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Race Tribalism & NSW Department of Education

Posted by whatyareckon on September 9, 2020
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One might get the idea that the Department of Education just may be about EDUCATION! Well, not so when it comes to the New South Wales department of Education led by Mark Scott. It seems Mark thinks PC race identity culture MUST be involved. People must be divided into tribes such as Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal. It was on Thursday, 31 January 2019, that ‘Mark Scott and two members of the Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) Working Group, Claire Beattie and Darren Bell, launched the department’s first Reconciliation Action Plan for corporate staff.’ https://education.nsw.gov.au/about-us/strategies-and-reports/our-reconciliation-action-plan/reconciliation-action-plan/secretary-mark-scott-officially-launches-the-reconciliation-action-plan

The following is a transcript of that meeting. It is LONG but please NOTE that Clair Beattie, one of the panel, says that Australia will always be Aboriginal land. Even though you as a non-Aboriginal may have paid with your own money for the land it is not yours but it belongs to the Aboriginals. What race baiting propaganda via the NSW Department of Education. Throughout the following I will highlight certain sections as well as making some of my own remarks.

‘Good afternoon everybody, I’m Mark Scott, Secretary of the New South Wales Department of Education. Joining me today are Claire Beattie and Darren Bell, and they’re members of the department’s Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group. Can I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet. The custodians, the Gadigal people of Eora Nation and pay my respect to Elders past and present, and acknowledge the continuing contribution and connection to this land.

Claire Beattie

I’d like to welcome everyone and acknowledge that no matter where you’re meeting today, that you’re meeting on Aboriginal land. Always has been, always will be Aboriginal land.

Darren Bell

I’m a Ngunnawal/Yuinman. My family comes from Yass and the south coast of New South Wales. I’d like to pay my respects to our Elders, and our mob and say thank you to them for their continual custodianship of our cultures, our lands and our waterways.

Mark Scott

So let me talk a little bit about what we’re up to this afternoon. We’re launching the Department of Education’s first Reconciliation Action Plan, and it’s a plan for our corporate staff. So what we’re going to do this afternoon is to talk a little bit about the origins of the plan, why we’re doing it, what we hope to achieve from it and what comes next. So I’m really pleased this afternoon to be able to launch the department’s first RAP, our first Reconciliation Action Plan, and it talks about our commitment to diversity, to inclusion and to advancing reconciliation. And it gives us some practical steps, some practical actions which are going to drive our contribution to reconciliation.

The focus of this first plan is for our staff who work in corporate offices. Our corporate staff, our corporate officers and the partnerships that we have, and it’s going to lay the foundation in the department for reconciliation initiatives and we’re going to develop successive plans in the years to come with an increased focus on schools and the communities in which we serve. You can see on the screen there, a copy of this plan which has been developed in consultation with our staff and the broader community, that’s going to be the centrepiece of our work in the year ahead.

Let me talk a little bit about the first RAP that we are developing. We’ve spent a lot of time thinking and talking about this, and it’s important to remember that the RAP is an ongoing process for an organisation like us. And it provides us with an opportunity to think about what this is like as a place of work and to challenge ourselves so that we have a deep, rich cultural understanding and cultural insight. It’s important that as a department, we have that. Because we want to have deeper insight, deeper understanding deeper commitment and deeper respect.

I was very keen to develop a RAP when I joined the department from my time running the ABC. (Scott worked at the ABC which is a far Left leaning Australian Federal government supported broadcasting organization. This left leaning Marxist organization received over one billion dollars per year to spouth their Marxist agenda on the Australian people) At the ABC, we’d struggled in a number of areas, I think, in working with our Aboriginal staff, we’d failed to make key targets that we’d set on employment. And the transformational event for us in all these things was the development of the RAP. It gave us some clear targets, it gave us some clear challenges, but it forces us to think about ourselves as an organisation. About what we were like as a place to work, whether we had deep cultural insight, whether we had cultural safety. As we focused on ourselves a bit and the kinds of organisation that we were and what we wanted to be, it was amazing that we started to deliver on all those targets as well. (Scott has now divided the ABC into a tribal culture and will now work on doing the same at the NSW Department of Education)

I found it very powerful, and it was an idea I brought with me to the department. (Scott is now promoting this tribalism from the ABC to the NSW Education Department. Where are the politicians with common sense and backbone on this? Are they all asleep?) As you’d know, all around the country, major corporations and organisations like us have reconciliation action plans that are developed with Reconciliation Australia to help us reflect and to think about the kind of organisation we are, the kind of organisation we want to be and the kind of outcomes that we want to achieve for the broader community, for the organisation itself and the outcomes that we want to be able to deliver. So I saw that the important part of this plan was to start with us, to reflect on us and to think about the kind of organisation we are and that’s the start of this journey.

So what are some measures of success that we’ve identified in this our first Reconciliation Action Plan? You’ll see some of them are up there on your screen. We’re focused on employment. We want to exceed the Premier’s Priority target for doubling the number of Aboriginal people in senior leadership roles by 2025, and we want to see 3% of senior leadership roles filled by Aboriginal staff (Not whether a person is qualified or not but the tribe they identify with). We want to support and increase the number of Aboriginal people working in all positions across our department, and we want to think very creatively and deliberatively as to how we do that, how we make this a great place to work for our Aboriginal staff and how we’re providing outstanding professional opportunities to build a great career with us here in the Department of Education. (Where does a non-identifying person fit into all this? Identity race culture at its height of insanity.)

