Photos: No Carbon Tax rally in Australia

Hot day both young and old there. Gillard needs to go. This tax will destroy jobs and keep the UN in business

From Dan’s article:
“In Sydney, Al Gore’s Climate Project presenter, Nell Schofield, attracted huge cheers when she said Australia’s lack of political action on climate change was “not only embarrassing, it is morally reprehensible”.”
All those quoted were the usual suspects. They are good at flash mobbing and whatnot and generally well organized at rallying their crusaders so numbers are rather meaningless. Would get more if they implied Justin Beiber would be there.

One of our news programs dedicated about 5 minutes to the Canberra rally.
The crowd was reported at around 2000 to 3000, a pretty good turn out.
While there were people from all age groups represented, I was surprised to see such a relatively large number of our Senior Citizens, aged 70+, in attendance. Many were also carrying posters etc: “Ditch The Witch” is one that stuck in my mind. Poetic stuff.
While many were conventionally dressed, I was however, slightly amused at the number of people participating in the rally, who, for some unknown reason, wore a cone made from cardboard secured over their nose by a piece of elastic. There was also a gentleman (I assume, given the tone of his voice), with said cardboard cone but wearing a red wig and female attire, jumping up and down screaming “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire”. This scenario reminded me a little of Alice In Wonderland, but it seemed the participants were really enjoying themselves in their fancy dress outfits, and above all else I suppose that’s the most important thing.
These people apparently consider themselves “Climate Change Deniers” or Doubters for any of you who may be offended. That’s fair enough, they are entitled to their opinions. But in an ironic twist, they all cheered loudly when Tony Abbott proclaimed he believed in Climate Change. Strange but true.
It soon dawned on me why no-one takes them seriously.

Dan [March 23, 2011 at 12:29 am] says:
“The Brisbane pictures look impressive, there must have been literally dozens of people there compared to the 10,000 that showed for a rally for action on climate change.”

Comfortable in numbers are you? Hmmm, funny how that propaganda never gets old. dang.. this.. Godwin’s.. law.. preventing.. me.. from.. saying.. what.. I.. really.. want.. about.. big.. propaganda.. rallies.. in.. Nur..
All you good folks down under ignore this dip{snip}. Because as your NEW taxes come online and are added to rising costs, your membership and resolve will only grow. Commenter Dan and his fellow travelers will only see their numbers and spirit dwindle.
You gotta stay involved, be safe and organized, never let up and never surrender. It’s working already.

Go Aussies! And show the mad politicians in NZ where their ridiculous ETS should go!

Massive wildfires and major flooding recovery must be forcing most of the potential the rally members to drop their BBQ and lend a hand, money, and vote for no government aid.

Greg Hunt, Australian opposition spokesman for climate was interviewed on the ABC LateLine program just now, by a very aggressive ABC interviewer.
Greg was able to answer every pointed question with clarity and corrected the many false impressions and incorrect facts implied by the interviewer’s questions.
The ABC man had no answer to any of Greg’s statements and merely moved on to the next slanted question.
Greg won the interview, hands down.
I was impressed.

Aussi Dan, my response as well. Greg Hunt responded with precise response to every question. The hostility of the interviewer was palpable.

Just got off the radio listening to George Osborne’s budget speech in the UK parliament. He seems to have achieved the impossible, and created a budget for ‘growth’ while ratcheting up measures to be the ‘greenest government ever.’
Of course, it won’t be achieved precisely because it is impossible – or at least a contradiction in terms. There were a lot of measures mentioned and the details are a bit vague, but something about trebling the green investment bank, and increasing the public funding for CCS was mentioned. I will wait to hear what the enviromentalists say about it. If they applaud I will be very worried indeed. Let’s hope they condemn it totally. Even a luke warm response would be worrying.
Budget for growth? Build some coal fired power stations George, cancel the wind building program and scrap feed in tariffs – as a minimum.

I went along to both Perth rallies, pro tax and anti tax. The anti tax rally was more fun for me, because I got to heckle some of the more ludicrous things the speakers said. But after a while I was becoming a nuisance, and ruining everyone elses fun, so I left. The speakers showed a charming naivette, being so terribly upset that Julia lied to them. She is a politician. At an election, what else did they expect? The last conservative prime minister of Australia, John Howard, used to lie too. He divided his pre-election promises into two types, core and non-core (but he didn’t actually tell you which ones were which type). According to him, it was ok to break non-core promises. So just think of Julia’s “no carbon tax” as a non-core promise, and all is well.
The pro tax rally did not start on time, but was much more entertaining. The crowd was generally a lot younger, and maybe 50% bigger. There were no hecklers at the pro tax rally, which only goes to prove that the anti tax crowd are more polite than me.
There was insufficient shade at either rally. So I ended up getting too much sun, and have work to catch up on.

