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 Kevin R Beck, Melbourne Australia READ THESE ARTICLES BEFORE YOU VOTE AND CLICK HERE TO HANG THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT |
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Now it is time to cry my beloved country 
Hello I am Kevin Rudd, still here at your service ready to help.  Their rehearsed lines, particularly Tony Abbott's inane "stop the boats, the big tax" etc, proves he is so smart he can learn simple phrases like a parrot. |
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They were, and are, dumb about national security holistics and imperatives. Now, in September 2010, in order to garner support to win government, via the independents Ms Gillard is willing to look at smart cards to reduce problem gambling. What an irony. Meanwhile for the past four years under labor, and even under John Howard's coalition government, it has been possible to obtain a low grade, flawed identity card to work in an airport, port or in the airline industry There is a national checking system. There is no national checking system to gain an identity to enter power stations, other utilities and critcal asset environments. Why not? What is the difference in criticality and danger to security? When one inquires why the aviation and maritime identity document is such poor quality, and capable of being frauded (a transportation identity in use today can actually be made at home) one learns that the government's policy regarding this critical arena of activity is one of self regulation by industry. Now isn't that just peachy. It is one of the most stupid policy derelictions amongst many. The Australian Labor Government has demonstrated a dysfunctional ignorance, a vauum of ideas and a blatant disregard for national security that one can imagine. Some public servants opine that it will take a terrorist attack, inside Australia, to galvanise their attention. The privacy groups, who object to identity cards, have no concept of anything remotely close to understanding just what the Access Card could have been and how it may intertwine with other areas of national security. Perhaps labor thinks that national security is military and refugee focused? Imagine how the privacy. Imagine the reaction if everyone had to have an identity card to go beyond the baggage area of an airport or sea port. To get on a plane or a train. People who want access to these critical areas should have an identity access card but labor is too weak kneed to act to protect our national internal security. Tens of millions of dollars are wasted by industy each year trying to get the attention of Ministers whose pressing interest is one of self. Gillard is an amateur in the role of Prime Minister and national security but Ms Gillard, and her inept coleagues, will most likely be in government and the pain of dealing with those who have little awareness of what to do as an holsitic set of actions, will continue unabated. (Kevin R Beck, Melbourne Australia) Back when K. Rudd was campaigning for election, Ms T Plibersek, with a propensity to come across as a theorist dressing beliefs up as facts, decided that the Access Card was an identity card in disguise. Ms Plibersek's narrow conceptions, perceptions, and failure to grasp the linkages and the intertwining of identity, fraud and money laundering, around the medicare and social security systems teamed up with Senator Ludwig, in Queensland, to denigrate and kill the card off leaving the taxpayer open to massive fraud. Ms Plibersek cost the nation tens of millions of dollars on an ideological crusade. Perhaps it was also Joe Hockey's capacity to make it so complex, and in some respects ridiculous, that added to it being discredited. Labor's ignorance is entrenched. Never mind that the public cost at the time was around $A50,000,000. And it has grown to hundreds of millions since. Losing tax payer's money, or wasting it, is a hallmark of both the labor, and liberal, parties and their cavalier approaches. Today the government cooks the figures to cover up the extent and the Minister for Health, Nicola Roxon, approved rate rises for health fund premiums that encompass an entrenched, high level of stealing by some in the health professions with patient complicity or disregard. The preferred provider agreement, proferred by health funds, as a benefit to members promotes fraudulent practice. Minister Nicola Roxon, has constantly for over a year, ignored provided evidence, from practitioners, and in this regard she is derelict of the public interest along with her federal labor cabinet colleagues. Many time this year documents have been sent to the offices of several senior Ministers, including the Prime Minister, to private health funds and to regulators and senior bureaucrats, providing them with evidence of significant, and growing fraud, in the private and public health sectors. They choose to ignore thismaterial and face to face meetings. |
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AND HER LIMITATION IS SHE IS A CONVENTIONAL POLITICIAN AND THINKER. BUT SHE WILL BE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA IN 2010 - 2012. DO THE COUNTRY A FAVOUR MR. ABBOTT GO AWAY. New interest groups appear such as GET UP and they attract a modicum of attention. They too operate in conventional ways. Under conventional thinking the status quo is maintained. It is only when events create a conundrum like a hung parliament that we see the non conventional rise to the fore - in this case the independents. We can dismiss the Greens because they will be the instrument of their own demise much like the Democrats in Australia. They have no idea how to use power and influence. They have no idea of reality beyond their own limited vision and sense. If you listen to a Green member of parliament they speak of philosophy, of distractions and dreams, theories and notions of lore, and ideology, without the foundation of reality. They are the doomsday mantra groupies. The spoilers, and do gooders, that eventually the bulk of voters do not want to be with. They are shackled by their own idiosyncracies and zeal. Tony Abbott is in charge of the opposition federal liberal party, and by his side is Joe Hockey and Andrew Robb, Tony Smith and Julie Bishop. These people are not quality representatives they are worse than the Greems because they try to represent themselves as something else than they are. They are rat bags. Devoid when it comes to the challenge. look at their negotiation and strategies when it all goes to crap. They have no idea what to do. Such politicians wear the garb of convention, the business suit, they use the language of the "non speak" a meaningless jargon and thirty minute quick and glib line. They talk down to many people assuming that there are a lot of gullible, stupid and unaware types. They present that what they are telling us is not spin. And nor is it. It is lies and calculated, manipulative pretence. These modern politicians are the slugs that infest, slime and degrade our parliamentary processes. They are not only federal, they are state and territory politicins. When caught out they repeat their iognorance, providing fatuous arguments excuses. Ms Gillard's sin was she tried and made a botch of it. Mr. Abbott's sin is that he is probably too scared to try anything risky, play to the populist fear is his style. Thus will never botch it. He drones that under his leadership the economy will always be better. The government surplus will be bigger. Yes maybeit will, but we will all live a boring, aimless and shitfull existence, under the dead hand of convention, and mediocrity. mr. Abbott's liberal party is a construct of a warped personality willing to do anything to win, bordering on a lack of ethical foundation and a bunch of missing moral compasses. He lies, when he says that he will stop the boats. Is this harsh? Only an idiot would think so. Is he an idiot? No, thus it can be reasonably claimed he is a liar in that regard. So what else he ism lying about? Maybe as we look back on his life we might conclude perhaps it is a lot. |
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TEN YEARS IN THE MAKING. A PLAN, AND STRATEGY, TO END THE MANIPULATION OF DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNMENT CORROSION IN AUSTRALA BY THE
LABOR AND LIBERAL PARTIES. 2010 THE GAME PLAY BEGINS TO BITE AS THE AUSTRALIAN TERRITORY, STATE AND FEDERAL PARLIAMENTS ARE HUNG. |
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Deep inside the recesses of the party strategy rooms the failed ponder what has happened and what to do. They may think gthat this is just an annoying abherration and that they merely need to tweak their campaigns and their messages. It must irk them considerably that the "independents" are calling the shots. Tony Abbott does not want to have Treasury cost his campiagn promises. He trots out some laughable reason about them not understanding the policies. he wants to continue with his tame third party assessment. But more insidious is the proposition that the leader of the opposition and these senior members of the liberal and national party do not trust the public servants. This is outrageous for a leader aspiring to be Prime Minister to proposes such an ignorant and insulting response. What an immature, grandiose and self absorbed lot of parasites infest the parliaments of the nation.  One gets the impression that they see thesmelves above the system and above the people. The spin did not work, the "have a look at me being real" was a farce and they have been unceremonially told to get their act together. Labor should ponder a 35% primary vote and the liberals' share of primary votes is not all that flash either. The two party preferred jerry mander is a rubbish. There is a third of the nation not conned, who can think and want something better. |