You know, we’re a big and important institution in this state. We’re probably the biggest employer in this state, so when we do things, we can make an impact. (Yes, as the biggest, because we are government, we can impact society with their own money. Communism at work!) So we want to be supporting Aboriginal- owned businesses in New South Wales. So we’re saying we want to award Aboriginal-owned businesses at least 3% of domestic contracts for goods and services issued by the department by 2021. And when you get a big organisation like us, with the kind of budget we have, that 3%, we think, can make an enormous difference to Aboriginal-owned businesses all around New South Wales (Race bait culture).

Finally and very importantly, we recognise our leadership position in this community. So for the department to be focused on national reconciliation makes an impact on the future of this nation as far as national reconciliation is concerned. No organisation is more involved in shaping the future of Australia than the New South Wales Department of Education – 810,000 students in our schools. The largest educator in the country. The future of Australia has been determined by the New South Wales Department of Education. So as we develop this RAP and then roll the activities from future RAPs into schools, what a profound impact we can have on the challenge and the importance of national reconciliation (No wonder those coming out of the education system in this age are left leaning socialists).

We talk a lot about reconciliation, it’s there in the plan, we talk about it a lot, but as an Aboriginal man, Darren, what does reconciliation mean to you?

Darren Bell

It means acknowledging past wrongs and actions. (This means white man wrongs and actions. This is the white supremacy lie in the department of education!)Because when you say sorry for something, you never do it again. And that’s what I think we need to remember, basically. (Former PM Rudd began a Sorry Day and that isn’t enough!)

Mark Scott

We need to start by that point of reflection. And part of the work that we’ll be doing as part of this RAP is reflecting, coming to deeper points of understanding ourselves (More reflection on whiteness and all the bad things that come with that whiteness!). And I’ll come back and ask you in a minute where future RAPs go on the back of this. Claire, we’ve run a consultation process to this point. I mean, we had the idea of a brand new RAP, but then went and talked with our staff and talked with stakeholders. Take us through a little bit of what that consultation process has involved.

Claire Beattie

Thank you, Mark. I’m really delighted that over 2,000 of our corporate staff have engaged thus far in our journey in RAP. You’ve joined us in mass voices like today, thank you for coming, and joining, and listening. You’ve joined us for cinema events. Some people have joined us for our Aboriginal network events. We’ve also had discussions via email to the RAP inbox. We’ve also had surveys.

One of the most interesting parts of this journey was what people said about what they expect to see in the RAP in our statement. You’ll notice the RAP statement encompasses all of the feedback we had, and some of the key messages we had was around mutual respect, integrity, cultural safety. So you’ll see that featured in the RAP as well.

I’m really proud of the journey we’ve been on, and I think we’ve walked really mindfully together, and we’ve really taken our time with listening and having really honest conversations. So I thank you for coming on this journey. It’s not finished yet. As we’ve said, there’s more steps to go. But really, there’s over 600 people online right now joining this conversation. So it’s really exciting.

Mark Scott

You talk about walking together. Explain that a little bit more. What does that mean?

Claire Beattie

I think it’s really important that we’ve paced this, that we haven’t sprinted off in a direction. Everyone is on a different part of their journey for reconciliation. Some people are new to the journey, they’ve just stepped in. They might not know a lot about Aboriginal culture or the history that we’ve had with the department (This whole reconciliation is leading the Aboriginal back into their paganism. The Dreamtime is pagan and the preaching of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ brought many out of darkness and into the light of the Lord Jesus Christ). Some people have grown up Aboriginal. Some people believe in reconciliation, some people are sceptical.

We’re all at different parts of our journey, so there’s no point in sprinting ahead and leaving people behind. We have to be patient, we have to be mindful, we have to have mutual respect and have really open conversations. One of the uncles, Uncle Greg, who’s a Darug Elder, actually talks about the reason why pianos have black and white keys, and the reason why they make beautiful music is because you play both black and white keys. So I think it’s really important that all of us come together on this journey towards reconciliation.

Mark Scott

So it’s a great opportunity, in a sense, to reset the relationship, to come to deeper understanding, establish greater respect and insight, and then to roll that into some really practical steps and strategies so we want to work our way through. We’ve had some key themes that have emerged through the consultation, and then we roll that into practical steps, because we want this to be a living blueprint. I hope that this RAP becomes really one of the very important documents, a cornerstone document of the Department of Education.

A year ago, we launched the strategic plan. I said, “I wanted that to be a living document”, and whenever I go on to schools and talking with school leaders, I’m discussing the strategic plan, and I feel it is a living document, I get it quoted back at me all the time. I want the RAP to be a living document as well, and I want you to be able to read it and to access it, and to think about what you’re doing in your corporate office, whereever you work in the department to advance the principles of the RAP and to deliver on the strategies that are outlined (Can you imagine this seems to be one of the MOST important items in the Education Department).

So let me talk a little bit about the first actions that we’re going to have as part of this RAP. The RAP as you will see, is backed up by 12 concrete actions and 52 deliverables that we’ve identified, and they’re centred around four key themes: relationships, respect, opportunities and governance. And with these themes and actions and deliverables and lots of hard work, we really want to see the development of positive two-way relationships based on trust.

