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18th September 1998
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Intimidation? You be the judge.
Yesterday was the day of the "big guns".
I am reporting this because I believe that it is important for the public
record.
Just a day after I reported on how Lachlan Murdoch had allegedly
told senior editors
at News Limited to "Kill the cow" (when referring to Pauline Hanson's
One Nation) and two weeks before the Federal election I had two quite remarkable,
apparently unrelated, contacts from senior people in the mainstream media.
First was a call from a man who introduced himself as the Managing Editor
of The Courier Mail, Gary Evans, alleging that I had breached the
paper's copyright by reproducing an article by one of their journalists.
Then at 6.45pm last night, after I was supposed to have gone home, a solicitor
from John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd sent a five page fax to my office
- details of which I will withhold at this stage as the material is referred
to as "confidential" and "Any unauthorised use of the contents
is expressly prohibited" in a covering letter.
What I find interesting is that in the Fairfax letter I am given up until
10am today to "rectify their unsubstantiated allegations" or face unspecified
legal charges. For a normal business that would have been less than an hour....
For the record the accusations made in the Fairfax letter were responded
to and refuted at 7.45pm last night.
Breaking news.... on legal advice I have today at 3.30pm published a
scanned
image of Fairfax's five page threat together with my response.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation family policy to be released
today
One Nation's number one Queensland senator-elect, Heather Hill, will today
release the party's family policy. I will be placing this up on the One Nation
web site later this morning.
Blame it on "you know who" again
16 people from the Philippines who were expected to come to a Master Builders
Convention on the Gold Coast have cancelled because of the continuing misleading
reports by Australia's mainstream media linking the growing support of One
nation with "racism".
A twist on the story was given by Labor's Public Works and Housing Minister,
Rob Schwarten, who blamed alleged "racist activities of One Nation".
Schwarten used state parliament to say, "Due to bad publicity generated by
alleged racist activities in Australia, our original group of 16 persons
shall no longer participate in the Masters Builders convention in October."
Bill Feldman responded by accusing the ALP of "well funded dirty tricks division
of deliberate hate, fear and smear against One Nation".
Feldman pointed the finger at the Laboral factions for spreading misleading
information around Asia about One Nation and "racist" issues.
Courier Mail continues with misinformation
While feelgood pictures of News Limited's political mate, Kim Beazley dominate
the pages of today's Courier Mail an article of derision is again left for
the exclusive domain of One Nation.
Labor Party ex-Premier Wayne Goss' staffer, now political reporter, Dennis
Atkins writes, "David Oldfield is a spin doctor.
He is a political tactician whose real skills are manipulation, deception
and diversion." The story suggests that
One Nation cannot be believed about where it will allocate preferences.
Strange that this comment is made just hours after Alan Jones told the nation
of Labor's hypocrisy over exactly this issue - Labor are somehow a sacred
domain untouchable by the media.
This
is part of what Alan Jones said:
A couple of things need to be said.
In the 1974 election the Labor Party in Werriwa, Prime
Minister Gough Whitlam's electorate, unashamedly put the Nazi party's candidate
Ross May ahead of the Liberal candidate.
Make of that what you will.
And I have sited a piece of paper which was distributed
by the Labor Party in the recent Queensland State election. It indicates
by its writing in the bottom right hand corner that it is authorised
by, and I quote "M Kaiser, ALP, Peel Str, South Brisbane" unquote.
He is the Queensland secretary of the Labor party.
The text of it includes
the words: "Thinking of voting Green, Democrat or One Nation? Give your
preferences to Labor."
And what about Labor's track record at the
recent
Queensland state elections. Elections that should have been dominated
by the party's bogus "How to Vote" cards issues by M Kaiser under
similar themes.
In his article Atkins questions why One Nation has not circulated how to
vote cards for all electorates like the major parties (Laboral factions)
who have all put One Nation last. To quote Atkins,
"The answer, of course, is that One Nation's David
Oldfield is just another schemer, playing Machiavellian games."
