One Nation Editorial Opinion : 23rd January 2012

ONE NATION CONTESTING PORT ADELAIDE AND RAMSAY BY-ELECTIONS

Voters in the state electorates of Port Adelaide and Ramsay who would normally vote Labor have an opportunity on February 11, in the two South Australian by-elections, to express their disappointment or even anger at what the Rann/Weatherill administration has done to make life more difficult without the risk of voting out a government.

Those voters who believe the Labor Party in South Australia and nationally is the only political group that really cares about their interests can actually vote for other candidates, like Grant Carlin and Chris Walsh from One Nation, in the knowledge that they can send a message about being unhappy without actually removing the state government.

The two One Nation candidates, Grant Carlin in Port Adelaide and Chris Walsh in Ramsay, have spoken out about the cost of water, electricity, employment, food, petrol, car registration, health care, education, child care, housing, rents, government departments and crime.

Both candidates are young, keen and active and in parliament would work to cut the size and cost of government, cut red tape that applies to just about everything you do and the stifling controls that have turned Port Adelaide, for example, into a ghost town compared with the way it used to be.

The message for the people who normally vote Labor is that they should think about what they are voting for.

Do they want more of the same or people in parliament who will work to reduce the cost of living, revive Port Adelaide, for example, and make life less difficult.

Responsibility for electoral comment is taken by Stan Batten, 15 Lorikeet Avenue, Modbury Heights, SA 509

One Nation Editorial Opinion : 24th November 2011

REDUCE ADELAIDE PARKING CHARGES TO ATTRACT SHOPPERS

The plan by Adelaide City Council to spend $40 million on Rundle Mall to attract more shoppers completely disregards the real reasons for the continuing slump in sales by department stores and all shops and traders, says the One Nation political party.

All businesses with employees now have to pay higher wages and penalty rates under the Federal Government's industrial relations laws in addition to meeting the requirements of occupational health, safety and welfare laws and spending totally unproductive time on complying with taxation legislation, said party State president Stan Batten.

"Rundle Mall traders are also victims of the national retail slump caused by a reluctance to spend by the public because of even more costs and uncertainty about the future created by the Federal Government's carbon tax.

"While the depressed retail sector is occurring nationally, in Adelaide the problem is worsened by the slavish adoption by the Labor State Government and the Adelaide City Council of 'politically correct' controls like the plan to ban smokers from Rundle Mall" Mr. Batten said.

"Adelaide has another problem with difficult and costly parking, which is why thousands of shoppers prefer suburban shopping centres with their huge and free parking areas"

Mr. Batten said the way to attract more shoppers to Adelaide and Rundle Mall was to make parking cheaper and less difficult and stop talking about bans on people doing something that politicians and the self-righteous, interfering "bleeding hearts" didn't like.

"To spend $40 million on more coloured balls, or whatever the council has in mind, while ignoring the real reasons that discourage people from shopping in Adelaide makes no sense and wastes a lot of taxpayers' and ratepayers' money," Mr. Batten said. (pictured left)

"As the council owns a number of car parks in Adelaide it could offer free parking at one or more of them on certain days, which would only reduce its revenue, and this may encourage the private car park owners to reduce their charges on certain days.

"The traders are doing as much as they can to reduce prices by having sales and offering huge discounts just to get people into their shops so it is about time the State Government and the Adelaide City Council helped in a realistic way instead of wasting public money on a plan that does not solve the real problems."

Mr. Batten said that while the State Government was required by the Labor Party to enforce political correctness and multiculturalism, there was no valid reason why the Adelaide Council should not include Christian symbols in its Christmas decorations in Rundle Mall.

Responsibility for electoral comment is taken by Stan Batten, 15 Lorikeet Avenue, Modbury Heights, SA 5092

One Nation Editorial Opinion : 16th November 2011

RECKLESS AND UNCARING IRRESPONSIBILITY.

If there were a prize for irresponsible decision making and being the first government in the world to impose measures that are pointless, unwanted and costly, the Gillard administration would be a contender.

We are now going to have a carbon tax, which will make no difference at all to the amount of so-called carbon pollution in the atmosphere globally, which is acknowledged.

It is also acknowledged that all vegetable matter needs so-called carbon pollution to survive so its probably a good thing that the tax will not actually reduce carbon pollution.

Those people who object to another tax are told that the humble, ordinary household won't be affected very much at all and may even benefit from compensation for the tax. The obvious question : Why have the tax?

Then there is the ground-breaking decision to require plain packaging for all tobacco products from next year, which will create huge marketing problems, at extra cost, for the manufactures and retailers.

