Peter Boyle

  • Hanson and the 'battlers'

    Hanson and the 'battlers'The big business media paint Hanson as a "battler" championing the interest of other "battlers". This is a false picture. Hanson is small business person (one of the wealthier ones), and many

  • 'Equality': Hanson's cover for racism

    'Equality': Hanson's cover for racism"We must get across the message", said Pauline Hanson at her May 30 meeting in Newcastle, "that to call for all Australians to be treated equally is not racism, to say that to be

  • Why we must keep up the anti-Hanson protests

    Since May, when Pauline Hanson began holding public meetings around the country to build her One Nation party, some 45,000 people have taken to the streets against her racist movement. Protesters have far outnumbered those

  • How can we defeat Hanson?

    The recent round of public meetings by racist MP Pauline Hanson was met by a strong protests despite Prime Minister John Howard's call for people not to protest at Hanson's meetings so as not to make her a martyr for her cause.

  • Pauline Hanson: the stalking horse that got away?

    Queensland Premier Rob Borbidge has demanded of Prime Minister John Howard: totally extinguish native title on pastoral leases, or face a rash of Hanson-type independents around the country. This blackmail may benefit Howard, who

  • Who is behind Pauline Hanson's racist offensive?

    After a few months of media-driven celebrity last year, Pauline Hanson, the independent member for Oxley, seemed to drop from the limelight. But now she's back on the front pages as she tours the country promoting her new party,

  • Arguments for socialism: Hired guns

    Hired guns@column head = Hired gunsThere is a growing market out there for hired guns, helicopter gunships, fighter jets and tanks, and the "professionals" who will use these lethal instruments for a fee. When it

  • How the rich invented racism

    Racism is often presented as a deep-seated and "ancient" suspicion and hostility between people of different races — a "natural" if mistaken prejudice that is hard to eradicate but will eventually be banished through

  • Arguments for socialism: Winners and losers

    Winners and losersAccording to the Daily Telegraph, media mogul Kerry Packer won $7.5 million dollars in 20 hands of baccarat in a Las Vegas casino recently. While Packer plays with millions, every year 17 million people die from

  • Migrants don't cost jobs

    If recent polls are to be believed, a majority of Australians are in favour stopping immigration at least in the short term. According to a November 2-3 AGB-McNair poll, 62% are in favour of a "short term freeze", and a Bulletin

  • Asian Australians Against Further Intimidation launched

    Asian Australians Against Further Intimidation (AAAFI) was launched on October 11, 1996 to counter the racist views promoted by right-wing organisations, such as Australians Against Further Immigration (AAFI) and Oxley MP Pauline

  • The ALP in opposition

    Australian Labor Party in governments in the 1980s and 1990s — state or federal — were decidedly conservative. Like all other old social democratic parties, the ALP has moved to the right and adopted the capitalists' neo-liberal