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Between the One Nation lines
Yesterday, the day the 1998 Federal Election was called, revealed the chasm
between the Laboral Party (Liberal, Labor, Democrats and Nationals) and Pauline
Hanson's One Nation.
While the leaders of the major
parties were out ban-storming the television stations in an effort to try
to push their party line Pauline Hanson was holding a media free closed session
in the small Barry Jones auditorium in Ipswich with about 50 One Nation
candidates and executives.
The meeting had a two-fold purpose. First and foremost to release the party's
tax policy to an inner circle of people and secondly to announce the Senate
team for the Queensland State.
Right above you can see Pauline Hanson with the senate
team: Sue Gordon (3rd); David Anning (4th); Heather Hill (1st); Barry Evans
(5th) and Len Harris (2nd).
As a trusted One Nation member I was in the unique position to be able to
record the meeting - which will be published on Thursday after the release
of Pauline Hanson's Tax Policy.
Coverage
of the Senate announcement segment of the meeting is now on-line.
Some of the comments that Pauline made during the meeting I have recorded
below as they do not prejudice the secrecy behind the tax policy:
"Income tax is destroying this country; destroying
the incentive to work. Bracket creep will erode the earning capacity further.
We are getting to the stage where the person who gives it a go is paying
for all the others who just sit on their backsides. We've got to give people
the incentive to work harder.
"What the government has not addressed is the
multinationals and big business who do not pay their share of tax.
"However, tax reform is not the main issue in Australia,
unemployment is."
While Pauline Hanson was at the meeting the Howard/Beazley Laboral show had
raced off from the starting line with the hare's throwing verbal punches
at each other while the tortoise, One Nation, started laying its own tracks.
The Laboral Party representing big business and being funded to the tune
of millions of dollars by these representatives of economic rationalism while
One Nation, with a large portion of its funds locked up in a Liberal Party
inspired court battle in Queensland, having to depend on the common sense
of people who can see through the mist and mirrors of Laboral's lies.
First shot across the bows of the people's party was Howard's comment that
the Coalition would not do deals with One Nation if it held the balance of
power - a comment echoed by Labor's Kim Beazley. What both major party leaders
conveniently forget is that for One Nation to achieve this position it will
rely on the will of the people. But the Australian people do not matter to
the major parties. Never have, never will.
Howard yesterday suggested that the shaky world economy was reason enough
for people to vote for the Coalition, "There is an uncertain world economic
environment. Now is the time for the Australian people to decide whether
they want Kim Beazley or Gareth Evans at the helm in these uncertain times
or do they want the return of the Government led by me. Only the Liberal
and National parties have the record and the tenacity to secure a stronger
Australia for a new century."
Beazley's reply was predictable, "Mr Howard does not have a plan for the
nation, he has a plan for a tax which would be like a dead hand on our national
economy... at a point of time of great potential economic difficulty.
"We are going to go into this campaign not with a string of negatives...
but with a plan for the future, a plan that includes all Australians."
The dark horse is One Nation with the party expecting to hold the balance
of power in both the Upper and the Lower House.
My prediction is that One Nation will hold ten Lower House seats and seven
Senate seats after the Federal Election. (My prediction of ten One Nation
seats for the Queensland state election in June was slightly conservative
with the party winning eleven).
This despite the Laboral Party partners exchanging their preferences.
Here
is an extract from the Sydney Morning Herald:
The One Nation onslaught means Labor will be forced
to rely on conservative preferences (or at least a drift of preferences)
to retain seats like Opposition Leader Mr Beazley's electorate of Brand.
The National Party leader Mr Fischer is certain to need Labor preferences
to withstand One Nation in Farrer.
Meanwhile Tim Fisher is destined to lose his seat to One Nation - with One
Nation being placed last on his How to Vote card being a move that will not
be taken well by the people of Farrer who have fallen in behind One nation
candidate Don McKinnon.
Hanson releases her campaign schedule
Pauline Hanson , unlike the secretive Laboral Party factions, will release
her entire campaign schedule in the lead up to the October 3rd election.
In her discussion with me yesterday she revealed that no Federal Seat would
be safe for either party.
"People thought Oxley was a safe Labor seat. So really this time there is
no safe seat at all. I think the potential is there to duplicate what we
achieved in the Queensland State election - I do believe that there is strong
support Australia-wide.
"There's a good chance of actually having the balance of power in the Senate
- I'm not that confident in the Lower House, but it is a possibility.
"I think we can do quite well. The Australian people are fed up with the
Coalition and Labor and the direction this party had been going in.
