MK’s Views - Down under on the right side

It’s finally over folks, Australia has chosen and we have a new prime minister. I gotta say to the leftists, certainly took you long enough, enjoy it while it lasts. Soon you will realize the object of your irrational loathing and hate is gone.

Take heart Conservatives, there aren’t many good things in this for us, but for once we won’t have to listen to the incessant whining from the left, after all now that their leader has been elected and it’s wall to wall Labor in this country, they cannot blame any thing on us anymore, it’s all Labor and the left now. If they want to hate someone, they’ll just have to hate their own choice now. I for one will enjoy playing offense. Continue reading Congratulations Prime Minister Rudd…

Folks, we are at the sharp end, a decision will soon be made, it’s not looking good for John Howard, the pundits might say Howard should have done this and done that, worn this tie and stood like that. I think he’s done the best he can and it’s up to us now. It falls to us to think long and hard before we cast our vote. We also have a responsibility to ensure the guy with substance wins not the guy with the best presentation and placards.

The opposition has a lot of slogans and fancy phrases, Kevin Rudd runs a hell of a campaign, but I feel he has not been tested, he’s just been around for a few months and most of us don’t know much about him apart from the fact that he’s suddenly become an economic conservative. The media in my view have given him a really soft ride, easy questions and given him a lot of coverage, I know whose side they’re on. Look at how the states are run and you’ll see the media bias, you know NSW has a premier right, hard to believe, cos the fellow is gone from the face of the earth, I don’t know if he’s dead or alive, last we heard he was headed off to China.

Continue reading Final Words - Election 2007…

SMH - More than 40,000 New Zealanders have been lured to Australia during the past year in what is the biggest exodus for a decade, new figures show. The Dominion Post today reported figures from Statistics New Zealand that show the number of New Zealanders moving to Australia was up almost 6200 on the previous year. New Zealand’s main opposition National Party said the figures were worrying. “Clearly more and more New Zealanders are voting with their feet as they find Labour’s high-tax, government-knows-best policies are leaving less opportunity for the future than they see in Australia,” National’s migration spokesman Lockwood Smith told the paper.

You want to know what Australia would be like under wall to wall Labor governments? Head on over to the airport and ask all those Kiwis & Poms coming over here. They sure ain’t fleeing utopia & good times, that’s for sure.

LiveNews - Navy personnel have rescued sixteen people from a dangerously overcrowded boat off Australia’s northwest. It was a high-risk operation in the open ocean from an unstable ten-metre boat, which has seen eight people fall into the water - including two personnel from HMAS Ararat. Brigadier Andrew Nikolic says it is not yet known where the people came from - or where they were heading.

Wrong week folks, you should have turned up after the leftists get into power, then you’ll get free everything and can stay here for ever. You won’t have to worry about a thing, you can hate Australia and all that, the leftists will make sure the rest of us are forced to look after you and take care of you then.

In other news, our hard working media are really all over KRudd folks, all over him, battering him with tough, scathing questions, you almost feel sorry for the guy. I mean come on press gallery, lay off the bloke will ya - “Mr Rudd was asked whether the success of his wife Therese Rein’s business meant she would make a better Prime Minister than him.” Somebody stop them before they interrogate him, without his lawyer, about his favorite color and when he knew Ms. Rein was the woman partner for him.

LiveNews - Labor and the unions are being accused of playing dirty in the campaign for the southwest Sydney seat of Macarthur. Liberal member Pat Farmer says his house has been vandalised and campaign posters and an advertising balloon have been destroyed. He believes the people responsible were bussed in from outside the area. Mr Farmer has told 2GB’s Alan Jones that suspicion is based on the unexpected arrival of some visitors during one of his regular public forums. “I had a double-decker brand-new Mercedes bus pull-up beside us,” he said. “This thing was painted in orange and black writing [anti] WorkChoices – it must have cost them a fortune.”

Give them half the chance and they’ll lie, cheat, steal, intimidate and vandalize their way into the top job folks. Kevin Rudd can waffle around on the FM stations and latte-lefty TV shows, he can appear on Rove and answer the really tough questions like “Who would he turn gay for”, but if he gets the top job, those same thugs and bullies will be at Kirribilli house. They’ll be banging the table for their pound of flesh and he’ll have to bit his lip and appease them and that’ll cost you.

