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Between the One Nation lines
Yesterday Heather Hill and Pauline Hanson released One Nation's Family
Court and Child Support policy at the Barry Jones auditorium at the Ipswich
Global Info-Links building.
Here are
some extracts from a policy which calls for the Family Court to be
abolished:
The following principles will be adopted by ONE
Nation to rectify unjust applications from the Family Law Court and Child
Support Agency.
KPMG analyse the media-derided EasyTax
Full information on the EasyTax
here
Here are some extracts from an article by Robert Olding (state and indirect
taxes partner in KPMG) that appears in today's Courier Mail:
One thing One Nation cannot be accused of is mere tinkering
with the existing system. Ms Hanson has achieved her aim of a proposal which
tears up the existing tax system and starts with a clean sheet of paper.
This is true revolutionary change, involving a totally new tax system and
massive change to the operation of the economy, the likes of which have never
been introduced anywhere in the world; indeed it is completely untested in
the real world.
Who are more racist Asians or Australians?
Bruce Ruxton (Deputy President of the RSL) on the topic:
Bill Hayden is right because racism is practised throughout Asia. There would
not be one country to our north that does not practise some sort of racism,
and the greatest example is Japan. It is the most homogenous country in the
world, and any non-Japanese would soon find out that he is a second-rate
citizen. Even third generation Koreans living in Japan, who are descendants
of the thousands of Koreans taken to Japan during the war as labour, are
still not on the electoral roll, although they were born there. "The White
Devils" policy is still maintained in China, and we have seen the attitude
of other countries in South East Asia towards ethnic Chinese and Indians
who form part of their population.
Marion Lau (Deputy Chairperson, Ethnic Communities Councils of Victoria)
on the topic:
It depends on your definition of racist.
The majority of Asian countries are very protective of their cultures and
traditions, which they are proud of and are anxious to preserve. Most Asians
are keen and happy to make friends with western world countries like Australia,
but at the same time are concerned that the next generation are not
over-influenced by Western culture and lose sight of their own.
Like parents wanting to ensure that their descendants carry with them not
only their memories but also their values and beliefs of their forebears.
I think that all countries have a right to be selective of the relationship
that they build with each other.
Quotes as reported in Herald Sun, 11th April 1996
From the above statements you can see that we now have the truth bubbling
to the surface. Simply put the selective definition of the word racist
depending on who says what. This is a classic example of the politically
correct domain.
Pauline Hanson is racist for saying Australia should not be Asianised while
Asian countries, according to Lau, are not even though, in her own words, they
seek the same protection of their "Asian" identity.
Remember
the classic interview with the Japanese Television crew who had come
to cover the "racist" One Nation party last year?
Here is an extract:
SB: Is there racism in Japan?
HK: We don't call it racism - we call it discrimination.
In Japan there are minority groups who are discriminated against. There is
discrimination against people on the island of Okinawa by mainland Japanese
for example.
SB: Isn't it somewhat ironic you came to cover racism
in Australia yet you have it in Japan?
HK: Yes. Okinawa is a good example of this
discrimination.
Today's Courier Mail
carries
an excellent opinion piece by Lawrie Kavanagh which puts things clearly
into perspective. Here is an extract from the article headed
"Loony Left wrong about racism".
But getting back to our near-neighbours' perception
of Australia's racism, Jim Elder, who is just back from an Asian junket,
did what a lot of critics are doing in trying to deal with Hansonism: put
the cart before the horse.
He told State Parliament this week that it doesn't
matter if One Nation was racist, Asian businessmen believed it was and it
was up to One Nation to "get out there and ensure that the perception out
there is corrected".
Wrong, Jim. What you should have done in Asia and
still be doing today back home is attack the outright lying, racist
politicians, journalists and commentators both here and particularly in
Asia who gleefully promote the perception of racism in Australia. That
is the lie damaging Australian business, not this rag-tag party that is winning
wide support thanks to the challenges it offers and the fear it inspires
in the self-promoted born-to-rule classes.
ADM Officials guilty of price fixing
Here
is an extract from the Washington Post article:
But the jury yesterday said that one aspect of ADM's
deal-making -- in the obscure business of lysine, an additive used to spur
the growth of pigs and chickens -- went too far.
After deliberating for five days after seven weeks
of testimony, the jury found ADM officials Michael Andreas, 49, Mark E. Whitacre,
41, and Terrance S. Wilson, 60, guilty of conspiring to set prices of the
feed additive with foreign competitors and agreeing on how much each company
would produce.
The jury heard and saw evidence that ADM and its
co-conspirators discussed lysine prices at meetings in the United States,
France, Japan, Mexico and Canada. ADM's lysine sales alone totaled $454 million
during the period when the conspiracy was being carried out, which dated
from 1992, according to the Justice Department.
