從寶琳韓森說開去

令所有澳洲新移民討厭至極的人物寶琳韓森最近經常出現在電視屏幕上，前一陣七頻道的社交舞大賽她像極一個小醜卻也大出風頭，昨天居然又出現在九頻道由EDDIE主持的名人大富翁競猜募捐現場。雖然前一陣由於她的選舉醜聞，韓森被關進監獄，令華人等大快人心一段時間，但不久即出獄，似乎比以前更加風光，競相被各電視台邀請。這個臭名昭著的澳洲一國黨前黨首，由街邊炸魚小店的老板娘起家，能一路走到今天，其身後的社會和文化大背景非常值得新移民深思。

宣揚一國，強烈排擠其他種族的一國黨主旨，實際隻是五六十年代白澳政策的回頭。在移民相對較少，民風更加淳樸保守的昆州居然曾經很得人心。比較已經非常國際化的大都會悉尼和墨爾本，昆州對移民的接納程度以及社會文化適應度都遠遠跟不上大量湧入的移民潮，在這個巨大反差中，給了一國黨存在的空間。

種族歧視的陰影，在一些角落依然頑固的存在著。在一些澳洲人禮貌的微笑背後，隔膜冷漠一樣不可忽視。作為任何一名留學生或者新移民，都會在生活中不可避免地或多或少遇到一些不舒服的情況。來澳幾年來，我也不是沒有遇到過非常無禮的澳州人。但總的來講，大多數人是禮貌有禮和非常友好的，有的甚至非常淳樸可親。作為一名中國留學生，我想，我們不應該總是考慮到種族歧視的問題，而是應該身體力行的為中國人，為移民階層樹立一個好的形像，移民和澳洲社會的互動會更加良好，而且涓涓細流匯成海洋，當我們真正可以融入到這個社會，一國黨會逐漸失去生存的土壤，逐漸被唾棄，直到徹底消亡。

我很不喜歡初見麵的澳洲朋友猜我是什麽日本人或者韓國人；我很無奈看見很多華人移民的BMW和奔馳酷車無視人行橫道旁等待過馬路的澳洲老人或者孩子橫衝直撞；我很無奈我的一些同胞在澳人聚居的寧靜小區徹夜狂歡，音樂擾民；我很氣憤看到在三令五申的禁令之下，墨爾本寧靜的企鵝島上依然對著惶恐不安的歸巢小企鵝們揮動相機嘰嘰喳喳的中國觀光豪客；我心痛那些無視他人，無視修養禮貌，無視別國文化習俗和社會行為準則的自私自大和無禮猖狂，一個人的肆意妄為往往連累了所有的黃皮膚，甚至所有的外國移民。

在日益全球化的今天，無論是世界的哪個角落都有移民的身影。作為生活在海外的華人，如何能夠在徹底融入社會，追求事業生活理想的同時，為整個華人社區形像，為整個移民階層的形像提升所做的思考和行動，都是非常必要的，也應該是我們每時每刻應該注意和省思的課題吧。希望通過我們的努力，讓韓森之流俱無藏身之地！我們欣喜看到，曾經支持過韓森的很多澳洲人已經幡然醒悟，一國黨越來越失去民眾支持和席位，成為一紙空殼，連韓森其實也從一個政治人物淪為大家飯後的笑柄和電視上張牙舞爪的醜角。大家再接再勵，韓森徹底退出舞台的日子應該不遠了。

與所有的海外朋友們共勉。

FYI：BBS article about Pauline Hanson：

Hanson has cut a controversial figure ever since she founded the anti-immigration One Nation Party.

Depending on your point of view, she could go down in history as either inspirational battler for the rights of the ordinary Australian, or a symbol of the worst in reactionary, white Australian conservatism.

At the height of her influence in the late 1990s, this red-haired, hard-edged, twice-divorced mother of four shook the political establishment, provoked outrage, and inspired a legion of satirists.

Already regarded as a loose cannon, in the 1996 federal elections she stood as an official Liberal candidate in the safe Labor seat of Oxley in Queensland.

Just over two weeks before the election date, the Liberal Party disowned her over comments on race and immigration.

Mrs Hanson contested the seat as an independent and sensationally won.

But that victory was a minor tremor compared to the earthquake triggered by her maiden speech to the Federal Parliament later that year.

Australia, she said, was in danger of being swamped by Asians.

She denounced the inequality of giving welfare money to Aborigines that was not available to other Australians.

Bureaucrats, fat cats, do-gooders, big business, foreign investors and the United Nations received a tongue-lashing, too.

Left-wing Labor and conservative Liberal politicians united in their condemnation, Church leaders and newspaper editorials criticised her - but Pauline Hanson apparently tapped a deep dissatisfaction in the country with the two main parties and the established order.

She appealed across party lines to working class white males, who saw in this former fish-and-chip-shop owner somebody who was like themselves.

Opponents picked apart naive policies on issues such as taxation, and the media delighted in "Hansonisms".

One famous televised exchange in October 1996 saw respected interviewer Tracey Curio ask Mrs  Hanson whether she was xenophobic.

Her startled reply, "Please explain!" entered the national lexicon.

She was a nervous and inarticulate performer in front of the cameras.

Yet, while in favour, she was able to depict her detractors as intellectual snobs, a self-interested elite. The more she was ridiculed, the more her popularity grew.

With the launch of her One Nation Party in 1997, Pauline Hanson took her policies to voters across the country.

In Queensland's state elections the following year, the party won 11 out of 78 seats with 23% of the vote.

Decline

But in the 1998 federal elections, Pauline Hanson was rejected by voters and saw her national profile and popularity decline.

In the November election, hanson and her party failed to win a single seat.

In the months beforehand, Prime Minister John Howard had moved his party sharply to the right, introducing a controversial but popular policy of turning away boatloads of asylum seekers before they could reach Australia's shores.

Mrs Hanson complained that she had lost because the Howard Government had stolen her policies.

But by then she had another battle to face - she was being investigated for fraud over allegedly obtaining illegal government funds to set up One Nation, tarnishing her image as an honest, hard-working woman of the people.

In January 2002, she announced her retirement from politics to concentrate on fighting the allegations.

In August 2003 she was found guilty of illegally using the names of 500 members of a support group to register One Nation as a political party, as well as fraudulently obtaining almost A$500,000 (US$325,000) in electoral funds.

She was jailed for three years, serving 11 weeks of that term before an appeal court quashed her conviction in November 2003 and ordered her released.

Analysts say One Nation is largely responsible for forcing the issue of race to the forefront of Australian politics, but it has so far failed to persuade Australians it is worthy of more than a protest vote against the established parties.

But Pauline Hanson still manages to excite deep passions among her supporters.

 

(Paste) Pauline Hanson-Fruit Loop or Deranged Nazi?

You be the judge.Pauline Hanson is a triumph of democracy. The people have the right to decide who will represent them, no matter how repellant, how repugnant, how simplistic, how stupid.

She is democracy's biggest curse. No matter how repellant, how repugnant, how simplistic, how stupid the people are, they can always elect someone worse.

 

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very good