Barnaby, Great work with Albo this morning on the pairing arrangements.
His Dribble versus your facts about it all was a joy to watch. Keep them honest mate the Labor party has never liked the scrutiny -- Regards Lawrie

Hi Barnaby.
I heard you on the first day of parliment on the radio.Good to hear your forthright approach to the important issue of the current governments fiscal reclessness,
It has become more apparent as time passes that this Labor government truely doesn't have a clue and how to correct their own mistakes.This being the case the problem cannot improve until they are booted out of office.
Modern economists don't seem to undestand debt and the long term damage,the debt bubble is real,I and many others just don't know when the debt driven economies will start to unwind.
The term alcamist comes to mind when talking modern ecenomics.Perfect example of this is is quantitive easing,are there people sitting in rooms making up this tripe or what,
Anyway I always love hearing what you have to say Barnaby and hope that you continue to do the good work that you are doing.
Kind regards

Most people cannot visualise what a billion dollars would buy so I suggest saying one billion equals a new hospital of x numbers of beds fully equipped or something similiar.Keep up your good works,speaking in terms people understand.

In relation to the proposed cuts for the Murray Darling Basin, I am writing to you strongly objecting that any cuts be made. We all agree that the past few years have been drier than average, and as a result the river system has been under some pressure. No one likes to see the environment suffer, however taking water from farmers is not the way to fix the problems of the Murray.
Water follows a life cycle, which most of us learnt at school, it falls as rain, goes into the soil, some is absorbed by plants and animals, some goes into under-ground aquifers and makes its way to rivers, and eventually goes out to sea. The problems in the river systems will not be fixed by cutting allocations. This water is still part of the water cycle which creates life in our environment. Water stored in dams still flow through the river systems to sustain life along the way, and plants and animals still take the water in our man made canals, weirs, and on our farms. (both native and productive flora and fauna.) So cutting farmers allocations will not just dramatically impact our lives and ability to sustain ourselves, but the ability of the local environment to sustain itself as well.
The issue I see with our water policy is quite simple really, yet also quite complex. Over the past decade or so we have seen rapid growth in our major cities. (Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, etc.) The design of these cities is such that whenever there’s a rain event, the water is no longer allowed to follow its natural cycle of sustaining life before it goes into ocean. Now days water lands on roads, buildings, and the concrete jungles, then runs off into storm water drains, and is piped directly out to sea. The opportunity for nature to replenish itself has been taken away not by farms, but by cities.
If all the water that falls over our cities was allowed to travel to the dams, then was released into our river systems I don’t believe we would be experiencing the problems we have today.
Farmers allocations have been dramatically cut the last few years, and the rivers were still dry. Therefore it seems to me the problem is that not enough water is making it to the dams and rivers in the first place. One reason being it’s piped directly into the ocean.
I don’t believe I need to tell you of the thousands of jobs and lives that will be ruined by the cuts proposed, I’m sure you already know. I just hope that riots over food similar to which happened in Indonesia and South America last year don’t happen in Australia because too much water was taken away from the people who feed our country.
There is a famous saying, “don’t bite the hand that feeds you.”

I thought interest rates were completely controlled by the RBA and completely independent of any input from the government. So what difference does it make what Labor is doing?

Thank you for your reply, Barnaby, hopefully commonsense will eventually prevail, we follow you with much interest as there are very few honest politicians at the moment. As you know we have the Labour/Green accord here in Tasmania and they are very steadily ruining this great little state and Australia is going the same way. We need men like you to try and make them see common sense.
Thank you and best of luck
Helen and Nick

What a mess the voters of Australia have gotten us into by voting Greens as a protest vote. Labour will do anything to stay in power and so they have sold out their membership to acquiese to these minorities and to the so called indepenants who are out and out traitors to their electorates. They have repeatedly lied to the public, proved their absolute incompetence in conductiing business and have used bullying tactics on all who would challenge them, including their own parliamentary colleagues. They have no morals left, if they ever had any. Behind the scenes there is total unrest and with the exception of a few who were elevated to ministerial positions as a result of factions, head kicking and stabbing their own leader in the back there is so much disillusionment. Let us hope that some sense prevails and the Labour Pary of old finds enough of its members to stand up and get rid of this absolute embarrassment. The sooner we go to the polls the better...I feel genuinely afraid for the younger members of this country. I am lucky I have seen the very best and will only have a few years at best to hand my head in shame at what is the worst period in Australias political history, bar none.

Labour has committed political prostitution by jumping into bed with the greens they will ruin our great country, we know as our state government did the same, when will people wake up and realise that the greens are Negative to all that makes our country what it is. Yes we do NEED SENSIBLE conservation, we need our forests, dams and industry, not the least our once thriving farming community.
Please read the greens blogs and what they stand for before you vote for them again

Barnaby, as water spokesman for the opposition I think you need to be more constructive with your response to this extreme Murray Darling Basin report. Your criticisms of the government buy backs are well founded and sensible. The opposition needs to make this a defining policy issue and take the lead. Surely if the government can find $43 billion to waste on the NBN the opposition could justify a "nation building" water infrastructure plan for Murray Darling basin irrigators and farmers. Buy backs are all well and good but do nothing to sustain rural communities. The focus needs to be less on buy backs and more on developing water infrastructure. The opposition should take ownership of the water management plan - the Howard gov introduced it - and explain where the $10 billlion or so allocated to it is going to be spent.

