tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post264120815890772959..comments2023-04-20T04:34:11.624+10:00Comments on CAIRNS HILLBILLY WATCH - DAILY LIFE IN CAIRNS, QLD EXPLAINED BY RATIONAL, THINKING PEOPLE: THE CHINESE ARE BUYING AUSTRALIA - DOES ANYONE CARE? IS CAIRNS NEXT ON THE BLOCKUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-5717470358222843292015-12-28T00:09:06.640+10:002015-12-28T00:09:06.640+10:00You left Freebody off that list brutha You left Freebody off that list brutha Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-76866360769443100992015-12-22T12:10:08.418+10:002015-12-22T12:10:08.418+10:00Julie Bishop is a thorough idiot for allowing this...Julie Bishop is a thorough idiot for allowing this one to slip through to the keeper. Turnball is a clown and so is Truss. All of them asleep at the wheel. And where was that parrot Brandis? How the A/G department could miss this is palpable. No wonder the Yanks are mighty pissed off, after all we ARE their lapdogs and Australia's stuff up doesn't bode well with Uncle Sam's strategic positioning in the North of our Country. And yes, the sneaky Chinese also have the shits with the whole saga hitting the headlines. But this is the problem with Australian governments and their short term thinking - flog the asset, any asset, today as quickly as possible and make a short term finical windfall that costs us dearly in the long term. I mean if you thought the federal government was bad, just look more locally at the local 'lack of talent', people like Herr Entsch, Pyne, Manning, King!!! OMG it's a miracle that the region even has living, breathing humans still around. Wankers. Then there is the business community and it's poor conga line of weasels - Woodward, Simon Wild, Murphy, Kevin Brown'noser....get me a tissue I can't stop laughing (and crying). Somebody please nuke us and put us out of our misery.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-79946166395086317062015-12-20T14:54:06.959+10:002015-12-20T14:54:06.959+10:00China also calling our Foreign Minister a fool.China also calling our Foreign Minister a fool.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-16643079510355321382015-12-17T23:00:19.771+10:002015-12-17T23:00:19.771+10:00China today warning Australia not to meddle in Sou...China today warning Australia not to meddle in South China Sea, but they can buy our ports!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-30596018984843094962015-12-17T10:35:16.734+10:002015-12-17T10:35:16.734+10:00AA is dead right. There is serious cause for conce...AA is dead right. There is serious cause for concern with the expanding Chinese encroachment on vital utilities like ports and agricultural and land resources — not just here in Australia, but in the South China Sea and around the globe. Our elected members — of all political persuasions — are selling Australia's long-term interests to the highest bidder for short-term gain … and the obsession with getting the budget back into surplus. Xenophobia is not motivating what passes for current public concern. We need to wake up before it's too late!Tony Hillierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811119917896735831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-53886019091513088872015-12-17T07:59:37.216+10:002015-12-17T07:59:37.216+10:00yeah I dunno about getting too worried about our p...yeah I dunno about getting too worried about our ports just yet. We have a lot of import ports in Australia all around the coastline. I doubt any bastard could cut off our food supply just yet. But there is one thing which we should all be watching which is the security of our oil supply. We import almost all of our crude and refined oils and the experts reckon that if imports were interupted we would run out of petrol in just 3 weeks. The other major problem is that our import ports are all quite isolated from each other, strung out all over Australia like browns fucken cows and oil cannot be transported from city to city in trucks. We dont have a network of pipelines to transport oil so it has to be transported by ship. there lies all the dangers of our dependency on shipping. What if there is a huge disruption in the supply chain somewhere? What if there are open hostilities between the USA and China in the South China Sea? Would the oil tankers want to travel through all of this or would they remain in port in Singapore somewhere? That's the biggest danger to us that I can see at this point in time. Hey NYM mate I agree with your comment there about revving up our agricultural sector to serve the growing hunger in China. Instead of flogging off the Aussie farm to the Chinese we should be upping our food production, providing jobs for our unemployed kids export earnings and more revenue for all of us. Makes sense to me. Bob R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-31238820196582685652015-12-16T23:14:43.436+10:002015-12-16T23:14:43.436+10:00I don't know what you mean Anonymous 18.23 abo...I don't know what you mean Anonymous 18.23 above by claiming Alison A has given her "complete lefty views on how we should all live". Her point that we are an island nation and dependent upon shipping for our survival is a critical one and if we hand over our ports to foreign interests we would be placing Australia in a very vulnerable and weak position. I think that is a logical deduction. I would also agree with her assertion that if as a nation we cannot feed ourselves we are stuffed. The Chinese population is surging and expected to continue to surge hence the Chinese government are already planning against food shortages in their country. The need for extra food should