Speech made by Bob Vinnicombe, One Nation Candidate for Blaxland to the Tamworth One Nation 2007 Federal Election Campaign Launch 28th October.

WE'RE NOT SHEEP BUT WE'RE HAVING THE WOOL PULLED OVER OUR EYES

I'm working from rough notes, because I did have a prepared speech, but Kevin Rudd shredded it.

I have titled this address "We're not sheep but we've had the wool pulled over our eyes", because the common theme running through all One Nation policies is how the people of Australia have had the wool pulled over their eyes on so many issues.

Now we've heard it from Keating, and we heard it from Fraser, and we heard it from Hawke and we heard it from John Howard - they boast they they had the courage to make the unpopular decisions, and the media praises them for doing it. We're brainwashed into thinking that these guys know better than us what's good for us. What right does any government have to make a decision that's unpopular? By definition, democracy means doing what the people want. "Popular" means "of the people". If you're going to do things that are unpopular, then why have elections at all? - let's do away with them and have a dictator. If you had a club like the Tamworth Cricket Club and you elected a committee to run the club, and that committee didn't do what the members wanted, what would you do? - you'd throw them out. It's about time we had governments that had the courage, in the face of the media, to make POPULAR decisions.

We're continually told One Nation is a minor party.

Well, what do you know about Switzerland? Pretty good place to live you reckon? Well do you know what party has the most seats in the Swiss parliament? The Swiss equivalent of One Nation, they're called the Peoples' Party. In fact, they're more extreme than One Nation. Is there anyone from the ABC here today? They probably wouldn't believe there's a party more extreme than One Nation. They want to deport foreigners who break the law. In the recent election they got 29 per cent of the vote, which was more than any other party, and even increased their percentage. Has that been in the media? No, because the media don't want you to know.

We're told John Howard an economic conservative. And I heard Kevin Rudd boasting he is an economic conservative. These guys are not economic conservatives - unless you call giving heroin addicts $4000 to have babies makes you a conservative, because that's what the baby bonus entails. They're radicals, they're revolutionaries, they've turned our whole country upside down. Selling off state assets, de-regulating the dairy industry, signing free trade agreements so we have to close down our factories and let plant diseases into the country because we have to de-tune our quarantine system - these aren't conservative policies, they are radical policies. If any party is a conservative party, it's One Nation. In fact, if Bob Menzies was alive today, he'd be voting One Nation.

I can't prove this, but I'd like to see anyone disprove it!

I want to touch briefly on the War in Iraq. We're told the war in Iraq is part of a war on terror. The war in Iraq is a total confidence trick. You can't have a war on terror, because there's no such an ideology as "terror". In fact whenever I hear the phrase "war on terror", I remember a stand-up American comedian I saw on television during the reign of LBJ. LBJ had an expression - "declaring war on poverty", to which the comedian said "the president says 'declare war on poverty', so I went out and threw a hand grenade at a beggar!". Well, invading Iraq as part of a "war on terror" makes about as much sense as throwing a hand grenade at a beggar as part of a war on poverty.

The truth is we should have left the Sadaam Hussein regime in power. The Sadaam Hessein was a bulwark against islamic fundamentalism. When Hussein was in power, all the fundamentalists were either dead or in jail, he wouldn't tolerate them. There were no car bombs going off in Baghdad when he was in power. I understand workers weren't even allowed to take time off during the day for muslim prayers. The Christians in Iraq had freedom to practice their religion. In fact he used to get the Christians to prepare his food, because he thought if anyone was going to poison him they were less likely to bump him off than the muslims, and he had a Christian in his cabinet. Now all the Christians are fleeing, if they're in the shi-ite areas they're persecuted by the shi-tes, if they're in a sunni areas they're persecuted by the sunnis and in the kurdish areas they're persecuted by the kurds.

I won't even mention the four million Iraqui refugees who have had to find haven in Syria.

The Ba-ath party was founded in 1947 by a Syrian Christian, Michel Afflick. It was founded as an anti-communist, arab nationalist, secular party. The only way Christians can survive in an arab country is to live under a secular regime such as in Lebanon or Egypt. By overthrowing the Sadaam Hussein regime they did away with a secular regime that will be eventually replaced with some sort of an islamic one.

By invading Iraq they're not fighting terroirism, they're not even provoking terrorism - they're CREATING terrorism.By invading Iraq they've let the islamic genie out of the bottle.

Speaking of changing the regime of undemocratic countries, brings me to what I was doing yesterday morning before I left to come up here to Tamworth.

