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ALP still don’t get it

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FOREIGN Minister Bob Carr said the major parties have to settle their differences on border protection to stop events similar to last week’s boat tragedy.
“Without the Malaysian orderly processing of asylum seekers we are loading problems including increased people smuggling into Indonesia ports,” Senator Carr said. “That results in tragedies like the terrible one that the Australian public is coming to terms with now.”
The ALP are responsible for the illegal refugee problem thus it is up to them to fix the problem Why is it that the ALP and their follower are calling for Abbott to compromise – why not demand the Green Earthians compromise. Oh, and Bob, what the public are coming to terms with is that we have a government who simply can’t govern and they are just waiting for the chance to kick them out so we can have the country back in adult hands. Go and see Gillard and tell her in monosyllabic terms so that she understands. You caused the problem, you fix it! We look stupid, lowlifes are taking us for a ride and the voters know it. That can’t be too hard for an old hand like you Bob…surely.
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Open Border Policy must be fixed

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Michael Gordon in The Age apportions all blame for the current spike in boat arrivals to Abbott
IT’S time to end the blame game – and it’s time Tony Abbott made it possible for Julia Gillard to implement the policy she insists will make tragedies like the one that unfolded last night less likely.
Why is this so?. Abbott isn’t the PM, Gillard is. Why is it time for Abbott to enable the government to implement an inferior plan. The Malaysia Plan is never going to work by itself. It was born out of a desire to do anything other than what had been successful under Howard. It is simply an ALP/Earthian Greens plan that has as it’s first premise “Any thing but Narau or TPVs” Stop grandstanding in Rio, Gillard, and fix the problem. While you fiddle people are dying. Admittedly the Government has so many distractions that I really can’t see how Gillard could prioritize her day. but it is her, not Abbott, that needs to come up with a plan that fixes the problem.
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Gina Rinehart has them jumping

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Wayne Swan yesterday sharpened his attack on the mining billionaire by suggesting her designs on Fairfax Media endangered democracy. The biggest threat to democracy is the fact that Swan made that statement. Fairfax are in trouble because the people stopped buying their newspaper and I would suggest the reason is that they were catering to a small inner city market that enjoyed reading about the evils of conservatives as they sipped their latte. To continually support a government as bad as we have now is economic and ideological nonsense. To not call the government to order over even one of their many incompetent, class driven stuff-ups is head-in-the-sand reporting and by definition looses readership. Gina Rinehart’s involvement is driving the ALP/Green Earthians crazy.
Victorian MP Steve Gibbons called for laws to empower a new authority to oversee media behaviour and impose harsh penalties on those who breached standards.
I presume “breaching standards” only refers to media that refuse to sign up to the ALP supporters group.
The motion, which Mr Gibbons wanted to be debated in parliament on Monday, argues that the media industry has lost its “social licence to operate” and must face greater government control. “Concentration of news media ownership in the hands of a few represents, prima facie, a competitive market failure requiring compensatory regulation to ensure socially acceptable outcomes,” his motion states.
This is dangerous. We don’t want the government interfering in media control. We already have a media control mechanism in place – if the readers don’t like what they read, they stop buying the newspaper. Gina Rinehart wants board representation for her money and she is entitled to it. It also appears she isn’t interested in abiding with Fairfax charter of editorial independence. So what. The charter isn’t the driving force of what appears in the press. It is the mindset of the Editor and journalists that drive copy. If the majority ownership on the board don’t like the editorial stand then they can be easily replaced. And I suspect there will be some replacements in coming days. The Green Earthians Ludlam shows just how out of touch with the world he is;
Greens senator Scott Ludlam wrote yesterday to Senator Conroy and opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull, asking them to back legislation that would impose fines or other penalties on Mrs Rinehart if she breached the Fairfax charter.
The Fairfax charter isn’t a law, you dropkick. It’s a feel good statement to try and head off any conservative writings in Fairfax media. You can’t legislate against something that isn’t already legislated. What next, a law to ban Andrew bolt from ever having a position with Fairfax? Here’s something else for the ALP/Green Earthians to panic about. News Corporation has made a bid for Fox News. For News, a successful bid would double its stake in pay TV business Foxtel to 50 per cent Great stuff all round.
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You’re not silly Ron

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Ron Pike, Coffs Harbour, NSW writes to the Editor of The Australian
I MUST be a bit silly because I can’t fathom all this green stuff. We stop building dams and power stations and make water and electricity more expensive. We shut down the sustainable logging industry and import more timber. We truncate our irrigated agriculture and import more food. Now it seems we must pay our fishers to stop fishing and import most of our fish. This all results in a loss of productive taxpaying jobs that are replaced with unproductive taxpayer-funded jobs. Then we import more people to share in our diminished productive capacity to produce the staples of life. I think I will have to go back to one of these progressive schools and learn about this green stuff.
Going to a progressive school wont help you Ron as you have to suspend all belief in human development and to place humans down the evolutionary tree below all endangered species. You sound to pragmatic to ever graduate from such an establishment.
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Ziggy on Carbon Tax

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ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI in today’s The Australian
….the carbon tax is essentially a political device born out of a negotiation to form a coalition government with minority partners whose ideology demanded genuflection to a lofty, if theoretical, carbon reduction strategy. The carbon tax may serve worthy agendas, but seriously addressing climate change is not one of them.
Pretty hard to argue with that.
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Larry Pickering on Gillard

