Fraser dead
Breaking news: Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser has died. Mr Fraser was prime minister from 1975 to 1983.
Category: Politics
Qld ALP killing potential jobs
THE Palaszczuk government’s ban on uranium mining will drive investor uncertainty in the $6bn sector, major industry players warn.
Well, of course it will. There is uncertainty in all sectors that aren’t union based.
Mines Minister Anthony Lynham confirmed to The Australian that the Labor government would press ahead with its anti-uranium policy, reversed by the Newman administration in 2012.
The ALP’s hatred of uranium stems from the cold war when the Left, financed and supported by the old USSR communists, campaigned to stop nuclear weapon development and associated uranium mining in the West. It never really worked but it remains as a cause taken up by people who still believe, despite considerable evidence to the contrary, that it is too dangerous to mine or use.
Queensland still hasn’t paid back the Beattie/Bligh mega debt so it’s disappointing to see the current incumbents are maintaining the ALP anti mining and business policies.
Killing jobs for ideological reasons wont help the state, but rest assured, there will be worse to come. The Greens will be demanding more payback for their preferences and I doubt Palaszczuk is strong enough, or even wants, to stop them. Knight Hood still getting mileage
“‘Secret’ Prince Philip knight deal sees the light” headlines this article by Sarah Martin
Asked by the journalist to say something negative about the award Penny Wong simply gets it wrong.
Labor senator Penny Wong said Mr Abbott had for months “secretly planned” to appoint Prince Philip as a knight.“He kept that plan a secret from his colleagues and the Australian people,” she said. “No wonder he has lost the confidence of two thirds of his backbench and many of his ministerial colleagues.”Penny obviously doesn’t understand the Honours system. The awards are always kept secret from the public until Australia Day. They are Australia Day awards, not New Years Day awards, or Christmas Awards or awards that should be announced whenever Penny thinks they should. A comment from the article underlines the reality.
Canada and New Zealand both gave Prince Phillip their highest honours in 2013. Australia was dragging the chain and a reasonable perception was that we were backward. At Phillip’s age honours are largely a thank you for what he’s done in the past and general respect. But Australia can’t do that, can we? We’re too petty.Between the Left wing Luvvies, Royalty haters and the Republican movement in general, what was a standard award for long and valuable service to the Commonwealth, particularly the hundreds of thousands of young people who have benefited from the Duke of Edinburgh awards, has turned poison. Anything to beat up a conservative PM.
Election
Well that’s it then, if the ALP form government, and I expect they will, Queensland is stuffed. With Greens and the unions at the table our costs are going to skyrocket along with the debt.
How did it come to this. Unquestionably Newman came across as a decisive and firm leader and this was portrayed as arrogant but when you have to make calls that hurt some, then this will be the result. He should have better explained what he was doing and why. As in; “We have to cut the public service because it is way to big, so big in fact, that Bligh had to borrow money to pay wages. We can’t afford it. If we do this in conjunction with cutting Green tape, then in due course, business will expand and employment overall will improve.”
The anti- bikie laws got a lot of flack. They should never have been referred to as Anti-bikie because as soon as you do that the criminal gangs will produce a video of some rough head bikie cuddling a toy bear on the way to giving it to a poor little kid. Warm and cuddly images that ignore the fact that said bikie, more than likely, had attended a meeting the previous evening where income from drugs, prostitution and extortion were allocated to other criminals.
The laws as they stand should just have been strengthened and sold as anti crime-gang laws. If consorting is no longer in vogue in today’s Everyone’s innocent climate then just change the laws and tell the human rights lawyers to look up human responsibilities
Media.
It doesn’t matter whether we are working on improving the country or state. It doesn’t matter that were are fixing the economy because the media will just ignore it and find something of no import and make it the catch of the day.
The voters themselves don’t understand or even consider economics. The young ones vote for handouts and the older ones respond to the media telling them to hate Abbott or Newman and actually vote accordingly.