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Tony Abbott Cannot articulate his internet broadband policy and appears devoid of the ability to grasp new concepts and fundamental understanding of the advantages of broadband high speed - peak speed. has not demonstrated a dynamic capacity for the office of Prime Minister. Julia Gillard Has no understanding of her water policy telling the people that the labor government has purchased all of this water. Not true, they have purchased water rights to a bit over half of what she said. She has not demonstrated a capacity to be Prime Minister of Australia. |
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August 20th: Five Minutes to Midnight
I have to admit to my readers that I have been engaged in an agenda, and strategy implementation, with others, for about ten years. I notified the two major parties of this agenda two weeks ago in ameail to them all, of cpourse there was no reply. They are busy and in that they are somewhat dumb. The objective, of our group, was to use human, and technical, networks to reach enough people in Australia, in indvidual electorates and ex patriots overseas, to deliver a hung parliaments at state and federal levels in 2010. So here we are on 20 August 2010. Tony Abbott is in his immature - stay awake 36 hour marathon, with keep it safe policies. He is seriusly a worry. Julia Gillard still insists, despite all of the contrary evidence, that labor, and she as Deputy PM and the eccentric Kevin Rudd, are saviours of the nation's jobs. This simply not true, the bulk of the mone came after the GFC. Gillard demonstrates a capacity for ignorance, or disregard, of facts. And for her statement that she was breaking out and we would see the real Julia, what crap that turned out to be. She was nothing more than a con artist delusional in her fantasy. Overall, the analysis - the NBN is good and will deliver huge benefits to the nation so vote labor. If that is not what what impresses you, then vote independent. "Hang the Parliament". These people have lost the notion of democracy, national interest and ethics, they are "self interested. They border on immorality. Gillard, an atheist lectures us about marriage between a man, and woman, how would she know? Without even considering that the nation thinks otherwise. She is disingenous, hypcritical, politically driven and obnoxious in this regard. Gillard represents bigotry in her statements. She is discriminatory and a reprehensible person to condemn people to misery because of her narrow minded self interest. In this regard she is unfit ot be Pime Minister. But then we are lumbered with amanipulated system where only two parties occupyy government. What a low grade expectationawaits us. Come whatever, I, and my colleagues, still have to deal with these mediocre lot in government, and their puffed up advisers. The public service is neutered under labor and liberal, reduced from public interest to political interest, and appointments are made so that the status quo of politcal dominance will never be challenged. The two major political parties, labor and liberal, moreso labor, deal in pay back if you do not "cow tow" to them or have the temerity to challenge or criticise them. The political parties and their advisers are thugs. The processes to be successful in business with governments in Australia is at their terms and it is a corrupted system of patronage. What a position to be in if you are trying to do business, and add value the country. So self centred are they that they do not realise that is not them that are "moving the nation forward" and taking the country to new horizons it is the citizens. Abbott, and Gillard, can take us at this stage of their learning curve to average, whilst they learn on our multi - billion dollar coffers. Abbott is th eparrot, he repeats his four line mantra like an idiot savant. Tony, and Julia, having demonstrated theirpotential in this campaign, appear to have never had a unique idea, of value and innovation, in their lives. So what, one of them wins regardless. Do not mark your ballor paper as informal, use the vote to scare the crap out of them. (Kevin R Beck, Melbourne Australia) |
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August 2010: LOST IN POLITICAL SELF INTEREST AND OBLIVION
Just finished a meeting with colleagues and associates in a northern Victorian town. Five weeks ago I sent messages to the two major political party campiagn headquarters that it was our intention to deliver a hung parliament. There was delight that the culmination of twenty years of work was about to be delivered. This is the beginning of the end of the manner in which the two parties (labor and Liberal) have highjacked the peoples' democracy. If the two leaders of today Gillard and Abbott resigned it would be no loss. Actually a benefit to the nation. Along with them the long term career politicians and the new breed of labor and liberal. Anyone who accepts a Ministry in any government abandons the people who elected them. Gillard, Abbott and the senior party politicians lie, misrepresent and dissemble. The advertismenets being run by both parties are insulting and ignorant. Abbott's four word phrase has soured and he is bordering on appearing moronic unable to grasp complex issues. He cannot stop the boats in fact he cannot do much at all, because globalism overtool us long again and Keating knew that it was coming. Labor are no different. Ms Gillard is as stubborn in her current role of denial as she was as an underperforming Minister for Education and Workplace Relations. Gillard's Fair Work modernisation toolk away the jobs of teenagers in towns and cities across Australia. Will she acknowledge that or listen, no she is self centred and ideologically driven and in the country towns we visit and communicate to, she will suffer the consequences of her detached stupidity. labor and Liberal are both detached and stupid. They are engaged in attack dog denigrating advertismenets without realising that every one they run is being countered by direct communication into Australia's individual voters' in boxes. Thick as two planks they were told, andretold over the yaers but simply ignored the eventual. These people are puntingg democracy and millions on the proposition that they gerry mander a few votes. For heaven's dake cut them down to their pigny size. 
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August 2010: SMITH, ABBOTT AND BROADBAND
The Australian coalition party (Liberal and National) issued its $A6.5 billion broadband technology policy. If ever Tony Abbott wanted to demonstrate inadequacy as a person in charge he did it here. He floundered on the ABC 7.30 Report with Kerry Obrien, resorting to bleating ignorance. The policy is quite frankly rubbish and whilst it may have been conceived by a former telecommuications executive, now liberal candidate, one must question the riding instructions he was given. Malcolm Turnbull being slightly more articulate has also demonstrated a lack of awareness and understanding. Labor proposes a fibre optic to the home 100 MB (possibly 1,000 MB - gigabyte) network. The bandied cost is $A46 billion. According to critics the government is funding this totally. Crap. The government is funding about $A26 billion. The rest is a best guess funding cost where the model, and financing, has to be assessed. There are squeals of lack of economic evaluations by the economists, and fringe dwellers, of the nation who sit on the sidelines and snipe. They usually have built very little and do not occupy positions of risk imbued responsibilities. Fibre optic is somehat future proof, is scaleable, and does not require spectrum allocation in the atmosphere unlike wireless. Fibre is not subject to the vagaries of the environment and the weather. The dearest component is the labour, and material, costs associated with trenches and conduits. This would seem to be a job creation programme across the nation of good value. Once laid it is there. Wireless is limited. What would an economic evaluation tell us? The bleeding obvious. Turnbull rabbits on that people will not want/require it. Really? He obviously does not spend time doing more than email. What unadulterated poppy cock, baseless supposition. I use wireless heavily every day. I have a Telstra wireless modem that can achieve a speed of 67 kiobits and it costs me $A58 a month. Isn't that a bobby dazzler, 67 kilobytes. Does Telstra care? No they sell the thing. I have an Optus wireless system that is purportedly connecting at 12 megabytes yet the ISP never seems able to respond at that speed. My partner has a Virgin wireless that does not work at all, most times. This lot of mobile kit costs me $A200 a month. They are the best I can get now, in August 2010. They manage a download od between 500Mb and 2 gigabytes. Given all of that I will happily pay a price for the broadband labor goodie. The coalition plan is cobbled together, and it is ideological tripe, relying upon the private sector and a freed corporate gorilla with a record of poor customer interest and a desire to monopolise. This is the typical coalition approach. At least labor has some vision in this policy. But hang the parliament anyway, a pox on all of their houses. |
| August 2010: MORE RUBBISH - WHY DO THEY NOT LEARN NOR GET IT?
