Posted by: pointofviewsa on: April 21, 2010
A Fascist State ? This is Mussolini’s definition quoted in Harpers January 2002. ” Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of State and corporate power” A Fascist State? Public-Private Partnerships? Secret meetings with PPP developers? If the ICAC was only created for this practice that has surfaced since THAT [...]
Posted by: pointofviewsa on: March 12, 2010
“TAXPAYERS may never know if they were tricked into overpaying United Water millions of dollars because the company and the Rann Government are seeking an out-of-court settlement.The Supreme Court yesterday heard the parties are trying, behind closed doors, to resolve claims United Water inflated its rates so taxpayers would fund its international operations” ( AdelaideNow, [...]
Posted by: pointofviewsa on: March 2, 2010
Over 100 Ruddites in Copenhagen and Mr. Rann following like Tail-end-Charlie. Hard to know just what contribution they all made but whatever it was, it is today a failure on the grandest scale. But Penny Wong, trying to convince herself and us that Copenhagen was a done deal and therefore justification for all nations to [...]
Posted by: pointofviewsa on: December 12, 2009
“Senator Wong said the big problems in the talks were the targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions, how to verify that countries made good on their climate promises, and how to finance poorer countries to tackle global warming. (Well, we all knew that Penny Wong.) Ms Hand though, Australia’s Official Person, in her speech, also [...]
Posted by: pointofviewsa on: November 28, 2009
I still have a problem with the numbers of single fit men running away to Australia. No one from a terrorist nation should be allowed in. If they don’t like it there, then change it themselves and don’t hide here and expect our young men and women to risk their lives to fix it for [...]
Posted by: pointofviewsa on: November 23, 2009
Christmas Island. So the recreational facilities are restricted and the tea and coffee a bit of a problem and so charges are likely to be laid and the Federal Police will intervene. It is both naive and quite pedestrian to think that anyone would care if they are prepared to accept death to set out [...]
Posted by: pointofviewsa on: November 19, 2009
Some time ago after he was elected and then appointed Immigration Minister, Chris Evans publicly announced that he was not happy with the fact that his office was not transparent and set about to change the situation. For that alone we suggested that he deserved an accolade for making a rare comment in the National [...]
Posted by: pointofviewsa on: November 18, 2009
Mathematics of Electoral Defeat WORKCOVER says it is starting to turn around its financial position despite claims by the Opposition that the fund is the worst-performing in the nation. WorkCover chief executive Julia Davison also said today there was no discrepancy between the corporation’s annual report and the report to Parliament by Auditor-General Simon O’Neill. [...]
Posted by: pointofviewsa on: November 14, 2009
Pre election stunt No. 5 Notice how each of the main players of this theatrical junta come on stage one at a time? Hill with the Royal Memory Stick, which has almost brought the house down as the best Whodunnit for the year,J-Lo and her super schools forgot the children and Conlon with his billion [...]
Posted by: pointofviewsa on: November 3, 2009
No flow in the River Murray that sustains us? Population growth is our total problem — a problem of consumption of resources and the means of producing them that is overwhelming the natural recovery of the Lower Lakes. Left alone the area will recover. When I was a kid, about 1937 standing with my brother on the [...]
