tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55370351751469753682024-03-13T10:40:18.210+11:00Young Australia's FoundationNon partisan not-for-profit foundation promoting fiscally responsible & socially conservative values among Australians via educational & political processes.Young Australia's Foundation | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-86060319399641657312011-06-27T23:22:00.000+10:002011-06-27T23:22:28.779+10:00"Political Correctness" or Blatant Deception?ABC News 24 was having a go at the school chaplaincy program tonight. The fact that it's a successful program endorsed and loved by public and private schools, and parents and students alike didn't seem to matter. Because Chaplains are mostly Christian, and give advice based on Christian values, they felt the need to oppose it.<br />
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I can't blame just the ABC (they were merely doing what reporters do – reporting facts and asking questions, albeit in a manner that revealed a bit of bias against it). After all, they were only reporting what some MPs had been saying about it. The key issue of debate seemed to the issue of homosexuality, and whether or not the chaplains support it. Of course it would come as no surprise that most chaplains don't, nor should they have to (for doing so would go against their own beliefs).<br />
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The whole debate seems to be based on the false premise that homosexuality should be endorsed and accepted rather than discouraged. Think about it this way: If you were counsellor or health practitioner a child you were talking to told you that they are addicted to cigarettes or illicit drugs, you wouldn't tell them it's harmless and OK. No, doing so would be not only dishonest but criminally negligent and a gross failure to carry out your duties.<br />
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Chaplains are there to attend to many emotional and spiritual issues that school children have. They are not and never were intended to be secular. Schools already had secular counsellors and they just can't perform the same role that chaplains can. So why would a child come to a chaplain to talk about their sexuality, if they weren't interested in hearing the chaplain's honest opinion? As a chaplain, wouldn't you be morally obliged to give it? And homosexuality is just as much a health issue as drug or tobacco addiction, having even more serious effects on lifespan. Moreover, a person's sexuality can change, as has been proven time and time again – this is another thing that the left and homosexual activists don't like to admit, and try to silence.<br />
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So the left have one question to answer: Is homosexuality something they want to encourage? Because if it is, then by all means get rid of school chaplains. And while you're at it, extend the definition of “marriage” to cover same-sex unions, and allow children to be deprived of mother and father in the home of a same-sex couple. And promote it in schools, and shut out any view to the contrary. Sound familiar?<br />
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It's time to put an end to this social experiment and restore some moral sanity to our education system.Young Australia's Foundation | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-37639164508530593802011-05-31T20:52:00.000+10:002011-05-31T20:52:29.640+10:00Carbon Tax To End Millions Of Years Of Droughts And Floods In Australia<a href="http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/carbon-tax-to-end-millions-of-years-of-droughts-and-floods-in-australia/">Carbon Tax To End Millions Of Years Of Droughts And Floods In Australia</a><br />
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Yeah, right. Celebrated Sydney restauranteur and so-called "1 Million Women" ambassador, Christine Manfield had this to say:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1f2020; font-family: Verdana, Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">Could this be the humanitarian solution that the most vocal of the left has been looking for?</span> </strong>Young Australia's Foundation | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-19020035100553642012011-05-14T11:42:00.001+10:002011-05-14T11:46:52.320+10:00BROWN BOASTS OF CONTROL OVER GOVT AGENDA<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/budgets/tony-abbott-throws-his-lines-into-labors-vote-pool/story-fn8gf1nz-1226055301644">Bob Brown just admitted</a> what we have been saying all along: That it is the Greens who control the Government, and there is no way in hell they would allow an election when they've got it as good as this:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><blockquote>But the Greens leader was also forced to defend reports he was disappointed his [b]power sharing arrangement with Labor was not delivering greater rewards for his party.</blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><i>[b]“No, I don't feel that is the case,”[/b] Senator Brown said.</i></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><i>The Greens leader said the debate over a [b]carbon pricing[/b] regime [b]was only featuring on the national agenda because of the influence of his party[/b].</i></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><i>“There would be no carbon pricing debate in Australia. [b]Both the big parties went to the election saying they would put it off.</i></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So Bob Brown and I finally agree on something - the solitary Green tail (Bandt) is wagging the 72 ALP dogs.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Tasmanian Labor/Greens (former Young Liberal) independent, Andrew Wilkie, can't help but throw his 2 bob in on how democracy works.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><blockquote><i>Frankly politicians would be treating the Australian electorate with contempt if they were to discard the August 2010 election result because they thought they knew better than the voters.</i></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I seem to remember the voters choosing LNP, 73 seats to 72 for the ALP. Wilkie and the Greens/”Independents” [i]chose Gillard[/i]. The voters didn't get a say in this "government" - just the way, apparently, Wilkie likes it right now.</div>Young Australia's Foundation | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-43968276187260027082011-05-14T11:33:00.001+10:002011-05-14T11:48:16.276+10:00MINING MAGNATE SLAMS CARBON TAX & BUSINESS LEADERSAustralia's (first ever) richest woman, mining magnate <a href="http://joannenova.com.au/2011/05/gina-rinehart-asks-the-business-leaders-of-australia-to-stand-up-against-the-carbon-tax/">Gina Rinehart slams the Gillard/Greens Government's Carbon Dioxide tax</a>, and wonders where the rest of the business leaders have disappeared to on this.<br />
