A once-dominant political party is now in its death throes in NSW

Could it drag Federal Labor down with it?

News item: "The NSW Labor head office has drawn up a list of parliamentary seats "in crisis" indicating up to 32 MPs, including Premier Nathan Rees, are at risk of being thrown out of office at the next election following anger over the scrapping of free student travel from next year. The list, which includes Mr Rees' seat of Toongabbie, has been drawn up as part of the party's targeted seat campaign for the 2011 election, The Daily Telegraph reports. Other seats with margins of less than 15 per cent include Parramatta, Penrith, Granville, Riverstone and Mulgoa - all in Labor's western Sydney heartland."

If you believe in a true and strong democracy then you would have to agree that this can only be the case when you have an opposition that can offer a clear and alternative choice with regards to the policies that run said democracy.

What we are seeing here in New South Wales is an opposition party that is very happy to keep the media spotlight on the failing incumbent government as it continues to spiral down the polls whilst offering no real solutions to any of the problems that the state faces.

Pretty bad eh ? BUT WAIT, this is after all, politics.

What appeared to me at first as political cross dressing, when Barry O'Farrell took the opposite ideological stance to the NSW power grid sell off now seems to have been a more farsighted political strategy and not a populist take at all.

By not siding with Iemma then he has now exposed the ALP for what they are, a party not for the people but rather for the ALP and its own power. The mismanagement and corrupt behaviour of the last 13 years can now be seen for what it is truly is.

Let's not forget that this state government isn't due for a re election until March 2011 and that nothing short of a miracle that will save them this time around.

Also remembering that the Federal election is due at the end of 2010. I believe that any Labor franchise that puts its held up over the trench at an election will well and truly be dispatched by the voters of New South Wales whether federal or state -- due to what has been happening and what we now know.

Assuming this is true you would also assume that Kevin 07 might just have a chat to Premier Rees about this and force him to fall on his sword by calling an early election for the good of Federal Labor.

Barry may be silent on policy now but I believe that policy is there and waiting for the election date to be set when it will ring loud and clear in the minds of the punters as the only alternative choice and release from 13 long years of state Labor failure.

The ship is going down

And the next election will finish it



This is my response to the Rees/Roozendaal first mini budget. The NSW government has slashed more than $3 billion from its planned spending for the next four years, as today's mini-budget confirms the state will record a deficit of $917 million this financial year.

You have to feel a little sorry for the new Premier and treasurer. I mean really what Carr and too some extent Iemma (let's not forget Costa) left these guys with, is it any wonder that they have to do this and have to admit to the almost 1 billion dollar deficit.

I really am sick of being cynical towards this mob because it is just too easy to do so. Truly I would like to just one day draw a "well done!" type of toon, alas I feel that I will just have to wait until 2011 like every other New South Welshman. At least Rees is cutting out the spin when it comes to the state of the financial situation. I hope this is a trend that continues.

Check out the full story here

Bali bombers



Hopefully by the time you see this cartoon many Australians and others around the world will feel a definite closure or sense that JUSTICE has been done finally. After 6 years and many appeals these cowards who now proclaim martyrdom in their sick and backward cause yet still till the very end appealed the death sentence.

Unlike their fellow Jihadists who took on the devils horns with vigour and dedication to their deluded cause by actually disintegrating themselves as they murdered the innocent, these three pieces of human trash cowardly attempted escape.

There will be no great "whore house" in the sky for these three, just fires and brimstone as they are welcomed by the likes of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.




No free travel for NSW schoolkids now

Cut back the bureaucracy? No way! Much better to cut back on things that actually help people, apparently



The other toon is certainly not as poignant but once again sets about explaining the true depth of fiscal disaster the state of New South Wales is now in, petrol prices aside. To call it "free transport" is another example of political spin, governments don't have money, only taxes to spend.

This transport issue for school children is another example of a corrupt system that has finally caught up with itself. Why are children that don't use the services still being charged by the transport companies both public and private?. Whether you send your kids to Private or Public schools makes no difference to me, but it does to these socialist criminals who still believe in the class warfare battle and ignore that up to 50 percent of all Private school children come from very middle class working families because these mothers and fathers are sickened by the failure of the public education system.

How is it that the Political Party for the working family is now going after parents who are feeling the financial pinch more than ever now and forcing them to search for more money to send their children to school as safely and economically as possible?

I hope that the leader of the opposition, Barry O'Farrell, uses this ALP money grab to restore faith in his party with the punters by reversing it and wiping the floor with these clowns come the next election.

Some things endure



Let me say this, Worry is a useless emotion. It achieves nothing and sometimes people confuse it with normal concern; a healthy concern is just that, healthy.

I don't have an answer to the current financial concerns, who does? I guess, even more and more we are seeing the wisdom behind that old saying "Save for a rainy day".

I believe the answers, as always, lie in history. Here's the problem as I see it. Our society is so wedded to the "have now, pay later" mentality and, combined with that, generations of people who have not grown up without a sense of shame when having to borrow small amounts of money.

When I was a teenager I thought that my grandparents Conservative Values were outdated nonsense. It's only in the last ten years that I can see how prophetic those views and their words truly were and just what they were trying to teach me. Their views were no accident, developed because of two World Wars with a Global Depression in between.

