International:

While Nero fiddles Rome burns. The growing tide of tax payer paid politically correct bureaucrats - a legacy of thirteen years of Labor government is fast bringing Australia to its knees. The tin pot Australian politicians from Labor and Coalition ranks so eager to attract the votes of the smallest minority groups that they sit on the fence or look the other way.

Perhaps the most blatant example of how the politically correct bureaucrats are allowed to abuse our Australian democracy is to see how they play the game with illegal immigrants.

Asian based crime gangs, as is reported in today's Courier Mail are grasping the opportunity provided by the "do-gooders" in Australia. The Chinese based Snakeheads now openly abuse these flaws in Australia's system charging illegal immigrants up to Au$40,000 to get passage to Australia will fake visas, photo-substituted passports and false documentation.

An immigration department spokesperson said, "There is evidence from Canada and the United States that they are experiencing increasing numbers of people attempting illegal entry at their borders."

Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said yesterday that as the US and Canada tighten up controls on illegal immigration the Asian gangs saw Australia as a soft target.

Perhaps of most concern is that once in Australia the illegal immigrants have been well-trained on how to use the politically correct systems in place in Australia including tax payer funded legal services to fight to stay in the country.

Political:

There is every likelihood that there will now be an early election fought on "race" issues. This follows a statement by John Howard to the Australian public yesterday in which he defended his ten point plan on the High Court's Wik decision.

Howard said in his speech, "We have delivered a plan that produces fairness, justice and certainty. I don't believe that endless amendments and debate is going to produce more jobs, greater fairness or greater certainty.

"It is a key goal of my government that that be achieved as part of the celebration of 100 years of the Australian nation.

"We may differ and debate as to the correct form of reconciliation but there should be no doubt that it is, I believe, in the spirit of all Australians, whatever their belief on other issues, that we have full reconciliation, with the Aboriginal people."  

Outspoken Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson responded last night with a typically racist comment calling Howard a "miserable moral cockroach". Pearson went on to warn his people in the Cape York area of Northern Queensland of a possible "race war over land rights".

"We've got this miserable moral cockroach running this country and he's got no sensitivity to these things," Pearson wrote.

Pearson's warning came in the publication Unity News the official newspaper of the Cape York Land Council.

Pearson has been one of the country's biggest land claimants - with his intimate knowledge of native title Pearson is making a number of claims... an issue which somehow is not seen as conflict of interest by the media... whereas if a politician has pastoral leases he is told to keep out of the debate. Strange logic we have in this country.

Opposition leader Kim Beazley is beside himself with self seeking rhetoric. The Australian labor Party, when in power, claimed that Mabo gave farmers security over pastoral leases - but since the Wik decision have carefully mellowed their tone to say that nothing is certain until tried under law.... what about freehold title?

Beazley's comments in response to Howard's speech to the nation yesterday was typically misleading, "Mr Howard's address was a disappointing and dishonest failure. We don't need a quick fix in this legislation, We need a certain fix."

Beazley is expected to make a public statement tonight in response to Howard's televised comments yesterday.

There are currently about 800 amendments being considered by the Senate with Independent Senator Brian Harradine holding the deciding vote. This is the joke that we call Australian politics.

If Howard's plan is rejected twice by the Senate it will trigger a double dissolution of Parliament and an early election. As the ten point plan would have been the catalyst for the elections the "race" issue would then become the focus of the platform of the major political parties.

You Say:

Subject: Politically correct madness!

It seems that most of the One nation detractors are smitten with the "guilt trip" and being white, speaking your mind , is being racist. Contrary to their smug views of themselves, most of them are sheep and in past history would have been cadres, or quislings, all would have made fine Hitler youth !

There is racism out there, in big lumps. Here are a few examples.

A friends school age daughter was refused work as a casual at a Chinese restaurant..."you Australians lazy, you dirty, you steal"!(nice!)

An old school friend of my son, born here of Chinese parents, when invited to a school re-union...."sorry, i don't mix with Caucasians any more!!(dad is arranging a marriage to a Chinese doctor in Sydney)

My daughters boyfriend , abused and harassed at a laundrette, he was cursing because he shrunk his clothes in the drier.....part aborigine with chips on both shoulders, left the phone she was using to threaten him..thought he was talking to her! (hoped he was more likely)

my nephew's school was having an "Australiana fete:,.its theme was changed to a "multicultural one after 2 teachers , an Asian and a part aboriginal complained it was racist....is the system now allowing our kids to be indoctrinated into believing its ok to be any other race but Australian in this country??

this nonsense is going to far, and if i have to vote for a person who has 2 heads and green spots to get things changed, then .."hell I'm all for it"!!

why is it that a white person, living in a dilapidated house, on unemployment, with 8 snotty faced kids, 4 mangy dogs, 6 dead cars in the yard, drunk and living in absolute squalor is a "redneck",.......... and an aborigine in the same conditions is "repressed and underprivileged"????

yep there is rampant racism, but who are the real racists??

Oh.....my extended family consists of Scots, English, Filipino and aborigine!! The reason there is no problem is because we all think of ourselves as "plain old Aussies", not "hyphenated" ones.

If dealing with reality and seeing things for what they are is being a redneck,.then i accept the title willingly!!

Ross Douglas

Subject: McGrath & Gilbert's letters

Hi,

"Hatred", "scum", "inadequate", were some of the outrageous accusations made against your news site by M. McGrath and D. Gilbert on Saturday.

Perhaps they are followers of those anarchist groups associated with the ALP and therefore felt the need to resort to such terms to berate you.

In my opinion Mr Gilbert is definitely an adherent to the Kim Beazley technique of slander, hatred and avoidance of mature debate. So to Mr Gilbert I'd like to say that it's irresponsible extremists like Kim Beazley, Jim Soorley and their type who we don't want or need in Australia.

As for Melanie McGrath, I'd just like to let her know, in case she thinks I have a vested interest in supporting this news site, that I am part of the mainstream she claims to be part of, I live in suburbia, I don't know any pastoralists and I was born in Australia to immigrant parents.

If Melanie McGrath and David Gilbert took the time to check out the propaganda peddled by most of the media and the political extremists etc, then they might realise that the only hatred this news site displays is towards the slander and lies that are used by these self-seeking quislings.

Thnaks,

Peter.

The Australian elite

Dear Editor,

I found the following statement on the net. Written about America, it applies equally well here.

"The American elite is almost beyond redemption. Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush -- sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict." (Regnery Publishing, Nov. 1997).

Cheers, Graham Strachan.

Business:

Australia's first pay television channel, Australis, faces insolvency today unless it is able to negotiate a rescue package with its United States based investors.

Chief executive Sean O'Halloran travelled to the US last week to hold discussions with the company's junk bond holders, The options available to the bond holders are to let it go under or to throw another Au$25 million for the purpose of pursuing a number of legal actions.

These actions would include taking the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to court for blocking a proposed merger with News Limited's Foxtel.

Amongst those in the group to rescue Australis through the junk bonds if Kerry Packer's Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL). PBL chairman Brian Powers said yesterday, "The most likely occurrence is Australis will disappear from the scene some time in the first half of next calendar year.

"Then we have a period of time to decide whether we would like to become a shareholder in Foxtel and we will look very, very seriously at that."  

Personal trivia, from the global office:

Another perfect day in paradise.

While enjoying a bar-b-que with neighbours last night we had a terrific thunderstorm which cut off the electricity for several hours.

Word has it that the reason it took so long to get the lights back was because Energex (previously known as South East Queensland Electricity Board) was having its Christmas party. Good timing!

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