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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The man is insane. Kiribati is 3,870 miles (6.227 km) from Brisbane. By comparison, Kiribati is “just” 1,345 mi (2,164 km) due south of Honolulu, Hawaii.
But given the state of Hawaii’s democrats with their raging case of TDS, Kevin Rudd should offer Hawaii the same deal. They’d probably take it.
No Joel, that would intrude on others virtue-signalling potential, a diplomatic no-no.
Even more so. The supposed rising of the ocean would endanger these islands, necessatating the removal of the entire population but somehow magically leave Australia undisturbed where they can then settle.
Interesting that.
The supposed rising of the ocean would endanger these islands, necessatating the removal of the entire population but somehow magically leave Australia undisturbed where they can then settle
Australia is many magnitudes larger in size, what would be enough to swamp Kiribati or Tuvalu would at worse make peoples feet wet a little further in from the Australian beaches.
I wish more Americans felt the same way.
We “own” American Samoa, a good part of the Marshall Islands (who could forget Bikini Atoll?), Guam and the Northern Marianas, and Palau. And then there’s the world’s largest preserve, the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument covers 490,000 square miles (1.2 million sq. kilometers), making it the largest marine preserve in the world,
Ref: https://phys.org/news/2014-09-obama-world-largest-marine-sanctuary.html
* by own I mean the US constitution applies in those territories and coastal waters, and the US Coast Guard patrols those waters.
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-samsung&ei=91NrXKSECc_orgS87rHIDg&q=wuwt+islands+atolls+swim&oq=wuwt+islands+atolls+swim&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.
Did Rudd think those islanders were so afraid of drowning that they would move to a desert?
SR
And more-or-less the hottest desert on earth.
When I was a kid we were told that Australia was the hottest continent on Earth. Everyone knew it, no one doubted it for a second. Only recent generations, bought up since about 1985, with air-conditioning and ceiling fans in every room, were not told that, and now act all ‘surprised’ when they find out that Australia is in fact the hottest continent. They call it ‘climate change’ because they were taught by schools with second-rate teachers, backed by BOM’s delusional ideologically motivated statistical fake-cooling of the past.
Doubtful. All of the illegals who get into Australia via people smugglers NEVER settle in the outback. They enjoy the comfort of the cities where they can readily soak up the social security money the tax payers provide for them.
Is he more delusional than Miss AOC? Or are they twins separated at birth? Just askin’, in a wish to be informed.
They all read from the same playbook in a race to the bottom of the barrel. Their ideas are always the same – bankrupt the country and get their tax slaves to pay for it all, including their lifestyles.
Well Rudd is a communist megalomaniac narcissists.
Similar really . . .
But there’s worse coming down-under in the form of Bill Shorten who is a communist megalomaniac sociopath.
Not to be outdone by the current conservative Aussie PM Mr Scott Mmmm:
https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2019/02/16/prime-minister-scott-morrison-his-best-mate-david-gazard-and-the-50-billion-submarine-scam/
Most AU politicians are on the take from unions, foreign entities or ‘mates’ at home.
I big document full of names and places. I wish I didn’t believe it. Sadly, I’m not at all surprised.
As for Labor and Unions, the two entities are the same party and they share the same money. Corruption is Labor’s middle name, Graft is it’s last name. Aliases; “Wasn’t Me”, “It was Him” and “Everyone Doesit”.
its was triplets i think
and juLiar g is the 3rd
she and AOC would get on so well
pray they never meet
They probably have met. They both run in liberal, progressive circles.
Had this proposal been made by Juliar Dullard, the refusal would have offended her vindictiveness to a point where she might actually paddle off Tuvalu’s coast on a wake board, rock it back and forth and say “See..?”
Then again, let’s see how Kevvie deals with Tuvalu PM’s middle finger. Maybe he’ll use it as a cotton bud. If only there was ear wax on it.
Which PM let the Muslims in?
Good question. Better one is which one’s going to bring an end to it.
Stan the answer is complex (as you may have guessed):
https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/bn/2012-2013/boatarrivals
The answer is dead simple you can try to dribble and fluff around all you want but the graph at the bottom has two very big bumps 🙂
How funny will it be if things shift in the alarmists’ favor? It won’t take much, they’ve already infected most organs of power, so they don’t need many hearts and minds, and they are RELENTLESS. Maybe now is the time to take a RELENTLESS hard line on this eco-fascist fraud, while we still can.
Linda…. with all due respect the “denier” camp is both toothless and windless. But they have ‘science’ in their favor 🙂
And herein lies the #1 problem with any nation signing on to a “climate treaty”…… abdicating your sovereignty to a foreign entity. Besides who can or will tell who about the nations that meet or fail their promises? This is all nothing but a giant free for all liars contest.
