Maybe there is hope and change after all:
Zorro says:
March 26, 2011 at 5:16 am
The AGW promoting, carbon tax toting, Australian NSW Labour government has just been virtually annihilated in the State elections – there is hope folks.
“It’s cataclysmic, I mean it’s a bloodbath,” Mr Foley, an upper house member, told ABC Television.
“The accumulated dysfunction … is what’s driving this result. It’s an accumulated dysfunction of four years, not 16.
Full story:
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/state-election-2011/coalition-romps-to-victory-in-nsw-20110326-1cbbt.html
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People don’t learn without pain. This may be progress.
Australians need to get rid of these carbon dioxide taxing crooks before they destroy the entire economy.
Three cheers for Aussie good sense. Julia next I hope.
Nova, Carter, Plimner, Tisdale, Archibald etc. will make a difference eventually.
Congratulations to the people of NSW.
I had been considering moving to Australia. But with all the global warming politics there I had taken that possibility off the table. It may get put back on the table. Which is good because I like those Aussie hats.
http://www.davidmorgan.com/images/1601khi_detail.jpg
;o)
The was a report that the Labour Leader in NSW delayed conceding so as not to interupt Earth Hour. Gaia will not be mocked
“And so we may say that the real message of Earth Hour this year is: it’s lights out for Labor.” — Andrew Bolt
Next step: Drape garlic over crucifixes, then when Labor’s death-eating Luddite sociopaths subside to horizontal, drive political-toxin stakes through their rent-seeking hearts. Either that, or undead Warmism will rise again.
vote for me and….
I’ll shut down coal power, energy rates will obviously go up, costs of everything will go up, health care will cost more and service will go down, taxes will go up….
…oops, sorry wrong election
Fair Dinkum.
Sweet.
Interesting. The article does not mention carbon taxes. Noe does it mention Labor’s efforts to tax the mining industry (with all sorts of loony taxes being proposed). The fact that ‘safe’ Green Party seats are also in doubt, though, lends some credence to the hypothesis that it is not the tedium of incompetence that has swayed the voters (as the article asserts), but rather the old fashioned union/socialists agenda of Labor that left Australia as an economic and cultural backwater for most of the 20th Century, spooked the voters. I think AW is correct. The carbon tax played huge, and the Sydney Herald is covering for Labor by omitting mention of the same.
I read the article – no where did it say it was because of Labor’s GHG policies. I hope the joy is justified.
Hopefully here in Canada in our National election that was called today the Liberals, NDP and Greens will go down in CO2 spewing flames! No talk yet of anything AGW. In fact I would be surprised if it even comes up but the Libs and NDP are still true believers even if they don’t say it.
Hallelujah! Dams are breaking all over.
Read Andrew Bolt’s blog for reporting on the election. Google Andrew Bolt.
Remember to communicate to your representatives and senators that you want strong support for the Republican effort to remove from EPA the power to regulate CO2. The vote comes up Tuesday or so.
Brilliant!!
but rather the old fashioned union/socialists agenda of Labor that left Australia as an economic and cultural backwater for most of the 20th Century, spooked the voters.
Which Australia are you talking about?
I live in NZ and the one near us is not “an economic backwater”. In fact it’s economy is one of the healthiest around, in temporary dislocation thanks to a property bubble (caused by both sides).
Nor is any longer a “cultural backwater”. That it isn’t cannot be linked to the conservative governments, with their “White Australia” policies etc. In fact it is the liberal left which has largely done that (they being far more into arts and cultural activity in general). You may not like it, but that doesn’t make it untrue.
I’m no fan of old-fashioned Socialism, nor union driven politics, but in our haste to blacken the other side let’s not make stuff up! That leaves us as bad as the ecotards.
Predictably,
Government supported climate scientists will resume there calls for an end to democracy, since it’s not, in their view, capable of rising to big environmental challenges.
Amino Acids in Meteorites says:
March 26, 2011 at 11:25 am
My relatives tell me that life in Australia is rather wonderful. They are big into family.
Thanks for your balanced honesty, WTF.
You’re right. They ‘play’ the Aussies JUST LIKE the Dems & RINOS ‘play’ the U.S.A.
What will it take for you guys to SEE the game, here? The ‘joy’ of victory?
Julia and her ‘team’ walk ‘lock-step’ with Barry and his. They are merely pawns.
I’ve been here 4 years, which is long enough to SEE that Australia is even more
a police state than America has become. It just has ‘fewer humans’ and therefore,
we breathe easier – for the moment.
Geez… The naivete of most of you is disheartening, indeed.
WAKE UP. They’ve planned this crap from the Start. Maybe I should mail you my copy of ‘The Beach’ – an ‘end of times’ movie – about how Australia is the last best place on earth… It was written and filmed WELL BEFORE I WAS BORN in 1957.
Oh. And one last little tidbit I was just ‘given’ by God, let’s see if you can ‘get it’…
‘Have you ever heard the saying: ‘Think outta the Box”? – Well, my dears – just where in the world do you ‘S’cientists imagine those words ‘imply’ that you are?’ Think about it and then WAKE UP. ‘Cause we’ve ALL been programmed into this kinda thinking.
And, then – If you don’t ‘speak up’ after you’ve woken up – then I’ve done all that I’m capable of doing to assist you…but, I still PRAY for you all.
C.L. Thorpe
Now to run them out of the US, bad science and all.
Is it correct that “liberal” in Australia is not the same as liberal in other parts of the ‘west”?
I keep hearing that Australians are very level-headed, practical-minded etc, etc. But it is in their country that a prime minister lady is blabbering nonsense about ‘carbon’ and taxes all the time. How did it get to this stage? How did it get so bad?
How is this an example of the practical-mindedness of Australia? In fact, isn’t it an example of the failure of practical-mindedness?
It couldn’t have happened if the Julia person did not have some support – not necessarily popular support though.
GO AUSSIES!
but, but, the Greens are saying: “At the moment we seem to be holding quite well”