Racist Pauline

Opinion: Pauline Hanson’s meltdown on Brian Burston affair highlights One Nation is a dictatorship Paul MurrayThe West Australian Wednesday, 6 June 2018 2:00AM Illustration: Don Lindsay Illustration: Don LindsayPicture: Illustration: Don Lindsay Stress testing is a good way to iron out the kinks in an organisation. Banks use it internally to expose their vulnerabilities, so it’s obviously not infallible. On a more personal basis, it can also tell susceptible people if they are in line for a heart attack. Pauline Hanson’s One Nation underwent a version of stress testing last week with the Dear Leader’s meltdown in a national television interview that tested her political honesty. Not only did it show that One Nation is a democratic political party in name only, but it also indicated that a corporate coronary arrest is on the cards again. One of the hallmarks of political parties in Western democracies is that they can demonstrate they operate openly and accountably. And democratically. What we saw in the Brian Burston affair is that One Nation is a dictatorship. Frankly, this has been an open secret in politics for some time. Anyone who has had dealings with One Nation tells the story that disagreeing with Hanson is terminal. And, as one of Hanson’s former svengalis, David Oldfield, has said publicly, she is the drawcard to the party but also the cause of its repeated failures. A party with only three members in the Federal Parliament does not need a whip — it’s a sinecure at best — but Hanson’s unilateral decision to sack NSW senator Brian Burston from the position two weeks ago signalled she was out of control again. There are two specific instances during this stress testing of One Nation that shows how undemocratically it operates. It is not unusual for minor parties to cut deals over the passage of legislation through the Senate. What we found out about Hanson’s reneging on the deal that each of its three senators made with Finance Minister Mathias Cormann over company tax legislation is alarming. Hanson told Ben Fordham in the infamous Sky News interview she had rung WA One Nation senator Peter Georgiou and Burston on Monday last week and said she had changed her mind. She announced the backflip before any partyroom meeting could be held — which would have been obligatory in a properly operating political outfit — and was enraged when Burston insisted on sticking with the deal. Cormann was clearly sugaring the pot for each senator’s home State, which led Hanson to accuse Burston of “selling himself out for $55 million”. In WA, Georgiou was to get an MRI machine. It is unknown what Hanson bartered for Queensland, but it obviously wasn’t enough. Then there’s Hanson’s subsequent attempt to expel Burston. One Nation’s constitution is explicit on that issue. The version posted on its website says this about the executive’s powers: “The national executive shall have the power to expel from the party or remove from their position of office any individual in any subordinate body, division, executive body or committee”. The constitution says the national executive must have at least three members and among them has to be the president, national treasurer and national secretary. The letter sent to Burston on June 1, without Hanson nominating in what capacity she was writing, makes no mention of any decision of the national executive which would be the usual practice if it had made one. “I no longer have confidence in you as an officer of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation,” it read. “You have been removed as deputy registered officer in NSW and in the Federal party. “Please consider resigning from the Senate seat and handing it back to the party. It would be the honourable thing to do as you would not be a senator but for your association with me. “You describe yourself as loyal to me and I now ask that you demonstrate that loyalty by giving up your seat in the Senate to enable the party to appoint a replacement NSW senator.” The megalomania in that letter is hard to overstate. Hanson had the right as president under the constitution to remove Burston as a registered officer, but not as a senator. Her overreach can be explained by the party’s peculiar constitution which makes her president for life, in effect. It would not be out of place in North Korea: “The president of the party is Pauline Lee Hanson. Upon resigning from the position of president, Pauline Lee Hanson shall appoint her successor to become the next president of the party. The president of the party following Pauline Lee Hanson’s successor shall be appointed by majority vote of the national executive.” But in the meantime, it obviously remains a dictatorship. No term limits are stated for Hanson’s presidency or her successor’s. How could a constitution like that ever translate into a democratic government? One Nation has been unable to develop the democratic processes of normal political parties because Hanson simply will not allow it. She shows all the paranoia of dictators at losing even the slightest control. No one is trusted. She relies on one or two close male advisers with whom she has dysfunctional relationships and who act as gatekeepers. Anyone who challenges her on policy matters — or wants to know about the party’s finances — is purged. Even she sees the pattern repeating itself. “I’m sorry to the Australian people that this has happened again,” Hanson tearfully told Fordham. “But it’s the same with Rod Culleton (Senator Georgiou’s predecessor and brother-in-law), it was the same with Fraser Anning (former One Nation senator who became an independent). They haven’t got the intestinal fortitude. “It’s all about themselves. Self-serving. Well I don’t want people like that. Yes, there’s going to be mistakes and I have made mistakes, but I’ll tell you what, at the end of the day, I will win and I’m going to ensure that I’m there with people beside me strongly united, working for the people of this country.”

