Tony Abbott missed the boat by GDL
It has now been a few weeks since the conservatives took control of the country. In these first few weeks they have been on the wrong foot and soon realised that making promises via slogans from the opposition is very different from governing Australia. They very quickly realised that they do not know the ropes of governing and stubbled through mistakes over mistakes.
The first one was their discrimination towards their own women as they considered that only one women from their ranks was good enough to be cabinet minister. They were criticised from all corners as it was a lie to say that there was no other women worth the promotion. The Guardian newspaper listed five elected female candidates who were more qualified that many of the men selected by Tony Abbott. This discrimination revealed the true Tony Abbott who has a problem with women since his days at the university.
The second stubble was on the diplomatic front, when Julie Bishop was told upfront by the Foreign Minister of Indonesia in Washington that Indonesia will not accept violation of the territorial waters of Indonesia by turning back the boats. Julie Bishop lied when questioned about the meeting. She said everything was all right that they had a nice and cordial conversation. To prove that she lied, the content of the meeting was leaked to the press by the Indonesians. When they went to Indonesia they were careful on what to say. They were like little dogs with their tails between their legs. They had but praise for the government of Indonesia. (Operation charme par Mikey Mouse and figure Dubois.)
They suddenly liked the Indonesians after have been anti-Asians all their lives.
The next stuff up came from the arrogant Minister of Education, Christopher Payne who took upon himself to say that he would cut services to universities and impose a cap on the number of intake. He was immediately rebuked by his leader who said that this policy was not what they took to the elections. Since then Christopher Payne has disappeared. Tony Abbott also made clear that minsters should not talk to the press without his prior knowledge. ( I am the King, he wanted to say)
The other big stubble was their inability to stop the boats and prevent people from drowning. Since the new government sworn in, some 1,000 boat people have arrived and some 100 have drowned. Furthermore the new government embraced fully the policy of the Labor government to sent boat people to Manus Island and Nauru. What is new ? How many boats have been stopped or turned back so far ? Zero.
That's not all, after having talked down the Australian economy for 6 years and criticised the deficit, the fat man and the German after having had a closer look at the books and briefed by Treasury, suddenly found out that the budget is in a better position. They will, keep all the hard economic measures taken by Labor to bring the budget back in surplus in 2016. Big Joe and the German could not say when they will bring the budget to surplus. What a farce !!
Its not over, Tony Abbott caused a diplomatic row in locking out the Indonesian journalists from his press conference in Jakarta, He was accused of being undemocratic and breached Indonesian laws.
Next good one, the talkative Scott Morrison Minister of Immigration, suddenly went blank and dumb. He would not reveal to the press when boats arrive to our shores and when they will turn back the boats. He was ridiculed by a people smuggler when he said that people smugglers would use these information. He was laughed at and told that boat people have mobile phones and use the internet in detention centres to communicate with people smugglers. Scott Morrison is now hiding himself behind a veil of secrecy, running away from the press gallery as he has still cannot stop the boats and prevent people drowning.
The other big scandals are how the coalition members have been abusing of their privileges to pump from taxpayers money for private trips overseas, to weddings and others...Tony Abbott is also involved in this misuse of public money. These are they same people who criticised Peter Slipper!!!. Now they are caught red handed. What has been discovered by journalists so far could be just the tip of the iceberg. Is it not Senator Brandis who was going to impose a code of conduct to parliamentarians ? He should hide or hang himself in shame.As for Barnaby Joyce he is shameless about using public money and seems reluctant to give the money back. He is probably the worst among them all; but if one is rotten they are all the same. Birds of the same feather flock together Shame on them who wanted to give lessons of high moral grounds to the Labor ministers.
As for their stuff ups and their amateurism, one can say that it is teething problems but these people have been in politics for years and eleven of them have been minsters under John Howard. They have been criticising the Labor government for 6 years and prepared to take over. So they have no excuse.
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Monday, 7 October 2013
Saturday, 7 September 2013
Australian elections 2013
Vox populi vox dei by GDL
The people of Australia have spoken loud and clear. They have voted on September 7, 2013 for a change of government as they were not satisfied of the Labor government way of governing, The Australians have voted for Mr Tony Abbott to be the next Prime Minister and for his team to lead Australia for the next three years.
The victory of the Liberal/national coalition was resounding. The opposition won with a majority of some 20 seats, thus having a comfortable majority in the lower house. With such a majority, the new government will have the free hands to implement its policies of going back to a surplus, reduce spending, cut where required, scrap the carbon tax, stop the boats and build a stronger economy and review the tax system. Three yeas to realise all these promises might not be enough but at least there will be some first steps and actions towards the change.
The people of Australia have severely punished Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and the Labor party for having been a dysfunctional government with their internal divisions and changed leaders without consulting the people. Australians hate uncertainty and rightly so are scared of instability which a minority government was providing. The good policies of the Labor party like saving the country from the Global Financial Crisis, building the school revolution, the National Disability Scheme, the Gonski Education reform have been overshadowed by the budget deficit, spending too much of public money and their inability to stop the flow of illegals coming to Australia by boats.
The results of the elections can be explained by a loss by the Labor party rather than a win for the coalition but credit should be given to the opposition to have conducted a remarkable campaign. The opposition, since electing Tony Abbott as leader, has been very effective and pushed the government in the corners. The opposition has been consistent and has thrown everything at the government of both Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. The opposition since 2010 was always in a winning position according to the polls. Under such pressure the Labor government was accumulating mistakes over mistakes to the point of annoying the people who were not listening anymore to Julia Gillard.
The return of Kevin Rudd as leader has not proved so beneficial to Labor although it must be acknowledged that Kevin Rudd saved part of the furniture and avoided a wipe out. He left the party in a position to be a strong opposition. The Labor party will now reflect on its defeat and revamp. The first step is to put behind all the divisions of the past and find a leader who will unite and modernise the party.
