John Pasquarelli
You can read John Pasquarelli every week in the Melbourne Observer newspaper.
Below is a sample of his forthright comments.
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Melbourne Observer - December 13, 2006
Pauline Hanson’s intention to contest the next federal election has produced the predictable – a tsunami of bile and vilification spewed out by the usual suspects with some ball-breaking female journos the worst culprits. She is being accused of everything from plunging the nation into chaos to rorting electoral funding. Sheik Hilarious will continue his evil rantings and the big political parties will squander taxpayers’ money during their campaigns. Ex- PMs like God Gough, The Silver Bodgie, Paul Who and Malcolm Trousers spend huge amounts of our money enjoying their retirement while we have become immune to the rorting of our run-of-the mill MPs on their overseas trips.
$500 million a year is being spent on re-settling thousands of Sudanese refugees brought in during 2004 and only 37% of these were medically checked – meanwhile ordinary Australians wait patiently in hospital queues and thousands of carers receive a pittance from government. Militant Islam is swamping Europe while our homegrowns spit on bibles and peddle their anti-Australian propaganda, protected in Victoria by race hate laws voted for by Liberals. Labor wants these laws federally. There is no doubting Hanson’s courage and patriotism as she stands up to the gutless white flag wavers. 2007 will be one hell of a year!
Melbourne Observer - December 6, 2006
A sad day for Kim Beazley – losing the Labor leadership and the death of his brother. As they say – ‘politics is a dirty game’ and Kim Beazley will have plenty of time to reflect. The Libs now have to face the ‘dream team’ – a silly title given the times we live in. Kevin Rudd’s CV based on DFAT and political office backgrounds does not augur well for his connection to mainstream Australia. Any whiff of intellectual snobbery will quickly reduce the ‘dream’ to a nightmare. Julia Gillard’s politics are the colour of her hair and after her Medicare flop at the last election Mr Rudd will have to keep looking in the rear mirror.
Australians will want to know quickly where Mr Rudd stands on terrorism, refugees and immigration as well as critical issues like water and alternative power sources. There are nutters in the Labor Party who favour open migration and they will press their case with their new leaders. Mr Rudd’s diplomacy skills will be tested on the anvil of the Pacific Rim countries that are falling over like ninepins. John Howard has been ‘snowed’ on this crucial matter of national importance by some of those closest to him. 2007 will be an interesting year.
Melbourne Observer - November 29, 2006
Thank God it’s over! The polls and the media pumped up the Greens and People Power but in the end Centrebet was spot on predicting an easy Labor win in Victoria. Victorians were bemused by the frenetic antics of Ted Baillieu and he will carry this silly baggage for as long as he remains in parliament. Voters want their premiers to look and act like premiers – which is exactly what Mr Bracks does. Having Jeff Kennett around was poison. Kennett is hated in the bush and now maybe – a few Libs will understand that. Victorian country electorates have become killing fields for the opposition.
The Nats gloat about beating good bloke independent Russell Savage but they couldn’t take a country seat from Labor. The useless Libs supported Labor on the Race Hate Bill which has backfired on Christians and not a word was said about Labor’s upper house candidate, Khalil Eideh – allegedly a member of the Syrian anti – West Social Nationalist Party which amazingly has its headquarters in Melbourne’s Brunswick. Does ASIO know this? The Libs have more agony ahead as membership shrivels and a few remaining hardheads walk away from the wreck. Conservative Victorians looking for an answer may start looking at Family First.
Melbourne Observer - November 22, 2006
Australians witnessed the violent protest against the G20 in Melbourne when masked and hooded anarchists took over part of the city, making the Victorian government and its police force a laughing stock.
Ill-prepared and equipped police were placed in grave danger as the hoons rampaged while the media took their close-up shots.
Water cannon and tear gas should have been the order of the day but the final episode in the sorry spectacle came when the top heavy and waddling police commissioner delivered her pathetic PC spin. When will police rank and file say ‘enough’ to this useless woman?
Victorians will soon have their election behind them and many are shaking their heads at Ted Baillieu’s switch to vaudeville with his various gymnastic feats and assorted gyrations.
His Elvis impersonation hinted at a career after politics! The Bracks’ government is beatable but self-inflicted damage has presented it with a depleted opposition.
Those who know, say that the Libs’ campaign is controlled by Baillieu, Petrogeorgiou and Jeff Kennett and has degenerated into a bread and circus event. The polls are still all over the place and the results in the upper house could be crucial. As for me I’m sticking with Centrebet!
Melbourne Observer - November 15, 2006
Ray Martin’s interview with Sheik Hilarious on 60 Minutes says a lot about the present management of Channel Nine. Here was a chance to lay it on the line to a man who has got away with blue murder ever since he was saved from deportation by Paul Keating and other treacherous Labor MPs who considered the votes of Muslims more important than those of fair dinkum Aussies. Instead Martin gave Hilali a dream run and viewers were treated like dills as they were forced to listen to meaningless translation grabs from a man who can barely utter a sentence in English.
The smug Sheik supported by a wife and daughters used his appearance to reinforce his boring, standard defence of being misquoted by a conspiratorial media. Martin’s only scoring point in a pathetically lopsided interview was when Hilali said that his prime allegiance was to Islam. The Hilali interview sends a clear message to mainstream Australians that it is impossible for Muslims to ever assimilate given that their loyalty to their religion is above that to Australia. Ray Martin pursued Pauline Hanson with a vengeance. The difference between the Sheik and Martin and Hanson is that Pauline Hanson is a proud Australian patriot.
Melbourne Observer - November 8, 2006
The dust has settled a bit after the leader’s TV debate and the various parties are on the campaign trail heading towards election day on November 25. The debate was more or less a draw. Premier Bracks chickened out of a second debate and Ted Baillieu wasted precious time defending one of his mentors Jeff Kennett. Wagers placed with Centrebet have consolidated the Bracks’ Government position and Ted Baillieu’s team are around the eight to one mark. The man in the street appears to consider the result is foregone.
Under new voting rules for the Victorian upper house, the real interest is whether the Greens can win control and therefore be able to dictate terms to the winning major party. The Greens are without a doubt the new fascists yet the major parties continue trying to do deals with them. Family First is the only group prepared to take the Greens on. Doling out free heroin to addicts, shooting up centres, mad social engineering schemes and rabid anti-development policies are but a few missiles in the Greens’ armoury. Maybe it might be a good thing if the Greens had their way allowing ordinary Australians to see political vandals at work before the next federal election.
Melbourne Observer - November 8, 2006
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Melbourne Observer - October 25, 2006
Visionaries are very rare in Australian politics and now we are paying the price. The drought will have serious economic repercussions if there is no rain. Despite our climatic history and our bards singing about the ‘sunburnt country’ we have merrily gone on our way – sending water long distances in open channels with huge evaporative loss and being instructed to get rid of domestic water tanks by trendy local governments concerned about the visual aesthetics. The dangerous Greens have been able to stop construction of dams so Bendigo and Ballarat could be dry come the end of summer.
Against this alarming backdrop we have nutters like Malcolm Fraser and his mad mates calling for our population to be 55 million plus. The recycling of waste water is beginning not as the result of a long range project but as a panicky knee jerk reaction. For too long we have watered our sports grounds with good drinking water and stood by while industry sucks up the precious commodity. All this must and will change. The human consumption of recycled sewage faces no future because of the potent fear factor. As for me I’m installing tanks – now all I need is rain!
Melbourne Observer - October 18, 2006
Many lefties in the West who were once slavish promoters of multiculturalism are starting to have their doubts about the policy which has proved divisive and discriminatory. Hundreds of thousands of mainstream Australians find themselves literally held hostage in ethnic ghetto suburbs and there are no politicians who will listen to them. It is alleged that Muslim taxidrivers in Melbourne are refusing to pick up blind passengers and their guide dogs. The rot started in Australia with Gough Whitlam and that little crook Al Grassby but the real culprits are Malcolm(where’s my trousers) Fraser and his court jester Petrogeorgiou.
‘Petrol’ who holds the Liberal seat of Kooyong is now railing against his own government over its proposed citizenship tests and whingeing about the criticisms of his beloved multiculturalism. It’s ‘London to a brick on’ that Fraser and his sycophant have never visited Lakemba, Punchbowl, Ipswich, Springvale, Dandenong and all those other suburbs where foreign languages, foreign language shop signs and some parking signs are all the go. Our migrant success stories are those of new Australians who appreciated the wonderful opportunities afforded them. They assimilated, didn’t whinge, worked hard, paid their taxes and are proud to be Australian.
Melbourne Observer - October 4-11, 2006
John Pasquarelli is away from the computer keyboard this week, preparing for his exhibition at the Lynn Wilton Gallery, 1044 High St, Armadale.
Melbourne Observer - September 27, 2006
Ordinary Australians must be scared witless when their Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty tells them that Islamic Australia is not to blame for terrorism, that ‘the war on terror’ did not apply in Australia and that he admires Muslim Australians and breaks bread with them at Ramadan. Mr Keelty weirdly asserts that the real danger to us is homegrown non-Muslim terror. I may well ask – ‘please explain.’ Mr Keelty makes no reference to the Muslim anti-Australian and anti-Western rantings coming out of Australian mosques and public meetings. Not a word about recent Muslim Australian demonstrations supporting the Hezbollah terrorists and not one mention about the long list of global terrorist acts committed by Muslims during the past 30 years.