"This is probably the best-documented case of corporate
crime in history, with all those tapes," said Albert V. Krebs, an agricultural
journalist and author of "The Corporate Reapers."
Libertarian Party urges nationwide boycott of government's
"official" racial categories
The Libertarian Party has launched a national campaign to abolish the
government's system of racial classifications, and is urging Americans to
refuse to disclose their race on census forms in the year 2000.
"For 20 long years, the U.S. government has demeaned every American by
pigeonholing us according to the color of our skin," said the party's national
chairman, Steve Dasbach. "In three years, when the census takers ask about
our race, we hope Americans will stand up and say: No more. Tell these
fill-in-the-blank bureaucrats that your race is none of the government's
business."
The party launched the campaign this week when the federal government, after
a three-year study, decided not to abolish its five official racial
classifications. Instead, government bureaucrats said multiracial Americans
should check several boxes, such as black and white, on the 2000 census form.
The goals of the Libertarian Party's "Say No to Racial Classifications" campaign
are to build public awareness of how politicians exploit racial classifications
to further divide the nation along racial grounds, and to eliminate them
from all government forms, said Dasbach.
"We're telling Americans: Stop and think before you check that box," Dasbach
said. "If millions of Americans withheld their racial data from the government,
the politicians' framework for American Apartheid would crash to the ground."
To spread the word, the party is enlisting the support of a network of activists
and registered voters across the country and is mounting a nationwide media
blitz.
The government's current five "official" racial categories, created by
the Office of Management and Budget in 1977, are white, black, American
Indian/Eskimo, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Hispanic. Federal agencies use
the classifications to bestow benefits such as jobs, low-interest loans,
and college scholarships.
"Sadly, the government of a nation dedicated to liberty and equality under
the law is using arbitrary racial characteristics as a wedge to pry Americans
further apart," Dasbach said.
Even the courts are getting into the act, and have become America's latest
racial battleground, Dasbach noted.
In March, for example, an Egyptian immigrant implored a federal court
to change his government-mandated racial classification from white to black.
The man, Mostafa Hefny of Detroit, insists that he is black because his ancestors
come from the ancient black kingdom of Nubia, which is now part of Egypt
and Sudan. But the government insists that he is white.
In an attempt to get himself reclassified as black, Hefny explained to
the court that his skin is darker than General Colin Powell's, who is officially
classified as black.
"Why is the government so obsessed with the color of Hefny's skin?" Dasbach
asked. "Because politicians are desperately fighting to preserve racial
categories so they can preserve their power to hand out favors."
Dasbach encouraged American politicians to learn from other nations with
more progressive racial policies -- such as South Africa.
"A decade ago, the U.S. government imposed trade sanctions to pressure the
South African government to repeal its system of racial classification called
Apartheid," he said. "Wouldn't it be ironic if South Africa, which has since
repudiated government-sponsored racial discrimination, now imposed sanctions
against the United States for the same reason?"
Fortunately, if the Libertarian Party's campaign is successful, American
politicians won't have to rely on a foreign government to teach them racial
tolerance, Dasbach said.
"Every single American can strike a blow for a colorblind society by saying
'no' to the census takers and 'no' to racial classifications," Dasbach said.
"We're all Americans -- what else does the government need to know?"
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
You say:
Rantings
Marie Hogg ranted:
>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, it is true that some people in society are
disadvantaged, and it is true that an ideal society would help such people.
Of course, whether for good or for bad, equality of outcome can only be achieved
under a communist system. Of course that can tend to bring everyone down
to the same level, rather than raise everyone to the same level.
Some people are disadvantaged financially, and can
by helped by giving them money. How do you tell if someone is financially
disadvantaged? The colour of their skin perhaps? Their racial background?
No silly - you tell by looking at their tax return.
Some people are disadvantaged by lack of education.
How do you tell if someone is disadvantaged thus? Perhaps you look and see
where their ancient ancestors lived? Perhaps you look at their genitals to
assess whether male or female? Do you look and see what they eat, whether
vegetarian or meat? No silly - you tell by looking at their educational
achievments in comparison to their intelligence and aptitude.
Isn't this stuff as obvious as it gets? 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.
Name Withheld
Poor Marie
It never ceases to amaze me that people so willingly
expose themselves as brain-washed. Marie Hogg is the latest. Anybody who
writes: "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" - has never thought independently.
It is pure ideological cliched jargon. Typical first
year Soc Sci or Women's Studies propaganda. Outdated too. The wider intellectual
world has long given up on this sort of leftist twaddle which only survives
in academia and hence government bureaucracies.