As for Mr Abbott and the coalition there is no doubt that they will try to be very united and effective and hold on to their promises as people of Australia do not caution lies, like the big one of Julia Gillard. Tony Abbott will have to unite the country and govern for all. It would be impossible for the Liberal ( a centre right party) to govern from the right. They will have to move closer and closer to the centre and open up to the working class and the lower middle class. Paradoxically the Liberals owe their victory to these people who used to vote Labor but this time vote liberals for the first time.
"Australia is under new management and open for business," said the Prime Minister elect, Tont Abbott.
Today is a new dawn for Australia and only time will tell if the change is for the better or worse. Rendez vous dans trois ans ou peutetre avant.
The people of Australia have spoken loud and clear. They have voted on September 7, 2013 for a change of government as they were not satisfied of the Labor government way of governing, The Australians have voted for Mr Tony Abbott to be the next Prime Minister and for his team to lead Australia for the next three years.
The victory of the Liberal/national coalition was resounding. The opposition won with a majority of some 20 seats, thus having a comfortable majority in the lower house. With such a majority, the new government will have the free hands to implement its policies of going back to a surplus, reduce spending, cut where required, scrap the carbon tax, stop the boats and build a stronger economy and review the tax system. Three yeas to realise all these promises might not be enough but at least there will be some first steps and actions towards the change.
The people of Australia have severely punished Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and the Labor party for having been a dysfunctional government with their internal divisions and changed leaders without consulting the people. Australians hate uncertainty and rightly so are scared of instability which a minority government was providing. The good policies of the Labor party like saving the country from the Global Financial Crisis, building the school revolution, the National Disability Scheme, the Gonski Education reform have been overshadowed by the budget deficit, spending too much of public money and their inability to stop the flow of illegals coming to Australia by boats.
The results of the elections can be explained by a loss by the Labor party rather than a win for the coalition but credit should be given to the opposition to have conducted a remarkable campaign. The opposition, since electing Tony Abbott as leader, has been very effective and pushed the government in the corners. The opposition has been consistent and has thrown everything at the government of both Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. The opposition since 2010 was always in a winning position according to the polls. Under such pressure the Labor government was accumulating mistakes over mistakes to the point of annoying the people who were not listening anymore to Julia Gillard.
The return of Kevin Rudd as leader has not proved so beneficial to Labor although it must be acknowledged that Kevin Rudd saved part of the furniture and avoided a wipe out. He left the party in a position to be a strong opposition. The Labor party will now reflect on its defeat and revamp. The first step is to put behind all the divisions of the past and find a leader who will unite and modernise the party.
As for Mr Abbott and the coalition there is no doubt that they will try to be very united and effective and hold on to their promises as people of Australia do not caution lies, like the big one of Julia Gillard. Tony Abbott will have to unite the country and govern for all. It would be impossible for the Liberal ( a centre right party) to govern from the right. They will have to move closer and closer to the centre and open up to the working class and the lower middle class. Paradoxically the Liberals owe their victory to these people who used to vote Labor but this time vote liberals for the first time.
"Australia is under new management and open for business," said the Prime Minister elect, Tont Abbott.
Today is a new dawn for Australia and only time will tell if the change is for the better or worse. Rendez vous dans trois ans ou peutetre avant.
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Australian Politics Elections 2013
The wind of change by GDL
The election campaign is nearly over. The political advertisings are closed but the media can still cover and write about the campaign. The Murdoch media, TV and newspapers,will continue to demonise the government, and continue their disrespect for the Prime Minister as usual. The Murdoch press and its cheque book journalists will have played an important part in this elections by freely backing Tony Abbott and the opposition. Freely because a full front page advertising in a newspaper and one minute on prime time Television cost millions. The Murdoch media have thus given millions to Tony Abbott and the opposition during the campaign. There is no doubt that by backing the opposition, Murdoch and his so-called journalists have their reasons. They represent big business and they know that the Liberal's ideology is in their favour of protecting big business and so the rational is clear. Once in power the Liberals have a debt to Mr Murdoch that they will have to pay back in one way or another. After having backed Mitt Romney in the USA and the scandalous phone hacking leading to the closing down of the News of the World in England, Rupert Murdoch is now betting on Tony Abbott in Australia to save his empire.
Election campaign in Australia is very different from the rest of the world. There is no meetings or rallies; people follow the elections and make up their minds and choice according to what they read, see and hear. Elections are manipulated by the media. Radio broadcasters like Allan Jones and Ray Adley for example, have a big influence on their listeners although their credibility and knowledge are not the best. In Australia a good broadcaster is only a good talker even if what he says is full of air, even if he makes racist comments or breaches the code of practice and even if he is often reprimanded by ACMA, or temporarily suspended by his own radio station. There is not a day that Allan Jones and Ray Adley have not discredited the government and never said a positive word about Labor's policies like Better Schools, the NDIS, support for low income earners, effective foreign policy, but it has been all negativity and never allowed their audience to make a balanced opinion. It has been and continues to be all spin and propaganda always complimenting the opposition for what ever they say and do.
But this is also Australia, this is democracy and the free press. Australia is not Russia or China or Cuba or North Korea, neither is it like in Mauritius or Indonesia or other third world countries where the press is controlled, where there are censorship. In Australia freedom of opinion and expression is sacrosanct, so is a free press.
After five weeks of campaign, all the polls are indicating that there will be a change of government on the seven of September. The polls in Australia have always been right. The Labor party of Kevin Rudd will surely and squarely lose the elections and the Liberal/National coalition will win with a considerable majority there is no doubt. Kevin Rudd's big return has not worked, the strategy of the change over from Julia Gillard has had limited results. With Julia Gillard as PM, the Labor party has made many mistakes and has never been in a winning position. If Julia had remained leader, the Labor party would have been wiped out. Kevin Rudd has only managed to keep some seats and can pretend to be a strong future opposition.
