Barry O’Farrell is determined to end Labor’s R&R in his quest to make NSW No 1 again.  Stopping the Rot and ending their Rorts are key priorities of his new administration.

He has moved swiftly to nullify Labor’s cosy relationship with big business and big unions by decentralising power to local authorities and making public sector unions more accountable.

Over the past decade wage increases in the NSW Public Service have increased by 21 per cent. This is almost double the rate in the income generating sector i.e. business and commerce, and is clearly unsustainable.

The former Labor Government moved to cap increases in the public sector to 2.5 per cent with any further increases to be offset by productivity savings.  They were continually thwarted by the union friendly Industrial Relations Commission and didn’t have the ticker to do anything about it. Read the rest of this entry »

Historic Camden is the best address in Sydney and beyond.  A quintessential Australian town protected from urban encroachment by heritage farmland and flood plain.  It is a geographic hub for the best Sydney has to offer with Blue Mountains to the west; Southern Highlands to the south; Illawarra’s beaches to the south-east and the Sydney metropolis to the east.

Camden boasts a genuine country show, proud schools, gourmet restaurants,  and outstanding seasonal fauna displays in our manicured parks and gardens.

Surrounding areas lacking the natural heritage protection of the Camden township have had to succumb to the encroachment of urban sprawl from metropolitan Sydney.  Unfortunately this has not been matched by the commensurate development of transport infrastructure or commercial enterprise to meet our economic and social needs. Read the rest of this entry »

Public outcry over the solar panel rebate scheme has been heralded as the end of the customary honeymoon for the incoming O’Farrell Coalition Government in NSW.  It could also be the end of the honeymoon for quack scientists and their acolytes in the climate change cargo cult.

Membership of the cult is predominately inner-city middle class.  They are educated, comfortable, opinionated, patronising and politically correct.  They regard themselves as progressive and brand their ideological opponents as rednecks, racists, misogynists or westies.  They vote Green, belong to GetUp, want a Republic and hate capitalism.  It is possible they also harbour a deep sense of guilt about being white.

Ironically, they rely on the productive sector to subsidise their do-gooder causes to help the poor, welcome illegal immigrants, create welfare dependency in indigenous communities and save the planet.  These ideological happy clappies have a zealous desire for sunny days, blue skies, tall timber, white beaches and clean air.

Any form of pollution caused by the productive sector in the form of mining, farming, harvesting timber or generating energy is anathema to them.  Uranium, brown coal, oil rigs, chainsaws and windy cows are major threats to their utopian environment where everybody (except themselves) must neutralise their carbon footprint. Read the rest of this entry »

Julia Gillard, Wayne Swan and Bob Brown might think Australians are idiots but they don’t have to treat them as such.  We now know that the Rudd–Gillard-Swan troika squandered the $50 billion left in the bank by John Howard and Peter Costello. They blew it on plasma television rebates and hare-brained schemes such as grocery-watch, fuel-watch, pink batts, school halls and a National Broadband Network that will be obsolete before it is finished.

Greens leader, Bob Brown, replaced Kevin Rudd after Gillard and Swan knifed him in a treacherous political assassination.  The new troika has merged into a Labor-Green Alliance propped up by Australia’s first political goon squad – Oakshott, Windsor and Wilkie. Read the rest of this entry »

It is fitting that Osama Bin Laden’s last memory was that of a United States commando appearing from nowhere in his bedroom. One can only speculate on the final message he delivered on behalf of the thousands of defenceless civilians he slaughtered before drilling him with his high-powered sub-machine guns.  It would probably have been a simple one liner – but Bin Laden would have had no doubt about its potency and its meaning.

Bin Laden’s death is a major victory in the war of terror he launched against the Western world on September 11, 2001.  The killing of thousands of innocent men, women and children in New York sent shock waves throughout civilised western societies as Bin Laden and his hate-crazed fanatics in al-Qaeda began their reign of terror. Read the rest of this entry »

The swearing in of a new Premier and Opposition Leader heralds the beginning of a new era of politics in NSW.  The challenges faced by both leaders are immense.  Barry O’Farrell has vowed to make NSW No 1 again.  His counterpart, John Robertson, has to make Labor relevant again.

O’Farrell currently holds all the cards with his historic election victory.  His front-bench team has emerged from the purgatory of 16 years in opposition with a strong desire to put their stamp on their relevant portfolios.  The coalition between the Liberal and Nationals has never been stronger but their relationship will be tested over the allocation of scarce resources between the city and the bush.   Read the rest of this entry »

After Saturday’s election traditional Labor supporters might well be asking ‘where did it all go wrong’!  They won’t have to look far.  It went wrong because the spivs now running the Labor Party took them for granted.

Labor MPs with a working class background and a working class record are now an endangered species.  They are regarded as blue-collar rednecks by inner-city spivs who have hijacked their traditional workers party.  Geoff Corrigan got it right when he told them they were living in a parallel universe.

Labor spivs don’t have a clue about the difficulties working class people face with rising electricity bills.  They don’t give a damn about the daily nightmare of the M5, obsolete trains or inadequate bus services.  They don’t have to because the Sussex Street spivs reckoned that Westies would always vote for them. Read the rest of this entry »

‘There will be no tax on carbon under the Government I lead’ droned Julia Gillard during the election campaign. 

Most Australians regarded this as an unequivocal statement.   After all, Julia had form on the issue.  She had convinced Kevin Rudd to drop his plans for an emissions trading scheme – then knifed him.

Julia did not leave any wriggle room when she made, and repeated, the statement that there would be no carbon tax. She left the Opposition high and dry.  Any prospect of a carbon tax was dead in the water under her leadership.

Last week she laughed off that unequivocal statement and announced a carbon tax.  The opposition, the media and voters were genuinely shocked at her breathtaking hypocricy.  Was this the real Julia, fake Julia, or a JuLIAR? Read the rest of this entry »

Children are now being used as the thin edge of the wedge in the debate over illegal immigration.  Nobody would argue that children should be held in detention.  Nor should they be separated from their parents.  The proponents of the debate will therefore argue that illegal immigrants with children should not be held in detention.

People smugglers will then adjust their sales pitch to encourage illegal immigrants to load children on leaky boats as a means of bypassing detention centres and going straight into motels.

The first shot in this million dollar propaganda campaign involved the flying of bodies from the Christmas Island boat tragedy to Sydney for burial. This tragedy would never have happened if Labor had not opened up our borders to people smugglers. Read the rest of this entry »