Racist Pauline

Dear Editor, the best thing that happened to racist Pauline Hanson. Unity Party WA welcome more to follow Senator Burston as there are too many racist like Senator Hanson! Yours sincerely, Edward Hwang Hon. President Unity Party WA info@unitywa.org Blogger- Bloger Dashboard Twitter.com/unitypartywa Phone: 93681884. Unity Party WA is the only political party that calls a spade, a spade..

Racist Pauline

One Nation senator refusing to quit seat AAP Saturday, 2 June 2018 8:56AM Senator Brian Burston has refused to quit the One Nation party despite Pauline Hanson's demands. Senator Brian Burston has refused to quit the One Nation party despite Pauline Hanson's demands. One Nation's Brian Burston is refusing to quit his Senate seat, undercutting Pauline Hanson's power base unless she can force him out. Senator Hanson sent her long-time supporter a letter on Friday demanding he resign from the Senate to allow her to pick a replacement. "I no longer have confidence in in you as an officer of Pauline Hanson's One Nation party," Senator Hanson's letter said. "You describe yourself as loyal to me and now I ask that you demonstrate that loyalty to me by giving up your seat in the Senate to enable the party to appoint a replacement NSW senator." But Senator Burston is refusing to go, which means Senator Hanson's crucial three-vote bloc in the upper house is cut to two, vastly undercutting her influence. "I will not be resigning from One Nation and I most certainly will not ever be resigning from my senate position," Senator Burston told 2GB radio on Friday. "I certainly will not be standing aside for Pauline to put in a crony that's a yes-man or woman." He has also launched legal action against Senator Hanson's chief of staff James Ashby for allegedly leaking the "damaging revelation" that he was having a rectal examination when the party discussed its company tax stance. Liberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm confirmed he had talked to Senator Burston after Friday's fracas. "He's determined not to resign... But he will be voting independently from One Nation," Senator Leyonhjelm told AAP. The crisis started when Senator Burston publicly revealed his plans to vote for the government's company tax cuts, after Senator Hanson reneged on a deal to back them. An intermediary also spent two weeks trying to set up a meeting with the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers party in NSW so Senator Burston could defect. The party didn't want him - but Senator Burston claims he wasn't aware of the approach. Queensland Liberal senator Amanda Stoker said it was to Senator Burston's credit that he wasn't "flip-flopping according to the whims and needs" of One Nation's electoral prospects. But Senator Hanson needed to re-evaluate her management style, she said. "There comes a point where you say, 'after 20 or so people have come and gone from my party room, maybe it's me,'" Senator Stoker told the ABC. 21 people have either quit parliament, the party, been disqualified or expelled from One Nation while in parliament.