The opposition will win the elections on the weakness of the government. Labor has mishandled the government finance ( the people's money, the budget,) the continuous deficit and spending are not well regarded by the voters. The opposition has been effective in scaring people on the deficit and debt although the overall economy of Australia has never been in a better shape with a AAA credit rating. But it seems a strong economy is not enough to win the elections. John Howard was flatly defeated in 2007 with a strong economy and a $50 billion surplus.
The other big issue that sank the government's boat is the 50,000 asylum seekers coming by boats under the Labor government. They have never been able to stop the boats coming; the PNG solution came too late.
The other problem of the Labor party is that during the six years in power, they have been dysfunctional and the changes of leaderships and instability within the party have not been seen with a good eye by the voters. The biggest mistake has, however, been the Julia Gillard's alliance with the Greens and the introduction of the carbon tax. This policy has been toxic and dealt the Labor party the deadly blow.
The voters also opine that Labor has been too long in power and coupled with the many mistakes and problems they faced, the people of Australia is looking for a change.
The change is necessary according to the people even though this change is uncertainty. The people have already made up their minds and want a change even though they have not studied and understood clearly and fully the policies of the opposition and even if they have no idea how the opposition will fund its promises.A change is legitimate as long as it is a change for the better, but having seen the Labor party in action for six years, most people think that it cannot be worse. It was indeed so bad, they say.
The Labor party is a centre left party which has governed mainly from the centre all while being sincere to its ideology of caring for the working class, the lower middle class and strong on social policies. The Labor party has always been the party of the poor, migrants, pensioners, the party of the disabled, the party of education, medicare and superannuation for all ,but in Australia not many people understand the left ideology. This is well demonstrated when workers and migrants are turning their backs on Labor, when the pensioners and the middle class are voting for the Liberals which is a centre right party.
The people do not care anymore if the Liberals favour the rich and big business at the expense of the working families and those at the bottom of the ladder.Ideology it seems, has been relegated for a change for a new government in the hope of a less dysfunctional government, looking forward to a more stable government which can mange the public finance better, make savings and one that will stop the boats and scrap the carbon tax..
The change is only two days away and according to Tony Abbott, the leader of the opposition who will be the PM on Saturday 7th September, the change will occur in the first 100 days.
The election campaign is nearly over. The political advertisings are closed but the media can still cover and write about the campaign. The Murdoch media, TV and newspapers,will continue to demonise the government, and continue their disrespect for the Prime Minister as usual. The Murdoch press and its cheque book journalists will have played an important part in this elections by freely backing Tony Abbott and the opposition. Freely because a full front page advertising in a newspaper and one minute on prime time Television cost millions. The Murdoch media have thus given millions to Tony Abbott and the opposition during the campaign. There is no doubt that by backing the opposition, Murdoch and his so-called journalists have their reasons. They represent big business and they know that the Liberal's ideology is in their favour of protecting big business and so the rational is clear. Once in power the Liberals have a debt to Mr Murdoch that they will have to pay back in one way or another. After having backed Mitt Romney in the USA and the scandalous phone hacking leading to the closing down of the News of the World in England, Rupert Murdoch is now betting on Tony Abbott in Australia to save his empire.
Election campaign in Australia is very different from the rest of the world. There is no meetings or rallies; people follow the elections and make up their minds and choice according to what they read, see and hear. Elections are manipulated by the media. Radio broadcasters like Allan Jones and Ray Adley for example, have a big influence on their listeners although their credibility and knowledge are not the best. In Australia a good broadcaster is only a good talker even if what he says is full of air, even if he makes racist comments or breaches the code of practice and even if he is often reprimanded by ACMA, or temporarily suspended by his own radio station. There is not a day that Allan Jones and Ray Adley have not discredited the government and never said a positive word about Labor's policies like Better Schools, the NDIS, support for low income earners, effective foreign policy, but it has been all negativity and never allowed their audience to make a balanced opinion. It has been and continues to be all spin and propaganda always complimenting the opposition for what ever they say and do.
But this is also Australia, this is democracy and the free press. Australia is not Russia or China or Cuba or North Korea, neither is it like in Mauritius or Indonesia or other third world countries where the press is controlled, where there are censorship. In Australia freedom of opinion and expression is sacrosanct, so is a free press.
After five weeks of campaign, all the polls are indicating that there will be a change of government on the seven of September. The polls in Australia have always been right. The Labor party of Kevin Rudd will surely and squarely lose the elections and the Liberal/National coalition will win with a considerable majority there is no doubt. Kevin Rudd's big return has not worked, the strategy of the change over from Julia Gillard has had limited results. With Julia Gillard as PM, the Labor party has made many mistakes and has never been in a winning position. If Julia had remained leader, the Labor party would have been wiped out. Kevin Rudd has only managed to keep some seats and can pretend to be a strong future opposition.
The opposition will win the elections on the weakness of the government. Labor has mishandled the government finance ( the people's money, the budget,) the continuous deficit and spending are not well regarded by the voters. The opposition has been effective in scaring people on the deficit and debt although the overall economy of Australia has never been in a better shape with a AAA credit rating. But it seems a strong economy is not enough to win the elections. John Howard was flatly defeated in 2007 with a strong economy and a $50 billion surplus.
The other big issue that sank the government's boat is the 50,000 asylum seekers coming by boats under the Labor government. They have never been able to stop the boats coming; the PNG solution came too late.
The other problem of the Labor party is that during the six years in power, they have been dysfunctional and the changes of leaderships and instability within the party have not been seen with a good eye by the voters. The biggest mistake has, however, been the Julia Gillard's alliance with the Greens and the introduction of the carbon tax. This policy has been toxic and dealt the Labor party the deadly blow.
The voters also opine that Labor has been too long in power and coupled with the many mistakes and problems they faced, the people of Australia is looking for a change.