Just finished watching Julia Gillard on ABC 7.30 report and I was appalled at her total lack of understanding about the underlying intention of Kerry O'Brien's questions. Ms Gillard could not comprehend his logic. Julia Gillard referred to their economic credentials but could not grasp She had no idea what Kerry meant when he asked why labor had to raid the coffers of Medibank Private to pay for an election promise? $A300 million. That waste compares minutely to how much Ms Julia Gillard has allowed to be squandered when she was in the Education portfolio some weeks back and what is still occurring in her wasteful BER programme across Australia even as she tells us about her government's economic credentials. I believe that she has no idae of fiscal responsibility and may think it hs something to do with nebulous rules, that have percentages, and about creating a surplus. Both parties, labor and liberal, are beyond redemption in their stupid disregard and overblown rant about the negativity (value) of debt. Tony Abbott is no better than Ms Gillard in stealing to pay for their election success. He wants to win an election so he drops out a parental leave policy that suits his purpose, and says that the wealthy, and successful, companies can pay for it. He chooses $A5 Million dollars as measure of success for the companies who have to pay. Why should anyone have to fund the bribes, and dross policies, that come out of their narrow minds, to get this lot (labor or liberal) elected? Australia has the lowest levels of debt in the world and is suffering from an under spend on infrastructure and aset of quite incompetent governments in building our future. Everytime the politicians realise that we have a view on something they run a mile from the topic in order to avoid debate. We are in this mess because every major reform of the last years and every major policy of the past eighteen months has been rushed. "Kerreee, you know as I know" over and over, she says these same words at the start of every response. She has become nauseatingly repetitive, boring and bordering on being quite ignorant of what is being asked, what is happening and what she should do. I think she is not capable of being the Prime Minister, lacking the capacity of Whitlam, Hawke, Keating and Howard in every sense of leadership and communication skill. This is sad. The first woman to get there is blowing it and seems unable to comptrehend what to do. Instead she resorts to metaphors of ALF football, and to talking about being her own self, realeased from the captive advisers that made her something else. This quite frankly is immature drivel as if she is a cartoon character generated movie. The Prime Minister's ex boyfriend, and Minister in the Rudd/Gillard labor government, Craig Emerson, appeared on ABC television's Q&A last night (Monday 2, August 2010), and to say he was smug and stupid, in my opinion, is to put it mildly. He seemed oblivious to, or ignored, the laughter and hoots, when he described the new Julia. Perhaps he missed the irony? We were sure that he knows her imtimatley unlike his colleagues. Appearing also was Senator Barnaby Joyce. Barnaby is a figure of derision to the smug, self opinionated and hardly worth listening to, politicians, a class in which I would put Mr Emerson. It is their style to ridicule and attempt to humiliate Senator Joyce. Yet the Senator is the face of the Nationals, the shop front retail politician. I like Barnaby quite a lot and dislike Craig Emerson intensely. So we have "game on" says Julia. Do these people reside in another universe? Despite being federal Education Minister for a while she seems to noy yet understand that schools are actually the province of the states. Does she think we do not know that? All she can do is foot the bill. Yet she announces a policy of creating "independent public schools". What are these? Breakaways from the state and a separate federal creation, run by parents and employing teachers? What will the High Court say about these new inventions? She says they can have $A50,000 to seed their establishment. What sort of school can you create with that? How many parents are capable of running a school or have the time? Julia Gillard truly is a bemusing politician. Labor itself seems to have no idea of the Australian Constitution or perhaps they think that they can step around it with their centyralisation policies and ideologies? Julia wants another debate with Tony, because she wants to demonstrate her new "I am not a puppet" rebirthing. But Tony will not play. Parrot Abbott then rejigs his parental leave policy. The tax rate is lowered. As I point out below it is sleight of hand. It will now begin in 2012 and will have exclusions. Joe Hockey says that it will be better but cannot say how so. Wait for Tony to garble another intelligible muttering. I notice he walks interestingly. He looks so at ease when talking to people, like he is about to punch a bag. The currency of politicians is words, hollow, shallow and often ignored. Poor Julia her campaign strategy is well and truly stuffed and the cyber space rattles with derision and humiliation. Even there they cannot comprehend what is happening to them. Julia, shall we dance in the old fashion way? |
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July 2010: LAW AND ORDER ANOTHER HOLLOW PIECE OF CRAP SAME OLD SONGS YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR I don't know about you but I am so tired of the usual issues being top of the election issues - regardless of whether it is federal or state jurisdiction. Most of what labor and liberal are offering are the provinces of the states. The economy, industrial relations, unfair dismissal, health and education. Wouldn't you think that with all the years, all the practice, experiments, trials and enquiries, all of the resources and staff, the public service etc, that they could actually create something worthwhile that lasts? Is it to much to ask? Apparently the politicians who have come after Bob Hawke and Paul Keating are so devoid of talent, so amateurish and incompetent that they cannot come up with a set of policies that work and have passable results. The bureaucrats, and others who work in the industries that are the playthings of these fools are talented and they keep everything running despite the efforts of people like Abbott, Robb, Gilllard, Wong and Garrett to wreck them. Unfortunatley in NSW the corrosion has enveloped the public service and labor's years have destroyed the substance of the state. The enquiries that the Senate and House of Representatives undertake are exercises to give some of the parliamentary faithful somethng to do, to feel meaningful. The reports are rarely read and if they are they are usually ignored by the key memebrs of the party in power. Hundreds of millions of dollars are wasted on pretence. How fiscally responsible does this make labor or liberal? Not at all fiscally responsible. A significant majority of politicians are put into office to act as "dorothy dixers" in question time and to serve to keep their party in government.  TROT OUT THE FEAR AND TRIGGER ISSUES THAT CANNOT BE DELIVERED AND IMPLY THAT THEY CAN BE - IN ESSENCE PLAY ON THE IGNORANCE OF VOTERS' KNOWLEDGE Law and order is the province of the state governments, under the Constitution, not the federal government So Abbott, and Gillard, are again full of it when they claim they will be hot, and sweaty, in the corridors of power, on gangs. One will ceare a databse and the other will ban the trinkets that gang's apparently treasure. laugh at Abbott and Gillard or cry, pity them but do not vote for them. Where are the gangs that so frighten us all in our beds? Are they the figment of media contrivance for a story, the stuff of mightmares in the dreams of state Premiers, and Police Ministers, trying to justify their continued existence in public office? Abbott will create a gang member database. I trust the databse will have at the top the senior strategists, and politicians, of the labor and liberal parties. READ THE FINE PRINT, LIKE CHEAP AIRLINE TICKETS CONDITIONS APPLY BUT WITH THESE POLITICIANS YOU MIGHT NOT MERLELY LODSE YOUR SEAT, YOU MIGHT FORFEIT YOUR LIVELIHOOD OR LIFE Wayne Swan says that factions do not control the labor government.  A recent announcement, By Tony Abbott, for a key policy, looks good, but the implementation date is 2013. Another sleight of hand from the political master chefs. Wayne Swan says that labor's My Super will deliver $A143,000 extra into a 30 year old person's fund at retirement on basic wages over their working life. How does he know this figure is true? He doesn't he is lying. There is a ctach beyond not knowing how a fund investment managers and board will perform into the future. When questioned Swan comes clean, the calculation is $A108,000 for one bit of the fund and $A40,000 for another bit. Conditions apply. They are as shifty as each other. Tony Smith, coalition opposition spokesperson on simple propositions requiring little analytical ability, says that an Abbott government will ditch the National Broadband. What will they put in place of it? Someting better says Smith with no elaboration. He is blatheriing that it will cost $A83 billion, based on some erudite piece of analysis done by yet another expert in search of relevance. A typical political vacuuum heads the federal liberals seem oblivious to the commercial reality that the powerful media companies are on are board for the National Broadband build, not the least Telstra and its $A11 billion dollar deal with the labor government. Getting rid of broadband actually fits neatly with a narrow minded, small Australia, befitting the destructive nature of the current political class with nothing of value to add to our lives. Is it any wonder whave such little respect? Thick skinned they push forward because the prize is public office by right of being. Senator Penny Wong still shows that she knows little about climate change. She can drone on (talking up through a drain) about nothing as she argues the case for whatever non action suits this week. Has anyone noticed that she has little detailed grasp of her topic, can draw upon no science slogans? As a Minister she has not been able to deliver any part of her portfolio. Where is the water policy, where are the green loans that she and Garrett trumpeted? Where is the insulation programme that was to create jobs? Well it did that at least unfortunatley jobs for charlatans and people died. But they are not responsible are they? They distance themselves like Brumby in Victoria from any accountability and responsibility for failure that brings death and suffering. But let her stay in parliament, she looks comely so some will no doubt vote for her. If we are going to have a parliament without proportional representation then we may as well have some nice wallpaper.  