The Australian - THE accident-prone campaign of star Labor recruit George Newhouse has hit another pothole, with a leaked email revealing his campaign manager has espoused anti-Zionism. In an email addressed “Dear activists”, Ms Jackson wrote to an internet education discussion forum last year: “I oppose Zionism because it calls for the creation of a Jewish state, and I think all governments should be secular. “No Jewish, Islamic, Christian states anywhere in the world, just good, robust, secular democracies,” she said.

“By speaking out on behalf of the Palestinians and Lebanese people, we can give voice to those that some governments and media would wish to silence.” Ms Jackson, 22, the daughter of ABC television journalist Liz Jackson, was president of the National Union of Students at the time she wrote the email. Later, Ms Jackson released a statement retracting her 2006 comments. “Last year, when I wrote the email, I did not understand the definition of Zionism,” she said in the statement.

The Australian - TREASURY and the Department of Finance have estimated that the repeal of all major industrial laws since 1993 would cost the economy $12 billion over the next four years. The Econtech report in August said that if all industrial reforms since 1993 were repealed, unemployment would rise by 199,000, real wages would fall 1.7 per cent and inflation would rise 1.3percentage points higher than if the laws were not repealed. Treasury and Finance have warned that on a “rule of thumb” analysis of the Econtech report, the economy would be threatened by rising inflation, costing $3.75 billion a year by 2011-12.

Continue reading Kyoto & IR - What KRudd didn’t tell you…

Lateline - BOB BROWN: We’re in a box seat to be a world saving country. John Howard’s put us at the back of the class. I want to see Kevin Rudd put us at the front of the class. And I’ll be there with him working all the way down the line.
February 09, 2007 - GREENS Senator Bob Brown is calling for the death of Queensland’s $24 billion coal industry and thousands of jobs, demanding an end to all coal exports within three years.

Bob Brown obviously has the idea that he’ll be quite close to Kevin Rudd if he becomes PM, you want this Brown fellow in charge of the economy. Like the ad says, they’ll stuff our economy, if you let them. Also Kevin Rudd has indicated he’ll be angling for a fixed four year term, that means if he wins on the weekend, we might be stuck with him and the mad Greens for the next four years, not three.

Daily Telegraph [Thanks AR] - THE Liberal Party has claimed 13 Labor candidates are ineligible to stand in Saturday’s federal election. According to Liberal Party headquarters, the 13 hopefuls are all ineligible because they failed to resign from Commonwealth jobs before nominating for parliament. This includes Victorian candidate for McEwen, Rob Mitchell, who the Liberal Party claims may still be employed as a senior adviser to the Brumby state government.

The others named by the Liberals are: Tony Zappia (Makin, SA), Yvette D’ath (Petrie, Qld), Peter Conway (ACT senate), Shayne Neumann (Blair, Qld), Garry Parr (Hinkler, Qld), Alan Neilan (Kennedy, Qld), Sharon Thiel (Kalgoorlie, WA), Belinda Neil (Robertson, NSW), Mark Buttugieg (Cook, NSW), Ross Daniels (Ryan, Qld), Mark Reynolds (Tangney, WA).

Daily Telegraph - In a major embarrassment for the ALP, The Daily Telegraph can today reveal the real lives of the professional actors driving anti-Government sentiment through their hard-luck stories. As lead singer of the Robbie Williams tribute act, Bowater is the next best thing to the real thing singing Rock DJ, Better Man and Sin Sin Sin while half-naked dancers swoon over his tattooed rock-god body.

Continue reading Labor’s “battlers” caught out…

As you probably know, we in Australia are going to the polls this weekend, to decide the future of this country. It’s going to be a real sh*t-fight, the leftists have pulled out all the stops, lying, cheating, back stabbing, anything they can to win this election, things are looking bad for the Conservatives. For the next few days I will be concentrating mainly on the election, so please bear with me, pray for the Conservatives, they need all the help they can get to keep this country going. This is a lovely country and we have our fair share of problems, but giving power to a bunch of socialists and mad environmentalists is not the answer, they will only take us backward.

