KEVIN Rudd has warned that flood-ravaged Pakistan faces a
serious disease epidemic unless UN and aid agencies take immediate precautions.
Gee, I bet no one else had thought that might be the case with major flooding in a third world country.
THE terminally ill could be granted the right to die after Prime Minister Julia Gillard backed a conscience vote on restoring the authority of territories to
legalise euthanasia.
Where the hell did that come from. I don’t recall the word euthanasia being mentioned once during the election campaign and it doesn’t rate a mention on the ALP website. It is mentioned in press releases on the Greens website but they certainly didn’t put it out in public during the campaign as policy.
Are we condemned to run this country on the whims of a party that represents about 12% of the population?
Here I am worrying about financial stability, border protection, Afghanistan, taxes and the economy generally and the PM says we need to consider euthanasia. It rates with poker machines as a low priority national issue that should be dealt with long after all our other problems
Start running the country Julia and stop pandering to the
“I’ve got an idea…let’s do this……or that” left field mutterings of Bob Brown.
One positive I can see from the Greens having power in the Senate come July and a member in the House, is that their insane policies will now come under more public scrutiny.
Senator Scott Ludlam is feeling the poorly after just a tiny bit of scrutiny as he opines on Nuclear Energy.
It is hard to identify where in the mainstream media this debate will be given a chance to develop beyond the juvenile anti-Greens spitting contest we’ve witnessed during the past 48 hours.
Poor diddams…get used to it Scott. Keep on submitting article like
this one and you’ll get plenty more
anti-Greens spitting
He claims
*it is 40s technology – demonstrably wrong;
*wastes a paragraph pointing out that 16 g of plutonium will reduce a city to ashes which has nothing to do with the debate;
*claims the nuclear industry is military based which it isn’t, and
*that these hybridised weapons plants [are] generating a shrinking fraction of electricity across the world. There was a slight downturn in 2009 mainly due to Japan closing the large Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Japan following the Niigata-Chuetsu-Oki earthquake. However, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency there are currently 27 nuclear plants under construction.
Scott mentions the
astronomical liabilities of reactor accidents but there really hasn’t been too many accidents. The
Three Mile Island partial core melt down resulted in radiation within a ten mile radius being equal to a chest X ray; no one died at the time and no one has proved conclusively that cancers increased in the area over the following years.
The biggest outcome from The TMI accident is that it enhanced the credibility of anti-nuclear groups, who had predicted an accident, and triggered protests around the world.
A lot of noise and colour but no health problems.
As an American friend once explained: In the US, more people have died in the Senator Kennedy’s car than have been killed by Nuclear accidents.
Chernobyl, built by the people who brought you the
Trabant car is more of an example of what is wrong with communism rather than Nuclear reactors.
We do need a debate on Nuclear energy and I welcome Scott’s input. It underlines the fact the the Greens-Marxist answer to the worlds problems have no basis in accuracy or fact.
Now the ALP are back in power they need to do something about the asylum seeker boaties….still!
Of course it’s going to get worse as the world knows Australia still has open borders. Come one, come all…don’t worry you’re little heads about formalities…visas and UN refugee status is for the real asylum seekers.
THE head of the Department of Immigration has made an “urgent” plea for additional staff, claiming his department is struggling to process the rising number of asylum seekers.
Well now, he isn’t singing from the ALP songbook is he?
Read his letter
here
I note that a lot of comment on the internet about NBN seems to revolve around “it’s NBN or nothing” as in ” if Abbott gets in bye-bye NBN” Silly really, rusted on ALP supporters seem to be treating NBN as a synonym for broadband.
It’s more a synonym for “Rolls Royce”
I’m a bit of a geek and fully acknowledge the superiority of optic fiber but that certainly doesn’t mean I think everyone in the country should have access to it. I don’t need it, nor do millions of other people who use the internet for generally seeking knowledge, communicating with family or generally finding out what is going on in the world.
Several of my children and their friends don’t even have hard wired broadband, they are happy with wireless and over the time it will take to implement the NBN, they will be become happier as technology improves.
