On the 18th of August 1966 at Long Tan , Vietnam ,
D Company of the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment,
mainly made up of Australian National Servicemen
and at that time located to support the American Army,
fought a battle against the Viet Cong.
In this action D Company lost 18 men killed and 24 injured.
The Viet Cong dead numbered in excess of 245.
The Australian lines were never crossed.
The Viet Cong withdrew.
American President Johnson and US Army Staff recognised the achievement
by awarding the Unit Citation of Gallantry on 30th May 1968.
The Award was formally accepted by Queen Elizabeth in 13th June 1968.
Prime Minister John Gorton made the formal presentation
of this American Citation to the Battalion
at Lavarack Barracks,Townsville on 18th August 1968.
On the 31st of March 2010,
D Company of the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
were belatedly awarded the Australian version of
"Unit Citation for Gallantry" (UCG)
honouring their extraordinary deeds at Long Tan.
The Government however refused to approve travel payment
for the surviving Unit Members or their families,
including the families of deceased Unit Members,
in order that they be present at the
UCG Presentation Ceremony
presided over by the Governor General of Australia .
In February 2011 the same Government of Australia
footed the Funeral Bill to bury the illegal boat people,
who tragically perished on Christmas Island .
This included flying surviving family illegals and survivors
to and from Sydney and Xmas Island ,
accommodating them, etc etc,
plus a Coach tour of Sydney thrown in.
The Canberra Polit Bureaux had waited 45 years
to publicly acknowledge the bravery and sacrifice
of these Sons of Australia
and then immediately Shit on their memory
by wetting themselves
to appease the feelings of boat illegals
forcing their entry into our country.
Now we witness, what can only be described as,
attempted political face saving,
by this same Government,
sponsoring a TV Documentary,
to celebrate our Armed Forces accomplishments
at Kapyong , Korea in 1951.
This will see our Prime Minister and the entire Priministerial Entourage
fly in a RAAF plane to Korea to mark this 60th Anniversary.
What Bloody Hypocrisy!!!
What a Blatant Affront to the feelings
of our Nation's serving Armed Forces,
Past and Present.
Shame, Shame, Shame,
You Political Parasites.
You do not deserve to represent our country.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
More on Global Warming wankers
I saw a report the other day that said something along the lines that Hobart had the most rainfall recorded in one day for a hundred years (gasp, horror, its climate change)
Hang on you fucken morons, that means that a hundred years and one day ago it had rained more
Same goes when we hear that some outback place has had the highest temperature recored in 75 years....so 75 years and 1 day ago, it was fucken hotter!
And fucken tell me, how the fuck did the dinosaurs die? Apparently an ice age came through. So, if we werent burning fossil fuels to make electricity and run cars, how the fuck did the ice melt? There werent any fucken power stations around then!
Fucken climate change wankers. It gets cold in winter, hot in summer....get fucken used to it!
Hang on you fucken morons, that means that a hundred years and one day ago it had rained more
Same goes when we hear that some outback place has had the highest temperature recored in 75 years....so 75 years and 1 day ago, it was fucken hotter!
And fucken tell me, how the fuck did the dinosaurs die? Apparently an ice age came through. So, if we werent burning fossil fuels to make electricity and run cars, how the fuck did the ice melt? There werent any fucken power stations around then!
Fucken climate change wankers. It gets cold in winter, hot in summer....get fucken used to it!
Insurance claims...the other side of the story
This is an article I recently read.
I will not say I agree or disagree, but it may shed some light on the current feelings out there.
“FIRST comes the chilling horror of the catastrophe. A nation is gripped with numbing terror as a child is wrenched from his mother's arms in the flood.
Up north a cyclone bigger than Katrina blows away homes and crops.
Across the Tasman our neighbours' beautiful, historical city is torn asunder. As the ground shakes, dark forces hurl the church spire like a javelin while hundreds of townsfolk are buried in a cement sepulchre.
Suffer the little children buried in tiny white coffins.
With the grieving comes a craving for statistics in a futile attempt to explain the inexplicable.
Each disaster is different but a journalist's questions remain the same. How many dead? Any survivors' tales?
Then, after the personal stories are told, the blame game begins.
Why weren't we warned? Did the state cause the flood by holding back and not releasing water sooner? Why weren't we warned? How come amateur forecasters were hours ahead of the weather bureau in foretelling the Lockyer Valley calamity?
Into this emotional mix comes the insurance companies. They are the latest whipping boys.
This is unfair in my view, especially now we are all atheists and the concept of "act of God" is foreign to us.
Surely someone is to blame? If there is a cadaver under the rubble there must be a liability.
