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Kimberly Dripps, a biodiversity director with the state’s Department of Sustainability and Environment,(read Greenie) said that under “like for like” regulations in Victoria, a property owner could remove a eucalypt and replace it with a deciduous tree, so long as they also planted an offsetting eucalypt, or similar tree, elsewhere in the state. Ms Dripps said tree removal was one of the causes of human-induced climate change.And people like you, Ms Dipps, are one of the causes of human induced death and, could I point out, the woman was talking about not be allowed to remove dead fall, not cutting down trees. Trees are important to the ecology but humans are important to society and they should be able to clear vegetation close to their houses. The same people might also expect the local forests to be cleared of dead fall from time to time by winter back-burning to minimize fuel for the bush fires but I guess that’s another subject. Another mob of dangerous Greenies have done their level best to stifle agriculture in the tropics with the release of their report that only considered the north’s agricultural potential in terms of available groundwater supplies and not surface water and dams. My old Army mate Dennis Quick now living just south of Cairns has his say;
MOST thinking people would be absolutely gobsmacked by the levels of ideological bias and “Ruddspeak” that has emanated from the Northern Australian Land and Water Taskforce report. The carefully selected Labor replacements of the original taskforce members have published a turgid grab bag of gobbledygook that defies belief. In so doing, they have, in complicity with their political masters, denied many small communities on Cape York and across the Far North, any semblance of real hope for economic and social gain over the coming years. There is not one substantive recommendation that comes out of the report. It’s nothing but a mirror of the clap trap that emanates from the Wilderness Society and other extremist groups that have captured Labor governments with their preferences blackmail.The Rudd government put a Greenie in charge to achieve a politically expedient outcome as Senator Boswell notes
…the inclusion on the taskforce of Northern Territory environmentalist Stuart Blanch, who played a role in preventing the territory government from clearing 110,000ha near the Daly River for agriculture. “The last person you’d put on is a green environmentalist,” Senator Boswell said. “You know what they think before they even go on there . . . they don’t want dams, they just want things left as is and turned into a big national park.”The problem is, as the election year progresses, green votes will become more and more important to Rudd so we can expect a huge shift to the left in his dealings with the environment. Its a pity and will damage or put on hold needed development, but like painful and long route marches – they do end and so will the Rudd government.
GUANTANAMO Bay is still open, the US is about to deploy 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and during the past 12 months Barack Obama has authorised more lethal Predator drone strikes in Pakistan than did George W. Bush in the three years prior to that. So I guess that the authorities will be preparing for massive protests against President Obama, by anti-war protesters, when he visits here next month? Alternatively, pigs might fly. Richard Shankland, Pymble, NSW
PATRICK MCGORRY: I just come back from Ireland and the day I arrived was about 40 degrees. It didn’t use to be like that in Victoria. Very dry. So obviously we could do more. The whole world could do more.I can remember weeks of 38deg+ in Melbourne in the sixties. That’s not Climate Change, Professor, it’s weather. Monica Attard didn’t ask for his take on the recent freeze in Europe, she just agreed. It was the ABC after all.
TONY Abbott’s fatherly advice for teenage girls not to give their virginity away “lightly” has cost him some support among women voters after a week of concerted attacks from government ministers and feminists.I would suggest the ‘lost support’ is based on those who wouldn’t vote for him anyway The navy is most probably so busy defending itself at the Darwin Coroner’s witch hunt that they missed another boatload of queue jumpers
They are the ninth boatload of asylum-seekers to be unloaded at Christmas Island this year. Before this boatload, there were 1595 asylum-seekers in the island’s detention centre, which has a capacity of 1848..Rudd’s lack of border security is only shoring up his left wing supporters and some of them are iffy. They want the queue jumpers to bypass Christmas Island and go straight to Centrelink, house and car The rest of the country are starting to show concern at the open door policy and think it should be a closed or at least controlled. The voters must be thinking by now that any policy that lets a boat into our waters every three odd days is not a policy at all. It is an abrogation of responsibility. Julia Gillard’s union friendly workplace laws have shipping company Total Marine Services caving in to union threats of further strike action and agreeing to wage and allowance increases of up to $50,000 over three years for workers servicing the lucrative oil and gas industry.
