Things Labor Must Do in its 1st Term.

G'day Possums... It's Time.

 If Bill Shorten wants to leave a lasting legacy and secure like Gough Whitlam his place in history - he needs to take his inspiration from Australia's, most progressive prime minister. 

No prime minister changed Australia more than Gough Whitlam; and that he did it in less than three years has never been forgotten by the backward looking Ruling Rabble. In a flurry of activity, Whitlam established universal healthcare, effectively nationalised higher education with free tuition, and massively increased public sector salaries.  He enacted an ambitious cultural agenda that has continued to shape Australia until 2013, when Bookshelves Brandis and more recently, Fifi Fifield have proceeded to gut cultural and communication funding by paying their Ugly American Piper from the public purse. 

In just three years, Australia was given a new national anthem, ditched the British honours system, and abolished the death penalty and national service. He was the first Australian prime minister (and ahead of the Americans) to visit communist China and he granted independence to Papua New Guinea. Whitlam also passed the Racial Discrimination Act and introduced no-fault divorce.

In short, Whitlam brought Australia into the C20th: but the present Ruling Rabble under the aegis of The-Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe (IPA) and their secret promoters have since 1975 been desperate and, in some cases successful, in dismantling his legacy and attempting to turn Australia back into a cringing neo-liberal backwater of cultural forelock-tugging and a land of increasing wealth polarity at the mercy of a failing capitalist "market economy".

It's Time to redress the balance. 

For Australians to aspire to something higher than base greed posing as "aspiration", cupidity, division, fear and racism.

And all happily paraphrased and misquoted from the IPA handbook on destroying Australia: circa 2012.

Things Labor Must Do in its 1st Term.

1/ Re-Introduce the Price on Carbon. Re-fund The Clean Energy Finance Corp. and all Climate Change bodies as a priority, ensuring Australia is, by re-allocating subsidies to fossil fuel polluters, specifically the Diesel Rebate, modernising its generation systems.  Increase the Renewable Energy Target to more realistically meet Australia's commitment to a cleaner world

2/  Set up an ICAC with teeth.

3/  Re-Nationalise Centrelink, and re-think 457 requirements to advantage Austrsalian citizens. Re-Nationalise Telstra and all Electricity services or fund community decentralised grids of mixed wind, solar, hydro and battery storage.

4/  Royal Commissions/ Judicial enquiries into:

 a/   Political Funding

 b/   Ministerial Entitlements 2013 - 2018 including dual citizenship whilst serving. /  Review all current parliamentary salaries/ entitlements particularly with regard to post parliamentary employment.

 c/   Private Sector Executive remuneration and Senior Public Service remuneration.

 d/  The overseas funding of "Think-Tanks" and political lobbyists.

 e/  Overseas media influence in Australian media / appropriateness of character/ interference and-or evidence of illegal activity either here or elsewhere / suitability for licence.

 f/  Murray/ Darling mismanagement and the appropriateness of certain crops.

 g/ The Australian Federal Police, specifically its political bias.

 5/  Abolish all but "per head" flat rate funding to Private / Non Public schools/ remove religious chaplains from Govt. schools.

  Abolish university fees for Australian citizens and expand TAFE.

6/  Cancel  purchase of the F-35 and re-negotiate orders of foreign built submarines and vessels.

 Compulsorily acquire Ford, General Motors and Toyota manufacturing plants and convert to manufacture of electric / hydrogen vehicles and other public / military transport needs.

7/ Gradual repeal of Negative Gearing.

8/  Stricter media guidelines and strengthen Press Council sanctions for false / deliberately inaccurate statements .

9/  Increase funding for the ABC / Arts bodies/ Screen Australia, restore funding to  National Library & the National Archives.

Remove present ABC MD and other IPA affiliated staff and board members.

10/  Rescind commissions of  Ambassador to US  and UK High Commissioner and replace with career diplomatic corps.

11/  Abolish the ABCC and restructure the "Fair Work Commission" replacing those political appointments made since 2013.

12/ Close Manus and Nauru concentration camps, relocate refugees to Australia, review the excesses of Border Force and security operations.

