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The mark of a man

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Qld Speaker Peter Wellington takes a novel approach to a confession by ALP MP Billy Gordon that he had a criminal record, was tardy in paying maintenance to his ex wife and, on occasions, he had abused her. It has also become apparent that the ALP knew this some time back yet still run him as a candidate. Peter Wellington blames the victim and anyone else involved in bringing the matter to the attention of the public. There’s the mark of the man right there.  No balance, no ethics. Meanwhile, another Qld ALP MP is under the spotlight for threatening language and refusal to pay a real estate commission.  Rick Williams mentioned his brother at the meeting who was a NSW hit man with some interpreting the statement as a threat, as you would. There you have it, The Palaszczuk government’s first week in power.  
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Triggs out of this world

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Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs has been slammed as “completely out of touch’’ after suggesting most “fair-minded’’ Australians would believe it was reasonable to give $350,000 compensation to a ­detained wife-killer. Really? Just exactly who does she talk to..the local Greens commune? She  has form;
The Abbott government has rejected a string of controversial arbitrary detention findings by Dr Triggs in recent months. The Australian last week reported Dr Triggs had recommended a $300,000 payout for a US-born convicted fraudster whom the government deported after he swindled $644,000 from taxpayers and banks. The man was held in ­detention while delaying deportation with legal arguments ­described by the Federal Court as “frivolous, vexatious, embarrassing and (lacking) any support”.
She is a Rudd/Gillard/Rudd debacle appointee and apparently can’t be sacked.  It will be along time before Australia is free of the damage done by the ALP.      
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Green vandals

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From Nick Cater in today’s The Australian, talking about the Greens; The trashing of the Triabunna pulp mill and its associated port on Tasmania’s east coast offers an insight into their tactics. The mill was purchased from Gunns in 2011 by the Wilderness Society, bankrolled to the tune of billions by Kathmandu co-founder Jan Cameron and Wotif founder Graeme Wood. A Tasmanian parliamentary inquiry that reported earlier this year found the mill to be a viable business and notes the purchasers had a contractual obligation to keep it running.  
Yet Wilderness Society boss Alec Marr set about fulfilling Ayn Rand’s 1970 prophecy of the forthcoming anti-industrial revolution. The old Left merely wanted to take over the factories; the new Left wants to destroy them. In September 2013, a fortnight after Tony Abbott became Prime Minister, Marr recruited three marine welders and an electrician, locked the mill gates, stocked up with food and set about wrecking the logging plant. Journalist John van Tiggelen, who was invited to join in the vandalism, wrote a riveting account in The Monthly. “There was something wild-eyed about Marr, as if he were living a monkey-wrencher’s dream,” he wrote. “Marr had laid out a trove of new hardware: sledgehammers, axes large and small, angle grinders, spanners, pliers, bolt cutters and gloves. ‘For me, the sound of those grinders tomorrow will be the singing of angels,’ said Marr, grinning broadly.” Van Tiggelen decided to lend a hand, sawing through a rubber belt with a hacksaw. “With an ­almighty clatter the rubber flew down the rollers, top and bottom, the violence of it shaking the scaffolding like a truck had hit it … One down, 11 to go.” The denouement of this black-hearted act of sabotage was the toppling of the giant gantry, “the equivalent of downing the dictator’s statue”. So much for workers’ jobs and their families’ prosperity. The little people have never mattered much to the Greens in their single-minded pursuit of a “sustainable” economy, whatever that may mean.
How can anyone vote for them?
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Green Insanity

Greens fighting to kill our economy

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The Greens continue to try and take down Australia’s industrial and commercial capability. Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt was exasperated when Greenpeace said it had gone directly to UNESCO’s key advisory body, the International Union for Conservation of ­Nature, to lobby against Australia. Greenpeace said the approval of coal port expansions such as Abbot Point had occurred in contravention of UNESCO’s adv­ice that no projects be ­approved that affect the “outstanding universal value” of the reef.
The government and resource groups say the true ­motive of the global campaign to protect the reef is to end coalmining, an issue that also lies at the heart of the UN’s response to climate change.
Greenpeace listed three concerns with the plan considered a key document in the UNESCO deliberations: it says it still allows coalmining, is silent on climate change and fails to address cumulative effects on the reef. Ah…you thought the battle was to protect the GBR.  Wrong.  It is part of the Green campaign to simply stop coal mining. Coal Mining that has lifted the world’s standard of living; that gives us in Australia a high standard of living and fuels our economy. The Greens want it closed down and replaced with renewable energy that cannot replace coal as a base-load power source. Greens Leader Milne;
Australia should scrap its potentially fatal coal industry. That’s the blunt message from Australian Greens Leader Christine Milne in response to forecasts the world is on track to record global warming of 4C by 2100, driven in part by the fossil fuel industry. “Four degrees is an unliveable planet, it is death to humanity,” Senator Milne told reporters in Hobart today.
Considering that  top climate scientists have admitted that their global warming forecasts are wrong and world is not heating at the rate they claimed it was in a key report, then Milne needs to shut up and stop inventing alarmist statements intent on frightening us into Greens submission. In the meantime the Greens also need to shut up about renewable energy until someone develops batteries that can store sufficient supply to power a city like Brisbane over the non-sunny, non windy times. Until then we need to just ignore the UN and their Green activists. The reef isn’t in danger, our economy and standard of living is!
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Bloody Independents

