Tony Abbott; Paedophiles, Murderers and War Criminals

He hopes to be Australia’s next Prime Minister. So a couple of questions about stuff that go to character.

Who does Tony Abbott praise?

Who does Tony Abbott protect?

Who are Tony Abbott’s friends?

Should we like Tony Abbott’s friends?

Here is a start. Add to it if you will.

And make your own mind up.

PAEDOPHILES

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott vouched in court for the good character of a Catholic priest later struck off the clergy list by the Vatican following a child abuse case.

Fr John Gerard Nestor, who attended Sydney’s St Patrick’s Seminary with Mr Abbott in the 1980s, was a priest in the Wollongong diocese in NSW when he was charged with the indecent assault of a 15-year-old altar boy in 1991.

Mr Abbott, then a federal parliament backbencher, told the court Fr Nestor was an upright and virtuous man who he had known since 1984.

“He was … a beacon of humanity at seminary,” Mr Abbott said.

KILLERS

Well, Peta Credlin is not actually a killer. QUITE! More by good luck than good management.

She was drunk and lucky. Stopped by a policeman before she hit a car with a mother and five year old on board or a late night pedestrian or a – - – Any one of a hundred scenarios.

DRUNK PEOPLE WHO DRIVE EVENTUALLY KILL PEOPLE!

Yet Tony Abbott is full of praise for his dangerously drunken chief of staff.

“Mr Abbott has brushed aside a question about whether he would take any action against Ms Credlin, saying she is an “outstanding chief of staff”.

WAR CRIMINALS

Invading a foreign state on a fraudulent pretext was John Howard’s major crime. One he will probably never be charged for.

Yet we all know he did it.

Tony Abbott has nothing but praise for his mentor.

This is the man the Polls are telling us is a shoo-in for the PM’s job come September.

Do we, the voters, REALLY TRULY want this to come to pass?

Or are we decent Aussies at heart?

Gina Rinehart, The ATM

Ms Rinehart, you are quoted as saying;

“What few seem to properly understand – even people in government – is that miners and other resources industries aren’t just ATMs for everyone else to draw from. . . “

Please take note that it is, in point of fact, YOU who are treating Australia as an ATM.

Australia and all its people, own those resources you have been given the privilege to mine.

Just a small hint. You are holding a piece of Australia in your hand. Not a piece of Ginaland.

Your right to mine is dependent upon our willingness to let you continue.

Just as I pay rent to a landlord, so do you. And I am your landlord. If I decide to put up your rent, then either pay up or move out.

There will be other renters to take your place.

So how about paying your way in this country which gave you birth and cut out the greed and selfishness which seem to characterise your rather pathetic life. After all, Just like my father and your father, we will both die one day soon* and it will be the good we do which will live on.

Stop treating Australia like an ATM and start contributing to society yourself!

*soon ; In geological time, in the blink of an eye!

 

 

How Mean Are Your Healthy?

Moved By A Morning Of Memories

The gathering had begun well before I arrived at 4:15am.

The first thousand were quietly walking towards the half-lit finger of granite which is our State War Memorial. The memorial where all who left this State and died for Australia are recorded. Just one of hundreds of memorials and lists of names scattered around Western Australia.

The Flame of Remembrance was bright in the darkness.

I counted five big screens around the area so more could see what was about to happen on the steps of the Memorial.

Quiet.

Quiet and still. The growing crowd created only a small, low break in the pre-dawn silence. Hushed greetings between friends, generations and races.

A voice began speaking, talking of the building of the Burma Railway. That horrific event during World War Two. Leaving the past, he told us of what was to come. The Ode, the wreath-layings, the Last Post, the minute of silence and the Rouse. He requested silence of the silent, standing crowd during the formalities.

The Ode was shown on the screen and many recited it in their hearts yet only one voice spoke.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young.

Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.

They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,

They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning,

We will remember them.

Lest we forget.

The Wreath-laying began. We had been warned that it would take time and it did.
The silence continued. In a football stadium sized crowd which had swelled to over 40,000 the silence was intense, tangible. Not even the babies complained. Close on a hundred wreaths were laid.

