Anyone who has read the global agreements and declarations, at least one of which was signed by Paul Keating, will know that the government has no intention of making things easy for our exporters.

Once rail and port have been privatised, big corporations will charge huge fees and taxes to completely stymie the Australian economy. I think this should be known as the Crush Australia Policy.

Once corporations have removed farmers and other business people from the land and taken it over themselves, they will have excellent access to export opportunities, because they will own the whole shebang.

And don't you singles and pensioner couples think you are going to continue to live cosily in your homes. Local councils will quickly move you into those expensive little high rise apartments no bigger than a cubbyhole, so they can house many thousands of homeless people.

How will they do this? By unloading huge rates and land taxes.

I received a new Land Valuation today which will take effect from 1 July 2010. In 3 years, it has risen from $157,500 to $250,000.

Also remember that we are going to be robbed blind for our water, electricity and gas consumption by huge corporations, while the government steadily becomes more insistent that we must get rid of the freezer, bar fridge, air conditioner and clothes dryer, and return to an almost prehistoric lifestyle in order to pay our way in the new Grass-Stroking Economy.

Soon even the family car will be subjected to a Traffic Congestion Tax, which no doubt will be added on to the cost of registering your vehicle. And let's not forget the Fuel Tax, which has already risen recently.

And for those who are not aware, your superannuation nest egg is probably being used by Al Gore and his Green lunatics to devise more ways of taxing us all to the eyeballs.

I was also told some Queensland public servants' superannuation moneys are being used by AMP to develop cluster bombs. Do we want our nest eggs used to blow innocent civilians away?

Hi Barnaby,

How about a debt watch clock like in the states. By the next election it would be most interesting. It might be a simple and graphic way to wake up the masses that are currently asleep in regards to our debt crisis.

Keep up the good work

Georges

Labour used to have a great pool of talent at the top. Now they just epitomise smug and privileged ignorance. Does this fool not know, does he not realise, that by running deficits and financing them overseas he is crowding out export investment? Does they not realise that they are skewing things such as to stop business spending from altering in such a way as to correct our export-import imbalance? No of course they don't realise this. Because they don't have a financial sophisticate in their entire team.

The ignorance of these people doesn't bottom out. They are so much like that fellow Gordon Brittas in that old English series "The Brittas Empire" its uncanny. If it was only the milky bar kid himself that would be one thing. But the whole lot of them this way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sFjBXiFE6E&feature=related

Well, I think some of the smaller parties, including Nationals, care much more about foreign debt than the major parties.

I think Barnaby has done his best for Queenslanders and all Australians to highlight this serious issue. As far as I'm concerned, he is far more patriotic than the vast majority of politicians, and is willing to say whatever he thinks about the very possible fate of our great nation, regardless of censure.

At the next election, I would like everyone reading this to do their best to help remove all of the traitors and treasonists from the parliament. In my view, that will be all of the politicians who support the sellout of our economy and selloff of our income producing assets and utilities.

Please people, vote only for people who act with integrity, and who don't have yellow stripes running up their backs.

"Once rail and port have been privatised, big corporations will charge huge fees and taxes to completely stymie the Australian economy. I think this should be known as the Crush Australia Policy."

Look Lorikeet. I was in the pro-privatisation camp. I saw the first wave of it and I saw how we didn't get it right. I try to argue until I'm blue in the face about how we might get it right, with our neoclassical economists and it is a lost cause. Its a cause for another generation. Its got to be JUST SAY NO. If we let these people privatise its just a further example of fiscal irresponsibility and ineptitude.

Look at the Bligh government. Advised by the mysterious Rothschilds and Merrill Lynch. Known failures who ought to be down at the centrelink. And they are privatising in a classic worst possible way. So now we know that rail won't be as rail idealists hoped it might be. Having been the big industry of the 19th century, we all thought that it just took a century out. And that it would make a big comeback in the 21st.

The bloodymindedness and stupidity of your average neoclassical economist has ensured that this can never happen in Queensland.

