THE CORONATION HILL DEBACLE
by David Thompson
For an agnostic, the Prime Minister, Mr. Hawke, seems to be
singularly subject to spiritual forces, particularly those
of heathen origin. His sanctimonious insistence that the spiritual
convictions of tribal Aborigines be respected would be laudable
if it were not so obviously hypocritical. Where is his respect
for the spiritual convictions of Christians who find it grossly
offensive that governments force them to assist in the funding
of the murder of unborn people? His
respect for the "Bula" spirit at Coronation Hill, which must
not be disturbed, or else sickness will afflict the people,
locked the Prime Minister into an ill-considered position.
His defence of his position in the Cabinet was described by
some present as an "emotionally over-blown tirade..."
Irrespective of other factors, it is
quite evident that the genuine interests of the Aboriginal
people - the alleged reason for the political posturing -
have been ignored in the end. The Jawoyn people's 'opinion'
is allegedly important to Mr. Hawke. But the Jawoyn's interests
were being represented by Mr. John Ah Kit - not a Jawoyn himself.
We remind readers of a letter to The Australian from
a genuine Jawoyn, Mr. Andy Andrews, in November last year,
upon which we reported. It is most illuminating to go back
to this letter, which speaks for itself:
"I have let Mr. Hawke know what myself
and other Jawoyn think of mining at Coronation Hill but no
answer. Attached is a list of Jawoyn who want the mine to
go ahead, also a letter I sent to the Prime Minister, "'Dear
Sir, I am asked every day by my people why and who is stopping
the mine at Coronation to go ahead. "'My people wants jobs
and a future for our families. Jawoyn continue to support
mining, people like Nipper Brown, Senior Custodian, people
like Sarah Flora, Phyllis Winjorroc, members of the Jawoyn
Working Party, and so many other ordinary Aborigines wanting
work. "'Tell me what I am supposed to say to the 140 job applicants
and our Jawoyn employees if this mine is stopped. Coronation
Hill project gave these people hope and a chance to learn
and work and have some dignity. "'Check how many Aborigines
are unemployed in Katherine and what their chances are of
work. Nil, Mr. Hawke. "'It appears you only want to listen
to the N.L.C. (Northern Land Council) puppets and their hangers-on
who all have good paying jobs. "'On behalf of the not so radical
majority of Jawoyns, we ask that the mine go ahead as promised
before by your government.'" (Mr. Andrews attached a list
of 92 signatures under the typewritten statement, "We the
undersigned Jawoyn people are in favour of the Coronation
Hill project going ahead.")
The exploitation of the unfortunate aborigines takes place
more at the hands of "advisers", and politically motivated
manipulators than the miners. The real sickness country is
not at Coronation Hill, but in that Canberra Hill, the new
political palace.
DRAWING THE FANGS OF PARTY POLITICS
The final result of the N.S.W. election confirms, to Mr. Greiner's
horror, that Australia's voters are tired of being treated
with contempt by political parties. An arrogant Premier who
was demanding that voters not only return him to office, but
with a clear majority in the Legislative Council as well,
or else he would call another election, is now very subdued.
The Reverend Fred Nile, who with his wife Elaine and the Democrats,
holds the balance of power in the Council, has ensured that
Mr. Greiner is the head of a government in the minority in
both Houses. We have heard no more of another election! The
composition of the Legislative Assembly gives the Coalition
49 of the 90 seats, and Mr. Greiner has done a deal with the
Independent from Tamworth, Mr. Windsor, in order to govern.
It is quite clear that the voters of N.S.W. have not given
Mr. Greiner a mandate to do anything. The role of the Independents
again becomes critical, with Mr. Nile announcing that he will
be opposing the licensing of any casinos, and that he would
like to see conscience voting by all M.P's. rather than the
executive imposing their will on the Caucus. This sends a
shiver down the spines of the Parties - if they have spines.
It is also significant that the House of Assembly Independents
have included citizen's initiative and referenda on their
list of policies to be pursued.
