Thursday 7th November 1996
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The writ names Cairns Jet Centre Pty Ltd and Falcon Airlines as respondents.
In a most remarkable day many of the Australian papers appear to have run out of things to knock or "negatively link" Pauline Hanson's name with. Or, more likely, it is just a lull in the fighting.
Following his win in the US Presidential race Bill Clinton, it would appear, wants to be known as the "Come-back kid"... "Beam me up Scotty!"
In particular he criticised the "so-called independent Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the Australian newspaper, churches, the Labor Party, Aboriginal rights lawyers and "lying" Aboriginal women.
The "secret women's business" was said to be Aboriginal lore, known only to the women of that Aboriginal tribe. At the launch of a book detailing the affair, McLachlan spoke of the "weighted" reporting by the ABC which had slammed the development of the proposed Hindmarsh bridge supporting the claim that it was being built on "sacred" land.
McLachlan, who's electrorate takes in Hindmarsh Island, had also been against the development of the bridge. He spoke about the manner in which the ABC had totally ignored the comments by a dissident group of Ngarridjeri women who claimed that the "secret women's business" was a load of the proverbial.....
In particular, he said, Dorothy Wilson, the dissident Aboriginal woman who first made the claim, never realised what a problem she would have trying to get her case in front of the media.
"She really couldn't know that she might have to overcome large portions of the Australian media, like the so-called independent ABC", MacLachlan said.
"The Australian newspaper (News Limited's major national paper), which had the truth in its hands, took the Adelaide reporter off the case and replaced him with a couple of Liberal Party conspiracy hunters," he said.
The sorry saga which sent the developers broke was also opposed by the strong Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union who supported the "secret business" line for industrial reasons.
Not surprising, I guess, that the ABC did not attend the book launch.
I wouldn't call your content controversial. Just a rehash of Australian
urban mythology. I guess that has been my problem with Pauline Hanson's
debut on the political scene. Her comments about the lives of aboriginal
people and asian immigrants in parliment have raised these myths from the
status of popular ignorance to valid politcal debate. Its like suggesting
that chemical scientists revisit "phlogiston" or geologists have another
good hard think about the earth being flat. Just because a lot of people
have an opinion different to these scientists.
I believe that there is no real substitute for research when offering
people "news".
It seems to me that your "news" has more to do with controversy than truth.
It seems such a waste of all those perfectly good minds "out there" to
offer them nothing other than old opinions.
You have it right though when you point to the "interactivity" of the net.
You have a great opportunity here to develop, research and explore the
truth. It seems to me though that your "newspaper" could just as easily end
up being another pooling of ignorance. Another media dead end like talk
back radio. I hope not!
Geoff Hurst
The housing industry is starting to look particularly buoyant with prices now expected to lift quite dramatically as the cost of housing falls.
35 year old Boon, who is a veteran of 107 tests, said, "At the moment I am retired from international cricket and I stick by that. But no-one has a crystall ball, we will see what happens."
The other contenders are:
| Name | Age | 1st class matches | Runs | Average | 100s |
| Greg Blewett (SA) | 25 | 63 | 4762 | 45.78 | 14 |
| Matt Elliott (Vic) | 25 | 39 | 3438 | 59 | 10 |
| Matthew Hayden (Qld) | 25 | 77 | 6971 | 56.67 | 21 |
| Justin Langer (WA) | 25 | 61 | 4771 | 48.19 | 13 |
| Stuart Law (Qld) | 28 | 106 | 7423 | 46.1 | 21 |
| Darren Lehmann (SA) | 26 | 87 | 7257 | 49.7 | 23 |
The Genie is the key!
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