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2003-10-06 11:47:59 UTC
WAKE UP AUSTRALIA!
How many asian's have come into this country in the last twenty plus years?
The Australian Dollar was EQUAL TO THE US DOLLAR at that time, and now it is
not.
How many asian's take university places and then leave our country to gain
employment overseas? How many specialist goods are designed and manufactured
in asian countries -- countries which once produced ABOSOLUTE CRAP but
through resource poaching from the west now dominate in technical area's.
How many graduates from OUR VERY SAME UNIVERSITIES cannot find employment in
this country due to a complete lack of infrastructure and opportunity?
"Immigration must be halted in the short-term so that our dole queues are
not added to by, in many cases, unskilled migrants not fluent in the English
language"
-Pauline Hanson 1996
----
Tuesday, 10th September 1996. Wake Up Australia!
5.15pm : Mister Acting Speaker, in making my first speech in this place, I
congratulate you on your election and wish to say how proud I am to be here
as the Independent member for Oxley. I come here not as a polished
politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.
My view on issues is based on commonsense, and my experience as a mother of
four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and
chip shop. I won the seat of Oxley largely on an issue that has resulted in
me being called a racist. That issue related to my comment that Aboriginals
received more benefits than non-Aboriginals.
We now have a situation where a type of reverse racism is applied to
mainstream Australians by those who promote political correctness and those
who control the various taxpayer funded "industries" that flourish in our
society servicing Aboriginals, multiculturalists and a host of other
minority groups. In response to my call for equality for all Australians,
the most noisy criticism came from the fat cats, bureaucrats and the
do-gooders. They screamed the loudest because they stand to lose the most -
their power, money and position, all funded by ordinary Australian
taxpayers.
Present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing
opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals.
Along with millions of Australians, I am fed up to the back teeth with the
inequalities that are being promoted by the government and paid for by the
taxpayer under the assumption that Aboriginals are the most disadvantaged
people in Australia. I do not believe that the colour of one's skin
determines whether you are disadvantaged. As Paul Hasluck said in parliament
in October 1955 when he was Minister for Territories:
The distinction I make is this. A social problem is one that concerns the
way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a
problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate
societies, even if those societies are side by side. We do not want a
society in Australia in which one group enjoy one set of privileges and
another group enjoy another set of privileges.
Hasluck's vision was of a single society in which racial emphases were
rejected and social issues addressed. I totally agree with him, and so would
the majority of Australians.
But, remember, when he gave his speech he was talking about the privileges
that white Australians were seen to be enjoying over Aboriginals. Today, 41
years later, I talk about the exact opposite - the privileges Aboriginals
enjoy over other Australians. I have done research on benefits available
only to Aboriginals and challenge anyone to tell me how Aboriginals are
disadvantaged when they can obtain 3 and 5 % housing loans denied to
non-Aboriginals.
This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system
encourages this. I am fed up with being told, "This is our land." Well,
where the hell do I go? I was born here, and so were my parents and
children. I will work beside anyone and they will be my equal but I draw the
line when told I must pay and continue paying for something that happened
over 200 years ago. Like most Australians, I worked for my land; no-one gave
it to me.
Apart from the $40 million spent so far since Mabo on native title claims,
the government has made available $1 billion for Aboriginals and Torres
Strait Islanders as compensation for land they cannot claim under native
title. Bear in mind that the $40 million spent so far in native title has
gone into the pockets of grateful lawyers and consultants. Not one native
title has been granted as I speak.
The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that
welfare is killing them. This quote says it all "If you give a man a fish
you feed him for a day. If you teach him how to fish you feed him for a
lifetime."
Those who feed off the Aboriginal industry do not want to see things
changed. Look at the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. Members receive
$290 a day sitting allowance and $320 a day traveling allowance, and most of
these people also hold other very well paid positions. No wonder they did
not want to resign recently!