Then why do they persist with a carbon tax when they know the majority of people don't want it and the reason they dropped it prior to the election. They were not as involved with the Greens then. So why ressurect it now..I am sorry but this does not make any sense to me Barnaby.

dear senator the anti agricultral activests argue we cant put water in the river systems i understand it could be done from the ord river but i belive it could be done by taking a small amount from the northern rivers put it in the great arteasian baisin then retrive it with pumps on wind genarators on all the contributreis of the basin. regards gavin

Errol Wenck
I know its a dead horse and has been stated as not viable in the past but if we can spend$43 Billion, (no doubt not the final cost by a long shot), on the NBN, then perhaps we should re-look at diverting water from the Burdekin river dam again!.
The NBN may be obsolete by the time it is completed and does not have a business case and is probably not viable and the socio economic value "cannot" be valued.
Te Burdekin Dam water diversion scheme, if viable, would not only solve water problems but perhaps provide hydro electric power.
Regards

barnaby PLEASE bring the attrocities of Manarinka Station NT to parliaments attention Charles Sturt university
go to ombudsmens report on the starvation and cruelty of cattle
I am too angry to go on just read it!!!!
its on Andrew Bolts blog today sunday

Gillard’s three big lies...

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/gillards_three_big_lies/desc/#commentsmore

The ALP(Australian Lier's Party) cannot be trusted!!!

SUBJECT: Warmists put Norfolk Island on rations

THIS IS A TASTE OF WHAT THE GREENS HAVE PLANNED FOR ALL AUSTRALIANS!

The global warming faith is just the latest vehicle for people who like to order other people around “for their own good”. Nothing reveals its appeal to the inner totalitarian better than the latest taxpayer-funded research of the Southern Cross University:

Southern Cross University is set to lead a project testing the world’s first Personal Carbon Trading program conducted in a ‘closed system’ island environment on Norfolk Island (http://www.scu.edu.au/news/media.php?item_id=1641&action=show_item&type=M) commencing early next year.

This follows the announcement this week of a Linkage Projects grant by the Australian Research Council valued at $390,000.

Leading chief investigator Professor Garry Egger, a Professor of Lifestyle Medicine and Applied Health Promotion at Southern Cross University, said the main goals of the project were to test the effectiveness of a Personal Carbon Trading scheme over a three year period; reduce per capita carbon emissions and reduce obesity and obesity related behaviours…

“This is a project for looking at reducing climate change and obesity in the one hit…

“The way the system will work is basically it will involve giving everyone on the island a carbon card, like a credit or debit card, and they will get carbon units on that card. Then every time they go and pay for their petrol or their power - and from the second year their food - it will not only be paid for in money but it will also come off the carbon units that they are given for free at the start of the program.

“If they’re frugal and don’t buy a lot of petrol or power or fatty foods, then they can actually have units to spare at the end of a set time period so that they can cash those in at the bank and make money from them.

“If they aren’t frugal and they are very wasteful and they produce a lot of carbon and consume unhealthy foods then every year they will have to buy extra units. Also over time - as we target lower carbon emissions and increasing health goals - the number of carbon units they are given will go down and therefore the price for the individual will go up to sustain that lifestyle they are not prepared to forego...”

Of course, to fulfil its mission, the experiment will have to include the bit where emissions are forced down if the guinea pigs don’t respond to the bribes.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/warmists_put_norfolk_island_on_rations/

SUBJECT: Warmists put Norfolk Island on rations

THIS IS A TASTE OF WHAT THE GREENS HAVE PLANNED FOR ALL AUSTRALIANS!

The global warming faith is just the latest vehicle for people who like to order other people around “for their own good”. Nothing reveals its appeal to the inner totalitarian better than the latest taxpayer-funded research of the Southern Cross University:

Southern Cross University is set to lead a project testing the world’s first Personal Carbon Trading program conducted in a ‘closed system’ island environment on Norfolk Island (http://www.scu.edu.au/news/media.php?item_id=1641&action=show_item&type=M) commencing early next year.

This follows the announcement this week of a Linkage Projects grant by the Australian Research Council valued at $390,000.

Leading chief investigator Professor Garry Egger, a Professor of Lifestyle Medicine and Applied Health Promotion at Southern Cross University, said the main goals of the project were to test the effectiveness of a Personal Carbon Trading scheme over a three year period; reduce per capita carbon emissions and reduce obesity and obesity related behaviours…

“This is a project for looking at reducing climate change and obesity in the one hit…

“The way the system will work is basically it will involve giving everyone on the island a carbon card, like a credit or debit card, and they will get carbon units on that card. Then every time they go and pay for their petrol or their power - and from the second year their food - it will not only be paid for in money but it will also come off the carbon units that they are given for free at the start of the program.

“If they’re frugal and don’t buy a lot of petrol or power or fatty foods, then they can actually have units to spare at the end of a set time period so that they can cash those in at the bank and make money from them.

“If they aren’t frugal and they are very wasteful and they produce a lot of carbon and consume unhealthy foods then every year they will have to buy extra units. Also over time - as we target lower carbon emissions and increasing health goals - the number of carbon units they are given will go down and therefore the price for the individual will go up to sustain that lifestyle they are not prepared to forego...”

