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Tuesday 21st July 1998
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Between the One Nation lines
Ipswich City Council's Mayor John Nugent has
backflipped on
his Saturday decision to prevent Pauline Hanson from using the Ipswich
Civic Hall. The decision came after a special meeting held last night and
intense lobbying by One Nation supporters.
After the meeting Nugent said, "Yes, the meeting can go ahead." One of the
factors that helped push the council to reconsider its decision was lobbying
by One Nation supporters to the local paper, The Queensland Times
(QT), over the Internet. See QT story lower in this article.
Three councilors apparently continued to vote against Mrs Hanson's tight
to address her constituents. They are Councilors Fran Broom, Christine Claridge
and Joanie Woods.
Meanwhile Labor's Ipswich Anti-Racism Committee spokesman Peter Arndt said,
"From what I am aware of, there are no plans for the Ipswich anti-Racism
Committee to do so (protest)." However he said the Internationalist Socialist
Organisation (ISO) are expected to protest at the August 4th meeting.
The ISO are on the record as saying that they want to "close down" One Nation
meetings.
"There's no push to have a protest at that meeting. There might be a push
from groups outside Ipswich to do that - infamous groups like the ISO," Arndt
said.
A spokesman for Pauline Hanson said, "If that is correct, then Pauline Hanson
abhors it. People from Ipswich should abhor people from outside Ipswich being
involved in what is a Member of Parliament's legitimate right to confer and
gain the views of her constituents."
Queensland Times article about One Nation email lobbying council to change.
This follows an email being sent out to some of One Nation's large mailing
list on Saturday morning:
Supporter defies One Nation ban:
One Nation supporter Scott Balson, from Karana Downs,
is promoting a campaign for support to email The Queensland Times with criticism
of Ipswich City Council's now removed ban on the party using the Ipswich
Civic Hall.
This is despite the fact that One Nation has a ban
on talking to QT reporters and photographers.
Over the weekend the QT received 49 email messages
on the subject - 42 criticising the ban only 7 in support.
Emails came from United States, Canada, London, NSW
central coast, Victoria, Adelaide, Mullimbimby, Manilla, Tasmania and the
Blue Mountains.
More than a dozen did not indicate their home town
and one believed it was a Brisbane City Council ban. There appeared to be
no responses from this area.
Mr Balson said he did not have an official position
with the One Nation party and maintained the party's web pages as a volunteer
without pay.
He said he did not believe encouraging One Nation
supporters to use the QT's letters to the editor section was hypocritical
considering the ban on talking to the paper's reporters.
"I am an individual - the One Nation Party is a people's
party," he said. "I have the right to my point of view, which I express.
"I have often supplied manuyof my images (Global Web
Builders) which you have used."
Mr Balson said he had emailed One Nation supporters
on Saturday asking them to act on Ipswich City Council's decision not to
allow One Nation to use Ipswich Civic Hall on August 4.
For the record none of these email actually made it to the letters
page.
Hawthorn incident continues to dominate the news
While Pauline Hanson enjoyed an excellent meeting at Sale in Victoria last
night the repercussions of the Hawthorn meeting- which had to be called off
- continue to reverberate.
At Sale 700 guests came to listen to Mrs Hanson while a small group of protesters
heckled from the side.
David Ettridge described the meeting to me this morning as "fantastic".
Yesterday Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith condemned the Victorian
police for allowing
Mrs
Hanson's speech at Hawthorne to be cancelled.
"When people are in breach of the law, when the police have very basic duty
to perform... it is not right for the police to do a deal with the thugs
outside to close down a meeting," Reith said.
Yesterday Mrs Hanson who is normally the first to applaud the police sent
to ensure meetings proceed said, "I do question the police that were in charge
because from what I've been told the supporters the supporters who were coming
through the protesters were being spat on and were being punched.
"I think (Victorian Premier) Mr Kennett is helping One Nation. Mr Kennett
is not allowing freedom of speech, he is criticisng me and my policies, he
is calling us racist and divisive which isn't the case at all."
One Nation Support on the increase
Support for Pauline Hanson's One Nation party has soared to its highest federal
level as voters turn away from the major parties in the lead up to the next
election, the latest poll shows.
The poll, to be published in this week's Bulletin magazine, put primary support
for One Nation at 15 per cent - up three percentage points.
It also found a growing number of people would consider voting for either
an independent or minor party at the next election.
