Carr Admits he was wrong. Again.

New Foreign Minister Bob Carr has admitted he was wrong to threaten sanctions against Papua New Guinea. This comes after he claimed his comments were taken ''out of context'' Here is the full quote of what he said:
"You've got Australia placed in a position where we'd have no alternative but to organise the world to condemn and isolate Papua New Guinea. We'd be in a position of having to consider sanctions''

Of course, Carr recently repudiated many of his own views on Foreign Policy that he had written on his blog.

Bob Carr is turning out to be a very clumsy Foreign Minister despite being praised as the right choice by commentators such as David Penberthy, Dennis Shanahan, Alan Jones, Greg Sheridan and of course Fairfax commentators.

The Left v Free Spech Mark II

Left-wing activist group GetUp has offered financial backing to anti-coal protester Drew Hutton after Mr Hutton announced he is considering taking Clive Palmer to court. Ironically, Clive Palmer had earlier suggested a left-wing group may fund the defamation case against him.
Sadly, this is the latest major threat to freedom of speech in our country after Andrew Bolt was found guilty of breaching the Racial Discrimination Act and ordered to apologise. Interestingly, both cases come from cashed up left-wing activists.
We know from several recent high-profile court cases that due to the culture of judicial activism, the left have far too much influence over our justice system.

Ian Verrender's Model Countries

Ian Verrender today writing in The Age defended the Federal Government's attack on mining today by claiming Australia is a ''tax haven'' for miners. He justified the introduction of a mining tax by pointing out all new mining exploration in Namibia will be state owned. He also pointed out in that in Zimbabwe the insane dictator Robert Mugabe is bringing in new draconian measures to curb wealth generation for his starving nation. Another one if Ian's model countries is global scam-haven Nigeria.

So, Ian, is this all part of a scheme to nationalize mining?

Follow the link to see the other countries he wants Australia to be more like: here

Labor wasting billions on consultants

It has been revealed today that since Labor came to office in late 2007, the Government have spent $2,170,180,096 on 17,736 consultantancy contracts. The Health budget is being eaten into by a massive $208 million spent on consultants. The Canberra Times reported that ''However, the contracts also encroach into areas that were traditionally the responsibility of public servants, such as policy advice and contract administration''.
With both sides needing to look for spending cuts, this would be an ideal area.

Ross Gittins Calls for MORE Tax

Socialist Morning Herald columnist Ross Gittins last week called for ''raised taxes'' and ''bigger government''. Gittins, a well-know Socialist is the ''Economics Editor'' of the SMH. What a shame his economic ideology is stuck in the 1950's. Gittins claims ''Our preoccupation with limiting overall government spending and taxation means crowding out spending on public services. We've squeezed spending on education - particularly at the tertiary level - which is an investment in the human capital of our future workforce. We've neglected investment in physical infrastructure and environmental protection'' How he can say this when we spend nearly $23 billion on education, $13 billon on infrastructure and $96 billion on ''general services''. In total, the federal government spent nearly $400 billion in 2011-2012 alone, excluding the NBN. We need to spend less, not more. We need to reduce taxes, not raise them.

''Equal Love'' Attention Seekers

Equal Love Brisbane have accused the media of ''homophobia'' for allegedly not allowing their group access to a Ashgrove candidates forum. But, the Westside News has revelead the group was directly invited to the attend the forum, but declined.
What a bunch of attention-seeking morons.

Now That's Desperate....

Katter's Australian Party candidate for Condamine, John Mathison is getting desperate in the lead up to polling day. The candidate for the Very Safe LNP held seat is encouraging, yes encouraging people to vandalise his election signs. Mr Mathison has placed an advertisement in a local newspaper calling on people to dress his head to win an autographed hat from Bob Katter.

Well.....it's creative.