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AS I approach my dotage, never once did I consider agreeing with the

Bulletin’s long time Your View correspondent DJ Fraser. His opinion of the latest Hanson/Morrison imbroglio (GCB 2/12) was of interest.

My epiphany is due however more to history than the forthcoming festive season. The Tories chucked Pauline into jail on trumped up charges. Her innocence established, she obviously took credence of the Spanish aphorism that revenge is a meal best taken cold. The army boot accelerated into the liberal gonads was not unexpected – only the timing.

J.J. GOOLD, MUDGEERABA

THE overarching consideration for any decisions made by One Nation in Parliament is this: Is it good for Australia?

It was exactly this that guided our decision on the Ensuring Integrity Bill.

As I have said countless times, One Nation’s decision does not absolve the union movement of its responsibility to take genuine steps now to stamp out thuggery, corruption, standover actions, and unreasonable demands from employers. But I also have made clear that business groups also need to work with government to stamp out white collar crime and make sure they deliver fair wages and conditions for their employees.

It is only fair that all sides of the work and employment sector all improve their behaviour.

The Government has made a number of allegations about me since the vote last Thursday, and all of them are false.

They suggested I had given a guarantee that I would support the bill. I never did that. This lie was also picked up by the media, which kept repeating it to the point that some people believed it.

Headlines that suggest that One

Nation “flip flopped” are also not true. And to suggest that we “blindsided the Government” is actually an issue for the Government, which apparently has believed its own hype and the media’s desperation for a scoop.

There have also been allegations that my vote was directly related to the Westpac money laundering fiasco, which revealed that Westpac had allowed around 23-million international cash transactions that may have aided child exploitation crimes; that it was somehow connected to the Government’s cash ban bill, which proposes to limit any cash payments by consumers to a maximum $10,000; and another allegation was that I had made a deal over the Bill with the CFMMEU. All these claims are false.

And, most recently, the Government also suggested I had given a written guarantee and had even texted Ministers that I would support the Bill. I never did that, and I’ve followed up that with a request for the recipients of those so-called texts to prove their allegations by releasing them publicly.

No doubt they will find any excuse as to why they won’t reveal those texts, but the truth is they don’t exist.

As I said at the outset, One Nation’s vote against the bill was based on the belief that it is a poor law and it was not in the interests of Australia.

One Nation is a mature and growing party. It operates only for what is best for Australia and the Australian people. Any suggestion that we function any differently is false.

SENATOR PAULINE HANSON, NATIONAL ONE NATION LEADER

surfers are planning to protest about oil drilling in the (Great Australian Bight), and not the (Great Barrier Reef) as Jim accused me of writing. My advice to Jim Taylor is get your facts right.

Dooms-day preachers like Jim Taylor and Shaun Cunneen need to take note of Greenland’s glaciologists’ latest reports, who say the Arctic is experiencing its coldest winter since world temperature records began, and Greenland’s glaciers have redeveloped into the most massive and majestic ever witnessed by man.

These learned glaciologists are all in agreement that there is no need for any panic or scare tactics from the Greens, there is only a couple of degrees change in climate that will return to normal.

Ice core samples taken from huge depths in Greenland’s glaciers have shown that world temperature fluctuation has existed for millions of years, but always returns to normal. Settle down you alarmists, the world is not going to end.

KEN WADE, TWEED HEADS

I REFER to the Gold Coast Buleltin article (2/12) Mayor hails shift in nuclear polling.

I think perhaps being named No.1 in the top 100 powerful people on the weekend has squeezed out one of the more bizarre thought bubbles from our good mayor quoting the Minerals Council of Australia – a right-wing lobby group representing mine owners – and operators, who of course would say nuclear is good.

The thing MCA misses in its excitement that 40 per cent are OK with nuclear, is that the majority, or 60 per cent, are against it. The local government does not provide power, and where would the waste go? Just a few little problems that I hope aren’t going to cost millions in ratepayers dollars to flesh-out.

JEFF DAVIDSON, SOUTHPORT