We want to see Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and rights valued and recognised. And we really want to be a great diversified workforce that reflects the communities we serve and is really growing the state’s first economy in a very practical and supportive way. In doing all this, we want to continue the important work we do with the AECG. For 40 years or more, the AECG has been an important partner of the Department of Education. They help us grow our insight, and to grow our effectiveness on the ground and working with community, and also helping to serve Aboriginal students and improve their wellbeing and their educational outcomes. In the year ahead, we want to work closely with the AECG to forge a new agreement with them so there can be a pathway to further partnership in the decade ahead.

Darren, we’ve got this RAP document, and I encourage people to find it, to find it online, to read and think about how we’re going  to make it real in the department. What comes next? It’s great to have a document, but where does it go from here?

Darren Bell

I think one of our big articles is truth telling. We need to, like I mentioned before, acknowledge  what’s happened in the past, and things like that, and ensuring that it doesn’t happen again. I think that’s a big factor in how we move forward.

Mark Scott

What do you mean by truth telling?

Darren Bell

The department had a policy called the Clean, cut and courteous policy where if a non-Aboriginal family didn’t want an Aboriginal student in their school, they can have them removed, basically. And clean, cut and courteous so you had to be, obviously, clean, cut and presentable, and courteous, and not be rude and things like that. So non-Aboriginal family didn’t want a student in a class or in the school like that, they could have them removed. That’s the sort of thing that not a lot… I’m sure a lot of people watching right now wouldn’t know that, and it still affects people who are alive today who had to undergo that policy.

Mark Scott

Including parents and grandparents.

Darren Bell

Absolutely, yeah. That sort of stuff can have quite a long-lasting effect on people, and their self-worth, and all that sort of stuff. So we need to acknowledge that sort of thing, that that actually did happen and this department did implement them at one stage. Thankfully, obviously, they’re gone now, but… (They are gone BUT! Never enough! There is always something the white people have done that needs to be corrected)

Mark Scott

So you’ve got to deal with that stuff?

Darren Bell

You got to deal with that stuff, yeah. I mean, it’s part of the healing process as well, I believe. With this RAP, we’ve instigated… Well, not instigated, it’s a bit of a harsh word, but we’ve implemented, I should say, a network, an Aboriginal corporate staff network. At that network, we had a barbecue. That was our inaugural type of thing. We had a barbecue last December, and we had our colleagues from all different state offices around Sydney come along. So we made some new friends, met up with some old friends and had some yarns. The yarns were about truth telling and things like that, that’s what we need to do, and cultural awareness training for our leaders in the department, so for our managers, and our directors, and our secretaries and dep secs. Hopefully, that would filter down to them bringing it into their teams, and overall, the department would undergo cultural awareness training. Because it’s not just about…You need to make the department a culturally safe place to work, and that benefits everyone, I think. So with our next RAP, it’s called the Innovate RAP, and that will be developed over the next two years. And we want people to walk with us on that journey. It’s a two-way street and we want people to walk with us on that journey.

Mark Scott

So opportunities this year, for cultural awareness training (The tax payer dollars pay for this CULTURE AWARENESS TRAINING!) and the executive did do a day and a half of cultural awareness training in partnership with the AECG and with leaders from our schools who came and spoke with us. And I think I can say, for every member of the executive team, it was an absorbing, a fascinating, a challenging and confronting conversation and experience. And I think many of us would have thought, we’ve done this kind of thing before. I was just amazed at what I learnt from that experience, and the challenges that came on the back of that. To actually use that insight to help make this a great place for all our staff to work. An inclusive place, a supportive place, a place where we can really lead the community and then the responsibility you have to the generations to come who are in our care every day. So we launch this RAP now for the corporate staff. Then the Innovate RAP comes in a year’s time, where the truth telling will be more a feature of that. And then, on we go with more ambitious targets and absolute clarity about the outcomes that we’re trying to achieve.

That’s the story of this RAP document. I’d encourage you, as I said, to take a look at it. There’s beautiful artwork on the front of it. And this is done by a student in one of our schools, Suzanna from Boggabilla Central School. She’s from the Gamilaraay Country, and we’re having this artwork framed. It will be featured in a prominent place at 105 Phillip Street, our Parramatta office. Some of you have already been online. Excuse me as I reach over to find the tough questions. I’ll be answering easy questions.

Mark Scott

These guys will be answering the tough questions. A really good question has come through here about Aboriginal catering companies. Great idea, but where do you start, how do you find an Aboriginal catering company?

Claire Beattie

On the intranet, live at the moment, you’ll find the RAP hub. Where it has a lot of FAQs including where to find Aboriginal catering companies, Aboriginal suppliers. It’s really important, as Mark said, that we’ve made a commitment to support Aboriginal businesses. And as we are such a massive organisation and a massive buyer of things, if we did meet that KPI of 3% of buying from Aboriginal businesses, it really would help Aboriginal economic prosperity as well. Please do check out the RAP hub, it’s live now.

Mark Scott

And Darren, where do we find more information? If I’m an Aboriginal member of staff and I want to join the network, how do I go about doing that?

