OVERLAND MUST GO

YAF 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 the latest farce of Overland dismissing his most honourable deputy (and best candidate for Commissioner in our opinion), Sir Ken Jones, last night.

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 The Saturday Age 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.

Sir Ken could not be contacted for a response last night.

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.''

Sir Ken will now remain on leave until his resignation takes effect on August 5. Mr Overland has cancelled his own planned leave.

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.

Although the online form to Contact Peter Ryan is limited in number of characters you can send, you can make your complaint via this link 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.

YAF addresses tackling police corruption in its official Statement of Purpose but it starts with you, and it starts now!  Don't delay.

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Comments/Enquiries The Honourable Mr Ryan MLA, Deputy Premier 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. 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. We urge immediate & swift action in remedying this farce. YAF.com.au

WHY YOU CAN HANDLE IT - OSAMA RAID PICS

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WARNING - GRAPHIC PICS OF COURIERS WHO DIED WITH OSAMA BIN LADEN BELOW. DO NOT SCROLL DOWN IF IMAGES OF DEAD TERRORISTS DISTURBS YOU!

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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!"

Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary from earlier today:

"There is no need to release these photographs..."

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:

- 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... Like next week, say, when the debt ceiling (14+ trillion USD) needs to be raised!

WARNING - GRAPHIC PICS OF COURIERS WHO DIED WITH OSAMA BIN LADEN BELOW. DO NOT SCROLL DOWN IF IMAGES OF DEAD TERRORISTS DISTURBS YOU!

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CARBON PRICE MUST UP HOT WATER BY $17000

I couldn't help but notice that the amazing solar super special *in a sarcastic voice* which was faxed to our offices is an indication that the Gillard/Greens Carbon (Dioxide) Tax must necessarily increase the price of electricity and natural gas, and therefore hot water, by some $17,000 in order to make the only alternative - solar - cheaper and entice you to switch over.

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?

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!), that is an approximate reduction of 0.0006 parts per million of atmospheric CO2.  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.


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.

Happy Snap

Drew and Daryl at YLM Fed Con on Gold Coast earlier this year

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.

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!

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.

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
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