The Last Post was finally sounded and the still silent crowd straightened their backs just a little. Old men and women with walking sticks and in wheel-chairs, younger men and women along with their children all stood that little taller.

There were tears. Quiet, restrained but real as people remembered those they had lost or those they had never known.

The Rouse, Australia’s version of Reveille, was bugled and as the last note hung in the air, a lone magpie warbled. For even the birds had been silent during the service. A RAAF aircraft flew overhead.

A final speech was given, speaking of the silence. The silence we all know before we attempt something dangerous or difficult. The silence before the dawn.

And the sky continued to brighten.

As we slowly moved away still-quiet conversations were interrupted by a flight of six bi-planes which flew over.

With so many people all trying to leave I knew the traffic would be gridlocked for some time. So I went looking for the tree-plaque which honours my Great Uncle Ted. I found it and discovered that the tree which accompanies the plaque had been replaced. This is the third tree on this spot which has grown in his memory.

Every year all the plaques are decorated by a flower and a flag. The fallen are remembered.

I eventually drove out of Kings Park about an hour and a half after the Service had ended. It was only then that I realised that it had been a totally secular gathering. No prayers, hymns or sermons.

Just remembering what we have all lost.

Anzac Day

Today is Anzac Day and I am up in Kings Park at the State War Memorial for the traditional Dawn Service.

I may post some photos later but then again, sometimes I don’t take photos.

In the meantime, here is some of the music which I will be listening to today.

For today is not a day for celebrating but remembering. And thinking about those who fought and fight.

The First World War.

The Second World War

The Vietnam War

Afghanistan

Tony Abbott Never Looks Back!

Do we really want a Prime Minister who never looks back?

Never sees what is behind him?

Malcolm and Joe –

He is so totally susceptible to a knife in the back

Go for it!

Please, for Australia’s sake.

Thanks to @SnowCrash for the “yellow” part of the image.

OOPS – OMG #AusPol twitter.com/Snow_Crash/sta…

— Meta Starostin (@Snow_Crash) April 18, 2013

 

Kim Jong-morrison

Refugees do not appear out of nowhere.

They are the result of one thing. The desire to live. They come, bruised, terrified and emotionally scarred out of armed conflicts round the world.

Beginning with the Villawood Detention Centre a series of Concentration Camps were created, mostly in uncomfortably hot, unfriendly outback Australia. Under John Howard and his xenophobic Immigration Ministers, Ruddock, Vanstone and Andrews, Australia stopped running those Concentration Camps.

Those responsibilities were passed to a foreign-owned private army.

We have seen an increasingly harsh attitude towards those who are desperate for our help. In a vain attempt to minimise the political pain, the Gillard Government has moved back to the Howard “solution”. It hasn’t worked, as Howard would have found had he still been in power.

There is only one thing which will stop this flight to life. That is the certainty that there is no safe haven in Australia. Turning the boats back is not going to work as “pulling the plug” on cheap Indonesian fishing boats will guarantee the rescue and arrival in Australia of the majority of refugees.

The guarantee of a return to the place they left will not solve the problem because the refugees will at least see a few more dawns before their inevitable death at the hands of the oppressors they have been fleeing and to whom they will be handed back.

No, there is only one step more an Australian Government can take

Shaun Micallef nailed it on “Mad as Hell” the other night. “Stop the boats – loose the Kraken!” A farcical comment to cover the embarrassment of an uncomfortable truth.

There is only one way to effectively “Stop The Boats” and that is to remove the incentive to flee. Think frying pan and fire.

The Kim Jong-un of Australian Immigration, Scott Morrison keeps looking for new and more punitive ways to remove the “advantage” of fleeing to this vast, empty land.

The Opposition has painted Australia into a corner and, after the Navy refuses to accept illegal orders to turn sinking boats back, there will be only one place left to go.

The nuclear option.

Kim Jong-morrison will promote an automatic death penalty for all “Irregular Maritime Arrivals”.

 

 

It’s In Their DNA

Back in 2009, Colin Barnett won an election with a glad-handed promise to build a rail line to the big new outer Metro suburb of Ellenbrook.

He broke that promise. He substituted “improved” bus access.

