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Snowden leaks suggest Australia spied during 2007 Bali Climate Conference

The ABC reports – Leaked NSA report reveals Australia-US spying operations during Bali conference
I thought it was well known that nations have intelligence services.
Many nations secretly plan harm to other nations – thats obvious from history – still going on now.
It would be worrying if Australia did not constantly seek out the most accurate information about other nations and their intentions.
Simple.
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Many of us can think back to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, associated collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War – nearly 25 years ago now.
There was a prevailing belief then that international tensions had eased.
I wonder now that with the rapid rise of China – not to mention parallel growth of Islamic extremism – the world is not getting any safer anytime soon.

Climate reality in the main stream media for a change – The great climate fiction

Great to see articles like this in The Australian – cutting through the misinformation and lies with clarity.
Yet the new Abbott Govt is hamstrung until 1 July 2014 when it can try and pass carbon tax repeal legislation through the new Senate.
While a double dissolution may not be impossible in the short time-frame before mid 2014 – IMHO it is unlikely all the hurdles are worth jumping. Antony Green may have more to say sometime if the issue boils on.

Ex Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has heard of Climategate

Over at Catallaxy they had the fortitude to read through Julia Gillard’s long article justifying her term in office. – Julia Gillard writes on power, purpose and Labor’s future

[For most Australians the last long drought was perceived to be the result of climate change, and when the drought broke their concerns about climate change receded. The circus in Copenhagen and “climategate” fed scepticism. Then, at the worst time, the structure of the Australian electricity market delivered huge rises to the electricity bills of families. While cost of living pressures were easing in other parts of the family budget, the pain of these big lumpy bills was acute and remembered.]

I think Julia Gillard is wrong when she says “For most Australians the last long drought was perceived to be the result of climate change,…”
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Most Australians were also well aware that Govt funded scientists who should have known better – were linking the drought to “IPCC climate change” – and these views linking the “worst ever drought” to IPCC AGW were given prominence across much of our media.
So when the drought broke in 2010 the “lack of clothing” on these royal scientific opportunists was obvious to many.
“The circus in Copenhagen and “climategate”….” very likely fed into the rise of scepticism in Australia.

History of major voting patterns in Australian Federal Elections since 1993

Up for discussion – will add more today

For those overseas not familiar with quirks of politics downunder –
Australian Labor Party – similar to British Labour party or left wing of USA Democrats.
“Coalition” refers to a right of centre grouping of the Liberal and National Parties and all their divers variations. The Nationals have their origins in an earlier Country Party.
Greens I think all should understand – usually to the left of Labor in the political spectrum and Labor and the Greens have a policy of exchanging preference votes.
The Democrats were a centrist group of voters who could not decide between the two major parties.
Some comments – the dying of the Democrats corresponds to some extent with the rise of the Greens – so it is possible that the peak Green vote in recent years around 2010 was inflated by some of these centrist people who might have departed the Greens in 2013.
Labors decline from 2007 to 2010 might have been partly due to their left wing turning to the Greens. However it is not so easy to speculate on what has happened in the 2013 Election on 7 September 2013 as both the Green and Labor votes are down by a similar amount.
So we are forced to conclude that about ~3 per 100 voters left the greens for Labor – while at the same time ~6 per 100 voters left Labor for other berths to the right of Labor.
The 2013 election has seen the rise of the centrist to right of centre Palmer United Party with 5.6% of primary votes which could give them a couple of Lower House seats as well as two Senate seats – in Australia close contests often take two weeks to resolve due to the 13 day wait for postal and absentee votes to trickle in and for preferences to be distributed.
The big question – “what is so wrong with Labor that their vote is in such decline?”
IMHO the answer is in these areas –
Trade Unions finance the Labor Party and expect huge influence in return.
This leads to strong Union influence over all candidate preselections – which means most Labor MP’s are either ex Union officials or Labor/Union lawyers. To win back more primary votes Labor needs to reform in a direction away from Unions – IMHO.
There have been some odd features of the 2013 Federal election – not the least has been the Greens preference deals with Palmer United Party – Clive Palmer getting his wealth through his ownership of coal mines. Work that one out.
Just to give a taste of the variety of Senate candidates and the problems of working out where your vote might end up under various preference deals – this useful article tries to explain. – Why you should take time and vote below the line. Of course voting below the line on the NSW Senate papers requires you to fill in 110 preferences in order, with v few errors.
So to some extent Australian electoral procedures have got near the crazy stage.
No wonder that in NSW a Senator has been assisted into the Senate by the famous “Donkey Vote” which comes about by some voters just putting a 1 in the first space.
I like the sense of humour from Tim Blair – EVERYBODY WINS A PRIZE

Fairfax media trumpets very marginal claim by the BoM that winter 2013 across Victoria made a record for warm mean temperatures

The BoM feeds out this information knowing media mates will beat the thing up even further – as in this paean to warming – Warm winter caps nation’s hottest year – September 2, 2013 – Tim Colebatch, Peter Hannam
Here is a screenshot from a BoM webpage showing how marginal this claim is.

You have to love the warmists – they take a very marginal result from Victoria which when I last looked makes up 2.95% of the Australian total area. Then roll that over into all manner of warmist statements about this or that part of Australia – or this or that timespan – or this or that temperature metric.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation discovers that global warming has stopped

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Pacific cooling explains slowdown in global warming: study

We must never forget the GreenLabor disasters

Readers can contribute their favourite examples from the last six years which illustrate how Labor does not deserve to govern.
My over arching winner is the constant bleating on about how they saved us from the horrors of the GFC.
The truth is somewhat differnt.
In fact our economy powered on very well comparatively through the GFC thanks to China buying our resources and Govt coffers being stacked with cash from the prudent Howard administration. Labor just got it all wrong.
There never was any call from Australians for the stimulus packages. Were there two tranches of $900 cheques mailed out to all beneficiaries? Were there other benefits too? I read where a lot of this money simply went into savings and did little to stimulate anyway. What was the cost of the broadcasting of cheques?
Then the school buildings bonanza for the construction industry. How useful are the buildings now? All being well used I hope, no building quality issues?
Then the pink batts fiasco – BTW, who qualified to have insulation installed free?
Then after running the Nation into debt – now ~$300 Billion) which our Grandchildren have to pay off – to pay for all the above – they kept the stimulus on way too long, pushing up the AU$ to 1.1 x parity with the US$ in early 2011 harming our vital export sector – in the face of the RBA increasing rates to calm the over-stimulated economy. Utter madness and we are still living with the effects of the wreckage which we must never forget.
I have to mention the loony-toon East Timor asylum seeker solution early in the term of new prime Minister Gillard, late 2010 I recall. It just went on and on and on obvious to everybody that it had not a feather to fly with.
Then the years of mad predictions of a 2012-2013 surplus – in the face of scepticism from almost everybody else in the country. Gotta love GreenLabor.
It will take the Coalition at least a three year term to start getting the economy back on track again.

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Funeral Notice from the Canberra Times 7 August 2013

Is this worthy of main National news ?

So a hand full of Army pers. are sending around obscene emails.
I am shocked and amazed!! – but surely it is primarily an Army disciplinary matter. Today in the early afternoon ABC News24 was running with this as though it was WWIII.
They said the details had been with Army for months – why the release today – it could have nothing to do with the puncturing of the PM’s Menugate revelations?
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Brilliant political parody of the Roy Orbison masterpiece – “It’s Over” – thanks to Jane Smith at the Michael Smith blog

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