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The New South Wales government keeps moving the goal posts for the unclean non-vaccinated citizens. Now, ‘Unvaccinated New South Wales residents will have to wait up to another two weeks before they can enjoy the same freedoms as the vaccinated after the government pushed back the reopening date for those who are unprotected from the highly infectious virus.
People who have not received a dose of the coronavirus vaccine will need to wait till December 15, two weeks later than the initial December 1 plan, or when the state reaches 95 per cent fully vaccinated, to enjoy the same freedoms.
“We have always wanted to open up in a measured way and we have seen an extraordinary effort from people across our state and ultimately from the outset,” NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet told the press conference on Tuesday morning.
“We have said, we put a roadmap in place, we wanted to stick to that roadmap as much as we could but ultimately, in circumstances where people have made an extraordinary effort across our state we have been able to move some of those changes forward.”
He said he hoped to “incentivise” the unvaccinated population to roll their sleeves up by moving the date back a further two weeks or until 95 per cent are double dosed.
Mr Perrottet said the decision to bring forward a further easing of restrictions, three weeks earlier to Monday November 8, for millions of inoculated residents was to “look after people right across the state” but added it was being done “cautiously”.
Revellers will be able to hit night clubs again with dance floors reopening.
The one per person per four square metres will be reduced to one person per two square metres in most settings, including hospitality, and capacity limits will be lifted across all settings except gym classes, which will remain at 20 per class.
Major recreation and stadiums will be able to operate under 100 per cent fixed-seat capacity.
People with medical exemptions and children under the age of 16 will also be able to participate in the early easing of restrictions.
Across the state, 93.6 per cent of the eligible population have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 87.8 per cent are fully vaccinated.
Chief Health Officer Doctor Kerry Chant urged fully vaccinated residents to come forward for their booster shot if their second jab was administered six months ago.
“Please go get your booster dose if you have had your vaccine over six months ago. It is critical that you present as quickly as possible to get that booster,” she said.
“We know that the evidence is very strong that there is some degree of waning immunity and having that vaccine at six months will really enable you to have the greatest protection and that is critical as we anticipate that COVID case numbers will increase in coming weeks, months.”
However she warned people who are living with underlying health conditions to check with their doctor to determine whether they need a third dose.
Four people in NSW died with coronavirus including four men – two in their 50s, one in his 60s and one in their 70s.
Three had received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and one was fully vaccinated.’https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/coronavirus/watch-live-nsw-premier-makes-new-covid19-roadmap-announcement/news-story/b3bccfa6494bd96529bd32cd27c55aa6?utm_source=SkyNews&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Editorial&utm_content=SN_DAILY_PM_01&net_sub_id=282058248&type=curated&position=1&overallPos=1
‘Like MPs from other political parties, the Nationals are motivated by self-interest with rare infusions of the public interest represented by Matthew Canavan and few others. Apparently, enough rural MPs have been persuaded by opinion research purporting to show that rural seats’ voters believe the loud voices declaring “net zero” will be good for the regions. Others realise that any funding and regulatory compensations offered for sacrificing mining and farming would be meagre.
Deputy Nationals leader David David Littleproud says that cast iron guarantees can be offered to protect regional Australia. He claims the Nationals have triumphed in “securing but also growing regional jobs into the future.” This is absurd.’https://spectator.com.au/2021/10/nats-fold-cop26-glasgow/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MDS%20%2020211025%20%20GK&utm_content=MDS%20%2020211025%20%20GK+CID_c0d4a136b33c6ab052300168e05b5490&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=ScoMo%20net%20zero%20and%20that%20deal%20%20and%20the%20death%20of%20the%20Nationals
The New South Wales government is supposed to be a conservative but their actions speak volumes to the fact they are NOT! Oh, well when you are spending someone else’s money what’s the fuss?
‘The NSW Department of Education has blown $35,000 on ‘culturally safe yarning circles’ funded by taxpayers.
The department’s Parramatta offices had a costly refurb aimed at providing a ‘culturally safe work space’ with guidance from its ‘Aboriginal education team’.
The meeting room features indigenous art on stools, didgeridoos, and $5,000 worth of window glazing with Aboriginal designs.
The Department’s Parramatta offices have undergone the costly refurb, aimed at providing a ‘culturally safe work space,’ with guidance from the Aboriginal Education Team.
