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Mar 30th, 2015 at 8:17pm
 
Mark Latham calls out the racist Labor campaign:



At its first election in 1891, Labor campaigned on keeping Chinese labour out of the economy and “stamping Chinese-made furniture”.

In 2015, at the poll two days ago, the party campaigned on keeping Chinese investment out of the NSW electricity network – a disgustingly racist, dog-whistling pitch to Hansonite voters.

The only senior Labor figure to speak out against this atrocity was Martin Ferguson. Former premiers such as Bob Carr and Nathan Rees were silent.  Labor’s federal leader Bill Shorten didn’t say a word.
what a bunch of gutless Turds  Angry


The party’s elder statesman, the recently retired senator John Faulkner, was not only silent, he acted as a backroom adviser to his protege, Luke Foley.

The other guilty party is Jamie Clements, the deeply cynical, logrolling NSW campaign director who masterminded Labor’s anti-Chinese advertising blitz… But this strategy has had grievous consequences:
destroying the party’s moral base, its reputation for decency and tolerance....

Last Wednesday, Foley jumped the shark politically, urging ASIO to investigate potential Chinese investors on the spurious grounds that, “you can transport data along the high voltage (power) line"… This is the rampant NSW Labor disease: a say anything, do anything, whatever it takes ethos that allows leaders to junk longstanding principles such as racial tolerance in search of a handful of votes in marginal seats…

His stance on coal seam gas was no less illogical… The damage Foley and Clements have caused to Labor’s reputation will take many years to repair, especially in Sydney’s Chinese community…

And for what purpose? A primary vote of 34 percent, with Labor – according to the new electoral pendulum – still needing a swing of 8.4 percent to win majority government in 2019.

Only now that the battle is lost does Bob Carr find his moral compass and his voice:


Senior Labor figures, including former premier Bob Carr, have declare­d the fight against power privatisation lost, urging the party to get out of the way of Mike Baird’s economic reforms after his resounding NSW election victory…

Mr Carr and fellow party figures Michael Egan and Michael Costa yesterday urged Mr Foley to drop his opposition to privatisation and allow it through the upper house…

Yesterday, Mr Carr, who supports privatisation but stayed silen­t during the campaign, called on the party to change its mind…

Mr Egan, the former Labor treasurer, wrote yesterday that the party “should now stop fooling itself­ that an anti-privatisation policy is a vote-winner for Labor’’… Echoing Mr Ferguson, he said that Labor’s arguments against privatisation were
completely bogus.

“The so-called national-security­ argument against privatisation was no more than xenophobic dog-whistling. It was an argument I would expect from One Nation or the Greens, but never from Labor,” Mr Egan said.

What an opportunist is Bob Carr:


Bob Carr ... was watching the state election results come in on Saturday evening from the sidelines of the Boao Forum in China’s Hainan province…

Carr has been carving out a fourth career as director of the Australia-China Relations Institute. Yet last week he was backing the architect of Luke Foley’s “reds under the bed” campaign, ALP secretary Jamie Clements. Confused?

Yes, I am. From 25 March:

Bob Carr is full of praise for the strategist for his role in getting the ALP to regroup.

“And what we want, is for him to be in the position for a long stretch,” he says.

Clements has ... made three key decisions that will inform the election result: he saw opportunity in the state’s north by exploiting anxiety about coal seam gas; he crossed factional lines to back the Left’s Luke Foley into the Opposition Leader’s job less than three months ago; and he decided on a campaign to oppose electricity privatisation long before Premier Campbell Newman’s fall… “For the first time since the 2007 federal election, there’s a sense of hope in the NSW Labor Party,” [Senator Sam] Dastyari says. 

That’s at least two dud and disgraceful decisions out of three.

Yet  numbers merchant Sam Dastyari now searches for scapegoats rather than admit the campaign he backed was a failure - politically and morally:

Former federal Labor stalwart Martin Ferguson ...has been referred by the Victorian branch of the Maritime Union of Australia to the ALP’s disputes committee with the request he be expelled from the party of which he has been a member for 40 years…

His referral to the disputes committee is backed by Victorian Trades Hall Council, the secretary of which, Luke Hilakari, said Mr Ferguson was “Judas who sold us out for 30 pieces of silver"…

Mr Ferguson appeared in a Coalition commercial saying he was “ashamed” of his party’s opposition to the policy and its claims it would drive up power prices…

Labor Senator, powerbroker and former NSW ALP general-secretary Sam Dastyari described Mr Ferguson’s behaviour as “deplorable” and “a bastard act”.

“There is no place in the Labor Party for Martin Ferguson,” he said.