Reconciliation is everyone recognising and treating each other as equals,
and everyone must be responsible for their own actions. This is why I am
calling for ATSIC to be abolished. It is a failed, hypocritical and
discriminatory organisation that has failed dismally the people it was meant
to serve. It will take more than Senator Herron's surgical skills to correct
the terminal mess it is in. Anyone with a criminal record can, and does,
hold a position with ATSIC. I cannot hold my position as a politician if I
have a criminal record - once again, two sets of rules.
If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not
continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly
representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out. To
survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people,
one nation, one flag.
The greatest cause of family breakdown is unemployment. This country of ours
has the richest mineral deposits in the world and vast rich lands for
agriculture and is surrounded by oceans that provide a wealth of seafood,
and yet we are $190 billion in debt with an interest bill that is strangling
us.
Youth unemployment between the ages of 15 to 24 runs at 25 % and is even
higher in my electorate of Oxley. Statistics, by cooking the books, say that
Australia's unemployment is at 8.6 %, or just under one million people. If
we disregard that one hour's work a week classifies a person as employed,
then the figure is really between 1.5 million and 1.9 million unemployed.
This is a crisis that recent governments have ignored because of a lack of
will. We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living
conditions. We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we
owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole
in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk.
In real dollar terms, our standard of living has dropped over the past 10
years. In the 1960s, our wages increase ran at 3 % and unemployment at 2 %.
Today, not only is there no wage increase, we have gone backwards and
unemployment is officially 8.6 %. The real figure must be close to 12 to 13
%.
I wish to comment briefly on some social and legal problems encountered by
many of my constituents - problems not restricted to just my electorate of
Oxley. I refer to the social and family upheaval created by the Family Law
Act and the ramifications of that act embodied in the child support scheme.
The Family Law Act, which was the child of the disgraceful Senator Lionel
Murphy, should be repealed. It has brought death, misery and heartache to
countless thousands of Australians. Children are treated like pawns in some
crazy game of chess.
The child support scheme has become unworkable, very unfair and one sided.
Custodial parents can often profit handsomely at the expense of a parent
paying child support, and in many cases the non-custodial parent simply
gives up employment to escape the, in many cases, heavy and punitive
financial demands. Governments must give to all those who have hit life's
hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.
We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas
when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British
Airways. Now this government wants to sell Telstra, a company that made a
$1.2 billion profit last year and will make a $2 billion profit this year.
But, first, they want to sack 54,000 employees to show better profits and
share prices. Anyone with business sense knows that you do not sell off your
assets especially when they are making money. I may be only "a fish and chip
shop lady", but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the
textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them
handle my grocery shopping.
Immigration and multiculturalism are issues that this government is trying
to address, but for far too long ordinary Australians have been kept out of
any debate by the major parties. I and most Australians want our immigration
policy radically reviewed and that of multiculturalism abolished. I believe
we are in danger of being swamped by Asians. Between 1984 and 1995, 40 % of
all migrants coming into this country were of Asian origin. They have their
own culture and religion, form ghettos and do not assimilate. Of course, I
will be called racist but, if I can invite whom I want into my home, then I
should have the right to have a say in who comes into my country. A truly
multicultural country can never be strong or united. The world is full of
failed and tragic examples, ranging from Ireland to Bosnia to Africa and,
closer to home, Papua New Guinea. America and Great Britain are currently
paying the price.
Arthur Calwell was a great Australian and Labor leader, and it is a pity
that there are not men of his stature sitting on the opposition benches
today. Arthur Calwell said "Japan, India, Burma, Ceylon and every new
African nation are fiercely anti-white and anti-one another. Do we want or
need any of these people here? I am one red-blooded Australian who says no
and who speaks for 90 % of Australians." I have no hesitation in echoing
the words of Arthur Calwell.
There is light at the end of the tunnel and there are solutions. If this
government wants to be fair dinkum, then it must stop kowtowing to financial
markets, international organisations, world bankers, investment companies
and big business people. The Howard government must become visionary and be
prepared to act, even at the risk of making mistakes.
In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign
aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as
corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.
Australia must review its membership and funding of the UN, as it is a
little like ATSIC on a grander scale, with huge tax-free American dollar
salaries, duty-free luxury cars and diplomatic status.
