Seat of Bank's on Knifes Edge- 1.5%

Melham's Trifecta, Back's Three Losers That Leaves His Bank's Dry!

Seat of Bank's on

Knifes Edge- 1.5%

Federal labor member for seat of bank's in western Sydney Daryl Melham, has a history of backing the wrong horse. He was behind the secret coup to oust current Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in favour of union left factionist Julia Gillard, who is currently under investigation for fraud in two states. 

During Julia Gillard's Prime Ministership, Melham sided with disgraced former labor MP Craig Thomson, who's defending 173 fraud charges by Victorian Fraud and extortion squad detectives, and a further 150 charges by Fair Work Australia, and is yet to be charged by NSW fraud squad detectives for improper use of a credit card.

In late 2011, Melham helped install disgraced speaker of house of representatives Peter Slipper, who has too been charged for fraud, with the cab charge rip-off in which he defrauded the commonwealth. 

It would appear yet again that Melham has backed the wrong horse by re-installing former sacked PM Kevin Rudd to top job. Rudd is under investigation by QLD police for the deliberate destruction of documents seized as evidence during the Heiner affair into sexual abuse of children. 

Only two months after Rudd was installed as PM, his approval rating has taken a massive slump. In fact, for the first time, Tony Abbott leads by two points as preferred PM over Rudd, and leads by eight points on a two party preferred basis. Sportsbet has labor at $12.00 and LNP at $1.02. This is the highest recorded wager against the ALP. On Julia Gillard's worst approval rating, sportsbet had former PM at $9.50. Rudd has now eclipsed that figure.

All Melham has going for him now is his own personal record. Although his record is in fact very good and clean, for most new voters they would not be familiar with the reeling years of Hawke/Keating when Melham was a front bencher and got his first real taste of frontline Australian politics. 

For the young and uninitiated, they tend to trend with the young and the new, just as they did back in 2007 when they elected Kevin Rudd to office.

Liberal candidate David Coleman has come out of left field from camp Turnbull to make the switch from executive television to federal pollie. 

Whether it be Melham or Coleman, one thing is for sure, the seat of bank's will never be the once quiet safe ol' labor seat that slotted in with its other red borders of Watson and Blaxland. This seat is now at the mercy of its people rather than the people at the mercy of it's representative.

Editorial- Carbon Tax Roll Out

Editor-in-chief:  Paul S McAuley

SINCE the dawn of time, taxes have been a part of our life, and will no doubt be a part of our future. Taxes have been the very foundation for providing the revenue for governments to deliver the necessary services to the communities that make up the total boundaries within an electorate.

Of course, taxes have never been popular with tax payers, but no one could disagree that we need taxes to subsidise our hospitals, police, emergency services, infrastructure, and government services and departments. What tax payers will disagree with is the appropriateness of certain taxes and how these taxes are distributed and administered.

During Gough Whitlam's Prime Ministership, he introduced new government funded services such as social security and medicare, which meant new government departments had to be implemented, buildings and staff had to be acquired to facilitate the new government policies. Money doesn't suddenly fall from trees and it certainly didn't back in Gough's time, so taxes had to rise, cost of living had to rise, and therefore that put pressure on inflation.

In the Hawke/Keating years, new policies were introduced which actually relieved the government to some extent, of financial burden. Instead of automatically rising or adding taxes (which did eventually follow), the government made an unpopular decision to sell assets. The govt owned and operated the Commonwealth Bank (CBA),which was deregulated and partly sold off, as to was Qantas when the airline industry was also deregulated. 

The Howard/Costello era wasn't immune from unpopular policy change either. The highly unpopular GST (Goods and Services Tax) was introduced in John Howard's second term shortly after the referendum at the federal general election was held. This tax of course was a tax reform, and not a general new tax. Sales tax was abolished, and new discrepancies were later found in the first phase of the roll out.

This brings us to the current new tax implementation, the Gillard Govt's carbon tax. For years, the science of global warming has been widely debated, and still, scientists are split on whether or not humans are responsible for climate change. 

Professor David Archibald, a prominent climate scientist and former scientist at CSIRO has told Fine Line, that "humans are not responsible for climate change, but nature herself". He said, that in the life time of our planet Earth, millions of years from now, the percentage of carbon emissions contributed from human activity in its current form will be less than one fraction of one percent, or zero of one percent.

Predictions of rising tides, record high temps, and catastrophic weather, are just some of the things the govt. appointed chief climate change scientist- Professor Tim Flannery, is saying will happen. Now what strikes me as peculiar, is Tim Flannery, David Archibald, and scientists at the CSIRO, have all seen the same scientific evidence and data, and yet the govt. seem defiant on accepting the findings of the scientific data.