My God, these hypocrites. Former NSW premier Nathan Rees seems to think racism in Labor campaigns should never be called out - until the campaign is safely over:

Rees said Mr Baird had won a mandate to privatise power but
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“For those voters making up their minds in the last week of the campaign, rogue Laborites such as Martin Ferguson and Michael Costa wheeled themselves out,” he said…

Mr Rees also condemned Labor’s scare campaign about the Chinese buying the power assets. “The Ferguson and Costa bastardry was matched for audacity by the disgraceful and cringeworthy Yellow Peril campaign run by NSW unions.”

For the Left, as I say, it’s not the principle but the side.

Meanwhile, Henry Ergas isn’t so optimistic about the NSW election result:


The good news is that Mike Baird has been re-elected Premier of NSW. The bad news is that there was a large swing to Labor, un­deserving though it was.

And the worse news is that if merely leasing NSW poles and wires can trigger the mother of all scare campaigns, one can only ­imagine the Armageddon any ­attempt at comprehensive tax reform would ignite.

That is not to suggest tax reform has ever been easy.

But it is even harder today than in the past.

Despite offering potential losers massive compensation, John Howard barely scraped home in the GST election; now, however, the giveaways needed to appease every conceivable interest group are simply unaffordable.

UPDATE

And thanks to Rowan Dean for this vote of thanks to Queensland Labor:

DEAR Queenslanders, the people of New South Wales, and indeed of all of Australia, owe you, our Queensland cousins, an enormous debt of gratitude on this pleasing Monday morning…

I refer of course to your extraordinarily generous ... decision to elect, some weeks ago, a completely unskilled, amateurish, novice, unprepared, clueless Labor government instead of sticking with the conservative one you had which, despite some personality flaws, was actually making a good fist of improving Queensland’s economic future.

...this was Queensland’s cunning and extremely effective method of warning the rest of Australia how easy it is for an economically sound government to be swept away by a party with no ideas, no policies, and nothing but a bunch of union-funded anti-privatisation claptrap to sell itself with. All it took was a Labor Party offering nothing whatsoever except the Luddite promise of retaining state assets and enough people were seduced into voting for them because ... they didn’t much like the cut of Campbell Newman’s jib.

Meanwhile, inspired by Annastacia’s antics, NSW Labor decided to pull the exact same stunt. “No Sell Off” posters appeared the length and breadth of the state, coupled with sinister black and white photographs designed to convince the electorate that Mike Baird and Tony Abbott were the modern equivalent of the notorious Kray twins, much as Labor in Queensland had done linking Newman to Abbott. So self-deluded was NSW’s alternative premier Luke Foley that he actually articulated this strategy: “If Mr Baird goes on Saturday, Mr Abbott goes on the Monday”, he told a rapturous group of the faithful.

I expect Mr Foley to acknowledge the flip side of his inarguable logic; namely, that he accepts that the overwhelming win for Mike Baird is an equally strong endorsement of Tony Abbott,
and condemnation of the empty policies of Bill Shorten.


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Reply #2 - Mar 30th, 2015 at 8:35pm
 
It was never about Chinese investors - it was about the ownership going to the Chinese communist government. It is very different but it is true the government had had secret talks with this group and they probably are the front runners and possibly the only runners.
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Reply #3 - Mar 30th, 2015 at 8:42pm
 
Dnarever wrote on Mar 30th, 2015 at 8:35pm:
It was never about Chinese investors - it was about the ownership going to the Chinese communist government. It is very different but it is true the government had had secret talks with this group and they probably are the front runners and possibly the only runners.


for a start, the Electricity companies are NOT FOR SALE


if they are NOT for Sale you can't buy them..

why is it that anyone who votes labor is fricken retarded and doesn't know the difference between selling and leasing... durrr.  Cheesy
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Reply #4 - Mar 30th, 2015 at 8:56pm
 
It was just a political scare campaign, but that's politics, and Labor surfed it for what it was worth.  Just as the Greenies use global warming and CSG to promote their real agenda.  Socialism.

Labor scared the electorate off Hewson's GST and almost did for Howard's.  They scared the electorate off worthwile IR reform as well.

Labor are now scaring people off budget responsibility.

If the poles and wires is such a bad idea for NSW then all NSW Labor has to do is slink back into its bunker like Bill Shorten is doing and emerge in 4 years and a drover's dog will get the job..
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Reply #5 - Mar 30th, 2015 at 9:45pm
 
This is an interesting topic because it's where the old left meet the new left. The old left was (according to modern interpretations of racism) racist. The new left are anti-racist (except if you're white).

It's hilarious watching leftists today advocate an open border policy then try to protect Australian jobs from foreigners.
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Reply #6 - Mar 30th, 2015 at 9:55pm
 

My God, but you mob do go on with some garbage.

