Friday 29th of March 2024

tony abbott is liar, a thief and a fearmonger... whose existence is only due to the murdoch fairy...

a liar...

In less than two years in office, the Abbott government has added almost $100bn to the level of Commonwealth government debt. This is a 35% increase from the $273bn level of gross government debt at the time of the September 2013 election. This increase flies in the face of the Coalition’s pledge prior to the election – and occasionally since – of reducing debt and at some stage, paying it off.

By the time the next election is held, most likely in the latter part of 2016, the Budget papers indicate the Abbott government will have increased government debt by around $150bn in its three years in power and three years of implementing its economic policy objectives.

The current debt binge is despite a generally positive economic environment, with growth in Australia’s major trading partners estimated by the Reserve Bank of Australia to be robust in the whole period between 2014 and 2016. Helping this positive backdrop is increasing evidence that the industrialised economies are gaining some positive momentum as they emerge from the malaise of the global recession sparked by the banking and financial crisis.

read more: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/26/abbott-has-given-up-on-debt-and-deficit-reduction-but-few-have-noticed

 

from a 14 year old smart kid who's not a puppet of miners...

What are you working on now?

I have a legal suit against the state of Colorado and the Colorado Oil and Gas Commission that is going to be heard soon, for an immediate moratorium on fracking until it is proven to not adversely impact land, people, water and air.

We also recently successfully campaigned to get citizens to resign a 20-year contract with Xcel Energy, which provides our electricity, so we could move towards renewable infrastructure. The transition hasn’t completely happened yet, but we are moving in that direction. It has been pretty freaking huge to be able to accomplish that.

We also have over 100 Earth Guardian crews in dozens of different countries throughout the planet, fighting against some of the biggest climate issues in their own communities.

How can people get involved?

You can check out earthguardians.org and get involved, but I’m not here to tell people what to do. That’s not my job. So check out what we have done, but realise that there is a movement going on filled with hundreds of thousands of young people. Look to things that you’re passionate about and that excite you. Engage with those things: music, sports, art, whatever. Use those things to make a change. Because right now, a passionate, empowered, inspired, educated young person is the fossil fuel industry’s greatest threat.

read more: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/11/my-generation-does-give-a-damn-about-climate-change-says-14-year-old-activist

Our own Turdy is an infantile idiot. He is a puppet of the mining industry and unlike Pinocchio he will never grow up... Turdy is still a piece of four-be-two, full of splinters with a looooonnnnng nose... We all know what this means. Porkies...

the menzies kid...

 

The parallels between Tony Abbott's bid to strip dual-nationality alleged terrorists of their Australian citizenship and those of his political godfather, Robert Menzies, 55 years ago to ban the Communist Party of Australia are almost unnerving. 

Both pieces of legislation attracted significant criticism for their overreach, the likelihood of the unintended consequences of "innocent" people being caught within their ambit, and for potentially flouting the rule of law.

Menzies' bill had to be redrafted before the Labor controlled Senate agreed, even with misgivings, to pass it, but following royal assent on 20 October, 1950, the legislation was immediately referred to the High Court which in March 1951 struck it down 6 votes to 1 as being unconstitutional.

It remains to be seen whether Abbott's Allegiance to Australia legislation (which, given Labor's agreement, is certain to pass the parliament) will be sent to the High Court and, if so, what the determination will be, but it is certainly possible for a parallel scenario to unfold.

If it does, the lessons of history will be instructive but it is the political parallels, rather than the legal similarities, between the two cases that are really fascinating.

The current legislation is being introduced at a time of general alarm about international terrorism and the likelihood of homeland attacks. The prime minister has played political hardball with these fears, rhetorically thumping his chest to proclaim his own toughness while seeking to portray the Labor opposition as being "soft" on terrorism.

Menzies did the same back in 1950, doing his best to portray the ALP as "soft" on communism. He had the media onside.  The then staid Sydney Morning Herald described the bill, in a front page headline, as being to OUTLAW REDS and to "deal with 'King's Enemies'."

It was no secret that some of the nation's largest trade unions were communist-controlled and memories were fresh of the crippling 1949 black coal-miners strike, which many contended was orchestrated by Communist union officials. The Chifley government certainly thought so and became the first to use the military to break a strike, an action that caused immense bitterness in Labor ranks but which was not enough to stop Menzies winning the federal election later that year.

Plus the geopolitical context was very much to Menzies' advantage.

The Cold War was raging. Australia's war-time ally Russia had become the aggressive Soviet Union. On June 25, 1950, while the dissolution bill was still before parliament, North Korea invaded South Korea and it took just four days for Australia to sign up to fight beside the United States to repel this downward thrust of communism.

 

 

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/abbott-walks-in-the-footsteps-of-his-political-godfather-20150626-ghxqc8

 

Please read: PANIC !

captain crook...

David Tyler reviews another exciting week in the jolly Kingdom of Abbottralia.

"Full steam astern!" shouts Captain Hook-or-by-Crook Abbott on the poop deck, ducking volleys of brickbats, derision and sheer disbelief from home and abroad, manfully commanding the start of another week of good government and doing whatever craven acts it takes to follow the almighty IPA’s wish-list, amen, annihilate all opponents and preserve his arse — a commodity he must remind us, that is not for sale. Monday sees him suddenly reversing course to avoid a leaked green-paper proposal for wealthy parents to pay fees for their children’s public schooling bobbing up like a turd in the surf at Bondi.

‘Not policy, now or ever", Abbott lies, trusting someone will pick it up and run with it. It’s a win-win. The fuss will distract the nation from the legality of Australia’s offshore detention being challenged in the High Court or PWC’s report that a third of Australia is effectively in recession. So much to evade, deny, silence or lie about, he sighs, so little time. But at least he can do Bill slowly. The Royal Commission into destroying Shorten forever promises to be worth every penny, he winks as he is told the Information Commissioner Professor John McMillan has given up after being forced by government cuts to pay all costs, even work from his own home. The Abbott Government’s war on transparency is all going to plan.

A hell’s kitchen of housing prices continue to bubble but nothing to see here, says Abbott and Hockey rubbishing the RBA’s view. Who cares, as long as decent, Liberal voters owning property in Sydney and Melbourne make a fortune? Does it matter where investment comes from? Some foreign buyers, it seems, are all cashed up with the proceeds of crime or are buying under shonky schemes to hide their identity. Yet the matter is well in hand, as the government’s new fee for overseas buyers is guaranteed to ease the pressure. Sort things out. Guaranteed. Enough with the negative.

 

read more: https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/full-steam-astern-with-captain-hook-or-by-crook,7876