Conducted by Roy Morgan Research, the poll put support for the Labor opposition
at 41 per cent and the coalition government at 35.5 per cent, on the primary
vote.
On a two-party preferred basis, the coalition edged up 1.5 percentage points
to 48 per cent, while the ALP dropped 1.5 percentage points to 52 per cent.
But the poll also indicated the two major parties could be facing a voter
revolt, with 66 per cent of electors warning they were dissatisfied with
the way the major parties represented their views in federal parliament.
Of the coalition backers surveyed, 52 per cent were dissatisfied, while 65
per cent of the ALP voters said they were dissatisfied.
The poll also found 44 per cent of voters would consider voting for an
independent at the next election for the House of Representatives.
It found 30 per cent of coalition supporters and 41 per cent of ALP supporters
said they were prepared to consider voting for an independent.
As well, 42 per cent of electors said they would consider voting for a minor
party, including 22 per cent of coalition voters and 32 per cent of ALP voters.
And 55 per cent of voters would like to see more independents or minor party
candidates in the Senate, while 49 per cent would like more of them in the
lower house.
Just under 40 per cent said they would like independents and minor parties
to hold the balance of power in the Senate, while 36 per cent would like
to see it in the House of Representatives.
Key independent Senators Brian Harradine and Mal Colston currently hold the
balance of the power in the Senate, with the government forced to negotiate
a deal with Senator Harradine to get its controversial Wik native title changes
through parliament.
Senator Colston's recent vote against the government's bill to sell off the
rest of Telstra saw the bill scuttled.
In a weekend radio poll conducted by Perth's Howard Sattler on popular 6PR
the following results were recorded.
Question: Would you vote for Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party in the
next election?
Results:
Division of Australia
A Tasmanian Aboriginal lobby group says indigenous people should have the
right to devise their own laws and live independently of Australian laws.
Michael Mansell, of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, says Australia's indigenous
people have never agreed collectively to live under Australian laws.
Staff at the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre are taking a public holiday today
to mark the eighth anniversary of the Aboriginal Provisional Government.
Mr Mansell says indigenous people should be given the opportunity to decide
if they are members of the Australian nation or a sovereign people.
"I think as the High Court in Mabo recognised that clearly Aboriginal sovereignty
existed before white people came here but no-one has been able to point to
an event or an agreement by Aborigines under which we lost that right," Mr
Mansell said.
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
You say:
Yesterday I broadcast this email about the Hawthorm incident to all the
major Australian newspapers and television stations.
It will be interesting to see how much/little credibility they display.
Editor:
Att: Chief of Staff - Your credibility is on
the line
Dear sir,
This email is being broadcast to a large number
of media outlets.
Channel 9's Sunday programme ran a recent programme
on "Pauline Hanson and the media".
The programme
(transcript
available here) clearly identifies the manner in which the Australian
media have distorted Mrs Hanson's statements time and again. This is an issue
which a growing number of Australians are becoming aware of.
More recently the media have tried to link
(unsuccessfully) One Nation with "extreme right wing groups". Any one of
19 million Australian can apparently gain overnight celebrity status if they
allege links between such a group and One Nation.
It does not matter how flimsy the evidence, how
slanted the viewpoint of those making the claims - nationwide coverage is
sure to follow.
A recent example of this type of reporting was the
non-sensicle 60 Minutes segment "A Call to Arms" which was quite clearly
a politically based exercise aimed at doing maximum damage to One Nation
in the week before the Queensland State elections.
See this link - for more background
on this statement.
The lithmus test will be how YOU react to the appalling
manner in which a One Nation meeting was violently disrupted in Hawthorn
last night.
The Internet URL below will prove to you, unequivocaly,
the link between extremist elements in the Australian Labor Party and their
clear role in co-ordinating the violent protesters at Hawthorn and earlier
One Nation meetings (such as Dandenong).
See
this link
Australia will be watching how you handle this matter
and will judge you accordingly - not only now, but in years to
come.
GWB
Scott Balson
Pauline Hanson's web master
Ph (07) 3201 1353
MD
Email received - One Nation members at the Hawthorn meeting and pro-feedback:
Subject: From a (Hawthorn) "hostage"
Well, technically, it is probably from one who was
unlawfully imprisoned at the Hawthorn Town Hall by the mob. The reason for
this is that we could not leave with any safety for several hours after the
meeting until most of the mob dispersed.
