Polygraph of Polly Prostitutes Plebiscite

Now that the MSM is paying prostitutes large sums of money to name selected politicians, what is needed is a good old fashioned witch hunt around Parliament House.  I suggest a special Senate and House Committee to administer a compulsory questionnaire/polygraph:

Q. Are you now, or have you ever used the services of a Prostitute?

Q. An “escort” service, male female or both at same time?

Q. Got lucky with a staffer following a subsidised dinner date?

Q. Visited or been shown adult erotic material from the Internet (even for purely research purposes)?

Q. Done anything risque on an overseas fact finding mission?

Q. Met with Christopher Pyne alone in a secluded room?

Q. Are you aware of any sexual trysts among your colleagues, provide details (attach list).

The Committee reserves the right to publish responses in a News Ltd publication (under parliamentary privilege).

Chris Uhlmann has Got to Go

The ABC has intervened following the publication of Paul Keating’s note describing Chris Uhlmann (ABC 7.30 program) as incompetent.  I understand the ABC was swamped with comments agreeing with this assessment to the point that the ABC stopped publishing the responses and Bruce Belsham, Head ABC Current Affairs used his power to dismiss Keatings remarks and write a defense of Uhlmann.

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4004234.html

Anyone who has watched Uhlmann interview Gillard and then watched him interview Abbott would acknowledge that the guy does a jekyll and hyde routine.  The fact that the shows ratings have plummeted should indicate that there is a problem, but then the ABC does not need worry about ratings does it.

Just how low can their ABC get before there is a change?  Who would have thought Rob Sitch would make a good training video for ABC presenters?

It’s Common Wealth of Australia

So Liberal Party dominated State governments (with an assist from mining companies) are planning to challenge to the legality of the Gillard government’s carbon and mining taxes in the High Court.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/dont-expect-the-court-to-undo-carbon-and-mining-taxes-20120326-1vum7.html#ixzz1qFzPw4UD

As Chris Bowen (Immigration Minister) recently found out, there the are often a few surprises handed out with court rulings.

In the Social Sciences, we have what is known as the Law of Unintended consequences,  a perverse effect contrary to what was originally intended.

State politicians and at least one mining billionaire have suggested that the requirement of Section 114 of the constitution is that the Commonwealth not “impose any tax on property of any kind belonging to a state”

The assumption here is that the mineral resources are state government property and these resources are indeed owned by the crown. There is only one Australian crown and that is vested in the Commonwealth of Australia (Federal Government). So it is possible that there is no such thing as State government ownership of these minerals.  The High Court could determine that these mineral resources are the property of ALL Australians (common wealth) and this may mean State governments have no right to claim royalty payments.

So if State Government’s insist on their “pound of flesh” they may end up with nothing.

Gotta love the Law of Unintended consequences, so c’mmon Liberal State Government’s hava go.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will guard the guards themselves?)

So the Future Fund named itself the  ”Board of Guardians”.  This Fund was the brain child of former Liberal Party Treasurer Peter Costello and was set up to stop any future Labor Government from “squandering” the once only windfall gain from the sale of Telstra.  The Future Fund was intended to cover unfunded superannuation liabilities, for which no provision had been made by a succession of previous governments.

There have been reports that the Future Fund has lost significant amounts of money on high risk investments including Greek sovereign debt.  Posted returns from the Fund have averaged 4.2 per cent until May 2006 but have steadily declined since that time and in calendar 2011 the return was down to just 1.6 per cent. In the final six months of the year it was minus 3.1 per cent.

Peter Costello has been reported as being “miffed” at missing out on being promoted to the job of Chairman.  Based on performance, the whole board including Peter Costello should be replaced.  The Future Fund is not some private company where share holders have to put up with out of control company directors “squandering” money.

What we have here is another example of failed Liberal Party financial management.

Report Card Question Time Elementary School

Time to send out the school report cards on the performance of your little darlings, so here goes:

Tony Abbott – is definitely a boy with special needs. In the view of the staff room, these should begin with an exorcism;

Malcolm Turnbull – Since my last report, your child has reached rock bottom and has started to dig

Joe Hockey – Your child has delusions of adequacy.

Greg Hunt – Your son sets low personal standards and consistently fails to achieve them.

Barnaby Joyce – Your son is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.

Andrew Robb – The child has been working with glue too much.

Julie Bishop – When your daughters IQ reaches 50, she should sell.

Bronwyn Bishop – The gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train is not coming.

Christopher Pyne – It is impossible to beleive that the sperm that created this child beat out a million others.

Sophie Mirabella – I would not allow this student to breed

Peter Dutton – The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.

Opening Bids For G20

Australia has been given the nod to host the next G20 meeting and our Prime Minister is due to announce next June which State Capital city will host the event. I would like to give all state government leaders the opportunity to submit their first draft of a preliminary feasibility proposal to host this prestigious event. To assist all those struggling State governments I offer a first draft summary of their respective strength and weaknesses – feel free to add your contribution:

NSW: Barrel O’Lies is the only state with a water cannon (and they are not afraid to give the rabble a spray). Howard showed how easy it is to shut down the entire city and ensure that powerful world leaders arrive on time for the lectures and largesse. Anyway by 2014, Abbott will be living in the Sydney harbor side mansion (Kirribilli House) and little Johnny will be living next door in the Governor General’s shack so all the important people will be close at hand.

Queensland: Campbell Newmann will finally get elected and go straight into the top job where he will make Abbott look like an alter boy. His no nonsense approach will re-introduce the “ride over the bastards” approach so they won’t need any pussy water cannon. Politically it would be better for Brisbane to miss out as Newmann can play the “see I told you southerners really hate us” card after all it kept Joh Bjelke-Petersen in power for more that twenty years.

Victoria: Police scandal and corruption will be a thing of the past by 2014 (well at least not appearing in the newspaper). Victorian bid will be held back because of the swear jar laws (shit!) and the Premiers strange wind turbine phobia (anemomenophobia.). Failure to even take a one game off the Irish will not help.

Canberra : despite royal endorsement, the ACT does not have enough hotel beds although the locals would provide billets which might prove a novel arrangement for our visitors. We run the world’s best little soccer tournament (Kanga Cup) and the biggest concern from our overseas visitors is they can’t find a McDonalds to try out the local cuisine.

Perth: Well they just had CHOGM. Guaranteed to be the preferred choice for ultra right wing G20 members.

All the rest including the south island, thanks for applying, it was a very strong field and you “just” missed out.

Qantas – I Still Call Australia Home?

Qantas and Employees have been engaged in a routine industrial dispute for 7 months so why has this been elevated to a “National Emergency” status ? What possible circumstances could be in play that makes this dispute worthy of closer examination.

The Background and Time-line

• The Prime Minister looking forward to three months of “clear air” with photo ops and handshakes;
• CHOGM and Queen in Perth;
• Friday morning, Victorian and NSW Liberal Governments call on PM to intervene in dispute although no actual action current. PM calls action by Victorian and NSW Liberal Governments a stunt;
• Friday, no indication at the Qantas AGM that management is planning extreme disruption to Qantas operations. Despite shareholder rumblings a massive pay rise for Qantas CEO Joyce;
• Saturday am Qantas board meets;
• Saturday afternoon Queen flies out of Perth, Joyce contacts Anthony Albanese, Minister for Infrastructure and Transport;
• Saturday 5 pm Qantas grounds all flights;
• Anthony Albanese press conference;
• Saturday 8 pm Prime Minister press conference, Fair Work Australia (FWA) called in on a matter of national importance;
• Saturday 9 pm FWA convenes, under FWA provisions NSW and Vic Governments can join.

Is our system of democracy under attack? There is prima facie evidence that Qantas and both the NSW and Victorian Liberal Governments have colluded in raising the level of this dispute.

The Liberal Party opposition, Business Leaders, NSW and Victorian Liberal Governments have turned up the volume and are blaming the PM. A lot of effort, careful planning and coordination has taken place to bring on this issue at this time.

Some questions need to be answered, who on the Qantas Board knew that this was going to happen?

When did they know?

Abbott and his supporters will try anything to bring down the present Government, the AstroTurf grass roots “Ditch the Witch” campaign was a dismal failure maybe it’s time for a try from the big end of town.

Footnote it is now three days after the original post (above).

I include the following post covering some interesting follow up events:

Posted November 1, 2011 at 12:37 am | Permalink by Kate: Ok here goes. I’ve been brewing on this for a few days . In the shock of the Saturday grounding of the QF fleet I found myself home alone on Saturday night watching the FWA updates (sad but true). Bugger that, so I headed into FWA in Exhibition St and quickly got hooked on the night’s proceedings. I realise this is a poor reflection on my personality!

