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30th September 1998
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Between the One Nation lines
Yesterday I witnessed, first hand,
the media's gate crashing of a private One Nation meeting.
Their justification was fruit-loop stuff - the sort of thing that they like
to accuse One Nation supporters of.
Picture right: Pauline Hanson arrives in the glare
of the camera lights.
Here is an extract from the extensive report covering this event and the
astounding behaviour of some of the journalist,
cameramen and photographers who
were there:
Picture left: The Sydney Morning Herald's Margo Kingston
is interviewed by other journalists in a farcical situation where the media
create the news instead of reporting on it.
While Margo Kingston cried foul about the costings
Jackman took Heather Hill loudly to task calling her a liar over her comments
on ABC Radio 4QR where she allegedly said that morning ' you pick up The
Courier Mail and you have three pages of very detailed policy of the major
political parties and only a few lines from One Nation'.
"Where are the costing you promised us Mr Oldfield,"
Margo Kingston shouted to the benefit of those gathered in the hall.
"Why did you lie about The Courier Mail on radio
today Mrs Hill," Christine Jackman shouted in similar vein.
Here we had a most remarkable situation. A situation
where the media, instead of reporting on issues, was actually creating the
story that would appear on television that night and, most certainly, the
Australian papers the next day.
Whatever happened to "RaceWatch"?
Do you remember the pre-election hype by Community Aid Abroad and
B'nai B'rith about RaceWatch - their un-Australian group to
be used to "out racists"?
Whatever happened to its grand plan of providing the media with a list of
racists every Friday during the election campaign? I cannot believe that
Australia does not have one racist - if it doesn't why all this talk about
racists and racism and why involve thousands of One Nation supporters by
implication?
Check out "RaceWatch"
files.
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
You say:
A spoof on the Liberal's crimtrak
To the editor,
Dear Sir,
The following phrases have been cloned from the Liberal
Web Site and changed a little.
"To successfully strengthen the fight against bad
politicians, Australian people must have quicker and more effective sharing
of information through use of the latest technology.
The government would contribute up to $50 million over
3 years to establish a national information system – PoliTrac. PoliTrac
will be available to all Australian citizens, and will match information
from suspected politicians with undelivered promises.
PoliTrac will use the latest advantages in technology
including information on the records of deposed politicians and records from
pre election speeches.
As well as DNA (Did Not Answer – (the question))
information, the system will include a register of: Poli superannuation payout
payees, apprehended air travel rorters, workers in wasteful indigenous
industries, those holding paedophile licences, and just in case we are heading
down the path of the US - the perpertrators of stolen virginity. We could
also run an RSD (Repository for Soiled Dresses)
Through PoliTrac, the public will be able to see the
truth quicker and build fairer and stronger communities, protecting all
Australians.
Given the national significance of this important
initiative, the Government will discuss ongoing resource requirements with
the states and territories."
But seriously, if real fairness is to be brought into
politics we must strive to see that every Australian citizen has easy access
to the Internet. In practical terms this would require funds being provided
so that every Australian household is given access to the Net. This is coming
of course, with the introduction of television/internet receivers with the
ability to surf the net from the loungeroom chair by way of the remote control.
Then every Australian will have access to the truth. This will at least remove
some of the monopoly that the existing owners have over the media.
Yours sincerley
John K. Flynn - Perth
PS and good luck Pauline and One Nation !
Support
Dear Sir
Sorry to see Pauline's distress at Court yesterday,
don't let them get you down.
I cannot remember a Politician in this Country being
treated the way you have been (and some of them deserve to be) stay
strong.
Good luck on Saturday and don't worry if things don't
turn out the way you hope, you have achieved more than any of the rest of
them, Australia will never be the same again.
I would also like to compliment you on your courage,
femininity and staying power.
God bless you.
John
That song
I was pleased that the court in its wisdom has stopped
the abc from playing that "song". However tonight on B105 at 10:10pm it was
played on The Ugly Phills hot 30 show as the number 2 song. I felt that strongly
about it that I have emailed the presenter of the show and it's parent station
voicing my disgust at their obvious lack of concern and their poor taste.
I was under the impression that the injunction applied to ALL radio stations
not just triple J, ABC.
Best of luck on saturday 3rd October 1998.