They read things like Abbott gave Phillip a Knighthood and that’s terrible and take offence. It doesn’t matter that Hawke gave Phillip Australia’s highest honour years ago and that Abbott was simply upgrading it as the awards system itself had been upgraded. It doesn’t matter that the other significant Commonwealth countries had awarded Phillip similar honours and that is simply protocol at that level. The Conservative hating media made it the catch of the day and when voters should’ve been thinking and talking about economics and who best to fix up Queensland’s near bankrupt economy, they were led astray and were talking about insignificant stuff that simply didn’t matter.
The LNP lost control of the debate.
Wayne Swan on ABC literally said “debt and deficits don’t matter!” and he is right. The man who took over as national Treasurer with $50b in the bank and successfully turned that into a $300b debt should know. He continues to act as if he did well as Treasurer and voters, with the memory of a lightning bolt, nod their heads and agree.
The ABC have given up all pretense of being unbiased. They simply campaign for the ALP and we do nothing about it. We conservatives are being flogged by the media and we appear to just accept it.
Fight back you bastards and do something about it. There is no reason for the government of the day to accept that a media arm that they fund, openly campaigns to get them outed from office.
Don’t be weak and roll over. Attack. Don’t be afraid of upsetting ABC watchers. They already hate you because the ABC tell them to. If you do force the ABC to employ a centre-right commentator for every centre-left employed then who knows, their viewing audience might improve.
In Queensland we are in for a rough ride. The ALP, led by a woman who doesn’t even know what the GST rate is, who has a stated plan to pay back Anna Bligh’s debt in 63 years looks like falling over the line and forming government. She will be obliged to reemploy all the public servants that have lost their jobs, give the unions back their business destroying power and considering she will have won by Greens preferences, will have to dance to their tune as well.
Look forward to the slow down of development and the associated jobs and income and increased cost for services as the unions get their payback.
You voted for it.
Qld Election
It appears all and sundry expect the LNP to get a flogging in tomorrows election. The ABC are banking on it and supporting the ALP while The Courier Mail says Labor presents a clear alternative for voters – job creation and no asset sales.
Amazing, in three short years everyone has supposedly forgotten the ALP’s last period of power where they left the state with tens of billions of dollars in debt and the biggest public service in the country whence they were obliged to borrow money to pay their wages.
Cambell gets the arrogant tag because he has to make the hard decisions and cut spending. True, he could’ve explained it more but really, what part of $80b debt don’t people understand.
Now Labor tell us they will pay down debt in a measured and achievable way, all while retaining ownership of our essential assets – power stations, distribution networks and ports.
From the ABC
An elected Labor government in Queensland would merge some power networks and retain all assets earmarked for sale under the Liberal National Party (LNP) to help pay down $12 billion worth of debt in a decade.From The Australian
QUEENSLAND debt is forecast to be $76.97 billion this financial year, $1.16 billion less than outlined in the June budget. Despite the improvement, the level of debt is on average twice that of other states and equates to about $15,000 for each person.So the ALP plan is to pay back the debt of the Bligh government in 63 years. It’s a plan but not a good one and keep in mind the author is Annastacia Palaszczuk who doesn’t even know the current GST rate The previous ALP government sold;
- Retail arms of Ergon and Energex,
- Suncorp,
- Qld TAB,
- Dalrymple Bay,
- Golden Casket,
- Cairns, Mackay and Brisbane Airport,
- Port of Brisbane, and Qld Rail.
Another Commo dead
One of the intellectual giants of the Australian Labor Party, the former Whitlam and Hawke minister Tom Uren, has died aged 93.
With Tom Uren we see a leviathan of the labour movement passingKnown as the “conscience of the Labor party” because of his principled stands on issues, Mr Uren was a leading figure in the Left faction, and one of the most respected Labor politicians of his generation. Such accolades! It’s true he gave honest service during WW2 and did a lot for ex PWs during his lifetime. Unfortunately his principled stands on issues led to an association with Jim Cairns, whom he “loved”, thus spending years supporting the Viet Cong both financially and morally. He was also a staunch supporter of the anti-nuclear movement that demanded unilateral disarmament of the US that was supported and funded by the Soviets. I wont miss him.