Mr Keelty’s strange interview with the ‘Australian’ newspaper is reminiscent of the blinkered views of the appeasers in the 1930s who pandered to the murderous lunacy of Hitler. His comments however could have a much more serious impact and that concerns the morale of all our police and defence forces. Mr Keelty will now be exploited by our enemies to undermine current policy. Such unauthorised comments coming from a senior public servant are downright dangerous and irresponsible and cannot be tolerated by his employers.
Melbourne Observer - September 13, 2006
Mainstream Australians are mourning two of their heroes – Steve Irwin and Peter Brock. Both men excelled in their chosen careers and were good role models - both non-smokers and teetotallers – Brock briefly stumbling from public grace when he separated from his wife of 28 years.
Most of us despise most of our politicians and have nothing but contempt for most judges, lawyers and the media and we have become almost immune to the carryings-on of those highly paid footballers who booze, bash and grope their way into the headlines. Ordinary Australians are waiting with their baseball bats for the next arrival on our shores of Aussie hater Germaine Greer.
Irwin and Brock were connected to the community at large – they communicated directly and were always available for their fans.
Simply put, they were not ‘up themselves.’ Compare them with most of our politicians – aloof, disconnected from their constituency and definitely ‘up themselves.’
The Australian mainstream is never consulted by its MPs about multiculturalism, immigration and the other vital issues that affect the core culture of this nation.
On the other hand, ethnic and other minority groups are feted by most politicians. Irwin and Brock would have made bad politicians – they would have been too honest!
Melbourne Observer - September 13, 2006
Now our enemies are blackmailing our PM and ordinary Australians by threatening race riots if Muslims are criticised for not assimilating.
It’s just part of the orchestrated worldwide Islamo-Fascist strategy to keep the West on the defensive whilst pandering to and gaining support from the white flag wavers at home. Muslims have used our mad policy of multiculturalism and our over generous welfare system to infiltrate many of our suburbs and their arrogance grows.
A Muslim taxidriver told Sydney talkback last week that ‘there’s five hundred thousand of us here and we’re going nowhere.’
Australia faces an uncertain future given the timidity of most of our MPs and our geographical position. To our north lies Indonesia with its huge Muslim population.
Once stridently Communist, Indonesia may well become governed one day by an aggressive and fundamentalist Muslim regime and then Australia will be in big trouble – threatened from without and with the potential of a dangerous fifth column here at home.
A courageous and patriotic government could turn the tide by overhauling our immigration and citizenship laws but dithering seems to be the order of the day and as for race riots – next time the PM should send in the SAS.
Melbourne Observer - September 6, 2006
Mainstream Australian conservatives have joined the homeless brigade – wandering aimlessly over the political landscape looking for a place they can call home. The major parties are becoming clones of each other – trying to outdo each other with wimpish and divisive social policies. Labor and Liberal are now declaring themselves ‘broad churches’ and John Howard was just plain stupid for giving credence to this mad mantra. The Greens have become the New Fascists with their authoritarian policies and their anti-Semitism. The Democrats have thankfully had their life support turned off.
Our MPs by and large are just plain gutless as they tiptoe on their merry way. Terrorism is now a matter for all Australian parliaments but the Libs in Victoria, NSW and Queensland are trying to outdo each other in the race for the most pathetic policy prize. Meanwhile mainstream Australians are vitally concerned about Muslim Immigration, ethnic crime, the disintegration of our judiciary, breaking free of the Muslim controlled oilfields and what we are going to do about water. Of course health and education are important issues as are Telstra, IR, globalisation and house prices but all pale into insignificance if one is sitting in a wheelchair, legless and mourning a murdered family.
Melbourne Observer - August 30, 2006
The ‘useful idiots’ and the white flag wavers are out in force in the West and of course here at home. Lenin described the ‘useful idiots’ as those in the democratic, capitalist and christian West who gave comfort to the Communist cause. The same addle headed group were at work giving comfort to Hitler before he gave the world the single finger salute by running amok in Europe. With Islamic leaders all over the world – and in Australia - spewing out their hatred of the West, the message has still not sunk in – for too many of us the images of 9/11 were just another TV event.
The ‘useful idiots’ in Australia draw on a cross section of Australian society – ex-PMs, academics, politicians, sportsmen, most of the media and of course too many lawyers and the judiciary. Mainstream Australians have increasing utter contempt for their government as they hopelessly watch non-white migrants outnumber white ones eight to one. This mad social engineering is a fait accompli. As reports of obviously ethnic based criminal acts clog our media, those who remember the ‘good old days’ just shake their heads. Hardworking younger Australians are waking up too but who will listen to them?
Melbourne Observer - August 23, 2006
A conscience vote is one thing but defeating John Howard’s asylum bill is another – threatening Australia’s security and the safety of its citizens. The handful of white flag waving Coalition MPs threatening the bill have dumped on the majority of their constituents, opting instead for pandering to ethnic minorities in their electorates and the chattering classes. Their unctuous and smug behaviour was highlighted in a sickening fashion when one of them had the audacity to invoke the words of the great Martin Luther King! The PM’s bill is not about West Papuans coming to Australia to bomb us – it’s about protecting our borders and sending a message to those with ulterior motives.
The West had war declared on it when the Twin Towers came down but it is now obvious with hindsight that the Islamo-Fascists have been plotting and infiltrating western countries for years, so that now we have home-grown suicide bombers. It can only be a matter of time before Australians are confronted by terror on their own soil and that day will be forever etched in our history. The MPs torpedoing the bill are giving comfort to our enemies and when the terrible day arrives it is hoped they may regret what they did.
Melbourne Observer - August 16, 2006
They’re still out there – fair dinkum Aussies doing their thing – and of course they’re not all white! I went out to Broken Hill searching for subjects to paint and I wasn’t disappointed. Outback Australians have most politicians in their sights and locals at Hay and Balranald told me about the creation of a huge national park by the NSW Labor Government which has become the protected breeding home of feral pigs which leave their sanctuary to ravage the crops of local farmers. The bushies view with horror the multicultural mess in our capital cities – country Victorians are alarmed at Premier Bracks’ intention to settle 250,000 migrants in rural Victoria.
A visit to the Pro Hart gallery confirmed what a character this inspirational bloke was. I visited a huge mushroom farm in Mildura and on the road to Swan Hill, 35,000 acres of almonds are being planted as well as huge acreages of olives. Lots of new housing is everywhere indicating that population numbers are holding up in many rural towns. The management of water is a big issue until governments get their act together. I covered a lot of ground during my short trip and guess what? Not a burka in sight!
Melbourne Observer - August 2, 2006
Moron of the Year award goes to Kevin Rudd – another Labor wannabee PM. The war in Lebanon has dramatically brought to light the craziness that is dual citizenship and reminds mainstream Australians of the problems, particularly in Sydney’s west where large concentrations of Lebanese Muslims live in a different world to the rest of us. Talkback radio and TV news feature Lebanese Australians referring to themselves as ‘Lebanese’ as they whinge about our government not doing enough to get them out of their failed state homeland. Some wanted John Howard to personally supervise their evacuation!
25,000 Lebanese Australians with dual citizenship are living permanently in their homeland yet only about 5000 so far have availed themselves of evacuation. To date there have been no public utterances of ‘thank you’ from Lebanese Australians to taxpayers who have forked out $25 million for their rescue. Against this background Mr Rudd wants to throw petrol on the flames by asking Australia to take in refugees from Lebanon! The Howard Government must make urgent changes to our citizenship and immigration laws and review the question of continuing Muslim immigration. To not do this will only confirm that most politicians consider ethnic minorities more important than the rest of us.
Melbourne Observer - July 26, 2006
The war in Lebanon has highlighted another of Australia’s policy disasters whereby we stupidly allow citizens to hold dual passports. Apparently 25,000 Lebanese Australians with dual citizenship are trapped in that country with most of them living there permanently. The delicious sting is that the eligible males may find themselves being drafted into the army. There is no argument for dual citizenship and only a fool would try to run one. Mainstream Australians are loyal to only one flag and one set of values. They abhor Australian citizenship being used for base rorts such as pension benefits and they saw Rupert Murdoch trade in his citizenship like a piece of share scrip.
We need to know how many dual citizens are living permanently overseas but our nutty privacy laws may well protect any entitlements from becoming public knowledge. Mainstream Australian taxpayers would rightly be enraged to find that they are funding dual citizens who are ripping us all off. The most recent inflammatory burblings by Sheik Hilali should prompt Andrew Robb to see if the Sheik was silly enough to seek dual citizenship - which should not protect offenders from being deported. It’s very simple - dual citizens are not fair dinkum Australians.
Melbourne Observer - July 19, 2006
Here we go again! Peter Costello has put on his spoilt little brat mask for the umpteenth time and a slavering media is in full cry – boring most of us witless. Talkback callers are describing him as ‘a spoilt person seeking attention’ and this assessment meshes in with the Treasurer’s recent amazing media interview wherein he alleged that he had been bullied by his brother, Pastor Tim Costello. John Howard is spot on, saying that the Liberal Party is not his nor Peter Costello’s ‘plaything’. Peter Costello’s inclination in this regard is no doubt influenced by the total control that the Kroger – Costello faction has over the Victorian Liberal Party.
Some commentators are wondering why Peter Costello didn’t mention the McLachlan note in the wallet a long time before now? Ordinary Australians have had a gutful of the Treasurer’s indulgent ‘look at me – it’s my turn’ tactics and the timing of this latest prima donna exercise must have Coalition marginal seat backbenchers foaming at the mouth. If Peter Costello had ‘ticker’ he would have challenged long ago but he has never had the numbers. He relies on those sycophants who desperately want ministries to run his agenda. Imagine Petrogeorgiou as Immigration Minister!
