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Between the One Nation lines
Yesterday there was a quite extraordinary event in media coverage of political
history in the making.
One Nation members and MPs had the opportunity to tackle Laboral head-on
in a 60 Minutes confrontation between the new political force represented
by about 100 of its number, Graham Richardson for the ALP, Michael Kroger
for the Liberal Party and some forgettable man from the National Party.
Follow this link
for the story and images.
Queensland Police Minister "spits the dummy".
The Labor Police and Prisons Minister Tom Barton stormed out of a function
over the weekend after he discovered he was not on the main table - but Pauline
Hanson was.
"Yes," he said, "I left on the basis that I had not been advised that Pauline
Hanson was attending but also that Pauline Hanson was placed on the number
one table and I was 'bumped' onto another table."
"But it is pretty clear to me that the Logan Chamber of Commerce was
treating her as their primary guest of honour.
"I think that was inappropriate particularly as the local member notwithstanding
the fact that I am a Cabinet Minister and this was a function being held
in my electorate."
Boo...hoo!
Chamber president Michael Ryder-Smith said Barton was "bumped" because he
refused to sit at the main table with Pauline Hanson.
David Oldfield said after the incident that Barton showed "he was a very,
very small man filled with his own self-importance".
MD
A new perspective on erasing racism.
Here is an
extract:
The only way to eradicate racism on campus is to scrap racist programs and
the philosophic ideas that feed racism.
Racism will become an ugly memory only when universities teach a valid concept
of human nature: one based on the tenets that the individual's mind is competent,
that the human intellect is efficacious, that we possess free will, that
individuals are to be judged as individuals — and that deriving one's
identity from one's race is a corruption — a corruption appropriate
to Nazi Germany, not to a nation based on freedom and independence.
The Darling Harbour saga unravels
On Saturday I revealed that a
number
of documents had been placed on the Internet in the US by an unknown
party which implicated some high rollers with some rather interesting (perhaps
unsavoury) dealings.
I have been referred to a new twist and addition -
which
can be found here.
And
at this link the chronological unfolding of events related to this
case - includes links to Supreme Court cases
I received a number of Media Monitors by fax while at the 60 Minutes
debate. Here is a transcript of one of them dated 25th March 1994:
Subject: Investigation by ABC Radio has uncovered
evidence of grossly inflated claims and harrassment at the Darling Harbour
development. Interview with tenants association representative Frank
Nijad...
Ellen Fanning: An investigation by ABC Radio
has uncovered evidence of extraordinary business dealings, grossly inflated
claims and harrassment at one of Sydney's best known landmarks. The Darling
Harbour development has been shrouded in controversy ever since it was first
proposed 10 years ago but never have the allegations against figures associated
with the project been so serious.
An official liquidator is claiming that some of the
directors of the management and leasing companies may have acted criminally.
This and other allegations plus the evidence uncovered have sparked calls
for a full public inquiry into the shopping and entertainment complex.
John Thompson has been investigating the
workings of Darling Harbour and here's his report.
Reporter: Darling Harbour was the dream of former
NSW Public Works Minister and now Federal Industrial Relations Minister,
Laurie Brereton. It was officially opened in a blaze of glory by the Queen
in May 1988. It was supposed to have been a festival marketplace, attracting
more than 12 million visitors a year.
There were promises of a seven day a week festival
by day and by night. Now, six years later, experts and many stallholders
in the harbourside complex, claim the promises were misleading and in some
cases erroneous.
The Tenant's Association's Frank Nijad.
Nijad: Originally they told us that the company
is a very wealthy company and that tenants are going to be successful, they
will take every step in order to make the shopping centre successful and
it is nothing like it.
Reporter: But the story becomes more extraordinary
looking at the financial dealings of the compaines behind the project.
harbourside is into its thoird management company, the first two are in
Liquidation with combined debts of more than Au$390 million.
A confidential report to the Australian Securities
Commission by one set of liquidators reveals serious financial irregularities.
It says the ASC should investigate whether there has been any criminal
activity.
Ian Hayson, a board member of the two companies
in liquidation, is also a director of the present management group. His
father, Tom, is a director and is also on the board of one of those in
trouble.
Other documents obtained by the ABC show unusual dealings
over the car park behind the Sydney Entertainment Centre. A leasing deal
involving extraordinary high sums of money done between two related
companies.
Ian Hayson is a director of one, he is a previous director
of the other. There have been interesting staff movements between the
Darling harbour Authority, a government body and the management companies
in liquidation.
Of particular concern to many stallholders is the attitude
of the management. Gordon Green, former Chairman of the Tenant's Association,
sayd he got a call from the Center Manager after circulating a meeting agenda
with an item on management performance.
Gordon Green: He said, "I have had enough of
this shit. I am not going to put up with any more of it. I thought I could
work with you but now I see I can't. I am not going to renew your lease.
