Monday, September 23, 2013

Dear Prime Minister Abbott,

In short, it is sincerely hope that you will accept and consider those advices from those people below and will not act against the Chinese or Chinese-Australians as demonstrated by T.K’s experience during the last Federal election.

We hope to hear from you once your government is sworn in.

Yours respectfully,

Eddie Hwang
President
Unity Party WA
Phone/Fax: 61893681884
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UPWA is the only political party that calls a spade a spade.

Defence, G20 and China key for Abbott

Date - September 10, 2013 - 12:46PM - Adam Gartrell, AAP Diplomatic Correspondent

 

Restoring defence funding, re-energising the G20 and adding more substance to Australia's relationship with China should be among the Abbott government's top foreign policy priorities.
That's according to analysts at the Lowy Institute, who also urge Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott and his team to work more closely with China in the South Pacific, and take a "measured" approach to people smuggling.
The Sydney-based think tank has issued a paper setting out what it thinks should be the five key international priorities occupying the minds of Mr Abbott and his likely foreign minister, Julie Bishop.
Lowy says Australian foreign policy faces a range of challenges and opportunities.
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"The new Australian government has a choice," the paper says.
"Get out on the front foot and pursue these challenges and opportunities with ambition; or adopt a defensive posture and hope that the country can duck the economic and strategic bouncers that will almost inevitably head its way in coming years.
"In our view the new government should be ambitious - although that ambition should be mixed with good doses of humility and realism."
The paper argues the coalition government must restore "focus and funding" to defence policy, by answering fundamental questions about what it wants the Australian Defence Force to do, and then funding its capabilities accordingly.
It says the G20, which groups together the world's 20 largest national economies, should be a key focus particularly during Australia's 2014 chairmanship.
"Key Australian ministers, including the Prime Minister, will need to commit time and energy to improve the way the G20 functions and ensure that its agenda is focused and relevant," the paper says.
Lowy says the coalition should also be ambitious about the Australia-China relationship, and seek to add substance to the so-called "strategic dialogue" the Labor government established with the rising Asian power.
They also argue Australia should work with China in the Pacific Islands to mitigate some of the problems caused by China's aid program.
Finally, the paper urges the government to adopt a set of key principles to tackle people smuggling in a measured and sustainable way.

Foreign investment rules 'send wrong signal', says WA Premier Colin Barnett

·        AAP -JUNE 05, 2013 10:47AM
AUSTRALIA'S foreign investment rules are sending the wrong message to China, West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says.
The Liberal leader said the United States could invest more than $1 billion in Australia without being subject to Foreign Investment Review Board rules, but it was different for China's state-owned enterprises.

Speaking during a trade mission in Beijing, Mr Barnett said that for investment by state-owned enterprises in China, any level of investment from $1 up goes through the FIRB process.

"I think Australia needs to correct that. That is giving the wrong signal to China, and I've no doubt, causes resentment,'' he said.

Mr Barnett is trying to drum up a major Chinese backer for the $6 billion Oakajee port project in WA's mid-west.

The project was indefinitely mothballed last year when Japan's Mitsubishi decided to "slow down'' work on the already-stalled plan, after talks with potential joint-venture partners languished.
Oakajee was to export iron ore from the magnetite-rich region, but the low-grade product fell out of favour with a slide in iron ore prices and wavering Chinese demand.

Australia's wellbeing depends on China

·        by: By David & Libby Koch - News Limited newspapers 
·        May 10, 2012 10:33AM
THE Federal Budget blueprint for your finances is that things will stay pretty much how they are now for the next 2 years despite further deterioration in Europe and a stagnant America.

Our saviour continues to be China and the Government is confident their economic boom will keep our commodity prices steaming ahead and our economy growing at 3.25 per cent. But if they’re wrong, and the wheels fall off the rickshaw, the financial impact will be devastating………… 
Dear Unity,

You may be right but racism is still at the back of White Australia.  I have been helping to campaign for Jason and giving out leaflets at Eastwood mall.  As you know, if you live in Australia, Eastwood has a lot of Chinese and Koreans.  We were abused by some whites last week.  There are still a lot of Pauline Hanson supporters that see us as 'taking over' their suburbs.  It is a shame that Jason cannot win, a lot of it due to Chinese and Koreans supporting the Liberal candidate.  They have been pouring in a lot of using paid workers.  I talked to some of the Liberal workers there and they are mostly young Chinese students and Korean women.  They told me that they are being paid.  Jason don't have that kind of money to hand out.  Jason has been plucked from Beijing by Rudd only recently to come home to contest.  The Asian votes put the Liberal candidate back.  That says a lot of our own people. 

