Note to the redoubtable Mr Dutton
30 August 2024
ROB BARCLAY
ADELAIDE – Former policeman, long-term MP Peter Dutton has finally awoken from his torpor and started to make some welcome statements.
Unfortunately, he has a tendency to cherry-pick only those subjects he is interested in.
There are other issues that need addressing and kept constantly before the public and I discuss them here.
Coal
Hi-tech low emissions coal generators are used by many countries.
They can be plugged into all ageing generator sites in a year, funded by existing energy companies.
They require user-friendly regulations and minimal government subsidies.
We all know that nuclear, like the AUKUS nuclear sub project, is just another hideously expensive never-never project, like the ‘showcase’ Snowy 2.0.
Gazan immigrants
Dutton needs to stand up and say, “The lot will be deported when the Coalition gains power.”
Give the Hamas brainwashed people rigid vetting back in Palestine. This will mean almost none will be approved for re-entry back to Australia.
Other immigrants
Call a halt to all immigration until the situation stabilises. Then allow in only those with Christian values, fluent English and recognised work qualifications.
Set standards that all migrants must adhere to prior to approval.
We are tired of strange cultures and fractured English.
Unemployable parasitic Moslem and other ethnic groups with multiple wives and myriads of children sit permanently on the dole at our expense.
Mindless rorts
Make it known that all ineffective and hideously expensive projects will be cancelled, as will the climate change and carbon emission boondoggles.
Emeritus Professor Ian Plimer condemns the lot in his monumental Green Murder tome that draws on the expertise of 150 reputable scientists and geologists, all of whom have real university degrees obtained before 2010 when the woke neo-Marxists destroyed most university degree credibility.
Activists
Stop grovelling to every Indigenous and ethnic activist.
Remind the political and bureaucrat classes that most of these groups have produced little more than spears, bows and arrows and digging sticks in the past 10,000 years.
Don’t be ashamed to state that the achievements and products of the Western Age of Enlightenment continue to support and make life better for every person and every global community today.
Crown Land
Return all Crown Land secretly and dishonestly gifted to the Indigenous people over the past 30 years.
On the current trajectory, ordinary Aussies will soon be told that they own no land, and will be forced to pay an Annual Invader Tax to go with the unaudited multi-billions already gifted too every Indigenous group every year.
Dump woke managements
Get rid of the woke executives that have infected all government departments.
All of the above will require detailed research by taxpayer-funded Liberal staffers to put together convincing arguments.
This should make a refreshing change from spending the bulk of their working days planning holidays, seeking ever-more entitlements, securing better gold-plated pensions and engaging in the usual endless jockeying for undeserved higher positions and allowances.
" I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse " - Brendan Behan
Posted by: Bernard Corden | 10 September 2024 at 09:03 PM
I agree with you Jim.
I was curious when I read Rob’s first article because the content didn’t really have much to do with the Australia/Papua New Guinea connection. Only the sub-title, “A Patrol Officer’s view of modern Australian society” hinted at a kind of relevance.
Upon reading the article I was perturbed to think that readers might be led to think that the view expressed by Rob was one commonly held by people who had served as kiaps in PNG.
I’m not suggesting that there were no rednecks with such extreme right wing views among the kiaps but I believe they were an insignificant minority.
To the contrary, the exposure to an entirely different culture that emphasised community and eschewed individual materialism was edifying for most kiaps; often in such a life-changing way that they had trouble settling back in Australia when their time expired.
We are subjected to much white supremacist rhetoric these days and I guess this has emboldened some people to express their hitherto private grudges.
It would be nice however if those views could be contained to right wing publications like “Quadrant” and the Murdoch press where they belong.
Posted by: Philip Fitzpatrick | 08 September 2024 at 04:21 PM
Where to begin, in responding to this and Rob’s previous article, 'Where is our beloved Australia headed?'
At first reading I assumed that he was stirring the pot, hoping to provoke argument. But then I thought, no, he must really believe what he is saying. Looking at the threads of his argument is a good start.
The assumed overwhelming superiority of the white race in all things, the claimed complete failure of other races to make anything of their lesser human skills, and the claim that other religions, languages and customs are inherently inferior to western, Christian, English speaking versions cannot go unchallenged.
I think of the social structures that existed in the many hundreds of clans in the then Western Highlands of PNG before first contact and in the years between then and independence.
These covered economics (the Moka pig exchange system was a highly developed and effective wealth creation and distribution system), foreign affairs (clans had to work out who were allies and enemies, then deal with that) and legal systems to deal with internal dispute resolution and marriage links that determined the future survival of the clan.
I think these attributes clearly define those historical clans as micro-states, with degrees of internal social cohesion that could compare to the levels of social cohesion in the Middle Ages England, for example.
Admittedly, they did not ways of blowing up each other, nor develop medicines to cope with yaws and leprosy, but any intelligent observer could see that their systems of government suited the situation they found themselves in.
Rob would argue, I assume, that their failure to venture out of the Highlands to establish contacts with the wider world was an example of their inability to match Western civilisation.
Maybe such societies, in PNG and in many parts of the world, stayed where they were because they did not feel the need to dominate others in parts of the world they did not know, in order to conquer other lands for resources they needed - like slaves or materials.
I think Rob’s articles fail to understand the breadth and depth of the history of mankind, or the nuances that transformed old societies into new states.
To say that 'lesser' races wanted to become just like white people because we had TV and refrigerators is simplistic and untrue.
Other peoples certainly wanted to share in the material wealth and well-being of the West, but who said that had to be at the expense of their own cultures and history?
Only a fool would deny the benefits of Western civilisation but we can argue about the mechanisms that bought it to fruition, but to say it is the epitome of humanity’s endeavours is shallow.
To claim that others have no right to exist in Australia because they don’t look, talk and worship as ‘decent, proper’ white people do is the height of both ignorance and arrogance.
Why do we insist on thinking of Palestinians as the only terrorists, when Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have both called for the total removal of Palestinians and in fact their complete destruction?
Why hasn’t Australia labelled these two and their organisations as terrorists?
On climate change, I am happy to accept that if 95% of the world’s experts whose job it is to understand these issues says it’s real, then maybe the 5% who say it’s not could be wrong.
On Australian Aboriginal society, Rob states, “These groups have produced little more than spears, bows and arrows and digging sticks in the past 10,000 years".
We know Aboriginal society existed in what is now Australia for 50,000 - 60,000 years, and kept it reasonably intact for that time.
It’s foreseeable that humanity, including Western civilisation, will completely destroy the world in the next 500 years. It’s a bit hard to compare these scenarios.
I agree with Rob on a couple of points. The AUKUS garbage will cost us dearly, and the destruction of our universities is beyond shame.
That leads me to reflect on an article, 'A Snowflake in Hell', in August’s 'Monthly' journal, describing how an Australian journalist spent a couple of years trading insults with an American climate denier before both realised that, while they would probably never agree on anything, they could maintain a civilised discourse, and at least see the other’s point of view.
So, maybe if people can keep talking, there is hope for all of us.
Posted by: Jim Moore | 05 September 2024 at 09:33 PM
Project 2025?
It's nice to see the Queensland state government is on board. The growling fighter jet fly-past at this year's Riverfire celebrations may even attenuate homesickness for any Palestinians amongst the crowds.
"If we can find money to kill people, we can find money to help them" - Tony Benn
Posted by: Bernard Corden | 31 August 2024 at 12:39 PM