Of course, to fulfil its mission, the experiment will have to include the bit where emissions are forced down if the guinea pigs don’t respond to the bribes.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/warmists_put_norfolk_island_on_rations/

Greetings,
Could you please explain why the Gillard government has changed the Bulk Billing by Doctors scheme.
I am on a pension and my GP tells me he is forced to charge me full consulation costs due to the changes made by your Government.
Is this another nail in the labour party's coffin.
These changes were not announced before the election and will put more pressure on struggling Tasmanians with the other cost increases like Power Water Rents etc.
Thanks for your time
Rgds
Peter Jackson

Dear Barnaby, I am small buisness owner who has been caught up in the telco scam and am struggling to come to terms with the response by the government to persue the companies involved so the consumers can have their day in court, as these mega finance companies (Macquarie Finance just to mention one) have the ability to drag it on in order to beat us into submission, we have been inconflict with them for the past 2.4 years as we do not have the resourses to continue to take them to task for the misrepresentation and fraudulent behavior.What can be done to put pressure on these companies to help us in the fight for justice? Can you help our cause?

Barnaby, what can you do with the ACCC, who consider metcash a bigger threat to competition than Coles and woolies, N.S.W had a chance to have a greater footprint of independents, but it appears they want the Chains to get to 90%, how are we as independents ever going to get a level playing field

Its interesting to note that this so called spending spree of the Greenlabor
party is actually being funded by other departments usefull to our nations security .
I was advised by Australian Customs that I would have to pay for all costs
regarding imported goods because they have had their budget slashed by the Federal government ..

So whats next maybe the Police budget

No matter how we all kick and scream, the United Nation's Agenda 21 (sustainable development for the 21st century) is being implemented by stealth and pretty well on target.
Farmers having their water allocations reduced? Well Irrigation is just one of the 'Unsustanable' items on the Agenda 21 list.
But wait, there's more......
http://randysright.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/agenda-21-and-how-it-will-affect-you/

Just read your column from the Canbera Times dated 22 Nov. Thank god we have people like you looking after us. If we left it up to Labour and the Greens we would be in more trouble than we are now. Keep up the good work and 'Keep the bastards honest' (not your words, but actually true in your case).

Labor hasn't lost its way... It's Failed! or a failure on the Australian Community. Their promises are nonesense... "Working Forward" could work. Biomass Fuels is this the real "Clean Coal" Isn't it? Harvesting "Today's Carbon" fuels into energy? Makes sense, dosen't it?

Hi Peggyb:

It's great to see you on Barnaby's Blog, where we can enjoy the benefit of your vast wealth of wisdom and knowledge.

I suggest you take a look at posts on Vegetation Laws, Water Rationing and the Meat Industry. Perhaps you could help us all to spread the word a bit more. I would also like your assistance on Bartlett's Blog (Greens).

At the moment, quite a few States (in addition to the Federal government) are having a crack at implementing various forms of Population Control, including relaxing or enacting legislation on Abortion, Euthanasia and Homosexual Marriage and Adoption.

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern specifically stated at the National Press Club that we need to reduce our "carbon footprint" by 90%. This will almost completely deindustrialise the western world and wipe out the Meat & Coal Industries.

Since The Greens support leaving the third world out of a Carbon Trading Scheme, they will get all of the work and a high level of pollution, which will wipe out a large percentage of the population. At the same time, Australia will suffer massive unemployment and concomitant starvation.

We are told by Labor/The Greens that tourism will provide the income we once got from the Meat and Coal Industries, but how will this happen with the real value of wages being outstripped by energy, food and housing costs?

We have been progressively screwed over since the signing of the Lima Declaration by Gough Whitlam in 1975, and even more so since Paul Keating signed Agenda 21 in 1992.

I think it is only a matter of time before North Queensland becomes a separate state, possibly owned by China, with Townsville as the capital. This is probably why Anna Bligh is bringing in hydroelectricity from PNG via Bamaga and Weipa to Townsville. Since it will not be Australian power, she won't care who uses it.

I heard on the news last night that the Chinese are now trying to completely screw over our fisherman. Everyone should realise they are a very powerful communist nation, not to mention a pain in the butt! They are bigger than us, and could easily crush us like cockroaches.

The Greens may think "cheap Asian junk" is the go, but all it does is frustrate and annoy us with its lack of quality and durability, while adding at least twice as much rubbish to the landfill and INCREASING OUR COSTS. But how about this? Now new charges are coming in for the dumpage of waste!

Aged Care has been put in the hands of the Productivity Commission. Trust me, if underpaid nurses are forced to work any harder, they will have heart attacks in the middle of the corridor, negating the need to pay Workers' Compensation, which could easily be the main game anyway.

The Macquarie Group is exceedingly eager to take over from the churches, having them taxed out of both Education and Aged Care. At the same time, the National Seniors of Australia and Access Economics are both pushing for a bond on High Care, which could have very adverse social effects, but will empower global banks further.

I have already seen octogenarian Grandmas sleeping on park benches. Trust me, the government doesn't need any extra help to screw over frail elderly citizens. TMG can take a hike. I am writing to the National Manager of the Regis Group, to tell him so.

On Tuesday I was speaking with the manager of a store which sells large stocks of imported knitting yarn, most of which comes from Asia. I told her I was considering giving up my charity knitting because of atrocious quality control, such as:

1. Putting the same ball bands on yarn from different dye lots.

2. Watering down the dye towards the end of the run.

3. Joining on a new dye lot in the middle of a ball. *******!!!!!

4. The yarns changing in thickness and colour throughout the ball.

5. Multiple joins throughout the one ball.

Even more expensive yarns imported from Turkey are wearing the same dye lot numbers on the ball bands, but the whole bloody lot are different!

When I was discussing these matters with the manager, a woman standing nearby said lots of her friends had given up knitting, because of exactly the same problems.

