The Australian Democrats have lost six sevenths of their membership numbers since their senators voted for the GST. It appears that many former members joined the Green Party thus explaining why they are more active now. Before voting for the GST no change was made to the party policy as was required by the national constitution of the Democrats.

In the last three Queensland elections the National Party vote in the seat of TABLELANDS has gone from 69% to 36% to 16%. This area lies inland from Cairns and lies within Bob Katter's seat of Kennedy. No wonder he resigned his membership of the Queensland Nationals. Bob lives in Charters Towers where One Nation won 22% of the vote in the state election in 2001.

Of the 11 One Nation members elected in 1998 only two still sit in the Queensland Parliament. They won in 2001 as independents. Fortunately for them neither had to compete with a One Nation candidate. Otherwise it would have been a certain defeat. Loud mouthed one nation voter elected renegade SHAUN NELSON scored only 15.3% in Tablelands.

The Liberal and Labor parties are not prepared to dump the desperately unpopular nondiscriminatory immigration system because of a fear of an electoral backlash from ethnic voters. So much for the importance of majority public opinion in our political system. This is why they support MULTICULTURALISM even though they know how dysfunctional it is.

The Labor Party's KNOWLEDGE NATION document does not propose the abolition of either the Higher Education Contribution Scheme or tuition fees for local students in coursework masters degrees at universities. In fact both were introduced by the Hawke Labor Government. By the way the correct title should be KNOWLEDGEABLE NATION.

In late 1999 the Queensland Labor Government passed the Vegetation Management Act in one week with no prior consultation with likely affected farmers at all. The sad reality of a parliament with no upper chamber. It was abolished in 1922 by the Labor Government by getting the new Governor to flood the upper chamber with ALP members. They abolished it by a vote in the Parliament. No referendum was held subsequently to change the state constitution accordingly!

In late 2000 the Australian Electoral Commission started a massive mailout of enquiry notices to people on the Queensland electoral roll. The nonresponse rate was so high the Labor Government was forced to call an early election before the real scale of the problem could be discovered. I found, on a footpath in St.Lucia , 14 of these letters addressed to 14 different people at the same address. The electoral office official expressed no suprise at all when I showed them to him.

Over 19000 people now work in the Australian Taxation Office in 70 buildings across the nation. As of june 30 2000 the Commissioner of Taxation, Michael Carmody, had a gross salary of $330,000 plus chauffer driven commonwealth car, plus an expense account. In 1999-2000 it cost $1.6 billion to run the Tax Office. Their H.Q. is a "restricted access building".

The Labor Party had more members before the second world war than what it has now. In those days ordinary working people used to join the party in the hope of a better life for the working class. Now all you see in it are opportunists and weird politically correct people. These people ride on the backs of working people who keep voting for them despite misgivings. If a working class person were to attend a branch meeting and express popularly held views on immigration and multiculturalism they would probably be told to shut up. SAd!!!!!!!!!