Fighting Race-Hate in Australia and New Zealand
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Hot off the wire:
Academic sorry for racist remarks
By Alyssa Braithwaite
August 30, 2006 12:31amA SYDNEY academic who created a racial furore by claiming African refugees were linked to high crime rates has apologised for his comments.
Macquarie University Associate Professor Andrew Fraser sparked the racial controversy in June last year when his letter making the remarks was published in local newspaper, the Parramatta Sun.
From “The Nationalist: The Voice of the White Pride Coalition of Australia”, Issue 5, 2004:
“Real White Australian Nationalism has no tolerance of ‘trimmers’ or their cult of compromise. We will cut the Muds no slack and there will be NO deals.”
Jack van Tongeren is by no means the brightest light on the christmas tree, the hottest flame on the menorah, or the shiniest minaret on the mosque.
We’re fugitives from the law, what do we do? I know! Let’s go camping down south!
So when Jack van Tongeren is unimpressed with somebody’s intellectual stature, maybe you (you, as in, the neo-Nazi leaders of Australia) should sit up and take notice. Perhaps put in place some sort of policy whereby they can’t stab you in the back before you let them take a fall.
From AAP:
‘Nigger’ stand set for demolition
August 29, 2006An Aboriginal activist crusading to remove the word “nigger” from a Queensland sports ground grandstand may finally get his way, with the stand set to be demolished.
Stephen Hagan, a lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland, has waged a long campaign to change the name of the ES Nigger Brown stand at the Toowoomba Sports Ground, west of Brisbane.
Well, the Sydney Forum is done for another year, and we’re sorry to say that we failed. Sure, the only two respectable people on the bill cancelled – but they were replaced with a complete fruitcake and a glowing tribute to two absolute dregs of society – hardly a victory for our side, is it?
Drew Fraser, if he had any credibility left at all, blew the remains of it by appearing. Having spoken alongside Saleam on more than one occasion, having addressed members of the KKK at white supremacist meetings in the US, having used writings by ANM members (sourced from the website of the neo-Nazi terrorist group National Vanguard) as references in his written “works,” well… Drew Fraser has officially crossed the line into neo-Nazidom.
The rest of the speakers, all stalwarts of the racist right, well… yeah. Who cares?
Probably the most disturbing aspect of this year’s forum was the presence of a Palestinian speaking against Zionism. When you consider that a number of Australia First members have made comments to the effect that they would like all Arabs deported – and Saleam’s associates in the WPCA have made more extreme comments to the effect that they would like all Arabs exterminated – one can only assume Saleam and co. used deceit to ensure their presence.
As hard as it is to believe that a mythomaniac like Saleam would ever lie about anything, that’s how it looks from here. Jimbo defends this hypocrisy by pointing to the example of David Duke, the American Klansman and plastic surgeon’s dream.
David Duke will hang out with Arabs when it suits him, Jim says.
So? That makes David Duke a hypocrite too – as if any more proof of that was needed.
The more interesting event of the weekend was the affiliated bonehead par-tay in Chippendale on friday night, but maybe we should give that particular leak a couple of hours to get out of the state before we get into that.
From the Sunday Star Times:
Killer cheats on wife behind bars
27 August 2006
By DONNA CHISHOLMConvicted double-killer Scott Watson has been cheating on his wife of two years from behind prison bars.
His wife Coral, who moved to Christchurch to be near him, said the couple would have marriage counselling after Watson admitted having a relationship with another woman – believed to be the former partner of a police officer.
Nobody can say that Jimbo Saleam can’t bounce back! Remember those two keynote speakers who cancelled on him, on account of the Sydney Forum being, you know, a bit of a neo-Nazi shindig?
Well, they’ve been replaced… And boy, have they been replaced. Perhaps we did Jim a favour, cos now he has some real intellectual heavyweights kicking out the jams.
A Historian And Author, The Ancient European Contact With Australia And The Pacific
Our speaker is a historian and archaeologist who has investigated the contacts between the peoples of Euopean racial origin from the Near East and Old-Europe – with Australia. There are startling discoveries popularised now by a variety of authors. This speaker will present evidence that shows a plethora of contact over the millennia. There will be maps, slides and other specialised material. He has asked for anonymity pending the Forum.
Riiiiiiiight. The European race, eh?
But that’s not all! They’ll also have:
Special Speaker: Tribute To Eric Butler And Geoff Muirden
A short eulogy to two patriotic Australians who died recently and who have contributed in varying ways to Austrlian patriotic politics
Well, don’t make it too short. These two Holocaust-denying white supremacists need all the tributes they can get!
From ABC Riverina News:
Young Mayor condemns racist vandalism
Tuesday, 22 August 2006Mayor of Young Gerry Bailey says he is appalled by the racist vandalism in Young’s Chinese Tribute Garden.
Early last week vandals used considerable force to knock over a large bronze statue of a flying horse and etched racist comments into a pergoda nearby.
This time it is international film-maker of some renown, David Bradbury.
Mr. David Bradbury. Blowing In The The Wind. The Politics Of Radioactive Waste In Warfare
David Bradbury is internationally and nationally known as a film producer. His latest film, Blowing In The Wind, documents the appalling truth about depleted uranium shells used by the U.S. war machine in he Middle East since 1991. He will speak and illustrate his talk from the film. This will be an important address for those keen to understand the immoral predatory conduct of the masters of war.
Not only us, but a number of progressive groups contacted Bradbury and the result, as you’d expect, is that David has cancelled his appearance at the Sydney Forum.
What we find most mind-boggling about all this is the minimal research that Jim Saleam actually put into Bradbury. We know he met the film-maker at this year’s Inverell Forum but if he’d punched his name into Google, he would have seen that David Bradbury is one of FDB‘s all time heroes.
Why?
He’s the guy who made Nazi Supergrass. Probably the most brilliant documentary ever made on the Australian far right.
Go Jim!
From the ABC:
Man faces court over racist phone calls
A 41-year-old man has appeared in the Perth Magistrate’s court accused of making abusive and harrassing telephone calls to Jewish community groups.
Tadeusz Edmund Krysiak is alleged to have made numerous calls to interest and welfare groups over a month-long period starting in June.
Krysiak was arrested by officers from the State Security Investigation Group.
He was not requred to plead to the charges and was released on bail to appear in court again in November.