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Friday
25th September 1998
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Between the One Nation lines
Credibility: 0 - Deception: 1
The score for the Australian journalist profession.
Yesterday, as all
anotd readers will have seen, anotd challenged any journalist
in Australia to contact us regarding the claim that Lachlan Murdoch told
his senior editors to "kill the cow"
when referring to the political career of Pauline Hanson.
I can now tell you that, despite my logs showing several visits to the
anotd yesterday by various media outlets, not one journalist has had
the balls to even contact me regarding the claim.
Not that I am surprised.
One Nation
released its Health Policy yesterday.
Here is an extract:
As Australians age they will place increasing demands
on the health services eg. Joint replacements, coronary artery bypass, pacemakers
etc. There will also be a greater demand for nursing home and hostel
accommodation. According to the Institute of Health and Welfare the life
time risk of a 65 year-old person requiring nursing home care is 24% for
a male and 37% for a female. By the time the ‘baby boomers’ reach
this age it will increase to 35% for a male and 50% for a female. As technology
is advancing with great rapidity new investigative and corrective procedures
will arrive on the medical scene with a concomitant increase in costs. Advances
in anaesthetics have enabled the frail and aged to undergo complicated and
formerly risky procedures.
David Cairns and Co Media Management, Ontario - please
explain
Today we can reveal that we are being surreptitiously investigated by a Media
Management group in Canada. Now the Internet is a free place to roam and
explore but when you have a highly regarded media management group like
David Cairns and Co Media Management in Ontario spending over 20 hours
in one session going through the anotd's subscriber pay news archives
when they are clearly not a registered subscriber one's hackles
rise.
The extract below from the full image (linked to this) shows clearly that
David Cairns and Co Media Management had been on the gwb web site
for, at that stage, over 20 hours.
Most of the interest by the company was in the anotd archives....
which I believe were accessed without possession of a legitimate password.
(ie They are not a subscriber to the anotd archives). An example of
access to one of the archive pages is shown below. You can click on the image
for the full screen.
Furthermore, David Cairns and Co are apparently not just viewing pages
but are using a robot alexa.com
to store the files on their computer.
(Note I have kept, in graphic form, over 20 pages of links visited by David
Cairns and Co Media Management under the log above - with most interest
being access to the anotd archives).
Here is the link
above - if you try to access it you will
see the password request preventing you.
Yesterday morning I sent David Cairns and Co the following letter
requesting an explanation. It has not, as yet, been answered.
23rd September 1998
Att: Mr D Cairns
Managing Director
David Cairns and Co Media Management
Ontario
Canada
BY FAX
Dear sir,
The writer is the editor of the on-line Australian
National News of the Day. This daily Australian newspaper at
http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/daily.html contains a subscriber only section
restricted to paying subscribers.
We have printed out Internet logs that show that your
company accessed these news archives on Monday 21st September at about 11.30am
(Australian Eastern Standard Time) for several hours.
The attachment shows that your company, David Cairns
and Co Media Management had been active on our site for over 12 hours at
just after 3pm on Wednesday 23rd September 1998.
We are concerned because according to our records we
have no Canadian subscribers to our archives and, on the face of it, your
company's access to hundreds of files in these archives during the periods
referred to above amounts to a clear breach of our security.
Our searches on the Internet have revealed your company
to be a well-respected business and for that reason we are willing to give
you the benefit of the doubt at this stage. However, we seek the subscriber
number given to all our approved participants through which the password
to these archives have been gained.
Please advise as a matter of urgency the subscriber
number so that we can confirm the validity of your status.
If the access information has come to your company
through a third party this would, of course, be a clear breach of the security
of our password protected subscriber section.
Please treat this as a matter of urgency. In the meantime
we have blocked IP 206.132.186.132 from gaining access to our site.
Yours sincerely,
Interactive Presentations Pty Ltd trading as Global Web Builders
Scott Balson
Managing Director
We will give David Cairns and Co until this weekend to answer before
we start using the power of the Internet to try to extract an explanation.
