Change for the sake of change keeps the chattering classes chattering and sycophantic journalists scribbling.  But it does little to assist the plight of ‘working families’ – Kev got their vote and has since moved on to more esoteric inventions on the international stage. 

The Republic is a great fall-back issue for Labor.  It is guaranteed to put the froth back into inner-city  cappuccino gatherings and motivate the commentariat to demonstrate their intellectual superiority over the masses.  It also helps lift the collective chip on their shoulders against anything to do with our British heritage and our ‘oppressive’ Anglo-Saxon ways.

It matters not that the proponents of a Republican model can not agree on a model to put to the people.  Should the people elect the President directly and if they do would that person have greater authority than the Prime Minister?

What would happen if the masses wanted to elect John Howard as President after they get the bill for Kev’s misguided Emission Trading Scheme or his recent ‘election stimulus package?  Or because they would know that Howard would put Australia back in control of our borders?

This would obviously be unacceptable to the commentariat.  So what about the option of having the new President appointed by Parliament?  This would mean that a ‘politician’ would get the job and we already know what the masses think of this option.

The only other option is for the Prime Minister of the day to appoint a person to be our President.  The danger here is that the job would probably go to an old Labor mate.  Imagine ‘Richo’ for President!  That would be the mother of all deals.

We could stick with our current system that has served us well since Federation.  We have our own Governor-General, a democratically elected Parliament and an independent judiciary.  We have weathered recessions, depressions,, world wars and national disasters.  We are free, independent and prosperous.  We are already the envy of the world so there is no need to change Kev – just do your job and stop the people smugglers.

When John Howard was Prime Minister he sent a clear message to people smugglers and they got it loud and clear.  The boats stopped coming!

His successor, Kevin Rudd, talked tough and acted soft.  Labor changed the rules and the people smugglers quickly got the message.  They are now back in business and we now have to brace ourselves for the arrival of thousands of illegal immigrants a year.  Thanks Kev.

John Howard’s strategy, known as the ‘Pacific solution’, was to keep illegal immigrants out of the reach of parasitic human rights lawyers while they were being processed to determine if there were genuine refugees among them.

The chattering classes bleated that it was inhumane to accommodate them on Pacific islands to our immediate north.  They seem to forget that a couple of million people already live, work and play in this area.  The establishment of detention centres on their islands also provided a much needed boost to their local economies.

The silence of the commentariat in regard to a genuine Pacific solution for our near neighbours in Melanesia is deafening.  No protests about our refusal to give them access to seasonal work on our farms.  No protests about the 160 West Papuan refugees living on the outskirts of Port Moresby for the past 30 years.  They have no access to health or education programs, no sanitation, no citizenship, no income.  No hope.  All they have is one tap for drinking water and ablutions.

Australia spends billions maintaining embassies around the world to represent our interests and process applications from prospective immigrants.  We have programs for skilled workers, seasonal workers, temporary workers and family reunions. 

We are obviously restricted in the number of immigrants we can accept due to the limitations of our economy.  We also have a humane obligation to offer safe haven to our share of genuine refugees from war-torn countries. 

While many of these countries are ruled by dictators or religious zealots.  Any attack on them is quickly branded ‘racist’ by the commentariat from the left.

The success of our past immigration policies is evident in the rich multi-cultural society we have to-day.  John Howard’s success in preventing the corruption of this process by allowing people to ‘jump the queue’ is evident in the fact that the boats stopped coming during his term of office.

This has changed since Kevin Rudd laid out the welcome mat.  Kevin’s soaring popularity in the polls suggest  that most Australians would prefer to cede responsibility for immigration to people smugglers rather than trained Embassy staff overseas. 

Now the gates are open it will be difficult to stem the tide of illegal arrivals.  While it will deliver the bleeding heart vote to Kev in the short term it is yet another problem he is bequeathing to the next generation – along with the debt associated with his ‘election stimulas package’ and new tax regime in the disguise of his Emissions Trading Scheme. 

While they will have nothing to thank him for they can always blame their parents for voting for him.

It seems the Global Financial Crisis has been a godsend for Kevin Rudd. It has allowed him to blame every problem we have on ’the GFC’  and provided him an excuse to literally give away the $45 billion surplus he inherited from the Howard-Costello government. A surplus that took 11 years to build has only taken Kevin Rudd two years to spend!

