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Since
October 1995
Who would be a policeman in Australia?
anotd readers might recall the disgusting incident where a group of
Aborigines attacked people
coming out of a
nightclub in March last year.
The saga, just like the ongoing
crazy Hindmarsh
debacle (subscribers search on
Hindmarsh) took a new twist yesterday when Queensland's Criminal
Justice Commission (CJC) decided to charge three policemen over their handling
of the incident.
Security video taken by the Ipswich City Council's Safe City programme showed
the arrests made by the police with footage showing one of those being arrested
allegedly drawing a knife at the time.
The police were officially cleared of any wrongdoings together with a group
of US Marines who assisted them in the arrests when allegations of assault
were laid by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC).
Yesterday a spokesman for the CJC said that police officers would now face
charges of official misconduct saying that an independent tribunal would
be created to hear the charges - with a date yet to be set. If found guilty
those involved could face charges ranging from dismissal from the force to
counseling.
The Aboriginal industry spokeswoman for ATSIC in South East Queensland, Patricia
Thompson, said that she had not heard from the CJC, "We lodged a complaint
in March last year and I'm really surprised that it's taken this long, but
we haven't received anything official.
"We heard some whispers, but until I know that it's happened I can't
make a comment."
The Queensland Police Union general secretary Merv Bainbridge said that the
union would back the officers to the hilt. "We view them (the charges) very
seriously, serious enough to obtain the best legal talent available and when
it comes to these officers, cost is not a consideration because their futures
are at stake."
The magistrate investigating the incident last year found that the officers
had acted properly. "The magistrate did not find any adverse findings yet
the CJC, for reasons as yet unknown, have pursued it," Bainbridge said.
"I personally find it disgraceful and disgusting. The charging of one of
these officers is one of the last desperate acts of the CJC because the public
is starting to see them for what they are, and that is a law unto themselves."
And here say all of us... now if it had been anglo-Saxons misbehaving like
that and being arrested this incident would have long been forgotten. Who
would want to be a policeman in this country?
The net catches the GST out
Business on the Internet is set to blossom if the government is successful
in bringing in a GST.
Yesterday Prime Minister John Howard confirmed that the net provided shoppers
with a GST "loophole" on a range of items like books, CDs, magazines and
airline tickets.
Mr Howard was caught off guard when asked a question on the GST and the Internet
at a Townsville Chamber of Commerce meeting yesterday. Local book store owner
Michael Rocke said that his business would be in jeopardy unless the loophole
was closed.
Hervey World franchise owner in Townsville, Debra Gludes, said, "We don't
need to have clients encouraged to book somewhere else so they can avoid
paying the GST which on airline tickets could mean a saving of several hundred
dollars."
Meanwhile, in true Tim Fischer-speak, the National leader and deputy Prime
Minister said in Brisbane yesterday, "My feet are on the ground. It is not
about a new tax as much as it is about a new tax system."
The new tax system has been hammered by Australian Council of Social
Services (ACOSS) spokesman Michael Raper who says that the GST unfairly
benefits the rich. Last Raper said that much of the savings made by the
government over the last few years had been at the expense of social services
such as Legal Aid. He said that the GST on food would reflect unequally on
the total disposable income available to the poor and the rich. His view
is supported by surveys which show that about 30% of income is spent on food
by the poor as opposed to just 12% by the rich.
Kim Beazley (obviously) supporter Raper saying, "This is the biggest sleight
of hand in the Government's tax package. What have they done is hijack Au$2
billion worth of funds that were there anyway for pensioners to adjust the
pension to meet 25% of male weekly earnings.
"These resources could have been received by pensioners and that's now being
counted as compensation."
Pauline Hanson also took the new GST proposal to task on the eve of the release
of the new One Nation tax proposal which will ensure that multinationals
start paying their fair share - and will move the tax burden off the average
Australian.
