Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Former Aussie Socialist Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has once again demonstrated his masterful diplomatic skills, by offering independent Pacific Islanders colonial status, to protect future generations from climate change and rising seas.
Tuvalu PM slams Kevin Rudd’s proposal to offer Australian citizenship for Pacific resources as neo-colonialism
Pacific Mornings By Anthony Stewart
A proposal from Kevin Rudd to address the impacts of climate change on the Pacific has been labelled as “imperial thinking” by Tuvalu’s leader, who lambasted the former prime minister’s suggestion to swap Australian citizenship for maritime resources.
Key points:
- Kevin Rudd’s proposed arrangement would require the Pacific countries to give up their sovereignty
- It would also require a rewriting of their constitutions, as well as Australia’s constitution
- Tuvalu’s Prime Minister says his country “will not be subjugated” under a “colonial mentor”
Mr Rudd wrote in a recent essay that Australia should offer citizenship to residents of the small Pacific nations of Tuvalu, Kiribati and Nauru in exchange for control of their seas, Exclusive Economic Zones, and fisheries.
“Under this arrangement, Australia would also become responsible for the relocation over time of the exposed populations of these countries [totalling less than 75,000 people altogether] to Australia where they would enjoy the full rights of Australian citizens,” Mr Rudd wrote.
But the idea — which in essence would see the countries give up their sovereignty — has been strongly criticised by Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga, who warned it amounts to a form of neo-colonialism.
“The days of that type of imperial thinking are over,” Mr Sopoaga told the ABC.
“We are a fully independent country, and there is no way I’m going to compromise our rights to fisheries resources, our rights to our immediate resources.”
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Mr Rudd’s key proposal is to relocate citizens of Pacific Island nations to Australia once rising sea levels make these nations uninhabitable, pointing out that their populations combined is less than half of Australia’s total annual immigration intake.
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What can I say – Kevin Rudd’s impressive diplomatic skills made him WUWT’s pick for UN Secretary General. Sadly Rudd didn’t get the job.
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This from the man who managed to alter the Queensland Dam policy from flood control to water storage because he believed climate change would reduce the amount of rain over southern Queensland. And the result? Disastrous flooding in Brisbane because the Wivenhoe dam was forced to spill water to prevent disastrous damage to the dam! No wonder the nicknamed him Krudd.
That’s because he listened to his English lit. qualified science adviser, Tim Flannery. But Rudd should butt out of stuff he should not be fiddling with. Just go away Rudd.
Aye, that be his name.
All I can say is that it’s a good thing he isn’t PM anymore. We would be at war with the rest of the world, for a start.
Australia’s political kaste has officially reached peak stupid.
He should have consulted with Auckland Uni before going public:
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-pacific-nation-bigger.html
He probably did; he is calling the Pacific islanders bluff.
That say they are threatened by climate change, he offers them somewhere to move to when climate change floods their islands in return for fishing rights and other benefits now. I reality they are not threatened, so Australia would get the benefits now and no future liability.
Clever tactic that one.
Getting to “No” is interesting at times.
But the “No” is coming from a politician. It would indeed be interesting to see a people’s referendum on the proposal. I think that the prospect of full Australian citizenship would go down well with most individuals.
“masterful diplomatic skills”
I think he threatened to drown them if they don’t accept assimilation.
Masterful diplomacy is giving Mr. Rudd the one finger salute.
Kevin Rudd was the second worst Prime Minister of Australia after the all time champion bad Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Keven Rudd has a proven track record of insane decisions and adherence to mad Socialist/Climate schemes that have cost Australians billions of dollars of their money. If Keven Rudd wants to do something, then the sensible choice is the opposite of what Rudd proposes.
For Canadian readers multiply by a factor of 20 Trudeau’s ineptitude and you will be somewhere in the ball park for the clueless KRUDD.
The USA dodged a bullet when Hillary (of Mt.Everest climbing fame) Rodham Clinton fell at the final hurdle but we copped an artillery shell when Julia Gillard made it to the top job.
It has been all down hill for OZ land since.
Is 20 times infinity not still infinity?
You should try thinking like politicians.
I think I see a pattern emerging.