The change is necessary according to the people even though this change is uncertainty. The people have already made up their minds and want a change even though they have not studied and understood clearly and fully the policies of the opposition and even if they have no idea how the opposition will fund its promises.A change is legitimate as long as it is a change for the better, but having seen the Labor party in action for six years, most people think that it cannot be worse. It was indeed so bad, they say.
The Labor party is a centre left party which has governed mainly from the centre all while being sincere to its ideology of caring for the working class, the lower middle class and strong on social policies. The Labor party has always been the party of the poor, migrants, pensioners, the party of the disabled, the party of education, medicare and superannuation for all ,but in Australia not many people understand the left ideology. This is well demonstrated when workers and migrants are turning their backs on Labor, when the pensioners and the middle class are voting for the Liberals which is a centre right party.
The people do not care anymore if the Liberals favour the rich and big business at the expense of the working families and those at the bottom of the ladder.Ideology it seems, has been relegated for a change for a new government in the hope of a less dysfunctional government, looking forward to a more stable government which can mange the public finance better, make savings and one that will stop the boats and scrap the carbon tax..
The change is only two days away and according to Tony Abbott, the leader of the opposition who will be the PM on Saturday 7th September, the change will occur in the first 100 days.
Thursday, 15 August 2013
Saving Australia from Asylum seekers
Saving Australia from Asylum seekers
by GDL
In a previous post I wrote that if nothing drastic is done to stop the boats and send the asylum seekers back to where they come from, and if the business of people smugglers is not broken, Australia runs the risk of becoming a country of refugees. Australia's refugee intake is around 27,000 per year and now we have around 50,000 boat people in the country. At this rate in ten years' time the number will be nearly a million. This is unacceptable.
The polls show that "the boat people" issue ranks very high in voters' concern. It is a fact that there has been a considerable increase of boats arrivals since Labor took power in 2007. It was the main issue that Kevin Rudd's popularity was at its lowest and his eventual knifing and ousted from office..
Juila Gillard made " the boat people" one of her priorities and accused Kevin of' inability to handle the issue. She might have thought she had the magic power to stop the boats, but unfortunately she failed abysmally. To compound her problem, her propositions were turned down by the opposition and the Greens. This was a rare agreement between an extreme left party and a right wing one.
When Kevin Rudd came back to power for the second time, the problem was worse than where he left it. There are now some 50,000 illegals, i.e. those coming by boats, in Australia. Kevin Rudd in an attempt to stop the flow of illegals and queue jumpers was given a life bouy by the Prime Minister of PNG, to save him from oblivion. The PNG solution is still at its inception, it is yet to be tested by people smugglers but apparently, the message has reached those who were paying people smugglers. There is a slight decease of boats arrivals.
Transferring the boats people to Manus Island and Nauru, is only part of the solution. There is still the possibility looming that they might end up in Australia, as it was under John Howard. At the moment it is Australian taxpayers who are bearing the cost directly, or indirectly though overseas aid. The real solution is to break the people smugglers business model by tackling the problem at source. This can be done through intelligence cooperation with Indonesia. It is possible to spot those who are transiting through Indonesia and where they will take the boats from. It only demands a bit of goodwill from the Indonesian police but as it is known, they are corrupt and part of the mafia.
The other way to circumvent the issue is to send Australian intelligence to Indonesia to uncover the business and in a way prevent the boats from leaving Indonesia's shores. This is within the realm of possibility and reality.
To deter people smugglers from carry on their lucrative business at the expense of people's desperation, the United Nation should get the support of the international community and set an International Court just like the one in La Hague for war criminals, to judge people smugglers..
Coming back to Australia the two major parties are in a race to show toughness towards asylum seekers. Labor will sent all the boat people to PNG with no hope of being resettled in Australia. For their part the Coalition goes further by not granting Permanent Protection Visa (PPV) to all those 30,000 or 50,000 who arrived by boats in the past years. On top of this the coalition will deprive the asylum seekers the right to appeal if found not to be a refugee. Those found not to be refugees will be sent back to where they come from. The other way to curb the problem of refugees is for Australia to walk out of the Geneva Convention which is outdated with new circumstances and realities of regional conflicts and civil wars e.g. Syria..
If the asylum seekers/ boat people is so high on the political agenda, it is because many Australians see the refugees as the paria of our society. Refugees have never brought any good thing to our country. Most of them are on the social security benefits or are long term unemployed as many still cannot adapt to the western democratic values and rule of law of Australia. On the other hand refugees have brought us triads and drug smugglers as well as a mentality of fraud and corruption.. Just attend a court session in Parramatta or elsewhere and you are sure of seeing some refugees facing justice for indictable offences .
Asylum seekers arriving by plane or those coming by boats boat should be turned back to where they come from. The refugees are costing the country too much money and are not helping to build a better Australia. Australia need an orderly immigration policy and skilled people who will be an asset to the country. In this period where we face economic challenges. Australia cannot afford to be generous or compassionate at the cost of billions of dollars spent on asylum seekers, mainly if they are not genuine and coming by the back door.
by GDL
In a previous post I wrote that if nothing drastic is done to stop the boats and send the asylum seekers back to where they come from, and if the business of people smugglers is not broken, Australia runs the risk of becoming a country of refugees. Australia's refugee intake is around 27,000 per year and now we have around 50,000 boat people in the country. At this rate in ten years' time the number will be nearly a million. This is unacceptable.
The polls show that "the boat people" issue ranks very high in voters' concern. It is a fact that there has been a considerable increase of boats arrivals since Labor took power in 2007. It was the main issue that Kevin Rudd's popularity was at its lowest and his eventual knifing and ousted from office..
Juila Gillard made " the boat people" one of her priorities and accused Kevin of' inability to handle the issue. She might have thought she had the magic power to stop the boats, but unfortunately she failed abysmally. To compound her problem, her propositions were turned down by the opposition and the Greens. This was a rare agreement between an extreme left party and a right wing one.
