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With the Australian lungfish, the Mary River turtle and Mary River cod now promoted up the food chain to a position higher than humans I trust Head Greenie Garrett has an answer for Queenslands water problems.
This is the second dam that the Greenies have killed in in Queensland over the last 10 odd years with no increase in infrastructure to accommodate population increases.
How do we rid ourselves of these Green pests?
Pacific Solution working OK but it has John Howard written all over it so let’s change it…ah yes ‘The Indonesian Solution’…sounds better even though it’s much the same.
Oops! Not working so let’s see. I know…the Philipines Solution that should do it.
Maybe, but not fixing something that wasn’t broken in the first place would have been the better move.
From this mornings “Strewth” in The Australian comes this ‘Good News’ story about a NSW Greens tosser
Can you spare a dime….NSW Greens MP Ian Cohen may have successfully paddled a kayak in front of a US warship on Sydney Harbour, but it proved tougher in the High Court yesterday where he lost a defamation case against NSW north coast developer Jerry Bennette. Cohen now has a bill of more than $1 million. “The costs of the opposition’s lawyers were quite significant,” Cohen told Strewth, clearly unafraid of understatement. “I’ve had years of this hanging over me, when I’ve told myself I might lose, so I was reasonably well prepared emotionally.” Cohen is contemplating doing more on the public speaking front and expanding his range of cane toad skin fashions and accessories, but he’s also in no frame of mind to turn away any generous benefactors: “Even smaller donations will help keep me on my feet. I’m easy to find.”
With a bit of luck the 1 million dollar legal bill might take his mind away from stuffing up the country.
QUEENSLAND motorists will be able to offset their carbon emissions through a new scheme announced during climate talks today.
State Environment Minister Kate Jones and Transport Minister Rachel Nolan announced the Reverse the Effect program at Parliament House in Brisbane where the Queensland Climate Change Summit was being held.
Under the scheme, motorists will receive a flyer with their car registration renewal notice giving them the option to also pay a fee to offset their carbon emissions.
Reverse the Effect program we really need in Queensland is a new government to reverse all the rubbish Anna Bligh and her lightweights are dreaming up.
A DOZEN Sri Lankan asylum-seekers are feared dead after their vessel capsized in heavy seas as they sailed direct from Sri Lanka, apparently in an attempt to avoid the Rudd government’s “Indonesian solution”.
If Kevin Rudd isn’t rueing the day he changed Howard’s Pacific Solution he’s dumber than I thought but that is on the cards. Being the type of man he is he’s most probably cranky as all hell at the media for pointing out the problems and the public for questioning his wisdom and would not for a moment be introspective and ask of himself: could I have done it better?
In other news Tony Kevin is planning a book on the incident…not. Readers may remember Tony who brayed long and loud as he blamed the Howard government for a similar event. Being of the left I doubt you will hear one word from him such is the hypocracy of his kind. His book, A Certain Maritime Incident, flayed the then government and cast aspersions on the RAN and the only people who gave him any creditability were Phillip Adams Julian Burnside type tossers.
There still are people in the country who think the boat people are legitimate refugees deserving of sympathy rather than what they are – simply people taking advantage of circumstances to migrate to a rich country with the chance of getting their noses in the feeding trough of social security type money.
Holly is in the middle
My old Golden Retreiver has finally succumbed to the ravages of time. The local possums and cats are secure – she never differentiated between them so both species would be confronted with lots of noise and movement. Her problem was she never learned to climb fences or trees, so her doggy fantasies of tearing the invaders to small bite size bits were never realized. Notwithstanding this small problem they sure as hell knew they weren’t welcome.
I do recall that one litter of possums would definitely have been born pre-traumatised as they were conceived on top of a very narrow fence with the possum bloke having his way with his girl. Holly was barking her head off jumping up to within centimeters of the copulating couple trying to tear him (and her) to pieces. Added to this cacophony was my wife and I, with torch focussed on the dirty deed, laughing like drains as we admired his tenacity. How he never fell off we’ll never know but I bet the kittens (or whatever you call baby possums) came out with a phobia about loud dogs.