What lurks behind the doors of Australia's political representatives? There is something not quite right with Julia and Tim and I cannot put my finger on it. Are Australians as easy going as many would have us believe? In a majority conservative nation will the population elect Julia Gillard and her consort to the Lodge? To my way of thinking they will not. The nation is not ready for a government whose most senior members, and Ministers, are not like everyone else. We can trace the state of labor stupidity, and a policy vacuum devoid of big ideas, to the machine men of politics Bob Carr, Karl Bitar, Mark Abib, inter alia, and a private corporation, Hawker Britton, that produces mediocre slogans dressed up as credible mutterings for labor to chant like parrots.  It is not as clear who to blame for the liberal malaise. It certainly wasn't John Howard. Costello failed and Turnbull has not galvanised. Andrew Robb got all depressed about life in parliament general so he did not generate astonishing concepts. He still is singimng the same old boring song. The refugee policy is evidence that there is no intellectual capacity for government other than what they are spoon fed by public relations and human behaviouralists, to win government. The dull public says it is about the economy stupid, programmed by the single pursuit of surplus and cheap groceries. Well it actually more than that in a wwell functining civil society with excelent government. What we have now are two political demonstrate a strong committment to her governance in office either managerially or politically. Like Rudd she sends wet behind the ears kiddies to impoprtant meetings. The two leaders cannot accept the responsibility of office seriously enough to put the nation first. They cannot tell what is important and what is hollow rubbish. Gillard cannot whose only skill is in the rarified world of their careers, who have no ideas, little ability to generate coherent thoughts of their own, and whose sole objective is winning political power and staying in office. The public interest plays no part in Abbott and Gillard's world of betrayal, slime and backstabbing, any semblance that they are there for the good of the nation has been abandoned. Who cares if Rudd rabbits around the nation doing whatever turns him on. Only a vacuous media that has for years allowed these clowns to get away with corrupt and corrosive practices while the jounrnalsists and press gallery focused on the gladiatorial contest and the simple thinking that denotes a degradation in public policy analysis ability. Do not vote labor, or liberal, until the end of your ballot ticket pity we have to vote them at all. Vote so that the parliamentary make up is changed, pout in the independents to both houses and tell Abbott, Gillard and the parasites of our democracy, and governments, to go away sometime soon. |
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July 2010: SPIN ANOTHER LINE MS BLANKETY BLANK Prime Minister Julia Gillard showed us herself the media crowed! They are really easil;y pleased and connedx. Julia was angry. She had been outed by an apparent cabinet leak that she spoke out againt pension increases. All puffed up with indignity Ms Gillard told us how she looked afetr the public interest. She alone, in the face of adversity questioned the pension increase. She put it to the spotlight, she put it to the test, she blew it out of her arse. This was $A50 billion and she was looking at it deeply. What a load of self serving crock from Ms Guillotine. If this was true then she did the same for the other billions of dollars of waste on her watch. Of course she did not. She is incompetent and has covered her tracks with calamity and political machinations. No one listens to the federal Auditor General. Gillard paid no such attention to the insulation expenditure and to the stupidity, and ineptness, of the public servants (state and federal) and Ministers of the Crown to whom she entrusted billions in her education portfolio. Even as she tells us another set of to suit responses her educarion revolution is behind schedule and out of cost control, but she passed that on to Simon Crean didn't she. He is an old hand at fixing up the shit piles of others in government. Vote for Gilllard, or Abbott, for it hardly matters. It is put about that the Australian electorate is quite sophisticated and can see through false masks. Rubbish. If this was the case and we were a smart Australia we would get off our arses, participate loudly and demand accountability. We would march on the houses of parliament like NSW and demand that the flakey government of Kristina Kenneally pack its bags and be off. We would have given Brumby and labor the boot after 175 people died because the people they employ failed them. We would tell Tony Abbott and his lot of geriatric, and nepotistic, parasites of government to also pack up. What sort of electorate tolerates a Prime Minister entrusting high responsibulity to wet behind the ears kids? Federal labor, under Kevin Rudd, put out all sorts of promises and has delivered a few of the nebulous, easy ones. The apology to indigenous people heads the list. The rest are still underway, none of the benchmarks have been met. This election is a contest of mediocrity. It is yet another yawn for a majority whose significant event of the week is a tv programme, Masterchef. It is about the status quo being maintained by a handful of self interested political parasites who put their hand on their heart and speak with conviction, until next time. Then they change the tune to suit and the pig spins where the wind blows. |
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July 2010: POLITICAL LEOPARDS AND SPOTS Defining Tony Abbott's Moral Compass They all do it. Politicians will resile from their ideological positions if it proves detrimental to their election propsects. They spin like the weather vane on their political ship. Tony Abbott, one year back says that he can never give up on industrial relatons and is bemused by the dum[ping of work choices. Now he says never ever, buried and cremated. Yet behind the scenes, I believe that, he plots to change the regulations within the Fair Work Act to neuter labor's flight to the past federal system. Everything is manipulated and the unethical nature of our political system and the operatives within it. Tony Abbott will reduce immigration down to 175,000 scream the headlines of the tabloids. Mr Abbott then, in concert with Joe Hocvkey and others, puts it abbout that they are going to be tough and we must debate real numbers in a population policy. Immigration numbers under labor's existing policy will be about 145,000, so Tony Abbott engages in an ongoing falsehood, as if the electorate are gullible and incapable of thinking. He has not emonstrated that he possesses a moral compass that would define a great political leader and Prime Minister. The two political leaders are engaging at the fringes, they fail to show us what value we are buying in the election. |
The Prime Minister, Ms Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, both squandered an opportunity to showcase their talents in the Sunday evening leader's debate. Whether it was through lack of preparation, lack of skill or both is not clear. It was an unilluminating exercise in boring monotony of rehearsed slogan and misrepresentation cluttered with short giove away announcements. It demonstrated the paucity of deep and invigorating policy and the showed the level to which Australia's federal politics has descended. This is te best we can hope for in Australia? A dearth of talented representatives in high office. Scared of the polls and scared to make a commitment without concensus. Advised, and persuaded, by the unelected (behind the scenes spin and straegy advisers) to squander the opportunities of political office. Cry my beloved country. |
