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Reflections on Australia Day – where we’ve been and where we’re heading
If Australia is so sought after and is amongst the most generous of immigrant nations, why do we welcome new immigrants with seemingly so very few obligations? commentator Andrew McIntyre asks in an Australia Day address.
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Gillard Govt’s expensive schemes are reminiscent of the Eurozone at its worst
Julia Gillard should stop lecturing the Europeans and learn from their mistakes – her government is indulging in cripplingly expensive schemes of its own, reminiscent of the EU at its worst, The Spectator Australia says in an editorial.
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The latest green fad, electric cars, will have no effect on the global climate
Electric cars will have no effect on global climate – they are another example of costly green tokenism. They are toys of the rich, Viv Forbes says.
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“If you are a true friend of the car industry, dump the carbon tax,” Abbott says
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says the Coalition’s policy is that “the quantum of support for the car industry should be that committed by the Howard Government”.
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Gillard’s “Fair Work” act will push unemployment to 6%, Sheehan predicts
Labor rode to victory in the 2007 federal election on the back of a massive WorkChoices scare campaign run, in part, by the ACTU. The real scary thing is what’s happening under the Gillard Government’s so-called “reforms”.
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Labor’s trying to ignore its failures and avoid scrutiny, Libs’ federal director says
Because of its many weaknesses and failures, poor leadership and inability to deliver good government, Labor is adopting some predictable political tactics, Liberal Party federal director Brian Loughnane says.
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Government has botched the Murray-Darling plan, Barnaby Joyce says
“The biggest impact of a botched Basin Plan is on the economic and social fabric of towns and communities. There are no water buybacks for them, they are left behind,” said the Shadow Minister for Water, Senator Barnaby Joyce.
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Plimer challenges the climate scaremongers with answers to 101 questions
Climate change has been with us for the 4,500 million year history of planet Earth. This is what climate does. It always changes. Changes in our lifetime may be natural, Professor Ian Plimer writes in his latest book.
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Solar not up to the job of generating continuous mains power, Forbes says
The chairman of Carbon Sense, Mr Viv Forbes, says that the solar bubble is bursting, and the longer mandates, subsidies and feed-in tariffs continue, the greater the ultimate waste inflicted on to electricity consumers and taxpayers.
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Scrapping the carbon tax remains the Coalition’s top priority, Tony Abbott says
“The first order of business for an incoming Coalition Government will be the scrapping of the carbon tax and everything associated with it,” Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said yesterday.
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The views of urban greens dominating the wind farm debate
There is an amazing dichotomy in views about wind farms that is never expressed, comments Case Smith, co-founder of the Galileo Movement.
Australia Day Hate List – 2012
Michael Connor’s Australia Day Hate List, as always, recalls and records just a few of the things that got the Left going during the past year. It is, he says, “dedicated to all those people who are celebrating our national day by putting Australian flags on their cars – and are being bullied and called racists for doing so”.
Wind farms fail on all counts, Maurice Newman says
In an opinion piece in this week’s The Spectator Australia, former ABC chairman Maurice Newman writes that the pursuit of so-called clean energy has relegated ordinary people to the status of collateral damage.
Why bother with wasteful wind?
Why not scrap the wind turbines and produce a steady supply of low cost power from the backup generators? Viv Forbes asks.
The Constitution is anything but racist, Keith Windschuttle says
Quadrant editor Keith Windschuttle writes that the Australian Constitution is anything but racist. “It puts all Australians on an equal footing, no matter when they or their ancestors arrived here,” he writes.
The Arab Spring wasn’t hijacked
In ‘Islam Is Islam, And That’s It’, McCarthy says the Arab Spring was not hijacked. Rather, events have not unfolded in the manner that was manufactured in our own minds and for our own consumption.
Three fundamental mistakes in dealing with Islam
Daniel Greenfield argues that the US is making three fundamental mistakes in dealing with Islam, with the result that “the Muslim world is more Anti-American than it was 10 years ago, while we are more pro-Muslim”.
Labor’s policy changes should be put to the people, ACL says
If the Gillard Government wants to break key commitments it made to secure office, it should put the new policies to a general election, the Australian Christian Lobby says.
Gingrich scores an easy win in South Carolina primary
Former US House of Representatives speaker Newt Gingrich scored an easy victory over favourite Mitt Romney in yesterday’s South Carolina Republican primary. Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum finishes in third place.
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British MPs’ backlash against halal meat
Multiculturalism has come to mean caving in to the demands of minority cultures, and the UK has been at the forefront of Western compliance. But British MPs have bucked, it seems, on the issue of eating halal meats.
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Prof Bob Carter responds to Robert Manne
The ABC’s Drum Opinion website this week posted a piece by Professor Bob Carter in response to a 9 December alarmist warming article by high profile social commentator Professor Robert Manne.
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Adapt to climate change and pocket the benefits, Lord Lawson says
There will be positive and negative consequences of climate change and the best policy is to adapt to change and “pocket all the benefits”, former chancellor of the exchequer Nigel Lawson told ABC radio.
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Australia’s media crisis
“The rise of the authoritarian state continues in Australia, with the onslaught by the left on free speech and dissent moving to a new level,” Merv Bendle writes at Quadrant Online.
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Advice for Malcolm Turnbull and other true believers
“One of the frustrating characteristics of the climate debate is the unquestioning faith, among lay believers, in today’s conventional wisdom on climate science,” Peter Smith writes at Quadrant Online.
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The Bolt Report still attracting larger total audiences than ABC’s Insiders
According to the latest audience figures available from OzTAM (the results for 12 and 19 June), The Bolt Report continues to achieve larger total audiences than ABC’s Insiders.
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Scrapping the carbon tax remains the Coalition’s top priority, Tony Abbott says
“The first order of business for an incoming Coalition Government will be the scrapping of the carbon tax and everything associated with it,” Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said yesterday.
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The US is broke – broker than any nation has ever been, Mark Steyn says
Mark Steyn’s latest reality check nails the save-the-planet progressives, pointing out that “a few days before Christmas, we sailed across the psychological Rubicon and joined the club of nations whose government debt now exceeds their total GDP”.
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The Coalition won’t throw good money after bad on the NBN, Abbott says
“The more we learn about this National Broadband Network the worse it gets” and the next two years will see an “embryonic network in place at best,” Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said yesterday.
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The Austrian high court upholds the conviction of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff
The Austrian high court last week upheld the conviction of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff on the charge of denigrating the religious beliefs of a legally recognised religion, Diana West reports at WorldNetDaily.
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Breakdown of social/financial framework may see a return to values, Bernardi says
A culture of common sense needs to replace the left wing culture of political correctness and moral relativism, South Australian Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi says.
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