Anyone who has read the Lima Declaration and Agenda 21, both signed by Labor governments, would know that the only "weathering" they are interested in is the one that erodes our economy and living standards.

Most of us have only ever had to manage the household economy, but I cannot imagine the average Australian would engage in treasonous and undemocratic practices to sell his/her own country men and women out to anyone interested in taking advantage of us all.

As soon as I heard of the Super Mining Tax of 40%, I thought it had been very well named. This is because I think it will result in Rudd gifting another large chunk of our superannuation to the very banks that have ripped us off before. No doubt he will give them another golden handshake for doing it!

In NSW, Labor Premier Kristina Keneally has gone down in the polls very sharply. I believe this is because of her impounding whole streets of ordinary little houses with unwarranted Heritage Listing, which drives housing values down, and also GETS PEOPLE OUT!!!!

Unfortunately I think the same thing is now happening here in Brisbane, with Heritage Listing of fairly ordinary "shacks" at Paddington Heights, including my ex-husband's grandmother's former home, which sits opposite a high rise building. What would you think?

As some people will know, Pauline Hanson is leaving the country and selling her large property, no doubt because she knows of the agenda to TAKE her property (along with everyone else's) for a song.

Then I guess it will either go to large multi-national farming corporations, or be turned over to the possums in accordance with Agenda 21.

The best that farmers, small business people and ordinary citizens can do is to spread the word on what is happening as widely as possible. I'm afraid you're going to have to give some Labor voters a very sound ear bashing.

Trust me, the word is getting out, but we all need to do more. Let us get rid of all of the politicians from the parliament who support a Carbon Trading Scheme.

he only Climate Change they are interested in is financial. It's a pity we cannot send them into permanent exile for treason.

It is sadly ironic that Rudd has done infinitely more to damage Australia's investment reputation with the RSPT proposal than your remarks (valid) about the dangers of our foreign debt.

Never mind, his marketing gurus have got him "between a rock and a hard place" [pardon the pun!] this time. Of all people, the miners are the least likely to blink first. And their very deep pockets have already produced some of the best media campaigning (especially the TV ad) that money can buy.

At the end of the day, Rudd & Swan can only raise revenue by cutting spending or raising taxes. They havn't got the ticker to do the first, and the choice of the latter was unbelievably poorly structured.

Time for the bumper stickers: "Labour couldn't manage a chook raffle!!!"

What???

If Labor's kissing cousins, The Greens have any more say, chooks will not be on the menu at all.

On a "good" day, you might win a sample jar of Artificial Meat. That's if they haven't already given the whole lot away to the successor of Mao Zedong, along with 10,000 kg of free mandarin.

We live and have business in a mining town , and the day this tax was mentioned in media, the bottom fell out of our business and we are going to go under. I am losing sleep over a small amount of debt to what some people would have. People in the area are suspecting that the mining companies will take their mines overseas and this will be the end of mining towns in rural Australia. I think it is time that when Prime Ministers cannot do their job they should lose wages and the money they receive on retirement. Go into the "Struggling Pen" like most of us, who feel we are waiting for the chopping block. Kick him out FAST!

Jenalea:

It seems unlikely that Rudd will get a second term in government. He has cheesed people off, left right and centre. I'm sure he will soon try to pass us off Communist Queen Gillard in his stead. Life will certainly not get better with her holding the purse strings.

We need to get some people from smaller parties into the parliament, and get shot of EVERYONE who is interested in pushing a Carbon Trading Scheme. That includes Labor, The Greens, Socialist Alliance and some of the Liberal Party (especially Malcolm Turnbull).

Rudd wants an Asia/Pacific Economic Union by 2020. If that occurs, we will follow Greece, Spain, UK and many other European countries which signed up to the EEU into economic receivership, at the hands of a Global Bank.

I suggest you hang in there as best you can. We may be getting rid of Rudd in as little as 8 to 10 weeks. Yippee!!! Apply for the dole or a low income supplement if you have to in the meantime.

People should try to pay down debt wherever possible, and save up for the items they need. Cut up the credit cards and only use a Debit Mastercard when you absolutely have to. If the bank tries to phase out your ordinary ATM card, tell them if you cannot have one, you will take your business elsewhere. It worked for me.

The advent of superannuation and credit card debt has enabled banks to become very powerful players in the financial and economic market across the board.

I would like a new law brought in, which requires giant companies such as BHP Billiton, Woolworths, The Macquarie Group, Nufarm, AGK/AGL etc to have their names placed on the doors of every business and building they own.

Then people will better understand the power of large corporations to send both the government, smaller companies, farmers and individual citizens down the gurgler.

