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20 Nov: Pauline Hanson re-visited – Australian media incite violence

Now that Pauline Hanson has re-entered the poltical fray, we have decided to re-print some articles from the time of her original entry into politics to remind Australians of one of the most disgraceful episodes in Australian political history, where sustained, vicious media attacks whipped up crowds of screaming demonstrators into intimidating and even physically attacking Pauline Hanson and her supporters.

Martin Lehmann – 21 July 1998
The media, after more than a year of the greatest vilification campaign in Australian history, have succeeded in dividing Australia like never before. They have joined forces with the politically correct academics and the multicultural and aboriginal industries in vilifying Pauline Hanson and all those who support her.

Violent mobs, whipped up by a vicious media onslaught, attack Hanson supporters

A man trying to enter the meeting is bashed to the ground by this brutish thug. Can anybody identify him or others in this raging mob?

On 7 July 1997 around 100 people trying to enter a One Nation meeting in the Melbourne suburb of Dandenong were confronted by about 1,000 screaming, jostling demonstrators. Many, like Keith Warburton who was bashed unconscious by three demonstrators, had come to find out for themselves what One Nation stood for.

“I’m just an individual without political leanings,” Warburton said after the attack from his Dandenong Hospital bed. “An attack like this is just not Australian, where we believe in freedom of speech.”

According to police, Warburton was bashed by three individuals, one punched him, the other grabbed him in a head-lock and the third kicked him. As he fell already unconscious, he hit his head on the curb.

On 19 July 1998 over 1500 violent protesters gathered outside the Hawthorn Town Hall to threaten and intimidate people trying to attend a One Nation meeting. Many elderly people fearing for their safety turned away.

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21 Nov: 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. 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. 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…

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21 Nov: Archives: Murdoch media blitzes Hanson

Weekly round-up 5 July, 1998 Murdoch media blitzes Hanson Rupert Murdoch, one of the world’s richest and most powerful men, has ordered his editorial staff to use the full power of the Murdoch media empire to destroy Pauline Hanson and her fledgling One nation party. This is the only conclusion that any fair-minded person could reach after witnessing a week of the most disgusting abuse of media power ever in Australia. If you thought the Murdoch journos were digging the dirt on Ms Hanson last week, then this week they delivered it in truckloads. The Australian editorial staff went ballistic with their anti-Hanson crusade in the Tuesday June 30 edition. The front page headline screamed ‘Hanson’s nation hijacked’. Most of the front page quoted the bitter comments of one Barbara Hazleton, a disgruntled former secretary to Pauline Hanson. Not one word of balance or comment from One Nation. Never mind…

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21 Nov: Pauline Hanson: Press Council head slams media ‘feeding frenzy’

Media bias exposed in Hanson attacks The head of the Australian Press Council was forced to criticise the media over its anti-Hanson attacks, as reported in The West Australian on 27/10/97 : The media have gone into a “feeding frenzy” over Independent MP Pauline Hanson and were to blame for resulting damage to Australia‘s reputation, according to the head of the Australian Press Council. Professor David Flint, addressing the ninth conference of the Samuel Griffith Society in Perth yesterday, said such damage could not be blamed on politicians. “It was media indulging in its own fantasies, believing its own stories, which turned Ms Hanson into a spectre stalking the land,” he said. “Her message was presented in some quarters as if it were the voice of Satan. In fact, her views are more moderate than manyright-wing parties in Western Europe,” he said. Media create the “race debate” The media have…

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21 Nov: Pauline Hanson: Australian media a threat to democracy

Martin Lehmann – 1 February 2001 One million Australian voters were dis-enfranchised at the last Federal election due to blatant media interference in the democratic process. The One Nation party received one million votes but did not get one member elected in the House of Representatives. With the looming WA state election, the media has again demonstrated its dangerous control over the political process by threatening retaliation against any political party daring to do a preference swap with One Nation. How did such an undemocratic situation occur? When the power elites, comprising the two major political parties and the media barons, realised the One Nation party could pose a threat to their cosy oligarchy they set out to destroy the party and its leader, Pauline Hanson. The Murdoch press led the charge. In a disgraceful display it vilified Pauline Hanson at every turn. Other media outlets and journalists followed blindly…

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21 Nov: Pauline Hanson: Vicious media attacks frighten off politicians

John Howard conned by the media Martin Lehmann – 14 March 1999 John Howard is too weak to stand up to the media. Their anti-Hanson onslaught has reduced Howard to a quivering blob of media compliance. Howard’s weakness has allowed the media to hoodwink him into placing One Nation last on all Liberal how-to-vote cards. He has used considerable influence to get all Liberal branches to fall into line – often against their better judgement. Minor party preferences have played a significant role in Australian elections for decades. It greatly assists a major party to have a minor party with a philosophical alliance to capture the swinging voters and the protest votes and deliver them back via preferences. This has worked very well for the Labor Party in recent years. Preference votes of the Democrats and Greens have kept Labor in power even when their primary vote was less then…

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21 Nov: Pauline Hanson’s maiden speech in federal parliament

The speech that struck at the heart of political correctness and challenged the authority of the ruling elites Read also – Analysis of Pauline Hanson’s maiden speech Tuesday, 10th September 1996. 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…

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02 Jan: Ship of fools: global warmists ice-bound in the Antarctic

Climate change and media bias. The majority of the mainstream journalists have become staunch advocates of the global warming hypothesis. Their reporting clearly favours reports from the warmists while they gleefully parrot warmist jibes at skeptics; phrases such as “deniers”. Australia’s ABC is one of the leaders of the pack. In November 2013 the ABC ran a two-part report in which it eagerly presented Professor Chris Turney’s Antarctic expedition as a serious scientific quest to prove how global warming was damaging Antarctica. Back then it couldn’t mention climate change enough. But in a delicious irony, the ship load of warmist scientists and journalists were trapped by ice as they tried to prove global warming was melting Antarctica. Suddenly the ABCs reporting changed. What was astonishing was that not once in their reports did the ABC mention “global warming” or “climate change” or even “climate scientists”. It did everything humanly possible…

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29 Jul: Journalists code of ethics – an oxymoron?

Most journalists belong to the Australian Journalists Association, a division of a trade union called the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA). Members are required to follow a code of ethics (shown in full below). Alliance members engaged in journalism commit themselves to Honesty Fairness Independence Respect for the rights of others Journalists will educate themselves about ethics and apply the following standards: 1. Report and interpret honestly, striving for accuracy, fairness and disclosure of all essential facts. Do not suppress relevant available facts, or give distorting emphasis. Do your utmost to give a fair opportunity for reply. 2. Do not place unnecessary emphasis on personal characteristics, including race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, age, sexual orientation, family relationships, religious belief, or physical or intellectual disability. 3. Aim to attribute information to its source. Where a source seeks anonymity, do not agree without first considering the source’s motives and any alternative attributable…

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24 Sep: ABC’s group think on climate change

Former ABC chairman, Maurice Newman warned of the global warming group think in the ABC: In March 2010 as chairman, I addressed an in-house conference of 250 ABC leaders… I blamed group think and used climate change as an example… Jonathon Holmes, the presenter of Media Watch, was so angry “he could not concentrate”… I was interviewed by PM and teased as to whether I was a “climate change denier or not as obvious as that?” . I retain a deep affection for the ABC. But, like the BBC, there are signs that a small but powerful group has captured the corporation, at least on climate change.