Category: Politics

Economy

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ALP Tactic – spread rumours that the deficit is going to be $50 billion then come up with figures that say it’s only going to be $47.7 billion giving bragging rights on how good they are at managing the economy. Priceless. Swan;
“The fact is that we have shown in the past that we have the ability, the capacity and the proven record to deal with those circumstances, but those circumstances have not played out as yet
Yeah, right Wayne
“The government remains determined to return the budget to surplus in 2012-13, despite softer than expected revenues and increased global instability that will inevitably make that task more difficult,” he said
I’m reasonably confident that the next budget surplus will be after the Coalition wrests the Treasury keys from Wayne.
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Bolt Guilty!

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Ex ALP candidate and High Court judge, Justice Mordecai Bromberg finds Bolt guilty of offending ALP, Greens and light skinned aborigines. I presume Bolt will now appeal and we will have a debate about the Racial Discrimination Act that in this case simply discriminates against freedom of speech. I also presume that someone will take similar action to call the Greens to order for calling Broome aborigines who support the James Point Gas hub “Coconuts” (black on the outside and white inside) – now that’s racial discrimination! Waiting….waiting….
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Pokies

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KEY independent MP Andrew Wilkie says he won’t stand in the way of a possible compensation package for clubs hit by planned poker machine reforms. Why should he, it’s not costing him anything – it’s only government money after all. The annoying thing about the proposed Pokie legislation is it is born out of Gillard’s desire to stay in power. Its blood line is Desperate PM by Weird Lefty. Remember that, the debate is not about whether its a good idea or not – its about Gillard staying in power. Obviously the legislation will end up costing the clubs and the taxpayer money as the Nanny State ramps up another bureaucracy trying to force us to live and breathe as others would like. I don’t gamble and I don’t play the pokies. If I go to a club or pub I do so for social reasons – I’d rather chat to someone than stare at a screen. If others wish to do so then good on them but its not my bag. If some have problems with gambling then its been my experience, and I have been a Secretary Manager, that they will gamble their money elsewhere if forbidden locally. I can’t see the legislation fixing up problem gambling but I can see it costing clubs and the taxpayer money. A typical Left wing/ALP solution to a problem – legislate… compensate… ignore the fact that the whole process failed…..move on.
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Broome

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I’m sitting in a shopping mall enjoying my first flat white after weeks of instant coffee in the Great Sandy Desert and just idly watching the world pass me by. My focus is drawn to a display set up by Woodside Energy, attended by well presented black and white guys and girls.

Hovering nearby is a feral hippy chick – you know the type – tie-dye clothes, metal in face, dread-locked hair and a general dirty unwashed demeanour. Add to the mix her love child – a confused and stressed looking toddler. The hippy chick’s intensity permeates through the crowd as she circles the Woodside display like a hyena trying to flog some other animals recent kill.

She finally settles on a black guy and attacks. Voices raised…black guy embarrassed and looking around for support before he is chewed up and spat out. Shoppers hurry past not wanting to be involved and the love child starts crying. Hippy chick yells at a girlfriend – “take her for a walk up the other end” and turns and continues her attack.

She eventually leaves and the crowd quietens.

I had travelled thus far without the company of my wife. She had flown into Broome that morning to join me on my travels through the Kimberlys and the Pilbara. Having prioritized her husband just below grandkids and quilting, she could only afford five weeks with me. Knowing that a trip to Broome was definitely going to cost me some dosh in purchasing pearls in some form or other for my bride, I agreed to do something I’m not normally inclined to do – that is, subject myself to a tourist venue visit.

We went to Willie Creek pearl farm where I made the traditional husband type contribution to the local pearling industry by buying my bride some pearl earrings. My wife viewed them with pleasure, I viewed them in terms of petrol tank refills – quiet a few actually.

Anyway, on the way to Willie Creek we had to pass a feral road block staffed with hippy chicks mates. They weren’t local and had travelled from all parts of the world in the modern equivalent of the old Kombi Hippy transporter, the ubiquitous Wicked Camper vans. I had come across these Feral Green/Hippy movers all down the west coast as I drove north. German, French and US ferals all heading to Broome for a marijuana smoke-in and protest.

