If you actually read his policy , rather than lap up the spin, Abbotts policy is a huge new tax , given mainly to International Power of the UK who run Hazelwood power station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley (the least efficient power station in the world) and Yallourn Power Station the China Light & Power subsidiary, Truenergy, of Hongkong.

So Abbott is planning huge extra taxes to give to China & UK as a reward for running inefficient businesses.

All for climate change - which Abbott says is crap science

Great blog Barnaby, as a small earthmoving contractor ETS is scary. Also somone from libs mentioned 12% super, how hard does it have to be for an employer.

I'm on the same page as you congratulations! What does mr Marshmellow (rudd)
think he is santa claus. One hunred and fifty million. Do you think the funds will reach the correct destination. of course NOT!~

Australia was selfsufficient not any more.

Climate change HO Ho just another TAX. You cannot fight mother nature.
Whatever you do, she is so powerful.
Look at the fire storm in Victoria last year. Carbon ofsets 10 years worth in 5 days.
For all of Australia.
Jennifer Kellie

Sounds sensible. Those who disagree are most likely going to miss out on jam and cream money filtered off from working Aussies through the ETS brought about by believing scientific gobbledegoop and misleading politicians.
Every molecule of protein, fat and carbohydrate in our bodies has come from CO2 via plants and animals. Carbon as pollution is ludicrous. Tackle some real pollution like the toxic emissions from factories or the toxic waste in water, or the chemical pollutants in our foods(all approved of course)
From what I am reading and hearing, more and more people are seeing through the nonsense peddled by Rudd and Wong to us all. Copenfraudenhagen proves that. The 141 who attended the gravy train must have enjoyed themselves - freezing cold temperatures and so worried about global warming.
The massive debt racked up by the Rudd govt and the Beattie/Bligh fiasco in Queensland is very real and very serious. Of course, Mr Rudd was in the thick of that making his "wise" decisions. What a mess. Spend like there is no tomorrow and claim an ETS is needed to fix the environment.
I hope the slogan is adopted and becomes true: Kevin 07, gone by 11.
Go for it Barnaby. Keep the bastards honest.

Having heard Mr Abbott being interviewed on a local radio station earlier this week, the Coalitions response to the Rudd government's plan is one that I will be reading closely and; can we really afford to see the government (if returned) get its way to tax billions from the Australian community? I have no doubt that Australians will feel much more pain and pressure if the government gets its way on the ETS. We should also think about the obsession of the ALP to mass populate the eastern seaboard where both climate and our environment is under increasing strain and secondly, the widening of the concrete jungle.

Dear Barnaby,
listened to your interview on ABC Sydney Radio 2BL this morning with Adam Spencer and was quite shocked by some of your comments -it was an interview on your attitude to Foreign Aid.
The main one I wish to challenge you on is your comment that the fed governments "insulation program" was a waste of money. This is just not correct.
The are approx 8.1 million homes in Australia and much of this housing stock resides in areas of cold winters & very hot summers -40% OF THIS HOUSING STOCK IS not INSULATED -thus placing increased loads on the electricity grid in both summer & winter.
-insulation can play a most critical role in the substantial reduction of a household budget by minimising heat loss in winter and minimising heat gain in summer thus reducing the heating & cooling costs of a household budget.
I believe you come from Queensland where heating in many parts of the top end is not really an issue but in the southern climate, insulation plays an important role in reducing heating & cooling bills.
INSULATION IS IMPORTANT and the government program to offer incentives to insulate the home is an important initiative. What is in error is the way this program has been allowed to be mis handled-allowing a free for all and permitting any man & his dog to get in on the act thus lowering the standard of installation which has given the program a bad name.
Leaving aside, the debate on Climate change- the introduction of insulation into housing has the potential to reduce our electricity loads markedly.
The second issue I was disturbed by was the question put to you on Foreign Aid -
Adam put the question to you -
DO YOU SUPPORT AUSTRALIA GIVING FOREIGN AID
Your answer launched into a tirade of how this country is swamped in debt and that we must fix this.
This is to totally miss the question placed before you
-do you support Australia participating in Foreigin Aid.
Australia is one of the wealthiest nations on the planet
-we havnt suffered the massive unemployment of other western countries
Millions of people around the world are in need of help from western countries and you as a leader of this nation should be showing strong support for foreign aid and shame on you again and again for not openly supporting this and for deliberately contaminating and confusing the question.
What really really offended me was that you a senator in federal government chose to make political gain out of Foreign Aid by tieing it to this countries debt - that is almost unforgivable. Foreign Aid relies on the goodness of richer nations to give -please have a relook at your stance on Foreign Aid -and please be fair dinkum
I dont even expect a reply from you a politician but maybe just maybe I maybe surprised.

Sounds sensible. Those who disagree are most likely going to miss out on jam and cream money filtered off from working Aussies through the ETS brought about by believing scientific gobbledegoop and misleading politicians.
Every molecule of protein, fat and carbohydrate in our bodies has come from CO2 via plants and animals. Carbon as pollution is ludicrous. Tackle some real pollution like the toxic emissions from factories or the toxic waste in water, or the chemical pollutants in our foods(all approved of course)
From what I am reading and hearing, more and more people are seeing through the nonsense peddled by Rudd and Wong to us all. Copenfraudenhagen proves that. The 141 who attended the gravy train must have enjoyed themselves - freezing cold temperatures and so worried about global warming.
The massive debt racked up by the Rudd govt and the Beattie/Bligh fiasco in Queensland is very real and very serious. Of course, Mr Rudd was in the thick of that making his "wise" decisions. What a mess. Spend like there is no tomorrow and claim an ETS is needed to fix the environment.
I hope the slogan is adopted and becomes true: Kevin 07, gone by 11.
Go for it Barnaby. Keep the bastards honest.

Good on you. How true a statement. Historically, when a labor government is in power the cost of living rises dramatically because they willy nilly spend money on everything and anything that takes their fancy and which mean nothing to the taxpayers of this country.

Dear Barnaby. Noting the responses posted so far; how many of us really take time out from our busy lifes to keep abreast of issues that are placing more and more pressure on us all?

I remember when a former federal government some 14 years ago, decided to trail the internet within various senator's electoral offices and now, the internet is used widely by our elected representatives. Now, we see many utilising the internet with their own websites and to which I appreciate. Considering that governments across this great country are increasingly closing their ears to our voices and concerns, at least for us online users, we can make our thoughts known and to which I say thanks.

Australia is clearly under increasing pressure because for over 40 years now, we have sat on our backsides and allowed governments to dictate to us and for that, we're paying the price. By making my thoughts known via this website, at least we are engaging with our elected representatives even though, they still have to toe the party line.

When I look at how rapid the I/T has progessed since the inception of the internet, today it's considerably easier to what I use to do some 40 years ago via visiting the local electoral office or sending a letter.

Now, we can sit here in front of our computer and type in our thoughts and this is democracy in action. If we were to have a change-of-government down there in Canberra, then I would like to see government engaging with online users - considerably better to what we're seeing at present.

In providing this update to my previous posting and to which I say thanks for the publishing; how many of us have really looked at the fineprint to the governments Emission Trading Scheme and the package-of-bills which, as we know, were rejected by the Senate late last year? The government hasn't been truthful with us over its term and sadly, it doesn't understand the meaning of the word accountability? Why not give those Australians who are concerned about various issues such as Global Warming, the full facts so they can form their own opinion?

Yes, I'm yet to be convinced that global warming is taking place but I firmly hold this opinion that for each day that we're on this planet, we continue to learn, discover and mother nature could have its own internal safety device.

We should also ask the government members and either Wayne Swan via his own electoral website or forward a email to the Prime Minister via his website; why was the amount of compensation to be paid to Australians for having the ETS in place, being reduced and that money going to what they call polluters? We know that the ALP continues to generate massive spin because their history also shows that are are sore losers and perhaps, don't like the truth.

Mike,
Afraid i dont agree with you in your criticisum of Barnaby's response
1) Aid : "Charity begin at Home"
After researching what happens to a large % of my donations to varying causes over the years...I have drastically reviewed my giving to charities.
Wildlife fund/Environmental/Saving the starving millions etc etc.
Large amounts of funds NEVER get to the people intended, but end up in the "coffers" of rich and exploting organisations !! (Some working against our valued democracy)...Never again.!
I am now very choosey ...Who I give to.
I believe Australians are very naive..!!
How about fiixing our countries problems first...God knows there is a growing list....health,transport,education of our kids(not education spaces for foreign students, first..$$ driven)..ageing population problems, disability issues, support of small business (ETS will steamroll them)..and not forgetting the most important ..farmers and growers of this country...if they continue to be "hounded, discriminated against by govns" and leave the industry ...well "who the hell is going to feed us"??....and dont say "We'll import it"!!..give China a few years ..countries owing them millions...
Hey !! they will just.. "set their own price".
Australia ...........down to 3rd World status...Wake Up Everyone !!!
2) Insulation...money propagander by Rudd.
Ive have my house insulated for the past 12yrs.....
Insulation isn't as effective as pushed.
Hot days....by midday you need cooling ..then it takes longer to cool down because of the heat being trapped inside the house,.. due to the insulation...
Cold days..reverse applies...its far warmer outside of home, in most cases, while the heating catches up....
Overall cost of heating/cooling little or no savings..to me.

Dont fall for the "bullshit".

The Labor Party ...must have hired "all available tip trucks and dozers" at present...cause there is mountains being moved.!!!

Not forgetting, our "Totally Professional, Unbiased Media "....well, all I can say is ....those end of year bonuses/wage rises ..must be really worth it.!!..Turning a blind eye or ear to what is evolving at present.
I hope, you can all live with your conscience over the coming years, if all the CC , ETS, Native Vegetation/Brigalow Corp..Laws/Regulations come into affect.
Not to mention the .. "Weather Viability Affect"......about to destroy our Australian way of life....for nothing, but $$$$$$$$$$$.to rich corporations.
Great job journos........NOT !!

Barnaby,
You say "The Rudd plan is a tax on everything from energy to food." But doesn't the GST do that now?

Having watched Sky News coverage of the House of Reps Question Time, the number one issue was the government's ETS. I watched David Speers interviewing of the Prime Minister and leaving that aside for now: am I correct in saying that according to the PM, Australia's struggling pensioners will receive 120 per cent increase in compensation once the ETS is introduced and to which this works out $60 pf or pw. Perhaps this could be clarified?????

Will the Rudd government take the time to explain to all Australians exactly how and why the CPRS will work?

Will the Rudd government take the time to explain to all Australians exactly how it will SHOW that the CPRS is working?

How will the Rudd government prove that decreases in global temperature following the hypothetical introduction of the CPRS are not due to solar activity fluctuations, other greenhouse-type gas fluctuations, etc?

In other words, can the Rudd Government actually show that the CPRS will have a measurable end effect? If not, why is it reintroducing the bill?

Ultimately the only thing that will REALLY cut our emissions is nuclear power for electrical energy generation, with a shift of long-distance road freight (and possibly passenger travel) to nuclear-powered electric rail and all the positive flow-on effects that would have (less road wear, less traffic congestion, eventually overall decreased motor vehicle fuel burned, etc. etc.)

Best thing about the Coalition's plan? Even if AGW is a crock, it's still all worth doing.

Constructive criticism: I think you need to explain "soil carbon" properly.

