Category: Tony Abbott

Tony Abbott September 4, 2014September 12, 2014

Dobre Djen Does Abbott have a clue what that means?

The Bully Boy of Sydney Uni want’s a stoush and he doesn’t care where he finds it. Running Australia isn’t enough he’s got the Kevin 747 feeling and now has equalled Kevin’s record of world travels in his first year 11. Remember the glory days when Abbott was satisfied with barking at Kevin and involved in local politics. He was a tour de force back then. Now it’s not enough to be just an American friend on their list of allies against ISIS. We have cut foreign aid so we have some money to spend on a good fight. Our fight one we own. Russia will do. Andrew Bolt said he’d be back.

The government and I believe the Australian people would like to repay Ukraine for it’s support and friendship especially as the Ukraine continues to be the subject to active destabilization and indeed outright invasion from Russia a country it has never ever sought to harm”

Australian Foreign Aid is premised on trade. Do we trade with the Ukraine? Yes $35 mill exports no less and to Russia $1.8 Bill. Well some Australians are going to be hurting because of Abbott’s decision. Some might find themselves broke. The price of Vodka will go up. I believe he’s watching Dr Strangelove for the first time and thinks it’s a documentary.

Australia, ISIS, Tony Abbott September 3, 2014September 13, 2014

Saudi Arabia Our Ally Beheaded 79 People last Year Some Foreigners

‘Forgive me if I see Tony Abbott’s trumped up fear and warmongering for what it is — the last ditch attempts of an unpopular prime minister to gain some support in a country that is sick of his political posturing. It’s the George Dubya Bush school of crisis management — concoct a war, ramp up the terror and let fear and loathing for the unseen enemy unite the country behind he who so bravely leads the charge.’ Sophie Love

Saudi Arabia Our Allies Beheaded 79 people in 2013 foreigners were amongst them

And because we are so isolated in our own homes, cars, and offices, it is easy to convince the vast majority that there is a terrible terror threat ‘out there’. That we are under attack.

That “they hate us” and want to bring us down. In February 2003. Over a million people could see that Bush and Blair’s considered oratory and fear mongering was a web of lies, masking simpler and more sinister political and private industry needs. The same people are falling for the LNP spin and rhetoric. Have we learned nothing?

Wake up, my friends, this is just the last ditch efforts of a floundering government to win friends and influence people. Don’t be a patsy to their political bravado. Watch what the other hand is doing. Sophie Love

ISIS are a long way from here. Quite frankly we have more to fear crossing the road or driving our cars. The current Government seems to want to close our open and generous hearts with all the rhetoric about the threat to our shores, the terror threat, the budget emergency… fear and loathing in Australia.

The Australia I chose 27 years ago was one of hope, open hearts, open minds and welcoming arms. Please don’t change… Sophie Love

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Australia, Australia's Shame, Tony Abbott September 3, 2014September 13, 2014

Tony Abbott Tony Abbott Tony eff’n Abbott

Displaying the oft-used ‘ready for a punch-up’ position, hands already outstretched, and fingers pointing in all the wrong directions (someone is really going to punch him in the beak one day for giving them the victory sign backwards) he is ready. The first word is sometimes OK – followed by the inevitable ahs and ums, which is maybe a nervous trait, or else he’s waiting for his next cue. Give us the fingers Tony

A few days later (July 24^th) he announces to the Australian public that the ‘bodies must be retrieved very quickly, as they are now at the mercy of the heat, the weather and animals’ (not verbatim. but very very close). MH17 Compassionate public announcement for the families

Apparently, the reference to ‘white’ settlement was mentioned by Warren Truss, Deputy Prime Minister; someone who perhaps has been listening too long to the way Tony Abbott uses the English language. The word ‘white’ need never have been uttered . . . not because of political correctness or lack thereof, but simply because it’s wrong on most accounts. The land was simply land – new land – on which there were a number of odd, never before seen animals.Australia’s Defining Moment Prime Minister for the indigenous pisses everybody off

I hope that the defining moments of 1964, for instance, might include the launch of the Australian newspaper as well as the publication of The Lucky Country.” Rupert Murdoch’s Paper Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share its luck. Donald Horne full quote Why is Abbott referring to this? Horne’s statement was an indictment of 1960s Australia. His intent was to comment that, while other industrialized nations created wealth using “clever” means such as technology and other innovations, Australia did not. Rather, Australia’s economic prosperity was largely derived from its rich natural resources. Horne observed that Australia “showed less enterprise than almost any other prosperous industrial society.” Sir Abbott the Fwit

http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/lucky-country

We need to rid ourselves of this man and quickly

Tony Abbott September 1, 2014September 13, 2014

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ISIS, Islam, Tony Abbott August 31, 2014September 13, 2014

How quickly it begins. Holiday Departures

Why didn’t it make the front page news that the Federal Government paid for new airline tickets for a young Melbourne couple travelling to Malaysia on holiday? Why was the husband removed from the flight and questioned for five hours before being released? Is this too going to be a matter of secrecy ‘an on land matter’? Or is this mornings report in The Age fantasy?It does however highlight a number of issues but mainly our Intelligence.

Thousands of Australian Muslims will be going on annual pilgrimage to Mecca next month. Thousands how will security deal with this without looking like unintelligent fools. Double pay all their airline tickets or just pick someone at random? If anybody is caught carrying a newspaper reporting Middle East news will they be stopped even worse if the paper is in Arabic a language border patrol can’t read.

Intelligence doesn’t have enough room or personnel to hold the 1000’s of Australian Muslim suspects even 100 would be difficult. Intelligence could ferry them to detention centres or Team Australia recruiting offices. After all it’s what we did with German and Japanese Australians during WW2. However we don’t have the Intelligence to question these would be travelers as officers aren’t sufficiently qualified yet.

Scott Morrison assured radio listeners that those with legitimate reasons for traveling should not be concerned. Well going on holiday to Malaysia it seems an insufficient reason to be stopped. Maybe the young man looked a little pissed at the untrained official asking why he was going and that’s why he was questioned for 5 hours.

“I would expect my agencies to be acting with sensitivity and common sense regardless of who they are,where they are from,and where they are travelling” Scott Morrison

Five people have been stopped recently and prevented from leaving the country. Do we know on what grounds of course not. If I was leaving Australia and had reports about ISIS on my ipad in order to get a better understanding of what was going on would I be stopped and questioned ?

Instead of hassling Australian citizens wouldn’t ASIO, Border Protection make better use of their Intelligence gathering for National Security by taking in for questioning the Andrew Bolts of this world who are stirring up a hornets nest of ethnic and religious hatred. for political support. Maybe it was time the media was examined on the front page about its constant scare-mongering and the dividing the people of this country. How is Andrew Bolt’s anti Muslim stance supporting the notion of a united Australia it stands juxtaposed to being the ‘most livable’ and ‘most friendly’ country. I certainly see no Intelligence in questioning citizens in and out of this country. It’s going to fuck airline profits, and worse threaten our 3rd or 4th largest export education both employment and fee wise. Now that’s Intelligence

Australia, LIES, Tony Abbott, Uncategorized August 29, 2014September 13, 2014

It’s Ok To Lie To Those Not On Team Australia

Abbott’s Lie

China, Tony Abbott, Trust August 29, 2014September 13, 2014

Abott the Pivot Has Turned His Back and has become the Maitre’D of Pacific Nations

The pivot of the Middle East, No!!!!! Asia Pacific Asia Pacifc You Fool.

Australia’s voice in the Pacific has gone after 40 years. It fostered a sense of regional community. But it’s gone because Abbott cut $223mill from the ABC budget. All talk about Abbott being the pivot of Asia/Pacific and being a bulwark to the movement of increased Chinese influence in the area is little more than political advertising by Abbott. In reality Abbott has handed Pacific nations communications to the Chinese free of charge. The ABC under it’s charter is obliged to have an international broadcasting service it has been reduced to 60% of it’s previous budget. Local Pacific content has been sacrificed and withdrawn from the region and replaced with Australian parochial content.

China’s official news agency Xinhua is in Fiji and has this year signed a deal in Vanuatu to supply news in English French & Chinese with it’s 171 foreign bureaus it’s influence is steadily growing across the region. So what is the Abbott pivot’s job description, Consierge ? “All talk no action Abbott” Meetings of leaders where Australia and NZ once had a voice will now fall even more under Chinese influence. These territories also acted as eyes and ears for Australian security against drugs, illegal arms and boats.

The ABC’s Sean Dorney provided us with understanding how PNG developed as a country he did the same for South Pacific Regionalism and gave newly formed independant Island states a collective South Pacific identity across the airwaves. He was their news across their region. When Abbott talks about National Security it’s merely the sound of his own voice and short term political gain just another sound byte coupled with his personal vendetta against the national broadcaster. The pivot has no interest in a region essential to our security. The Chinese love this doorman. The Maitre’D

Tony Abbott August 28, 2014September 13, 2014

A History of Under Perfomance This Man’s Hallmark

Tony Abbott’s Personal History is as Polluted

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LIES, Tony Abbott, Uncategorized August 28, 2014September 13, 2014

Nature Or Nurture of a Moral Bankrupt

A loner who always wanted to be a winner but afraid of venturing off the straight & narrow path. A simple lad who loved boxing tulips in that infamous Nazi town Aalesmere. A young man who found no adventure in India non reportable. He would have preferred the Delhi diplomatic enclave I think. It was safer than being out amongst the hub bub of daily life.

Uni was just too big full of ideas that challenged him. Who was that guy Che Guevara student’s had on their walls what band did he play for?Bolt was a hero in his own mind the minder to a belly dancer except the dancer said he was more like her son Oedipus. She did all the supporting of an egocentric child. He apologised for his self aggrandisement.

The question of nature or nurture doesn’t apply to Andrew Bolt because he got a double dose of right and thus there’s nothing left in him. The man presents like an over pancaked Thunderbird puppet on the Bolt Report head and hands bobbing away trying to impress his guests with his one way moral politic. Michael Kroger looks so bored trying to stifle yawns because it’s so one-dimensional.

Any society, any family (a concept Bolt dismisses) expects the younger generation to challenge the status quo. Like Don Quixote fight injustice to create a better world. There is not an ounce of that in Bolt and it seems never was. The elect are duty bound to preserve and protect not change things. Put the joker in the box never let him out, don’t rock the boat. He can’t for one minute consider a 19-year-old Islamic kid been drawn to ISIS. If we were back in the 60’s Bolt would never have marched against the Vietnam war. In the 30’s never gone to the Spanish War.

He is the morally strict dad who raves on about individualism within his narrow moral parameters. Talking is his bent but has a tin ear which is the hallmark of a fascist. Win arguments at all cost because to lose ,say sorry or have second thoughts is existential death.Just read his blog it’s self-evident. I doubt if he ever had the courage to stand up against his mother & father. He’s the guy you’d never see at a protest meeting. Polite but removed extremely ambitious to succeed. He wanted to take a shot at the “greasy pole” of success promised by the hierarchy of the day. There’s was never any place for idealism or questioning the status quo a true blue one-dimensional man.

His presented to his peers as friendly enough but not really on any intimate level. If they played “Truth or Dare” it would be too much of a challenge. His modernity only superficial because he wasn’t modern at all. Cool on the outside anal on the in. He didn’t develop his own values or rethink what he’d been told by his parents, never questioned their values. He was after all the headmaster’s son he didn’t embrace equality or question his position in small town country Australia. The idea of equality never crossed his mind he simply never saw past the moral circumstance handed to him.

