Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 21:56:29 -0700
From: Michael Novick <mnovick-AT-laedu.lalc.k12.ca.us>
Subject: RE: Aborigines, etc: David Duke backs Australia's Hanson



>U.S. right-winger Duke backs Australia's Hanson
>
>MELBOURNE, Australia
>(Reuter) - Former Ku Klux Klan chief and leading U.S. rightwinger David
>Duke has backed Australian race dispute politician Pauline Hanson as a true
>patriot protecting her country against outsiders, a Melbourne newspaper
>said Friday.
>
>Duke's endorsement in an interview with the Herald Sun came the day after
>Australian political leaders linked Hanson to right-wing "crazies,"
>allegations she denies.
>
>Duke, a former Louisiana state representative, told the Herald Sun that he
>was aware of Hanson's views and admired her stand against multiculturalism.
>
>"She is an Australian patriot," he told the paper.
>
>"It is the prime minister (John Howard) who is out of line with
>traditional values. The prime minister is trying to destroy Australia's
>cultural and ethnic foundation.
>
>"He doesn't care if Australia becomes a country where traditional
>Australians are a minority in their own country."
>
>Hanson says that Australia -- where European settlers ousted native
>Aborigines from their lands 200 years ago -- is in danger of being swamped
>by Asians.
>
>Hanson told the newspaper she had no contact with Duke and was shocked by
>his endorsement.
>
>"I have maintained my independence. I will not be associated with
>extremists," he said.
>
>But influential government figure Ron Boswell and former foreign minister
>Gareth Evans, now deputy leader of the Labor opposition, said the
>Queenslander had ties with Australian groups urging violent and racist
>policies.
>
>"There is no doubt that she is linked with the militant crazy right and
>they with her," Evans said Thursday.
>
>Boswell told the Senate Wednesday night that Hanson's increasingly popular
>One Nation Party was linked to the far-right League of Rights, militant
>gun groups that had advocated violence against tougher gun laws, and other
>extremist factions.
>
>Howard, criticized for failing to react firmly enough when Hanson sparked a
>divisive race dispute last year, told government backbenchers this week he
>would denounce her as an extremist with limited popular support in a
>key speech Monday during an official visit to Britain.
>
>Opinion polls show One Nation has up to 10 percent support, enough to make
>it the third power in Australian politics if that is maintained to the next
>election, due by mid-1999.
>
>
>
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