The
political assassination of Pauline Hanson
 Kerry
Packer, Rupert Murdoch, Terry Sharples, Tony Abbott and Patsy
Wolfe – these names will forever live in infamy in Australian
politics as Pauline Hanson’s assassins.
From
the time Ms Hanson broke the journalists' taboo on discussing
Aboriginal welfare and Asian immigration the Packer and Murdoch
journalists have attacked her with a savage, unrelenting fury (see
side panel).
 When
the Liberal Party realised Ms Hanson threatened the comfortable duopoly
of the major parties it despatched chief head-kicker, Tony Abbott
to dig up the dirt on Pauline Hanson. Abbott found a co-conspirator
in human termite, Terry Sharples. The Queensland establishment did
the rest.
Stand
back Tony - I'll finish her off
Threats
to democracy
There
is clear evidence that there have been two serious attacks on
Australia’s
democratic process in relation to the Pauline Hanson saga.
The
left-leaning, politically correct journalists of Packer, Murdoch,
the ABC and SBS have quite clearly attacked and compromised the
democratic process. Their vicious attacks on her character and her
policies frightened all political parties into placing her party
last on every how-to-vote card in the 1998 federal election, thus
disenfranchising one million voters.
Not one member of One Nation was elected to the Lower House. Only
one Senator was elected.
The
Democrats with a similar level of vote have five Senators in the
federal parliament.
According
to a report in The
Australian of
23 August, 2003
,
Federal Liberal Party heavyweight Tony Abbott offered money and
support to former One Nation member Terry Sharples to help destroy
Pauline Hanson. Their conspiracy resulted in the fraud charges and
the eventual jailing of Pauline Hanson.
This
was a
conspiracy to defraud one million voters of a legitimate voice and
to destroy a new political force before it challenged the
Liberal-Labor duopoly.
These
are far more serious matters than the technical “fraud”
committed by Pauline Hanson.
The
Fraud
How
did Pauline Hanson come to commit the “fraud” for which she
was convicted?
The
Liberal and Labor parties have been accepting payments for years
from their supporters in return for favours. Many of
Australia’s
largest corporate players pour millions into the Liberal and Labor
coffers.
A
few years ago the major parties worked out another nice little
rort. As well as accepting millions from their favourites, they
would also collect “donations” from the taxpayer mugs. They
brought in a new Act of parliament to give themselves about $2 for every vote
received at an election, payable after each election. Labor
and the Liberal-National parties raked off more than $32 million
in taxpayer monies from the 2001 election. The
stipulation was that such “donations” would only be paid to
registered political parties.
One
Nation’s registration was accepted by the Commonwealth electoral
office. The Beattie Labor government in
Queensland
decided to discriminate against smaller parties by requiring a
political party to have a minimum of 500 members before it could
be registered. The Queensland Electoral Commission when examining
One Nation’s application for registration wrote to 273 randomly
selected persons on the membership list asking if they were
members. 237 responded stating they were members. The Electoral
Commission then registered One Nation as a political party in
Queensland
and later paid out around $500,000 after the state election. These
funds were then disbursed to the candidates to help offset the
costs of their election campaigns.
Enter
Tony Abbott. He contacted disgruntled former One Nation members
and together they set out to destroy One Nation by claiming that
One Nation did not have 500 members and therefore the $500,000 was
obtained fraudulently.
Never
mind that the Labor and Liberal parties routinely engage in branch
stacking and electoral breaches. Thousands of “members” have
been falsely enrolled in both parties over the years. The
Labor Party was even found to have enrolled a number of dead people as members.
Ettridge
and Oldfield had set up One Nation as a company with only three
shareholders. The members were found by the court to be
“supporters” rather than members even though they had paid a
fee and considered themselves members.
At
most this was only a technical “fraud”. Political parties are
entitled to these funds. Pauline Hanson repaid the amount in full
to the Queensland Electoral commission.
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