John Rodgers
As a sceptic of human caused CLIMATE CHANGE & a belief that this is leading to a one world Government which would have come one step closer had an agreement been reached in Coppenhagen & which Prime minister Rudd would have signed & we would have come under the rule of a new World Government which is set out in the Draft copy of that agreement which I have a copy of & is available on the nett & also liable for .7% of GDP to be paid to this government every year & penalties if we did not reach our targets I am continuously looking for information to support my belief the following is an article I came accross yesterday:
New Report Shows 20th Century Global Warming Caused By Data Manipulation

February 2, 2010 (LPAC)—Instrumental temperature data from 1850-1980 have been so systematically tampered with as to bring into doubt whether there was any significant global warming in the 20th Century. This is the conclusion of a new 110-page report by meteorologists Joseph D'Aleo and Anthony Watts, published by Science & Public Policy Institute.

The claimed warming was the result of intentional statistical manipulation by the climate data centers at NOAA, NASA, and the Hadley Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Among the ruses employed:

* From 1989 to 1994, the number of temperature stations used in compiling the data was reduced from 12,000 to less than 6,000. Stations showing a temperature increase were favored, while stations reporting temperature decline were dropped from the record. According to D'Aleo and Watts: "It can be shown that they systematically and purposefully, country by country, removed higher latitude, higher-altitude and rural locations, all of which had a tendency to be cooler."

* The data centers employ corrected, not raw, temperature values in their calculations. But corrections were done in such a way as to systematically reduce the recorded temperatures from earlier periods so as to create an appearance of upward temperature in the recent two decades. Statistical filters were employed which masked the urban heat island effect, while claiming to account for it.

* Sea surface temperature data was also manipulated. Satellite input was removed by NOAA in 2009 after complaints of a cold bias in the Southern Hemisphere. The immediate result was an increase in reported global ocean surface temperatures of 0.24 degrees C, leading to the nonsensical claim that the 2000s was the warmest decade in a millennium
New Report Shows 20th Century Global Warming Caused By Data Manipulation

John Rodgers Bundaberg

Keep up the good work. We watched the Journalist Club speech and were impressed with the content. We do have far too many public servants and need to get back to a reasonable number. Of course people in ACT will whinge but what is new.

I'm sure most people would agree that we owe our WWII diggers a huge amount of gratitude for their massive sacrifices in making the world a safer place for future generations.
It's a pity Mr Abbott and Mr Joyce won't extend that same consideration to our children and grandchildren by accepting the fact that we all need to share in reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. The whining about what it will cost mums and dads is so juvenile. For Christ sake, Mr Rudd's ETS amounts to no more than the cost of a cup of coffee every day for every person in the country. The Abbott plan does nothing to reduce Co2 from coal fired power plants. Yes, lets plant more trees, but I don't see anything in his plan to encourage or compensate landholders to retain and improve native vegetation or switch to more sustainable farming practices. You can't be planting trees on one hand but allowing farmers and forestry companies to mow em down on the other.

Barnaby,

Good on you for saying you are going to cut the public service. Haha, you can bet public servants would be worried to hear that! But why don't they develop some real skills and actually contribute to society instead of complaining when we tell them we don't want them?

You are quite right to cut foreign aid also. Let individuals and businesses donate as much as they want, but there's no reason for the Government to donate. Don't back down on this one, keep explaining it, people will catch on. See, tax is compulsory; so what's the point of taking somebody's money to donate to a charity that they were already going to donate to anyway? Leave the money with the people who earn the money, and let them donate as much or as little as they like.

And you are perfectly right about pink bats also. If people want to fix up their homes, let them do so out of their own money. No need for the Government to be involved!

Barnaby, your economic views are quite sound, and they are extremely refreshing. Don't back down, just explain yourself. People will appreciate the common sense eventually.

Jason Ross, if you say Abbott's policy is a spin - please explain what exactly you conveniently 'rather lap up the spin' on Rudd's ETS policy? How blind you are about Rudd's huge creation of a tax that many families wont be able to afford, and mention nothing. Perhaps you should read Rudd's spin again and give us a comparison?

Dear Barnaby,
RECEIVED OUR LATEST ELECTRICITY BILL YESTERDAY TO FIND WE HAD A SAVING OF 7% IN COST FOR A 33% LESS USAGE AND A SAVING OF 0.73 TONNES OF GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS AGAINST LAST YEAR. WE HAD INSTALLED SOLAR HOT WATER AT $800 COST. WE ARE BOTH PENSIONERS AND THOUGHT WE WERE HELPING TO REDUCE EMISSIONS AND WE HAVE BUT AT WHAT COST. WITH FURTHER IMPOSTS FROM RUDD'S ETS AND AN UNKNOWN COST EFFECT FROM SAME WITH A PALTRY COMPENSATION PLANNED HOW ARE WE GOING TO MEET THE COST INCREASE. COMPENSATION ONLY ACCOUNTS FOR A "PIE IN THE SKY" ESTIMATION OF ETS EFFECT BUT OUR CURRENT BILL ROSE SIGNIFICANTLY WITHOUT IT AND THERE IS NO PROVISION TO PREVENT FURTHER EFFECTS NOR ANY COMPENSATION FOR INCREASED COSTS IN ALL AREAS THE ETS INFLUENCES. WHERE ARE WE GOING?

SUBJECT: Non Peer Reviewed reports by Greenpeace used by IPCC

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/29/now-its-greenpeace-reports-cited-in-the-ipcc-ar4/

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_ipccs_latest_source_greenpeace/

SUBJECT: The Four ‘Gates’ of the IPCC

This is an interesting read:-
http://joannenova.com.au/2010/01/the-four-gates-of-the-ipcc/

Read this story about James Hansen THE LUNATIC who works for NASA, and what he has to say about global warming:-

http://joannenova.com.au/2010/01/hanson-barracking-for-lawless-destruction-and-the-end-of-civilization/

SUBJECT: How Rudd stacks the IPCC

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/how_rudd_stacks_the_ipcc

SUBJECT: Climate Scientist laments: ‘Co2 is not the right villain’—rising Co2 is ‘obvious boon to agricultural productivity’

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:Vf-Um3lqEQ0J:network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/01/07/steven-d-levitt-and-stephen-j-dubner-the-green-gadflys.aspx+national+post+levitt&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari

This is telling! People are awake to the global warming CON.

Have a look at how Obama’s speech about global warming is received.

The audience was in stitches laughing when he said “I know there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change…. but…. but… but here’s the thing, even if you doubt the evidence, providing incentives for clean energy and efficiency is the right thing to do.”

http://joannenova.com.au/2010/01/a-moment-of-truth-in-the-state-of-the-union/comment-page-2/#comment-27339

SUBJECT: Shocking UN Document Divulges Climate Cult Brainwashing

http://www.prisonplanet.com/shocking-un-document-divulges-climate-cult-brainwashing.html

Lord Stern’s dodgy dossier exposed

Apart from Al Gore, NASA’s Dr James Hansen, and the soon-to-be-much-missed head of the IPCC Dr Rajendra Pachauri, no one on earth has been a more voluble and extravagantly hysterical harbinger of Man-Made Eco Doom than Lord Stern of Brentford.

READ MORE HERE:-
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100023540/lord-sterns-dodgy-dossier-exposed/
PS Of course we won’t see this discussed in our censored newspapers in Australia. Nor on the ABC(All Bullshit & Censorship) or sbs no doubt!

SUBJECT: United Nations caught out AGAIN on climate claims

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/united-nations-caught-out-again-on-climate-claims/story-e6frg6n6-1225823075213

SUBJECT: Australia under the carbon production reduction scheme

This issue is so momentous in Australian history that an election should indeed be fought over it, and that Australians should have a clear choice to make—Yes or No—to the decarbonisation of Australia.

http://www.lavoisier.com.au/articles/climate-policy/science-and-policy/backtothe19C.pdf

SUBJECT: The madness of an ETS

http://jimball.com.au/The-madness-of-ETS.pps

SUBJECT: Harshest winter in decades - 800,000 animals lost in Mongolia

http://www.iceagenow.com/800000_animals_lost_in_Mongolia.htm

SUBJECT: 500 Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of “Man-Made” Global Warming

This particular web site contains a plethora of information supporting skepticism of global warming.

http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html

The fall of the warming wall

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_fall_of_the_warming_wall/

Ministry of Justice lists eco-activists alongside terrorists

Government officials have labelled environmental campaigners extremists and listed them alongside dissident Irish republican groups and terrorists inspired by al-Qaida in internal documents seen by the Guardian.
More:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/26/ministry-justice-environmental-campaigners-terrorism

Hello Barnaby "Rubble" Joyce,
Take pride in your new name. Australia needs people like you to remind them that reality is important.History has shown that there's more future in being a realistic down to earth, humble person with the ability to see things from a grass roots level, make mistakes and admit to those mistakes.
The problem of course is that the wets battle to accept those type of people. There's no room in their fast lane for the more cautious type.The press love people who make mistakes.They find it easier to write about peoples mistakes than the things that really matter.
It will never happen but wouldn't it be good if we didn't have parasites in this world.
Stand your ground Barnaby, you will earn more votes than you will lose. John Winston Howard proved that there's more dry minded people in Australia than wet.
They're just there waiting for someone like Barnaby Rubble Joyce to lead them.

IPCC cited multiple Master’s Students in AR4, some unpublished « ClimateQuotes.com

http://climatequotes.com/2010/02/03/ipcc-cited-multiple-masters-students-in-ar4-some-unpublished/

Hi Barnaby
If an agreement had been reached in Copenhagen and Rudd had signed he would have been signing us up for a payment every year of .7% of our GNP about 7 billion dollars to this New World Government that was to be formed and as the ETS had not been passed, where was he going to get the money
why not ask him this question.
John Rodgers Bundaberg

Barnaby keep the mouth shut do not open it then think,Rudd needs to go and you do not help with your rapid fire comments.
I am a pensioner and have concern where we are heading over that taxes being applied to everything.
I get the feeling when you are not able to work anymore its the policy to starve us and just hope we fade away with little cost to the country.
We have done our duty now like any good breeding stock too old to preform put us down.

Australias gross public debt by far the lowest in the western world – the Coalition’s “Inconvenient Truth”


Debts A Problem? Not In Australia
by the chief economist of AMP


http://www.asxnewbie.com/General-Content/General/debts-a-problem-not-in-australia.html

The mention of an increase in superannuation to 12% has me really worried. To my knowledge superannuation is mostly managed by global banking corporations, just waiting for the next chance to rip us all off, to further empower themselves financially.

We need to get rid of the huge corporations whose involvement in our country is supported by both Liberals and Labor, and not feed them any more fiscal opportunities.

To me, this would mean no ETS and NO further privatisation of the nation's assets and utilities. I would like the banks to be very tightly regulated, and new Australian-owned banks and utilities in place, to diminish the power of corporations. Then any profits made on loans, electricity and water would add to the assets of Australian taxpayers.

Finally someone is making sense. Farmers can farm carbon-its the economics that make the difference. Previously we farmers were slow to grasp stubble retention etc. because the costs were higher and yields lower than "conventional" farming but with continued education that is now changing. A lot less Wheat stubbles go up in smoke these days. With further education and continuing research and some recognition and some financial support the farming community will follow and sequester carbon.. Keep up the good work. Regards Joe Price

Judith Johnstone
Friday, February 05, 2010 9:20 AM
"SUBJECT: 500 Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of “Man-Made” Global Warming

This particular web site contains a plethora of information supporting skepticism of global warming."