One of the World’s best out-takes . . .
Rudd goes f***ing mental on camera:
He´s so very convincing honest, I like that.
Perhaps Tuvalu or Kiribati should return the favor and offer Citizenship to Australian residents instead. They might be able to show better governance
Annexing other countries to save them from themselves sounds like a great idea to me. Maybe the USA should annex the rest of Mexico (finish the job we started in the 1830’s). It would sure go a long way toward solving our illegal immigration problem. Also, Mexico has a much shorter southern border than the USA currently has… a win win congress could save money while still building a much shorter wall. /sarc
Include Canada and the USA would include ALL North America
Nah. You still need El Salvador, Nicaragua, Belize, Panama, Costa Rica and Guatemala… of course, the southern border of panama is really short.
Rudd has always been a bit of a dumbo. He was a failure as a Prime Minister.
He’s not known as KRudd for nothing. As our leftie Prime Minister, delusion and fantasy brought him undone, as well as being backstabbed by Julia Gillard.
As complimentary diplomatic skills, they should have hired Mr. Hank Johnson to explain that alike Guam, Tuvalu could “capsize and sink”.
Maybe next time?
Shorten is the current ALP leader, and his “popularity” is failing (Well, what is an election anyway?). And the anit-LNP media HATE this as they felt sure the ALP would win this years federal election. Seems nothing is certain. So the typical response in the Australian MSM is to wheel out (Yes, they may have well have been in a wheelchair – No disrespect to those that need them) past “pretty boys” to sway voters.
This May, or earlier, will be an interesting federal election.
IMO, in my line of business, the job market is buoyant, which usually indicates NO CHANGE of Govn’t.
whats funnier is the recnt govt hack
and the immediate “worries” its election tamperin
how?
we have ID listed electoral rolls and so faking a votes close to impossible
hear of electronic system but as far as i know its NOT happening
and shouldn’t !
if anyone was snooping(apart from our “friends” UK usa that is…0
it would be for far more useful or damaging purpose than eletions
we’re not so hidebound we wont throw a pm out very fast
or do deals to stymie one we cant get rid of.
we mightnt have the old aus democrats as our 3rd wheel…but we can still keep the bastards honest;-)
or very worried at least
The present Government is discovering, to its dismay, that the arbitrary torpedoing of an incumbent Prime Minister who enjoyed a fair degree of electoral popularity is a net vote-loser. They could have usefully noted the result of the A.L.P. discarding the (then) popular Mr Rudd in favour of Julia Gillard.
Even worse, the Liberal Party had made the politically sensible decision to replace Mr Abbott (liked by the Party, broadly disliked by the electorate) with Mr Turnbull (uneasily tolerated by the Party, broadly acceptable to the electorate). The expectation of the parliamentary Party that a largely secular electorate would respond positively to replacing a popular centrist P.M. (at a time of relatively prosperous economic stability) with a Right-wing Pentecostalist was, at best, naive. At worst, a bunch of supposedly hard-bitten political realists were revealed as delusionally incompetent in their main trade.
There is a saying is Australian politics to the effect that Oppositions don’t win office — Governments lose office. The present Government is making a fair attempt to hand the reins of power to a lacklustre Opposition with a barely-effective leader.
The extension to this is if you take any refugees from a country then that country should give up resources or land. So Europe for example should be given land in Africa for compensation it all seems so logical 🙂
Mr Rudd sees himself as a benevolent green Messiah bringing ‘liberation’. But the islanders see a privileged white man dictating what is good for them. There, the ugly green dynamics in two sentences.
He is also very wealthy, and his wife too, on the back of a Govn’t recruitment agency.
Nothing Socialist about this at all.
A pure Neon-colonial, Capitalist land grab.
Usually Neo- but I like Neon better…you can’t deny it it is so brightly lit
Indeed. I pointed this out, but I think my comment went in the bin.
Other issues aside regarding whether this is a good/bad/terrible/whatever idea, exactly what the heck is socialist about it?
“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.”
Of course you won’t, but you want other countries to compromise on their rights to fossil fuel resources to pay your climate extortion funds.
Kevin Rudd does not now enjoy a status that permits him to make the offer described above. In fact, he didn’t. He is a retired politician who made a suggestion in an essay.
For Americans, try to imagine Jimmy Carter suggesting now that Brazilians be offered U.S. citizenship if they stop destroying the Amazon rainforest. It’s just a thought bubble from someone who lacks the necessary power to do anything. Big deal!
Beats me why this merited an article here.