Whether people smoke tobacco or not, this precedent opens the doors of government to apply the same controls on other legal products that politicians decided we should be discouraged from having or using.

As obesity is now accepted by the government's own advisers as Australia's major health problem we could see plain packaging required for a range of foods and soft drinks.

Plain packaging means being unable to identify the product you want by the package.

Other countries, we are told, are watching the Gillard Government's experiments in amazement, especially the removal of border protection to allow into Australia anyone able to reach our shores illegally.

In South Australia, the Labor Government is implementing a plan to meter and charge for water in dams and rainwater tanks captured by landholders in the Adelaide Hills, some of whom are also having their paddocks padlocked to restrict the movement of stock, we are told.

The big question for the rest of the state is whether the government intends to meter rainwater tanks in Adelaide and all other towns.

The the rest of Australia, the Gillard Government, guided by the Greens, continues to take land and water for the environment from food producers and there are still plans to restrict commercial and recreation fishing by creating marine parks around the Australian coastline.

Based on what has not bee said publicly, One Nation seems to be the only political party prepared to openly oppose the reckless and uncaring irresponsibility of Labor governments.

Responsibility for electoral comment is taken by Stan Batten, 15 Lorikeet Avenue, Modbury Heights, SA 5092

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Media Release 31st October 2011

POLITICAL PARTY WARNED OFF ANTI-GOVT.RALLY

A mass rally of about 700 people at Victor Harbor on Sunday, October 30, to protest against government bureaucracy and natural resource ‘madness’, issues supported by all minor conservative political parties, saw organizers ‘warning off’ One Nation representatives.

The rally was called by Food-producers and Landowners Action Group SA, FLAGSA, and billed as an opportunity for farmers to speak out against excessive controls and the allocation of millions of dollars to fund NRM boards and their officers, who are accused of intimidating food producers.

The state president of One Nation, Stan Batten, said FLAGSA organizers had invited supporters of the rally to ‘have their say’ but had used intimidatory tactics to tell a group of party officers to shut down their stall. (pictured at right : from left Hux Carver, Mathew Keizer, Doug Giddings and Colin Wuttke.) (Photo Courtesy of 'The Times' Victor Harbor)

“I believe minor conservative parties, especially One Nation, would strongly support the purpose of the rally and the opportunity for food producers to speak out against government so we wonder why FLAGSA tried to undermine this support when we all want Labor out of office.

“One way of undermining conservative political parties would be to infiltrate their membership to make sure their campaigns against Labor were unsuccessful”.

Mr. Batten said FLAGSA was not a political party but a group of agitators who seemed to be showing concern about what the Labor government was doing, which made their attitude towards One Nation hard to understand.

Apart from primary producers who addressed the rally, the organizers invited a selection of members of parliament, some of whom did not turn up.

“The big question mark for One Nation is the attitude of the organizers in wanting to close down any demonstration of support by any political party,” Mr. Batten said.

Asylum seekers' $4000 a day for smokes

• by: EXCLUSIVE by Simon Benson
• From: The Daily Telegraph
• October 04, 2011 12:00AM

BUYING cigarettes and tobacco for immigration detainees is costing taxpayers more than $1.4 million a year. While the federal government spends millions on anti-smoking campaigns, the cost of keeping up detainees' habits costs about $4000 a day.

The Opposition accused the government of providing its own "mini-stimulus" package for the tobacco industry.

Detainees earn points in the immigration detention system worth up to $50 a week by participating in education and activity programs. They then use points to purchase items, including cigarettes and tobacco products or phone cards.

The tobacco costs were released in an answer provided by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship to a question asked by Liberal senator Michaelia Cash in senate estimates hearings.

It revealed the company that manages the detention centres, Serco, has spent on average $1.4 million a year on tobacco products for detainees since the 2009-10 financial year when the number of detainees began to steadily increase. It provided a list of the favourite brands of cigarettes preferred by detainees.

They included Winfield Red and Blue, Peter Jackson Original, Marlboro, Longbeach, Champion, Gudang Garam, Ventti rolling papers and filters and tube machines.

"The products stocked at each facility vary slightly depending on the cohort of people detained at that facility," the department said.

"It is important to remember that immigration detention is administrative, not punitive. People in immigration care are not being punished and have access to everyday items that are available to the public. Quit information and support products are available."

The government, under pressure over the blow-out in costs of holding people in detention, has warned the bill will continue to rise if the Coalition maintained its refusal to support legislation allowing the government to pursue off-shore processing - the revival of the Malaysia people swap deal.