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<blockquote><i>If imposed at a rate of $26 per tonne the carbon tax will cost:</i></blockquote><br />
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<li><blockquote><i>10,000 jobs and 16 coal mines (according to ACIL economic consultancy);</i></blockquote></li>
<li><blockquote><i>24,000 jobs in other areas of mining (according to Concept Economics); and</i></blockquote></li>
<li><blockquote><i>45,000 jobs in other energy-intensive industries (according to Frontier Economics).</i></blockquote></li>
</ul><blockquote><i>And that is just for starters.</i></blockquote><blockquote><i>And what for? It won’t stop China and India from continuing to emit carbon dioxide on their own account. These nations understand that you cannot raise a population’s standard of living without also increasing energy consumption....</i></blockquote><blockquote><i>...We can’t wait any longer for Australia’s business ‘leaders’ to finally stand up on this issue! If we don’t stand up, we run the great risk of seeing the consequences of such non-action in Australia, and I sincerely hope we don’t. </i></blockquote><div style="color: #302226; font-family: Candara, Candara, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">We all have to do our part to ensure this farce is dead and buried. We don't bridge the divide between the prosperous and their counterparts, by knocking those who work hard and achieve down to the level of the others. We should be lifting the rest of Australia up to achieve the level greater levels of prosperity experienced by other sectors.</span></div><div style="color: #302226; font-family: Candara, Candara, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;">From all the rhetoric, you'd think that this was the first time we've had a so-called two-speed economy, and that it is a bad thing. If the Government spent responsibly, they could have used the resources boom to contribute to the Future Fund set up and presided over by former Treasure Peter Costello AC. Instead, we go from zero national debt and $22 billion surplus inherited by the Labor Government after the exit of Prime Minister John Howard's in 2007, to a forecast debt of $250 billion in the current treasurers' latest attempt to raise the borrowing limit to such an historical and reckless amount.</span></span></div><div style="color: #302226; font-family: Candara, Candara, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Contrary to the Labor spin, the true "recker" does not take the form of the leader of the opposition, but is this inept Government in their devastating handling of our economy.</span></span></div>Young Australia's Foundation | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-15716748519224550792011-05-07T16:06:00.000+10:002011-05-07T16:06:43.244+10:00OVERLAND MUST GOYAF has sent an open letter to Victorian Deputy Premier and Minister for Police, Peter Ryan regarding corruption allegations which have surfaced of Commissioner Simon Overland, and <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/furore-over-williams-killing-sir-ken-ordered-to-leave-20110506-1eca4.html">the latest farce of Overland dismissing his most honourable deputy (and best candidate for Commissioner in our opinion), Sir Ken Jones, last night.</a><br />
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<blockquote><i>Sir Ken was abruptly called in to Mr Overland's office yesterday afternoon and ordered to clear his desk and leave immediately. His removal came hours after </i><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>The Saturday Age</i></span><i> had submitted detailed questions to the office of the Attorney-General, the Department of Justice and the police about the circumstances of the slaying of Williams.</i></blockquote><blockquote><i>Sir Ken could not be contacted for a response last night.</i></blockquote><blockquote><i>A police spokesman said: ''The Chief Commissioner has asked Sir Ken Jones to finish at the end of today because it is right for him and Victoria Police.''</i></blockquote><blockquote><i>Sir Ken will now remain on leave until his resignation takes effect on August 5. Mr Overland has cancelled his own planned leave.</i></blockquote><blockquote><i>Police Association secretary Greg Davies last night slammed Mr Overland's handling of the crisis. ''I think Simon Overland is the Chief Commissioner in name only from this day on,'' Senior Sergeant Davies said.</i></blockquote><br />
Although the online form to Contact Peter Ryan is limited in number of characters you can send, you can <a href="http://peterryan.com.au/contact-us">make your complaint via this link</a> or write in to the details on that same page, and let the Government know that we won't cop the politicisation of the police force, or police corruption, in any shape or form.<br />
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YAF addresses tackling police corruption in its official <a href="http://www.YAF.com.au/">Statement of Purpose</a> but it starts with <i>you</i>, and it starts <i>now</i>! Don't delay.<br />