I was proud to be invited to carry the Anti-Beijing Olympics Human Rights Torch for a short part of its world-wide journey through the streets of Sydney. The torch relay is a protest against Communist China being allowed to host the Olympics while poliitical prisoners are being executed there to harvest their organs,while falun gong practitioners and Christians are imprisoned and executed and while Tibet remains under brutal occupation.

I was invited to carry the torch after a woman who had been a political prisoner in Communist China was a guest speaker at the last Reid-Prospect One Nation branch meeting.

The connection is how hypocritical it was to go to war with Iraq over the invasion of Kuwait, but to take no action against the Chinese Communist occupation of Tibet. The people of Tibet are not Chinese, they don't even speak Chinese, they are Tibetan. The Chinese Communist government is the most dangerous regime in the world today. They've occupied Tibet and committed genocide against its people, the're continually making threatening noises towards the Republic of China (Taiwan) which is a free, independent and democratic country, (it's so democratic they even have punch-ups in the parliament!) and they are in possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction .

The 2008 Olympics will be a public relations exercise for the Chinese Communist Party, as the 1936 Berlin Olympics were for the German Nazi Party. Seeing also 500 Australians died in Vietnam to fight commuism, and even more died in Korea, the Labor Party's and our Government's kow-towing to the Beijing regime almost amounts to defaming the dead.

Let us not forget also it was the Chinese Communists who armed and supported the regime of Pol Pot.

I must say there were two representatives from the Greens party at the torch rally, but I saw none from Liberal or Labor.

Perhaps they would say China is a great trading partner and therefore we shouldn't rock the boat. Well, Iraq was also a great trading partner. If you don't believe me ask the AWB.

I want to touch on free trade and de-regulation.

We actually don't have to be competitive. Two of the great economies of the world, Japan and America, got where they are today by protecting their industries. Europe protects its farmers because in World War II Europeans starved and if you protect your food growers you won't starve when your imports are cut off in wartime.

Anyone in the electronic media, by the way, who supports free trade and de-regulation is a hypocrite because they are in heavily regulated industries. Only a certain amount of TV and radio station licences are allocated so that everyone can have a fair share of the cake, which is the way it should be.

Everyone talks about free trade, but here in Australia we are the only ones stupid enough to really practice it.

Just briefly on the economy.

The economy is not in good shape - it's a mess. People on moderate wages can't afford to buy a house, unless the husband and wife both work, and then they have to put off starting a family. In 1982 the house I bought cost about 2 years wages. Now it is worth about 8 years wages - so home affordability is now one quarter what it was 25 years ago. A roof over your head is the second necessity of life after food on the table - how can the economy be in good shape if that second great necessity has become so unaffordable?

And it's no use telling me I should be pleased my home has gone up in value. If I sold it I'd have to buy another one and that would cost just as much, not even counting stamp duty and agent's fees etc.

And if you want to know why home prices have gone up it's because of immigration It stands to reason the price of a property is going to be higher if there are more people competing to buy it. In addition there are people buying property in Australia who don't even live here.

We don't need migrants to increase our population.In fact, it was Paul Keating himself who said in his maiden speech the best increase of population was the natural increase. He changed his tune afterwards, of course.

One of the great cons is that migrants create jobs. If that is so, than why don't they send all the migrants to the countries with the highest unemployment? Indonesia has about 30 % unemployment, I understand. Does that mean the economy of Indonesia could be improved by a massive immigration scheme? Zimbabwe has 70 % unemployment. Does that mean they could reduce that by massive immigration?

Of course now we have allegedly low unemployment, they're telling us we need even more migrants to fill the jobs. But these unemployment figures are also faked, because people have been put on disability pensions and other kinds of social service to take them off the unemployment books. And not only that, many people who have had to take so-called voluntary redundancy and are living on their super are really unemployed because they would like to have stayed in the labour market, but don't go looking for a job because they know or think at their age there will be no jobs for them.

And remember inflation and CPI figures are faked by not including the cost of real estate.

I want to touch on the water issue.

We're told Australia is the driest continent and therefore of course we shouldn't be trying to grow wheat and breed cattle and sheep but just dig holes in the ground and export minerals instead. Well, there are plenty of places in the world drier than Australia.I would say practrically nowhere in Australia is there anyone who can't turn on a tap and get clean water. However, there are places like the Indian sub-continent and Africa where practically no-one can turn on a tap and get clean water.So How is Australia the driest continent? The truth is we have plenty of water, 98 per cent of it goes to waste because we don't harvest it. At the moment we have this stupid desalination plant under construction in Sydney, when for the same price we could give every house in Sydney a rainwater tank, there are a million houses in Sydney, and it would deliver the same amont of water using zero energy. And I'm not talking exactly rocket science, am I, putting in a few tanks with a few pipes connecting them to a roof?

