Labor’s proposal to reform campaign funding is riddled with hypocricy. Whilst there is no argument against the need for reform in the conduct of political campaigns and our voting system the motives for this legislation to be rushed through Parliament before the next election in March is questionable.

Most Australians would like to see some form of voter identification system implemented.  Why do we tolerate a system where voters can turn up to as many ballot boxes as they like, give an address, and get a vote?  Surely in this day and age we can produce a voter identity card with a photo and a voter ID number on it.

So why is this important reform being ignored and why is Premier Keneally focusing in campaign funding reform which includes the banning of donations from developers?  If this is such an important issue to her why won’t she band political donations from union who donate tens of millions of dollars to the Labor Party?  The answer is obvious. (more…)

Marius Klopper’s call for a Carbon Tax would be more credible if he came clean about his secret deal with Julia Gillard’s Labor-Greens Alliance Party before the last election.  Labor’s promised mining tax was a clumsy attempt by the Gang of Four (Rudd, Gillard, Swan and Tanner) to introduce a bit of old fashioned class warfare aimed at rich mining magnates.  It backfired badly and cost Rudd his job.

Soon after Julia sheathed her political dagger she arranged a secret meeting with the big three mining companies to call off their attack dogs in the advertising industry.  She agreed to ‘adjust’ her mining tax as part of a secret deal to buy them off. 

The shortfall in revenue was covered with a neat bit of financial sophistry from Treasury boffins.

Labor’s pledge to tackle ‘the greatest moral issue of our time’ with a carbon tax was reduced to a promise to establish a committee to look at it. This was scrapped between election day and swearing in day – a world record for a broken promise! (more…)

The most recent killing of a young constable from the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad is a tragic consequence of a society which has lost respect for law and order. Senior Constable Will Crews became the fifteenth NSW Police Officer to be killed in the line of duty since 1971. 

One of the criminals charged with his killing has previously been charged for serious drug offences. Both had illegal guns which they were prepared to use against anybody who threatened their illegal activities.

Out on the streets police and emergency workers are assaulted every week as they go about their business of protecting our society.  Most of these assaults are the result of alcohol and drug related violence. Copping physical and verbal abuse is part of their daily duty.  And if ever they err they are subject to intense scrutiny from barking do-gooders in the Council of Civil Liberties, the Ombudsman and the Police Integrity Commission. (more…)

The political hiatus created by a hung Parliament has revealed the effectiveness of Labor’s campaign duplicity.  Under normal circumstances Tony Abbott would be Prime Minister. His Liberal-National Coalition received the highest number of primary votes, the highest number of seats and are currently leading in the two-party preferred vole count against Labor. Despite this they are unlikely to win because of a clever Labor strategy to hoodwink the electorate by channelling votes through minor parties and independents.

Labor’s strategy of forming a political alliance with the Greens where Bob Brown will be Julia’s defacto deputy will have a disastrous impact on our economic outlook and our social values. The Greens are an extreme left-wing organisation which has cleverly camouflaged their communist roots under more acceptable guises of environmentalism, racism, sexism, atheism, etc. The Greens provide taxpayer funded shelters for the naive and the nutters in these movements. (more…)