Melbourne Observer - July 12, 2006
What does high-powered sport have to do with politics? The present global obsession with soccer drives home the huge impact dollars has on any professional game these days. After all the hype and hysteria subsides, the most important game for Australians, like it or not, is the one played out in our parliamentary arenas. MPs are the players whose every sensible or stupid decision affects all our lives – from our security to our standard of living, yet they are by comparison with sporting and pop stars paid a pittance. Paying peanuts gets what?
When Mark Latham bluffed John Howard over the MPs super scheme, he blunted a little what was in too many cases the only reason for wanting to enter politics. There is a case for paying our MPs substantially increased salaries that would hopefully attract better candidates. Such a salary package would allow for them organising their own retirement benefits, thus reducing that burden on taxpayers. Australia has also reached the stage where many of its institutions need rejuvenating including trialling the election of judges and DPPs. We desperately need men and women of energy and vision to take this nation forward. Remember – we still have too many monkeys!
Melbourne Observer - July 5, 2006
What a joke the UN is and what fools many of our MPs are who still slavishly follow the dictates of the UN Refugee Convention. Forget about the disgusting hand wringing of Kofi Annan against the backdrop of 800,000 butchered Rwandans. Forget about the current disaster that is Darfur. Don’t hold your breath waiting for that fool Malcolm Fraser to repudiate his mate – the monster
Mugabe. The Labor Party and trendy lefty Liberals give comfort to our enemies with their misguided and naïve pronouncements while UN bongo bongo functionaries on their huge tax free US$ salaries, lay down the law to the West about refugees.
Mainstream Australia’s security should be the number one priority with every MP but sadly that is not the case despite the obvious fact that there are now people – many of them born here – who wish to kill us. Before it is too late, we must start to resist the dumping on our shores of people whose lifestyle and culture are totally at odds with Australian core culture. There is plenty of evidence to support the charge that the World’s current refugee problems have been created largely by a gutless, corrupt and anti-West UN.
Melbourne Observer - June 28, 2006
How long will it take for the trendies from all sides of politics to wake up? The chilling anti-Australian threats from that rat-faced grub Abu Bakar Bashir was more than a wake-up call given this evil monster’s track record. The Liberal dills holding up the PM’s legislation re the offshore processing of refugees and asylum seekers are selling out all mainstream Australians. Seemingly oblivious of the crucial importance of protecting our borders – whatever the consequences – these do-gooders are sending all the wrong messages to our enemies. Al Qa’ida operatives are not dills and they monitor the media.
In Victoria things are not much better. The Bracks’ Government wants to give Syrian Khalil Eideh a safe seat in the upper house. Khalil who pretends to be an Australian is accused of pro-terrorist pronouncements and to date the only attack on him has come from the Jewish Lobby. It defies belief that there has not been a full scale assault on him by the Victorian Libs and their new leader Ted Baillieu. Between 1982 and 2003 Japan processed only 315 refugees despite being a signatory and a substantial financial contributor to the anti-West UN Refugee Convention. Of course we would expect this from the Japs – they eat whales!
Melbourne Observer - June 21, 2006
It’s a bit rich when people who take the ‘Queen’s shilling’ turn and bite the hand that feeds them. David de Kretser, the recently appointed Governor of Victoria, started pushing the republican barrow by telling us that an Australian republic was inevitable on the day he received his Queen’s Birthday gong. You can bet that we’ll hear more of the same from this Bracks’ appointee who has already started having his say about refugees and asylum seekers.
Following in Governor de Kretser’s wake was Sir Zelman Cowen launching his book with the assistance of that High Court Judge Kirby. Zelman Cowen too, reminded us mere mortals of the inevitability of an Australian republic. He is just one of a gaggle of knights who have shown contempt for the title awarded them by a system they wish to pull down. Victorian Liberal Premier Sir Rupert Hamer was another one.
Governor de Kretser and Sir Zelman Cowen and their ilk obviously live in a different world than the rest of us. It’s okay for them to cast loyalty and dedication aside in the pursuit of their personal agendas. Governor de Kretser should resign and stand for Labor preselection and Zelman Cowen should hand back his knighthood.
Melbourne Observer - June 14, 2006
The PM’s spectacular reverse pike with a degree of 1000% difficulty on the Snowy sell-off says a lot about Australian politics. This issue was all about politics and not economics! Ordinary Australians have had a gutful of being done over time and time again by their elected representatives on a multitude of issues – from multiculturalism and immigration to tollways and privatisation – it’s a long list. The GayBC and its trendy media mates are promoting pathetic Malcolm Fraser and his leftie mates who signed a petition, as the heroes of the cause – my apologies to those decent people who co-signed. Remind Malcolm Fraser about the monstrous deeds of his mate Robert Mugabe!
Sydney talkback host Alan Jones backed himself in by organising a 1900 number phone poll on the Snowy sell-off on his radio 2GB Morning Show. A poor response would have had Jones looking silly. 29000 calls later with only 200 odd saying ‘sell’ had the rest of the pack up and running. Jones’ subsequent destruction of useless NSW Premier Iemma and the avalanche of calls to Coalition and Opposition electorate offices and it was game over. The PM has more lessons to learn – Muslims, PNG and soaring ethnic crime are but a few.
Melbourne Observer - June 7, 2006
It’s about time Australians woke up and realised that from now on, our government using our taxes will have to keep on propping up all those countries on our northern doorstep that will keep on falling over for a long time to come. In East Timor where it’s back to square one it’s only good luck that some of our Diggers, hamstrung by diplomatic niceties haven’t been gunned down by criminals. Like all the other Pacific Rim countries, tribalism keeps on rearing its ugly and savage head fuelled by corruption and massive unemployment. Timor’s problems are exacerbated by the Marxist backgrounds of many of its major players and the lunatic decision to have Portuguese as the national language.
If our government had re-established a college of Pacific Administration years ago in say Townsville, offering scholarships to young people from the Pacific Rim, we may be now further down the track in achieving better government in the area. Attempts to bring this matter to the attention of the Howard Government have been met by ignorant silence.
Unemployment in the Pacific Rim can only be solved by stable, safe governments encouraging expat businesspeople to invest capital and establish businesses but the operative words are ‘stable’ and ‘safe.’
Melbourne Observer - May 31, 2006
Immigration and Defence in tatters - the shameful treatment of Aboriginal Australians resulting from forty years of the evil policy of separatism sponsored by all sides of politics - the continued peddling of anti-Australian hatred by resident Muslims with apparent immunity - the inability of the government to come seriously to grips with critical issues such as water, alternative fuels and our fisheries – it goes on and on. Ten years of Coalition government has many voters now wondering whether in fact ‘it’s time.’ The Liberal Party sent help to the Canadian conservatives at their recent election but in the meantime at home, the state Libs burn.
John Howard’s globetrotting is doing him electoral harm and in the present political environment he is needed at home with his hands firmly on the controls. Ministerial responsibility no longer seems to apply and come election time, Labor will have plenty of advertising ammo to fire off. If the silly stories about the Liberal leadership persist, voters will be further confused. It’s time for John Howard to come back to earth and lay down the law where it’s needed. Mainstream Australia is demanding strong leadership and the lack of that is the rock on which Federal Labor may well perish again.
Melbourne Observer - May 24, 2006
Inexorably, our parliamentary and judicial systems are coming apart at the seams but who will have the guts to make the necessary changes? Ministers at state and federal levels bunker down in their offices separated from their departments, leaving many bureaucrats free to run their own agendas. ‘Yes Minister’ was not a TV series – it was a documentary!
Too many ministers with no real life experience ever come to grips with their portfolios and dead set dills like Amanda Vanstone have contributed to great pressure on mainstream Australian culture by allowing thousands of Africans to enter Australia – many without any health screening. It’s time that we considered appointing screened candidates with appropriate skills – from outside the political system - to act as de facto ministers during the life of a parliament. We might just get more effective government.
Magistrates and judges increasingly act as if they were in fact advocates for the rights of criminals and prisoners, handing down sentences and bail decisions that have ordinary Australians plain scared. We should have a trial period where magistrates, judges and DPPs have to face election to office thereby forcing them to face public scrutiny. Of course don’t hold your breath waiting for any action!
Melbourne Observer - May 17, 2006
The implosion of the Victorian Libs has been building up for years. After briefly connecting with mainstream voters, Jeff Kennett inexplicably turned on his constituency, particularly in the bush where he is still hated today – with the benefit of hindsight some of his behaviour has been Lathamesque. The almost total disconnection with ordinary Victorians by its MPs has the once great party spinning out of control – the process hastened by the immature games played out by so-called powerbrokers who still think they are playing undergraduate politics. None of them have ever been off the bitumen.
Ted Baillieu has to climb Everest in thongs come November. He is going to have to get on the road and spend all his time connecting with the electorate – in the city and the bush and the media will be sniping away every inch of the way. After having been silent for so long, Baillieu may end up proving that he simply doesn’t have the ticker. The Costello/Kroger forces are clearly the standout culprits in the present sorry farce. With Victoria in tatters, ex-Lib State President Helen Kroger looks set to become a senator. Peter Costello however may find it much harder now to push for PM given his involvement in the Victorian disaster.
Melbourne Observer - May 10, 2006
First it was Peter Costello with his comments about ‘mushy multiculturalism’ and now federal Liberal MP Andrew Robb has weighed in with his call for muscling up our immigration/citizenship laws by calling for fair dinkum tests in English and Australian values. Of course there has been the shock horror from the usual suspects – the snivelling civil libertarians and the outraged braying from ethnic minorities whose self-appointed leaders continually demonstrate that they have absolutely no idea of what mainstream Australian values are. Peter Costello bathed in the media spotlight, took his bow and then departed the stage – no follow up with proposed legislation.