She gave us all a scare last year but she got another 19 months of loafing around like eldery retreivers do.
She’ll be missed.
LIBERAL Party frontbenchers have begun to dump their support for carbon emissions trading after receiving party research showing voters are increasingly skittish about putting a price on carbon.
Despite Malcolm Turnbull’s ongoing attempts to broker a deal with Labor that would clear the way for Kevin Rudd’s proposed ETS, political hardheads among the Liberals are moving closer to the Nationals’ view that endorsing carbon trading is political poison.
In an online poll 79% of readers of The Australian do not understand how the proposed ETS will cut greenhouse gases and therein lies the problem.
Explain it to us Kevin, or Penny and tell us how your ETS will help Mother Earth hold back the tide of natural climate variations. If it’s going to cost me more to live I want to know I’m actually helping in a constructive way.
KEVIN Rudd has told Parliament he does not expect any difficulty in extending the official clearance for the Oceanic Viking to remain anchored off the coast of Indonesia if the standoff with local authorities and asylum-seekers continues.
If he had left the the Pacific Solution stand he wouldn’t be in such a bind. Admittedly the Left would hate him but they are going to hate him anyway as Caroline Overington explains;
Now, keen consumers of news will remember that Barnaby Joyce was last week keen to portray himself as the nation’s leading asylum-seeker. But if (Foreign Affairs) Smith is speaking the truth – if it’s now government policy to send boatpeople back to Indonesia, where military police will use force against women and children to get them into detention – it won’t be only Barnaby seeking safe haven. It will be the Left of the Labor Party, not least from the people who put them in power.
So now we just delete Pacific Solution and insert Indonesian Solution and Rudd and Smith spin it as humane and compassionate with just a touch of ‘tough on illegal immigrants’ and we are expected to swallow it?
Dig yourself out of this one Rudd.
UPDATE: Perth ABC report another boatload of 40 Illegals has just been detected off Ashmore Reef. Might be time to admit that the ALP are accepted as a soft touch by Lifestyle Shoppers posing as refugees.
THE decision to upgrade honours to Vietnam veterans who fought at Long Tan was the culmination of “a long, hard struggle” for greater recognition, according to Bob Buick, who served as a sergeant in one of Australia’s most famous battles.
Forty-three years after the battle, in which 18 Australian soldiers died, the men of D Company 6 Royal Australian Regiment will receive the nation’s highest unit award — the Unit Citation for Gallantry — with the backing of the Honours and Awards Tribunal.
They have already been awarded the Presidential Unit Citation as were there earlier mates who fought in the battle of Kapyong in Korea but that is an American award so it’s reasonable to give them an Australian one.
Now stand by for the Kapyong vets to put their hands up and say “what about us?”
There still exists anomalies re bravery awards for this battle. Individual cases of bravery are still to be recognized and most probably never will.
Still something is better than nothing.
Just a small point, pedantic as it may be, D Company 6 Royal Australian Regiment should read as D Company 6th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment The Australian’s version would suggest that we have at least 6 Regular Infantry Regiments which of course we don’t. You’d expect the journalists to at least be able to designate our Army units correctly. Wouldn’t you?
AUSTRALIANS can’t get enough of mobile wireless internet, new Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows.
Since December last year there has been a 51 per cent increase in subscribers to mobile wireless, the service that allows customers to access the net at places away from their home such as coffee shops and airport lounges.
A highly competitive market has seen mobile wireless subscriptions spike from 1.3 million in December 2008 to 2 million in June this year. They now account for 27 per cent of all non-dial up subscriptions, up from 20 per cent six months ago.
And the ABS figures on mobile wireless don’t yet take into account connections via mobile phones.
How much is Rudd spending on wired broadband again?
First a “great leap backwards” on workplace relations then back technology that is at risk of being superseded before it comes online…figures.