An election based on false beliefs, spin and brazen misinformation The Prime Minister, Ms Julia Gillard, told us that labor will legislate so that no dirty coal power stations will be built in the future. Thus we see the bias. She states that coal power stations will have to be retrofiited and any new station will have to meet stringent "clean coal" regulations. This, according to her limited knowledge, will include sequestration, carbon capture. In the same package of inane proposition is a billion dollars for national grid development to ensure that renewables raised in the remote parts of the country will be efficiently delivered to the population centres. A billion dolllars will barley pay for a transmission line of a few hundred kilometres let alone a web delivering the fantasies of a fevered, singular political mind in seek of governmment. Never mind that carbon sequestration is not proven, may do nasty things to the underworld, and will be mightily expensive and never mind that the, ill informed, consumers will suffer energy price rises of 300% or higher if such policies are implemented. Also never mind that she tells furphies when she says that the temperature of the earth is rising. It is not warming, it is getting coller. In this poorly thought out policy set a whole community, in the Latrobe Valley, of Victoria will be put to th sword again. They were subjected to pillage in 1992 when labor, and liberal, governments privatised the Victorian power industry in pursuit of the nebulous, and contrived, national grid. They also misrepresented facts and to my mind lied to the community. Everyone who had an interest in ensuring that happened bent the facts and the truth, withhled information and stifled debate. What will happen when the Australian nation realises that it needs more energy that only coal stations can supply? It will be too late to plan and build them, much like the failure to build dams and other infrastructure. We will have to build more and more gas using up a smaller finite resource. There is also the problem that power supply is the province of the states and not the federal government. Ms Gillard has already shown that she, and her agents, are inept at delivery of things. Ms Gillard has learnt nothing from the Rudd exercise, the propensity to spin and engage in hollow endless rhetoric. Her arsenal of offerings in this election are not solid policies, they are hedging words and dissembling nonsense. Ms Gilllard's propositions for these policies start from a flawed base, carbon is bad. The greens are hysterical in their hatred of carbon and coal. They border on mental paranoia. Ms Gillar is wring when she implies that climate change science is a given, in favour of her perspectives, and that the world is warming. A woman in Sydney, featured in the Australian newspaper, Saturday 24 July 2010, pictured in her garden, says that everyone can have solar and there will, in her opinion, be no need for another power station. This demonstrates the basic ignorance of many people in the community, about energy, electricity and transmission, particularly those besotted with the romantic notion of self sustaining, clean living. Residential energy (gas and electricity) uses a miniscule of a state, and a nation's, energy output. Putting solar in all houses has a minor impact on emissions. What jobs will her community have without industrial energy and carbon fossil fuel and commodities? Ms. Gillard plans a community assembly of 150 people drawn from the electoral role, to study climate change for a year and reach a concensus. What drivel. They will not reach a concensus unless they all are chosen from a single mind set demographic. The average person is not capable of assimililating the complex science and its off shoot disciplines and tentacles. Such requires not only theory ut also practical knowledge and experience. It is obvious that Ms Gillard has no knowledge of the actual process of producing electricity and the attendant technologies. Kate Carnell, ex Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory, and now an industry association spokesperson, wants industry representation in the citizen's assembly. If there has to be an assembly then they should not get a seat because industry has a set agenda, the representative will be a pawn and industry associations have many ways of prosecuting their case. It is the loud interest groups that have derailed the debate to date and put about the falsehoods. Writing of falsehoods, consider liberal opposition in the federal parliament, Andrew Robb, who laughingly says that there is a citizen's assemblyalready, the parliament. As if the Australian parliament is representative of the people! The parliaments of Australia are "managed, corrupted and corroded" institutions, the playground of a handful of political power brokers and manipulators, with questionable morals and ethics. They are detached from the ordinary ctizen and he may well ponder that the people generally have no respect for politicians and political party apparatchiks. The two political parties decide who will be the majority representatives, in our assemblies, and once in parliament those representaatives must follow the party line and decisions. Thus we enetr another week of weasle words and filibuster. A small Australia suits the small minded. |
Greens in a world of their own Tony Abbott thinks that the more he slices chunks willy nilly out of the labor spending programme the greater chance he has of winning the election. He is deluded. The electorate is starting to become more savvy. Someone should tell him that the world, and Australian society, have moved on as a result of the GFC, in terms of economic theory and practices. Here in Australia the average individual was, and is, very happy, to have received labor's largesse in the form of several hundred bucks, close to Christmas. Small, to medium, business were also happy because many of them owe their commercial existence to Kevin Rudd, Wayne Swan and Julia Gillard. Many of them would not be here, along with their employees, if the coalition was in government at that time. The trio of Mr. Abbott, Mr. Hockey and Mr. Robb have now claimed to have achieved a fictional savings number of $A 46 billion. One must be impressed. They have taken it from infrastructure, from the broadband whihc they do not like, and they think that people should not have access to their government at the local town hall meeting. They also want to stop the investment "connect" programmes that are assisting small, to medium, enterprise across Australia to remain commercially viable, grow and manage. They must be hell to live with given their propensity for scrooge like budgeting and spending. In the background the Greens want a levy/tax on fast food and alcohol. They live in a fantasy world of their own minds. The trend towards paternalistic, or maternalistic, governments, particularly under labor, and green ideology, is offensive and belittling. According to the "do gooders" one must not gamble, drink or eat stuff that they think is bad for the individual. One must conform, and free choice is subject to wowsers' permission. Mr. Abbott should be aware that just beyond the horizon are very nasty global impacts that will cause Australia significant angst in 2010 - 2011. One hopes that Mr Swan, and Jools, know it too. We better be doing some spending, and priming of our economy, with large investments in education, infrastructure, and ideas, or we will be hit harder and harder. The liberals and nationals would destroy our motivation and depress us into submission with doom and gloom and risk aversion. It is no wonder they choose politics and not self employed busines ownership as their major careers. Some of the liberals have run significant enetrprises but they are few and far between in the parliament in 2010. The paranoia, of governments, that surrounds being in debt stymies the Australian economy and holds us in the doldrums. It bottlenecks our enterprise and creativity. Mr Abbott, Mr Hockey and Mr Robb again, do not tell us the whole story. They know very well that the Australian Government's Finance Department and Treasury, run a very significant financial/investment business, within government. That body makes a lot of money from strategically managing, and manipulating, our debt and our surplus. They do not pay down debt mandatorily as a rule unless it is to our national benefit to do so. One can make serious money hedging. It is not as simple as the three musketeers, and Barnaby Joyce imply and that gives me the irits. The Australian government debt is not a static number ($A200 billion) and debt is not evil. In the real world debt is a valid component of the capital mix. In some cases it is often better to have debt than not have debt. The way they talk they are subtly reinforcing Barnaby's hysteria regarding sovereign capability and risk. The thinkers, in our nation, have grown tired of the misrepresentation, manipulation and the lies of self interested politicians. They should realise, by now, that there is something seriously amiss within the voting electorates, regarding their view of politicians and governments. In this regard Mr Abbott seems to have not realised this and this among other things demonstrates he is in a time warp. (Kevin R Beck, Melbourne, Australia) |
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Further he says that Work Choices is dead, buried and cremated. What does this mean actually? Not a lot. He knows he can use the regulations to alter the Fair Work laws tio almost extent he wants. He plays with words and is not convincing. This is a strange election. We have two oppositions. The government acts and talks as if it is in opposition to the liberal/national parties. Julia Gillard could say to the people of Australia the fear about boat people is unfounded, the truth is being manipulated and there are lies being told. There are more people coming by normal methods of travel to Australia than by rickety people smuggler boats but she does not. She could say that there is no population crisis that it is a services issue and failure of state and local government but she does not. She is, to my thinking, as untrustworthy and shifty as Tony Abbott is. What doess he represent and what are her values? UIs she being dsiingenuous when she denies gay people their right to marry? What skeletons lurk in her closet from her personal relationships of the past and the present? It may be best to vote Greens, Labor and the Liberals last on the ballot ticket and others at the top. (Kevin R Beck, Melbourne Australia) |