If my house is wrecked by a falling tree, I want compensation. I'll phone my solicitor immediately.
Our compensation culture demands someone be held responsible.
I'm already getting tired of people blaming the insurance industry for their woes. In this I include people who should know better, such as the Prime Minister and the Premier.
Community leaders urging insurance companies to go easy on insurance claims are missing the point and creating dangerous, unreal expectations. Insurance is a business like any other. If I owned shares in companies like QBE or Suncorp (I don't) I wouldn't want assessors being pressured into giving away my money to people not entitled to it. It would be improper and bad for business
.
If you aren't covered for flood, you aren't covered. This doesn't mean insurance industry workers are crooks.
A few years back the Insurance Council of Australia came up with a flood definition but the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said it was anti-competitive and knocked it down.
There are other problems.
If insurance companies relax the rules and give away money, they may go broke. That won't do policyholders any good.
Insurance is all about risk. Life is full of risks; some we must hold on to alone and some we can offset by buying insurance coverage.
If I choose to live in a flood-prone area and cannot buy insurance, I take a risk. With global warming the risk is getting greater. Don't blame the insurance workers. Insurance companies are bending over backwards to pay claims.
David Muir, of HWL Ebsworth Lawyers in Brisbane, is a respected insurance solicitor who sits in a glass CBD tower overlooking the river that brought much of the damage.
Muir believes politicians are "bashing insurance companies" for political gain.
He said "If political pressure is brought to bear on insurance companies to pay claims that are not covered then some insurers, particularly overseas insurers, may withdraw from the insurance market in Australia altogether. After all, we represent about 1 per cent of the insurance market in the world and overseas insurance markets will be nervous enough as it is about doing business in Australia with all the natural catastrophes. If politicians are not careful they could cause an insurance vacuum in Australia they will have to fill."
He added: "There are differences in flood definitions among some contracts of insurance. However, by and large, if a building is inundated by water, following a river breaking its banks, then I am sure most people will recognise, as a matter of common sense, it is a flood.
"Some insurance companies may even pay claims when there is an element of stormwater involved even though they don't have to.
"There is a legal principle handed down in the Court of Appeal in England some decades ago which allows insurance companies to correctly, as a matter of law, deny claims in those circumstances."
Longreach-born Muir, who set up Crime Stoppers and was a long-time state president of Amnesty International, is a director of the Foodbank charity.
Interestingly, he notices a difference in disaster responses in city and country. "The people in the bush don't get kerbside collection," he said. "They mend their own fences, they clean each other's houses after flood. Pulling together is a bush trait that is undervalued in the city."
Are we also creating a nanny state where people choose not to buy insurance cover because they know they will get a government handout anyway?”
Whether you agree or disagree, it is important to get a balance in the argument
I will not say I agree or disagree, but it may shed some light on the current feelings out there.
“FIRST comes the chilling horror of the catastrophe. A nation is gripped with numbing terror as a child is wrenched from his mother's arms in the flood.
Up north a cyclone bigger than Katrina blows away homes and crops.
Across the Tasman our neighbours' beautiful, historical city is torn asunder. As the ground shakes, dark forces hurl the church spire like a javelin while hundreds of townsfolk are buried in a cement sepulchre.
Suffer the little children buried in tiny white coffins.
With the grieving comes a craving for statistics in a futile attempt to explain the inexplicable.
Each disaster is different but a journalist's questions remain the same. How many dead? Any survivors' tales?
Then, after the personal stories are told, the blame game begins.
Why weren't we warned? Did the state cause the flood by holding back and not releasing water sooner? Why weren't we warned? How come amateur forecasters were hours ahead of the weather bureau in foretelling the Lockyer Valley calamity?
Into this emotional mix comes the insurance companies. They are the latest whipping boys.
This is unfair in my view, especially now we are all atheists and the concept of "act of God" is foreign to us.
Surely someone is to blame? If there is a cadaver under the rubble there must be a liability.
If my house is wrecked by a falling tree, I want compensation. I'll phone my solicitor immediately.
Our compensation culture demands someone be held responsible.
I'm already getting tired of people blaming the insurance industry for their woes. In this I include people who should know better, such as the Prime Minister and the Premier.
Community leaders urging insurance companies to go easy on insurance claims are missing the point and creating dangerous, unreal expectations. Insurance is a business like any other. If I owned shares in companies like QBE or Suncorp (I don't) I wouldn't want assessors being pressured into giving away my money to people not entitled to it. It would be improper and bad for business
.
If you aren't covered for flood, you aren't covered. This doesn't mean insurance industry workers are crooks.