"They are looking for someone else that they can actually vote for. Someone
who can represent their views, their concerns and be their true voice in
Parliament."
Little (journalist) boy, big moment, predictable
reporting.
News Limited's Courier Mail while treating anything and everything that the
lying Laboral Party partners as gospel in front page coverage give Pauline
Hanson special treatment on page five.
In an article "Quick step into the heart of One Nation" in which a picture
of the reporter James Swanwick dancing (and looking star-struck) with Pauline
Hanson dominates, he reports along the lines of Pauline "the party girl".
Here are some extracts from his pathetic ramblings:
"Criticised for being "too personally close" to her
bodyguards for dancing with them in nightclubs, One Nation leader Pauline
Hanson last Friday strutted her stuff in Caboolture.
"This time it was not with her Australian Federal Police
minders but with this newspaper reporter, feeling highly uncomfortable, given
her notoriety.... "
and then:
"As two gentlemen looked on holding their customised
foam stubby holders emblazoned with their initial - essential equipment for
any hard-core One Nation-ite - I requested and was granted a dance."
Excuse me for missing something here but who asked who for a dance... and
if HE was feeling uncomfortable why does he look like a kid tasting ice cream
for the first time in the picture?
Not till the voters swing
Here
is an extract from the Sydney Morning Herald article:
However, the pattern of recent opinion polls suggests
huge volatility in the electorate. Since the defection of the former Democrat
Leader Cheryl Kernot, Labor's vote, according to Newspoll, has ranged between
39 and 45 per cent, while the Coalition's support has varied wildly from
34 to 46 per cent. Such swings suggest an electorate that is yet to make
up its mind. This will be the most open campaign in modern times, and who
wins the campaign will win the election.
The rise of One Nation also means that opinion polls
measuring support on a two-party preferred basis are almost meaningless.
As the Queensland election showed, the rise of One Nation means that in many
seats, it will be the preferences of Labor or Coalition candidates that will
be distributed. The higher the One Nation vote, the harder it becomes for
Labor to win, and the greater the likelihood of a hung Parliament.
Which is why the Government's decision to bury most
of the campaign in a period when the media are dominated by sport may not
be such a wise move. The same tactic was used by the South Australian Liberal
government in 1997, when even an AFL flag for the Adelaide Crows was unable
to prevent a huge vote for minor parties and Independents, and a massive
swing against the government. The whole campaign may be telescoped into the
last week.
Making the
news" -
an indepth exposé of media and political collusion at the highest
possible levels in Australia.
You say:
Subject: Re: Australian election
Scott
A Canadian journalist has given me permission to repost
this letter to your site. I found the parallels between Canada and Australia
fascinating. Their Reform party sounds like our One Nation and has faced
the same battles.
In a subsequent letter he wrote:
"Reform, like ON threatens to shatter the elite's monopoly on debate and
power. Like anyone else whose cozy livelihood is threatened, our elites early
on were just as vicious about Reform. Reform leader Preston Manning was routinely
greeted by protestors outside his meetings chanting "Racist, sexist, anti-gay,
Preston Manning go away."
And that's the proof of the elite's stupidity. They
never debate, they only hurl insults and turn up their manipulation of debate
in order to cling to their monopoly. They have a facade of intelligence,
but few of them have any real intellectual depth".
Sounds familiar? Read on.
Antonia
I am a journalist, a columnist at Canada's fifth-largest
daily, the Edmonton Journal. So, sadly, I daily witness from the inside the
bias and censorship by omission to which you refer.
You're right about the Australian's obvious slant.
But I see the same or worse at the SMH and The Age. So what is one to
do?
In this respect, and many others, I find Australia
and Canada very alike. Until recently, all our major newspapers and our national
radio and television networks (like the ABC) spewed forth daily the identical
left-of-centre, eat-your-peas, elitist tripe. They, depite being nominally
Tory and Liberal, represented only two sides of the same coin. It's gotten
slightly better since we brought our national treasury to the brink of bankruptcy
in 1993. After that, even the lefties had to face the limits of the nanny
state.
Whether One Nation succeeds nationally the way it did
in Queensland, or merely wins enough seats to be a recognized party in the
next Parliament, their mere presence will force open debate. It may not be
obvious. Reform here forced change on the ruling Liberals during their first
term in Parliament (1993-97), but very few journalists even picked up on
it.
