Piers Akerman
THE plan to nationalise Australia’s medical health continues apace despite efforts by Health Minister Nicola Roxon to keep her sinister scheme under the radar. - In late 2001 I burned myself with microwaved tomato soup .. spilled over my belly and leg. It left severe burns and blisters. I should have gone to emergency, but I had no way of getting there and didn’t want to pay for an ambulance .. I had no cash and couldn’t get a taxi either. I called the local hospital and spoke with a triage nurse. A month later I front up and she sees the still weeping wound and says “If I’d known it was that serious I would have told you to come in straight away.” THAT is the service Nicola wants to foist on Australia. - ed.
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Rudd bores to success
Andrew Bolt
Bob Hawke may seem right:
BOB Hawke has some advice for Kevin Rudd: loosen up and hire a speechwriter.
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Even “nice” racism is racism still
Andrew Bolt
Apartheid justice:
AUSTRALIA’S first standalone County Koori Court was opened today in Gippsland by Attorney-General Rob Hulls.
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Gassiest stunt against gas yet
Andrew Bolt
Reuters snaps the most hypocritical protest against global warming, this one thanks to firey Greenpeace protesters in Germany.
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Farrelly fumes we didn’t fall for falsehoods
Andrew Bolt
Elizabeth Farrelly is angry that not much damage was done:
But more troubling still is a failure we all own. It’s the failure of taste and curiosity, as much as compassion, represented by the ratings for SBS’s truly remarkable First Australians series; ratings that can only be described as woeful.
Aired intensively over three weeks, as engaging as Ken Burns’s famous Civil War and hyped, you’d have to say, to buggery, this Phillip-to-Mabo saga should be examinable for all children and all citizens. But it was watched by less than 2 per cent of the population; fewer than are nominally Aboriginal.
But if Farrelly wants more Australians to watch histories of Aboriginal Australia, she might consider berating not the public, but the filmmakers who still think distortion, grievance and the exaggeration of white sins still sells.
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About Bond
Bolt has a listing from 1 to 22 in preference
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Monty Python
Bolt talks of new project.
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Howard no Fraser. Or Keating
Andrew Bolt
Tom Switzer says John Howard has the too-rare gift of being an ex-PM with class:
But far from ranting and raving a la Keating and Fraser, he is more likely to follow the example set by Churchill and John Major after they left British politics. Less vitriol and fewer vendettas. More class dignity. Those other political has-beens, after all, have left a lot to be desired.
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Save us from this saviour
Andrew Bolt
Kevin Rudd with save us from the cataclysm he warns we face if he doesn’t keep shovelling out our cash. But that’s a narrative that now has even Glenn Stevens twitchy:
THE Reserve Bank Governor, Glenn Stevens, has urged Australians to have “quiet confidence” about their future while warning the Federal Government against wasteful spending dressed up as measures to boost flagging consumer spending.
As more than 400 mayors returned to their local councils with fists full of taxpayer dollars to spend on swimming pools, town halls and toilet blocks, Mr Stevens said the Government was fortunate to be in a position to help cushion the economy with increased spending.
“That said, it is still important for fiscal measures to pass the ‘good policy’ test. Poor public policy proposals should not be accepted simply because they are presented as boosting short-term aggregate demand,” he told a dinner of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia Council in Melbourne last night.
As a Westpac survey pointed to a “disturbing” fall in economic growth in the months ahead - the biggest two-month fall since the 1980s - Mr Stevens also urged Australians not to give in to “gloomy talk” about the economy.
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How to strangle Sydney
Andrew Bolt
The NSW Government boasts how vital Port Botany is:
Port Botany is Australia’s second largest container port behind Port Melbourne... Each container ship visiting Port Botany creates more than $1 million worth of economic activity and full-time employment for eight people.
But the NSW is silent when the Maritime Union of Australia decides to shut this port to those container ship, just so it can hold a meeting:
Please be advised that the MUA will hold their AGM on Tuesday 25/11.
Truck entry gate will close at 0930 hrs and operations will cease at 1015 hrs. The truck entry gate will re-open at 1400 hrs and road operations will resume at 1430 hrs.
There will not be any slots released in the time zones from 0900 to 1300.
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Tanner admits data dodgy
Andrew Bolt
Lindsay Tanner admits we can’t rely on Treasury forecasts just 12 months out:
“Look, this is an inexact science,” a candid Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner said last week of the official forecasts. “Nobody can be absolutely precise about predictions for economic growth and, particularly once you get beyond the next six to 12 months, it really is very difficult to be accurate.”
So why is the Rudd Government relying on (dodgy) Treasury forecasts that go out 42 years - or even the end of the century - to justify its potentially devastating emissions trading scheme:
Australia’s Treasury department last month forecast average per capita growth will slow by only 0.1% a year from 2010 to 2050 under emissions trading.
No wonder smarter economists are alarmed:
THE global financial crisis showed how foolish the Rudd Government would be to base its climate change response on economic forecasts for the coming century, academic and Reserve Bank board director Warwick McKibbin said yesterday....
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Rotting in the jobless outback
Andrew Bolt
We can fund outback communities until even their taps are gold, but until we bring the people there to where the good schools and jobs are, we’ll fail:
WHEN Queensland doctor Pat Rebgetz rang the Northern Territory Health Department 3 1/2 years ago, offering to take up a residency at Wadeye, he had no concept of the levels of violence, bullying and intimidation he would encounter. He did not expect to find women too terrified to speak to him.
....”This place functions like a bikie gang without the bikes,” the doctor says, having witnessed steady clan violence over his three years in Wadeye, or Port Keats, and being part of a health system that he says ensures remote Aborigines do not receive expert medical attention....
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Not even water for lunch
Andrew Bolt
Either green madness or mad greed:
A GROUP of about 50 cafes has signed up to do the unthinkable — ask Melburnians to pay for a glass of tap water.
The project, touted as a way to make people water-wise, is backed by the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and will run for a week from December 1.
If we’re that short of water, the heat should go not on water drinkers but the water wallies who have failed so spectacularly to get us enough of the stuff. Build a new dam and get out of our lives.
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