(SMH) State governments don't have much to do anymore and should work part-time, former NSW premier Bob Carr says. The federal government is seeking to wrest more control over public hospital funding from the states, adding to a trend of political centralisation. Mr Carr said states were losing control over education - a national school curriculum is being introduced - as well as over industrial relations, and cigarette and alcohol taxes. "What is there left for policy-makers at state level to actually do?" Mr Carr, who was NSW Labor premier from 1995 to 2005, told Sky News on Wednesday. "There's this headlong rush towards uniformity; good or bad, it can no longer be reversed." read more
State government was around before federal government. Bob the talking point Carr, like most scum in positions of power over our lives seem to forget that the 1901 Australian Constitution says in Section 128 that any such change in Australia has to be passed by me and you, we the Australian people, not he the washed up jerk off. Love or hate State governments, they offer grid lock. Grid lock is good for National Sovereignty. (see the video in the above post)
(SMH) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says Australia's failure to support Israel in a United Nations vote has nothing to do with recent tensions between the two countries. The federal government has demanded Israel explain its role in the alleged theft of three Australian citizens' identities by its spy agency, Mossad, to carry out a political assassination. At the UN General Assembly, Australia abstained from a resolution demanding Israel and investigate possible war crimes during the 2008-09 Gaza assault. Mr Rudd said Australia's failure to vote against the move was not a manifestation of recent tensions over the passport scandal. "The Australian government always reviews UN General Assembly and Security Council resolutions on their merits," he said. "This specific resolution does not explicitly endorse the so-called Goldstone report (accusing Israel and Hamas of war crimes) and therefore we have taken our decision based on its merits." read more
Israel wants a UN investigation into December 2009 Gaza? Yeah right. If not for the passport matter, would Rudd have then voted for the UN looking into 2009 Gaza crimes? We think so! Arrhhh, the game they play called good cop, bad cop.1,200+ Palestinians deadvs 13 Israeli dead (eye for an eye?), and all they can play is good cop, bad cop.
(SMH) Housing in Sydney will not get any cheaper until the NSW government begins releasing land in the city's outer suburbs, the opposition says. [...] According to the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, land release in Sydney has been reduced from a historic average of 10,000 lots per year to less than 2,000 in 2007. Activist Dr Tony Recsei, in his introduction to the survey, said the government needed to move away from high-density housing and begin releasing land in outer Sydney or risk a "Dickensian gloom" read more
Dr Tony Recsei has our vote if ever running for office. The bloke, knowingly or not, is spitting on the UN Agenda 21 plan to herd humans world wide into compact cities and reduce population numbers down.Click here for Dr Tony Recsei's Save Our Suburbs web site.
(SMH) Housing in Sydney will not get any cheaper until the NSW government begins releasing land in the city's outer suburbs, the opposition says. [...] According to the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, land release in Sydney has been reduced from a historic average of 10,000 lots per year to less than 2,000 in 2007. Activist Dr Tony Recsei, in his introduction to the survey, said the government needed to move away from high-density housing and begin releasing land in outer Sydney or risk a "Dickensian gloom" 