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 »

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 »

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 »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

The widening gap between political spin and substance was put on public display during the recent tele-debates.  Even the worm revealed itself as a card-carrying Labor supporter!

Kevin Rudd is a political chameleon who can change his persona and his language to suit whichever audience he is talking to. Climate change, until recently the greatest moral issue of Kev’s time, has quietly disappeared off his political radar.

Rudd has now shifted from the ‘great big tax’ he wanted to impose via his unworkable climate change legislation to a ‘great big lie’ over health funding during Tony Abbott’s term as Minister.  His claim that Abbott ripped $1 billion out of the health system between October 2003 and December 2007 is at odds with Treasury records that show the health budget actually increased from $7.11 billion to $9.76 billion during that period.

Kev also had a bit of a memory lapse during the debate.  He forgot to mention grocery watch, fuel watch, whale watch, the pink-batt calamity, the school computers and assembly hall rorts the Copenhagen catastrophe or his promise to ‘tow the boats containing illegal refugees back to sea’.  Read the rest of this entry »

If truth in advertising applied to election slogans the NSW Labor Government would have to run with ‘Vote Labor – Pay Later – Sucker!’

Last weeks we learned that it’s now time to pay the piper for Labor’s mismanagement of our electricity assets and Krudd’s bungling of the climate change debate (which has quietly been relegated  as ‘the greatest moral issue of our time’.  Every household in NSW will now pay an additional $317 next year to pay for Krudd’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.  

In addition to this every household will have to pay up to $601 extra because of the mismanagement of our electricity asset by the most incompetent Labor government NSW has ever known.  Bloody minded unions and weak-kneed Labor politicians capitulated before the alter of self-interest when our electricity assets were at a premium.  Billions of dollars have gone down the gurgler since then and now we all have to pay for their incompetence. Read the rest of this entry »

Tony Abbott’s plan to pay working mothers to stay home with their babies for the first six months has been attacked by big business, big unions, feminists, the commentariat and by Kev himself.  This is a good indication that it will appeal to Labor’s forgotten families.

Young families face great stresses in today’s society as they juggle the responsibilities of work, school and childcare.  These stresses can lead to breakdowns in the family unit which invariably lead to lose-lose situations for all concerned.  Our ageing population and the trend for smaller families demands that we seek ways to increase the fertility rate. Read the rest of this entry »

Climate change, global warming and cloud hugging, ‘the greatest moral challenges of our time’ just a few months ago have now been relegated to Kev’s ‘too-hard’ basket.  Obviously Penny Wrong didn’t get it right!  And Midnight Soil’s lead singer still can’t bring himself to say ‘sorry’ to the four families who lost their loved ones in Kev’s ill-fated Pink Batts rort that saw another $2 billion of taxpayers money washed down the gurgler.

Imagine the outcry if it had happened under John Howard’s watch!  A vicious public campaign would have been funded by the chattering classes vowing to give up a latte a day and donating it to their new cause (no doubt they would have claimed it against their taxpayer funded job!). Read the rest of this entry »