Judith - check out what "peer reviewed" actually means. Obviously neither you nor the site administrator of this fraudulent bothered to read any of these

IPCC cited multiple Master’s Students in AR4, some unpublished « ClimateQuotes.com

http://climatequotes.com/2010/02/03/ipcc-cited-multiple-masters-students-in-ar4-some-unpublished/

Barnaby was 100% correct in identifying cuts to the public service and overseas aid as ways to reduce our huge debt.

However, I was sadddened that in at least 2 radio interviews on 5th Feb, Barnaby, when asked directly by how much he would cut the PS, backed away at a rate of knots, refusing to answer the questions. Indeed, he would not even confirm that he thought PS cuts would benefit the financial health of the country.

It was an embarrassing about-face. Why Barnaby?

As someone who worked as a private sub-contractor in a large commonwealth department, I can tell you that around 60% of desk bound 'public servants' are useless, pretend-to-work dead wood, filling in the time until their taxpayer supported retirement. Sack them, get rid of them, put them on the dole queue where they'll at least cost us less!

Come on, Barnaby, don't be a weak baby! What you said was spot on; stick to your guns and take the flack from the ABC and assorted fellow travelling socialists/collectivists/centralists...

You're one of the very few who is prepared to rock the boat by talking common sense; you're the Ron Paul of Australia! Don't let us down!

Barnaby, I support a lot of your views. But just hold off on attacking public servants. Aussies don't like seeing the little guy get picked on.

These will be the very same people you'll need to support you when you get into office and have them turn 180 Deg from where they've been previously instructed to go (all their work and effort down the drain again). That's why Govt has gotten so big.... it's the too-ing and fro-ing that it's expected to cope with.

It's a soul sapping work environment of constant flux, The Govt has already removed a lot of contractor support, they're paid relatively lower wages for complicated policy development and implementation that politicians don't understand....and then for you to slag off at them into the bargain can really create a rod for your back.

"Charity Begins at Home"!
There are too many Aussies becoming
homeless, because there is not enough
public housing here. Foreign aid does not
help the third world, as their population
is increasing too fast. Poverty will never
be resolved in these countries, because
there are too many mouths to feed.
Where has all the money gone in foreign
aid? To buy weapons to use against Australia?

it amazes me how all your fans lap up whatever drival comes out of your mouth.ill considered and ignorant one and all

For more information on climate change check out
www.skepticalscience.com
and come on folks stop being so stingy, if you don't like taxes and the services they provide I suggest moving to somewhere like Somalia. For one of the most privileged, over fed, wealthiest generations of all time, to deny our children the benefit of the doubt when it comes to a healthy environment is such a selfish position to adopt. 97% of peer reviewed scientific research supports the premise of anthropogenic caused climate change.

SUBJECT: MORE IPCC FRAUDULENT CLAIMS REVEALED

And now for Africagate

Following an investigation by this blog (and with the story also told in The Sunday Times), another major "mistake" in the IPCC's benchmark Fourth Assessment Report has emerged.

Similar in effect to the erroneous "2035" claim – the year the IPCC claimed that Himalayan glaciers were going to melt – in this instance we find that the IPCC has wrongly claimed that in some African countries, yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50 percent by 2020.

At best, this is a wild exaggeration, unsupported by any scientific research, referenced only to a report produced by a Canadian advocacy group, written by an obscure Moroccan academic who specialises in carbon trading, citing references which do not support his claims.

Unlike the glacier claim, which was confined to a section of the technical Working Group II report, this "50 percent by 2020" claim forms part of the key Synthesis Report, the production of which was the personal responsibility of the chair of the IPCC, Dr R K Pachauri. It has been repeated by him in many public fora. He, therefore, bears a personal responsibility for the error.

READ MORE HERE:-

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/02/and-now-for-africagate.html

SUBJECT: MANDATORY HOME ENERGY ASSESSMENT - THE GREEN POLICE

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/open_up_its_the_green_police/

http://www.news.com.au/money/governments-switched-on-energy-move/story-e6frfmci-1225827485299

HAVE A READ OF THIS COMMUNIST PROPOSAL!

I KNOW WHAT I'LL DO WHEN THEY COME AROUND - IT WON'T BE PRETTY!

$1,500 energy assessment
Applies to all types of properties
'A positive move for the industry'
ALL Australian homes will soon have to undergo a mandatory energy-efficiency assessment costing up to $1500 per property.

The assessment has to be done before any property can be sold or rented under new laws to tackle carbon emissions.

The mandatory assessment - being drafted into law by the federal and state governments - will rate homes by an energy efficiency star system, similar to the ratings given to fridges and washing machines.

It will apply to all commercial properties from later this year and to all residential properties from May 2011, Adelaide Now reports.

A spokesman for State Energy Minister Pat Conlon said the ratings would inform prospective owners or tenants of a building's energy use, so they could factor it in to their buying or rental decision.

The spokesman said details of the "Mandatory Disclosure" scheme - including who would carry out the assessments and how much they would cost - were yet to be decided.

Energy efficiency expert Arthur Grammatopoulos, of Helica Architecture, said rating properties could cost up to $1500 per house.

"I think this is a positive move for the industry but the question has to be asked, will there be enough experts to cope with demand when the law is introduced?" he said.

A similar scheme with a six-star rating has been operating in the Australian Capital Territory's property market for several years.

Queensland's State Government introduced a mandatory Sustainability Declaration form on January 1, requiring homeowners to declare their property's green credentials to prospective buyers or risk a $2000 fine.

Mandatory disclosure has been criticised by property experts as an unwarranted expense that will not influence purchasing decisions or cut household pollution.

The Real Estate Institute of SA said governments were playing environmentally "popular politics" by introducing a law that they say will simply add to the cost of selling and renting a home.

"I think they are patronising people who are making the biggest purchase decision of their life by thinking a rating system will influence that decision," REISA chief executive Greg Troughton said.

"It's already hard enough to buy and sell a home and this is just another financial impost that also has the potential to delay the sale of a property."

While Mr Troughton said vendors would bear the cost of having their home rated by a licensed expert, independent SA MLC and former Valuer-General John Darley said landlords would look to pass the cost on to tenants.

"This will be an extra cost to working families who have to rent because they can't afford a mortgage," he said.

"And we need this like a hole in the head unless the governments can convince us there is a definite benefit, like a reduction in household pollution."

The Council of Australian Government's National Strategy on Energy Efficiency says Mandatory Disclosure will "help households and businesses prepare for the introduction of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme".

SUBJECT: MALCOM TURNCOAT

That traitor Turnbull is going to join Labor and vote FOR the ETS
hahaha what a fool.
Nobody in parliament (both Sides) will ever forget it if he does and he will never be leader.

He must owe someone a lot of debt or else have plans to make a lot of money from an ETS.

When did the Liberals first develop a policy to reduce grrenhouse gases due to concerns about climate change:


1990 - under Andrew Peacock - a full 7 years before John Howard signed the Kyoto Protocol.

http://www.guypearse.com/index.php?pageid=1715

How UK Met Office blocked questions on its own man's role in 'hockey stick' climate row


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249035/How-Met-Office-blocked-questions-mans-role-hockey-stick-climate-row.html#ixzz0eqNgPWTp

The Meteorological Office is blocking public scrutiny of the central role played by its top climate scientist in a highly controversial report by the beleaguered United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Professor John Mitchell, the Met Office’s Director of Climate Science, shared responsibility for the most worrying headline in the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning IPCC report – that the Earth is now hotter than at any time in the past 1,300 years.

And he approved the inclusion in the report of the famous ‘hockey stick’ graph, showing centuries of level or declining temperatures until a steep 20th Century rise.

By the time the 2007 report was being written, the graph had been heavily criticised by climate sceptics who had shown it minimised the ‘medieval warm period’ around 1000AD, when the Vikings established farming settlements in Greenland.

In fact, according to some scientists, the planet was then as warm, or even warmer, than it is today.

Early drafts of the report were fiercely contested by official IPCC reviewers, who cited other scientific papers stating that the 1,300-year claim and the graph were inaccurate.

But the final version, approved by Prof Mitchell, the relevant chapter’s review editor, swept aside these concerns.

Now, the Met Office is refusing to disclose Prof Mitchell’s working papers and correspondence with his IPCC colleagues in response to requests filed under the Freedom of Information Act.

The block has been endorsed in writing by Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth – whose department has responsibility for the Met Office.

Documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday reveal that the Met Office’s stonewalling was part of a co-ordinated, legally questionable strategy by climate change academics linked with the IPCC to block access to outsiders.

Last month, the Information Commissioner ruled that scientists from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia – the source of the leaked ‘Warmergate’ emails – acted unlawfully in refusing FOI requests to share their data.





Some of the FOI requests made to them came from the same person who has made requests to the Met Office.

He is David Holland, an electrical engineer familiar with advanced statistics who has written several papers questioning orthodox thinking on global warming.

The Met Office’s first response to Mr Holland was a claim that Prof Mitchell’s records had been ‘deleted’ from its computers.

Later, officials admitted they did exist after all, but could not be disclosed because they were ‘personal’, and had nothing to do with the professor’s Met Office job.

Finally, they conceded that this too was misleading because Prof Mitchell had been paid by the Met Office for his IPCC work and had received Government expenses to travel to IPCC meetings.

The Met Office had even boasted of his role in a Press release when the report first came out.

But disclosure, they added, was still rejected on the grounds it would ‘inhibit the free and frank provision of advice or the free and frank provision of views’.

It would also ‘prejudice Britain’s relationship with an international organisation’ and thus be contrary to UK interests.

In a written response justifying the refusal dated August 20, 2008, Mr Ainsworth – then MoD Minister of State – used exactly the same language.

Mr Holland also filed a request for the papers kept by Sir Brian Hoskins of Reading University, who was the review editor of a different chapter of the IPCC report.

When this too was refused, Mr Holland used the Data Protection Act to obtain a copy of an email from Sir Brian to the university’s information officer.

The email, dated July 17, 2008 – when Mr Holland was also trying to get material from the Met Office and the CRU – provides clear evidence of a co-ordinated effort to hide data. Sir Brian wrote:

‘I have made enquiries and found that both the Met Office/MOD and UEA are resisting the FOI requests made by Holland. The latter are very relevant to us, as UK universities should speak with the same voice on this. I gather that they are using academic freedom as their reason.’

At the CRU, as the Warmergate emails reveal, its director, Dr Phil Jones (who is currently suspended), wrote to an American colleague:

‘[We are] still getting FOI requests as well as Reading. All our FOI officers have been in discussions and are now using the same exceptions – not to respond.’

Last night Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, said the affair further undermined the credibility of the IPCC and those associated with it. He said:

‘It’s of critical importance that data such as this should be open. More importantly, the questions being raised about the hockey stick mean that we may have to reassess the climate history of the past 2,000 years.

‘The attempt to make the medieval warm period disappear is being seriously weakened, and the claim that now is the warmest time for 1,300 years is no longer based on reliable evidence.’

Despite repeated requests, the MoD and Met Office failed to comment.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249035/How-Met-Office-blocked-questions-mans-role-hockey-stick-climate-row.html#ixzz0esmRDTpm

SUBJECT: FRAUDELENT reporting about the Northwest Passage issue.

I am so tired about hearing the Northwest Passage is open first time ever !

Bad reporting about the Northwest Passage issue
The BBC dramatically reported on September 14 that: “The most direct shipping route from Europe to Asia is fully clear of ice for the first time since records began.” They are a bit dicey about when those records began or what records they are referring to. In fact it is satellite records of the passage that were started in 1978. So they mean for the first time since 1978. They leave out the date for the start of the records. Note: The report now mentions 1978, if it was there when I read it two days ago I didn't see it. However, many, many other reports have left the date out.

