On the contrary.  Our future leaders in every field of endeavour – politics, business, academia, community, the professions, arts and sport will come from Western Sydney. They will be successful because they will have earned the right to be so.  They will be tolerant and non-judgemental because of their cultural diversity. They will be respectful of the sacrifices made by their parents to ensure a quality education.  They will be self-satisfied because they will have had to be self-reliant.  They will be humbled by the pride their teachers, mentors, families and mates have for them.

But they are easily insulted when they are taken for granted or treated like idiots.

A couple of weeks ago Labor’s Sussex Street spivs realised that Westies don’t like illegal immigrants gate-crashing our immigration system.  They also discovered they don’t like being referred to as ‘rednecks’ by the commentariat and their latte sipping sycophants.  Quick as a flash they had Julia Gillard and David Bradbury, an unknown Labor lackey  from Lindsay, on a jet to Darwin for a naval photo shoot.  Bradbury’s political diaper would have been wet with excitement during this taxpayer funded stunt.

Never mind that another boatload of illegals arrived at Christmas Island the day after they jetted back to their media conference in Sydney. More illegals have arrived since and hundreds more are expected.  The next navy ship to be commissioned by Labor should be named ‘HMAS Centrelink’.

It’s a fair bet that most of these illegals will settle in Western Sydney despite the fact that we are full.  Last Thursday around 10 ambulances, two with serious burn patients, were queued at the Emergency Ward at Liverpool Hospital because our health system can no longer cope.

Every day hundreds of thousands of Western Sydney commuters are gridlocked on the M4, M5 and every other arterial road leading to and from work.  Thousands more are subject to the indignity of inadequate and unreliable public transport systems.

NSW used to be the Premier State.  It used to be the engine room of the Australian economy. It is now an economic wreck after 15 years of mismanagement by Australia’s worst ever State Labor Government.

Last week, Julia Gillard, announced $1 billion dollars for new Federal projects in Queensland where she has to make up ground after she knifed their Prime Minister.

All she allocated to NSW were 16 new hospital beds at Concord. No new roads. No new railways. No new infrastructure. Just a patronising gesture directed towards their hard-core political herd in Western Sydney.

Julia Gillard is obviously assuming that Sydney’s westies  can be taken for granted yet again.  It could well be a stupid assumption.

Modern Labor, the once great party of shearers, builders and labourers, has been hijacked by academic elitists, ruthless backroom operators and smart-arsed political spin doctors.  They delivered ’Kevin 07’  – then assassinated him when voters realized he was a hollow man. 

They replaced him with a hollow woman who the media had been fawning over for months beforehand. 

Mark Arbib and his shadowy comrades would be happy with the result.  As the campaign progresses Julia stays on-message and doesn’t deviate from her focus-group scripts.  She doesn’t dare!

Her vision has been reduced to meaningless mantras and a couple of targeted pork-barrels for school uniforms and a ‘banger buy-back scheme’ for university students.

Helen Keller once said ‘the only thing worse than being blind would be to have sight but no vision’.  If she had known Julia Gillard she may well have added ‘or the courage to tell voters what you have in mind for them after the election’.

Julia has done a secret preference deal with her ideological soul-mate from the Greens, Dr Bob Brown. We can only wonder why neither one will talk about the details.  What we do know is the Greens want to close down our mining industries, open up our borders, introduce a crippling carbon tax and legalise drugs.  We can only assume we are in for a toxic Green shock if they want to keep it a secret.

If voters think the price of electricity, petrol and groceries are high at the moment they better brace themselves.  Australia is set to become a net importer of food and energy sooner rather than later.

Julia’s vision for Australia does not include any grand plans for nation building.  No fast trains, airports, power stations, highways or new cities.  Her decision to create community focus groups from amongst her camp followers to advise on illegal immigrants, climate change, population growth and mung-bean production is more reminiscent of a vision-impaired political quisling than an aspiring Prime Minister.

It’s obviously too much to ask her fawning cheer squad from the media to question this style of political appeasement to focus-group ideology.

Our Australian nation, discovered, developed and defended by courageous leaders in days gone by, is now threatened by a couple of ideological hacks who have signed off on a secret deal that will undermine our economic prosperity and our social values.

If this doesn’t shake us out of our apathetic politic malaise, nothing will.

The Federal election does not have to be held for another seven months.  If Julia was dinkum in her desire to have voters judge her on her record she would give them time to do so. Voters would then be able to judge her performance in Parliament but then her role in Kevin Rudd’s political assassination would have been revealed.  Better to go early than risk that.

Julia obviously does not want us to know she was under the influence of Labor powerbroker, Mark Arbib, and reneged on a deal she made with Rudd before knifing him on Arbib’s orders. She has good cause to fear Arbib and do exactly what he says.  He has a record of successful political assassinations to his credit – two NSW Premiers and a Prime Minister.  Arbib is the most powerful and ruthless political operator in Australia today and Julia will stay in the job for as long as she obeys him. 