So now we have Foodbank feeding 70,000 homeless and/or destitute people every week in Queensland alone, with charities losing the highly frustrated knitters who already struggle to keep everyone warm, because of this fourth rate Asia/Pacific bulldust (for want of a better word) being inflicted on all of us.

I was going to say that the government can take its Carbon Pollution Population Reduction Scheme and stick it up its jumper, then I realised that the bloody jumper would probably fall apart!!!

Dear Senator

You are a breath of fresh air!! I am an Aussie in Europe and just heard you on Alan Jones via my computer..the idea of someone having the guts (fancy even writing this!) to discuss the one of many elephants in the room, (actually I think it is a large herd) WATER!!!!

My family had a farm in the country and my son was a cop in Griffith and I know the issues. This pathetic dribble that we call a Federal Government , the worst in our history, needs to be cast into the fire and left. What a group, in bed with the Greens, the old Marxist left, and those treacherous country independants! It says it all.

I only hope that the other issues of pathetic irresponsibility can be solved, like Immigration Policy (or actually complete lack of it), the idea of supporting evil people smugglers defies description. I only hope someone changes sides and saves us from this unbelievable nightmare.

Living in hope of a once great land

Geoff

How do Australian Politicians expect us on wages and fixed incomes to pay for the expected increases in costs ?
What really irks me is the "let them eat cake " attitude of all politicians while the labor party heirachy line their pockets with success fees and the coilition is dead silent on the subject. After all where did Peter 'power bill pete' Beatty get his millions? or Terry mc Inroth ?
We stop buying little things and the quality of the food in Woolies etc deteriorates while the cost increases because just keeping the lights on and washing the clothes etc costs 3 times more than last year.
There comes a point in any society where we wont stand for it anymore.

In regards to Mark Arbib this Mole for the USA can operate with no questions asked makes a mockery of the Labor Government tipping the bucket all over Mr Wikileaks who is guilty of nothing but exposing the lies,deceit,skulduggery of Governments on this planet. Nothing more that the "Messenger of Truth" yet the Establishment had him behind bars so quick his nose bled with the Political wolves howling for his scalp!In fact some US commentators have suggested he be assassinated!Well they're good at that just ask JFK, Martin Luther King etc!! As for being upfront and truthful just read the "Pentagon Papers" that Novel is full Facts and Truth and highlights the total lack of moral integrity displayed by many Western Governments.

Dear Banaby,

They are people in politcs that can be trusted ....

You are one of them .... so thank you for that ...

Keep up the excellent work together with others like Tony and Julia B. John H. ... naming just some ....


Kindest regards and


Marry Xmas to all of you ....


P.Krokty

Wikileaks and Arbib
Any one who leaks sensitive domestic information to the likes of this lot, or to anyone else for that matter even if it was done unwitingly should be considered as not Australian. In an earlier time not many years ago, they would have been dealt with most harshly by the law and gaol terms would have been considered an option, but for a politician to do so it is so much worse and should be acted on by the Australian people before he does any more damage I thought Politicians were meant to be trustworthy and honorable.

Unless we can remove this, the worst ever government, I feel we are all doomed! Thank you Barnaby, without you there would not even be a glimmer of hope.

Hi Barnaby,
Totally agree with all your veiws during your recent interveiw on SkyNews Australian Agenda, regarding the economic damage and hardship carbon tax will course, the NSW Government mismanagment of Power Companies and current goverments policy contributing to the recent Asulyment boat tragedy.

I can not wait unitl you guys are back in power and take control to prevent further damage as done by the labour goverment.

Yours Faithfully
C.F Union.ThugNot

Barnaby on Australian Agenda 19/12/10.

Your understanding of the issues, technical knowledge and plain speaking were masterful. The panel tried their best to bait you and you managed them perfectly...to the point that Paul Kelly was nodding agreement...something I have never seen him do.

Keep up the good work.

Dear Barnaby
Are you aware of the Qld. Governments/Union's new Mandatory Code of Practice for Outworkers in the Clothing Industry 2011?

This new code will adversly affect thousands of Queenslanders such as shop owners,schools,P&C's,manufacturers and importers.

I attended the small business seminar you were quest speaker at in Maroochydore and it was quite obvious that business owners we sick and tired of the amount of paperwork that governments require.Well for people in the TCF industry their record keeping work load has just tripled.

This code was introduced to the public on Monday 15 Dec and is to come into force on 1 Jan 2011. Thats just two weeks notice. I can assure you the vast majority of those it will affect are not even aware of the new code and will probably hear about it when an inspector knocks on their door. By the way the inspector will be a union representative.

Should you wish to view this code go to www.justice.qld.gov.au.

If you require further detail please call me on 0427240150

Regards
Steve Spence

This labor problem goes through the whole Federal and State Parties, just state wise we see hard hat bligh's catch cry is sell sell sell Queensland, this is so uncostituitional, the sale of public assetts with out a referendum is classed by our constituition as an act of treason, so when will the federal Police begin prosecutions? don't hold your breath.
The way we are going, we will no longer own Australia we will simply be renting from Country's who couldn't care less if we lived or died.

Barnarby,

Keep up the good work wrt fiscal accountability for the government. While we may have dodged a bullet with the GFC, we are not out of the woods yet.

Closer to home, our much loved Queensland is in dire straits with flooding, I hope you will keep it at the forefront of our prime minister's mind over the coming months and years, this could be this countries largest natural disaster in terms of loss of property and livelihoods - we will need lots of support and humane investment to assist recovery.

Thanks mate.

