The Australian election on 18May2019 is for the least stupid Govt. These are the issues I have in mind feel free to add to the list. So my argument is that in all these examples GreenLabor will be obviously worse, change things faster and be more harmful to Australia than the messy imperfect Govt we have.
Electricity grid, Electric vehicles, Climate change, War on coal – Adani, Renewable energy, energy storage projects like Snowy 2.0, Border security, Rush to be UN compliant, Closing the Gap, Constitutional threats, Education standards, developing the north, new dams, MDB, stupid water policies like needless seawater desalination, Salinity degrading productive land in WA, Green Lawfare threats to vital resources industry, vegans and animal rights activists protesting on farms, GST money avalanche rewarding worst performing States, rules covering investments, Union power will sure increase more under GreenLabor, Cultural features of our society like Australia Day, ANZAC Day, historic statues, re-writing history, Christmas, Easter, will all change or vanish more rapidly under a Shorten GreenLabor regime. Riteon with some how to vote advice, Part 1, Part 2, climate presentation by David Archibald.
Chart 1993 to 2019 history of Greens voting in Senate and States Upper Houses – the Greens vote mostly seems to have peaked circa2010.
Good one Wazz.
I agree 1/ vote
2/ with the reps take care of preferences -put the greens last, and any candidate pushing the climate scam including most ALP second last or close to the bottom so they will be eliminated
3/ with senate vote below the line -leave out from the list of 12 a/ greens b/ socialists eg social alliance c/ animal rights d/ ALP e/ cannabis parties f/ Palmer party and g/ stupids like Hinch
4/ For NSW senate put senator Jim Molan AO DSC (liberal) first- he should be minister for defence.
Couldn’t possibly be as fractious as over here in The Land Of The Long White Shroud, with our Parliament passing a Firearms Bill – about as speedily as Rugby Australia distances itself from yet another Israel Folau Tweet !
Quite a line-up of reasons to shun the ALP, Wazz, to which I would add: more taxes, more deficits, and slower growth leading to higher unemployment.
But these are, of course, just consequences of the economically inefficient, productivity-sapping policies you list.
Down the memory-hole of the Rudd Gillard Rudd years.
1. Carbon Tax “There will be no carbon tax under the Government I lead.”
2. NBN $50 billion but no cost-benefit analysis, will be a shambles bigger than AUSSAT.
3. Building the Education Revolution, The school halls fiasco
4. Home Insulation Plan (Pink Batts), how many $millions wasted – Dumped
5. Citizens Assembly, Dumped
6. Cash for Clunkers, Dumped
7. Hospital Reform, Nothing
8. Digital set-top boxes, Cheaper at Harvey Norman
9. Emissions Trading Scheme, Abandoned
10. Mining Tax Continuing uncertainty for our miners as version 1 morphs into version 2, and what other mad scheme could emerge.
11. Livestock export ban to Indonesia. Over-reaction and harm to many people in the industry.
12. Detention Centres. Riots & cost blow-outs, hunger strikes, professional self-harming. Millions of dollars of compensation claims in the courts, driven by taxpayer funded lawyers.
13. East Timor ‘solution’. Announced before agreed, never went anywhere, dead.
14. Malaysia ‘solution’ WHAT A JOKE IT IS, who dreamt this up, we send back 800 and get 4,000 in return, only GreenLabor could agree to this, now bogged in the High Court.