Darren Bell

So what we’re looking at doing is setting up a little working group in the initial stages. Develop initiatives that we want to involve with our Aboriginal colleagues. We are looking at things like even having a social media page for the network, so people can engage in that way and talk to each other. Which is obviously, find it a lot easier to do it that way. Because I think we need this network especially because I don’t know how many of my colleagues are Aboriginal in the department, and especially in 105 Phillip Street. I sent a little broadcast email asking staff to see who’s Aboriginal. I’ve got quite a few responses which I’m really happy about. So we’re going to develop this network so we can keep abreast of these sort of things, and contribute ideas for the next RAP.

Mark Scott

And even opportunities, I guess, for staff, they might not be sure that they want to connect with the network or identify, just to even talk through some of those issues with you or other members of staff.

Darren Bell

Absolutely, yeah.

Mark Scott

A question’s come through here from Tracy. What does success look like to me, or what does a successful RAP look like?

I think it’s multifaceted. Finally, finally… What I really want to do is transform the future of Australia by shaping the lives of the young people that are in our care (DO THE PARENTS OF THE CHILDREN WHO ARE ATTENDING THESE SCHOOLS KNOW THE INTENT OF ALL THIS?). One of the things that we all must be desperate to do is to ensure that Aboriginal students in our schools have learning outcomes that are the same as any child in our care.

The gap that currently exists now is untenable, and unacceptable, and is an indictment of what has been offered by this country to young Aboriginal people. So finally, you want to fix that. But you don’t just fix that by focusing on that, you’ve actually got to be the right kind of organisation to do that. And so, I see a reconciliation, I see a cultural safety, I see the kinds of staff we can recruit and keep are all about us being the right kind of organisation to be able to deliver those results that we really fundamentally want.

But we’re a leading institution in the country and we should be leading and modelling reconciliation. Modelling being a great place to work. Modelling cultural insight and understanding and achieving extraordinary things for the young Aboriginal people in our care, in our schools. So that’s all. That’s a long journey, but you start by this kind of process that we got starting now, and we don’t rest here, as you’ve heard, we keep moving, and we keep advancing, and next year, we’ll be back with a new plan. Lots of people are asking where they can get cultural awareness training. How are we going to offer that?

Darren Bell

As far as I know, the AECG can help offer it. Like you said, you undertook the training yourself. There are other organisations. I actually see commercials on SBS, how they do it and the company that they use, things like that. But we do have, of course.

Claire Beattie

I invite people to write in into the RAP inbox. If they want to run with cultural awareness training, we’ve got a whole set of providers from the amazing Mick Gooda’s of the world; Flick Ryan, a few others that we do use that have been phenomenal in taking our staff through the journey. And it’s an emotional journey, so people have to be ready for that. There is truth telling on that journey, it can be uncomfortable. But at the end of it, it does create a more inclusive, a more welcoming workplace for all of us to come to a mutual understanding. So if you are interested in doing cultural awareness training, please write into the RAP inbox or go to the RAP hub.

Mark Scott

Just a couple more questions, and then, it’s going to be cake time. So I’ll come to the cake in a minute. Questions come through on the AECG, I did reference them earlier. Has the AECG been involved and consulted on the RAP?

We have reached out to the AECG and briefed them on this process, they wished us well on this, but we look forward to really working closely with the AECG, particularly around a new engagement and a new arrangement with them, a new undertaking with them that takes us through the years ahead. They are very very important partners in all the work we’re doing with Aboriginal students in our schools, and their network is very, very powerful and very important all around the state. Finally, I think this is just a question about… You know, it’s an education department. Why aren’t schools involved in this process? So where do schools fit in to this work?

Claire Beattie

Eventually, obviously, we will welcome schools into this conversation. I think our corporate area was a great place to start, it’s a smaller group, but it’s also a group that we can start cultural awareness training without upsetting and taking them off their job which is to be in front of students, making sure every student is known, and valued and cared for. Also, I think it was an opportunity to really engage with executive in the corporate area as well and ensure that we’re going from the top-down, it was led by you.

I can also say, Mark, and I hope that we don’t embarrass you by saying this, but how amazing it is to have a Secretary come in and say… You’ve brought it from the ABC with you, but you’ve also stood in front of this and said, “We must have this” for the reasons that you’ve just unpacked. For us, I think it’s been really refreshing to know that we have your support on this journey, and to know that from the top-down, you’re for reconciliation and you really do support the idea of having a culturally safe environment for Aboriginal people (What government leader allows money and time to be spent on this race identity PC propaganda?).

Mark Scott

And I think that’s what we all aspire to, and we know as we do that, it changes us, changes this organisation. And if you change this organisation, you change the future of the country (There it is. Changing the country! What kind of change do you think Mr. Scott means?).

Claire Beattie

Absolutely.

Mark Scott

As you said, Darren, this is a torrid, and difficult, and painful history. We need to learn from that, and understand that, and build a wonderful future for our kids and build a better Australia as a consequence of this. So thanks for your time this afternoon. I bring exciting news if you are in one of our larger regional offices, because there is cake there for you, just as there is cake here for us. Wonderful colours and the artwork that Suzanna has done which adorns the RAP is on the cake.

So I’m going to ask my two colleagues here, who have been on the RAP working party, to cut the cake. I also want to thank all members of that working party who worked so hard to wrestle down the complexities of the issues. It’s easy for me to say this is an idea, then the hard work starts. I want to thank Meg Montgomery and the team that she led to get us to this point. We’re really celebrating the start with the launch of the RAP. They’re exciting days ahead, challenges ahead, and hopefully, great outcomes for our kids and our nation as well. So please cut the cake and enjoy your afternoon. Thanks for being with us.