In modern history (that doesn't seem to be taken by many students these days), I was taught that the Commonwealth Bank of Australia was initially established by the government to ensure that non-government banks were kept in check regarding interest rates and banking practices. Since the privatisation of the Commonwealth Bank and the relaxation of banking practices, we have had the big GFC here and overseas - and banks out of control and housing affordability out the reach of people. People are making profits at the expense of providing affordable housing at affordable interest rates for even modest housing. Profiteering intrerest rates charged for loans to develop land and subdivision for housisng (most on loans with interest rates attached)has only escalated the prices of even modest housing for people who are low income earners (some on casual wages and work more than one employer on casual wages because that is all available) - long term - these people will never be able to accumulate any capital and remain in the poor-house. Some people are not blessed with lots of brains and who can command the wage they need to surviive because of coming from poverty stricken parents, broken families,
and the poverty cycles continues.
Are there any politicians out there who can stand up and start another government bank that provides affordable interest rates for low income earners?

How to improve Bank Competition without having to fund non-banks.

1. Create common account numbers and make them transportable. (It worked with Mobile Phone Numbers).

2. Insist that banks advise their borrowers of their effective interest rate including loan fees etc each quarter via email.

3. Make Mortgage Insurance transportable. The current position where you are charged fees for breaking a mortgage insurance through one bank and then having to pay to reinsure with another, and in some cases with the same mortgage insurer, is patently unfair.

4. Review the mortgage system to establish a mechanism to make them transportable as well.

When the Banks scream that the cost of establishing a platform to enable this to happen is too expensive, make the following offer:

(a) Do it;
(b) The government will introduce a short term Levy (A La Gun Levy) on Bank profits via the Tax System and pay for the establishment of a cross Bank Platform.

That should do it.

Thank you Barnaby for the great article in the Canberra Times regarding the cost of power to the pensioner & other low-income earners. It's sinful. Keep up the good work and keep speaking out. You're all in for a hell of a job when you get back in & the sooner the better.

As we have said before atleast we have 1 honest politician trying his best for Australia and those doing it tough... Thank you Barnaby

Barnaby, The whole labour and Geens have to go,Australians should get out on the streets and let their voices be heard before this country goes under.

We Don't Need Governments... Australia can be Self-Sufficient!... Life would be better without this "Free trade World" of Our Livelihoods... Governments have Evolved? They are merely 'a brainwash body' or 'puppet bodies' for the Body corps of BIG Global Corps! Of Our NORTH... Tougher times are still ahead... Overpopulate WHY? is it for MONEY?... Still a Sad Outlook People... Respect people more people... LOVE is More Just then the MONEY Choice... PEACE

With some reservations I believe what scientists are saying about global climate and I support a tax on Carbon.

What I would like the Nationals to do is ensure that the burden is not unfairly placed on those in rural areas.

Fuel should be taxed at a higher rate in cities where people are driving parallel to train lines and at a lower rate in areas where there are no trains.

The first australians managed alright without governments... You can't say this government can defend itself... Where's our Nuke's like Israel has...

I did not vote for this government, it was the Greens and three Independants who put them in to wreck the country.
John Howard and the Liberal Party had this country in a very stable position.
If this stupid woman (gonna her pet word ) continues we will end up like other poor Islands hoping for tourists to provide income.
Bring on another election with Joe Hockey as the Liberal leader.

Ahem.

So the Coalition couldn't win the election outright, and Labor are forced into a coalition with the Greens and the Crossbenchers.

Every single eminent economist that I've heard or read (including the Nobel-awarded economist Joseph Steiglitz) has congratulated Labor on its response to the then-looming GFC. We are one of the only countries to have survived intact. We paid the price for that speed of response with some very ordinary implementation (especially the BER) but the core goal was to keep the country's head above water and to prevent us from slipping back into negative growth. It worked, by every account (except the Opposition's of course).

With me so far?

Since Baranaby Rudge's comemnts above we have seen cataclysmic climate events in Qld, Victoria and WA.

But Moose Gillard, the Mad Monk and and the mighty Senator alike are hell-bent on mantaining that Australia hit 2012 with a bloody surplus.

Why?

How many of you are debt free? Of the tiny amount who are, how many would remain that way if you lost your house, insured or not? OK, you want to remain debt-free, so you send your kids to an orphanage. Then you shoot the dog (he eats $5 a day in food). You sell your family heirlooms. You let the neighbour buy you out of some land.

Now you are debt free, but surely you are nothing.

That is what is being insisted upon here.

The entire thinking around this topic is ludicrous and political, and most of us are sucked into it because the politicians find it too easy to make hits with it.

Immature and quite pathetic is what we are.

Good afternoon
I like yourself think that handing out tax payers money is totally abhorrent,for government to tell people to go and get some money because their power was lost and the food in the fridge has gone bad is completely obscene. Any financial help should only go to those people who were directly affected by the cyclone not the people in cairns.It appears to me as soon as a disaster like this happens everyone is encouraged to put their hand out for another cash handout,if you could have seen the amount of people wating outside centre link office for it to open made me so annoyed to think that most of the people were there because of the so called prime mnister decided to pay for some more votes for the next election.
I know this sounds cynical but this system of giving out all of our tax payers money has just got to stop its not really doing any good for any of us . I feel that you are the only one in Parliament who actually says what a lot of people are saying but the do gooders of this world keep on saying that this is the way to go,but where is this going to end.........................

Barnaby is there any truth in these Emails we are getting down south ?

The report at the bottom of this page, is sent to you with a sincere wish for you to personally read it and become representative once more. Reports such as this, are rolling in by the dozen -- it is no wonder the people of Australia are getting sore at our political and public servant sectors.