It’s now up to Andrew Robb to deliver and ensure that legislation be drawn up – given the resounding public support he has received. Precedent abounds in Europe where Denmark, Holland and now France are taking steps – albeit far too late – to mainly control the migration of Muslims. In the US a battle royal is on over the invasion of that country by Hispanics. We live in dangerous times where Christian and Western values are continually threatened and it’s time that our timid MPs backed Andrew Robb. Mainstream Australia must make the rules and it’s a nonsense that ethnic minorities have a say in the process.
Melbourne Observer - May 3, 2006
It’s taken a while for the penny to drop and how the worm turns!
The Incredible Bulk, Amanda Vanstone called Kim Beazley a ‘racist’ during a recent SBS Radio interview, referring to his opposition to foreign guest workers.
Some unions are calling for any guest workers to be fluent in English while other Labor people support their leader’s stand.
Amanda Vanstone is without doubt our worst ever immigration minister and Arthur Calwell must be writhing in his grave.
There has been a conga line of immigration stuff-ups during her watch and the PM’s continued support of her is puzzling.
The Labor Party has to get its act together and make up its mind where it really stands on the immigration/citizenship issues.
It can’t expect mainstream voters to give it a tick for opposing illiterate foreign guest workers if on the other hand its immigration policy favours mad multiculturalism and the support of cultural, non-English speaking ghettos within the general Australian community.
If Labor wants to break out of its policy torpor it must take on John Howard and call for tested fluency in English to be a pre-requisite for migration and citizenship but to do this it must first stamp on its Loony Left.
Melbourne Observer - April 26, 2006
Aboriginal activists who have turned part of Melbourne’s beautiful botanical gardens into an eyesore are determined to follow the example of the disgraceful Aboriginal Embassy in Canberra, thumbing their noses at the State Government, the Police, the Melbourne City Council, and long-suffering rate and taxpayers. It’s the same old story – a minority group giving the single finger salute to the rest of us, aided and abetted by their muddled white mates in academia, politics and the media. A silly judge has allowed the fire to burn on and Police and Council Officers have been treated like fools by the squatters. If ordinary white Australians had pulled on the same stunt they would have been promptly bundled off in paddy wagons.
After decades of suffering the mad policy of separatism, many Aboriginal Australians like Noel Pearson are fighting hard to get Aboriginals out of the rotten slums that are most of the settlements they live in. The Melbourne activists serve only to reactivate and reinforce the stereotypes of bad Aboriginal behaviour as perceived by mainstream Australians. Will the Bracks’ government and funny Lord Mayor John So have the ticker to resolve this matter promptly and give the gardens back to their real owners – the general public.
Melbourne Observer - April 12, 2006
More West Papuans have arrived on our front door by canoe – only six this time but right on the heels of the forty-two who are now living in Melbourne at taxpayers’ expense. It’s hard to work John Howard out. He turned the Tampa away and won an election but chose to give sanctuary to the West Papuans who are citizens of Indonesia. If the trickle becomes a flood how is the government going to handle the health and other problems associated with people who are so culturally different from the rest of us? How does Australia then manage its relationship with a country of 206 plus million Muslims, furious that Australia is interfering with the sovereignty of one of its provinces?
Australia’s borders are shot to pieces. The UN assisted by the Howard Government dumps thousands of African refugees on our shores with their criminal elements and diseases already well documented in the media. Such is the state of our armed forces, our northern borders are easily breached by wooden outrigger canoes! Do the Labor Left, Green and Democrat peaceniks want Australia to declare war over West Papua? Forget about the useless UN. It’s time for John Howard to wake up!
Melbourne Observer - April 5, 2006
The Immigration Department is a shambles and it defies belief that John Howard hasn’t sacked bungling Minister Vanstone a long time ago. The health and law and order threat to mainstream Australians by the admission of large numbers of African refugees, many with AIDS and TB is a disgrace. The public only heard of this disaster through the efforts of certain journos and radio talkback hosts. Surely John Howard must have known all about this? We know he approved of the granting of visas to the 42 West Papuans and surely he would have been advised of the visas granted to the missing Sierra Leone athletes?
Despite sticking it to the Indonesians, our PM stoutly acknowledges the sovereignty of Irian Jaya(West Papua) as part of Indonesia. Doesn’t he understand that his action has now given the green light to other West Papuans and indeed Papua New Guineans to hop on their canoes and travel the short distance to Australia? Can’t he understand that certain Indonesian officials who hate us could right now be encouraging West Papuan riff raff to seek asylum in Australia? One thing is sure. The defectors from West Papua and Sierra Leone may well receive better treatment than many Queensland cyclone victims.
Melbourne Observer - March 29, 2006
Recent elections in SA and Tasmania drove more nails into the Liberal Party's organisational coffin. Highlights were the rejection of the treacherous Greens in Tasmania and the triumph of the Independent Nick Xenophon in SA who defied the odds and won well, despite the grubby deal by the Libs who conspired with Labor to preference against him. State Liberals are reading from the same self–destruction manual currently being used by federal Labor. Peter Debnam in NSW is the only state Liberal in with more than half a show to win government. John Howard is blaming the Libs’ campaigning for the poor results but the real reason is more than this.
The Liberal Party once drew its great strength from those who were attracted by its conservative values but its ranks have been infiltrated by those who would be better suited as members of Labor, Greens or the Democrats. John Howard’s description of his party as ‘a broad church’ was just silly. The present state of the party discourages membership from those with real world experience and candidates with good credentials find themselves being done over by the various cliques who have become comfortable in opposition. Federal intervention should have occurred years ago.
Melbourne Observer - March 22, 2006
Who’s running this country? Talkback radio is certainly asking the question as ordinary Australians are becoming aware of what some Government Ministers are up to. We are starting to hear about the holus bolus dumping of African refugees on our shores in large numbers at the behest of the UN and the shocking thing is that only about 37% of them have been medically screened if we can believe that figure. In one of the worst interviews I have heard, Andrew Robb, appointed by the PM to assist the disastrous Amanda Vanstone, stumbled and bumbled his way to a final admission that many of these refugees were suffering from AIDS and TB.
In a subsequent interview after some preliminary ducking and weaving, Health Minister Tony Abbott confirmed what Robb had said but added that these people could obtain ongoing medical treatment in Australia. The mind boggles! Why are the interests of ordinary Australians being trashed by the Howard Government in its pandering to the clique of bongo bongo functionaries who run the anti-West agendas of the UN? The buck must stop with John Howard over the increasing blunders and bungles of his appointees. It’s only Labor’s suicide mission that is saving the PM’s hide.
Melbourne Observer - March 15, 2006
It’s 2006, it’s multiculturalism gone mad and it’s scary. Simon Crean is battling for his political survival in the Melbourne suburbs of Clayton and Springvale and he and his challenger have been forced to use interpreters to communicate with Cambodian, Vietnamese, Latino(South American?), Greek and Chinese ALP members in an electorate where about 40% of the population was born overseas. These minorities live in their insular ghettoes, separated from mainstream Australia – yet they are now playing a pivotal role in our national politics. It’s amazing that Greek migrants get a guernsey in this scenario of determined non-assimilation.
The wacky, thankfully brief Whitlam years saw the evil policy of multiculturalism launched by that little crook Al Grassby and it has been rammed down our throats ever since, ably assisted by pompous dills like Malcolm Fraser et al. The ALP have become masters of ethnic branchstacking, actively encouraging minority groups to remain isolated from the rest of us, refusing to learn English and being totally ignorant of Australia’s core values. At election time these voters are trotted out to do the bidding of their ALP factional masters. It’s now ironic that Simon Crean has to go, cap in hand to these people to save his political skin.
Melbourne Observer - March 8, 2006
Peter Costello came out with all guns blazing when he called for gutsier immigration and citizenship laws and talkback switchboards lit up around Australia with resounding support. Many callers declared they would vote for him as a future PM. With the dust settling, the cynics are now questioning Mr Costello’s motives and more importantly they are doubting that his words will translate into legislative changes. Deftly using the smoke and mirrors of a crash tax review as a diversion, does the Treasurer expect that his battle cry about ‘mushy multiculturalism’ will just quietly fade away?
Pauline Hanson was right on Peter Costello’s case when she applauded his stand but called on him to change the law. According to Hanson, ‘talk is cheap.’ It’s now up to the PM and Cabinet to acknowledge the concerns of the vast majority of ordinary Australians and change the laws but as we know, the Libs have plenty of wimps on board and the next few sittings of parliament will be interesting. If nothing is done – and don’t hold your breath – one thing is for sure. The punters won’t forget and in Peter Costello’s case could he ever be trusted as PM if he chickens out on this one?
Melbourne Observer - March 1, 2006
John Howard has hit out at ‘jihad’ Muslims but is it all too little too late? Sound demographic projections predict Muslim majorities in most European countries in the latter part of this century so why should Australia be any different? Liberal MP Danna Vale was jumped on by her gutless and treacherous colleagues for daring to suggest just this. The PM is dead wrong when he asserts that only a minority of Muslims in Australia present a problem. He needs to visit Lakemba and all the other major ghettoes in Sydney and Melbourne and most importantly speak to those ordinary mainstream Australians who find themselves trapped in those places but of course politicians just don’t do this stuff anymore.
Our immigration laws are skewed against Europeans and they are administered by the most incompetent minister ever. Why were almost 6000 Sudanese dumped willy nilly in Australian communities in 2005? History will record that these alarming trends occurred during John Howard’s watch. There is an urgent need for our immigration laws and intakes to be reviewed for the sake of future generations of the real Australia. If Labor ran with this issue it would damage the Coalition but its left wing is too busy grovelling at the feet of our enemies.
