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A copy of the latest post by the "Nyungah Circle of (indigenous) Elders" from Perth... proves the point.

This is Robert Bropho's group who proudly say on their racist home page, and I quote, "The smell of the white man is killing us".

Yesterday was a day for the elites to go out and strut their stuff at the Melbourne Cup and there was none more elite than Kerry Packer whose horse, Might and Power, won the cup and over Au$2 million. Maybe he will consider paying his Au$143 million tax bill (without interest) now - but I doubt it. That will land up in the courts and then be filed away by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) in the too hard basket in years to come. After all the ATO have got plenty of smaller fish to pursue - you know the ones who cannot afford to be at the Melbourne Cup let alone own a racehorse or two. And this is what the ATO have been doing with a vengeance sucking Au$100 here and there and are slowly making up for the unpaid taxes of the man who practically runs this country anyway.

New Zealand has got a new Prime Minister - the first woman to get the post - her name is Jenny Shipley - and a real hard faced looking woman she is too! She ousted sitting Jim Bolger after threatening to use her numbers to take over the job - the lobbying was done while Bolger was overseas at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Edinburgh.

Just shows you can't leave your shores too long in even the top job in the country!

It appears that it is not all going to be plain sailing for Shipley as coalition partner Winston Peters leader of the New Zealand First (NZF) party can't stand her!

Controversial and outspoken Aboriginal leader Pat Dodson released a copy of his letter of resignation from the "reconciliation council" to Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Herron to the media yesterday.

In his letter Dodson slams the coalition saying, "I despair for my country and regret the ignorance of the political leaders who do not appreciate what is required to achieve true reconciliation."

I think that Dodson's comments are misplaced - Australians know what Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSIC) lobbyists want but the overwhelming majority of Australians are not prepared to go along with their unrealistic demands.

Things like billion dollar budgets - which have recently been cut...

The letter continues, "Budget cuts merely make life difficult and can be dealt with, but when governments reject out of hand opportunities to act with magnanimity, I am anxious for the spirit of our nation.

"When the Government believes that the High Court's recognition of concurrent and co-existing rights with pastoralists on pastoral leases is a case of the pendulum swinging too far in favour of indigenous Australians, I am astonished.

"It has been extremely worrying to have watched the present government actively pulling apart the delicate threads of reconciliation that many Australians have been weaved into a beautiful garment."

Tell you what Pat there are not many Australians that I know that think that way. The farmers I met on the weekend at Gympie are on the bones of their backsides - as one farmer said "We are still getting the same money for our produce that we got thirty years ago yet our costs have gone up by a factor of ten". Add Native Title claims to their worries and you can see why they are walking off the land.

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Subject: lost at sea

In the pursuit of equality, feminists have demanded and won the 'right' of women to participate in all levels of the armed forces, instead of being limited to their more traditional roles of support staff in administration, communications etc.

Though the majority of sailors (and their wives!) don't want women on ships the minority rules as is usual in Australia. A survey of navy personnel last year revealed great hostility to this social engineering experiment. The sailors commented:

"The RAN is meant to be a military fighting force ready to kill at the drop of a hat, not some gentleman's club that has to bow and scrape to every minority group that wants to change us."

"Women should not be at sea and the sooner you get rid of this politically correct bulls... the sooner the red-blooded Anglo-Saxon male ... will come back. Until then you will continue to have an outfit run by females and faggots. God help us if we ever go to war. This job is not fun anymore."

"There is still too much babying of the females. They flutter their eyelids and the hierarchy just gives in to them."

"The opposite sex will always win favour against a soft supervisor. When double standards creep in so do animosity and contempt. Many officers and senior sailors are afraid to exert discipline on females as it may be perceived as harassment."

"At sea most women cannot handle working long hours or carrying out arduous duties. Most suffer from chronic sea sickness, this makes women a liability in combat conditions and raises many ship safety issues."

"Sending women to sea was a political decision made with no regard to the needs of the Navy or the wishes of male sailors and their spouses."[Note this man's use of the lovely word 'spouse' over the politically correct 'partner' which is used to appease the gays]

"The Navy has changed too fast with little preparation for sailors. Also there are females at sea using harassment laws out of spite. Look at them sideways and suddenly you're under investigation. What can you do?"

And the response of the elites to this in-your-face honesty from the sailors? They have concluded that sailors are suffering from a 'high level of confusion', and that they have 'a genuine difficulty in knowing what is acceptable behaviour'.

It sure as hell didn't sound like that to me. I know who's confused.

Antonia Feitz

In New York the feminists successfully fought to take away discriminatory pre-selection practices for women wanting to get a career fighting fires as a "Fireperson".

The discriminatory practice? Lugging a 60kg dead weight over your shoulder to see if you were able to carry a body out of a burning building. This has now been replaced by the "politically correct" alternative of pulling a 25kg sack of potatoes across a small polished floor. Doesn't do much for the victim when the real thing comes along!

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