In 2013 he made the same promise because WA is a boom state. It deserves these bright shiny toys and Mark McGowan had made a fully costed proposal for bigger and better railways which cost less than Barnett was able to offer.

About 48 hours before the election he explained that his plan would be financed by the Commonwealth. A Commonwealth Government everyone expects to be run by his mate Tony Abbott.

It seems that his ability to run a Government successfully is dependent, not on the business success of the State but on the generosity of a Commonwealth Government.

Today, in Melbourne, Tony explained clearly, to another mate, that his Government does not “do” railway infrastructure.

It does roads.

So Colin Barnett is just going to have to break the same election promise two electoral cycles in a row! More fool us for thinking any other outcome was likely.

Breaking promises. It’s in his DNA!

After watching “Check-out” tonight, on the ABC, I’m wondering if it is possible to return the Barnett Government to the Electoral Commission and get our votes back.

If that fails, should we take Barnett and his lying mouth to Consumer Affairs?

A Late Lent for Australia

All who celebrated Lent this year will now be feeling the twin joys of satisfaction and relief.

Satisfaction that they lasted the course of self denial and relief that it is over.

Now we just have to wait until September until we can ensure that the entire country has its own very special Lenten Time.

We can enter into a time of national self-denial. Here are a few examples.

Australians can choose to forego the self-indulgent NDIS.Those disabled people are getting along quite well at the moment and there is no reason to raise their expectations. In fact all the needy should refrain from expecting anything during our National Lent.

Carbon-pricing is one of those things Australia just does not need. Just because most of our trading partners have begun introducing carbon prices of one form or another is no reason we should.  And any trade restrictions those countries impose on those without carbon pricing are just an additional hair-shirt thing we will gladly suffer during our National Lent.

Superannuation breaks for the low-paid are so totally self-indulgent they should be eschewed for some time. Preferably forever. For the good of our national soul. As for decreasing the super bonuses for the rich that is plainly ridiculous and simply class-war foolishness. So we wont. We will all remember our place during our National Lent.

As for a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work; well that is so hedonistic we really should forgo it. Especially as it will benefit all those multi-nationals and billionaires who deserve that our efforts line their pockets. Work Choices under any name should be our choice during our National Lent.

The Gonski Report must be delayed and delayed. Education for the young unnecessarily raises their expectations. If their parents cannot afford a Private School education then they should give up any hopes for the future during our National Lent.

As for the sybaritic NBN! Fast internet connections are a work of the Devil and the national equivalent of eating fish on Friday. If it be possible, let this cup pass from us. Hand it over to a foreign Media Baron. It would be much better if it was not available to the nation during our National Lent.

We must also rid ourselves of the twin lusts for lower taxes and low interest rates. How are we expected to feel the pain during a time of self-imposed suffering if we make things easy for ourselves? We must pay more taxes for the good of our souls and the good of the Nation. We must pay higher interest rates to earn our salvation and to help the Banks to ever higher profits. Our personal and household budgets must be damaged beyond repair during our National Lent.

Then again, we could ignore the National Lent and, in September, elect those who are not committed to spreading their Catholic Guilt across the entire population.

I Hate You, My Countrymen

I have lived in this, my country all of my life.

I have cheered its sporting accomplishments. I have had a heart swollen with pride at its scientific achievements. I have loved it for its artistic triumphs. I applauded its “fair-go” attitude.

Yet now I find myself not liking my fellows.

We have become greedy and intolerant and gullible.

We have the best economy in the world, yet we demand more and feel aggrieved that we do not have it. We have become envious of all with a little more worldly wealth and have forgotten the wealth of our our country gives us for free. Its skies and seas and vistas.

We help create impossible conditions in other countries by invading them and when terrified people flee we refuse to help. We choose, instead to treat them as worse than our own criminals.

We have stopped believing the evidence of our own lives and choose believe the lies of those who would deceive us. Those who would take advantage of our gullibility in their lust for power and wealth.

Australia has men and women both good and ill. Yet, led by women of the highest ability we are choosing to give that leadership to base men who have proven their felonious and corrupt character.

In a country which could have been great, I am, sadly, left with the words of Kahlil Gibran.