Now we all know what happened after the last federal general election back in 2010, after the ALP forged a relationship with the Greens to form govt! That's right! Julia Gillard told us she was going to introduce a carbon tax that she previously said she wasn't going to introduce under a govt. that she leads. Well arguably, Ms. Gillard doesn't lead this govt, and certainly not in the polls. The latest news poll figures suggest a total labor whitewash in QLD, due to the backlash of the carbon tax. 

Most of the mining jobs that have been sacrificed for cheaper offshore labour and operations, were from QLD. Treasurer Wayne Swan and former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd would be erased from political office, if an election were to be held this weekend. Tens of thousands of jobs have already been lost due to high Australian dollar for exporters, affects of GFC and Euro on ASX, rising costs > unsustainability. Tens of thousands of more jobs are expected to be lost or scaled down as a result of surging power and fuel costs not only from inflation, but a direct result of a carbon tax.

As I said in my intro. Taxes are relevant, and they're a part of life, so we have to live with it. That is part true. Like you, I am happy to part with my hard earned money with the knowledge that it is going to be put back into society responsibly, and that the tax was warranted in the first place. 

Not so with this tax. Kevin Rudd came to power with $26b in the bank, which his govt. inherited from John Howard and Peter Costello. While the mining boom helped finance the final term of Howard/Costello, a lot more has been contributed by the mining sector since then, and not a lot is being injected back into the economy now, and that is part due to the fact that Rudd and Gillard have squandered the $26b surplus, and borrow more than $133 million a day just on interest. That's $1billion every ten days just on interest. It's this great big black hole that has corrupted the govt. into record borrowing and spending, that has meant the govt. simply aren't generating enough revenue to meet their financial responsibilities and obligations. They (govt.) need this tax!

As a tax payer and a voter, I refuse to accept the science of global warming, (come climate change), and refuse to accept the financial obligation to pay for a tax, based on a lie, that is designed to destroy our economy, destroy our way of life, for the political agenda of a socialist govt, that has lost its way with the Australian people. I for one, do not appreciate being played for a fool, nor being patronised. Our fathers didn't die, fighting for the freedoms we take for granted today, to simply have them taken away out of selfishness. 

The person I feel sorry for is the small business owner who has to decide whether to close his door or continue to absorb rising costs for an inevitable closure. Or there's the farmer who has to decide whether to down size or rip the crop out of the ground, due to rising costs, he can't compete with other countries who don't have a carbon tax.

You see, it doesn't end there. It's one thing to wreck our place of employ, our livelihood, our food, our fuel.... Then when we get home, we're faced with the realisation of higher electricity bills, gas bills etc. Suddenly, we are with less money than before. Do I go out? I can see it now. Record number of rock bands performing "un-plugged" due to carbon tax. Silly you might say, and forgiven if you did say, but not as silly as the implementation of this ridiculous tax.

My plea to you the tax payer! Don't believe everything a politician, or scientist, or doctor, or whoever tells you, says! Get a second opinion, or third! My way of thinking, is to not only get another opinion, but to also do my own research, and draw my own conclusion. 

For too long, too many Australian's have been too busy, too tired,  too lazy or too trusting to fully understand or comprehend an important legislative change such as this one. What this country lacks is decent leadership. Without leadership, we all might as well be a herd of sheep.



 

Carbon Tax Rally 1st July

DAY ONE  OF GOVT's CARBON TAX



Coalition plan to rescind carbon tax when elected to office




Photo inset: Protestors gather at St James (City) before march to Central

Photo: Paul S McAuley

On a day where clouds loomed over the city, many more dark clouds loomed over Julia Gillard, as thousands of protestors in the two biggest capital cities in the country, Sydney and Melbourne, gathered to show their opposition to the world's biggest carbon tax in front of a packed international media contingent.

This is the third anti-carbon tax rally that I have covered, and this one had the biggest turn out by far. The timing of the roll out of the tax falling on a Sunday was a major contributing factor. Many of the other rallies such as the big one in Canberra, were held midweek which prevented many working people from attending.

As usual, the protestors were made up of small business people, farmers, workers, and senior citizens. I have a lot to do with small business owners, so I can understand where they're coming from. As many as up to eight thousand people made their way into the city for the rally down to Central. Many speakers including;- The Hon Bronwyn Bishop MP, Craig Kelly MP, David Archibald (climate scientist) and representatives from business, farming, and scientific studies, were present.

Photo left: The Hon Bronwyn Bishop MP
Photo by: Paul S McAuley

ALMOST 18 months on, since the Gillard led labor government announced its intention to introduce a carbon tax, the majority of Australian voters are still dissatisfied with the lie Julia Gillard told to the general electorate, and the roll out of the carbon tax.

In August last year, I interviewed the federal labor member for Banks - Daryl Melham, and quizzed him on the carbon tax, (among other things), and pointed out the key issues that were raised by people from his electorate, whom I had surveyed prior to my interview with him. Daryl watered down suggestion that the long term affects of the carbon tax would cripple small business, hurt pensioners, and already battling workers and struggling families. He claimed that, "these allegations were the work of the opposition and media, trying to score a headline".