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It is with concern that we write concerning the state in which Victoria Police finds itself this day. The alleged conduct of Commissioner Simon Overland with respect to the release of crime statistics to favour the outgoing Labor government, in addition to his long list of failures & M.I.A.s was unacceptable, but to learn that he has now ordered the immediate dismissal of Sir Ken Jones is a step too far, even for Mr Overland.<br />
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Without going into details of which you're all too well aware, we seek the immediate suspension or dismissal of Mr Overland, and reinstatement of Sir Ken Jones as acting Police Commissioner or Police Commissioner until the Ombudsman completes his investigations into Mr Overland's alleged conduct. Our organisation, Young Australia's Foundation, strongly opposes corruption at all levels. The people have lost faith in our police & are quickly losing faith in our Government.<br />
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Despite the Obama administration (once again) treating us like 1. We can't handle the truth; and 2. "Just trust us!"<br />
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Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary from earlier today:<br />
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"There is no need to release these photographs..."<br />
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I have a theory which I derive from the recent birth certificate release, which took Obama 3 years to produce after telling us we didn't need to see it either. The theory is this:<br />
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- Just as the release of the birth certificate and the news of Osama's death distracted from the dismal performance of the Obama Presidency, and has even led to a spike in his popularity, in like manner keeping the photos up his sleeve gives Obama another chance to "distract" us from the disaster that is his economic management. Look out for the release, like with the birth certificate, during this 2012 reelection campaign... <u>Like next week, say, when the debt ceiling (14+ trillion USD) needs to be raised!</u><br />
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<b>WARNING - GRAPHIC PICS OF COURIERS WHO DIED WITH OSAMA BIN LADEN BELOW. DO NOT SCROLL DOWN IF IMAGES OF DEAD TERRORISTS DISTURBS YOU!</b><br />
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Given that we don't have any alternatives for base load power, we can't just switch power sources when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow... so what the Gillard Govt fails to tell you when it explains how "price impacts" will form incentives, is that if there is no alternative, you either pay the money, or go without! Me thinks the latter will be where we end up. Gone will be the days of hot showers, heating, cooling... jobs! We will necessarily have to revert to dark age living (and the ailments, diseases and shorter life expectancies that come with it), and for what?<br />
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A decrease in CO2 emissions by 5% (Labor's proposed reduction) of 1.5% (Austraila's total contribution to CO2 levels) of 0.8 ppm (the amount of CO2 thought to be in the atmosphere as a result of man's activities)! For those of you whose calculators can't compute figures this small, even if the climate modelling is correct (bahahahahhahaha!), <b>that is an approximate reduction of 0.0006 </b><i><b>parts per million of atmospheric CO2.</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> Convert this to an amount in degrees, and it is practically negligible, at best... and will take 1000 years minimum to achieve, according to Labor mouthpiece and Climate Commissioner (and neo pagan of the year) Tim Flannary.</span></i><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">If you enjoy paying $18000 for your hot water system, not including supplemental energy at Carbon Tax prices when the sun don't shine, then by all means. Just keep in mind that when this new "innovation" Gillard keeps promising eventually comes, you'll have to rip out the old inefficient panels for new and better ones, and pay China (who manufactures the panels using Australian coal to generate power) all over again.</span></i>Young Australia's Foundation | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-58763650328157443502011-04-17T00:30:00.001+10:002011-04-17T00:30:34.455+10:00Happy Snap<div><p>Drew and Daryl at YLM Fed Con on Gold Coast earlier this year</p>
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Young Australia's Foundation has <i>no hesitation</i> in <b>denouncing</b> 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.<br />
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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 | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-72351089030345820062011-04-16T20:04:00.002+10:002011-04-18T17:33:42.341+10:00BEHRENDT IN TWIST OF IRONY CAUSES OWN UNRAVELLINGBefore 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!<br />
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And now, ironically, <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/calls-to-dump-behrendt-from-review-after-twitter-slur/story-fn59niix-1226039970761">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</a>.<br />
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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 <i>per se</i>, 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.<br />
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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.<br />
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UPDATE: <a href="http://podcasts.mrn.com.au.s3.amazonaws.com/alanjones/20110418-aj1-comments.mp3">Alan Jones (of 2GB Radio in Sydney) vindicates YAF's view above</a> on Behrendt's tweet & so-called "apology." YAF maintains that the Federal Government <i>MUST</i> dump Prof. Behrendt now!Young Australia's Foundation | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-83276605538438534672011-04-16T18:36:00.000+10:002011-04-16T18:36:20.081+10:00COALITION RECAPTURES YOUTH VOTECoalition 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.<br />