THE INDEPENDENTS IN THE PARLIAMENTS
There are now minority governments in four State Parliaments
who depend upon Independents for survival: N.S.W., Tasmania,
South Australia and Western Australia, where two disgruntled
former A.L.P. members keep Mrs. Lawrence on her toes. The
political establishments, and the press, are uneasy about
this. The Weekend Australian (22/6/91), in its editorial,
questions the wisdom of the electorate, commenting: "The party
system developed to bring order to parliamentary democracy.
Imagine trying to force legislation through any parliament
made up entirely of independents...." The underlying assumption
is that more legislation is good.
Last year a columnist for The Australian, Bryce Courtney,
catalogued the volume of legislation that was rammed through
the Federal Parliament, and expressed his disquiet. He was
immediately taken to task by both the Prime Minister's Office
and by Mr. Phillip Adams who claimed that there was little
evidence to indicate that more legislation was undesirable!
However, it is not true that the party system was developed
to bring order to democracy at all. Sir Arthur Bryant records
the spirited resistance to the establishment of the parties
in the British House of Commons only 200 years ago. The formation
of the parties occurred in an environment of increasing corruption
within the 'city' of London. Bryant points out that for over
eight hundred years the British Parliament functioned quite
well without political parties, although natural alliances
were often formed. If it is impossible to "force" legislation
through the Australian parliaments, the cause of the influence
of Independents, this may well be an extremely good thing!
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MALCOLM ROSS
In a recent report, Mr. Doug Christie,
the outstanding Canadian barrister who has represented a number
of Canadians prosecuted under the Canadian "hate law", points
out that "There is a move afoot to remove Section 3(b) from
the hate law so as to remove the defence of an honest religious
belief. This step will in all probability enable charges to
be laid criminally against Malcolm Ross". Ross is the New
Brunswick schoolteacher being persecuted by the Zionist mafia
because of his books. Ross has never aired his views in the
school where he teaches. Doug Christie is the man who in the
two Zundel cases has brilliantly exposed the Zionist propagandists.
He successfully defended the Hungarian, Finta, the first Canadian
to be charged under Canadian War Crimes legislation.
As yet the High Court of Australia has not ruled on the question
of the Australian War Crimes legislation, which means that
the Adelaide case cannot proceed. Australians should heed
carefully what is happening in Canada, because the same tactics
could be employed against Australians. The background to the
Malcolm Ross case is outlined in Ross's major work, The
Spectre of Power, price $16.00 from all League addresses.
comment: The
Australian (June 24th) reports that Canadian Judge James
Chadwick has blocked the prosecution of Michael Pawlowski
(aged 74) who has been accused of murdering 490 Poles and
Jews during World War II. He refused to allow special commission
travel to the Soviet Union to gather evidence against Pawlowski.
Mr. Sol Littman, of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, is upset.
The Canadian Justice Minister, Mr. Kim Campbell, is upset
too.
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FROM NEW ZEALAND ON TARGET
(June 14th, 1991) - by Bill Daly (National
Director N.Z.L.R.)
"… The disorder and utter nonsense now seen everywhere is
merely proof that without reference to a higher authority
human beings simply become mad. Much of the madness today
can only be described as diabolical. How else do we explain
the behaviour of someone who will protest against the killing
of whales, seals, or some other virtually unknown species
of animal or insect, but condones or even advocates the legal
execution of some of next year's one-year-old children? How
do we explain the new religion called conservation that has
the body waste from humans flown out of the bush by helicopter
in order to preserve the natural environment? How do we explain
priests and bishops supporting a conference to discuss ways
of making practising homosexuals feel part of the 'Church'?
How do we explain government policies that often make it more
difficult economically for a married couple to raise children,
than a solo parent? How else do we explain how a whole society
can claim it is poor because it is short of money or has astronomical
money debt (ink on paper or computer blips), while surrounded
by an abundance of natural wealth?
