One Nation’s recent focus on the controversial Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) is already attracting international interest and feedback on the internet.
One Nation Party supporter Scott Balson, whose Karana Downs-based company Global Web Builders is an internet researcher for the party, said a web page set up earlier this week to outline the issue had received interest domestically and from overseas.
“Initially I stumbled upon on the MAI issue quite inadvertently in April last year,” Mr Balson said.
“But it soon became obvious after months of research and capped off by the ABC’s “Background Briefing” report that it had opened up a real can of worms and there has been a great deal of feedback from all parts of the globe.
“Already there have been more than 200 visitors to The original, official Australian MAI and FSIA (Financial Services Industry Agreement) web page (set up last week) while the original MAI page set up on 5th December 1998 has received thousands of visitors. I receive, on average, 30 emails each morning from around the world.”
The MAI which OECD countries have been negotiating since 1995, will establish new rules to liberalise the flow of investment into Australia.
One Nation Party leader Pauline Hanson said last week the MAI threatened to reduce Australian living standards.
Mr Balson said Global Web Builders volunteered its services to One Nation. “One Nation is the only Australian party where voters, not party politics, is the focus of policy and direction.”
The amount of public scrutiny given One Nation and its ongoing performance on the political stage is reflected in its number of visits to several of its major internet web sites.
Among the most popular are:
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation with more than 75,000 visitors in six months.
One Nation launch and branch launch site which has had more than 150,000 visits in nine months.