Paphitis wrote:That's where you are wrong! One Nation was right wing, and were quite intolerant to certain groups. I could still always see where they were comming from and their point of view. However, I don't believe they were racist as such because they really only pushed for conservative Christian "values" since they believe Australia should be a conservative Christian, mostly European and Western society. They are not racist because Australian Greeks, Italians, Cypriots, and some dozens other ethnicities never had any issues with One Nation. They were not fascist and had a good leadership and their followers were predominately older generations. They were not fascist by any stretch of the imagination. They tapped into the discontent of Australia's mainstream, wanted to reduce if not stop all immigration to Australia from predominately Islamic countries unless those wanting to come have the ability to establish themselves within Australia's western mainstream society and not have a bunch of Ninjas wait in line with you at the bank whilst Bikies are forced to take off their helmets for security reasons.
Some of their policies were quite reasonable, but they took the wrong approach. It had got 5% at one particular election whereas ELAM wouldn't even get 0.5% in Cyprus.
ELAM has always being irrelevant, and One Nation does not exist anymore. In Australia there is a fascist party, and that wouldn't even get 0.1%. As irrelevant as ELAM is.
Dear Paphitis
Many thanks for your constructive and objective response - perhaps "culturalist" would be a better way to describe One Nation.
The BNP in the UK likewise have some reasonable policies, such as the health service, which act as a hook to catch support, which sadly they are gaining, but in their case there is always the underlying element of racism, and if they had their way their would be far fewer doctors and nurses to run the systm. One of the best Doctors I had in the UK was Indian by ethnos.