THE job, Madam Deputy Speaker, of every member of this parliament is to help shape a better Australia.

It’s to listen carefully to the Australian people, respect the hard-won dollars they pay in tax, do our honest best to make people’s lives easier not harder, and honour the commitments we make to those who vote for us.

If that’s how we discharge our duties as members of parliament, politics is an honourable calling, the public can respect their MPs and MPs can respect each other even when we disagree. More…

An excellent “light on the hill”speech. Abbott has all that Labor does not. Connection with the working family, integrity, leadership, vision  and clear ability. Oh how the left already hate him….

(HT to Andrew Bolt)
 

Brilliant,
It shows the utter frustration of mainstream Australia with this Mugabe-like government.
I don’t know I can last another 18 months of this.

GIVE US BACK AUSTRALIA, Gillard. Give us back our institutions, our integrity, our transparency, our long held prudent conventions, all of which you are trashing …for nothing.

If there was a foreign spy intent on destroying Australia, he could not do a better job that this woman is doing – hobble out industry, mortgage our economy for no gain, rewind IR and productivity to the 70′s, restart class warfare, destroy our border security, corrupt our government and public service processes, put and maintain alleged criminals into parliament, pepper legislation with poison pills and voter-proof ongoing gigantic money drains and finally, the coup de grace, destroy our two party democracy by killing her own, once great party.

I mean, surely no one can do this just by incompetence. It’s not a case of whoops, sorry honey, I shrunk the country. It took hard work.

I have to ask myself, is this person in the lodge a communist sleeper…or from some suicidal religious sect…or what?

James Button, one of Rudd’s speech writers for 7 months writes of Kevin Rudd in The Age:

The truth is, Rudd was impossible to work with. He regularly treated his staff, public servants and backbenchers with rudeness and contempt. He was vindictive, intervening to deny people appointments or preselections, often based on grudges that went back years.

He made crushing demands on his staff, and when they laboured through the night to meet those demands, they received no thanks, and often the work was not used. People who dared stand up to him were put in “the freezer” and not consulted or spoken to for months. The prodigious loyalty of his staff to him was mostly not repaid. He put them down behind their backs. He seemed to feel that everyone was always letting him down. In meetings, as I saw, he could emanate a kind of icy rage that was as mysterious as it was disturbing.

Why can’t people see that Rudd is the quintessential personality of a ruthless narcissistic dictator. Button’s description could be that of the court of Saddam Hussein or Josef Stalin minus the killing, but that is only for want of a mechanism to ‘re-educate’ or ‘remove’ enemies of the dictator and thus enemies of the people.

What should be terrifying Australians is that Rudd (and Gillard for that matter), bursting with entitlement to rule through narcissistic megalomania and utter shamelessness respectively, are potential ruthless murderous dictators, held back only by their inability to remove fast enough, the all too delicate shackles of democratic processes. But how strong are these restraint? How well do Australians understand them and value them. I have met young people not only ignorant of the mechanisms of democracy but openly contemptuous  of democracy – an autocracy (by their choice of benevolent leader) would at least get things done. The madness of utter ignorance.

At the very least, Labor is working towards running Australia like a union. And look at how democratically unions are run or want to be run – disdain of secret ballots, backroom deals, standover men, intimidation of members and rampant corruption – just like the communist regimes. Australians should elect leaders and politicians who truly believe in democracy and will fight for it.

Ask yourself, if this leader was given the option of ruling without an effective free parliament and without effective elections. Would he decline it and destroy such a process in the name of democracy, or would he grab it and rule in a corrupted regime. I know what Rudd and Gillard would do. I am not sure what Abbott would do, but that is probably the best one can expect.

Having suspended blogging in November to reclaim my life and my work, Labor’s amazing suicide demands a relapse.

The Election Now shop, however has lived on, and enjoys steady patronage.

Democracy requires more that just elections every 3 years – under communism, we had elections a plenty. You need viable alternatives, decent people with decent ideas to choose from  and you need at least two parties to preserve keen competition.