Immigration, one of One Nation's big issues I understand,
is a good example. Prior to Reform's arrival on the scene, no national party
even questioned the country's immigration policy, which was allowing twice
as many immigrants per capita than the US or anyone in Europe. Most were
either aging parents of recent immigrants coming here for the free health
care, or persons with bogus refugee claims many of whom turned out to be
flee criminal charges or poverty back home. Few were ever deported, even
when their stories were uncovered.
Before Reform, any consideration that immigration should
benefit Canada as well as the immigrants was dismissed as racist. No party
would even examine the economics of immigration--it was just presumed to
be all good.
Simply by asking tough questions, and refusing to back
down in the face of intimidation, Reform encouraged ordinary people to speak
out and question what was going on. After a couple of years, the Liberals,
as if it had been their idea all along, revamped immigration rules to cut
down on bogus refugee claims and family reunifications, and to introduce
language and education qualifications. None of these are very tough rules,
but they're a start.
Talk about censorship by omission. That was our political
debate, not just our media coverage, until 1993. Today things are a bit
better.
The pre-'93 exclusion of millions of people from the
debate finally led to the creation of Reform, as it did One Nation.
--Lorne
Subject: Looks like the time will come today ...
Looks like the federal election will be called
today.
Wishing Pauline and all the team all the best (when
my commission cheque clears, expect a family membersip from us!).
PS: What's the chance to get hold of a few One Nation
stickers to put on our cars ?
ROGER A STOCKBURGER
Subject: Propaganda-Watch!
Dear Scott,
Media-Watch Interactive has just launched a new feature
called "Propaganda-Watch!" With detailed analysis, it exposes examples of
propaganda in the media. This includes the traditional newspaper articles,
TV reports but also press releases and material published on the Internet.
We aim at making information about propaganda techniques widely available
to the public in the hope it will help them see through the daily deception
perpetrated by the propagandists.
I believe your readers will be interested by the first
example of propaganda, which is a newspaper story published by The Australian
newspaper about One Nation.
In a few days, we will have an online form that people
will be able to use to submit cases of propaganda for analysis. In the meantime,
they can send
suggestions.
Cheers,
JG Estiot
Editor
Media-Watch
Interactive
Subject: One Nation web site.
Dear Scott,
I take this opportunity to convey a hearty congratulation
to you for your effort in maintaining the informative site which ON has entrusted
in your obviously capable hands. The lack of updating is often the downfall
of many a web site and if what you have done for ON is reflective of GWB's
business acumen I hope you prosper indeed. Now the Federal election, and
the call goes out for assistance at the polls. Yet if there is one small
measure in doing so which I can offer, it is a word of encouragement for
a member of the backbone in this operation, namely yourself, who, though
unseen, I am sure is greatly appreciated and constantly kept in mind by the
many participants of the ON web site. May the inevitable frenzy during these
next several weeks bypass you and though I think it will be wishing too much
to hope that all will be smooth going for you I do hope at least that you
may fulfil your task in good health and spirit.
All the best.
Sincerely,
I.C. Kadaitcha
Subject: One Nation Party Can Only Go
Forward
You are the only hope Australia has. You can rid us
of Jew-controlled lackeys. Watch for the vermin among your ranks. They change
their names. They moult like snakes. They have no loyalty to their countries
of birth, citizenship or livelihood.
Mohammed Hegazi
Subject: Battle lines are drawn!
What a pleasant surprise it was, to see David Oldfield
interviewed on ch.9's "Sunday" program.
In stark contrast, to the leader of the Labor party,
and Peter Reith, that had been interviewed just before him, David gave Laurie
Oakes, quick responsive, crystal clear answers, in the questions he was
asked.
I couldn't help thinking, why is it, that politicians,
in general, cannot give straight answers, like David, and you may listen
to them talk for quite sometime, and then ask yourself, what the hell the
answer was...
Well done David, that is why, the average Mr Citizen
out there, listens to what you and Pauline have to say, you speak the "language"
of the ordinary folk, not the plastic mambo - jumbo, that the mainstream
politicians have been dishing out for years.
Arthur Katakalos
Subject: One rule for them ...
The hyprocricy of the chattering class has no limit.
The decision to grant an exemption from the Equal Opportunity Act to allow
Ann Ivamy-Phillips to set up a Jewish dating agency smacks of sheer favouritism.
There is certainly no principle involved.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal even
warned other racial groups that the decision was not a precedent for them
to seek the same privilege. The deputy president, Cate (enough said) McKenzie
said the tribunal was satisfied that Ms Ivamy-Phillips was 'genuine' and
wanted to provide the same level of opportuniity for Jews to meet life partners
as was available to the general population.
