1. POLITICAL ASSASSINATION, Hon John Fischer MLC, Judicial corruption in Queensland

2. COURTS: Letter to Editor Published in The Strategy Sept.2003

It is quite surprising that Pauline Hanson and David Ettridge are
charged with electoral fraud but David Oldfield is not. Whilst Hanson
may have been responsible for policy like immigration, trade and tariff
and much more, the real architect of the way the party was constructed
was Oldfield.

Let us never forget either that Oldfield had come to One Nation from
being an adviser to Tony Abbott. Could it be that Oldfield was ably
assisted by his former employer in those formative years?

When we speak of electoral fraud should we not consider the part played
by the electoral commission itself and whether they also should face the
courts if that were possible?

Firstly, prior to the '98 election the commission saw fit to change the
boundarirs of the seat of Oxley thus making it totally impossible for
Hanson to win there, coincidence? Also the modification of the compulsory
preferential voting system that made it obligatory to number each and
every candidate.

This coupled with the trading of preferences by the two major parties
meant that anyone else but one of them had to get 50% of the primary
vote to win. Many would see that as fraud.

Hanson received 34% of the vote in Blair and the Liberal candidate won
with 21%.

Then we had the Heather Hill saga. She was disallowed a seat in the Senate
because of alleged dual citizenship when there were at least 19 others in
parliament with dual citizenship.

The electoral commissioner has stated on air that when a party applies
for registration, 500 members must be named and that half of them are
contacted by the authority and all must state clearly that they are in
fact members and I believe provide proof.

Did this happen? If not, why not?  If so, can Hanson be guilty? Either
way the commission would appear to be the culprit in any wrong that may
have been committed.

The other things that we must remember is that the electoral commissioner
is appointed and was no doubt appointed by either a Labor or Coalition
government as were all of the judiciary in all of the states and territo-
ries of Australia. There can be little doubt that governments per-se know
what to expect from those that they appoint to the positions they fill.

No Mr Beattie, you do not have to interfere - they know what is expected
of them

Peter Keogh, Bokarina, Qld

Scott Balson

Sadly there are dozens of examples of people who have been targeted by a
corrupt judicial system in Queensland where the separation of powers has
become a sick joke.

In 1999, when I was the One Nation webmaster, I was arrested for
exposing Labor MP Bill D'Arcy as a paedophile. Less than a year later
D'Arcy was imprisoned for 14 years - at the time of my arrest he was
acting as Speaker of the house and presiding over a hung parliament
discussing the issue of paedophilia. The Premier Beattie knew but did
nothing.

On the day of my arrest I was imprisoned following an authority to
prosecute being personally penned by the then Labor Attorney-General,
Matt Foley, (who has ambition to be a Supreme Court Judge, God help us).
Foley did this just two days after a complaint was made by The
Courier-Mail to the DPP against my article placed on an obscure Internet
page overseas. It has now become clear that there was absolutely no
evidence against me at the time he signed the document and my
imprisonment on what is a summarary charge is, in itself, an injustice.

Nine months after my arrest an Ipswich Magistrate threw out the charge
after I had earlier faced two trials aborted at the last moment by the
police as they were still trying to get evidence to justify my earlier
arrest. I was forced to represent myself at trial after spending $10,000
on legal costs as a result of these earlier aborted trials.

Just a few weeks ago the Premier Peter Beattie and Families Minister
Judy Spence clearly breached a far more serious act when they illegaly
named a family protected under the Child Protection Act. The breach
carried a fine of $3000 or 3 years - some six times more serious than
the charge I was arrested under ($500 or 6 months).

No charges have been laid against the Premier and the Minister for
Families. When I lodged a complaint against them with the DPP they
responded with a callous letter saying that no action would be taken
against Beattie or Spence.

As I said earlier the separation of powers in Queensland is a sick joke.
The Department of Public Prosecutions in Queensland singles out certain
people (like Hanson) who are then charged and refuses to act on criminal
acts by people who have favour with politicians.

What happens after they are charged completely misses the point of my
story.
Scott Balson

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POLITICAL ASSASSINATION
Hon John Fischer MLC
Press Release - 21 September 2003

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POLITICAL ASSASSINATION
Hon John Fischer MLC
Press Release - 21 September 2003

The savage sentences given to Pauline Hanson and David Ettridge
for what would have been only a misdemeanor in NSW, calls into
question the intellectual quality of the entire legal system and
in particular the cowboys of the Queensland courts.

The savagery of this sentence is even starker when you consider
the sentence that Alan Bond received for the blatant stealing of
two Billion dollars from the Mums and Dads that constituted the
shareholders of Bell Resources.The Queensland Electoral Commission
was reimbursed and so lost nothing. The shareholders of Bell got
only contempt from Alan Bond and the legal system.

That is not reasonable, it is not fair, and it is not justice.
It is just another example of the ridiculous sentences handed
down by the Courts, which are making the entire community very
cynical about the administration of justice. We need to run
compulsory courses to counter the damage that years of political
correctness and poltical bias have done to justice in this country.

Another thing that might help is to force Judges to undergo random
tests for alcohol or drug abuse before they go to work, just like
we force on workers in the mining industry.

The Hon John Fischer MLC
Member for the Mining and Pastoral region
(08) 9486 4081 or 0417 981185
Printed in The Strategy, Sept 2003 issue