Is Australia its own Worst Enemy?
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Hamid Karzai signs law 'legalising rape in marriage' - Telegraph
presidential poll - politically speaking its really no different to
Gillard's carbon tax (itself a form of legal tax rape) so as to
keep her green commie partners and their associated hordes
of useful idiots onside.
Idealogically speaking, in both cases the masses will end up
unfairly fcuked one way or another.
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Tokyo Rose, Goebbels, and Lord Haw Haw, were pissants compared with the propaganda arm of the Australian government. (The ABC). The bias is now so entrenched they are an institutionalised Labor fact of life. There is no comparisson with past Liberal governments. No, none as bad.
A pox on the ABC.
Poor bloody Harry Jenkins, (Lab), is more of an unbiased source and will be worth reading his memoirs if and when he publishes them.
Meanwhile the Irish appear in charge of removing, (burning), public accountability from a taxpayer owned Australian icon to constructing corporate bridges that replace that responsibility to a shareholding minority while Gillard "fiddles".
A pox on Gillard and her fiddle.
EDIT: Karzi will go the same way as Gillard, Brown, Wong and the whole bloody awful lot.
A fatwa on them all.
A pox on the ABC.
Poor bloody Harry Jenkins, (Lab), is more of an unbiased source and will be worth reading his memoirs if and when he publishes them.
Meanwhile the Irish appear in charge of removing, (burning), public accountability from a taxpayer owned Australian icon to constructing corporate bridges that replace that responsibility to a shareholding minority while Gillard "fiddles".
A pox on Gillard and her fiddle.
EDIT: Karzi will go the same way as Gillard, Brown, Wong and the whole bloody awful lot.
A fatwa on them all.
Grandpa Aerotart
Frank are you suggesting Gilliard, Brown, Wong et al will be assassinated by Pashtun Tribesmen with AK47s?
What a nice thought...I will sleep better
Maybe for those of you who have been living in Australia hence haven't noticed so much (death of a thousand cuts type thing)...or for those younger than 30-35...you cannot believe how much Australia has changed in the last 25 years that I have been an expat. Its still the best place on this earth but its a VERY different place to the one I left in the mid 80s.
VERY obvious to those of us overseas when we come home on holidays...sad.
What a nice thought...I will sleep better
Maybe for those of you who have been living in Australia hence haven't noticed so much (death of a thousand cuts type thing)...or for those younger than 30-35...you cannot believe how much Australia has changed in the last 25 years that I have been an expat. Its still the best place on this earth but its a VERY different place to the one I left in the mid 80s.
VERY obvious to those of us overseas when we come home on holidays...sad.
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I had a very similar reaction after returning home two years ago chimbu, (after ~20 years OS). However, I think we have an uphill battle convincing people who've endured the changes from within of the fact - they're a bit like frogs in a slowly heating pot of near boiling water.
For a nation that exists on the myth (for today, myth it definitely is) of the Outback and larrakins who thumb their noses at authority, we've descended complacently into a Nanny State that some Brits would say is right up there with the UK for mindless Political Correctness overriding common sense.
The only people I see displaying any semblance of the so-called Aussie larrikin streak there days are the buggers trying (in the main, thanks to our new-found Political Correctness, very successfully) to sneak into the country by the back door via Christmas Island. Forty years ago, the vast majority of Australians would have seen this for what it so undoubtedy is - a pisstake and a scam of grand proportions at our (the Australian taxpayers') ongoing expense, and would have howled it down and TOLD the politicians to put a stop to it and give the fair go to the poor bastards who deserve help rather than these middle class economic migrants.
Admittedly, there are a few who are crying out for something to be done, but for the life of me, I can't see a politician on either side of the House I'd want to put my trust in to take the bin out on Thursday night, let alone run the country. I cringe, (before I start screaming at the screen) whenever I see that misbegotten excuse for an oxygen thief Sarah HansenhyphenYoung sprouting her arrant nonesense at a camera. Can the woman - or any of the adoring media who stick the microphones so readily in front of her nose - really believe any of the rubbish she comes out with?