He was a confused young man for christ sake. His CV says he worked for Labour how confused is that given his background? No how detached is that! It shows he worked for himself and was disingenuous about what it was he was doing. This man can publicly say on national TV”Aborigines weren’t here first” because history has no relevance for him everything started at birth 54 years ago as far as he is concerned. Like Margret Thatcher there is no society only individuals competing in god’s democracy where winners are grinners because their position is rightly deserved by their hard work and graces.Cream always rises to the top. Is this his Christian way of saying ” Allah Akbar”? No he says he’s agnostic, my arse!

Andrew Bolt frames everything within the narrow confines of his moral superior framework. Conservatives act according to their god’s own moral political view of the world. If they happen to get rich, and make their friends rich in the process, that is just the unbidden consequence of wealth being the natural reward of the righteous, in their moral universe. The fact that those at the top are conservative just proves his point and justifies it’s maintenance. To Bolt life is what it is and should be policed, protected, maintained not socially engineered by government. After all look what Castro and Che did for Cuba it’s never progressed, they are poor.

I won’t deny he’s all right but morally he is all wrong. I hope with the natural order of things his kids will challenge the sanctimonious prick.

ISIS, Islam, Tony Abbott August 28, 2014September 13, 2014

Hallmarks of a Force Lead by Saddam’s Men. ISIS a Sunni Caliphate in a Shia Sea Will They Try to Build?

ISIS has consolidated it’s position across Syria and Iraq even eliminating opposition groups with the same goals such as the FSA in Syria. With the fog of confusion lifted the reality remains whether any rapprochement is possible with Assad and the new Iraq Government. ISIS is now calling for professionals to help consolidate their Sunni caliphate. Unlike previous rebel groups ISIS has the hallmarks of Saddam’s military invasion with it’s specific goals,targets and logistics & bringing together a growing coalition of support.

“It really is all guesswork at this stage,” said Sakhr al-Makhadhi, a British-Arab journalist and Syria analyst. “The Islamic State recently called for professionals – doctors, engineers and such – to move to its territory, so it’s clear that they view this as a long-term state building project. What this shows is that they’re lacking certain skills. They may have the manpower to fight, but not to build a state.”

It is Muslims in the Middle East who have most to worry about from the Islamic State. The decapitation of the journalist James Foley doesn’t change anything – the number of Iraqis executed by Islamic State fighters is far, far more. In a very short time the Islamic State has become the most compelling and attractive organisation for Muslim fighters around the world, more so than AL-Qaeda ever was.

For countries where Muslims are a minority like Australia paranoia has developed. The impact of this phenomenon on community relations – in Australia, Canada, India, the US, and Europe – could be devastating. Abbott for his own political advantage is calling for National Unity in the hope of restoring flagging polls. Once again, suspicions will easily be raised by Islamophobes like Andrew Bolt about Islamic State sympathisers in the west and whether they pose a threat. The news media will undoubtedly report on Australian, American or European Muslims joining the group or calling for violence in videos, further raising tensions and besmirch the Muslim faith. These very actions help recruit sympathizers amongst Australians being disparaged.

The group has prompted bomb blasts and fighting in Lebanon, and in Jordan and Kuwait the governments are worried that sleeper cells may attack at any moment. But it is Saudi Arabia that is on high alert, worried that the Islamic State group will come after them with force. In a recent interview, a senior Islamic State defector said their next stop would be Saudi Arabia, which includes Mecca and Medina. Its rulers are now in full panic, sending money to the Lebanese army, funding UN counter-terrorism efforts, and even getting senior Muftis to condemn the group. And there is reason for this panic. However for the moment their focus is firmly on the Middle East states.

The Islamic State is a direct descendant of AL-Qaeda, but there is one key difference: Its leaders believe fighting “apostates” is more important than fighting non-Muslims for now. They want to unite the Middle East under their banner before truly turning their sights on the US and Europe. In the eyes of many jihadis, the Islamic State has established the most successful and feared caliphate in recent history.

President Obama calls the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant a “cancer.” Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, describes ISIL as a “monster.” Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, ranks al-Qaeda and ISIL, also known as ISIS, as “Enemy No. 1″ of Islam. And President Hassan Rouhani of Iran warns Muslim states to beware of “these savage terrorists,” for “tomorrow you will be targeted,” too, by ISIL.

The unanimity of hatred and fear toward the ISIL militants rampaging through Syria and Iraq is testament both to the threat they pose and to an unusual opportunity. Not since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait 24 years ago have the region’s most powerful players expressed such animus toward a common enemy. That’s because ISIL’s goal of replacing national boundaries in the Middle East with a Sunni Muslim caliphate threatens not just the usual “infidels”—Christians, Jews, Shiites, and other non-Sunni Muslim minorities—but the nation-states themselves.

But make no mistake: The real threat from the Islamic State is to other Muslims in the Middle East. Sooner or later people across the Middle East will have to face up to this threat.

Andrew Bolt, Australia, Sour Grapes, Tony Abbott August 8, 2014

WHO SAID "I’M NOT RIGHT WING"?WHO WAS PUT TO THE SIDE BY TONY ABBOTT? WHO TELLING ABBOTT " CUT YOUR LOSSES" AND IS NOW SMARTING ABOUT LNP WIMPS?

WHO IS THE SORE LOSER THEN AND SHOWS HE”S RIGHT OF GENGHIS KHAN...
…………………………….ANDREW BOLT………………………………
A little dummy spit the dummy
Andrew Bolt fired a broadside today peeved it seems that he was not exonerated by Tony Abbott
in his Blog:

Exactly how Liberal is this government?

This Liberal Government:

– has dropped its plans to restore free speech.
– maintains the fiction that man-made global warming threatens the world and we can stop it.
– proposes to change the constitution to divide Australians on the basis of their “race”.
– maintains absurdly high levels of immigration despite evidence of overcrowding and social dysfunction.
– has actually increased government spending.
– has left the ABC largely untouched, and dangerously huge.
– has left the Human Rights Commission intact and now functioning as a de facto opposition.
– proposes intrusive new surveillance powers it struggles to explain.
– has left oppressive workplace restrictions in place.
– has raised the top tax rate by 2 per cent, and broke an election promise in doing so.

– opposes same-sex marriage, but is toying now with allowing a conscience vote that is more likely to allow it.

Is Liberal Democratic Senator David Leyonhjelm the more authentic Liberal voice

I am very disappointed that the government has dropped its plan to repeal section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act under the guise of national unity. If we want to live in a free society, we should take the advice of Chopper Read and harden up. There are many pressing issues for our governments and courts, but the question of who has had their feelings hurt is not one of them…
The government is now saying it will also force Internet service providers to store the Internet communications of their customers. We are all to be treated as potential criminals-in-waiting, with the evidence to be held in case it is needed.
This is not acceptable. In a liberal democracy in which the government serves the people, free speech must be the default option, with every encroachment subject to strict justification. Agencies such as ASIO must never be given the benefit of the doubt.

A few days ago the man was begging the government to cut it’s losses and do deals just to get anything through the senate. Lose a battle to fight another war but for Christ sake do something Tony
AND TONY DID OOPS!!!

Dole, Eric Abetz, Tony Abbott August 7, 2014

8 Months on the job ERICA BETZ is bitch’in and blaming the previous government for breaking the 12 year record. "it’s not my job to predict the future"

Unemployment surges to 12-year high at 6.4 per cent; youth jobless figure hits 14 pc

Bats in the Belfry Moment

The 740,000 people looking for work in this country will upload their resumes, and the app will auto-apply for 40 jobs every month, to comply with prime minister Tony Abbott’s fanciful demand. It’s a poorly disguised crack-down on people he believes are “rorting the system”.

It’s such a bad idea, even business groups are alarmed. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry said, “what we don’t want to do is to flood the business community with a whole range of job applications just for the sake of people fulfilling their requirements.”

Those under 30 looking for jobs will get zero support from the government for six months at a time but still have to apply for 40 jobs every month.

The unemployed don’t need lectures from Abbott, they need a government that is more interested in creating jobs than counting the number of CVs being sent out. Businesses don’t want to drown in job applications, they need a government equipping the future workforce with the skills to make it easier to hire people, not harder.

George Brandis, Tony Abbott August 7, 2014September 7, 2014

Brandis has done nothing. He’s helped the government develop a reputation for half baked policy announcements LNP Pink Bat plans

WTF Team Australia Looks like an LNP Pink Bat with Hendra Virus

George Brandis they keep telling us “you get what you pay for’. Tony & George were at Oxford together, the PM a a jock, and the Attorney-General as an egg-head. 30 years on from those Oxford days they still don’t seem to be able to get on the same page. At our cost. Georges proposed changes to section 18C of the RAD dumped. Rewriting of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act spurred on by the RDA-scorched columnist Andrew Bolt and backed by Georges declaration to the Senate that people have “a right to be bigots”
Brandis then set a foreign-policy stampede by disowning the term “occupied East Jerusalem” for ‘disputed’ and retreated yet again.
Senator Brandis bore the announcement impassively, with pallid but composed face and comment “In this business you can’t win them all”.
However Abbott and Brandis may have arrived at their pink bats moment when in interviews they both where overwhelmed. Brandis fronted Sky News’ David Speers to explain those aspects of the government’s proposed new anti-terrorism laws which aim to survey online communication. He couldn’t, because the government obviously hasn’t settled on what “metadata” it wants internet service providers (ISPs) to retain, or even what it means by “metadata”. Abbott himself had set the tone on ABC radio. Espousing their unhelpful “front of the envelope” analogy, Brandis and Abbott come across as technological unsophisticates, which can be amusing to watch until one thinks about the privacy and cost implications. ISPs and telecommunications companies remain entirely confused about what they might be asked to do.
The the one minister who could reasonably be expected to explain something of the technical side of the government’s proposals – Communications Minister and former internet entrepreneur Malcolm Turnbull – had been sidelined by Abbott, and not for the first time. Turnbull’s concerns about the metadata proposals were reportedly ignored by Brandis.
The metadata announcement adds to a reputation the government has developed for bungled and half-baked policy announcements – others include paid parental leave, the 18C repeal, Gonski school funding, the FOFA windbacks and the budget itself – which create immediate confusion and which need to be revised by backtracking minister

George not knowing what the f**k metadata is just wants out of here fast

George Brandis, Peter Slipper, Tony Abbott August 6, 2014

We are a government of REVENGE:$84,000 in work-related travel entitlements Abbott claimed while “volunteering”, running, swimming, cycling and attending major sporting events.

“Sinking the slipper”
He misused $954 of taxpayer’s funds claiming expenses that were private, not parliamentary.
Other politicians, including the prime minister, were allowed to repay expenses under the Minchin Protocol, which allows for the repayment of wrongly claimed entitlements, while others get off scott free
Mr Slipper has on a number of occasions said that he tried to repay the money under the Minchin Protocol, but the avenue has been denied him;
It can only be put down to LNP payback for his taking the Speakers job.
George Brandis has never adequately explained why the Commonwealth pursued him over such a paltry amount and who it was who took the complaint to the AFP.
That’s over $84,000 in work-related travel entitlements Abbott claimed while “volunteering”, running, swimming, cycling and attending major sporting events. There are of course many others from both sides who have repaid wrongly paid expenses:
• Attorney-General George Brandis repaid nearly $1,700 he had claimed from the taxpayer to attend the wedding of radio announcer Michael Smith in 2011.
• Former Attorney General Mark Dreyfus was forced to repay $466 claimed while he was away from Canberra on a skiing trip in August 2011, which his spokeswoman said was “an administrative error.”
• Former Trade Minister Richard Marles claimed flights to Labor MP Michael Danby’s 2008 Parliament House wedding but said he had meetings in Canberra the next day.
• Wayne Swan, when acting PM in 2010, took his two children to both the AFL grand final replay and NRL grand final by VIP aircraft, costing taxpayers more than $17,000 in one weekend.
• In August 2012 Mr Abbott went to Coffs Harbour for its cycle challenge, claiming $1,002.
• Julia Gillard repaid $4243 in 2007 when she was deputy opposition leader, in relation to her partner Tim Mathieson’s private use of a taxpayer-funded car.
• As a minister Mr Reith racked up a $50,000 phone bill at taxpayers’ expense, which he repaid.
If Peter Slipper gets a gaol sentence it will be a gross miscarriage of justice. Not of the court’s making, but that of a government more intent on punishing people than exercising leadership. Thus far it has been punishment of pensioners, the sick, the young, the unemployed, the opposition, and anyone who disagrees.