There ya go Petals, not as all encompassing as the IPA's original 75 Things Rabid the Hun must do to destroy civil society in Australia, quickly expanded (from their spurious "research")  and their foetid minds to 100 points... but a start in redressing the appalling career to the far right and fascism Australia is currently undergoing.

Hoo-roo,

Shane

Down the Slippery Slope

Shane at Geriwerd

G'day Possums,

Oz slipped further into the abyss of fascism this week and in true Aussie long weekend fashion, few noticed..... so we'll intersperse a  few pics from Geriwerd, aka The Grampians to keep the "long-weekend" mood which is a lovely bit of country to visit as long as you bring buckets of insect repellent.

Bookshelves Brandis has added another scalp to his trophy cabinet having, with support from two boorish Deep Northerners, bullied the Solicitor-General into resigning. 

Brandis has lied to parliament, lied about "consulting" the SG and blames Labor for this resignation when in fact it's what Bookshelves wants.  He wants a lap dog Solicitor General and to control any legal advice being sought. So instead of having impartial advice, Brandis wants the certainty of his own right-wing political thinking.

Lake Fyans

It remains to be seen which less than suitable IPA apparatchik will get the nod for this  $750,000.00 per annum job.

Near Silverband Falls

Deputy Prime Miniature and Johnny Depp tragic, Barnyard Joyce, after prevaricating to the tune of $80,000.00 about its release, has been embarrassed by the contents of a letter the Head of  the Agriculture Department, Paul Grimes sent to Joyce 18 months ago pointing out the minister's lack of integrity in blaming public servants for his Barnyard's own incompetence and misleading of parliament. 
Grimes was later sacked after refusing to be cowed.

Both of these cases warrant the removal of the minister but nothing like this will happen..... in fact a more ludicrous defence cannot be seen than that of Arfah, Da Spiv Sinodinas, (he of 18 times uncertain memory about which banned developer paid whom, what, when he was fundraising treasurer for the liarbrils and get's a "not proven" verdict in a corruption enquiry) blathering on about what a great party, a broad church the Liarbrils are and how Both Barnyard and Bookshelves are beaut blokes!

Truffles, running backward, has announced that there should be laws to stop people protesting and stalling the continued degradation of the environment by quoting his loser of a predecessor, Rabid-the-Hun that Coal is good for us and renewable energy doesn't really work.... except in Spain, Denmark Germany, Sweden, Finland and Norway but we don't want or need to know about that.

Which could be seen as a distraction to the polls which indicate that Truffles' popularity is worse than that of Rabid's which was one of Truffles salient arguments of why 12 months ago, he needed to replace him.

 

Kangaroo's Sparring

A special rapporteur from the UN has criticized Australia's poor protections for Human Rights and its creation of "an atmosphere of fear, censorship and retaliation."  Plastic Attorney General, Bookshelves Barndis replied briefly with what seemed to amount to a, "F***k- off!"

 

Camp-Site, Grampians

Liarbril Party Protection Squad, the Australian Federal Police have decided that there was nothing at all to see in Slipper-gate and that Slippery Pete, Chicken Thighs Brough,  Sleaze-Boy Ashby and Chwissie the Whyning-Perfect-Prat-of-a-Prefect Pyne are all good chaps who don't deserve investigation. Right! 

Do I hear faint echoes of The Horst Wessel?

 

Bunjil and his two Dingoes and the protection required from heritage conscious visitors . 

Ex Liarbril, IPA apparatchik and HR Nicholls devotee and Family First Senator,  Bob-the-Shonky-Builder, Day has decided that he will stick around parliament long enough to make sure he can  crucify the Building Unions he hates by supporting the ABCC legislation.  Regardless of the alleged $32,000,000.00  of liabilities, the $12.5 Millions owed to sub contractors and tradies  and the more than 200 families without the homes they have paid for, Senator Shonky- Bob would prefer to maintain the theoretical and narrow-minded  ideological stupidity that has landed all who have dealt with his business in such a mess rather than actually admit how wrong economically this IPA inspired de-regulated nonsense is.

Silverband Falls

Someone preparing a PHD looking into the actual outcomes of applying right wing ideological  theory to real life situations would find a trove of evidence in studying the malign prognostications of the IPA have had on various business' over the years.

When the law of the nation is trashed for narrow, sectional party political interests can the law then be ignored?

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane