Monday, July 29, 2013

Foreign investment rules 'send wrong signal',

Dear Prime Minister Rudd,

Although the White Australia Policy was abolished in 1973 but in reality it is still widely practice to this day – mainly against Chinese citizens who are not allow to buy any property/investment without FIRB –(Foreign Investment Review Board) approval.

Since you are not going to address our messages, we have no choice but to publish them on the internet http://unitywaorg.blogspot.com.au and http://twitter.com/unitypartywa for public information.

Eddie Hwang
President
Unity Party WA
Phone/Fax: 61893681884
Environmental friendly - save the trees - use email.
UPWA is the only political party that calls a spade a spade.

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Dear Prime Minister,

We refer to our message below and would like to know when you will give us a reply?

Eddie Hwang

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The Hon. Kevin Rudd
Prime Minister of Australia

Dear Prime Minister,

We refer to the speech by 'Michelle Rowland MP below and would like to know what are you going to do about it?

Looking forward to hearing from you soon so that we can decide whom to vote for.

Eddie Hwang

Foreign investment rules 'send wrong signal', says WA Premier Colin Barnett

·        AAP -JUNE 05, 2013 10:47AM
AUSTRALIA'S foreign investment rules are sending the wrong message to China, West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says.
The Liberal leader said the United States could invest more than $1 billion in Australia without being subject to Foreign Investment Review Board rules, but it was different for China's state-owned enterprises.

Speaking during a trade mission in Beijing, Mr Barnett said that for investment by state-owned enterprises in China, any level of investment from $1 up goes through the FIRB process.

"I think Australia needs to correct that. That is giving the wrong signal to China, and I've no doubt, causes resentment,'' he said.

Mr Barnett is trying to drum up a major Chinese backer for the $6 billion Oakajee port project in WA's mid-west.

The project was indefinitely mothballed last year when Japan's Mitsubishi decided to "slow down'' work on the already-stalled plan, after talks with potential joint-venture partners languished.
Oakajee was to export iron ore from the magnetite-rich region, but the low-grade product fell out of favour with a slide in iron ore prices and wavering Chinese demand.

GRIEVANCE DEBATE (published)
Monday, 24 June 2013 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 197
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Speaker Rowland, Michelle, MP Question No.

Australia's wellbeing depends on China

·        by: By David & Libby Koch - News Limited newspapers 
·        May 10, 2012 10:33AM
THE Federal Budget blueprint for your finances is that things will stay pretty much how they are now for the next 2 years despite further deterioration in Europe and a stagnant America.

Our saviour continues to be China and the Government is confident their economic boom will keep our commodity prices steaming ahead and our economy growing at 3.25 per cent. But if they’re wrong, and the wheels fall off the rickshaw, the financial impact will be devastating………… 
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/money/david-and-libby-koch/australias-wellbeing-depends-on-china/story-fn7kicty-1226351790250#ixzz2aQ1pLcj8

Monday, July 22, 2013

Racism on the job an ugly problem, report discovers

Mr. Denis Naphine
Premier of Victoria

Dear Premier,

Can you do something about it or is it too tough?

Looking forward for your comment, please.

Yours respectfully,

Eddie Hwang

President
Unity Party WA
Phone/Fax: 61893681884
Environmental friendly - save the trees - use email.
UPWA is the only political party that calls a spade a spade.

 

Racism on the job an ugly problem, report discovers

Date  - May 27, 2013 - Vince Chadwick

People are often subject to unthinking behaviour which is inherently racist. 
Despite a spate of racist rants caught on commuters' phones, racism is twice as likely to occur at work as on public transport, a report has found.
Santino Deng ... 'The rest of the people I was working with laughed.' Photo: Luis Enrique Ascui
Reporting Racism, released on Monday by the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission, seeks to gauge the frequency of racism and help victims and bystanders respond.

A survey of more than 200 people found one in three had witnessed or experienced racism at work. Fifteen per cent had encountered it on public transport, and 31 per cent had seen it on the street. Racism may include verbal and physical abuse, offensive graffiti, and gestures where a person is treated unfavourably due to their race.
''People are often subject to unthinking behaviour which is inherently racist,'' said acting commissioner Karen Toohey. ''To hear their own community being spoken about in derogatory terms has a profound impact.''
Respondents who had experienced or witnessed racism in Victoria.
Respondents who had experienced or witnessed racism in Victoria.
Funeral leave in the Aboriginal community, also known as sorry business, is one example that Ms Toohey gave of an event that was commonly misunderstood and derided by co-workers.
Santino Deng, from South Sudan, spent 12 years in a refugee camp in Kenya before arriving in Australia in 2005. To support himself through his arts degree at Victoria University he worked as a labourer in factories, where he said racism was commonplace.
Potential employers lost interest upon hearing his foreign name and background. Once he did find work, he was assigned the toughest tasks, some colleagues refused to speak to him, and there were often jokes about his race.
''Someone told me, 'you're so dark I don't see you around'. The rest of the people I was working with laughed,'' Mr Deng said. ''So I told him, 'OK, let me put the light on - maybe you have a problem with your eyes.''
Currently unable to work due to a workplace injury to his hand, the 32-year-old is seeking a less physically demanding job to allow him to sponsor his wife and young son to come to Australia. But Mr Deng is not sure what kind of society he would be welcoming them to. ''If we see the situation is not improving, then we must speak out,'' he said. ''If not for our generation, then for generations to come.''
The report also found 55 per cent of racist incidents went unreported. Ms Toohey attributed this to concern that nothing would be done, and the frequency of abuse.
In an effort to combat this, anyone who witnesses racism may now fill out a report on the commission's anti-hate website. The reports will be passed on to police.