Interesting analysis by Piers.

When Howard was threatened on the right by One Nation and Hanson, he saw the risk to the Liberals and unleashed Abbott to destroy her. He did that effectively.

In contrast, whereas Labor should destroy the Greenies, Gillard embraced them and allowed them to steer her agenda; Shorten is moving left to try to absorb them into Labor and make them irrelevant.

What some monosyllabic CFMEU knuckle dragging goon has in common with a loopy lefty from LEAN has me beat.

Perhaps the simple answer is this - shovel money to both ends of the spectrum and they'll support you!

I just want Bill to explain
how they will get to 50% renewable,
how will the electricity be generated because setting a 50% target is easy but to achieve it in 14 years without the details exposes it as BS, if it was that easy other countries would be doing it.

It reminds me of Bob Hawke's famous line "by 1990 no child will live in poverty" that helped win him an election for him, is there anything they wont say to win an election.

To put it simply Shorty has not got a Snowball's hope in Hell of getting within a bull's roar of forming the worst ever "govt" in Australia's History with the gruesome greasy Greenies.  THANK GOD!!!!




Bill Shorten trying to go greener than Greens
PIERS AKERMAN The Sunday Telegraph June 5, 2016 12:00am

IT’S passing fashionable for members of the chuckle-headed chattering class to say there is now no difference between the Coalition and Labor.

As usual, they’re wrong.

The parties that have actually merged identities are Labor and the Greens.

Under Opposition leader Bill Shorten, Labor has been dragged to the Left.

Within Labor there are significant rumps opposed to the party’s public positions on border protection and the environment.

No one in the ALP seriously believes that Shorten will be able to prevent the Left reversing the party’s support for the Coalition’s successful boat turnback policy and offshore detention program.

Both Labor and the Greens are fighting for the support of the politically correct minority, which is obsessed with gender politics, as their support for La Trobe University’s radical Marxist school indoctrination program with its advice on breast-binding and penis tucking demonstrates.

But the parties are also virtually agreed on any number of other policies.

It is reaching the point where the Greens advance one of their economy-destroying policies and Labor then rushes to match their madness, as implausible as the goals clearly are.

It is sheer fantasy to suggest that Australia could achieve a 50 per cent renewable energy target in 14 years — solar only operates in daylight hours, the wind doesn’t blow on command, tidal power is a dream and hydro is dependent on rainfall and huge dams, as Tasmanians have discovered to their enormous cost.

However, the Left-leaning Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN) within the ALP has pushed the party to adopt the unachievable 50 per cent target over the objections of the mining division of the CFMEU, even as the Greens have claimed they would demand a target of 90 per cent renewable energy within the same timeframe.
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Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne. Picture: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
As fossil fuel remains the only source of backup power required to ensure continuity of electricity supply, the target would be largely ineffective in reducing Australia’s emissions but it would inevitably drive up the cost of energy to households and businesses.

LEAN’s logo is green, its members wear green T-shirts and its agenda is for the ALP to abandon its current policy positions and adopt Greens policies on a range of issues.

One of LEAN’s co-founders is Senator Jenny McAllister, a former national president of the ALP. Her co-convener is Felicity Wade, a former member of the Greens who joined Labor in 2013 in order to seek preselection in the seat of Newtown in the hope she could “force change from the inside” of the ALP.

At the time of joining the ALP, she was employed as NSW campaigns manager for the Wilderness Society, Bob Brown’s pet lobby group.

Both the pressure group and the Greens oppose any new coal power stations and want to close down the existing ones, and they both oppose nuclear power.

A vote for Greens/Labor is going to hurt traditional working-class Labor supporters most severely and hit the hip pocket nerve of all Australians but that doesn’t concern either parties’ extreme Leftists as they are largely well-heeled (or at least well-sandalled) high- income earners in the inner urban suburbs and not reliant on jobs dependent on high power consumption.

The bottom line is that both Labor and the Greens have a total disregard for the millions of people in poverty across the Third World and particularly in India, one of the largest consumers of Australian coal, who would benefit from access to cheap light and power.

Go to the next post to read the rest about Shorty's silliness.

I personally think only the dim witted would believe shortarse and his turn the boats back when safe to do so.. .ho hum... what a cop out..

we all know what will happen....first of all with all the money he is splashing around...now its childcare..

he will have to save ,money and the border security will have to stop

which we all know must be  costing us a fortune..

so thats where he plans to get some of the promised cash splash money from... ..

the people smugglers in Java are sweating on him getting in....they are primed to go..

they  have already got  paid up passengers probably in the region of 20.000 by now I would think......

when krudd got in they werent ready and it took them a few months to round them up... this time they are all ready waiting on the island..

Hurray for xenophobic libs.

He has his work cut out that's for sure , the Libs have made a mess of it in three short years , will take Bill at least a year just to reverse some of the damage , lucky he is up to the challenge 

He is - he's seeking a move from LOTO to HOG........

Wow - the loonie right is now saying that unleashing Lapdog Tony to get some dirt - any dirt - on Hanson et al - was now not only the total idea of the denier - John Howard - but a wonderful thing to do?

Thanks Piers for the admission that Howard was behind it all after all, and not just an innocent dupe of some rogue element in his own party who acted behind his back.  We all knew that, but hey.... plausible deniability and King Johnnie had to shine in his armour of righteousness.

Then as a reward the party  elected Tony to the top job in the land.... where the same Fascist mentality was allowed full swing... for a while....  God help us all....

No wonder nobody votes Liberal any more after this lot......

Armchair_Politician wrote on Jun 6^th, 2016 at 6:28am:


Nonsense.  If the coalition couldn't get legislation through - the option to DD was always there to be used a lot earlier than the ABCC excuse.

Shorten should really look for another job


He has, and will be taking it up in a few weeks...........PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA.