Hockey’s shocking gaffe: telling people to first get a good income before borrowing a lot of money
The only obvious thing in all of this was that the Treasurer was not addressing all or real Australians. With the mean housing price in Sydney at $1 mill there is a very few first home buyers that will fit his specifications. If the mean mortgage is $385,000 the deposit required for a Sydney property is around $650,000 to cover all expenses. Who are these first home buyers Hockey was addressing? How long does he consider it takes to build a deposit of that size? Interest alone is almost $2000 per week so what jobs is Hockey suggesting first home buyers find? What risk do they put themselves under when interest rates go up? Where does Alice live in Hockey's Wonderland under a mushroom?
We seem to have a major National Security problem and it needs to be addressed. The citizens of this country need to be protected from their government that seems not to know what it's doing.
By the way notice how Bolt turns to Twitter for help wasn't he laughing at those that find it useful?
Obama admits still waiting for a “complete strategy” to fight Islamic State
Link Fox News
If Obama hasn't a complete strategy in hand for training Iraqis does Abbott or are they just playing soldiers. What have we heard from Tony?
" No wonder the war against the Islamic State is being lost."Bolt
Quick to criticize but never addresses the "how " question. How would Bolt from the bleachers tackle this problem. All we have heard him say is to escalate the bombing and send in the ground troops. Override any Iraqi government request to stay out. So make it an illegal escalation. Win the hearts and minds of the Shiia Militia and the Sunni Tribes over to IS who will then take up arms against the Coalition.
Bolt is a clown who would be happy for conscription to be reactivated as long as his sons weren't involved of course.
Melham quits. Now what about Bill Shorten?
Link Herald Sun
When Corporate heads roll is it incumbent on those that went before to be examined as Bolt suggests Shorten should? How far back does Bolt suggest this should happen if Liberals were involved? How far back when Labor is? Maybe Bolt would encourage a permanent Commission to just keep running until the end of days. This no doubt is an excellent inquiryone compared with that UNHRC headed by Triggs. One thing that must be said and noticed there is none of the screaming foul we've been stitched up as we have heard from Abbott, Dutton and the Murdoch Fourth Estate. Some people accept the rules and consequences of inquiries.
Australia’s biggest borrowers are WA Liberals
And Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey who lifted the ceiling to $500 bill
Is there actually no evidence of man-made warming at all?
Link WUWT Watts Up With That? (or WUWT) is a blog dedicated to climate change skepticism or denial generally accommodating beliefs that are in opposition to the scientific consensus on climate change.
Here is who Bolt rolls with
Fred Singer known for his public denial of the health risks of passive smoking, and as an advocate for climate change denial.He is an opponent of the Kyoto Protocol, and has claimed climate models as not based on reality, and not evidence. Singer has been accused of rejecting peer-reviewed and independently confirmed scientific evidence in his claims concerning public health and environmental issues. Bolt models himself on Fred.
The public debates in which Singer has received most criticism have been about second-hand smoke and global warming. He has questioned the link between second-hand smoke and lung cancer, and has been an outspoken opponent of the mainstream scientific view on climate change; he argues there is no evidence that increases in carbon dioxide produced by human beings is causing global warming and that the temperature of the earth has always varied. A CBC Fifth Estate documentary in 2006 linked these two debates, naming Singer as a scientist who has acted as a consultant to industry in both areas, either directly or through a public relations firm. Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists—along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg—who regularly injected themselves into the public debate about contentious scientific issues, positioning themselves as skeptics, their views gaining traction because the media gives them equal time out of a sense of fairness.
Singer is funded by foundations and oil companies. She writes that he has been a paid consultant for many years for ARCO, ExxonMobil, Shell, Sun Oil Company, and Unocal, and that SEPP has received grants from ExxonMobil. Singer has said his financial relationships do not influence his research. Scheuering argues that his conclusions concur with the economic interests of the companies that pay him, in that the companies want to see a reduction in environmental regulation. Forget About the ‘Hiatus’—Warming of the Earth Has Continued
What kind of government did Queenslanders accidentally vote in?