Melbourne Observer - February 22, 2006
Federal Liberal MP Danna Vale opened a can of worms when she asserted that an annual abortion rate of 100,000 could result in Australia becoming a Muslim state in fifty years time. Predictably, the usual suspects have raced to the scene, foaming at the mouth. Danna Vale will be attacked by the PC brigade, so-called moderate Muslims as well as the well known militants and sadly she will be attacked by those gutless wonders in her own party. Her scenario is chilling in its simplicity but it is one that has been circulating for some time in Australia.
I have regularly heard on the major radio talkback shows – both day and night, aggressive young Muslim men who are obviously homegrown, saying that they will outbreed us and that Australia will become a Muslim state. So it’s okay for them but not for an MP. The recent cartoon fiasco only served to reinforce the view that the militant wing of Islam intends to pursue its war against the West, manufacturing its rage to suit its agenda. There is more than enough evidence for a patriotic and courageous government to lower the boom on further Muslim immigration but guts is in short supply in Canberra.
Melbourne Observer - February 15, 2006
What a joke! Premier Bracks and his avoirdupois challenged Police Commissioner assure us that we are the safest we have ever been and quote police stats to bolster their case. Two young women were murdered in their house by a monster who should have still been in jail for his past horrific crimes and there are many more horrendous stories in the same vein pointing to a police force that is becoming just another welfare agency and a judiciary that has become totally disconnected from reality and the mainstream community. Ethnic crime is rife but the PC brigade want to hear none of that.
PM Howard in the emotion charged aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, disarmed law-abiding citizens but nowadays our streets reverberate with gunfire with drive-by shootings and murders in public places. The day after Mr Bracks’ announcement, another Melbourne gangland leader was shot down outside his Brighton home. Under its present commissioner, Victoria Police will continue to be dumbed down as its rank and file members are poorly led by a command, many of whose members have never confronted an angry man. Victorians need more front line police on the streets and are police crime stats compiled by an independent auditor?
Melbourne Observer - February 8, 2006
Victorian politics are an absolute mess. The Bracks’ Labor Government is in turmoil over impending preselections and its treacherous process of branchstacking is back in the news. For the past few decades, federal and state Labor have made branchstacking an art form, pandering to ethnic minorities – the members of some, who from time to time, act against the best interests of mainstream Australians. There are plenty of reasons to accuse Labor of being the friend of our enemies. Meanwhile Victorian voters have no alternative but to look on from the sidelines as the government of their state grinds to a halt while Mr Bracks’ MPs turn on each other like rabid dogs.
Victoria’s woes are compounded by the virtual non-existence of a viable opposition. Liberal MPs are rarely seen out in the electorate on a regular basis and at the time of writing some Victorian Liberals are trying to block Senator Julian McGuaran’s membership of their party because he is ‘too conservative’ – good enough reason I would have thought to admit him. Labor’s preselections will be resolved soon and then along will come the Commonwealth Games which will provide a welcome smokescreen for a Labor Government whose most immediate enemies are its own – not its opposition.
Melbourne Observer - February 1, 2006
2006 has got away to a reasonable start but it’s early days yet. It will be a year of politics at home and abroad and elections are in the air.
Labor is a dead man walking federally, while the Libs statewide are historically having their worst ever terms in opposition – all of their own making. In Victoria it’s a possibility that Labor could increase its majority over an opposition that is cowering in the bunker, its lazy MPs unwilling to get out and about in the electorate, giving into Labor on the crazy Race Hate legislation and not a word of criticism of Bracks’ crazy Bill of Rights.
Not one Liberal has challenged the Premier’s intention to settle 250,000 migrants in rural Victoria – many from the Horn of Africa.
NSW faces its most serious law and order crisis in history with so far not one arrest in relation to the destruction of 100 cars by Lebanese Muslim thugs on the night after the Cronulla Riots. NSW Police Command is an incompetent shambles and in a wartime situation its members would be courtmartialled for dereliction of duty and cowardice in the face of the enemy.
If Opposition Leader Peter Debnam keeps on biting the bullet and telling it the way it is – and he isn’t whiteanted from within his own ranks, then he has the best chance to break Labor’s grip on state politics.
The great American General Douglas Macarthur said – ‘beware not of the enemy without but within.’ The radical Greens fit this bill to a tee.
Mainstream Australia is threatened by the Greens and their lickspittle supporters from both sides of politics, sooled on by our homegrown Quislings led by failed ex-PMs, smug journos and the usual camp followers of lawyers, judges and academics.
The Greens are the new Communists – totalitarians who want to control our lives. Their economic policies would drive us into the Third World and their policy of legalisation of dangerous drugs will kill young Australians. Happy New Year!
And he wanted to be PM! Just as Labor thought he had disappeared off the political radar screen, Mark Latham came screaming back in – all guns blazing. His reported assault of a photographer and his destruction of a $10,000 camera was carried out in front of his two young sons – giving credence to his past comments about teaching his children to hate. The removal of a troubled PM Latham from office would have made the Dismissal look very ordinary. The government at every opportunity should name and parody every Labor MP who voted for Mark Latham as their leader.
Latham’s deplorable example coupled with the current crisis in the NSW Police Command sends a clear message to every two-bit punk that it’s okay to bash and rob – and worse. All our police forces suffer in some degree from the same malaise – years of dumbing down with their commands obsessed with the promotional ladder. The PC brigade working in concert with a largely dysfunctional judiciary are having a field day at the expense of ordinary rank and file police. A revealing exercise would be reading the CVs of the various lecturers at the state police academies. It’s times like these that we need a few Dirty Harrys.
Melbourne Observer - December 21, 2005
The Sydney race riots are a disgrace and every mealy mouthed advocate of multiculturalism over the past three decades must share the blame. It’s their mad and vile policy that has created the ghettos and division in Australian society and that has led to many of our MPs using taxpayers’ money to buy ethnic votes at the expense of mainstream Australia. The wooden and hopelessly out of touch NSW premier has the gall to burble on about the ‘un-Australianism’ of the white rioters while his Labor Party for years has been branch stacking with Muslims in Sydney’s west. Paul Keating fought tooth and nail against his own party to save Sheik Hilali from deportation.
The NSW police have been rudderless while their commissioner wastes his valuable time sharing media conferences with the premier. The Lebanese Muslim problem has been festering for years and the shocking racist gang rapes of a few years ago have not been forgotten. For everyone’s sake, further Muslim immigration must be halted and our immigration laws urgently overhauled. History will record that all this is happening during John Howard’s watch and we now need courageous leadership to stop Australia ending up like Holland and the UK.
Melbourne Observer - December 14, 2005
We deport an Australian citizen to the Philippines and a gibbering heroin addict to Serbia but it seems that some of Saddam’s minions are enjoying life in the Lucky Country. The man in the spotlight was originally refused a visa but obviously with the right people steering, he exploited our stupid legal system. He is also employing the Michelle Leslie strategy in reverse – he has found God and converted to Christianity. The Immigration Department is rightly described as a ‘shambles’ but we shouldn’t forget that it flourished under 13 years of Labor .
Our legal system has been politicised to the point where it has become a strident participant in politics – judges, junior and senior counsel and their governing bodies are all into attacking the government on a range of issues from capital punishment to the treatment of refugees. Robert Richter described Nguyen’s execution at Changi as more horrible than the fate of Aussie POWs at the prison during WW2 but then hastily offered a Claytons’ apology when outraged reaction at his despicable comments flooded his office. The PM has had his win with IR – now it’s time he cleaned up the Immigration mess and had a look at our legal system.
Melbourne Observer - December 7, 2005
Love him or hate him, John Howard is the keystone of the Liberal Party. Remove him and the structure collapses.
State Liberal organisations flounder like beached whales while Labor governments get away with blue murder. The Liberals should be hot favourites in Victoria and NSW but not so. Steve Bracks could increase his majority despite the mess Victoria is in.
NSW is a shambles but the voters rejected the Libs in the recent Pittwater by-election.
Liberals stand for nothing with the Victorian wimps going along with crazy Race-Hate legislation while their ex – NSW leader’s big ticket policies were drug injecting rooms and lowering the age of consent for homosexuals.
Most Liberal MPs are up themselves, consumed by hubris and playing politics at undergraduate level.
Instead of getting out amongst the punters and into the fight, they opt for the safety of their offices and branch meetings. Instead of trying to recruit new members and candidates they practise Russian Roulette on each other and are quick to burn off any potential competition.
One well credentialed Liberal told me he couldn’t bear the thought of being in the same room with them for more than an hour. Bob Menzies and Henry Bolte must be writhing in their graves.
Melbourne Observer - November 30, 2005
Schapelle Corby, The Bali Nine, Michelle Leslie and Tuong Van Nguyen have filled our newspapers and clogged our TV screens in a huge media fest that just rolls on and on. Snivelling civil libertarians, religious leaders, puffed up politicians and all the other usual suspects keep on having their say. Those stupid people who dabbled in drugs have been described as beautiful and loving, caring, innocent dupes, victims of circumstances and apart from the Bali Nine they have been convicted. If our largely gormless tribe of politicians allowed ordinary Australians straight forward referendums on controlling immigration and the reintroduction of capital punishment the ‘yes’ vote would win.
