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The Australian Government today announced extra emergency relief and financial counselling services will soon be available in Laverton and the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in Western Australia to help local residents who are experiencing financial hardship.
The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, today announced an extra $20,000 in emergency relief will be available to existing providers. Up to $25,000 has also been allocated for extra financial counselling services in and around Laverton and Kalgoorlie.
Maybe the word ‘Precedence’ could get a run here. Is the government planning to have $20,000 for emergency relief and another $25,000 available for all remote communities and what will be the rules. Or, will money only become available for such programmes whenever The Australian newspaper runs an article on another loan shark in another town. My take on the Laverton usurer loaning money to the locals was that they had spent all their money and had none to get back to their outstations. He loaned them money at 33% which is about the same that poor white people have to pay when they go to the local Pawn shop for help. Does that mean they now have a licence to go to town, spend all their money at the pub and takeaway and then just drop into the local Centrelink and get their bus fares home? I also note Macklin is planning to introduce a scheme where they can get their handout money weekly. Will that apply to all handout money recipients or just the indigenous ones? Band aid government by unqualified social medics in response to a newspaper article headlining what authorities should have known in first place.

Australia Day

Watching TV last night I was struck by a sea of Australian Flags being displayed, on the whole, by young people and I must say I found it pleasing. Quotes by kids of being proud to be an Aussie while enjoying themselves in youthful exuberance wrapped in flags or dressed in ‘Flag’ bikinis all looking young and healthy must have really depressed the “hate patriotism, hate the Jack in the corner, we want another flag and a Republic” types And that bodes good for the country. On the other hand we have a psychiatrist, Professor Patrick McGorry, selected as Australian of the Year who, in light of his background of helping kids with depression makes him a worthy recipient. Except he just couldn’t stop himself. Someone gave him a microphone and a camera and he was of on his hobby horse. Terrible governments who lock up asylum seekers when all good folk know anyone coming to our shores by boat should be allowed straight into the community. He had to restate his case to make it clear he was only referring to Howard Government which was a little strange as the Rudd government do it as well. He vowed to use his new position to lobby for asylum seekers to be allowed to live in the community, instead of being sent to detention facilities on Christmas Island. I would have hoped he might use his new position to advance Australia’s interests at home and abroad rather than going on about the Left wing mantra of letting anyone into the country who pay large sums of money as an investment to place themselves in the well documented Australian social security gravy train. I would have hoped he might use his new position to advance public awareness and to gain more funding for youth depression but I guess that’s all to simplistic. Overall, I give the day to the youth. UPDATE: Australian of the Year is becoming Left Wing Whinger of the Year according to Mark Henderson

Abbott spot on

In an interview with the Australian Women’s Weekly, the Opposition Leader says women should try to stick to ”the rules” when considering sex before marriage. When they could not abstain, they should use contraception, he says. All this in response to being asked by a reporter ‘What’s the advice you would give to your own kids?’. Abbott explains;
“Obviously a parent talking to his or her own children is going to be saying different things than someone talking to the world at large … and the last thing I would want to do is to impose my views on the wider world, but in my position I think I’ve got to be honest and upfront about what my views are.”
The feminists, ALP diehards, Conservative haters and assorted camp followers are still screaming. Sorry folks, it’s how most people view the subject. Few parents would disagree with his comments and the more the haters scream the more people will wonder exactly what sort of standards, if any, they apply at home with their own kids. UPDATE: LIBERAL frontbencher George Brandis has attacked Julia Gillard’s ability to understand the way parents think about virginity because she doesn’t have kids. She walked into that one.
Ms Gillard said: ”Australian women don’t want to be told what to do by Tony Abbott.
They weren’t- he was talking about what advice he would give his daughters. It’s weird. People are attacking him for things he didn’t say, allude to or hint at. What’s wrong with them? Mr Abbott has also hit back at Julia Gillard’s criticism of the remarks, noting the deputy prime minister was speaking as a politician, while he was speaking as a parent. Point, set, match!

Rudd like Obama says Ambassador

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd and US President Barack Obama have a “tremendous affinity”, a senior US diplomat said. US Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich said the powerful pair had plenty in common. I couldn’t agree more! They both talk well and do little. After a year in office support for Mr Obama has fallen as the US grapples with the financial crisis, and some of the President’s reforms hit roadblocks. Another roadblock has just been put in place with Martha Coakley conceding defeat to Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate seat left vacant by Mary Jo Kopechne’s‘s killer, Ted Kennedy. Scott Brown is on record as saying he will not vote for the health bill in it’s current form.

