tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59737692011-07-18T14:57:54.034+10:00Are our leaders listening? Post here to get to the heart of Australia from Australians journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comBlogger451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-13762053339561014212011-06-21T11:36:00.000+10:002011-06-21T11:36:25.594+10:00

MPCCC think they can name the innovation - oh dear! we will all see how clever they really are in a week or so . Another dumb and dark moment in Australia , the not so clever history of patronising rather than supporting its innovators with the objective science of sustainability. Our parliament has failed to even name the problem . No wonder Greenlabor can get so far out of touch .

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-79316395860852614852010-04-29T11:49:00.002+10:002010-04-29T12:05:38.010+10:00

Yesterday's Australian had Kevin Rudd in its sights . Laborites unhappy with all the political wussiness need to remember only one thing . Most of it comes clearly from Cabinet . Wongs grand entourage wanders while Labor's reputation for talking simple kindergarten nonsense burns holes in every roof they try to cover . If you think about it , Rudd might have said something about climate change ,

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-69764706122938732942008-11-27T12:56:00.002+11:002008-11-27T13:00:02.764+11:00

Real leaders can say No- especially when the children get a bit noisy.and especially when times are tough .But to act well in a household you have got to understand it how ecomia works . How the childlike need to be dealt with. Nothing undermines Labors credibility than their widespread inability to deal with the childlike; those who have to have their own way, whatever the cost. Roxon gives in

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-18241679561964097602007-12-06T13:12:00.000+11:002007-12-06T13:27:12.049+11:00

To sign Kyoto so early . He could have waited till July when the power really kicks in ? Perhaps he did what the fearmongers wanted him to do and signed Kyoto in a rush . Will he prove to be his own man, or just a puppet for the dark greens? Why doesn't he put his money where his mouth was and take stock first Should he have waited till he had political authority to change energy investments

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-30530201510675997222007-12-06T11:44:00.000+11:002007-12-06T11:48:55.516+11:00

Conservatives may have the deeper bath in which to splash, but were they swimming on top when the election came ? The big problem on the party’s part seems to be a lack of awareness of their own complacency and your failure to dig deep into the foundations that still drive both sides of politics to mine the conservatives traditional territory .

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-18622183660720115862007-11-23T10:19:00.000+11:002007-11-23T10:55:21.378+11:00

Nothing undermines liberal party credibility more than its failure to use the last 11 years to do what its world view said it should do - make governance work more efficiently . So what drives the growing bureaucracy and father and motherhood gift giving ; the sort of stuffup that drives those of us that used to work for the public service mad and often out --- in short its their Project and

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1175720905619503272007-04-05T06:45:00.000+10:002007-04-05T07:08:25.630+10:00

Mr Turnbull types are just what Howards team needs . Persons who are confident and who do not let the complex issues of governance get in the road of solving them - get through " the stuff " types . He knows a lot about water - lots more than Treasury do it seems - he's strong enough to go out into the catchmnets and procliam the gospel of "we can do all things through the treasury who doth

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1172060969268111712007-02-21T22:46:00.000+11:002007-02-21T23:29:29.283+11:00

Howards team are making us all feel very nervous by talking up the need for the need for consistency . We are at war-- are we? . diversity is not important and control is of critical importance???? Abbott and Bishop are pressing the point too much - against our better judgement . Some of us will vote for the public service doctrines of the opposition rather than the simple private service

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1164161865279939392006-11-22T12:56:00.000+11:002006-11-22T13:17:45.293+11:00

Bern have you seen how they are trying to improve the skills of average australians ?Sir H you mean that point by point pendantry that is NTIS?Bern Not that bad is it ?Sirh well U ask anyone whose got any experience post grad what they think of it ?Bern useful in parts PM Thats the only way to limit the power of the bureaubrats - let the get lost in the detail SirH well the NTIS is not to be

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1163030099782348362006-11-09T10:53:00.000+11:002006-11-09T10:54:59.793+11:00

I am not worried, but it seems the majority of Australians are. That's a real worry! They woory too much but how do you calm them down ?