Racism, my dear friend is very much alive.  you only have to scratch the surface and it will appear.  I don't know about you but I have worked in the public sector for the past 20 years.  Occasionally they asked my boos that they want to deal with an Australian.  it is as if I don't have the professional background to deal with their problem.  Luckily my boos will say that you have him as he is qualified or nobody else.  Friend, it is still the colour of our skin.  So you think that after running away from Malaysia, you don't face racial prejudice anymore?  While I grant you that life is better after Gough Whitlam who repealed the White Australian Policy, we still have a long way to go. 

Tony Abbott is a Democratic Labor Party boy of Bob Santamaria.  He is not a true Liberal.  Remember he is nicknamed 'the mad monk'.  You only have to look at his 'turning the boats back' mantra to tell you where his government is going.  He looks towards the US and England for guidance.  Back to the Howard years, I will say.  He wants the Chinese to buy things but is scared for them to own the mines or farms.  Tell me differently. 

T.K.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Mr. Chris Chapman,
ACMA Chairman.

Dear Mr. Chapman,

In a democratic country, community leaders should let the public decide rather than try to show they are smarter as they are not.

If the TV channels failed to do their jobs, they should be punished.

We look forward for your reply in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Eddie Hwang
President
Unity Party WA
Phone/Fax: 61893681884
Environmental friendly - save the trees - use email.
UPWA is the only political party that calls a spade a spade.

Channel 10 said outright on the phone that they wouldn't run the ad because it criticises another media outlet. Lachlan Murdoch is on the company's board. We're sure the two are totally unrelated.

Channel 7 refused the ad because "the creative execution was considered distasteful and potentially offensive to our audience, so we have decided to make a stand." So noble. We created a new version of the ad with the 'offensive' bits blurred out. They didn't respond. 


Channel 9 at least approved the ad, and ran it for four days. In fact, 615,800 people have already seen it on 9 across Brisbane. On Monday, they pulled the ad, and blamed it on a "coding error," saying it never should have run. Whoopsadaisey.

That's all three of Australia's major commercial networks banding together to suppress media criticism. What's more, it's happening in ad election period where Australians ought to have the freedom to express their opinions and to criticise and speak truth to power.

We have lodged a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Dear Mr Chris Chapman,

ACMA Chairman.

 

Your comment, please.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours sincerely,

Eddie Hwang
President
Unity Party WA
Phone/Fax: 61893681884
Environmental friendly - save the trees - use email.
UPWA is the only political party that calls a spade a spade.


Eddie

I'm just off the phone after dozens of radio interviews. Our member-funded ad calling out Murdoch's bias is causing quite a fuss.
Already, 830,000 people have seen the ad on air or online -- but now all three major TV networks are pulling it off air and refusing to run it.1. Some of the network representatives told us directly: they're not running the ad because they don't want to criticise Rupert Murdoch.

We've filed an official complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, but we can't wait for a ruling to take our next step. We have to get this message out, right now. So if the commercial channels are slamming the door we'll just go around them -- and go bigger.

If our proposed TV ads had gone through, we would have reached an additional 500,000 TV viewers by the election. But if each of us simply shares this video on Facebook, Twitter and over email we can shatter that number. Let's work together to reach 750,000 views online before the election.

Please click here to share the ad on Facebook

Click here to share the ad on Twitter

And then forward this email to everyone you know so they can do the same.

Why is this important? TV networks use a public good - the airwaves licensed to them by the Government. If networks decide who is allowed to advertise based on which messages they agree with, our democracy is seriously compromised. That's precisely why laws prevent the networks from refusing reasonable attempts by political parties to run ads during election cycles. But since GetUp members aren't a political party, the networks have decided that they can block our right to free speech -- purely because they don't like what we have to say.

They don't want our money - but we don't need them. We're already moving our advertising online, reaching hundreds of thousands more Australians. And if we all share this far and wide, we can make our impact even bigger.

Let's prove that in 2013 people power can beat the corporate blackout. Our democracy depends on it.

With determination,

Sam, for the GetUp team.

