13th August 2007
It's nice to see our Prime Minister is beginning to feel the heat and is now prepared to spread some of the blatant responsibility for our nation's problems around to his colleagues.
Alex "fishnet stocking" Downer, MP for the SA seat of Mayo and our nation's Foreign Minister, has been conspicuously silent for most of the year regarding the continued push by Bio in Security Australia to allow into our country imports of New Zealand apples.
As stated in previous editorials, BS.A has attempted four times in the last decade to push through the decision to allow into Australia shipments of Fire Blight apples, a disease that can wipe out our $40million per year industry and destroy our clean green image for primary produce.
This year, that organisation supposedly funded to guarantee the protection of our biological integrity and the continuation of our primary producers' livelihoods, was successful in breaking open the protection of our local producers (all in the name of free trade) and securing the introduction of NZ apples.
The fruit need only be inspected once, can be harvested from trees showing sign of Fire Blight and harvested from within 3 metres of trees showing severe signs of infestation.
However, there must indeed be more than just talk of an election in the air. Following yet another report of probable apple imports from Chile after another Free Trade Agreement is signed (all in the national interest- of course), along with the importation of a disease known as Sharka (Plum Pox) which not only kills off the apples but is deadly to all stone fruit trees, including cherries, our fearless defender has leapt to the defence.
Defence of what, exactly? Of our primary producers? Of all the associated industries and the many workers they employ? Of the continued existence of our regional towns? Our biological integrity or the national reputation for quality food produced in clean conditions?
Well, one would like to think so... But, back to reality.
Alex, feeling the electoral heat for the first time since that nasty little upstart from the Democrats took some time off from singing with Redgum and gave him a little scare, has leapt to the defence of.....his reputation.
Yes, one must have one's priorities right, particularly in an election year.
Drawing a line in the sand in a letter to a constituency newspaper, Intrepid Alex proudly declared "For as long as I remain the Foreign Minister, Australia will never trade off our science based quarantine system for any free trade agreement with anyone"
Uh huh......Well, your reputation on such issues in the past isn't exactly glowing now, is it Alex? Suddenly, Fire Blight isn't such an issue. It's not so contagious. So harmless in fact that we can even bring in fruit from trees showing infection. Plum Pox? A minor issue we can sweep under the carpet, keep people distracted with other issues until after the election. If all else fails, we can trot out some tripe about economic gains in other areas, or even better, fall back on the excuse that "stone fruits are impractical to grow in a climate such as ours with water being such a concern...."
Australian Protectionists are to be found in a growing number of political movements and industry organisations. It is not a dying ideology. To the contrary, the philosophy of protectionism, environmental, cultural, economic- is making a dynamic comeback in the face of the failed policies of globalisation, economic rationalism and multiculturalism.
We watch with interest the continued acts of political suicide performed by the likes of Downer, Howard and Rudd. The alternative offered by the social engineers one sees in the Greens and Democrats is as hideous as it is bizarre and offers little more than a passing fad for alternative lifestylers and layabout left wing uni activists.
If our parliamentarians were so concerned for the welfare of our regional producers and the proper use of their constituents' taxes, perhaps they would consider taking an Australian Protectionist stand on just one issue?
Take for example the issue of foreign aid. This is a good one for Alex. A major concern for Australians is the billions of dollars thrown at tin pot Third world dictatorships to alleviate poverty and assist in times of crisis. Our schools, our health system, care for our elderly, assistance for young families- all this goes wanting while we throw a minimum of $300 million per year at Indonesia, an estimated $600 million to the corrupt New Guinea government, money to communist Vietnam, corrupt Philippines regimes, not to mention those genocidal maniacs in Africa......
Perhaps our "leaders" could take a nation-centric point of view and put the needs of their nation's food producers and taxpayers first? It's time to redirect the funding from lost causes and genocidal pigs grunting and squealing with their noses in the internationalist trough and to use it sensibly.
Cease foreign aid. This does not mean turning our backs on our perceived "human responsibilities" in times of crisis. It merely means to cease sending millions of dollars to support every two bit tribal leader who hints he might let us use his cheap labour or mine for copper in his hell hole of a country....
The Australian Protectionist realises his fellow Australians work hard for their money and wish to see it targeted. In times of crisis, the Australian government should review each situation and act according to it's merit. Rather than bestowing upon some self serving dictatorship a gift of millions of dollars to buy a new fleet of Mercedes Benz cars for his underaged wives, or a new palace upwind from the smell of the shanty towns down river (good ol' whitey), Australians must send goods only.
Think of the wider implications of this. The Australian government meets it's so called "international obligations" by assisting those in need. At the same time, in assessing what is needed, the government spends Australian taxes, by purchasing Australian manufactured goods, or sending over Australian grown and processed foods to those in need under the supervision of a reputable aid organisation.
Targeted funding, ensuring what is needed gets to those in need- not into a Swiss bank account. At the same time, our beleaguered farmers and processing industries can be sure that our government will purchase local produce- keeping Australian taxes inside Australia- benefiting Australians.
No longer will millions of dollars disappear overseas, benefiting no one but those who deserve to be hung by their own long suffering populations. Millions of dollars in Australian taxation could be redirected into our own education, health and infrastructure systems- ensuring a better life for future Australians.
13 August, 2007
14 July, 2007
Unions - Actively Endorsing a Flood Of Cheap Labour?
14th July 2007
Few could deny the need for the presence of a responsible union movement in today's industrial climate. Indeed, with both major parties fawning to the whims of large multinationals in order to secure their next round of election donations and the poor hapless Australian worker left defenceless, the time for a decent Pro Australian workers' movement has never been more pressing.
This being the case, one really has to wonder at the motivation by one union in particular ( and please note I am a member of a union)- the Shearers and Rural Workers' Union, or to be more precise the motivation of that movement's leaders.
The leadership of the S-RWU have recently urged their membership to protest at the recent deferral of their payrise (of some $10 per week) by quitting their positions in our nation's primary sector and running off to the mines.