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1156550700787811622006-08-26T10:03:00.000+10:002006-08-26T10:05:00.796+10:00

IDEAS ARE EVERYTHING Grahame morris made the point very wellon LATELINE last night , but is anyone in the major parties really listening .Not a chance as both he and Rod pointed OUT!Even Ms MCue was concentrating on pressing HER view . Maybe people who KNOW are not being heard? . Go to blogs man There have got to be areas of "on the nose" ideas and actions that don't work--- why haven't the

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1155465572255041562006-08-13T20:30:00.000+10:002006-08-13T20:39:32.266+10:00

Why, when an issue is about to split the parliament, don't we know what the issue really is . Are indonesians not treating their people fairly, or is the independance movement out of control . Why does amanda vanstone , who often sounds convincing, saying "we are helpless to manage the burdensome processes" of which SHE is in charge . I vote for more informnation - more blogging > Tell me

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1144716996904624532006-04-11T10:49:00.000+10:002006-04-11T10:56:36.913+10:00

Whatever happened to Ian Campbell, you say / . He like perhaps too the train of each party environmental ministers wants to pretend that you can get credit for pinning the tail on the donkey with a blindfold on . The greatest evil is being done in the name of environment . The safety paralient needs, it is eroding, by making a joke out the very things that scientifically and practically

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1144384838291324592006-04-07T14:30:00.000+10:002006-04-07T14:49:52.313+10:00

What ever happened to Hon Ian Campbell to make him think he would win by trumping the parrot . He clearly needs to look closely at his advisors and even those inthe states, as well as his own intentions. Broadly this nonsense shows that the disease of trumping is not dead and that govts have probaly benn slack at dealing with it since Mr Kennett first coind the trem . Trumping parrots is an

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1141340009169614192006-03-03T09:42:00.000+11:002006-03-03T09:53:29.180+11:00

Most of us like a bit of hearty debate, provided it's all out in the open. So,when Labor beats the same old drum as the conservatives, we know we are in trouble.The shadow minister for ag would rather join the chorus saying big business knows best when he could be at Vaille's ' simplistic "we will be blessed because we grow best "idealism will soon be undone. Nowhere was labors reactionary

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1139749966594677342006-02-12T23:58:00.000+11:002006-02-13T00:12:46.926+11:00

What a pack of wooses are those who follow like sheep the reactionary and pathetic shallow view that governments should not review the recommendations of scientific panels on the matter of who uses what drugs in Australia. A very symbolic day in parliament of Australia it is hard to imagine. The debate is not about RU486, or even the administration of death inducing drugs. but about the

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1130196465048079702005-10-25T09:24:00.000+10:002005-10-25T09:29:52.180+10:00

Free up everything - The attraction of simple ideas is understandable, if not acceptable to a society with a true respect for precision. Libs and Vailles rush to sell and standardize is sus, as Passmore pointed out 20yrs ago in his Boyer lecture series "It's entirely possible that all workers will lose and shareholders will gain; you have to be concerned about that," says Harvard University

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1125540050498328692005-09-01T11:53:00.000+10:002005-09-01T12:18:31.820+10:00

Nip it in the bud . While there is no easy out , Leaders who want to avoid being crucified by the media as Bronwyn and Lib leader have been ,need to use the net better . You have to learn to blog answers and see the other questions quickly - it will take time, but its worth it -----in five years time you watch !And the cuurent controllers in media will be seen to be what they are - seeking to

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1124240063043062042005-08-17T10:53:00.000+10:002005-08-17T10:54:23.050+10:00

"The free traders are losing Congress because they have lost the country. Every community," he says, "has now seen factories shut and jobs shifted overseas. A revolution," he said, "is brewing in the United Sates over the government's betrayal of working Americans."Well, our Federal Industry Minister, Ian Macfarlane, has summoned car and parts makers, unions and State Ministers, to Melbourne

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1123818531052382682005-08-12T13:46:00.000+10:002005-08-12T13:48:51.056+10:00

The church was in full voice when Barnaby walked through the door . How can any good thing come from northern Queensland? Time to have a good look at the facts Boys ---those who chant business and flat earth economists to make themselves feel comfortable . What would a country person know??? The truth , from experience, about complex risk and long term investment matters perhaps ? The chanters

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1123463847629892712005-08-08T11:15:00.000+10:002005-08-08T11:17:27.633+10:00

Who do you trust?This and other tough but critical questions deal with at Emperor's Academy

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1109560327636901612005-02-28T13:50:00.000+11:002005-02-28T14:31:04.346+11:00

WA --Libs Blow it again with blunt edged bulldozer tactics . promoting "the canal". The opposition could have HAD their cake and eaten it too - but NO they had to worship the machine in style as well as content and ignore the publics right desire for a sign of caution and cutting edge water conservation that really counts. http://cuttingedgeconservation.blogspot.comNoone expects to win the

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1108980856188242932005-02-21T21:08:00.000+11:002005-02-21T21:14:16.186+11:00