Its a terrible thing in the economics world in Australia. Morons to the left of us. Bigots to the right.

This is why I have great hopes for Barnaby Joyce now that our nation is on this glidepath to destruction.

I've spent a lifetime looking at these technical economic issues. But here is Senator Joyce. He's got good instincts. He's a better economist than the tribal nitwits that pass for economists in this country.

On a commonsense level he's totally sound. Lets hope he finds a way to surround himself with the best advice.

http://www.talkfinance.net/f12/barnaby-joyce-english-speaking-worlds-greatest-elected-representative-2347/

"Once rail and port have been privatised, big corporations will charge huge fees and taxes to completely stymie the Australian economy. I think this should be known as the Crush Australia Policy."

Look Lorikeet. I was in the pro-privatisation camp. I saw the first wave of it and I saw how we didn't get it right. I try to argue until I'm blue in the face about how we might get it right, with our neoclassical economists and it is a lost cause. Its a cause for another generation. Its got to be JUST SAY NO. If we let these people privatise its just a further example of fiscal irresponsibility and ineptitude.

Look at the Bligh government. Advised by the mysterious Rothschilds and Merrill Lynch. Known failures who ought to be down at the centrelink. And they are privatising in a classic worst possible way. So now we know that rail won't be as rail idealists hoped it might be. Having been the big industry of the 19th century, we all thought that it just took a century out. And that it would make a big comeback in the 21st.

The bloodymindedness and stupidity of your average neoclassical economist has ensured that this can never happen in Queensland.

Its a terrible thing in the economics world in Australia. Morons to the left of us. Bigots to the right.

This is why I have great hopes for Barnaby Joyce now that our nation is on this glidepath to destruction.

I've spent a lifetime looking at these technical economic issues. But here is Senator Joyce. He's got good instincts. He's a better economist than the tribal nitwits that pass for economists in this country.

On a commonsense level he's totally sound. Lets hope he finds a way to surround himself with the best advice.

http://www.talkfinance.net/f12/barnaby-joyce-english-speaking-worlds-greatest-elected-representative-2347/

Senator Joyce. I wish to congratulate you on your new appointment and also to say that I believe your previous job as Opposition Finance Spokesman was well carried out by you. As for the media obtaining comments from Messrs. Rudd, Swan and the unlikeable Mr Tanner what a joke! How dare they have the arrogance to criticize you when between them they have presided over the worst financial management that this country has ever seen. ETS, Pink batts, Green Loans, BER, Grocery Watch, Fuel Watch - the list is endless. They have no credibility at all on finance and are so quick to claim credit for the stable financial position the previous Govt left for them. They are absolute frauds. What a hostile media we have as they ingratiate themselves with the Govt, except for a few who have shown more character in standing up for decency.
God help us if the public fall for the "We will fix the Hospitals spin."

Graeme Bird:

While I agree with you on just about everything you've said, the reason we are being sold off and sold out is because our government has been working to a specific Global Plan for the last approximately 50 years. The following international Treaties and Declarations have been signed by previous Australian governments.

Politicians from the Left and the Right aren't selling us down the river because they are "nitwits" or "bigots" in matters relating to the Australian economy. They are university educated people, who are simply following the global plan to empower the third world (and screw their own nation) signed by previous governments.

Have you read the following?

General Agreement on Trade & Services (GATS)

General Agreement on Trade & Tariffs (GATT)

Lima Declaration & Plan of Action on Industrial Development & Co-operation (1975)

Anyone who has read even one of the above will probably never vote for a major party again.

If you or others can't be bothered reading them all, just take a look at this link on GATS:

htty://aftinet.org.au/papers/ranald1.html

What we need to do is find a way of withdrawing from these Treaties and Declarations. They are the vehicles driving us towards Global Corporate Communism (bank rule).

This has nothing at all to do with bloody-minded politicians. Take Anna Blight for example. In her university years, despite being an intelligent woman, she was a Marxist Communist.

