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Saturday, September 6, 2014

Hooray

Hooray.
Just received a letter from my Energy Provider AGL.
I save approximately 7.8% on my electricity bill from the repeal of the carbon tax.
But.
Carbon emissions from the country's main electricity grid have risen since the end of the carbon tax by the largest amount in nearly eight years.
Data from the National Electricity Market, which covers about 80 per cent of Australia's population, shows that emissions from the sector rose by about 1 million tonnes, or 0.8 per cent, at an annualised rate last month compared with June.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/emissions-from-energy-generation-jump-most-in-eight-years-after-carbon-price-axed-20140903-10by8d.html#ixzz3CTt7NvCn

Thank you very much Mr Abbott.

Monday, June 9, 2014

Tony Abbott and the Institute of Public Affairs

Who can forget the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) 75 changes to the Australian Society that they want Abbott to institute when he comes to power.
We now know how radical this Government is.
How it is intent on changing our society to a more greedy, brutal and unfair society.
Where a confected budget emergency was the only way to hopefully sway the minds of the Australian people into thinking what they have in mind for us is for our own good.
What mugs do they think they are dealing with.
What mugs would fall for this radical right wing agenda.
What mugs would believe their lies and broken promises.
I just hope there are not too many "mugs" in Australia to vote these Barbarians back in at the next election.
Abbott is just a puppet for these right wing ideologues, a puppet in the hands of the IPA, Murdoch and the dirty energy/mining lobby.
If you want our society to conform to the 75 points below, then vote Liberal.
I know I won't.
IPA 75 point plan.
1 Repeal the carbon tax, and don't replace it. It will be one thing to remove the burden of the carbon tax from the Australian economy. But if it is just replaced by another costly scheme, most of the benefits will be undone.
2 Abolish the Department of Climate Change
3 Abolish the Clean Energy Fund
4 Repeal Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
5 Abandon Australia's bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council
6 Repeal the renewable energy target
7 Return income taxing powers to the states
8 Abolish the Commonwealth Grants Commission
9 Abolish the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
10 Withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol
11 Introduce fee competition to Australian universities
12 Repeal the National Curriculum
13 Introduce competing private secondary school curriculums
14 Abolish the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
15 Eliminate laws that require radio and television broadcasters to be 'balanced'
16 Abolish television spectrum licensing and devolve spectrum management to the common law
17 End local content requirements for Australian television stations
18 Eliminate family tax benefits
19 Abandon the paid parental leave scheme
20 Means-test Medicare
21 End all corporate welfare and subsidies by closing the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
22 Introduce voluntary voting
23 End mandatory disclosures on political donations
24 End media blackout in final days of election campaigns
25 End public funding to political parties
26 Remove anti-dumping laws
27 Eliminate media ownership restrictions
28 Abolish the Foreign Investment Review Board
29 Eliminate the National Preventative Health Agency
30 Cease subsidising the car industry
31 Formalise a one-in, one-out approach to regulatory reduction
32 Rule out federal funding for 2018 Commonwealth Games
33 Deregulate the parallel importation of books
34 End preferences for Industry Super Funds in workplace relations laws
35 Legislate a cap on government spending and tax as a percentage of GDP
36 Legislate a balanced budget amendment which strictly limits the size of budget deficits and the period the federal government can be in deficit
37 Force government agencies to put all of their spending online in a searchable database
38 Repeal plain packaging for cigarettes and rule it out for all other products, including alcohol and fast food
39 Reintroduce voluntary student unionism at universities
40 Introduce a voucher scheme for secondary schools
41 Repeal the alcopops tax
42 Introduce a special economic zone in the north of Australia including:
a) Lower personal income tax for residents
b) Significantly expanded 457 Visa programs for workers
c) Encourage the construction of dams
43 Repeal the mining tax
44 Devolve environmental approvals for major projects to the states
45 Introduce a single rate of income tax with a generous tax-free threshold
46 Cut company tax to an internationally competitive rate of 25 per cent
47 Cease funding the Australia Network
48 Privatise Australia Post
49 Privatise Medibank
50 Break up the ABC and put out to tender each individual function                                                          51 Privatise SBS                                                                                                                                      52 Reduce the size of the public service from current levels of more than 260,000 to at least the 2001 low of 212,784
53 Repeal the Fair Work Act
54 Allow individuals and employers to negotiate directly terms of employment that suit them
55 Encourage independent contracting by overturning new regulations designed to punish contractors
56 Abolish the Baby Bonus
57 Abolish the First Home Owners' Grant
58 Allow the Northern Territory to become a state
59 Halve the size of the Coalition front bench from 32 to 16
60 Remove all remaining tariff and non-tariff barriers to international trade
61 Slash top public servant salaries to much lower international standards, like in the United States
62 End all public subsidies to sport and the arts
63 Privatise the Australian Institute of Sport
64 End all hidden protectionist measures, such as preferences for local manufacturers in government tendering
65 Abolish the Office for Film and Literature Classification
66 Rule out any government-supported or mandated internet censorship
67 Means test tertiary student loans
68 Allow people to opt out of superannuation in exchange for promising to forgo any government income support in retirement
69 Immediately halt construction of the National Broadband Network and privatise any sections that have already been built
70 End all government funded Nanny State advertising
71 Reject proposals for compulsory food and alcohol labelling
72 Privatise the CSIRO
73 Defund Harmony Day
74 Close the Office for Youth
75 Privatise the Snowy-Hydro Scheme