Stand up --- make some noise and shake the system around a little --- or get to blazes out of the picture.

Australia needs to regain its famous independence and true Australian spirit. So let's hear from you --- we don't want any more of the droning announcements about going forward -- we want action!


___________________

From Dalby
Mon, 31 Jan 2011

There have been some amazingly great stories come out of the floods. But there are also the ones which will never be told because in this country we tolerate idiots in government jobs and no one wants to point the finger in case it somehow blows up in their face.

Sorry, but at my age, I have become totally disenchanted and someone needs to tell it like it is, so I will start the ball rolling. Please join with me to lift the lid on idiots with uniforms.

Take Qld transport. In Dalby district.
Dalby hit the news with a record flood in the Condamine River which damaged the water treatment plant. Water needed to be trucked into town in the middle of the flood. Truck drivers worked hard to get us water.
Officers from Qld Transport booked drivers for so called over-
loading .......... what Idiots.
Who pays? It'll get squashed and probably has already, but what a waste of resources at a time when manpower was critical.
Some farmers, who were crossing a road with a tractor to feed starving, flooded stock were pulled up, the tractor measured, and they were booked because it was slightly wide.
Not only that, they were forced to leave the tractor and go to town to get an over wide permit before they could move it back into the farm.
This happened on an already closed road where the farmer was the only person around. Except for the idiots.

These are not rumours. They are facts.

This morning, I was booked for driving down a closed road to check livestock which were reported to be out on the road and at the same time, pick up my employee who had walked over the bridge to come to work.
My house happens to be 50 m past the road closed sign, so apparently I cannot even go in and out my gate. I tried to reason amicably with 2 idiots. Of course I got more than a little agitated when they refused to let me down the road to my farm. As a result they pulled a tape recorder, so I made sure it recorded their stupidity. I even had to insist they returned my driver’s license. I'll definitely win the court battle as my employee witnessed the whole affair. But what a waste of time and resources.

Over the last 3 weeks, there have been Qld Transport officers stationed outside our farm, booking innocent locals.
For about 8 days, two blokes sat in a vehicle with the engine idling and hazard lights on 24/7. That would be 3 shifts, plus motel and other costs.
Now most of these blokes were reasonable people. I had to chat with them every time I went out my gate. Some were idiots like my experience this morning. But the real idiots in this case are the people who sent them out here to guard an obviously flooded and closed road and never bothered to check when the water went down; just left them there.
We, the taxpayers, pay them to be there and also pay fines for trying to get on with our lives in tough times.

I wrote the above in the hour before I went to Brisbane to help clean up the mess in our flooded premises there.
While in Brisbane , I was told a true story about the truck drivers delivering food to Gympie.
As happens in times of desperate need, trucks rolled out of the Brisbane warehouses stacked with as much as they could get in.
After all, the media was screaming for food for Gympie.
Queensland Transport then intercepted the trucks and fined the drivers for overloading.

What Senior Idiot in Qld Transport decided he could solve Queensland ’s financial crisis by fining drivers?
They sent dozens of men out to embarrass the Government when they could have been helping people in need.

Also, did you hear about the farmer who was ferrying food and other essentials for himself and neighbours across the flooded Condamine? Well, the SES and Police decided it was their job.
Apparently it is illegal for us farmers to even launch our boats to help ourselves or rescue our livestock. So they sent him home after warning him that if he continued to help, they would prosecute.
As he was putting his boat back on his trailer on the other side of the river, he heard horns blowing and looked back to where he had been sent away from. There were the professional idiots, in the middle of the river, sinking. So, as we normal citizens are stupid, he had to re-launch his boat and go back and rescue them.
Apparently they had forgotten to put the plugs in the bottom of the boat and their training had not taught them how to simply put them in after they discovered it and then how to bail the boat out.
He should have let them drown. That would be called "natural selection".
But again, they had been sent out with an attitude rather than real training. So who is at fault? Need I answer that?

As I said at the start, there have been many, many great deeds by the vast majority of people, but when a society gets to the point where ordinary people are stopped from helping each other and are forced into submission by bureaucrats, then I ask, Where are we going?

Please add your stories and keep this going. Somehow, we have to reverse the stupidity which makes our nation the dumbest in the modern world. Our great grandfathers would be appalled.

Gary Briggs,
Dalby.

Flood Relief Funding.

Dear Barnaby,

I live in North Qld and own a small business and have been fortunate that
we haven't been effected to badly by the flooding and Cyclone.
The Federal Government seems to be prepared to fund 80% of the flood damage in Queensland. I have nothing against this if it going to be used for roads and electricity infrastructure, and helping people and businesses get back on their feet.
I do have a problem with Tax Payers money being spent on State Assets
that Anna Bliegh has sold for example Qld Rail, Airports, Water ETC.
A good example is the Qld Railway system that has a lot of damage to it caused by flooding, and I don't believe one tax payer dollar should be spent
on it - good luck to the new owners for mine.
Lets hope this can be a lesson to Anna Bliegh - when the Federal Government refuses the funding.

I would suggest for parity with city people enjoying ADSL2 from cable, those in the bush be able to receive a Wireless service comparable in cost and performance to ADSL2, with at least the same download capacity.

Good Evening Barnaby
just watched Q&A. I thought you were great, and especially since you were obviously there for set-up purposes. you handled yourself really well and gave appropriate responses. I used to love Q&A - this year I am concerned that Tony has lost the art of being a impartial mediator, and clearly shows his bias - which is unfortunate for such a great format for a show. However, I was very impressed with your attendance tonight

What's your phD in, Barnaby? Are YOU a climatologist? Are you ANY KIND of scienitst AT ALL?