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<a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/youth-vote-splits-as-young-desert-labor/story-fn59niix-1226039945228">The Australian newspaper reports</a> 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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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www.YAF.com.auYoung Australia's Foundation | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-31266318507633504562011-03-28T22:29:00.005+11:002011-03-28T22:41:29.997+11:00HOUSING UNAFFORDABILITY - CITY AND COUNTRYI just recently heard a story on ABC radio about housing affordability (or lack thereof) in mining towns. We have all heard about the housing affordability problem in our major cities, and most of us have grown to accept it, although there's no justification for it. Similarly sized cities in the US have much lower land prices, and always have, even before the burst in the "real estate bubble" there. If we heard what prices were in the US at the height of this bubble, we'd be laughing or dumbfounded at what's considered expensive there. In Nevada, which was among the states most affected by the boom and subsequent bust, median home prices went from $150,000 in 2000 to $300,000 in 2007, before dropping (<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2011-03-26-nevada-real-estate.htm">http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2011-03-26-nevada-real-estate.htm</a>). Yet, over the long term, home prices in the US have remained remarkably stable, according to the graphs on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_housing_bubble">this page</a> (bearing in mind that the peak in 2005-2006 was corrected by the subssequent bust). Median house sale prices now sit at arount $200,000 in the US.<br />
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Yet in Australia, it's a <a href="http://www.reiv.com.au/home/inside.asp?ID=262&nav1=1226&nav2=165&nav3=262">very different story</a>. In the land with "boundless plains to share", people are struggling to afford a tiny block on the outskirts of one of our major cities. Median house prices in Australia's capital cities range from around $300,000 in Hobart to around $500,000 in Sydney. Yet, even in remote mining towns, where these boundless plains are most accessible, we have seen prices rise to the point where residents of those towns were quoted as saying, "I just don't understand how anyone can afford to live here if they don't work in [the mining] industry". While some resort to desperate measures such as sleeping in caravans, others take the fly-in, fly-out option, choosing to spend days away from their families rather than fork out the money to live close to their workplace.<br />
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While it's easy to blame these prices on the mining boom, price is always determined by supply and demand, not purely by demand. The problems these towns have is the same problem that our cities have - the supply just isn't keeping up with the demand. So what is stopping someone subdividing the relatively cheap land around these towns, selling the blocks for slightly less than the going land prices in the town, and making handsome profits from their enterprise? Such a process, if allowed to continue, will quickly bring prices back to more realistic and affordable levels.<br />
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There is only one plausible explanation for the current situation - and that is excessive government regulation of land release. Whether it be in a small mining community or in a large city, it's the government (usually state or territory government) that manages the release of land for housing. As the monopoly supplier of land, the state governments of Australia have abused their monopoly power for their own profit - through land tax, stamp duties, and the sale of land for housing.<br />
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This "tax by stealth" is doing immeasurably more harm to the Australian people, economy, and family life, than any other tax a government has brought in (or considered bringing in) in recent times (carbon taxes included). Most of this harm is dead-weight loss, the states see relatively little of it come into their coffers. The loss comes in the form of high household debt levels (leading to high national debt levels, higher interest rates, and lower levels of business investment) and mortgate stress and its associated pressure on family life (especially when both parents have to work to make ends meet). The current generation of young Australians may get very disillusioned with this system, facing a far harder climb to home ownership than the one their parents faced. This is one of the most serious problems our generation faces, and one that we, as young Australians, must stand up and do something about.<br />
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I'd say that governments in Australia can't be trusted to supply affordable land anymore. Not in the city, and not in the country. While they should be trying to encourage development and growth of remote communities, governments are once again sitting on their hands, content to do nothing substantial to fix this problem. I'm beginning to think that we need to start pushing for deregulation of land release, giving all landowners the right to subdivide their land. The government should ensure subdivision is properly planned, but should not stop it outright. It's time to break the government monopoly over land release. How else are we going to improve and maintain housing affordability for future generations of Australians, and keep the Australian dream of home ownership alive?Young Australia's Foundation | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-27259760516501624332011-03-20T23:54:00.002+11:002011-03-20T23:54:50.361+11:00GREENS VOTERS NEVER CEASE TO AMAZELucy's comment in response to an "article" by Sarah Hanson Young of the Greens:<br />