Thank God there is someone in the ACT like Doonan and the Stanhope government (Current coronial enquiry) who are prepared to stand up to the wishywashiness and imbalance that undermines labors cutting edge and still drives most of the old guard to simple half baked overly idealistic and impractical ideas hatched in their favoured bunker holes.( see stockadestate) Their presummed mentor Bernard

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1105066991479394632005-01-07T14:00:00.000+11:002005-01-07T14:03:11.480+11:00

Vic and Qld andthe Canberra followers can't believe people are so unaccepting of their brilliance on matters of new judicial process.- it may be more efficient but is it just . Take this eg from QLD The guilt of a person accused of a vegetation clearing offence under the VMA is determined not by a court but by an official. (The judicial trials mandated by Division 3 have no application to

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1097805532477320662004-10-15T11:58:00.000+10:002004-10-15T11:58:52.476+10:00

If there is one thing you need to learn from Labors disasterous polling on Saturday and Labor’s dumber than dumber following of the ever shifting greens agendas: If you stand with the superficial, you will soon lose your credibility- your right to govern will be taken from you because you refuse to listen to those who know what they are trained to do. Your options ? Be green, but ditch the

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1097462814016229852004-10-11T13:45:00.000+10:002004-10-11T12:46:54.016+10:00

Why did the media miss the family first story before the election, having to talk about it only when Forced to by the democratic process they wax lyrical on . One truth the media knows is that any publicity in the post modern world is " good" publicity. As control agents in their own predjudiced world view their only option was clear ? No much of an option really! Major parties are just as "

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1095252380932444672004-09-15T22:45:00.000+10:002004-09-15T22:46:20.933+10:00

There is nothing worse than not being understood . the city doesn't really understand the rural situation . This makes the up coming election a farce because the country is worn out calling for a real one nation and a real rural voice. we no longer have the energy to fight and one day the city will be more aware of it ! After a while when the family leaders do not listen, its no talk and high

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1089002741408229062004-07-05T14:32:00.000+10:002004-07-06T22:37:20.856+10:00

Ancient history Eh? - Mark Latham- some excuses? Its time for some ageing lefties to recognise that the dream of an eternal future for reactionary politics is over . It is childish to talk about it "not mattering what you believe and what you do as a result" - Find some consistent cultural roots or its - stuck in the muck and.... still feeding the pigs . Luke 15.

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1088085170347358312004-06-24T23:51:00.000+10:002004-06-24T23:52:50.346+10:00

Quick fix the MURRAY and the majority of our irrigation areas? What's the rush? If the States sign up on "Water" tommorrow, they will show themseleves superficial. Salt and sustainability are important issues to be addressed by competence and consensus . But there is no concensus. We have more than a year to reverse the damage of 200. Act in haste - repent at leisure.

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1087395080137634762004-06-17T00:08:00.000+10:002004-06-17T00:14:52.473+10:00

The place is hotting up-- but YOU GIVE YOURSELF AWAY you fearmongers! The day after tommorrow is nothing compared to the paranoia fear and exaggeration in the media over " pressing issues" Leaders are competing with each other to pronounce grander and grander visions of damnation and ruin . Must be an election coming as for Tim Flannery's figures on Perths catchments - He's like you-

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1086320887422652652004-06-04T13:40:00.000+10:002004-06-17T09:40:12.016+10:00

I can feel another white board fiasco coming on - The white knights on the environment now have a war strategy for the next thousand years . It comes by making a list and rubbing out the issues not obvious.

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1085395147472070122004-05-24T20:21:00.000+10:002004-05-24T20:45:33.000+10:00

Good polys,while they may not always agree with them, will usually listen to experts, especially experienced local ones. VEAC, for example would be full of experienced scientific and practical experts able to speak honestly and widely without the constraints of tight terms of reference, wouldn't they? When the likes of highly experienced researchers like Attwell, Hodgson and Packam

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1083549495078945532004-05-03T11:58:00.000+10:002004-05-03T13:10:15.590+10:00

Just how out of touch can Canberra get? In ecological terms, ( the olde frog and water story ) if you heat the water up with ONLY one important imperative like the competition imperative, you don't even know your killing people when everyone adjusts to the nice warmth of something held so simply in isolation? Ecological and economic systems die if ALL the forces aren't held in tension...

