Ron Pike, Coffs Harbour, NSW writes to the Editor of The Australian I MUST be a bit silly because I can’t fathom all this green stuff. We stop building dams and power stations and make water and electricity more expensive. We shut down the sustainable logging industry and import more timber. We truncate our irrigated
Ziggy on Carbon Tax
ZIGGY SWITKOWSKI in today’s The Australian ….the carbon tax is essentially a political device born out of a negotiation to form a coalition government with minority partners whose ideology demanded genuflection to a lofty, if theoretical, carbon reduction strategy. The carbon tax may serve worthy agendas, but seriously addressing climate change is not one of
Larry Pickering on Gillard
Tell us what you really think, Larry. From his Facebook Page THE FINAL GILLARD DISGRACE: For $300 a week each, Gillard has given us the privilege of inviting asylum seekers into our homes. Has she and her Government gone completely mad? The ABC proved only this week that we don’t have a clue who is
Voldemort Tax
The trouble with backing your reputation and government on a badly designed and unjustified tax is that after a while you start to sound ridiculous. Gillard, quoted in The Australian “You can only spread opportunity if you keep the economy strong,” the Prime Minister said. This was only made possible by seizing reform challenges such
Class war continues
Gillard ramps up the class war targeting the 30% of the population who still think she’s relevant. LOUDMOUTH mining magnates shouldn’t dominate public debate more than a nurse or a childcare worker, said Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Nurses whose care and nursing is an inetegral and important part of our society are to be held
Shop Steward rolls Immigration Minister
A committee of federal Labor MPs likely to include former union leader Doug Cameron will scrutinise applications from resource companies for foreign workers, but the government has stopped short of giving it a veto. The whole point of the exercise by caucus is they are afraid unions will lose power if foreign workers are employed
Qld Health Dept bigger than ADF
A snippet from the local Bayside and Norther Suburbs Star Australia’s largest employers; Woolworths first with 94, 408 employees, Coles Myer second with 94,00 and third is the Queensland Health Department with 47,520 The Queensland Department of Health has more employees than Telstra, the Australian Department of Defence, all the mining companies and all of
Emerson gets a knock back
(Trade Minister) Emerson has the dubious distinction of being the first Australian Trade Minister to open modern trade policy to protectionism and green principles. The text of the Malaysian FTA reveals Emerson tried, but failed, to get Malaysia to agree to insert labour and environmental measures. This has been a persistent goal of unions and
Ah diddums….
CRAIG Thomson has pleaded to be left alone while a raft of inquiries into his conduct proceed, declaring “enough is enough”. No it isn’t. You are still in the House, you lying, thieving, whoring grub. Everybody who has an interest in the truth will pursue it until it is resolved. Get used to it.
Thomson still in trouble
I note some comments relate to how well Thomson spoke and in doing so fail to note that he didn’t answer the questions raised in the FWA findings. Good oratory abilities aren’t restricted to the honest folk alone – obviously! He went on the attack but did so sans ammo. No time and date of
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