Skase pulls out the "sick card" again
Christopher Skase, the failed businessman who diddled thousands of
Australian shareholders in his Qintex Company in the 1980s has drawn out
the Ace again after the heat is again turned on him to return from his hideout
in Majorca to face the music back here.
After Australia recently refused to renew his passport demanding his extradition
Skase immediately "bought" passports from the Commonwealth of Dominica -
apparently at a cost of over Au$100,000. Spain in the meantime have allowed
Skase a bit of "breathing space" so that he could put up a case against his
extradition.
But Australia has now approached Dominica requesting that the passports be
revoked and Skase started crying sick again. Yesterday his son-in-law, Tony
Larkins, claimed that Skase only had 30% lung capacity - needed oxygen 8
hours a day and a double lung transplant.
Meanwhile the Spanish authorities are expected to serve Skase with a deportation
order as the saga continues to unravel with the businessman expected to lodge
an appeal to allow him to stay.
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
You say:
Subject: race watch
Hallo Scot,
This is my first E-mail to GWB. Thank you for all the
info you are supplying us with. I am in a way surprised by the methods minority
groups are using to attack PHON. Now this "RaceWatch" committee. PHON must
realy be worrying them but it also shows who are the real enemies of our
way of life. But to me there is also a disturbing sign in all this. I grew
up in Nazi occupied Holland and have seen from close by what has been done
to the Jews.
I remember the Nazi propoganda where Adolf Hitler
said something like "the Jews are poisoning our society and we have to
get rid of them". What disturbs me now is that I start thinking "is there
any truth in this". I never thought to reach this state of mind. In 1953,
at the invitation of the Australian Government, I came here as a 26 year
old migrant and was offered a future in a multi racial society, with a European
culture. The first 25 years, when something like 2 million people came here
from all over Europe, we "Assimilated" (am I now a racist) very well. I was
proud when I became an Australian, but now I am very disappointed. Why did
all this have to change. Where in the world is multi-culturism a success.?
Sorry Scot for this lenghty epistel.
Best wishes,
Kees Viset.
Subject: Race watch
One of these days in the not too far future, the
intelligent ones amongst us will look back on these "Politically Correct"
and' Multiculturist Times' and remember things like the 'Racist Watch Group'
and the other absolutely ridiculous actions of the few that have lost all
touch with reality and we will put it all in the same basket as other stupid
things of the past such as 'Cod Pieces, Chastity Belts, Bustles,and Bound
Feet.
I find it somewhat frightening that supposedly highly
educated persons such as Judges, who are supposed to be completely A-Politic,and
whose career demands complete neutrality in their decisions, can commit
themselves to the common judgement of anyone being a racist when they do
not know them,and have not heard their side of the story. A Judge who still
maintains they are entitled to carry out their duties and draw their salaries
when they freely admit their bias towards different groups in society, namely
anyone that doesn't aggree with them. Also, regarding the Jewish element.
I, personally grew up close to a jewish family,who in fact helped me a lot
in my childhood and youth. I still hold contact and imagine I always will.
That family and the other families who were connected to them were nothing
like the sort of people Leibler and Einfeld seem to be. I think the' Race
Watch ' type of Jew is a bit on the fanatic side of Judaism.
Any way, I am AGAINST Multiculturism, and Asianisation
of Australia.But I am FOR reasonable immigratian from anywhere providing
those migrants are prepared to assimilate into the Australian way of life
and become truely Australian.
Also, I will continue to express my opinions and views
as I choose, BECAUSE that is my RIGHT.
SIGNED: Dan Stuart.
Subject:
PETER PAN --A FAIRY
TALE FROM THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN
Dear Scott,
I couldn't believe my ears when I heard our Premier,
Peter Beattie, on Japanese T.V apologising for our States perceived racism.
Is this the same Peter Beattie who, pre election, did his utmost to fan those
fires in a politically motivated vendetta against One Nation ? The demonstrations
carefully staged to feed the media ? Seems to me that the arsonist has been
left to put out his own fires!
