Thursday 17th October 1996
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Ms Hanson asked Prime Minister John Howard if his government intended to honour its commitment to preserve the existing exemption from the Trade Practices Act of the territorial system for newspaper and magazine distribution.
"prior to the election you gave a rock-solid commitment to all newsagents of Australia. For the concerned constituents of Oxley, can you confirm that your government intends to honour this?" she said.
Howard replied that he intended to honour the promise.
It is a real worry in this country and I have no doubt in my own mind that the media barons, their lobbyists in Canberra and the minders of senior politicians are playing a dangerous game in stifling free speech by unbalanced reporting on issues which do not match their agenda.
The local Internet news group, the Queensland Times and the overriding majority of the local community is coming in very strongly behind Ms Hanson. To quote the local paper, she would come in with a massive majority if another election was called right now.
This article appeared in the news group sums up much of the feeling in her seat of Oxley:
To my mind its not the Hon Member for Oxley is stiring
up the self righteous, its the good old media whipping it up
as hard as they can go.
Particularly the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - but then then that's no surprise given
the political agenda they and their mediocre staff have developed
over the past 10 years or so.
Programs such as their news & AM/PM used to at least try to be balanced,
but now when you turn on the news of the current affairs programs you
can BET that the stories (?) will be about :
They are intent on stirring up trouble, 'reporting' conflict and pushing their
own barrow and those of minorities.
But then I suppose as the ABC is chock-a-block full left wing trendies, gays,
feminazis and water melons one can only expect that their private agendas will
dominate and the chances of the so called 'peoples station' reflecting
the views and mood of the full cross section of the Australian community is
pretty remote.
$200million a year for that ? No thanks.
Inver
to the exclusion of whatever else may be happening in this large
world of ours.
The Australian conman Peter Foster, who many British readers will be familiar with after his "weight loss" scam in the UK and his dalliances with Samantha Fox... was brought to book yesterday when he tried to sneak into Australia, via Darwin, on a false passport.
The police were waiting for him and all he saw of the country was the inside of a cell.
This two months ago he absconded from a British prison and simply disappeared - apparently to Ireland. On being questioned he said that he did not suffer from the "Christopher Skase syndrome" and, believe it ot not, "had proved it by absconding from the British prison and arriving in Australia on a false passport".
More shipments of GHB, or the drug Fantasy, have arrived in Australia from Hull in England. The alleged importer, a 40 year old Gold Coast man (Glen Schirman), was yesterday arrested after a 6kg package of Fantasy was identified when it came into the country.
It appears that Fantasy has started selling on the Gold Coast for between Au$70 and Au$80 per gram... making that little parcel extremely valuable on the street.
Yesterday it was the turn of Deputy Prime Minister, Tim Fischer, to face the torch as it was revealed that he had shares in BHP. The Opposition claiming that he had been pushing BHP's interests abroad.
The whole thing is really sick. These guys are supposed to be debating bills and key issues like employment and industrial relations for the general Australian population, but all question time is taken up in verbal sparring and back stabbing on issues relating to the members in the house.
It's at times like this that wonders whether an autocratic political system like that in Indonesia would be a better bet for steering Australia into the 21st century. At the moment the whole Australian system is one big joke with the jokers being the pollies with their big salaries and inane statements fed to them by fatcat bureaucrats protecting little empires - with the fools being the man in the street who read and listen to the garbage that the strongly controlled Packer/Murdoch media throw at them.
The Reserve Bank's comment that a rate cut would "cause problems for the future" shocked financial markets which had been anticipating a rate cut next month.
In just one hour Au$1.7 billion was wiped off the value of Australian shares.
Westpac Bank spoke up saying that it believed that the Reserve Bank was wrong and called for it to immediately cut interest rates.
"Sustaining low inflation as employment gathers strength will require moderation in wage demands," the Reserve bank said in its quarterly report.
The report was the first released by the new Reserve Bank governor, Ian Macfarlane, who is known to be hardline on keeping inflation low.
The Reserve Bank also said that growth in Australia was "erratic" with some sectors growing quite strongly while others, like manufacturing, were battling.
Here's a shortlist of the top earners:
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:55:39 -0700
Subject: LINK UP-PLEASE!!!!
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