When Kevin Rudd came back to power for the second time, the problem was worse than where he left it. There are now some 50,000 illegals, i.e. those coming by boats, in Australia. Kevin Rudd in an attempt to stop the flow of illegals and queue jumpers was given a life bouy by the Prime Minister of PNG, to save him from oblivion. The PNG solution is still at its inception, it is yet to be tested by people smugglers but apparently, the message has reached those who were paying people smugglers. There is a slight decease of boats arrivals.
Transferring the boats people to Manus Island and Nauru, is only part of the solution. There is still the possibility looming that they might end up in Australia, as it was under John Howard. At the moment it is Australian taxpayers who are bearing the cost directly, or indirectly though overseas aid. The real solution is to break the people smugglers business model by tackling the problem at source. This can be done through intelligence cooperation with Indonesia. It is possible to spot those who are transiting through Indonesia and where they will take the boats from. It only demands a bit of goodwill from the Indonesian police but as it is known, they are corrupt and part of the mafia.
The other way to circumvent the issue is to send Australian intelligence to Indonesia to uncover the business and in a way prevent the boats from leaving Indonesia's shores. This is within the realm of possibility and reality.
To deter people smugglers from carry on their lucrative business at the expense of people's desperation, the United Nation should get the support of the international community and set an International Court just like the one in La Hague for war criminals, to judge people smugglers..
Coming back to Australia the two major parties are in a race to show toughness towards asylum seekers. Labor will sent all the boat people to PNG with no hope of being resettled in Australia. For their part the Coalition goes further by not granting Permanent Protection Visa (PPV) to all those 30,000 or 50,000 who arrived by boats in the past years. On top of this the coalition will deprive the asylum seekers the right to appeal if found not to be a refugee. Those found not to be refugees will be sent back to where they come from. The other way to curb the problem of refugees is for Australia to walk out of the Geneva Convention which is outdated with new circumstances and realities of regional conflicts and civil wars e.g. Syria..
If the asylum seekers/ boat people is so high on the political agenda, it is because many Australians see the refugees as the paria of our society. Refugees have never brought any good thing to our country. Most of them are on the social security benefits or are long term unemployed as many still cannot adapt to the western democratic values and rule of law of Australia. On the other hand refugees have brought us triads and drug smugglers as well as a mentality of fraud and corruption.. Just attend a court session in Parramatta or elsewhere and you are sure of seeing some refugees facing justice for indictable offences .
Asylum seekers arriving by plane or those coming by boats boat should be turned back to where they come from. The refugees are costing the country too much money and are not helping to build a better Australia. Australia need an orderly immigration policy and skilled people who will be an asset to the country. In this period where we face economic challenges. Australia cannot afford to be generous or compassionate at the cost of billions of dollars spent on asylum seekers, mainly if they are not genuine and coming by the back door.
Wednesday, 7 August 2013
The race is on...the bets are out,
Will Tony Abbott be the next PM of Australia ? by GDL
On Sunday 4 August, The Prime Minister of Australia announced to the nation that the general elections at federal level will be held on 7th September 2013.
It was a relief for the people as well as for businesses putting an end to a suspense and a period of uncertainty. Since the last elections in 2010, the government led by Julia Gillard government has been under pressure from inside and well as from outside. Many were asking whether her minority government would last. Her problem was complicated by her alliance with the Greens and being at the mercy of the Independents. Furthermore Julia Gillard's government made so many blunders and was not popular which favoured the rise and rise of the opposition.
Until one month or two months ago. according to the polls and according. to most analysts and journalists, Labor was facing oblivion and annihilation. Some pundits were predicting that labour will be wiped out and at most could elect 40 candidates. It would have been a walk over and Tony Abbott was sure to be our next Prime Minister/ All this would arrive without the opposition spelling out their policies. It was a question of kicking Labor out and not voting the opposition in.
All was going well for the opposition and Tony Abbott had already written his victory speech. However only one big problem for the opposition, is that Tony Abbott, has never been popular among voters. For most of last year the unpopular Julia Gillard was the preferred PM. Tony Abbott approval ratings has never exceeded 50% even against Julia. Paul Murray and Peter Van Olsen on Fox were always highlighting Tony's big disapproval ratings. Nevertheless Australians were prepared to let him have a go a the primeministership and his party to govern Australia for the next three years.
Many people in Australia are quite sceptical about Tony Abbott. Some would say that he is not articulate, others find him too conservative while others are just sceptic about whether he can be a good Prime Minister. The misogyny speech of Julia Gillard has caused some damage to Tony Abbott as many still opine that he has a problem with women. That could be because he was first going to be a priest and then changed to politics. He is also a staunch monarchist which means that he does not like to see an Australian as head of the State. Is this also because he was born in England and still very much attached to his country of birth and his strong allegiance to the Queen? Tony Abbott is definitively a conservative and some think that he is the most right wing politician behind Pauline Hanson and Barnabe Joyce. He comes from the party of white Australia, a party that does not embrace or recognise multiculturalism and it is obvious that he is quite uncomfortable with
migrants. He also wants to destroy the unions and is the man who supported work choice, the nightmare of workers. There is no doubt that the Liberals campaign will be financed by big
business and the Murdoch press have already delivered battles against Kevin Rudd and Labor. The scandals of phone tapping involving the Murdoch press in England are still fresh in the minds of Australians. Can they really trust the Murdoch press and in particular the Daily Telegraph ? Rupert Murdoch want to see Tony Abbott be the next prime minister so that he can have his way and his Foxtel business in Australia prosper still more. Greed has no limit.
On a personal level Tony Abbott has a big problem to make people like him even though they would accept him to some extent. On policy level he has also difficulty elaborating his economic plans for the future, his policies openly support big business. His policy is not to tax big business nor the big polluters. His paid parental leave of 26 weeks of maternity leave will also apply to women earning 200K or 1 million dollars there is no limit. Tony Abbott will reduce the company tax by 1.5% which means that big business will save some five billions dollars which would otherwise have gone in the government's coffin for the nation. Tony Abbott is also a climate change sceptic, i.e. he does not believe climate change is real. His will repeal the carbon tax which means that big polluters will continue to pollute as much as they want. He is also against any market live the Emission Trading Scheme and event the Carbon Production Reduction Scheme which will put a cap on carbon emission. His direct action plan instead will cost taxpayers some seven billions.