The worst part was the incredible attitude of the police.
In hindsight, they were obviously told to make things awkward for PHON supporters
to get in. I thought it strange when I arrived that a police officer told
me to go to the other side of the barricade. When I went around the mob and
pushed my way in there, there was no break in the barricade and the line
of police to enter. Curiously, a man in the mob at the barricade told me
to go around to the back, where entrance was undramatic one hour before the
meeting was due to start. But within 15 minutes people were coming in there
too who had been punched, screamed at and jostled... even elderly women.
There was even a report inside that one person had been stabbed but this
has not been subsequently confirmed. Nevertheless, it did not help the frame
of mind of those there at the time.
Then the police inspector came in and said over the
microphone that, since Pauline was not coming, if we disbanded the meeting
immediately, the mob said we would be let out unmolested. Great. He really
was the spokesman for the mob. Robyn Spencer called for a vote. Unanimously
the audience chose to stay and hold the meeting without Pauline. Being an
old solid building, the mob screaming outside was hardly heard inside...
a point to remember for future selection of venues for meetings.
Afterwards, when most of the mob had dispersed because
of the cold near 8pm, we were led out in half-dozen bunches with police either
side. We were spat at, yelled at and had our photos taken. The young girls
stood out as the worst. They had all been tutored by the manual reproduced
in Monday's ANOTD. It is quite understandable that some people would get
very frightened by this. Afterwards I did react angrily but then realised
something. Whilst emotionally one would like to get some revenge after such
an experience, it is very important that we keep the extreme-right gangs
away as protectors in lieu of the police since that is what the media and
our other enemies want, of course. Oddly, the most vicious thug outside,
who was caught by the TV and print media, looked like a skin head. One Melbourne
station actually interviewed him!!
If someone told me this whole story, I would find it
hard to believe, but there were several hundred PHON supporters there who
can back it up. The sadest anecdote was a middle aged women begging the police
inspector near the door for some news of her aged father. They had been separated
in the mellee coming in and he had recently had surgery to his knees. She
could not get a report from the police for three hours and was naturally
very distraught.
Regards,
Barry M.
Subject: Congratulations Scott
Well done Scott for good detective work and exposing
the real thugs of society.
I am on an oil rig at this time so I do not really
know how our Sale One Nation meeting with Pauline went. I can only assume
it went so much better than the Horrible Hawthorne incident which was
undemocratically wrecked by those you mentioned.
I have written an article for our local paper mentioning
the pathetic major Media bias and the powerful effect it has in altering
the perceptions of the masses.
Cheers from bruce.
Subject: Re: Hawthorn
I think it was disgraceful like Nazis breaking up meetings
of their opponents. I think democracy requires everyone to have their say.
If we can't tolerate opinions we don't like then we can't operate in a democratic
environment. The essence of democracy is free and open debate about all topics.
If the demonstators don't like Pauline's views they are welcome to put their
own across in their own forums. Keep up the good work. I don't agree with
everything Pauline says but I do agree with her on ATSIC. Also at a meeting
of the NCC some years ago it was said that the Catholic Church could not
support single mothers benefits because they encourage immoral behaviour.
There was a draft of a Catholic Church statement criticising the Federal
Government (Keating) over the low level of single mother's benefits but the
NCC staff said that single mothers benefits were fundamentally immoral as
a concept. Pauline might find some conservative Catholics who would take
up this issue.
Felix
Subject: Hawthorn
Good morning Pauline,
My husband and I have read with disgust of yesterday's
happenings in Melbourne. I am in the process of printing it out now for him
to read at his leisure.
You have had our support from the very beginning and
we both wish you well.
Brian, my husband, has just asked me if there was anyway
I could send you a message. I replied that I thought I could go through this
site. He has asked me to tell you that there is an old Chinese saying
that says that 'he who strikes the first blow, loses the
argument'.
Perhaps this might bring you some comfort in view of
what happened outside the Hawthorne Hall yesterday.
Kind regards,
Loretta and Brian Everingham
Subject: One Nation
Dear One Nation,
I am currently in school and am doing year twelve.
I was appalled to see that today in Australia we do not even have the domocratic
right to voice our political opinions. I have always been taught at school
that we live in a country where we are able to say what we want yet when
a few One Nation supporters want to meet Pauline Hanson and hear what she
has to say they are attacked!