The planned NBN will not take advantage of any of these developments in wireless delivery or other developments that we don’t even know about yet. It is, in effect, putting all it’s eggs in one basket.
I might be happy in the metro area but I know my country cousins are less so. A lot of them don’t even get reliable mobile services due to their isolation so they do deserve something better.
However, when I did a tour of Queensland and the Territory in 2004 I kept on bumping into Telstra gangs that were busy laying fiber to Indigenous settlements. That’s six years ago so something may have come of it. It does mean that the bush has been getting some attention but obviously not enough.
For those who think the ALP invented fibre note this map;
People have commented that the copper system we have now is getting old but that only means we should be upgrading on a maintenance programme. It certainly doesn’t necessarily mean we should replace the entire network overnight.
Industry, commerce generally and governments should have access to high speed fiber and I’m fairly sure that a lot already do. There is a case to develop infrastructure to ensure they all have it but I’m not convinced every house in every town should have or needs to have it.
Not immediately, anyway.
New England Tony Windsor. The ALP polled 7,396 votes or 8.1% of the total votes
Lyne Rob Oakeshott The ALP polled 11,457 votes or 13.5% of the total
In summary, on average 10.8% of voters in the Independent’s electorates voted ALP but in the long term both electorates went to the ALP.
The other 89.2% of the voters who voted against the ALP will be pleased.
I’ve just received a text from mate Bicko saying Katter has gone for the Coalition making it 74:74
What pressure on the other two now. They did say they would most probably have to vote for stable government.
Link up now at
news.com
UPDATE: Windsor has gone for ALP based on the un-costed , most expensive broadband in the world.
UPDATE11: Oakeshott to form minority government based on rural education??
Gillard can now form a minority government. Good luck, Julia. You are definitely going to need a lot of it.
Confused about Australia’s political future ?
Then read Mark Davis in the SMH as he discusses
what might happen next
It won’t necessarily help but it does lay out options that might be taken by the Governor General, Gillard and Abbott over the next month or two.
THE Coalition is increasingly
pessimistic about its chances of winning the support of the three rural independents it needs to take power.
Senior sources believe the decision could go either way, but pessimism has grown among some senior Coalition figures over the “disengagement” of the independents during key briefings last week with senior frontbenchers.
Key issues such as the opposition’s alternative to Labor’s National Broadband Network and opposition costings were only briefly canvassed.
This not the way to run a country. Gillard gets into bed with the Greens and then takes us further Left by rolling over for Wilkie.
Going by todays press every commentator predicts the major party that got the least votes and the least seats is about to take over running the country. There is no way you can say that’s what the voters wanted! They voted for a centre right solution and got a centre left result and if you look more carefully at the ideologies of some of the Greens, we’re heading either further left.
I would like to know exactly what game the Independents are playing because I can’t see why it would take more than two weeks to decide which way they are going to pledge.
I can’t remember anything so demeaning to the country as what has transpired over the last couple of weeks. With Wilkie sucker punching Abbott as in:
Wilkie: What I would like is $1 B for the hospital
Abbott: OK, We’ll look at that!
Wilkie: Ah, gotcha
and subsequently runs to the press calling Abbott irresponsible for offering $1B for the hospital.
ex-Liberal, ex-Army, ex-Greens,ex-honourable, ex-trustworthy Wilkie will be long remembered, by me at least, for his total lack of standards.
Does anyone in their right mind expect stable government from this collection of ALP/Greens and Independents?
Can’t even see it lasting until the Greens get the BOP in the Senate.
Frightening
People have commented that the copper system we have now is getting old but that only means we should be upgrading on a maintenance programme. It certainly doesn’t necessarily mean we should replace the entire network overnight.
Industry, commerce generally and governments should have access to high speed fiber and I’m fairly sure that a lot already do. There is a case to develop infrastructure to ensure they all have it but I’m not convinced every house in every town should have or needs to have it.
Not immediately, anyway.
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