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The Australian has stooped to quoting Lambie Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie has met twice with Mr ­Abbott but remains unimpressed by his prime ministerial charm.
“He just sits there and ums and ahhs,” she told The Australian. “He’s either incompetent or doesn’t know the subject. The Liberal government is in chaos. It’s like having an office manager in the office that can’t run an office.”
Lambie can’t construct a sentence; is a bogan fool with little or no education; is in the Senate because she was bankrolled by PUP leader and gained only .046% of the quota and is remembered for saying, in public, that she is looking for a rich, well hung partner. And she suggests Abbott is incompetent or doesn’t know the subject.  Abbott was most probably using English which would’ve stymied Lambie. As witnessed by this quote on the 7:30 report
Yeah, I think [the vice chancellors] want reform. But what I’m hearing is they didn’t ask for a deregulation. So I’m going to double-check on that… But you know what? These [vice chancellors] are supposed to be the brains of the country. Why are we telling them how the universities should be run? So it’s about time they stood up, they stood tall and they help come up with the solution.
Judith Sloan answers that;
As everyone knows, apart from that left-wing poseur-fraud from the University of Canberra (and ABC fav), all the other vice-chancellors support fee deregulation, including the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tasmania.
Lambie, the Vice Chancellors DO want deregulation and if you read any thing other than the fashion and pick-a-well-hung-hunk mags you would know. The Australian then lines up Windsor, knowing he will shit-can Abbott because he just hates him and he comes to the party and rattles on about how good Gillard was at negotiating when compared with Abbott. And then along come Lazarus;
Senator Glenn Lazarus, who split with the Palmer United Party last week, last year accused Education Minister Christopher Pyne of harassing him after the minister bombarded him with text messages “virtually begging’’ for his vote on the higher education reforms. (Mr Pyne said he had to resort to texts because the then-PUP senator was refusing to speak to him.)
As being in the Senate is marginally more complicated than playing rugby league, Lazarus seems to think that everything the government proposes has to somehow go back to the public and be voted on…..somehow.
Yesterday Senator Lazarus said the “government puts bills to the Senate that have not been developed in consultation with the community. The reason why the government is frustrated with the Senate’s refusal of bills is that many bills being put forward are not supported by the people. The Senate is simply reflecting the will and the view of the people.”
No Glen, the Senate already represents the will of the people.  That’s how you got there…there was an election. Remember? If you are going to vote in the Senate then you need to read up on the legislation, talk to the people putting it forward and to those who oppose it. You consult widely and then you the make a decision.  It’s what you are paid for. Putting your fingers in your ears and yelling la..la..la..la just doesn’t cut it. You don’t oppose it because the minister wants to talk to you about it.  That’s what’s supposed to happen, you dipshit. So, in summary, an important piece of legislation, supported by all but one of the nation’s vice chancellors, was rejected in the senate because the three independents voted with the ALP/Greens because………mmm…….I’m not sure why. They can’t articulate their reasons for voting it down and therein lies the crux of the matter.  The country is being dictated to by uneducated illiterates who don’t appear to have any idea as to where their responsibilities lie. Poor fellow, my country indeed!    
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General Musings