Link Paywall To Murdoch
Given Murdoch's Courier Mail has no competition in Brisbane. Isn't it strange it's connected directly to all the dirt being dragged up against Labor politicians. It's actively collecting stat decs from volunteers promised we don't know what to sign them. Ex Murdoch staff now connected with the LNP are actively involved in dirt slinging campaigns. Gavin King with troubles of his own with regard honesty was very energetic in collecting dirt on Billy Gordon which has been proved not only wrong but contrived.
The Courier Mail was very much in the forefront of the Peter Slipper debacle which destroyed the man and his family only to be proved wrong. With more to be revealed about how Slipper's accuser James Ashby who was seduced by the LNP with broken promises.
Notice how careful Bolt is with these revelations they always come from a troll after which Bolt always throws in his escape clause. Stench anyone?
Now less reason to believe the acid scare, too
“But the reefs appear to be thriving despite acidification and bioerosion, and we want to understand why,” says Shamberger.
Science is an on going activity of asking and finding out the why of things. For Andrew Bolt it's a conclusive activity in that if an unexpected event does occur it's proof all science is wrong. After all Newtons Laws of Motion don't really explain everything. Nevertheless Bolt has no hesitation in sending his kids to the doctors or his dog to the Vet. If his garden is sick he'll make inquiries with horticulturalists. However if a doctor says we need to investigate further he doesn't shut the door in their face as does here.
What Bolt never does is actually give the full conclusion of any report. He uses what he can feed his own conclusion rather than use the complete scientific one as presented.
The conclusion that actually was derived from this report of Pulau was that while most global reefs were being degraded by increased acidity Pulau was against trend and needed to be investigated more not that Palau proved the science to date was wrong as reefs were being degraded. Big difference Mr Bolt
'On the one hand, the
results of this study are optimistic,' Cohen says. 'Even though many
experiments and other studies of naturally low pH reefs show that ocean
acidification negatively impacts calcium carbonate
production, as well as coral diversity and cover, we are not seeing
that on Palau. And that gives us hope that some coral reefs—even if it
is a very small percentage—might be able to withstand future levels of ocean acidification. But there's also a cautionary side, even for those coral
communities able to maintain their diversity and growth as the oceans
become more acidic, increased rates of bioerosion and dissolution seem
inescapable.'
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-06-diverse-coral-persist-bioerosion-escalates.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-06-diverse-coral-persist-bioerosion-escalates.html#jCp
'On the one hand, the
results of this study are optimistic,' Cohen says. 'Even though many
experiments and other studies of naturally low pH reefs show that ocean
acidification negatively impacts calcium carbonate
production, as well as coral diversity and cover, we are not seeing
that on Palau. And that gives us hope that some coral reefs—even if it
is a very small percentage—might be able to withstand future levels of ocean acidification. But there's also a cautionary side, even for those coral
communities able to maintain their diversity and growth as the oceans
become more acidic, increased rates of bioerosion and dissolution seem
inescapable.'
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-06-diverse-coral-persist-bioerosion-escalates.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-06-diverse-coral-persist-bioerosion-escalates.html#jCp
'On the one hand, the
results of this study are optimistic,' Cohen says. 'Even though many
experiments and other studies of naturally low pH reefs show that ocean
acidification negatively impacts calcium carbonate
production, as well as coral diversity and cover, we are not seeing
that on Palau. And that gives us hope that some coral reefs—even if it
is a very small percentage—might be able to withstand future levels of ocean acidification. But there's also a cautionary side, even for those coral
communities able to maintain their diversity and growth as the oceans
become more acidic, increased rates of bioerosion and dissolution seem
inescapable.'
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-06-diverse-coral-persist-bioerosion-escalates.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-06-diverse-coral-persist-bioerosion-escalates.html#jCp
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