I want to touch briefly on the dangers for Australia of electing a Labor Government.

If Labor controls the Commonwealth and the States governments, they will have absolute control over the public education system, they'll stack the high court with left-wing judges and they will put their flunkies in charge of the ABC (and if you think the ABC is biased now under a conservative government, wait 'til we have Labor in control). We will head to compulsory unionism again which will mean more dollars from captive members for ALP campaign funds.They will say "sorry " to the aborigines. On this question let us not forget how it was in the bad old days of the Hawke and Keating years and Robert Tickner was Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. Remember the Hindmarsh Island bridge fiasco?

"Oh you can't build a bridge there".

"Why not?".

"Oh, it's because of aboriginal secret womens' business"

"So tell us, what's this secret womens' business?"

"We can't tell you. It's a secret!"

I would say practically every social problem we have now can be traced back to the Whitlam government. Take drugs for instance. I remember hearing someone who knew about the drug scene say just after the Kerr coup and before the election that threw Whitlam out "If Fraser gets in it will be back to the bad old days when you couldn't get dope!".

Unfortunaely, Fraser and his successors never undid the damage. Since then with drugs it's been downhill all the way.

Not to mention the cult of welfare dependency, which began with generous and lax social service administration under Whitlam when late teens and early twenties were able to throw in their jobs and go hitch-hiking round the country and end up living on the dole in Nimbin or Mullumbimby permanently "out of it" on marihuana and LSD. Whenever you see multigenerational families now on welfare with drug and alcohol addiction and women with ten kids by eight different fathers, just call them "Gough's children".

To sum it all up, if I wanted to be really nasty I could say Labor will run the country the way they run the the Royal North Shore hospital emergency department, but I won't.

There are plenty of people who would be part of a Rudd Government who would like to bring in federally the anti-religious vilification laws they have in Victoria that got the two Christian pastors in Melbourne prosecuted, and this is a very important issue for One Nation.

Speaking of religions, and Rudd's squealing about the Exclusive Bretheren donating dollars to the Libs, you might have heard the Rudd definition of the difference between an extremist cult and a religion - an extremist cult is a religion that donates money to the Liberal Party. A religion is any extremist cult that gives money to the Labor Party.

Another reason not to vote Labor is the plan Rudd has to bring in a republic. In 2004 the UN published a Human Development index ranking the nations of the world according to the quality of their living conditions. The top six were Norway, Sweden, Australia, Canada, Holland and Belgium - all constitutional monarchies!

I personally was also very impressed with the way the robustness of our constitution enabled us (the people) to get rid of the Whitlam government. Whitlam being the worst Prime Minister we have ever had (and that's an understatement!).

Do you get the impression I don't like the Labor Party?

I want to touch briefly on the seat I am standing for of Blaxland. Blaxland is an interesting seat. It used to be Paul Keating's seat, but don't hold that against it. It was I believe the site of the first One Nation party meeting in NSW. We used to get up to 16 per cent in some booths in the 1998 federal and 1999 state election. We've had meetings every month for about 8 years and had many interesting guest speakers. I was the first to have Professor Drew Fraser as speaker, and I brought down our Member for Tablelands,
Rosa Lee Long MP, to speak. I also have had many middle eastern Christians speaking about what it's like to live under islam, and I recently had a speaker who had been a political prisoner in Red China.

The boundaries have recently changed and it now stretches to Cabramatta and parts of Guildford.

It was also includes the area from where came the perpetrators of the Lebanese-muslim Cronulla revenge attacks - those guys who sent around (according to the Daily Telegraph of December 19, 2005) text messages like "We'll take Sydney from Cronulla to the Rocks/With our AKs and our Glocks"

There was once a very colourful federal Liberal member of parliament in the 1960s called Les Irwin. He was the member for some electorate out in the Western Suburbs of Sydney and was supposed to be the richest man in parliament, because of his real estate deals. Whenever you saw a photo of him he was always smoking a cigar and wearing a bow-tie. He was once accused of having associattions with the Ustachi Croation nationalists, and he got up in parliament to make a personal explanation on the issue. He said "It is true in my electorate there are many Slovenians, Serbians, Croatians,Yugoslavs, Bosnians, Macedonians and Montenegrins and they're all good and patriotic Australians - and they all vote for me!".

In Blaxland there many Lebanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Islanders, Afghans, Iraquis, Indians, Fijians and I hope they're all good and patriotic Australians and they'll all vote for me!

BOB VINNICOMBE
One Nation Candidate for Blaxland
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