Punting in the dark The line up of combatants for the 2010 Australian federal election presents a mixed bag of solid experience and skills but fails to inspire. There are no visionary leaders here and no game changers. These are the incumbents who ride the merry go round until their turn arrives if they can stay the course. They all occupy the middle square centimetre of Australia's political landscape. They are the method actors, with the standard play book. They are, in many ways, puppets of others, operating behind the stage, who pull the strings, making them dance and mostly mime. They are all "going forward" at the "end of the day" and they will both "stop the boats." Tony Abbott seems to think it is enough to act tough and say and "we will stop the boats" when that is quite simply rubbish. The tendency to treat the electorate like they are imebciles is a trade mark of the modern political leader's presidential style, presidential style, maybe Mr. Abbott could consider putting on a cape, mask and gloves? I do not personally like Julia Gillard or Tony Abbott. I think that they lack the imagination and eforming of Vision of Bob hawke and paul Keating. Ms Gillard embellishes her recent activity as a Minister claiming to have detached herself from Kevin Rudd. She ignores her seious failures as a Minister in charge of large volumes of tax payer money, glossing over and often rewriting the chapter. All of the things she claims to have done are nebullious and none are in actual implementation. No asylum solution, no resource tax legislation, no education revolution in terms of learning, she is confusing thinking, and talking, with actual results. The Rudd government could not deliver health reform, could not deliver housing to aborgibal people, could not reduce homeless numbers and could not deliver two web sites. Ms Gillard wasted hundreds of millions of dollars as Education Minister and has taken us back to a past era in industrial relations. Through modernisation of awards she has taken the jobs of school children away in regional towns. How is that modernising? Just another slogan. This is a person who is teflon coated and no dust of failure sticks to her. Questionable in her authenticity, and fiscal discipline she is to boot an atheist and what else? Her private life is unknown but skeletons are banging on the closet door. Despite these criticisms it seems to me that overall labor has much stronger depth, and talent, in its ranks than the coalition. Their talent is broader yet labor persists with low level performers, and shags on rocks, whilst other stellar types lurk in the background. This is a personal assessment by Kevin Beck of a number of members of the labor and liberal/national federal parliamentary members. Much has been written aboyt the talent of Mark Abib. A former machine man of the NSW labor party he has risen quickly though one not associated with the inner workings of the labor party may well question why? As a parliamentary secreatry under Kevin Rudd he performed poorly, showing a shallow grasp of his responsibilites and portfolio detail, when questioned by the media, stumbled and blathered with little substance. Another machine man is Mike Kaiser from Queensland, who apparently will pay a key role in the federal labor campaign. Perhaps it is necessary to have someone from the corrupt, and corroded, wings of the party machine, from NSW and Queensland, to keep the representation balanced and the shady types happy? Standards are not all that high, in labor circoles and governments, and the party gave up all pretence that is not bent many yaers ago. The benchmarks set for the campaign are deliberately low. Julia likes rhyming things. Gree and lean for example. Minister Peter Garrett has managed to stuff every job he waa given. He has cost more money as a Minister than anyone I can name in the history of modern government. The technology changes under Howard wasted a billion in government but they did not actually cause death and sorrow. Election commentators are excited, about what, and whom, in this electoral contest? The people, the policies? Wayne Swan is Deputy and Treasurer. Another strange choice given his, to my mind, labouring approach to the portfolio. Perhaps it is necessary to have a senior Queenslander to defray the damage of the hatchet job on Kevin Rudd. Mr. Swan annoys me with his scripted approach to economics, amd finance, and personal traits when being questioned. I think he is a light weight and has been shielded. He is given credit for saving Australia from recession during the GFC. This is, I think, over dramatised poppy cock. Throw billions of dollars at the economy and one gets stimulus. A simple and costly method. What will he do when another impact comes in the second wave in 2011? His opposite number is Joe Hockey. A much more personable and likeable politician. He is more a marketing man to my mind. A front man selling the snake oil and carnival. I do not think that detail is his forte. He blithely accepted a $1.2 billion cost for the Access Card, when in government, when it actually could have been delivered for $A400Million. He presided over a waste of $A50Million in fees to consulting companies and a loss of tens of millions of dollars in public and private sector time, money and resources. Has not demonstrated a strong grasp of economcs and finance. Robert McClelland is Attorney General. His focus on national security is almost non existent. He might be a backroom worker but one has to question what are his priorities and passion? Senator George Brandis, his opposite, is a typical QC. He likes the cut and thrust of clinical interrogation in the Senate and offers little portfolio excitement and zest. One might exoect no reforms of the law on his watch. Penny Wong is Minister for Stories about Climate Change. She swallowed the bait, hook line and sinker, choked and got lost in Kevin's debacle. She may be bright as a lawyer and a rsising party star but like Garrett she is schockingly inept as a Minister. If she is put in charge of the carbon credit stupidity and another ETS she ahs the ability to bankrupt industry. On the opposite side is Greg Hunt. His environmental credentials are not deep. The handling of the Neapn National Park in his electorate, in concert with the Victorian labor government, indicates that he fails to have a vision and is lilely to be a lumbering waffler. Simon Crean, the most seasoned Minister of the party, has education. This is not a good fit. The labor party has championed low level, competmncy training focused on vocational education rather than deep learning. He will do a workman like job but if he relies on what I think is a the moribund, academically focused Department, for his vision and ideas then education is doomed to stay where it is. However on the positive side he will not waste the hundreds of millions that Ms Gillard has as Minister. Simon also tends to tell the truth and wil admit his mistakes, again unlike Ms Gillard. Christopher Pyne is interesting as an education Minister. He will not be schmooched by the Department and hopefully would shake it up cleaning out the dormant dead wood in its ranks. On industrial relations we can ignore Senator Eric Abetz, the senior liberal from Tasmania. He is more suited to running a labour camp in an autocratic government. Want to use asylum seekers and refugees for building roads? Mr. Abetz might be just the man to get the job done. Chris Evans the Minister for Immigration needs someone else to think things up for him. He did not develop the East Timor regional solution. He mused that he had let the debate get away from him. Scott Mossison the liberal wants his lunch and is wel suited to starring in a rambo movie, in his mind. He can put a bad idea very well and a smeely policy with neutral scent. He is better suited to being the whip or speaker perhpas. Maybe trade but not Immigration. Andrew Robb is the liberal's choice for finance. Another party machine (election) campaigner he invites no confidence. He gets moody and is patcht in his performance. His opposite Lindsay Tanner in labor has had aenough. Nicola Roxon is in health. She beavers away and is unapproachable locked away in the bureaucracy. The fraud in her portfolio is well above $A100Million and the level is nuanced for political palatibility. I do not like her manner of managing this major agency. She ahs not deliverd the super medical clinics and the health reforms and is intrinsic in the "no changes" deal with the states. Over rated by the media and among the major wasters of public money. Her oppsoite is Peter Dutton and why he is considered a future leader? A former Queensland cop, that state has a patchy history regarding its police force and Dutton spat dummies when he was not given a fre ride when the electoral bundaries changed. He is not a credible health Minister alternative. Julie Bishop, why is she in any portfolio? A lawyer who cannot quite translate to the political arena she has little grasp of the complex issues and details. Like some labor types she is there as a filler from one of the states (Western Australia) and weakens the credibility of the coalition. Stephen Smith is a solid type but his hair stylist needs changing. He is not a major star on the stage of foreign affairs. Though I woud prefer him to having Rudd back. Kevin Rudd has no place in a senior government Ministry and is an annoying man of demonstrated limited talents. There are a number of people outside the cabinet members like the Minister for Sustainable Population, Tony Burke, occupying Julia's ridiculous, and more wasteful, political creation. He wanders about debating the future, much of it to do with state responsibilities, staring into the crtstal ball and holding hamds at the seances of the future. The population portfolio is a result of misrepresentation of the real problem. People are moving into more remote suburbs of major cities and regions in Australia where there is less infrastructure and services. They are hard done by in comparison to the city. Housing affordability and demand is translated into population which in turn is blamed on immigration. Why Canberra is allowing the states off the hook is not clear. States have failed in their responsibilities. Labor's Anthony Albanese keeps Sydney apirport in the dark ages refusing to budge on the airline curfew and a new runway and second airport. It serves his political interests to maintain a curfew and limit exoansion since his electorate is impacted. He is a NSW labor party numbers man and is tarred with the same brush of questionable motives as his state counterparts. NSW is the most dysfunctional and perahps the most corrupt Australian political environment at local, and state, government levels. On balance it is a fairly mediocre set of choices for a liberal or labor government. |