The newspapers front page headlines on the Aids/syringe
attack on the tourist coinciding with Mr Beattie's visit is suspicious to
say the least,.The cartoon drawing depicting the attack was very "convincing",
perhaps a photo and the name of the victim could have been included in the
report. Has this incident been reported to our authorities ? Has the
Murdoch/Packer media empire set the benchmark for journalism in Japan ? Did
I hear correctly, the attack allegedly occurred in Sydney?
I have several other serious concerns about Mr
Beattie's performance:
1: These type of attacks are unfortunately occurring
with increasing regularity all over this country and are not confined to
any particular target. They are usually acts committed by drug addicts and
/ or criminals after quick Dollars to feed their addictions and vices. A
RESULT OF YOU AND YOUR CRONIES PATHETIC ATTEMPTS TO DEAL WITH ONE OF THIS
COUNTRIES MAJOR PROBLEMS----- THE DRUG TRADE .
The costs to this country in terms of crime and social
distress are enormous.
2: Did I hear you correctly Mr Beattie, 23,000 jobs
are in danger ? Has the Asian economic meltdown escaped your notice ? Perhaps
we could stimulate tourism by targeting other Countries until our Asian
neighbours can afford to visit us again.Do we not live in a "global village"
Mr Beattie?
3: One Nation is not a part of your Government ? Mr
Beattie your party received 36% of the primary vote in the recent Qld. election
and 44 elected members some of these on Liberal/ Nat preferences. One Nation
polled nearly 25% primary vote for a total of 11 reps ( shades of Joe's infamous
gerrymander ? ) .64% OF THIS STATES VOTING POPULATION DID NOT DIRECTLY SUPPORT
YOU OR YOUR PARTIES POLICIES. Your party governs on a very tenuous
thread.
The opposition performs a very important role in
government, they are what separates a Democracy from Fascism. I did not hear
you explain to our Japanese friends that our nation has a right to set its
own immigration policies, determine our own objectives, set our own agendas
and that in a democracy we allow fair debate and encourage citizen input
when formulating policies. Perhaps this was edited out in the media's coverage
of your interview.
I did not hear of your condemnation of racism and
the acts of terrorism which are occurring in countries all around the world
and of your disgust at the lack of media outrage directed towards those countries
whose Governments seem unwilling to deal with their problem. I was expecting
similar outrage at the persecution of minority political parties for
democratically addressing the concerns of its membership !
4: Your 5% unemployment target is already looking
very shaky especially when you seem to be looking for scapegoats so early
in you term of office.
5: Why havent we been swamped with accounts of racist
incidents , surely if we are so terrible in our treatment of our visitors
they would have re told their stories and persuaded their friends not to
visit .The lack of first hand evidence is a worry.
The Japanese people are not fools, Mr Beattie, they
have rebuilt their country from the ashes post WW2 , through hard work, the
setting and achieving of goals and through the shrewd usage of the assets
and raw materials from countries such as our own. They have learned the value
of putting their own interests foremost and profit from countries such as
our own which allow the wholesale sell off of its industries , real estate
and institutions. It is Politicians such as yourself who have allowed this
to happen.
HAVE A GOOD DAY..................Steve
Subject: who's bigoted?
In referring to the Northcote by-election results,
two correspondents to the Australian called their fellow Victorians who voted
for One Nation 'simpleton racists' and 'donkeys' respectively.
This is a perfect example of the incivility, intolerance
and plain rudeness of the politically correct. They are incapable of tolerating
different viewpoints. For them, freedom of speech only exists as a feel-good
abstraction. In reality they vilify and even persecute anybody who dissents
from their own pc view of the world.
Why? Because they have never thought for themselves.
They have uncritically accepted the media propaganda that One Nation is racist,
and so it is simply too uncomfortable, too confronting for them to face their
own prejudices. Responding to One Nation by indulging in orgies of rage proves
that the foundation of their objections to One Nation is emotional, not
intellectual.