The first time!!!! Really? How can they say that? They actually reported on September 10, 2000 that: “A Canadian police patrol boat has completed a voyage through the fabled Northwest Passage without encountering any pack ice.”


http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2007/09/bad-reporting-about-northwest-passage.html

Please don't be offended , my take on thinking out loud about Millions of Bazillions of Grazillions is that it is not effective communication , better to do a real Barnaby and reflect on how long will it take to pay back , now your got our attention , perhaps suggest an "ETS Payback Tax" applied to everyone , suggest % interest x 40 yrs then add the Rudd Monty Python like "debt we already have" then speculate about a 16 Yr old Plumbing apprentice "Will he live long enough to pay it back?"

Now we are really worried .....................effective communication ....don't forget you are talking to a big Percentage of the Population , Old Buggers like me .

Cheers and good luck , we need you Barnaby , 1939 is back to bite us on the Bum do a Winnie and fight like all holy F--- !

Internet Censorship will go ahead (from SMH website)

http://www.truthmovementaustralia.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2662

THIS HAS TO BE STOPPED!

Gday there Barnaby and everyone. I am hoping that someone can answer the following two quick fundamental questions.

1. Will the Federal Government compensate people for a time greater than the apparently promised 12 months, for the almost certain increase in electricity costs that will directly result from their proposed ETS plan ?

2. When will the Federal Government finally release all the details of The Henry Tax Review ??????
I have heard rumor's that the Henry Review shall propose extremely unpopular tax's like for example - inheritance tax (which incidentally is 40% in Great Britain), and Capital Gains Tax on the single family home (no doubt targeting non Labor Constituents). Make no mistake, such proposals will not be tolerated and will simply force middle to upper end class Australians to seriously consider permanently abandoning this once great Country.

Its a safe application of "The 66.6 rep % rule".

ie - 66.6 rep % of the Federal Governments borrowed stimulus was directed at Labor Constituents.
66.6 rep % of the means to repay this disastrous debt, will be (as The Henry Review will show) due to non Labor Constituents - I guarantee it !

Kevin 07 - Zimbabwe 11

R Murray - BSc Aviation.

Who can explain why the discrepancy between the observed temperature of today and IPCC’s predicted temperature of today that was made back just a few years is greater than the total rise in global temperature over the past 100 years? This makes the man-made global warming catastrophe predicted by IPCC, Al Gore and others an obvious untruth. In order for the IPCC models to be true, we will have to experience a meteoric rise in temperature very soon. However, given it looks like we are heading for a long period of cooling instead, thus increasing the discrepancy even more, it makes the IPCC look like prime fools of the century.

Perhaps another good question is how does Rudd plan to reduce our CO2 emissions by the required amount to make a significant impact on the climate (at least 40%) while countries like India, China and the US will not? Does he propose we shut down half our industries thus destroying our economy resulting in 50%+ unemployment?

DONT GIVE IN.
You have one fault for parlement. Your HONEST! Not a good For Canberra.
Regards
Dean

SUBJECT: ONLINE POLL ON ETS

There is a poll on yahoo at the moment which asks the question

Q. Do you support Kevin Rudd's ETS proposal?

Here is the website:-
http://au.news.yahoo.com/polls/popup/-/poll_id/51862

78% of people so far are OPPOSED!

Good morning

Now before you class me as a Climate Change Denier let me assure you that Climate Change is Real. In fact it's been warming for the last 20,000 Years. I just question Man’s (especially a politicians) ability to stop it.

Lets see if I’ve got the ETS straight.

1. Government takes money from Polluters.
2. Polluters pass costs on to Customers. (That’s Us the Tax Payers)
3. Government compensates Us (that’s the polluters Customers) for cost increases.

Sort of pointless isn’t it.

If all of Mankind ceased All Human contribution to the Greenhouse Effect. Total Global Greenhouse Emissions would fall by 0.28 percent. That’s like 5 grains of sugar more or less in your morning cuppa. Just how dumb do you think we are?....

Regards
Frank

Australia can’t afford the Party. Vote Independent.

Mr Joyce,
If you wish to nail down Mr Rudd, simple point out that the US President can deal in the detail and in specific's, and in black and white.

And quite often does, which is why the president gets things done within a reasonable time frame, and this government makes empty promises and nothing seams to get done for a long long time.

His tactic is obvious to us all drag the debate out untill we are all exhausted then he will do what he please's when we all lose the will to debate.

Also he does not deal in detail because then he would be commited to action.

The public are sick and tired of generalised politics.

Lets see more walk less talk.

Cheers

Scott Walker

Henry Tax Review.

Noting that the Federal Treasurer is yet to make public this report into this country's taxation system; do we really think that Mr Swan will before the next federal election?

ALP Governments have had and always will have an inability to be good economic managers and history supports this comment. I want answers to many major questions that I have across various portfolios and the Rudd government has clearly broken a few promises since it was elected.

Emission Trading Scheme.

Since the release of the Federal Opposition's response to the government's ETS, the support for the government's scheme is clearly showing a decline and unless the government comes clean; what else is there to their plan?
We know that the Senate Estimates hearings are currently underway and some interesting information coming from them.

AUSTRALIA TO DEFAULT.

Barnaby, Noting that the ABC is running with your concerns re our ability to repay this massive debt that Rudd and Co have undertaken since November 2008; is it the Chinese that are buying up billions of dollars via the government bonds?

There is a poll on yahoo at the moment which asks the question

Q. Do you support Kevin Rudd's ETS proposal?

Here is the website:-
http://au.news.yahoo.com/polls/popup/-/poll_id/51862

78% of people so far are OPPOSED!

There is a poll on yahoo at the moment which asks the question

Q. Do you support Kevin Rudd's ETS proposal?

Here is the website:-
http://au.news.yahoo.com/polls/popup/-/poll_id/51862

78% of people so far are OPPOSED!

This pathetic ALP Federal Government is clearly being rattled and the needs of the people are clearly coming second to that of the political game underway by the government.

I note the latest media release put out by Senator Joyce's office where figures on the debt have been made available and I think there would be many that appreciate the information.

The Rudd Government isn't in the mood to change direction and they think that what they are attempting to do is in the best interests of this country.
I note that the ABC's Online News Service is running with a story at present, where some economists have sided with the government in criticising you (Senator Joyce) over your remarks. However, it is interesting to note the comments from the following, Brendan Flynn, Fitch Ratings.

Everyone is entitled to have his/her say and even within the Australian business community but; what happens if the Prime Minister and his Treasurer have got it wrong?

Economists have their own agenda and they need to challenge the government on our capacity to repay this massive debt. For those economists that say that the states won't default; if that is correct; why have we seen them seek financial assistance from their mates down there in Canberra?

We know that the Queensland finances are in a mess where the Bligh government remains desperate to sell off valuable revenue streams just to make quick dollars and from this, nothing left to sell but hikes in taxation even though, electricity, cost-of-living and motor vehicle registration on the climb.
Perhaps the truth is starting to annoy some within government/financial circles but then again, I'm entitled to my opinion.

Australia to default on debt???? Are you serious???

From Chief Economist of AMP (see at http://www.sharecafe.com.au/article_air.asp?a=AV&ai=15683)


Gross public debt as % GDP
Australia 15.9
UK 71.0
USA 83.9
France 84.5
Germany 77.4
Japan 189.3
China 20.2


Thank you Kevin Rudd!!!

SUBJECT: So, what’s the real agenda behind the ‘climate change’ push?

Have you asked yourself how the legislation will affect your rights in the long-term? It was through similar legislation to fulfil ‘our’ obligations under the United Nations’ Kyoto Protocol that Peter Spencer and the rest of the Australian farmers were deprived of their property rights.

What do you think will be the outcome if either version of the same type of legislation, now put forward by both main parties, is passed?

Start by combing Tony Abbott’s proposed legislation with a fine toothcomb.

And while you are about it, go back over Labor’s legislation, now reintroduced.

The Americans have come to realise what will be the results for them if similar legislation is passed in the US.

“I bet you thought that if you bought a house, you actually own it and can, with reasonable exceptions, do with it what you want. You probably think that if you want to live in a log cabin, with wood stoves that belch smoke into the air for heat, and an old washer and dryer that don't have those little EnergyStar stickers on them you can because it's your life and your property.

You paid for it with money you earned with the sweat of your brow and what the heck is America anyhow if a body can't live in the home they want furnished with the appliances they want?

Ah, silly you. You didn't reckon on the Democratic Party's desire to control every miniscule aspect of your life.

Does your home now belong to the state?

Let me introduce you to a little section of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill called the "Building Energy Performance Labeling Program". It's section 304 of the bill and it says, basically, that your house belongs to the state.

See, the Federal Government really wants a country full of energy-efficient homes, so much so that the bill mandates that new homes be 30 percent more energy efficient than the current building code on the very day the law is signed.

That efficiency goes up to 50 percent by 2014 and only goes higher from there, all the way to 2030. That, by the way, is not merely a target but a requirement of the law. New homes must reach those efficiency targets no matter what.

But what does that have to do with current homeowners like you?

Well, I'm glad you asked. You're certainly not off the hook, no way, no how. Here's what the Democrats have planned for you. The program requires that states label their buildings so that we can all know how efficient every building (that includes residential and non-residential buildings) is and it requires that the information be made public.

To that end, the bill suggests a number of circumstances under which the states could inspect a building, including:

(A) preparation, and public disclosure of the label through filing with tax and title records at the time of:

(i) a building audit conducted with support from Federal or State funds;
(ii) a building energy-efficiency retrofit conducted in response to such an audit;
(iii) a final inspection of major renovations or additions made to a building in accordance with a building permit issued by a local government entity;
(iv) a sale that is recorded for title and tax purposes consistent with paragraph (8);
(v) a new lien recorded on the property for more than a set percentage of the assessed value of the property, if that lien reflects public financial assistance for energy-related improvements to that building; or
(vi) a change in ownership or operation of the building for purposes of utility billing; or
(B) other appropriate means.

State empowered to inspect your home

Pay close attention to (iii), (iv), and (vi) because those hit you right where you live. What that's saying is the state will be empowered to inspect your home if you want to:

1) renovate your house in any way that requires a building permit,
2) sell your house, or
3) change the name of the person responsible for any utility bill.

By now, if you haven't swallowed your tongue and are in need of medical attention, you're probably wondering if there's a penalty for not being in compliance with the new efficiency ratings.

The answer is no, and yes. Here's where the bill gets really sneaky. So far as I can tell, there is no direct penalty if your house does not meet the bill's target.

However, it does require that the number of buildings inspected by the state meet certain percentage targets and if they do not, the state loses out on a significant portion of the money it could get from Washington.

In other words, the bill demands certain things from the states, but ties funding for those demands to compliance with the demands.

Did I say the bill gets sneaky? I was wrong. The bill strong-arms the states like a couple mob heavies leaning on a witness in a Rico trial.

In turn, the states are going to put the screws to you, so it gets the billions of dollars Washington is dangling in front of them. So while the Federal government won't directly punish you, it will provide the states with lots and lots of rectangular, green reasons to do so.

And it gets worse. The Federal government has graciously offered to help homeowners with the retrofits the states will force them to do through a program called the Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Purposes (REEP). REEP sets aside a pool of money in each state for property owners who have to turn their polar bear-killing buildings into lean, mean, green machines. But, and I'm sure you've guessed this already, there's a catch.