History indicates this is the Labor way. Gough Whitlam did it. Paul Keating did it. And now Kevin Rudd’s doing it! The one thing these Labor Prime Ministers had in common is they never had a real job and had never run a business before getting elected. But whilst they didn’t have any experience in generating wealth they sure know how to spend it.

So Kevin Rudd’s response to the Global Economic Crisis was based on ’spin and spend’.

Every problem confronting his government was conveniently blamed on ‘the GFC’. Whilst everybody agreed that action had to be taken to ‘stimulate’ the economy he decided to ‘stimulate’ voters. Rather than provide incentives through tax cuts he decided to give $900 to voters whether they needed it or not. Rather than provide incentives to business he decided to build Julia Gillard Memorial Halls in every school in the country whether they needed one or not.

The polls show that Kev’s voter stimulus package has worked exceptionally well. Come in spinner!

On the policy front the Rudd Government is desperately trying to wedge Malcolm Turnbull on their Emissions Trading Scheme by having the debate before World leaders meet in Copenhagen to develop a strategy. It is a high stakes game and Kevin Rudd seems prepared to risk the viability of our rural industries if that’s what it takes to destroy his greatest political threat, Malcolm Turnbull.

Turnbull has the job ahead of him. His cause was not made any easier by his handling of ‘utegate’ but if justice ever prevails over the Heiner Affair in Queensland ‘utegate’ will pale into insignificance.

In the meantime Malcolm Turnbull must continue to expose the shallow insincerity and short-term expediency of another high-spending, high taxing Labor regime that will do whatever it takes to stay in power.

Check Malcolm Turnbull’s recent address to the NSW Liberal Party at:

http://malcolmturnbull.com.au/Media/LatestNews/tabid/110/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/601/Address-to-the-NSW-Division-of-the-Liberal-Party.aspx

For the record this bloke represents the United Nations Human Rights Council which includes some of the most racist nations on our planet. It is a Left wing organisation with a hatred of  Western nations. Its champions include North Korea, the Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Egypt and Cuba. Its cheerleaders come from our inner-city urban chattering class.

One thing is certain from the comments of this Left wing lunatic and the racist organisation he represents  - they care more about their discredited ideology than they do about desperate human beings in need of help.

The Northern Territory intervention was motivated by the collapse of indigenous societies in remote welfare dependent communities. Alcohol abuse, wife abuse, substance abuse and rampant child abuse became the norm while the commentariat and their urban sycophants celebrated Kevin Rudd’s ‘sorry’ statement and discussed indigenous ‘rights’.

At the same time indigenous leaders such as Noel Pearson were more concerned about practical solutions to the politically-correct genocide occurring in their outback communities.

Intervention aimed at breaking the cycle of despair and restoring order and self-respect had to happen if we are genuine in our concern for our indigenous people. The intervention has focused on strict controls of alcohol; a permanent resident police presence in all towns of any size; insistence of 100 per cent school attendance with access to high-quality education to year 12 and beyond; 100 per cent participation in work programs on a ‘no work, no pay’ basis; and full social market rents for Aboriginal housing to be automatically deducted from welfare payments.

Those of us who have been through these communities over a long period of time wonder what took our government so long to do something about it all. However, John Howard and his successor, Kevin Rudd are to be congratulated for finally committing to the task of protecting, nurturing and rebuilding our indigenous communities.

The Australian army has a proud record in civil affairs dating back to the Vietnam War. Our servicemen and women are proud of their role in providing access to basic services, friendship to the people who have been ignored by too many for too long, and social order to helpless, lawless communities.

My advice to Professor James Anaya is to get his racist arse out of our country and do something about genocide in Darfur, Uganda, Rwanda and the serial abuse of human rights in North Korea, Cuba, the Sudan, Somalia, Libya and the other despotic regimes he supports.

One thing is for sure – our indigenous people will be fare much better without his intervention into their rehabilitation.

Enviro-evangelism is the new pseudo-religion of the non-productive chattering class.  It provides them with a ‘belief’ to fill the void of otherwise meaningless lives.