Antonia
Subject: How the Worm turns
It wasn't so long ago that Americans were being forced
to integrate, er, assimilate; buses to take kids to different schools to
mix the blacks and whites, to combat racism. Now here in Australia, where
all colours of kids were always welcome in the same school, assimilation
or integration is RACIST. Please explain.
Philip Madsen.
Subject:
protocol 12 - freedom of
the press
Hi Scott,
The protocols of Zion are a chilling read. Even
if those who cannot be criticised didn't write them they have certainly been
reading them and acting on them. Thought you might be interested in this
one.
PROTOCOL NO. 12
Masonic interpretation of the word "freedom." Future
of the press in the masonic kingdom. Control of the press. Correspondence
agencies. What is progress as understood by masonry? More about the press.
Masonic solidarity in the press of to-day. The arousing of "public" demands
in the provinces. Infallibility of the new regime.
The word "freedom," which can be interpreted in various
ways, is defined by us as follows:--
Freedom is the right to do that which the law allows.
This interpretation of the word will at the proper time be of service to
us, because all freedom will thus be in our hands, since the laws will
abolish or create only that which is desirable for us according to the aforesaid
programme.
We shall deal with the press in the following way:
What is the part played by the press today? It serves to excite and inflame
those passions which are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish
ends of parties. It is often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the majority
of the public have not the slightest idea what ends the press really serves.
We shall saddle and bridle it with a tight curb: we shall do the same also
with all productions of the printing press, for where would be the sense
of getting rid of the attacks of the press if we remain targets for pamphlets
and books? The produce of publicity, which nowadays is a source of heavy
expense owing to the necessity of censoring it, will be turned by us into
a very lucrative source of income to our State: we shall lay on it a special
stamp tax and require deposits of caution-money before permitting the
establishment of any organ of the press or of printing offices; these will
then have to guarantee our government against any kind of attack on the part
of the press. For any attempt to attack us, if such still be possible, we
shall inflict fines without mercy. Such measures as stamp tax, deposits,
of caution money and fines secured by these deposits, will bring in a huge
income to the government. It is true that party organs might not spare money
for the sake of publicity, but these we shall shut up at the second attack
upon us. No one shall with impunity lay a finger on the aureole of our government
infallibility. The pretext for stopping any publication will be the alleged
plea that it is agitating the public mind without occasion or justification.
I beg you to note that among those making attacks upon us will also be organs
established by us, but they will attack exclusively points that we have
pre-determined to alter.
Not a single announcement will reach the public
without our control. Even now this is already attained by us inasmuch as
all news items are received by a few agencies, in whose offices they are
focused from all parts of the world. These agencies will then be already
entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them.
If already now we have contrived to possess ourselves
of the minds of the goy communities to such an extent that they all come
near looking upon the events of the world through the coloured glasses of
those spectacles we are setting astride their noses: if already now there
is not a single State where there exist for us any barriers to admittance
into what goy stupidity calls State secrets: what will our position be then,
when we shall be acknowledged supreme lords of the world in the person of
our king of all the world....
Let us turn again to the future of the printing press.
Every one desirous of being a publisher, librarian, or printer, will be obliged
to provide himself with the diploma instituted therefor, which, in case of
any fault, will be immediately impounded. With such measures the instrument
of thought will become an educative means in the hands of our government,
which will no longer allow the mass of the nation to be led astray in by-ways
and fantasies about the blessings of progress. Is there any one of us who
does not know that these phantom blessings are the direct roads to foolish
imaginings which give birth to anarchical relations of men among themselves
and towards authority, because progress, or rather the idea of progress,
has introduced the conception of every kind of emancipation, but has failed
to establish its limits. . . All the so-called liberals are anarchists, if
not in fact, at any rate in thought. Every one of them is hunting after phantoms
of freedom, and falling exclusively into license, that is, into the anarchy
of protest for the sake of protest.