PS. To see how the events of the last few days have unfolded, including the great media coverage we've received since the ad was banned, click here: http://www.getup.org.au/whywewerebanned

[1] "Anti-Murdoch article banned from Television", The Age, September 3, 2013


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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Mr. Kevin Rudd – Prime Minister
Mr.Tony Abbott- Leader of the Opposition

Dear Sirs,

What are you going to do about it – appoint an Age-care Minister?

Looking forward to hearing from you so that we can decide whom to vote.

Eddie Hwang
President
Unity Party WA
Phone/Fax: 61893681884
Environmental friendly - save the trees - use email.
UPWA is the only political party that calls a spade a spade.

More than 100 nursing homes around the country are providing inadequate basic, dignified care for residents.

Transcript

Monday, July 29, 2013

Foreign investment rules 'send wrong signal',

Dear Prime Minister Rudd,

Although the White Australia Policy was abolished in 1973 but in reality it is still widely practice to this day – mainly against Chinese citizens who are not allow to buy any property/investment without FIRB –(Foreign Investment Review Board) approval.

Since you are not going to address our messages, we have no choice but to publish them on the internet http://unitywaorg.blogspot.com.au and http://twitter.com/unitypartywa for public information.

Eddie Hwang
President
Unity Party WA
Phone/Fax: 61893681884
Environmental friendly - save the trees - use email.
UPWA is the only political party that calls a spade a spade.

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Dear Prime Minister,

We refer to our message below and would like to know when you will give us a reply?

Eddie Hwang

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The Hon. Kevin Rudd
Prime Minister of Australia

Dear Prime Minister,

We refer to the speech by 'Michelle Rowland MP below and would like to know what are you going to do about it?

Looking forward to hearing from you soon so that we can decide whom to vote for.

Eddie Hwang

Foreign investment rules 'send wrong signal', says WA Premier Colin Barnett

·        AAP -JUNE 05, 2013 10:47AM
AUSTRALIA'S foreign investment rules are sending the wrong message to China, West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says.
The Liberal leader said the United States could invest more than $1 billion in Australia without being subject to Foreign Investment Review Board rules, but it was different for China's state-owned enterprises.

Speaking during a trade mission in Beijing, Mr Barnett said that for investment by state-owned enterprises in China, any level of investment from $1 up goes through the FIRB process.

"I think Australia needs to correct that. That is giving the wrong signal to China, and I've no doubt, causes resentment,'' he said.

Mr Barnett is trying to drum up a major Chinese backer for the $6 billion Oakajee port project in WA's mid-west.

The project was indefinitely mothballed last year when Japan's Mitsubishi decided to "slow down'' work on the already-stalled plan, after talks with potential joint-venture partners languished.
Oakajee was to export iron ore from the magnetite-rich region, but the low-grade product fell out of favour with a slide in iron ore prices and wavering Chinese demand.

GRIEVANCE DEBATE (published)
Monday, 24 June 2013 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 197
CHAMBER
SPEECH
Date Monday, 24 June 2013 Source House
Page 197 Proof Yes
Questioner Responder
Speaker Rowland, Michelle, MP Question No.

Australia's wellbeing depends on China

·        by: By David & Libby Koch - News Limited newspapers 
·        May 10, 2012 10:33AM
THE Federal Budget blueprint for your finances is that things will stay pretty much how they are now for the next 2 years despite further deterioration in Europe and a stagnant America.

Our saviour continues to be China and the Government is confident their economic boom will keep our commodity prices steaming ahead and our economy growing at 3.25 per cent. But if they’re wrong, and the wheels fall off the rickshaw, the financial impact will be devastating………… 
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/money/david-and-libby-koch/australias-wellbeing-depends-on-china/story-fn7kicty-1226351790250#ixzz2aQ1pLcj8

Monday, July 22, 2013

Racism on the job an ugly problem, report discovers

Mr. Denis Naphine
Premier of Victoria

Dear Premier,

Can you do something about it or is it too tough?

Looking forward for your comment, please.

Yours respectfully,

Eddie Hwang

President
Unity Party WA
Phone/Fax: 61893681884
Environmental friendly - save the trees - use email.
UPWA is the only political party that calls a spade a spade.

 

Racism on the job an ugly problem, report discovers

Date  - May 27, 2013 - Vince Chadwick

People are often subject to unthinking behaviour which is inherently racist. 
Despite a spate of racist rants caught on commuters' phones, racism is twice as likely to occur at work as on public transport, a report has found.
Santino Deng ... 'The rest of the people I was working with laughed.' Photo: Luis Enrique Ascui
Reporting Racism, released on Monday by the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission, seeks to gauge the frequency of racism and help victims and bystanders respond.