This is the man who, according to the polls, will be our Prime Minister in September. In the 2010 elections, voters were prepared to roll Labor out but they stop short of voting Tony Abbott. Will it be different this time or will they give him the approval tick ? Time will tell and may God save Australia..
It was a relief for the people as well as for businesses putting an end to a suspense and a period of uncertainty. Since the last elections in 2010, the government led by Julia Gillard government has been under pressure from inside and well as from outside. Many were asking whether her minority government would last. Her problem was complicated by her alliance with the Greens and being at the mercy of the Independents. Furthermore Julia Gillard's government made so many blunders and was not popular which favoured the rise and rise of the opposition.
Until one month or two months ago. according to the polls and according. to most analysts and journalists, Labor was facing oblivion and annihilation. Some pundits were predicting that labour will be wiped out and at most could elect 40 candidates. It would have been a walk over and Tony Abbott was sure to be our next Prime Minister/ All this would arrive without the opposition spelling out their policies. It was a question of kicking Labor out and not voting the opposition in.
All was going well for the opposition and Tony Abbott had already written his victory speech. However only one big problem for the opposition, is that Tony Abbott, has never been popular among voters. For most of last year the unpopular Julia Gillard was the preferred PM. Tony Abbott approval ratings has never exceeded 50% even against Julia. Paul Murray and Peter Van Olsen on Fox were always highlighting Tony's big disapproval ratings. Nevertheless Australians were prepared to let him have a go a the primeministership and his party to govern Australia for the next three years.
Many people in Australia are quite sceptical about Tony Abbott. Some would say that he is not articulate, others find him too conservative while others are just sceptic about whether he can be a good Prime Minister. The misogyny speech of Julia Gillard has caused some damage to Tony Abbott as many still opine that he has a problem with women. That could be because he was first going to be a priest and then changed to politics. He is also a staunch monarchist which means that he does not like to see an Australian as head of the State. Is this also because he was born in England and still very much attached to his country of birth and his strong allegiance to the Queen? Tony Abbott is definitively a conservative and some think that he is the most right wing politician behind Pauline Hanson and Barnabe Joyce. He comes from the party of white Australia, a party that does not embrace or recognise multiculturalism and it is obvious that he is quite uncomfortable with
migrants. He also wants to destroy the unions and is the man who supported work choice, the nightmare of workers. There is no doubt that the Liberals campaign will be financed by big
business and the Murdoch press have already delivered battles against Kevin Rudd and Labor. The scandals of phone tapping involving the Murdoch press in England are still fresh in the minds of Australians. Can they really trust the Murdoch press and in particular the Daily Telegraph ? Rupert Murdoch want to see Tony Abbott be the next prime minister so that he can have his way and his Foxtel business in Australia prosper still more. Greed has no limit.
On a personal level Tony Abbott has a big problem to make people like him even though they would accept him to some extent. On policy level he has also difficulty elaborating his economic plans for the future, his policies openly support big business. His policy is not to tax big business nor the big polluters. His paid parental leave of 26 weeks of maternity leave will also apply to women earning 200K or 1 million dollars there is no limit. Tony Abbott will reduce the company tax by 1.5% which means that big business will save some five billions dollars which would otherwise have gone in the government's coffin for the nation. Tony Abbott is also a climate change sceptic, i.e. he does not believe climate change is real. His will repeal the carbon tax which means that big polluters will continue to pollute as much as they want. He is also against any market live the Emission Trading Scheme and event the Carbon Production Reduction Scheme which will put a cap on carbon emission. His direct action plan instead will cost taxpayers some seven billions.
This is the man who, according to the polls, will be our Prime Minister in September. In the 2010 elections, voters were prepared to roll Labor out but they stop short of voting Tony Abbott. Will it be different this time or will they give him the approval tick ? Time will tell and may God save Australia..
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
The Greens, the best allies of people smugglers.
The Greens, the Asylum seekers and people smugglers
by GDL.
There are, at date, some 30,000 asylum seekers in Australia: 9,234 on Christmas Island, 2,764 in the community, 18,347 on bridging visas (i.e. waiting to be accepted as refugees) 545 in Nauru and a very small number in Manus Island. Some 1,000 have died at sea on their journey to Australia.
The boat-people/ asylum seekers is on the top of the political agenda. It has been an issue for some time, continues to be an issue and will be to be the main political theme during the campaign.
The opposition has always claimed that they can and will turn back the boats, although they have afterwards added "when it is safe to do so", Recently they said that they will use the army and the navy to prevent the boats coming into Australian waters. On Tuesday 30th July, The coalition released another policy " The Pacific Solution, Mark 2" when they will send 2,000 asylum seekers to Nauru. This solution, its seems, is the plan B, if they cannot stop the boats!!!
Labor for their part, after acknowledging they made a mistake dismantling John Howard's pacific solution, is now sending all the boat people to Papua New Guinea where they will be processed.
While the major parties, Labor and the Coalition are designing tougher and tougher policies to stop the boats, to break the people smuggling business and to stop people drowning at sea, the Greens' policy, on asylum seekers, is the complete opposite.
In the pre-election policy released on Wednesday 30 July 2013, the Greens will welcome all the asylum seekers with open arms, no matter whether they are genuine or not or whether there are criminals or terrorists among them.The Greens will strip all deterrents from refugee policy, will shut down detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island. They will dramatically increase Australia's refugee intake, give work rights to those in the community and boost the capacity of the United Nations Refugee Agency to process claims in Indonesia. They will also lift the ban on people in refugee-producing countries coming directly by air to seek refugees.