No?!?

Well, then, I guess there isn't ANY topic I'd want to listen to you on, is there?

Except, maybe, on what it's like to be a stupid hick farmer!!

These people are climatologists.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v470/n7334/full/nature09763.html

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v470/n7334/full/nature09762.html

And they don't agree with you, do they? So you're not listening to climatologists.

Yes, I know. No-one is going to read this comment but you - you won't publish any comment that disagrees with you because you're afraid of being proven wrong.

Hello Barnaby,
I too watched Q & A last night ( Feb 21 ) and thought you did very well at "Lab/Green Alliance HQ", aka, my ABC. Tony Jones should be ashamed at his obvious bad manners and bias. IMHO, journalists should leave their political preferences at the door in order to host a fair and balanced program. That was not the case last night. I wanted to extend my support to you and your ethics and hopefully bloggers like Ian Morrison will pull his head in. Roll on July, 2011. It will be a bit more friendly with a new Senator taking his seat. I heard you speak at a function 23/10/10. Good luck with your work and remember there are a lot of people in viewer land who don't believe in climate fairy-tales. Cheers.

Barnaby, last night on Q and A you said that you wouldn't ask Tim Flannery to present in your electorate on the topic of climate change because he is not a climatologist. Can you explain then why you would ask Iam Plimer to present at this event?

http://www.barnabyjoyce.com.au/Newsroom/Speeches/PublicSpeeches/tabid/73/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/377/Demographic-Climate-Change-Experts-on-Agenda-for.aspx

Isn't this hypocritical?

Please answer carefully, as you may make the papers (yet again)

AS much as I think the Qld state govt has a lot to answer for in disaster management, it is hypocritical that Senator Zenaphon had accepted an additional $300mil in a backslap payment for services rendered to the Labour govt. towards rescue of the Murray River in a drought. Now if that isn't Federal money spent one one state for a Natural disaster then what is??

"Machines change the pH of the water. Everybody accepts this."

No they don't. You are simply lying about that. Try again

Hi Barnaby,
I have just watched last weeks Q & A. I admire you so much. I felt that the panel was completed one-sided and Tony Jones was most unfair and biased. You speak was straight-forward and made sense. It is quite obvious to me that the audience is obviously selected for a certain political point of view and I have noticed this particularly with the ABC. Please keep up your good work and speaking in ordinary person's terms.
Shame nobody got Tim Flannery to talk about his predication that there would never be any more rain on the eastern side of Australia.
Best wishes
Carol

Even since i have had a vote it seems to be a so unmistaken trait with the Labour party.
The Coalition gets the Country in the Black and the Labour party spends to get us in the Red and there are not many checks on how the money is spent and people make outrageous fraudulent riches Bernie Bowden

Good on you Barnaby,it's rare to have someone in Parliament who has some guts and speaks how they feel,instead of the self centered lying egomaniacs that we have to put up with.

It doesn't matter what side of politics people support ,they will always respect someone who says how it is.

Keep it up,you are a breath of fresh air in this sick political climate.

So now Miss Ju-LIAR has money to burn for more foreigners, meanwhile taxing the life out of the Austrlaian people.Where does all this money come from for the foreign people?

Wouldn't A True Public Service! Would Work for Dole Also?... Na That'll Be To Good To Be True...

Dear Barnaby& secrataries , Keep up the Good oppersition work on carbon tax. I cannot figure out vocal Experts ??? accademics and Greens that bash us with the Climate change issue, This morning on the A.B.C. Radio they.seem to feel that most of us so called ordanary people are laking intelligance as to the big picture of Climate change as to justify the tax. I would like to say that its not Climate change we are debating it is that so called TAX on Carbin,ordanary peaple Are sick of paying more more for utillaties ect,when there is so much waste in nearly every thing the labour party do both in Federal as well as State.I would like state They succesfully got us to pay for gods gift Water and now they want us to pay the Air we breathe. PLEASE BARNABY try to get all the so called experts that only !8 months ago or less, Said the dams would never fill again The Murrey &the Darling would never run to capassity again.on Q&A Iwould like to see them SH.t the selves at the thret of a class action from all the so called ordanary peoplewith lower intellegance it has affected, if not get them go in to rehab regards Ross Brown. Ps Sorry no spell check.

Dear Sen. Joyce

Just taking the opportunity to say definitely 'NO' to the Tax on Carbon and I really feel that our Prime Minister is an imposter-buying her way in and then trying to inflict the radical views of the minority on the rest of us who are the majority-despite her own deluded views she was not voted in and its time every Australian had the opportunity to make known where they stand on this issue-we have always been proud of our democracy..................not of a country under dictatorship!

Good luck to all who are able to travel down on Wednesday-wish we could be there. Bernie and Nadja Owenzwco4m

Thanks for the email about the Canberra rally Barnaby. We won't be able to be there, but we support your push against the current Labour (so called government), and believe there is only a matter of time when there will be a major backlash by the Australian people, particularly those who naively voted for the Green party, or Labour, and there will be a double disollusion mid year.

We'll pray for you Barnaby, for a good outcome.

Paul.

Thanks for your strong resistance to this wretched Carbon Tax and the misguided views of the proponents of Climate Change.

With the numerous recent earthquakes, next the PM will be introducing a Plate Movement Tax (PMT) in an effort to reduce the number of earthquakes in the region.