Well done Sir Phil
Before you dump on Tony Abbot for awarding Prince Phillip a Knighthood look up Duke of Edinburgh Awards for young people.
The Duke has done more for young Australians, and youth all over the world, than have most of the Abbott haters currently mocking the man and the Knighthood.
Ignorant peasants, the lot of them.
Besides being a well earned Knighthood it annoys the hell out of the Left and the Media. His politically incorrect comments are legend and never fail to amuse me and wind up the haters.
Good call all round, I think.
UPDATE: A comment from Sabena at Catalaxy Files;
The Duke of Edinburgh was given an AC when it was Australia’s highest honour-now he has been upgraded given that AK is now the highest honour. Where was the criticism of him being given the AC? Oh wait-it was in 1988 and given to him by the Hawke government.Fair comment.
Anna good Premier!
ANNASTACIA Palaszczuk has declared her predecessor Anna Bligh was a “very good Queensland premier” and said she wants her at the launch of Labor’s campaign today.
Despite being left to rebuild Labor after the wreckage of the Bligh and Peter Beattie governments, Ms Palaszczuk said she was very happy to have both former premiers attend the event in Ipswich.
“Everyone remembers what Anna did during the floods,” Ms Palaszczuk said.
“She was a very good Queensland premier. So if she can come and attend I’d be more than happy to have her there.”I remember what she did during the floods. She fronted the media and behaved like a Premier, the only time during her reign when she did. Otherwise she spent like a drunken sailor and took the state to unprecedented deficits. Campbell Newman is still trying to pay off the debt. But, she performed well on a couple of occasions and for that, Palaszczuk claims she was a good Premier. To add to that insanity people are seriously considering voting for them again mainly because Newman has had to do they hard yards to try and fix the financial hole left to him by Anna Bligh et al and they refuse to recognize that we can’t spend more that we earn. The entitlement mentality.
Enderby eulogy says it all
FORMER Whitlam government attorney-general Kep Enderby named his son Keir after the Scottish Labour Party founder James Keir Hardie.
“I’m surprised I wasn’t named Che or Fidel or Lenin or Karl or even Marx, but that may give you a picture of my dad’s passion for equality and fairness to all,” Keir Enderby said yesterday at his father’s funeral in Sydney.Equality and fairness to all in the same sentence as Che or Fidel or Lenin or Karl or even Marx tells you all you want to know about the man and the Whitlam government. Commo bastards. Enderby, who died last week aged 88, is credited with passing no-fault divorce legislation, setting up the Family Court and legalising homosexuality in the ACT. Those remembering him yesterday included Whitlam minister Les Johnson, Age Discrimination Commissioner Susan Ryan, Labor elder John Faulkner and federal deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek.
Keir Enderby said his father was “a thinker, a believer and a dreamer”. He quoted Che Guevara: “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” Keir wondered if that was why his father planted so many trees.He was a fighter for causes: befriending conscientious objectors during the Vietnam War and defending the Aboriginal tent embassy in front of Old Government House. He backed David Hicks and Julian Assange. About all I have in common with Enderby is that we are both fathers.
Keir Enderby said he hoped his father had now joined other revolutionaries: “Hopefully they are comparing notes, having a drink, and shaking their heads at the state of Australian affairs.”When they compared notes would they ask each other “How many people did you murder and then argue over the countless millions that died because of their communist insanity? …and laugh insanely over their the answers.
Bikies back ALP
From the Courier Mail
OPPOSITION Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk will have the backing of exiled bikies across Queensland when she goes to the polls this year.
Labor’s pledge to repeal and replace the controversial anti-bikie laws is likely to score her thousands of votes from not only disgruntled motorcycle gang members but also their families, associates and even charities that benefited from their fundraising, bikie chiefs say.
“We just want to be treated like a sporting club. We are a sporting club. We’ll go along with anyone – Labor, Katter, whoever will listen rather than treat us like criminals.”
So prostitution, drug running and extortion are the new sports.
Who’d have thought that?
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