Before I get to that, here's the magic formula (and don't read ahead and spoil the surprise!):
(i) AWARDS – For residential buildings--

(I) support for a free or low-cost detailed building energy audit that prescribes, as part of a energy-reducing measures sufficient to achieve at least a 20 percent reduction in energy use, by providing an incentive equal to the documented cost of such audit, but not more than $200, in addition to any earned by achieving a 20 percent or greater efficiency improvement;

(II) a total of $1,000 for a combination of measures, prescribed in an audit conducted under subclause (I), designed to reduce energy consumption by more than 10 percent, and $2,000 for a combination of measures prescribed in such an audit, designed to reduce energy consumption by more than 20 percent;

(III) $3,000 for demonstrated savings of 20 percent, pursuant to a performance-based building retrofit program; and

(IV) $1,000 for each additional 5 percentage points of energy savings achieved beyond savings for which funding is provided under subclause (II) or (III).

If you want to hit that 50 percent savings mark that all new homes have to hit, then you can get as much as $12,200, including inspection, as you scoop all those awards. That's a pretty good chunk of change that should cover most, if not all of the costs of a retrofit on any moderately-sized older house, right?

Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy.

Except for that catch and boy is it a doozy.

(ii) MAXIMUM PERCENTAGE- Awards under clause (i) shall not exceed 50 percent of retrofit costs for each building. For buildings with multiple residential units, awards under clause (i) shall not be greater than 50 percent of the total cost of retrofitting the building, prorated among individual residential units on the basis of relative costs of the retrofit.

Hi Barnaby ,

It is obvious to everyone that Rudd/Labor are getting desperate and the Coalition has them rattled . They are out to wear you down and no doubt the urchins in the Labor Party will try anything .
Keep up the good work Barnaby and lets get rid of the con artist Kevin Rudd .
80% of the population does not want an ETS Tax and I am sure those who voted Labor were not voting for the ETS TAX or the other taxes that Rudd has increased or introduced .

Kevin conned quite a few silly bunnies and many did fall for his spin . Everything about Kevin Rudd is one big huge spin of untruths . Of course Kevin Rudd needs the money and more taxes , he's the milky bar kid who cannot control his spending , like a kid in a lolly shop .

Thank You

SUBJECT: NEWS.COM.AU GLOBAL WARMING BRAINWASHING

News.com.au is attempting to brainwash ppl into believing AGW!

Check out the captions on these pics

http://www.news.com.au/pictures/gallery-e6frflv9-1111120489924?page=1

PATHETIC LYING BS!!!!!!!!

Rudd has racked up a huge foreign debt by giving out non-means tested money for solar hot water systems and roof insulation, which I suppose he hoped to recoup by charging an enormous carbon tax.

To my knowledge, he imported these items from China and India, insteading of having them made here.

He has also given out enormous amounts of stimulus money to individuals and families who didn't need it, including high income earners i.e. paying for their next holiday, while the country goes broke.

Huge amounts of money have also been given to schools, mainly to build new halls and libraries, some of which were not greatly needed. He also gave out multi-million dollar amounts to elite private schools, when we really needed more money put into the public education system to improve educational outcomes.

Now Lord Monckton has thrown a huge spanner into Rudd's works, leaving both his ego and his carbon tax with a flat tyre i.e. going nowhere but down, with national debt still increasing at a hectic pace.

Barnaby.

Noting that the Australian Greens are seeking Australians help re getting their message out re their position on the ETS; how can we sit back and watch the Rudd government stuffing this country and more importantly, allowing this massive deficit to grow?

I think many of us should be concerned at what the latest decision is from the federal government to give a major cash-out to our major TV Network owners and to the tune of $200million.

I note the detail within this short extract from an article in today's edition of the Australian.

"The pay-TV industry has been particularly vocal in its opposition. "Our sector frankly is dismayed by the decision to hand over a quarter of a billion dollars to our most vigorous competitors, who are already some of the most protected enterprises in Australian commercial life. The rationale is hard to understand: we have been hit by the same consumer uncertainties, revenue and cost challenges as the networks but we are not seeking handouts," said Foxtel chief executive Kim Williams".

Thanks Barnaby at last someone with the common sense enough to stop borrowing money! Swan is a idiot sending us into spiralling un checked debt though it won,t effect his retirement package will it?

Good work Barnaby. I think Australia is in such a predicament that we need to form a complete new political party and push hard line Nationalism. There is too much World Internationalism being imposed on the very politically naive white Australian and it has to be stopped. I'm 5th generation Australian and like my predecessors have not risen out of poverty despite and trade and farming skills. We've suffered nothing but bad government. Bad government is because we have the wrong people in it and at the moment they are formulating some world 'global' rubbish which by nature is unworkable.
Liberals have run their course and need to be replaced.

http://www.thinkbigworksmall.com/mypage/player/tbws/23088/1456475
The Above Video link tells the real story of the Banks agenda end game plans

Its Like Global Warming BS yesterday I discovered Ms Penny Wong had a Nick name in school ( Some Ting Wong )

Keep them accountale transperent and Responsable you are doing a good Job

I just want to say that I believe climate change is real, just as Kevin Rudd does. However I find it difficult to believe a learned man such as himself would take the advice of scientists, who he says "have been researching climate change for (just) 20 years" when it is well documented that men have been looking at the effects of climate changes since the 18th century.

Countless articles have been written suggesting our climate changes continually, yet not just in a period of 20 years, but over centuries. (Possibly since time began.)

However, it is a peculiar result, to agree that the recent generations are responsible for the changes in the climate, when quite clearly we did not have the modern pollutants and gas emitting factories thousands of years ago when the ice-ages took place.So, to suggest he ‘can’t tell today’s scientists they are wrong’, yet he can ignore research and documentation from centuries ago, is sheer ignorance.

Anyone knowing the story of the ‘Emperors New Clothes’ will understand that Kevin Rudd is in far too deep to turn around and say otherwise. He will continue down that road, no matter how many little boys point and say ‘look the Emperor’s wearing no clothes!”

And another thing that astounds me is his policy to rob Peter to pay Paul. Taxing the polluters in order to share the money with the consumers is not going to change the climate situation one little bit.

Although, more taxes for the manufacturers and farmers will put many out of business thus causing another problem, Mr.. Rudd….unemployment.

So, I say to Kevin Rudd, step back from the politics and posturing and take a good look at the evidence from thousands of years ago and not just in the last 20 years.

Climate Change is just another name to extract money from people!!! (probably to make up for the spending spree the ALP government had after the Liberal Party left them with so much surplus) Bring back John Howard!!!

WELL DONE BARNABY!!!!

Tell the world that Australia may default on its debt repayments - so the banks put a higher risk premium on loans to us - so then interest rates go up

Then try to blame it all on Rudd.

Clear & to the point, if we look at USA & Canada, we see the futures market gearing up, or trying. Can't we just do it all by the book, transparently, 1.1%
as proffer by Labour, I think not. Good Luck....!

Hi Senator

I agree with your article very much. There is one thing I dont understand though and it would be good if you could explain why on your web site.

When one does ones research its seems obvious that Rudd is no doubt funded by Rothchild and his banking empire is the one which will become even more mega weathy but running the Australian Carbon Exchange. Rothchild is very close to all commonwealth interests and as such its clear that he is the one putting the pressure on Rudd to push through the ETS in order for him to improve his wealth. Its criminal and is a clear indication that Rudd is working more for the corporations than the people.

I will vote for your system as long as it also doesn't support the big global corporate empire. Rudd is nothing but a New World Order Puppet.
Many thanks for your hard work.
Bruce

Barnaby, listening to you makes me feel better about the past despondency I have felt with no one really attacking Labour, we have faith in you, please stay strong and positive and do not let Labour crush you, we need good oohonesty from the opposition, you are well likes and are a breath of fresh air, good luck and stay strong regards veronica luck.

SUBJECT: IPCC Admits It Doesn't Do Science !!

This admission (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/10/ipcc-reform) by an IPCC lead author in the UK’s Guardian is simply stunning:

“The Nobel prize was for peace not science … government employees will use it to negotiate changes and a redistribution of resources. It is not a scientific analysis of climate change,” said Anton Imeson, a former IPCC lead author from the Netherlands. “For the media, the IPCC assessments have become an icon for something they are not. To make sure that it does not happen again, the IPCC should change its name and become part of something else. The IPCC should have never allowed itself to be branded as a scientific organisation. It provides a review of published scientific papers but none of this is much controlled by independent scientists.”

READ MORE HERE:-

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/12721

The CPRS is only good for the UN, banksters and other foreign based traders who will profit from carbon trading, ie making money out of nothing (what these types specialise in).

Rudd is therefore a puppet to foreign interests.

The science behind the global warming theory - first pushed on to me in 1988 when i was in year 5 - is bollocks to anyone who takes the time to investigate it.

The CPRS will also cost the government money despite the all the taxation. The govt will give out more million more assistance dollars to help people cope with higher taxes than it gets from bleeding industry.

Therefore only foreign interests gain from this. Everyone needs to see Rudd for who he is. A puppet to foreign interests. He is beholden to them somehow, he should be investigated.

Dear Mr Barnaby is this information true?
Email being posted around.
If it is true it is very wrong.
Why should people who do not live here or even worked here get more than our pensioners.
Why do we pay for others more than our own people who have contributed to our country.
Are you aware of the following?

The Australian Federal Government provides the following financial assistance:-

BENEFIT



AUSTRALIAN AGED PENSIONER
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS/REFUGEES LIVING IN AUSTRALIA

Weekly allowance



$253.00
$472.50


Weekly Spouse allowance


$56.00
$472.50


Additional weekly hardship allowance


$0.00
$145.00





TOTAL YEARLY BENEFIT


$16,068.00
$56,680.00




If I were a refugee, why would I look for work?

Please forward to all your contacts so that we can lobby for an increase in the aged pension, and to put the welfare of Australian pensioners first, and then the welfare of refugees. After all, the average pensioner has paid taxes and contributed to the growth of this country for the last 40 to 60 years.............Kevin Rudd The Dud -- Pay Heed!!!!!!!!...The elections are next year. The people who put you in power can also remove you from power as easily. THE HONEYMOON IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!. Time for a reality check is here now!!!

Russian Climate Fraud? Of course not

This story about climate fraud was widely quoted around the internet , including by Piers Akerman (http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/piersakerman/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/message_on_climate_emotive_but_a_fraud/) , Andrew Bolt (http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/climategate_was_russias_warming_also_man_made)
etc
If you search “Institute for Economic Analysis climate” you get over 1.5 million results – mainly about how this Russian group Institute for Economic Analysis has revealed massive fraud or tampering with Russian climate data by scientists and how IPCC is now fatally flawed – eg
“Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming “


http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100020126/climategate-goes-serial-now-the-russians-confirm-that-uk-climate-scientists-manipulated-data-to-exaggerate-global-warming/


Did any journalist actually verify the story? Probably not , as the report from http://www.iea.ru/kioto_order.php?id=8 is only in Russian……….so the journalists were just reporting what other journalists have said.

The actual story is based on the fact that temperature etc data is only used from a selected group of Russian met stations …not all of them. The allegation is fraud.

The IEA website later carried this story : British Met Office agrees with IEA conclusions
http://www.iea.ru/kioto_order.php?id=8

which includes : “Dave Britton, spokesman for the Met Office, which includes the Hadley Centre, said: «If we use every single piece of temperature data that is available then we would probably suggest that the (Russian) warming would actually be greater... They don't use all data, he explains, because they must be quality-controlled, taken from reliable sources and consistent with other temperature data sets.»”