I would like all Australian superannuation returned to our shores and held in a government owned bank. Then let us claw back the supply of electricity, gas and water so the government has more money to work with.

As far as I'm concerned, large corporations can get stuffed!

Dear Barnaby,can you clarify, that while the government was trying to implement the ETS ''tax'' ,working behind the scenes was Ken Henry and his committee proposing to bring in a new profits tax on the mining companies which would be additional to the ETS tax?If so, that is scary.The Coalition needs to highlight this ,if true.Regards Murray Buzza

Murray:

I would also be interested in hearing Barnaby's opinion regarding your questions.

To my knowledge, only a few elements of the Henry Review have been implemented by Labor at this point in time. No doubt some really bad legislation could be on the cards later.

Among the proposals suggested in the Henry Review was a plan to assets test your home. This could land far more pensioners and unemployed people out on the street, or at the very least, they could be forced to join the growing legions of people queueing up for food aid throughout the nation.

For the last 2 years, thousands of us ladies have been knitting huge piles of clothing and blankets for men, women and children who are suffering financially due to economic downturn, and Labor's grossly irresponsible population increases without sufficient infrastructure in place.

Last year, the Guardian Angels Knitting Program provided 100,000 knitted items of clothing for bushfire victims in Victoria (at least those who were not charred to death by extremely Green legislation), cyclone victims in Innisfail and others closer to home who were doing it tough. Donations were distributed by The Salvation Army.

Added to this, another knitters' group gave out in excess of 5,000 items at the Brisbane City Hall in May 2009, with a long queue of destitute families still waiting.

We used to knit for World Vision and other international aid agencies who sent container loads of items to the freezing back blocks of China and Europe, Africa and India. This dried up when World Vision could no longer raise funds to transport the clothing due to economic recession.

The ongoing drive for toiletries, clothing and food has continued into 2010, as more and more Australians turn to charities for assistance.

Food Bank has returned its cages to the shopping centres in the hope of shoppers donating more supermarket items, but I think they are filling far more slowly than they were at Xmas.

Does this sound like Australia as we once knew it? Or are we starting to live a third world existence according to the Global Plan?

I think we all have very good reason to be scared, when the nation is clearly being run by corporate neo-communists committing ongoing acts of treason.

Confirmation yesterday - the mining company budget will be cut back to ensure virtually no Capital is spent next financial year. Production will be cut by 60% with equivelent contractor standdowns over the next 4 months. No effect on staff (Natural attrition will do the job for them). Goal is to conserve capital until financing of major projects is required.
The company is looking forward to receiving 30% of exploration costs and 40% of losses from previously expensed capital back from the fed govt.

Just when we thought we had whethered the GFC (without fed support) we have the carpet pulled out from under our future plans by the ALP Greens RS Super tax.

Lorikeet,
Thanks, we sure will be hanging on tight while this "financial boat" is getting rocked by destructive 'Cyclone Rudd'. Thankfully our credit cards are empty, and will stay that way.
I see in the media today the NW mining areas welcomed Tony Abbott with open arms. The citizens who wish he will win the next election, also want him to come an visit during his term and listen to the hard working outback people. I think this is only fair, as Prime Ministers and Premiers tend to focus on the bigger cities and coastal areas, forgetting our primary producers and industries who make the national wheel turn. Put an ear to the basics and look after these areas. I might be a little back in time, but bring back the Joh days, where he was planning and building ahead, preparing for a prosperous State in the future. We have not seen this continue since he left, still running on the same roads, rail and dams and electricity.

Jenalea:

We need to be a little careful of Liberals as well. As you would be aware, Malcolm Turnbull is considered by many to be Goldman Sachs' man in the Australian parliament. He is also a merchant banker.

At the moment Malcolm Turnbull is trying to get the Carbon Trading Scheme to rise like a phoenix from the ashes. We might need to use our keyboards like machine guns to knock it back down again.

I'm afraid I cannot support anyone pushing a Green Carbon Religion which will empower corporations, instead of people and governments.

I would like all Liberals who support a Carbon Trading Scheme to wear green shirts into the parliament, so we will all know who NOT TO VOTE FOR!

My general feeling is that Rudd may put off an election for as long as possible, and hand power to Julia Gillard, now that most Australians hate him. If that happens, everyone can expect to pay for treatment at public hospitals, and pay fees in public schools. The Labor Party believes in corporatisation of EVERYTHING.

This can only make our government go broke, while large corporations get government funding from taxpayers, and then rob them again with huge hikes in fees and charges, also known as consumption taxes. As the government goes broke, it will also have to increase direct and indirect (GST) taxation in order to survive. The government will have nothing to foot the bill for burgeoning foreign debt, so we will all end up saying "hello" to the IMF.