The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in
Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are
forced to seek medication on the black market. I am going to find out how
many treaties we have signed with the UN, have them exposed and then call
for their repudiation. The government should cease all foreign aid
immediately and apply the savings to generate employment here at home.
Abolishing the policy of multiculturalism will save billions of dollars and
allow those from ethnic backgrounds to join mainstream Australia, paving the
way to a strong, united country. Immigration must be halted in the
short-term so that our dole queues are not added to by, in many cases,
unskilled migrants not fluent in the English language. This would be one
positive step to rescue many young and older Australians from a predicament
which has become a national disgrace and crisis. I must stress at this stage
that I do not consider those people from ethnic backgrounds currently living
in Australia anything but first-class citizens, provided of course that they
give this country their full, undivided loyalty.
The government must be imaginative enough to become involved, in the
short-term at least, in job creating projects that will help establish the
foundation for a resurgence of national development and enterprise. Such
schemes would be the building of the Alice Springs to Darwin railway line,
new roads and ports, water conservation, reforestation and other sensible
and practical environmental projects.
Therefore I call for the introduction of national service for a period of 12
months, compulsory for males and females upon finishing year 12 or reaching
18 years of age. This could be a civil service with a touch of military
training, because I do not feel we can go on living in a dream world forever
and a day believing that war will never touch our lives again.
The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for
business. How can we compete with Japan, Germany and Singapore, who enjoy
rates of two %, 5.5 % and 3.5 % respectively? Reduced tariffs on foreign
goods that compete with local products seem only to cost Australians their
jobs. We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas
countries and investors at the expense of our living standards and future.
Mister Acting Speaker, time is running out. We may have only 10 to 15 years
left to turn things around. Because of our resources and our position in the
world, we will not have a say because neighbouring countries such as Japan,
with 125 million people; China, with 1.2 billion people; India, with 846
million people; Indonesia, with 178 million people; and Malaysia, with 20
million people are well aware of our resources and potential. Wake up,
Australia, before it is too late. Australians need and want leaders who can
inspire and give hope in difficult times. Now is the time for the
http://nsw.onenation.net.au/policy/misc/phmaiden.pdf
How many asian's have come into this country in the last twenty plus years?
The Australian Dollar was EQUAL TO THE US DOLLAR at that time, and now it is
not.
How many asian's take university places and then leave our country to gain
employment overseas? How many specialist goods are designed and manufactured
in asian countries -- countries which once produced ABOSOLUTE CRAP but
through resource poaching from the west now dominate in technical area's.
How many graduates from OUR VERY SAME UNIVERSITIES cannot find employment in
this country due to a complete lack of infrastructure and opportunity?
"Immigration must be halted in the short-term so that our dole queues are
not added to by, in many cases, unskilled migrants not fluent in the English
language"
-Pauline Hanson 1996
----
Tuesday, 10th September 1996. Wake Up Australia!
5.15pm : Mister Acting Speaker, in making my first speech in this place, I
congratulate you on your election and wish to say how proud I am to be here
as the Independent member for Oxley. I come here not as a polished
politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.
My view on issues is based on commonsense, and my experience as a mother of
four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and
chip shop. I won the seat of Oxley largely on an issue that has resulted in
me being called a racist. That issue related to my comment that Aboriginals
received more benefits than non-Aboriginals.
We now have a situation where a type of reverse racism is applied to
mainstream Australians by those who promote political correctness and those
who control the various taxpayer funded "industries" that flourish in our
society servicing Aboriginals, multiculturalists and a host of other
minority groups. In response to my call for equality for all Australians,
the most noisy criticism came from the fat cats, bureaucrats and the
do-gooders. They screamed the loudest because they stand to lose the most -
their power, money and position, all funded by ordinary Australian
taxpayers.
Present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing
opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals.
Along with millions of Australians, I am fed up to the back teeth with the
inequalities that are being promoted by the government and paid for by the
taxpayer under the assumption that Aboriginals are the most disadvantaged
people in Australia. I do not believe that the colour of one's skin
determines whether you are disadvantaged. As Paul Hasluck said in parliament
in October 1955 when he was Minister for Territories:
The distinction I make is this. A social problem is one that concerns the
way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a
problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate
societies, even if those societies are side by side. We do not want a
society in Australia in which one group enjoy one set of privileges and
another group enjoy another set of privileges.