Friday, June 6, 2014

NBN 101

The NBN explained for the simple minded.
This is very funny, but sadly it is so true.
How come the Conservatives have buggered up a brilliant project and turned it into a very expensive white elephant.

Monday, June 2, 2014

Abbott busted deceiving the people once again.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has courted controversy by linking a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of D-Day to his government's policies.

The original press release can be seen here. 

This is not on the Government web site anymore.
Worst prime Minister ever.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Is this what Tony has reduced our country to.

With the lies and deception to get into Government.
With the confected budget emergency, and the kick in the teeth to the poor and pensioners Budget.
Is this what Tony has reduced us to.
Is this Tony when he realises his lies and deceptions are not working?
 
Well, I'm as mad as hell.

Friday, May 16, 2014

Abbott Government

This is my thoughts on what is happening in politics at the moment.
I have no qualifications or experience in economics or finances. So probably anyone could drive Mack trucks through my defence.
Abbott came to power on the back of a very dysfunctional Labor party with massive in fighting (why the hell did I vote for them?)
He talked of the financial mess and debt that Labor had. They also talked up their broadband policy and were totally negative towards Labor’s very popular and affordable NBN. They talked of a budget emergency and how they were going to right it, in general terms, no plans mind you, and they got away with it.
Abbott said,
no new taxes,
no surprises,
no excuses,
Can’t tax yourself to prosperity
grown ups in charge.
They talked of believing in climate change but rejected the market way of combating it with a ETS. They instead have this direct action policy of paying tax payers money to big polluters with no idea of the outcome or any penalties if it did not work. To me they are climate change deniers, well at least Abbott and some of his crew are, maybe not all.
They said they would accept GONSKi, NDIS, no cuts to education, health ABC etc.
Abbott was a great Opposition leader, very negative and obstructionist. He did a good job. He should have gone and handed over the reins to a real leader once he destroyed Labor.
We now know very starkly what we have voted in.
A Government of deceit and lies. A right wing ideology driven government of small government, virtually no safety net. Governing for the rich and bugger the poor.
They went to the last election with a completely confected budget emergency.
The real problem is the structural deficit in the budget.
Labor’s deficit of billions from the GFC to me can be eventually clawed back, it is a once off debt.
The structural deficit is the middle class welfare and 8 tax cuts from John Howard.
The private health insurance rebate
Paid parental leave scheme
Negative gearing
Diesel rebate to miners
Superannuation rebates
The Superannuation rebates more than $13 billion. What a saving to the budget.
Superannuation concessions are unfair ... the top 5 per cent of income earners get a third of the benefit, and the bottom 20 per cent get literally nothing.
Bring back the mining tax.
It is anything but "adult" to create a problem, pass responsibility for it to someone else, and then refuse to talk to them about it. This has to be one of the biggest instances of "buck passing" in Australian history. Of course this is the juvenile and cowardly act of taking 80 Billion from the states for education and health, then telling them to suck eggs and we won't talk about it, unbelievable.
Why the hell did I vote Labor for the first time since 1983 in the last election?
Mad, maybe. But Tony Abbott was the big reason plus Labor's "real" NBN, and of course climate change.
I did not think this Abbott Government would be this extreme and attempt to dismantle Medicare, Public Health, Public Education, have a society of haves and have nots.
I am glad I did not vote for them.