We have our suspicions as to where the company got the access details. A
journalist employee of News Limited subscribed to the anotd earlier
this month - and as a bona fide subscriber was given access with the clear
written instructions that the access was restricted to his personal use.
The Labor frothy based on hypocrisy
Yesterday
we carried a transcript of Alan Jones' comments about Labor's hypocrisy over
preferences.
Today the master sleaze, Labor's Queensland State Secretary, Mike Kaiser,
was trying to claim the moral high ground when accusing Pauline Hanson's
One Nation of giving the Liberal party their preferences.
In today's Courier Mail the paper refers to a pre-polling "how to
vote" card handed out in Oxley by One Nation candidate Colene Hughes.
This morning Bob, Colene Hughes's campaign manager told me, "Nobody
makes an apology for the way things are because the major parties have put
One Nation last anyway. If they had bothered to turn the how to vote card
over they would have seen that Labor had been given the preference on that
side."
"I won't believe what he (Mr Oldfield) says about preferences until I see
him produce the double-sided cards he has promised," Kaiser said yesterday.
"I have put every Labor candidate in Queensland on alert that they should
expect how-to-vote cards in their seats in which One Nation will direct
preferences against them.
Labor's
unethical preference ploy in the recent state elections is now well
documented.
Aboriginal expert claims One Nation cursed
A director of Aboriginal Studies at the University of Southern Queensland,
Gracelyn Smallwood claimed that One Nation was probably cursed.
She was responding to a passing remark by Barry Evans one of the party's
Queensland Senate candidates. Evans was relating his experience at the Mirani
Council Museum.
"It wasn't a big thing. A friend of mine, a South Sea islander, used to talk
about this (the presence)," Evans said.
"He was a keeper of the secrets and there is an exhibition in the museum
of old spears and tribal stuff from the islands.
"I went in there one night to get an Australian flag and it felt very strange.
I wouldn't go there after dark."
Smallwood on hearing Evans comments said, "The haunting is not as strange
as you think - and was probably a sign that the party was cursed."
One Nation's New South Wales top senate ticket, David Oldfield, (travelling
with Pauline Hanson in New South Wales) laughed off the comments saying,
"If there is a curse it's not a problem for us because we don't believe in
curses and you have to believe in curses and voodoo and black magic for it
to be able to harm you.
"Our organisation doesn't believe in curses and I would suggest that it's
a psychosomatic situation - things such as curses and voodoo dolls and you
have to believe in them before they hurt you."
Aboriginal population grows beyond all estimations
The Australian Bureau of Statistics have revealed that Australia's aboriginal
population grew by 55% in just ten years between 1986 and 1996.
The overall population of Australia grew by just 14% during this period with
the higher Aboriginal population being attributed to higher birth rates by
those with Aboriginal blood.
The stats also show that only 34.9% of Aborigines are getting an education
despite enormous government funds being provided as an incentive - an increase
of just over 1% since 1986.
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
You say:
Reporters
Caught in the web
The Article at first reading sounded fair, and unbiased,
but does your experience in reality cover the following?
(a) Why is the written word in hard copy any less subject
to "blurring the boundaries between the Authorised and ad hoc..." than the
web page? Both can be saved.
(b) Intimidation. I, like many have read Pauline Hanson's maiden speech,
and it is not even remotely racist, yet the written word "hard copy" went
out, verbalised by all the establishment. RACIST.
(c) This resulted in ordinary people like myself, who cannot afford to have
our property savaged by people who believe this lie, having to vote TRULY
IN SECRET.
No opinion poll will get any truthful answer from
me. There is no way I will put a One Nation sticker on my car or front gate
to place myself and family at the risk of violence and persecution, such
as all have seen on TV. I have enlightened Asian and Aboriginal aquantainances
who are in the One Nation camp.
The grapevine is more powerful than the newspaper.
