The Federal Government has not signed anything yet; there is no secret government deal done with shadowy United Nations figures in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris; the matter has been referred to the joint standing committee on treaties (which I chair) by the Minister for Foreign Affairs for review; and
public views were invited in all capital city newspapers on March 14
This statement was followed up by Peter Charlton, The Courier-Mail’s national affairs editor, the next week in an article headed "Conspiracy Theories" published on Saturday 21st March 1998. In the article Charlton says,
As any user knows, the Internet is a wonderful research tool. A local phone call, a few clicks of the mouse and the Net user is in the resources of, say, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with its vast array of reports, statistics and other useful data. A few more clicks of the mouse and the Net user is deep inside
a world of conspiracy theories and of global take-overs. Fruit loop territory.
And so it is with the information on the MAI. Take, for example, The MAI, a web page prepared by Global Web Builders
(my company)
on behalf of Pauline Hanson MP which makes the following claim, "The MAI is the international linchpin of what is, in the end, a totalitarian project for
world rule".....
Her (Hanson’s) objections – ill-informed, illogical, not based on fact and hysterically outlandish – are typical of other MAI critics, most notably in Canada, which has long had an ambivalent attitude towards foreign direct investment, particularly from big-brother United States. Groups in Canada opposed the North American Free Trade
Agreement or NAFTA; MAI’s critics claim it is ‘NAFTA on steroids’.
Hanson’s criticisms can be dismissed as those of an ignorant, ill-educated person with a political barrow to push....
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Charlton isolated Hanson in less than complimentary terms while ignoring the fact that both the Democrats and Sir Anthony Mason, once a High Court Judge, publicly shared her concerns at the time he wrote the article.
A year later The Courier-Mail had failed to report on the failure of the MAI or the JSCT’s findings. The question should be asked just who the ignorant parties were when you take into account the findings of the JSCT – surely it was the bureaucracy-driven comments by Downer and Beasley and their courtiers in the mainstream
media? Is it any wonder that Australians are paranoid about just what is happening to this country or where it is going?
I believe that reporters have failed to realise that archives of on-line information have become a hidden force which brutally strips bare their lies and distortions. It has also created the foundation behind which Hanson has been able to create a following that rebelled against the established "royal chamber and its courtiers".
We can only hope that those with level heads who are in a position to do so act before this wonderful country faces the equivalent of a modern-day French Revolution. Perhaps they should start by casting aside the opinions of privileged big business courtiers and bureaucrats and hold court with the peasants in their royal chamber. Perhaps
this action will bring home a harsh reality check and connect the disconnected.
Because, surely, in this age of enlightenment we can do better than Hanson.
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