I am sick and tired of being called a racist and
deranged by my teachers at school simply because i believe in what One Nation
is trying to do.I can not wait till i am 18 as i will be voicing my opinion
at the ballot box by voting for One Nation.
Goodluck Pauline Hanson and One Nation .
Andrew
Subject: RE: Comments on Victorian Demonstration
at Hanson meeting at Hawthorn
I would just like to forward my thanks to Scott Balson
for his constant informative updates on One Nation.
I look forward to receiving more of these bulletins,
as it is wonderfully refreshing to actually read the truth instead of the
lies we are being fed day in day out by the normal media.
Keep up the good work.
Many thanks
Peter Friswell
Subject: Hawthorn
I posted this in a newsgroup. You may be interested
in adding it to your site:
Has anyone noticed the way some newspapers covered
the violence at a One Nation meeting at Hawthorn (Melbourne)?
They stuck to strictly descriptive reporting, carefully
avoiding raising the issues of political violence, freedom of assembly,
free-speech and more. These newspapers (I didn't say Fairfax) have forfeited
the right to continue as self-appointed guardians of moral standards in our
society.
They are thugs in their own right for failing to expose
the violence.
JG Estiot
Editor
Media-Watch
Interactive
What
Left Link subscribers
have to say about our expose on the Labor Party's involvement at
Hawthorn:
The following post by Alistair Air the chief Left Link moderator appeared
yesterday resulting in some responses:
One Nation webmaster Scott Balson has "researched"
the causes of Sunday's successful anti-Hanson demonstration, and apparently
determined that the sole cause of the demonstration and "violence" was Leftlink.
Regular subscribers will remember that according to One Nation, Leftlink
is actually the ALP (or perhaps it was that the ALP is Leftlink - they were
slightly confused about the issue).
The One Nation site lists the names and email addresses
of five people involved with Leftlink, and invites readers of the web site
to email these five people. The five are labelled as "scumbags" and "political
thugs".
The site address for the "article" is
http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/onenation/left/meljul98.html
Leftlink subscribers should be aware of what we
are fighting.
Subject: Anti One Nation Demonstration
If the protest was organised by the ALP there would
have had 100,000 people there not 1500.
The problem you will have in continuing to bend the
truth and seeing conspiracy behind every tree is simply that you get caught
out too often. The links page on left link lists the web sites of a whole
range of organisations. None of these organisations gave left link permission
to include a link on their site. Stating that the link is some sort of
endorsement is as silly as saying that if One Nation put a link to the jewish
board of deputies on your site that the Jewish board of deputies endorses
your views.
I suggest the views of some of the people who post
stuff on left link like the international socialists would be totally opposed
by most of the organisations you suggest like the ALP.
If you persist in making claims about conspiracies
of lesbians and lefties and child molestors you will remain a small fringe
organisation with no relevence. (so keep it up)
Chris Clarke.
Small fringe organisation with 15% primary support?...
more Labor lies
Editor
Subject: Un-fair quoting...
"...The massive turn out of 1500 violent protesters
was no accident. It was no spontaneous outpouring of anger against Pauline
Hanson's One Nation. It was an event carefully planned by the extremists
in the Labor Party movement. Extremists who are violent thugs at best and
de-facto criminals for their roles in orchestrating this terrible new trend
in Australian politics. At Hawthorn busloads of One Nation supporters were
turned away - with only 250 out of 800 braving the violence - and the elderly
who had come to the meeting early before the violence began fearing for their
lives while the mob outside ranted and raved..."
I was quite appalled to read the quote from your web-site
today.
I am not nor have ever been a member of any extremist
or multicultural group. In fact, I'm fourth generation Australian.
I heard about the speech Ms Hanson was going to make
at the Hawthorn Town Hall on ABC radio and thought that I'd gather a few
friends together to make a stand.
8 of us, all professional, middle to high income earners,
made our way to Hawthorn and were actually surprised at the small number
of protesters outside the building. We expected 1000's more. So for you to
call it "massive" was quite complementary. 1500 protesters, by Victorian
standards, is quite small. We blamed it being held on a Sunday - true? How
will we ever know?
All I ask is that in future - do not throw all of your
non-supporters into the one basket - as I personally do not throw all of
your supporters. I agree they have the right to listen to whatever the feel
they need to.