China, Coal, Electricity, India, Tony Abbott August 5, 2014

ABBOTT’S DREAM FOR A COAL BOOM IN THE PIPELINE ARE FAST BECOMING A PIPE DREAM COAL-LITION TO COAL DUST

ABBOTT POINT IS HISTORY

Worst news for Australia as India taps solar, Beijing bans coal

By Sophie Vorrath on 5 August 2014

As Australia’s federal government commits to a future digging up, burning and most of all exporting the nation’s vast coal resource, two of the countries upon which this shaky economic plan is most dependent – India and China – look to be closing the door on the heavy polluting fossil fuel.

In Delhi last week, the Indian government committed to a plan to provide low-cost loans and grants to set up some of the world’s largest solar PV parks across the country, each of them comprising as much as 20 gigawatts of capacity, about 10 times what India has built to date.At a cost about 32 per cent below the global average for solar, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, and well below the average for coal-fired power generation.
China & India have become increasingly critical to the stability or continued growth of the seaborne coal market.Add to this India’s five-year solar lighting goal and you have what looks like a much diminished future coal equation for Australia.
According to official Chinese government statistics, coal use accounted for 25.4 per cent of the capital’s energy consumption in 2012 – a figure that is expected to shrink to less than 10 per cent by 2017. PWCS-Destination
China’s plans to slash its already declining coal use poses a major – but certainly not unheralded – problem for Australia’s coal industry.According to data from Newcastle’s Port Waratah Coal Services, China has accounted for just over 25 per cent of coal through the Port of Newcastle, the world’s biggest coal export hub in 2014.On top of this, the price for thermal coal has plunged more than 10 per cent in the last two months – due largely to major importing nations like India making it clear that renewable energy is offering a competitive energy alternative.

Currently, thermal coal is sold for less than $70 on the spot market, well below the mark for Australian producers to make money, let alone the cost of production and the level to get the finance for the massive new projects Prime Minister Tony Abbott is hoping to encourage.
Any chance of a boom as China grows may prove ephemeral.”

Prime Minister, Rhodes Scholar, Tony Abbott August 5, 2014

OUR RHODES SCHOLAR KISSED THE BLARNEY STONE

Tony Abbott and Words of Wisdom

On Wisdom

No one. However smart, however well-educated, however experienced is the suppository of all wisdom

On Womens Business

I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation’s legacy of unutterable shame.

Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it’s inevitable and I don’t think it’s a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework

What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.

Climate Change

It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world’s warming has stopped.

If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax

Climate change is absolute crap

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

Homosexuality

[on homosexuality] I’d probably … I feel a bit threatened

[on homosexuality] If you’d asked me for advice I would have said to have adopt a sort of “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy about all of these things…

Fatherhood

If you wanna know who to vote for, I’m the guy with the not bad-looking daughters.

I won’t be rushing out to get my daughters vaccinated [for cervical cancer], maybe that’s because I’m a cruel, callow, callous, heartless bastard but, look, I won’t be

I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question… it [their virginity] is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don’t give it to someone lightly, that’s what I would say.

Asylum

These people aren’t so much seeking asylum, they’re seeking permanent residency. If they were happy with temporary protection visas, then they might be able to argue better that they were asylum seekers

Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.

Youth

When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There’s nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language.

MP’S

I know politicians are going to be judged on everything they say but sometimes in the heat of discussion you go a little bit further than you would if it was an absolutely calm, considered, prepared, scripted remark. The statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth are those carefully prepared scripted remarks.

Work

If we’re honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband. you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he’s employing someone while he is in fact a boss.

Indigenous People

Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage

There may not be a great job for [aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it… And if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.

Aboriginal Culture, Andrew Bolt, Australian Constitution, Racism, Tony Abbott August 5, 2014

ABBOTT "I PROMISE TO BE BACK" BOLT "ABORIGINAL CULTURE IS THEIR PROBLEM" SHAME AUSTRALIA SHAME

A YEAR AGO TONY ABBOTT PROMISED TO BE BACK IF HE WON THE ELECTION. BULLSHIT
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Government score, Tony Abbott August 5, 2014

ABBOTT’S SCORECARD THE FIRST 7 MONTHS: WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT THAT GETS THINGS DONE

The score card is far from impressive
Tally the lies Abbott wins hands down
The Broken Promise Count
1. Does not spend his first week as Prime Minister with an Aboriginal community – 14 September 2013. This promise was made in front of indigenous elders and participants at the Garma Festival on 10 August 2013, this is a live recording.
2. Fails to “stop the boats” – 23 September 2013. This promise was repeated so many times I can’t count. Here’s Abbott’s 2013 campaign launch speech.
3. Breaks his promise to support Gonski – 25 November 2013 and 13 May 2014. Fails to commit to future funding or to require States to match the Commonwealth funding commitment. See paragraph two from Christopher Pyne on 29 August 2013
4. Breaks its NBN election promise of giving all Australians access to 25 megabits per second download speeds by 2016 – 12 December 2013 This was the Coalition’s policy they took to the election first announced 9 April 2013.
5. Changes name of NDIS “launch sites” to “trial sites” and flags cuts to funding – 17 December 2013. The unequivical promise to deliver the NDIS in full was made 20 August 2013 and is in the policies they took to the election
6. Breaks his election promise of no cuts to education by cutting funding for trade training centres in schools on 17 December 2013. He made this promise at the National Press Club on 2 September 2013 and in writing on 5 September 2013 as part of their policy commitments.
7. Breaks a promise to make no cuts to health. He made this promise at the National Press Club on 2 September 2013 and in writing on 5 September 2013 as part of their policy commitments. This promise was first broken on 27 November 2013 when they cut funding to the Alcohol and Other Drugs Council and again on 17 December 2013 when they cut $150 million from hospitals and health services.
8. Fails to provide the promised customs vessel to monitor whaling operations in the Southern Ocean – 23 December 2013 Promise made by Greg Hunt – 9 April 2013
9. Breaks a promise to provide fibre-to-the-premises for all Tasmanians for the National Broadband Network. This promise was confirmed my Malcolm Turnbull on 17 August 2013 and confirmed as broken by the NBN Co executive chairman Ziggy Switkowski on 13 February 2014.
10. Breaks a promise to introduce the paid parental leave scheme he took to the election on 30 April 2014 by reducing the promised benefit for those earning above $100 000.
11. Breaks promise of “no cuts to the ABC or SBS” by cutting $43.5 million from the ABC and SBS.
12. Breaks a promise of “no new taxes” by introducing a deficit tax rise of two percentage points for people earning more than $180,000 a year.
13. Announced to sacking of 16,500 public sector workers as whole Departments are abolished despite promising only 12,000 job losses and through natural attrition.
14. Breaks a promise of “no new taxes” by introducing a fuel levy.
15. Reduction in foreign aid budget of $7.9 billion over five years despite promise to not exceed $4.5 billion and cut via indexation.
16. Increases the pension age to 70 from 2035 after promising last month that changes to indexation and pension age would come in three years.
17. Cuts to old age pension by indexing to CPI, while it was promised there would be no changes.
18. Scraps The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) which was set up to support new and emerging renewable technologies and in doing so breaks an election promise.
19. Tears up Federal Government’s agreement with states and territories to help fund increasing health costs despite promise of no cuts to health.
20. Breaks a promise to make no cuts to health with a $368 million cut from preventative health measures.
21. Reduces the Medicare benefit for optometry services and allows optometrists to charge more, despite promise to not cut health budget.
22. Axes the Charles Sturt University’s dental and oral health clinics, despite promise to not cut health budget.
23. Abolishes Medicare locals, despite promise to not cut health budget.
24. Breaks a promise to spend $2.55 billion Emissions Reduction Fund by committing less than half this amount in the budget.
25. Breaks a promise to have one million more solar roofs across Australia and at least 25 solar towns.
26. Breaks a promise not to cuts funding to health by dramatically cutting hospital funding.
27. Breaks election promise and slashes funding to Landcare
28. Breaks promise that no public servants will be forced into redundancy after revelations that two public servants in the Department of Industry have been made involuntarily redundant since September.