Is this another outcome of population growth, the dumbing down of the nation? You can continue to play to the average audience Ms. Julia and have a bland political campaign, lacking fire and aspiration. You can galvanise or you can contiue with the wet dish cloth presentations, the set of damp squid, perceived safe, tactics recommended by your less than steallr media advisers. Or are you smarter than I give you crdit? Are you playing the game until you get elected as Prime Minister by the people. The voters of lalor should be able to elect two women, to add colour and vibrancy to a white bread boring parliament. The liberal candidate is something out of the box. Back in Hindmarsh, we can see the talent on display, aspiring labor candidate is backing "Julia Rudd", for PM. What does that say about the quality of the labor offering? Sometimes I wonder what Simon Crean and Martin Ferguson think having seen the spell bidning capability of the political maetros of labor versus the mediocrity we are saddled with today. Vote in some greens and some independents and hang the parliament on its ear. But under our managed plitical governance such an outcome is a chance in a million. So we can dream can we not? (Kevin R Beck, Melbourne, Australia) |
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"More than most elections, this one may be to the victor the spoils, because both parties have emptied themselves of content by reversing the relationship between their identity and the political market. God knows who to barrack for in this one— it’s England v Germany all over again. There’s a great advantage in Labor having this whole strategy repudiated — even from a rightward trending electorate — and the political bankruptcy of the party and its grim leadership. On the other hand, the taxidermy of Tony Abbott…. In either case, nothing’s on offer one could start to get excited about. Which at least means you can kick back and watch it over a drink or two." (Source of extract: The pendulum and the pit — Faulkner, the election and the exhaustion of mainstream politics, part deux July 8, 2010 – 4:17 am, by Guy Rundle. Crikey.com What is it that labor stands for now? "So much for the surging hope of the centre-left vote. Gillard is, on the whole, more conservative than Rudd. Where he had started to edge his way to the right on climate change and asylum seekers, she has raced there. Why? First, because it's authentically her. She has been consistent on these issues for years. She is only a member of the Left in name. Second, because it is her support base. She entered Parliament with the support of the Right faction, defeating for preselection a candidate backed by the Socialist Left. And the coup that delivered her the prime ministership was also mobilised by the Right. Why do you think that the Left - outside Victoria - was the last bastion of support for Rudd? And third, because of the electoral logic that was pushing Rudd in the same rightwards direction. Labor treats its left-leaning voters with contempt. It assumes that even if they leave Labor for the Greens or "others", their votes will always flow back to Labor through preferences. Rudd, and now Gillard, assumes the progressive vote is captive."Source of extract: Her hair may be red, but she's no bleeding heart PETER HARTCHER, July 10, 2010, Sydney Morning Herald) |
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Problem is that the labor government Minister's, negotiating the Resource Profit tax (now known as acronym: MKKKTTXXYZZZ somethng or other) with the very nasty miners, believed the tax take under 40% would be circa $A12 billion when in crystal ball land, under Teasury's enlightened new calculation, it it would be about $A23 billion. So they gave away a big number when they dropped the rate to 30% tax. After applying magic accounting principles it will be more like 22%. Now Wayne tells us that the governmment will get $A10 and a half billion rather than $12 billion, and they only ever wanted $12 billion anyway not $A 23 billion. This is not as silly as Tony Abbott, and Joe Hockey, of the liberals, saying that they do not want any money at all and will stop the tax if they win. They like to give away the peoples' resources to pander to political self interest and their rich constituency, big business. One might winder if brown paper bags litter the offices of good politicians toeing the line in Australia's political system. The modern Australian politician talks in tatts lotto numbers deliberately because they cannot be checked and they are tremendously exciting. They may think that the electorate intelligence quota lies somewhere in the range of 0 - 3/10. Under the close quarter challenge of the ABC interviewer Wayne tries in vain to say that the Treasury forecasts of our rich future are not aolely based on coal, and iron ore, commodity prices being high. He says that the big trade deals and suprplus are based also on other trade though no details come to mind immediately. We know that it is not hospitality and tourism, we know it is not retail, we know it is not manufacturing, so what is it Wayne? Wayne speaks broadly of Asia, with flourish - going forward, and tries to avoid saying China if he can. The ABC interviewer is sceptical and says is it based on China's success? wayne nonetheless adopting non specicifity technqiues of interlocution and mander, sticks to the theme of the budget being in surplus by 2013 (strangely the year of the next federal electon after 2010) which, according to Wayne, is not reliant on China zooming along. He says with an air of non chalant bravado that they are also based on growth in India, South Korea and other places nearby. The engine room of the world are the developing nations. he also claims that the economic wonder of the modern era - Australia - is due to labor's "spending rules". is he serious? This government has flushed billions down the drain and failed to achieve nearlly all of their benchmarks whilst destroying whole industry sectors through mismanagement. labor has funded crooks, and charlatans, in trades and services, to the tune of hundreds of millions over three years. What spending rules? Europe and the USA are stuffed. Wayne reminds me of the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. (Kevin R beck, Melbourne Australia) and I think he and the federal Treasury, seance mediums and diviners, are full of it. |
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Let's add another hundred million. Now labor refuses to use the Nauru refugee processing centre paid for by Australia under John Howard, because that would mean that they endorse his Pacific Solution. East Timor is apparently not in the Pacific. Politicians are quite happy to waste taxpayers' money in the pursuit of their own political self interest and agendas. There is no accountability and performance measurement. We just have to wear it. We can vote and the carousel moves on, there are only two acts and both suck. But "we will do whatever it takes", says Tony Abbott, to protect our borders, beating his hairy chest. What hystrionic crock and blather by someone who does not have to ever go to the front line of any event they dream up, like wars on everything,everywhere . "Tony's war on everything, life is scary," might be a slogan for the liberal's election campaign 2010. Australia's heavy weight negotiators have arrived in east Timor. Given how the Australian labor party was quite prepared to dispatch a sitting Prime Minister, one can only wonder how they will deal with a poor nation that is beholden to hand outs from Australia? What a sad reflection on the quality of politics, and governance, in Australia, that we are seeing every day. Voting is compulsory here. What if it was not? Would anyone bother with the candidates? |
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After a year I thought I knew a fair bit about this very polite, and humble, Iraqi man and so I approached the Immigration Department and Minister Peter McGauran. Shortly after that he was granted resident status and as I pulled into the garage he rushed out and hugged me. He said that he had ben told that I had argued his case. He told me he was off to Iraq to find a wide and that he had also enrolled to study to meet our qualifications hurdle. Today in 2010 I sit in a cafe in Flemington Melbourne having breakfast regularly, I sit next to Somalians, and other refugees from Africa, who populate Lindsay Tanner's electorate of Melbourne. We discuss life. I shop in Chinese stores and eat in Vietnamese restaurants in Melbourne. I look at the garbage that rich Chinese students studying at Melbourne University throw in the stairwells of the building in which I live and I talk with the people from the Middle East as their women stand nearby with covered face. I am in business with Israelis whom I love. All of these people like beer much as anyone else, the AFL and sometimes a bet at the TAB. I go to the regional areas of Victoria where refugees work on the farms. We could create refugee centres across Australia accepting the people who come, instead of merely focusing on whether they are legitimate or they are shady types. We could listen to the falke Tony Abbott and his side kick Senator Mossison who babble on about documents gone missing and we could accept that we are ignorant like them. We could ride a bike to diminsih our hatred of difference. We could also examine and learn their skills when they are interviewed. Based on the assessment we could allocate them to regional areas of need, with varying support and benefits, based on their value contribution, we could accept their academic qualifications with a bit more sense and not be so ignorant and presumptuous. How many highly paid educated bureaucrats have squandered billions since Kevin Rudd came to office under the guidance of some pretty crummy Ministers? We could aks why we tolerate Peter Garrett still in office whilst wasting the opportunity to add people who can contribute? What a hypocrisy labor has turned itself into. The Prime Minister, if she had the gumption, and spine, which I think she does ( piss the pool theorists off and govern {Prime Minister), could stand up and say to us "we can be better than we are and better than the creep Tony Abbott, and his cadre, would have us be." We can take responsibility as a people, and show the world just what it is to be an Australian. We are good at swimming at football and other stuff so let's be good at refugees too. We could also have a decent federal governmeht, and Prime Minister, for at least one time since Bob Hawke left office. |