A survey of more than 200 people found one in three had witnessed or experienced racism at work. Fifteen per cent had encountered it on public transport, and 31 per cent had seen it on the street. Racism may include verbal and physical abuse, offensive graffiti, and gestures where a person is treated unfavourably due to their race.
''People are often subject to unthinking behaviour which is inherently racist,'' said acting commissioner Karen Toohey. ''To hear their own community being spoken about in derogatory terms has a profound impact.''
Respondents who had experienced or witnessed racism in Victoria.
Respondents who had experienced or witnessed racism in Victoria.
Funeral leave in the Aboriginal community, also known as sorry business, is one example that Ms Toohey gave of an event that was commonly misunderstood and derided by co-workers.
Santino Deng, from South Sudan, spent 12 years in a refugee camp in Kenya before arriving in Australia in 2005. To support himself through his arts degree at Victoria University he worked as a labourer in factories, where he said racism was commonplace.
Potential employers lost interest upon hearing his foreign name and background. Once he did find work, he was assigned the toughest tasks, some colleagues refused to speak to him, and there were often jokes about his race.
''Someone told me, 'you're so dark I don't see you around'. The rest of the people I was working with laughed,'' Mr Deng said. ''So I told him, 'OK, let me put the light on - maybe you have a problem with your eyes.''
Currently unable to work due to a workplace injury to his hand, the 32-year-old is seeking a less physically demanding job to allow him to sponsor his wife and young son to come to Australia. But Mr Deng is not sure what kind of society he would be welcoming them to. ''If we see the situation is not improving, then we must speak out,'' he said. ''If not for our generation, then for generations to come.''
The report also found 55 per cent of racist incidents went unreported. Ms Toohey attributed this to concern that nothing would be done, and the frequency of abuse.
In an effort to combat this, anyone who witnesses racism may now fill out a report on the commission's anti-hate website. The reports will be passed on to police.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

To grieve for the Chinese community in Australia

Dear Hon. Rowland.mp

Congratulations for making the excellent speech and sincerely hope that the next Governent will definitely do something about those injustice by making a public apology and abjure the impossible literacy tests.

Yours respectfully,

Eddie Hwang
President
Unity Party WA
Phone/Fax: 61893681884
Environmental friendly - save the trees - use email.
UPWA is the only political party that calls a spade a spade.

GRIEVANCE DEBATE
Monday, 24 June 2013 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 197
CHAMBER
SPEECH
Date Monday, 24 June 2013 Source House
Page 197 Proof Yes
Questioner Responder
Speaker Rowland, Michelle, MP Question No.

