You are currently viewing the archive for the One Nation category.

White Nationalism Goes To The Polls

The 2010 Australian federal election is just a few days away, and while most eyes are on Labor, the Coalition and the Greens, there’s a range of other parties hoping to use the occasion to promote their agenda. Among these parties are a small number on the racist right-wing: the Australia First, Australian Protectionist and One Nation parties.

Below is a brief summary of their candidacy.

Australia First

Founded by former Labor MP Graeme Campbell in 1996, the Australia First Party has undergone a number of ups and downs in its short life, its initial Sturm und Drang stolen from it by a red-haired fish ‘n’ shop owner from Queensland. In 2001 it underwent something of a revival when veteran fascist Dr James Saleam joined the NSW branch, became its Secretary, and began reconstructing the party on a more systematically right-wing basis. The party split in mid-2007, with Saleam becoming its undisputed leader. In 2009, Saleam was the subject of an extensive profile in the Good Weekend (‘The Audacity of Hate’, September 26/27, 2009), one which — notwithstanding Saleam’s numerous objections to its alleged inaccuracies — provides a rather damning portrayal.

While it has participated in numerous elections before — its only success being the election of Bruce Preece to local council in Adelaide — 2010 is only the second that AF has contested since re-registering with the Australian Electoral Commission, and the party is standing just a handful of candidates in NSW, QLD and VIC. In NSW, its candidates are Tony Pettitt in Greenway and Mick Saunders in Lindsay. In QLD Peter Schuback and Nick Maine are running for the Senate, while in Victoria Alex Norwick is standing for the seat of Deakin.

None are expected to gain more than a handful of votes.

Australian Protectionist

Formed as a split from AF in 2007, the APP is currently unregistered, and is standing just two candidates in NSW for the Senate: party leaders Darrin Hodges and Nick Folkes. Hodges unsuccessfully stood for local council in 2008, while this appears to be Folkes first electoral contest. Hodges is a former member of AF, while both men are reputed to be former Liberals. The pair took part in a small rally in Newtown last weekend, but received a hostile response from locals. The APP’s principal concern is getting rid of Muslims, but it otherwise expresses a routine form of white nationalism, albeit one which veers between an assimilationist and rejectionist model.

One Nation

The One Nation party — best known for its earlier association with The Wicked Witch from Ipswich, Pauline Hanson — is a shadow of its former self, having undergone a sudden rise in the late 1990s, and an equally sharp decline in the early 2000s. The party lost its last MP, Rosa Lee Long, in the 2009 Queensland state election. While the party may be down it’s not gone, however, and is fielding candidates in NSW, NT, QLD, SA, VIC and WA.

In NSW, ON is putting up patriots in a total of fourteen (14) Lower House seats: Banks, Bennelong, Blaxland, Chifley, Cook, Hughes, Hunter, Kingsford Smith, Macarthur, New England, Paterson, Riverina, Robertson and Shortland. In NT it’s standing someone for the seat of Solomon. In SA, ON is contesting Makon and Sturt, in QLD Bowman, Fadden and Wide Bay, and has thrown up just the one candidate in Moore, WA. The party is also taking part in Senate contests in each of the mainland states.

Of the few dozen aspiring ON politicians, a handful are noteworthy. One is Kate McCulloch, the ON candidate in Macarthur. Briefly coming into the media spotlight during the course of a campaign against the construction of an Islamic school in Camden, it remains to be seen if she really is the Great White (Red Haired) Hope. More recently, the President of ON in Victoria, John Groves, has informed the world of his love of ‘Phoofter Bashing’ and his passionate hatred of Jews, the former comment prompted by Family First QLD Senate hopeful Wendy Francis comparing gay parenting to child abuse.

Another ON candidate (Riverina) who has gained some small degree of notoriety is Craig Hesketh, the party’s NSW publicity officer. Hesketh has received the official endorsement of AF, as he is a ‘nationalist’ and because he “has rightly spoken out against the refugee invasion of our country”. Quite strongly, too. On Facebook, Hesketh denounced “race traitors” and “immigrant whores”:

While he describes the Greens as “sick f*cks”:

On the other hand, as Hesketh noted in response to homophobic sentiment allegedly expressed by Nationals candidate Michael McCormack, “I think we’ve all said something [we've] regretted at some stage”.