According to the SMH, "Greens leader Christine Milne will propose a doubling of funding to the United Nations refugee agency to speed up assessment and resettlement of asylum seekers in Indonesia and Malaysia, and a 10,000 increase in Australia's refugee intake. One in three places in the 30,000 program would be set aside for refugees assessed by the UN agency in the region, including at least 3800 in Indonesia."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/caring-greens-unveil-asylum-policy-to-increase-nations-refugee-intake-20130730-2qxf0.html#ixzz2aaulG29O
by GDL.
There are, at date, some 30,000 asylum seekers in Australia: 9,234 on Christmas Island, 2,764 in the community, 18,347 on bridging visas (i.e. waiting to be accepted as refugees) 545 in Nauru and a very small number in Manus Island. Some 1,000 have died at sea on their journey to Australia.
The boat-people/ asylum seekers is on the top of the political agenda. It has been an issue for some time, continues to be an issue and will be to be the main political theme during the campaign.
The opposition has always claimed that they can and will turn back the boats, although they have afterwards added "when it is safe to do so", Recently they said that they will use the army and the navy to prevent the boats coming into Australian waters. On Tuesday 30th July, The coalition released another policy " The Pacific Solution, Mark 2" when they will send 2,000 asylum seekers to Nauru. This solution, its seems, is the plan B, if they cannot stop the boats!!!
Labor for their part, after acknowledging they made a mistake dismantling John Howard's pacific solution, is now sending all the boat people to Papua New Guinea where they will be processed.
While the major parties, Labor and the Coalition are designing tougher and tougher policies to stop the boats, to break the people smuggling business and to stop people drowning at sea, the Greens' policy, on asylum seekers, is the complete opposite.
In the pre-election policy released on Wednesday 30 July 2013, the Greens will welcome all the asylum seekers with open arms, no matter whether they are genuine or not or whether there are criminals or terrorists among them.The Greens will strip all deterrents from refugee policy, will shut down detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island. They will dramatically increase Australia's refugee intake, give work rights to those in the community and boost the capacity of the United Nations Refugee Agency to process claims in Indonesia. They will also lift the ban on people in refugee-producing countries coming directly by air to seek refugees.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/caring-greens-unveil-asylum-policy-to-increase-nations-refugee-intake-20130730-2qxf0.html#ixzz2aaulG29O
It is clear that the Greens have always invited refugees to this country. They have always been on the side of refugees and use this as their main political platform instead of talking about jobs, the economy and the future of Australia. Their policies are slogans as they have never put any costing on their policies. They want everything to be given freely. Now they want to blow out the budget on asylm seekers by treating them like kings. The Greens are leftist and many, of them like Lee Reanon, come form the extreme left, Marxist-Leninist wing. This is why they are called the water melons because they hide behind their green coats while they are red (communist) inside. The Greens. are just a bunch of idealists who have no idea of national interest or the economy. Being a marginal party, they embrace the extreme left ideology and cannot move out. Because they are not a main stream party, cannot be and never will be, they stick to the leftist and communist policies to be the vote bank of leftist ideologues, blazees, good-only-for-manifestations, and dole bludgers.
The Greens started as a lobby group of environmentalists have gradually move to embrace policies like gay rights legalising drugs and now welcoming the refugees. Lucky their percentage of voters is stuck between nine to eleven per cent. However the danger is, like we saw with Julia Gillard, they can have the balance of power. This is exactly their strategy. They can also be a nuisance value and side one way or the other, just to block legislation as we have seen wit the Malaysian solution when the extreme left joined forces with the right-wing liberals-national. Where is your ideology gone ?
While the big majority of Australians are sick and tired of seeing boats arrivals, sick and tired of paying for resettlement of the asylum seekers, the Greens are shouting " Let them in" without any accountability. They do not care if asylum seekers are costing taxpayers billions and that they are destroying and upsetting Australia's rational immigration policy be if for Labour or the coalition. The Greens do not care how many people come in and how they come in as their arguments rest on the fact that according to the Geneva refugee Convention anyone has a right to seek asylum.
If Australia would allow anyone, under the convention, to seek asylum in Australia, we will soon be a nation of asylum seekers and our social fabric will be built on refugee-culture. If this was to happen, and if Australia does not limit its refugee intake and put forward policies to deter asylums seekers from entering Australia, soon there will be no room for legal migration especially skilled migrants which we need so badly. This is probably what the Greens want and in so doing helping the people smuggles to continue their horrible business and lucrative human trafficking . Disgusting!
If Australia would allow anyone, under the convention, to seek asylum in Australia, we will soon be a nation of asylum seekers and our social fabric will be built on refugee-culture. If this was to happen, and if Australia does not limit its refugee intake and put forward policies to deter asylums seekers from entering Australia, soon there will be no room for legal migration especially skilled migrants which we need so badly. This is probably what the Greens want and in so doing helping the people smuggles to continue their horrible business and lucrative human trafficking . Disgusting!
May God saves us from the Greens and let us pray that there will not be another hug parliament where the Greens will hold the balance of power because once again they will hold this country in ransom. If they have been able to impose a carbon tax on Julia Gillard, their next targets may well be close down the mines, legalise drugs and allow Australia to be swamped by boat people.
People smugglers would find in the Greens a close ally.
People smugglers would find in the Greens a close ally.
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Turning back the boats to PNG
Turning back the boats to PNG
by GDL
Last Friday 19th July 2013, the Prime Minister announced that he has signed a deal with the PM of Papua New Guinea, that all boat people coming to Australia will be sent to PNG. All of them whether they have passports or not or whether they are women or unaccompanied minors (with some reservations for the latter).
The nation as well as the opposition was taken aback by this policy. It is much tougher than
the tuning back the boats of the opposition. However it has the potential to stop the boats without force or turning them back when it is safe to do so (sic).