The Hanson effect still to be counted.
Here is an extract from the Australian Financial Review
article
The findings point to the possibility of One Nation
winning more than 15 per cent of the primary vote in 63 of the 148 electorates
in the House of Representatives. In 23 electorates, the party, on the basis
of the Morgan polls estimate of the appeal of One Nation in each State, could
expect to win between 20 and 30 per cent of the primary vote. (Carries an
excellent chart showing support)
One Nation Queensland MP shows up the career
politicians
Dr John Kingston, the One Nation MP for Maryborough, is the man with a mission.
While the television cameras widely covered state premier Peter Beattie's
back down on the downgrading of the community's hospital last week nothing
was said about Kingston's efforts.
Yesterday Kingston, who has on several occasions in the past expressed concerns
to me about the issue, tabled 10,351 signatures in a petition that he had
co-ordinated. The petition was to ensure that the government take note and
stop the planned downgrading.
Yesterday Kingston told the media, "It (Maryborough) is an underrated town
that hasn't sold itself well and it doesn't need that sort of thing to happen."
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
You say:
Reverse racism
Regarding Ron from W.A.'s
comments on ANOTD
(Thurs 17th Sept).
Ron, as a fellow West Australian you have my sympathy.
I could tell you a story or two that would make your hair curl! My work partner
has not been able to allow his two little boys to play in his Kelmscott back
yard for several weeks now, as the well known Aboriginal family living
next door use the vehicles in his back garden for target practice!
The police of course have been informed of this and
a myriad of other crimes committed by this family, but there has been no
law and order in Perth for several years on the occasion of Aboriginal crimes
against Whites, and indeed in several other areas too numerous to mention!
Police have confirmed that one of the vehicles at least was damaged by a
bullet but say there is nothing they can do! Well big surprise, there's been
an ongoing war in this street for 7 or 8 years and nobody wants to know.
On the matter of preferences, thanks for pointing that
out Antonia I shall be checking the preferences of my 2nd and 3rd choices
very carefully now. It is only recently becoming clear to me the full extent
of the corruption that is actually inherent in the preference system, as
my partner made clear to me the full ramifications of preference trading.
It seems we may need to get as much as 45% of the primary in many seats to
even stand a chance if preferences are stacked up against us. I'm from the
UK originally so I am having a good deal of trouble coming to terms with
a system other than first past the post. Realities being what they are though
I think Antonia has a very pertinent point. How about checking the preferences
of every candidate and put them all in order according to where THEY place
O.N.?
My thanks to S.E. Wagger for putting both the Republic
issue and the Olympics in their proper perspective!
Cheers...
David Morgan. W.A.
Counter the racist tag
Hi Scott
The conspiracy by Labor and the Liberal camp could
be countered by One Nation offering a reward to anyone who could prove her
policies are racist.
I feel myself proving Pauline to be racist would be
difficult in a court of law, if she is racist why has no one taken some action
against her in this matter.
Something has to be done pronto to counter this tag
that is applied to One Nation, the two major parties just do not want another
political party on the scene, something must be done!.
My best wishes to you all
Peter Colindale
Family Law Court Policy
Your party's view on the Family Law Court will be eagerly
anticipated not just by the media & the policy scrutineers in the major
parties but those who have been victims of the inept & uncaring judges
& their rulings in the various courts around Australia.
Although Phillip Cleary is no fan of One Nation's policies
he has a chapter in his autobiography on the impact of the family law court
on a case of murder against his friends' deceased daughter & how the
criminal got away scot free from the proper authorities under the modern
day definition of the word "justice".
This may be of some help to your campaign in favour
of the proposal for abolition of the Family Law Court.
Policy matters on Education,Environment,Sport &
Recreation & other matters of importance to metropolitan Australia are
anticipated.Focussing on the rural vote is admirable,but if you want more
representation you need to show the people proposed policies that will help
them in the business sector impacted upon by government deregulation.