See also Pride & Prejudice : Mark White investigates the rise of Australia’s far right… (November 8, 2009) for further background information.

Fight dem back · 18 August 2010 · Discussion

Hanson’s Muslim house buyer ban illegal

No, Pauline, you can’t stop a Muslim from buying your house.

From the SMH:

Pauline Hanson’s Muslim ban ‘illegal’
DANIEL HURST
April 28, 2010

Former One Nation leader Pauline Hanson would be breaking the law if she refused to sell her home to a Muslim buyer on religious grounds, the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commission says.

Ms Hanson, who is selling her home in Coleyville, south-west of Brisbane, before she moves to Britain, told Seven’s Sunrise program she would not accept any offers from Islamic buyers.

“Because I don’t believe that they are compatible with our way of life, our culture,” she said.
It’s not for everyone … Pauline Hanson says her home in Queensland’s Coleyville, above, won’t be offered to Muslim buyers.

It’s not for everyone … Pauline Hanson says her home in Queensland’s Coleyville, above, won’t be offered to Muslim buyers. Photo: Getty Images

“And I think we are going to have problems with them in this country further down the track, so I have no intention of selling my home to a Muslim.”

Acting Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Neroli Holmes said Ms Hanson’s intention to ban Muslim buyers put her at risk of breaching the state’s discrimination laws.

“The act clearly states a person must not discriminate against another person by failing to sell them land or by placing terms on which it is offered for sale,” she said in a statement.

News brief · 29 April 2010

Racist BNP’s Nick Griffin: Welcome Pauline!

If Pauline Hanson really is looking for a quieter lifestyle, this is the sort of welcoming party she could do without.

From the SMH:

British far-right leader welcomes Hanson
PAOLA TOTARO HERALD CORRESPONDENT
February 17, 2010

THE leader of the British National Party has declared that Pauline Hanson would not be regarded as an ”immigrant sponger” if she moved to Britain, and if she wished to play a political role she would be ”very welcome”.

But the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, warned that Ms Hanson should choose carefully where she makes her home, as Britain has become one of the ”most overcrowded” nations in the world, thanks to the Labour Party’s decision to admit ”3 million spongers”. He told the Herald that more than 100,000 ”indigenous” Londoners had fled the British capital every year over the past two decades, driven out by immigration.

”It has been a relentless flow because they can’t stand living there and feeling like foreigners in their own city. I’d recommend she stay away from inner London and go off and find somewhere that is recognisably still British. Any of the smaller towns or the country, places you know you are in Britain and are not the Third World yet,” he said.

”I feel very sorry for her … that she has been forced out of her country by this politically correct intimidation and bullying … she would not be a sponger. We would regard her as a good addition.”

News brief · 17 February 2010

Student bashings coverage in Indian press

From The Age:

Indian journal focuses on ‘hate’
MATT WADE, NEW DELHI
February 1, 2010


The cover of India’s Outlook magazine.

IT’S A magazine cover that will make the hearts of Australian university bosses and diplomats sink.

“Why the Aussies hate us” screams the front cover of this week’s influential Indian news magazine, Outlook.

The 10 pages of coverage inside has stories of young Indian victims of violence and racial abuse and describes how Indian students in Melbourne feel afraid on the streets.

Kevin Rudd’s nephew and anti-racism activist, Van Thanh Rudd, told Outlook the “dominant culture in Australia is a racist culture” and that he had no doubt the attacks had been racially motivated.

The magazine claims to have found “evidence that ‘curry-bashing’ is becoming a fun game for white Australians”.

Outlook, a centre-left news weekly published in Delhi, is one of India’s top selling English language magazines, with a circulation of about 1.5 million and a large online audience.

News brief · 1 February 2010

Racist council candidate under investigation

From the Monash Journal:

AEC probes hand-outs
Kirsten Leiminger

A ‘RACIST’ council election candidate is under investigation for distributing a potentially illegal handbill.

Last week, the Journal reported that the self-proclaimed “racist” Neil Henry Smith, who is running for election in the Mulgrave Ward, was expelled from One Nation for distributing unauthorised handbills calling for a “100 years moratorium on coloured immigration”.

The handbill states it was “authorised and printed by” Mr Smith, despite him using a professional company to print them.

An Australian Electoral Commission spokesman said the authority knew of the handbill and was examining it.