Claire Beattie

Thank you.

Darren Bell

Thank you. Do it together?

Mark Scott

Do it together.

Claire Beattie

Yes. Let’s do it. Thanks everyone.’https://education.nsw.gov.au/about-us/strategies-and-reports/our-reconciliation-action-plan/reconciliation-action-plan/secretary-mark-scott-officially-launches-the-reconciliation-action-plan

Political Climate Hypocrisy in NSW, Australia

Posted by whatyareckon on September 8, 2020
Posted in: Australia, Australian Federal Government, Climate, Common Sense, Dubbo, Elections, Federal Government, Global Warming, Government, New South Wales, Political, Politics, Religion, Science, weather. Leave a comment

I send these to my Federal and state member here in Australia trusting they will read them and perhaps change their mind of these tax dollar wasting renewables. These members of Federal and state Parliament claim the title ‘conservative’ but have swallowed the Climate Scam poisonous lie along with most of their collogues. ‘In a post Covid world, anyone railing about carbon dioxide gas and not promoting nuclear power sounds positively unhinged.

If CO2 really was about to destroy the planet, Extinction Rebellion, Greta and her worshippers would be talking about switching to nuclear power like their lives depended on it.

Instead, for reasons that escape the logical and rational, we’re told that the only way forward is backwards: ie a life dependent upon the time of day and the weather.

Climate alarmists railing about carbon dioxide gas and not talking about nuclear power generation, can’t be taken seriously. Nuclear power is the only stand-alone power generation source that does not emit carbon dioxide gas during the process.

Whatever your views on climate change, the idea that trying to run modern, civil societies on sunshine and breezes might somehow prevent it is, of course, a complete nonsense.

Norman Rogers details the grotesque hypocrisy of those attempting to force us all to run on sunshine and breezes.

Nuclear to Replace Wind and Solar
American Thinker
Norman Rogers
13 August 2020

In the words of James Hansen, the scientist most responsible for promoting global warming, wind and solar are “grotesque” solutions for reducing CO2 emissions. Michael Shellenberger, a prominent activist, has the same opinion. Hansen and Shellenberger, as well as many other global warming activists, have come to the conclusion that nuclear energy is the only viable method of reducing CO2 emissions from the generation of electricity.

Nuclear reactors don’t emit CO2. Coal and natural gas do.  Hydroelectric electricity does not emit CO2 either, but opportunities for expansion are limited. In the United States most of the good sites have already been developed.

Wind and solar are grotesque because there are many problems. Promoters of wind and solar simply lie about the problems. Reducing emissions of CO2 by one metric tonne, 1000 kilograms or 2204 pounds, is called a carbon offset. Carbon offsets are bought and sold, usually for less than $10 each.

If you build wind or solar plants to displace electricity from natural gas or coal plants, you will generate carbon offsets. Each carbon offset generated will cost about $60 if electricity from a coal plant is displaced. If electricity from a natural gas plant is displaced the cost per carbon offset will be about $160.  Wind and solar are expensive methods of generating carbon offsets.

Wind and solar are not remotely competitive with coal or natural gas for generating electricity. The promoters of wind and solar lie about this constantly, claiming that they are close to competitive. The lies have two major components. They ignore or misrepresent the massive subsidies that wind and solar get, amounting to 75% of the cost. Then they compare the subsidized cost of wind or solar with the total cost of gas or coal. But wind or solar can’t replace existing fossil fuel infrastructure because they are erratic sources of electricity.

The existing infrastructure has to be retained when you add wind or solar, because sometimes the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine. The only fair comparison to the compare to total cost of wind or solar per kilowatt hour (kWh) with the marginal cost of gas or coal electricity. That marginal cost is essentially the cost of the fuel.

The only economic benefit of wind or solar is reducing fuel consumption in existing fossil fuel plants. It is hard to build wind or solar installations that generate electricity for less than 8-cents per kWh, but the cost of the fuel, for either gas or coal, is about 2-cents per kWh. Wind and solar cost four times too much to be competitive.

Wind and solar run into difficulty if they are the source of more than about 25% of the electricity in a grid. Getting to 50% generally involves adding expensive batteries, further destroying the economics and the usefulness for CO2 reduction.

The only justification for wind and solar is the reduction of CO2 emissions, but wind and soar are limited and costly for this purpose. CO2-free nuclear energy can be both economical and practical. That, clearly is the reason why prominent global warming activists are advocating nuclear, rather than wind and solar to alleviate the supposed global warming crisis.

Neither nuclear nor coal is currently cost competitive with natural gas. It’s not that nuclear or coal are so expensive as it is that natural gas, thanks to fracking, is incredibly cheap. Gas that cost more than $10 per MMBtu (million British thermal units) a decade ago, now costs less than $2. Gas-generating plants are very cheap to build and incredibly efficient. A gas plant using a combination of a gas turbine and a steam turbine can turn 65% of the energy in the gas into electricity. By contrast a coal plant struggles to reach 40%.