They are already in our country under the auspices of collecting overcharged fees on our behalf from the banks here. No doubt they will ride off into the sunset taking most of the money with them!

The cost of electricity is set to rise by another 13%. From 1 July 2010, Unity Water will take over the collection of taxes for supply of water in the Moreton Bay Regional Council (Queensland's third largest council).

I think it is true that Joh B-J looked after his farmers. Our maritime workers did sometimes as well.

Last night I saw an item on the news which said that if you own a whole portfolio of housing, you will get as many votes at an election as the number of houses you own. I thought the people who rented the houses should get those votes. I'm not sure where it was, but it was certainly here in Australia.

Anyway if it is applied to farmers on acreage, it would be a good way of empowering our primary producers. If you own 100,000 hectares, maybe you could get 100,000 votes!

I don't think Tony Abbott is very popular with the people. I wouldn't be surprised if he is replaced by Joe Hockey some time soon.

Lorikeet, I firmly agree with you about MalcomTurnbull or anyone supporting the CTS as I think it was a coverup for something major to wreck our independency from the world....this is why Rudd sent heaps of money overseas and took weekly trips overseas early in his term...he was cooking up something for this CTS coverup. He didn't win there, with getting money out of the mines, this is why he is trying hard at this mining tax. We certainly check out as much as we can to whom we vote for, it is getting harder. I think all who have any amount of green blood should stand out with green clothing, much like a prison uniform :) as it is a religious cult, worshiping the creation and not the Creator.

Sorry folks, it's time to reach for the tissue box again.

From 1 July 2010, we can expect to pay more than 20% extra for the supply of water. The Labor government here in Queensland says that the corporations need the extra money to supply infrastructure.

I have lived in this house for 24 years. I used to turn on the taps and drink and shower for free, before the word "sustainability" came into widespread use, so large corporations could rob us blind.

I think the idea of getting an extra vote for each house a person owns came from a local council in Sydney, but please don't quote me on it.

In Victoria, older people wishing to downsize their homes can now get a reduction in stamp duty .... but only if they buy a very expensive brand new high rise apartment, which is out of many people's financial reach. The bedrooms in those outrageously priced places will not "house" anything other than the bed!

Here in Brisbane a 3 bedroom cubbyhole with a pantry the size of a broom cupboard sells for around $600,000 in the suburbs. Then there are body corporate fees to pay, and another fee for cleaning of communal areas.

I think elderly people who own their own homes would be far better off refusing to move at all, and getting someone in to mow.

Jenalea:

Well, when the name of the game is to sell your country out to global banks and huge corporations, putting a huge tax on mining is just one of the things the Labor Party does.

Please read the following:

General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT), 1947, Ben Chifley (Labor)
Lima Declaration & Plan of Action on Industrial Development & Co-operation, 1975, Gough Whitlam (Labor)
Privatisation of the Commonwealth Bank, 1990, Bob Hawke (Labor)
Agenda 21 (Climate Change), 1992, Paul Keating (Labor)
General Agreement on Trade & Services (GATS), 1995, Paul Keating (Labor)
GATT to be run by World Trade Organisation (WTO), 1995, Paul Keating (Labor)
Proposed Asia/Pacific Economic Union by 2020, Rudd (Labor)
Copenhagen Treaty, failed so far, but a new meeting scheduled in Mexico around the middle of this year.

Once you've read the Lima Declaration, Agenda 21 and the Copenhagen Treaty, you will be well aware of why the DLP has an absolute hatred for Labor in general, and Whitlam and Keating in particular.

I just had a horrible thought. I admit I was a bit slow.

If farmers got a number of votes according to the size of their holdings in hectares, huge corporations might vote ordinary Aussie farmers off their land!

Maybe we have only a couple of days or weeks before that comes up in the media.

I am told by Tony Zegenhagen from the DLP that Rudd will still most likely go to an election on 7 or 14 August.

Hmmm, sounds like political suicide. Bring it on!

Lorikeet,

I am very concerned about Agenda 21 and the far reaching effects it is having on our country.

I just saw one of Rudd's add on Foxtel saying the mining tax is to keep mining sustainable. Classic Agenda 21.

As I understand it the 1992 Earth Summit, "asked transnational companies to reduce environmental damage on developed countries to begin sustainable consumption".

So what we are not being told by Rudd is that the sustainability is all about consumption of mining products, not production. You tax something you get less of it - and they know it.

If you have not do so you should have a look at this site and let me know what you think:-

http://www.popoffsets.com

Most people just don't understand what is going with Agenda 21, so there are now 2 of us - welcome aboard.