THE LIST – Tracking Abbott’s Wreckage
275. Directs all government departments to disclose every contact with every union for any reason over the last decade to the Royal Commission – 28 July 2014
274. Allows the suspension of payments to parents whose children do not attend school in the Northern Territory – 19 July 2014
273. Axes the carbon tax with no viable policy to address climate change or Australia’s emission targets – 17 July, 2014
272. Risks up to $1 billion in revenue through job cuts at the ATO – July 15, 2014
271. Cuts all funding to Vibe Australia, the Indigenous organisation responsible for creating and producing the Deadly Awards, Deadly Vibe and InVibe magazines, Deadly Sounds radio, Move It Mob Style TV and deadlyvibe.com.au – July 14, 2014
270. Detains 153 asylum seekers at sea on board a customs ship, despite questions about the legality of this action – July 12, 2014
269. Offends China and many Australians by praising the “skill and honour” of Japanese soliders who killed 22 000 Australians and hundreds of thousands of Chinese during World War II – 9 July 2014
268. Hands over 41 Sri Lankan asylum seekers to the custody of Sri Lankan authorities after screening them at sea and transferring them while still on the water – 07 July, 2014
267. Creates a strategic communications branch employing 37 people and costing $4.7 million each year, to oversee communications in the department of Prime Minister and Cabinet despite saying at the 2013 launch of the Liberal Party’s book on ALP waste, that they would spend less on spin than the previous government – July 05, 2014
266. Describes Australia as ‘unsettled’ before the British arrived, during an address to the Australia-Melbourne Institute Conference – 04 July, 2014
265. Creates a new ‘national interest test’ to deny permanent visas to refugees. The Immigration minister will personally decide the conditions of the test and Ministerial decisions will not be subject to appeal – 03 July, 2014
264. Screens asylum seekers via teleconference while they are still at sea – 03 July, 2014
263. Prohibits Community Legal Centres from using Government funding to advocate for policy or law reform – 02 July, 2014
262. Appoints a former Liberal MP and a conservative columnist and vocal opponent of the ABC to the ABC and SBS appointments panel – 02 July, 2014
261. Strikes out protections for consumers of financial advice before the report into the Commonwealth Bank of Australia financial planning scandal is tabled, which recommends a Royal Commission into the bank to investigate allegations of fraud, forgery and a management cover-up – 01 July, 2014
260. Refuses to confirm the existence of two boatloads of refugees reported to be currently on board customs vessels. The Government previously denied the vessels were in trouble and refuses to comment on whether the refugees will be landing in Australia – 30 June, 2014
259. Revokes the residential determination of two asylum seekers from Vietnam currently in high school in Adelaide and removes them to a detention centre, resulting in up to 7 other children, also in school, running away for fear of the same fate – 28 June, 2014
258. Cuts Dementia and Severe Behaviours Supplement, a payment to those who provide care for people with severe behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia – 26 June, 2014
257. Breaks promise that no public servants will be forced into redundancy as it is revealed that staff in Treasury in Finance will be made involuntarily redundant – 24 June, 2014
256. Seeks to reintroduce Temporary Protection Visas after the High Court strikes down the Government’s attempt to limit the number of permanent visas available each year – 22 June 2014.
255. Offers asylum seekers $10 000 to voluntarily return home – 21 June, 2014
254. Refuses to halt return of refugees to war-torn Iraq – 18 June, 2014
253. Abandons the long-held, bipartisan position of referring to Palestinian land captured in 1967 as occupied – 06 June, 2014
252. Abolishes the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee, which has, for 25 years, investigated gaps in Australia’s corporate and financial markets law and recommended ways to close them – 05 June, 2014
251. Excludes Australian shipyards from a major new contract, sending jobs offshore and threatening the industry in Australia – 05 June, 2014
250. Cuts funding to the peak refugee organisation the Refugee Council of Australia – 30 May 2014
249. Takes money from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and gives it to the Royal Commission into the Home Insulation Scheme – 28 May 2014
248. Breaks promise that no public servants will be forced into redundancy after revelations that public servants in the Department of Industry have been made involuntarily redundant – 19 May 2014
247. Scraps the National Water Commission – 13 May, 2014
246. Abolishes funding for Building Australia’s Future Workforce — Connection Interviews and Job Seeker Workshops and the Experience+ Career Advice initiative – 13 May, 2014
245. Abolishes the Get Reading Programme – 13 May, 2014
244. Scraps the annual subsidy to local ethanol producers – 13 May 2014
243. Slashes the Biodiversity Fund – 13 May, 2014
242. Cuts the Education Department’s Online Diagnostic Tools Programme – 13 May, 2014
241. Abolishes the Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority which was established to encourage organ donation – 13 May, 2014
240. Introduces annual reviews for veterans receiving military compensation payments due to illness or injury – 13 May, 2014
239. Terminates the Office of Water Science research programme – 13 May, 2014
238. Abolishes the Commonwealth Human Rights Education Grant – 13 May 2014
237. Abolishes funding to the Exotic Disease Preparedness Programme – 13 May 2014
236. Slashes funding from the Indigenous Health Budget – 13 May 2014
235. Cuts funding for Indigenous language support – 13 May 2014
234. Cuts funding to the Torres Strait Regional Authority – 13 May 2014
233. Abolishes the Congress of Australia’s First Peoples, the only elected representative body for Indigenous Australians – 13 May 2014
232. Breaks election promise and slashes funding to Landcare – 13 May 2014
231. Abolishes the National Rental Affordability Scheme – 13 May 2014
230. Cuts funding from the corporate regulator ASIC which oversees the financial sector – 13 May 2014
229. Axes the first home buyers savings scheme – 13 May 2014
228. Reduces funding to the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency – 13 May 2014
227. Abolishes the Improving Educational Outcomes Programme – 13 May 2014
226. Cuts funding to the Child Care Early Learning Projects and the Professional Support Program which assist childcare workers gain skills – 13 May 2014
225. Reduces funding to the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership – 13 May 2014
224. Cut the Research Training Scheme, with tertiary education providers to introduce student contributions for higher degrees – 13 May 2014
223. Ends the development of the Australian Baccalaureate – 13 May 2014
222. Cuts higher education reward funding – 13 May 2014
221. Cuts the Australian National University’s HC Coombs Policy Forum – 13 May 2014
220. Cuts Australian Research Council funding – 13 May 2014
219. Abolishes tax break for mature age workers and replaces it with a payment for employing people over 50 who have been on Newstart or the DSP for more than 6 months – 13 May 2014
218. Cuts an incentive program for graduates to take up work in regional locations of need – 13 May 2014
217. Axes the National Partnership Agreement on Certain Concessions for Pensioners and Seniors Card Holders which supports state and territory concessions for senior citizens including energy rebates. – 13 May 2014
216. Kills off four grant programmes including the the Australian Community Food Safety Campaign and Outreach Support Services for Criminalised Women – 13 May 2014
215. Cuts $2.3 million in contribution to the World Health Organisation – 13 May 2014
214. Abolishes the Australian Interactive Games Fund which helped support local video game developers – 13 May 2014
213. Breaks a promise not to cuts funding to health by dramatically cutting hospital funding – 13 May 2014
212. Cuts $240 million over four years to community programs that support poor, sick or disadvantaged people – 13 May 2014
211. Cuts $25million over 4 years or a quarter of the funding to Community Legal Centres who provide legal support to the poor and disadvantaged – 13 May 2014
210. Cuts the Women in Leadership program – 13 May 2014
209. Breaks a promise to have one million more solar roofs across Australia and at least 25 solar towns – 13 May 2014
208. Breaks a promise to spend $2.55 billion Emissions Reduction Fund by committing less than half this amount in the budget – 13 May 2014
207. Orders the spending of $11.7 million to plan the privatisation of: Defence Housing Australia, the Royal Australian Mint and the registry function of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission – 13 May 2014
206. Announces 3000 job loses at the Australian Tax Office – 13 May 2014
205. Freezes the Family Tax Benefit A at a set income level regardless of the number of children – 13 May 2014
204. Cuts the Family Tax Benefit B end-of-year supplement by 15% – 13 May 2014
203. Reduces funding for the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation – 13 May 2014
202. Reduces funding to the Australian Institute for Marine Science – 13 May 2014
201. Scraps a range of grant programs aimed at funding innovation and start-up businesses, including: Australian Industry Participation; Commercialisation Australia; Enterprise Solutions; Innovation Investment Fund; Industry Innovation Councils; Enterprise Connect; Industry Innovation Precincts; and Textile, Clothing and Footwear Small Business and Building Innovative Capability – 13 May 2014
200. Rips a further $111.4 million over four years out of the operating budget of the CSIRO – 13 May 2014
199. Ceases funding for National ICT Australia, which is a research centre for communications and information technology – 13 May 2014
198. Abolishes Medicare locals – 13 May 2014
197. Reduces payments to people under 35 with a disability who cannot find employment if they could work more than eight hours a week – 13 May 2014
196. Mandates religious education in schools by taking away the option for school to opt for a secular social worker instead – 13 May 2014
195. Abolishes the ABC’s disability communities website Ramp Up – 13 May 2014
194. Abolishes the Disability Discrimination Commissioner – 13 May 2014
193. Abolishes the Better Schools Centre for Quality Teaching and Learning – 13 May 2014
192. Dismantles the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and will establish a health productivity and performance commission – 13 May 2014
191. Abolishes the Seniors Supplement – 13 May 2014
190. Axes the tax break for people with dependent spouses – 13 May 2014
189. Axes the Diagnostic Imaging Quality Programme – 13 May 2014
188. Ceases the Dental Flexible Grants Program – 13 May 2014
187. Axes the Charles Sturt University’s dental and oral health clinics – 13 May 2014
186. Axes funding for the nursing and allied health scholarships in Tasmania – 13 May 2014
185. Defers 13 Partners in Recovery programs which help people with severe and persistent mental illness and complex support needs – 13 May 2014
184. Cuts funding to the National Anti-Tobacco Campaign – 13 May 2014
183. Cuts Australia’s Animal Welfare Strategy – 13 May 2014
182. Abolishes Health Workforce Australia and cuts the expansion of the Clinical Training Funding Program – 13 May 2014
181. Axes the National Partnership Agreement on Preventive Health – 13 May 2014
180. Defers the National Partnership Agreement for adult public dental services until July 2015 – 13 May 2014
179. Reduces the Medicare benefit for optometry services and allows optometrists to charge more – 13 May 2014
178. Abolishes the GP Education and Training Limited and ceasing the Pre-vocational GP Placements Scheme – 13 May 2014
177. Axes industry and community clean energy programs include the Low Emissions Technology Demonstration Fund, the National Low Emission Coal Initiative, Energy Efficiency Programmes, the National Solar Schools Plan, Energy Efficiency Information Grants and Low Carbon Communities – 13 May 2014
176. Scraps The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) which was set up to support new and emerging renewable technologies and in doing so breaks an election promise – 13 May 2014
175. Scraps the Housing Help for Seniors scheme which provided assistance to older Australians – 13 May 2014
174. Pulls $2.5 billion from aged care, including $1.7 billion from home based support such as Meals on Wheels – 13 May 2014
173. Cuts the benefit for unemployed people under 25 by moving them onto the Youth Allowance – 13 May 2014
172. Kills off the Gonski school funding vision by cutting future funding by $30 billion – 13 May 2014
171. Reduces Medicare and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme safety nets – 13 May 2014
170. Breaks a promise to make no cuts to health with a $368 million cut from preventative health measures – 13 May 2014
169. Cuts the Family Tax Benefit A end-of-year supplement by 17% – 13 May 2014
168. Increases the fuel excise twice a year by indexing it to CPI – 13 May 2014
167. Forces students to repay their debt earlier by lowering the wage they need to earn before payments kick in – 13 May 2014
166. Increases debt for students by increasing the interest on their fees – 13 May 2014
165. Makes it harder for retirees to access the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card – 13 May 2014
164. Guts the Australia Council and Screen Australia by cutting $87 million for the Arts – 13 May 2014
163. Forces people under 30 to work for the dole if they want to receive any financial support after a waiting period of six months with no financial support – 13 May 2014
162. Imposes a six month wait for people under 30s to receive unemployment benefits – 13 May 2014
161. Cuts the Family Tax Benefit Part B – 13 May 2014
160. Cuts the old age pension by indexing it to CPI instead of wages – 13 May 2014
159. Increases the pension age to 70 from 2035 – 13 May 2014
158. Imposes a $5 increase on the cost of all medicines available under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (80c for concession card holders) – 13 May 2014
157. Cuts the ‘Tools for the Trade’ program which helped apprentices buy their tools, and replacing it with a loan scheme apprentices will have to repay – 13 May 2014
156. Caps the amount of money workers can recoup in entitlements if their employer becomes insolvent or bankrupt to 16 weeks – 13 May 2014
155. Breaks a promise to only cut the foreign aid budget by $4.5 billion and cuts it by $7.9 billion instead – 13 May 2014
154. Axes funding to the Australian Youth Affairs Coalition, the national peak body for young people– 13 May 2014
153. Slashes Disability Support Pensions by indexing to inflation – 13 May 2014
152. Abolishes the highly successful Youth Connections program that supports young people who have not completed, or are at risk of not completing Year 12 or equivalent qualifications also costing hundreds of community sector jobs – 13 May 2014
151. Breaks a promise of “no new taxes” by introducing a fuel levy – 13 May 2014
150. Announces the sacking of 16,500 public sector workers as whole Departments are abolished despite promising only 12,000 job losses – 13 May 2014
149. Cuts $500 million from indigenous programs over five years – 13 May 2014
148. Breaks a promise of “no new taxes” by introducing a deficit tax rise of two percentage points for people earning more than $180,000 a year – 13 May 2014
147. Scrapping a net $1.2 billion in tuition subsidies for universities – 13 May 2014
146. Scraps the Australia Network, Australia’s international television service broadcast across our region that provides news and current affairs from an Australian perspective – 13 May 2014
145. Breaks promise of “no cuts to the ABC or SBS” by cutting $43.5 million from the ABC and SBS – 13 May 2014
144. Undermines Medicare by imposing a $7 fee increase for GP visits – 13 May 2014
143. Tears up Federal Government’s agreement with states and territories to help fund increasing health costs – 13 May 2014
142. Scraps caps on university fees, meaning universities will be able to charge whatever they like for degrees – 13 May 2014
141. Abolishes the COAG Reform Council — which provides information to Governments so they can track the performance of their programs – 13 May 2014
140. Sacks the National People with Disability and Carers Council — which pushed for and then helped build the NDIS – 13 May 2014
139. Releases the Commission of Audit report which recommends savage budget cuts that would negatively affect every Australian – 1 May 2014
138. Breaks a promise to introduce the paid parental leave scheme he took to the election – 30 April 2014
137. Spends $12.4 billion on new fighter jets whilst claiming a budget “emergency” and preparing to make big cuts to health and welfare – 23 April 2014
136. Abolishes the research and development tax incentives board – 11 April 2014
135. Begins dismantling GP Super clinics – 8 April 2014
134. Cuts 480 jobs from the Environment Department who are responsible for protecting places such as Kakadu, Antarctica and the Great Barrier Reef – 7 April 2014
133. Forbids public servants from making political comments online, even anonymously, and instructs them to report on colleagues who do – 6 April 2014
132. Establishes a secret, publicly funded “hit squad” to target political opponents led by the man who provided a “chaff bag” for Alan Jones to auction at a Young Liberal fundraiser – 1 April 2014