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Although I am 100% in favour of a carbon tax I think we need to compensate our struggling artists as they use more pencils and charcoal than most people do. Schoolchildren too.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lucy | Lane Cove - March 15, 2011, 10:40AM”</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I wish I could say this were a hoax message, but sadly not...</div>Young Australia's Foundation | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-14048985315665519652011-03-20T23:44:00.000+11:002011-03-20T23:44:38.227+11:00READER COMMENTS ON DISCREDITED IPCC CRANKS<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br />
<div class="commentdate" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"</span><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">cohenite</strong> replied to nellie<br />
Sun 20 Mar 11 (07:58pm)</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NO CARBON DIOXIDE TAX; Indeed.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Piers (Akerman), I saw you on Insiders this morning and you were hemmed by the 2 alarmist groupies either side of you who, along with Cassidy, both agreed with Gillard’s arguments; those arguments in support of Gillard’s carbon tax are from authority and consensus and secondly on the basis of risk management.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The argument against authority and consensus is to note the IPCC is the source of both; all other science academies and organisations like the CSIRO and BoM rely on the IPCC for legitimacy. In 2010 the IPCC was audited by the premier global scientific auditing body, the InterAcademy Council [IAC].</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The IAC found the IPCC’s science was flawed in 2 respects; firstly it had 50% of its so-called peer reviewed science written by such bodies as Greenpeace and the WWF.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Secondly, the IAC found the IPCC’s standards of certainty about its predictions were biased in favour of the worst outcomes. This shows a deep misunderstanding of what scientific certainty is; this is illustrated by Popper’s swan example. For instance if your hypothesis is that all swans are black and you send out 100 researchers who return with 99 black and 1 white swan, it does not mean your theory has been proved to a 99% certainty; what it means is that your theory has been disproved to a 100% certainty.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Global warming [AGW] only needs one white swan to be disproved [and there are many]; so far it hasn’t even produced one black swan!</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Risk management is even less scientific; even if you assume AGW is real, risk management must look at the value of your investment as against the risk; if the risk is both small of anything happening and if something does happen that it is only minor than you are better not paying the insurance risk premium. Lomborg has looked at this and because, if AGW is real, not all the effects will be bad, in fact a lot of them will be beneficial, calculated that the best return is not spending anything on AGW but enjoying the benefits and adapting to the costs.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This idea that all effects from AGW will be bad is just one of many lies spread by the AGW industry."</div>Young Australia's Foundation | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-14802727178729459622011-02-28T22:31:00.002+11:002011-03-01T00:17:15.229+11:00CLIMATE CHANGE MINISTER ATTACKS TEA PARTY & AUSTRALIAN PEOPLEQuestion Time in the House of Representatives today made headlines for many reasons, but the least of which was this repugnant remark from the Minister for Climate Change, Greg Combet. <br />
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At approximately 30 minutes into <a href="http:/mpegmedia.abc.net.au/newsradio/audio/20110228questionreps.mp3">Questions without Notice</a>, Combet likens the Coalition's "concept of the People's Revolt" over Julia Gillard's Carbon Tax, to the U.S. Tea Party movement:<br />
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"It's the TEA Party. The far right of US Politics. No ideas. Nothing to say. Nothing to contribute on one of the critical policy issues we face..."<br />
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The TEA Party movement is a grassroots movement that could have seen the emergence of a third political party in the United States (had it so decided), and led to an historical midterm election result for the Republican Party in November of 2010. The sentiments of the TEA Party represent a phenomenal proportion of the people of the United States. The concept of a People's Revolt, once touted as the birth of the American independence movement in 1773, has now become a dirty concept for the left in the USA, and now, seemingly, a dirty concept for the Australian Labor Party.<br />
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The people are revolting across the Middle East right now, and the left applauds the supposed democracy before even a single vote is cast in a Middle Eastern ballot box. Yet sitting Democrat members and disgruntled Republicans who lost primaries to TEA Party candidates continue to discredit the people who put them into office (see <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1169910078">Greta van Sustern's </a><i><a href="http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/">On the Record</a></i> special on the TEA Party last Friday on Fox News for many firsthand examples). One would have hoped that the ALP would have taken a lesson from the tone-deaf establishment politicians in Washington DC, but sadly, a member of Australian Labor formally continues this trend in the "people's house" this very day.<br />
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On the contrary, Tony Abbott (at 53 mins) "submit[s] [him]self to the Australian people" and to our verdict on his credibility and on a carbon tax. We, the Australian people, cordially accept his invitation.<br />