The bill to overturn the High Court decision to rule off-shore processing illegal is expected to be voted on next week in Parliament but will be rejected by the Coalition.

Immigration Minister Chris Bowen has warned detention centre costs will blow out by another $1 billion over the next four years if the government is forced to continue mainland processing of asylum seekers who arrive by boat.

Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said no one was to blame other than the government and the tobacco costs were just a symptom of the blowout of running detention centres and the number of people in them since Labor came to power.

"Labor's four years of border protection failure has created their own mini-stimulus package for the tobacco industry," Mr Morrison said.

"The chaos and cost blowouts in our detention network is a constant reminder of why Labor just can't be trusted on border protection.

"Now Labor wants a blank cheque in the parliament for their already failed Malaysia agreement," he said.

There are currently 5780 people in detention and a further 900 in the community.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHAOS

Many people may be puzzled by the way the Gillard Government gets itself into one mess after another in its attempts to deal with the boat people, aslyum seekers or illegal immigrants coming to Australia in a steady stream.

They pay thousands of dollars to so-called people smugglers who help them to by-pass the legal entry requirements for normal migrants, which means there is no doubt that they are entering Australian waters or territory illegally.

The number of boat people being settled in Australia is more than 6000 and rising and the cost of processing and accommodating them in the many detention centres around the nation and hotels is now estimated at billions of dollars.

This cost includes damage to public buildings from riots, the cost of security personnel and welfare payments.

The obvious question for the public and the government itself is why are we putting up with all this chaos and cost instead of just turning the boat people back to where they came from?

The answer is that all these problems are the result of the Gillard Government's acceptance of a protocol, or agreement, from the United Nations organisation that people calling themselves refugees must be accorded humanitarian treatment, whether they really are legitimate refugees or not.

There are some countries that do not observe UN protocols, except when it suits them, and make up their own minds as to who they accept and would almost certainly turn away boatloads of illegal immigrants.

The general assembly of the UN has representatives from almost every country in the world, from developed like Australia to third world.

These representatives have contributed to UN declarations on the rights of the criminal and the rights of the child and Australia's national governments, Labor and coalition, have accepted these declarations and treaties without question and for implementation.

What our national governments have not done is take account of public opinion and what the silent majority thinks about being subservient to UN declarations.

The Gillard Government in particular needs to be reminded that its first duty is to represent the majority view of its bosses, the voters who put it into office.

Responsibility for electoral comment is taken by Stan Batten, 15 Lorikeet Avenue, Modbury Heights, SA 5092

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HIDDEN DANGER IN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

The continuing flow of illegal immigrants into our northern waters, Darwin and Christmas Island underlines the self evident fact that the Gillard Government does not have any kind of responsible immigration policy.

The quickest way for people to migrate to Australia and avoid the waiting, the allocation and the paperwork, to do it the right way, is to pay a boat operator to come illegally.

The boat people entering Australia or its territory illegally include those with diseases and others who, under a normal immigration system, would not be allowed in because of their criminal behaviour, including terrorism. (article at right from The Week Dated 9th September 2011)

In contrast, conservative political parties, such as One Nation, believe we should be able to decide who we want and who we don't want.

To the Gillard Government and many Labour supporters, this is called racism even though every country in the world has strict rules on who they accept as immigrants.

A particular danger for Australia with a Federal Government that has no effective immigration policy is the increasingly disproportionate increase in our population.

Australia's population is 22 million, which increases by around 6% every year. Half of that 6%, or 3%, come from Australians having babies. The other half comes from new settlers.

In other words, the new settler birthrate has already caught up with our own. We are told that the majority of the boat people are Muslims, whose leaders make no secret of the objective of taking over the world with their own people.

It is also no secret that a Muslim man is expected to have six women (in Australia one wife and five concubines) each of whom is expected to produce children.

There are already demands by our lunatic fringe that Australia should accommodate the growing Muslim population by climinating Christianity and imposing their Sharia law.

The writing is already on the wall about the future for Australians but sanity can be restored by removing Labor from government throughout the nation.

Responsibility for electoral comment is taken by Stan Batten, 15 Lorikeet Avenue, Modbury Heights, SA 5092

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Tony Windsor MP

Rob Oakeshott MP

You both were elected as Independents, but now you have forsaken these electors by joining with the Labor Party to form a Government of which the majority of Australians wish to get rid of.

It is up to you to represent those who elected you as Independents and under the present circumstances I believe you have no alternative but to

*resign and remove yourself from Government* for the sake of ; firstly, those who elected you, and secondly for the welfare of all Australians.