Julie Bishop

China's tabloid media cycle spins on Raby v Bishop spat By Kirsty Needham16 May 2018 — 5:36pm Beijing: It was highly predictable that an outbreak of hostilities between foreign minister Julie Bishop and former ambassador Geoff Raby would receive prominent coverage a day later in China's tabloid Global Times newspaper. With a circulation of more than a million copies, Global Times devoted page three, and an editorial, to Raby's call for Bishop to be sacked as foreign minister in order to thaw the Australia-China relationship. It also covered Bishop's "strong response" to the "harsh accusation". Raby, the former ambassador to China, was "profoundly ignorant", Bishop said. Julie Bishop hits back at former Australian ambassador to China, Geoff Raby, who claimed that relations with Beijing can only improve with the foreign minister's sacking. Raby had slammed Bishop for not visiting China in two years and angering Beijing with "the most strident public comments on the South China Sea". Julie Bishop, whose ability to relate to China was called into question this week. Julie Bishop, whose ability to relate to China was called into question this week. An expert, Yu Lei from Sun Yatsen University, offered readers the sober analysis that Raby and Bishop had a different understanding of the situation because of their different personal experiences. Raby was a professional diplomat who had lived in China, and Bishop relied on written reports, the editorial said. It carried the headline: "Canberra's China policy justly under fire". Former Australian ambassador to China Geoff Raby. The incident, and the colourful language flying between Australia's top diplomat and the former ambassador turned Beijing business consultant, served as the latest platform for the Chinese newspaper to push its view that Canberra's relationship with China is "overwhelmed by distrust". The editorial rolled out a list of accusations: that Australia is tilting towards Washington and had become "a major force in smearing China"; "Australians advocating a friendly policy toward China are frequently vilified". It concluded: "Bishop and Turnbull are clear that damage to Sino-Australian ties isn't in the national interest, and perhaps that's why they rushed to oppose Geoff Raby's article." More than 2600 Chinese readers commented or forwarded comments on the article. Most were negative. Julie Bishop hits back at 'ignorant and ill-informed' criticism by former ambassador CHINA Julie Bishop hits back at 'ignorant and ill-informed' criticism by former ambassador Add to shortlist "I don't want to instigate hatred, but every Australian policy on China is not a strategic cooperation, but a strategic confrontation," wrote one commenter. "Like a koala's sharp claws, from time to time it wants to hurt people," wrote another. Billionaire iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest said on Tuesday that reading Australian media reports on China reprinted in Chinese media broke his heart. Australian diplomats in China are also regularly frustrated at how swiftly the Global Times repeats and amplifies to its readership the latest blow-ups in the Australian domestic debate over Chinese influence. Among those readers are likely to be China's foreign affairs community, because of the paper's focus on international news. Little goes unnoticed. A recent front page showed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull astride a submarine with French President Emmanuel Macron. The caption on the picture: "France and Australia scheme to balance China". Mostly the news stories are "churned" directly from the websites of Australian media with close accuracy and an inflammatory headline. But Global Times editorials treat Australia as a regular whipping boy. There, we are on high rotation with India, Canada, the United States and other countries deemed that week to have insulted China's national dignity. Indian correspondents in Beijing have spoken of a similar cycle between local media reports and Global Times outrage, which is then followed by more local media reaction. The timing of Raby's call for Bishop's sacking, as Trade Minister Steven Ciobo was soon to touch down in Shanghai on Thursday for the first visit by a Turnbull Government minister to China this year, may have prompted the strong response from Bishop. This week, after all, was supposed to be about Australia's attempt to smooth the rocky relationship.

Allen Lew - CEO

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Prince Charles!