be a stimulus for agricultural expansion here in Australia with farmers being given assistance to increase their crops and more canneries and food processing plants being established. It has been suggested that some of the refugees could be employed in this new era of agriculture. Whatever. However this isn't the way the Australian governments are handling China's urgent need for more food. Instead we are just allowing the Chinese to come in and buy up the Australian farm, lock, stock and barrel. NYMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-35655926644935667982015-12-16T18:23:46.552+10:002015-12-16T18:23:46.552+10:00WTF did you say Shanghai? spuds apposed to potatoe...WTF did you say Shanghai? spuds apposed to potatoes, FMD the cumdunts in Cairns can't tell the difference. We have the Mrs AA giving her complete lefty views on how we should all live under the ALP, hand outs for all. Hahahaha.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-5343392630876942742015-12-16T13:06:27.153+10:002015-12-16T13:06:27.153+10:00Wonderful sign on airport road! Gollum Brown adver...Wonderful sign on airport road! Gollum Brown advertising lubricants. Make sense to me as the airport has been fu#ked.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-52018232920027066562015-12-16T12:47:25.137+10:002015-12-16T12:47:25.137+10:00Why not advertise the product Advanced Hair on air...Why not advertise the product Advanced Hair on airport road instead? Both Brown and Manning could use the product.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-9300092014343837802015-12-16T12:46:03.499+10:002015-12-16T12:46:03.499+10:00Lubricants is an appropriate sign for the airport ...Lubricants is an appropriate sign for the airport and the greater Cairns region because the place is screwedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-331188531564401022015-12-16T10:21:03.115+10:002015-12-16T10:21:03.115+10:00Well Anonymous 07.35, keep up to date with what is...Well Anonymous 07.35, keep up to date with what is happening in Victoria where it looks like the ALP Government there is examining leasing off the Port of Melbourne for 50 years. (Have they learned anything from the Bligh Government annihilation, you might well ponder?) Yes, Hillbilly, the Chinese have stated very clearly on national television that they are looking to Australia to "secure their food supply". They also stated that they are "looking for a port to lease in North Queensland." With abolishing the one child policy, they expect their population to surge. Just how many Australian ports have been leased out to foreign interests now? All that I can come up with, are Brisbane, Darwin, Newcastle, and maybe perhaps Melbourne. It is a terrifying scenario. We are an island continent and depend heavily on shipping for more and more of our goods for day to day living, including oil. Half witted politicians are setting us up to be at the mercy of other nations who can use political thuggery and blackmail against us. "If you don't give us what we want, we will subject Australia to a maritime blockade, ensuring that no ships are allowed into your ports. We will starve your people until you do what we want!" Think it cannot happen, huh? Think again of all the countries the US and its allies have imposed sanctions on. Australia was once a proud, self sufficient country, able to produce almost all of its own needs through all its economic sectors, agricultural, manufacturing and tertiary. Today, through the efforts of poor political decisions, we can't provide clothing to clothe our population, we cannot produce all materials for building our own homes and we now stand the inevitability that we will not be able to feed ourselves. Added to this, will be the fact that if we keep on flogging off our ports, we will be as vulnerable as a Third World Country to predatory nations. Will our grandchildren face starvation because of the short sightedness and sheer idiocy of the current crop of political representatives? A country which cannot feed itself is, quite frankly, fucked.<br />Alison Allowaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-67811565284504743882015-12-16T07:35:03.027+10:002015-12-16T07:35:03.027+10:00
It is astonishing how ignorant the north is. US t...<br />It is astonishing how ignorant the north is. US troops in Darwin is like Russia putting missiles in Cuba. It is like NATO surrounding Russia after the supposed end of the cold war. US also sought to secure a base in Vietnam for the same reason. Well going back Vietnam war was really to contain Chinese dominance in the region. <br /><br />With South China Sea hegemony wars is on full speed. Indian ocean you can Google China String of Pearls strategy where China is doing likewise to India due to India being a strong ally of the US. Sri Lanka was treated horrendously after it allowed China to build a port in exchange for help in ending its civil war. So then the claims of human rights abuses came flying despite US doing worse in Iraq. So we got off lightly. If it had been a Republican administration perhaps retribution would have been more noticeable.<br /><br />But that is the maritime cold war of sorts. Food is another issue all together. Read they will pay big for many of our food stuffs and we may never get to eat some things like oysters ever again. There will be no advantage to living in Australia if it continues on this path. We are being sold out.<br /><br />Although I agree both LNP and ALP have sold us out I doubt there would be any desire for ALP to sell ports. They know they would never win another election if they tried that stunt again. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com