Sunday, March 27, 2011

Helping the new Liberals along. NSW landslide victory

What Labor doesn't know they just wouldn't know --because they love to worship mere facts . Perhaps they hope that by digesting a whole pile of mere facts,   they will get some morality and purpose instead of the indigestion and " let everyone do what they like stuff" they have been sharing with us across Australia for the last decades .
And if Liberals are going to show some guts and true grit they must abandon their shallow facscination with all things good in business ( because its half the reason Labor and previuos libs went wrong )and get back to recognising the things our old culture does well and why ( way we think about temptation , business freedom and celebration) need that paradigm shift they seem no to have lost sight of
so here's a start
The education revolution more to resisting state school degradation than new plaster , paint and wallpaper
The environment revolution - don't put the onus on farmers to prove they aren't doing the wrong thing - put the onus on the  department responsible , and if you can't find one , sack all the department heads and NGO'S and Canberra clingers on the drip feed till you do; do a survey starting at the Shires and up to Canberra on all the people meddling or connected with NVR legislation and how many Ha of trees they haven't got sustainably on GPS verified sites for how many dollars  ;  find someone who has put their hand up to defend well argued design with nature onground support and where necessary detailed on ground concern . We are conservationists here

Decision making rather than policy making  Put the metal on those departments and Ngos whose main products are paper !

why don't you add to this list  !Its still a free country !

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Don't,whatever you do,tell primary industry how it should work

After all  the joint parties love affair with the market in solving environment is a failure 
-Grattan Inst says govt  programs have failed (listen) via @
Report finds $12 billion of state-federal government climate programs fail to adequately cut carbon emissions.
Why ? -we might well ask when both parties agree about method "the market"  Answer 
When both parties still think economics is the preserve of of bookkeepers.when its clearly a much bigger profession 


"Sit on big business and they will innovate , innovate"  ( If in competition ) never sit on a vote ? and not pass the cost on ? 


Carbon farming legislation 
As if to demonstrate the joint desperation of both parties --the danger of ignoring the implementation question over the ideas , both parties still trip over themselves today to announce a revamped sequestration  incentive ( Greg Combey at 12pm today and Greg Hunt on ABC lateline 23rd )


 Taking one to know one they know the idea but not yet how to implement it - seriously dangerous . 
-- taking from the rich or careless is fine if you trust the govt to use the money well 
-.we don't need more . Tax fuel abusers (eg 4WD) and give sequesters a decent excise
- As if farmers don't already have enough single focused greenclones talkin to them bout things they don't understand
-The earth is able to sustain itself .A coalition of low integrity and accountability wants us to take them seriuosly No
-Only trade unions would think they would be able to tell farmers when they need to be paid and how much
-Always inventing new stuff and talking to solutions in name only shocking  
-Greg can't see that his proposition for tendered on ground evaluations would sink the liberals in the country

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Ten reluctant points to Tony Burke last week

Well I have got to hand it to Tony Burke (Calling the cows back from the high country on Friday).
It maybe that the Libs have got a decent brief for research but what I have seen so far looks like (whitewash or should we call it "blackwash" ) .the media have only got to take some nasty pictures of fenced in areas ( not fair but will happen) and Mr Walsh And Mr Baillieu will be in trouble.

The Libs won't get anywhere by acting in reaction to the conservation excesses of the left. ( Our PM was right to to state greens policies as "extreme" but is  Mr Walsh in Victoria acting a little on the extreme?)
The Libs can only survive by defining their own unique brand of conservation competence ( full not just fire ) and  avoid the impression they don't take it seriously , say with their " high country grazing trial"  .( the brief i have seen on the DPI  website  does not seem to include a proper review of ecosystem resilience and biodiversity issues )
The thinking people of Australia rightly expect , not necessarily an EIS  ( a dumb reactionary tool often ) ,  but a clear commitment to careful research and proper review in this sensitive landscape . I will be the first to state the acceptibility of grazing, but also the first to insist on how it must be done ( based on ALL applied research so far ) .

Monday, March 14, 2011

Liberals keep missing the opportunity to win votes

We saw them on the ground lose a easily winnable seat in August 2010. They would be in power in Austral;ai now if they weren't so trusting in the market and the way they traditionally do things ( throw money rather than logic and truth at a problem ) .
some challenges ( Fuel costs ) require at least a bit of planning . And instead of a tit for tat game over fears face them ( both parties  are both acting like children by not facing their own versions of them )  - libs need to see they have nothing to fear from looking deeper into conservation questions
The appeal of being able to do something about something really big is understandable . Julia Gillard is swept up with a tide of emotion over pricing carbon as if the long lost role of leftish governments has finally found a new home - as an  ally of the market .
The West never grew under such stupidity and secondrate role placement  - it grew by being strong in itself.  Lets hope the lazy liberals too don't keep falling for their own simple rhetoric - that the light shines out of price amd market controls,
Oh yeah , by the way , that makes them as desperate as Labor are,  for an identity . How about a lightbulb moment gentlemen !  .