The meeting room features indigenous art on stools, didgeridoos and $5000 worth of window glazing with Aboriginal designs
One Nation NSW leader Mark Latham said the cash splash was ‘self-indulgent’ of the department, The Daily Telegraph reports.
‘It is ridiculous and unnecessary to create a culturally safe yarning circle,’ he said.
‘How many people in the Department of Education Parramatta offices would feel unsafe with an indigenous background? You would think it would be the most accommodating of workplace environments.’
Mr Latham said the department should be focusing on education policy amid reports NSW has the fasted falling school results in the world.
However, NSW Education Secretary Mark Scott hit back at claims it was a waste of money, and said ‘conference rooms require furniture’.
‘It’s not unusual for organisations to have themed work spaces,’ he said.
Education Minister Sarah Mitchell said the total cost of the furniture for the ‘large-scale, multipurpose conference room’ was $29,226.40 plus GST, and the window glazing came to $4641.98 plus GST.
Social media users also slammed the revamp as a waste of taxpayer dollars, saying the new room looked like it was designed for Kath and Kim.’https://www.fresh24news.com/2021/01/28/department-of-education-blows-35000-on-culturally-safe-yarning-circle/
Australia USED to have some of the cheapest energy in the world but no longer due to trying to save the planet from climate change! Australia can sell coal to China, India and Japan BUT will not use it in Australia because we feel better about ourselves when we are spending lots more for energy while saving the planet! What a joke!
Even the supposedly thought to be ‘conservatives’ have sold the country down the climate scam hole from which there will soon be no return! In spite of being a supposed free democracy all we seem to get at elections are these people who talk jobs and low energy prices but at the same time have swallowed the climate change Kool Aid and seem bound and determined to continue the Green New deal without being in the Greens Party! In other words they lie at election time. Now, ‘Energy Minister Angus Taylor says Australia’s “great challenge” is to bring down and contain energy prices and at the same time bring down emissions. Mr Taylor and Prime Minister Scott Morrison are in Tasmania to formally sign an agreement making the state the battery of the nation. Under the plan $94 million will be invested to build a second power interconnector to Victoria. “That’s exactly what this project is doing. We’re seeing dramatic investment right now across Australia in solar and wind. $9 billion last year,” Mr Taylor said. “And that’s in keeping with dramatic reductions we’re seeing in emissions. The challenge of that is to make sure we have firm, reliable power and we contain prices when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. That’s exactly what hydro projects can do. “When the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine, you need a solution and Tasmania has part of that solution which is very exciting for all of us here.”’https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6216267512001?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Sky%20News%20Australia%20%20Newsletter&utm_content=Daily%20Sky%20News%20Australia%20%20Newsletter+CID_7134b2b086947a3f89e1d037be7b10ad&utm_source=Daily%20newsletter&utm_term=Australias%20great%20challenge%20is%20to%20bring%20down%20energy%20prices%20emissions
Politics in Australia is much like that in the USA except the USA has had the good fortune of having Donald J. Trump for four years and Australia hasn’t! After the Coalition here in Australia threw out true conservative Tony Abbott from being PM the Coalition put left leaning in the wind Turnbull. By the way, Turnbull should be thrown out of the Liberal Party altogether and when Turnbull was put out to pasture Australia was given Scott Morrison. What a prize! Morrison is just barely a smidgen better than Turnbull but he is better. Nevertheless, even though Morrison and much of his party claim to be center right the following article points out how these make believe conservatives show exactly what they are by their appointments to unelected positions of authority. Those appointments are one of the many reasons why Australia finds itself in the position it is in today! For example ‘Why is it that left-wing political parties are so good at ruthlessly appointing like-minded fellow travellers to all the key unelected positions that matter such as the Human Rights Commissions, the public broadcaster, the judiciary, the various other commissions and tribunals and so on? And relatedly, why is it that supposedly right-wing parties and governments like the current Coalition government in Canberra are not?
It’s an interesting question because we can see this phenomenon of conservative pusillanimity and surrender in appointments across the anglosphere. Indeed, this issue has been exercising the British commentator Douglas Murray who earlier this year argued forcefully that newly re-elected conservative governments must be far more courageous in how they make their appointments to all the key positions across government. But looking at the last seven years of Coalition governments here in Australia – from the Abbott government through the Turnbull government now on to the Morrison one – all anyone on the right side of politics can observe is near-on total surrender. Cowardly appointment after cowardly appointment, all of them seemingly more concerned to stay on the good side of the ABC (good luck with that!) than of its core supporters.
