tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post6155602403038263891..comments2023-04-20T04:34:11.624+10:00Comments on CAIRNS HILLBILLY WATCH - DAILY LIFE IN CAIRNS, QLD EXPLAINED BY RATIONAL, THINKING PEOPLE: AUSTRALIANS SHOWING BIG BUSINESS STRANGLEHOLD ON GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE WORLD NO STRANGER HEREUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-46739428167262279792016-02-14T23:52:25.313+10:002016-02-14T23:52:25.313+10:00If 1000 workers in Cairns were about to lose their...If 1000 workers in Cairns were about to lose their jobs all at once, Hillbilly would be screaming from the rooftops. Good on Katter and the Townsville Chamber and Council and the AMWEU and all the other unions who backed Katters call. Thank God he is not just another Labor or Liberal cut-out. Palmer kept them in a jobs supporting their families<br /> since he bought it and now it looks like Kagara at Mt Garnet and their 150 employees from CAIRNS and surrounds will lose their jobs too because their concentrate is processed by the Townsville refinery. <br /><br />It seems Hillbilly puts mouth into gear before engaging brain!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16736118013481285250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-1647055339418880662016-01-22T10:29:29.474+10:002016-01-22T10:29:29.474+10:00To be honest Bob R. there would be a few "Tor...To be honest Bob R. there would be a few "Tories" as you call them around the traps who would agree with you and Nick Xenophon. Overall I agree too with the gist of what has been posted on this thread before. Modern capitalism has gone feral and has to be reined in. America at the moment is the country to watch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-20699721492232927132016-01-22T06:57:53.038+10:002016-01-22T06:57:53.038+10:00Fingers all crossed that Xenophons legislation get...Fingers all crossed that Xenophons legislation gets up in Parliament. Yeah this endless flogging off the Australian farm has got all my relatives some of whom are as Tory as you can bloody find all worried. We all had a big talk about it over the usual Christmas family get togethers and for once everybody agreed on something that we have to look after our own food security first and buggar bloody China. We should be exporting them food not letting them bloody move in and buy up the farm and shop. Bob R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-72386248186546561482016-01-21T20:06:47.197+10:002016-01-21T20:06:47.197+10:00This thread is way over your head Anonymous 11.16....This thread is way over your head Anonymous 11.16. You have no understanding of the issues being discussed. Toddle off and read your comic books.NYMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-49426982424536942892016-01-21T19:25:59.089+10:002016-01-21T19:25:59.089+10:00FROM SENATOR NICK XENOPHON....worth reading throug...<br />FROM SENATOR NICK XENOPHON....worth reading through!!<br /><br />"When it comes to foreign investment and the national interest, we've been treated like mugs."<br /><br /><br />Foreign investment clearly can play an important role in developing Australia's economy. But the issue is that the current foreign investment rules are too lax and too vague to protect the national interest.<br /><br />For instance, did you know that a private overseas company or individual doesn't have to get government approval to buy prime agricultural land, or food production facilities, unless the value is over $248million?<br /><br />Other countries understand the emerging importance of global food security by investing billions of dollars in Australian farms and food production. Why don't we?<br /><br />Australia needs to be aware of how much of our agricultural land we are selling and to whom, so that we can maintain our food security and food supply chain. If we lose control over large areas of land and food production, we may be faced with a shortage of viable agricultural land to produce our food.<br /><br />I have co-sponsored legislation to lower the threshold for scrutiny of foreign investment in agricultural land from $248million to $5million. What's more, the legislation spells out a national interest test, instead of the vague rubbish we have now.<br /><br />Australia should be able to feed the world with Australian owned farms and food production. That must also involve revamping our investment and tax laws to encourage that to happen."<br /><br /><br />Well said Senator Xenophon!!!<br />Alison Allowaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-5747924031389835482016-01-21T12:32:12.282+10:002016-01-21T12:32:12.282+10:00No miner is required to post a big enough bond to ...No miner is required to post a big enough bond to rehabilitate the environment. But they get a free ride thanks to conflicted politicians and lazy voters who have no knowledge of the issues.