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Young Australia's Foundation and our allies, in no uncertain terms, call for the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, to hold a federal election before proceeding any further with a carbon tax and/or ETS and/or a price on carbon, (or whatever non-"semantic" word the PM and her party would like to apply to Labor and the Greens' carbon "price impact.")<br />
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We rally all Australians from all political persuasions to join us in a <b><i>Day Of Rage</i></b>, as we descend upon Parliament House and Federal Members' offices across the nation in a People's Revolt. We must apply pressure to the Government to drop this unilateral assault on Australia's way of life and cost of living, until we, the Australian people, duly receive the opportunity to exercise our right to decide at the polls.<br />
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At last, there is a clear distinction between the "me-too" parties – just the distinction we have been waiting for. We <i>will</i> be heard. <i><b>We</b></i> will decide. The power of the people's revolt is real, it works, and so long as professional politicians consider that the people of this nation are <i>not</i> a force to be reckoned with, we will not just go away quietly.<br />
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Neither will we be held hostage by a Government that, as Tony Windsor admitted on 8 September 2010, is avoiding going back to the people at all costs because it would likely be thrown out. Such a blatant circumvention of the people and our interests is unethical, and reprehensible. Since that day on which the minority government was formed, the people of Lyne have been held hostage by Rob Oakeshott, the people of New England by Mr Windsor, and now the people of Australia are without doubt being held hostage by the solitary Greens MP, and by this illegitimate minority government and our twice unelected Prime Minister.<br />
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Look out for updated posts as we set a date with our alliance partners for our first Day of Rage, and seek to return the power back to the people at the ballot box!<br />
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For the Cause...Young Australia's Foundation | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-67130303946823937932010-12-03T23:51:00.003+11:002010-12-08T21:01:23.706+11:00LABOR BURIED NO MATTER WHICH WAY YOU SPIN ITWhether kingmaker Rob JOakeshott ever intends to go through with his threat to <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/dont-switch-horses-alp-warned-20101202-18ian.html">consider switching sides </a> if Gillard is knifed Rudd-style will be neither here nor there. <br />
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The reason being, if Gillard stays, so do her policy vacuum, her childish and ludicrous obsession with "the leader of the opposition" and not much else, her backflip on every election promise, and her pandering to the solitary Greens MHR. Her popularity and perceived competence will rival her ascended counterparts, Keneally of NSW and Bligh of QLD - both scheduled for an election thumping (to understate things) in the coming 15 months. <br />
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If they ignore the spineless and vengeful "independent" members for Lyne and New England (seriously, guys, how many decades will it take you to get over your grudges with the Nationals?!) and do knife Gillard and her dud leadership, then predictably, and rightfully so, the electorate will demand an election and Labor's head on a platter. <br />
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Whichever way the self-serving pendulum swings, Her Majesty's loyal Opposition can just sit back and watch it self destruct, while formulating its own policies in time to take to the people - and in the interim do what the opposition is supposed to do: I.e. Oppose the incompetence of the government. <br />
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One need only listen to or watch Julia Gillard's performance in the last 2 question times of 2010 to see that she has absolutely lost the plot. We are embarrassed that someone so deceptive and hollow, and someone without substance, retort or recourse save the cheapest of insults and low blows, could be called our Prime Minister. <br />
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If the electorate were ever that gullible under Rudd, we shaped up pretty darn fast. We don't see the Australian people falling for the spin again. Ask the chief of spinners, John Brumby of Victoria. He reportedly employed the largest number of spin doctors out of all politicians in the country... And he was, to everyone except the people's surprise, resoundingly dumped - and thus never elected Premier by the people of Victoria. <br />
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Gillard said prior to the last election that it would be a referendum on her as leader, and then refused to accept the result. Next time (which will be very very soon) we will make sure we send the message loud and clear!<br />
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For the Cause...<br />
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Drew Scott, Esq. <br />
Federal President<br />
www.YAF.com.auYoung Australia's Foundation | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-32080237050985355212010-11-28T20:55:00.003+11:002010-11-28T21:10:17.744+11:00ANGER - STAGE 2<a href="http://skynews.com.au/politics/article.aspx?id=544705&vId=">Brumby Refuses to Concede Defeat</a> in a last-ditched effort probably to enjoy the title of Premier (albeit caretaker) for a few more days, and use of the State driver I'm guessing. Maybe... Can't think of why else, actually. A few more days of press coverage, Oakeshott style?<br />