Julia also wants voters to move forward.  Of course she does.  The last thing she wants is people returning to her political dung heap.  

She wants them to forget that she helped put out the welcome mat for illegal immigrants by reversing John Howard’s policies which had effectively stopped boats  arriving at Centrelink. No amount of spin will change the fact that more and more boats will arrive while ever Labor governs Australia. 

Julia does not want  voters to know she was the most powerful figure in Labor’s ‘gang of four’ that squandered the $50 billion dollars left to them by the Howard Government and has since racked up an alarming mountain of debt that will take generations to pay off. 

Their attempt to use the mining industry as scapegoats for their economic incompetence backfired and threatened our sovereign risk as a nation. Arbib moved Julia forward on this issue.  She knifed Rudd and set up a deal with their big unions and the big end of town to get the issue off the agenda until after the election.  Never mind that our budget is now $6 billion worse off.

There is an abundance of other political dung heaps with Julia’s name attached to them. Rorts and rip-offs in her Building Education Revolution, the Copenhagen catastrophe, the home insulation fiasco, the Green loans disaster, fuel-watch, grocery-watch, etc.

No amount of lip gloss will cover the stench of Labor’s dung-heaps since Julia was elected.  It’s little wonder she wants us to move forward.

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.

A recent eye problem has severely impaired my vision so yesterday morning my wife drove me from our home to Macarthur Station. The off-peak ride in was quite pleasant. I attended a couple of meetings in the city, called back to Parliament House to get some documents the put myslelf at the mercy of our public transport system to get back to my home in Camden South. Following is my log of events:

8.20 PM: Depart office in Parliament House – walk towards St James Station.

8.25 PM. Enter St James Station via Macquarie St – entrance gates locked – no signs. Return to Macquarie Street.

8.30 PM: Enter St James Station via Elizabeth Street entrance. Don’t need to use ticket as gates are open and nobody in attendance to check tickets.

8.56 PM: Board train for Macarthur – 21 station stops – no ticket inspectors – or security sighted.

10.05 PM: Arrive at Macarthur Station – ticket gates open – nobody checking. Walk to bus terminal. Check bus schedule to Camden South. First bus (895) due at 10.45 PM.

10.19 PM: Called Taxis Combined – asked to go to nearest cross road at Gilchrist/Kellicar.

10.39: Called Taxis Combined again to check arrival time of taxi.

10.45 40-seater (895) bus to Camden South arrives at junction (empty) but ignores my attempt to wave it down.

10.50: Call Taxis Combined and cancel cab. Walk back to bus terminal.

11.01. 40-seater (891) bus arrives (empty) but advised that it only goes as far as the footbridge over Narellan Road. This is around 12 km short of my destination. Driver advises that the 890 bus was due in 10 minutes but it only went as far as the Narellan Shops. This is about 10 Km short. Then advised that the 895 bus was due at 11.39 PM but it terminated at the Camden Shops – this is still about 5 km short of my destination.

11.08 PM.  Caled 1234 and asked for Camden Taxi Service – redirected to Taxis Combined.  Hang up – ring 12434 again ans ask for Campbelltown Taxi Service – redirected to Taxis Combined.

11.10 PM Called Taxis Combined and re-booked a taxi – ‘on Gilchrist Road in front of the Macarthur Tavern’.

11..17 PM: Arrive back at Gilchrist Road.

11.20 PM 40-seater bus (890) passes intersection with one passenger – this is a 100 per cent increase on the previous two buses.

11.22 PM. Taxi approaches intersection – ignores my wave – and proceeds north towards Glen Alpione.

11.24 PM. Hail car with light on top – gives a quick blue flash to let me know it’s not a taxi.

11.31 Called Taxis Combined and advised the taxi driver couldn’t find me.  Asked them to call him again and advise that I was the only person standing outside the Macarthur Tavern.  Operator advises that the taxi driver is not answering his phone and his is the only cab in the area.  Beauty!

11.32 PM . Taxi arrives at intersection – walk over to driver to ask if he is looking for me. He replies that has a passenger. I ask him if he could come back and take me back to Camden South – he told me it was too far and drove off. Expletive followed. I called the number on the side of his cab 133100 – Premier Cabs answered and took my booking. As I completed my call their cab returned and pulled up – obviously didn’t hear my expletive!  He drove to Camden South. Advised me on the way that he had heard my call for a booking around an hour before but was enroute from Castle Hill and didn’t know the area so was reluctant to take the booking.

11.55. Arrived at home in Camden South – cab-fare $43.29.

Total time in transit between Parliament House and home residence via public/private  transport on Tuesday, 28 June: 3 hours 35 minutes. Distance 70 kilometres. I believe the journey would have been about a half-hour longer if I had used the bus – but I didn’t have that option.

I now have a better understanding why so many Camden workers are forced to survive the drive on Labor’s M5!  Public transport is simply not an option.

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!