Ms ROWLAND (Greenway) (21:09): I rise this evening to grieve for the Chinese community in Greenway
and the wider Chinese community in Australia, who have been harshly and unfairly treated at various stages
throughout our history, something that I believe we have failed to acknowledge properly as a national parliament
over a very long time. We have seen this treatment take a variety of forms over a long period, from racist language
to specific discriminatory legislation and of course the shameful Immigration Restriction Act 1901.
The Chinese have been in Australia for over 150 years, with the earliest known significant presence during the
gold rush period in the 1800s. Since then, we have seen the Chinese population treated unjustly through racist
actions to racist policies. We had the Lambing Flat riots in 1861, when European gold-diggers drove the Chinese
from the goldfields. In 1855, Victoria was the first colonial government to enact specific anti-Chinese legislation;
South Australia followed in 1857; and then New South Wales in 1861. We saw similar laws in the United States
with the passing of Chinese exclusion laws in 1870 which explicitly discriminated against persons of Chinese
descent.
Anti-Chinese sentiment back home in the goldfields was rife. As reported in 1857 in the Ovens and Murray
Advertiser, a northern Victorian newspaper, it was proposed by a Mr S Fraser and seconded by Mr H Purley:
That the Buckland miners form themselves into an association, to be called the Buckland Miners' Anti-Chinese
League, for freeing this colony from the daily increasing evils under which it is now labouring, in consequence
of the increased numbers of Chinese congregating upon the goldfields of Victoria.
As we moved into the 20th century and celebrated Federation, one of the first acts of the new federal government
was the infamous Immigration Restriction Act 1901, commonly known as the White Australia policy between
1901 and 1973, which targeted all people of 'colour'. These laws were unjust and the complete antithesis of today's
multicultural Australia. They affected the lives of Australians 'of colour' for several generations and represented
a shameful chapter in our nation's history. As remarked by the Taipei Times in 2011:
Ships docking in British colonies were only allowed to carry a certain quota of Chinese, and Australia was the
first country to use a head tax to try and limit their numbers, a move soon adopted by Canada and New Zealand.
Punishing immigration laws known as the White Australia policy followed, with impossible literacy tests used
to ban foreigners, and requirements that saw Chinese men welcomed as cheap labour but their families excluded.
Some children were split from their fathers for decades, and those Chinese who made it to Australia, lured by
the promise of the 1850s gold rush, endured vilification, abuse and violent race riots.
Despite these early difficulties, Chinese Australians and others affected by the White Australia policy have made
an enormous contribution to all facets of Australian life. But these were the invisible Australians. They celebrated
Federation, they fought at Gallipoli, they struggled through the depression and they battled for freedom in the
Pacific. Australia defined itself as the white man's country, yet the reality was something extremely different. The
invisible Australians were men, women and children who, because of the colour of their skin and the homelands
of their forbears, found themselves at odds with the nation's claim to be white and as a result faced discriminatory
laws and policies designed to deny them a place as an Australian.
Over the 20th century we have seen great change in the situation for Chinese people in Australia but also flickers
of past discrimination and injustice, from the post-1950s Australian education of Asian students to the 1970s
recognition of the People's Republic of China and the abolition of the White Australia policy in law and in
practice. We saw Bob Hawke's granting of permanent residency status to 42,000 Chinese students in the 1990s,
and the disgraceful chapter that was Hansonism. It is true that great change has occurred, but one thing remains
for people of Chinese descent, as eloquently summed up by Mr Arthur Chang in The Sydney Morning Herald
in 2011:
Monday, 24 June 2013 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 198
CHAMBER
'An apology would bring a lot of relief to people my age who for so long had to tell our children, grandchildren
and great grandchildren [that] it was not the good old days, it was the bad old days.'
In my electorate of Greenway I am privileged to represent an extremely diverse part of Australia, and the Chinese
community comprises a significant portion of this. A big part of this falls in Blacktown City, a city that shares
sister city status with Liaocheng in China and boasts the beautiful Chang Lai Yuan Chinese Gardens, located
in Nurragingy Reserve.
According to the 2011 census, there are 6,811 people in Greenway with Chinese ancestry. It is a community
that is both very young and very old. It is a community with a distinct sense of history and a community that
would desperately like to see the wrongs of the past made right. As occurred in Australia, New Zealand, Canada
and the United States enacted and used anti-Chinese legislation throughout their respective histories. Those of
Chinese descent in New Zealand, Canada and the US whose families had been affected by such legislation sought
recognition and redress from their governments. The New Zealand, Canadian and USA governments have all
apologised or issued statements of regret. The Australian government, to date, has not.
A statement by the Australian government of acknowledgement, recognition and regret for past discrimination
and injustice would, I believe, not only be appreciated and bring some closure to the affected families but would
also announce to the world that such policies are no longer part of today's multicultural Australia. As remarked
by the president of the Chinese Heritage Association of Australia, Daphne Lowe Kelley, in 2011:
The time has come for a number of Chinese-Australians to get rid of the last vestiges of white superiority. We
want to be recognised for all our contributions.
It is my belief that the 44th Parliament must recognise the injustices of the past and acknowledge the
discriminatory treatment of Chinese people in Australia throughout our history. This is something I am
determined to pursue.
This government has made China a major focus, both socially and economically. This is evident in the new
strategic partnership with Beijing and the Asian century white paper. The strategic partnership, which involves
annual face-to-face meetings between Australia's and China's leaders, regular economic talks and deeper defence
ties, highlights this government's commitment to the Asian region and will make sure we are in the best position
possible to capitalise on the ongoing huge growth in China. Rory Medcalf, director of the Lowy Institute's
International Security Program, has commented:
We're not shifting our loyalties somehow to China but we are overcoming some of the coolness in the relationship.
As we now look to the future and attempt to grasp the opportunities of the Asian century, I believe—and I know

many people share my belief—that we must first acknowledge the mistakes of the past.