Showing posts with label green movement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label green movement. Show all posts

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Australia: Battle Lines are being further defined over the Carbon Tax

Whereas the past few years have seen carbon tax supporters making leering remarks to the anti-carbon tax advocates in a manner that tries to make the latter look like uneducated loonies, the lines are now clarifying.

Labor, as we know, is steadfastly pro-green (hung by a political noose Julia?), but many liberals have seemed to be in opposition to this. Barnaby Joyce is, I hope, a man of conviction regarding the lack of science behind the carbon-traders; only time will tell however if Barnaby holds true to his rhetoric. Some others are however starting to show their colours; Tony Abbott for one.

Malcolm Turnbull certainly showed his leaning at the Inaugural Virginia Chadwick Memorial Foundation Lecture in Sydney on July 21st 2011. He did his level best to discredit Lyndon LaRouche, and talks down his references and credentials. Can we believe Mr Turnbull in a speech made to a captive audience when Lyndon LaRouche, the only man who accurately forecast the GFC, has no right of reply? I think not!

Tony Abbott is a monarchist, as was I until I understood the fuller history of the British Empire and the lengths Prince Phillip (and Prince Charles) have gone to to promote their green fascist agenda to enslave the 'serfs' of the world.

Prince Philip and former Nazi SS officer Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands co‑founded the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in 1961 to reduce human population; the WWF has raised enormous sums of money from multinational corporations like BP‚ Shell‚ Rio Tinto‚ and Unilever to lock up great tracts of land, first in Africa, and then all over the world‚ so that the land could not be used by locals for the kind of economic development they required to raise their living standards.

Prince Philip fantasised aloud about population‑reduction in August 1988‚ telling Deutsche Presse‑Agentur‚ “In the event that I am reincarnated‚ I would like to return as a deadly virus‚ in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.”

Tony Abbott told ABC radio on 16th December that his idea that there was a natural fit between the conservation movement and “conservative” politics was inspired by “no less a person than Prince Philip” being the “inaugural president or patron at one of the big international environmental organisations [sic].”

Tony Abbott's has recently embraced greenie policies more fully, including his plan to complete the Howard government‑initiated shut‑down of the Murray‑Darling Basin‚ and to draft 15‚000 Australians into a sub‑minimum wage “green” army. 

God help Australia. We really need to know what our politicians stand for, not just what they say in-situ, but what they really think and will act on!

Steve B

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Senator Barnaby Joyce: Another Green-Labor-Independent unfolding disaster

The great trilogy of policy disasters of the Labor party are:

- the live cattle trade, getting a 0 out of 10 for diplomacy and a 0 out of 10 for economics

- the carbon tax, getting a 0 out of 10 for public relations, and a 0 out of 10 for democracy and 2 out of 10 for cost of living.

- and the one that is actually the closest at home for me, the Murray Darling Basin, which gets 0 out of 10 for economics, a 0 out of 10 for regional development, a 2 out of 10 for consultation and a 2 out of 10 for our future food security.

The latest revelations on the fiasco that is the Labor party's Murray-Darling Basin policy is the release today of the Environment and Behaviour Consultants report on the socioeconomic impacts of the Basin.

The report shows that the towns that will be hit the hardest are small and heavily reliant on food production, and the resulting multiplier effects this production provides.

These are the small towns that Sarah Hanson-Young wants to shut down, when she calls for 7600 GL to be taken away from water use in the Basin. If it was up to Sarah Hanson-Young the only place that Banjo Paterson could have written about would have been Nimbin.

The Green-Labor-Independent alliance seems intent on destroying the fabric that the vast majority of Australians take as their heritage. Yes we live on the coast but our soul is our centre. We are logically and sentimentally very attached to the work of the people who feed us, Clothe us and provide the vast majority of our export income to sustain our nation.

This report on the Murray-Darling Basin should clearly have numerous columns in our nation's newspapers tomorrow. It's just that another Green-Labor-Independent fiasco is shading it out.

Craig Knowles has said that it was all terrible in the past but now things have changed. But what actually has changed? The current Labor government approach risks making the same mistakes again.

The MDBA is not increasing its consultation, rather it’s shutting it down. The Victorian Minister last week revealed that the MDBA is planning to only hold meetings with invited 'industry leaders' after the draft plan is released.

The Government refuses to amend the legislation; in fact they refuse to even consider amending the legislation, which led us to this problem in the first place. This is despite the findings of a recent Senate inquiry into the Water Act.

The government is continuing with the purchase of non-strategic water buybacks. This is despite a recent House of Representatives inquiry, which included Labor members, backing the Coalition's election policy of making water purchases more strategic.

Labor's approach to the Murray-Darling is a peacock policy, looks marvellous, sounds ordinary but its capacity to fly is highly questionable.

source: Senator Barnaby Joyce
Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Water
Leader of The Nationals in the Senate
LNP Senator for Queensland


14th July 2011
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