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Channel 7 just wants ratings.ZabZu said:By Channel 7 allowing Hanson on the show it proves they do not condemn her views.
Channel 7 just wants ratings.ZabZu said:By Channel 7 allowing Hanson on the show it proves they do not condemn her views.
anyone with taste would not watch anything that she is on...Asquithian said:anyone with a social conscience would not watch anything that she is on...
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National...One-Nation-dead/2004/12/29/1103996606337.html
Ettridge pronounces One Nation dead
One Nation would never again be a credible force in Australian politics and now only existed in the minds of a handful of "lonely" people who were "clinging to a cadaver", the party's co-founder said today.
One Nation co-founder David Ettridge, who is no longer connected to the party, said the organisation he started with Pauline Hanson was now dead.
His comments come a day after One Nation NSW Upper House MP David Oldfield announced he would leave the party next year and serve the remainder of his term as an independent.
Mr Oldfield's departure leaves just two parliamentarians serving under the One Nation banner, Queensland state MP Rosa Lee Long and Queensland senator Len Harris, who lost his place in the last election and will retire on June 30 next year.
"I really think the party is non-existent," Mr Ettridge said.
"It exists in the minds now of a handful of people who are clinging to a cadaver and those people I think are just lonely souls who need somewhere to go for monthly meetings."
One Nation's steady erosion began in 2000, two years after the Hanson-led movement won 11 seats in the Queensland parliament.
It has been plagued by disunity ever since, Mr Ettridge said.
Mr Oldfield was forced into leaving the party because of its lack of popularity, Mr Ettridge said.
"This is the essence of David Oldfield's move - the One Nation party could not pass an audit test by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC)," Mr Ettridge said.
"It simply doesn't have enough members and he's forced into being an independent no matter what happens because he simply can't remain registered as a party."
Mr Oldfield today rejected the claim and said extra members' details were lodged with the AEC when he left the party to keep membership numbers at the correct level.
"That's just ridiculous, the numbers are appropriate," Mr Oldfield said.
Mr Oldfield was voted into the NSW Legislative Council in 1999 as a representative of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party, but quit that party in 2000 when he helped to found One Nation NSW.
Both Mr Ettridge and Ms Hanson made separate unsuccessful efforts to win Senate seats in the November federal election.
Both were previously jailed for 11 weeks for electoral fraud before their convictions were overturned on appeal.
Mr Ettridge is no longer in contact with Ms Hanson or any of his former One Nation colleagues and sees no future for himself in politics.
"I have no faith in it, no belief in it and certainly no future in it."
AAP
tattoodguy:tattoodguy said:some one.................show me what they have done thats racist????
So you're racist towards Pauline Hanson because she's racist?Dimsimmer said:i hate Pauline Hanson that racist bitch
I find your reply interesting. What do you class as extremist? According to dictionary.com it is "a person who holds extreme views." Now I think that saying that we don't want Asians in Australia because they are Asians is extreme (One Nation). Suggesting that some illicit drugs should be legalised is also extreme in my opinion, ditto paying for peoples sex change operations (and filling up the struggling hospital system more, and legal system when law suits take place for the operation just like the one going through the courts in Vic at the moment). The latter two were policies of the Greens Party.spiny norman said:The Greens are not extremist. One Nation's not extremist. Family First is. And your italicised point is a rather massive generalisation.
you hate pauline hanson yet the leader of our country ended up stealing like what.... most of her stances on refugees etc......Dimsimmer said:i hate Pauline Hanson that racist bitch
I consider it to be racist that just because I'm white I'm supposed to apologise for the "stolen generation". Did I do it? No. Why should I apologise just because some others of Anglo background decided to assimilate Aboriginal children? Is it not racist to blame all white people for the misgivings of a few in power? Perhaps Howard should apologise on behalf of past governments, but never on behalf of me.Asquithian said:like................?
Most of her points are racist....
It's a part of our heritage, and whether we ourselves are at fault or not does not matter. If we are to take pride in the supposed achievements of the ANZACs, then we should be ashamed over the past treatment of Indigenous Australians. It isn't an admission of personal guilt, rather an act of understanding.withoutaface said:I consider it to be racist that just because I'm white I'm supposed to apologise for the "stolen generation". Did I do it? No. Why should I apologise just because some others of Anglo background decided to assimilate Aboriginal children? Is it not racist to blame all white people for the misgivings of a few in power? Perhaps Howard should apologise on behalf of past governments, but never on behalf of me.
I am of Irish background. Do I ask everyone of English background to apologise for injustices done to the Irish? No.
I tend to agree with you. By admiting liability, saying sorry would open the flood gates for thousands of law suits.withoutaface said:I consider it to be racist that just because I'm white I'm supposed to apologise for the "stolen generation". Did I do it? No. Why should I apologise just because some others of Anglo background decided to assimilate Aboriginal children? Is it not racist to blame all white people for the misgivings of a few in power? Perhaps Howard should apologise on behalf of past governments, but never on behalf of me.
You are a fucking idiotPaulST said:I tend to agree with you. By admiting liability, saying sorry would open the flood gates for thousands of law suits.