A few years back the Insurance Council of Australia came up with a flood definition but the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said it was anti-competitive and knocked it down.
There are other problems.
If insurance companies relax the rules and give away money, they may go broke. That won't do policyholders any good.
Insurance is all about risk. Life is full of risks; some we must hold on to alone and some we can offset by buying insurance coverage.
If I choose to live in a flood-prone area and cannot buy insurance, I take a risk. With global warming the risk is getting greater. Don't blame the insurance workers. Insurance companies are bending over backwards to pay claims.
David Muir, of HWL Ebsworth Lawyers in Brisbane, is a respected insurance solicitor who sits in a glass CBD tower overlooking the river that brought much of the damage.
Muir believes politicians are "bashing insurance companies" for political gain.
He said "If political pressure is brought to bear on insurance companies to pay claims that are not covered then some insurers, particularly overseas insurers, may withdraw from the insurance market in Australia altogether. After all, we represent about 1 per cent of the insurance market in the world and overseas insurance markets will be nervous enough as it is about doing business in Australia with all the natural catastrophes. If politicians are not careful they could cause an insurance vacuum in Australia they will have to fill."
He added: "There are differences in flood definitions among some contracts of insurance. However, by and large, if a building is inundated by water, following a river breaking its banks, then I am sure most people will recognise, as a matter of common sense, it is a flood.
"Some insurance companies may even pay claims when there is an element of stormwater involved even though they don't have to.
"There is a legal principle handed down in the Court of Appeal in England some decades ago which allows insurance companies to correctly, as a matter of law, deny claims in those circumstances."
Longreach-born Muir, who set up Crime Stoppers and was a long-time state president of Amnesty International, is a director of the Foodbank charity.
Interestingly, he notices a difference in disaster responses in city and country. "The people in the bush don't get kerbside collection," he said. "They mend their own fences, they clean each other's houses after flood. Pulling together is a bush trait that is undervalued in the city."
Are we also creating a nanny state where people choose not to buy insurance cover because they know they will get a government handout anyway?”
Whether you agree or disagree, it is important to get a balance in the argument
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Global Warming....my arse!
I didn't realize how bad things have become......
The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.
Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.
There's more......
Oops! Never mind. This report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the Associated Press and published in the Washington Post - 88 years ago!
The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.
Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.
There's more......
Oops! Never mind. This report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the Associated Press and published in the Washington Post - 88 years ago!
Monday, February 7, 2011
The New GillRudd Ripoff
While the majority of Australians would overwhelmingly agree that helping flood
affected areas in Queensland – and soon Victoria – is essential, the process of creating a “special flood levy” by Julia Gillard is yet another demonstration of her government’s detachment from reality and their eagerness to snatch cash to bolster their faltering budget predictions.
Quite simply a levy (ie a tax) is not necessary.
The reason? The Federal Budget already contains a Contingency Fund that can be used for national disasters.
This amount is currently $5 Billion. But the government refuses to use this money.
Why? Because they are saving it for a contingency.
Sounds a bit loopy? Well it is, these are politicians talking. They are saying if we use the contingency fund to help rebuild we won’t have any money left for national contingencies?
Hello?
Other areas where funding can be obtained are:
-Foreign Aid.
We spend over 2 Billion per year giving money to regimes that pocket
most of it and allow very little to filter through to the people who need it.
Charity begins at home.
Cut foreign aid and use the money to assist our own people! No one in their right mind (except those corrupt foreign government officials who are siphoning funds to their Swiss Bank accounts) will object.
-The National Broadband Network.
$40 billion.
The entire concept is a crock.
Private industry will provide this service anyway, so cancel it and implement a $20 billion nation wide program of flood mitigation. This can include diverting water to where it’s needed AND developing hydro electric schemes that will provide clean energy.
And the government will be ahead by $20 Billion.
But no, a flood mitigation program would require dams to be built and the greenies don’t want dams.
The Gillard Government is scarred stiff of the Greenies led by Bob Brown, so
watch to see how the government ducks and weaves when it’s suggested more dams be
built.
In Queensland Anna Bligh has already put in motion the mechanism to discredit the
effectiveness of the Wivenhoe Dam and any future dam building program. These gutless
2 wonders will go to any length to avoid rocking the Bob Brown Boat. Brown has already ramped up his anti-dam campaign with a series of press releases slamming any proposals to use dams for flood mitigation – much of his information is the usual “sky is falling in” distorted emotional drivel designed to intimidate in the usual greens’ fashion.
-The “Refugee” Program.