As for that other woman... I simply hit the mute button whenever her face appears on screen, (and am surprised at the number of people I speak to who tell me they do exactly the same thing whenever she appears). Surely to God that fact must be showing up in the Labor Party polls?
Rant off. I feel better now.
But I think I'll still take a Bex and have a good lie down... (another comment the under 35s won't understand).
For a nation that exists on the myth (for today, myth it definitely is) of the Outback and larrakins who thumb their noses at authority, we've descended complacently into a Nanny State that some Brits would say is right up there with the UK for mindless Political Correctness overriding common sense.
The only people I see displaying any semblance of the so-called Aussie larrikin streak there days are the buggers trying (in the main, thanks to our new-found Political Correctness, very successfully) to sneak into the country by the back door via Christmas Island. Forty years ago, the vast majority of Australians would have seen this for what it so undoubtedy is - a pisstake and a scam of grand proportions at our (the Australian taxpayers') ongoing expense, and would have howled it down and TOLD the politicians to put a stop to it and give the fair go to the poor bastards who deserve help rather than these middle class economic migrants.
Admittedly, there are a few who are crying out for something to be done, but for the life of me, I can't see a politician on either side of the House I'd want to put my trust in to take the bin out on Thursday night, let alone run the country. I cringe, (before I start screaming at the screen) whenever I see that misbegotten excuse for an oxygen thief Sarah HansenhyphenYoung sprouting her arrant nonesense at a camera. Can the woman - or any of the adoring media who stick the microphones so readily in front of her nose - really believe any of the rubbish she comes out with?
As for that other woman... I simply hit the mute button whenever her face appears on screen, (and am surprised at the number of people I speak to who tell me they do exactly the same thing whenever she appears). Surely to God that fact must be showing up in the Labor Party polls?
Rant off. I feel better now.
But I think I'll still take a Bex and have a good lie down... (another comment the under 35s won't understand).
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I'll bet this came as a great surprise to everyone - NOT!!
MP Craig Thomson paid to save Julia Gillard | thetelegraph.com.au
MP Craig Thomson paid to save Julia Gillard | thetelegraph.com.au
EMBATTLED federal Labor MP Craig Thomson is in further strife after breaching strict parliamentary rules relating to his financial and pecuniary interests.
The Government MP last night updated his register of pecuniary interests, notifying the House about a $90,000 legal bill paid for by the Australian Labor Party in May of this year.
But Mr Thomson - who is alleged to have misused union funds to pay for prostitutes - breached the rules requiring him to update his register within 28 days.
"In May 2011 the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch) paid a sum of money in settlement of a legal matter to which I was party," Mr Thomson wrote, in his letter to David Elder, Register of Members Interests.
The Government MP last night updated his register of pecuniary interests, notifying the House about a $90,000 legal bill paid for by the Australian Labor Party in May of this year.
But Mr Thomson - who is alleged to have misused union funds to pay for prostitutes - breached the rules requiring him to update his register within 28 days.
"In May 2011 the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch) paid a sum of money in settlement of a legal matter to which I was party," Mr Thomson wrote, in his letter to David Elder, Register of Members Interests.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday expressed her confidence for the NSW backbencher.
"I have complete confidence in the member for Dobell," she told Parliament.
"I have complete confidence in the member for Dobell," she told Parliament.
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And a fatwa on him too.
And it's a "Pashtun tribesperson" with an unloaded stick. (to be politically correct).
And it's a "Pashtun tribesperson" with an unloaded stick. (to be politically correct).
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With the state of the governing party as toxic, corrupt and dysfunctional as it is, the main forum on pprune for highlighting these abuses and incompetencies was closed on threat of permanently banning should anyone have the temerity to resurrect the poor old cane toad. Go figure.