[quote]Massive wildfires and major flooding recovery must be forcing most of the potential the rally members to drop their BBQ and lend a hand, money, and vote for no government aid[/quote]
Wildfires and floods in Australia? No sign of climate change there then. Everything is as it has always been. Move along.

Most Australians are deeply concerned by the blatant lie told by Ms. Gillard prior to the recent election. She has no mandate to introduce a carbon tax and so far her performance is extremely poor. She will not survive the next election and may go sooner; a coup from within her party, or a couple of by-elections will do the trick. No details of the proposed tax are known and most people are starting to realise that it will do little for the environment if anything at all, but seems to be a revenue raising issue putting Australian industry at a considerable disadvantage. The dire predictions made by the UN panel are not happening and if anything its getting cooler, but the “warmists” still have a lot of momentum.

Mike says: March 23, 2011 at 7:21 am
Cut income and capital gains taxes and tax GHG emissions instead. Why punish people for investing or working extra hard? Give them an incentive to conserve energy instead. This would reduce our dependence on foreign oil and other types of pollution. And it is possible that the scientists are right and the bloggers are wrong about that global warming thing. Could be.
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Mike. It doesn’t work like that. Governments want the present level of taxation PLUS the ETS tax. Do you see any sign of tax cutting in your neck of the woods? It doesn’t happen where I live.
So oil is a pollution in your book it seems. I hope you don’t use any of it. And Mike, to which scientists are you referring?
One thing is certain, higher taxation increases centralised power, reduces independence of individuals and increases dependency upon central government. Is this what you want?
Douglas

Well done to the Aussies that got out there on a work day and did their bit. I hope for Australia it turns out to be like the climategate exposure. I’m of the firm belief that the one of the biggest benefits of Climategate was that it gave a huge percentage of the population ( the averge citizen ) the “permission” to say what they what had been thinking about AGW but had not had the courage to say previously because they had doubted themselves , given what the MSM and the so called experts were saying.
In the same way I hope the initial rallies in Australia will help “mobilize” all those who would not normally protest in any way except the ballot box.
The other interesting thing that has happened in recent days is that it obvious the pro AGW people are getting worried judging by the number bombarding the blog sites with , in most cases , stupid trivial comments about those anti the tax. Someone is trying to coordinate it behind the scenes but they have failed to supply the lackies with cogent arguments for their view.

With the majority of protesters apparently being pensioners, aren’t these the people who would benefit the most with the redistribution under Juliars new carbon Tax?
It goes to show that these people are far superior morally …than those who lie and deceive us about AGW and carbon pollution.

More on the rally from Gavin Atkins (via Tim Blair):
http://asiancorrespondent.com/50990/photos-from-no-carbon-tax-rally/
For our US friends who don’t know Oz politics, you’ll get tenure if you can correctly identify everyone he mentions.

The lofty ideology behind the introduction of this tax is really for the general public to swallow. The abstracted benefit is a wish for future climate stability but the concrete reality is the tax increase. This tax increase is necessary to fulfil an election promise to balance the budget within a short time frame and the obvious way, by increasing the GST (Goods and ServicesTax), currently fixed in stone at 10% is politically impossible.
Quite simple, bring out the big guns, Garnaut and Flannery, spin the public a fairy tale choc full of vague future planetary climate benefits, but quickly extract a tax from the combustion of carbon. The climate then keeps doing what the climate always has done but the tax increase is very real and very permanent (hey, we are not going to fix this in a hurry, are we?). Any failure of the climate to behave itself, in either direction,will be a reason to increase the tax even further.
Keep this self-flagellation up and our future really does look bleak.

http://www.westvancouver.ca/Government/Level3.aspx?id=33292
For a good laugh… and an illustration of green back door infiltration.

problem is we didnt know about rally..or i would have had a lot more support for bris..
stop selling us to the UN,,have a good look at what they are really trying to do..have a look at the corpoRATe giants that do not pay tax at all..hello this system is barbaric, take a look at usa we usually do not fall far behind them, and this is no different, the people their are starving, forget 3rd world countries being those you can close your eyes on and pretend it doesnt matter, as you wont be able to do that when its your own children holding out a rice dish!!!!