Groups. See how she uncritically stereotypes people
by their groups. According to this view anybody who is in the chosen list
is automatically "disadvantaged" and has to be "compensated for" [sic]. Look
around, Marie: is Noel Pearson (black) really disadvantaged? Is Cheryl Kernot
(female)? Is Gough Whitlam (old)? Was Linda McCartney (vegetarian)?
Like all the others, she refuses to enter into any
substantial let alone civilised debate, and merely indulges herself in cheap
insults. It must be very comforting to view the world wearing prescription
ideological blinkers. She hasn't yet twigged that labelling political opponents
instead of discussing the issues with them is very unconvincing as a debating
tactic.
Logic is never a strong point in One Nation critics
either. At the start of Marie's tirade we are a "muddle of misfits ... not
fit to organise a school fete" and with no "intellectual capacity". But at
the end, we are people who do not want a just, equitable society because
it would mean less for us. At what point did the intellectually-challenged
muddle of misfits transform themselves into the selfish haves? I missed
it.
Another example of her lack of logic is her racism
and sexism. Yes, Marie, you have committed two mortal sins of PC. You have
racially smeared and sexistly stereotyped a whole group of people - white
men. Shame!
Antonia Feitz
Hansonite hater
Marie Hogg amazes me. You say this society was designed
by and for white males! Hah now who's living in the past Marie. I am a white
Australian male Marie and I assure you I do not feel in the least bit priveliged
under the system I have watched degenerating since the '60s.
You sound like some Germaine Greer educated femenist
relic from the '70s Marie. You say we are a band of misfits, that we abuse
the media, and that we aren't sincere in wanting equality. Well cobblers,
all of it I say. You are of course entitled to your opinion, but you merely
state it, you dont give us any reasoning or any honest angle you are coming
from.
As a white male single parent of 47, I do not feel
priveliged in any way I assure you, in fact I would like some of the rights
afforded to brainless left wing bored females. I would not mind as a poor
unfortunate hetro-sexual being given a few of the rights afforded to so called
gay people. Better yet can I be an Aboriginal please? Or why not go the full
Monty and claim equal rights with Australian-Jews then I could have a say
in picking who gets labeled a racist!
Marie dont be shy tell me why someone in my position
wouldn't want equality? Anyone else think disenfranchised white males over
40 need a minority special interest group? We seem to be one of the few
minorities with no organised voice. Then again wouldn't it just be better
if we had one straightforward set of rules for everybody?
Pauline for Prime Minister.
David Morgan W.A.
Goodday from China
Hello, I am Arthur an Australian ex-expatriate kid
in Beijing PR China. China, if you didn't already know is in ASIA and so
a lot of ASIANS live there. I heard somewhere that you One Nation Party doesn't
like Asian people. Is this so? I find it hard to believe that you dislike
a certain race of people. Do you know what that is called? That is called
RACISM. Racism is a very FASCIST thing. Are you right-wingers? Did you know
that HITLER'S Nazi Party was based on Fascist ideas? Did you know is ideas
started a World War? I do hope you don't start a World War. I also heard
you don't like INDIGINOUS AUSTRALIANS. Did you know that Indiginous Australians
were in Australia long before caucasians.
My friends, my family, my teachers, my peers and I
all think your ideas are based on the famous theory of BULLSHIT. I am from
Geelong Victoria and that is where you have the least support. I am not Asian
or an Indiginous Australian. I am not rascist, you seem to be.
Could you please reply and tell me your theories and
ideas. I would love to support you, it's just that I can't.
Sincerely,
Arthur F.
Happy third birthday anotd
Dear Scott,
Happy 3rd birthday, we hope you and your staff celebrate
many more. Keep up the good work!
from Lorraine Steve Katrina and Sean Milson
PS Please consider the following attachment for
publication;
ALL THE BEST..............
Steve
Pauline Rules
I would like to say that I think that Pauline Hanson
is the queen of all queens. I believe in everything she is trying to get
accross to our narrow minded society. I cannot stand it how people ridicule
and mock Pauline for her messages she is trying to convey. If people just
listened to what she is saying rather than twisting and distorting what she
is saying then maybe they will understand the real message behind her ideas.
If we are supposed to be living in a democratic society where people are
free to express what they feel then howcome at every one of Paulines meetings,
the idiotic and violent public will not let her speak. I am seeing a reiteration
of hitlers days where there were all out riots, violence and hatred, the
difference is that it isn't because of 1 person, it's because todays society
are to afraid to see the real fears that Australia may face, if not today,
if not tommorow but one day. I am a strong believer of the saying "you will
always reap what you sow", I convey that message to the public and hope that
their narrow minded violent antics all falls back on them one day.
I have just turned 18 years old and I am enrolled to
vote. I can assure you that I will be voting for Pauline Hansons one nation
party in my local electrate, Aston.