Here are some recordings from the rally.

Right;- Craig Kelly MP

Below;- scenes from the march down Elizabeth St Sydney.

The general consensus from people at the march, was the uncertainty of commodity and utility prices, which is detrimental for business. The carbon price is expected to be around $23-$26 per tonne, compared to a world average of $15 per tonne. What we do know, is prices on electricity, gas and oil, will rise, and that price will be compounded, so consumers could end up paying their carbon price up to four times on a single item at the grocery store. The govt. has said they will compensate low income earners and legible households to cover the short fall of their carbon footprint, but this will only last one fiscal year, just enough time for people to get used to the carbon rebate by the time of the next federal general election.

Opposition leader Tony Abbott, has told the Australian media that "there will be no carbon tax under the govt. that I lead, except I mean it". Now whether you want to risk trusting another future leader is purely your own choice, but one thing is for sure, what one parliament can legislate is what another can de-legislate.

Only time will tell what the full impact of the carbon tax will be. For most of us, it won't really hit home until the bills start flowing in. In these already tough economic times, and with a second recession expected to hit Europe, everyone will be watching their money carefully in these tough times ahead. You know as they say;- "when the going gets tough, the tough get going".

Tim Flannery: Economist - Psychic

Economist Tim Flannery

Flannery Predicts Anarchy For Western Sydney With Fresh Climate Change Claims

I don't know about you, but when I get sick, I go to the doctor. If I need medicine, I go to a chemist. To service my car, I take it to a mechanic. So if you want to know what the weather is doing in 20 years time, you go to a meteorologist right... Wrong! Prime minister Julia Gillard it seems, prefers to get her climate advice from an economist. That's right, Professor Tim Flannery. And it's not surprising, I mean after all, when you run out of credible climate scientists it makes perfect sense to trumpet out a former Australian of the year, and climate spokesperson- Tim flannery. 

Flannery is the nation's leading climate change expert who advised Julia Gillard of the carbon tax, and has yet again warned of catastrophic weather events, only this time he seems to have mastered the art of psychic ability, by predicting mental health complaints brought on by severe heat waves, crime wave, and monumental deaths in the centre of western Sydney.

Professor Hughes, of the climate control commission said, "We know mortality goes up in heatwaves. If we get heat waves in western Sydney, yes, we would expect to see deaths". The deadly predictions come after the coolest summer in 15 years with the longest run of days under 30C.

Hard to imagine after two hard years of rain, and record low temps right around the world, that the same man that said we would be all dying from heat exhaustion and bearing brunt of a never ending drought, that he would expect us to believe in his new fear mongering findings. Sounds to me that a prime minister on the brink of her own disaster could be throwing more tax payer money at a man with as bout as much climate credentials as a cab driver doing my tax. It is on the public record that Flannery is being paid more than $220k a year by Julia Gillard, care of the tax payer. As a self acclaimed climate expert, Tim Flannery makes a good economist.

Below: Excerpt from The Telegraph

CLIMATE Commissioner Tim Flannery's work labelled "alarmist" by a renowned climate scientist who says his own predictions were "wrong".

Asked about mental health and other impacts raised in the report, she said heatwaves led to surges in violence.
"The police actually know, this was brought out in our previous report, when you get several days of extreme hot weather, they have more problems, there's more violence, people are cranky and prone to violent outbursts," she said.
Heat combined with poorer air quality could mean hospitals, which already experienced more emergency cases on hot days, recorded a 40 per cent jump in admissions from 2020-30 and a 200 per cent increase from 2050-60, the commission will claim, based on a report from 2008.
If extreme weather caused power outages, the climate scientists feared serious health impacts if blackouts caused "food to spoil due to improper refrigeration, or be contaminated due to inadequate cooking, leading to illness".
The report said hot days had already increased 60 per cent in western Sydney since 1970 and days in Sydney above 35C would balloon from 3.3 in 2008 to 14 in 2100.
From 1970 to 2011, the number of days over 35C in NSW jumped by up to 7.5 per decade.
Prof Hughes said the cooler, wetter summer was a case of day-to-day weather.
However she said the warnings were based on long term analysis of climate change.
But James Cook University Adjunct Professor Bob Carter, an environmental scientist, rubbished the predictions.
"So what. There is always going to be more or fewer hot days per decade," he said.
He claimed forecasting models to project warming, used by the UN, were wrong and that claims made about the start of this century had proven wrong.
"Those same computer models predicted there would be two-tenths of a degree of warming between the turn of the century and 2010 - in fact we had no warming at all.
"If you bring it out to 2012, we have had a slight cooling."
The Climate Commission report will be released today ahead of a forum with Prof Flannery, Prof Hughes and fellow Commissioner Will Steffen at Parramatta RSL club tomorrow night.