Back when these lying sacks of crap were running in the state election they were telling us to vote for them for transparency and to hold the major parties to account. I knew that was BS then and it’s still BS now, the only transparency and accountability the Greens are interested in pushing are against the Conservatives. They’ll do anything folks, it’s the fight of their lives, they’ll lie, cheat, steal, any bloody thing to win this election.

Continue reading Shock/Horror - Greens lying sacks of crap…

The following is a comment left at my “Why I think John Howard will win this election” post from a few weeks ago. Apart from the usual name calling and hatred, the last bit about our pockets being full is quite telling. I don’t know if people out there get this, in a way because John Howard and the Conservatives have been in power for so long at the Federal level, we’ve been immune from the left wing parasites, unless we look at the state governments. At the core of leftist ideology lies a dislike for you who work hard, keeping the fruits of your labour, they will never get over that.

Continue reading This is the angry & envious left…

Good grief, can you believe it? Somebody give me a hand, I’m weak from the shock of it, I need to steady myself for a moment!! This is just appalling folks, a politician spending public money on the public!! Bring back capital punishment in Australia folks, forget courts and all that, just take this fellow out the back and shoot him.

Continue reading Shock/Horror - Politician Pork Barrelling…

By AR - Kevin07’s promise to provide a PC at school for every schoolchild in years 9-12 sounds like one of those promises that sound good but end up in the too hard basket when it comes time to deliver. When I heard it, I was reminded immediately of the “no child in poverty” and “one billion trees” promises by an earlier Kevin07… sorry, ALP leader.

Census 2006 states there are 1.275 million high school students in Australia. Let’s say there are 800,000 in years 9,10,11,12. 800,000 PCs, plus software, plus installation, plus routers and switches and cabling, plus floorspace, plus air-conditioned rooms, plus carbon offsets??? (they’ll use electricity, eh), plus firewalls and internet access, plus ongoing IT support… The cost of this little promise is climbing rapidly.

I can see this promise being shelved, or more likely they’ll suddenly acknowledge 90% odd of high school students already have access to a (shared) PC at school and at home and the promise will be… re-framed.

SMH - Bob, a professed Liberal voter, said Julia Gillard was a communist, claiming he read that in the rural newspaper The Land, and queried whether she actually owned a skirt. He also said she would end up running the country while Mr Rudd was off in China jabbering in Mandarin and asked why no Australian flag featured on stage during the Labor campaign launch yesterday. Bob also wondered where was the Labor frontbench in place of former Labor prime ministers Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke and Paul Keating who were all present at the launch. Mr Rudd said he loved the Australian flag and would never change it. “But … I don’t believe that when politicians stand up and are making a direct appeal to the Australian people it necessarily means you have to have the Australian flag wrapped around you on each occasion,” he said. Continue reading Valid questions please…

Apart from working families, the way Kevin Rudd carries on ad nauseum about ‘fresh’ this and ‘fresh that, he’s starting to sound like a green grocer or something. Ok Kev, we got the message about just baked and just plucked ideas, how about some fresh details then. Did you lot see that ad on TV last night about KRudd not being able to last 3 rounds with winnie the pooh? When I first saw the thing, I thought they’d spliced the thing, you know like one of those airbrush jobs the MSM is so fond off, out of context or something, a bit of clever editing by the Liberals if you will. I saw the whole thing just to see what it would be like, but I didn’t make much of it, I’ve already made up my mind, I don’t need any more convincing. Unless Kevin Rudd is going to lower taxes even further, allow gun ownership and preside over daily floggings of hippies, criminals and greenies, he ain’t convincing me.

Continue reading Fresh bread, fresh fish, fresh vegetables, fresh ideas…

I read in all the papers this morning that there is a big fiasco over the seat of Wentworth, currently held by the Liberals Malcolm Turnbull. Apparently the challenger George Newhouse could be derailed by some technicality, naturally he’s blaming his own screw-up on the neo-con, Howard cabal of fascists. I’m not terribly concerned about that, in the all the hoopla over that, an important bit of news is slipping by and I think this is more important.

