Drew and Daryl at YLM Fed Con on Gold Coast earlier this year
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17 April 2011
16 April 2011
GREENS EXTREMISTS TO LOSE ISRAEL BOYCOTT
After new NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell warned Marrickville Council and its Greens Mayor, Fiona Byrne, that it should dump its boycott and sanctions against Israel, or be dumped itself, at least one Greens councillor has had a sudden change of heart. If Labor continues with its last-minute backflip and votes down the review of the already passed motion, then this is hopefully the end of what Kevin Rudd has now dubbed "nutty" policy from one of Sydney's local councils, but which was supported by Rudd's Marrickville Labor colleagues unanimously when the motion was first carried.
Young Australia's Foundation has no hesitation in denouncing the BDS policy and actions of the NSW Greens, a policy which was once also supported by Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown in the Senate (when he formally registered the Greens' opposition to a Coalition motion for the denouncement of the Israel BDS worldwide). YAF also denounces the views of incoming senator Lee Rhiannon in relation to the Israel BDS. Ms Rhiannon enters the Senate on 1 July 2011. She has refused to back down from her support of the Israel BDS movement when asked on Sky News just this week.
YAF members attended the bipartisan rally on the steps of Victorian Parliament at the beginning of 2009 in support of Israel, a rally which was addressed by both Labor and Liberal members of parliament in a show of solidarity with our ally. YAF welcomes the decision of Federal Labor to rejoin the Coalition in denouncing this meddling by city councils in the area of Australian foreign policy, and more specifically, the denouncement of this specific BDS policy altogether.
Young Australia's Foundation has no hesitation in denouncing the BDS policy and actions of the NSW Greens, a policy which was once also supported by Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown in the Senate (when he formally registered the Greens' opposition to a Coalition motion for the denouncement of the Israel BDS worldwide). YAF also denounces the views of incoming senator Lee Rhiannon in relation to the Israel BDS. Ms Rhiannon enters the Senate on 1 July 2011. She has refused to back down from her support of the Israel BDS movement when asked on Sky News just this week.
YAF members attended the bipartisan rally on the steps of Victorian Parliament at the beginning of 2009 in support of Israel, a rally which was addressed by both Labor and Liberal members of parliament in a show of solidarity with our ally. YAF welcomes the decision of Federal Labor to rejoin the Coalition in denouncing this meddling by city councils in the area of Australian foreign policy, and more specifically, the denouncement of this specific BDS policy altogether.
BEHRENDT IN TWIST OF IRONY CAUSES OWN UNRAVELLING
Before a decision has even been made on the lawsuit which Larissa Behrendt is participating in against News Limited columnist Andrew Bolt, she has managed to undo herself with a single tweet, likening the comments of Aboriginal activist Bess Price, to the offence created by watching a man having sex with a horse!
And now, ironically, her own appointment as Chair of the Gillard Government's review on closing the gap between indigenous and other Australians when it comes to higher education, is in jeopardy.
What Behrendt and the Labor government claim was an apology emailed to Price, could hardly be described as one - it was not an apology for the substance of her comments per se, but to any "offence" they may have caused, as though offence lies solely within the reader/hearer, and not in her slur in and of itself! And besides, Price has stated she will not accept the apology until it is made publicly.
And yet, the Gillard government continues to prop up Behrendt and her appointment, which was made on the very day the revelations of the tweet were reported on by the Australian. For a government that can't seem to get anything right, this appointment would have seemed to be an easy decision to reverse - given that it eventually will have to. It could have saved the egg on its face, but for some reason has decided not to. The longer this destructive government stays in power, the harder it will be for Australia to claw back from the destruction.
UPDATE: Alan Jones (of 2GB Radio in Sydney) vindicates YAF's view above on Behrendt's tweet & so-called "apology." YAF maintains that the Federal Government MUST dump Prof. Behrendt now!
And now, ironically, her own appointment as Chair of the Gillard Government's review on closing the gap between indigenous and other Australians when it comes to higher education, is in jeopardy.
What Behrendt and the Labor government claim was an apology emailed to Price, could hardly be described as one - it was not an apology for the substance of her comments per se, but to any "offence" they may have caused, as though offence lies solely within the reader/hearer, and not in her slur in and of itself! And besides, Price has stated she will not accept the apology until it is made publicly.