Our nation's farmers have been under the hammer from all quarters. Faced with deregulation of their industries, threatened by cheap imports, lowered quarantine regulations and the subsequent threat of introduced diseases, a less than sympathetic pseudo conservative government and hostile Opposition, our farmers have also had to deal with the recent drought and lowering of water allocations.
However, this all seems to be of no consequence to our internationalist union bosses who think nothing of calling to their members to uproot their families from regional towns and leave our nation's food producers to look elsewhere for labour.
Bleating loud and hard like a Boer goat buck during mating season, these wannabe Labor candidates regurgitate their irrelevant and archaic class war slogans while giving little thought to the true consequences of their advice. Of course, it doesn't really matter anyway- if they can only look as belligerent as possible they might well gain candidacy in a winnable seat and secure a lifestyle of which their working class brethren can only dream, with the bonus they need only mix with the "lower classes" 6 months prior to an election.
One can only wonder at the motivation behind such a bizarre call for a union's membership to quit employment, especially over $10 per week. Assuming the workers do quit their jobs, from where do our self indulgent internationalist union leaders think their wages will come? How will they justify their own existence if they have no membership?
Have these class warriors considered the effect on regional towns should there be a mass exodus of labour to Western Australian mines or up to Roxby Downs? The closure of small businesses and services, not to mention playing into the hands of South Australia's Premier Mike "all spin and no substance" Rann with his grand plan of closing down as many regional schools as possible and creating his handful of so called "Super Schools".
Furthermore, why have these union bosses expressed the desire to see those members who choose to remain on the land and residing in the regional centres they and their families love, lose their jobs permanently? The deferral of this wage rise is only for 12 months, yet the union is pushing for farmers ( who also have families to feed and hefty bank debts to service, not to mention a business to rebuild following the drought) to bear yet another financial burden when they are least able to afford it! No, in their bloody minded pursuit of money, these people would prefer to see the business that employs their member go under forever rather than give them 12 months grace to rebuild.
The final consideration (for the time being) in this matter is the issue of labour. Should Australian workers heed the call of our altruistic internationalist union leaders to uproot our families and head for the mines, where the towns are paved with gold and the surrounding countryside flows with milk and honey (God knows, our union leaders wouldn't lie- would they?) we would be faced with one of two scenario.
First, our nation's primary producers decide the whole thing is too bloody hard, sell up to some Managed Investment Scheme which turns our country's farmland into a giant woodlot for the newly erected water wasting pulp mill to be built down the road and our food is imported en masse from some Third World country with dubious health and sanitary requirements ( not an attractive proposition, but I'm somewhat fussy regarding what I eat).
Secondly, our farmers continue to realise that their vocation is indeed a national service and decide to fight on and keep the family farm going. Unfortunately, our wannabe class war loving, nation hating future ALP candidates have driven away all the Australian workers to go dig up iron, coal and uranium for the Chinese.......
That leaves but one option- imported labour. Cheap, compliant, Third World labour- working on Australian farms, in the associated industries, changing the very identity of the regional centres that lie at the heart of our national identity.
Perhaps this is the real motivation behind what seems initially as a declaration of suicidal intent by our union leaders. They are all internationalists, this we know well. By driving our workers up to the mines, it opens the flood gates to labour imported from the Third World and the great raft of associated government sponsored "industry" that goes along with it.
I mentioned earlier the need for our union leaders to justify their existence once all the Aussies had consigned themselves to the pit for the welfare of the expanding Chinese economy. Imagine the great range of issues our unions could whinge and whine about following the great influx of African, Arab and Asian labour into the regional centres?
One can see it now. Our employers aren't providing Halal meat and prayer mats for the newly arrived immigrants. The farmers haven't set aside appropriate times and funding for English lessons. It's cruel for the farmer to make the non English speaking immigrant get up so early in the morning as it interferes with the traditional family routine the children experienced back home.....
God spare us........
Of course working people are entitled to a decent wage and I certainly would not be foolish enough to declare our farm workers do not work hard and are not entitled to a payrise (which will be eaten by financial institution fees and charges), but in this case there is no point in killing the proverbial goose that lays the golden egg for a mere $10 per week.
No, it is in the interest of the Australian worker and the nation as a whole that our farmers are granted this period of grace in order to secure the continuity of their business, the position of Australian workers on the land and the welfare of Australian regional centres across the country.
Few could deny the need for the presence of a responsible union movement in today's industrial climate. Indeed, with both major parties fawning to the whims of large multinationals in order to secure their next round of election donations and the poor hapless Australian worker left defenceless, the time for a decent Pro Australian workers' movement has never been more pressing.
This being the case, one really has to wonder at the motivation by one union in particular ( and please note I am a member of a union)- the Shearers and Rural Workers' Union, or to be more precise the motivation of that movement's leaders.
The leadership of the S-RWU have recently urged their membership to protest at the recent deferral of their payrise (of some $10 per week) by quitting their positions in our nation's primary sector and running off to the mines.
Our nation's farmers have been under the hammer from all quarters. Faced with deregulation of their industries, threatened by cheap imports, lowered quarantine regulations and the subsequent threat of introduced diseases, a less than sympathetic pseudo conservative government and hostile Opposition, our farmers have also had to deal with the recent drought and lowering of water allocations.
However, this all seems to be of no consequence to our internationalist union bosses who think nothing of calling to their members to uproot their families from regional towns and leave our nation's food producers to look elsewhere for labour.
Bleating loud and hard like a Boer goat buck during mating season, these wannabe Labor candidates regurgitate their irrelevant and archaic class war slogans while giving little thought to the true consequences of their advice. Of course, it doesn't really matter anyway- if they can only look as belligerent as possible they might well gain candidacy in a winnable seat and secure a lifestyle of which their working class brethren can only dream, with the bonus they need only mix with the "lower classes" 6 months prior to an election.
One can only wonder at the motivation behind such a bizarre call for a union's membership to quit employment, especially over $10 per week. Assuming the workers do quit their jobs, from where do our self indulgent internationalist union leaders think their wages will come? How will they justify their own existence if they have no membership?
