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Saturday, January 05, 2008

Major flooding in NSW and SE Queensland

Major flooding has occurred in the lower Tweed Valley and SE Queensland, as a tropical low crosses the coast in the tourist packed region. Areas around the town of Murwillumbah have suffered a wild night with 10 inches of rain in some places. Springbrook in SE Queensland has received almost 41 inches of rain in four days.

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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Australian Election - an Historic Victory

Australia has voted. Australia has voted for Opposition leader, the Hon. Kevin Rudd M.P., to be the next Prime Minister. Australia has voted for Labor, and Australia has voted for totalitarian rule for the first time in it's history. An historic victory indeed.

Our country is now governed by a single political party, across every state and now in the federal government. God help Australia and our freedoms.

Never before has our country been subjected to such a singular set of ideals such as this. Never before has Australia and it's freedoms, (with the exception of WW2), been under such threat.

Evidence of this is in the spin speak of Mr Rudd during his victory speech last night, when he said, "I say to all those who voted for us today, that I will govern for all Australians." Is this "leader" already showing such arrogance as to assume that all Australian's voted for him ? He seems to think so already.

I have some sad and dire predictions for Australia over this next term of Federal Government.

1) The Australian economy's ability to keep creating jobs will suffer dramatic and irreversible losses, due to the return of socialist, union led rule.

2) Australia's currency will plummet through the floor so much so that our ability to keep a cap of fuel prices with a strong currency, will erode significantly, resulting in fuel prices in excess of $2.00 a litre. So much for "working families".

3) The unemployment rate will double. But that will be an acceptable level to the new government, because of our guaranteed return to a socialist welfare state, where apathy and non-effort is rewarded with endless and spiralling welfare payments.

4) Australia's sovereignty will be under significant threat, with the ability to protect our borders, destroyed by socialist, leftist policies.

5) Internationally Australia will be seen as weak, uncaring, and isolationist, following the imminent recall of our forces from Iraq who have made significant progress in assisting Iraq to change to a democracy.

6)Australia's foreign debit will escalate beyond control following the payment of hundreds of billions of dollars, to countries that have not signed the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, and are not bound by emissions targets. These countries include China, who share a one party state ideal, as it seems Australia does now. But at least Mr Rudd will be able to talk to the Chinese, in Mandarin, not English, so Australian's can't understand what he is saying.

7) The rights of Australian families to their properties, may become under threat when the new government apologies for past wrongs to Aborigines, and extends native title legislation.

But worse yet, Australia will return to the dim dark days of union led rule, with business and the economy held hostage to a front bench dominated by socialists.

You may well think not, that is your prerogative, but consider this. When was the last time you saw a bunch of blue collar workers (unionists if you will) get behind and back an academic ? Kevin Rudd is the leader for now. It is only a matter of time until the unionists heavy in on what's left of our democracy and demand the spoils of victory. Not a share of the pie but the entire pie.

I will go as far to say that the Prime Minister of Australia may not be Kevin Rudd, in a years time. The Prime Minister of Australia may well then be a radical socialist, union bred. And Female.

I predict that the next Prime Minister after Kevin Rudd will be Julia Gillard.

Finally I wish to offer my congratulations to the Rudd camp and the Labor central party on their victory. I wish them well. I ask that all clear minded and freedom loving Australian's pray for our country. We'll need all the help we can get.














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Friday, November 23, 2007

Lightning Show dazzles Northern Beaches


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Severe thunderstorms rolled across the Sydney Basin on Wednesday night, 21/11/2007 and created a spectacular lightning show. I managed to get this picture from Harbord Point near the Harbord Diggers Club.

Some folks are saying his picture shows a tornado or water spout in the centre of the picture.

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Stormy Afternoon


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Quite a few storms built up between Sydney and Canberra this afternoon. I took a drive down that way to see if I could get a few shots. I wasn't disappointed. Here's hoping tomorrow will allow some pictures closer to Sydney with some action of the high voltage kind.









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Saturday, November 10, 2007

They're Coming Back

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Monday, October 15, 2007

Australian Federal Election

The Prime Minister of Australia, the Rt. Honourable John Howard MP, has announced the date for the Australian federal election.

Unlike the USA, Australia votes for a new Federal Parliament every 3-4 years as the constitution requires, which means it's not always on the same day and usually at the call of the Prime Minister in power at the time.

The Australian Liberal Party (equivalent to the US Republican Party) is led by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Honourable John Howard, and the Opposition Party by the Honourable Kevin Rudd MP. The opposition party in this case is Australian Labor (equivalent to the US Democrats). The Liberal Party is in power in the federal government.

Currently the Labor Party is in power in every state in Australia, and therefore win by Labor in the Federal Election would effectively mean totalitarian rule across Australia by one political party. This has never happened in Australian politics before.

It is a frightening concept, in which every piece of legislation affecting the states, affecting every citizen, could be rammed through all levels of parliament without any checks and balances.

In the words of the anti-terrorism commercials (parodied here) ... I'm "alert, aware and frightened" beyond belief at this concept.

Australia must remain democratic and free, and not be railroaded into the failed ideologies of the past by the socialist left.

Above all let us all remember that, the Labour party invented "the recession we had to have", had a Prime Minister who described his own country as the "ass end of the earth", and who further described Australia as a Banana Republic. Successive leaders of Labor have continued to live off the ball and chain legacies of past failed Labor leaders. I was forcibly retrenched during the regime of Prime Minister Paul Keating who decided that the country had to have a recession. Not once but three times.

Australians all, let us unite, for we are under threat.

Edit : An anonymous respondent, who resorted to child-like name calling thus suggesting a very low intellect, has corrected my spelling to spell Labor instead of Labour. Mea Culpa. My apologies for offending the name of the opposition party.


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