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The link between the Aborigines and the terrorists
We have put together a special page which shows the link between the Nyungah Circle of Elders in Western Australia, Lorenzo Ervin, terrorist ideals, and the Australian Labor Party. The page also reveals allegation of gun running (M16s) by Aborigines in the Pilbara. The gun running was witnessed first hand in 1989 by a verified source.
The multilateral agreement on investment (MAI) feedback.
The Treasury Department contact on MAI in Canberra (02) 6263 2988 Mr Craig Thorburn in the international department is up to speed on issues. Here is the official OECD home page on MAI given to me by Craig.
Political Correctness.
A British schoolboy who greeted an Australian classmate with the traditional greeting of "G'day sport" has been reprimanded for racism. Teachers at Beverley Grammar School in Yorkshire, England, also made the 11-year-old pupil write 60 lines of "I must not use racist remarks" as punishment. Tony Brett Young of the Australian High Commission said he had no details of the incident but hoped it was not a case of political over-correctness. "'G'day sport' is part of our vernacular," he said.
Hopevale claimed by Aborigines under Native Title Act
The thirteen Aboriginal clans claiming areas of Hopevale got their wish in Cairns yesterday when Justice French granted the claimants an area of 110,000 hectares 160 kilometres north of Cairns in northern Queensland.
This is the first native title claim to be ratified on the Australian mainland.
What makes the entire native title process is a joke is that this process has taken years and there are another 687 existing native title claims under consideration with just 265 having gone through to the mediation process. Of course the native title claims are coming in thick and fast as the lawyers in Australia jump on the biggest legal but morally bankrupt gravy train since Federation.
To date 315 claims have been in Queensland, 194 in New South Wales, 102 in the ACT, 27 in Victoria and Tasmania, 25 in the Northern Territory and 24 in South Australia.
In the thick of the proceedings yesterday was the man who proclaimed that Howard's ten point plan on native title would cause a race war, Noel Pearson.
Pearson's legal firm have got to be making a killing out of this issue. No matter conflict of interest here - his family practically run ATSIC in the Cape York Region and that is the area where native title claims have come thick and fast.
Pearson had an official role at yesterday's proceedings - translating the court proceedings to tribal elders.
An interesting addition has now been made to those buying a home from ANZ Bank - I know because we have just signed for a two year loan with ANZ - the clause on the documentations states under the heading: "ANZ's rights if there is a default under this agreement (Events of default):
"ANZ believes on reasonable grounds that urgent action is necessary to protect property which is mortgaged as security for this loan."
Read that as a native title claim over free hold land and you are getting close - just like the farmers have found out under pastoral leases a native title claim can then become the trigger for calling up a loan.
Mel Gibson and the Order of Australia
When Gibson, the Australian-born actor was presented with the Order of Australia he spoke openly about his concern about divisive policies in Australia based on racial grounds. Today News Limited's Courier Mail sanitises Gibson's comments referring only to his remark that he thinks Australia should stay within the monarchy.
Luckily we have newspapers like The Strategy and The New Australia Times which provide far more insight and honesty in reporting than News Limited.
In the latest edition of The New Australia Times (ph: 07.4126 7117) there is an article written by Mel Gibson's father entitled THE TYRANNY. Here is part of what Gibson senior has to say:
The tyranny:
1. Decreed decimal money "to accommodate computers", and all prices rose instantly. Computers operate by choice of only two alternatives, and must be programmed for whatever computation.
Who benefits?
2. Decreed that all milk should come from stainless steel equipment. This bankrupted many producers. A public health measure? Why did the public authorities not foot the bill? Or even keep a lid on the price of the new equipment?
3: Uprooted hundreds of orange groves to import cheap juice.
4. Ruins the primary producer while the consumer pays overseas prices for his meat and wool.
5. Ordered the farmer to get big or get out, and helped the banks, domestic and foreign, foreclose if he "chose" to get big.
Who benefits?
6: Supports foreign enterprises which compete with and destroy its own people. The tyranny cannot afford to assist its own same overtaxed and ruined people. If these are not "economically viable", the tyranny cannot waste tax money on them!
7. Taxes even where no taxable gain exists. Its most blatant fraud (an administrative nightmare) is the graduated income tax, adopted from the Communist Manifesto. I work for Joe. He pays me what we may agree my work is worth; and even swap; there is no gain. It is not a tax; it is a theft! And as each tier of the economy is "taxed", it includes its own "tax" (or it too will sink) in the prices of the goods and services, and the consumer pays it all (built in inflation).
Who benefits?
8. Robs its own people for the benefit of foreigners who misuse "foreign aid" as the tyranny itself plunders its own sources. Many years have passed since a prime minister, deputy prime minister, or cabinet minister has left office poorer than he entered.
Who benefits?
9. Sells off lucrative, tax created properties to a largely foreign sector, supposedly to reduce governmental and constitutional duty to issue money, but borrows it as usury which the public pays. If the tyranny were abolished, who would owe its debt? But the tyranny looks after its own. The rights of criminals, not of their victims, are now the first charge on our courts. Until the projected prosecution of gun owners, of course.