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Brandis repealing section 18C, unravelling.

Senator Brandis' attempt at repealing section 18C of the Race Discrimination act is unravelling with members of his own party against such a move.
The attempt to appease their mate Andrew Bolt may yet back fire on them.

Coalition MPs are secretly defying Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Attorney-General George Brandis by drafting an alternative proposal for changes to the race hate laws.NSW backbencher David Coleman, who has a law degree, is understood to be drafting the alternative proposal. Senator Brandis' proposal to loosen the race hate laws – which was inspired by a legal case against the conservative commentator Andrew Bolt – involves repealing section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.
SMH Article

 This is what happens when you try and wind back legislation that was put in place to protect the minority and marginalised sections of our community. The very people that have little power and voice to fight back at well connected right wing media personalities.

Saturday, January 11, 2014

How is the Abbott Government Going V?

And it gets worse.

Quote:
Asylum seekers boat push-backs may breach international laws, UN warns.
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is warning such actions may place Australia in breach of its obligations under international law.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-1...ts-bac/5195328
What sticks in my craw is how Abbott has politicised the Navy.




Well how are they going. Is it going well?
Is it a steady hand, no surprises Government with the adults in charge?
Or are they flaying around without a clue on what they are doing?

How is the Abbott Government Going II?

Quote:
Former Liberal Party leader John Hewson says Tony Abbott should be less secretive about his asylum seeker policies, suggesting the Prime Minister give proper briefings to the public and to MPs from other parties.
Dr Hewson suggested Mr Abbott had gone too far in his efforts to suppress information.
Even the faithful are questioning Abbott and his tactics.
How long is it going to take for average Joe to wake up to Abbott?

How is the Abbott Government Going?

How is the Abbott Government going now that we have gone 4 months into the new Government.
We were promised a steady hand, no surprises Government with the adults in charge.
Lets see then.
Fraudband unraveling as the days tick on from the election date. TIC TIC TIC.
From Delimiter.

Quote:
In its broadband policy released in April 2013 (PDF), the Coalition made the following pledge: “Within 90 days the department of Broadband Communications and the digital economy, with the assistance of NBN Co and private carriers, will provide Parliament with a ranking of broadband quality and availability in all areas of Australia. This ranking will be published for comment and review and will guide prioritisation of the rollout.”
The report was brought out but is a joke of a report not promising what Turnbull said it would.
Quote:
However, the report released by the Minister appears to be little more than three pages of extremely high-level summary overview material. It does not consist of a “ranking of broadband quality and availability in all areas of Australia” as the Coalition had promised would be delivered within 90 days of it taking office.
The promise of faster, cheaper broadband was poo, pooed by most Telecommunication Techies, but Turnbull kept going.
Quote:
This approach has meant that the Coalition has admitted — just several months after the Federal Election — that it will no longer be able to keep its election promise of giving all Australians access to 25Mbps broadband speeds by 2016.
Quote:
I really have no idea how anyone at NBN Co — with that company’s deep engineering expertise — is supposed to take it seriously. It is a farcical effort that the Government should be ashamed of, and reflects a new broken election promise for the Coalition, if a minor one.
The Coalition has sold us a "pup", a very expensive and out of date pup at that.
Their broadband policy is a shambles, we were all warned.
They should bite the bullet and do the proper thing and apologise to the Australian people and continue with Labor's "Real NBN".