Now the locals at Broome are having a debate about whether they should allow Woodside to continue with their James Point Development. The Kimberley Land council has voted to accept Woodside’s offer and have OK’d the project to go ahead on their land. Some in Broome are against this as they believe it will have a negative effect on tourism and while they are local it is, in my opinion, their right to debate the issue.

What isn’t right is feral hippies coming from all over Australia and overseas to simply stop progress. They couldn’t give a damn about the local aborigines and how they view the project as a way out of their troubles; they couldn’t give a damn about jobs for Aussies or additional infrastructure coming to a remote town and they certainly don’t care about those who want to keep tourism the sole income stream in Broome except, where it suits them to use the locals to hinder progress.

They just don’t want any commercial development anywhere to impact on their Utopia that doesn’t include humans other than themselves. The hippies/feral greens don’t even like Broome. it is to hot, remote and poor country for growing marijuana.

Should be open season on the bastards.

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Andrew Bolt in court

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Senator Conroy’s attack on News Ltd is not the only attack on the freedom of the press. Andrew Bolt, columnist and blogger is also being attacked for voicing an opinion that runs counter to the perception that a white guy can’t comment on indigenous affairs in other than in glowing terms.
In an ABC interview in 2006, retiring Federal Court judge Ron Merkel, QC, said, “I found cases that would come before me where the actual outcome was something no one ever intended.” Eatock v Bolt may come to illustrate his point. Everyone agrees that it is a very important case and already, at the time of writing and despite the matter being sub judice, there has been widespread commentary published about it. But, in a case which the prosecution argued was about Aboriginal identity while the defence maintained it was about free speech, just why it is important may not become clear until the judge’s decision is handed down. Some of the plaintiffs have not held back from giving their points of view to the media and it seems everyone has commented except Andrew Bolt, who has been gagged by his legal advisers. Even Michael Lavarch wrote an article in the Weekend Australian defending the legislation the case rests on, the Racial Discrimination Act, which he had introduced as Attorney-General in the Keating government in 1995. Interestingly, his comments referred only to free speech.
Aboriginal identity or free speech. Read and decide yourself. It is a good summary of the court hearings so far and I have linked mainly to provide a record.
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Only 10c a week – wow!

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From the goverment spin mill:
THE price of basics such as milk and other dairy products will rise by less than 10c a week under the carbon tax, the federal government claimed yesterday as it moved to calm fears the controversial policy will hammer household budgets.
Treasury modelling also calculate that seafood, meat, fruit, vegetables and alcohol will only rise by 10c a week. Sorry, I simply don’t believe them. This claim is made based on modelling that is only as accurate as the input data and I just know there won’t be any worse-case scenarios entered.
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Carbon Tax, Politics

Phillip Adams in a quandary

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Poor Phillip Adams – doesn’t like Julia, doesn’t like Tony, doesn’t like the ALP (He’s resigned) and his hatred of Abbott is so palpable he tries this line;
The lack of enthusiasm for a Mad Monk regime is palpable in public opinion and the polls. People would prefer root canal work without anaesthesia to having him in the Lodge. They’d prefer to be making a different choice – between Rudd and Turnbull. And, in all too rare an example of bipartisan accord, so would Rudd and Turnbull.
You should check the polls before writing such swill, Phillip. Turnbull is only preferred by the ALP and/or Climate Change worshipers and Rudd has had his day – and stuffed that big time. Abbott improves every day and is turning into a potential PM while he systematically tears the ALP apart. Good to see the old fool Adams not getting his way – good for the country and anything that troubles the old commo is fine by me.
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Thompson cleared but not really

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So the NSW police find Thompson has no case to answer on fraud allegations. I would say there is no case of fraud simply because the HSU Union doesn’t have hard and fast rules on the use of members monies. Ie, this sort of shit has being going on for years and unions think it’s OK. If the police had found any evidence that someone else had forged his signature and produced his drivers licence as proof of ID then that person would be subject to fraud charges. So that that makes Thompson guilty. Not of any crime but of being a low-life who, while in a position of trust, used members hard earned money for sexual gratification and then publicly denied it. The Coalition has vowed to continue their pursuit of Thompson and so they should.
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