So even as a Liberal voter, I am angry…for Labor. How low has this mighty Labor party fallen. How dare these pathetic men destroy a great Australian institution, which has served Australia for a hundred years with men like Hawke and Keating, whom many disagreed with, but who commanded respect. There is no joy in seeing Labor disintegrate – Australia needs two able alternative governments, two parties to compete and therefore come up with best in governance.

But this Labor party, consisting of union officials, union thugs and their lawyers, has apparently mistaken Australia for one great big union. They have descended into the usual union brawls over their ill gotten spoils, the hateful self-interested factional in-fighting, the ego wars, the massive profligacy with its members dues, the secret deals amongst faceless men, the corruption, the intimidation of members and businesses. And all the while wearing the thinnest veneer of morality in pretending to be representing their member’s interests.  Craig Thompson was an angel compared to his colleagues. And all the while, the host businesses and Australia of course go bust. Unions leaders are the only parasites who, having less intelligence that a malaria larva, happily destroy the host they occupy.  And so they are doing to Australia and their own party.

Where can we expect Australia to end up over the next 17 months?  Fights on the steps of Parliament? Horses heads in MP’s beds? The violence and anarchy of the building industry unions spread nationwide?

The media and the public are being seduced into a popularity contest between Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd. It’s like arguing which of Goerring or Himmler were more popular. Both are flawed sociopathic people, Rudd for being a deluded narcissistic emperor and Gillard for being an incompetent shameless liar.  Don’t fall for the anyone but Abbott meme. Pity Tony Abbott and the LNP adults who will struggle a decade to clean up the mess Labor made in just 4 years.

Word-clouds generated by the Herald Sun’s call to readers 23 Feb 2012.

The PM and Foreign Minister fighting to the death for their own self-interest on the international scene instead of governing? We should be outraged, but we have exhausted it all, so it’s just another day under Labor.

Just like Africans respond to corruption with resignation “That’s Africa”, we now respond to our mal-governance with “That’s Labor” and accept it as normal.

And we are slipping into the Stockholm Syndrome: our lives are controlled by a lying and hated Prime Minister but we are helpless, and we gradually gratefully accept and reward in the polls any morsel of kindness or sanity from her.

But giving back what your captor took away in the first place, is not kindness, or competence in the case of our government. Reversing the ban on exporting uranium to India, after they banned it for irrational ideological and anti-Howard reasons in the first place, is not a triumph of foreign policy. Attacking the Greens for living in fairyland is not strength after you got in bed with them and implemented their fairyland carbon policies. Getting tough on unions and getting Qantas back in the air by our PM is not competence, after your own FWA laws let the unions off the leash in the first place. And even in the unlikely case that they fix the illegal boat problem, that is no triumph if they were the ones that opened the flood gates in the first place in 2007.

No, all is not well in Australia, even should Labor mend a few of their disasters. As you go to work each day to secure your and your children’s future, every reform not undertaken by this government (and I don’t mean carbon tax), every billion dollars wantonly wasted, is not something we can simply do later, or just someone else’s money, so who cares. It is an investment not invested in our country, a lost opportunity taken away from your children’s future.

While you struggle to gain control over your future, this government is taking it away from you and is working hard to take away your very ability to know it from a free media or speak out against it. But it is subtly done and we won’t care until we lose it. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, but not while Masterchef is on.

I can only hope, come election time, we gain insight and courage enough to escape these our captors.

The relentless attacks by this government on our press is a far more serious danger to our country than people realise. These attacks include:

Repeated references to the Hate media and right wing shock jocks, attempting to delegitimise reasonably argued criticism in opinion pieces in newspapers.

Julia Gillard’s “News Ltd has questions to answer“, referring to British phone hacking investigation, unrelated to Australia.

Ms Gillard’s personal allegedly demanding phone calls to media management (chairman and CEO of News Limited, John Hartigan) relating to coverage of her past affair and legal dealings with an allegedly criminal Union Official.

Claims that Murdoch owns 70% of media when they own only 32% of titles, it is people who chose to buy one of their papers 60% of the times. 

