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Review 22.8
6-26 June 1997
PIN UP GIRL: Perhaps there is no escape from Pauline Hanson. During a recent trip abroad, her pitiless face appeared with tiresome regularity on US network news broadcasts. Australia's image came off second best with echoes of South Africa in reports on Australia in the New York Times and European papers. But in England she popped up in the most curious of places. The British National Party, England's leading neo- Nazi outfit, commanded by John Tyndall, fielded a number of candidates in the recent general election. The BNP (the reincarnated British National Front) openly espouses neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic ideology, is a big promoter of holocaust denial material and stomps around inner London - guarded by violent para-military skinhead units - while warning of the "imminent destruction of the white race".
The Member for Oxley herself featured in the BNP's May 1997 Election Manifesto (see right), in their "Britain and the World" section. All heil for the manifesto, Britain Reborn, which carried this charming plug for Pauline while also demanding:
(1) There must be a ban on all further non-white immigration into the United Kingdom;
(2) A two-part programme must be organised for the resettlement overseas of non-whites presently in the UK. The first part should be voluntary, the second compulsory. After the expiry of a time limit for applicants for voluntary resettlement, those remaining should be subject to compulsory resettlement;
(3)All those subject to resettlement should have their travelling expenses to their destinations paid by the British Government - plus an additional resettlement grant;
(4) British aid to Third World countries should be used as a lever by which to obtain co-operation in schemes of resettlement in those countries. THE AUTHOR: Well it's not as if he wasn't warned. Flinders University (SA) academic Joseph Wayne Smith, far-right fellow traveller and prolific conspiracy theorist nut was outed last month as a contributor to Pauline Hanson's disturbing treatise The Truth. Smith's works include one on immigration co-written with Denis McCormack, Australians Against Further Immigration leader and self proclaimed Pauline Hanson puppetmeister (yet another one!) who also boasts to having made editorial contributions to the Hanson manifesto. Wind back to September 17 1994. Then Dr Smith was delivering an address to the United Freedom Seminar of the Australian Freedom Foundation (AFF). The Freedom Foundation, a small outfit based in Adelaide, in reality is the Australian front group for the far-right US John Birch Society. Also addressing this gathering was none other than Senator Nick Minchin, now a Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister.
Senator Minchin claimed that the AFF were "a Christian group" and that he had known its executive director Doug Giddings "for many years", angrily defending the group from charges of extremism. Except of course that the AFF financed visits to Australia by the US John Birch society leader and distributed JBS material - including its manifesto The Blue Book - under the Australian Freedom Foundation imprint. And don't forget the glowing (and rarely bestowed) full-page advertisement for the AFF published in the League of Rights' Intelligence Survey. Dr Smith - whose address to the AFF followed Senator Minchin - appeared in his capacity as chairman of the Australian Patriots, an Adelaide offshoot of the League of Rights. In fact this indefatigable campaigner against the "New World Order" was lauded as a "brilliant philosopher" at the 1994 League of Rights annual dinner.
BACK ROOM BOYS: Another of Pauline's gurus is John Cumming, a Queenslander in his 70s, feted as the brains behind her controversial views on the economy. According to Greg Roberts in The Age, Cumming heads a group called Austand which recently claimed Australia is heading towards a New World Order that will "destroy our nation".
Mr Cumming's book Lucky be Damned on "the real power behind the elected governments" is advertised for sale in the current editions of those lunar journals for space cadets, conspiracy and right wing nuts - Nexus and New Dawn. These grand relics of Colonel Gaddafi's big spending days in the Pacific now run reams of psychotic twaddle about CIA conspiracies, real life X-Files, UFO's and, yes, the New World Order. New Dawn pumps it out courtesy of Mr Robert Pash, Colonel Gadaffi's former bag man down under while Nexus is produced by Pash's old buddy Duncan Roads. Pash, a.k.a. Rashid Robert Pash, caused great consternation during the 1980s running Gaddafi-funded operations from Melbourne. One of his many activities included co-ordinating Libyan government funded delegations to Tripoli. In the 1980s Nexus editor Duncan Roads tripped off to Libya several times courtesy of Colonel Gaddafi. He later established Nexus, which The Review revealed after the Oklahoma bombing to be running reports in Australia from senior figures in the US militia movement. A third new age newstand lunar-right magazine is entitled Exposure. We don't know whether it sells Mr Cumming's book. But its latest issue reprints in full Ms Hanson's maiden speech, so perhaps it doesn't really matter.
Copyright © 1997 J.O.I.N.