- some met stations were excluded by World Meteorological Organisation because of quality reasons – but if they had been included, the apparent warming would be greater. Not quite in agreement with the claims of fraud!

Hello - does anyone in the coalition know anything about economics?

Be like the Kiwis, says Abbott - but they can't fly
February 12, 2010



Tony Abbott is trying to restrain Barnaby Joyce from blurting nonsense, but who will restrain Tony Abbott?

The opposition leader has shown that he can't tell a kiwi from a kangaroo, a plus from a minus, wreckage from recovery.

In a fundamental error, he has told Australians that we would do well to follow New Zealand's lead in managing our economy.

''There are other countries which have chosen a different path, and there is no evidence that their response has been

any less effective than ours,'' Abbott told ABC Radio National yesterday.

''For instance, in New Zealand they have tried to reform their way through the global financial crisis under the new government's leadership, and they seem to be doing pretty well. What Mr Rudd chose to do was to spend his way out of the crisis.''

''He's wrong,'' said the ANZ Bank's chief economist in New Zealand, Cameron Bagrie.

''We became the unlucky country. We're doing better than the US, Britain and Europe, but we're not Australia.''

As the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said in December: ''The crisis and the follow-up of the crisis … has been really well managed by the Australian government.''

Indeed, guess which country the conservative prime minister of New Zealand, John Key, is holding up as his model? ''Our vision is to close the gap with Australia by 2025,'' Key said.

Abbott's remark came the day that Australia's unemployment rate fell from 5.5 to 5.3 per cent. The NZ rate? It's 7.3 per cent. If we had the NZ level of unemployment, we'd have another 219,000 people looking for work.

''And bear in mind, New Zealanders have the option of coming here,'' said Saul Eslake, an economist at the Grattan Institute in Melbourne. ''If more New Zealanders had stayed home, their unemployment rate would probably be higher.''

True, Australia's government spent lots more money proportionately on stimulating growth in the teeth of the global recession. But guess what? Not only will Australia emerge from the global recession with higher growth and lower unemployment than New Zealand, but it will also have less debt in proportionate terms.

The OECD projects that Australia's government will be in deficit equal to 2.6 per cent of its GDP, while NZ will have a deficit of 3.9 per cent of GDP.

How so? ''Because unemployment rose more, the cyclical impact on the next budget was worse,'' Eslake said.

As the opposition pursues Peter Garrett over implementation of a part of the government stimulus, Abbott's remarks raise the question of whether he understands the policy choices that decide not details but the fate of nations.

Where are the grown-ups?

I like the way you say it the way it is with no spin if the media does not like it to bad. Good comment on the debt. The tax cut rudd just has given to media Mogals 350million just shows what a sweet tallking bull shit artist rudd is. 350m less for hospitals or another 350m loan from china to balance the books

Dear Barnaby
I want the truth - I expect the truth, the majority of politicians wouldn’t know the truth if it hit them in their face. You obviously had a reason to raise the question on the level of debt and its implications on the Australian public and I thank you for asking the question. I am not, however, impressed in how you were shot down. There should be an open forum on this matter and the government and media obviously do not want this issue aired publicly.
Australia uses the same blueprint in their financial calculation as the rest of the western world, it also has a an extremely high level of personal and sovereign debt, and we , as a nation, have something to fear. The public needs to prepare should this GFC hit our shores, but with all this spin in the media on how immune Australia is I am fearful that people could be taken by surprise if/when this happens.
On a personal level I thank you for attempting to bring this to the public’s attention and I think in a few month they will review your comments in a different light.

Tony McDonald

SUBJECT: The Olympic Global Warming Onslaught is Starting

Never mind that most of the ski areas in the world are having excellent seasons, including other Olympic venues like Whistler – which has already received over 1,000 cm of snow this winter. Arizona Snowbowl has received 238 inches of snow this winter! You read that correctly – Arizona.

Squaw Valley, California (site of the 1960 Winter Olympics) is reporting at least 10 feet of snow on the ground. Ski conditions around Salt Lake City (site of the 2002 Olympics) are excellent. Wolf Creek, Colorado is reporting close to ten feet on the ground. European ski areas are reporting excellent snow. Pajarito Mountain, New Mexico is reporting one of their best ski seasons ever. North Carolina ski areas are reporting some of their best conditions ever. Scotland is reporting the best ski conditions in 50 years. Washington DC is shut down due to snow.

Most of the ski areas in British Columbia have excellent snow, but be assured that the press will highlight the one area which doesn’t – and will not provide a sensible explanation for the cause. They will blame it on global warming, and will intentionally ignore ski conditions in most of the globe.

Michelle Thursday, February 11, 2010 5:04 PM

No Michelle - that email is a hoax at least 5 years old designed to encourage hatred of asylum seekers

Its just like that other offensive email being circulated by CEC & Larouche cowards about increases in Muslim population in European countries (ten minutes research will show you the lies these losers spread)

13/02/2010.
Tonight I watched the 'All Stars' V 'Indegineous' football game.
At half time Rudd decided to politicise this game.
As he said, 'this game was in additoin to the apology to the aboriginals given last year and is in recognition as to what happened to them'.
How racist is this !!!
This game was a game between two teams. Nothing more!!
All I wanted to see was the game, not some jumped-up 'Milky Bar Kid' trying to insence 'racesism'.
By the way my family extends and covers the four young indegenous foster childeren my mother raised as part of our family.
Why carn't a footy game be just a game.

Opps forgot I have been talking about Rudd!!!

Barnaby

You think that in 2010 that the nation's major problems can be solved by simple, populist measures - like Sarah Pailin. While the appeal to some of the electorate, the majority realise that the world is a little more complicated.

Barnaby. Can you not promote, lets say, a long-term tax exemption rather than subsidies or spending programs? These spending programs are no good really. If the suppliers of this sort of soil enrichment weren't taxable for 20 years that would be a better deal then spending.

The process for making this biochar is somewhat like the process for the creation of synthetic diesel out of any sort of organic material. It would be a great synthesis to have some sort of generalised set of tax exemptions, that promote the capital development of the sort of equipment that could make either. Either syngas, synthetic diesel, or biochar. That way at least we would get some soil enrichment out of this global warming racket, and promote energy independence. Carbon solids to synthetic diesel is really the future of energy, alongside nuclear. The two industries more complements than competitors. It would be just such a good thing to use a bit of jui-jitsu on this appalling global warming racket and get long-term soil enrichment and synthetic diesel by the gigalitre out of it. But going the subsidy route is never worth the cost.

Subsidies put the effort into the gold rush of current production. Tax exemptions throw resources into long-term cost-effectiveness. Subsidies emphasize current production. Long-term tax-exemptions emphasize reinvestment in long-run business development.

Good stuff for telling the truth about US and Australian financial realities. Don't take any flak from these Liberal quislings and triangulaters.

October 2008: Shahid Malik UK muslim labour MP(a terrorist in a suit)!


http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/british-muslim-mp-declares-muslims-will-take-over-britain/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttz8-ucWhYc&feature=player_embedded

SUBJECT: AL GORE's 35 INCONVENIENT TRUTHS

Have a read of this to be enlightened on how many CONVENIENT LIES there were in Al Gore's SCIENCE FICTION movie An Inconvenient Truth !!

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html

I have also uploaded the full document as a PDF.

And the Fanatical Followers Of The Church Of Al Gore want to portray his science fiction movie as a documentary!

Total BS!

AWB funded Saddams atrocities whilst the Australian government pretended not to notice.
What a shame Australians cant take a class action against John Howard & his government for taking us to war in Iraq based upon lies & fabricated evidence


AWB settles with shareholders
February 15, 2010 - 2:35PM

AWB shareholders have agreed to settle a class action against the agribusiness company seeking compensation for its failure to disclose Iraqi kickbacks.

As AWB was due to begin its defence in the Federal Court today, John Sheahan, SC, a barrister acting for AWB shareholders, told the court the parties had reached an in principle agreement to settle.

‘‘The settlement won’t break down,’’ Mr Sheahan told the court.

The court was adjourned until a time to be set later this week. Outside the court, Ben Slade, a solicitor for the AWB shareholders told journalists the settlement figure was $39.5 million, including interest and costs.

Litigation funders IMF said the conditional settlement was subject to court approval and documentation.

Justice Lindsay Foster began hearing the case in the Federal Court in Sydney last week after retired farmers and former AWB shareholders John and Kaye Watson filed the class action against AWB in April 2007.

Since then over 1000 other retail and institutional shareholders have joined. They were claiming over $100 million in losses, as a result of a drop in AWB shares when the 2006 Cole inquiry investigated AWB’s payment of more than $290 million to the Iraq’s former Saddam Hussein regime between 1999 and 2003.

The payments were disguised as fees to Alia, a Jordanian company partly owned by the Iraqi Ministry of Transport, and were made in exchange for access to the country’s lucrative wheat markets.

AWB shares lost about one-third of their value in the month after the Cole inquiry began in January 2006.

A key allegation against AWB was that the former monopoly wheat trader failed to meet continuous disclosure obligations imposed by the Corporations Act by not informing the market of the payments.

The applicants also alleged AWB engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct through its representations about the nature of its dealings with Iraq and the company’s integrity during this time.AWB has denied these allegations.

Last week it was revealed in submissions to the court ahead of the current trial that AWB admitted it made payments that it knew would go to the Iraqi government. AWB was expected to open its defence in the trial today.

IMF said if the conditions of the settlement agreement are satisfied, it expects to earn a profit after costs and capitalised overheads of between $6 million and $7 million before tax.

Look you make a good point fella. I suspect a lot of people still support the single desk and it looks good on paper. But the more of these outfits you have the less coherent your foreign policy becomes.

SUBJECT: AL GORE's 35 INCONVENIENT TRUTHS

Have a read of this to be enlightened on how many CONVENIENT LIES there were in Al Gore's SCIENCE FICTION movie An Inconvenient Truth !!

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html

I have also uploaded the full document as a PDF.

And the Fanatical Followers Of The Church Of Al Gore want to portray his science fiction movie as a documentary!

Total BS!

SUBJECT: Glaciers are growing around the world, including the United States

http://www.iceagenow.com/growing_glaciers.htm

SUBJECT: Scandinavia-gate

Yet again, we have a situation where the data doesn’t match the full-gloss coloured graphs produced by the PR agency for global warming called the IPCC.

Frank Lansner and Nicolai Skjoldby have started a new blog Hide The Decline (http://hidethedecline.eu/pages/posts/scandinavian-temperatures-ipccacutes--scandinavia-gate--123.php) , and posted that Scandinavian data shows clearly that temperatures got markedly cooler from 1950-1970, before they began rising again, and even after the warming, they only appear to be back where they were. But, all the IPCC graphs minimize the cooling. It would be reasonable to conclude from the data that the temperature today in Scandinavia is roughly similar to that of the 1930’s. But, you’d never know this from looking at the IPCC graphs.

READ MORE HERE:-

http://joannenova.com.au/2010/02/scandinavia-gate/

CO2 emmissions are a 'red herring'. Save the solar panel money and invest in new, more efficieint power stations that wiil returrn more than 5%, 24/7.
Your trees are a resource and with proper management can be quite profitable.
The French have evolved guide lines over the last 120 years, which you can read about on the web....Bill

http://www.smh.com.au/national/taxman-free-to-break-in-to-homes-20100215-o2vn.html?autostart=1

As you're probably aware, if the 'old bill' want to search for something in your home they need to present a warrant to do so. Not the tax office though, they can just barge in and ransack your home in their search for documents.

Amazingly, according to Martin's report, the ATO conducts 280,000 raids each year without warrants! Our Canon LS-100TS calculator tells us that's an average of 767.12 raids per day - we're assuming the tax office doesn't rest on the sixth and seventh days.

POLL: Do you agree with the Federal Governments policy to allow the importing of beef products from countries that have declared that they have BSE(mad cow disease)?

Vote Here:-

http://www.johnwilliams.com.au/index.php?option=com_poll&id=16:do-you-agree-with-the-federal-governments-policy-to-allow-the-importing-of-beef-products-from-countries-that-have-declared-that-they-have-bsemad-cow-disease

SUBJECT: Islamic scholars (and Hamas-linked CAIR) say airport body scanners violate teachings of Islam

The Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) is affiliated with ISNA, which is a Muslim Brotherhood group. The Brotherhood is dedicated in its own
words to "eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within."
The FCNA issued a flimsy, loophole-ridden condemnation of terrorism (http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/11/islams-highest-religious-authority-in-us-to-serve-up-thanksgiving-leftovers.html) several years ago. And CAIR, of course, is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case (http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016754.php) -- so named by the Justice Department. CAIR operatives have repeatedly refused to denounce (http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014963.php) Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad t.... (http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2003/06/cairs-legal-tribulations.html) CAIR's cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Honest Ibe Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements.( http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53303)

And so now these groups say that body scanners are un-Islamic. Very well. There may be plenty of reasons to oppose body scanners, but when they put it this way, they suggest they'd be just fine with some sort
of exemption from such scanning for Muslims. That would mean that the
one group that would be subjected to lighter airport security checks
than any other group would be...Muslims. And that would in turn make
things easier than ever for jihad terrorists. Surely that can't be the
objective of the FCNA and CAIR, now, can it?

"Airport Body Scanners Violate the Teachings of Islam, Says Muslim Group," by Susan Jones for CNSNews.com (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/61231), February 11 (thanks to all who sent this in):

(CNSNews.com) - A group of Muslim scholars says it supports airline safety, but it is "deeply concerned" about the use of airport scanners that show nude images of the human body.
"The Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) emphasizes that a general and public use of such scanners is against the teachings of Islam, natural law and all religions and cultures that stand for decency and
modesty," the group said in a Feb. 10 statement posted at Islam Online.

"It is a violation of clear Islamic teachings that men or women be seen naked by other men and women," FCNA explained. The group noted that Islam emphasizes modesty, considering it part of the faith. "The
Qur'an has commanded the believers, both men and women, to cover their
private parts" and to be modest in their dress.

While exceptions can be made in cases of "extreme necessity,"
FCNA indicated that passenger body scans do not rise to that level.

FCNA is asking for changes in scanner software so the machines will produce only body outlines. In the meantime, the group says Muslim travelers should choose pat-down searches over scanner images - in cases where searches are necessary.

The Fiqh Council of North America is an affiliate of the Islamic
Society of North America, which advises and educates its members and
officials "on matters related to the application of Shari'ah (Islamic
law) in their individual and collective lives in the North American
environment."

The Council on American-Islamic Relations also issued a news release on
Wednesday, endorsing FCNA's statement on the use of body scanners.

Dear Barnaby, I don't know what to make of you mate.
I have been a Liberal voter all my life and believed that the Libs were at least better than the labour Communists.

I, like a growing army of people in this country, don't trust either party. The only group in Australia that I would trust now is the CEC.

Why would I make that statement?

Well mate it's the internet. We are educating ourselves away from the traiteroius main stream media. (Traiterous in general I mean.) The CEC tell it like it is. The reason why things are the way they are. They name names no matter how lofty the named person thinks he is
What I'm referring to is the sellout of Australia to the foreign bankers.

The Libs and Labour have both sold us down the drain with globalist policies, the so called free trade agenda, and privatisation.
Now they are stealing our land. The farmers are in real strife mate.
Barnaby we are not stupid and misinformed any more.
WE have lost all our private assets. Comm Bank, Telstra, Qantas, all the power companies that the traitor Kennett sold off in Vic. Power companies etc.

What gives mate. I know you read or at least are on the CEC mail list, and so must be as informed as I and others.

Why hasn't someone from your party had the guts to say it like it is.
Why are we continueing to become more and more in debt to these banking parasites.

We have a total imbecile at the helm at present. I mean this bloke is either mentally retarded or some one has something on him.

Did he get caught rooting a horse as a kid or something. Has he been offered a place in the coming Global Government?
Barnaby I know my fight is not against flesh and blood mate but blokes like Rudd really make it hard not to despise them.

Where do you stand mate? Say it like it is. Encourage people to read off press stuff maybe.
You will never be a fool if you tell the truth mate and that is what I like about you . You will give an answer Barnaby, to a question.
Mate there are a lot of us out here that know exactly how it is and why it is.

We know about the Rothschilds et al. We know about Rudds scams and why. We know about the genocide agenda behind the green movement.

Are there more like you that will stand up for your fellow Aussies.

Makes good sense, and what you don't mention but it seems safe to assume, is the the Coalition plan seems less invasive and open to changes if/when found necessary.

One hopes that Krazy Kevin, Slimy Swan and Wittless Wong, can be silenced!

I can understand your concern about Govt debt when you realize that all levels of govt spending are currently running at 43c in every GDP Dollar made by the Australian Economy.
This makes the Australian govt's (State, local and Fed) the biggest business in Australia. 15 cents in the GDP dollar of debt is dangerous when it applies to the biggest business in Australia. All these smarties who say we have a rich country don’t realize how small the tax revenue base is. If they want their welfare taxes and govt jobs then they should pay more GST!

Howard put the country in an excellent state to weather the GFC and profit from it the same as china has. This amateur Rudd govt has shown how incompetent they are and my guess is you will have the job of getting the country back on an even keel very soon. Fairwork will be the knife in your back as better productivity is a key to keeping welfare payments and welfare jobs coming. You need to emphasise this every time pattern bargaining is obvious. State govts are looking at ways to get more tax revenue from the mining sector - the same as the Henry Review.
You need to look back in History to see what happened the last time they did this. One result is that Australian firms and workers will go overseas to avoid being taxed to death just because they want to work in this govt controlled economy.

Last - Glenn Stevens took great pleasure in slapping you down re the relationship between govt debt and interest rates. How come he says that there is a link between interest rates and pay rises?
It is time for a graph of interest rates vs Govt Debt and % pay rises by sector.
Personally I think the govt and RBA are herding us into yet another GFC - nothing like creating a crisis to justify your existence eh?

.....and will we hear outrage from Bolt , Akerman , Jones, Nova & their ilk about these cowardly attacks on scientists? Of course not – why jeopardize their income by printing facts?



Climate scientists 'under cyber attack'
By Thea Cowie

An organised cyber-bullying campaign, including abusive emails, is targeting Australian climate scientists who speak out on climate change, according to author Clive Hamilton.
The 2009 Greens candidate says the attacks are arranged by "denialist organisations" and are aimed at driving climate scientists from the public debate.
Professor Hamilton says aggressive, abusive and sometimes threatening emails are being sent to distinguished scientists each time they speak out on the subject.
"Apart from the volume and viciousness of the emails, the campaign has two features - it is mostly anonymous and it appears to be orchestrated," he wrote in ABC's The Drum.
Professor Hamilton quotes an email received by University of Melbourne Professor David Karoly which compares the scientist's actions to those of Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot.
"It is called treason and genocide," the email says.
"Oh, as a scientist, you have destroyed people's trust in my profession. You are a criminal. Lest we forget."
But some attacks are more personal.
Professor Hamilton says a young woman opened her email to receive threats against her children.
"Did you want to offer your children to be brutally gang-raped and then horribly tortured before being reminded of their parents' socialist beliefs and actions?" the email reportedly says.
"Burn in hell. Or in the main street, when the Australian public finally lynches you."
Journalists have also reportedly become targets of the cyber-bullying campaign.
"I have spoken to several, off the record, who have told of torrents of abusive emails when they report on climate change, including some sufficiently threatening for them to consult their supervisors and consider police action," he says.
"One or two of the cyber-bullies have hinted at the level of organisation, with one following an abusive rant with the comment, 'Copies of my e-mails to you are also being passed out to a huge network for future reference'."
Professor Hamilton's article is the first in a five-part series. Tomorrow he will explore who is behind the cyber-bullying campaign.

Here's a way to help the environment, beat the Chinese at their own game with cheap imports, boost beef and other producers' incomes, make the most of farm dams when they are full, a win- win situation which even the Greenies should love. Just wait for the bureaucrats to smother it in red tape though.
See http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/killing-cane-toads-with-love/
How can 1.3 billion Chinese be wrong? Forget the Peking Duck, serve up the Peking Cane Toad. Fair shake of the soy sauce, mate.

If we are really serious! let us start with the free export trade agreements! just one example of useless and and carbon wastefull exports. One shipment of Australian bottled water is exported to Europe and one shipment of European bottled water is imported into Australia.??? what a waste ???

My husband has had a very sound idea on raising funds to put into solar power or renewble energy. Each year levy every Australian citizen $10 and put this into providing loans or rebates for having solar panels feeding excess power into the grid. With a population of over 23 mill this should equate to $230mill with the possibility of levying incomes over $200k, $20.
Instead of making fossil fuels more expensive, a very unpopular move it seems, make alternative energy cheaper.
In no way should Australia be supporting the big polluters, which is exactly what an ETS does.
Have a read of this excellent web site. I am sure it speaks for large numbers of people http://www.forumforthefuture.org/node/12436
We will not get many chances at this and the government is already spoiling our chances.

Worried about Rudd's debt to save us from the GFC? Look at some facts

From AMP chief economist - http://www.sharecafe.com.au/article_air.asp?a=AV&ai=15683
Gross Public Debt as % GDP

Australia 15.9
Germany 77.4
Japan 189.3
US 83.9
UK 84.5
China 20.2

Well done Kevin Rudd!!! Sadly, tabloid hacks & their rent-a-crowd would rather see Australia fail than Rudd succeed

Barnaby please keep the mouth shut mate until the brain catches up and stop giving Krudd and his goons reasons to attack you and Tony Abbott.
You need to get Krudd on the ropes along with his goons keep cool think first get your facts straight.
I want to know where the 41 million has come from to pay off these doggy operators.
They seem to be rewarding them again for bad practices,if you look at the footage on TV and see the warehouse full of batts.
I ask you where did the batts come for are they imports or are they Australian made.

"It shows clearly that the Coalition is a government that pays off debt and that Labor is a government that creates debt and Mr Rudd is creating debt at a faster rate than has been seen in recent history. With gross debt currently in excess of $125 billion one would be foolish if they were not concerned by the trajectory of the growth in debt. "


................but Barnaby , dont you remember the blow out in Australias net foreign debt under Howard - from A$193 billion when he came to power (remember his debt triuck stunt in the 1996 election) to $600 billion when he left office.
Did you read the 2007 Howard budget papers ? A Howard government debt of almost $50 billion.

Its time for truth - not spreading silly myths

sounds spooky along the lines of 'dont you waorry bout that'

australia runs on the sheeps back we dont need to invest in anything else.

one question tho barnaby if you are going to give multi million dollar 'incentives' to the big polluters where is this money coming from??

if u dont raise tax's or sell of assets it has to result in a reduction of services , health care, education, old age pensions??

Don't be an idiot Les. These are serious problems. And they need communicating as much as possible prior to the home straight before the election. If you cannot communicate the important stuff now, then how will you do it, with only two or three months to go before the election?

You get the differentiated message out now as hard and as often as you can. Only in the final leadup do you pull back just a tad.

Stop typing Les. Until you learn a little bit more about the seriousness of the issues that Barnaby is banging the drum on.

Tony Abbott advocates using nuclear power to cut greenhouse gas emissions
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/tony-abbott-advocates-using-nuclear-power-to-cut-greenhouse-gas-emissions/story-e6frf7l6-1225834574545


Another non policy from Abbott – he fully supports nuclear power for Australia as long as he doesn’t have to take it to the electorate – i.e. he only supports it if Rudd introduces it.

As reactors are only ever built in democracies with severe limitations on their insurance liability (i.e. the public ultimately pays for accidents, not insurance companies), are only built with heavy public subsidies (in US , Obama has to give over US$11 billion in funding) and no long term storage of waste has been planned (come on Abbott – why don’t we have a waste recycling & storage facility in Australia) , nuclear power is at best socialized electricity.

Also Abbott – tell us where we get the technicians from and why should we fund nuclear energy to address a problem (climate change) that you say is crap science?

Dear Senator,

How does one respond to the mess that the ALP Federal Government has created for itself and with the Prime Minister, Mr Rudd, clearly rattled if one was look at his performance across this week?

As a person who did vote for the ALP (this was the first and last time), this only took place because John Howard wasn't really listening if we consider what took place in the last 12 months where he was losing support within his own Cabinet and the Access Card policy and sidelining the Department of Veteran's Affairs where the Department of Human Services was the project manager.

As we look at the operation of the last federal government - where some assets had to be sold to help pay with the massive debt that was created by both Hawke/Keating, it is time that we as Australian voters took a more active interest in what various governments are doing and increasing amount of pressure upon us all.

Kevin Rudd is clearly in a class of his own and I consider his performance and that of his government worse than what we've seen over 40 years. We know from history what has happened to ALP governments and also their economic record. I do agree that the government has to be attacked over this growing debt and there are some sections of the Australian media that are focusing more on what is being played out on the political stage, down there in Canberra.

I have no problems with the Federal Opposition taking the fight up to Mr Rudd and his team and where performances of certain ministers can also attract comment. Mr Rudd is clearly in trouble and the demise of Peter Garrett is another issue for further comment.

On reading across various online news sites this morning (February 27), some excellent coverage including opinions from various people but the prize has to go to the ABC's 7.30 Report for the interview with the PM. When is the government going to stop playing games and be a bit more honest with the Australian electorate especially our capacity to pay this debt? As the Treasurer will be working on his (hopefully his last) Budget; can we really afford to re-elect them for another three year term?

It seems that the Liberal Party does not tolerate honesty - on top of this , Abbott is refusing to rule out introducing an ETS if elected



Barnaby source of disharmony


TONY Abbott is being urged to dump Barnaby Joyce, with senior Liberal MPs - and business leaders - warning the outspoken Opposition finance spokesman is damaging the Coalition's economic credibility.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/business-colleagues-see-no-joy-in-barnaby-joyce/story-e6frf7jo-1225834910738

If the Liberals decide to knife you, you should take the Nationals out the coalition and start an anti tax, anti socialist big government Australian Tea Party movement with One Nation and Family First.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/brighton-tea-party-tea-pa_n_478684.html

There's a 'tea party' in Britain this Saturday. The Sarah Palin kind.
British Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan is looking to bring the anti-tax, anti-big government fervor embodied by the American Tea Party movement across the Atlantic by hosting the inaugural "British Tea Party" event in, of all places, his home in Brighton.

BRAINWASHING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN BY CHAIRMAN RUDD !!

SUBJECT: Climate, Sorry Day in curriculum overhaul

This is UNBELIEVABLE!
Brainwashing school children about Australian History and about this global warming HOAX.

This Chairman rudd is truely evil!

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26790746-5003402,00.html

THIS HAS TO BE STOPPED!!!!

SUBJECT: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009

Everybody should read the section regarding "Monitoring powers"!!

This should be enough to send chills up and down your spine if you value FREEDOM!!

This ETS(Employment Termination Scheme/Extra Tax System)/carbon tax/CPRS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO PASS!

http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;adv=;db=LEGISLATION;group=;holdingType=;id=legislation%2Fbills%2Fr4127_first%2F0020;orderBy=;page=;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Fbills%2Fr4127_first%2F0001%22;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=#6c4b9bf970104c28a70c523038ad7b26

SUBJECT: Baby shot over global warming fears

This is typical of the type of problems that these fanatical followers of the church of al gore have caused!

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,20797,26793969-952,00.html?from=public_rss

Hi Barnaby and All,
Read an interesting article this morning written by a journo in the UK.
He gave some laughable research details on the popular solar panel installations of selling electricity back to the grid.
ie " the tafiffs will deliver a return of between 5% and 8%/yr...which is index linked ..making a nominal return of between 7% and 10% and is tax free.
However ..it wont be long before thousands of "smart criminal people" discover the "perfect carousel fraud".
By bypassing their solar panels,"connecting the incoming wire to the outgoing wire"
Buying electricity costs 7p and selling it for 44p(if you sell power to the grid rather than use it yourself) they make a profit of 600% !!!
Well why am I not surprised........NO CARBON SAVED HERE !!
Germany has after 10yrs of solar roof feed -in and generous feed-in tariffs..and have now axed the lot.
WHY....it cost 1.2Billion (german currency) for the total country electricity contribution of 0.4%....!!!!.....HELLO !!!
Australia is now going to repeat their mistake.....
"Seldom has there been a bigger rip-off ; seldom has less fuss been made about it"
Will we try and stop this scheme from being instigated in this country ...for nothing...???? or are we a country of IDIOTS?? ...while our present Govn just introduces one failed idea after another..in order for us all to pay more taxes towards their coffers......for no benifit.

SUBJECT: GLOBAL WARMING BRAINWASHING

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/tips_for_wednesday_march_3/P40/

The Australian Psychological Society (APS) is apparently perpetuating the global warming myth, directing readers to Al Gore and Tim Flannery for authorative information (links provided), offering tips on how to indoctrinate children with warming mythology (http://www.psychology.org.au/publications/tip_sheets/children_environment/) and even psychoanalyzing skeptics (http://www.psychology.org.au/publications/tip_sheets/climate/). The diagnosis of the APS is that denialism is a common reaction to global warming;

“Sometimes, if the information is too unsettling and the solutions seem too difficult, people can cope by minimising or denying that there is a problem, or avoiding thinking about the problems.

Being sceptical about the problems is another way that people may react. The caution expressed by climate change sceptics could be a form of denial, where it involves minimising the weight of scientific evidence/consensus on the subject. Or it could indicate that they perceive the risks of change to be greater than the risks of not changing, for themselves or their interests.”

I wonder if climate change skeptics need to be medicated or whether long-term psychological treatment is sufficient to cure an enquiring mind?

Rather than maintaining an objective and apolitical stance, as you might expect from a group of psychologists, the APS is in overdrive to promote its view of climate change, at the expense of objectivity and reason. As a mental health professional and skeptic, it is dissapointing to say the least.

Tony Abbott abandoned with 'no food' for two hours on Outback tour

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/tony-abbott-abandoned-with-no-food-for-two-hours-on-outback-tour/story-e6frf7jx-1225836496588

So the great iron man was left for two hours without food - the poor little thing - up Fossil Creek without a paddle, and he even left his budgie smugglers behind.

It sounds like fossil creek is where he goes looking for economic policy & shadow ministers

What is this tactic scio? What is the point you are trying to make? Its a bit of a hit below the belt isn't it? Trying the malign Tony by flashing us with the image of Tony in his speedos? Making comments to undermine Tony's manliness hey scio? That what you are about?

Naturally we are greatly relieved to have Tony as opposition leader rather than the triangulating Goldman-Sachs banker-bot Malcolm. Malcolm, always looking over his shoulder to see what the latte-left think of him.

But one must be dubious of giving ones total support to Tony. He's not quite on the right wavelength in my view.

But I'm interested in these attempts of yours to undermine Tony's manliness? Perhaps you ought to release pictures to the women and public generally, of you in speedos? How would you go with that? You think that would put you on an equal footing?

Tony's tougher than you'll ever be scio. Thats not something you ought to be fooling yourself about.

SUBJECT: THE MONEY TRAIL FOR THE GLOBAL WARMING MOVEMENT

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2835581.htm

SUBJECT: The University of East Anglia CRU comes clean: there WAS a medieval warm period

http://www.climategate.com/university-of-east-anglia-cru-comes-clean-there-was-a-medieval-warm-period?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+climategate/ROux+CLIMATEGATE

General discussion on the Australian Iron Ore Company "Fortescue Metals".


http://finance.google.com/group/google.finance.688161/browse_thread/thread/724663ea1436db72?hl=en#

SUBJECT: The University of East Anglia CRU comes clean: there WAS a medieval warm period

http://www.climategate.com/university-of-east-anglia-cru-comes-clean-there-was-a-medieval-warm-period?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+climategate/ROux+CLIMATEGATE

Yes "scio "....
Let's find pictures of Chairman rudd EATING HIS OWN EAR WAX!

Compared with a person who is good physical condition wearing speedo I know which is the OFFENSIVE PICTURE!

Hint...I aint the togs!

Just for "scico".........
ENJOY!

Kevin Rudd eating ear wax during Question Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipvdBnU8F8

The Climate Industry Wall of Money

http://joannenova.com.au/2010/03/the-climate-industry-wall-of-money/

Bali-Hoo: U.N Still Pushing for Global Environmental Control

Despite the debacle of the failed Copenhagen climate change conference last December, the United Nations is pressing full speed ahead with a plan for a greatly expanded system of global environmental governance and for a multitrillion-dollar economic transfer scheme to ignite the creation of a "global green economy."

MORE:-
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587426,00.html

Al's latest global-warming whopper

Al Gore's defense of global-warming hysteria in Sunday's New York Times has many flaws, but I'll focus on just one whopper -- where the "Inconvenient Truth" man states the opposite of scientific fact.

MORE:-

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/al_latest_global_warming_whopper_TolFbG2ccT5XPtKtXoOx0L

I have saved heaps of money on electricity by just reducing my heating usage and also turning off lights when I leave the room.

Rudd's ETS is NOT just another tax.

The manner in which it was proposed to apply to agriculture defied natural reasoning and all sense of fairness and equity. It counted only the emissions side of the agricultural carbon cycle.

Not even the bookworms of the ALP could be so dopey as to imagine that this was sensible or equitable, or productive, either. Therefore they must have had an unstated reason for this policy.

Had that tax been introduced it would have rapidly bankrupted most of Australia's grazing industries. This would in turn have caused the value of the land which is used for grazing to collapse.

This set of circumstances would enable the government to direct that land into new ownership at little direct cost. And the land which is used for grazing makes up 60% of Australia's land area.

And there we see a reason, the only feasible explanation, for why the Rudd government wanted to introduce that tax on agriculture. It is to nationalise the ownership of land without paying compensation.

This shows the bookworms of the ALP to be blindly dedicated Marxists. In a world short of food they are willing to slash food production to achieve their objective of having no private ownership of industry. Stalin would have been proud of them.

SUBJECT: Russians Debunk Permafrost Scam

Russia's leading scientists have debunked false claims by environmental activist groups and left-leaning media groups that global climate change is causing significant warming of the Siberian permafrost and resulting in a large-scale release of potent methane gas.

MORE:-

http://www.heartland.org/publications/environment%20climate/article/17978/Russians_Debunk_Permafrost_Scam.html