It takes all sorts of people to make this country of
ours so wonderful and if you don't think it is - you obviously haven't travelled
extensively overseas.
Try it - you'll come back with a very different perspective
on life.
Your web-site also quotes:
You are on the web page the media do not want you to
know about....
Well, I work in the media and so do all my friends
and we all know about it, in fact, we make a point of reading it
everyday...
Regards
Stuart Craigen
I was quite appalled at the violent manner in which your mob made a mockery
of democracy and freedom of speech. I can understand you working in the media.
Time and again the media have shown similar traits.
Editor
Subject: Re: Leftlink
Idiot,
I subscribe to left-link; I also intend to buy some
of the books you mention from the Progressive and Independent bookstore you
mention. What's more I intend to join the socialists at Militant. And what's
more your picture of a Bleeding One Nation Protestor reminds me of Mussolini's
fans in North Africa in 1940. The hidden story the media refuses to reveal
are the sinister links between One Nation and some of the people I saw at
the High Wycombe protest waiting around at the back of the crowd - they look
like the more fanataical Mussolinis who fought against my Grandfather's
generation of Diggers.
Your own hateful and homophobic agenda is what most
of these Great Depression survivors fought against and voted John Curtin
in and the first and only Communist MP Fred Patterson. What the nationalists
are most concerned about, if you were honest, is less the so-called 'bully-boy'
tactics of the socialist parties but the possibility of sexual freedom becoming
more popular. For all this 'guilt industry' 'political correctness' industry
of what has come to be called 'The New Right' there is a parallel growth
in cutbacks to basic social services and attacks on working-class
organisations.
If you think that People are intimidated by your webpages
then you oughta think again Redneck. Children are walking around with Che
Guevara T-Shirts as you are talking in your dishonest way about 'feral'
anarchists. Then again the New International Bookstore has never been so
popular. And I have noticed a revival of older people speaking out against
Racism at the rallies. You are losing. The children of the Revolution do
not believe the lies of the Nationalist parties and are becoming more and
more aware of your political parties social composition and whose interests
it represents. That's why the forthcoming National High-School Walkout by
children of all different races, political beliefs and ages demonstrates
that you people are all cobwebs of history. You have not fooled most young
people one little bit, and you do not confuse me.
I have invited the world to deface your ugly webpage
{see IWW}. Hopefully that will serve as an example to people what a PR industry
you people are, and how useless your various 'policies' are in the context
of Howard's nationalist social service cutbacks.
You lot are so dumb! Keep up your dumbness, it really
is good to receive all the free publicity!
Signed,
Matthew Davis
End of the left wing radical garbage... phew! Now let's get back
to intelligent discussion and away from simplistic viewpoints by Labor radicals
who support violence.
Editor
Subject: Thanks Gedday Scott
Yes, it's me. The computer illiterate from the chat
night.
I was sorry to hear about your recent intimidation
from the media, cars following etc, and I wish to pass on my thanks to you
for all your effort keeping us all in touch with the truth.
You have all our support.
Glen
The Senators who failed me
MAGNA CARTA
Amongst other things it said:-
No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed,
or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him,
nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law
of the land.
To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny, or
delay right or justice.
Because of the New Gun Laws forced on Queensland by
the Federal parties- Liberal, Labor and National I have had my guns confiscated,
am being tried without a jury and am being denied legal aid.
You Senators are in the house that could have stopped
these laws and have failed to show common sense. You have allowed the
commonwealth to over-ride the states that elected you
I have been a reasonably law abiding citizen all my
life. If this is how you treat me then a pox on all your houses.
My guns are
buried and I will devote my time to the demise of your political
careers.
Marin Essenberg
Subject: 'cheaper' petrol
So competition is going to deliver us cheaper petrol.
Never mind that 4,000 small service stations will go to the wall. Never mind
that something like 30,000 more jobs are to go - mainly in the bush. Never
mind that once all the small businesses have been eliminated the big guys
will have the field to themselves.
Our petrol will be 3 cents a litre cheaper. Is 3 cents
a litre worth all that coming misery for so many? The big oil companies do
not have a reputation for caring, but for collusion. As sure as God made
little apples we will pay more for our petrol in the long run.
Antonia Feitz
Subject: New "Low Bastard" Award For Channel
10
Tonight an all time low was reached, both in journalistic
ethics and in outright exploitation of human suffering. While watching 10's
news on the tsunami disaster in PNG, I remember thinking - "Oh, no, no no
no, no one can possibly stoop to this" - I WAS WRONG.