Have these class warriors considered the effect on regional towns should there be a mass exodus of labour to Western Australian mines or up to Roxby Downs? The closure of small businesses and services, not to mention playing into the hands of South Australia's Premier Mike "all spin and no substance" Rann with his grand plan of closing down as many regional schools as possible and creating his handful of so called "Super Schools".
Furthermore, why have these union bosses expressed the desire to see those members who choose to remain on the land and residing in the regional centres they and their families love, lose their jobs permanently? The deferral of this wage rise is only for 12 months, yet the union is pushing for farmers ( who also have families to feed and hefty bank debts to service, not to mention a business to rebuild following the drought) to bear yet another financial burden when they are least able to afford it! No, in their bloody minded pursuit of money, these people would prefer to see the business that employs their member go under forever rather than give them 12 months grace to rebuild.
The final consideration (for the time being) in this matter is the issue of labour. Should Australian workers heed the call of our altruistic internationalist union leaders to uproot our families and head for the mines, where the towns are paved with gold and the surrounding countryside flows with milk and honey (God knows, our union leaders wouldn't lie- would they?) we would be faced with one of two scenario.
First, our nation's primary producers decide the whole thing is too bloody hard, sell up to some Managed Investment Scheme which turns our country's farmland into a giant woodlot for the newly erected water wasting pulp mill to be built down the road and our food is imported en masse from some Third World country with dubious health and sanitary requirements ( not an attractive proposition, but I'm somewhat fussy regarding what I eat).
Secondly, our farmers continue to realise that their vocation is indeed a national service and decide to fight on and keep the family farm going. Unfortunately, our wannabe class war loving, nation hating future ALP candidates have driven away all the Australian workers to go dig up iron, coal and uranium for the Chinese.......
That leaves but one option- imported labour. Cheap, compliant, Third World labour- working on Australian farms, in the associated industries, changing the very identity of the regional centres that lie at the heart of our national identity.
Perhaps this is the real motivation behind what seems initially as a declaration of suicidal intent by our union leaders. They are all internationalists, this we know well. By driving our workers up to the mines, it opens the flood gates to labour imported from the Third World and the great raft of associated government sponsored "industry" that goes along with it.
I mentioned earlier the need for our union leaders to justify their existence once all the Aussies had consigned themselves to the pit for the welfare of the expanding Chinese economy. Imagine the great range of issues our unions could whinge and whine about following the great influx of African, Arab and Asian labour into the regional centres?
One can see it now. Our employers aren't providing Halal meat and prayer mats for the newly arrived immigrants. The farmers haven't set aside appropriate times and funding for English lessons. It's cruel for the farmer to make the non English speaking immigrant get up so early in the morning as it interferes with the traditional family routine the children experienced back home.....
God spare us........
Of course working people are entitled to a decent wage and I certainly would not be foolish enough to declare our farm workers do not work hard and are not entitled to a payrise (which will be eaten by financial institution fees and charges), but in this case there is no point in killing the proverbial goose that lays the golden egg for a mere $10 per week.
No, it is in the interest of the Australian worker and the nation as a whole that our farmers are granted this period of grace in order to secure the continuity of their business, the position of Australian workers on the land and the welfare of Australian regional centres across the country.
23 April, 2007
Water Threat Howard's Final Assault on Farmers?
23rd April 2007
The suspicions held by Australian Protectionists regarding the machinations of internationalists over the water issue have gained weight following Howard's recent blustering about water control.
Responsible Aussies are well aware of the crisis facing our nation. Australians have, with minimal complaint, changed their water usage habits in order to conserve water and accepted the government imposed regulations covering water use.
However, governments of both political hues in both the Federal and State political spheres have consistently dragged their heels (despite raking in millions through the added "River Murray Levy") when it comes to averting the impending disaster awaiting our nation.
During the last Federal election, only the One Nation Senate team raised the issue of desalination plants- an issue consistently ignored by the other parties as well as much of the media, despite continued evidence that we were in for dire consequences if we didn't plan for the future.
It should come as no surprise that the Coalition (with Labor continually baying in the background like petulant children for Australia to sign the Kyoto Agreement while ignoring the ramifications of such an action) has now chosen to play the bully boy against our nation's food producers and threatened to over-ride the Australian Constitution by cutting off the water to our farmers.
As stated in other articles on this site, Section 100 of the Australian Constitution states: "The Commonwealth shall not, by any law or regulation of trade or commerce, abridge the right of a state or of the residents therein to the reasonable use of the waters of rivers for conservation or irrigation".
This right cannot be overturned (like the rest of our Constitution) without recourse to a referendum put to the people of our nation.
Should Howard and his anti Australian cronies succeed in their threat to turn off the water and deny our nation's farmers access, a number of ugly issues then raise their heads (as with most decisions taken by globalism obsessed internationalists).
Firstly, the livelihoods of an estimated 50,000 farmers will be placed at risk, not to mention the associated industries and the economic survival of many regional towns. What is at risk is 40% of our nation's agricultural production.
Of course, the globalists shrug their shoulders and say "So what? Australians will appreciate paying a fraction for their food when it is imported from the Third World".
Importation of food from the Third World raises another unpalatable scenario. First, there is little we can do to regulate their production techniques. Many readers may have seen television reports showing human excrement used to "fertilize" vegetables in China and the filthy conditions used to process fish, meat and vegetable produce in other parts of Asia. Indeed, much of this produce was for the export market.
Likewise, in the rush to get cheap (and you can bet it will only be cheap for the short term) foodstuffs onto Australian supermarket shelves, can we trust the government to regulate the chemicals used to fumigate the produce prior to shipment?
Our nation's primary producers have a world wide reputation for clean produce at a decent price. By denying them water, it will take most of them at least 8-10 years to return to a level of adequate production, that is assuming most of them can still hold their lands in the face of pressure from the banks or haven't sold up to unscrupulous Managed Investment Companies for a pittance.
In the face of the government's reticence to defend our nation's apple producers from continued assaults by Bio- Security Australia in their quest to flood our market with Fire Blight apples from New Zealand, are the Australian people confident that the same government will ensure our nation is secure from the introduction of citrus canker and other diseases in their endless quest to flood our country with cheap produce?