131. Imposes fees and charges on people who become bankrupt – 1 April 2014
130. Axes free legal assistance for asylum seekers – 31 March 2014
129. Defunds Ethical Clothing Australia that worked with industry to protect outworkers in the textile and clothing industry from exploitation and abandons the Governments ethical procurement guidelines – 30 March 2014
128. Opposes a UN resolution to conduct war crimes inquiry in Sri Lanka – 28 March 2014
127. Closes all Medicare offices on Saturdays – 26 March 2014
126. Brings back the awards of knights and dames which were abolished in 1986 – 25 March 2014
125. Cuts 400 jobs from the industry department – 25 March 2014
124. Ensures a human rights enquiry into the Manus Island detention centre is shut down and human rights lawyers are denied access to the centre – 23 March 2014
123. Abolishes one third of the jobs in Treasury costing approximately 300 jobs – 21 March 2014
122. Cuts welfare payments to orphans of soldiers – 16 March 2014
121. Moves to deny funding to artists or events that refuse corporate sponsorship for ethical reasons – 15 March 2014
120. Cuts hundreds of jobs at the CSIRO – 14 March 2014
119. Reopens 457 visa loophole to allow employers to hire an unlimited number of workers without scrutiny – 12 March 2014
118. Overturns a ban on cattle grazing in the Victorian Alpine National Park – 6 March 2014
117. Frustrated and defeated an attempt at the UN to highlight the humanitarian consequences of nuclear war – 5 March 2014
116. Axes funding earmarked to save the Sumatran rhinoceros from extinction – 28 February 2014
115. Introduces legislation to allow people aged between 17-24 years old to work for half the minimum wage and be exempted from all other work rights including health and safety laws and protections should they be injured at work – 26 February 2014
114. Axes funding to Aboriginal Early Childhood Support and Learning Incorporated, the only Indigenous peak body advising on early childhood issues for Indigenous people in NSW – 25 February, 2014
113. Misleads the Australian public about what occurred on Manus Island when asylum seekers were attacked killing one person and injuring seventy-seven. Once the information was known to be untrue, waited five days to correct the record – 25 February 2014
112. Contravenes 113 years of established practice by moving to release the previous Government’s confidential cabinet papers to the Royal Commission into the Pink Batts scheme – 22 February 2014
111. Scraps food grants program for small farmers – 21 February 2014
110. Pressured SPC Ardmona to cut the pay and conditions for workers in return for Government money – 20 February 2014
109. Blames carbon pricing for the close of Alcoa smelters and rolling mills and the loss of nearly 1000 jobs, despite the fact the company states it had no bearing on their decision – 19 February 2014
108. Breaches the privacy and puts in danger around 10, 000 asylum seekers and their families by releasing their personal details on the Department of Immigration website – 19 February 2014
107. Fails to ensure the safety of asylum seekers in our care on Manus Island who were subjected to a vicious attack, which left one person dead and seventy-seven seriously injured – 1 8 February 2014
106. Reverses the previous government’s decision to care for refugee children who are without an adult family member (ie unaccompanied minors) in the community and sends them to detention centres in Nauru – 17 February 2014
105. Removes poverty reduction from the goals of the foreign affairs budget –February 17, 2014
104. Appoints a climate change sceptic to head a review of our renewable energy target – 17 February 2014
103. Pays hundreds of indigenous workers in his Department up to $19 000 less than non-indigenous workers doing the same job and cuts the budget for the representative body the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples causing two-thirds of the staff to lose their jobs – 15 February 2014
102. Breaks a promise to provide fibre-to-the-premises for all Tasmanians for the National Broadband Network – 13 February 2014
101. Unemployment rate jumps to highest in more than 10 years – 13 February 2014
100. Lies to the Australian public about the reasons Toyota gave for their decision to close in order to blame the workers and their union – 12 February 2014
99. Takes down a website providing information to the Australian public on the ingredients and nutritional content of foods. It is later revealed that the person in the Minister’s office who gave this directive is married to a lobbyist from the junk food industry and was still a share holder in their lobbying company – 11 Februar y 2014
98. Destroys the Australian car manufacturing industry by refusing to provide any industry assistance leading to the decision of Toyota to shut costing up to 30 000 jobs – 10 February 2014
97. Launches a Royal Commission into unions – 10 February 2014
96. Attempts to reintroduce temporary visas for asylum seekers found to be fleeing persecution preventing them ever settling in Australia and retrospectively applies them to 20 000 people. This is stopped in the Senate twice by the ALP and The Greens – 7 February 2014
95. Supports a reduction of penalty rates and other Award minimums in a submission to the Fair Work Commission’s review of all Awards – 4 February 2014
94. Lies to the Australian public about the wages and working conditions of factory workers at SPC Ardmona in Shepparton and uses this incorrect information to blame them for their job insecurity – 4 February 2014
93. Launches an “efficiency study” into ABC and the SBS – 30 January 2014
92. Cuts the wages of Australian troops deployed overseas by almost $20 000 per solider – 29 January 2014
91. Intervenes on the side of Toyota to support cutting Australian workers wages and conditions – 28 January 2014
90. Privatises the 104 year old Australian Valuation Office costing nearly 200 jobs – 24 January 2014
89. Seeks to wind back the World Heritage listing of Tasmania’s forests – 23 January 2014
88. Withdraws funding for an early intervention program to help vulnerable young people – 22 January 2014
87. Exempts Western Australia from national environment laws to facilitate shark culling – 21 January 2014
86. Defunds all international environmental programs, the International Labour Organisation and cuts funding to a range of international aid programs run by NGOs such as Save the Children, Oxfam, CARE Australia and Caritas – 18 January 2014
85. Violates Indonesia’s territorial sovereignty while turning back asylum seeker boats – 17 January 2014
84. Politicises the national school curriculum by appointing a former Liberal staffer and a Coalition supporter, both critics of the current curriculum to conduct a review – 10 January 2014.
83. Directs that people already found to be refugees who arrived by boat be given the lowest priority for family reunion – 8 January 2014
82. Fails to contradict or take any action against a member of his government, Senator Cory Bernardi, who makes divisive statements about: abortion, “non-traditional” families and their children, same sex couples, couples who use IVF and calls for parts of WorkChoices to be reintroduced – 6 January 2014
81. Scraps funding from the Jewish Holocaust Centre –January 3, 2014
80. Devastates Australia’s contribution to overseas aid by cutting $4.5 billion from the budget, causing vital programs supporting those in extreme poverty in our region to collapse – 1 January 2014
79. Drastically reduces tax breaks for small business and fails to publicise it – 1 January 2014
78. Appoints Tim Wilson, a Liberal Party member and Policy Director of a right-wing think tank to the position of Commissioner at the Human Rights Commission even though this think tank argued for the Commission to be abolished – 23 December 2013
77. Approves private health fund premium increases of an average 6.2% a year – 23 December 2013
76. Breaks his promise to provide the promised customs vessel to monitor whaling operations in the Southern Ocean – 23 December 2013
75. Requests the delisting of World Heritage status for Tasmanian forests – 21 December 2013
74. Cuts funding to the Energy Efficiency Opportunities Programme which makes it mandatory for large energy using businesses to improve their efficiency –17 December, 2013
73. Breaks a promise to make no cuts to health by cutting $150 million from hospital and health services – 17 December 2013.
72. Scraps the Home Energy Saver Scheme which helps struggling low income households cut their electricity bills – 17 December 2013
71. Defunds the Public Interest Advocacy Centre whose objectives are to work for a fair, just and democratic society by taking up legal cases public interest issues – 17 December 2013
70. Defunds the Environmental Defenders Office which is a network of community legal centres providing free advice on environmental law – 17 December 2013
69. Axes funding for animal welfare – 17 December 2013
68. Breaks his election promise of no cuts to education by cutting funding for trade training centres in schools – 17 December 2013
67. Abolishes the AusAID graduate program costing 38 jobs – 17 December 2013
66. Cuts Indigenous legal services by $13.4 million. This includes $3.5 million from front line domestic violence support services, defunding the National legal service and abolishing all policy and law reform positions across the country – 17 December 2013
65. Abolishes the position of co-ordinator-general for remote indigenous services – 17 December 2013
64. Breaks his promise to unequivocally support the NDIS by changing the name of NDIS “launch sites” to “trial sites” and flags cuts to funding – 17 December 2013
63. Abolishes the National Office for Live Music along with the live music ambassadors – 17 December 2013
62. Cuts $2.5 million from community radio – 17 December 2013
61. Weakens the ministerial code of conduct to let ministers keep shares in companies – 16 December 2013
60. Disbands the independent Immigration Health Advisory Group for asylum seekers – 16 December 2013
59. Dumps the National Occupational Licensing Scheme which was designed to increase productivity by making it easier for skilled workers to work interstate – 14 December 2013
58. Axes $4.5 million from charities and community groups for the Building Multicultural Communities Program – 13 December 2013
57. Starts dismantling Australia’s world leading marine protection system – 13 December 2013
56. Scraps the COAG Standing Council on Environment and Water – 13 December 2013
55. Breaks his NBN election promise of giving all Australians access to 25 megabits per second download speeds by 2016 – 12 December 2013
54. Overturns the “critically endangered” listing of the Murray Darling Basin – 11 December 2013
53. Dares Holden to leave Australia. Holden responds by announcing its closure which costs Australians tens of thousands of jobs – 11 December 2013
52. Approves Clive Palmer’s mega coal mine in the Galilee Basin which opponents say will severely damage Great Barrier Reef – 11 December 2013
51. Demands that the few childcare workers who got pay rises “hand them back” – 10 December 2013
50. Approves the largest coal port in the world in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area – 10 December 2013
49. Removes the community’s right to challenge decisions where the government has ignored expert advice on threatened species impacts – 9 December 2013
48. Downgrades national environment laws by giving approval powers to state premiers – 9 December 2013
47. Undermines Australia’s democracy by signing a free trade agreement with South Korea allowing corporations to sue the Australian Government – 6 December 2013
46. Damages our diplomatic relationship with our nearest neighbour East Timor – 5 December 2013
45. Repeals the pokie reform legislation which was designed to combat problem gambling – 4 December 2013
44. Suspends the Wage Connect program, despite it being proven to deliver good outcomes for unemployed people – 3 December 2013
43. Axes funding to the Alcohol and Other Drugs Council of Australia, forcing the 46 year old organisation to close. It is later revealed that a staffer in the Assistant Health Minister’s office had links to the Alcohol Industry – 27 November 2013
42. Breaks his promise to support Gonski and back flips three times – 25 November 2013
41. Shifts Australia’s position at the UN on Israeli settlements – 25 November 2013
40. Damages our diplomatic relationship with the Indonesian Government by refusing to apologise for tapping the phones of their President, his wife and senior Government officials – 23 November 2013
39. Converts crucial Start-Up Scholarships into loans, increasing the debt of 80,000 higher education students by $1.2 billion – 21 November 2013
38. Gifts two navy patrol boats to the Sri Lankan government to stop asylum seekers fleeing the Sri Lankan government – 17 November 2013
37. Introduces a Bill to impose on workers who are elected onto unpaid union committees huge financial penalties and jail terms for breeches of new compliance obligations – 14 November 2013
36. Condones torture by foreign governments by saying “sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen” – 14 November 2013
35. Hides information from the Parliament and the people about the government’s treatment of asylum seekers – 13 November 2013
34. Abandons Australia’s emission reduction targets – 12 November, 2013
33. Separates a refugee mother from her newborn baby – 10 November 2013
32. Cuts 600 jobs at the CSIRO – 8 November 2013
31. Abolishes Insurance Reform Advisory Group which provided a forum for industry and consumer bodies to discuss insurance industry reform – 8 November 2013
30. Abolishes the Maritime Workforce Development Forum which was an industry body working to build a sustainable skills base for the maritime industry – 8 November 2013
29. Abolishes the High Speed Rail Advisory Group whose job it was to advise Governments on the next steps on implementing high speed rail for eastern Australia – 8 November 2013
28. Abolishes the Advisory Panel on the Marketing in Australia of Infant Formula which for 21 years ensured companies comply with agreements on the advertising of infant formula – 8 November 2013
27. Abolishes the Antarctic Animal Ethics Committee who ensured research on animals in the Antarctic complies with Australian standards – 8 November 2013
26. Abolished the National Steering Committee on Corporate Wrongdoing that for 21 years worked to make sure the law was effectively enforced on corporate criminals – 8 November 2013
25. Abolishes the National Inter-country Adoption Advisory Council which provided expert advice on overseas adoption – 8 November 2013
24. Abolishes International Legal Services Advisory Council which was responsible for working to improve the international performance of Australia’s legal services – 8 November 2013
23. Abolishes the Commonwealth Firearms Advisory Council a group of experts in gun crime and firearms which was set up after the Port Arthur massacre – 8 November 2013
22. Abolishes Australian Animals Welfare Advisory Committee a diverse group of experts advising the Agriculture Minister on animal welfare issues – 8 November 2013
21. Abolishes the National Housing Supply Council which provided data and expert advice on housing demand, supply and affordability – 8 November 2013
20. Abolishes the Advisory Panel on Positive Ageing, established to help address the challenges the country faces as the number of older Australians grows – 8 November 2013
19. Refuses to offer support to manufacturing in Tasmania, despite requests and warnings. Caterpillar announces the move of 200 jobs from Burnie to Thailand, costing around 1000 local jobs – 5 November 2013
18. Provides $2.2 million legal aid for farmers and miners to fight native title claims – 1 November 2013
17. Abolishes the 40 year old AusAID costing hundreds of jobs – 1 November 2013
16. Launches a successful High Court challenge which strikes down the ACT Marriage Equality laws invalidating the marriages of many people and ensuring discrimination against same-sex couples continues – 23 October 2013
15. Denies there is a link between climate change and more severe bush fires and accuses a senior UN official was “talking through their hat” – 23 October 2013
14. Appoints the head of the Business Council of Australia to a “Commission of Audit” to recommend cuts to public spending – 22 October 2013
13. Cuts compensation to the victims of bushfires – 21 October 2013
12. Instructs public servants and detention centre staff to call asylum seekers “illegals” – 20 October 2013
11. Appoints Howard era Australian Building & Construction Commission (ABCC) Director to help reinstate the ABCC with all its previous oppressive powers over construction workers – 17 October 2013
10. Axes the Major Cities Unit a Government agency with 10 staff which provided expert advice on urban issues in our 18 biggest cities – 24 September 2013
9. Breaks his promise to “stop the boats” – 23 September 2013
8. Scraps the Social Inclusion Board, which had been established to guide policy on the reduction of poverty in Australia – 19 September 2013
7. Abolishes the Climate Commission – 19 September 2013
6. Appoints himself Minister for Women – 16 September 2013
5. Appoints only one woman into his cabinet and blames the women for his decision, saying he appoints “on merit”– 16 September 2013
4. Abolishes key ministerial positions of climate change and science – 16 September 2013
3. Breaks his promise to spend his first week with an Aboriginal community –14 September 2012
2. Takes away pay rises for childcare workers – 13 September 2013
1. Takes away pay rises from aged care workers – 13 September 2013