Many working-class people are hurting. There is no longer security of employment,
and thus the home is at risk. The more the BIG LIE is told on the major news,
the more people flock to the one person who is prepared to listen and say
the truth. This is the grapevine working not the Internet. The Internet is
merely a tool where ordinary people like myself can access Hansard (among
others) and get the truth, and spread it around for ordinary people to read.
This then makes a mockery of the newspaper that tells the opposite.
Finally, you are correct in that Balson and anotd is
biased towards One Nation, but this cannot even remotely balance the opposing
bias by the big business Media. It is truly a David against Goliath scenario,
where TRUTH is bigger than muscle. Thank you for at least putting the anotd
site address in your article.
Regards,
Philip Lester James.
Please Explain
Dear Scott,
As a reader and contributor to ANOTD I have followed
your editorials and readers comments with interest. On this day when the
United Nations has served notice on the Australian Government to "please
explain", by January 1999 , our Immigration and Race policies, I have several
questions of which I hope readers of ANOTD can enlighten me on.
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Why do our Asian immigrants enthusiastically choose
to leave their country of birth, their natural culture and heritage , their
families, friends and religious institutions, to settle in a country which
is predominantly Anglo Saxon and alien to their own heritage and culture
?
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DO our new immigrants feel in anyway offended by being
a party to the ''new wave invasion'' of aboriginal lands and in the further
destruction of their culture. ?
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Why do people who claim to be anti-racist and against
discrimination support organisations like ATSIC , treaties such as the Indigenous
Bill of Rights, and governments that enshrine racism ?
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WHY haven't those people who sign petitions urging
the Government to "give back the stolen lands'' freely followed their own
consciences and given back their ''stolen booty'' ?
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WHY do those activists who cry the loudest about "the
whitemans destruction of aboriginal culture" insist on giving aboriginals
the benefits of '' the destructive whitemans culture " i.e.; better housing
, better schooling, better medical facilities , welfare, transport etc .Does
this not aid and abet in the further destruction of traditional aboriginal
culture ?
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HOW many children of the "stolen generation" actually
benefited from the care and attentions of well meaning "white Australians"
?
Have a good weekend......
Steve .
ABC Coverage of One Nation
Dear Scott,
Congratulations to the ABC 7 PM NEWS ???? and to the
presenters of the 7.30 REPORT????? (Thurs Sept 24th ) on your efforts in
the presentation of ONE NATION's policies and leaders to the taxpaying (i.e.
your employers ) people of this country. Through your disgusting coverage
and total lack of professionalism, you have set the media in this country
a new low benchmark for puerile and contemptible journalism.
The ABC once had my respect as an institution which
set and frequently obtained high standards in ethical and quality broadcasting
, unfortunately after tonight's efforts I have serious doubts as to the present
staff at the ABC having the ability to match those past standards and
achievements.
I HOPE YOUR EFFORTS HAVE SECURED YOUR ORGANISATION
A NEW BUDGET INCREASE FROM YOUR NEXT POLITICAL MASTERS. I FOR ONE NOW BELIEVE
YOUR ORGANISATION IS GROSSLY OVERFUNDED AS IT IS !!!!!!!!!!!
Steve Milson.
Points to ponder
Comment
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GOODS AND SERVICES TAX - MUST BE STOPPED EMERALD -
(Saturday, September 19, 1998) - The Coalition proposal (AFR-18/SEP/98) aimed
at cutting Australian Securities and Investments Commission red tape is most
welcome.
Whilst the Coalition’s proposal is a step in the
right direction, it does not go far enough. Prior to 1993 Limited Liability
Partnerships which had existed in Queensland since 1867 were taxed in the
same manner as any other partnership. Unfortunately in 1993 the Labor Government
and Mr. Keating in their lack of wisdom legislated to impose income tax on
Limited Liability Partnerships in the same manner as corporations. The result,
you guessed it, Limited Liability Partnerships have gone the same way as
the dinosaur and the dodo bird.
Under State legislation a Limited Liability partnership
may still be formed however as taxation is levied at the same rate as a
corporation and not exempted as a partnership, the concept is not being utilised.