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DID PRIME MINISTER JULIA GILLARD STUFF UP WITH A STUPID IDEA? Ms Gillard's little datiled statement about off shore processing, and regional solutions, merely adds to the muddy waters of a moribund policies, a vacuum of ideas, within the two major parties in Australia. " “The international regional processing centre should see, we think, the number of arrivals to Australia reduced,” Immigration Minister Chris Evans told ABC radio. There'll certainly be strong deterrence about getting on a boat to Australia. If you get on a boat to Australia and you end up in a processing centre in East Timor or anywhere else as a result, why would you do it? Why would you pay a people smuggler?” (source: Gillard defends plan for East Timor asylum-seeker centre, Joe Kelly From: The Australian July 07, 2010 10:32AM). Yes Minister. A regional processing centre. But where? Not in Australia, but in New Zealand and Esat Timor. A good idea for whom? Ms Gillard implied that there was preliminary agreement for the asylum seekers to be processed in East Timor and In New Zealand. Or did she? Apparently she spoke to the President of East Timor. What of this proposal and its short sighted vision re: East Timor? The Australian government would be demanding a certain level of housing, food and services, not enjpoyed by the citizens of East timor, for these uninvited h=guests in their homeland. What bright member of Ms Gillard's staff, or other adviser, thought this was a good plan in the absence of thinking about possible consequences? These people are oblivious to the real world residing in fantasy of their own political objectives. The Fretlin members of the East Timor's parliament tell me that there is no agreement and there never will be. I question the problems that Australia would create in this poor country. Similarly New Zealand is rejecting the implications in the announcement here. Who thinks these things up? Are our senior politicians and advisers so inept in the machinery of policy making, government and now diplomacy? It would appear so. Hysteria mounts over 5,000 people coming in boats. That hysteria is fanned by Labor and Liberal alike, and One Nation semi - literate spokespersons, and activists, for political and interest motives. Whilst approaching a solution in a regional context is appropriate the manner in which this was done demonstrates that the labor government under Ms Gillard can still stuff up badly. The politicians enacting these policies are to be condemned for their ignaorance and self interest pursuits and may not be ft to hold the highest office. Let them represent the fringe dwellers and let us find people who are of the highest ethical and moral characetr with empathy and lateral thinking skills. As the election approaches there are valid arguments to suggest that it is time to vote Greens and Independents in two both houses of the Australian parliament to address the imbalance, and manipulation of our democracy and government, engineered by the Australian labor and liberal parties. They have created a political fiefdom to exploit their own agendas and self interests. Bust it up. (Kevin R beck, Melbourne, Australia.) July 2010: GILLARD'S FIRST WEEK AND ABBOTT'S DOWNFALL I was surprised that Wayne Swan, the colourless and sometimes ill considred mouth piece of the Rudd government, was elevated. So I went looking for the reasons. Wayne Swan is a true labor believer, in the philosophy of shared benefit. A man whose political years define him in the philosophy that the well off, smart and successful can share their skills and help others. Ms Gillard negotiated with powerful interests sidelining the noisy Minrelas Council executives. The bleating small enterprises voice. The executive of the Australian government know that if you want to achive a result you do not negotiate with the servants of the pwoer collective, the association executives. They earn their living off the back of others and are incapable of decision without the concensus of their membership, that is the the powerful members of the association. So why waste time with the association at all? Small business, the engine room of Australia's employment, has had its tax reduction halved from 2% to 1% as a result. This is portrayed by cticics as a blow. Are they serious? A large black economy exists where sme's pay no tax or cook the books to reduce tax. The cororate rate varies according to the industry. Hospitality, fast food, coffee shops and other entities emloying casuals are renowned for off the books, cash payments. When the deal was done the agrrived bleated. Tony Abbott, leader of the Australian federal opposition in the parliament, states he opposes the tax and would rescind it. Of course it isn't even drafted for legislation, is not due till 2012 and there is anelection in between so he is as usual full of bulldust, treating the electorate with the general notion we are all ill informed. If Mr. Abbott goes to the federal election in 2010 on that proposition he will lose. The propensity to simply pop out statements without any added clarification, or justification, denudes our political system of any valid reason to respect it and the people within it. If Mr Abbott opposes the tax then let him articulate the reasons and justify why he is averse to the national interest? Alternatively he can tell us why the resources tax is bad policy.
Tony Abbott was a senior Minister of the Howard government. We already know what his view of how asylum seekers should be treated. Now of Ms Gillard. The media reports that Ms Gillard will now turn her attention to asylum seekers. If I were Ms Gillard I would make it known to the world that if you come sailing here you will be immediately put on a dedicated plane and returned to your country. This will be categorised as harsh on the oppressed and cruel. Also many of the refugees have no documentation indicating their home country. In that case they should be returned to the country of the smuggler. That would then place the onus on countries to curb smuggling. There will be resistance from neighbouring countries. As a variation we could process women and children, or just children. sending the make dults or all adults back. Separating the families is another deterrent. All immigrants accepted shuld be placed in key regional areas, allocated to work programmes, in asrea of employment need, on award wages that will help them sustain their early days here creating a lifestyle. It is not yet clear if Minister Nicola Roxon has the skill and ability to deliver the proposed health reforms. The current situation appears to be the creation of a new layer of bureaucracy rather than a real reform. labor's health programme should be focused on giving local health practitioners the power and resources to make their own destinies. The state and territory bureaucracies should be wound back. We have already seen our incompetent and dangerous Queensland Health is. The health bureaucracy in New South Wales is as inept and wasteful as its governmment. Julia Gillard did not cause the massive waste under the Building the Education revolution (BER) that was brought about the failure of her own department under Secreatry Lisa Paul and the state and territory education bureaucracries. Yet Ms Gillard is pilloried with no accountability to the incompetence of the senior bureaucrats. This needs addressing. Accountability should be sheeted home. The new education Minsiter will have to deal with the required changes in the federalo Department and that includes a management shakeout. (Kevin R beck, Melbourne) June 2010: JULIA AND THE AUSTRALIAN RESOURCES MINING TAX |
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Going going gone, was the headline I used in the Australian politics web site owned by Kevin R Beck. It referred to Mr. Kevin Rudd. It was posted fourteen days before the coup. I have access to a psychological tool that can use a focus group of handful of carefully chosen people to determine if a sitting politician will hold their seat or if a candidate will win. |
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June 2010, reading the commentary on the demise of Kevin Rudd, as leader of the labor party in government in Australia I noted the rush, by the commentators, to get on board and offer opinions and rationale. Perhaps one of the most common refrains from the "insider elite" is " no one knew" or "who could tell?" and "no one predicted this". Readers of this web site would know that someone definitely did klnow, and predict, the outcome. Similarly the economic watchers were caught flat footed, and out of the loop, on the global financial crisis, again justifying their lack of intuition by being part of the ignorant pack that claimed that it was not possible to predict. They simply did not know. Therefore generally the rest of us would not know. That also is not true. These are the things I do amongst others, assessing, analysing, predicting and implementing. Politicians, political parties, government agencies, businesses, and corporations, could save a lot of money by reading, and studying, the content of my multiple topic web sites or by simply sounding me out in a conversation. There is a lot more to our arsenal of utilities and skills than blogging and commentary on the internet. Soon I will begin to examine Australia, through the eyes and mind, of the Prime Minister Julia Gillard. (Kevin R Beck, Melbourne Australia, Australian Politics and Governmments |
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