Rejoice, rejoice! Collapse of One Nation imminent? From SMH's breaking news service on its website: > Friday, February 5, 1999 > > One Nation MP quits: I've had enough > > North Queensland One Nation state MP Ken Turner today confirmed he had > resigned from the parliamentary party to sit as an independent. > > Mr Turner, the member for Thuringowa, said he was unhappy with a number > of things in the party and would prefer to be independent. > > In a dramatic party room meeting on Wednesday, a 10-point list of demands > was drawn up by all 10 Queensland One Nation MPs, who threatened to > resign unless their demands for greater democracy within the party were met. > > But Mr Turner said he had decided not to wait any longer. > > "I don't know that those points would be acceded to, but I just can't go along > with that any more and I just feel that as an independent I've got a lot to > achieve in my electorate and I just hope that the voters understand why I've > actually done this," he told ABC radio. - AAP Sharon Byard [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea." (Alain) ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use."