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Perhaps he is being inspired by the Democrats, who locate hundreds of formerly "missing" postal votes during every recount - and all of them are Democrat votes. Amazing!<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7o8fU1V3XU">John Brumby. Ummmm....</a>Young Australia's Foundation | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-88047804170632848922010-11-28T16:30:00.003+11:002010-11-28T20:59:19.544+11:00DENIAL - STAGE 1 OF THE GRIEVING PROCESSAFTER Brumby's Labor Government took, to use Obama's words, a shellacking at the polls yesterday, it is amazing how John Brumby, caretaker Premier until most likely sometime this evening, not only refused to concede (fair enough, too many seats haven't been called yet), but almost categorically stated that the result would be a tie. In order for that to happen, Labor would have to secure all 6 too-close-to-call seats, plus Bentleigh, to at best equal the Coalition's 44 already secured of the 88 Legislative Assembly seats.<br />
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Such an astronomical achievement is by no means impossible - after all, look at what Tony Abbott, and now Ted Baillieu, have achieved in the last 2 elections - but apart from being unlikely, does not diminish from the point, which is the message that the voters sent the Labor Party yesterday.<br />
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Either Brumby, like Julia Gillard and Barack Obama, didn't get the memo when they lost a swag of seats in almost record swings agains them; or, <a href="http://skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=544921&vId=1971348&cId=Top%20Stories&play=true">they just arrogantly refuse to acknowledge the electorate's utter and complete rejection of their performances and/or policies</a>. We must remember that Brumby was always seen as never having a chance when he was leader of the then Labor opposition, before being succeeded by Steve Bracks. Since his unexpected ascension to the Labor throne (he was third in line at the time so who would have guessed), he has not faced the voters as the incumbent - until yesterday.<br />
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To be fair & balanced (inside joke), Brumby didn't inherit the greatest legacy from Steve Bracks. And let's face it, with Justin Madden by your side... enough said. Yet I can't imagine Abbott coming close to using a similar tone when making his speech on 21 August, even after having at least drawn with Labor 72-72, or 73-72 if you include the WA Nationals cross-bencher.<br />
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Tonight, if Bentleigh goes the Coalition's way as the VEC is expecting (thus the reason they chose that seat to fast track pre-poll vote counting), then we would hope John Brumby's concession speech would be more in touch with reality.<br />
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Herald-Sun journo Andrew Bolt keeps saying that John Brumby "is better than that." He seems to say it quite a lot about Brumby, which makes me wonder what the "that" is, and whether it's a standard as difficult to beat as Brumby makes it out to be!Young Australia's Foundation | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-72352793919900156122010-09-23T23:18:00.000+10:002010-09-23T23:26:34.833+10:00LABOR ANTI-CROSS RULE TO BE TESTEDThis is one of those times where everyone, all of a sudden, thinks s/he's an expert on Constitutional Law. We're talking, of course, about the Constitutional drama that is the pairing of the vote of the Speaker of the House of Reps.<br />
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While there is valid discussion about sections 40 and 50 of the Constitution of Australia Act 1900 of the Imperial Parliament, what is deafeningly silent from much of the commentary is this very simple question: given that renegade Lynne 'independent' Rob Oakeshott must lose a deliberative vote, and must retain a casting vote, as speaker (just as any speaker must), why withdraw from the Speakership because of an inability to pair?<br />
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Follow this logic with us:<br />
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1. Oakeshott is part of the Labor/Greens rainbow government (as slim and as temporary that minority government may be).<br />
2. As such, in accordance with the Australian conventions of our Westminster-based system, the nomination of Rob Oakeshott by the government would fall in line with the Speaker of the House of Reps being from the governing side.<br />
3. His appointment (or anyone else's from the Rainbow Club) would then leave a 75-74 confidence and supply minority governance in favour of the Rainbows.<br />
4. If Rudd or Gillard is overseas, or a member is sick or absent for some reason, or an MP decides to abstain (Obama style), then one can imagine that the vote would be tied at 74-74.<br />
5. In such a case as this, the Speaker (Oakeshott), would get the casting vote. Oakeshott would more likely than not cast his vote in favour of the Rainbow by virtue of the Speaker's Constitutional powers, and carry the vote over the line for the Rainbow Alliance.<br />
6. Even better for Oakeshott, apart from the pay rise, is that he gets to be the most important vote, most likely on several occasions! His 16 minutes and 50 seconds of fame will be dramatically extended. It's a win-win situation. One his ego may have rashly overlooked!<br />
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Of course, there are several other combinations that could play out, given that the lights in between Green and Red (namely Windsor and Wilkie) claim they have only committed to supply and confidence votes in support of the Traffic Light Coalition under limited circumstances. However, because the Labor party has a strict rule that crossing the floor results in disendorsement from the party (or usually would - questionable now under slim majority circumstances), it means that even with a 1 seat majority after the speaker is chosen, it would effectively take 2 votes to defeat a traffic light Bill in the House of Reps!<br />