Now you think about that." and bang down went the phone.
Reporter: Frank Nijad had a similar experience
after calling in a newspaper reporter at a meeting.
Nijad: Since then I personally, our family
personally, have been subject to harrassment day and night.
Reporter: One stallholder is already taking
legal action in the Federal Court against the leasing company for alleged
misrepresentation. He claims to have been harrassed dince the action
started.
Stallholders are now pushing for a full public inquiry.
It seems previous investigations have'nt worked. A parliamentary inquiry
nearly four years ago failed to get some basic facts right and many of its
key recommendations are yet to be implemented.
The ICAC recently decided it was'nt worth taking any
further (action) but legal documents show at least one of its reasons was
wrong. In the past many of the stallholders have been frightened to speak
out. A full public inquiry now appears the only way the controversy which
has dogged Darling harbour since the beginning, can be sorted out once and
for all.
Much more to follow... the jigsaw puzzle is just starting to unravel.
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
You say:
Subject:
Exposing the
Lies
G'day there,
I found it interesting how we are now seeing the youth
in this nation being manipulated to the requirements of the proponents of
Australia's current policies. Few things these days surprise me anymore.
The reason I have sent this is to clear up and expose
a common misconception which is being used to keep people running chasing
their tails.
I noticed that many of the children in the recent
demonstartions were using the term Nazi to describle Pauline Hanson. This
clearly depicts their ignorance of the meaning of the word.
Now pay close attention to what I am saying as it is
very important. This is an issue the socialist/marxist thugs do not want
you to know about. The mainline media and the established educational
institutions do not teach this.
We are told that on the scale we have communism at
one end and socialism at the other. This is what we are expected to believe.
It is a lie!
Every scale has two ends. The ends of the scale are
always opposing to each other. On the scale of right and left, you have one
end that has total control, and one end has absolutely no control. This is
the scale that measures right and left.
Now if liberalism equals socialism equals communism,
and those things lead to more control by bigger and bigger government, then
the left must be the side of the scale which has control, and indeed, it
is. Witness the old Soviet Union. Witness Cuba's communist regime. Communism
is just an extreme of socialism. Both the ALP and the Liberal Party have
socialistic objectives (clearly proven by their policies) but they are merely
puppets for the real players.
Now, how can the right wing be portrayed as Nazi-like
if the extreme of the right wing is the complete absence of control--in other
words, anarchy?
Both extremes are bad!
"Nazi" was slang for the "National Socialist Workers
Party," and it is on the left. Socialism rides just a little above
communism.
Somewhere toward the middle of these two extremes is
what is known as a republic.
Right wing, traditionally, is for less government,
less control, more freedom.
As the Marxists begin their campaign to bring more
control into your life, the way they get you to oppose less control is by
portraying the right of the spectrum as Nazi's wanting to enslave you, control
you. It is a lie.
People on the right want less government, less control,
more freedom.
The extreme of the right, anarchy, is bad. It cannot
work.
The government situated somewhere in the middle which
is limited in power by a Constitution is the ideal form of government. This
is how the United States government used to be, yet it is not like this
now.
I hope all that end up reading this understand what
I am trying to explain. The propoganda in this age is so prevelant it is
so difficult to get people to sit back and think for themselves for once.
The poison from the mainstream sources of information severly impairs people's
critical thinking processes.
Regards,
Scott.
Schoolies
>I think that demonstrations by school children
marks a new low in politics and in the teaching profession. In the Vietnam
era lecturers got tertiary students to protest against the Vietnam War which
was still an abuse of their position. But for secondary teachers to use children
is right over the top. Many people make out Pauline a Nazi but it is the
protesors (at Hawthorn and Bendigo) who are the real Nazis. Whatever one
might say about Pauline she has got the other side to come out in its true
colours.
Greg Byrne
Subject: Pauline Hanson
Dear Sir,
sorry I missed Pauline Hanson's visit to Perth ! I
work at the Alcoa alumina refinery in Pinjarra and just wanted to say that
most of us chant your name !. you indeed are a whirlwind ! we love ya !!!.
At the moment I am watching the most bias anti one nation segment I think
I have ever seen 60 minutes regarding single mums. I a male was on sole parents
and I can honestly say , its a joke, the amount they threw at me , and I
agree with you , something has to be done about it.
Please dont loose heart Pauline, there are millions
of people with you on many issues !.The brain washing by these shows to the
Australian people has been awakened by your statements ! and yes were not
going to put up with it anymore are we !
Raymond !!
Subject: Support and help
Dear sir:
I belong to a spanish speaking community, and is amazing
how manipulative its mentors and leader can be.
Unable to understand or speak english ,they have to
rely on people with vested interest to explain them , what is going on in
Australia.