Now the unnecessary and dangerous Media Inquiry chaired by Ray Finkelstein, QC, flirting with regulation, licensing and fit-and-proper-person test for proprietors – decided by whom, on what criteria.

The ex-judge Finkelstein sending a letter to editors, impudently asking them to explain to what extent “you subscribe to the view that the press has social responsibilities.

Why is this frightening? Because this is the road toward authoritarian non-democratic state. You say – c’mon that’s being over-dramatic. But you don’t have to have absence of elections or people being shot in the square to be deprived of democracy. You only need to be mislead into voting for the wrong party, for example by government propaganda or by undue influence by a political party over the media.  Intimidation of opposition parties, legal restriction of opposition parties, prosecution of opponents for trumped up charged during election time – all these are the tools of non-democratic governments. But unless you really have totalitarian regime with tanks in the streets, all of these can thrive only if they are hidden from the bulk of the population by compliant media.

The core of democracy is not elections, it is freedom of the press.

Under the communists in Czechoslovakia, we had multiple parties and elections, but no free press – it was government controlled and was very “socially responsible”. We did not have democracy.

Murdoch negative press on Labor is in agreement with Gillard’s own assessment Labor ‘lost it’s way”.

There is no problem with Murdoch press. It is dominant because more people chose to read the 35% of the titles it owns. There have been an unprecedented series of Governmental failures by Labor and thus the Murdoch press media has reported an unprecedented number of negative reports about Labor. Where is the problem.  In fact, the Murdoch media’s predominant criticism of the government over the past 4 years is in agreement with Labor government’s own assessment that it had lost it’s way when Gillard knifed their first term Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. What is wrong with that. The country’s worst government ever gets predominantly bad press. Where is the problem?

Described as the most ‘extreme’, ‘expensive’, ‘anti competetitve’, ‘completely crazy’ and ranked eight of 13 nations on the EIU’s government broadband index.  You’d think with the billions of dollars it’s costing (and will cost into the future), the Government could have spent our money more wisely.  
An NBN that no-one wants, forcing Telstra to accept a deal they cannot refuse and to shut down competition.  Due for completion in 2021, Gillard will be long gone.  But our children will be paying the price for this expensive and unwanted telco white elephant.

THE Australian Shareholders Association has given its blessing to Telstra’s $11 billion deal to hand its fixed-line monopoly to the National Broadband Network because it believes the telco has “no other viable alternative”.  Telstra has also gained support from its independent expert, Grant Samuel, which sanctioned the deal by concluding the Telstra would be $4.7bn worse off if it tried to compete with the government-owned network. 
Waldo Ralph Emerson is often attributed of saying “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door”.

Customers’ decisions to buy depends on their perception of the product and its value.  That’s the golden rule in Marketing:  find out what people want, then develop the product accordingly.

In this NBN fiasco, the Government has done the complete opposite by developing an NBN that will end up being more expensive than what’s currently available and where the uptake is abysmal – even when they’re giving it away.  The Government have closed down the competition.  The ACCC should find that the NBN is anti-competition (how could they not?) and shelve this white elephant for good.

As the NBN uptake is so low, it appears the Australian people are not tempted by the promise of a Government-owned monopoly that will cost them more money to connect and end up more expensive than their current internet supplier.  And lock them into a technology that will be obsolete in a decade.
Maybe Malcolm Turnbull was correct when he said, “it’s like the telecommunications version of Cuba”.  With the carbon dioxide tax and other wasteful spending, the Gillard Government seems determined to remodel Australia into a country Castro would be proud to call home.

NBN ‘most extreme’ broadband plan: EIU

The more Labor and the left ‘expose’ Tony Abbott in order to villify him, the more Australian men and women like him !

From Andrew Bolt:

Here’s the most damning picture of Tony Abbott that Susan Mitchell’s publisher could find to brand him as a dangerous misogynist. Who knew that barbecues were such a statement of an ideological position?

Miranda Devine on one the silliest and spiteful attacks on Abbott yet published by the Left:
Female Abbott-haters are a particular type. Like Mitchell, they cling to a 1970s view of feminism, still resent the patriarchy, and sneer at red-blooded blokes. The photograph on the cover of Mitchell’s book, of Abbott barbecuing sausages, encapsulates what they loathe.