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07862778692955060081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-67356515564345012582016-01-21T11:16:37.404+10:002016-01-21T11:16:37.404+10:00WTF did you say Shanghai? AA having a self righteo...WTF did you say Shanghai? AA having a self righteous rant again, she has so much hatred bottled up because her beloved lefties Government wasn't voted in. How dare anyone say a anything she doesn't agree with. HaHaHa Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-10517187499266892112016-01-21T10:54:39.106+10:002016-01-21T10:54:39.106+10:00Any moron knows that Australia would be the bigges...Any moron knows that Australia would be the biggest loser in any of these free trade agreements? I mean what the fuck do we have to trade nowadays? Only minerals which are losing their value and primary produce. That's about it and we won't have that much primary produce to trade either if the Chinese keep on buying up our dairy and cattle stock and our best agricultural properties. So we are trading off cheaper stuff and importing all the high tech and processed stuff. Who is going to do better in the balance of trade payments? Frankly I think Australia is rooted.Bob R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-28458904395347412372016-01-21T09:57:57.580+10:002016-01-21T09:57:57.580+10:00What sort of meaningless drivel is that, Anonymous...What sort of meaningless drivel is that, Anonymous 08.44?? "accept change and diversity or accept the consequences" What is this obsession with the word "diversity" which sees people slow down their speech, emphasise the word by sticking out their jaws and bottom lips in an attempt to sound intellectual instead of inarticulate parroting halfwits? You call it "diversity" when our country is steadily transforming itself into a Third World Nation??? Right at the moment our ex Goldman Sachs Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull is over in the USA sucking dick over the Trans Pacific Partnership which every credible economic body has said plainly and emphatically, WILL NOT BENEFIT Australia. Turnbull and co. are turning Australia into a corporate identity where national sovereignity is sorely compromised. If Canada is now the "most sued nation" in the world because of its free trade agreements, how soon will it be Australia's turn to be "the most sued nation", bearing in mind that corporations under these free trade agreements have the right to take legal action against governments. The USA is now widely regarded as an oligarchy, not a representative democracy. Australia is following suit, and you say "accept change and diversity or accept the consequences"????? Alison Allowaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-48060947730425537532016-01-21T08:44:17.541+10:002016-01-21T08:44:17.541+10:00Well said AA. A reasonable person who sees the fu...Well said AA. A reasonable person who sees the future in a way similar to your article can only blame themselves for not taking steps now to become immune from the changes<br /><br />accept change and diversity or accept the consequences <br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-43322367190253818052016-01-21T06:02:58.239+10:002016-01-21T06:02:58.239+10:00Look at the big fella asleep in the chamber. He lo...Look at the big fella asleep in the chamber. He looks like Migaloo in a suit! Has Clive been following Sleepy Bobs training manual? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-30422279901872311932016-01-21T06:01:07.282+10:002016-01-21T06:01:07.282+10:00Billionaire my ass! Clive is flogging his planes, ...Billionaire my ass! Clive is flogging his planes, flogging his refinery, resorts and other interests. Nickel prices are down to 2003 prices and demand for minerals and oil has collapsed. What will become of his billion dollar Titanic replica? It will probably get sold to the Chinese for scrap metal! <br />And these individual financial collapses are happenning very very quickly. Clive isn't too big to fall (pardon the pun). Tinkler fell, so did Bond and Skase. Even the Packers have been close to the wall before.<br /><br />The world is scrambling to contain an uncontainable mess. Capitalism and a global financial structure set up for the elite and by the elite is failing. The precursor bubble burst in 2008, the real bubble is close too exploding, one in which it won't be banks and lending institutions collapsing, it will be entire economies and countries. America is broke friends, they possess a 19 trillion dollar debt that quite simply can never be repaid. Countries such as Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Brazil are all up shit creek financially in a major way. Germany who is propping up Europe (not that Frau Merkel is happy about that) is being eroded daily. The rest are struggling - France, England and others. China is tipping over and their dirty little financial status which has been well covered up for some time by the Politiburo has now been exposed. Australia's debt is ballooning all thanks to short sighted politicians and a nation hellbent on being America's bitch and spending more money than it can print on pointless wars and other fruitless endeavours.