15. Manus Island ‘solution’, no shame, simply recycling what the Howard Govt did.
16. Computers in Schools. $1.4 billion blow out; less than half delivered
17. Cutting Red Tape. 12,835 new regulations, only 58 repealed
18. Asia Pacific Community. Another expensive Rudd frolic. Going nowhere
19. Green Loans Program. Abandoned. Only 3.5% of promised loans delivered
20. Solar Homes & Communities plan, Shut down after $534 million blow out
21. Green Car Innovation Fund, Abandoned
22. Solar Credits Scheme. Scaled back
23. Green Start Program. Scrapped
24. Retooling for Climate Change Program. Abolished
25. Childcare Centres. Abandoned. 260 promised, only 38 delivered
26. Take a “meat axe”‘ to the Public Service, 24,000 more public servants and growing!
27. Murray Darling Basin Plan, back to the drawing board after a wet 2010
28. 2020 Summit. Meaningless talkfest
29. Tax Summit. Deferred and downgraded
30. Population Policy. Sets no targets
31. Fuel Watch. Abandoned
32. Grocery Choice. Abandoned
33. $900 Stimulus cheques. Sent to dead people and overseas residents
34. Foreign Policy. In turmoil with Rudd running riot
35. National Schools Solar Program. Closing two years early
36. Solar Hot Water Rebate. Abandoned
37. Oceanic Viking. Govt caved in, big win for taxpayer funded “Asylum-seeker Industry”
38. GP Super Clinics. 64 promised, only 11 operational
39. Defence Family Healthcare Clinics. 12 promised, none delivered
40. Trade Training Centres. 2650 promised, 70 operational
41. Bid for UN Security Council seat. An expensive Rudd frolic
42. My School Website Revamped but problems continue
43. National Curriculum. States in uproar.
44. Small Business Superannuation Clearing House – 99% of small businesses reject it
45. Indigenous Housing Program, way behind schedule, tangled in Govt and Indig red tape.
46. Rudd Bank Went nowhere
47. Using cheap Chinese fabrics for ADF uniforms. Could not spell, ditched
48. Innovation Ambassadors Program junked
49. Six Collins Class Submarines, none operational, too noisy when they do sortie, cost $6Billion. The Hon Kim Beazley, AC was the genius Defence Minister when they were purchased I seem to recall. And our current crop of genius’s are planning a “Son of Collin’s Class” fleet. Save us.
50. Debt limit to be increased to $250 billion, to pay for all of the above and much more by us and our grandchildren.
51. As at 26 Feb 2012 our borders are essentially open to any comers and the main stream media (MSM) hardly mentions the issue now.
52. The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) a $10Bn gift to the Greens which will helicopter taxpayer funds into clean energy technologies.
53. The Gonski report proposals to slosh another $5Bn into education, how the Ed unions must be salivating.
54. The slippery appointment of Liberal defector to the role of Speaker in parliament just to shore up an extra number. Oddly he turns out to be of independent mind, can tell the PM to sit down if she does not talk on the subject.
Apologies if I have duplicated any.
Is there a facsimile of the Senate ballot paper for NSW ? There was such a one for the Legislative Council in the recent NSW elections.
The obvious purpose for this to sort out below-the-line boxes you want before the silliness of how-to-vote preferences is forced on you through being personally accosted outside the polling booths.
As a second comment, which I know will be annoying to the city slicks, the NBN has been a big advance to regional areas. I have gone from ADSL2 (0.2Mbps maximum) to NBN 50Mbps (average 45Mbps) for the same cost per month ($59.95 to $62) with a 4x data cap increase. My landline phone now costs $10/month with no additional costs for nationwide calls to fixed lines *AND* mobiles. The NBN has stopped treating regional populations as 2nd class citizens. I would argue that FTTN is the best thing Waffle did (perhaps the only positive thing).
Now watch the city-based sniping roll in.
ianl8888 – I live in a city – a big one – but I won’t argue that the NBN is a boon in the country. I would hope for at least that, given the price tag. Question is – was there a cheaper way of doing it?
Ian18888,
You seem to have forgotten the $6000++ contribution from every man, woman and child in Australia to the capital cost of the NBN.
It has turned out to be slightly greater than the $7billion on Rudd’s drink coaster (or was it a table napkin?).
The latest stated cost is $52billion.
My money is on $100billion.
And at $100billion the project was patently STUPID.
And there she blows …
Of course I haven’t “forgotten” the tax cost. But then, I haven’t lived with the city slicks for decades now, so the tax cost of city infrastructure can’t be on my radar, can it ?
