I always thought that Paul Keating won hands down for being the most arrogant Prime Minister in Australian history, but that was until my fellow countrymen recently elected Kevin Rudd into office. I doubt a more odious, unpleasant and self-serving politician ever existed in my homeland. If you can actually track down PM Rudd in his own country then good luck to you because this hypocrite has clocked up more airmiles in his first couple of years in office conducting his campaign of international grandstanding than he has spent on Australian soil. ’747 Rudd’ they call him now and as he flies around the world posturing in front of his ‘Kyoto’ pals and harping on about carbon emissions, he seems to ignore the sizeable carbon footprint he is clocking up himself. In fact, I would like to see one big carbon footprint placed right on his sanctimonious backside…
PM Rudd is very eager to make his mark as a leader on the world stage and is willing to achieve this at the expense of his own people, those who misguidedly voted for him in the first place. As the 60th refugee boat for 2009 containing the dregs of southeast asia makes it’s way towards Australia he will no doubt be preparing to welcome these individuals with open arms, benefits forms, jobs and free housing. While home repossessions and homelessness is at an all time high among battling Australian’s, Crudd is handing out drinks and appetisers to these unwelcome party-crashers. While his own countrymen are languishing in uncertainty the only people who have any assurity of a future there at all are those who jump in a leaky boat and demand entry.
PM Crudd’s bad tempered arrogance is now being displayed in all it’s glory. If you recall a wonderful Australian film from the 90′s called ‘The Castle’ you will know the story of the Aussie battler Daryl Kerrigan. With the help of small town solicitor Daryl staged a protest and took to court a huge billion-dollar corporation who wanted to reclaim the land his small home stood on to extend an airport. No Govt official or dept would help him save his home so he took them to court…and eventually won on the grounds of a piece of legislation in the Australian Constitution known as ‘without due cause’. But can such a story happen in real life…?
As we speak Peter Spencer, a Western Australia farmer, is into his 37th day of a hunger strike tied to a wind tower (above) in protest at Crudd’s agreement to ‘lock up’ vast tracts of farming land in Australia in order to satsify his Kyoto-mates. Peter Spencer’s farming land has been declared a ‘carbon sink’ and he has been effectively banned from clearing it to use for his livelihood. He has received NO COMPENSATION AT ALL and has been told he will not receive any in the future. That this Govt will confiscate viable privately owned agricultural land without any due compensation to the owners is nothing short of criminal. It is unAustralian, it is THEFT. Mr Spencer has claimed he will remain exactly where he is until the Prime Minister agrees to speak with him on the issue.
What Mr Spencer needs is some native Australians to claim landrights on the land – in that case the consultations and committees will go into overdrive and the cash payments will be huge. Mr Spencer cannot even get this to be heard in the courts – his land has been effectively stolen. But why should he have to go to court? the Australian Constitution states that the Government MUST compensate him for his stolen land. The Government is acting OUTSIDE of the Australian Constitution and therefore is a DE-FACTO Government and a Foreign power. Any Courts Peter takes this to will also be a de-facto court and NOT a part of Australia, relying purely upon civil law (the law of contract) instead of Common Law and Trial by Jury. The government and the courts are there to serve big businesses, banks and corporations, NOT the Constitutional Commonwealth of Australia which is the People.
This Kyoto-idiocy now dictates that Australians cannot clear their own land for development or even safety from bushfires – and the Australian Govt has now embarked on a policy of locking up land while refusing to pay compensation to the owners. Crudd will not meet with Mr Spencer and this is understandable; if it were a boat load of asylum seekers threatening to jump overboard he would be there in a second ensuring those at the UN were taking full notice of what a big man he is - but to help an ordinary Australian farmer simply get a fair deal…?
There’s no publicity in that is there mate…
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I have only been away from Australia for seven years and these days it does not seem to be the same country I left. Even the areas where I lived and where I grew up and went to school have been changed and not in a good way. I don’t like what I hear when I speak to family and friends back there – I can see the same problems developing in Australia that have taken hold here in the UK and unless Australian voters kick this labour Govt to the kerb next election we can all kiss goodbye the wonderful country it once was. I feel very sad about it to be honest. Rudd has got to slam the doors shut on these boat people, if John Howard did one thing right it was stopping the flow of illegal immigration – it took Rudd just one year to undo all that work.