Already Australia is spending hundreds of millions of dollars
housing “refugees” and “asylum seekers”.
The reason is that the Gillard Government
refuses to implement sensible measures to discourage these illegals, as had the previous government.
Turn the boats around, export the “refos” and put the funds towards national
reconstruction instead of supporting a refugee gravy train that simply attracts more
illegals like bees to a honey pot.
-Defence.
We have a number of programs just burning money. Scrap the plagued and
overly expensive Joint Strike Fighter program.
We do not need fighter aircraft that are expected to cost $120 million each and is expected to set us back around $5 billion for fighters that will only be used in air shows.
-Withdraw from Afghanistan.
Our troops are continually being exposed to unnecessary danger because of the inability of Defence (DMO) to provide the correct equipment, plus the government will not provide the direct support elements (such as gunship helicopters, artillery, etc) needed for our troops to operate correctly.
Instead our defence chiefs put up a façade of claiming that these elements are adequately catered for by other nations.
This is a lie – these elements ARE NOT in direct support and are NOT ORGANIC.
Therefore because the government will not provide those essential support elements and our troops are expected to fight under ridiculous Rules of Engagement (remember that soon there will be a Courts Martial encouraged by Gillard in an effort to tarnish the ANZAC image by putting on trial three soldiers) we should pull our troops out and save another $2 billion per year.
-Even the FUTURE FUND has enough left in it to finance a national rebuilding program.
If investing in the future by rebuilding after floods isn’t the intention of this fund, then it should be. Or will we see the same warped “yes minister” logic as being used to avoid using the Budget Contingency Fund?
Watch for developments and some distorted rationalisation on this one.
There’s plenty more areas where money can be re-allocated.
Readers will undoubtedly think of more.
Apart from this, we all know the Gillard Government is hopelessly
incompetent in the way it will dispense funds. We can be certain that much of it will be filtered off to plug holes in the budget and very little will get to where it’s needed.
We all need
to speak up on this and other issues where Gillard and her cronies are
taking us all for yet another ride.
affected areas in Queensland – and soon Victoria – is essential, the process of creating a “special flood levy” by Julia Gillard is yet another demonstration of her government’s detachment from reality and their eagerness to snatch cash to bolster their faltering budget predictions.
Quite simply a levy (ie a tax) is not necessary.
The reason? The Federal Budget already contains a Contingency Fund that can be used for national disasters.
This amount is currently $5 Billion. But the government refuses to use this money.
Why? Because they are saving it for a contingency.
Sounds a bit loopy? Well it is, these are politicians talking. They are saying if we use the contingency fund to help rebuild we won’t have any money left for national contingencies?
Hello?
Other areas where funding can be obtained are:
-Foreign Aid.
We spend over 2 Billion per year giving money to regimes that pocket
most of it and allow very little to filter through to the people who need it.
Charity begins at home.
Cut foreign aid and use the money to assist our own people! No one in their right mind (except those corrupt foreign government officials who are siphoning funds to their Swiss Bank accounts) will object.
-The National Broadband Network.
$40 billion.
The entire concept is a crock.
Private industry will provide this service anyway, so cancel it and implement a $20 billion nation wide program of flood mitigation. This can include diverting water to where it’s needed AND developing hydro electric schemes that will provide clean energy.
And the government will be ahead by $20 Billion.
But no, a flood mitigation program would require dams to be built and the greenies don’t want dams.
The Gillard Government is scarred stiff of the Greenies led by Bob Brown, so
watch to see how the government ducks and weaves when it’s suggested more dams be
built.
In Queensland Anna Bligh has already put in motion the mechanism to discredit the
effectiveness of the Wivenhoe Dam and any future dam building program. These gutless
2 wonders will go to any length to avoid rocking the Bob Brown Boat. Brown has already ramped up his anti-dam campaign with a series of press releases slamming any proposals to use dams for flood mitigation – much of his information is the usual “sky is falling in” distorted emotional drivel designed to intimidate in the usual greens’ fashion.
-The “Refugee” Program.
Already Australia is spending hundreds of millions of dollars
housing “refugees” and “asylum seekers”.
The reason is that the Gillard Government
refuses to implement sensible measures to discourage these illegals, as had the previous government.
Turn the boats around, export the “refos” and put the funds towards national
reconstruction instead of supporting a refugee gravy train that simply attracts more
illegals like bees to a honey pot.
-Defence.
We have a number of programs just burning money. Scrap the plagued and
overly expensive Joint Strike Fighter program.
We do not need fighter aircraft that are expected to cost $120 million each and is expected to set us back around $5 billion for fighters that will only be used in air shows.