Hasluck's vision was of a single society in which racial emphases were
rejected and social issues addressed. I totally agree with him, and so would
the majority of Australians.
But, remember, when he gave his speech he was talking about the privileges
that white Australians were seen to be enjoying over Aboriginals. Today, 41
years later, I talk about the exact opposite - the privileges Aboriginals
enjoy over other Australians. I have done research on benefits available
only to Aboriginals and challenge anyone to tell me how Aboriginals are
disadvantaged when they can obtain 3 and 5 % housing loans denied to
non-Aboriginals.
This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system
encourages this. I am fed up with being told, "This is our land." Well,
where the hell do I go? I was born here, and so were my parents and
children. I will work beside anyone and they will be my equal but I draw the
line when told I must pay and continue paying for something that happened
over 200 years ago. Like most Australians, I worked for my land; no-one gave
it to me.
Apart from the $40 million spent so far since Mabo on native title claims,
the government has made available $1 billion for Aboriginals and Torres
Strait Islanders as compensation for land they cannot claim under native
title. Bear in mind that the $40 million spent so far in native title has
gone into the pockets of grateful lawyers and consultants. Not one native
title has been granted as I speak.
The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that
welfare is killing them. This quote says it all "If you give a man a fish
you feed him for a day. If you teach him how to fish you feed him for a
lifetime."
Those who feed off the Aboriginal industry do not want to see things
changed. Look at the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. Members receive
$290 a day sitting allowance and $320 a day traveling allowance, and most of
these people also hold other very well paid positions. No wonder they did
not want to resign recently!
Reconciliation is everyone recognising and treating each other as equals,
and everyone must be responsible for their own actions. This is why I am
calling for ATSIC to be abolished. It is a failed, hypocritical and
discriminatory organisation that has failed dismally the people it was meant
to serve. It will take more than Senator Herron's surgical skills to correct
the terminal mess it is in. Anyone with a criminal record can, and does,
hold a position with ATSIC. I cannot hold my position as a politician if I
have a criminal record - once again, two sets of rules.
If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not
continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly
representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out. To
survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people,
one nation, one flag.
The greatest cause of family breakdown is unemployment. This country of ours
has the richest mineral deposits in the world and vast rich lands for
agriculture and is surrounded by oceans that provide a wealth of seafood,
and yet we are $190 billion in debt with an interest bill that is strangling
us.
Youth unemployment between the ages of 15 to 24 runs at 25 % and is even
higher in my electorate of Oxley. Statistics, by cooking the books, say that
Australia's unemployment is at 8.6 %, or just under one million people. If
we disregard that one hour's work a week classifies a person as employed,
then the figure is really between 1.5 million and 1.9 million unemployed.
This is a crisis that recent governments have ignored because of a lack of
will. We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living
conditions. We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we
owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole
in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk.
In real dollar terms, our standard of living has dropped over the past 10
years. In the 1960s, our wages increase ran at 3 % and unemployment at 2 %.
Today, not only is there no wage increase, we have gone backwards and
unemployment is officially 8.6 %. The real figure must be close to 12 to 13
%.
I wish to comment briefly on some social and legal problems encountered by
many of my constituents - problems not restricted to just my electorate of
Oxley. I refer to the social and family upheaval created by the Family Law
Act and the ramifications of that act embodied in the child support scheme.
The Family Law Act, which was the child of the disgraceful Senator Lionel
Murphy, should be repealed. It has brought death, misery and heartache to
countless thousands of Australians. Children are treated like pawns in some
crazy game of chess.
The child support scheme has become unworkable, very unfair and one sided.
Custodial parents can often profit handsomely at the expense of a parent
paying child support, and in many cases the non-custodial parent simply
gives up employment to escape the, in many cases, heavy and punitive
financial demands. Governments must give to all those who have hit life's
hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.