News brief · 13 November 2008

Mediawatch: “Trolling” the airwaves

Transcript from Mediawatch

When it comes to jokes about swarthy foreigners, Etwell can’t hold a candle to David Oldfield, former political adviser to Pauline Hanson, and now midnight to dawn presenter on Sydney’s 2GB.

On the night after Barack Obama became President-elect, he enjoyed this merry little exchange with a listener called Alex:

Caller Alex: I’m just concerned they’re going to rename the White House ‘the Black House’

David Oldfield: No, let’s just paint half of it black, he’s half white, he’s half white, his wife will have to be in the Black House cause she’s all black.

Caller Alex: But which half is the black half? That’s what I’d like to know David.

— Radio 2GB, Overnight with David Oldfield, 6th November, 2008

He likes a joke, does our David, and he’s not too fussy about the subject.

The night before, he’d had a listener called Michael on the air, apparently very distressed at the prospect of an Obama presidency:

Caller Michael: …the white man is going to be the slave of black man. Now I’m feeling very emotional. What’s happening to America? This is the land of…

David Oldfield: Now don’t cry Michael ’cause we want to clearly hear what you’re saying. It’s important what you’re saying Michael.

Caller Michael: This country, this America was land of the free, home of the brave and a slave man is going to take, take over the White House, White, White House, a black man…

David Oldfield: Well, look at it this way, he’s half white. Let’s think of it as the white half in control and the black half doing the work. As long as they don’t make the Americans force feed them watermelon it could be a lot worse you know…

Caller Michael: …I’m going to have a nervous breakdown.

— Radio 2GB, Overnight with David Oldfield, 5th November, 2008

Listen to the full exchange between David Oldfield and caller Michael [3.54MB].

Do you get the feeling that David Oldfield is having fun? Not taking this bizarre conversation seriously?

Well, you’d be right.

News brief · 11 November 2008

Council candidate too racist for One Nation

From the Monash Journal:

Self-proclaimed racist kicked out of party
Kirsten Leiminger

A MULGRAVE Ward council election candidate has been expelled from political party One Nation for having views that were “too extreme” for the party.

Neil Henry Smith, who ran as a self-proclaimed racist candidate in recent state and federal elections, has put his hand up for both the November council elections and the 2010 federal election. Despite being disendorsed by One Nation, he has hand-delivered up to 3000 handbills with the party logo in the federal electorate of Bruce, calling for a “100 years moratorium on coloured immigration”.

News brief · 7 November 2008

One Nation? Racist? Amazing!

From The Age:

One Nation’s ‘racist’ leaflet
David Rood, State Political Reporter
November 21, 2007

A FLYER by One Nation’s candidate for Bruce electorate, Neil Smith, has been condemned as racist and xenophobic for claiming that Glen Waverley has been turned “into a suburb of Beijing”.

The leaflet, distributed to about 3,000 homes in the south-eastern suburbs electorate held by Labor’s Alan Griffin, calls for a “100 years moratorium on coloured immigration”.

“That treacherous Liberal party has turned Glen Waverley into a suburb of Beijing and instigated the genocide destruction of our WHITE AUSTRALIAN IDENTITY,” it reads.

Both the Liberals and Labor have preferenced One Nation last for tomorrow’s poll, but Family First have put Mr Smith above Labor, the Democrats and Greens candidates on their how-to-vote cards.

News brief · 21 November 2007

Bigots : Make your vote count!

Hey, right-wing racist! On November 24, do you know who to vote for?

Leaving aside the crackpot followers of Lyndon LaRouche (as well as a few cranks within the major parties), other candidates in this year’s Federal Election on the (far) right include:

1) The Wicked Witch from Ipswich

Pauline Dancin’ Hanson is running for a Queensland Senate seat this year, yet another attempt to Unite Australia under her flatulent banner. She apparently has some chance of succeeding (although her running-mate, David Saville, has none), thanks in part to Family First (and for which thanks is ultimately due to a handful of hacks in the Victorian ALP), but most likely won’t be using the Upper House to moan about Muslims anytime soon. And to prove it’s not all about her status as the Mother of the Nation, Pauline’s Party is also standing two losing candidates in NSW: Brian Burston and John Carter. Of course, pitted against the ex-convict and her associates in the race for the racist vote is:

Slackbastard · 20 November 2007 · Discussion
« older