Friday, November 29, 2013

Dear Prime Minister Abbott,

Why you want to water down racial discrimination laws?

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Eddie Hwang
President
Unity Party WA
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                                                                     SAY NO TO RACISM





Tuesday, November 26, 2013

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Mr. Ben Wickham,
Senior Executive Deputy Registrar
High Court of Australia

Dear Mr. Wickham

The decision by the High Court is to be congratulated for quashing Major Ting Li’s previous conviction by the Military. It is regrettable that both the Defence Force Discipline Appeal Tribunal and the Federal Court failed to act in the correct way.

Yours sincerely,

President
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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Dear Attorney General Brandis,

We fully condemn your plan as it only encourages racists to spread their wings further.

Yours respectfully,

President
Unity Party WA
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Bolt's law: Jewish leaders condemn plans by Attorney-General George Brandis to change race hate laws following Andrew Bolt case
Date - November 15, 2013 - Jonathan Swan

Jewish leaders are preparing to fight the government's plans to weaken race hate laws, saying they could encourage persecution and racially-motivated violence.
The head of the Jewish national peak body, Peter Wertheim, is concerned that Attorney-General George Brandis wants to amend sections of the law that protect Jews and other minority groups against hate speech.
''We don't really know what's intended,'' said Mr Wertheim, the executive director of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.
''Obviously we're concerned about the tenor of the announcements and we do wish to consult with the Attorney-General.''
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Senator Brandis has signalled that, as his first legislative act, he wants to amend sections of the Racial Discrimination Act that make it unlawful to offend another person on grounds of race or ethnicity.
The Attorney-General has declared himself a champion of ''freedom'' and disparaged the laws used against Andrew Bolt over an article he wrote in which he accused ''white'' Australians of identifying as Aborigines to advance their careers.
Asked about the Jewish community's concerns, Senator Brandis promised he would consult with ''stakeholders and interested parties, including leaders of the Jewish community such as Mr Wertheim, before introducing the legislation to Parliament.''
Mr Wertheim has warned that the ''wholesale repeal'' of sections of the act would not only prevent vilified groups from defending their reputations legally, but would also encourage more sinister forms of hate speech. ''It would … open the door to the importation into Australia of the hatreds and violence of overseas conflicts,'' Mr Wertheim said.
Former attorney-general Mark Dreyfus said he had condemned Senator Brandis' plans ''from the moment he first opened his mouth''.

The laws were aimed at stopping ''extreme cases of hate speech,'' said Mr Dreyfus, whose great-grandparents died in the Holocaust and whose father and grandparents fled Nazi Germany for Australia.

Read more:
 http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/bolts-law-jewish-leaders-condemn-plans-by-attorneygeneral-george-brandis-to-change-race-hate-laws-following-andrew-bolt-case-20131114-2xjpn.html#ixzz2kfdLome2

Friday, October 25, 2013

Mr. David Johnston,
Defense Minister.

Dear Minister,
Apparently the Prime Minister is not interested in this case because it involves an Asian. But he has the time to defend a Liberal Member for dipping his hands in the honey jar rather than order him not to do it again. What sort of a Prime Minister we have now?

As a Defense Minister, what are you going to do about it?

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours respectfully,

Eddie Hwang.

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SAY NO TO RACISM

Mr. Tony Abbott
Prime Minister.

Dear Prime Minister,

We fully agree that Major Ting Li was wrongly dismissed, workplace discrimination and an inference of racism.

We would like to hear your comment, please.

Yours respectfully,

Eddie Hwang
President
Unity Party WA
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Saturday, October 19, 2013

                                                                                                                                      
SAY NO TO RACISM

Dear Professor Triggs,

It is sad that there is a 60% increase of racism related complaints and one wonders if this could be partly to the former Prime Minister John Howard’s lack of support in combating racism after he dismantled the Multicultural Minister’s position.

It is sincerely hope that the Abbott Government will do something about it during his first term as we should not tolerate it in the 21st century.

We will continue to do our part as we did in the past.

Yours sincerely,

Eddie Hwang
President
Unity Party WA
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Women bearing the brunt of racism, forum told

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The Australian Human Rights Commission says there has been a 60 per cent increase in the number of racism related complaints it has received in the past year.
Commission president Gillian Triggs told a forum on women and racism in Sydney today the complaints have been made by both genders but women bear the brunt.
Professor Triggs says unfortunately immigrant and refugee women suffer a "triple whammy" effect when racially vilified.
"It's a combination of factors. It's both gender (because) they're women. It's race because of their particular racial background, but it's also more nuanced in that we have to think of the cultural and linguistic backgrounds which add to those disadvantages," she said.
Professor Triggs says the rising number of complaints could be because of media attention given to a number of high profile incidents, particularly on public transport and social media.
"I think because people are more aware of it, they're now coming to us to complain about it, people are standing up for themselves," she said.
The forum was hosted by New South Wales Citizenship and Communities Minister Victor Dominello and organised by the Immigrant Women's Speakout Association.
Speakout president Pallavi Sinha says legislation needs to be toughened to give women more access to help, and that it is a problem that has a disproportionately negative effect on immigrant women.
"More research is needed so we know the extent of the problem and how a more targeted approach dealing with women is needed," Ms Sinha said.
The president of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board, Stepan Kerkyasharian, says despite 20 years of racial vilification Laws there has not been one successful complaint.
"Racism in 2013 is taking different forms than in the past, with global technology causing new challenges," Mr Kerkyasharian said.
"It is critical that Federal, State and Territory Governments, along with human rights agencies, ensure cultural diversity is upheld in Australia."
He says individuals must also take a stand against racism too.
Mr Kerkyasharian says a NSW Government review of the state's racial vilification laws is due shortly.
"I would like to see a review of all Australian legislation regarding racial vilification across all jurisdictions, to give some teeth to legislation dealing with racism and discrimination," he said.
Jane Corpuz-Brock from the Immigrant Women's Speakout says there is a lot of bullying against immigrant women in the workplace.
"Their appearance is labelled, people try to mimic them, the way they speak. Muslim women wearing the hijab have trouble getting work. As soon as a potential employer sees them they say no thanks to offering them a job, even if they have a good resume," she said.
Ms Corpuz-Brock says 80 per cent of the women who come to the Speakout in Sydney's west are seeking help after being racially slurred.
She says it entrenches the disadvantage against immigrant women.
NSW Deputy Opposition Leader Linda Burney - the first Aboriginal Australian elected to the NSW Parliament - also addressed the forum.
Ms Burney told the event that sexual violence is regularly linked to racism for indigenous women, often within very small towns.
"It makes you feel sick, racism," Ms Burney said.
For anyone who says racism isn't an issue in this country and that people should just got on with it, we are a great multicultural society, there is no two ways about it, but let's not pretend.

"You only have to scratch the surface and a great underbelly of racism will spew out, in unparalleled ways."

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
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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
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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.