Well, now we have a new Prime Minister. I have been expecting Julia Gillard to take the reins since before the 2007 election.

A few days ago, Rudd was talking about leaving the election off until March or April next year. But whether or not people consider Julia Gillard to be a ruthless backstabber, I think it was abundantly clear that Rudd had done his dash for too many stuff-ups, and his chance of winning another election were excruciatingly slim.

Now we have to put up with the Corporate Neo-Communist Queen Gillard, who will be working to exactly the same agenda to sell us out and sell us off until we are pushed into receivership by a Global Bank.

I don't think there will be an election in August at all now. When it is called, please vote above the line on both ballot papers, carefully dodging all of the people who support a Carbon Trading Scheme.

In my view, Liberals should shaft Senator Sue Boyce, Malcolm Turnbull and all like-minded politicians at the earliest possible convenience, but they should keep Wilson Tuckey. I think he's a good man who is unafraid to speak his mind, and doesn't support a Carbon Trading Scheme. My impression is that he would resist such a traitorous move even if someone ripped out his toenails.

On the issue of the plane load of miners going down in Cameroon (Africa), at first I thought it was a manipulative political stunt, but now I think it was also a case of someone sabotaging the plane. I haven't heard any more details.

I think we've all had enough of large corporations ripping off our ordinary citizens, farmers, small business people and government, but we don't want the kind of massive taxation which will drive them from our shores altogether, leaving us penniless.

If people vote for Queen Gillard, we will get even more of the same. The government says it's concerned about its teachers and nurses, but I know Labor doesn't give a rat's backside about anybody. I speak with teachers and nurses every week, but the Labor government never listens to anything they have to say.

I think Labor are a bunch of treasonous, recidivist ratbags and criminals, and now Lindsay Tanner has decided to simply hand his seat to The Greens on a silver platter, without even a fight! I don't see how anyone could get much more stupid than that.

If a politician is defeated at an election or rolled in a leadership challenge, I'm sure we don't mind if he sheds a few tears, but we do mind if he develops a yellow stripe running up his back, and runs away with his tail between his legs.

Cobber:

I did as you asked and read about "popoffsets".

While the idea does have a good deal of merit, we must remember that social engineers and scientists have destroyed the Age Pyramids of developed nations by allowing misuse of the contraceptive pill. It has also increased promiscuity and the spread of STDs, and encouraged people not to marry or form a traditional family.

Then if we look at the One Child Policy that has been in use in China for the last 30 years, we will see that it has encouraged wholesale abortion and gender selection, prostitution and will inevitably lead to the mass euthanasia of the elderly.

Chinese people used to have an average of 6 children per couple. Gender selection has resulted in a surplus of 28,000,000 men without wives, which has then required young women to be kidnapped from the back blocks and forced into brothels. The Chinese are also kidnapping women from Burma and forcing them to marry Chinese men.

So whenever you start fiddling with population, you can end up creating even worse problems.

I sponsored children in Latin America for 18 years. The parents had lost 4 of their 6 children to disease, so I think if you want to help the third world, there has to be a multi-pronged approach:

(a) change the bad attitudes of governments.

(a) ensure the children have a good chance of survival through improved living conditions, food and clean water.

(b) give adults access to the contraceptive pill once they have produced 3 children.

However, this is not going to reduce the population at all. It could even increase it, but at least it would protect the Age Pyramid from the terrible hash that has been made of it in the developed world.

I have reconsidered the case for an election being imminent.

My letterbox is now filling up with Labor Party propaganda, trying to convince us they are experts on hospitals. Labor thinks it is going to fly back into contention on the coat tails of Julia Gillard.

I may even have to try to keep her out myself, since they're running their beautiful blonde school teacher in Dickson again, just to keep the men interested in what is on the outside, instead of the Watermelon underneath.

According to an Indian registered nurse, our hospitals are worse than those of any third world nation.

All of the Nepalese and Indian visa holders I know, who are either doctors, nurses or university students, are planning on packing their bags and returning to their respective countries.

Labor says they are thinking of sending these people back where they came from. This is the way in which you cover up impending desertion by the third world.

Yes, we are clearly living in the land of the orange pips. Other people come here for a better life, and then cannot wait to fly back home!

I wonder what we'd do if we were nurses, and we were not even being protected by the use of disposable gloves, when the corporations' profits come before our health?

what now for the extra tax on the miniung industry? seems it business asusual for those that rape & pillage the landscape

miners are only here because its cheaper to get it out of the ground anmd make large profits

when its all gone where will these upstanding community minded Cos be? next cheapest place.

they have no moral conscience just check for youself the abandoned mine site around Ox & elesewhere check out the local properity thats left!!