A spokesman for Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard welcomed the agreement.All other unions, bouyed by the success of the MUA, will be starting their planning meetings to cash in on the bonanza while the ALP are in power. Get used to it! Penny Wong’s ETS is a loser with weekly articles throwing doubts on the IPCC report credibility but undeterred by all this she is planning to resubmit it to the parliament. Abbott has released his ideas on dealing with climate change saying he will establish a $2.5 billion emissions reduction fund if elected prime minister, forcing taxpayers to pay business and farmers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Mr Abbott has told MPs he can meet the unconditional 5 per cent target proposed by Labor with the direct action approach to climate change, without and ETS.The detail remains to be released but the important thing is, we can now have a debate over alternative measures to address the problem.
His new proposal relies heavily on planting trees and restoring soil carbon by reversing over-grazing and excessive tillage, embedding CO2 in bio-char or charcoal, tree planting, and revegetation.The ALP are most probably heading for a majority, albeit reduced, but I live in hope that voters will start to see Rudd for what he is – a beaurocrat, not a leader, full of flowering prose, plans and inquiries but very short on delivery. Still as I say, I live in hope.
Hashem Yousseff, chief of cabinet for Arab League secretary-general Amr Moussa, told The Australian Canberra kept “bad company” at the UN, where it often opposes anti-Israel resolutions in alliance with the US, Canada and small Pacific island states. Australia’s support for Israel, he said, was “one of the elements that will be taken into consideration” by the 22-member Arab League in deciding whether to support Australia’s bid for a seat on the UN Security Council for the 2013-14 term.The Arab League say we keep bad company! The mind boggles.
Reporters covering the Inquiry into the incident where the asylum queue jumpers set fire to their boat are having a field day with anti navy statements as the story starts to unfold.
AUSTRALIAN defence personnel kicked asylum-seekers in the head to stop them from clambering aboard a rescue boat in the aftermath of a fatal explosion.
Corporal Sharon Jager, an air forceWhy “watched in horror?” She’s in the water clinging to a piece of wood, close to drowning and more than likely in severe shock; I would’ve thought “watched in relief” would be closer to the truth. Is she suggesting that she would’ve given up her chance to be saved for a queue jumper?officerNon Commissioned Officer with post-traumatic stress disorder, broke down as she recounted the chaos following the explosion on the boat, known as SIEV36, in April last year.CprlCpl Jager, who had no experience in boarding illegal vessels, testified she was “shoulder-to-shoulder” in the water with asylum-seekers and watched in horror as a naval colleague in an inflatable rescue boat kicked two men in the head in order to save her first.
“I saw (Able Seaman Adrian) Medbury leave his position and he’s moved along physically and he’s moved the two asylum-seekers, saying, `f..k off, get the f..k off her’ as he dragged me into the boat,”I would think that if Medbury hadn’t acted as he did the queue jumpers would’ve climbed over Cpl Jager’s drowned body to save themselves. He was obviously under stress and functioning as a trained sailor should and unless you were there in the same situation then you can’t criticize him. For me, I say ‘Well done, that man! He was trying to save you Cpl and you should be thanking him for saving your life not pointing out how horrified you were at his actions. So he was swearing! He’s a sailor under extreme pressure. Had my life gone differently I may have joined the Navy and if so I could’ve been a Lt Comdr involved in this branch. Had that been the case I would have had a point in unit/Ship SOPs that included, inter alia “save the crew first so they can more effectively save the others should any such incident occur. The Captain has responsibility to his crew and he needs all of them to effectively carry out his mission and what if his after Action Report read; “We saved all of the queue jumpers who blew up their boat but in doing so five Australian sailors were drowned” An attachment to the report would have had to be his signed resignation. (The strike outs are just me correcting the reporters abysmal Staff Duties!)CrplCpl Jager told Coroner Greg Cavanag.
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