Chris Axtens
EasyTax
Hi Scott
I have recently read the One Nation Easy Tax Policy,
and I agree with the comments of another corrrespondent who stated that,
while he certainly agreed with the proposal to give the benefit of less income
tax to the employer. I am an employer and I believe that the income tax currently
paid should be returned to the employees. The fair dinkum workers of Australia
need a break. The employees in Australia have been reduced to a poor class
and have no optimism for the future, while people on benefits are in some
cases better off than the working poor. The people of Australia have born
the brunt of the outflow of Australia Assets to overseas interests. The pressure
on One Nation from the British Oligarchy controlled press and media is all
because One Nation has proposed National Banking which would not allow the
money power to rape the Australian people. GST or Gouge & Screw Tax as
it is known in Cananda is a smoke screen to stop the minds of people thinking
of the main problems. Malaysia Prime Minister as of 1/9/98 has broken away
and taken monetary control of his country to stop his country slide into
economic ruin. Watch closley he will come under severe pressure by the
IMF.
Also this morning the Labors so called "Big Gain" Cheryl
Kernot, what a travesty! she has done to the Democrats what Monica did to
Bill.
Keep up the good work
Regards
J. Hope
Globalisation
Billions of dollars have been spent rescuing the faltering
economies of Asia, and Russia. Seeing as they're no better off, where did
the money go? Who has pocketed these billions? Has it been another case of
'rescuing' the international financiers as happened in Mexico?
George Soros certainly gave the game away when he admitted
that the global capitalist system now coming apart at the seams had been
responsible for the remarkable prosperity of "this country" over the last
decade. Right on George, the US and the multinationals have prospered at
the expense of entire nations.
Memo to Australian politicians: globalisation isn't
working. Which of those three words are you having difficulty with?
Antonia Feitz
Reverse racism
For claiming that indigenous people get special benefits,
Pauline Hanson is called a racist. Yet despite passionate denials from city
journalists, there are indeed special benefits available to indigenous
Australians. Why is there confusion on what ought to be a simple matter of
fact? The problem is that the journalists ring up the Department of Social
Security and are told there are little if any differences in benefits. And
it's true.
What is not understood is that there is a huge range
of discretionary funding available. For instance, one of my sisters provided
free tutoring in Latin for an Aboriginal student at university. Now if this
lad was just in from the bush nobody could object. But he was a local. He'd
grown up in the same town, lived in the same sort housing, attended the same
school, played in the same sports teams as all his peers. Why is free tutoring
available to tertiary students purely on the ground of race?
An Aboriginal man once wrote to this paper telling
us how one of his cousins received legal aid because he was black, but another
of his cousins didn't because he was white. (Hi, Moseley!). One country town
pays for the 'creams' of Aborigines who join the bowling club. Again because
family members work in the area, I know that some schools on the NSW central
coast provide free start-of-year booksets for Aboriginal students, as well
as financing excursions, including the expensive trip to Sydney. The costs
of sporting meets and even music lessons can be funded, depending on what's
available.
That such benefits are available on the grounds of
race not need, naturally rankles with the equally poor if not poorer whites
in these towns. Twenty years ago, these Aborigines would have regarded themselves
as whites anyway. It is well known that the number of people identifying
as Aboriginal has exploded beyond the capability of the most determined attempt
at natural increase. It is natural for people to cherish and be proud of
their heritage. But should they be financially rewarded for their ancestry?
Forever?
Regarding special benefits, of more concern is the
wasteful duplication of services. Duplicating medical, welfare, housing and
legal services in towns which already have them is not only racist, it is
scandalous when the genuinely needy remote communities seem to get nothing.
When real Aborigines in the remote communities don't even have a reliable
generator or a nurse let alone a doctor, it is obscene that Aborigines in
well-serviced towns like Kempsey and Armidale demand and get special race-based
services.
To point this out is what makes One Nation guilty of
'racism'.
