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The Irony Party of Australia Encephalatronicalogical Pamphlet 13th February 2006
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Member for Hughes Danna Sue Vale Former Veterans' Affairs Minister and Liberal Member of Parliament for the electorate of Hughes Danna Sue Vale, has today taken a characteristically unequivocal position on the ongoing debate in Australia on the termination of pregnancy, in the midst of passionate controversy on the choices available to Australian women in the event of unplanned pregnancy. But while most of those commentating on the issue have restrained themselves to consideration of the immediate implications of abortion for women, Ms Vale has taken the long view, warning that by dint of reproduction alone fertile and attractive Moslem citizens could render Australia an Islamic nation within fifty years, if ‘we’ other Australians continue to ‘abort ourselves almost out of existence.’ Legislation is to be considered this week in the House of Representatives that could see control of the approval of the controversial chemical termination drug RU486 taken from the firmly anti-abortionist Health Minister Tony Abbott and placed instead in the hands of the twenty corrupt pharmaceutical company hacks and bureaucrats that comprise Australia’s much discredited drugs approval body , the Therapeutic Goods Administration. It is understood the drug will likely be admitted by the body if submitted for approval, a process currently stalled by virtue of the Health Minister’s veto. On the numbers, it looks as though the Health Minister will be disappointed by a favourable vote on the legislation and an end to his satisfying degree of control over Australian women’s choices. But Prime Minister John Howard also opposes the change, and perhaps as a result, and at his insistence, his Education Minister Jackie Kelly has proposed a new amendment. Minister Kelly’s third way divides control of the drug’s approval process between the TGA and the Parliament, and also looks designed to divide the supporters of the path likely to see the chemical abortion drug made available to women. And the one-time Howard Government Minister Danna Vale has today thrown her support behind Jackie Kelly’s amendment, stating that she supports the retention of Parliamentary control because she believes the numbers of terminations taking place in Australia is too high. Ms Vale has evidently used her free time well since being relieved of the arduous duties of a Minister of the Government, committing herself to in-depth research and analysis of the issues confronting Australia. Today she shared the fruits of these academic efforts: "I've actually read in the Daily Telegraph where a certain imam from the Lakemba mosque actually said that Australia is going to be a Muslim nation in 50 years' time." "I didn't believe him at the time" said Ms Vale today. But she added she later came to the realisation that perhaps the Imam referred to has calculated the population figures more accurately than she had realised, and that the threat is real, particularly since we non-Moslem Australians are "aborting ourselves almost out of existence." Who exactly the Government Member of Parliament means by ‘we’ is not clear, except for the obvious inference that ‘we’ are not Moslem Australians. Since Vale dumped from the front bench after a spell as Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence, she has made a series of increasingly ludicrous public statements, presumably in the interests of continued relevance and to prolong in some fashion a fading political career. Her most recent proposal, for example, came several months ago for the construction of an Australian replica of the Gallipoli site where Australian diggers were slaughtered in World War One while invading Turkey at the behest of the British Empire. This project, however, was widely and properly ridiculed and staunchly opposed by those who enjoy the proposed site in its current virgin form. Now, in another extremist outburst far too candid for the somewhat subtler operators of the Howard Ministry and bureaucracy, Vale appears to suggest that the prospect Australia might be an Islamic nation within 50 years is reason enough to retain Parliamentary control of population policy. Perhaps she imagines that under some future policy Australia might prevent the termination of unplanned pregnancies in women of particular ethnicity or origin.But Something Must Be Done. And for the Member for Hunter the issue is too important to be left to corporate-owned bureaucrats: ‘the ramifications it actually has for the community and the nation we'll become in the future is not for the decision of the TGA.’ A retraction of the extreme sentiment is anticipated in some form in coming hours as uneasy Government minders lean on the careless ex-Minister, recognising that while the comments themselves are ludicrous, Vale has accidentally revealed in the midst of a contentious debate a profound and mostly secret fear harboured by Australia’s most powerful. Militant, expansionist Moslems who see the future of Australia as a part of a greater Caliphate will likely find some resistance in realising their vision on the vastly disparate and far-flung Australian continent, at least in the short term. But questioned on the legitimacy of their aims, one militant familiar with the recent history of The Antipodes and demonstrating a comprehension of ancient Western legal traditions, smiled broadly and told the interviewer simply "Terra Nullius, my friend." Across the continent those who support the Health Minister and his veto of the chemical termination drug RU486 are making every effort to distance themselves from the appalling statements made publicly in a moment of idiocy or insanity by Danna Vale, who should know such sentiments are properly expressed, in accordance with our own convenient cultural taboo, only when One is Certain One is Among Friends. And meanwhile moderate Australian Moslems continue to exercise their legitimate and democratic right to work towards the realisation of the true inclusion of Islamic culture and tradition in a future Australia no longer controlled and dominated by a a clique of self-appointed guardians from a particular entrenched ethnic population whose words and actions betray a dangerous, exclusive, paranoid ideology. Australian Broadcasting Corporation article on the candid Government statement made by Ms Vale.
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