Piers Akerman
Labor rewrites its recent history
Bad luck Sarah, but that boat won’t float
OUR ABC, and Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, choked the pre-election airwaves with wild predictions that the Coalition’s turn-back-the-boats policy was unworkable.
ABC won’t let facts get in the way of a good rant
BEFORE the federal election, both “our” ABC and its ideologically-paired print partner, Fairfax Media, announced they would each launch independent fact checking units to sort out claims made by politicians.
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Kevin Rudd’s timely tactics
ACCORDING to Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister John Howard is simultaneously poll-driven and out of touch.
Rudd’s conservative drivel
OPPOSITION Leader Kevin Rudd’s claims to be as economically conservative as Prime Minister John Howard are absolute drivel.
Not-so-friendly worm infests the Apple Isle
IT’S an open secret that the Friends of the ABC is little more than a front organisation for the ALP and the trade union movement.Now a series of memos outlining a strategy for the Tasmanian branch of FABC to adopt in an endeavour to defeat the Howard Government is proof positive of the partisan nature of this so-called consumer body.
ABC freezes out debate
THE ABC is to be congratulated for airing the Great Global Warming Swindle, but needs a swift kick for running its phoney debate.
Rudd’s logic is flawed
IT’S been a big week for the challenged believers of the socks-and-sandals brigade, culminating with the fevered revivalist commitments to climate change espoused at last night’s Live Earth concert.
Magnet for madmen
IN THE politically-correct revisionist view of fanatical Muslims, the modern world must acknowledge a debt to Islam for all manner of scholarship in the fields of mathematics and medicine.
Price of Left ego is black despair
UNLIKE the ABC’s confused talkback callers and Fairfax’s ill-informed editors, Aborigines in the Northern Territory and the northwest of WA appear relieved the Federal Government is moving on the endemic problems of sexual abuse and ill-health in dysfunctional remote indigenous communities.
Not as simple as ABC, Mr Rudd
OPPOSITION leader Kevin Rudd is the master of the meaningless 20-second sound bite based on no more (presumably) than a passing pleasure at the sound of his own voice.
Bully boys and bodgy barbecues
THE ACTU is leaving nothing to chance in this election. As union members continue to opt out of the dying movement and union leaders scramble for seats in Federal Parliament (the ALP’s lifeboat), union bosses are targeting remaining members in a campaign with ominous precedents.Union HQ has authorised its stormtroopers to zero in on the nearly quarter of a million members who live in marginal seats _ and work on them to ensure they vote the union line.Using computer programs rather than the brick-through-the-window terror favoured by groups such as Hitler’s nazis, Stalin’s communists and Mao’s Red Guard, union activists have been told to home in on church groups, faith organisations and family members.Union bosses are urging activists to contact members using an electoral data base search program – zeroing in on members in marginal electorates.The 75-page ACTU election strategy directs union officials to routinely contact members identified by the programs and bombard them with political material, even register them to vote if necessary.Despite all the nonsense about privacy legislation, those union members in swinging seats identified by the ACTU, will, in effect, be told: “We know who you are and we know where you live, we know how many are in your family and even if they are entitled to vote”.This is intimidating enough, but coming from an organisation associated with the Robespierre of Australian politics, Greg Combet (soon to parachute into a safe Labor seat) and Sharan Burrow, who arguably broke the International Labor Organisation’s rules with her attempts to politicise its dealings and has since been attempting to blacken Australia’s name in the global community, it is a deeply sinister development.The ACTU may claim it is merely providing information for its members to disseminate at barbecues but that response underestimates the collective intelligence of the average Aussie barbie.When the union stooge starts trumpeting the benefits of union membership and the ALP from a prepared set of question-and-answers most sensible people will see through the garbage and move the conversation on to more relevant issues – the weather or Paris Hilton.
The Garrett recession we don’t need to have
The pathetic response of Labor and the major voices in the Australian environmental movement to the Government’s climate change initiatives gives the lie to the notion that environmentalists have the interests of the nation at heart.
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