Big deal. What can't everybody enjoy this freedom of
association? Why are Jews so special? Lots of people want to maintain their
own traditions - even Australians. By what reasoning was it established that
a Jewish woman desiring to set up a Jesish dating agency was somehow more
'genuine' than say, a Baptist or Vietnamese woman desiring to set up a Baptist
or Vietnamese dating agency?
The sooner these outrageous Anti-discrimination tribunals
and Equal [sic] Opportunity Commissions are ditched the better. Free people
should have the right to associate with whomever they please without such
gross interference as comes from these pc tribunals.
Antonia
Tax plan ignores the basic rules of reform
Most of us can see the need to improve the Australian
tax system, and the Government's new proposals have been a stimulus for
discussion. There is scope for adopting systems that are fairer and simpler,
as well as being capable of building a better society and a better economy.
There is also a very real need for a system that allows all levels of government
to raise the funds needed to function properly and responsibly.
Unfortunately the GST has hijacked the entire reform
process at a time when we should have been rationally evaluating all possible
systems. Who knows? We may have actually chosen a GST after studying the
alternatives, but we simply didn't get a chance. Instead, we got a Government
that wanted to prove it was macho enough to do something that Paul Keating
and John Hewson were unable to do. The result? A complicated proposal aimed
at selling a new tax of, at best, marginal benefit. We have missed the real
reform that the country needs. Somewhere along the line people have failed
to grasp that the GST or any other value-added tax is an inherently complicated
way of putting a second tax on payroll, profits and government charges. Payroll
tax is a lot simpler - and no worse from the viewpoint of fairness and
incentive.
Perhaps business would be better off if we simply
put a high enough tax on payroll and dividends to allow some of the more
complicated and dysfunctional taxes to be retired. Consider the benefits
in simplicity and incentive if productive capital investment in Australia
was fully tax-deductible in the same way as operating costs are. Consider
the benefits of restricting sales tax to real luxury items and getting rid
of stamp duties and other annoying minor taxes.
It is a shame that John Howard, 1998, failed to listen
to the words of John Howard, 1996. Had he done so, we might have reached
a better outcome by starting from the premise that a GST was unlikely to
be part of the solution. What was needed was open discussion, not a big
sell.
John Davidson, Chapel Hill, Qld
Subject: go get um
i support pauline hanson and the one nation stand.
i don't know how she can overcome her reputation for racism except to continue
to tell people how it is and stand up for all our rights. keep on
truckin'
Subject: 38
minutes
i have just found your report on sixtyminutes and their
show regarding the peoples army in australia.
i am pleased that my feelings have been
vindicated.
Subject: House of Horrors?
Australian Democrats 'leader' Smegg Lies says that
the Senate will become a 'House of Horrors' if One Nation Party is elected
to the balance of power.
Hmm....it was my understanding that approx 1/4(if not
1/3) of the electorate _already views_ both Houses as 'Houses of Horrors'.
The abysmal polling of the Democrats in the Queensland(and Tasmanian) state
elections should be a sufficient indicator that most voters view _them_ as
persona non grata.
These imbeciles _still_ haven't got the message: a
majority(or, at least, a _very large_ minority) _DO_NOT_WANT_ Australian
to continue on its current path of: globalisation, privatisation, economic
rationalism multiculturalism and political correctness. If they haven't got
that message _YET_, then perhaps a full frontal lobotomy is in order! _IF_
Australia gets more of the same after the Federal election, then _the whole
country_ will be a 'horrorshow', run by a bunch of circus freaks!
cheers!
(jimbo!)
The Media
Contrary to popular opinion, there is actually SOME
intelligent life lingering within the bastions of our fourth estate, albeit
publication of their analytical and informative reports are subject to a
rudimentary cynicism that plagues the mind-set of senior editorial
decision-makers. It seems as if to be otherwise-minded in today's "news"
media is simply not vogue. I could well apply that same cerebral mode in
kind to the majority of our political "journalists" and wonder, just how
many of them desire, or are vying, to become press secretary to one politician
or another...or perhaps aspire to become politicians themselves...and how
far are they willing to go to prove themselves to their potential
employer/appointer?