-Withdraw from Afghanistan.
Our troops are continually being exposed to unnecessary danger because of the inability of Defence (DMO) to provide the correct equipment, plus the government will not provide the direct support elements (such as gunship helicopters, artillery, etc) needed for our troops to operate correctly.
Instead our defence chiefs put up a façade of claiming that these elements are adequately catered for by other nations.
This is a lie – these elements ARE NOT in direct support and are NOT ORGANIC.
Therefore because the government will not provide those essential support elements and our troops are expected to fight under ridiculous Rules of Engagement (remember that soon there will be a Courts Martial encouraged by Gillard in an effort to tarnish the ANZAC image by putting on trial three soldiers) we should pull our troops out and save another $2 billion per year.
-Even the FUTURE FUND has enough left in it to finance a national rebuilding program.
If investing in the future by rebuilding after floods isn’t the intention of this fund, then it should be. Or will we see the same warped “yes minister” logic as being used to avoid using the Budget Contingency Fund?
Watch for developments and some distorted rationalisation on this one.
There’s plenty more areas where money can be re-allocated.
Readers will undoubtedly think of more.
Apart from this, we all know the Gillard Government is hopelessly
incompetent in the way it will dispense funds. We can be certain that much of it will be filtered off to plug holes in the budget and very little will get to where it’s needed.
We all need
to speak up on this and other issues where Gillard and her cronies are
taking us all for yet another ride.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Show us the money!
How does this work ?
THE TOP EIGHT COUNTRIES THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT GAVE YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO IN 2010-2011
-Indonesia $458,700.00 million
-Papua New Guinea $457,200,00 million
-Solomon Islands $225,700..00 million
-Afghanistan $123,100.00 million
-Vietnam $119,800.00 million
-Philippines $118,100.00 million
-East Timor $102,700.00 million
-Cambodia $64,200.00 million
-TOTAL = $ 1,669,000,000.00 (yeah folks that's right) - given away in 52 weeks!!!
...but wait there’s more. ·
Australia provides approximately 150,000 tonnes of food aid every year—about $65 million—to Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Chad·
In 2010-2011 the Australian Government plans to spend almost $4.4 billion on development assistance·
In 2008 the Australian community contributed $812.19million to non-government organizations
And now Gillard will give $500,000,000.00 for Indonesia’s Islamic schools which are largely moderate in outlook but there have been pockets of radicalism that have produced terrorists in Indonesia, most notably the cleric Abu Bakar Bashir’s school in Ngruki, central Java, where some of the Bali bombers studied before they bombed the nightclubs and killed Australian tourists.
SO….. Ask your local member how come 2011 Queensland flood victims only get $1 million ?
YES THIS A BLOODY INSULT TO THE AUSTRALIAN AND QUEENSLAND PEOPLE WHO NEED IT THE MOST SO IT IS ABOUT TIME THE GOVERMENT STARTED LOOKING AFTER THERE OWN BACK YARD AND FORGET THE REST FOR A LONG TIME.
THIS
IS
BULL
SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE TOP EIGHT COUNTRIES THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT GAVE YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO IN 2010-2011
-Indonesia $458,700.00 million
-Papua New Guinea $457,200,00 million
-Solomon Islands $225,700..00 million
-Afghanistan $123,100.00 million
-Vietnam $119,800.00 million
-Philippines $118,100.00 million
-East Timor $102,700.00 million
-Cambodia $64,200.00 million
-TOTAL = $ 1,669,000,000.00 (yeah folks that's right) - given away in 52 weeks!!!
...but wait there’s more. ·
Australia provides approximately 150,000 tonnes of food aid every year—about $65 million—to Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Chad·
In 2010-2011 the Australian Government plans to spend almost $4.4 billion on development assistance·
In 2008 the Australian community contributed $812.19million to non-government organizations
And now Gillard will give $500,000,000.00 for Indonesia’s Islamic schools which are largely moderate in outlook but there have been pockets of radicalism that have produced terrorists in Indonesia, most notably the cleric Abu Bakar Bashir’s school in Ngruki, central Java, where some of the Bali bombers studied before they bombed the nightclubs and killed Australian tourists.
SO….. Ask your local member how come 2011 Queensland flood victims only get $1 million ?
YES THIS A BLOODY INSULT TO THE AUSTRALIAN AND QUEENSLAND PEOPLE WHO NEED IT THE MOST SO IT IS ABOUT TIME THE GOVERMENT STARTED LOOKING AFTER THERE OWN BACK YARD AND FORGET THE REST FOR A LONG TIME.
THIS
IS
BULL
SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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