A muscular, sweaty meat-eater wielding tongs. Ugh. Her book is the first shot by the progressive Left to stop Abbott taking office.
Female Abbott-haters are a particular type. Like Mitchell, they cling to a 1970s view of feminism, still resent the patriarchy, and sneer at red-blooded blokes. The photograph on the cover of Mitchell’s book, of Abbott barbecuing sausages, encapsulates what they loathe.

A muscular, sweaty meat-eater wielding tongs. Ugh. Her book is the first shot by the progressive Left to stop Abbott taking office.  Read the rest…

If commenters are anything to go by, people have seen through the Abott smear campaign:

What a man!!  Tony has a wife; three beautiful daughters who are the apples of his eye; loves his footie; belongs to a surf club; volunteers as a fire fighter; has a mortgage; goes to church; loves a barbie; gets away with family and friends at Christmas to a caravan park in his van down the south coast.

This is your typical Aussie male!  We Aussie females love them!  Our Aussie Larakins!!  They are part of what shaped our wonderful country!  They are the offspring of those that fought on distant shores. Their parents and grandparents worked side by side to give us this great nation!  And the socialist left of politics wants us to forget about this; forget about our struggles; forget about our Anzacs and forget about our way of life!!  They forget too that when they denigrate Tony Abbott, they are denigrating the Aussie male.

Give me a hard working Aussie male anyday!  Oh did I forget to tell you that Tony Abbott has a double degree in Law & Economics and is a Rhodes Scholar with a Masters in Philosophy & Politics? What a great leader he will make!  A typical Aussie male! ausebell of nature coast (Reply)

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Look on the bright side Andrew.  Abbott is getting more and more publicity.  I think this will be good and people will know more and more about the real Abbott, unlike the unreal Gillard.  The same applies to you Andrew with your name being blasted by various left leaning fools.  The harder they criticise the better for Abbott and you.  It keeps the fire going so that even after two years people will recall all the destructive actions by the current extreme left government and hopefully will still be awake to boot them out of office forever. Peter of Sydney (Reply)

There were just four people in immigration detention when the Howard Government was voted out of office in 2007.  One of the first things Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard did was to weaken the Howard government’s border protection scheme and precipitate the current and increasing flow of people smugglers’ vessels.

The Rudd/Gillard Government was warned three months after it came to power that closing Nauru detention centre would cause a jump in people smuggling to Australia. More than 12,000 people have arrived by boat since then – and more than 400 are estimated to have died.

Even drawing the longest bow, it’s obvious who is responsible for regenerating the people smuggling business and the loss of life. And it’s not Tony Abbott.

THE arrival of two more boatloads of asylum-seekers at Christmas Island has turned an already fiery political debate over offshore processing into a conflagration of blame.

Dennis Shanahan in the Australian writes:  “Julia Gillard is in no doubt that Tony Abbott is to blame for the arrival of the latest boats and will be to blame for every extra arrival.  Hold on ….. wasn’t it Gillard and Rudd who changed John Howard’s policy that opened the door for people smugglers?”

Read the full opinion piece here: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/political-stakes-rise-between-gillard-and-abbott-in-asylum-seeker-debate/story-e6frg6zo-1226144580195

As two new boats arrive, Labor calls Tony Abbott a friend to people-smugglers

Julia Gillard attacks the Coalition for opposing its Malaysia Solution following the arrival of two new asylum-seeker boats.
Picture: Kym Smith, Source: The Australian

JULIA Gillard has blamed Tony Abbott for the arrival of two new asylum-seeker boats, saying his refusal to back her Malaysian Solution made him responsible for the unauthorised vessels and all others that would follow.

With Australia’s border protection system still in limbo, the Prime Minister today urged Mr Abbott to rethink his position and support the government amendments to put offshore processing beyond doubt.

Read more from The Australian here: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/two-new-asylum-seeker-vessels-test-labors-troubled-boats-policy/story-fn9hm1gu-1226144422313