Both coal and nuclear are handicapped by well-organized and unprincipled political opposition from the Sierra Club and similar organizations. The Sierra Club hates natural gas too, but most of their efforts go into scaring people with the imaginary danger of coal. The Sierra Club doesn’t need to expend much effort scaring people with nuclear because the nuclear industry has already been destroyed in the U.S. thanks to previous efforts of the environmental movement.

Coal and nuclear have one very important advantage over gas. They have fuel on site to continue operating if fuel deliveries are interrupted. For coal this is around 30 days, for nuclear more than a year. Some gas plants can temporarily use oil from local tanks, but in most cases that won’t last long. Gas deliveries can be interrupted by pipeline failure or sabotage. The pumping stations on natural gas pipelines are increasingly powered by electricity, rather than gas, creating a circular firing squad effect.

Nuclear electricity is a young industry with a big future. That future is materializing in Asia given the successful propaganda campaign to make people afraid of nuclear in the U.S. and in much of Europe. Nuclear fuel is extremely cheap, around four times cheaper than gas or coal.

Nuclear reactors don’t have smokestacks and they don’t emit CO2. New designs will dramatically lower costs, increase safety and effectively remove most of the objections to nuclear. It is an incredible contradiction that most environmental organizations advocate wind and solar and demonize nuclear. In the future nuclear may be cost competitive with natural gas.

It is an intellectual and economic failure that the 30 U.S. states with policies designed to reduce CO2 emissions, called renewable portfolio standards, mostly explicitly exclude nuclear power as part of the plan. Instead they effectively mandate wind and solar. There are signs of reform as some states have provided support to prevent nuclear power stations from being closed.

The global warming hysteria movement is surely one of the most successful junk science campaigns ever launched. Predicting a catastrophe is a great way for a science establishment to gain fame and money. The many responsible scientists that object are attacked, if not fired.  Money trumps ethics every time. The environmental movement needs looming catastrophes too, so they act as PR men for the science establishment.

The tragedy is that our legislators swallow these lies and waste billions on boondoggles like wind and solar. It is ironic that increasing the CO2 in the atmosphere has a bountiful effect on plant growth, greening the Earth and increasing agricultural production. Rather than a threat, CO2 is a boon.

If you still believe in the global warming hysteria movement, you should face reality and dump wind and solar for nuclear.  Wind and solar are not appropriate for the problem they are assigned to solve. Nuclear is.’https://stopthesethings.com/2020/09/07/rank-hypocrisy-climate-warriors-not-promoting-nuclear-power-simply-cant-be-serious/

Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Political Hypocrisy

Posted by whatyareckon on September 7, 2020
Posted in: Australia, Australian Federal Government, Biology, Drugs, Dubbo, New South Wales, Political, Politics. Leave a comment

During this China virus pandemic have you ever been told by a politician either on television or in print to wear a mask and to social distance. Well, they must have a rule for us peons and one for themselves!

The man on the right is our local state member in the New South Wales Parliament. He sends weekly updates telling us, the lowly citizen, what rules and regulations we are to follow during the China virus pandemic. Two of the BASIC RULES are wearing a mask and social distancing of one and one half meters. Hey, where’s the mask and social distancing in this photo? I am sure there is a good reason!

Then there is the push by politicians concerning the indigenous people and their wonderful way of life before the awful white man came on the scene. It is an endless message of government that the indigenous people still have a long way yet to catch up with the non-indigenous people in so many ways such as housing, education and health. So, that brings me to this. In our town of Dubbo, New South Wales, the state government is building a new hospital. Now, the government MUST have a lot of money for they paid someone to make a mural of various indigenous bush medicine! Yes, bush medicine on a mural in front of a hospital!! According to Webster’s 1828 Dictionary this is the primary meaning of hospital.

HOS’PITAL, noun [Latin hospitalis, supra.]

1. A building appropriated for the reception of sick, infirm and helpless paupers, who are supported and nursed by charity; also, a house for the reception of insane persons, whether paupers or not, or for seamen, soldiers, foundlings, etc. who are supported by the public, or by private charity, or for infected persons, etc.

Now, think about it! How is it the PC politicians think these indigenous people had such a fabulous knowledge of bush medicine for their health before the terrible white man came on the scene BUT today they need a white man’s place of medicine?! Not only that but the PC politician spends tax dollars to show the terrible white man the terrific medicine the indigenous person had before the terrible white man came on the scene!

All of this can only make sense to someone who has swallowed the PC poison! I have written the local member asking what this mural cost the tax payer but surprise, surprise, no answer yet!

The mural of indigenous Bush Medicine paid for by tax payers in front of the new hospital. Hopefully, the doctors in the hospital will be using the medical science of today.

The point of all this is that firstly, politicians seem to give orders BUT do not feel the need to obey the same. Secondly, if the medicine of the indigenous people was so good why spend the millions on a white mans building called hospitals?

Am I expecting anything to really come of all this? Not really for who in government really listens?