She is flogging off Queensland's income producing assets and utilities in accordance with the Global Plan. We already have a massive foreign debt, and flogging off anything that could be making money for the State government will further support the Crush Australia Policy.

The same is happening in both Federal and Local governments.

Can someone tell me where the MSM get their information and stats from?
Today it was reported that:
"K Rudd is back in favour with a new poll showing that the public has confidence in the governments management of the countrys economy "

This country is run by dishonest people and reported about by " even more dishonest reporters".

What the hell is the MSM going to achieve in the future if this "nutcase" is returned to power.???
One sided news ..doesnt make for increased sales or interest !!
Noone will have the money to buy newspapers,magizines etc anyway...we will be all too busy "making ends meet".
Also lets face it.....a huge % of us don't believe a word that the MSM reports anymore.....its pathetic !!

Shannon:

The major parties and their corporate cronies own the mediia.

Ever heard of Rupert Murdoch? He goes on TV and says one thing, when he intends to do another. He sounds like a prime candidate for the Lying & Misrepresentation Tax which I think should be collected by a Board of Citizens. This should prove to be quite lucrative.

A relative by marriage works for Fairfax in Canberra. He said he is sick of being kicked as a worker.

The ACTU will be concentrating its attentions on marginal seats in the lead-up to the federal election, currently expected on 7 or 14 August.

The last I heard 52% of the population prefer Rudd to Abbott.

I have seen both Nicola Roxon (Minister for Health & Ageing) and Julia Gillard (Queen of the Education Revolution) on TV shows in the last couple of days. Both of them have bags under their eyes that I've never seen before.

It is important to realise that Julia Gillard has sucked a lot of parents into believing that she will improve the educational outcomes of public school children. She has said little or nothing about corporatisation, which will entail parents paying twice - once through the taxation system, and again through the NEW SCHOOL FEES.

It is my belief that the corporations will bring in foreign teachers on visas who are too afraid to join unions, pay them less money and use them to hold wages down. Your kids won't learn very much because of the foreign teacher's accents, and the corporations creaming off a good deal of the money.

I think quite a few people are asking for answers. I have been waiting for several weeks for Senator Furner to furnish replies from both Gillard and Roxon. I have also fired a broadside at Wayne Swan because he allows The Macquarie Group to treat my mother as a "unit of capital growth" and her nurses (mostly visa holders) as "units of slavery".

People need to stick together like glue in workplaces, and get back to the unions. Otherwise I think we are going to see a lot of racial hatred and unrest.

I'm sure you would have heard that Meat Workers are losing shifts in the abattoirs (along with their homes) due to foreign workers on visas from China and Brazil getting most of their work!

Well people, a few more interesting things have come to light over the last few days.

At the weekend, we had Chinese and Indian citizens, together with ex-patriate Australians, snapping up many hundreds of residential properties in Melbourne, and pushing up bidding to the point where Australian citizens had to pull out. One real estate company even conducted part of the auction process in Mandarin or Cantonese. Does that surprise us?

Still on the housing front, we had an elderly woman being forced out of her home (in Sydney, I think). According to the report on A Current Affair last night, she has been harassed for 10 years by developers, who are very eager to get their grubby, greedy little mitts on her house and land and turn it into high rise accommodation.

Now here is the scary part. Now the government is going to enact legislation so that they can seize HER FREEHOLD LAND and flog it to developers for a large sum of money. I guess they must be planning on dumping her outside on the street in her rocking chair.

I'm sure the government will still use various skulduggerous methods to get singles and couples of their homes, but I didn't think they would be using THE DIRECT APPROACH. This sounds like political suicide to me. I think this TV report would scare a lot of elderly people out of their homes on its own.

We now also have Anna Bligh saying she wants more development in regional centres - no doubt stealing good ideas from smaller parties. She said she wanted Townsville to become our second state capital to the north.

This made me start thinking again about the line I am told is to be drawn horizontally across Australia, around the level of Goondiwindi. The area north of the line will be given to "marauders from the north". No doubt they will be Chinese.