Friday, October 18, 2013

Disgraceful Abbott

Don Randall the rorting Western Australian Liberal member has paid his rort of the taxpayers.

Quote:
West Australian state Liberal MP Rob Johnson called on Mr Abbott to dump the embattled federal WA Liberal Don Randall over a taxpayer-funded trip to Cairns with his wife in November last year.
Quote:
In a statement on Thursday Mr Randall said he would immediately reimburse the full cost of the trip to ''ensure the right thing is done by the taxpayer and alleviate any ambiguity''.
"The Department informed me that it cannot provide definitive advice.''
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politi...#ixzz2i13nNymY

I call ******** on that. How can the Department of Finance allow an M.P. to go across to the other side of a large continent to buy an investment property and claim the travel and other expenses on the taxpayers. This should have been investigated by the AFP.
Tony Abbott is not fit to govern this country due to his inaction on this and his own rorting of the system over many years.
So far the worst P.M. ever.
What a disgraceful rabble they are.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Parliamentary Entitlements Rort

Much is rotten in Parliament regarding parliamentarians entitlements.
The problem is on both sides of parliament. But it seems it is performed at it's most flexible in the Conservative side of parliament.
Just look at the latest "rort" by Liberal MP Don Randall.

Quote:
Prime Minister Tony Abbott is refusing to take action against a Liberal MP who has spent more than $10,000 of taxpayers' money on questionable expenses, including travel that appears to be linked to his Cairns investment property.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politi...#ixzz2hvNt1DIU
This rorter(is this a word) flew to Cairns, bought an investment property and claimed it as an electoral expense. His electorate is in Western Australia.

Quote:
Meanwhile, the South Australian Labor senator Don Farrell has admitted he repaid almost $1000 in travel allowances several months ago after billing taxpayers for accommodation he accepted free.
Senator Farrell blamed an ''administration error'' for the trip to last year's AFL grand final.
Those damn administration errors. Someone should do something about those pesky administrators.

Carbon Tax Lies and Parental Leave

Abbott and Hunt telling porkies about the carbon price impact on Australians.

Quote:
Experts have rejected claims by the federal government that household expenses would be significantly smaller after a repeal of the carbon tax.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Environment Minister Greg Hunt said on Monday average households would be $550 a year better off with the scrapping of the tax.


Quote:
Hugh Saddler, a principal consultant for energy analysts Pitt & Sherry, said it had been ''almost impossible'' to see the carbon price footprint when it was introduced, and it would be no easier if it was removed. The Australian Bureau of Statistics agreed.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politi...#ixzz2hvMBoNrr

In addition.

Quote:
Meanwhile, Mr Abbott might have a more pressing challenge than convincing Labor to abandon its carbon price: keeping his own senators in line over issues such as his paid parental leave scheme.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politi...#ixzz2hvNB7X25
Abbotts scatter brain idea about Parental Leave may come back and bite him on the bum, by his own Coalition.