Our reputation and ability to produce top quality food free of disease will be lost forever. Our farmers will be reduced to the same level as their regional counterparts, producing substandard food, consistently struggling with introduced diseases in order to simply make ends meet.
That's the reality of the "level playing field...."
No one can deny the nation is facing a crisis. However, a nation-centred government would be practicing a high degree of fiscal responsibility at such a time. Rather than sending billions of dollars of Australian taxpayers' funds overseas to prop up and placate every two bit, tin pot corrupt Third World dictatorship in the region, our taxes should be used to build vital infrastructure such as desalination plants and pipelines to ensure adequate water supplies to our nation's producers.
The ability to produce food in quantities that ensure self sufficiency is an issue of National Sovereignty.
By refusing to ensure adequate water supplies to our farmers and choosing to pursue the "easier" short term solution of forcing our farmers off their land and throwing a few years of compensation at them, our politicians are displaying a gross dereliction of duty towards their constituents and a blatant disregard for our National Constitution.
The suspicions held by Australian Protectionists regarding the machinations of internationalists over the water issue have gained weight following Howard's recent blustering about water control.
Responsible Aussies are well aware of the crisis facing our nation. Australians have, with minimal complaint, changed their water usage habits in order to conserve water and accepted the government imposed regulations covering water use.
However, governments of both political hues in both the Federal and State political spheres have consistently dragged their heels (despite raking in millions through the added "River Murray Levy") when it comes to averting the impending disaster awaiting our nation.
During the last Federal election, only the One Nation Senate team raised the issue of desalination plants- an issue consistently ignored by the other parties as well as much of the media, despite continued evidence that we were in for dire consequences if we didn't plan for the future.
It should come as no surprise that the Coalition (with Labor continually baying in the background like petulant children for Australia to sign the Kyoto Agreement while ignoring the ramifications of such an action) has now chosen to play the bully boy against our nation's food producers and threatened to over-ride the Australian Constitution by cutting off the water to our farmers.
As stated in other articles on this site, Section 100 of the Australian Constitution states: "The Commonwealth shall not, by any law or regulation of trade or commerce, abridge the right of a state or of the residents therein to the reasonable use of the waters of rivers for conservation or irrigation".
This right cannot be overturned (like the rest of our Constitution) without recourse to a referendum put to the people of our nation.
Should Howard and his anti Australian cronies succeed in their threat to turn off the water and deny our nation's farmers access, a number of ugly issues then raise their heads (as with most decisions taken by globalism obsessed internationalists).
Firstly, the livelihoods of an estimated 50,000 farmers will be placed at risk, not to mention the associated industries and the economic survival of many regional towns. What is at risk is 40% of our nation's agricultural production.
Of course, the globalists shrug their shoulders and say "So what? Australians will appreciate paying a fraction for their food when it is imported from the Third World".
Importation of food from the Third World raises another unpalatable scenario. First, there is little we can do to regulate their production techniques. Many readers may have seen television reports showing human excrement used to "fertilize" vegetables in China and the filthy conditions used to process fish, meat and vegetable produce in other parts of Asia. Indeed, much of this produce was for the export market.
Likewise, in the rush to get cheap (and you can bet it will only be cheap for the short term) foodstuffs onto Australian supermarket shelves, can we trust the government to regulate the chemicals used to fumigate the produce prior to shipment?
Our nation's primary producers have a world wide reputation for clean produce at a decent price. By denying them water, it will take most of them at least 8-10 years to return to a level of adequate production, that is assuming most of them can still hold their lands in the face of pressure from the banks or haven't sold up to unscrupulous Managed Investment Companies for a pittance.
In the face of the government's reticence to defend our nation's apple producers from continued assaults by Bio- Security Australia in their quest to flood our market with Fire Blight apples from New Zealand, are the Australian people confident that the same government will ensure our nation is secure from the introduction of citrus canker and other diseases in their endless quest to flood our country with cheap produce?
Our reputation and ability to produce top quality food free of disease will be lost forever. Our farmers will be reduced to the same level as their regional counterparts, producing substandard food, consistently struggling with introduced diseases in order to simply make ends meet.
That's the reality of the "level playing field...."
No one can deny the nation is facing a crisis. However, a nation-centred government would be practicing a high degree of fiscal responsibility at such a time. Rather than sending billions of dollars of Australian taxpayers' funds overseas to prop up and placate every two bit, tin pot corrupt Third World dictatorship in the region, our taxes should be used to build vital infrastructure such as desalination plants and pipelines to ensure adequate water supplies to our nation's producers.
The ability to produce food in quantities that ensure self sufficiency is an issue of National Sovereignty.
By refusing to ensure adequate water supplies to our farmers and choosing to pursue the "easier" short term solution of forcing our farmers off their land and throwing a few years of compensation at them, our politicians are displaying a gross dereliction of duty towards their constituents and a blatant disregard for our National Constitution.
24 December, 2006
Labor's Social Engineers Continue Assault on Regional Australia
24th December 2006
In the wake of the Rann government's push for the establishment of amalgamated "super schools", it should come as no surprise that Mumbai Mike and Lomax Smith have turned their attention to regional South Australians in their continued quest to slash and burn expenditure.
Many South Aussies have viewed the process of creating super schools with suspicion and the consultation process has been dubious to say the least, but Rann sits happily in his ivory tower dissociated from the concerns of ordinary parents and continues his campaign to mutilate our education system.
Labor plans to slash another $620,000 from country school funding, with 19 schools each having $30,000 ripped from their allocation simply for committing the crime of having less than 85 students.
These cuts will result in the possible closure of smaller schools (or amalgamation into Rann's beloved "super size me" schools) after the bewildered school councils struggle to find ways to make ends meet, such as delaying equipment upgrades, shedding vital SSO's whose assistance with struggling students can often mean the difference between success and being thrown onto the scrapheap, cutting subjects or extra curricular activities.