I just took out my atlas and my heart sank as I looked at the map. Goondiwindi is on the Queensland/NSW border. We could all be kissing goodbye to Anna Bligh and then have to put up with the President of China and his execution team instead!

Lorikeet,
LOL loved your comments....pity it wasnt all so serious for this country.
I have wondered for some time about just where the future population are to be housed ..the other nights ACA programme said it all.
Years ago we were told the future population spread would be up the East Coast of Australia.
Well this had to obviously change.!!!
Mainly due to so much forest/grazing areas now being or have been "locked up" and unavailable for any human to live in/on.
Majority of National Parks (increasing all the time) are now bordering on most population towns and cities.....cant spread there.!!
Did you know that currently there are approx 4.5 million hectares of wetlands ..just in NSW alone..also locked up.?
In my families area, on the Mid North Coast,the NSW National Parks and Wildlife are currently forcing landholders (some pime dairy farming areas)
to sell their properties to them ($$millions offered) in order for them to furthur lock up more wetlands in the Crowdy Head-Harrington National Park.
They are currently working in the area of Manning River floodplain
State Environmental Planning Policy No 14-Coastal Wetlands.
Aim : " The aim of this policy is to ensure that the coastal wetlands are preserved and protected in the environmental and economic interests of
the State." ( the last 6 words speaks heaps)
National Parks will soon control the majority of land in Australia.
Where this all "pans out" in the future ..is looking very interesting.
They can only cram so many people in the urban areas ....then what ???

@Lorikeet @shannon @glenis @graham bird

Seriously guys, these discussions are about the narrowest, smallest world view I've seen on any blog, let alone a CNP blog.

This a big place, this world. The politics required to run a country like Australia ... it actually is not about you at all, and not your family, or even your region. What do you people want?

Do you live in peace?

Do you live in relative prosperity (relative to 90% of the world)?

Do you feel relatively safe and secure?

What do you think happens when the equilibrium is tipped to such ane extent that you become relatively wealthy, while countries to our near north become poorer, and subsequently more unstable politically?

Indonesia has 300 million people, and our closest border is a few hundred miles away. Indonesia, with its 300 million people has a gross domestic product (GDP, or total national wealth) that is smaller than NSW. It is running out of room, it is Islamic, and it is really close.

Now, let's start again ... convince me that our government (voted for by a majority) is corrupt, contemptible, dishonest, and incompetent. Convince me that the Howard government is corrupt, contemptible, dishonest, and incompetent, because 90% of what the Howard government did is being carried on by the Rudd government.

Now start looking at your govenrment and undertsand that it represents, for the most part, you. You, your family, your region, and the country.

Every time you shitcan, rubbish, and "overly" criticise the government, or make ridiculous perosnal comemnts on the leaderhsip of this country, you are dumping on yourself, becasue it is our system.

Criticism is good - I have many criticisims of Howard, Costello, Joyce, Rudd, Keating, Crean, but is structured, and it is considered.

We live in a big world, and I look at a lot of political blogs, but have to say that the majority of comments on Barnaby's site are pretty small minded.

I know youse vote NP - but how about getting out into the world a bit more? And I don't mean the Ekka or bloody Easter Show!

Travel - go to India, Indonesia, Egypt ... for God's sake (and that goes for you too, Barns!)

Steve WSJ...hmm does that mean (wee, small, joey or jerk !!)
Think so, observing the spelling and line of thinking !!
Contrary to your ESP....I am a swinging voter.....and I do my political homework.!!
I have travelled into 5 Asian countries and the Pacific region.
I am fully aware of what lies to the north of this country....and our prosperity (which I have helped create ..for approx 44 yrs)
I think my contribution to this country (and your privileged lifestyle, at present) warrants my comments and my concerns towards where our country is heading and the lack of professional leadership of it.
Your comments about : peace,prosperity and security is what is now being undermined by the present leaders of this country.
Barnaby is a committed Govn. politician who puts the people and prosperity of his country far ahead of personal gain....unlike the shallow,selfish and inexperienced "gaggle" we now have in Canberra.