Saturday, March 2, 2013

AshbyGate 2


Here is what Federal Court Judge, Justice Rares had to say after he heard all of the evidence on the James Ashby claim of sexual harassment against Peter Slipper. This is his conclusion.
CONCLUSION
196. Having read all of the text messages on Mr Ashby’s mobile phone, as Mr Ashby’s senior counsel invited me to do, as well as the other evidence, I have reached the firm conclusion that Mr Ashby’s predominant purpose for bringing these proceedings was to pursue a political attack against Mr Slipper and not to vindicate any legal claim he may have for which the right to bring proceedings exists. Mr Ashby began planning that attack at least by the beginning of February 2012. As Mr Ashby and Ms Doane agreed in their texts of 30 March 2012 what they were doing “will tip the govt to Mal’s [Brough] and the LNP’s advantage”: [66]. It may be a coincidence that Mr Ashby suggested to Mr Slipper the idea of becoming Speaker just as Mr Brough began to move towards challenging Mr Slipper for LNP pre-selection for his seat and Mr Ashby ended up in an alliance in late March 2012 with Mr Brough to bring down Mr Slipper after he became Speaker. It is not necessary to make any finding about this or about whether Mr Slipper did sexually harass Mr Ashby in any of the ways alleged. It is also not necessary to consider whether these proceedings are “vexatious proceedings” within the meaning of r 6.02 or if that expression has a different meaning in r 26.01(1)(b) under which the Court can give summary judgment if “the proceeding is frivolous or vexatious”.
197. For the reasons above, I am satisfied that these proceedings are an abuse of the process of the Court. The originating application was used by Mr Ashby for the predominant purpose of causing significant public, reputational and political damage to Mr Slipper. It contained the scandalous and irrelevant 2003 allegations and assertion that Mr Ashby intended to report to the police Cabcharge allegations. To allow these proceedings to remain in the Court would bring the administration of justice into disrepute among right-thinking people and would be manifestly unfair to Mr Slipper: Jeffery & Katauskas 239 CLR at 93 [28]. Even though Mr Ashby has now abandoned the 2003 and all the Cabcharge allegations, the features that I have criticised did the harm to Mr Slipper that Mr Ashby and Mr Harmer intended when those allegations were included in the originating application. A party cannot be allowed to misuse the Court’s process by including scandalous, irrelevant or damaging allegations knowing that they would receive very significant media coverage and then seek to regularise his, her or its pleading by subsequently abandoning those claims.
198. Sexual harassment of anyone, including an employee such as Mr Ashby, is a violation of the person’s human dignity and rights. The Court must always be available for the hearing and determination of bona fide proceedings to vindicate and protect those rights. But for the reasons I have given, Mr Ashby’s pre-dominant purpose in bringing the proceedings was not a proper one.
199. Even though I have not found that the combination was as wide as Mr Slipper alleged in his points of claim, the evidence established that there was a combination involving Mr Ashby, Ms Doane and Mr Brough of that kind. Mr Ashby acted in combination with Ms Doane and Mr Brough when commencing the proceedings in order to advance the interests of the LNP and Mr Brough. Mr Ashby and Ms Doane set out to use the proceedings as part of their means to enhance or promote their prospects of advancement or preferment by the LNP, including by using Mr Brough to assist them in doing so. And the evidence also established that the proceedings were an abuse of the process of the Court for the reasons I have given. Accordingly, I am satisfied that the exceptional situation that enlivens the Court’s power to dismiss (or stay) proceedings as an abuse has been proved to the heavy standard required: Williams 174 CLR at 529. The duty and power of the Court to protect its own processes require that I give effect to the findings I have made by dismissing the proceedings under r 26.01.




 

 
 


 
 

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Should the AFP investigate Abbott

Slippery Pete is now being investigated for defrauding the Commonwealth of $900 in cab charges in 2010.
Should Tony Abbott be investigated for possibly defrauding the Commonwealth of at least $6651 in 2009 whilst advertising his book Battlelines.
From The Independent.

Quote:
Tony Abbott released Battlelines in 2009. It was a book designed to set the tone for his leadership and outline his vision for Australia. From his Sydney seat of Warringah, Abbott flew to Canberra to discuss the book at the National Press Club on 28 July. While it can probably be argued that the Press Club visit was legitimate business – even if it was to discuss and sign copies of his book – how would he explain his trip to Melbourne on 3 August for a dinner event at a Dymocks bookstore? Abbott returned to Melbourne as well as visiting Brisbane and Perth to promote his book. In all, he charged $5,689.36 to the Commonwealth for business that seems personal not parliamentary. That was only the air fares. Including drivers to and from his book events, the taxpayer has put $6,651.96 towards the promotion of his book.
Any comments on this. Do you all feel it is necessary to investigate Abbott?