Renewables, Politicians & Lies

Posted by whatyareckon on September 4, 2020
Posted in: Australia, Australian Federal Government, Climate, Creation, Dubbo, Economics, Education, Elections, Federal Government, Freedom, Global Warming, Government, New South Wales, Political, Politics, Religion, Science, Seasons, weather. Leave a comment

Politicians will have a LOT to answer for in ten years time when it comes to daily energy via the electric grid. Of course by then they will be in retirement and still living off the tax dollar. However, I digress, here in Australia the two major political parties MUST be in bed with someone who has shares in wind turbines and solar panels. The Federal and state governments are pouring billions into these holes. In Queensland there is one brave journalist who has forced the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) ‘…to face truth about curtailment capers with the grid
Catallaxy Files
Cardimona
26 August 2020

If you’re a wage slave at a left-wing newspaper (BIRM) you probably, literally, can’t afford to rock the boat, so I dips me lid to Tony Raggatt at the Townsville Bulletin. Well done, that man.

From today’s print edition…

POWER CUT SYSTEM FAULT    TONY RAGGATT  Ergon denies load shedding

A SYSTEM fault led to a lowcost electricity tariff supplying power throughout regional Queensland being inadvertently switched off, distributor and retailer Ergon Energy says.

Ergon was commenting after consumers raised concern about the outage, which lasted for about eight hours on Sunday.

The residential Tariff 33 is an interruptible supply used by consumers to cut the cost of their electricity bills but which is normally available for a minimum of 18 hours each day.

It is commonly used for pool pumps, hot water systems and air conditioners.

On Sunday, consumers complained in Facebook posts about not being able to use their air conditioners at a time when the air was thick with smoke from fires.

Some also questioned whether authorities were load shedding – cutting power to protect system security or mitigate damage to infrastructure.

But a spokeswoman for Ergon said the cutting of Tariff 33 was a system fault and not load shedding.

“For customers connected to Tariff 33 in regional Queensland, a system fault led to the tariff being inadvertently switched off for a number of hours,” an Ergon spokeswoman said.

“Tariff 33 channels were progressively restored throughout the day, with all channels returned to normal by 3.30pm.”

The spokeswoman said technical experts were investigating the cause of the fault, which had not occurred before.

Consumers on Facebook said the failure seemed odd at a time when demand on the system was low.

An independent candidate for the state seat of Hill, Tolga resident Peter Campion, said generation records showed the outputs of the Mount Emerald wind farm and the Sun Metals solar farm in North Queensland had been curtailed this month well below capacity.

Mr Campion said the reason for this was that one of the units of Rockhampton’s Stanwell coal-fired power station was offline and the level of intermittent power needed to be cut to maintain system stability.

A spokeswoman for regulator the Australian Energy Market Operator confirmed the reliance on coal-fired power but not Stanwell’s role.

“In order for inverter-based generation to be able to generate at full capacity in central and North Queensland – wind and solar farms including Sun Metals solar farm – a minimum amount synchronous generation – typically coal, hydro and gas power stations – must be online,” the spokeswoman said. [well that is something, they got to mention to the c word].

“The limits for inverter based generation depend on the specific combination of synchronous generators online at the time.”

In plainer language, the system is rooted if you allow access for too much unreliable energy and there is not enough coal power.’https://stopthesethings.com/2020/09/02/re-enthusiasm-curbed-grid-manager-shutting-off-wind-solar-to-prevent-mass-blackouts/

Selling Out the Australian Voter

Posted by whatyareckon on July 15, 2020
Posted in: Australia, Australian Federal Government, Climate, Dubbo, Education, Elections, Federal Government, Freedom, Global Warming, Liberty, Life, Nuclear, Political, Politics, Religion, Science. Leave a comment

Here in Australia the two major parties (Coalition & Labor) are pretty much alike when it comes to this scam of climate change. Today, in 2020 we have supposedly conservative governments in the Federal and the state of New South Wales. In 2019 the Federal government basically won the election due to the climate change scare of the Labor Party. The PM even took a piece of coal into Parliament to make a positive point for fossil fuels. The voters saw the Labor party’s love with renewables as a disaster for the nation and the Coalition won by a landslide.

Well, were we the voters dumb. Here’s why. The ‘NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean has championed the state’s $2 billion energy deal with the Commonwealth as a “massive green deal”, which marked a new consensus within the Coalition on tackling climate change.’ https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/massive-green-deal-nsw-environment-minister-spruiks-2-billion-energy-package-20200131-p53wgg.html

NSW Energy and Environment Minister Matt Kean says the $2 billion energy agreement with the federal government is a “massive green deal”. CREDIT:AAP

That $2 billion is now ‘…the landmark $3 billion energy deal struck with the federal government.’ https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/environment-minister-matt-kean-poaches-deputy-premier-s-ex-chief-of-staff-20200130-p53w5b.html

When governments get too big for their britches they think they can spend tax dollars anyway they wish. It doesn’t matter what the people who pay for this think, they the government also known as public servants, know best.

Common sense tells us solar only works when the sun shines. Wind turbines only produce when the wind blows. Duh!

What rational mind would even think of doing what these climate change religionists do? For instance in Scotland ‘Sutherland windfarm operators paid a total of £63m to turn off turbines‘. https://stopthesethings.com/2020/07/14/worlds-biggest-scams-scotlands-wind-farms-paid-650000000-to-not-produce-power/

If any of my readers live in Australia contact your local state member and Federal member and let them know your thoughts on this renewable obsession. It will not be too many years and the energy grid will not be able to supply the needed energy.