The question was intriguing enough that I took it as the theme for my chapter in a new book Keeping Australia Right (just out so order away) that brought together 15 different authors who each contributed a chapter on themes ranging from immigration (we need less, way less after Covid), to energy (it’s been the Libs almost as much as Labor that have taken us from the democratic world’s cheapest electricity 15 years ago to its most expensive today, and all in the name of virtue-signalling), labour relations (too depressing to think about), economic policy and more. The book is published by Connor Court, an outfit that unlike all the university publishers does not receive a penny of government money and that helps those on the right side of politics have an outlet for their views.
At any rate, in my chapter I looked at this theme of ‘appointments and courage’ because the one thing you never see from virtually any conservative government is courage when it comes to appointments. It’s almost as if they’d much prefer to appoint their ideological enemies to these key unelected positions than anyone who might, you know, actually vote for them and share their core beliefs – and yes, I know, it is a leap to suppose that many of today’s supposedly conservative politicians have those, or indeed any, beliefs but let’s be generous. And yes, I know it’s just as bad in Britain as it is here but really that is hardly an excuse. After all, this is a core part of the culture wars we are losing and this should be one of the easiest things to turn around, given that none of these appointments needs to go through the Senate. Yet in seven years the record is exiguous at best. Try it. Try to point to a single staunch conservative appointed to anything. Go ahead. But me no Buttroses though.
And to make that point in my chapter I run the reader through recent Coalition appointments to the High Court. I point out how wholly useless the Coalition has been in their appointments to the Human Rights Commission (which in my view should be disbanded immediately, but if that’s too brave an option for them at least don’t appoint ‘Freedom Commissioners’ whom the Greens could have chosen and who do not exactly light up the airwaves on behalf of free speech or against s.18C hate speech laws or in condemnation of Dan the Man in Victoria – and this is a Coalition pick to be clear). I also mention woeful appointments to the ABC. I note that for the government that effectively bankrolls all the universities you’d be hard-pressed to name a single, solitary vice-chancellor or deputy vice-chancellor (leave aside those in charge of ‘Diversity and Equity’ to be sporting) who has right-of-centre views. Of course as all surveys throughout the anglosphere repeatedly show, university academics vote left more than right by huge margins, upwards of 8 or 9 to 1 at a minimum. In some university departments and schools you can’t find a single conservative willing to come out of the closet, assuming any exist at all.
I suppose somebody must already have pointed out to Team ScoMo that you can’t win the culture wars if you don’t even turn up to fight them. Appeasement doesn’t work. One of the things I loved about Donald Trump, and that so many effete conservatives disliked, is that he actually did fight back. Sure that’s hard to do when so much of the public service, media class, lawyerly caste and academia leans so massively left and will do near on anything to stop you. But what Trump has done is to flush out the appeasers in his own Republican party. It is hard to see any future Republican nominee or new Senate or gubernatorial candidate being successful who does not commit to the Trump-like willingness to fight back against cancel culture, political correctness, patent media bias and having left- wing nostrums shoved down our throats, not to mention committing to a public list from which all top judicial picks will be made. (And though you may instinctively dislike such lists let me tell you that what they do is to keep the right side of politics honest. In my view the majority of recent High Court of Australia appointments made by the Coalition these past seven years could never have been made had there been a list and these people’s names put on the list beforehand – because you can say things before someone’s appointed that you can’t say afterwards.)
Remember O’Sullivan’s Law coined by Maggie Thatcher’s speechwriter John O’Sullivan: ‘Any organisation or enterprise [in today’s world] that is not expressly right-wing will become left-wing over time.’ Then go and take a look at the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney set up by John Howard where (as far as I could tell) not a single one of the many academics there supported Trump, not one. Or even take a look at where the Ramsay Centre seems to be moving of late. Or look at the Liberal MPs who come out of right-leaning think-tanks only to turn to mush once elected. Heck, take a look at the upper echelons of much of our military. Where, oh where, in this country is the courage in appointments that Douglas Murray is calling for? I can’t see it. Can you?’https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/12/fighting-back-with-conservative-appointments/
The supposedly conservative Coalition Federal government of Australia is selling its citizens into financial poverty through its belief that it can change the climate! Billions of tax dollars thrown down the renewable hole while electricity prices go through the roof and the grid ruined. It wasn’t that long ago that the present PM took a lump of coal into Parliament to prove some point but has not since pushed for the building of even one new coal power station. Rather than waking up to the climate scam lie the make believe conservatives take the nation with them to ruin by taking a ‘…strong domestic and international action to reduce emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate change. Our Foreign Policy White Paper recognises the challenges that climate change will increasingly present in the coming years, and the economic opportunities in the transition to a low emissions global economy. Given the growing challenges to sustainable development presented by climate change, the White Paper also highlighted that responding to climate change will continue to be a priority for Australia’s development assistance.