Garma Festival, Tony Abbott August 4, 2014

GUESS TONY ABBOTT FORGOT TO TURN UP AND MAKE GOOD HIS BROKEN PROMISE

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-04/garma-festival-2014/5645332
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2714496/Colourful-Indigenous-festival-Garma-Arnhem-Land-celebrates-Aboriginal-culture.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxfl8LQVp_g
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/02/andrewe-forrest-urges-back-indigenous-reforms

Andrew Bolt, Murdoch, Newscorp, Tony Abbott August 1, 2014

ANDREW BOLT IS ABBOTT’S PREACHER IN THE MURDOCH TENT

Tony Abbott’s preacher in the tent of Murdoch

Bolt’s recent article about Abbott being some super hero standing tall with his budgie smugglers on the outside of his tights was a text book case of hyperbole written by his favoured sycophant, toady, creep, crawler, fawner, flatterer, flunkey, truckler, groveller, doormat, lickspittle, kowtower, obsequious person, minion, hanger-on, leech, puppet, spaniel, Uriah Heep; bootlicker, yes-man; arse-licker, arse-kisser, brown-nose;suckhole .
Abbott was doing little more than the job he was paid to do as the only delegate on the Security Council with citizens on board MH17. The Dutch have taken over the ‘small army’ that our Tony cobbled together. Andrew was he demoted?
“Abbott, as a Catholic and student of past battles with totalitarianism, understands evil.” Bolt must have been out of his mind come close to wetting himself in constructing that sentence. Straight from the tent preacher’s bible.
It was I guess because Abbott was forced to back down from his original rush of blood blaming Putin personally for what had happened. However Andrew knows better “It’s true Abbott has stopped talking” he says,then talks for him “The problem is that Obama is weak and Europe even weaker, dependent on Russia for a third of its oil and gas as well as billions in contracts, like ones France signed to supply amphibious assault ships. The world has no moral clarity.” It’s Why plain speaking Tony Abbott is “electric” and will come back after we have brought our people home. Is this why he is staying there waiting for another window of opportunity? If Russia retaliates to sanctions by cutting oil and gas to the EU. Tony could send coal.
Come home Abbott and stop milking this tragedy. The work has been delegated the Dutch are leading the EU team.
As for Andrew Bolt Mike Carlton couldn’t have said it better ” Bolt is a fart in a crowded train carriage – unpleasant, but of no consequence” This masterpiece article shows him to be the arse- licker that he is.

Andrew Bolt, Putin, Tony Abbott, Ukraine July 29, 2014

TOADY,CREEP,CRAWLER,LEECH, MIGNON

“Tony Abbott strides large on stage after MH17 disaster”

Even god’s archangel doesn’t blow a louder trumpet than Andrew Bolt.

“Tony Abbott strides large on stage after MH17 disaster”

There’s an underlying truth to this trumpet of praise delivered about Abbott by toady, creep, crawler, fawner, flatterer, flunkey, truckler, groveller, doormat, lickspittle, kowtower, obsequious person, minion, hanger-on, leech, puppet, spaniel, Uriah Heep; bootlicker, yes-man; arse-licker, arse-kisser, brown-nose;suckhole Andrew Bolt. It’s all just smoke and mirrors.
Australia’s position as the only elected member of the UN Security Council with citizens on board flgt MH17 inevitably made our PM the logical spokesperson for both the Dutch Malaysia the world. If Julie Bishop and TonyAbbott had done nothing they would have embarrassed themselves and us. So please Andrew Bolt theirs was no heroic act of leadership but merely two people doing what was expected of them in the situation.
However it’s a job they didn’t want. They ridiculed and derided Labour for their efforts to get a ‘ seat on the Security Council’ in the first place.They criticised it time and time again in parliament declaring it not to be in the national interest. There was no Churchhillian moment for here for Abbott as Andrew Bolt makes out.
“Abbott’s “coalition of the grieving”according to lickspittle Bolt is “a small army” cobbled together by our Tony. It includes 230 Australian police and soldiers, plus hundreds of soldiers from other nations. However Andrew they are led by the Dutch not Tony. Bolt paints an image of Tony the super hero wearing his budgie smugglers over his tights leading the world against Vlad. It’s such an embarrassing article.
“Abbott, as a Catholic and student of past battles with totalitarianism, understands evil.” Bolt claims to be a rational humanist. Well brother Bolt you sound little more than tent preacher totally irrational but ready to bathe in the light of the mad monk, Hallealujah
Abbott did bark when he blamed Russia and Putin but then immediately backed off and shut up when he found himself alone. With nobody to back him he lost his teeth. However Bolt never one to miss an opportunity says “The problem is that Obama is weak and Europe even weaker, dependent on Russia for a third of its oil and gas as well as billions in contracts, like ones France signed to supply amphibious assault ships. The world has no moral clarity.” It’s Why plain speaking Tony Abbott is “electric” and will come back after we have brought our people home.
“True, Abbott has for now stopped talking” However he hasn’t lost focus according to Andrew it’s to “get Russia out of Eastern Ukraine” even though Abbott said “Our sole concern is to claim our dead and bring them home.” According to bootlicker Bolt “That is untrue. When our dead are back, expect Abbott to fight what he from day one identified as the true cause of this disaster — nationalist Russia’s war to reconquer parts of Ukraine.””Abbott has seen such a film before, starring Czechoslovakia in 1938. This time an Australian leader plans to help change the ending.”
“Angela Merkel is now pushing the European Union “to intensify the sanctions” In here lies the truth Abbott is a coal pusher which is well documented in the world press when he made a fool of himself on his “We are open for business” campaign. He would dearly love to see the EU sanction Russia and for Russia to retaliate by cutting oil and gas to the EU why? We have coal lots of it and the dirty energy business is in our national interest.
” Bolt is a fart in a crowded train carriage – unpleasant, but of no consequence” this shows him to be the arse- licker that he is.