I came to Australia in 1983 from Argentina and inmediately
fell in love with this country. Democracy ,freedom of speach,and a fair go
for everyone, are australian values and I don't want them to change or desappear
I will do my best , not to convince people , but to get them, well informed
, and promote a civiliced discuss of ideas.
If they really believe in democracy let it take its
course. I will probably dont agree with all your policies , but I think you
have the right of express them freely.
Spanish Inquisition burnt books to stop people reading
them, today those who are for democracy, disrupt meetings,to stop citizends
expressing their points of view.
Yours faithfully
Sergio Medina
Subject: To be informed
Dear Friends fom One-Natin
You are the real future of Australia. I wish to have
all iformations about One Nation news.
I have a lot to say but I have to be sure that my
informations will be able to reach The Addresee.
All the best
Alojzy Runiewicz
Subject: ammo
This is a topic that could do with some One
nationing:
Why are mining royality payments to Native Australians
are not classed as income for centerlink and ATO purposes? I think it is
strange that an Aboriginal family that get royality payments from MIM, Nabalco
and Ranger uranium can get $60,000 per annum in mining royality payments
and still get Socail security and a health care card? Some Aboriginal families
have family income with royality + DSS of $80,000+ but don't pay any tax
how come?
Truth hurts (ouch)
Darwin N.T.
Subject: Comments on Australian News of the
Day
Blantant lies are out, subtle suggestion is in. Jim
W on the Channel Nine Sunday program this morning has chosen to use the word
"peddling" when referring to One Nation trying to air their policies. The
use of this word places One Nation policies in the same basket as drug pushing.
Very clever use of the English language with the connotations of using this
word being that spreading One Nation policies are as evil as pushing
drugs.
Democracy only seems important to these people as long
as they have there own way at all times.
Phil M.
Subject: One Nation Party
Dear Pauline Hanson,
Are you sure that you couldn't come to England for
a while, you would be the best man here. The BBC (and the first 'B' doesn't
mean 'British' these days) is celebrating 50 years of black immigration tonight.
We English count for nothing these days.
God best you and your endeavours,
Best wishes,
Tony Baggett
Subject: State of flux
What an interesting state of political flux exists
today. Yet so many don't seem to understand why. It appears that the majority
do see and hear, but their window of perception is opaque; the truth is not
filtering through.
Unfortunately too many people lead insulated frenetic
lives where the pursuit o egoism and station has replaced the truly important
values of life. If only a little time could be devoted to sit back, listen,
and actually think, perhaps more individuals may realise that their steady
diet of misinformation has reached such fantastically outlandish proportions
that something really is amiss, and most definitely afoot in the greater
landscape or our nation.
One Nation supporters are continually portrayed as
illiterate, redneck, racists; how derogatory and pathetically untrue. Most
l have met are conservative (from both sides of politics), proud, patriotic
Australians - from every walk of life and various ethnic origins, who are
prepared to stand up and fight for their fellow citizens, They fight for
what everyone holds dear, i.e. truth, freedom, and equal opportunity in our
politically besieged future.
Yes, Ms Hanson makes mistakes - who doesn't? But do
try to realise the exacerbation of trying to do so much, with very little
help and far too much hindrance.. l can forgive the mistakes for I feel the
tenets of her arguments are grounded in the truth. The truth, what a sadly
rare commodity, in the circles of influence in this nation. It is as if the
suppression of facts is a preferred option, the easy way out perhaps?
Ask yourselves why? Take the time to absolve your
prejudices and really think -our future depends on it. Seek the truth and
realise it for yourself
Caroline Haskard Kingaray
Subject: Re: Aboriginal voting and the 1967
Referendum
I watched with interest thinking Pauline had put her
"foot in her mouth", dont worry most if not all Pauline supporters know what
is right anf what is not. Reporters are thier own worst enemy and our allies
at the moment. Like the "pollies" they have not got a clue as to what Pauline
is about and what is happening to politics in OZ.
We do !
Keep up the good work we know where your comming from
and believe where we are going.
Phill Lawrence
Subject: Racism.
Hi,
I thought you might like to read this spirited denunciation
of racism/diversity and defence of individualism (attached), which comes
from the Ayn Rand Institute site in the United States.
On a lighter note, an email pen pal over there tells
me that the term the irreverent use for multi-culturalism is "multiculty".
I think that this an Americanism that we could well adopt. I have!
Regards,
Allen Ford.
Subject: Pauline Pantsdown
That song was meant to stir up the people it concerned,
much like One Nation itself. The song got banned, which I hope will also
happen to One Nation over the recent inquiry over the party's income statement.
I say, "Let the schmucks fry" and let people poke harmless fun. After all,
political satire has been around far longer than Pauline Hanson. No-one wants
to ban Leuning cartoons and they make defamatory statements almost on a daily
basis.
Simon Taft
Another perfect day in paradise.
Have a good one.
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