Still, you're good for a laugh, if nothing else.
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Reply #7 - Mar 30th, 2015 at 10:35pm
 
Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Mar 30th, 2015 at 9:45pm:
This is an interesting topic because it's where the old left meet the new left. The old left was (according to modern interpretations of racism) racist. The new left are anti-racist (except if you're white).

It's hilarious watching leftists today advocate an open border policy then try to protect Australian jobs from foreigners.


I'm afraid, my son, that 457 and their opportunity to abuse are more a danger under the current government than any other.  that is a matter of policy to reduce the 'peasants' to serfdom.

Same with sending all the jobs offshore - when the peasants have no money they have no power and they'll eat a s#it sandwich for lunch if they have no other choice.

'Dasher' Wheatley may have done so in the Sergeant's Mess for real - but it should not be common fare.
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President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Mar 30th, 2015 at 8:42pm:
for a start, the Electricity companies are NOT FOR SALE



Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin

you mean you believed them when they told you that? I guess brains aren't required when voting liberal



tell me mechanic, have you ever heard of any other lease where the lessor has to pay the lessee full market value of the asset in order to get it back??? Cheesy Cheesy


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Reply #9 - Mar 30th, 2015 at 11:10pm
 
President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Mar 30th, 2015 at 8:17pm:
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Reply #10 - Mar 30th, 2015 at 11:14pm
 
President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Mar 30th, 2015 at 8:42pm:
Dnarever wrote on Mar 30th, 2015 at 8:35pm:
It was never about Chinese investors - it was about the ownership going to the Chinese communist government. It is very different but it is true the government had had secret talks with this group and they probably are the front runners and possibly the only runners.


for a start, the Electricity companies are NOT FOR SALE


if they are NOT for Sale you can't buy them..

why is it that anyone who votes labor is fricken retarded and doesn't know the difference between selling and leasing... durrr.  Cheesy
And a levy is not a tax.  Go jump in the lake you and your BS games
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Reply #11 - Mar 30th, 2015 at 11:33pm
 
Dnarever wrote on Mar 30th, 2015 at 8:35pm:
It was never about Chinese investors - it was about the ownership going to the Chinese communist government. It is very different but it is true the government had had secret talks with this group and they probably are the front runners and possibly the only runners.


It's interesting how incensed mechanic is pretending to be about the possibility that labor might have been raciest in it's objections to the chinese buying the grid (even though Foley made it clear that the objection is to the grid falling into the hands of foreign ownership per se). I take it that he would also be incensed if a muslim consortium from Iran put in a bid to buy the grid and labor or the LNP blocked it for no other reason then that they are Iranian Muslims.   
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Reply #12 - Mar 31st, 2015 at 5:40am
 
Swagman wrote on Mar 30th, 2015 at 8:56pm:
It was just a political scare campaign, but that's politics, and Labor surfed it for what it was worth.  Just as the Greenies use global warming and CSG to promote their real agenda.  Socialism.

Labor scared the electorate off Hewson's GST and almost did for Howard's.  They scared the electorate off worthwile IR reform as well.

Labor are now scaring people off budget responsibility.


If the poles and wires is such a bad idea for NSW then all NSW Labor has to do is slink back into its bunker like Bill Shorten is doing and emerge in 4 years and a drover's dog will get the job..


and yet... stupid Australians are falling for it... just take a look at the Labrats and Loons on here...

great for the loony greens..

but labor and its supporters are so stupid that they can't see that they are being infiltrated by a policy controlling parasite...

or is it that the labrats are happy to sell their soul to the Devil for their chance at grasping power!!  Cheesy
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Reply #13 - Mar 31st, 2015 at 6:50am
 
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Mar 30th, 2015 at 10:35pm:
Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Mar 30th, 2015 at 9:45pm:
This is an interesting topic because it's where the old left meet the new left. The old left was (according to modern interpretations of racism) racist. The new left are anti-racist (except if you're white).

It's hilarious watching leftists today advocate an open border policy then try to protect Australian jobs from foreigners.


I'm afraid, my son, that 457 and their opportunity to abuse are more a danger under the current government than any other.  that is a matter of policy to reduce the 'peasants' to serfdom.

Same with sending all the jobs offshore - when the peasants have no money they have no power and they'll eat a s#it sandwich for lunch if they have no other choice.

'Dasher' Wheatley may have done so in the Sergeant's Mess for real - but it should not be common fare.


I don't share the same vision. High unemployment and poverty is the death knell of any political party.
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Reply #14 - Mar 31st, 2015 at 7:29am
 
I like chinese.
They are hard workers.
They are not into instant gratification
They respect their elders
They send their kids to the best private schools.
They love running small businesses and are very good at it.
They like to ignore the government as much as possible and fly under the radar and make money.


All in all, they are model citizens.

I like the chinese government
they are doers, not talkers.
if they own the poles and wires, then the unionists are in for a rude awakening.
this can only be a good thing.
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