Similarly, I could apply a certain measure of cynicism
toward the reporting of both Mr Howard and Mr Beazley's proposed tax reforms,
yet therein I realise a cynical form is prevalent within me because I ask
you, Scott, and to all who may read my words: Do you seriously believe that
either of these parties will actually fulfil the proposals they so tantalisingly
dangle before us electors? Yet like the mugs that we obviously are, we ooh
and aah over their beguiling words as though they are a fait accompli. After
all, even a "brain dead" journalist can easily recount any number of broken
promises or shafted proposals we, the public, have had to endure in a cacophony
(spelt p-h-o-n-y) of lame excuses throughout the years of this bi-political
charade.
You placed your words under a title, "The Media", and
so I gather you are insinuating there is lack of depth in that which is being
reported. Pardon the pun, but what's news? Let's face it Scott, the majority
of our fellow-aussies really do not care nor pay much attention to political
"fine print" though the more attentive know better. I dare say more attention
would be given to Monica Lewinsky were she to visit here at this time than
to what our political leaders are up to on the election trail. They desire
us to become a "clever country", but God forbid!...a nation of thinkers?
For my part under this topic, "The Media", I take the
opportunity to air a complete disgust and contempt I hold for the fourth
estate's behaviour in giving accurate, indeed factual, accounts for the "One
Nation" phenomenon. The last time I observed a blatant disregard for open
reporting was during the notorious coverage of the "Chamberlain case". In
that bleak era we witnessed a nation caught up in the slanted, sensationalised
and sometimes malicious reporting by a fourth estate hell-bent upon retaining
its self-styled "integrity" though the actual facts, as we belatedly know,
revealed otherwise. Such was their grip upon public perceptions that I doubt
the nation would have reconsidered the validity of what was being reported
if it had even become aware of the ingrained perception harboured by a majority
of reporters gathered at the Darwin Hotel the evening before the trial. A
sickening display of cynicism punctuated by dingo jokes...
When the name Pauline Hanson first came to my attention
it was during the last pre-Federal election media hype which scrambled upon
her words, deemed inappropriate as part of the Liberal party's quest to regain
power. In spite of this action she prevailed (apparently the fourth estate
failed to sway a majority in her electorate). Then came her maiden speech...and
there was much wailing and throwing of dust in the air. Even so, there was
one matter which I could not glean from all news reports given to the public
in general, and that was a full and accurate report of what the lady actually
had to say, let alone what was said. This began to arouse my suspicions about
what was being reported and I soon realised that it was very selective and
failed to put her words in context which, as you full well know, can be just
as menacing as someone publishing disinformation. The attempt to stifle her
voice sadly reflects a gullibility our nation still retains under the "umbrella"
of this entity that proclaims itself to be the keeper of freedom of speech.
What gross hypocrisy. Well may the media become perplexed by transformations
currently undergoing dissemination of information. It would do the fourth
estate well to desist from treating us like mushrooms and refine that which
we expect of it:- Fair, open and accurate reporting of events and participants,
Pauline Hanson and her political colleagues in One Nation included.
Name Withheld
Subject:
The 'RaceWatch'
kit
Scott,
I thought racial discrimination was a pigment of the
imagination...
Kadaitcha
Subject: Your imminent loss at the coming
election.
Well just letting you all know that I'll be seeing
you all at the Centrelink offices after the election.You will all enjoy it
very much I think. There is a large variety of races who I'm sure will be
very interested to talk to you face to face about your joyous policies of
brotherly love and harmony. Perhaps a job in a third world country might
be just the thing to open your eyes?
Martin
subject: 101 Damn Asians
Authorised by David Ettridge, Suite 2, Level 1, 15
The Corso, Manly 2095.
FLEE, FLEE, my fellow one nationalers,
AusssstrAAAliannnnnnnnzzzz.. FUCK YOU, DAM RACISTS. PAULINE HANSON. YOU PREY
ON PEOPLES FEARS.
Heha the witch is dead, witch is dead, the wicth is
dead, heha the mean old bitch is dead, the bitch is dead.
By the way go learn some html skills, your terriable!
your website is even worse.
HA HA HA
Austnet IRC RULEZ. (irc.austnet.org)
Channel #perth RULEZ.
PLEASE EXPLAIN!!!
I have a sneaky suspicion that the sender of 1,500 emails (the one above)
is the poster below whose email was sent just minutes later... the 1,500
having a false id, the one below having a true one.
Editor
Subject: your chances
you have got to be kidding if you think that good and
fair minded Australians are going to vote for you or your party on a national
basis.
Your election to parliament was a fluke.
you have already been given too much time on my television
and your views are so far off the mark that Australians wont fall for
it.
You can disguise it any way you want but it smells
like red neck to me!
Shane Hurford
Another perfect day in paradise.
Have a good one.
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