It would appear the modern Labor Party with its ingrained distaste for regional Australians and all they represent (ie traditional Australia) is intent upon some bizarre style of social engineering in which country towns and their education institutions are starved of funding, support and infrastructure or services thus forcing the inhabitants to move down to the larger urban areas.
Country schools offer a style of education hard to find in urban areas, often producing students who are happier, balanced with a wider general knowledge than their urban counter parts. Students have greater contact with their teachers, generally smaller classes and gain a wider knowledge regarding the reality of the world through field trips and community based activities which help to ensure the continuation of community traditions and events.
Exactly why does the ALP have such a problem with regional communities? What have they done to warrant such disregard by these Global Village Idiots?
Is it that regional Australians, being traditionally conservative both socially and politically, represent a way of life so repugnant and distasteful to the "intelligentsia elite" that they must be brought to heel at any cost?
Having experienced the education offered to my children by both the "new class elite" urban schools and small country schools, I recognise the value of the well rounded education offered by our regional institutions. It is priceless, worth far more than the $30,000 Rann wishes to strip from their funding.
Perhaps what Rann finds most objectionable is the fact that small schools focus on traditional values, building a sound educational foundation based on the "3 Rs" and pay scant regard to the new class guilt ridden rubbish one finds in their ridiculous homage to such events as "Harmony Day", "Sorry Day" and "Reconciliation Week", not to mention their over emphasis on observing the traditions and holidays of foreign cultures and alien religions.
Australian Protectionists recognise the invaluable contribution made by regional Australia to our national identity and economic survival. All Australians should reject this continued assault upon our regional cousins by the New Class Elite and tell the government that ALL Australians, regardless of where they live, are entitled to quality education taught in the manner most appropriate to local needs.
In the wake of the Rann government's push for the establishment of amalgamated "super schools", it should come as no surprise that Mumbai Mike and Lomax Smith have turned their attention to regional South Australians in their continued quest to slash and burn expenditure.
Many South Aussies have viewed the process of creating super schools with suspicion and the consultation process has been dubious to say the least, but Rann sits happily in his ivory tower dissociated from the concerns of ordinary parents and continues his campaign to mutilate our education system.
Labor plans to slash another $620,000 from country school funding, with 19 schools each having $30,000 ripped from their allocation simply for committing the crime of having less than 85 students.
These cuts will result in the possible closure of smaller schools (or amalgamation into Rann's beloved "super size me" schools) after the bewildered school councils struggle to find ways to make ends meet, such as delaying equipment upgrades, shedding vital SSO's whose assistance with struggling students can often mean the difference between success and being thrown onto the scrapheap, cutting subjects or extra curricular activities.
It would appear the modern Labor Party with its ingrained distaste for regional Australians and all they represent (ie traditional Australia) is intent upon some bizarre style of social engineering in which country towns and their education institutions are starved of funding, support and infrastructure or services thus forcing the inhabitants to move down to the larger urban areas.
Country schools offer a style of education hard to find in urban areas, often producing students who are happier, balanced with a wider general knowledge than their urban counter parts. Students have greater contact with their teachers, generally smaller classes and gain a wider knowledge regarding the reality of the world through field trips and community based activities which help to ensure the continuation of community traditions and events.
Exactly why does the ALP have such a problem with regional communities? What have they done to warrant such disregard by these Global Village Idiots?
Is it that regional Australians, being traditionally conservative both socially and politically, represent a way of life so repugnant and distasteful to the "intelligentsia elite" that they must be brought to heel at any cost?
Having experienced the education offered to my children by both the "new class elite" urban schools and small country schools, I recognise the value of the well rounded education offered by our regional institutions. It is priceless, worth far more than the $30,000 Rann wishes to strip from their funding.
Perhaps what Rann finds most objectionable is the fact that small schools focus on traditional values, building a sound educational foundation based on the "3 Rs" and pay scant regard to the new class guilt ridden rubbish one finds in their ridiculous homage to such events as "Harmony Day", "Sorry Day" and "Reconciliation Week", not to mention their over emphasis on observing the traditions and holidays of foreign cultures and alien religions.
Australian Protectionists recognise the invaluable contribution made by regional Australia to our national identity and economic survival. All Australians should reject this continued assault upon our regional cousins by the New Class Elite and tell the government that ALL Australians, regardless of where they live, are entitled to quality education taught in the manner most appropriate to local needs.
06 December, 2006
Downer Silent as Constituents' Livelihoods at Risk
6th December 2006
One need not be surprised as the track record of Australian media when it comes to raising the profile of threats to our nation is less than admirable, however, Adelaide Hills weekly "The Courier" should be commended for finally taking up the concerns of local fruit growers with their recent report on the threat of Fire Blight from imported fruit.
The uncertainty faced by Australian apple growers due to the indifference shown by Bio (in)Security Australia was raised repeatedly by Australian Protectionist candidates during the last Federal Election, notably by One Nation's Senate candidate, however it was an issue both the major parties and the media chose to ignore at the time.
In a well written article which clarified all the issues, the Courier indicated that for the fourth time in a decade Hills fruit growers are facing the threat by Bio security Australia to allow in NZ Apples, a move which threatens the $40million industry.
In a move one could expect from the globalist bureaucracy, growers have only been given until January 12 to lodge an appeal against the recommendations by Bio Security- conveniently timed for the growers' busiest time of year.
Fire Blight is a disease which could easily wipe out all of our state's pear orchards and severely damage our apple crops. Most of our estimated 150 growers are located in the Hills in a region where weather conditions make the trees vulnerable to fire blight. To allow in the imported apples threatens the state's reputation as a "clean, green" provider as well as our export markets.
Under Bio Security's recommendations, the level of quarantine protection our nation's producers can expect is limited to the apples being inspected only once, with fruit being harvested from trees showing "signs" of fire blight or harvested from trees as close as three metres to those showing severe infection.
A representative of local growers indicated that fire blight can only be controlled through the use of antibiotic sprays which are not registered in our country and would not be allowed into our water catchment areas.
New Zealand apples have been banned from our nation since 1921 due to the prevalence of Fire Blight across the Tasman.
Downer's reticence to come to the defence of growers in his own electorate clearly shows that his concern lies not with the welfare of his constituents, not with the security of their livelihoods or the well being of their families, but with the continuation of the major parties' programme for open borders, unfettered trade and globalisation - at any cost.
Considering that Bio Security is little more than the mouth piece of these wretched global village idiots, it is of little surprise that they continually come up with the same findings the government seeks, recommending that our people be offered substandard imported food, much of it from nations with poor processing standards and rife with infectious diseases which threaten the nation's safe, clean and green reputation, threaten the livelihoods of our primary producers, associated industries and the economic welfare of regional Australians.
Boycott imported food where ever possible. Write to your local MP demanding that local producers be given the protection they deserve. Write to the papers condemning politicians' ineptitude and lack of concern for the welfare of regional Australia and the health of Australians nationwide.
One need not be surprised as the track record of Australian media when it comes to raising the profile of threats to our nation is less than admirable, however, Adelaide Hills weekly "The Courier" should be commended for finally taking up the concerns of local fruit growers with their recent report on the threat of Fire Blight from imported fruit.
The uncertainty faced by Australian apple growers due to the indifference shown by Bio (in)Security Australia was raised repeatedly by Australian Protectionist candidates during the last Federal Election, notably by One Nation's Senate candidate, however it was an issue both the major parties and the media chose to ignore at the time.
In a well written article which clarified all the issues, the Courier indicated that for the fourth time in a decade Hills fruit growers are facing the threat by Bio security Australia to allow in NZ Apples, a move which threatens the $40million industry.
In a move one could expect from the globalist bureaucracy, growers have only been given until January 12 to lodge an appeal against the recommendations by Bio Security- conveniently timed for the growers' busiest time of year.
Fire Blight is a disease which could easily wipe out all of our state's pear orchards and severely damage our apple crops. Most of our estimated 150 growers are located in the Hills in a region where weather conditions make the trees vulnerable to fire blight. To allow in the imported apples threatens the state's reputation as a "clean, green" provider as well as our export markets.
Under Bio Security's recommendations, the level of quarantine protection our nation's producers can expect is limited to the apples being inspected only once, with fruit being harvested from trees showing "signs" of fire blight or harvested from trees as close as three metres to those showing severe infection.
A representative of local growers indicated that fire blight can only be controlled through the use of antibiotic sprays which are not registered in our country and would not be allowed into our water catchment areas.
New Zealand apples have been banned from our nation since 1921 due to the prevalence of Fire Blight across the Tasman.
Downer's reticence to come to the defence of growers in his own electorate clearly shows that his concern lies not with the welfare of his constituents, not with the security of their livelihoods or the well being of their families, but with the continuation of the major parties' programme for open borders, unfettered trade and globalisation - at any cost.
Considering that Bio Security is little more than the mouth piece of these wretched global village idiots, it is of little surprise that they continually come up with the same findings the government seeks, recommending that our people be offered substandard imported food, much of it from nations with poor processing standards and rife with infectious diseases which threaten the nation's safe, clean and green reputation, threaten the livelihoods of our primary producers, associated industries and the economic welfare of regional Australians.
Boycott imported food where ever possible. Write to your local MP demanding that local producers be given the protection they deserve. Write to the papers condemning politicians' ineptitude and lack of concern for the welfare of regional Australia and the health of Australians nationwide.
01 December, 2006
Environmental Issues - Too Important to be Railroaded By Global Village Idiots
1st December 2006
The issue of the environment is currently foremost in many people's minds- perhaps quite rightly so. Unfortunately, it is an issue with which the unwashed and unproductive lefty alternative life-stylers believe their day has come.
In the wake of growing discontent with the actions of the Coalition of the Confused in the Middle East, the militant environmentalists have seized on yet another perceived weapon in their ideological arsenal to soften up our pseudo conservative "leaders"- the Kyoto Protocol.
As disagreeable as it is to admit this, the Howard Government is justified in it's refusal to sign the Kyoto Agreement. Responsible nations such as Australia understand what is required to be done. While some sections of our economy may need further incentive to meet their obligations, the fact is signing yet another treaty to violate our sovereignty with a bunch of two bit Third World dictatorships will do absolutely nothing to improve conditions on our planet.
All signing this agreement will do is force greedy multinationals offshore to Third World and developing nations with few laws in place to protect the environment and the added bonus of compliant cheap labour. Our nation's already mutilated manufacturing and processing sectors will gasp their last and Australian workers will yet again be forced onto the queues of the unemployed or into positions with poor conditions, fighting for a place in the workforce with the new influx of Third World workers happy with their new found place in the sun thanks to Kowtow Johnny's new I.R reforms.
No Pacific Islands will be saved from disappearing into the ocean, no furry animals will wave their thanks and gratitude from their saved rainforest habitat, the on again off again ozone hole will not shrink and disappear and we will not be able to return to squandering our water resources thanks to a sudden regular rainfall.
The only parties to benefit from our pandering to the shrill shrieking of the new age global village idiots will be the ever present greedy multinationals whose sole purpose for existence is the continual search for increased profits- whatever the cost, and those corrupt dictatorships who feed off the misery of their own bleeding masses.
Unfortunately for the Global Village Idiots, not all nations and cultures are the same- we don't all play by the same rules, we don't all have the same values and enmeshing our nation into a myriad of UN sponsored treaties to interfere with our internal affairs will NOT bring about the world of peace, health and happiness they so desperately seek.
While agreeing with the move not to sign Kyoto, we are not impressed with the poor performance by governments of either political hue in the quest to find resources to fuel our nation's continued economic growth and ensure the continued prosperity and well being of future generations of Australians.
Both Labor and Liberal pay lip service to the issue which lies at the heart of our nation's very survival, yet do nothing substantial to address the problem. Is it because of funding received by multinationals at election time? Do these divided loyalties between political survival and a passing interest in the welfare of their constituents interfere with progress in this vital area?
Australia is a nation with an immense variety of resources. We are not limited to reliance on coal, oil and uranium. While Yellow cake Mike Rann and Kowtow Johnny are happy to run around waxing lyrical about the economic and environmental benefits of ripping out our vast reserves of uranium and selling it to communist dictators in Beijing or building nuclear reactors around the nation (though a little vague on the actual sites for construction and exactly what the hell we're going to do with the waste), they seem all too willing to turn a blind eye to advances made around the world in the areas of renewable energy.
Internationally, experts have advised the potential for the utilisation of hot rock reserves in the production of electricity and South Australia's own Cooper Basin has been earmarked as highly promising. It has been estimated that a large plant could achieve sales of $85.1 million annually and save CO2 emissions of 850,000 tonnes.
South Australia led the way in exploring the possibilities with the Habanero 1 drilling project. By all accounts a promising venture, but if our governments are serious about the progress to renewable, cleaner and cheaper fuel, if they are so concerned about the continuation of our current standard of living, why has this project not received the high priority it so richly deserves? A $5million grant from the govt with Habanero 2 left in the hands of private enterprise is not what one would call leadership.
Another possibility, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion has also been making progress around the world, with pilot projects such as those in India and parts of the US showing the lethargy displayed by successive Australian governments and their happy reliance on fossil fuels.
Wind farms- bogged down by arguments over the flight paths of birds and supposedly "unsightly" windmills which might upset the neighbours, solar energy given half hearted support by governments happy to sell off our nation's power plants to foreigners who in turn raise the price and halve the service, desalination plants- an issue raised by patriotic and nationalist candidates at the last Federal election but ignored by the media and major parties, are once again up for discussion but only as a last resort. This of course accompanied by a plan to build a weir at the end of the Murray River to save water, but the answer to the possibility of falling water levels at the lakes has been addressed by our State government with the idea of filling it up with salt water.
Never mind the needs of our dairy farmers in the region- another desalination plant anyone?
Our current crop of multinational puppets lack the spine and intestinal fortitude of the statesmen of yesteryear. It appears gone are the days of forward planning for the development of the nation's infrastructure to ensure economic development and prosperity for our nation's people.
With the exception of the small glimmer of hope one witnesses in Western Australia with further plans being forged for the further development of the Ord River region, it appears our so called representatives merely view Australia as a giant mine and market place, free for grabs by unscrupulous multinationals with no care for the welfare of ordinary Australians.
The long term future prosperity and security of our nation demands that our governments plan for the future needs of our people. Australia is a land rich in resources, rich in knowledge- there is no excuse for the lack of progress towards ensuring our nation's needs in regards to continued, renewable fuel.
Except perhaps, a wilful neglect of duty on the part of the internationalist parties our voters have the misfortune to choose between today.
The issue of the environment is currently foremost in many people's minds- perhaps quite rightly so. Unfortunately, it is an issue with which the unwashed and unproductive lefty alternative life-stylers believe their day has come.
In the wake of growing discontent with the actions of the Coalition of the Confused in the Middle East, the militant environmentalists have seized on yet another perceived weapon in their ideological arsenal to soften up our pseudo conservative "leaders"- the Kyoto Protocol.
As disagreeable as it is to admit this, the Howard Government is justified in it's refusal to sign the Kyoto Agreement. Responsible nations such as Australia understand what is required to be done. While some sections of our economy may need further incentive to meet their obligations, the fact is signing yet another treaty to violate our sovereignty with a bunch of two bit Third World dictatorships will do absolutely nothing to improve conditions on our planet.
All signing this agreement will do is force greedy multinationals offshore to Third World and developing nations with few laws in place to protect the environment and the added bonus of compliant cheap labour. Our nation's already mutilated manufacturing and processing sectors will gasp their last and Australian workers will yet again be forced onto the queues of the unemployed or into positions with poor conditions, fighting for a place in the workforce with the new influx of Third World workers happy with their new found place in the sun thanks to Kowtow Johnny's new I.R reforms.
No Pacific Islands will be saved from disappearing into the ocean, no furry animals will wave their thanks and gratitude from their saved rainforest habitat, the on again off again ozone hole will not shrink and disappear and we will not be able to return to squandering our water resources thanks to a sudden regular rainfall.
The only parties to benefit from our pandering to the shrill shrieking of the new age global village idiots will be the ever present greedy multinationals whose sole purpose for existence is the continual search for increased profits- whatever the cost, and those corrupt dictatorships who feed off the misery of their own bleeding masses.
Unfortunately for the Global Village Idiots, not all nations and cultures are the same- we don't all play by the same rules, we don't all have the same values and enmeshing our nation into a myriad of UN sponsored treaties to interfere with our internal affairs will NOT bring about the world of peace, health and happiness they so desperately seek.
While agreeing with the move not to sign Kyoto, we are not impressed with the poor performance by governments of either political hue in the quest to find resources to fuel our nation's continued economic growth and ensure the continued prosperity and well being of future generations of Australians.
Both Labor and Liberal pay lip service to the issue which lies at the heart of our nation's very survival, yet do nothing substantial to address the problem. Is it because of funding received by multinationals at election time? Do these divided loyalties between political survival and a passing interest in the welfare of their constituents interfere with progress in this vital area?
Australia is a nation with an immense variety of resources. We are not limited to reliance on coal, oil and uranium. While Yellow cake Mike Rann and Kowtow Johnny are happy to run around waxing lyrical about the economic and environmental benefits of ripping out our vast reserves of uranium and selling it to communist dictators in Beijing or building nuclear reactors around the nation (though a little vague on the actual sites for construction and exactly what the hell we're going to do with the waste), they seem all too willing to turn a blind eye to advances made around the world in the areas of renewable energy.
Internationally, experts have advised the potential for the utilisation of hot rock reserves in the production of electricity and South Australia's own Cooper Basin has been earmarked as highly promising. It has been estimated that a large plant could achieve sales of $85.1 million annually and save CO2 emissions of 850,000 tonnes.
South Australia led the way in exploring the possibilities with the Habanero 1 drilling project. By all accounts a promising venture, but if our governments are serious about the progress to renewable, cleaner and cheaper fuel, if they are so concerned about the continuation of our current standard of living, why has this project not received the high priority it so richly deserves? A $5million grant from the govt with Habanero 2 left in the hands of private enterprise is not what one would call leadership.
