SIR JOH AT THE END OF THE TRAIL?

"The (Queensland) parliamentary National Party will convene to decide whether to allow Sir John to remain as Premier until his announced retirement date of August 8 next year, or force a spill to dump him immediately as party leader." - The Australian, October 12.

There is something quite sad in witnessing the fine old warrior meeting his defeat (or threatened defeat) because of errors of judgment. Sir Joh's basic error was to allow himself to be inveigled into the "Joh for Canberra" campaign. Time and time again, in these pages, we insisted that Sir Joh was walking into a trap in accepting advice that he "go Federal". His power base has always been Queensland. He is a Queensland phenomenon. Queenslanders are truly "different" to their fellow Australians in other States.

Various reasons for this have been advanced, one being that the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic component of Queenslanders is higher than in other States. This notion was advanced by a "LABOR" leader, not by a right-wing racist! However, Sir Joh did accept fallacious advice for which he is now paying the penalty. Other issues, such as the Fitzgerald police inquiry, police action against certain areas of vice, etc., have caused some forceful ripples, but Sir Joh could have survived these, we do believe. He could not survive the loss of face, and credibility, as a result of his failure to "go Federal".

Whatever the result of the next meeting of the Queensland parliamentary National Party, Sir Joh appears finished. Mr. Michael Ahern seems to be the "heir apparent", and he is a different kettle of fish to Sir Joh. He is the admirable family man, but with sufficient "liberal" views to make him acceptable to what are believed to be "enlightened" voters. This is for the immediate future, and he may not have the smooth ride in the Premiership that he may expect. He is keen to be seen, if not pro-greenie, then certainly not anti-greenie. The greenies have votes, as John Howard has found to his cost. Almost all politicians are greenies now.

OPERATING THE INOPERABLE

"The Prime Minister, Mr. Hawke, has delivered a blunt personal warning to the United States Secretary of State, Mr. Shultz, against America putting pressure on Japan to buy American coal and beef on uncompetitive terms. - The Age (Melbourne), October 12

Round and round we go. All nations, dependent on trade, strive for a "favourable balance", wherever possible. An imbalance leads to inevitable debt (Australia and the USA have large external debts) and internal debt, as the central bank of a debtor nation expands the internal deficit in order to maintain internal employment levels, but usually at the cost of a higher inflation rate. But ALL trading nations cannot have a trading surplus: it's impossible. One nation's trading surplus is another nation's trading deficit. So round and round we go.

American coal winners and beef producers have their own struggles to exist and prosper as have their Australian counterparts. These American producers have votes, and their votes will go to the politicians with ears attuned to those same votes; not to politicians who will allow the Japanese to buy foreign produce because of various economic mechanisms such as arbitrarily imposed tariffs. The solution? There is no solution under conventional finance economics. We recall the prophetic words of C.H. Douglas: "No solution to our ills is possible which does not transgress the tenets of orthodox finance."

COMPULSORY VOTING BEING QUESTIONED

"A Federal Opposition frontbencher is urging the Liberal Party to consider campaigning for an end to compulsory voting in Australia." - The Australian, October 12.

Compulsory voting was introduced in Australia in 1921 as a result of a poor turnout by electors; something like 50%, maybe a point or two more. The essentially "immature" response was to make voting compulsory, not make it more attractive. To our knowledge, Belgium is the only other Western country with compulsory voting. We could not expect the Fabian socialists to abolish compulsory voting because the Fabian approach in all things is essentially immature. People have to be "made" to do this or that, in the common or overall interest, of course. All races must, must, love one another in spite of the fact of nature that, "birds of a feather, flock together". People, like the creatures of nature, prefer their own kind. That's the way God made it, brothers and sisters. All attempts to overturn this rule of nature will fail, and the more determined the efforts of the foolish socialists (urged on by subversives) to do so, then the worse will be the inevitable social friction. The different races are able to deal with one another satisfactorily, but under specific conditions that we shall not pursue here.
Returning to compulsory voting: The compulsory vote forces the irresponsible vote.

BACK DOOR I.D. MOVE?

SEX EDUCATION AND COMMUNIST SUBVERSION

From New Zealand On Target (Sep. 14) we take this item by D.M. McKenna:
"Few people know about the UNESCO handbooks called Toward World Understanding. These books lay out the ways and means legislators and educators can mould children into thinking that 'big brother', the State, knows what's best for them, rather than Mum and Dad. "Mr. Russell Marshall, the (N.Z.) Minister of Education in the first Labour-Lange Government, was the man most responsible for the sex programme in schools, is a Member of Parliamentarians for Global Action (formerly Parliamentarians for World Order), whose stated aim is exactly the same as that promoted by UNESCO in their books. PGA want a World Government as does UNESCO.

This ideal has been around for many years and the main obstacle in its way is the family, the most stabilising unit in our society. If that unit is broken up, a generation of children will have been influenced and moulded into accepting the 'big brother knows best' concept. "In 1896 Friedrich Engels, the wealthy paymaster of Karl Marx, wrote in his book, Revolution and Counter-Revolution, that: 'The breakthrough of the Socialist revolution demands the destruction of the family, the destruction of the middle class, and the elimination of the Christian denominations through a general sexualisation.'

"Sixty years ago the Communist psychologist, Wilhelm Reich, said: 'The quickest way to the Socialist revolution is through sexual revolution'. "The co-editor of the West German Hessian sex education programme, H.J. Gassner, has cited the goals of sex education as follows: 'We need sexual stimulation in the schools to be able to execute the social restructure of society and to totally eliminate obedience to authority and the love of children for their parents.'

"People like Engels, Reich, and Gassner, knew that sex could be used as a potent weapon against a stable society. The dream-weavers, do-gooders, and social planners are knowingly or unknowingly putting into practice schemes that will hasten the destruction of the family, and ultimately our society. Parents wake up and demand a halt.
"Thanks to Mr. Marshall and his colleagues, many of them also members of PGA, concerned New Zealanders are facing a dangerous threat which was conceived by groups only concerned with destroying traditional society."

VIETNAM

JUST HOW DO THEY DO IT?