A procession of key players would walk past every now and then, and as the proceedings dragged on I befriended the night-owl brigade of cameramen. They filled in the gaps when unfamiliar punters came into camera shot. Their interest rose when the Victorian Minister for Transport arrived at the FWA hearing (and quickly left) with a grin from ear to ear. Apparently he was also representing the NSW transport minister too. Dare I spell out to all readers 12 year old’s and under, that both gents conincidentally are Liberal MP’s.

Now here is the clunker that I missed. The cameramen (and a fair few journo’s) were keen to know why the Minister was so easily available on a Saturday night (remember this is a long weekend and Oaks Day in Melbourne and half the city is tanked) to attend proceedings all suited up. Noteworthy given the only participants on Saturday night were journo’s, lawyers and union representatives, oh and a handful of tragic’s like me.

Given the said Ministers letter writing stunt to the Government, specifically calling for industrial action to be terminated(we all know the letter went to media outlets enroute to the PM) and was felt premature at the time, is it possible that Liberal party members were in the loop regarding the grounding of Qantas well in advance of Minister Albanese et al???? Did Olivia Wirth sneak a peak of the lock out letter posted to unsuspecting staff to her former boss Joe Hockey???? Why did Tony Abbot weigh into the debate blaming the Government????……….ah gottcha there…..

Kudos to Bill Shorten for showing up the following day for 12 hours, and Adam Bandt for spending a lot of time there too.

Alan Joyce grounds an airline… a cunning stunt. Indeed.

This cross post is from a comment on “Crikey” thanks Tom R for the alert.

More Media Bias

This is the sort of blatant media bias we get every day on our commercial TV station.
I reckon WIN should apologize to the Queen for using her in this Liberal party political promotion.

Asher to Ashes

Over the last one hundred years Australia has had stable government and we have all prospered as a result. One of the key elements in that stability has been the doctrine of separation of powers . This guiding principle seeks the separation of the legislature (ie parliament), the executive (ie head of government, Ministers and Cabinet) and the judiciary (courts of law).

What is not so well known is that at the beginning of our federal government, other stakeholders were taken into account. These included the Australian Public Service, Military forces and Commonwealth Bank (Reserve Bank).

The separation of powers in our system is designed to distribute authority away from the executive branch – an attempt to preserve individual liberty in response to tyrannical leadership throughout history. It seems even the founders of our democracy did not trust politicians.

Most were established with a degree of independence and this was thought to be a safeguard against any particular group grasping too much power.

The system is not set in concrete and much tinkering has taken place (deregulation of the Public Service being one), but the guiding principle has always been respected and thought worthwhile. Alarm bells sound when politicians start to have a go at other groups, for example Senator Brandis trying to influence the judicial process.

In March 1977 the first Commonwealth Ombudsman was established. The Ombudsman is an official, usually (but not always) appointed by the government or parliament, who is charged with representing the interests of the public by investigating and addressing complaints reported by individual citizens. This individual is part of the checks and balances which are thought to preserve our democracy and should operate free of political bias or influence.

So when Allan Asher the current Ombudsman began private political briefings and scripting questions for one political party, he “crossed the line” and bought the Office of Ombudsman into disrepute. The Ombudsman is not a political “player” and should never engage in this type of conduct.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-18/ombudsman-sorry-for-collaberating-with-greens/3576208

Appearing before a recent Senate hearing Asher apologised :

“This was an error of judgment and it was a mistake and I wish to firstly apologise to the committee for that.

“I really am deeply, deeply sorry in so many ways… It was clearly a mistake.”

Labor Senator John Faulkner did not accept the explanation and questioned whether the Ombudsman’s actions were at odds with his position.

“Are others – citizenry, members of parliament, the government or government agencies actually [to] think that you might not bring the same sort of tactics to the consideration of complaints that are formally made to you,” he said.

“Isn’t that a pretty fundamental problem for you now?

“[It is] absolutely at odds to the fundamental responsibilities to your office.”

But Mr Asher insisted his office had not been compromised.

“I am and my office is politically colour blind,” he said.

“I don’t believe it affects the independence in any way.”

Time to go Mr Asher, pack up your ego and resign.

The Devil You Say

When the country needs to exorcise the demon Carbon Tax who are you gonna call?

Help me, oh be the one, you are our last hope.

Father Abbott (Cardinal Pell’s representative here on Earth) mans up in our time of need.