Fear of One Nation Spurred Howard to Take Tampa Action
extract from Sydney Morning Herald 23/7/2007 (by David Marr)
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/howard-rejected-tampa-advice/2007/07/22/1185042950379.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
...The biography essentially accuses Mr Howard of bringing on the Tampa crisis to stymie One Nation. The authors detail a revealing exchange between Mr Howard and the then minister for sport and tourism, Jackie Kelly, as they walked into question time on the day the Tampa story broke.
"Kelly's seat of Lindsay took in the far western fringes of Sydney," write Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen. "It was 'Howard battler' territory and Kelly was worried that the boat people issue was reigniting support for One Nation ... 'One Nation is just chewing us up,' Kelly told Howard. 'I've lost two branches to them; one of them is my best fundraising branch. We need to do something or I'm a goner.'"......