To use the suffering of those people as a political
football is a sad, sorry excuse for humanity - especially in the crude,
deliberate way in which the reference was made to Pauline Hanson and One
Nation. We all know that ON is against the BILLIONS that are squandered on
foreign aid (Indonesia buys more weapons), but we also KNOW that an AUSSIE
would never say no to disaster relief, especially to a country that supported
us so much in the Second World War.
Shame on you Channel 10, you sad, sorry pack of twisted
bastards.
On a similar note, Jolly makes another appearance -
another professional cockroach with no regard for his fellow ..... now I
can't say human - can I?
Anthony Mare
Subject: single mums Sir,-
I DONT know who is advising Pauline Hanson but attacking
single mums is playing into the hands of the opposition. Girls become mums
because there are no jobs and it saves going into prostitution to make a
dollar. If anyone is to blame it is our mindless politicians who have created
a void for young people. These mums are victims of corrupt policies and is
not Pauline supposed to be running a 'One Nation' party? Yet she keeps attacking
every self-interest group who are, after all, only trying to survive in an
immoral society. She might soon find herself running out of sympathetic voters
and that would be a shame.
Pauline should be attacking the garbage politicians
who are looting society, not their victims.
Tony Lee.
Subject: Anti-Newspeak
The book: Among the Barbarians, by Paul Sheehan. ISBN
0 09 183636 0; is the story the Corporate Media will not tell you. It exposes
one of the greatest political frauds in Australian history. Sheehan was senior
writer for the Sydney Morning Herald, chief of staff, day editor at The Herald,
and New York correspondent. Nieman Fellow at Harvard.
If you care one whit for the future of democracy in
Oz, then read this book!
Omega
Subject: Newspeak
So Councillor Paul Tully (Labor Party supporter) believes
that by banning One Nation from using council facilities in Blair, that support
for the Labor Party will increase at the expense of One Nation; no wonder
the Labor Party is losing supporters Australia-wide to One Nation.
Most Australians believe in a fair-go, and even innocently
believe they live in a democracy - Tully's tactic proves what many now suspect
might really be true; they do not live in a democracy, and the tactics of
the Corporate Media-Lab-Lib-Dem-Nat-Green parties to grip power, at any cost
to the average Australian, is not only a very twisted version of a fair-go,
but smacks of totalitarianism and the Brave New World of Newspeak, where
one, and one only version of anything is allowed by the thought police.
Omega
Subject: opposition at last
Our elites are as thick as two bricks. The critics
who decry John Howard for not showing 'leadership' still havn't got the message.
The message is that the people don't want a continuation of the policies
that are destroying Australia. It's very simple really. Nothing can stop
One Nation now, and it is wishful thinking and elitist arrogance to think
it ever could have been stopped. Freedom has always been heady stuff.
At last a genuine opposition party is forming in Australia.
At last people are able to have a say. This flowering of democracy might
yet prove to be a Prague spring; only time will tell. It is indicative of
the political morass we have been in, that the emergence of an opposition
has so enraged and in some cases terrified the mainstream politicians and
the so-called experts.
Look at the benefits One Nation had delivered so far
to Australia: dissent is becoming acceptible; topics once taboo are being
discussed; the tactic of labeling opponents instead of debating them has
been exposed for the anti-democratic sham it is; debate has started; politicians
have been given a salutary reminder that they are the people's representatives,
not their masters; politicians are actually listening to their constituents;
the full sale of Telstra - never given a mandate by the electorate - has
been stopped. Where will it end?
Antonia Feitz
Subject: Our national debt
The March quarter current account deficit does not
show any improvement instead there is a steady decline. The deficit for the
quarter was a record $7.5 billion, $5 billion of that was for interest and
dividend payments to foreigners. Net foreign debt rose by $2 billion making
our debt a whopping $225 billion and the net foreign liabilities a massive
$323 billion. In 1989 our debt was $96 billion and liabilities $126
billion.
91% of the growth in employment in the last five years
has been in industries other than agriculture, mining and manufacturing.
The number of pig producers has fallen from 40,000 to 3,000 in the last 40
years. The number of students at universities has increased by 60% since
1988 while staff members have risen by less than 25%.