Hurry up and take this thing!

labsnakeHE’S never had a nose for trouble before but black labrador Bronson sure knows how to turn heads with his retrieving tricks.
The champion obedience dog stunned his Victorian owners when he recently returned to them to proudly show off his latest find. Locked firmly in his jaws and coiled around his snout was a long, live snake, believed to be a deadly copperhead.
He was bitten but that didn’t override his training. He never dropped the snake until his master said “Give” A couple of days on a drip and he’s back home. You just gotta love those Labs

IPCC report based on speculation

First we had the emails detailing how contradictory evidence was suppressed from reports that were the basis of the IPCC report and now this;
THE peak UN body on climate change has been dealt another humiliating blow to its credibility after it was revealed a central claim of one of its benchmark reports – that most of the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 because of global warming – was based on a “speculative” claim by an obscure Indian scientist.
Most of their predictions are speculative, based on computer projections that reflects the data entered by people who have the “faith” If the data is speculative then so is the IPCC report and yet the results are crammed down our throat every day by government and media who are of the same “faith”, as proven. Man is causing the change! Climate change is a given but man’s contribution isn’t and if we are to accept that then what of the billions of dollars being spent propping up careers in AGW.

Green “Wild Rivers” under attack

Queensland declared as wild rivers the Archer, Lockhart and Stewart systems on Cape York, banning most economic activity on them, allegedly after Premier Anna Bligh did a deal to clinch Green preferences for last year’s election. Aboriginal leaders Noel and Gerhardt Pearson have led the fight against the law. Attacking it for crippling economic opportunity for indigenous communities, Noel Pearson said the state government was “foreclosing on a future for our people”. Anna’s deal may be ‘alleged’ but it is totally believable as such deals constitute a tenet of the ALP’s tactics to stay in power. Promise the Greens anything; it doesn’t matter if it stuffs up the economy or further disadvantages disadvantage Australians. Tony Abbot is on the issue and attacking. Unlike most politicians Tony Abbott actually goes on the ground to see for himself what the problems are. Last August, he spent 10 days working as a school truancy officer in the peninsula-top township of Aurukun, and three weeks as a volunteer teacher’s aide in Coen in 2008. More from George Brandis Bloody Greens!

Eco-terrorist Paul Watson back at sea

paulwatsonTHE Australian Greens will introduce legislation that would stop Japanese whalers being allowed access to Australian services such as surveillance craft. In short, they want the Australian people to support an environmental terrorist. I’ve posted on the leader of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Paul Watson before and from my reading can only class him as a dangerous enviro-whacker who should be behind bars. But that of course will never happen, particularly while we have people listening to the likes of Garret and Brown. Update: Well last night’s news went over a treat for the eco-terrorists. They managed to position their ‘Stealth Boat’ in such a manner as to make it impossible for the Jap trawler to miss it. The ensuing publicity will boost their coffers for another season particularly while the Government and the media are giving Watson uncritical TV exposure every chance they get. No one, and I mean no one in the government or media are questioning what the hell they are dong there risking life and limb and vessels at sea in what is basically a publicity stunt. Garret and Gillard are talking absolute rubbish. Gillard is even saying they, the Government, are going to seek legal advice on the hiring of planes to monitor the eco-terrorists. I’ll save the government money – it is completely legal for an entity to hire planes to monitor situations that, by experience, are dangerous to ships and crews going about a legal business. It’s not about whaling folks. It’s about publicity, fund raising and hatred of humans who eat sea or land creatures. The bastard should be in gaol, not on TV. Update II Ady Gil crewman tells of Japanese whaling vessel terror. Bloody Hippie freak. I hope you have nightmares and wet the bed well into your 60s from the terror caused by yourself and the crew.

Obama gets spies off-side

BARACK Obama angrily revealed today that US intelligence services had enough information to disrupt the Christmas Day airliner attack but had “failed to connect those dots And just in case some spies still had any morale left he adds;
Mr Obama was even more explicit during the meeting in the secure White House Situation Room, an official said, calling for immediate repairs to the flawed US homeland security system, and not typical Washington finger-pointing. “This was a screw-up that could have been disastrous,” the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, quoted Mr Obama as saying in the meeting.
You are most probably correct POTUS but ripping into staff is best done in private because about now, a heap of dedicated operators are thinking; Stuff him, we tried…got it wrong maybe but…… He’ll get some votes from those who hate the system and like to see the CIA and FBI ridiculed but he now has another profession that doesn’t like him – if they ever did.
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