We turn to the periodical press. We shall impose on
it, as on all printed matter, stamp taxes per sheet and deposits of
caution-money, and books of less than 30 sheets will pay double. We shall
reckon them as pamphlets in order, on the one hand, to reduce the number
of magazines, which are the worst form of printed poison, and, on the other,
in order that this measure may force writers into such lengthy productions
that they will be little read especially as they will be costly. At the same
time what we shall publish ourselves to influence mental development in the
direction laid down for our profit will he cheap and will be read voraciously.
The tax will bring vapid literary ambitions within bounds and the liability
to penalties will make literary men dependent upon us. And if there should
be any found who are desirous of writing against us, they will not find any
person eager to print their productions. Before accepting any production
for publication in print the publisher or printer will have to apply to the
authorities for permission to do so. Thus we shall know beforehand of all
tricks preparing against us and shall nullify them by getting ahead with
explanations on the subject treated of.
Literature and journalism are two of the most important
educative forces, and therefore our government will become proprietor of
the majority of the journals. This will neutralize the injurious influence
of the privately-owned press and will put us in possession of the tremendous
influence upon the public mind. . . If we give permit for ten journals, we
shall ourselves found thirty, and so on the same proportion. This, however,
must in nowise be suspected by the public. For which reason all journals
published by us will be of the most opposite, in appearance, tendencies and
opinions, thereby creating confidence in us and bringing over to us our quite
unsuspicious opponents, who will thus fall into our trap and be rendered
harmless.
In the front rank will stand organs of an official
character. They will always stand guard over our interests, and therefore
their influence will comparatively insignificant. In the second rank will
be the semi-official organs, whose part it will be to attract the tepid and
indifferent. In the third rank we shall set up our own, to all appearance,
opposition, which, in at least one of its organs, will present what looks
like the very antipodes to us. Our real opponents at heart will accept this
simulated opposition as their own and will show us their cards.
All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions
-- aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical -- for so long,
of course, as the constitution exists. . . Like the Indian idol Vishnu they
will have a hundred hands, and every one of them will have a finger on any
one of the public opinions as required. When a pulse quickens these hands
will lead opinion in the direction of our aims, for an excited patient loses
all power of judgment and easily yields to suggestion. Those fools who will
think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will
be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us. In the
vain belief that they are following the organ of their party they will in
fact follow the flag which we hang out for them.
In order to direct our newspaper militia in this sense
we must take especial and minute care in organizing this matter. Under the
title of central department of the press we shall institute literary gatherings
at which our agents will without attracting attention issue the orders and
watchwords of the day. By discussing and controverting, but always superficially,
without touching the essence of the matter, our organs will carry on a sham
fight fusillade with the official newspapers solely for the purpose of giving
occasion for us to express ourselves more fully than could well be done from
the outset in official announcements, whenever, of course, that is to our
advantage.
These attacks upon us will also serve another purpose,
namely, that our subjects will be convinced of the existence of full freedom
of speech and so give our agents an occasion to affirm that all organs which
oppose us are empty babblers, since they are incapable of finding any substantial
objections to our orders.
Methods of organization like these, imperceptible
to the public eye but absolutely sure, are the best calculated to succeed
in bringing the attention and the confidence of the public to the side of
our government. Thanks to such methods we shall be in a position as from
time to time may be required, to excite or to tranquillise the public mind
on political questions, to persuade or to confuse, printing now truth, now
lies, facts or their contradictions, according as they may be well or ill
received, always very cautiously feeling our ground before stepping upon
it. . . We shall have a sure triumph over our opponents since they will not
have at their disposition organs of the press in which they can give full
and final expression to their views owing to the aforesaid methods of dealing
with the press. We shall not even need to refute them except very
superficially.
Trial shots like these, fired by us in the third rank
of our press, in case of need, will be energetically refuted by us in our
semi-official organs.