Politicians who want to control YOUR life become corrupt, even if they weren’t corrupt when they first entered politics. Of course with Trudeau, he was born corrupt, courtesy of his famous daddy. Clinton became corrupt while a callow yute, er, I mean callow youth, worshipping the likes of Saul Alinsky. Then she merely doubled down on her corruption every few years, as her political fortunes rose, attached to her corrupt, but to some, lovable husband who was (to those same some) NOT a rapist or sexual assaulter just because he felt he was due sexual knee-bending by all the women surrounding him. I’m too remote to understand when Rudd and his stupid bimbo successor first became corrupt. But I think it’s high time that Australian conservatives start voting for people who are actually conservative, instead of Progressivist nanny-state “fixers.” The bigger the level of government, the more government screws up everything it touches that might otherwise be solved by normal market forces. Public utilities are something of an exception, because big generators used to see efficiency, reliability and low-cost as desirable objectives, and so they very much sought those goals on behalf of their “customers” while enjoying monopoly protections from would-be competition. But somewhere along the line, the utility commissions that had watchdog style oversight of the operations and regulatory governance of those utillities became just another political football with which would-be socialists could control you and me. Now those same utilities have become cronyist lucre-pits and virtue-signalists for every stripe of climate Scientologist, eco-loon and CO2 bed wetter. People who think the government can or should solve climate change are, by definition, nucking futs. Vote them out! Be brutal. Don’t compromise. Vote them OUT!
If the various islanders actually believed that they were in danger of becoming climate refugees, they would welcome the chance of trouble free refuge.
It is clear that the islanders don’t think they’re going to be swamped any time soon. Any other blathering on their part is just an excuse to extort money from developed countries.
Tuvalu..is about 15ft….so it’s not going to happen
Why would they become sovereign when they stand to receive so much aid money for a non-existent problem.
Uhhh, the USA is no longer in the business of “donating”, “contributing” or “being extorted” regarding climate change money.
Bad business model to sit around waiting for a check. Just saying.
Ruddles never did have a strong grasp on reality.
But it has become even worse in recent years.
So it’s reassuring to know that we gave him the big boot up the arse
out of political office way back in July 2013.
No he is simply following the socialist left manifesto, the resources of the world belong to every person. The act of being born made you entitled to your share of the worlds resources. So it follows if a country takes in a citizen from another country it should take there share of the worlds resources, it makes perfect sense to a socialist.
The fact it comes across like a raving crackpot to us capitalist is fine we are not the intended audience of the message.
One would almost think these island nations were more interested in receiving “climate reparations” “climate aid”, and other forms of climate extortion than anything else.
He was the worse Prime Minister we have ever had. His super ego got in the way of every decision he made (But Julia Gillard came a very close second).
You can fix ignorance…. but you can’t fix stupid.
I could never work out which was the worst Prime Minister. There wasn’t even a hair’s breadth between them.
This article needs a trigger warning. I almost lost my breakfast on seeing that smarmy visage.
Sorry that our friends in Australia are burdened with idiots of this sort. Then again we all are.
I think its a masterful stroke by Rudd.
He offers help, they say no.
Now any time they carp on about how Australia needs to save them we can say “but we tried”.
Well Done Ruddy! DFAT should immediately make this offer in a formal sense, unless we had a little bit of moonlighting?
In speech our Kevin loves to use lots of plosive ‘p’ sounds that are intended to impress and convince his audience that his crackpot ideas are in fact the result of careful and measured consideration, for instance here we have a positive, proper and appropriately pertinent and propitiously presentable proposal.
Say it, don’t spray it.
…which proved preposterous!
But he also likes to use arcane expressions (self created) like “natural complementarity”, “conceptual synthesis” and “programmatic specificity” to befuddle the ignorant peasants, who then think he must be the bee’s knees for being able to use such big, incomprehensible words.
Oh so he’s piped up again, has he?
A grab for fishery resources? (Or should we not mention the F word).
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-06/australian-fish-stocks-declining-by-30-per-cent-research-finds/9837930
“The premise of the paper that there has been a general decline in Commonwealth fisheries is not supported by the weight of evidence,” AFMA’s acting CEO Nick Rayns said in a statement.”
Evidence? They don’t need no sticking evidence, just feelings!