By sending the "soit-disant" asylum seekers to PNG, it is assumed that these illegals and queue jumpers , will no longer pay the people smugglers if they will end up in PNG. The idea of being detained in PNG in itself is frightening and depressing, let alone permanent detention or being resettled in PNG and not Australia.
The boat people will still pay the people smugglers and risk their lives if they are genuinely trying to flee persecution. Beggars cannot be choosers! Otherwise, there should be a slow down of the boats in a near future. The news have already been spread all across Asia, where according to the UNHCR, there are 100,000 people waiting to jump on the boats to Australia. The message is strong enough, " If you come by boat, you will not be settled in Australia."
This policy decision is tough but it was needed. It will satisfy many Australians who were sick of seeing boats invading our shores in the north. Australians were sick of seeing their money (some billions of dollars) being spent on illegals who, because they can afford it, jumped the queue and pretend that they are fleeing persecution. Australians were sick of the lack of firm stance by our government and sick of hearing the Greens defending these boats people among which there are many pretenders and people of dubious character.
The Greens, the refugee advocates and some idiots who were seen manifesting in Balmain on Monday, want to let all boats people in. They wrote this on their placards, "Let them in." However these psychopaths, blazees and extremists are good at yelling but they are not ready to pay for the cost incurred with these boat peoples. It is certain that most of those manifesting are dole bluddgers.
Rational and intelligent people are sick of the Greens' hypocrisy, their unaccountability and their extreme left communist agenda and propaganda. Sarah Henson Young and her colleagues, by defending the boat people, are at the same time flourishing and enriching the people smuggling trade and encouraging people to embark on dangerous journey and risk dying at sea. She would then shed her crocodile tears. It makes one wonder whether she understands what is public interest.
As for Tony Abbott and the opposition, they were so surprised by that decision, At first they approved and said they will adopt it in government, but discovering that it can be political gain for Labor, start attacking the details. They could not see any other policy than tuning the boats, when it is safe to do so, although they have not told us how and what will they do when it is not safe to do so !! Furthermore, they attack the costing of the PNG policy but has not given a figure on how much their policy will cost. Typical of Tony Abbott like the 70 billion budget black hole.!!
There is also the hypocrisy that they will keep the policy once in government because Labor has done the dirty work for them.
Australians will find in the decision of Kevin Rudd the right and appropriate one to tackle this difficult issue. Australia is a generous country which has been lucky for many refugees who now have a decent life. The immigration policy should continue to done in an orderly manner and not be dictated by people smugglers and their friends, the Greens. Australia is one of the biggest intake of refugees behind the USA and Canada. Australia has no lesson to learn for left wing extremist as far as morality and generosity are concerned.
Australians want to welcome genuine refugees but not queue jumpers who are taking the places of genuine refugees waiting in camps. Australians no longer want to see boat people coming illegally to our country.
Australians are grateful to Kevin Rudd to have, at last, found a solution to this problem.
by GDL
The nation as well as the opposition was taken aback by this policy. It is much tougher than
the tuning back the boats of the opposition. However it has the potential to stop the boats without force or turning them back when it is safe to do so (sic).
By sending the "soit-disant" asylum seekers to PNG, it is assumed that these illegals and queue jumpers , will no longer pay the people smugglers if they will end up in PNG. The idea of being detained in PNG in itself is frightening and depressing, let alone permanent detention or being resettled in PNG and not Australia.
The boat people will still pay the people smugglers and risk their lives if they are genuinely trying to flee persecution. Beggars cannot be choosers! Otherwise, there should be a slow down of the boats in a near future. The news have already been spread all across Asia, where according to the UNHCR, there are 100,000 people waiting to jump on the boats to Australia. The message is strong enough, " If you come by boat, you will not be settled in Australia."
This policy decision is tough but it was needed. It will satisfy many Australians who were sick of seeing boats invading our shores in the north. Australians were sick of seeing their money (some billions of dollars) being spent on illegals who, because they can afford it, jumped the queue and pretend that they are fleeing persecution. Australians were sick of the lack of firm stance by our government and sick of hearing the Greens defending these boats people among which there are many pretenders and people of dubious character.
The Greens, the refugee advocates and some idiots who were seen manifesting in Balmain on Monday, want to let all boats people in. They wrote this on their placards, "Let them in." However these psychopaths, blazees and extremists are good at yelling but they are not ready to pay for the cost incurred with these boat peoples. It is certain that most of those manifesting are dole bluddgers.
Rational and intelligent people are sick of the Greens' hypocrisy, their unaccountability and their extreme left communist agenda and propaganda. Sarah Henson Young and her colleagues, by defending the boat people, are at the same time flourishing and enriching the people smuggling trade and encouraging people to embark on dangerous journey and risk dying at sea. She would then shed her crocodile tears. It makes one wonder whether she understands what is public interest.
As for Tony Abbott and the opposition, they were so surprised by that decision, At first they approved and said they will adopt it in government, but discovering that it can be political gain for Labor, start attacking the details. They could not see any other policy than tuning the boats, when it is safe to do so, although they have not told us how and what will they do when it is not safe to do so !! Furthermore, they attack the costing of the PNG policy but has not given a figure on how much their policy will cost. Typical of Tony Abbott like the 70 billion budget black hole.!!
There is also the hypocrisy that they will keep the policy once in government because Labor has done the dirty work for them.
Australians will find in the decision of Kevin Rudd the right and appropriate one to tackle this difficult issue. Australia is a generous country which has been lucky for many refugees who now have a decent life. The immigration policy should continue to done in an orderly manner and not be dictated by people smugglers and their friends, the Greens. Australia is one of the biggest intake of refugees behind the USA and Canada. Australia has no lesson to learn for left wing extremist as far as morality and generosity are concerned.
Australians want to welcome genuine refugees but not queue jumpers who are taking the places of genuine refugees waiting in camps. Australians no longer want to see boat people coming illegally to our country.
Australians are grateful to Kevin Rudd to have, at last, found a solution to this problem.
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