Andrew Bolt, MH17, Tony Abbott, UN July 25, 2014

GOD IS CATHOLIC AND TONY ABBOTT"S HIS SON & RUSSIA DID NOT DO IT ON PURPOSE

While Newton’s laws of motion have been found to be amazingly predictive and reliable. There are exceptions where Newtonian physics breaks down. The first involves objects travelling at or near the speed of light. The second problem comes when Newton’s laws are applied to particles that fall in the realm of quantum mechanics. Using Andrew Bolt’s logic Newton should be done and dusted and no longer taught in schools. If it had any political or economic relevance for RET’s he would be calling it another ‘False God’ like Global Warming. The same for Einstein’s theories.
It doesn’t matter the true discourse is about power, politics, economics the types of energy sources,available and money. There is a lot of noise about the failure of inductive logic, the lack of scientific method to provide definitive answers to Global Warming and quality of life when in fact it’s about self interest or otherwise called national interest. Abbott and his town crier Bolt have found organisations such as the United Nations meddlers in the ‘free market’ hurdles to their notion of opportunity.
Tony Abbott in the past has had no regard for the United Nations as an organisation that hinders his specific national interests Sovereign Borders, Tasmanian Forests, The Great Barrier Reef etc The UN are an unnecessary irritant. At the moment however he is basking in the the light of Labour’s efforts to get Australia an elected seat on the Security Council. Basking because that light should have some effect on the pall over his personal opinion poll standing. The media at the moment have lauded Australia for what? It’s membership and leadership in the United Nations all due to Rudd’s and Labour’s efforts which were readily derided by both Abbott and Bishop in parliament.
Who else to roar for MH17, which of the ten non-permanent members of the Security Council could do that job of leading the resolution, None had any passengers on board.Argentina (2014),Australia (2014),Chad (2015),Chile (2015),Jordan (2015),Lithuania (2015),Luxembourg (2014),Nigeria (2015),Republic of Korea (2014),Rwanda (2014) Australia alone had to take up the task. The Dutch and Malaysians are not members. What a better way to repair ones poll standing and keep the opposition silent. It’s the coal-itions dream come true. This is the best thing to have happened to Abbott since the election. Watch him milk it.
Europe is being held to ransom by their reliance on Russia’s oil and gas pipe-lined through the Ukraine. Germany clearly saw that. Their energy policies were developed to counter this weakness. That’s why they are leaders in renewable energy production.
Abbott and his town crier Bolt with mining industry support want to sell coal. What better way than to block Russia’s fossil fuel export by calling for economic sanctions. They just might improve our currently threatened coal industry. Of course they will continue to push the Global Warming Denier barrow but not for any real scientific reason other than it’s an easy media filler. Is it a coincidence that a business-backed, mining group sponsored report was released today that our renewable energy target of 20% should be abolished because it will cost 5000 jobs and $29 bill by 2020. A report to counter the Government’s RET review that consumers would be better off by $56 a year from 2021. With the RET heading to become 28% of energy production the Australian Chamber of Commerce want it reined in. Power companies don’t want households running on free solar energy nor do mining companies with over 50 years of coal in the ground.
Abbott will call for sanctions on Russsia in order to get them to retaliate and cut gas and oil to Europe. Australia will send troops to Ukraine just to ensure the likelihood of the above. They will put Australian lives at risk to achieve that aim.
Watch the price of coal go up because of a dumb accident by some rebel cowboys in the Ukraine that were given hardware they really didn’t know how to use. So much miscalculation all to Abbott’s advantage. Russia miscalculated Putin was not the mastermind of some terrorist plot.

Julie Bishop, Tony Abbott, UN July 25, 2014

TONY ABBOTT AND JULIE BISHOP THOUGHT A SEAT ON THE SECURITY COUNCIL WAS A WASTE OF TIME

ABBOTT & BISHOP ” A UN SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT NOT IN OUR INTEREST”

Posted on July 23, 2014 by peterimrich

When the Labour government made moves to be elected to the United Nations Security Council the coalition derided them for their efforts Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister, Julie Bishop describing it as ‘extravagant’ and distracting ‘from core foreign policy interests’. Critics produced a range of arguments, which were wheeled out by the Opposition in Parliament. Australian national interest is not confined but interrelated — defence, human rights and trade all intersect globally. Transnational issues such as people movement and refugee settlement cannot be managed effectively without global coordination and discussion. So the ‘Australia within its region’ mindset is both limiting and outdated.It was the Gillard government that had to argue that a seat at the UN Security Council would allow the Australian community via the Australian Government to speak out more clearly on issues of moment, and it would allow Australian diplomats to keep their fingers on the pulse of important discussions affecting global diplomatic norms and Australia’s regional security.What’s more, it would provide Australians with the motivation to think through more clearly and consistently the kinds of values we wish as a nation to inform our engagement on the world stage.
Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop should be grateful now for the position the immense tradjedy of MH17′s downing has placed them in. Slap bang in the center of world affairs. A position that has changed the face of Australia’s media and taken the attention away from the realities of their governments current shit political position.
Abbott hates the UN’s interference in our national interest neocons argue it’s a dead weight around the necks of governments and their regions. World Heritage is a load of crap the Great Barrier Reef belongs to us as does the Old Growth Tasmanian Forrest. The UN are just interfering do-gooders. ‘Human Rights’ Scott Morrisson is the Minister in charge of Immigration and No Information and the UN can take a running jump as far as asylum seekers are concerned we have it in hand we promise. Close down the the UN it’s almost bankrupt, it’s cost ineffective and interfering in national progress and our mates’ interests
It’s this organization, the UN and Australia’s current position on the Security Council that is allowing Abbott & Bishop to roar & Putin to at least listen . While it is for good cause and needs saying when the noise calms down let’s not forget that Abbott anthe coalition would not have spent the money to be at the table. They would prefer to be non members lurking in the shadows with less attention.

Coalition Supporters, Murdoch, Tony Abbott July 25, 2014

TONY ABBOTT ALWAYS FIRST A FREELY GIVING HEAD

FOREIGN AID

Ros,Packer. Macquarie Group, Australian Hotels Association, Pratt Holdings, Steve Nolan Constructions, Woodside Energy, Crown, Westfield, Yuhu Group were just some Liberal party donors in 12/13 which in total provided the coalition an election war fund of $ 82mill.
Big money backed this government’s election drive and brought them to office. It’s now pay back time. US style free market system where government minimises its involvement The greatest beneficiaries of Abbott and Hockey’s policies are their their largest financial backers, the financial industry, the mining and energy industries, gambling interests and real estate companies. The clearest examples of this is the winding back of the Labour governments Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) Reforms. Corman has ensured banks will continue to profit from ripping off their customers.

“We know that many financial advisors have been preying on their clients. They make use of clients’ lack of understanding of complex investing and other financial options to direct them to financial products that are not in their interest, but rather in the interests of the advisor. This has been costing consumers huge sums of money, which primarily flow into the hands of the banks.”
Warwick Smith 23/7/2014

The same applies to the removal of the Carbon Tax and climate policy. You can’t find an independent economist who thinks the government’s “direct action” plan for tackling climate change is more efficient or effective than a carbon tax or trading scheme. Who likes direct action? The polluters of course. Instead of paying to pollute, they get paid 2.5bill not to pollute
The Age recently conducted its annual economics survey of 25 prominent economists. They select economists from a broad range of backgrounds across the spectrum of economics and their views vary widely on almost all issues. None of them agreed with the government on any of the above three topics.

1) There is a budget emergency

2) The federal government has a debt crisis

3) Carbon pricing is an economic wrecking ball

Saul Eslake, chief economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, said

that to call the Australian debt situation a crisis was “to abuse the English language.”

Nobel prize winning US economist Joseph Stiglitz used terms such as “absurd”, “crazy” and “a crime” to describe some of Hockey’s budget measures, and dismissed the perceived debt and deficit problems, noting that any Australian who worries about debt “must be out of their mind.” Richard Holden, professor of economics at the Australian School of Business, put it this way: “First, Australia does not have a debt crisis. Or, to put it another way, Australia does not have a debt crisis.”
This government are just puppets dancing to the tune of those pulling their strings

Australia's Shame, Tony Abbott July 22, 2014

ABBOTT MAKES INTERNATIONAL NEWS AGAIN : SUCH A HEADLINER Huffington post UK

One of them is Abbott

Mr Abbott addresses his peers

Huffington Post UK

Tony Abbott’s Education Guru Keven Donnelly Backs Bringing Back The Cane. Australian prime minister Tony Abbott’s newly appointed ‘Education Tsar’ has suggested caning children in schools could be “very effective… if it’s done properly”. Kevin Donnelly, said he had “no problem” with children being struck to keep them in line, as long as it was done safely. 14/7/14

Australia Becomes The First Country In The World To Go Backwards On Climate PolicyPrime Minister Tony Abbott, who once famously said that climate change is “crap,” has been branded an “environmental vandal” after freeing the nation’s worst greenhouse gas polluters from a much-maligned carbon tax.”We are a conservationist government” Abbott said.

17/7/14

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott Finds Yet Another Way To Embarrass An Entire Nation Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott would like you know he and Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe both have new R M Williams boots.

Australia's Shame, Direct Action, Tony Abbott July 18, 2014

WE NOW HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON WITH THE MIDDLE EAST

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What does Australia no longer have in common with South Africa, India, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand, Finland, the Netherlands, France, Slovenia, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, the UK, Ireland, Costa Rica, and Brazil? As of today, unlike those other countries, we no longer have a Carbon Tax.

The successful repeal makes us the first nation to actually remove any efforts towards combating global Climate Change. It is, one way or the other, going to be a day that will be of enormous historical significance not just in our own history, but in the history of our relationship with the rest of the world.

I guess we have something in common with the Middle East and other predominantly Islamic countries. But also the worlds totalitarian states who have also studied where their best interests lie, Nth Korea,Russia etc

“With the Senate’s vote today, Australia not only lurches to the back of the pack of countries taking action on climate, but sees the responsibility of emission reductions shift from major polluters to the taxpayer,” said John Connor. “The last seven years have been a sorry and sordid tale of greed, incompetence and rotten luck, which has reduced Australian policy making to scaremongering, self-interest and reckless short termism.”
Connor said that if there is any solace to be taken it’s that there is now two years of experience in Australia of carbon laws that have worked at reducing pollution in a growing economy.

Carbon pricing could endure. Alone it was not a panacea, but it was an effective central pillar to a long-term emissions reduction strategy. This is the view of the OECD, World Bank, the United Nations and many institutions like them.
On carbon pricing, Australia had got itself ahead of the curve, as it has so often on major economic reform. Doing that has always been to our advantage. We restructured ahead of others, lessened the associated pain and got on with embracing modernity.
In the two years since Australia’s carbon price came into effect, seven pilot schemes have been launched in China and perhaps the best scheme in the world started in California. Next year South Korea – our fourth largest-trading partner – begins its own national trading scheme.
Instead we have become the first country to roll back a carbon price.
This repeal is fighting against the future. That is a battle that is rarely won.

Andrew Bolt, LIES, Public apology, Tony Abbott July 15, 2014August 8, 2014

TONY ABBOTT IS OUT IN THE COLD AND ALONE WITH THIS ONE " HIS MEDIA HACKS". HAVE DESERTED HIM

Andrew Bolt on 2GB’s Steve Price show groveled.

Ramjan was the young woman who in 1977 enraged Tony Abbott and his band of university bovver boys, when she beat him in the election for the post of president of the University of Sydney’s student representative council. A witness said that Abbott’s gang was screaming “commie” and “poofter” as they barged in to make their threatening protest to Ramjan. Abbott approached her. “He came up to within an inch of my nose and punched the wall on either side of my head. It was done to intimidate,”
Abbott has variously said that “it would be profoundly out of character had it occurred” and “it never happened”. Melbourne’s conservative pin-up boy Michael Kroger was laying into Ramjan, so was Alan Jones, so too The Australian and more recently Bolt on 2GB. Bolt on 19 May told 2GB’s listeners that: “Tony Abbott was falsely accused of punching a wall next to the head of the student official when he was at university…”Bolt went on:

How many interviews did David Marr give about his book about Tony Abbott hitting a wall? I mean, on the ABC it was wall-to-wall. You couldn’t turn on the ABC without it. If that is such a terrible thing – and he [Abbott] denied it and there are no eye witness accounts of him actually doing it that are credible. If that is such a germane thing, something that happened 30 something years ago, why is there zero, zero condemnation [of Bishop being jostled], it seems to me, from the usual mouthpieces of the left? What’s happening to Liberal politicians today?