Meanwhile the victims of crime battle on as best they can. Too many of them have suffered at the hands of our increasingly dysfunctional legal system and a lot of lives have been shattered forever. Taxpayers have funded the legal expenses for the latest crop of losers and in Nguyen’s case we are supposed to boycott Singapore. The PM has granted an audience to Mrs Nguyen and has said nice things about the drug mule. How many victims of horrible crimes have been personally comforted by our leader. C’mon Mr Howard – give us a break.
Melbourne Observer - November 23, 2005
Australians are facing their gravest threat since the prospect of invasion by Japan during WW2. With France still smouldering and arrests of alleged terrorists at home, mainstream Australians have good reason for concern. A mishmash of the dregs of Australian politics, law, media and academia continue to give comfort to our enemies with their stupid pronouncements. The ranks of these people contain those who would certainly collaborate with Muslim terrorists whose intent is there for all to see – the conversion of the West to Islam at any price.
It’s now very clear that generally speaking, Muslims all cheer for the same team – despite the public denials by various individuals and groups. That’s the old good cop, bad cop routine. A patriotic Australian Government must start planning NOW! All Muslim immigration must cease. A maximum security special terrorist prison should be established on Christmas Island. Dual citizens convicted of terrorism should be jailed then deported. Centrelink should be audited by ASIO and Fedpol. The Australian taxpayer must be prepared to compensate and repatriate those Muslims who are prepared to return to their roots – a spin on the Costello option. It’s no longer about the economy, stupid. It’s about terrorism.
Melbourne Observer - November 16, 2005
‘Is Paris Burning’ was a movie about Hitler’s order to burn Paris to deny it to the Allies. Fires have been raging in France with thousands of cars reportedly torched. Mobs of mainly Muslim rioters are trying their best to do what Hitler couldn’t. Thousands of Police are trying to control a national emergency while Britain and the rest of Europe look on very nervously - well may they. What is happening now in France is a direct result of the mad policy of multiculturalism that has swept the western world over the past 40 years.
The entrenched non-assimilating Asian and Muslim ghettoes in the UK and Europe are now a real threat to the stability of a large chunk of the world. Mainstream Australians look on at the chaos in France from a distance but the seeds of similar disasters at home have been sown by the likes of Whitlam and Fraser and have been nurtured by their ilk, including most of our hopeless politicians. We still have some sort of chance to apply the brakes to our silly immigration and citizenship laws. Where are the federal MPs to lead the charge, or do we just sit back and wait until it’s our time to burn?
Melbourne Observer - November 9, 2005
PM, what are you on about? Ordinary Australians backed you on Tampa and the lefties in the Labor party were routed. God gave you Mark Latham and you cruised home again. Has hubris consumed you or are you starting to believe those Hooray Henrys surrounding you? Ordinary Australians are aghast at your profligate and arrogant splurging of THEIR money on your IR ads. Those boring, baby poo yellow missives are driving us all mad! They make us silence our TVs and I have not talked to one mate who’s bothered to read the mind numbing overkill in the print media.
An old woman and her son recently died and rotted in their home in Sydney because they had been disconnected from their community. The trendy know-alls who de-institutionalised our mentally ill still swan around at their cocktail parties while their victims are bashed and murdered or bash and murder. Don’t you get it? Your government lavishes money on stupid cabinet room furniture and big grog bills for the High Commission in Port Moresby. Too many of your colleagues are dills who’ve never been off the bitumen. You’ve lost my vote but that won’t stop you winning because the other dills are infinitely worse!
Melbourne Observer - November 2, 2005
What’s happening to us? Have you ever put a ferret down a rabbit burrow or flown a model aeroplane? What about camping and fishing and God forbid – shooting? Today’s kids demand to be driven everywhere; they spend most of their time eating rubbish and stuck in front of a TV or computer screen. Prescription drugs are shovelled out willy nilly by a health system in meltdown. Driving our roads, one is confronted by non-stop, ugly and stupid signage - ‘caution-trees close to road’. Then more silly signs that tell us that kangaroos, koalas and other creatures are crossing the road for the next 10k – damn, our animals are smart!
We are over-governed and over-regulated. Our system is hellbent on making victims of us, starting in the schoolyard. Bullying was once handled in a practical way. Get involved in a traumatic situation nowadays and find a ghoulish ‘counsellor’ oozing ‘compassion’ all over you. Murder someone and you might beat the rap if your lawyer runs the details of your sexual abuse as a child. Get blind drunk and commit crimes and you could be let off by a dopey magistrate. It’s a mad world but we keep voting for politicians who do nothing to change things.
Melbourne Observer - October 26, 2005
At no time in its history has Australia more desperately needed dedicated and honest MPs. Sadly, the present crop leaves a lot to be desired. The Latham Diaries exposed much of what goes on in the Labor Party and the Coalition is not immune from the same disgraceful nonsense. No wonder politicians are on the lower rungs of public acceptance polls year after year - but they shrug off these results with no shame. One could surmise that given they are supposed to be interacting with their constituents in an effective way, those polls should give them a better result. The real story of course is different.
Too many of our MPs are there for themselves – cooped up in branch meetings which are all about preaching to the converted and not straying very far from their electorate and parliamentary offices. Given the current problems with ethnic minority hotspots in our capital cities how many MPs have been to Lakemba, Cabramatta, Inala, Springvale and Brunswick? How many of them have been to the disaster zones where black Australians are living in rubbish tip communities created by the lunatic policy of separatism? When will our MPs realise that it’s not about them – it’s about us!
Melbourne Observer - October 19, 2005
What’s going on? Now we’re being told that many of our teachers have literacy problems and can’t spell. Any wonder that advertising signs and café menus are littered with spelling and grammar mistakes. Apostrophes now indicate plurals and mobile phone text messages are a gibberish mix of new age morse code and kindergarten language. Draw a menu spelling mistake to the waiter’s attention and more than likely you’ll be confronted by a gormless response. When I took English Literature and Expression at Melbourne Uni in the late 1950s, that institution was still administered by intelligent and dedicated staff. The brilliant Germaine also ensured a full roll up to lectures and tutorials.
The teaching profession(?) became riddled with the dope smoking survivors of the Vietnam moratoriums and the early Green guerilla campaigns. A teaching degree or diploma was a quick fix that didn’t interfere with their political agendas. Now the children of these people are becoming teachers and are passing on all their flaws to the present generation of students. No wonder more parents are sending their children to private schools in the hope they’ll employ better teachers. Sabotaging our students is far more damaging than terrorism.
Melbourne Observer - October 12, 2005
Have we become a nation of whingers? Rising oil prices have prompted a spate of moaning on radio talkback, in letters to the newspapers and in our parliaments. All sorts of people up and down the social scale are complaining how high petrol prices are ‘destroying our lives’. Looking at Australian society, one could be forgiven for being nonplussed by this over the top reaction. Australians continue to shovel billions of dollars into the dreaded ‘pokies’ and other forms of gambling. Cigarettes and high alcohol consumption are priorities for far too many – particularly the young.
Walk along our streets and see Australians of all ages waddling along like Sumo wrestlers, grotesque testimony to the huge quantities of fatty and sweet foods that they stuff down their throats. The young are heavily into costly fashion and obviously spend small fortunes on cosmetics and hairdos. Let’s not forget the multi millions spent on illegal drugs especially the crazily named recreational cocaine and ecstasy. Australians have become spectacular consumers and they are protesting too much. High petrol prices can be mitigated by just a little self discipline and some simple budgeting – or is that asking too much?
Melbourne Observer - October 5, 2005
In the wake of Hurricane Latham, our political system needs dramatic and urgent restructuring. Let’s hope there are enough sensible and decent people on all sides of politics to quickly make the necessary changes. Australia needs dedicated MPs who have got off the bitumen and out into the real world well before they decided on a career in politics. Voters are sick of union and party hacks, lawyers, undergraduate whiz kids, teachers and all the other featherheads with their snouts in the trough. Substantial private sector salaries must be paid and the taxpayer funded super scrapped. The AFL’s lacklustre Andrew Demetriou’s salary of $700,000 says it all.
Branch stacking is the terminal cancer of our political system and it has to be stamped out. Labor is the master of this fraudulent practice where separatist ethnic minorities are regularly used as gunfodder in preselection battles. The Libs have also dabbled in this area but not as successfully as their opponents. Let’s see the Howard Government draft changes to the Electoral Act clearly identifying branch stacking, making it a serious criminal offence with heavy fines and gaol sentences. Our parliament must make a stand on this issue for the sake of Australia and future generations.
Melbourne Observer - September 21, 2005
I was checking out lighthouses on the beautiful East Coast of Tasmania when Mark (how dare you call me bipolar) Latham, hit the launch button on his mega bile charged diaries. I have bad news for the ALP and its trendy Green and Lefty acolytes – the fallout from his dirty bomb will continue right up to polling day at the next federal election. Even the dopiest Liberal MP will have a list of those who voted for Latham as leader on file and every time one of these people rise to make a speech they will be pilloried.
Let’s not forget those media maggots, the pundits and Howard haters who hailed Mark the Messiah lavishly in print and interview. Their words are indelibly etched on the record to be recalled time and again. How did so many get it so wrong and what of their reputations now? Radio talkback and letters to the editor prove once again that ordinary Australians are not dills. Latham stated the obvious with his comments about both sides of Australian politics – and the same applies to most of our disgraceful judiciary. Do we pay our MPs private sector scale salaries and do we elect our judges? It’s worth thinking about.
Melbourne Observer - September 14, 2005
At all levels , Australian politics are a joke. Federal Labor makes a mockery of Chifley, Curtin and Hawke, while Liberal state MPs whirl like dervishes in ever decreasing circles. The reason is demonstrated time and again when these fools burst into print or appear on TV. The calibre of most of those working their way towards preselection and their counterparts playing undergraduate politics in the party machine is simply woeful.