You, My Countrymen…your souls
Are like ashes which the winds
Scatter upon the snow, and which
The tempests disperse forever in
The valleys.

Fear not the phantom of Death,
My Countrymen, for his greatness
And mercy will refuse to approach
Your smallness; and dread not the
Dagger, for it will decline to be
Lodged in your shallow hearts.

I hate you, My Countrymen, because
You hate glory and greatness. I
Despise you because you despise
Yourselves. I am your enemy, for
You refuse to realize that you are
The enemies of the goddesses.

Baked Abbott

Packaged while still warm

Fresh and full of delectable hot air

Rapidly cools

Soon becomes stale!

The bread, however remains delicious

and can have a second life as toast.

Memo to Tony Abbott

Memo; Mr Abbott

Since you keep telling us how badly off Australians are, could you please tell me which countries are better off.

I’ll help you out a bit by sharing a number of charts and stuff with you.

NET DEBT

Firstly, you have spent a lot of time in Parliamentary Question Time recently asking questions about Australia’s “Huge debt ‘on our credit card’”. You keep using the number “$300 Billion”.

Here is a chart showing how that rates with other major nations’ debt.

Our Australian debt is not only ridiculously low compared with other major economies but is shrinking in real terms!

I realise you have a problem reading stuff, Mr Abbott, but you really do have to read some things. I’m throwing in a huge set of figures which are not in chart form but do tell us something about how our debt to GDP ranks within the global community. Could you please pass this information on to Joe?

UNEMPLOYMENT

No, we are not on top of this list. But would we want to be?

We all agree that having a job is a really, really good thing. Obviously, Italy is a good place to avoid at the moment but which are the best three countries to be in? Is Australia anywhere on that short list?

MEDIAN WEALTH

Now, Mr Abbott, I am rather stunned by this next chart. Just how wealthy are we as a nation? Per person? You must look to the bottom to see where Australia rates.

I know you can promise to increase Australia’s position on this list but please be honest and tell me just how you intend to achieve that.

INFLATION

Before you go, here is a chart of the rates of inflation in the major world economies.

Just one thing about this chart. Have a look at the number for Australia under the “Highest” column. Any ideas about who was our treasurer when that happened?

So, Mr Abbott,

I repeat the question I began with.

Since you keep telling us how badly off Australians are, could you please tell me which countries are better off.

CC: Joe Hockey, Andrew Robb

Polly Limerick; BRONNY!! You Didn’t!

Mackellar’s old Rep has just started
To quote from a book she has carted
Now Julie’s concerned
Cos Pyney’s discerned
That Bronny has stinkily farted!

The words are mine own,

the image was burgled from @DanJCass

Zombie Australoclypse

It has finally been made clear.

For years many Australians have wondered at the inhumanity the Coalition shows towards real human beings fleeing mortal danger. Their “Stop the Boats” has become a by-word yet it has been very difficult to determine the attraction of the slogan.

Now Barry O’Farrell and Tony Abbott have clarified the reason. In doing so they also revealed just why the Coalition is against education for Australians.

The apparent longevity of Kevin Andrews, Bronwyn Bishop, Piers Ackermann and Rupert Murdoch is also explained.

The Coalition in all its care for the average Australian has recognised the true reason education is dangerous. It develops brains. And the Coalition has a great need for Brainzzz. The Coalition has determined, in their wisdom and special knowledge, that asylum seekers have no brainzzz. Hence “Stop the Boats“.

Abbott and O’Farrell have finally let the truth slip.

They are ZOMBIES leading more Zombies! And they want exotic, imported BRAINZZZZ.

Hence “Bring the Brainzzz”

I just want to reiterate what I think was a very good statement by Barry O’Farrell in the NSW Parliament yesterday, “this is a Prime Minister who can’t stop the boats so what’s she doing? She wants to stop the brains from coming to Australia”

Our Prime Minister, although she may not know it, is protecting us all from the COALITION ZOMBIES.

Jesuit Clones

If you have weak eyes like mine, click on the image to make it readable.

The Cardinal, now Pope, said these words in a speech against Argentina presidential candidate Cristina Kirchner given in 2007, during the electoral campaign.