I’m sorry David B, but your question is typical of the city slick reply. It’s just a way of pushing the regional population issue away. I was unable to force ADSL2+ service in my region except at exorbitant costs of over $1000 per month. The response to my push for a reasonable deal was invartiably: “First collect 20,000 signatures”.
Now tell me you don’t mind treating regional populations as 2nd class citizens.
Just as I was noting our culture is under threat – Navy stops pers. marching in dark at the Nowra Dawn Service due “safety concerns”. You could not make this stuff up.
www.southcoastregister.com.au/story/6027710/defence-about-face-on-anzac-day-decision/?cs=203
Ianl when I first came from Sydney to this place in SE Qld 15 years ago I was told it was rural and I could not get internet connection. However, I mentioned that I had a company and in Sydney I had a company account with excellent service from Telstra (eg a callout response to fix a line fault within 10 minutes ). Also mentioned that there was a distribution box at the end of the road. I had a quick response from the country manager. They did some programming at the exchange in the town some 6Km away and I was connected through ADSL within two weeks. I switched to the NBN about a year ago. It is not much faster but I have had a lot of drop outs. Some in the area have wireless connections through other providers (although needs to be direct inline from the central transmission tower, These appear to be at least 10 times as fast. I suggest that the NBN is a waste of money and it would have been better wireless from phone towers (Indonesia has a combination of satellite and phone towers).
Another waste of money mainly by states is trams in the city and studies for fast rail ( I was on the fastest train in the world to Shanghai airport -top speed 432km/hr but only a few tourists on it as it does not go to the city centre or underground and no way to carry luggage )
Couldn’t agree more about the waste in cities on light rail, not to mention bike lanes, “bread and circuses”, so-called cultural subsidies, virtue-signalling exercises etc etc.
Of course people in regional areas should not be treated as 2nd class citizens. But the fact that the NBN avoided that only means it had at least one redeeming feature, not that it was a good idea or good value for money overall. There must surely have been a better solution where private enterprise met the needs of all those who could pay (e.g. the 90% of us city slickers), and some cost-effective solution was found to bring broadband to the bush.
It has been decades since I voted for any one person let alone a party – if ever.
I always make a list of candidates and parties and then cross off those I would not wish to see in parliament under any circumstances. I then rank the remainder in terms of their least desirability. I then vote for the least undesirable.
I grew up in a politically active household. About age of nine I was so unable to reconcile what I was told was the right way to live and behave with what I saw and heard from the politicians who came and went through the family home that I declared a plague on all their houses.
But I always vote. That is what gives me a right to bitch subsequently.
@cementafriend
Sorry but I did expect the “wireless” (4G, 5G) argument to be used. City slicks just cannot abide regional infrastructure built with tax (try using that argument against road construction and maintenance).
The problem with the “wireless” argument is that it is essentially line-of-sight, so mountainous or even hilly country is a no-fit. I live about 2 hours out of the Sydney metrop area but struggle to get 2G service, let alone 4 or 5G. Satellite is fine but apart from Austar TV (which worked a treat for decades but which Foxtel is now trying to kill in favour of … you guessed it … NBN streaming), no one in this brain-dead country seems capable of even saying satellite.
NBN dropouts ? Yes, to start with these were scrofulous. I haven’t experienced a dropout now for over 8 months, so in full honesty I will agree that the NBN service has matured in the regions.
When Rudd first proposed an “NBN”, with the regions getting first dibbs, I was extremely cynical. What ? The regions given tax-funded communications infrastructure ? Telstra will go full spare. Which it did, until the Govt bought it out, again (ie. stuffed its’ mouth with money). The regional NBN is now established and working both well and affordably.
But I have thought for nearly a year now that this cannot last. Keeping it against city-slick attacks is becoming increasingly unlikely. Envy is such a strong motive.
Last comment from me on this topic. I had meant to add to the one above that I suspect a Shorten Govt to find a way of throttling back the regional usefulness of the NBN. This would please his city constituencies, lose him no votes and “save” money.
Increasing the cost per km would do, I suppose.