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Storm leaves cloud over Sue

From “The West Australian. ”
Inside Cover by Gary Adshead

One Nation has stood down a WA branch president after Inside Cover turned up evidence that linked her to a white supremacist organisation called Stormfront.
Sue Bateman — aka Suebdoo2 — was summoned to an internal inquiry at the weekend and asked to explain why her internet pseudonym is all over Stormfront’s racist website chat room.

Last week, Ms Bateman agreed she was Suebdoo2 on her One Nation website, in her emails and on other discussion forums, but denied she was the Suebdoo2 on Stormfront — a site which carries the White Pride logo — despite some amazing coincidences.
“That isn’t me,� she said. “I know nothing about this Stormfront.� But today IC can reveal what could be the smoking gun in the Suebdoo2 mystery. A profile of the Stormfront member who posts regularly as Suebdoo2 is almost identical to details given in Sue Bateman’s personal profile on her own One Nation website. “Interests: Politics, computers,� the Stormfront member’s profile reads. “Occupation: Financial controller.� On her One Nation profile, Ms Bateman writes that her occupation is a financial controller and her interests are in “politics and websites�.

Baron heads

On top of that, both Ms Bateman and the Suebdoo2 on Stormfront are aged 39.
“I’ve stood her down as a regional president until our inquiries are completed,� One Nation State director James Hopkinson said.
“I find it very disturbing. It’s certainly not going to do our party any good to have that sort of thing in a column that everyone reads.â€?
When IC last spoke to Ms Bateman, she also agreed that the unique blue rose symbol on her One Nation website was the same as the image found next to every Suebdoo2 posting on Stormfront.
“That image would be available to anyone else,� she said.
There was even a link on her One Nation site to Stormfront, but she wasn’t making any admissions about being active on an extremist website where ethnic groups are targeted daily and swastikas feature alongside some messages.
“Our compliance committee will look at this and if there’s enough evidence she will be dismissed from the party,� Mr Hopkinson said.
Apart from posting her comments and views on Stormfront, Suebdoo2 recently attended a barbecue held by other site members.
“Sounds great, will be good to put some faces to these posts,� Suebdoo2 wrote in the chat room when the invitation went out by a white nationalist member calling himself Baron von Hund.
Photos of the people at the barbie were later posted, but IC couldn’t put faces to anything because the heads of those in attendance had been digitally altered.
But Suebdoo2 was chuffed with the evening and her photograph.
“Thank you to Baron and Lilith for the hospitality,� she wrote. “Thank you for such a flattering photo.�

Seeing that photograph to be absolutely certain Suebdoo2 and Sue Bateman are one and the same would end the mystery for good.
Although, IC suspects One Nation might have seen enough to ensure that Ms Bateman is no longer kept in the picture.

News brief · 26 September 2005

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