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BUT... and it's a BIG but... while the 2 votes needed to defeat a traffic light Bill may not regularly or often come from Wilkie or Windsor (only because we don't think they have the spine to do so), the door is now left wide open for the faceless men of Labor to cross the floor, with no fear of reprimand or disendorsement. PM (Puppet Minister) Gillard can't afford to penalise anyone for crossing the floor, effectively leaving the House of Reps down to 74-74-1. A serious question would then be put to Her Excellency (and I use that term loosely), the Governess-General Quentin Bryce, mother-in-law to the favourite for next PM, Bill Shorten, to do her actual job, and impartially invite the leader of the opposition to form Government (the GG's partiality and conflict of interest will be discussed in another post). Knowing the self-promoting and self-serving priorities of the faceless men, the Greens, and the Independents, Gillard is now even less than a puppet. She is a lame duck, held at ransom by any one person in "her" party at any time. That, fellow Australians, is the more pertinant issue to the appointment of Speaker. The pairing rights have less to do with Parliamentary reform, and everything to do with making sure the traffic lights stay on, and the red light camera keeps on fining us!<br />
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Given that convention is one of the most powerful sources of Constitutional Law (for example, in Australia, the office of Prime Minister does not exist in the Constitution of Australia Act), the Honourable Tony Abbott was more than wise in deciding today not to support an agreement that relies on a contravention of the spirit of our Constitution (an important factor when we lawyers interpret any Act of Parliament, not just constitutions). If it hasn't already, the Rainbow Alliance will lose its credibility and confidence, not just from the Australian public (whether it had ever achieved that is another question), but from its own "allies."<br />
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At that time, the Opposition - the true Coalition - will be ready to govern in the best interests of Australia - if the representative of Her Majesty ERII the Queen of Australia, the GG, does her Constitutionally allocated job. That, however, is yet to be seen.<br />
For the Cause...<br />
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Drew Scott, Esq. is Federal President and Founder of the Young Australia's Foundation, an Attorney & Counsellor at law of the Appellate Court in New York, USA and a candidate for admission to the Supreme Court of Victoria, and the Federal Courts of the Commonwealth of Australia.Young Australia's Foundation | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-43301040235663470852010-09-16T00:25:00.000+10:002010-09-16T00:25:40.945+10:00CONSERVATIVE PRIDE<span class="UIStory_Message"><span style="color: grey;">WHILE THE</span> pride movement's rainbow flag only has room for select colours, Aussie pride comes in all shapes and sizes, beliefs and opinions, values and persuasions. You don't have to be a clone to be tolerant, contrary to popular opinion.<br />
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Conservative Pride is about more than forcing your way of life onto others. It's ab<span class="text_exposed_show">out being allowed to express your political and religious views without attack, victimisation, bullying, derrogatory comments, insults (and that's just from friends!) that occur just because you are not a neo-Marxist, a communist, a solialist, a hypocrite, a hater, a post modern relativist, a secular humanist, you don't think government is better at running your own life than you are... OR, you do think all these things, but you are more than happy for others to have the opposite view!<br />
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For too long the majority has remained silent - if we took cues from the mainstream media, action on campuses, rallies in the streets, and the rhetoric of acadaemia and in workplaces across our Commonwealth, one would think that Australia were a neo-communist anti-Christian country obsessed with symbolism and political correctness at the expense of racist double standards against its own citizens and tax payers. Yet at the same time, this very people voted in the most fiscally responsible and revolutionarily reformist government, eleven and a half years on the trot! And now, the AEC estimates over seven hundred thousand (700,000) more people 18 years old and over, voted primarily for the coalition that represents the most fiscal responsible and social conservative views on the spectrum! You wouldn't think so by the sounds of things, would you?! </span></span><br />
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<span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show">The week of the 11th of October 2010 marks the beginning of the end of the tyranny of the violent and intolerant racist minority - <span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show">Exit, stage left!</span></span> The scales are about to be tipped back into balance. </span></span><br />
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<span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show">Drew Scott, Esq. is the Federal President & Founder of Young Australia's Foundation.</span></span>Young Australia's Foundation | For the Cause...http://www.blogger.com/profile/10295054609764280096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537035175146975368.post-4840927908767394722010-09-15T06:08:00.000+10:002010-09-15T06:08:02.684+10:00YAF ENTERS THE BLOGOSPHERE<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Young Australia's Foundation™ has officially entered the blogosphere! Check here often for articles, editorials, and updates on the issues that matter to YOU!</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br />
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