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There were about 50 members of Oxley's One Nation branch at the meeting which went ahead without any protesters trying to disrupt the proceedings.
Things are not going so well for the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in this seat as they are expected to re-think when to begin the pre-selection process following Wayne Goss's operation for a cancerous tumour in the brain.
It was only after the seat of Oxley was carved in two and the relocation brought in the ALP dominated area of Inala that Goss made his move to seek pre-selection. Oxley is, of course, Pauline Hanson's federal seat. Goss is the man whose government deliberately shredded documents being sought by the courts. Such is the ALP's influence in The Courier Mail that the issue barely got a hearing at that time.
Acting state secretary of the ALP Peter Shooter said that the federal party would call for nominations for seats by Monday, but that the process might be delayed in the seat of Oxley. The other ALP Oxley hopeful who has been quite outspoken about Goss' decision to stand in this seat said that any delay in the pre-selection process would be "unwise".
"If we leave it until the new year, there's not going to be a lot of time to campaign. It's very sad Wayne had to have the operation but he has to make a decision about what he wants to do," Mrs Scott said.
A Native Title forum in Cairns disintegrated into a state of chaos yesterday when chairman Warren Entsch was accused of having a gross conflict of interest.
The meeting was adjourned after Labor Senator Nick Bolkus and public witnesses called for Entsch to resign over the issue of Entsch's interests in two Cape York cattle stations.
Cape York Land Council co-ordinator David Byrne said, "At the very least, that creates the perception of a very strong conflict of interest.
"He (Entsch) has called for the extinguishment of Native Title rights prior to the Prime Minister's 10 point Wik plan and there is therefore an extreme perception of bias.
"Mr Entsch can't say he supports the Cape York Heads of Agreement (an agreement on native title rights between graziers and Aborigines) and that he supports the 10 point plan and that he is unbiased."
It is now clear that the ALP will move to reject Howard's ten point plan in response to Wik.
Yesterday we revealed how the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) were planning to follow the move by indigenous Canadians to carve Australia up into a number of Aboriginal states.
After the meeting Labor's Opposition Aboriginal spokesman, Daryl Melham, said, "I can say this to you, this amendment Bill will not pass the senate in its present form."
Last night the Oxley branch of Pauline Hanson's One Nation elected Daryll Kelly (left) President of the new branch.
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Subject: Parliament or Courts?
Dear Editor
Last year, the US congress overwhelmingly voted for a Defence of Marriage
Act. Even though gay activists and various other assorted bleeding hearts
bleated that the Act was 'divisive', it passed by a whopping 346 to 67. The
Act simply stipulated that the word 'marriage' refers only to 'a legal
union between one woman and one man as husband and wife.'
The passing of the Act effectively headed off the recognition of 'gay
marriages', which the courts would undoubtedly have upheld as valid.
In reporting this very significant victory over the PC elites, Hadley Arkes
of the National Review (12/8/96) wrote, "We anticipated that he [Mr
Clinton] would sign [the President has the power of veto] ... but his quick
capitulation in public had a deeper, expanding effect that we had not quite
anticipated.... the airwaves were full of the Defence of Marriage Act. We
were reminded that nothing compels the public attention in the same way as
a legislative act - which is precisely why the legislatures, and not the
courts, were thought to be the arena of citizenship and deliberation in a
republic."
Amen. If parliament (answerable to the people) and not the Supreme Court
(elites answerable to nobody) had decided such matters as Mabo and Wik,
things would be very different in Australia today. The Americans are right:
the legislature, in our case parliament, should be the arena of citizenship
and deliberation in a democracy. Not the adventurous courts.
Antonia Feitz
You say:
Personal trivia, from
the global
office:
Another beautiful day in paradise.
The picture on the right was taken yesterday morning....
Ah Queensland, beautiful one day, perfect the next!
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