IIRC he’s a progressive. If a conservative suggested this, Rudd would instantly see it as a white-supremacist neo-colonial racist alt-right plot. Yet he fails to see it in his own proposal, probably in his head he can’t understand why “those people” are objecting. Nothing quite like progressives for blindness to their own hypocrisy.
Like most leftists, he knows for a fact that he can’t be racist, therefore the thought that something he said might come across as racist never occurred to him.
On the other hand, all leftists know for a fact that all conservatives are racist. The only problem is proving it.
What does “proving it” mean? Sounds like a new concept to me…
As one young socialist said to me. All whites are racist. The only difference is how well they are able to hide it.
But she assured me that if you dig deep enough, you will always find it.
“Proving it” for the most part consists of seeing what you need to see and ignoring any contradictory evidence.
Evidence?
No evidence is needed by these lunatics. Its a given.
Ethnic Europeans alone have been indoctrinated with racial guilt; other ethnicities naturally embrace their collective racial self-interest.
Well, at least he’s being upfront about the aims of the Green Blob.
Its all about stopping China’s expansion into the Pacific if they are all Aussie citizens China has to deal with Australia. Not quite so easy I think
It does show though how Climate is used for everything now days
They will get the western money without any strings attached via the green scam wealth redistribution, so why would they allow themselves to be patronized by someone like Rudd and his cabal…
maarten
Exactly which “western money” are you referring to?
France?
Germany?
Britain?
Lichenstein?
Andrea Dora?
Greece?
Mexico?
Venezuela (sorry – couldn’t help myself)?
Certainly won’t be any USA Western Money while Trump is in office
Another example of the arrogant left wing politicians who are truly believing that they know best what’s good for anyone…
Rudd is a prime example of how our Media Elites have managed to apply control over the democratic voting process.
Before Kevin we Australians had it pretty good. Budget surplus. Industry confidence. Relatively low cost of living. Good times. The problem was that Prime Minister Howard was a nasty evil CONSERVATIVE and our Ruling Elites didn’t like that. So Rudd crawled out of his underpants fuelled cave on the side of the road (paraphrasing, but basically his own claim) and the Love Media latched onto him. He was Kev. He was from Brissy. He was just like the other bloke, only different enough to be fun. He would be the low risk change guy because deep down, wasn’t everyone just a little sick of Little Johnny?
The Media sold him to us… then, once he proved to be a complete git that even his own party grew to despise, the sold him out on the glowing Feels of Our First Female Prime Minister.
(actually everyone except the Fems basically hated Our First Female Prime Minister and her own party ended up backstabbing her to bring back Rudd in a desperate attempt to save the furniture… then got rid of Rudd because they deep down still hated him.)
The Media invented Rudd. Told the voters he was this new exciting (but safe) guy who was the greatest thing ever and everyone should love him. He wasn’t. He was a vain angry man out of his depth with a vindictive streak and anyone with prior knowledge of him should have kept him completely hidden on the back bench where he could have done no harm.
What is scary is that not only was he once Prime Minister of Australia, is that he then became Foreign Minister and roamed the world in Australia’s name. And why? Because our Elites selected him as a suitable person to impress the masses and gain power. He is the AOC of Australia, but without the sane logic processes.
And get caught eating his earwax in the process. Maybe they should have pushed his desk into the car park instead.
https://youtu.be/_ipvdBnU8F8
Howard took a dive when he brought in that Workplace Reform. That’s what killed him, Rudd was just an opportune guy standing on the sidewalk doing nothing particular.
like Herpes
he never really goes away;-(
excellent summation of krudd;-)
and demoted sideways as FM to remove him from public view as much as possible.
like the turd he is however he bobs up from time to time, to offend all around him
Good to see a response that rhymes with the name of their nation.
I expect that it is partially as a result of their true opinion (i.e. not their “public” one) on whether they really are in any danger anytime soon.
Could this proposal be an opportunity for more Manus/Christmas/Nauru/ facilities.
Did they see a sign saying “Refugee Storage”?
“I’m Kevin, and I’m here to help!”
Too much, “detailed programmatic specificity”, again Kevie?
No imaginary problem is too trivial to blow out of all proportion to reality, eh?