Perhaps Australian politics is too rough for the gentle souls in the hierarchy
Like a plume of cigarette smoke which starts smooth and orderly, then gradually wobbles and finally descends into chaos so it is with this shower of the proverbial.
Perhaps Australian politics is too rough for the gentle souls in the hierarchy
Like a plume of cigarette smoke which starts smooth and orderly, then gradually wobbles and finally descends into chaos so it is with this shower of the proverbial.
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"I have complete confidence in the member for Dobell,"
Frank are you suggesting Gilliard, Brown, Wong et al will be assassinated by Pashtun Tribesmen with AK47s?
What a nice thought...I will sleep better
What a nice thought...I will sleep better
Grandpa Aerotart
Ha I was banned on jetblast by the PC tree hugger mods AGES ago - did you guys know it actually VERY difficult to get permanently banned on Pprune
The world is turning though...even Graham Richardson reckons the next Fed election will be an absolute blood bath of NSWellian proportions for Labor.
Did anyone else hear Barnaby deconstruct some stupid ABC radio presenter from Canberra yesterday? Twere very awesome and most excellent
The world is turning though...even Graham Richardson reckons the next Fed election will be an absolute blood bath of NSWellian proportions for Labor.
Did anyone else hear Barnaby deconstruct some stupid ABC radio presenter from Canberra yesterday? Twere very awesome and most excellent
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Chimbu, Wiley, et al.
Also being an Expat for many years it is heartbreaking to see the direction in which Australia is heading. Akin to being hypoxic, the change has been so insideous that when living back home it would be difficult to notice.
Living outside the country allows the perspective of objectivity. And objectively Australian takes for granted what it has, fettering away its advantages, which took years to bulid and develop for no return whatsoever, to fulfill some shallow ideology. Our country is being overtaken so rapidly that mining is all we have left. Australia would realise that the world is not as nice and generous as we would like it to be if only the confabulation would stop.
Australia doesnt know poverty, doesnt know hardship, living with tyranny or fiefdoms beacuse of our geography and fortune. Perhaps our "leaders" should live in Mumbai, and not at the Marriott, for a year as a prerequisite to be eligible for candidicy.
Also being an Expat for many years it is heartbreaking to see the direction in which Australia is heading. Akin to being hypoxic, the change has been so insideous that when living back home it would be difficult to notice.
Living outside the country allows the perspective of objectivity. And objectively Australian takes for granted what it has, fettering away its advantages, which took years to bulid and develop for no return whatsoever, to fulfill some shallow ideology. Our country is being overtaken so rapidly that mining is all we have left. Australia would realise that the world is not as nice and generous as we would like it to be if only the confabulation would stop.
Australia doesnt know poverty, doesnt know hardship, living with tyranny or fiefdoms beacuse of our geography and fortune. Perhaps our "leaders" should live in Mumbai, and not at the Marriott, for a year as a prerequisite to be eligible for candidicy.
Far from it Maralinga. As one who hasnt been an expat for a few decades, I have railed... with many others, for ages, at the subtle /freedom restricting regs and 'laws' that bureaucrats continually spew upon us.
Read the history of rising Adolfs MO and its just the same ...little by little the regs are altered, the norms eroded until you can have a regime that will brook no opposition, and have "laws' to back in up.
Trouble is in this small d democracy there's not enough true Democracy. While we might hate the pollies, unelected bureaucarts rule. And they know it
See the famous CASA statement.. "Ministers and pollies come and go,, but we go on forever' And you know where that has got us.
Right now, I believe were are on the totalitarian road.
Locally 86% were against Shire amalgamation. We got it anyway... and in spite of the 'it will be cheaper' spin..its cost millions to burden the ratepayers.
What about the voice of the majority.? Stuff the peasants, what do they know.,! Sound familiar?
Its just not good enough to say we can have paper vote flutter in 2 years..so theres yr bloody democracy, live with it.
Major decisions like the C tax, NBN, etc that affect the well being of society should be voted on, by the people, for the people.
