I had business dealings with David Ettridge just prior to his joining up with Pauline. He was passionate in his hatred for asians. One can only surmise??

Not really - she was just responding to the claptrap that can be heard everyday via shock jocks on the radio. If you seem to have simple answers to complex situations you will always have an audience.

John Howard took note and does the same thing. Rudd is no better. Teacher bashing is all the rage at thee moment and little man Rudd has joined the fray.

Good points, PF and passenger.

sharkfin: " I'm just saying that everyone is racist because mankind is tribal by nature and what is a race but a tribe. "

Good grief. So there's really no such thing as racism? How can there be under such a formulation?

How preposterously (and conveniently) deluded.

It was in the interests of the Left to portray her as a cultural demon. The more they can demonize her, the better they think they looked.

Bob Brown called her a 'bloodsucking racist' so..I will now use this forum to make my own assessment of Bob Brown

BOB BROWN IS A BLOODSUCKING RACIST AND A SEXUAL DEVIATE !

Note..I have not declared this as 'my opinion' I have stated it with the same force as HE did about her. "She is"...so.."He is".

He claims she makes Australia look like a nation of Racists to Asia.
But HE makes Australia look like a nation of sexual deviates.

They knew she and 1-Nation were a threat to their political agenda, which requires people to be treated differently and unequally, in order for them to exploit the issues for their political agenda.

PF's view may be entirely accurate. It tells us about D.E. and I'm sure that his views would have had sway to a degree in the party.

Anyone who hates people simply because of their race will ultimately be outed for this, and their cause will fade.

Any party or person which has a 'anti' agenda, must have a bigger 'pro' agenda to provide people with something to take to heart.
Being 'Anti' something is not wrong, but it can become unbalanced.

Personally, I have not seen anything in writing of a racist nature in any 1-Nation material I've read, including her maiden speech.
Mild and understandable xenophobia maybe, but not racism.

holyshadow, my impression at the time was that Pauline was culturalist rather than racist.

I would have prefered to see the issues and concerns she raised debated rather than shouted down(or in one case bashed unconscious). Right or wrong they struck a chord with many people and the ganging up on her by the major parties and the media probably just entrenched those views. It reinforced a view of PC as a stifling of free speech rather than a matter of courtesy.

Like BD I've not seen anything in writing that convinced me that race itself was the issue to Pauline rather than a tag for culturalist views. Unlike BD I don't think Bob Brown's sexual preferences are any of our business (unless they are hidden and in conflict with his public stance).

R0bert

C.J. Morgan,

Greetings from the deep.

Racism is as a cough is to the flu. It is only a symptom of the real cause of the hostility which is the deadly tribal territorial instinct of mankind. Racism is like the threatening and intimidating behaviour that an animal displays to drive a rival off
what it sees as its territory.