The Bali arrest of a 14 year old for alleged possession of cannabis is a tragic reminder of the perils of associating with illegal drugs in overseas countries.

Whilst social media crosses international borders seamlessly our attitudes towards international law have to be adjusted at each entry point.  Our liberal approach to law and justice allows a great deal of latitude for people to push the boundaries of anti-social behaviour.  This is not the case with our Asian neighbours in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

One can only wonder what these countries have to do to warn Australian visitors of the consequences of using drugs under their legal systems.  Australians have been executed for drug trafficking and others will languish in third world prisons for the rest of their lives.  Each of these cases has generated headline after headline on our news bulletins.  Customs officials advise departing passengers of the dangers of dealing in drugs.  The warnings are even more prominent at the entry points and in popular tourist areas. (more…)

‘War is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength; and now… white is black?’ wrote a cynic in response to the judicial decision which found that Andrew Bolt had offended some fair skinned aboriginals in his newspaper column for the Herald-Sun. Bolt was questioning the aboriginal status of some fair-skinned activists who benefit from grants available to those in the know within the aboriginal industry.

This is the industry where billions of taxpayer funds are allocated for aboriginal welfare but by the time the money flows through the bureaucracy there is little left to help those for whom it is intended. The parlous state of aboriginal townships and outstations is evidence of this. (more…)

As last week’s riots set London ablaze the NSW Parliament debated a Bill that seeks to toughen penalties for graffiti vandals and a magistrate granted bail to a serial teenage criminal who has committed 50 offences.

In Parliament Labor-Green members argued that graffiti is ‘art’ and the perpetrators shouldn’t be punished.  In court the magistrate released the 15 year old teenage crim who led police on yet another high-speed, high-risk chase in a stolen car despite the fact he has already breached bail 32 times.

In Sydney’s inner-west and eastern suburbs organised ethnic gangs run drug-syndicates and money laundering operations with little fear of prosecution.  In today’s society gang leaders are accorded celebrity status and flaunt their wealth with impunity.  Out in the west lawless teenage gangs roam the streets with menace at night.

Smart phone technology now allows moronic mobs to assemble and re-assemble into feral battalions to wreak havoc at will.  Frontline police know they won’t be backed by politically correct superiors or a left-leaning judiciary so they tread carefully. They have every reason to do so as criminals know their ‘rights’ and can use the current legal ‘system’ to destroy careers. (more…)

Australians who voted Green in the last election are about to discover the cost of their folly. The warm and fuzzy feelings they felt on election eve will soon evaporate as they open their electricity accounts, gasp at their water bills and fill up their cars.

But if they think the price of electricity, water and fuel are high now, they ain’t seen nothin’ yet!

Greens Senator Bob Brown will emerge as the most powerful politician in Australia with the swearing in of his new Green Senators on 1 July 2011.  Brown’s team of Green radicals will then hold the balance of power in the Senate.

The most extreme of the new bunch is former Socialist Party member, Lee Rhiannon.  Her parents were lifelong members of the Communist Party.  She was a leading activist against our troops who fought the communists during the Vietnam War.

Rhiannon held the NSW Labor Government to ransom during her 10 years as a Member of the Legislative Council.  Her radical Green policies have forced rural families off land they have farmed for generations, crippled our timber industry and locked recreational fishermen out of their favourite spots. (more…)

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. (more…)

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. (more…)

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. (more…)

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. (more…)

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. (more…)

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.   (more…)