Hold on to your hats!

At least the first thing you see, if it will be called the "Conservative Party" as Abbott suggests... won't be an out and out lie. The Liberal Party of Australia is not liberal. It is a deception from the start.

You've got to think that Abbott is a little miffed... Bernardi has stolen a March on him! Abbott must have been considering something along the same lines... he's even done the smoozing with Hanson (yes, the lady he sent to gaol).

Maybe you thought that 2016 was an interesting year politically. Hold on to your hats, here comes 2017!

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/conservative-party-could-win-up-to-10-tony-abbott-hits-out-at-cory-bernardi-over-breakaway-20161229-gtjmc6.html

He's not happy Jan!

The Truth Will Set You Free!

Here is a real issue for those of you that appreciate openness and honesty.

Professor Jenny Hockey is asking for some documents that were exchanged between the Governor of Australia (in the day) Sir John Kerr and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II the Queen of Australia.

The documents pre date what is refered to as "The Dismissal" when Sir John sacked the Whitlam Government.

The documents were classified (by Kerr) as private and confidential. The Professor contends that these documents may reveal an exchange between the venerable couple that are pivotal and helped determine the future of Australia. Being marked as private and confidential means they are held away from public view until at least 2016 and may ONLY be revealed with the permission of the Monarch and the Governor General.

The Professor says that they are neither personal nor private and should be available for perusal as are so many other documents that are of the same nature.

Their unveiling may give us an answer as to what advice Sir John may have received from The Monarch and how informed she was at the time....

The Professor has set up a crowd funding site for the legal costs. I don't have the webpage address yet (URL).... I will update this post when I have it.

https://chuffed.org/project/release-the-palace-letters

Click here for the ABC report on the issue

Challenge for Grace Collier

Grace Collier made a suggestion for Australians that have difficulty finding work. She says that there is only one person that they can rely on ... themselves!

"Tensions flared on Monday night's Q&A when industrial relations expert Grace Collier said the unemployed could solve their problems by starting their own businesses.

On a night when industrial relations was a key focus of the program, Ms Collier's remarks sparked several on the panel into life and surprised many in the Melbourne studio audience."

Ms Collier, I challenge you! If you think it is just a matter of "starting a business" why don't you show the under employed of Australia just how easy it is?

●Take three months leave (or as long as you think you will need) from your current occupation,
●restrict your access to funds to what a long or short term unemployed person would be able to access ie survive on the same disposable income as a newstart recipient has too,
●Start a business and maintain it, relying on it for your income as a newstart recipient would need too.

In short, let's see you pull off what you flippantly suggest the unemployed should do.

See the ABC story here...

Mike Baird.... Another fine mess!

Mike Baird and Troy Grant almost followed through on a promise to destroy a complete industry in NSW. Regardless of the wrongs and failings of the industry we have a government that cannot continue.

They stood firm for around three months stating that the greyhound ban would stand and that greyhound racing was finished in NSW.

Now, today, the ban has been overturned.

One of the roles of government is to listen to the community, investigate and come to a final point and then act in full confidence that they have made the right decision.

We need to be confident that when the government acts that they have covered all contingencies and that when they can, they give us stability and certainty. This government is unstable and uncertain.

Clearly what we have in Macquarie Street is a closed minded, deaf eared , knee jerking bunch of over confident mismanagers.

There are any number of other issues on the table where the Baird Government are not listening.... Lock outs, local govt mergers and the Gosford waterfront to name but three.... Mr Baird you say you are listening but it appears that you are not.

That's another fine mess that you've gotten us into Casino Mike!

What is going on here???

Professor Steve, not so KEEN on Aussie economic plan.

Professor Keen says.... worries about huge government deficits were overblown.

"The Government is not like a household. A government is like a bank. And a government running a balanced budget is like a bank that simply lends back as much as it gets in repayments, therefore the money supply never grows and without that, you don't have a growing economy," he said.

Professor Steven Keen, who was formerly an associate professor of economics at the University of Western Sydney and is now at Kingston University in London, says economists and governments around the world have their thinking completely wrong on the issue of budget deficits.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-29/australia-headed-for-recession-next-year,-professor-keen-says/7674154

NSW Court of Appeal dismisses directors' challenge to ICAC findings of corrupt conduct - Lexology

http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=41e1ee79-7b67-4f55-9755-857af0174248