The media defended their exposé by asserting that a person in Campbell’s position could be vulnerable to blackmail attempts by those who knew of his secret ‘double’ life.   If this was the case they had a choice between passing the information onto the appropriate authorities for proper investigation or adopting the role of public prosecutor. They chose the latter and many, including some commentators in the media, believe they crossed the line in publicly exposing David Campbell’s ‘immorality’.

Those who argued that Campbell’s indiscretions were ‘immoral’, even if they were legal, were venturing into an interesting ethical debate about what is right and what is wrong as opposed to what is legal and what is illegal. We elect politicians to pass laws and regulations based on their individual and collective value systems. Our political parties broadly represent the dominant characteristics of the people they are elected to represent be it Mosman or Murrumbidgee.  As a consequence we have a variety of politicians from different regional, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Some are married.  Some live in de-facto relationships. Some are single.  Some are heterosexual. Some are homosexual. Some are bisexual .  Some go to church. Some don’t.

Elected Members of Parliament who engage in illegal activities deserve to be prosecuted and publicly shamed.  But we need to be more circumspect on judging ‘morality’. 

If the media see themselves as our moral guardians then they should apply the standards they expect of our politicians to their own profession.  Some would argue that this would lead to a dramatic thinning of their ranks. 

There is no doubt that the status of politicians has been seriously eroded through the demands of the 24-hour news cycle.  Fair enough some will say.  However on the flip side if we want to attract the best and brightest to the profession of politics we should respect their right to have a private life with their family, friends and whoever.  We should also appreciate that they are both blessed and cursed with the same personal strengths, flaws and frailties as those who elect them and those who report on them.

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.

State Labor’s plundering of our energy corporations over the past 15 years and the Rudd-Wrong Emissions Trading Scheme is about to send a seismic shock through NSW households.

Given that we have the world’s largest reserves of uranium the most effective way to reduce our carbon emissions is to establish Nuclear power plants in Australia.  Unfortunately this is an unacceptable form of energy for environmental evangelists in the Labor-Green political movements. It’s OK to sell it to other countries just as long as we don’t use it in Australia because we have solar, wind . . . and pedal power!  Unfortunately none of these will insulate NSW households from Labor’s electric shock they are about to receive.

The extraction of oil and minerals from below the earth’s surface is essential to our global health, wealth and lifestyle.  Unfortunately mining can have a devastating effect on our environment which can have an equally devastating impact on our health, wealth and environment. 

Mining exploration and development often requires a high degree of risk and massive injections of capital.  Shareholders who provide risk capital will demand a commensurate return on their investment.   Governments’ role is to strike a balance between the demands of the mining industry and their responsibility for protecting our environment.  It is not an easy task.

The issue also includes debate in the Hunter region over the benefits of high-return non-renewable coal mining operations as opposed to sustainable agricultural industries.  The environment of the Hunter is one of its great assets but our demands for energy and food will create stress amongst miners, farmers and environmentalists in the region.

Unfortunately any type of industry created by ‘capitalists’ is anathema to Green evangelists and their camp followers in the commentariat.  Generally the closer they are to inner-city areas the louder they spruke.  Some walk across bridges as a form of protest, others jump in their BMWs to visit a site but most just gather for group hugs in trendy cafes and sing kumbiyah.  It doesn’t do anything to resolve the conflict between mining and the environment but it makes them all feel good.

The illegal immigration rort quickly turned from a trickle to a flood as soon as people smugglers realised Australia was back open for business under Kama Kev.  Rather than make the hard decisions necessary to stem the tide Kev decided to suspend it for people from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka until after the next election.  Kev obviously thinks the people smugglers are as dumb as the people who would vote for him a second time round!  All the smugglers now have to do is focus on a couple of different countries until Kev is voted back in and it will be business as usual.

Kama Kev’s sudden move to appoint a Minister for Population was slick politics.  It could even become the greatest moral issue of our time! 

Kev’s aim is to muddy the water between legal and illegal immigration.  The difference is our right to decide who comes to Australia and the circumstances under which they come.  This was John Howard’s policy and it effectively put the people smugglers out of business until Kev was elected.

Population is a key policy area and deserving of a special Ministry.  The appointment of Tony Burke, one of the most capable Ministers in Rudd’s Labor Government, is a good choice.  One of Burke’s priorities should be to adopt Tony Abbott’s proposal for paid maternity leave to encourage population growth within Australia.

However it is unrealistic to think that Australia can generate sustained economic growth without an ambitious and progressive immigration program.  The challenge for Tony Burke is to match the infrastructure development to population intake.  This would be regarded as mission impossible in NSW since Bob Carr declared that ‘Sydney is full’ and infrastructure policy was relegated to the production of glossy brochures and dodgy developer mates. 

Motorists using Narellan Road, Camden Valley Way and the dreaded M5 are reminded of Labor’s incompetence on a daily basis.  NSW electricity users are reminded of it on a quarterly basis – and they ain’t seen nothin’ yet!  Our hospitals are on life-support and public-transport alternatives are not an option for the majority of commuters. 

Its little wonder Kama Kev is trying to deflect the legal and illegal immigration debate until after the next election!