Let's face it, since the 60's we have all been spoilt by relative peace, brainwashed by the social engineers (Marxists) and by the introduction of the credit card, etc and now people are panicking and can't understand why a politically selfish and irresponsible move by the likes of ex Presidents Clinton and Carter to force lenders to give to those who could not pay back should now affect them on the other side of the world and affect their hard-earned superannuation.

There's your free market for you! The only advice I could offer you (not that you were asking for any!) is what I tell anyone who is "worrying" about the immediate future: Put simply, that this will sort itself out in time, and to face some facts -- like you can't have the ups without the downs -- and make sure to prepare yourself and your children and children's children to think carefully before they buy anything, maintain a disciplined work and saving ethic, SAVE MONEY/FORGET CREDIT on small items and live by the old rule of "Never a borrower or a lender be". All almost impossible to do in a capitalist society but you know what I mean.

My Grand Parents and Mother were never wealthy nor poor (Liverpool UK, Working Class) but they all owned their own homes and always had a good feed under the belt and plenty for visitors.

I think the word I am looking for in this sermon is "FRUGAL LIFESTYLE "......yes that's it. It will get better .....you can bank on it (pun intended).

The Labor Party rout in the NSW by-elections

(For non-residents of NSW, the toon portrays Labor Party Premier Nathan Rees. Iemma and Carr are his predecessors. Fuller details of the by-election results are here)

Well, were the weekend by-elections a decisive victory for a return to commonsense, a "Shellacking" as this new lame duck Premier put it himself?

In some respects yes. I only wish that the punters had been a little bit more switched on to the truth about this New South Wales Government back in March 2007, a true vote of no confidence then would have meant that we didn't have to put up with these clowns until 2011.

There was however a very disturbing result in the marked approval for the only other alternative government outside of the Libs and that was the support given to those far left loonies aka The Greens. Talk about choosing the lesser of two evils!

And as you can see, this result only makes me more determined to want a true conservative independent party (sorry the Libs aren't it) to stand up for the silent majority who are so disillusioned with the mainstream political parties that they are willing to throw away a perfectly good vote on a bunch of Marxists Crazies.

So one step forward and one step back.

I am pleased for the people of Ryde but lets hope that this new Liberal seat is not just a flash in the pan -- a success only to be lost again to the ALP or (God forbid) The Greens. That come 2011 the Reverend Peter Garrett is proved wrong again and that the good folk of New South Wales DON'T have SHORT MEMORIES.

They get you one way or the other



"Trust Me, I'm from the Government". Sure heard that before -- and after all wasn't it leftist liberal GOVERNMENT POLICY that got us in to this mess in the first place!. Along with a good dose of greed (a human attribute, not purely the domain of any government) so what else can we do?

We have and always will need to trust the untrustworthy and that is the Catch 22 situation that most of us find our lives in. Sure the banks are strong NOW, and confidence is climbing, a great thing but what is a greater thing is the rocketing to reality effect that the last few weeks have had on us all.

For too long we have been at the beach, at the barbie, watching the footy, drinking our grog and letting our beautiful days go buy with neither a care in the world that there would be anyone who would want to stuff around with paradise as we know it....WELL NOW YOU KNOW, your paradise is always under attack and if you really want to keep it you have to fight for it .

You fight by being less apathetic towards the world of business and politics and start to develop a sense of responsibility and personal pride in yourself and country, think carefully about the issues that effect us not just now but in the future and vote accordingly, read more books and stop listening to the mainstream media exclusively as if they have the final say.

One final point, when are we going to get a political leader that will actually care about improving the lives of our elderly? Ask this question of your local member and when that answer comes back (probably spin) hold them to it , use the media and your freedom of speech to force these spivs to keep their word.

Here endeth the lesson. I am trying to prove the great H.L. Mencken wrong regarding his philosophy on the plight of western democracy..... If you don't know who or what I am talking about (most of my correspondents do though) then can I suggest you start reading more. Go to Google and source this man and his work, it's satirical yet eye opening thought and opinion.

Changed times: 1948 versus 2008



The bailout has happened!...well I for one will never call it a "bailout" because it is nothing less than MASSIVE THEFT! Governments do not have money, they have only tax payers' money and that money is to serve the tax payer, NOT to nationalise the PRIVATE financial and insurance systems.

What has happened here is a designed and well conceived crime against the American people and their constitution. It will effect us all globally for many years to come.

The design for a socialist move on the economy goes way back to Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton (please bypass Ronald Reagan) and now the fake conservative that is George W Bush (more proof that liberalism is a Mental Disorder) has fallen right into the trap to the applause of an incompetent Congress and the condemnation of the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (probably the first female fascist dictator of the U.S.)

This is where Obama will (if he wins?) step in and continue the Marxist dream of turning this once great democratic power into a totalitarian run Communist State by slowly but surely changing hard fought conservative and democratic policies in the name of change and the lie that the American people want and need this.

Yes folks, it is the beginning of the U.S.S.R.A. Do a little research for yourself into how Hitler did exactly the same thing to Germany.

In closing I will borrow a quote from the great author and satirist H.L. Mencken ........"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. "

God help us all