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1082344329477148992004-04-19T13:12:00.000+10:002004-04-19T13:16:12.186+10:00

Our polys think they are doing the right things----- the eco is going swimmingly according to the figures - well ecosystems ( basic econimic elements ) can be exploited and efficiency will kill em off - and then you too . Invest Long term and slow growth - too rdaical for you ? pity you don't want to question - crashes are avoided by slowing down! . Don't forget to get more deeply behind the

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1080333745847947602004-03-27T07:42:00.000+11:002004-03-27T09:48:36.746+11:00

Well done ABC - perhaps it was a bit obvious that Mark Latham is running off . Either way, keep on his tail -the " we were going to go anyway " explanation from latham yesterday was unconvincing . Sit down , beltup and hang on (emperors court.blogspot )

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1080158764904151012004-03-25T07:06:00.000+11:002004-03-27T09:47:33.060+11:00

Latham has "bigger things to think about"( re troops in Iraq) - like what Bob Brown thinks is important . Will be interesting by November /December whether the currently appealing quick fix approach of these two wannabes will be read as chasing the wind or reaping the whirlwind. I hope fellow Australias will see through their cheap tricks to get on tape !let alone the increasing fanatiscm of the

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1079653463581746622004-03-19T10:40:00.000+11:002004-03-19T10:52:41.466+11:00

Lets have a good meddle with land use issues ! There will be no effective uproar by those who act as custodians for our resources - after all they are irrelevant -at least politically ( http://fairgomate.blogspot.com) Polys have finally found something that doesn't matter ( but they still spend a lot of money and time on ) but on which they can pontificate .I say doesn't matter because

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1078789982371540062004-03-09T10:53:00.000+11:002004-03-09T10:56:08.043+11:00

Need a few clues as to why the country doesn't think you know what you are talking about Take the PM patronising talk to Northerners last week . he knows about accountancy --the two ledger kind . he knows about culture -the monocultural kind . http://users.gsat.net.au/tuf

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1078789403760144422004-03-09T10:43:00.000+11:002004-03-09T10:46:29.560+11:00

"They are very good people, they've worked very hard and they don't deserve what's happened to them," the PM said as he addressed sugar farmers in the marginal seats up north last week . Don't you hate it when Canberra thinks it knows something they clearly don't .- and they treat you like ignoramusus's as they pat you on the back and say " your'e a good bloke - but work harder , everyone has

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1076569052456671802004-02-12T17:57:00.000+11:002004-02-12T18:00:02.716+11:00

Ultimately do you blokes believe in competition or cooperation. If the future of our economy is bound by the former ,your jobs are at risk because you said it works as a matter of faith - no tweaking ( that would be to upset the gods!)

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1076455597806458932004-02-11T10:26:00.000+11:002004-02-11T10:29:06.780+11:00

You are so clever!! Why didn't anyone else think of leaving your job to the market before? Its a real win ! . The free everything up trade agreement with the USA is so popular we 'll sign it before we know whether it is actually good for us ? You have to have faith it seems Trouble is , Mark Latham would then be right about super and sleeping sickness in the house because you don't have

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1071704835370910872003-12-18T10:47:00.000+11:002003-12-18T10:47:29.186+11:00

An unholy Christmas message-------- Fear not ……for you have nothing to fear from greed, and big business –We Shepherds have the good competition fairy and he / she is All we need ! Response from one of the sheep : Your current rural policies are a matter of faith –and we do not believe you and your false idols . You talk about the future being better , but where are your promises of greener

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1067726627069505002003-11-02T09:43:00.000+11:002003-11-02T09:43:48.983+11:00

Vic labor - the worst meddling we have ever seen The Victorian Labour Government are busy legislating in the name of the best intention. ---restricting the freedom of the people in everything from children on farms to rabbits relations to regevetation . They even reckon they are able to restrict namecalling and its hideous effects. Desperate for power and disrepectful of power, they do not

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1067724160604499682003-11-02T09:02:00.000+11:002003-11-02T09:02:43.106+11:00

The lesson in the sheep story ...and how to stop it dragging on? - --Don't take the ABC bleeters too serioulsy --they don't know much about the environment and it will come out --Keep in touch with the battleground out here . Well done in giving that noisy bleeter a hard time in parliament .

journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973769.post-1066781209792327612003-10-22T10:06:00.000+10:002003-10-22T10:06:49.896+10:00

The vic govt spent $880 million last year on consultants . How much duck shoving is being done in the name of good governance all over Australia from this abdication by ministers of ministry responsibility Got to stop . False idealism is driving it http://users.gsat.net.au/tuf see Rod mackenzies letter GeelongA 22 October

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