<br /><br />The ball of string has well and truly unravelled. 2016 will be the year that the world deck of cards comes crashing down, and we are all going to pay. Hold on to your seats cos we are in for the ride of our lives.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-30929339875420381472016-01-20T19:41:19.215+10:002016-01-20T19:41:19.215+10:00The Western World is experiencing the failures of ...The Western World is experiencing the failures of the so called "free market capitalism" and "global economy" delivered by Thatcher and Raegan in the 1980s. "Trickle down" free market capitalism has only resulted in the wealth of individual countries being funnelled upwards into the offshore tax-free banks accounts of fewer and fewer peoples. Capitalism today means you socialise the losses and privatise the profits. America is in free fall with the inequality gap as great as it was at the beginning of the 20th century. Australia isn't too far behind, only because we still have some muscle against neo-liberalism in our trade union movement and a shaky and weakened Labor Party. Frankly, I don't believe our protections against inevitably following the USA down the gurgler are that strong any more. <br />When we have an Australia where the Chinese are permitted to buy residential properties without putting down a deposit, yet Australians cannot do so; when we see Australian real estate agents pouring into China and establishing offices to sell off Australian homes and farms; when we see our best agricultural lands being sold off to foreign buyers; when we have offshored most of our manufacturing industries; when we see our Australian assets such as our ports and electricity infrastructure sold off to foreign interests; when we see our Australian workers being forced out f their workplace so that the management can replace them with foreign labour to be paid $2.00 a day; when we see young people unable to afford the fees of privatised Technical and Further Education colleges; when we see the LNP trying to increase university fees so that young people would be burdened with debt for decades after they graduated; when we see our National Health Service under threat of being privatised; when we see our Australian public services starting to be offshored, so that one of the biggest sources of full time, secure employment in Australia will be given to foreign nationals in foreign countries - what is our future??? <br /><br />We were once a proud, independent nation, well able to provide for ourselves in almost everything. However we are being systematically gutted, our wealth and ultimately our standard of living and way of life is being ripped away from us, while we are slowly but steadily being taken over by other nations. <br /><br />Australia Day is only a few days away and we will once again see crowds of people out there celebrating a country which can no longer produce its own clothing, which can no longer produce its own cars and vehicles; which can no longer process all of its own processed food requirements and which will become more and more reliant on other nations in the future for food itself. A country which can no longer provide jobs for all; a country where more and more jobs are casualised and a country where home ownership has now become a lost dream for most young people. To top it off, the Australian flag which they worship is made from cotton produced and picked by exploited labour and sewn together in Asian factory sweat shops. <br /><br />Poor feller, my country. Alison Allowaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-68441837644729269042016-01-20T15:45:16.103+10:002016-01-20T15:45:16.103+10:00It's worse than you thought: not only does Kat...It's worse than you thought: not only does Katter want us to donate our money to a dodgy private enterprise owned by an dodgy (alleged) billionaire, but ultimately we (Queensland taxpayers) also pay for the environmental clean up - estimated to be anything from $25 million to $300 million. There isn't, and never has been, an environmental bond held by the environment department to cover this inevitable necessity. How many other dirty sites are there in Queensland where taxpayers are going to be left holding the dirt can when the miners cry broke? <br />How is this allowed to happen and who in government is responsible? And why aren't we long suffering workers/taxpayers storming the walls over this outrageous debacle?<br /><br />http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-20/clive-palmer-queensland-nickel-refinery-yabulu-clean-up-bill/7100932TASnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-44669276235275774842016-01-20T08:18:30.083+10:002016-01-20T08:18:30.083+10:00The stuff that's in those tailings dams at the...The stuff that's in those tailings dams at the back of Yabulu is incredibly toxic....the worst stuff you have ever seen. There was a report that some of it was leaking into the ocean already?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com