July 31st, 2010
Somebody might like to tell Julia Gillard that Sydney’s westies might come from the other side of the tracks but they’re not stupid.
On the contrary. Our future leaders in every field of endeavour – politics, business, academia, community, the professions, arts and sport will come from Western Sydney. They will be successful because they will have earned the right to be so. They will be tolerant and non-judgemental because of their cultural diversity. They will be respectful of the sacrifices made by their parents to ensure a quality education. They will be self-satisfied because they will have had to be self-reliant. They will be humbled by the pride their teachers, mentors, families and mates have for them.
But they are easily insulted when they are taken for granted or treated like idiots. Read the rest of this entry »
July 24th, 2010
Whatever happened to Australian political leadership? Where are the bold visions that brought us the Snowy Hydro Scheme under Menzies, national Medicare under Whiltam, the aboriginal vote under Fraser, reform of our financial systems under Hawke and Keating, waterfront and tax reform under Howard?
Modern Labor, the once great party of shearers, builders and labourers, has been hijacked by academic elitists, ruthless backroom operators and smart-arsed political spin doctors. They delivered ’Kevin 07’ – then assassinated him when voters realized he was a hollow man.
They replaced him with a hollow woman who the media had been fawning over for months beforehand. Read the rest of this entry »
July 18th, 2010
Julia Gillard wants voters to judge her on her record and move forward. She does not explain how voters are supposed to judge that record given that she has only been an unelected Prime Minster for one day in Parliament and a little over three weeks in front of a fawning media.
The Federal election does not have to be held for another seven months. If Julia was dinkum in her desire to have voters judge her on her record she would give them time to do so. Voters would then be able to judge her performance in Parliament but then her role in Kevin Rudd’s political assassination would have been revealed. Better to go early than risk that.
Julia obviously does not want us to know she was under the influence of Labor powerbroker, Mark Arbib, and reneged on a deal she made with Rudd before knifing him on Arbib’s orders. She has good cause to fear Arbib and do exactly what he says. He has a record of successful political assassinations to his credit – two NSW Premiers and a Prime Minister. Arbib is the most powerful and ruthless political operator in Australia today and Julia will stay in the job for as long as she obeys him.
Julia also wants voters to move forward. Of course she does. The last thing she wants is people returning to her political dung heap. Read the rest of this entry »
July 15th, 2010
Labor has again proved it will do whatever it takes to stay in power by allowing the Greens to have the balance of power in the Senate after the upcoming election. If voters think electricity is expensive now they better brace themselves. Julia Gillard and Greens Senator Bob Brown both deny they know the details of the agreement between their two parties. Yeah, right.
One can only imagine what Mark Arbib and his thugs in Sussex street have arranged with the left-wing evangelists in the Green movement.
We do know the Greens want to close down our coal industry, put a stop to our uranium exports, lock up agricultural land, and close down our mining and marine industries. Australia will have to import energy and food in the not too distant future as a result. If voters think the price of electricity and food is high now they had better brace themselves. Read the rest of this entry »
June 30th, 2010
I usually communte between Camden and the city via Narellan Road, the Hume Highway and the M5 – a distance of 71 km. On many occassions I have averaged around 40 km/h – it has to be Australia’s longest school zone. The M5 ‘funnel’ is a story of its own. Speed cameras are a cruel joke – movement detectors would be a better investment!
A recent eye problem has severely impaired my vision so yesterday morning my wife drove me from our home to Macarthur Station. The off-peak ride in was quite pleasant. I attended a couple of meetings in the city, called back to Parliament House to get some documents the put myslelf at the mercy of our public transport system to get back to my home in Camden South. Following is my log of events: Read the rest of this entry »
June 27th, 2010
Last week’s political assassination of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd epitomises the new Labor way. They are now governing for themselves, their factional warlords and their union mates. Rudd may well have been a public nerd and a private tyrant but he deserved a more dignified departure from the Prime Ministership.
Labor would not be in government today if it was not for Kevin Rudd. Kevin 07 was a marketing master-stroke. He would do everything John Howard was doing. He would be an economic conservative, he would tow the boats back out to sea and he would keep our troops in Afghanistan. He appealed to the inner-city chattering class by promising to say sorry and avowing to be a world leader in climate change. Younger voters and the guilt ridden middle class simply swooned and he went on to become the most popular Prime Minister of all time.
While Kev continued to surf the tidal wave of political popularity his Labor colleagues locked in behind him. Those who dared challenge his authority were met with the full forces of his dark side. Read the rest of this entry »
June 20th, 2010
The recent outing of David Campbell ‘s private life sparked an intense debate on the role of media in public life. The main point of the debate was that David Campbell, as a Minister of the Crown in the State Labor Government, had not acted illegally. Notwithstanding this he and his family were subject to the most embarrassing public humiliation as the story was splashed across our television screens, newspaper headlines and radio. One cannot imagine the grief this caused to David Campbell and his family.
The media defended their exposé by asserting that a person in Campbell’s position could be vulnerable to blackmail attempts by those who knew of his secret ‘double’ life. If this was the case they had a choice between passing the information onto the appropriate authorities for proper investigation or adopting the role of public prosecutor. They chose the latter and many, including some commentators in the media, believe they crossed the line in publicly exposing David Campbell’s ‘immorality’. Read the rest of this entry »
June 13th, 2010
State Treasurer, Eric Roozendall, lives and socialises with the rich and famous in Sydney’s wealthy Eastern Suburbs. Rose Bay is a plush harbourside jewel with ready access to world-class health, transport and education facilities.
Roozendall’s zeal towards the maintenance of a AAA credit rating for NSW is more an application for a post-political job at the big end of town than a platform for the economic reform needed to get NSW moving again. It certainly has little to do with increasing the quality of life for working families in Western Sydney and beyond. They can eat cake as far as Roozendall is concerned. Read the rest of this entry »
April 18th, 2010
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. Read the rest of this entry »
April 11th, 2010
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! Read the rest of this entry »