A priest or minister of the 'old school'
would have had no hesitation in replying that these human
and social defects are a result of what was called original
sin, and that without the constant Grace of God, and of minds
directed upwards, then man automatically 'falls'. One Christian
Catechism for children used to begin with the question: 'Who
made me?', followed by, 'Why did God make me?' Whatever one's
personal views, no honest person can deny that this approach,
and the answer to the second question (God made me to know,
love and serve Him in this life and be happy with Him in the
next), did produce, in the main, a more mature, responsible
and stable adult than today's diet of soapies, rock music,
sex education, etc., that the poor kids are now fed - not
to mention the tragedy of broken homes.
The Mills of God
The old saying, a legacy from an age when there was more commonsense,
that the mills of God grind slowly but very finely, was never
more apt than today. Today's chaos is simply proof of the
existence of the higher authority of God. The great hope must
be that today's disasters will eventually force increasing
numbers of people to reassess the direction in which they
are going. It may even be that the clergy will come to their
senses and regain some courage - and that will certainly be
cause for celebration!
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In Brief
LET'S CALL ON THE CONSTITUTION from The
Australian, June 13th
Possibly the most important letter you have ever published
on this page was Alan Gourley's Governor General Must Act'
(6/6). "When the chief law officer of the Commonwealth backs
off from the penetrating questions on 4 Corners (3/6) with
a Pilate before Christ, 'What is the truth'; when Ministers
of the Crown defend with puerile arguments the Prime Minister's
'lie we had to be told', the reputation and standing of Australia
is besmirched in the eyes of the entire world. "One of the
trinity, which is the Government of Australia - the House
of Representatives - is now irreparably tainted with the suspicion
of fraud and deception. Therefore the entire structure of
Government including the Crown is stigmatised.
"The Governor General as the representative of Her Majesty,
Queen Elizabeth, Queen of Australia, has, as Mr. Gourley so
rightly points out, the bounden duty to protect the people
of this Commonwealth from the consequences of political corruption
such as has been revealed in recent days. If we are not to
be seen as an authentic banana republic the Governor General
must act quickly and decisively. All Australians concerned
for the preservation of the dignity and integrity of our Parliament
should deluge the Governor General with letters demanding
such action. "If the representative of Her Majesty is perceived
to be giving tacit approval to the reprehensible Kirribilli
conspiracy by the failure to discharge this duty he will bring
grave dishonour to an ancient and valued tradition - a parliamentary
monarchy, himself, and the high office to which he came by
virtue of political preference." (Charles J. Connelly, Ferny
Grove, Qld.)
SOUTH AFRICA WILL STRIKE BACK from The
Australian (June 19th)
According to a morning newspaper the Australian Foreign Minister,
Mr. Evans, stated that South African rugby and cricket teams
are likely to compete against their Australian counterparts
in 1992, subject to certain political obstacles being overcome
in South Africa. "The undiplomatic, interfering Mr. Evans
must be told that South Africa is prepared to play against
Australia provided it is satisfied that that country has made
sufficient progress in furthering the economic and social
development of its Aborigines, and has provided decent sporting
facilities for them in the outback, where most of those who
survive have been dumped and conveniently ignored.
"A delegation from South Africa and the Commonwealth will
of course tour Australia before the end of the year to see
whether or not they are satisfied with the Australian Government's
efforts. "Mr. Evans should also note that notwithstanding
the pathetic snivelling and grovelling of some sports-people,
the South African public has had more than enough of foreign
politicians who blatantly and hypocritcally interfere in our
national affairs. "Goodbye Mr. Evans. Please do not return."
(J.P. Lambson, Chairman, University Freedom of Speech Association,
Transvaal, South Africa)
MORE ON SENATOR EVANS from The Australian
(June 19th)
Having long since passed again and again through the gates
of resignation when confronted with yet another piece of modern
political tomfoolery, it required a great surge of anger to
impel me to write this letter. "Senator Evans, in South Africa,
has passed $4 million of the Australian taxpayers' money over
to the murderous A.N.C., yet here at home the Brotherhood
of St. Laurence (to name only one such organisation) is forced
in desperation to beg for funds to aid the homeless young,
the one in every six teenagers unemployed, and young families
caught in the poverty trap. "Senator Evans' television image
and press statements convey the impression of a middle-aged,
perpetual undergraduate still caught romantically in a web
of Marxist illusions. Well, there is no romance in the poverty
and family breakdown generated by the last decade of misgovernment
in Australia. That $4 million should have been spent here."
