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 »