Outrageous increases in the price of electricity over the next year is sure to focus minds on mining and the environment.  The increases would have been much worse if Kevin Rudd and Penny Wrong had got their way with their madcap Emissions Trading Scheme at Copenhagen.    Even so their pursuit of alternative green energy schemes will cost us dearly and comprises a large component of the whopping 64 per cent increase in electricity bills coming to a mailbox near you.

State Labor’s plundering of our energy corporations over the past 15 years and the Rudd-Wrong Emissions Trading Scheme is about to send a seismic shock through NSW households.

Given that we have the world’s largest reserves of uranium the most effective way to reduce our carbon emissions is to establish Nuclear power plants in Australia.  Unfortunately this is an unacceptable form of energy for environmental evangelists in the Labor-Green political movements. It’s OK to sell it to other countries just as long as we don’t use it in Australia because we have solar, wind . . . and pedal power!  Unfortunately none of these will insulate NSW households from Labor’s electric shock they are about to receive. (more…)

Kevin Rudd will soon pass the Kama Sutra in his ability to take a new position.  Global warming, ‘the greatest moral issue of our time’ was his first prime position. He made a few adjustments with fuel watch, grocery watch and whale watch but his retreat from his pre-election promise to ‘tow the boats back out to sea’ would have been difficult for even for Kama Kev.

The illegal immigration rort quickly turned from a trickle to a flood as soon as people smugglers realised Australia was back open for business under Kama Kev.  Rather than make the hard decisions necessary to stem the tide Kev decided to suspend it for people from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka until after the next election.  Kev obviously thinks the people smugglers are as dumb as the people who would vote for him a second time round!  All the smugglers now have to do is focus on a couple of different countries until Kev is voted back in and it will be business as usual.

Kama Kev’s sudden move to appoint a Minister for Population was slick politics.  It could even become the greatest moral issue of our time!  (more…)

Ned Kelly survives today in a number of guises.  Politicians who squander taxpayers’ revenue on idiotic schemes such the pink batts rort. Faceless bureaucrats in Departments such as Fair Trading, the RTA and DOCS who use the full force of the ‘system’ to crush ‘dissenters’. Eastern Suburbs spivs who can afford the greasiest lawyers to avoid justice and buy ‘respectability’. Oil industry executives who manipulate the price of petrol. Big banks and monopoly grocery chains.  The list goes on.

Australians tend to cheer for the battler who takes these rorters on and their patron saint in this regard is Ned Kelly.

In reality, the people we rely on to protect us from law-breakers are the police.  And their job is getting harder and harder in our emerging nanny state.  The recent hysteria directed at the police who pursued a serial lawbreaker that resulted in the death of a young family was pathetic.  What if Anita Cobby had been in the back of that car and the police had called off the chase?  It’s a fair bet the whingeing wallies would have just opened their mouths, changed step, and attacked the police from a different angle. (more…)