But the Opposition Leader’s pledge that the parents of private school students would not be worse off under Labor was undermined yesterday by the party’s star candidate for the NSW marginal seat of Eden-Monaro, Mike Kelly, who flagged a return to Mark Latham’s needs-based funding model. Mr Kelly told an ABC radio interviewer that the existing system of funding private schools was “a ridiculous approach to looking at the needs of schools, and we’ll move away from that and get down eventually to a proper needs-based approach”.

Continue reading Kevin07, new t-shirts, same old Socialists and Commies…

SMH - The federal government has denied its workplace laws are a shambles after figures showed thousands of Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) are being knocked back because they are unfair to employees. Statistics published by the Workplace Authority yesterday show it has rejected 26,833 agreements since the fairness test was introduced in May this year.

Continue reading Blinded by Bias and Stupidity…

By AR - Working families are doing it tough, so we’re told by Kevin07 political hopeful, Kevin Rudd. They’re doing it so tough that over the two years prior to 2005/2006 their household wealth increased by only 14% to a measly $563,000. That insubstantial figure is arrived at when you subtract the crippling burden of an average $92,000 debt from average total assets of $655,000. So thanks Kevin, for pointing out how tough we’re doing it. Without you we never would have realised!! SMH.

It’s a moot point, but I can’t help wondering how much better off working families would be if we’d elected the last guy to take on the current government?

Remember him? Photo from TIME.

MK - Former ALP leader Mark Latham confirms - Continue reading Working families are doing it tough?…

SMH - Prime Minister John Howard has apologised to borrowers after the interest rate rise. But Treasurer Peter Costello insists rates have only gone up because Australians have never had it so good. The Reserve Bank this morning lifted the official cash rate by 0.25 percentage points to 6.75 per cent - the first time it has moved rates during an election campaign. At a press conference this morning, Mr Howard acknowledged the “hurt” the rate hike would cause borrowers.

On the one side John Howard will be damaged by this, they’ll be belting him over the head for something he never promised. But on the other hand, on a personal level, I’m pleased with the rate rise, I save my money, so the higher the interest rate, the more I get each month. I don’t owe anyone money, even if I were going to buy something on loan, I’ll be waiting, saving and paying it off as quick as I can. I guess that will all change when I eventually weasel myself into my own house or unit. I really hope I never get to the stage where an additional $50 is going to break the budget. Oh and I await the Labor Party to promise not to raise rates if they get into power.

By AR - A Rudd-led ALP government has added another wealth-destroying and totally useless symbolic gesture to its list that it will implement if elected. ALP spokesman, Kerry O’Brien (no, not the ABC host - the senator) has threatened to shut down Australia’s live animal export industry if enough ardent school girls complain about it.

News.com.au - PUBLIC pressure could force governments to shut down Australia’s lucrative live animal export trade, the opposition warned today. But Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran called the warning “frightening”. Labor spokesman Kerry O’Brien says a Rudd Government would consider shutting down the live exports trade if the public pushed for its end. “If it comes to the point where the Australian public do not accept that animal welfare concerns are properly being met, governments of any persuasion will be faced with a difficult decision and will probably be almost forced to shut it down,” he told ABC TV today during a debate with Mr McGauran. Continue reading More Wealth-Destroying ALP Symbolism…

By KMan - Australian economists Sinclair Davidson and Alex Robson, in The Wall Street Journal Asia, on the risks of Ruddonomics: KEVIN Rudd has cleverly mimicked the Government’s record, even labelling himself an economic conservative. But a closer look at Rudd’s record reveals that he’s not a reformer but, rather, an unreconstructed interventionist masquerading as a free-market conservative. Call it Ruddonomics.

Take his parliamentary record, for a start. Since coming into the parliament in 1998, Rudd has toed the party line and opposed most efforts to further reform the economy … In practice, a Labor government under Rudd would re-regulate economic life. Over the past year he has promised to set up no fewer than 68 new bureaucracies and establish 96 reviews if elected. He promises to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and commit Australia to a costly program of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to 60 per cent of 2000 levels by 2050. His proposed industry policy — constructed by Kim Carr, a declared socialist — would create an uber-bureaucracy of 12 industry innovation councils.

Continue reading Ruddonomics…