We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas
when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British
Airways. Now this government wants to sell Telstra, a company that made a
$1.2 billion profit last year and will make a $2 billion profit this year.
But, first, they want to sack 54,000 employees to show better profits and
share prices. Anyone with business sense knows that you do not sell off your
assets especially when they are making money. I may be only "a fish and chip
shop lady", but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the
textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them
handle my grocery shopping.
Immigration and multiculturalism are issues that this government is trying
to address, but for far too long ordinary Australians have been kept out of
any debate by the major parties. I and most Australians want our immigration
policy radically reviewed and that of multiculturalism abolished. I believe
we are in danger of being swamped by Asians. Between 1984 and 1995, 40 % of
all migrants coming into this country were of Asian origin. They have their
own culture and religion, form ghettos and do not assimilate. Of course, I
will be called racist but, if I can invite whom I want into my home, then I
should have the right to have a say in who comes into my country. A truly
multicultural country can never be strong or united. The world is full of
failed and tragic examples, ranging from Ireland to Bosnia to Africa and,
closer to home, Papua New Guinea. America and Great Britain are currently
paying the price.
Arthur Calwell was a great Australian and Labor leader, and it is a pity
that there are not men of his stature sitting on the opposition benches
today. Arthur Calwell said "Japan, India, Burma, Ceylon and every new
African nation are fiercely anti-white and anti-one another. Do we want or
need any of these people here? I am one red-blooded Australian who says no
and who speaks for 90 % of Australians." I have no hesitation in echoing
the words of Arthur Calwell.
There is light at the end of the tunnel and there are solutions. If this
government wants to be fair dinkum, then it must stop kowtowing to financial
markets, international organisations, world bankers, investment companies
and big business people. The Howard government must become visionary and be
prepared to act, even at the risk of making mistakes.
In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign
aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as
corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.
Australia must review its membership and funding of the UN, as it is a
little like ATSIC on a grander scale, with huge tax-free American dollar
salaries, duty-free luxury cars and diplomatic status.
The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in
Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are
forced to seek medication on the black market. I am going to find out how
many treaties we have signed with the UN, have them exposed and then call
for their repudiation. The government should cease all foreign aid
immediately and apply the savings to generate employment here at home.
Abolishing the policy of multiculturalism will save billions of dollars and
allow those from ethnic backgrounds to join mainstream Australia, paving the
way to a strong, united country. Immigration must be halted in the
short-term so that our dole queues are not added to by, in many cases,
unskilled migrants not fluent in the English language. This would be one
positive step to rescue many young and older Australians from a predicament
which has become a national disgrace and crisis. I must stress at this stage
that I do not consider those people from ethnic backgrounds currently living
in Australia anything but first-class citizens, provided of course that they
give this country their full, undivided loyalty.
The government must be imaginative enough to become involved, in the
short-term at least, in job creating projects that will help establish the
foundation for a resurgence of national development and enterprise. Such
schemes would be the building of the Alice Springs to Darwin railway line,
new roads and ports, water conservation, reforestation and other sensible
and practical environmental projects.
Therefore I call for the introduction of national service for a period of 12
months, compulsory for males and females upon finishing year 12 or reaching
18 years of age. This could be a civil service with a touch of military
training, because I do not feel we can go on living in a dream world forever
and a day believing that war will never touch our lives again.
The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for
business. How can we compete with Japan, Germany and Singapore, who enjoy
rates of two %, 5.5 % and 3.5 % respectively? Reduced tariffs on foreign
goods that compete with local products seem only to cost Australians their
jobs. We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas
countries and investors at the expense of our living standards and future.
Mister Acting Speaker, time is running out. We may have only 10 to 15 years
left to turn things around. Because of our resources and our position in the
world, we will not have a say because neighbouring countries such as Japan,
with 125 million people; China, with 1.2 billion people; India, with 846
million people; Indonesia, with 178 million people; and Malaysia, with 20
million people are well aware of our resources and potential. Wake up,
Australia, before it is too late. Australians need and want leaders who can
inspire and give hope in difficult times. Now is the time for the
http://nsw.onenation.net.au/policy/misc/phmaiden.pdf