An effective response to climate change requires collective action by all countries and sectors. Recognising this, Australia contributes to action under multilateral platforms including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Montreal Protocol, the International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Maritime Organization.
As chair of the “Umbrella Group” of countries, Australia played a constructive role in negotiations under the UNFCCC to reach the historic Paris Agreement in 2015, and the package of rules for its implementation at Katowice, Poland in 2018. Under the Paris Agreement, Australia has committed to reduce emissions by 26-28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. This builds on our target under the Kyoto Protocol to reduce emissions by five per cent below 2000 levels by 2020. Independent economic modelling for Australia’s 2030 target, led by Professor Warwick McKibbin.
Australia’s targets will be met through a comprehensive policy suite to reduce emissions, encourage technological innovation and expand our clean energy sector. Australia will complete a Long Term Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Strategy in 2020. More information about Australia’s domestic mitigation efforts can be found at the Department of the Environment and Energy. Information about Australia’s adaptation efforts can be found at the website of the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment.
As well as taking action at home, Australia is supporting other countries to reduce their emissions, build resilience and adapt to the impacts of climate change. The Government will achieve its 2015 commitment of providing at least $1 billion in climate development assistance for developing countries from 2015–2020 from the Australian aid program, including$300 million over four years for climate change and disaster resilience in the Pacific. In August 2019, Prime Minister Morrison announced a further $500 million over five years from 2020 to help Pacific nations invest in renewable energy and climate and disaster resilience. Australia’s support for climate action through our development program over 2020-25 will be guided by our Climate Change Action Strategy, released in November 2019.
Australia is leading global partnerships to protect rainforests such as the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Partnership and marine ecosystems, including the International Coral Reef Initiative and the International Partnership for Blue Carbon. We are also building capacity in measurement, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas mitigation, and support for the development of blue carbon inventories.
Australia’s world-leading climate research capabilities continue to make globally recognised contributions to climate science, helping the world to understand the way the climate is changing and the impacts we need to manage.’https://www.dfat.gov.au/international-relations/themes/climate-change/Pages/climate-change
Our politicians are selling us down the muddy climate scam river to financial ruin. It will not be too long until keeping warm in the winter and cool in the summer will be a luxury that many will not be able to afford. Why? Because of the climate scam lie and our politicians pushing that lie through pouring billions of tax payer dollars in renewable subsidies. I regularly protest to my local members via email concerning this issue and this is one of the most recent emails to those members.
‘Just spent time looking at many of the Federal government web sites on climate change such as About the Authority | Climate Change Authority. This coalition government has swallowed the climate change poison and is out to poison the rest of the citizenry. When the next election comes hopefully there will be a party that has not drank from the same poisonous well so we will truly have a choice rather than two major parties heading the nation to economic destruction. https://www.industry.gov.au/strategies-for-the-future/australias-climate-change-strategies#leading-domestic-climate-change-policy‘
The United States is voting today for their freedom! Yes, their freedom because if Sleepy Joe wins individual freedom as once known is gone. Islam and Marxism will be the new guys on the block!
Here in Australia we have a couple of years before another Federal election. However, there isn’t a real big choice here when it comes to the major parties. The supposedly conservatives, Liberal/Nationals, are simply socialist Labor/Green lite. So many on both sides have succumbed to the Chinese and their money.
