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?
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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.
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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.
And Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey who lifted the ceiling to $500 bill
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
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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?
“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
'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
'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
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Seems the LNP are worried about the truths to be revealed in a TV show the ABC's The Killing Season. If all media is just Spin what is Andrew Bolt?
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Gillian Triggs makes an observation and as far as Bolt is concerned it's a statement. But he doesn't say so directly that's just too dangerous. I don't know who Michael Sexton is but is he wiser than these Nations that have a Bill of Rights? The make up over 50% of the global population.
Countries that do have a Bill of Rights
* Magna Carta (1215; England)
* Bill of Rights 1689 (England) and Claim of Right (Scotland)
* Virginia Bill of Rights (June 1776)
* Preamble to the United States Declaration of Independence (July 1776)
* United States Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution (Completed in 1789, ratified in 1791)
* Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789; France)
* Basic rights and liberties in Finland (1919)
* Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
* Fundamental rights and duties of citizens in People's Republic of China (1949)
* European Convention on Human Rights (1950)
* Fundamental Rights of Indian citizens (1950)
* Canadian Bill of Rights (1960)
* Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982)
* New Zealand Bill of Rights Act (1990)
* Human Rights Act 1998 (United Kingdom)
* Constitution of South Africa Chapter 2: Bill of Rights (1996)
* Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2000)
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Bolt has plenty of rhetoric and is definitely like a fish out of water when it comes to Climate Science. He flip flops around so much. There is 97% consensus of scientists in the field. Only 3% that don't but are extremely vocal and ally themselves with the fossil fuel industry and media. It's where the money is. There is no profit in media organizations just reporting news there is far more to be made in advocacy against the science.
143 countries of 196 agree with the science even the Australian government though less than 12 months ago Abbott called it "crap". However politics has forced his hand and he has moved from denier to sceptic.
Media advocates reveal themselves to be little more than paid hookers when they come out saying the most stupid things like Bolt. He declared Fukushima and Chernobyl now safe from any medical consequences of radiation.. However if asked to go there with this new found knowledge he'd always find an excuse not to.Where are the Fukushima alarmists now? - News.com.au
However will Bolt prove his point and go to either not on his life .
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What to make of Bolt's blog? Today he's telling us that the Twittersphere is useless. Yesterday he was complaining that it was vicious platform loaded with Abbott haters casting their shadow widely. Every other day he refers to it as if it was his most treasured source of gossip for his blogs.
Remember when he blamed it for the Napthine Government's downfall. That Labour's far better use of social media was the cause of the LNP defeat. Now he's laughing at those that use it.
The man just shows he hasn't any idea with what he's doing and that the media has made him and not he it. Andrew Bolt just happened to be in the right place at the right time and jumped to make a Faustian Pact. Not everyone would.
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" I have little faith in “deradicalisation” programs, especially when they are proposed by a government and a police force which claim jihadism has nothing to do with religion:"
Bolt has every faith in the $22 million Brandis method of radicalization prevention. Teaching English, Australian Rules and Banjo Patterson . But he has no faith in the police or the state in which he chooses to live in why? It's a Labour state. We'd be only too happy to see him move but he won't.
How is it that members of the extreme sects can deradicalize without the help of anyone? Countless persons have left Scientology and various other extreme Christian groups why can't a group of misinformed kids have changed their minds. Oh because then Tony Abbott would have to find another divisive cause and there aren't too many that come so neatly packaged. It has been documented that Scott Morrison declared Muslims readily usable for political advantage after he saw the onset of the Cronulla riots. Morrison knew all it takes is to capture some of those swinging voters not all back and fear and the creation of a domestic enemy is a tried and true method. It worked with the Cold War and then again with Vietnam and now it's Islam and we are surrounded. Never mind what it does to Australian lives