Antonia
One Nation pamphlet
Dear Sir,
Generally the One Nation pamphlet was informative and
covered issues Australians should be debating.
Three points to make:
(1) Tariffs are not a good idea, subsidies are. Subsidies
through low interest loans are the best, then tax breaks, rewarding profitable
government contracts, etc.
Tariffs will ensure Australians pay high prices for
goods that donot compete on an open market (or sell overseas) and suffer
in quality over time. An equivalent subsidy is a much smatter approach (German
manufacturing does not have tariffs but they have huge subsidies and it is
for this reason - about 100 billion a year). A subsidised product still sells
on in market in the same quality arena (because there is no tariff walls
or inhibition) and the selling price is not high due to a tariff - this is
really quite important. Your industry still remains lean, mean and
competitive.
THE
PORK STORY
A quick note about the Pork Industry: I agree that
leaving this to the free market is ridiculous. We should match the cheap
imports with subsidies NOT tariffs. Leaving it to market could mean we would
no have pork industry in the future, causing us to import all our pork for
Australians, contributing to our trade and foreign debt. And if we wanted
to or needed to rebuild the industry we would squander alot of money in reset-up
costs - and more than likely depending on the situation this would mean money
financed from abroad.
Solution: Subsidise people who have been in the pork
industry for three or more years (proven financially and can be said to be
the core business, outside 'normal' market fluctuations). Ways of financing:
introduce Australia Bonds or special savings tools open to the public, at
1 or 2 percent. Make these 400-600% tax deductible. Then give industry, import
replacers, and exporters the ability to borrow at long-term low interest
rates, say at 3% - other countries have done this.
(2). You didnot mention AUSTRALIA'S SAVINGS RATE. Our
foreign debt is due to our poor savings rate (increased exports, wise utilisation
of capital, etc helps). Germany's saving rate is at about 16% of GDP, we
are a smaller country, higher for us is probably a good idea (Australia's
is at about 4-5% GDP - hopeless). WE MUST HAVE TAX DEDUCTIBLE SAVINGS.
Financial deregulation also needs to be reinvestigated,
an economy smaller than NY City completely on the open markets?
(3) Selling of government run companies is a good idea.
Governments are not into innovation or good service. You can sell these off
(keeping a portion if you wish for subsidies and research) only to Australian
and NZ citizens. Putting an upper limit of any one holding at 5% (stopping
the elite from taking over), and allowing pension trusts to buy more - this
would mean its continual access to the Australia public, money is recirculated
into Australia, elites donot take over.
eg. SA ESTA should be sold, it is so easy to add a
small generator, private generator to a national grid, that there is no point
in a government holding on to this assets. In this sort of competition consumers
will get better prices, and the risks associated with the old ESTA greater
increase - there is no point in the government staying in this area. Australia
companies, industry, council municipal dumps could all hook in adding very
competitive and targeted prices.
Yours sincerely
Anthony Moeller
Misguided Hansonites
one nation are the most socially damaging group of
"people" to abuse the media. It is truly tragic that the excuse of "free
speech" empowers this political group to vocalize such dangerously damaging
propoganda.
This muddle of misfits are not fit to organise a school
fete, never mind have the intellectual capacity, and social ethos (please
explain) to understand, manage and have the capacity to adjust to changing
perceptions of what this nation, and part of the global system, must do to
survive in an equitable world. The fact is, we are NOT all equal, we do not
all stand in the same place as our starting point in life. Being female,
or old, or black, or vegetarian, puts you in a position of less intrinsic
worth and value in a society which has been constructed from a white male's
perspective. So all these disadvantages have to be compensated for in order
to make a country just. Why is this so difficult for you all to comprehend?
Surely it is not such a mentally demanding area, perhaps education is the
key. But one suspects that a just, equitable society is not what is really
wanted by you people, it means less for you.
Marie Hogg
Another perfect day in paradise.
Have a good one.
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