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Abbott slips up on Slipper Setup Stunt

Abbott caught out on the conspiracy.
From the SMH
SMH article here
Quote:
"Federal Labor is trying to link Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to its claim there was a Liberal National Party (LNP) "conspiracy" to bring down former party member Peter Slipper and, by doing so, the Government.
Abbott denies this.
Abbott said he only found out about this when he read it in the newspaper on the Saturday."

/Quote:
But I.T. experts disagree.
This is a blog from an I.T. Pro.
From Delimiter an I.T. site they say that I.T. experts are saying B.S. about Abbotts claim.
Read about it in the link below.
http://delimiter.com.au/2012/12/14/d...estamp-claims/
The metadata of the media release on the Ashby matter sent by Mr Abbott's office to media outlets indicates it was "created" at 11.08pm on Friday, April 20, 2012 - before News Limited published its exclusive story on the Saturday.
If what has been reported is true then the Conservatives have a lot to answer for.
Not only Tony Abbott potentially lying.
The Liberal/National Party conspiring to overthrow the Speaker of Parliament on a trumped up conspiracy and potentially the downfall of a legally voted in Government.
Interesting times.





Saturday, June 2, 2012

Abbott and Gillard. What did we do wrong to end up with these two?

Indeed, what did us poor suffering Australian's do to suffer these two 4th rate leaders?
How many ladders did we walk under, how many black cats crossed our paths, how many cracked mirrors etc, etc..
This article linked below by  Peter Hartcher the political editor and international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, says it all. It crystallised my thoughts on the political debate we have at the moment.
Abbott and Gillard. "Panic on the House Floor."
below are some pieces from the article.
For people who spend every moment striving to win and hold power, their greatest fear is powerlessness. We have just seen Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott panic at the prospect of powerlessness, but it loomed for each in a very different way.
Abbott lives in fear of stunts because, we have to conclude, he has built his own political success on stunts. He goes from factory to factory, day after day, declaring imminent bankruptcy as he spreads a fear campaign. He is the leader who called for a "people's revolt" against a carbon tax.
"She freaked when the AWU walked into her office," was how one participant in the process described it. "She just lost it," said another.
This moment illuminated the real "Real Julia". It showed up two realities which are not customarily on public display. First, it showed that she feels herself to be dependent on the unions for her leadership, and on the AWU in particular, whose affiliated MPs supplied at least 20 of the 71 votes she won in her leadership ballot against Rudd in February.
Second, Gillard's acute anxiety suggests that she feels her leadership to be under a live threat.
Where do we go from here?
Who should lead the two major parties?
I think we are down the creek without a paddle.
The Liberals have one potential leader that is a real Liberal, Malcolm Turnbull.
Labor as far as I can see has no one.
Kevin Rudd is not the answer, he may be a short term answer to Labor. But for me he does not have the spine to be a good leader. This is evidenced by his falling over on his ETS policy.
Discuss.



Friday, December 23, 2011

Tony Abbott and Asylum Seeker Boats.

Well, Dr. No is still saying NO, when it comes to the arrival of the asylum seeker boats.
What a surprise.
It is obvious he is not interested in talking and maybe some compromise that politics is generally about.
How disingenuous is he when he said he wanted something concrete from the Government before he would talk.
Now that labor have compromised, Dr No says NO.
No wonder the Independents did not go with him last year.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Abbott Cheered, Labor Jeered

At the Murray Darling management public meeting in Griffith on the draft plan for the rationing of the flow down the river network.
Minister for the Environment and Water Tony Burke was jeered.
Tony Abbott the opposition leader was cheered by the irrigators when he took their side.
I wonder if Abbott will go to South Australia and say the same thing.
Here is an article in the "Adelaide Now" newspaper. An article by political editor Malcolm Farr.
Take note of the comments.
Has Abbott got the guts to say the same thing in South Australia?