Dear Barnaby
Here is what I do not understand about the Greens and Labour Carbon Tax but nobody opposed to it seems to ask the question.
We mine massive amounts of coal and export 75% of it to Eastern Asia where there is no intention of controlling emissions.
Yet we burn coal in Australia with the remainder to generate power and the Government want to Tax those emitters.
If the Govt are serious about reducing the worlds emissions why dont they stop exporting coal. One obvious reason apart from jobs is that Governments receive massive Royalties from coal mining and will receive more under the proposed mineral resource tax.
While we keep digging up coal and exporting it world emissions are not going to drop to the Carbon Tax is a stupid fruitless exercise.
Regards Cres

Hi Barnaby go for it, this idea of a carbon tax and then reducing the tax to help the pensioners and the low income people, seems to be rather an odd thing to do, it is like taking with 1 hand and giving it back with the other, I think it is an unnecessary thing that Gillard is doing, if she is really concerned over the environment, why are coal and gas seam mines and the coal mines allowed to go ahead, particularly on the Liverpool Plains area, which is rather sensitive farming area, probably the government would rather eat coal than eat food.

Thank God for the fact that Australia still has some pollies in Parliment who do NOT have to hang their heads in shame .......

I do not understand what nefarious games are being played out in Canberra : what I DO understand is that none of the games are in the best interests of we ' ordinary ' Australians ......

Lurching from one abysmal disaster to another since 2007 , lies upon lies dribbling from so many mouths , it is NOT surprising that , were the truth to be told on ANY issue , it would not be believed .

Now , the latest debacle from the illegal boat people seems to be playing out in THEIR favour ; Christmas Is. too crowded so they will burn and pillage and then the Government will reward them by bringing them to the mainland ......OF COURSE THEY WILL ........the answer to the electorates problem , on SO many issues , is another election but we know that is not going to happen because Labor , Greens and the Independants , in this new paradigm of togetherness , would be wiped out .......PLEASE keep up the pressure , Barnaby ...

let's all celebrate the failure of this Labour leader , what a poor understanding she and her colleagues have of the community she is the very reason that we will share victory sooner rather than later .
The taxes and costs of living will increase as they have traditionally under Labour , the poor will get poorer the weak weaker and anyone who cannot keep pace with the costs can just fall by the wayside..what a disgrace .

Carbon Tax will increase my business costs and my prices so we are looking forward to less trade , consumers will have increased living costs and less disposable income....do you have to be a mathmatic genious to work it out , higher household costs can only reduce spending .

I say get to it Barnaby your the man to fight them and we sure as well know there are not too many like you in the feild .

Good on you Barnaby,
Your economic truth really cuts to the bone, and exposes the lying, and cheating "Whatever it Takes" Julia, and Bob's socialist alliance.
The carbon tax is economic suicide for Australia, and Australians' have had a gut full of labor's broken election promises, by the minority socialist dictators in Canberra.
A Federal election is required now to decide the carbon dioxide tax! This is not negotiable, since Julia lied to the Australian population in August 2010.
She has no credibility whatsoever!
Best regards
John

Surely the "Greens" must be one of the greatest misnomers ever. Their rhetoric says green and cuddly but the result of their actions screams RED and promises the destruction of our society which is based on fair play and an honest days work.

Julia Gillard backflipped on carbon trading because she was pressured by Bob Brown.
A facebook site I set up to inform the Australiand public of the deceit of carbon trading and generate a balanced discussion.
Australian Carbon Trading Sceptics
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/home.php?sk=group_190035784369000

Barnaby, you are confusing me with your two sided view about Australian land, water and minerals.
You are at the moment saying that our farming lands need to be protected(following the Greens) against foriegn ownership and yet when it comes to us getting more revenue from the minerals and coal etc been stripped from Oz ground by overseas countries, no you are dead against it. I do not get you and your patisan ways.
One minute pretending to be a man of the people but really a pawn of big business.
And the Green thing does this mean you are now led by them.
Hilary

Dear Mr Joyce-Can you find someway for a election to be called as she has no mandate.She will destroy Australia as will Brown.I have a left of field suggestion.Next time Parliament sits every member of Liberals/NP get up in question time and calmly without getting heated say ''Prime Minister'' why are you not prepared to call a eelction.The people want one. Secondly how will Australia's action affect the rest of the world temperature wise.When Russia,India,China+USA have one then fine but they don't
.It is just a tax.
I am not a person who gets angry but this woman is vile and people work hard here and now we ahve her communist ideals beginning to be put on us.Thanks Alan

the arogance of people astounds me
we have a time on this planet
but yet the red raggers think by bleeding the masses oif their hard earned dollars,they will make a differnce
Mother Earth will sort us out!!!!??
So we speak the truth and yet the masses shout us down
They are foolish ,yet they do not know it.................
Maybe in 15 years time they will consider the truth that was put before them a decade before.

Well done Barnaby.
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing

Keep up the good work.
Ken Shaw

I find it totally breathtaking that Goulard's partner, "TIM the hairdresser", had the gall to say on primetime television recently that the office of Prime Minister is treated/viewed with disrespect throughout various sections of community. If i was to blatently lie to my employer,"once and once only, not countless times i would expect to be sacked". I would also expect to be subsequenly un-employable as i would be of un-worthy character. This comes from someone who works in the trades and services sector not the position of high public office. Goulard and it's mixed bag of cronies, marxists and homosexauls have dissmissed the value known as, "ACCOUNTABILITY"completly in fact the treat it with comtempt. So much for leading by example.