I was in attendance at the WA Farmers Federation Rally in Perth this week, and would like to bring to your attention during this meeting that there were quite a few instances highlighted by various speakers, of your arrogance towards farmers, the farming community, pastoralists and the cattle industry.

I was one of the vast majority of spectators who voted in favour of moving a motion of incompetence against you and of your appauling attitude towards us, the farmers of W.A. At the time of receiving this e-mail I am sure you will have been advised of this motion moved against you.

To the best of my knowledge, you have never leaned and listened to your constituents, but have only followed your own future.

May I point out to you Gentlemen, that if you don’t *pull up your socks* you will both find yourself out of a job at the next election – as far as I can see you will be voted out of office. YOU ARE BOTH NOT TRUE AUSTRALIANS!

Marye Louise Daniels

Perth, Western Australia

18^th July 2011

One Nation Editorial Opinion 1st July 2011

AUSTRALIAN'S ARE WAKING UP TO GOVERNMENTS FOOLISH DECISIONS

The casual, laid back attitude of Australians generally to the irresponsible behaviour of the Gillard Government and other Labor governments may have come to an end as more people begin to voice their concerns and anger.

Even people who avoid thinking or talking about politicians and what they do now tend to agree with those bold enough to actually criticise the obviously foolish decisions being made.

Some examples : Australia's live cattle export industry to Indonesia is shut down because of cruelty by some abattoirs when we could have gone there to train the Indonesians in humane treatment and kept the industry.

So-called asylum seekers are encouraged to keep coming to Australia illegally, ignoring the correct procedures that all others have to follow, creating huge handling costs for the taxpayer. They are even welcomed by the government after burning down public property.

There have been several other examples of just plain stupidity, like the pink batts fiasco in which installers died and were then sent broke and the government's education revolution of new school buildings in which some contractors just ripped off the taxpayers. Now, we are going to get a carbon tax.

It needs to be remembered that most Labor politicians come from trade union offices and other socialist backgrounds, like electorate offices, and have no background, training or knowledge of how to run any kind of business.

Because they are driven by socialist ideals, which are just below communism and its totalitarian form of government, Labor MPs believe they can ignore the democratic principle that they are elected to serve the wishes of the majority.

The Gillard Government, the Rann Government in South Australia and the Bligh Government in Queensland obviously do not care that they are pricing people into poverty by constantly raising charges and creating new ones.

To get an idea of what taxpayers are paying for, go to page 39 and the following pages of Adelaide's white pages telephone directory for 2010/11.

Unlike other political parties and the media, One Nation is prepared to say publicly that our Labor governments are obviously unfit to govern and should be voted out of office.

Responsibility for electoral comment is taken by Stan Batten, 15 Lorikeet Avenue, Modbury Heights, SA 5092

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One Nation Editorial Opinion 4th June 2011

LABOR GOVERNMENTS UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND

The remaining Labor governments in Canberra, South Australia and Queensland seem unable to understand that if they upset enough voters often enough they will vote against them.

This has happened in Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. Despite this, the remaining three Labor governments are obsessed by their own particular forms of legislative insanity, knowing that it will hurt and anger either all or some of the voters.

Labor politicians are ignoring the basic rule of a democracy that they are elected as Members of Parliament to represent the majority views of the public.

They are not there to impose their own socialist beliefs, which are already leading to Australia becoming a totalitarian state. What the majority of responsible voters want is what MPs are supposed to provide, in a democracy.

The Federal Government, for example, is obsessed with the belief that a carbon tax, which will hurt everyone financially, will somehow reduce pollution of our atmosphere with carbon. This is clearly impossible if the politicians were to take account of the 1000 or so under sea and surface volcanoes that are constantly erupting around the world.

The federal and South Australian governments are obsessed with stopping 4,000,000 people from smoking tobacco, despite the $8 billion a year in revenue they pay in punitive tax. These politicians seem unaware of the logical conclusion of this project, which would shut down the tobacco industry in Australia with consequent unemployment in manufacturing, printing, packaging and retailing.

Whether or not people do things that others consider harmful is not the concern of politicians, the self righteous do-gooders or the bleeding hearts, especially if they consider other activities thought harmful. One example is the different codes of football, other than soccer, but the biggest health threat in Australia is obesity from just eating, confirmed by the Federal Government's own advisory body.

Labor governments persist in doing many things that not only upset and anger people but hurt them in various ways as well and the only solution for the public is to remove them from office at the first opportunity.

Responsibility for electoral comment is taken by Stan Batten, 15 Lorikeet Avenue, Modbury Heights, SA 5092

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Statements authorised by Mr. Stan Batten,