support and 11 State reps . Built from the grassroots up !
PS Why is Mr Beattie running around the world assuring
people that Queensland is not a racist State ? Surely those tourists and
students who have recently visited this country would be better judges through
their personal experiences. It would be interesting to hear some of their
thoughts on the matter.
HAVE A GOOD DAY................
Steve.
Anyone is welcome to print and distribute information on the international
treaties referred to by Steve.
Editor
Subject: 'simplistic' and complex
It seems Ann Keating, Pauls's sister, follows the family
tradition of oozing contempt for her fellow Australians. Commenting on Pauline
Hanson she said: "She offers simplistic, silly answers to complex problems
and that always has an appeal for people who can't follow a debate through
..." Those halfwits who can't follow a debate are us, dear anotd
readers.
Hanson's critics all use the word 'simplistic', don't
they. I read a good definition recently. Simplistic: An argument you disagree
with but can't answer.
And there's nothing really complex about Australia's
problems, though the measures to fix them will be horrendously difficult.
Australia's fundamental problem is that it is being sold off without its
people's consent. I wouldn't call that a complex notion.
Australia, along with many other countries of the world,
is re-grouping politically along very different lines. Not educated and
uneducated; not city or bush. Not boss or worker. News Weekly (13/6/98) summed
it up: "The fundamental cleavage lies now between those who want an Australia
which makes or wishes to make its living by work, by actual production in
industry, in agriculture - and those who wish it to make its future by dint
of financial speculation".
Contra elite opinion, to strive for independence is
not to be reactionary. The elites are the reactionaries, striving to reduce
the world to a neo-feudalism where unelected multinationals are the new barons,
and elected government of debased nations are their obliging vassals.
Antonia
Subject: Little Johnny in "Never Ever
Land".
Scott,
Isn't it strange that, whereas we're told that "a week
is a long time in politics", it seems that "never ever ever" is a relatively
SHORT time indeed?
Does anyone out there REALLY believe that the 10% rate
of GST will Never Ever go up?
Not I. Sorry, Mr Howard, but I'm just not that damn
stupid.
The so-called "safeguards" to be put in place, to "ensure"
that the rate will "never ever" go up, have been quite correctly condemned
as being totally inadequate, and nothing more than a pathetic joke.
One EASY way to ensure that the rate never increases,
would be to hold a referendum, at the same time as the election to get the
10% rate locked into the constitution. But Little Johnny doesn't plan to
do that, and it's not hard to guess why.
But Little Johnny is hoping that a fair swag of Aussies
are stupid enough to believe his lies.
I for one, intend to do my little bit to help make
sure that his hopes are all in vain.
Thurston Phoremost.
Subject: Poem
Here Comes Labor
I'm an alley cat,and i say meow
Here traitor, traitor look at me now
I'm a bold Cuss and I say Skase
I don't steal papers
I just leak them to the press
I'm the phantom fat boy,and I say debt
It's not my money so I don't give a heck
I'm Simon says and I say bludges rule
Then I dance to their tune like a unionist fool
I say good heaven's it's Evans
And you think that funny
But if you went overseas
You could of died for your country
Alley cat,Skase , fat boy's meow
Here comes Labor, oh boy and how
Communism rules, Democracy is a joke
If Labor gets it's way, the country will be broke.
Tess
Subject: Berri-Berri
Beri-beri is an Eastern disease due to lack of vitamin
B. The word beri meaning weakness. We now have an 'Australian' strain due
to an excess of (multi) C. Berri fruit juice, if they are fair dinkum, will
be running their political ads in SE Asia, and specially Israel (the most
racist state - if a religion can be stretched to mean a race - on earth).
No doubt Berri will be calling for land rights and compensation for the
Palestinians who have had their land confiscated too.
Omega
Subject: Australian JEWS ?
Hi there Scott,
Something to bring to everybody's attention.
I was hoping that somebody would pick it up before,
and bring it to the general notice, but nobody did.
First partial quote from ANOTD, then my opinion, in
the interests of "political transparency", of course.
...it should be noted by One Nation supporters that
the man behind the Australia/Israel Review, Mr Leibler, is one of the men
behind Jetset Travel.
When booking your next holiday trip I would ask you
to consider what Leibler's views are on the publication of the list of the
names and Suburbs of 2000 One Nation members and donors in the Australia/Israel
Review.
Mr Leibler said the decision to publish the list of
members and donors was in the interests of "political transparency". He said
concerns about privacy had been met by not publishing full addresses and
telephone numbers.
What Leibler failed to mention is that they published
the suburbs that members live in. Many One Nation members had phone calls
from the media - contacts made directly through the list published by the
Australia/Israel Review. ...
In my view, also in the interests of "political
transparency", the fact should be noted that:
Jews are Jews first and Australians second, if at all
(not all of them), as per Jerusalem Post, where they are quoted as Australian
JEWS not Jewish AUSTRALIANS.
I fail to understand why they are called, and call
themselves, Australian Jews or Jewish Australians, why can't they just be
Australians, like all the other Australians. Do they support discrimination,
TO BE ABLE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT ANTI-JEWISH DISCRIMINATION LATER.
Why do they support the Jewish interests first, and
ignore the interests of Australians, note I am nor referring to them as
Australians, because they class themselves as Jews first, (Australian
JEWS).
I have noted elsewhere, that they are referred as:
Australian Jews, British Jews, German Jews, French
Jews etc., in another words although they hold Australian or another country's
passport and have been born in Australia or another country, they are Jews
foremost. Can we trust them, when there is conflict of interests, between,
let say, Israel and Australia or Israel and any other country ? I don't.
The concerns about privacy are being met by not publishing
full addresses and telephone numbers of any Australian JEW.
Comments please,
Regards,
Richard B(orowski)
Another perfect day in paradise.
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The 60 Minutes debate/debacle - 26th July 1998
Hawthorn - where
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