The jobless rate of graduates from various universities
ranges from 14.2% to 36.1%. Excluding computor science graduates, 34% of
those with a basic science degree where still seeking work 5 months after
graduating.
These figures show a different story from what our
Prime Minister and Treasurer have led us to believe.
Alan Esson .
Figures from News Weekly July 1998.
Subject: Re: Aboriginal voting and the 1967
Referendum
Thanks, whilst expected to read how the media mashing
of her comments, from personal experience ...
Our family applied in 1992 to Attorney-General Michael
Duffy (ALP) for legal assistance so as to have judicial determination as
to whether we as Australians had the rights for the members of our family
to reside together in our family home; In particular without my having to
answer questions as to my racial ancestry - a question I find
objectionable.
The Central Land Council denied us all this basic human
right.
Since then they have admitted as traditional owners
my wife and our children are all entitled by right to reside there. However
they have not arranged for their re-accomoddation - someone else presently
living there; A reasonable subsitiute would do, so they can resume residence
there - and in my wife's case return to work.
The Central Land Council has admitted to the NT Supreme
Court that they do not know who told them to do this, however they wish to
go the High Court to defend their actions.
We sort legal assistance to have whether I needed to
answer their questions as to my racial ancestry in order to reside in our
family home resolved.
We raised the issue of who amends the Constitution
- Parliament or the People.
Our arguement is that with amending the Constitution
a specifically reserved power of the people when exist
_reasonable_grounds_to_believe_ existed a difference of purpose between the
purpose of the people and the purpose of Parliament in amending the constitution
that it is the purpose of the people that must prevail.
This is supported by earlier administrative law decisions
by the High Court, and the High Court's acknowledgment of the sovereignty
of the people of Australia on several occaisions support this.
Despite numerous opportunities to address this, the
High Court has consistantly - and deliberately, dodged these s.128 issues.
Whilst acknowledging the presence of these issues, they ignored them claiming
they were not asked to address them.
We are requiring they address them, with our wanting
an order that as exist reasonable grounds to believe there was the difference
of purpose between Parliament and the People, that until such time as Parliament
returns to the People seeking - and obtaining, a clear mandate to discriminate
between Australians on the grounds of race that ALL discrimination between
Australians on the grounds of race be declared unlawful.
ATSIC and the Land Councils are rather concerned as
to the effect on their fiefdoms...
The Governement(s) has similar concerns, however they
also more concerned at the likelihood of state rights issues - trampled on
for so long in our federation, will also come open to reconsideration...
We need lawyers - preferrably a barrister, who is prepared
to argue our position in court.
If we win, good by ATSIC, well at the least major surgery
- likely it could continue as a shareholder owned company, working with those
who want it - not many.
If we lost in the High Court, who amends the Constitution,
how the people can instruct Parliament is the political issue to win the
federal election on.
Arguing the people's right to instruct Parliament -
Citizen Initiated Legislation (or Referenda), is a winner.
Those wanting Telstra sold and those who do not can
all support One Nation if One Nation argues the core principle that it is
up to the people of Australia to decide at a CIL/Referenda.
Demanding for such a CIL/Referenda is a better campaign
promise than a commitment either way.
Subject: Not a One Nation supporter
The first thing that should be made clear from the
outset of this note is that you should not be under any misapprehension that
I am a One nation supporter. Indeed I am quite the opposite. It is important
that I make this point pelucidly clear (please explain!).
I found it most amusing on Friday morning when I heard
you state that unemployment was reported by the A.B.S as being 19%. Just
to remind you that statement was made on Nazi radio - 2UE on the Alan Jones
program. Fortunately for most of us he is the only mis-guided soul who will
allow you on air.
All of your comments with out exeption lack verisimilitude
and are in the vein of Procrusties-bed. Look it up for your self! But let
me get to the point with out leaving you with the impression that I'm too
much of a smarty. You are nothing short of a disgrace to the vast majority
of human beings who walk on this earth.
Remember, in Queensland, 23% voted for you. 77% voted
Against you, and by implication, rejected all that you stand for. your "stunning
electoral victory" in Queensland without preferences would have translated
in to nothing more exciting than the Box Hill v.Doonside under 5's rugby
league grand final.
As a final note don't think for one moment that Australians
actually support your ludicrous propositions.
Best misfortunes
Maurice Baroni and Peter Croft
Another perfect day in paradise.
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