DONT EVER GIVE UP PAULINE, REMEMBER THE RACE IS NOT
ALWAYS TO THE SWIFT... BUT TO THOSE WHO KEEP ON RUNNING. FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE
OF OUR COUNTRY... AUSTRALIA .....
Ross Kovacevic
Pissed off with wasting tax payers money
Dear Sir,
I'm glad that Professor Lauchlan (Sp? please correct
me if I'm wrong) Chipman of CQU appeared on TV to tell the ordinary people
how his organisation spends our taxes. He said that he is annoyed that Ansett
is withdrawing its flights from Rockhampton because his staff are concerned
that they will no longer be able to fly Business Class at taxpayer's expense.
(WINTV News 6.00pm Friday, Sept 18, 1998 News item No 1).
Why are University staff any different from "ordinary"
people - including Industrialists (who contribute much to the economy of
Australia), commercial travellers (who also contribute significantly to the
economy of Australia), and the Mums and Dads of this country - who contribute
a damn sight more to the economy of Australia than anyone else?
If "we - the ordinary people" can't afford Business
Class air travel - why should we have to pay the extra amount for University
staff to do so at our expense? Do TAFE or High-school staff travel Business
Class? I doubt it - but I'd like to know if they do.
Couldn't the extra money be spent to greater educational
advantage on books for the University library; test-tubes for the Science
department; computer upgrades for the students - or even, simply - hiring
one more competent Australian lecturer (instead of importing one who doesn't
speak enough English to be understood in their contracted subject)per year
in order to increase the delivery of tertiary education to Australians?
We CERTAINLY don't want our education taxpayer-money
to be spent by the CQU on the kind of political advertising we've seen over
the past couple of months.
Hey, Prof. Chipman. I've got news for you. The ordinary
people out here in the real world aren't stupid. We don't live in fantasyland
like you seem to do!
Prof. Chipman said today (18.9.98) that the CQU's
air-travel costs $1.5m a year. (Check the WINTV tape.)
As at today (18.9.98, I've checked!), Ansett's economy
return fare Rockhamton/Brisbane is $628. The same flight travelling Business
Class costs $798. That is exactly $170 difference to be able to sit in a
10cm wider seat for 1 hour at a time (ROK/BNE/ROK), drink 'free' beer, wine
or champagne - and be able to say to people - I always travel Business Class!
The luggage doesn't arrive any earlier - or does it?
(From here, the Canadian CQU School of Health, Don
Bradman and Human Performance may wish to debate my mathematical
conclusions.)
The fare difference represents an approximate 27 percent
(27.07 if you want to be pedantic). If this saving was applied to Professor
Chipman's TV stated CQU air-fare cost of $1.5 million - the CQU would then
be able to apply a further $406, 050 per year of taxpayer's money to the
education of our students instead of using it to mollycoddle the egos and
backsides of Univeristy staff.
In fact, at a cost of about $70,000 per year for a
senior lecturer - that difference would enable CQU to employ another six
(give or take a decimal point) senior lecturers per year - or buy hundreds
of computers, or purchase tens of thousands academic texts for the University
library for the students to use!
Professor Chipman and Alexander Downer are going together
to (I believe) Korea to extoll the virtues of studying in Australia. Wouldn't
it be good if they travelled economy class - and used the rest of OUR money
to give something back to OUR education system?
Sincerely
Mike Grant
When lies and deception are bi-partisan and
legal
When I wrote the "ONLY LABOR CAN STOP THE GST" email,
I naively thought such a blatant lie would be illegal. In fact Sec 329 (1)
of the1918 Commonwealth Electoral Act made "any matter or thing that is likely
to mislead or deceive an elector in relation to the casting of a vote."
illegal.
However since 1972, and thanks to Mr Crighton-Brown
and his too-smart lawyers, such bald lies have been legal! If you want to
know how you'll need to read the findings of the full High Court. So much
for the 1918 Commonwealth Electoral Act. its no wonder our politicians have
made misleading and deceiving electors their primary political skill.
While "ONLY LABOR CAN STOP THE GST" is the most blatant,
it is therefore less convincing than the grossly misleading and deceptive
comments from Mr Howard such as "go along with what the majority want when
they vote at federal elections" and accusing the Democrats of "tearing up
the rule book".
Does One Nation have a policy on electoral reform?
If not I'd like to help get one together in the next week or so. I think
there are ways to turn the the High Court decision back on our political
leaders. After 25 years they have not only failed to amend the act to reverse
the damage done by the court, but with bipartisan treachery, have been ruthlessly
exploiting the trust of millions of Australians.
As I suggested in my earlier email, "Re: Don't Worry
about a GST - Worry about the Senate!", this could also be a chance to expose
far more than Labor's lies.
Regards, and who is One Nation electoral reform
person?
Jim Stewart
Another perfect day in paradise.
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