Prior to 1993 the Limited Liability partnerships were an ideal structure
for the raising of much needed venture capital especially for small business.
Ironically Federal Governments both past and present who claim to be the
supporters of small business are doing nothing to restore the pre 1993 status
of Limited Liability partnerships. At a time when Limited Liability Partnerships
are encouraged throughout the world and taxation is only levied in the same
manner as any ordinary partnerships, on the partners, we have a Labor Government
introducing a tax and the Coalition Government following suit.
In all sincerity how could any Commonwealth Government,
Coalition or otherwise, be trusted with a Goods and Services Tax. Just like
the existing Wholesale Sales Tax which began at 2% and is now up to 44% on
some goods, the Goods and Services Tax will begin at 10% and before long
will rise to 25% like Sweden.
The Labour Government reintroduced the Capital Gains
Tax and the Howard Coalition did nothing to abolish it. The Frazer/Howard
Coalition Government contemplated the introduction of the Fringe Benefits
Tax payable by the employee, the Labour Government which followed did introduce
it payable by the employer and the Howard Coalition since did nothing to
abolish it, the list goes on. No Commonwealth Government can be trusted to
introduce a horrific taxation regime such as the proposed Goods and Services
Tax. It can be likened to giving a Vampire the keys to the blood bank.
Yours,
V. (Vic.) B. Cominos
QUEENSLAND FIRST MOVEMENT
Keep yer 'ead down
Opponents of Britain joining the European single currency
received a boost Wednesday when the national media seized on a report that
the head of Queen Elizabeth would not feature on euro banknotes. "Off With
Yer Head MA'AM!" the top-selling Sun tabloid said in a front page headline.
The Times, its broadsheet stablemate owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.,
declared, "Queen's head banned from euro notes." The decision that euro notes
would not carry national symbols was announced in Frankfurt Sept. 11, but
British media only picked it up when European Central Bank president Wim
Duisenberg told the European Parliament about it Tuesday in Brussels
Regards,
Peter H Davies
Editor
National Focus
Oldfield on ABC
Scott,
David was EXCELLENT on the ABC tonight. No wonder the
major parties are running scared. They would have to be to do a total preference
swap. This guy has what it takes to be a Prime Minister one day.
Steve
Real unemployment levels
Scott.
In todays Australian Newspaper, Thursday 24th September,
on Page 6, in the article "Nice look, shame about the results" by Michelle
Gunn, the following important statistic was revealled.
"The main flaw in the Oppositions job strategy is the
absence of specific measusres for the nations 1.4 million long-term
unemployed.
It is one of a number of weaknesses that stem form
a desire by the ALP to satisfy to many competing objectives...."
The key figure here is of course 1.4 million. One Nation
contends that the true unemployment level is around 1.8 - 2.0 million. On
which basis it is possible (indeed necessary) for the level of long term
unemployment to be around 1.4 million.
But the government, the opposition, the ABS and the
media consistently feed the line that the true level of unemployment is the
officially produced number of around 800,000 only.
One cannot have long term unemployment which is greater
than the total level of unemployment...
I believe someone has just shot the official line solidly
in the foot.
Hit them hard.
Regards.
Neil Baird
Another perfect day in paradise.
Have a good one.
Recent stories exclusive to
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subscribe/rs of the Australian National News of the Day:
Fairfax on
trial- 23rd September 1998
Where the politically
correct hang out - 20th September 1998
A brief lunch time
controntation with Jeff Kennett- 8th September 1998
One Nation's
Primary Industry Policy- 7th September 1998
One Nation's Tax Policy-
4th September 1998
One Nation "Media
Adviser" shows true colours- 1st September 1998
One Nation
Federal Fund Raiser - 21st August 1998
B'nai B'rith's
discriminatory and un-Australian "Racewatch" - 18th August 1998
Four Corners become
"Flawed" Corners - 11th August 1998
The Nicholas
Street Rally - 4th August 1998
Their first
day in Parliament - 28th July 1998
The 60 Minutes
debate/debacle - 26th July 1998
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