i totally agree, i recently went to a free brekkie at a community centre, where they had catering students being tested, we were the guinee pigs, the guy that was running the shop sat with us and explained how things worked there, they have a course that runs for 6 weeks, it covers catering, skills to get into construction industry, english, etc. etc… he told of how generous our government is in particular queensland, as this is a $2000 per person course with spaces for up to 90 ” cue jumpers” at one time, they are fed, clothed, all books etc. etc.. in the meantime i have a son that has one year left on his apprenticeship, and hasn’t worked for 3 months, and still not claiming unemployement benefits, as the work is not there, while these people are gauranteed work at the end of a 6 wk course that my boy has been at for over 3 years now, and sadly it is looking like his apprenticeship is going to have to be put on a backburner while he seeks out meaningless employment. Not to mention the violence that they bring with them. And like you i believe we are following the U.K. I never was rascist, but i am now, enough is enough, kevin rudd. Have the police go through all our violent crimes hear, and you would find, probably not even a quater commited by true aussies, every time you hear about bikie wars all the names are some sort of muslim background, i guess he’d rather be stupidly ignorant like america and wait for the terrorists to form there own little groups all over the country, and as you know we have a lot of land to hide in. I work in the cleaning industry, and they attract a lot of foreign students on work visas, while i was working at the brisbane magistrates courts 2 yrs post 9 11 we had three iranians working there while over hear learning how to fly planes… Go figure….
I think it is fair to say that the govt encourages racial disharmony by favouring one or more over a particular section of the community. It happens over here for sure – the one aspect of govt that the voting citizens are not allowed a say in is that of immigration.
I cannot believe how much the cultural aspect of Australia has changed in last decade alone – before 2000 when did you ever see a Muslim name in the news or papers…rarely if never. And mosques…I cannot recall them being built around Sydney before 2000. Bikie gangs were people from the western suburbs and muslims were not amongst them. I remember when Strathfield became inherently Vietnamese and asian language signs went up everywhere, Cabramatta used to be a white working class suburb…who would want to live there now…?
I have grown up tolerant of all races, colours and creeds and yet I am annoyed at how the balance of fairness has been allowed to tip away from those who are several-generations Australian. I find myself angry at the way these people are changing our landscape and does this make me racist…?no, of course not. What is racist about wanting to protect your heritage…?
My son has been unemployed for three years and has decided to return to college. He applied for a job in the laundry of a swanky hotel on the Central Coast recently and having worked in our own hotel in France for four years he should have been a toe-in. He walked in to the interviewing room and saw three women in veils also applying for the same job – guess who got the job…
He applied for a job at the local McDonalds and could hardly understand the accent of the Indian Sikh manager who owns the franchise – no he did not get the job as he would not ‘fit in’ with the predominantly Indian staff…in Gosford for gods sake!!! I never SAW any Indians in Gosford and I lived there from 1984 to 2002…where did they come from????
He applied for a job at a takeaway in the food court of Erina Fair…no good there either, four asians with work permits got the jobs and joined a mass of OTHER asians on work permits who have the jobs there. Australians are being discriminated against in order for Rudd to fulfill a quota of some sort – I hope Australians remember this and do something about it at the next fed election before it is too late or real unrest develops among Australians. It will happen thats for sure!
My heart goes out to Peter Spencer. But he will starve to death before 747 Rudd will talk to him. I teach English in Kiev, Ukraine, and two years ago I was shot. The only assistance offered by the Consulate? To ship my body home if I died. Krudd hasn’t had the decency to reply to any of four emails.
Australia is just his base of operations until he can land himself a UN job. He’s only interested in a very few people. Himself, his wife, and his kids (perhaps???)
But the plebs in Australia? not a chance. Australian citizens come last in his book. Assylum seekers are more important. Criminals are more important. But not ordinary people.
Russell I have been away from Australia since 2002 and I am amazed at how much it has changed going by what my family and friends tell me. Rudd sounds like a duplicate of Britain’s Gordon Brown – both labour, both with interests outside their country rather than within it and both have turned their own home-grown people into second class citizens with less rights than those who land illegally and otherwise. I don’t like the look of him at all, never did, and cannot for the life of me understand how the Australian people fell for labour spin all over again. I remember what Hawke and Keating did to us back in the 80′s and 90′s – this time round the damage will be much worse.
It is long known that consulate jobs are nothing more than golden handshakes – I had to deal with the Oz consulate in Barcelona for my sons passport a couple of years ago…the consulate official could barely speak English! just as well I was not in trouble because the help I would have gotten would have been zero.