Another possibility, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion has also been making progress around the world, with pilot projects such as those in India and parts of the US showing the lethargy displayed by successive Australian governments and their happy reliance on fossil fuels.
Wind farms- bogged down by arguments over the flight paths of birds and supposedly "unsightly" windmills which might upset the neighbours, solar energy given half hearted support by governments happy to sell off our nation's power plants to foreigners who in turn raise the price and halve the service, desalination plants- an issue raised by patriotic and nationalist candidates at the last Federal election but ignored by the media and major parties, are once again up for discussion but only as a last resort. This of course accompanied by a plan to build a weir at the end of the Murray River to save water, but the answer to the possibility of falling water levels at the lakes has been addressed by our State government with the idea of filling it up with salt water.
Never mind the needs of our dairy farmers in the region- another desalination plant anyone?
Our current crop of multinational puppets lack the spine and intestinal fortitude of the statesmen of yesteryear. It appears gone are the days of forward planning for the development of the nation's infrastructure to ensure economic development and prosperity for our nation's people.
With the exception of the small glimmer of hope one witnesses in Western Australia with further plans being forged for the further development of the Ord River region, it appears our so called representatives merely view Australia as a giant mine and market place, free for grabs by unscrupulous multinationals with no care for the welfare of ordinary Australians.
The long term future prosperity and security of our nation demands that our governments plan for the future needs of our people. Australia is a land rich in resources, rich in knowledge- there is no excuse for the lack of progress towards ensuring our nation's needs in regards to continued, renewable fuel.
Except perhaps, a wilful neglect of duty on the part of the internationalist parties our voters have the misfortune to choose between today.
26 November, 2006
Timely Warnings From a Representative Who Actually Gave a Damn
26th November 2006
"Australia can achieve true national independence only if we are prepared to stand on our own two feet as a nation and accept that our salvation lies in our own efforts. We will not achieve independence by pretending to be something we are not or by clutching to the apron strings of Asia. To be truly independent we have to take the hard decisions, we have to take the risk on our own people, we have to revive a strong Australian national feeling."
"All this will take courage, it will take commitment and it will need us as Australians to take responsibility for ourselves and our country. However, I, unlike some other politicians, have faith in the ability and character of my own people. I believe Australians have the will and the substance to engage in the struggle and emerge as winners."
Graeme Campbell, "The struggle for true Australian independence"
"It is up to concerned people to organise, not only in opposition to these nihilists and opportunists, but also with a positive vision of the Australia of the future- an independent and united Australia which relies upon it's own people and resources. High on the priority for that vision is ridding ourselves of the millstones of multiculturalism and mass immigration and the delusion that we are part of Asia."
"While that contention might have been useful once to force us to recognise our close proximity to Asia it has become one of the big lies of the elites. We are no more a part of Asia than England is part of Africa. Our continent is unique in the world and our history and culture are unique.We have to have the courage to accept that and we have to learn our history in order to understand more about ourselves, in order to value our country more. If we take Australia for granted, it will be taken from us. We should be proud of our heritage and be prepared to stand up against those who would efface it for illusionary gains."
Graeme Campbell, "Immigration and consensus"
Graeme Campbell was indeed a man before his time. A rare breed to be found within the walls of Parliament House- a man, a politician of honour and decency. Like all "prophets", despite the truth he spoke and the warnings he gave about the road on which his people were headed, he was most despised amongst his own- leading to his resignation from the so called "Labor" Party for daring to speak out against the vested interests and parasites who were leading the land and people he loved to ruin.
Nothing has changed since Campbell gave his warnings, except the period of time we have to reverse the disastrous effects of the decisions made by those who would betray their own and sell the birthright of future generations for a pittance.
For more information and a study regarding the corrupt machinations used by the elites, it is recommended you gain a copy of Graeme Campbell's "Australia Betrayed".
"Australia can achieve true national independence only if we are prepared to stand on our own two feet as a nation and accept that our salvation lies in our own efforts. We will not achieve independence by pretending to be something we are not or by clutching to the apron strings of Asia. To be truly independent we have to take the hard decisions, we have to take the risk on our own people, we have to revive a strong Australian national feeling."
"All this will take courage, it will take commitment and it will need us as Australians to take responsibility for ourselves and our country. However, I, unlike some other politicians, have faith in the ability and character of my own people. I believe Australians have the will and the substance to engage in the struggle and emerge as winners."
Graeme Campbell, "The struggle for true Australian independence"
"It is up to concerned people to organise, not only in opposition to these nihilists and opportunists, but also with a positive vision of the Australia of the future- an independent and united Australia which relies upon it's own people and resources. High on the priority for that vision is ridding ourselves of the millstones of multiculturalism and mass immigration and the delusion that we are part of Asia."
"While that contention might have been useful once to force us to recognise our close proximity to Asia it has become one of the big lies of the elites. We are no more a part of Asia than England is part of Africa. Our continent is unique in the world and our history and culture are unique.We have to have the courage to accept that and we have to learn our history in order to understand more about ourselves, in order to value our country more. If we take Australia for granted, it will be taken from us. We should be proud of our heritage and be prepared to stand up against those who would efface it for illusionary gains."
Graeme Campbell, "Immigration and consensus"
Graeme Campbell was indeed a man before his time. A rare breed to be found within the walls of Parliament House- a man, a politician of honour and decency. Like all "prophets", despite the truth he spoke and the warnings he gave about the road on which his people were headed, he was most despised amongst his own- leading to his resignation from the so called "Labor" Party for daring to speak out against the vested interests and parasites who were leading the land and people he loved to ruin.
Nothing has changed since Campbell gave his warnings, except the period of time we have to reverse the disastrous effects of the decisions made by those who would betray their own and sell the birthright of future generations for a pittance.
For more information and a study regarding the corrupt machinations used by the elites, it is recommended you gain a copy of Graeme Campbell's "Australia Betrayed".
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