Whatever you may not like about the old USA,(and theres many things I dont), they do have more democracy in their Democracy. They can vote expenditure proposals in or out, elect school boards, sack police chiefs and etc.
In laid back old Oz, we are just expected to live with it and not complain.
We need a bit more Arab spring in our step. There's been some pretty drastic statements in this thread... but if those at the political level are not listening and continue to deny the will of the people, the we WILL make the changes, not them.
Blood on the wattle?... I hope not.
Read the history of rising Adolfs MO and its just the same ...little by little the regs are altered, the norms eroded until you can have a regime that will brook no opposition, and have "laws' to back in up.
Trouble is in this small d democracy there's not enough true Democracy. While we might hate the pollies, unelected bureaucarts rule. And they know it
See the famous CASA statement.. "Ministers and pollies come and go,, but we go on forever' And you know where that has got us.
Right now, I believe were are on the totalitarian road.
Locally 86% were against Shire amalgamation. We got it anyway... and in spite of the 'it will be cheaper' spin..its cost millions to burden the ratepayers.
What about the voice of the majority.? Stuff the peasants, what do they know.,! Sound familiar?
Its just not good enough to say we can have paper vote flutter in 2 years..so theres yr bloody democracy, live with it.
Major decisions like the C tax, NBN, etc that affect the well being of society should be voted on, by the people, for the people.
Whatever you may not like about the old USA,(and theres many things I dont), they do have more democracy in their Democracy. They can vote expenditure proposals in or out, elect school boards, sack police chiefs and etc.
In laid back old Oz, we are just expected to live with it and not complain.
We need a bit more Arab spring in our step. There's been some pretty drastic statements in this thread... but if those at the political level are not listening and continue to deny the will of the people, the we WILL make the changes, not them.
Blood on the wattle?... I hope not.
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On the eve of COAG:
Coalition Premiers: We have a problem with the Carbon Tax and the Federal Government's non discussion with the States.
Juliar: I would hope that COAG does not deteriorate into petty party politiking (Interpretation: Do as I say, I don't need hassle)
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Juliar: in referring to Coalition statements about the possible job losses on the introduction of the Carbon Tax
"these 'so-called' models"
Juliar: in referring to the Carbon Tax
"The science is settled. The models show....."
Coalition Premiers: We have a problem with the Carbon Tax and the Federal Government's non discussion with the States.
Juliar: I would hope that COAG does not deteriorate into petty party politiking (Interpretation: Do as I say, I don't need hassle)
---------------
Juliar: in referring to Coalition statements about the possible job losses on the introduction of the Carbon Tax
"these 'so-called' models"
Juliar: in referring to the Carbon Tax
"The science is settled. The models show....."
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even Graham Richardson reckons the next Fed election will be an absolute blood bath of NSWellian proportions for Labor
Every time I see or hear him I always think of the Alpine* Printing business 'scandal.'
This time however I agree with his observation, but also pray fervently that the next election is a double dissolution. That way we may also be permanently rid of the Watermelon party.
We can but hope.
*Think that was the name.
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Ah yes; Mr Graham 'whatever it takes' Richardson. Every time I see or hear him I always think of the Alpine* Printing business 'scandal.'
Two close associates of Offset Alpine (Rivkin and Adler) were jailed for other corporate crimes, and Mr "Whatever it Takes" would have been wondering about his fate over his (apparent) reluctance to disclose his secret stash in a Swiss Bank.
In January 2006 after a two year legal battle, ASIC gained access to the relevant Swiss banking records. In September 2006 it was revealed that Richardson had almost $1.5 million in Swiss accounts which he had failed to declare to the Australian Tax Office
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Listening to the feeble spindoctoring by Gillard, Carr and Swan today regarding the Bluescope steel debacle, I would suggest the house of cards is starting to topple.
How are they going to fix the "problem"?
Chuck money at it of course.
Question time has just begun, it should be interesting.
How are they going to fix the "problem"?
Chuck money at it of course.
Question time has just begun, it should be interesting.