Dubbo Regional Council, Mark Riley, Tax Dollars & the Pride Parade

Posted by whatyareckon on November 18, 2017
Posted in: Australia, Dubbo, Uncategorized. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Leave a comment

‘Dubbo Regional Council is an official supporter of the third and 2017 Central WestDubbo Regional Council Pride March…‘http://www.dailyliberal.com.au/story/5063094/rainbow-flag-wont-be-hoisted-at-city-hall-on-saturday-videos/?cs=112

This whole sodomite (LGBTIQA) issue is very irratating to say the least. If these people wish to live that sort of unhealthy life then there is not much anyone can do but put up queerswith it. HOWEVER, must our taxes help pay for their parade?

Now, no one wants it to rain on their parade (well, that isn’t actually true)  but the point is they can have a parade if they want to pay for it BUT DON’T USE TAX MONEY TO PAY FOR IT! 

Wake up Dubbo Regional Council!!! The Dubbo Regional Council general manager, Mark Riley, says Dubbo Council will look to promote the Central West Pride March “well into the future”! It seems, according to Mr. Riley, Council has money for a LGBTIQA parade but fixing roads; well, that’s another matter. Hopefully no one in the LGBTIQA parade falls into a pot hole and then more tax money will be paid out for damages!

Oh, by the way, next years Pride Parade expenses can come out of your pocket Mr Riley!

Mark Riley

Mr Mark Riley, Dubbo Regional Council general manager

Not only is it a waste of taxpaer’s money to promote this type of parade but this lifestyle is ‘unseemly’. Romans 1:27 ‘And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly (indecent, shameful)…’ 

THEY DIDN’T ASK ME!

Posted by whatyareckon on October 31, 2015
Posted in: Australia, Dubbo, Homosexuality, Pride, Sin. Tagged: , , , , , . Leave a comment

Dubbo CBD

I have always loved living in a rural location where the traffic is bearable, people are usually more friendly and the pace of life is much slower than in a big city such as Sydney. Nevertheless, the big city’s tentacles reach even to the rural location in which I live via the homosexual agenda.

Never, NEVER in all my 70 years on this earth have I asked someone if they were heterosexual or homosexual. I never thought it was something a normal, cultured person would ask another person. Well, that doesn’t fit the homosexual agenda. Those of that ilk believe they MUST inform everyone what their sexual preferences are or are not and that everyone they tell must either accept their preferences or just say nothing! In other words be quiet if you do not agree for if you don’t agree you are hateful, bigoted, and homophobic. This is said even though the homosexual lifestyle HAS NEVER been THE NORM in Western culture and for good reason! In fact the homosexual act was once called sodomy and punishable by law but regrettably the act of sodomy was decriminalized in New South Wales, Australia in 1984. Since then there has been much pressure put onto the public to accept it as NORMAL. Well, as you can probably tell by now I do not accept this lifestyle as NORMAL!

Even though I disagree with the homosexual lifestyle the town in which I reside had an “…explosion of colour travelling down Macquarie Street to Ollie Robbins Oval alongside banners such as “love has no gender and maybe I don’t either”. The young, old and four-legged marched to celebrate diversity and the growing support for Dubbo’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, questioning and asexual (LGTBIQA) people.” Yes, according to the local paper it was quite a party! http://www.dailyliberal.com.au/story/3460580/rainbow-shining-through-the-rain-photos/?cs=111#slide=1

The spokesperson for this sexually diverse perverted group said that in spite of the rain “…people came out of their shops and there were people who stopped on the street. It was just a really positive response to the whole day.”

This “…pride march is believed to be the first held in western NSW, and Mr Steepe said the plan was for it to be held every year.” This was a PRIDE MARCH or one might say it was a march in which the people marching were full of PRIDE! It is interesting that Proverbs 8:13 says “The fear of the LORD is to hate…pride…” Then in Proverbs 16:18 we read that “Pride goeth before destruction…” Then in  James 4:6 we are told that “…God resisteth the proud…”

Now we come to the part that prompted the title to this paper. The spokesperson for this group of prideful perverted people said “I’ve spoken to the community and they’re so excited for it to be an annual thing.” Did this spokesperson exaggerate when he said he spoke “to the community” and found that they were “so excited it to be an annual thing”?  Dubbo is a fairly large community so that would have taken some time to do. Whatever he meant when he said he “spoke to the community” he didn’t speak to me! He didn’t speak to my wife! He didn’t speak to my son! He didn’t speak to my daughter-in-law!

If he had spoken to me he would have heard the truth. I was not excited about this parade and I am not afraid of homosexuals so therefore I am not homophobic. However, I do not agree with their lifestyle. That lifestyle is immoral, repulsive and unsanitary.  That lifestyle has brought HIV/Aids into our society affecting not only homosexuals but heterosexuals through blood transfusions.

The homosexual lifestyle is condemned in the Bible along with all those who are “unrighteous” “fornicators” “idolaters” “adulterers”  “thieves” “covetous” “drunkards” “revilers” or “extortioners” 1 Corinthians 6:9,10. As with all men the homosexual must personally repent of their sins and turn by faith to the person and finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

In closing there were several statements in the article that caught my attention but one that really struck a chord with me is “There was only one negative comment about the event- it was on the same day as Derby Day.” Is that NOT sad and sickening? There was only ONE NEGATIVE COMMENT concerning this parade of perverted prideful people and it had NOTHING to do with their lifestyle?! What does this say about the future of our community and country?