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.

The Greens also have an open-border policy for illegal immigrants.  One Greens Senator recently stated  that we should send planes to bring them here because boats are too risky.

The Greens have also have a long term policy of legalising drugs. Scary but true.

But even more frightening is the Greens demand for a carbon tax.  Julia Gillard and Penny Wrong have a policy locked away in their handbags but there is no way they will release it before the election because they know it will cost them the election.  So Julia will for a special committee to report to her after the election instead.  You don’t have to be a Rhodes Scholar to work out who Julia will appoint – Greenpeace, The Wilderness Society, WWF, ACF and a very other bleeding heart from the loony left are certain of a voice. 

Voters expect Members of Parliament to develop and enact policy and that is what the election is about.  They do want a bunch of unelected environmental evangelists running the agenda.  But it seems that is what they will get under a Gillard Labor Government.

Voters will do well to remember that Global Warming was the greatest moral challenge of our time for the Green quacks in the Labor movement.  When this theory was exposed as the fraud that it is the evangelists simply changed their language to ‘climate change’. Same fraud, same fraudsters, different names.

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.

He surrounded himself with a small group of ‘trusted’ lieutenants, Julia Gillard, Wayne Swan and Lindsay Tanner, who effectively ran the country as ‘the gang of four’. Nothing happened without their imprimatur. They were united, focused and ruthless in pursuing their political agenda. They ruled from the mandate of self-interest rather than national interest. When one of their pet projects became unpopular they ditched it. Grocery watch, fuel watch and whale watch were early casualties.

These were nothing compared to ‘the greatest moral issue’ of our time at Copenhagen. Kev was exposed as a minnow on the world stage and he returned empty-handed. The ‘gang of four’ were in crisis mode as they discussed their options. Lindsay Tanner stayed true to his values and argued vehemently in favour of staying true to their commitment to fighting climate change. Rudd, Gillard and Swan voted to dump it. The rot had started. Kev would get the blame for the unforgiveable backflip and Gillard and Swan would fulfill their political ambitions.

The ‘gang of four’ went from one political blunder to the next as they plundered the funds bequeathed to them by the Howard Government. As the polls plummeted the ‘gang of four’ began to leak. Julia’s grin is a good indicator of the most likely source.

Her reason for assassinating Rudd was because the government had lost its way. But wasn’t she the co-pilot?

Kevin Rudd was elected by the people and should have been dispatched by the people – not by a bunch of factional thugs and union heavies with St Julia as their patron saint. At least we now know who is running the show!

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.

Labor’s army of spin doctors have been working overtime to bedazzle punters with an array of statistics to dupe them into believing  State finances will be back in the black next year,   Yeh, sure!

Now the spin has settled it has been revealed that Labor’s figures are based on an assumption that government expenditure will be limited to 2.7 per cent.  This is a huge leap of faith for a government with an average growth in expenditure over the past four years has been 6.5 per cent.  If this average is maintained this financial year with no changes in revenue then NSW will post a record $2 billion deficit.
Does anybody believe that Labor will crash-tackle their bloated public service unions?  Pigs will fly before this happens.

But This won’t concern the Treasurer though because by then he will have hoodwinked enough voters ong enough to get Labor re-elected – or he will be working in a private company at the big end of town.  If this happens voters will be left to chant ‘Labor’, ‘Labor’, Labor’ – ‘A’,’A’,’A’ as they sit in traffic gridlock every day.

Macarthur residents are the big losers in the budget.  The $20,000 cap on developer donations to councils is destined to widen the social gap between Labor’s trendy inner-city suburbs and our South West growth centre.  Given the revenue restraints already imposed on local Council’s it is necessary for a cap of at least $40,000. Not only will new residents in our growth areas now have to go without essential community facilities normally funded by developer donations ,they will also have to endure worsening traffic congestion on Camden Valley Way, Narellan Road and the M5 because there is nothing  in the budget to fix these chronic problems.

Under Labor the South West Rail link which has previously been announced, then unannounced, then reannounced, has been pushed back to the never0never in 2016. 

Labor Member for Camden, Geoff Corrigan, got it right when he said NSW Labor was operating in a parallel universe.  This budget indicates they are still there.

But politics is politics and the Global Financial Crisis provided Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard with a unique opportunity to buy votes for their re-election this year.  Consequently a massive $42 billion was spent in sending $900 cheques to anybody and everybody to spend on anything they wanted – mainly plasma television sets from China.  Millions of dollars were sent to Australians living overseas.  Every school in Australia was given a Julia Gillard Memorial Hall whether they needed one or not.  A rorted pink-batt industry was created overnight.

Rudd’s plan to finance this reckless spending strategy was to borrow from the next generation.

This would not be a bad thing if the money had been invested in public infrastructure designed to support sustained economic development.  Unfortunately Kevin Rudd is addicted to the same short-term populist strategy as former NSW Premier Bob Carr where the focus is on today’s media management rather than tomorrow’s demands for transport, health, education and business development.

There is no doubt that the car industry is an important sector within our economy.  Any downturn that threatens employment in this area is sure to have significant negative impacts.  Governments have a clear responsibility to provide protection by offering incentives to stimulate spending in such key areas.

But they also have a responsibility to ensure that the road networks are capable of handling the additional traffic generated by having more cars.  The inability of the M5 to cope with today’s demands provides little hope the long suffering motorists from the Macarthur region in the future. 

Many of these motorists would gladly opt for a public transport alternative however this in not possible where there are no services or where they are already overcrowded, dirty, insecure and unreliable. 

In the early years of the Carr Labor Government a blueprint for Sydney’s transport infrastructure in 2010 was published.  Unfortunately it stopped at Liverpool and Macarthur residents now live with that short-sighted neglect every day.  Kevin Rudd’s ‘re-election stimulus package’ will have a similar detrimental effect on our next generation.  It won’t affect Kev though – by then he will be a full-time junketeer on a United Nations gravy train.