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Tell us what you really think, Larry. From his Facebook Page
THE FINAL GILLARD DISGRACE: For $300 a week each, Gillard has given us the privilege of inviting asylum seekers into our homes. Has she and her Government gone completely mad? The ABC proved only this week that we don’t have a clue who is entering our country illegally. We have no way to process these people. We have no way to know who they are because most are either carrying false passports or have been told to toss their IDs in the drink before they got here. This Captain Emad character was discovered to be here illegally, and in Canberra, blatantly smuggling people to our country on stink boats. The Government says the AFP have had him under surveillance for two years. They didn’t even stop him fleeing back to Indonesia to continue making a fortune smuggling people back here, for Christ’s sake. Some boats have sunk with all on board and this germ has lied about it too anxious relatives to ensure he was paid in full! Now there’s a REAL maggot for you! Now our Government Minister Clare says, “We had to let him go because we couldn’t make any charges stick”! What the hell is this clown talking about? Emad must have thought it was Xmas walking out of here like that. HE obviously knew he should be arrested! But not the AFP? The AFP could have placed a PACE Alert at all departure points within minutes of viewing that ABC program. They wouldn’t have even needed to arrest him to do that! We have already seen the mountain of evidence against this criminal! Why wasn’t he placed back in detention with all the others until he was processed properly and then jailed or deported? Didn’t he lie to and deceive authorities? This most infamous of all illegal immigrants was given a special deal after only three months’ detention and provided with free government housing so he could continue his trade! Who exactly is paying who here? Are they kidding? Illegal entry is not an offence? If the Government is too lazy and the AFP too incompetent to arrest someone of this level of infamy then what damned message have we sent to Indonesia? Malaysia is on the smuggling route and integral to the whole illegal operation. Stupid f…..g Gillard wants to defy our High Court ruling and send them all back there for felonious processing. (Sorry about that but I am shaking with rage typing this.) Now this galah of a woman is encouraging aged people and decent, unsuspecting families to take these unidentified people into their homes when the Government has just proved it doesn’t have a clue who they are! It is a catastrophe waiting to happen! And it will! These people are Islamic from a different environment and culture. Can Granny serve Hal Al food? Does she know about their disdain for women and young girls? Is she ready for their illegal immigrant mates to pay a visit? Their wailing prayers 5 times a day? Their hatred of the West? If Granny reads their Koran she will have a heart attack! You should have a few spare rooms in The Lodge Julia. How about you shoulder some of your own fuck-up and show us how it’s done! Oh, I guess you don’t need the money, do you?… but poor old people and struggling families do. Nauru could solve this national disgrace tomorrow but Gillard would need to retreat. She would rather Australia continues to pay dearly for this than openly display her original stupidity. I would like to get my hands around her scrawny neck and shake some common sense into her. This is lunacy beyond even what I thought Gillard was capable of.
Sounds about right to me.
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Polls

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TONY Abbott has attributed Julia Gillard’s narrow lead over him as preferred prime minister to his role as “the bearer of bad tidings”, conceding his sustained attack on Labor had inflicted collateral damage on his personal standing. But not on the standing of the party it leads, I might add.
“We’ve got a really crook government,” he said. “The bearer of bad tidings is often unpopular because the news that I regret to say I’ve had to give people time and time again is that this is a bad government. “It has been utterly incompetent. It has been deeply untrustworthy. And I guess if that’s what you are often saying, you cop a bit of the collateral.”
Can’t argue with that and neither do the polls.
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Voldemort Tax

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The trouble with backing your reputation and government on a badly designed and unjustified tax is that after a while you start to sound ridiculous. Gillard, quoted in The Australian
“You can only spread opportunity if you keep the economy strong,” the Prime Minister said. This was only made possible by seizing reform challenges such as pricing carbon
A more fitting description of the Carbon Tax is the Voldemort Tax (from Harry Potter – he who will not be named) This definition comes from the series of ALP/Green TV commercials explaining how the compensation for the Carbon Tax works without actually mentioning the words “Carbon Tax” NIKI SAVVA draws a comparison between the implementation of the Carbon Tax and Howard’s GST. THERE IS NO COMPARISON! The GST replaced a whole host of inefficient taxes, some of them well over 20%, and made common goods cheaper. It also made Australian tax more efficient and simplified distribution of increased federal funds to the states more predictable. The Carbon Tax is new, replaces nothing, will not do what it is designed to do and will simply raise the cost of living. It will also raise the cost of doing business in Australia with a subsequent downturn in investment. But Gillard has committed her government to the tax so I can see how she has to keep trying but really, how can you trust someone who says keeping the economy strong is only made possible by seizing reform challenges such as pricing carbon. No, the world will not collapse on Carbon Tax Day, it will take a while for the flow-on effect to strike but it will – in almost everything we purchase. The flow-on effect will eat up compensation handouts within a year as the unknown and unplanned for consequences, common in all ALP/Green planning, comes into effect.
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Liberal leaders to busy for talkfest

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PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has urged Liberal premiers in Queensland and Western Australia to attend a major federal government economic forum, despite the mining boom state leaders saying they are too busy. It’s a standard ACTU/ALP talk fest where people say some things and promise to look into and never do. Why should liberal leaders bother? Let’s face it,Campbell is flat out repairing ACTU/ALP economic messes.
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Class war continues

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Gillard ramps up the class war targeting the 30% of the population who still think she’s relevant.
LOUDMOUTH mining magnates shouldn’t dominate public debate more than a nurse or a childcare worker, said Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Nurses whose care and nursing is an inetegral and important part of our society are to be held in high esteem but they don’t employ tens of thousands of other Australians nor do they tip billions into the nation’s economy. For that reason the mining magnates do have a bigger part in the public debate and as much as Gillard and Swan hate the fact, generally, Australians listen to the likes of Reinhart and Palmer knowing and appreciating that they didn’t get where they are by being stupid and that they know how economies work. Unlike Gillard and her bank teller mate.
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