Margaret Chapman
Honesty will prevail over media lies
Watching with absolute dismay at the disgusting festering
lie that is the media. And to see our national political parties and anyone
else that has a mind to, kick a defensless body while lying bleeding on the
ground brings me to tears. Pauline Hanson and One Nation will have the hardiest
of followers, the true patriots of Australia will rise, and rid this disease
from our society. Those eletist that see us as lesser Australians than they
will inevitably fall on there own sword. And so be it. I have made myself
a promise, that in any event I will gather the resources and begin an honest
paper to be sent to anyone who seeks the truth, to all One Nation members
and friends, and together with my friends in mackelar (the seat of) we will
expose the treachery of these journalists and there lying rags.
Good luck to Pauline and all candidates in the rescue
of our great Nation.
Ian J Nelson
The press
Watching in dismay as our so called journalists dismantle
freedom in this country by selectively offering only what is totally negative
to One Nation is to say the least an outrage. To these cowards who own the
forum, I hope that one day they will reap what they have sown. That is inciting
one Australian against another, poisoning the minds of our children, destablizing
our economy, and furthering the hatred and bigotry of a small industry called
multiculturalism. I can only hope that all members of One Nation rally together
after the election whether or not we win considerably or lose. We have only
just begun to bring power back to the people, we have a long road ahead,
the task is enormous, but for the sake of Pauline Hanson and all One Nation
members, and all decent Australians we must and will prevail.
Name withheld
GWB and One Nation issues
GWB - Thankyou for your defence of One Nation and Pauline
Hanson's courage to take on the entrenched political parties of Australia
- TweedleDUMB and TweedleDUMBER! Free thinking [and intelligent] Australians
have much to thank her for and also Global Web Builders for your well-designed,
well presented Web Site - a smack in the eye for those who seek to silence
you and destroy One Nation. History will deal with them in due course. Let
us all hope that a future Conservative Government supported by One Nation
will clean the Labour voting,commie reds and pinkies out of the ABC and close
down Triple J Radio - a hotbed of filth and invective for the entertainment
of ratbags, perverts, druggies and suchlike -most of them with rings in their
noses,eyebrows and various other body places! God may forgive them for what
they have done and said against Pauline Hanson but One Nation supporters
won't!
[George Sherlock]
Excuses, excuses
Commenting on the refusal by the major parties to raise
issues such as reconciliation or the challenges of globalisation, the Australian
editorialised: "The effect of politcal threats, such as One Nation, has been
to intimidate the big parties, so they have avoided controversial
issues."
Intimidate? One Nation intimidates the big parties?
I see they are re-writing history before it has even happened. The truth
is that the big parties have tried to intimidate One Nation since its inception,
and they have failed to do so. In the face of such intransigence by a substantial
proportion of the citizenry, elite opinion now has it that the big parties
are the victims of One Nation!
Why then did a journalist in the same paper claim One
Nation was "limping towards the finish line"? They cannot have it both ways:
surely a party which is "limping towards the finish line" cannot simultaneously
"intimidate the big parties".
The big parties have not been intimidated by One Nation.
They are simply too gutless to come clean on their social and economic policies
because they know the people - yes the people, not just One Nation supporters
- disapprove of them.
Very few people want Australia sold off to foreigners
and the big parties know it. That's why they will not debate privatisation,
globalisation, and UN treaties which limit our rights, both national and
even private parental rights. The Australian's excuse for the big parties'
reticence - that the existence of One Nation intimidates them - is
ludicrous.
Antonia
How to vote card
I just received a "how to vote" card from my local
labor candidate.
Two things annoyed me about it.
First he had Neil Baird the ON candidate for my area
of Barton placed LAST on the ticket (which means I will now place Lib last
and Labor second last).
The second was when I turned the paper over it had
info on how to vote in about 20 other languages!
How long will it be before there will be no English
language and we are all forced to learn some other language to communicate.
How long before English is outlawed in Oz!
Regards
Geoff Stanley
My objection to vote rigging
dear Scott,
Please post the following as a matter of interest to
those who believe in democracy.
SUBMISSION to the JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE on ELECTORAL
MATTERS
I object to the cavalier manner in which MY vote has
been forcibly taken to give a result that I do not desire. This is based
on the fact that neither the Liberal nor the Labor party, are worthy of my
vote in any way what so ever. They both are guilty of leading this once great
nation into a third world condition and enslavement by the multinational
banks. We had a perfectly legal preferential system in place but because
of the fear of the new One Nation party, you (NB I am not using adjectives
such as arseholes) people in your scared condition seeking to protect your
selves from the anger of the people just had to fiddle the system to your
advantage. The result, for the first time in 25 years I will now give my
preference to the Laborites. Next time I might give the other bunch of liars
a go just to cause instability. These are the reasons for my objections.