The new mantra for the jargonauts in Rudd’s clever-dick department (remember ‘working families’) is ‘green-jobs’ – an oxy-moron if ever there was one!  Whoever heard of a Green that ever had a productive job?  Senator Bob Brown, Lee Rhiannon MLC and fellow travellers come on down.

The rush for Australia to lead the world in creating a clean, green planet free of carbon emissions is not driven by scientific research.  After all we only produce around one per cent of the offending carbon emissions.  The rush is being driven by crass political professionals who know how to scare the bejesus out of the gullible majority and then provide them with a warm and cuddly solution.  Why wouldn’t you vote for them? Especially when they threw in a $900 bonus to stimulate your voting intentions.

The key players in this environment are the United States, Europe and the emerging industrial giants, China and India.  They will meet in Copenhagen to discuss new climate change protocols post Kyoto in December this year.  More than 8,000 delegates from 170 countries will attend to address the issue. 

Kevin Rudd’s rush to introduce legislation before the outcomes of this conference can only be seen as an exercise in ‘look at moi’ when he mixes with the big dogs on the international stage.

Kevin’s obsession with being noticed is going to cost us dearly.  Food and electricity prices are set to soar.  Meat will be replaced by mung beans as standard Australian fare. Australian working families will shiver in winter in swelter in summer because the cost of electricity will be prohibitive.

If we are dinkum about a clean fuel alternative we could always take advantage of our abundant reserves of uranium and replace our coal fired power stations with nuclear generators.  Unfortunately that would be mortal sin in the new church of enviro-evangelism.

There is a strong view among many commentators that the easing of the unemployment rate in July is a statistical blip on our economic radar. They do not expect the unemployment trend to ease until mid-2010.

However if Penny Wong’s Emissions Trading Scheme is passed by the Rudd Government all bets will be off. The cost of living and the rate of unemployment will skyrocket. We will pay dearly for Labor’s appeasement of the new green evangelists and quack environmentalists who inhabit inner city wine bars and coffee lounges.

According to National Party Senator Barnaby Joyce the inclusion of agriculture in Penny Wong’s Bill will result in her ETS becoming an Employment Termination Scheme.

According to Joyce a single beast, which ends up on our supermarket shelves as steak, roast, mince or sausages, emits about 70 kilograms of methene and according to the Kyoto protocol this has to be multiplied by 21 which means that each beast is responsible for emitting  around a tonne and a half of carbon.

Utilising NAB modelling on the price of a carbon permit, a tonne and half of carbon, multiplied by about $50, is equivalent to an additional cost to the farmer of approximately $75 dollars per beast per year.

$75 dollars per beast per year equals no beef industry in Australia! The mung-bean munchers in the green movement will be delighted.

The rest who would like to eat beef, and can afford to pay for it, will be buying it from a country that doesn’t have an ETS.

The price of beef in Australia will be above the price paid in other countries that don’t have a beef industry which will result in you paying better than $100 dollars for a prime cut roast.

Penny Wong and Kevin Rudd are about to transfer our primary producers in the beef, pork, lamb and poultry industries onto the unemployment queue. While this will have no impact on our global carbon footprint it will have a devastating effect on our future unemployment rate.

We were told that Australia was facing the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. We told that we were in recession. We were told that we just missed out on a technical recession. We were told that we needed to spend to save our economy. Those who didn’t have enough to spend, and many of those who did, received cheques in the mail from the Labor Government. It was a bonanza!

Needless to say the Kevin Rudd’s popularity soared in the polls.

The NSW Labor Government, the worst in living memory, blamed the Global Financial Crisis for every problem it faced – congested roads, a broken down public transport system, a lack of hospital beds, gross incompetence in the public service, etc.

But now, according to the Prime Minister and his merry band of spin doctors, the recession is over. And they would have us believe it was their prudent economic management that allowed us to weather the storm!

The facts tell a different story. The cause of the Global Financial Crisis was the crash of American sub-prime mortgage schemes which accounted for 15 percent of all outstanding mortgages. In Australia only one percent of outstanding mortgages fell into this category thanks to the prudent financial management of the Howard Government.

But the most important legacy of the Howard Government was our national balance sheet. We had a couple of hundred million dollars in the bank and were free of debt.

