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Senator Barnaby Joyce noted today that the release of the latest consumer price index figures show that electricity prices have increased by 26%, in real terms, since the election of the Rudd Government. These results are partly due to their Minister for Infrastructure’s complete failure to build on the Howard Government’s legacy of successful National Competition Policy, as shown by reports in the Australian Financial Review today.

 
Senator Joyce said that “The Labor party are incapable of decisive outcomes because of their insatiable desire to put polls ahead of statesmanship. Even their own core issues, such as the ETS, are jettisoned as the need requires.
 
“This government has shown that they cannot deliver on bread and butter issues such as infrastructure. The implausible and pathetic episodes of spending on the home insulation program and the building the education revolution are part and parcel of Australia’s debt currently reaching almost $137 billion. But real investment to bring real outcomes in power, water, roads and rail has been left wanting.
 
“Minister Albanese's claim yesterday that the infrastructure reform agenda was "as full as it ever was" simply reflects the Rudd Government's inaction in this important area. The COAG Reform Council has reported that this government is failing to progress reform in 4 out of 8 competition areas, including in energy and transport."
 
Reports today in the Australian Financial Review today suggest the government is trying to reinvigorate National Competition Policy.
 
In response Senator Joyce commented, "What has taken them almost three years? This government has been busy announcing flashy projects and big spending but ignored the hard work necessary to get more out of our existing infrastructure stock. We have waited 12 months for the National Freight Strategy and where is the greater transparency and cost-benefit analysis that this government promised? Greater efficiency, not bigger spending, is what will help reduce electricity, gas and water prices."
 
Electricity prices have increased 11 per cent a year on average, in real terms, since the election of the Rudd Government. In comparison, during the Howard Government, electricity prices increased by an average of 0.5 per cent year, in real terms.
 
 
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# Lorikeet
Friday, April 30, 2010 10:52 AM
Former governments have agreed to what amounts to a Crush Australia Policy. One of the signatories was Paul Keating (Labor). I think he is lucky no one executed him for treason.

You overload your country with too many migrants and visa holders for a number of reasons.

It keeps competition for work high, and prevents wages from rising.

Once you have hundreds of thousands of people living on the streets due to a shortage of housing combined with high rents and housing prices, you can legislate the removal of singles and couples from their homes and force them into cramped high rise accommodation, for which they will have to pay large sums of money to developers.

When infrastructure does not keep up with population growth, the public hospital and education systems can't cope. This drives more people into the private sector, where the costs will be much higher.

Then you corporatise both Education and Health using skulduggerous means, such as encouraging casual personnel to undermine teachers who will not use the NAPLAN tests on their students.

This will get rid of a lot of good teachers from the system, and the corporation (possibly The Macquarie Group) will be enabled to use visa holders to hold wages down. Then as well as collecting government funding, the corporation will also be enabled to charge fees to parents by the federal government.

Since this is what's already happening in Aged Care, I'm expecting the same to happen in hospitals. I was really upset when the state premiers agreed to Rudd's hospital plan.

I have read a link which states that Rudd pulled the ETS because of Goldman Sachs possibly getting just a little of what they really deserve.

We are moving towards a situation where large corporations will be completely taking over the supply of water, gas and electricity. Yes, the prices are climbing, but are nothing like what we can expect in the future, as corporations are further empowered over governments.

This sad situation will help to break ordinary citizens financially, cause our governments to lose valuable income, with the net effect of increasing both public and private foreign debt.

An Emissions Trading Scheme is about the rise of global corporations and the demise of individual national governments. It will kneecap our country very quickly.

The National Freight Strategy of Labor is designed to wipe out our farmers in favour of corporate control.

I think a large percentage of Labor voters know they have been sold some of the largest stinking rats of all time, with huge sums of money being spent on incredible fiascos, while at the same time ramping up foreign debt and empowering Third World workers instead of our own.

When Labor has amalgamated with The Greens, we can look forward to being governed by atheists and communists who are pro-animal, pro-tree and anti-person. And we know what that means, don't we???

We will also have to meet the demands of the Third World who require many billions of dollars to be paid to them in compensation for their failure to look after their own people.

I was going to go to the forum "Make Poverty History" organised by The Greens on 28 April, but it got cancelled at the same time as Rudd shelved the ETS for later perusal - possibly immediately after the next federal election, which is only months away. Isn't that an odd coincidence?

I intended to tell the assembled panel of politicians to squeeze the money out of the corporations who sold them weapons instead of food, while they pillaged and plundered their mineral wealth, and anything else worth having.

I also wanted to know who was going to hold for distribution, the $17 billion per year they initially demanded, but it seems I now have to wait until at least June, by which time someone could easily have robbed us of this huge sum of money before we even get to ask for answers.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 5:42 AM
Senator Joyce said that “The Labor party are incapable of decisive outcomes because of their insatiable desire to put polls ahead of statesmanship. Even their own core issues, such as the ETS, are jettisoned as the need requires.
# Lorikeet
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 7:47 AM
Paralegal Degree:

The Nationals have never been interested in an ETS because of negative effects on their voter base. The Liberals listened when the electorate spoke out loudly and angrily against this poverty-inducing mega tax and the accompanying Pagan religion.

Now let us look at the issue of polls. I have very recently contacted Liberal MP for Dickson, Peter Dutton, and asked him to push for legislation to prevent people from being able to vote more than once in on-line, telephone and newspaper polls.

One recent poll here in Queensland pegged support for even more recidivist abortion legislation at 80%, when even Anna Bligh said she thought it was 50% at best. The Labor Party has an increasing track record of supporting anti-human legislation.

This country is certainly in need of leaders who can fulfill the role of "statesman". I have had enough of female communists being used to sell us out.

I think Labor shelved the ETS because they knew they had no chance of getting it through the lower house once the electorate had angrily spoken. But now they have more of the seats plus one agreeable Green (thanks to voters who have no idea what they're doing!).

On 1 July 2011, the number of Green Senators will rise from 5 to 9, making passage of the Pagan economy-destroying ETS a far greater possibility.

We must all be prepared to use our keyboards like machine guns on our parliamentarians when next the ETS and proposed Homosexual Marriage and Adoption legislation rear their ugly heads.

I am already one step ahead of ALL of the likely recidivist legislation likely to be supported by Labor/Greens. I have told Peter Dutton why I am opposed to all of these negative ideas, and trust that everyone reading here has done the same with their elected representatives, including State Senators.

If not, please don't complain after YOU have allowed those from the corporate neo-communist left to screw over the household budget and Australian economy, along with any decent social and living standards still remaining.


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