These are the grounds for my objection. For some time
now you have been guilty of operating an Internationally illegal government.
Again there has been cover up after cover up of these illegalities, continually
lying to the people, hiding behind a foreign document "The Commonwealth of
Australia Constitution Act 1900 UK", covering this by having an alien monarch
justify it all. The Queen of England is only the Queen of England. No where
else in the world is she recognized as the Queen of Australia.
Where does she live? When was she crowned as such?
How often are we honored by Her presence? Recently she was advised to rescind
all of her Letters Patent by the UK government. She did. Then the Commissions
of Authority were invented signed by the Queen of Australia to cover the
weakness of the system. These also have no international recognition. Your
legislations have no legitimacy. You really are just a bunch of pirates.
Totally without respect,
John R Hugo.
A Labor carbon tax?
Dear Sir
Carbon Tax Alert !
The Australian federal election campaign is now reaching
a climax with the Liberal government's new tax proposals for income tax cuts
and a broad-based Goods and Services Tax (like VAT in Europe), coming under
sustained attack from the Labor opposition. Labor are now nudging ahead in
the opinion polls, making this Saturday's election a cliffhanger.
But it is now possible that an incoming Labor government
will use "saving the planet" as a pretext for a Carbon Tax to bolster a revenue
shortfall their campaign promises have created. Labor have on recent previous
occasions promised one thing before an election and promptly did U-turns
afterwards, particularly on tax matters.
Is a Labor Carbon Tax merely a speculation - or a real
Labor agenda? During the Tasmanian state election 4 weeks ago, the state
Labor leader, Jim Bacon, (who subsequently won the election) stated during
the campaign that Tasmania should retain it's prized fossil-free hydro-electric
system in public ownership in anticipation of the mainland of Australia moving
toward carbon taxes on all fossil fuels (coal, oil, petrol, gas).
It was an indiscreet slip on his part during the heat
of debate on local TV, and suggests that federal Labor is already moving
toward the idea of a Carbon Tax. Such a tax would massively increase the
price of fuel and electricity, causing cost increases in every economic sector.
(More on Carbon Taxes here)
Australia's deal at Kyoto makes carbon taxes un-necessary.
Yet, federal Labor may be warming to the tax anyway purely as a revenue measure
after the election is behind them. Deja Vu. It would have a profound broad-based
impact, but be justified spuriously on environmental grounds. They may even
be tempted to squander the hard-won gains made by the current government
at Kyoto in order to justify the Carbon Tax.
--
John L. Daly
Comment on Australian National News of the
Day
A friend has suggested that we should all put Labor
as our 2nd preference rather than Liberal.
His reasoning is this, if the Libs get in we will get
a GST that will NEVER be repealed by Labor if they ever got in again.
Whereas if Labor gets in at least we have 3 years more
for One Nation to gain strength and recognition and a chance to see if Labor
will stuff the economy up again.
Regards
Geoff Stanley
Predictions
Dear Editor,
For the record, the prediction is that the Liberals
will lose their occupancy of the Treasury Benches as a result of the (delayed?)
distribution of preferences in the October 3 election.
John Winston Howard will retire in affluence and with
the multiplicity of perks for former Prime Ministers (who do not have to
serve any set time to qualify) and Peter Costello will be appointed by that
Party as its parliamentarty leader (and will be the leader of Her Majesty's
Loyal Opposition).
Post mortems will reveal that the Liberals failed miserably
in their pitifully weak attempts to sell a new tax regime BECAUSE they did
not comprehensively emphasise the taxes, duties, levies and other government
assessments that were being abolished in the process AND they did not effectively
counter the anti-GST publicity. Many of the grassroots supporters will wonder
whether there was a hidden agenda or ulterior motive involved. Was it realised,
for example, that the "difficult", perhaps even intransigent, Senate would
deny a Liberal-led government a new tax regime and a radically altered industrial
relations one?
The next government will probably not achieve its
objectives but the extremely tolerant electorate will let it run up massive
debt and continue - surreptitiously - to sell off any remaining publicly
held assets.
Sincerely
J o n M. A x t e n s
Another perfect day in paradise.
Have a good one.
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