Hutton Gibson (Mel Gibson's father).
Making the
news" -
Prime Minister John Howard yesterday committed his government to a 4% growth in the Australian economy.
The target is backed by funding of Au$1.26 billion which will come in the form of industry assistance.
"The overriding aim of our extensive economic reform agenda is to deliver Australia an annual growth rate of over 4% on average during the decade to 2010," Howard said.
The main points of the package are as follows:
Introduction
of the Manufacture in Bond scheme and consolidate duty and tariff concession
schemes.
Subject: Bulla Housebuilders Rocked!
Dear Sir,
We've been hearing nothing but good news from the Defence Force initiative to aid remote Aboriginal communities by constructing housing and sanitation facilities. Aboriginal Affairs Minister Senator John Herron is very proud of this project, and a recent television report was fulsome in its praise for the co-operation between the diggers and the native community.
It seems the gloss is beginning to come off the shiny success story. News from Bulla, where sappers of 17 Construction Squadron have been engaged in building houses and installing sanitation, is that the effort got off to a very rocky start indeed.
The soldiers arrived in town, established a camp on a hilltop outside the community, readied their heavy machinery and prepared to commence work in the established method for hot climates. This involves starting work early, getting in several solid hours, resting during the heat of the day, and working again in the late afternoon and evening. When the days are 45 degrees, working normal hours invites dehydration and heatstroke.
The first day on the job, the sappers got cracking at six in the morning and set to work. This was too much for some of the locals, who reacted poorly at having their sleep disturbed. They assembled in a mob and attacked the troops, seizing the soldiers' own tools as they went. One soldier, confronted with a man swinging a shovel, ducked to avoid the blow, but copped a kick in the groin instead. Another digger was not so lucky, and had his head sliced open by a shovel blade. As the troops retreated to their camp, rocks were thrown at them, felling another soldier, who was helped to safety by his comrades.
A higher headquarters was contacted from the camp, and a representative from the local land council was flown out by helicopter to Bulla, where he negotiated a compromise. Hitherto the soldiers were not to begin work before the locals had woken up, and were thus prevented from working until after ten o'clock. By this time, of course, the day had well and truly heated up, and the soldiers began losing men from heatstroke in the following days.
One soldier, seeking a shady spot for a rest after a work period, a place to relax and read a book, spotted a beautiful big boab tree with lush greenery beneath the shady branches. As he got closer, however, he found that instead of cool grass, the ground beneath the tree was a solid mass of empty green Victoria Bitter beer cans.
The soldiers are to be commended for their efforts in these difficult conditions to persevere and build up a level of rapport. Still, I dare say that they will think twice about expecting gratitude from the next community in line for assistance.
Peter Mackay, Canberra
Subject: The innocence of children
I overheard two kids (about 8 or 9 years old) talking today......
They were reading stickers on the back of parked cars, when one boy read out one about 'reconciliation'.
What's 'reconciliation'? asks the second boy.
"It means giving the Aborigines whatever they want" says the other.
It's the most accurate contemporary definition that I've heard.
Gweilo
Subject: Comments on Australian News of the
Day
To the Editor,
I was watching John Howard's address to the Press Club
8/12/97 and I must say he handled the follow up questions in a very smooth
manner, much better than on prior occasions. However the line of questioning
from the press showed a distinctly poor quality and preparation on the part
of the media. The thing that stood out clearly was the attempt for a couple
of journalists to align the present situation over the WIK matter with the
South African Apartheid problems of old.
I believe, this is going to be the theme of attack
we can expect from the media during the next vital few months until the muted,
double dissolution, we can expect the media will attempt to inject racial
fire and venom into the forthcoming debates.
This type of racial inflammation will undoubtedly again
be blamed on Pauline Hanson in the media's attempts to lay the blame on anybody
other than the Major parties and themselves, where the problems were actually
generated.
This massive outflow of anger should have been stemmed
by the very people who have fired the debate with their reporting of events
and in particular the selective misleading reporting by the Australian Media
both in the papers and television
One thing John Howard did say during questioning and
which the Electors should think hard about is his description of the role
of the Democrats in the senate.
He indicated the Democrats were some sort of defacto
Labor supporters on most matters in the senate, voting with Labor on most
matters relating to social legislation and against the Coalition.
It is this very activity that gives a single independent
the balance of power in these matters.
This way it has always been so easy for the coalition,
labor and the democrats to shrug off any blame.
The media home in on this independent and the rest
come out looking so clean in the reporting by the media
I believe that John Howard, in light of his statements
should now reconsider his position on placing One Nation on the bottom of
the ticket as was the planned 'Buddy' arrangement with Kim Beazley. A strong
One Nation presence in the senate will better represent the Australian Voters
wishes in the senate than is currently the case with the Democrats.
Although the major parties are not prepared to admit
the fact One Nation is going to be there in strength. A fairer placement
on the voting ticket by the coalition will set the ground for a better working
relationship from which AUSTRALIA AS A WHOLE will benefit by injecting more
Commonsense and less Political Interest into decisions.
Tony Fitzpatrick.
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