(William Dargie, Canterbury Vic.,)
RACE IRRELEVANT from The Australian
(June 19th)
"Aboriginal land rights provide benefits on a criterion of
race. They are undeniably racist. Some people seek to deny
that they are necessary to do social justice. But this is
not an argument that land rights are not racist. It is an
argument that land rights are just. This should be seen for
what it is: an argument that racism is justifiable. "The social
and cultural conditions of Aborigines vary from more traditional
dwellers, through urban fringe dwellers to people well integrated
into Western urban life. Race is therefore irrelevant and
misleading. Issues of social justice should be addressed on
their own merits and not be reference to the criterion of
race." (Justin McDonnell, Watson, A.C.T.)
THE APPEASEMENT OF BULA from The Australian,
June 20th
"The Prime Minister is quite right to warn us against cynical
dismissal of the Bula under Coronation Hill. Far from being
of recent manufacture, Bula has been a fundamental figure
in the Aboriginal pantheon for a very long time. "My research
indicates that the Bula was a long time resident of Katoomba,
until in 1815, Blaxland, Lawson, and Wentworth built a road
over his sacred site, and in consequence Bula created havoc
for the French that very same year, on the other side of the
planet. "Bula moved to the sacred site of Emmseegee, known
in white language as Jolimont; slept quietly for nearly a
century, until 1906. The omission of an Aboriginal fast bowler
from a ritual ceremony at Emmseegee awakened his wrath, and
he flattened San Francisco and caused a scabies plague in
Chungking. "Bula relocated to Benelong Point and was content
until the mid-1950s when whites drove pile drivers into his
kidneys, to erect a temple to money lenders. Not even Paul
Robeson's personal intervention with a ritual 'sing in' could
salve the Bula's outrage, and the A.L.P. Government, which
had disturbed him, was destroyed. "Bula moved to Brisbane;
the top end of upper Edward Street to be precise, and into
the basement of the Queensland Trades Hall. Again he was disturbed
by drillers when the Trades Hall made way - at a small profit
- for a huge white sacred site. Bula's anger then hexed the
Expo '88 site, which sits today as a barren wasteland opposite
Queensland's Parliament - at a large loss. "Bula finally moved
to Coronation Hill and declared 'No more packing'. This is
his final resting place.
The mere discussion of mining Coronation Hill - let alone
unleashing the pile drivers again - has incensed Bula. "Just
ask the Kurds and Bangladeshis. "My Aboriginal elder sources
who represent 0.l percent of 2.1 percent of the population
of Australia, assure me that their fathers' fathers' fathers
told their fathers' fathers who told their fathers, who told
them when they were young boys (the year Fitzroy won the flag
and farmers made money) that if the Government allows mining
on Coronation Hill - then Bula will strike down George Bush
... and well, need I say more? "So, to those who say that
Bob Hawke is again showing his total lack of integrity, as
in his hobnobbing with the Ceausescus, heaping adulation on
Ozal (a couple of points on which Bula and the white Australians
are in rare agreement), bagging the Springboks while kowtowing
to the racist Japanese, Chinese and Indonesians; hammering
the pilots (who are only jumped up tram drivers) and bowing
to the wharfies (who are up market stewards), and is only
paying lip service to Bula to advance his lifelong devotion
to his own personal self-aggrandisement - let me say this,
it's true that Bob Hawke looks small beside Senator Button,
but not even Bob Hawke would knowingly and wantonly unleash
President Dan Quayle on the world." (Richard L.D. Thew, Byron
Bay, N.S.W.)
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