In days gone by, the Libs had Field Officers who actually got off their bums and travelled off the bitumen and then even more surprising – spoke to ordinary people! These days fortunes are spent on polls and spin and most MPs are rarely seen in the general community.
For those who are aware of the mess there is much hard work to be done. With wins in NSW and Victoria looking remote it’s back to square one. Time servers have to be shown the door and truly conservative policies have to be reinforced. The ones who are offended have escape routes to Labor and the Greens. It’s time for some Young Libs to hop in a car and drive around their respective states talking to people who live in the real world.
Melbourne Observer - September 7, 2005
The Libs are hard at it again – snatching defeat from the jaws of victory – this time in NSW. The Brogden experiment was doomed from day one when the boy wonder tested the political waters with his agenda of trendy, lefty, stand for nothing issues. Trying to be all things to all men is a recipe for disaster – just look at Federal Labor and the Libs in all states. Until John Brogden delivered his Ugly Australian routine, NSW Labor was in a fair bit of strife but now for the Libs it’s back to the drawing board.
Things are not that much better for the so-called conservatives in Victoria. Mr Bracks should have his back to the wall but a lacklustre opposition is continually letting him off the hook. Silly Liberals supported Labor’s mad Race Hate Bill which is now backfiring on everyone; puffed up dills like Victor Perton unashamedly panders to Muslim voters.
At the federal level, Liberals Sophie Panopoulos and Bronwyn Bishop courageously have their say about the wearing of headgear and are supported by a huge number of ordinary Australians through talkback and TV and radio polls. Their stand is to be applauded but where are all those courageous male Coalition MPs?
Melbourne Observer - August 31, 2005
Unlike its mad, corrupt and starving northern half, South Korea is a booming industrial dynamo. It boasts of unemployment around 3%; not having a job causes serious loss of face. Savagely mauled by first the Japs in WW2 and then the Communist Chinese during the Korean War, South Korea has an economy rated ahead of Australia’s and a people who are seriously proud of their identity, unsullied by the disaster of multiculturalism. Thirty years ago, the South Koreans employed some English experts to plan the creation of incredibly streamlined shipyards that would catapult the nation to the forefront of the supertanker and super container construction world.
South Korean shipworkers do their warm up exercises before shifts and get paid $70,000 while their bosses receive modest salaries of around $200,000. Compare this to the absurd and obscene salaries of too many of our CEOs. Australia supplies the steel for this huge enterprise but the tragedy is that we could be up there now enjoying the benefits of having a huge shipbuilding industry of our own. Post WW2 Australia was sabotaged by the ALP sanctioned Communist unions who made it impossible for any real industrial revolution. We are still paying the price.
Melbourne Observer - August 24, 2005
Vince Gervasoni died on Sunday August 14, at his home at Yandoit, Central Victoria. In his early eighties and a bachelor, he was found by a relative in an armchair in the front room of his 19th century home, right by the room in which he was born. His faithful red cattle dog was at his feet. Vince’s people came from Northern Italy to the Central Victorian Goldfields in the late 1850s and were involved in a mix of mining, stonemasonry and farming. Times were hard. English had to be learned and pneumonia and diptheria took their toll, especially of the young.
Vince farmed hard to the end. His cellar housed his father’s winepress and salamis; other meats once hung from old forged nails in the rafters. During WW2 he wore the khaki and in the 1960s stood as a candidate for the DLP. He told me he voted for Pauline Hanson. He maintained his impeccable judgment when he voted for me in a recent federal election! Vince was awake to the politically correct and was wary of the ‘smarties’ from Melbourne. A sign at the front of his property advised members of the Heritage Board to ‘piss off.’
I’ll miss you Vince.
Melbourne Observer - August 17, 2005
PM Howard, you are now at the most challenging point in your term. What you do will affect all our lives and those of future generations of Australians. It will be impossible to have a sound economy, good jobs and comfortable homes if we are going to be forever looking nervously at some of the people who share our space. You and I know that a public vote on continuing Muslim immigration would be a resounding NO! Your efforts to fight terrorism at home are to be applauded but if that is to be really effective you must urgently review our immigration and citizenship laws.
We have not reached the disastrous situation that exists in most European countries. There is no doubt that most ordinary Australians are with you. It’s crucial that you don’t let them down. A high degree of fluency in English must be a pre-requisite for intending migrants as well as a demonstrated acceptance of the Australian way of life. Scrap that stupid dual-citizenship and extend the waiting time for those who want to become permanent members of this great country. Do what has to be done and future generations will remember you as the PM who made Australia, Australia again.
Melbourne Observer - August 10, 2005
It’s been a long time coming but at last Italian tanks have forward gears! I’m referring to the Italian parliament’s lower house gutsy decision (385 to 20) to ban the covering of one’s face in public. Breaches will be sanctioned by fines and/ or imprisonment. Things must be crook in the land of fine cuisine and good looking women; the vote was confirmed by the upper house.
The signs were all there well before the London bombings. Even those inveterate white flag fliers the French banned the burqa and other religious regalia in schools. The Dutch and others are considering language testing migrants. Mainstream Europeans are starting to realise that they have been dudded by most of their dopey politicians and the PC brigade, but is it all too late?
With no real signs that fanatical Muslims are being seriously challenged by their moderate co-religionists, Western nations can be expected to keep reacting as governments realise that this war must be won. More bombings could mean emergency legislation imprisoning those considered a threat, including the confiscation of property and assets. It’s all happened before.
Ordinary Australians are voting on talkback and media polls that Muslims should take their problems and religion elsewhere.
Melbourne Observer - August 3, 2005
Multiculturalism - that bastard child of treacherous and gutless politicians from all sides of politics - is at last being challenged. Even some in the media who for years have slavishly extolled the supposed virtues of a policy that has at its centre a foolish belief in the equality of all cultures have found tongue. These people need to be congratulated for their courage; there can be no doubt they will be under incredible pressure from their peers to recant. It’s the politicians who now need to demonstrate courage as they continue to steadfastly ignore the majority of the electorate on issues like multiculturalism.
There are increasing calls for Australia to lower immigration gates, particularly in respect to Muslims (as the Dutch are now doing). This is all too late. Australian citizenship is increasingly becoming an easy ticket to ride into Centrelink offices. Fluent English must become a prerequisite along with a demonstrated knowledge of Australia’s history. A recorded oath of detailed allegiance must be made. When we are attacked at home the message might start to get through to Canberra. It’s one thing to tighten up our anti – terrorist laws but let’s not forget – it’s our immigration and citizenship laws stupid!
Melbourne Observer - July 27, 2005
To ID or not to ID? – that is the question. It’s almost twenty years since the Australia Card went down the gurgler but as they say – times have changed. In those ‘good old days’, murderous religious lunatics weren’t blowing up trains and flying planes into buildings nor were Western nations being flooded by illegals. Ordinary Australians carry heaps of plastic and when cards are lost or stolen it causes much grief. Honest people don’t have anything to fear, though, and there are now compelling reasons to consider a national ID card. The technology is there to make sure the system works safely and effectively.
A sensible argument exists to consolidate ID, Medicare and Pension card numbers on the same document and there is also a case for a national driver’s licence given the increasing rate of traffic in counterfeited taxi and general licences. One would expect that such streamlining would produce economic efficiency as well as the main motive – putting real heat on those who are living amongst us for all the wrong reasons. A national ID card will not stop acts of terror but may make the investigation process easier. The snivelling libertarians are already foaming at the mouth but it’s time to think again.
Melbourne Observer - July 20, 2005
The terrorist nightmare in Britain has sidelined for the moment, all other political issues. John Howard warns what many of us have been thinking and dreading – that for us, our time to be strapped on the terrorist rack could well be sooner than later. Confirmation that the British mad bombers were homegrown, demonstrates what a lunatic policy multiculturalism has really been. Our homegrown Bush, Howard and Blair haters are having a field day of course with their self satisfied burblings but at least we know who they all are.
Closer to home, the Bracks government does nothing about the race and religious hate that is spewed out of a Muslim bookshop in Brunswick despite its recent Race –Hate legislation which was supported by a hopeless and drifting Liberal Opposition. The mad bombers don’t care who they kill even if some of the victims are fellow Muslims - after all they will get to Paradise just a little sooner. What is going on inside the mosques? Where are the so-called moderate Muslim leaders? If, as we are told, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are industrious, peace loving members of the wider community, why don’t they take to the streets in droves to demonstrate their horror at recent events?
Melbourne Observer - July 13, 2005
Mark Latham in his wild slashing at the Labor Party has missed the largest target but he may make amends with his dairies. That target is Labor’s Socialist Left faction which has been the slow, cancerous cause of all the party’s problems. As long as the SL faction is allowed to continue playing its games, Labor simply cannot function as a viable and politically saleable organisation. Mainstream Australians while not interested in attending political science lectures, are now well and truly a wake up to the looney lefties who are keeping Labor in the wilderness.
Labor urgently needs heroes who can put their personal ambitions aside. The SL needs to be ruthlessly purged - denied preselections and hounded right out of the party - then it can group together with Malcolm Fraser, Philip Adams, Petrogeorgiou and all the other misfits out there. Freed of the SL shackles, the Bill Shortens of this world have to sell themselves to ordinary Australians. A trip out to Lakemba is a must as would be a visit to Malaysia where public signage exhorts the citizenry to become fluent in English. Shorten must get out and talk to farmers and then he has to ask sensible experts – can the GST be repealed?