That woe-begotten spray contained a crucial error. There were two credible eye witnesses, one of whom had made a sworn statement about what happened in 1977.
Patrick George, Ramjan’s lawyer, quickly dispatched a letter of demand to Bolt, pointing out that his remarks gave rise to the imputation that his client had lied and there was a witness to say she had not lied. Bolt had nowhere to go, except to broadcast this grovel on Monday night:

” On 19 May, I made some statements on air concerning an incident involving the prime minister which took place at the University of Sydney approximately 30 years ago. I have been told by Barbara Ramjan that my statements might have been understood to suggest that her evidence of the incident was not truthful. I have never accused Ms Ramjan of lying in giving her evidence of that incident. In referring to the incident I did not intend to suggest that she was a liar or that she had acted dishonestly and if anyone understood my statements to suggest that, then I apologise to her unreservedly.”
Bolt has become increasingly gun shy over the years having been convicted of defamation of Jalena Popovic which cost $246,000.On 28 September 2011 he was found to have contravened section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. His ex fiance had him apologise for suggesting she’d lied. She countered with signed stat dec after he’d publicly fantasized ” I was a minder to a belly dancer” when it was she that was his minder. He holds sway over a cut and paste bloggsite and never really put’s his name to anything allowing his followers to do his dirty work. An advocate for free speech the site is heavily moderated against opposing views.
Ramjan sued over vehement remarks made by Kroger on The Bolt Report on 23 September 2012, an interview he gave to Alan Jones on 2GB, and two articles in The Australian.
Among Kroger’s claims was the allegation that she is a “serial fabricator of false complaints”. Ramjan pleaded four imputations: she is a left wing lunatic, she is a disgraceful nobody, she fabricated the Abbott allegation, and she told a vicious lie about Abbott as part of a campaign to damage him.By August 2013 The Australian and Kroger had settled and the newspaper published an apology for saying she had lied. Channel 10 had also apologised.
Jones went on air with a long explanation and apology, which concluded: “So if anything I have done had led to discomfort and concern for Barbara Ramjan then I do apologise.
Tony Abbott does seem out in the cold and alone with his “It never happened”story.

Australia's Shame, Immigration, Scott Morrison, Tony Abbott July 12, 2014

ABBOTT’S THE PILLOCK OF ASIA

Tony Abbott’s daughter went out on the town. Walking home she came across an asylum seeker who had swum ashore and was wet and cold. So she took the poor girl home. She gave her a meal, dry clothes and a warm bed for the night. Next morning her dad asked how her night went and she quite proudly told him what she had done. She was suprised at her father’s angry reaction.
“You stupid naieve do gooder Frances you should have rung Scott don’t you realize you have just ruined the rest of that bastard’s life. Give me the phone…….Hello security!! “
Meanwhile upstairs young girl lay snuggled dreaming she was finally safe and away from all the danger.

Abbott and Morrison are spending more money on their war on asylum seekers than on any inland war on terror. They are actively punishing and demonizing desperate people for being out of line, not in queue. Firstly queuing is a very British thing and not a universal phenomenon particularly when your desparate.
The British taught Indians to queue but with a few variations. Unaccompanied women with or without children can jump the queue as can unaccompanied children. The disabled and handicapped can avoid lining up. However Mr Abbott queuing is not the generally accepted custom in either Asia,Africa,or the Middle East. So put women and children behind razor wire for not queuing is bad enough but to hide that activity under a veil of misinformation and secrecy is barbaric.
If Abbott and Morrisson justification is that it disadvantages those in line why haven’t we heard a hue & cry from them? Why haven’t they pointed out the people smugglers those organizing these boats. Asylum seekers in the majority don’t seem to see Abbott’s illegals in the same light as Abbott.
The argument that they are mostly economic refugees and not genuine would I assume give genuine refugees more grounds to voice worldwide complaint but we only hear it from our leader? If he is right wouldn’t the UN be patting Abbott on the back instead of reminding him of the human rights agreements he’s breaking? The only hue & cry we do hear is from the village idiots Andrew Bolt & Alan Jones and the other load scum at the Murdoch press & 2GB. They are Abbott’s media commentators and is rarely found interviewed outside their safe circle.
The prime minister has turned our politics to worse than raw sewage it’s now as engaging as medical waste. He is not interested in foriegn affairs because people outside don’t vote. Mind you he is not ashamed to take our internal( blame it on Labour) politics to the world when delivering speeches even when the occassion doesn’t warrant it. World leaders show their countries as a united front on the world stage but not our Tony. As far as he is concerned we could re-instate the White Australia Policy and our neighbours would continue to trade and respect us. “China respects strength” and afterall we are ” the pivot of Asia “.
Abbott our more of a divot than pivot Abbott a clod or is that the “pillock of Asia”

Australia's Shame, F*** you WORLD, Tony Abbott July 11, 2014

AUSTRALIAN PATRIOTS WILL NOT BE ASKED TO REMOVE THEIR AUSSIE ICONS WHEN TRAVELLING BUT TO FLIP THE BIRD

Our image to the rest of the world is no longer the friendly Scott Morrison’s “Where the bloody hell are you” campaign or “We’ll put another shrimp on the barbie” it’s “Piss off tun around & Go home” Scott Morrison’s latest ad for the ears of refugee asylum seekers coming by boat. Both campaigns intended to capture a world audience. Now the world is watching not in admiration but disbelief that Tony Abbott our new PM is so anti refugees.The most under populated continent is denying access and safety to the world’s most needy.
If you listen to Andrew Bolt and Alan Jones we should be vetting and deporting our own nationals to their countries of origin. Abbott and Morrison would love to put their favorite broadcasters on Radio Australia to cement their message.No matter who if you come by boat you are not welcome. Currently our navy has picked up a boat of 41 people heading for NZ. has transferred to a Sri Lankan navy vessel and returned them back to Sri Lanka. Done and dusted in complete secrecy would have been Morrison’s best outcome. Another vessel of 150 was intercepted and the same was about to occur. However the status of this group is now in legal limbo as their circumstance is different from the group of 41 who sailed from Sri Lanka. These are Sri Lankan Tamils but from the refugee camps of India. India refuses to take them back now that they have left. Australia wanted to return them to the place they fled with another quick and secretive transfer at sea. Their refugee status to be determined by 4 questions over the phone in 20 minutes. Currently their is an injunction before the courts trying to prevent that happening.
One wonders if a persons asylum status can be determined by the Immigration Department in 20 minutes why are so many behind razor wire waiting for their cases to be heard? Australia’s refusal to resettle them on any count if found legitimate is sheer bastardry on the part of the Abbott government. As far as Abbott is concerned it’s home, Papua, Nahru or any other country we can pay to accept them, with a razor wire holiday along the way. According to Morisson and Abbott they can suck it up because the government has a duty to protect our Sovereign Borders and our National Security from what in many cases are children
Scott Morrison is tortured and in Sri Lanka wondering how his spin doctors allowed the mad monk to open his mouth about issues involving his department of no information. So the world now knows that Tony Abbott is a leader without compassion that wont be morally blackmailed and regularly puts his foot in his mouth. He is on fast track to trash the countries reputation.
Australian’s are global travellers who are welcomed wherever they go recognized by our Flag,Koala and Boxing Kangaroo. We should be advised to remove these icons from our luggage and Ts in future. Abbott would have flip the bird as our new national symbol. If we don’t we might be placed under surveillance by national security along with the 150 Syrian nationals currently os for nefarious reasons like checking on the wellbeing of relatives.
Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi Flip the Bird is not what we’re about.

Asylum stalag, Malcolm Fraser, Morals, Tony Abbott July 10, 2014

ABBOTT ADMITS MORAL GUILT BUT WON"T BE BLACKMAILED OR CAPITULATE

“I don’t believe any thinking Australian would want us to capitulate to moral blackmail”
What sort of PM is Tony Abbott? to come out with a statement like that? It suggest some “moral turpitude” of which the government is guilty & has no intention of stopping even if blackmailed. In a lot of countries eg USA it’s breaking the law. Rolf Harris tried to refuse to capitulate to moral blackmail and he’s in jail.
Eric Abetz comes out yesterday and said yes there were some 11 trivial suicide and self harm attempts by some mothers behind razor wire. However they have been medically attended to now. Both Abbott, Abetz and their right wing media suggest that acts of self harm and attempted suicide are t minor strategical behaviours? Under the Mental Health Act these behaviours are far from trivial patients are generally transferred to ECU. The women have been behind razor wire for 12 months and are clinically depressed and in fear of their children’s poor and deteriorating health. They apparently wanted their children adopted out of detention for their their safety and medical well-being. How hard is that for a mother? Mothers in desperation do desperate things. If Abbott or Abetz found the women in their households doing these minor things would it be a cup otea and an aspirin?
Where is our minister for No Information Scott Morrison? He must be grinding his teeth over the political ineptitude of his leader Tony Abbott and Senator Abetz. There are 120 spin doctors from two departments who are not doing their job, ask Andrew Bolt. No Morrison is in Sri Lanka being tortured by the news from home and the assurance from Sri Lankan police that those asylum seekers returned to face illegal departure charges will get ‘enhanced detention’. What on earth is this special form of detention? No information is available.
Abbott and Morrison also need Malcolm Fraser like a hole in the head who has pointed out that transferring 150 asylum seekers to a navy vessel in International waters and not Australian waters is tantamount to Piracy on the High Seas and another morally questionable act. But I guess Labour has to suffer Bob Carr the media chasing Paris Hilton of their party who stood up to defy Canada, UK and UN by saying he thought Sri Lanka was a fine place to return asylum seekers. They have no record of human rights abuse. Serial rapists would love Carr on the parole board.

Andrew Bolt, Australia's Shame, Tony Abbott July 5, 2014

TONY ABBOTT TURNED OUR DEMOCRACY TOXIC

2007 -2013 During the GFC & the so called Labour Mess. We tend to forget International economic experts voted Wayne Swan World Best Treasurer. In the world today experts still see Australia’s economic position as highly enviable and amongst the best.
Worldwide respected economists haven’t a clue according to Abbott and Hockey. According to them we are a basket case that needs to be saved from going bankrupt. Just ask Gina.
“We have created for you our own Lib truth for you today and will show, show, show you every day the shit we are in.” We have a crew of media hacks AndrewBolt, Alan Jones 2GB, and Newscorp to spread the word Then we will tell, tell, tell you until your ears bleed how we saved you but not until 2016 when we might sort out some compensation.We have the spin doctors to make you forget the 2014 panic we created and the promises we broke. They will take away the pain. Politics becomes toxic with no grassroots

Australia's Shame, Direct Action, Hilarious, Tony Abbott July 5, 2014

ABBOTT PLANTED A TREE DIRECT ACTION "WE ARE A CONSERVATIONIST GOVERNMENT"

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The pivot of the Middle East, No!!!!! Asia Pacific Asia Pacifc You Fool.

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Tony Abbott’s Personal History is as Polluted

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Exactly how Liberal is this government?

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Unemployment surges to 12-year high at 6.4 per cent; youth jobless figure hits 14 pc

Bats in the Belfry Moment

The 740,000 people looking for work in this country will upload their resumes, and the app will auto-apply for 40 jobs every month, to comply with prime minister Tony Abbott’s fanciful demand. It’s a poorly disguised crack-down on people he believes are “rorting the system”.

It’s such a bad idea, even business groups are alarmed. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry said, “what we don’t want to do is to flood the business community with a whole range of job applications just for the sake of people fulfilling their requirements.”

Those under 30 looking for jobs will get zero support from the government for six months at a time but still have to apply for 40 jobs every month.

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ABBOTT POINT IS HISTORY

Worst news for Australia as India taps solar, Beijing bans coal

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Tony Abbott’s preacher in the tent of Murdoch

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ABBOTT & BISHOP ” A UN SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT NOT IN OUR INTEREST”

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1) There is a budget emergency

2) The federal government has a debt crisis

3) Carbon pricing is an economic wrecking ball

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17/7/14

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott Finds Yet Another Way To Embarrass An Entire Nation Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott would like you know he and Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe both have new R M Williams boots.

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