However, it is not only the Chinese that is a worry with our Australian politicians but also the culture war. For instance Liberal Prime Minister Morrison and his government have failed miserably in many many areas of which one ‘…is against the transgender ideology. In June, Health Minister Greg Hunt refused to support a joint federal/state inquiry into what advice is being given by gender clinics to parents of young children and to young people under 18 presenting for treatment. As noted by Moira Deeming in this publication, the increasing numbers of children and young people presenting to gender clinics is very concerning. The Royal Children’s Hospital’s Gender Service, Melbourne reported a 250-fold increase in new referrals to their service between 2003 and 2017 – from 1 to 250. Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory have now made “gender conversion” practices illegal. Victoria will soon follow suit. This is despite the evidence provided by a significant majority of medical professionals that almost all affected children will revert to an identity congruent with chromosomes through puberty. All that is needed in the great majority of cases is ‘watchful waiting’ in expectation of natural reversion, supported by individual and family counselling, and appropriate administration of psychiatric care. This view is supported by many individuals who have experienced a positive change from properly given and appropriate therapy. Under the above-mentioned legislation, access to such therapy will be denied and anyone with influence involved in a child’s life risks incarceration if they do not embrace “affirmative therapy”.
Why then is the government — and the Prime Minister in particular — so hostile to the exercise of fundamental freedoms?
To find a possible answer, we must go back as far as March 2017, when he was Treasurer in the Turnbull government. At this time, attempts were being made to amend section 18C of the Commonwealth Racial Discrimination Act 1975, which prohibits an act that is reasonably likely to “offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate” someone because of their race or ethnicity. It had been Coalition policy to either repeal this law or amend it significantly, since it infringes the implied right in the Australian Constitution of freedom of political communication given that the language and emotions 18C targets – offence, insult and humiliation – go far beyond what is required in the international treaties most directly supporting this Act, they being the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).
During the debate on the legislation to amend the Act, Morrison told The Sydney Morning Herald that changing section 18C would not help reduce unemployment or improve any other economic metric. He said at the time: “As a senior figure in this government … I know this issue doesn’t create one job, doesn’t open one business, doesn’t give anyone one extra hour. It doesn’t make housing more affordable or energy more affordable. I don’t see any intersection between that issue and those priorities.”
Well, as we have seen this year, oppressive measures to counter coronavirus which have failed to protect those most vulnerable and the Prime Minister’s support for them, have created economic disaster and numbers of unemployed not seen since the early 1990s. The fact is that this appalling result has been achieved with authoritarian provisions in denying the fundamental human rights of Australians, yet at the same time expecting their total obedience and acquiescence. M
The Prime Minister’s weak criticism of the Victorian government in the parliament while at the same time justifying is actions is consistent with that of a man who has in the past displayed his authoritarian tendencies on several occasions.
Scott Morrison’s gratitude for the ‘quiet Australians’ who returned his government can only be described as hollow words by a hollow man. I would go so far as to argue that, as Australia faces its biggest economic and social crisis since World War II, the biggest threat, along with Dictator Dan, to our democracy, the freedoms that underpin it, along with the physical, economic and social well-being of Australians, is in fact the Prime Minister himself.’https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/10/scott-morrison-dismal-with-daniel-andrews-feeble-on-freedom/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FLAT%20%2020201102%20%20AL&utm_content=FLAT%20%2020201102%20%20AL+CID_901f08e715bf311aa0c7b813ed70b327&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=Rocco%20Loiacono
I encourage you to click the above link to read the entire article.
TRUST ME IT WILL GET BETTER SOMEDAY!!
Australia will be going to the polls this Saturday, 2 July. There are two major parties in Australia, the Labor Party and the Liberal/Nationals (Coalition) Party. One of the “funniest” things I have read so far is the Labor Party acknowledging they will run the country in the red the first few years BUT it will come good in the future. A family or company couldn’t operate this way but there again we aren’t talking about someone who is accountable for their budget; are we?
“A Labor government would leave the federal budget $16.4 billion worse off if it wins the July 2 election, but maintains it would match the Coalition and return to surplus by 2020-21.”
“In the near term, Labor would have a $39.5 billion deficit in 2016-17 compared to the $37.1 billion predicted by Treasury and the Department of Finance in the pre-election economic and fiscal outlook.
By 2019-20 the deficit will be $11.3 billion, compared to $5.9 billion under the coalition.
Labor will also use almost $3 billion from the Coalition’s superannuation changes, without committing to adopting the policy.
Mr Bowen said Labor would deliver $10.5 billion in savings over the next decade, bringing its total budget improvements to more than $130 billion.” http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2016/06/26/labor-election-costings/?utm_source=Responsys&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20160627_TND
Oh, by the way, I have a bridge for sale in San Francisco.
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