Kevin Rudd’s spending since he got the keys to the Treasury would make Gough Whitlam blush. While he was telling us things were crook it was raining money in the form of a ‘stimulus package’. Many people who didn’t need the money got a cheque. Many schools that didn’t need an assembly hall got one anyway. Many students who didn’t need a computer now have two. Drunken sailors could not have splurged more in such a short period.

So is it the worst financial crisis in history? Well it’s certainly not as bad as the last time Labor was in power in the 1990s when unemployment was more than 10 percent and inflation was around 18 percent. Kev seems to have forgotten that!

Now the recession is over, according to Kev, it will be interesting to see who he blames for the inevitable rise in unemployment and bank interest rates due to the massive debt he has accumulated via his reckless ‘stimulus package’. Come in spinner!

Kevin’s threat to take over the hospitals if the States didn’t lift their game is also about to be transferred to the never-never.  This is despite the fact that hospitals cannot pay their bills; waiting lists are at record levels; and specialist doctors who stand up to the increasing army of health bureaucrats are removed from the system. 

Failures in our NSW State Hospital system are now a part of our daily news diet. 

The threat to centralise the health system in Canberra is scary.  The last thing we need is another layer of faceless bureaucrats who are further removed from local front-line hospitals.  This reflects Labor thinking – a huge centralised politburo that is supposed to have all the answers.  I think not.

We need to go the other way and de-centralise our health systems.  NSW Opposition Leader, Barry O’Farrell, has pledged to reintroduce local Hospital Board as part of his health policy for 2011.  This is good policy because it ensures local people will have a say in the operation of their local hospital.

Local leadership instils a sense of community ownership in ‘their’ hospital.  Local fundraising and community volunteering is more easily facilitated with such a policy.

There is no argument over the fact that States have an important role to play in the allocation of resources for infrastructure, the management and co-ordination of regions, specialist medical areas, recruitment and research.  The trashing of the NSW State economy by the worst performing Labor Government in history has had a debilitating effect on its ability to meet ever increasing health demands. 

The Rees Labor Government is tired, complacent and devoid of any new ideas.  It represents the 3rd X1 and has served one term too many.  They badly need a spell on the Opposition benches to renew themselves.

Now that the reality of government has hit Kevin Rudd he needs to re-evaluate his threat to take over the State Hospital Systems and encourage his State counterparts in NSW to shake out the entrenched health bureaucracy and direct them to ensure health services are delivered by professionally qualified medical staff with support from local hospital boards. 
Barry O’Farrell would not be offended if Labor borrowed his policy in this important area.

With Labor splashing money around on ‘election stimulus packages’ the polls indicate the margin will be greater than the 0.1 percent they currently enjoy. 

Another factor in Labor’s favour is their unconditional embrace of environmental extremism.  Labor has moved on from their love affairs with socialism and communism and now genuflect at the alter of environmentalism.  Global warming is their new covenant and the Emissions Trading Scheme their bible.

The high-priests of the new religion emanate from the chattering classes – Labor academics, Green extremists, North Shore Doctors wives and inner-city latte sippers.

Kevin Rudd’s strategy to lead the world in cleaning up the planet has great appeal to non-producers within our economy.  It makes them feel good even though it will have no impact in a global sense without a similar commitment from the major economies.  Especially the emerging economic giants of China and India.

While it is economic stupidity to saddle our industry with an additional tax on production it is politically smart to exploit the ‘feel-good’ factor of the quack environmentalists and their followers amongst the chattering classes.

Kevin Rudd therefore intends to bring on the vote before the major economies meet in Copenhagen to agree on realistic targets.

Labor’s slogan for the next election campaign should be: ‘Vote Now – Pay Later’!

And pay we will!  Our agricultural industry will be decimated if they are not exempted from the scheme. If Labor’s ‘working families’ think the price of groceries is rising too fast wait ‘till our farmers start to walk off the land!  The cost of fresh meat will be prohibitive. 

The sad reality is that we will have to import our food and industrial products from countries that do not have draconian emission trading schemes.  We will pay a heavy price for our lefties to ‘feel-good’.

Macarthur residents will be hit hard by the inevitable food and electricity price increases because of the nature of the electorate.  The Labor candidate will have to be a believer in the new mantra of environmentalism while the Liberal Party will need to seek a candidate who can relate to dinkum working families in the electorate.

The successful candidate might well influence which Party governs Australia after the next election.