Even nowadays, already, to take only the French press,
there are forms which reveal masonic solidarity in acting on the watchword:
all organs of the press are bound together by professional secrecy; like
the augurs of old, not one of their numbers will give away the secret of
his sources of information unless it be resolved to make announcement of
them. Not one journalist will venture to betray this secret, for not one
of them is ever admitted to practise literature unless his whole past has
some disgraceful sore or other. . . These sores would be immediately revealed.
So long as they remain the secret of a few the prestige of the journalist
attracts the majority of the country -- the mob follow after him with
enthusiasm.
Our calculations are especially extended to the provinces.
It is indispensable for us to inflame there those hopes and impulses with
which we could at any moment fall upon the capital, and we shall represent
to the capitals that these expressions are the independent hopes and impulses
of the provinces. Naturally, the source of them will be always one and the
same -- ours. What we need is that, until such time as we are in the plenitude
of power, the capitals should find themselves stifled by the provincial opinion
of the nation, i.e., of a majority arranged by our agentur. What we need
is that at the psychological moment the capitals should not be in a position
to discuss an accomplished fact for the simple reason, if for no other, that
it has been accepted by the public opinion of a majority in the provinces.
When we are in the period of the new regime transitional to that of our
assumption of full sovereignity must not admit any revelations by the press
of any form of public dishonesty; it is necessary that the new regime should
be thought to have so perfectly contented everybody that even criminality
has disappeared. . . Cases of the manifestation of criminality should remain
known only to their victims and to chance witnesses -- no more.
Tony Hancock
Subject: GST attacks the margins of small
retailers!
Simpler GST may not be fair
As pensioners and self-funded retirees grow increasingly
concerned about parts of the Liberal tax package, one wonders about certain
small business operators.
Wholesale Sales Tax (WST) is based on the wholesale
selling price of goods. The advantage with this system is that the retail
margin does not bear tax. Therefore, certain purchases will not fall by exactly
12 per cent or 22 per cent as stated.
For example, if a top selling brand of chocolate biscuits
are purchased by a large supermarket chain for $1.70 (plus WST of 20 cents)
and sold at retail for $2.28, the tax component of the retail price is only
9%. If the same biscuits were sold for $2.75 by a high mark-up convenience
(or small country) store, only 7.3% of this retail price is sales tax.
In contrast, the 10% GST is passed onto the consumer
on the entire retail price.
After the changeover, the large retail chain may sell
the biscuits for $2.29, and the convenience store will attempt to sell them
at $2.80. With GST, the large supermarket gets away with only paying 22.9
cents on the biscuits, but the small store gets hit for 28 cents GST. This
raises some important questions.
Does this mean that GST discriminates against the margins
of small business owners (who generally operate small independent stores)
in favour of big business? Does this mean that consumers in country areas
who try to support their small local store end up paying more tax to the
Government on their goods than their city counterparts? If so, then not everyone
is a winner with the GST.
Steve
Subject: Costello the clown
What a fool Peter Costello is. In response to criticism
of the tax package by AACOSS, he claimed that the GST was fair because the
rich spent 2.x% more on 'food, including restaurants' than did the poor.
He deliberately confused 'food' and 'food, including restaurants' and expected
people not to notice.
Anybody with half a brain knows that it is a simple
matter to exclude food and include take-away and restaurants in a GST. Most
countries with a GST do exempt food. But Australia is so broke we have to
tax bread and milk. No matter how poor people are, no matter if they don't
even earn an income, after a GST they will pay a hefty tax.
Antonia
Subject: Tax
I have a small question ( Q ) How is the revamped tax
system going to effect the multinational I can not find refference to them
any where , they did not get a mention..
THANK-YOU,
KEITH PAGE.
Another perfect day in paradise.
Have a good one.
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The Nicholas
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Their first
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The 60 Minutes debate/debacle - 26th July 1998
Hawthorn - where
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