Dear Editor, It will be a disaster if they appoint Prince Charles as the next king of UK because he doesn't care his young wife Diana died and married someone who devoiced her own husband to marry him. Prince Charles should follow his great uncle who refused to be the king of UK because he married the sea captain's wife and abdicated to France until he died there. Yours sincerely, Eddie Hwang. Prince Charles to be the next Commonwealth head Prince Charles to succeed his mother, Queen Elizabeth, who has been the head since 195 PUBLISHED : Saturday, 21 April, 2018, 1:42am Prince Charles speaks at the formal opening of the Commonwealth heads of government meeting at Buckingham Palace in London on Thursday. Photo: AFP Queen Elizabeth supports Prince Charles to follow her as Commonwealth head Speculation was rife at Bridal Fashion Week about what the princess-to-be might wear when she marries Prince Harry next month In this official photograph released by Buckingham Palace Wednesday April 20, 2016 to mark her 90th birthday, Queen Elizabeth is seen walking in the private grounds of Windsor Castle, in England, on steps at the rear of the East Terrace and East Garden with four of her dogs: clockwise from top left corgi Willow, dorgis Vulcan and Candy, and Holly a corgi. Photo: AP Queen Elizabeth listens during speeches in the picture gallery for the queen's dinner during the Commonwealth heads of government meeting at Buckingham Palace in London on Thursday. Photo: AFP There have been calls for the role to be rotated around the member states, but in recent days the queen, 91, the British government and other leaders have backed Charles, 69. The Commonwealth evolved out of the British Empire in the mid-20th century, and the queen has been its head since her reign began in 1952. Bridal designers talk princess moments and Meghan Markle Charles had long been expected to take on the role even though it is not strictly hereditary. Some people have suggested a non-royal leader would be more appropriate in the 21st century. The monarch – who turns 92 on Saturday – said Thursday that she hoped her son and heir would one day “carry on the important work started by my father in 1949.” Guests dine in the picture gallery at the queen's dinner during the Commonwealth heads of government meeting at Buckingham Palace in London on Thursday. Photo: Getty Images The British government backed Charles to succeed his mother, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he agreed “very much” with the queen’s wishes. The position is largely symbolic, but the queen’s commitment has been a major force behind the survival of the Commonwealth. She has visited almost every member country, often multiple times, over her 66-year reign. Charles is a long-time champion of environmental causes, a priority for the Commonwealth. Its members include small island nations in the Caribbean and Pacific that are among the countries most vulnerable to rising seas, fiercer storms and other effects of global climate change. Prince Charles speaks with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May before the queen's dinner during the Commonwealth heads of government meeting at Buckingham Palace in London on Thursday. Photo: AFP Protecting the world’s oceans is high on the agenda at the Commonwealth meeting, alongside issues such as cybersecurity and trade. Britain has tried to use the biennial heads of government meeting to reinvigorate the disparate group that has struggled to carve out a firm place on the world stage. The UK also wants to lay the groundwork for new trade deals with Commonwealth nations after Britain leaves the European Union next year. s

Artificial rain

Dear Editor, China must be congratulated for making artificial rain which will benefits a large area Tibet and Xinjiang where there is hardly any rain during the year! Yours sincerely, Eddie Hwang. China to make it rain over area 3 times the size of Spain Published time: 8 Apr, 2018 08:19 Since 2013 China has been creating 55 billion tons of artificial rain a year. The country is now embarking on its biggest rainmaking project ever. In terms of the plan, announced this month, Chinese authorities intend to force rainfall and snow over 1.6 million sq km (620,000 sq miles), an area roughly three times the size of Spain. According to media reports, the government will use new military weather-altering technology developed by the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. The country plans to build tens of thousands of combustion chambers on Tibetan mountainsides. The chambers will burn a solid fuel, which will result in a spray of silver iodide billowing towards the sky. ‘Hanging gardens’ of China? ‘Forest towers’ to tackle country’s pollution problem (PHOTO, VIDEO) https://on.rt.com/82oc “More than 500 burners have been deployed on alpine slopes in Tibet, Xinjiang and other areas for experimental use. The data we have collected show very promising results,” an unnamed researcher told the Morning Post. “Sometimes snow would start falling almost immediately after we ignited the chamber. It was like standing on the stage of a magic show,” he said The Tibetan plateau is vital to the water supply for much of China and a large area of Asia. Its glaciers and reservoirs feed the Yellow, Yangtze, Mekong, and other major rivers that flow through China, India, Nepal, and other countries. Sprayed from planes, the particles will provide something for passing water vapor to condense around, forming clouds. Those clouds will bring the rain. A single cloud-seeding chamber could create a strip of clouds covering a 5km area. Traditionally, the rainmaking process or “cloud-seeding” means rocket-launching chemicals into clouds which accelerate the creation of ice crystals that eventually become rain. China also uses military aircraft for those purposes. Rainmaking is also a popular way to “clean up” air in China, where heavy smog is a big problem for many cities. The practice of weather modification has become more frequent across the country in recent years, including for major public events. In 2008, China launched over 1,100 rockets containing silver iodide into Beijing's skies before the Olympics opening ceremony to disperse clouds and keep the Olympics rain-free. Beijing has a “development plan” for weather modification until 2020. artificial rain