And yet, the Gillard government continues to prop up Behrendt and her appointment, which was made on the very day the revelations of the tweet were reported on by the Australian. For a government that can't seem to get anything right, this appointment would have seemed to be an easy decision to reverse - given that it eventually will have to. It could have saved the egg on its face, but for some reason has decided not to. The longer this destructive government stays in power, the harder it will be for Australia to claw back from the destruction.
UPDATE: Alan Jones (of 2GB Radio in Sydney) vindicates YAF's view above on Behrendt's tweet & so-called "apology." YAF maintains that the Federal Government MUST dump Prof. Behrendt now!
COALITION RECAPTURES YOUTH VOTE
Coalition support among young people is back above 2002 levels since the emergence of Tony Abbott as leader. Support for Labor is plummeting, meanwhile the Greens are the biggest winners among young Australians.
The Australian newspaper reports that the latest Newspoll figures confirm a steady increase in primary support among young people not only to the Greens, but more worryingly so (for Labor) to the Coalition.
Far left Labor votes cannibalised by the Greens can be recaptured, in a similar way that the Coalition won back three quarters of voters who had defected to One Nation (the other quarter, by and large, moved to the Greens). However, the youth vote transfer from Labor to an Abbott-led Coalition is not, by any means, so easily won back. Continual claims by Labor in Question Time, and by the partisan Press Gallery that Abbott is toxic, and that his leadership is under threat by a divided party, appear more and more baseless as Coalition popularity skyrockets across the voting spectrum, and the Greens fail again, now in NSW, to perform as well as once predicted.
The most toxic things for young Australians, it would seem, are the Rudd/Gillard Governments. With the May Budget date looming, we call on the Gillard Government, and the Treasurer Wayne Swann, to rein in the reckless spending and the pork-barreling, and help put downward pressure on inflation and ever-increasing interest rates and the cost of living.
For the Cause...
Drew Scott, Esq. BCom LLB GradDip LP
Federal President
www.YAF.com.au
The Australian newspaper reports that the latest Newspoll figures confirm a steady increase in primary support among young people not only to the Greens, but more worryingly so (for Labor) to the Coalition.
Newspoll chief executive Martin O'Shannessy examined data from the most recent March-quarter demographic analysis of voting intentions, comparing it with the same quarter for each year going back to 2002.
He notes that the Greens were a big winner in total primary vote growth over that period. "However, the rise of Tony Abbott as Liberal leader has restored the Coalition primary vote to past levels generally and within the youngest cohort of voters," he says.
Analysis of separate Newspoll figures taken about the same time as the so-called Tampa election in November 2001 shows that rather than losing the youth vote during the controversy, the Coalition picked up support.
The longer-term challenge for Labor appears to be that the growth in the Greens vote across all ages has been in part at the expense of the ALP.
Mr O'Shannessy says it is possible the swing from Labor to the Greens is temporary. "However, a look at the underlying demographics of Labor, Green and Coalition voters gives us reason to think a more permanent change may be happening," the Newspoll chief told The Weekend Australian.
Far left Labor votes cannibalised by the Greens can be recaptured, in a similar way that the Coalition won back three quarters of voters who had defected to One Nation (the other quarter, by and large, moved to the Greens). However, the youth vote transfer from Labor to an Abbott-led Coalition is not, by any means, so easily won back. Continual claims by Labor in Question Time, and by the partisan Press Gallery that Abbott is toxic, and that his leadership is under threat by a divided party, appear more and more baseless as Coalition popularity skyrockets across the voting spectrum, and the Greens fail again, now in NSW, to perform as well as once predicted.
The most toxic things for young Australians, it would seem, are the Rudd/Gillard Governments. With the May Budget date looming, we call on the Gillard Government, and the Treasurer Wayne Swann, to rein in the reckless spending and the pork-barreling, and help put downward pressure on inflation and ever-increasing interest rates and the cost of living.
For the Cause...
Drew Scott, Esq. BCom LLB GradDip LP
Federal President
www.YAF.com.au
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