Hate Abbott666 out of control

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Beyond parody Ever watchful for a case to bash Abbott, the Canberra Times carries a headline;
Tony Abbott’s St Patrick’s Day message causes offence in Ireland
The offence? Mr Abbott signs off his St Patrick’s Day message with an apology that “I can’t be there to share a Guinness or two or maybe even three”. Yep! That’s it.  That has caused offence.  The Canberra Times quotes the Irish PM
TAOISEACH (Irish Gaelic for Prime Minister) Enda Kenny has dismissed the “perception” that Irish culture is synonymous with alcohol, following remarks made by his Australian counterpart.
The Irish are having a debate about alcohol at this very moment with shenanigans abound as the government’s campaign to stop Out of control drinking gets out of control
……. his comments came as a second member of the Stop Out-of-Control Drinking campaign resigned from the newly formed group. Founder of mental health charity MyMind, Krystian Fikert, cited “resource restraints” at his charity for his decision to leave the board, less than five weeks after the launch of the Stop Out-of-Control Drinking campaign.
The Irish Taoiseach has a domestic problem and he might be well advised to keep it domestic. And just to compound the sin; Defence Minister Kevin Andrews also drew a link between St Patrick’s Day and alcohol consumption, tweeting a picture of himself holding a can of Guinness. The shame of it! All of which makes me wonder; just how many people are employed by the media to just surf the web looking for something to bag Abbott about. You have to admit the “offence” is pretty obscure’ To all except the Nanny State, wowser Irish Taoiseach, I wish you a happy St Paddy’s Day and if you partake of the devils brew, then enjoy it and maybe toast the Irish chap and ask the leprachauns to give him a life. And a final word….st-pattys-day-2
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Qld ALP killing potential jobs

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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.
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Lifestyle choices

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CLOSING townships is not the answer to improving health, lifting education standards and tackling dysfunction in indigenous Australia, experts declared, as community leaders rounded on Tony Abbott’s description of life in remote centres as a “lifestyle choice”. It may not be the answer but it is an answer. In making the statement below Abbott has wound up the Left generally and the indigenous industry specifically.  Everyone with a finger in the pie, whose livelihood depends on the indigenous industry, are up in arms. There is also a huge amount of traffic generated by the  “Hate anything Abbott says” brigade who spend their days littering the twitter wilderness with profanities and inanities.
 Speaking on ABC Radio in Kalgoorlie on Tuesday, Mr Abbott said governments could not “endlessly subsidise lifestyle choices if those lifestyle choices are not conducive to the kind of full participation in Australian society that everyone should have”. “It is not the job of the taxpayer to subsidise lifestyle choices,’’ the Prime Minister said. “It is the job of the taxpayer to provide reasonable services in a reasonable way.”
Sorry, he’s right! “It is the job of the taxpayer to provide reasonable services in a reasonable way.” The “culture” and “country” that people use to justify outstations doesn’t feed anyone.  It literally keeps them down; keeps them in third world conditions and encourages the factors that keeps them starring in stats about incarceration, disease, women and child beating and worse. It doesn’t help them and when the government, hobbled by the obscene debt left to them by the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd debacle, question what is basically reinforcing failure, people scream. The answer can’t include reinforcing failure; it must includes health service, education and jobs. No jobs in a ten house camp on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert. There are hundreds, if not thousands of towns across Australia that have closed down.  When the jobs run out, people with half a brain run out as well and go to where the jobs are; where they can educate their kids and where they can access reasonable medical services. Why is it that some Australians aren’t subject to that supply and demand factor that creates, then closes towns as industry, mining or agriculture come in then move on. The  debate started when the West Australian  government announced the closure of up to 150 of the state’s 282 remote Aboriginal communities. Premier Barnett has repeatedly claimed many of these communities were economically unviable, saying some only have 10 people living in them. Is the government really expected to fund a group of ten people living in the desert and provide reasonable services in a reasonable way?  A school and teacher for a couple of kids; a medical centre…a nurse; an industry with jobs? Or is everyone happy just to give them sit-down money to eke away their lives, and the lives of their kids,  in an environment that encourages substance abuse just to get through the day? Some obviously are but I’m not.  I want to help them and reinforcing failure doesn’t help anyone. We need a debate; a rational debate without ideology or emotion. Let’s have one and help our Aussie mates.    
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Bloody Greens

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New Qld Environment Minister Steven Miles wants to review the program to make sure public safety is balanced with sustainability.”
What I want the review to look at is the criteria by which those decisions are made and whether that appropriately balances sustainability of the species with public safety,” he told ABC radio.”It could well be that a scientific survey will determine that that is an appropriate number or that it’s too high or too low. That’s the purpose of the review.”
Obviously a Greenie. From the Australian government Dept of Environment
The total Australian population is currently estimated to be approximately 100 000, although some authors estimate the population is even higher; between 100 000 and 200 000 (Fukuda et al. 2007). The findings of a 10 year survey on the distribution and abundance of the Salt-water Crocodile in Queensland have been summarised by Read and colleagues (2004):
So far this year 4 crocodiles have been moved in the Cairns area.  That’s 4 and they are moved, not euthanized, so they continue to contribute to the sustainability of their species. Unlike the Greens.
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