SPECIAL COMMENT:
The evil croupier spins his roulette wheel of hate and murder and ordinary Australians wait for their number to come up. Muslims decry the bastardry in London from the relative anonymity of media releases but none of them take to the streets en masse to publicly identify themselves as fiercely opposing Bin Laden and his pack of scumbags.
The enemy now lives amongst us – feeding off the generosity of our system and heartened by the comfort afforded their cause by our snivelling libertarians led by the likes of stupid Malcolm Fraser and his ilk. The Labor Party will one day be held accountable for its criminal ethnic branch stacking, particularly its sponsoring of Muslims in the western suburbs of Sydney.
Whatever the clever language used to the contrary, Islam has declared war on the West and our government must act to protect us. Sir Harry Gibbs the eminent jurist said, ‘a state is entitled to prevent the immigration of persons(other than refugees), whose culture is such that they are unlikely readily to integrate into society,’ Our immigration laws need urgent amending in the national interest. For starters, all migrants must be totally fluent in English and demonstrate a good knowledge of our culture and history.
Melbourne Observer - July 6, 2005
Be aware and be alert! Bit by bit, the AFL is slowly but surely being politicised. The chip-on-his-shoulder AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou decisively outed himself last Australia Day when, speaking in his official capacity, he attacked John Howard.
Sydney woman Sam Mostyn and former adviser to Paul Keating has been appointed the AFL’s first female commissioner; in a fawning article written by a publishing contractor to the AFL, Demetriou laments that ‘we have made passionate and powerful presentations to assist governments to make a difference in the community, using the AFL, its clubs, administrators, volunteers, supporters, our culture, integrity – all of us – but so far we have not broken through.’
With its over emphasis on sponsoring Aboriginal players, the AFL runs the real risk of mimicking the do-gooding separatism which has already wreaked so much havoc in the wider Aboriginal community. Does Mr Demetriou want the AFL to get involved in the debates of the day like mandatory detention and immigration? Remember how history’s great dictators used their sporting heroes? The public needs to know more about how the AFL is operated but with most sports commentators hanging off its teats, finding a journo with guts is a big ask.
Melbourne Observer - June 29, 2005
Australian politics are amazing. The Labor rout in the NT confirms the party’s state and territory dominance but must add to Federal Labor’s woes as Kim Beazley’s fortunes wane. Liberal oppositions around the nation are generally a shambles with the situation reversed in Canberra. Whatever one thinks about John Howard, Australian conservatives would be facing a Labor controlled nation without him. Now that the pathetic and treacherous Gang of Four have had their fleeting moments in the spotlight, the Government must stop its blithering and get down to governing.
John Howard says his party is one of ideas and vision so right – he should stop non – essential overseas trips for his MPs and have them brainstorming. With oil prices escalating, the rapid development of ethanol and biodiesel must be pursued. Water is a national priority and it’s crazy to call for increased immigration until the supply of this vital commodity is resolved. MPs of all persuasions are a disgrace in view of their studied ignorance as to what is happening to PNG and other Pacific Rim basket case countries. Australian taxpayers will have to fix up that mess. Giving Government MPs plenty to do might just give some of them less reason to cause mischief.
Melbourne Observer - June 22, 2005
The cancellation of Third World debt by the affluent West makes for warm and cuddly headlines. The chattering classes nod their heads sagely and a few faded pop stars who have become overnight economic gurus and have passed their use by dates get a final encore in the media spotlight. The debt relief applies mainly to African and Latin American countries where true democracy still eludes most of the population. It’s been a long time since the evil white man lorded it over his long suffering black subjects and as I reminded my PNG employees when I left – ‘wait until you get a black master.’
AIDS and Bongo Bongo dictators have ravaged the Third World while a corrupt UN stands by twiddling its thumbs and as I write, thousands of innocent blacks in Darfur and other places are being butchered by their black brothers. Millions more starve while the wives of their leaders shop on the avenues in Paris and New York. Debt relief is window dressing – future aid needs to be strictly tied and administered and arms sales halted. Closer to home, PNG which should have been the powerhouse of the South Pacific is inexorably being sucked into the quicksand of AIDS, violence and corruption.
Melbourne Observer - June 15, 2005
With Gary Ablett’s induction, the AFL’s Hall of Fame becomes the Hall of Shame. The death of a young, infatuated girl on a drug binge with Ablett was the trigger for an ongoing saga of ‘should he or shouldn’t he?’ which has now reached its sorry conclusion. The AFL and its fawning media acolytes have forever preached to us how footy heroes are paramount role models for our youth. What absolute rubbish when one considers the dishonour roll of footy celebs who have drug taken, boozed, groped, brawled and urinated their way into the headlines.
Criteria for selection to the Hall of Fame includes ‘integrity’ and ‘character’ and those brain dead commentators who support Ablett have suggested the criteria be changed to concentrate purely on football skills. Why not simply change the rules to allow for an inductee to be removed from the Hall if he brings the game into disrepute. Those who received knighthoods were stripped of them if they committed crimes or were bankrupted. Eddie McGuire stood up for ordinary Australians when he derided the whole sorry mess on the Footy Show and called for the selection panel to be sacked. The AFL is a sick joke.
Melbourne Observer - June 8, 2005
The Immigration Department and the major airports are Australia’s front line defences against illegal migrants, terrorism and drugs. Allegations abound and it’s time the Government got real. Forget about the Labor Party - in the main they’re the friends of our enemies. The Immigration Department had thirteen years of Labor administration under the likes of Senator Bolkus and the interference of that criminal Grassby and a gutless Coalition has done nothing to sort the place out. There are allegations of minority ethnic group employees running their own agendas and scary reports of some who have very limited skills in English.
The terrifying prospect of our airports being at the mercy of a hard core of criminals and potential terrorists will ground a lot of passengers. John Howard and his Ministers must take a stand in the name of national security and establish Razor Gangs to do over the Immigration Department and the administration of airports. The politically correct have to be stamped on. New departments need to be created containing within them Fedpol and ASIO. All existing employees from the top to the bottom must be stood down and told to re-apply for their jobs. Now they can be re-screened. Will all this happen? Don’t hold your breath.
Melbourne Observer - June 1, 2005
I first met Debbie in 1982 in Brunswick Street Fitzroy – a scrawny, diminutive waif of a woman with short cropped brownish hair and piercing green eyes. She was begging and everyone knew her. Debbie had an obsession with glass and in conversation she would ramble on about the only thing that had captured her interest. She smoked and drank everything - including metho. In the late 1980s I came across her squatting in a shop doorway shivering and crying. She had been assaulted by an assortment of multi-coloured scum in a Fitzroy laneway near the Council flats. Her arms were blotched with festering cigarette burns. Debbie was one of the many abandoned by all sides of politics in the name of the grand experiment of de-institutionalisation.
I met Debbie begging in May this year in Lygon Street, Carlton. I could hardly recognise her. Dirty, sparse white hair was straggling out of her scaly skull and her eyes looked as if they had been dipped in silver paint. A kind lady sitting at a sidewalk table was reaching into her handbag. Hard hearted bastard that I am – I thrust $5 into her hand and walked away. How can we ever compensate the Debbies of this world?
Melbourne Observer - May 25, 2005
Inexorably, the lunatics are taking over the asylum. The dumbing down of our police forces, dysfunctional judges, the multicultural morons who sternly admonish us at every turn, the terrible policy of separatism that has consigned our Aboriginal brothers and sisters to the scrap heaps of the settlements – it goes on and on. Now we are confronted with major crises in our airport security system and our immigration department. There are always two sides of a story. Has the apparent protected species status of baggage handlers been created by the militant unions and a fainthearted Qantas board while the usual bunch of gormless, hand wringing pollies look on?
The present immigration department had thirteen years of Labor rule – plenty of time to embed many of its camp followers, safe in the knowledge that a gutless Coalition would not upset the applecart. That little crook Al Grassby did as he liked to protect known Mafia criminals from deportation and now it looks as if an incompetent bureaucracy will cost us a lot of money in compensation for the wrongful deportation of an Australian citizen. Our immigration and citizenship laws need an urgent overhaul. Applicants must have good fluency in English and dual citizenship is just a joke.
Melbourne Observer - May 18, 2005
No wonder ordinary Australians reckon that most of their politicians are deadheads. In recent times we have witnessed the sad spectacle of the Howard Costello kerfuffle with the Treasurer and his yapping running dogs coming off second best – it was all about ego and personal ambition with total disregard for the nation and its people. Thank God for the budget which will keep the media occupied for a while. Economics is not one of my strengths but I can see real problems looming with the welfare to work initiative. How will the bureaucrats deal with the increasing numbers of certain migrants and their large families who are milking our system as hard as they can?
The mad multiculturalists and the pedlars of political correctness are always in the wings waiting to protect their flock. How will we ever know what ethnic groups lead in the rorting stakes? The determined refusal by many of these people to learn English is a real worry. To hear a supposed Muslim leader born in Australia barely making himself understood on talkback radio must set the worst example for his followers. Imagine the communication difficulties which must only serve to hinder those trying to make the system work.
Melbourne Observer - May 11, 2005
How the
Labor Party worm has turned. A recent mailout from my local MP – a member of the Socialist Left in Victoria - was fulsome in its praise of Anzac Day and the attendant traditions. This same person and his faction are rabid Republicans who in past times have called for the changing of our flag as well as supporting all the usual Peacenik causes. There are quite a few MPs in our parliaments
who (in their longhaired days) spat on and abused our Vietnam Diggers. Even these people are not totally dumb as they can read the present public mood and that means votes.
The Labor Party has always campaigned against conscription with much