Labor's Misogynist Attack Dogs attack Federal Speaker Bronwyn Bishop

black knights

Piers Akerman
The Daily Telegraph
March 28,2014

PRIME Minister Tony Abbott’s quirky segue into the quaint realm of official orders caught many by surprise. But the howls of derision from the opposition benches and the usual clattering of Labor acolytes within the ABC and Fairfax media were as hypocritical as they were confected.

Leading the charge in the lower house was former Labor attorney-general Mark Dreyfus,

QC, who looked more like an agitated articled clerk as he indignantly bobbed up and down.

This would be the same Mark Dreyfus, who, according to reports from Melbourne, was “very eager” to be appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1999, before the title was dropped and changed to Senior Counsel in 2000.

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While a spokeswoman for the shadow attorney-general told a Fairfax reporter it was wrong to suggest that Dreyfus had rushed to be appointed a Queen’s Counsel before the honour became unattainable, he did apply four times to become a QC before finally getting the nod in September, 1999.

In fact he was apparently the second-last barrister to be appointed a QC in Victoria before the guillotine fell on the Bar’s aristocratic title and they were forced to take the boringly comradely SC.

He now finds himself torn between the reality of politics and the possibility that he may one day have to return to the Bar and hang his shingle again.

As he told Sky News: “Now I’m in politics and what I might be doing would be for political reasons. For me it was a commercial decision to leave it as QC because I thought it was something people identified with.”

He is by no means the only Labor politician to have preferred to hang on to the commercially valuable QC honorific while espousing republican views.

Former foreign minister Gareth Evans still identifies as a QC, as did many distinguished Labor politicians who preached republicanism while taking silk, among them such notables as former Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam, former NSW premier Neville Wran and the former NSW attorney-general Jeff Shaw.

Interestingly, even such radical activists as the ABC’s favourite illegal arrivals advocate Julian Burnside did not eschew the honour of being a QC. Even the almost universal anathema displayed toward knighthoods by the media did not dissuade Ten’s left-leaning Canberra correspondent Paul Bongiorno from accepting an Italian knighthood.

The former Roman Catholic priest told the ABC yesterday: “You can call me Cavaliere because I am a Knight of the Italian Republic and, actually, thanks to John Howard. I won’t go into all of that but at least it is an Italian republic.”

So he’s happy to accept a knighthood so long as it from a foreign republic.

There are Australians with Papal knighthoods and others from other religious orders. France also bestows honours upon worthy Australians, not least being NSW Governor Marie Bashir, who will receive the Officier de la Légion D’honneur in Sydney on May 26.

While Liberal republican Malcolm Turnbull tried to gently mock the notion of restoring such honours by mentioning a number of South American nations which confer knighthoods, the former governor-general Dame Quentin Bryce’s ready acceptance of her new title strikes many as hypocritical.

Dame Quentin set a new standard for vice-regal clothing and logged record air miles, not least during her $700,000 African safari in search of stray UN votes.

Not so much Dame Nellie Melba, perhaps, as Dame Edna Everage.

BROCK SHOCK FAVOURS MINORITY

SOUTH Australians should beware as their government embraces the Brocky Horror Show. Not learning from the lessons of disastrous minority government from either Tasmania or Canberra, independent Geoff Brock has thrown his support behind Premier Jay Weatherill to return an incompetent Labor government to power.

With the help of federal independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, Julia Gillard’s dysfunctional Labor-independent-Green minority government introduced both the disastrous carbon tax and the worthless mining tax.

They voted with the Rudd government to give the nation the uncosted, unassessed NBN, then voted to establish the extensive marine park system foisted on the nation by multinational organisations and they supported crippling restrictions on commercial fishing. They opposed the opposition’s efforts to get Gillard to apologise for breaking her carbon tax promise. They opposed the opposition’s attempts to get some explanation of Labor’s proposed Malaysian people-swap plan.

Windsor is even now trying to revise his record by posting the false claim “that a price on carbon was a prerequisite of the formation of government”. It was not.

Brock, who represents the electorate of Frome with a large and conservative rural constituency as well as the industrial and Labor-voting community of Port Pirie, says he has the best interests of the state at heart. Premier Weatherill has rewarded him with a ministry. Whose best interests are being served?

What CNN should have asked Madame JuLIAR Gillard.

Spy saga legacy of Left's flawed reign

Piers Akerman
The Sunday Telegraph
November 23,2013 

IF CNN's international audience knew what a low priority Julia Gillard placed on national security, the network may not have given her a soapbox on which to offer unhelpful and irrelevant remarks about the alleged spying during ­Labor's term in office.

It is astonishing that a media outlet did not make it clear that Gillard, as deputy prime minister, showed such scant regard for national security that she sent a junior staffer and former bodyguard, Andrew Stark, to attend meetings of 

the National Security Council in her place. It is staggering that neither she nor Kevin Rudd attended every meeting of the NSC when they were in Australia but that's the true measure of their priorities.

To hear her flapping her gums about a topic she cared so little for only serves to ­remind the electorate of how flawed she was, and how fortunate we are to be shot of them both, despite the adoration they both received from the ABC and its partner in hypocrisy, Fairfax Media.

One can expect those media organisations to willingly dance to the tune being played by the defector Edward Snowden and his conductors in the Kremlin, but to see Gillard, Opposition leader Bill Shorten and other former national leaders such as Malcolm Fraser stepping out diminishes any remaining respect.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott's dignified response to this Left-wing assault elevates him beyond measure.

Gillard's re-emergence so soon after being dumped by the ALP is an indication of the bitter battle being waged within Labor for some shred of consequence to show for the party's six years in office.

If only CNN had been better briefed, Gillard might have been asked about Labor's failure to provide any funding beyond December 31 for offshore processing of illegal boat arrivals, or of the cost of post-processing accommodation on Nauru and Manus Island.

She might have been asked about the lunacy of linking spending measures totalling over $16 billion over the current forward estimates period to the failed mining tax which is only raising $4.4 billion.

She could have been quizzed on the billions Labor ripped out of the Reserve Bank's reserves necessitating an injection by the Coalition of $8.8 billion to give the RBA a buffer with which to respond to international financial events.

She may have explained why Labor's debt ceiling would exceed its limit of $300 billion next month and is now forecast to break the $400 billion barrier. Under Labor and former treasurers Wayne Swan and Chris Bowen and former finance minister Penny Wong, the debt limit escalated four times, going from $75 billion to an eventual $300 billion, and it still couldn't keep up with ­Labor's wastrel tendencies.

Labor oversaw the fastest deterioration in debt, in dollar terms and as a share of GDP, in modern Australian history.

Just last week the public learnt Labor had planned secret cuts to the public service - but it had failed to fund more than 13,000 planned ­redundancies, leaving agencies to find the rest of the savings.

This has forced a large number of departments and agencies to offer voluntary ­redundancies, which were not funded by the former government and which have subsequently pushed some of them into operating losses.

".....she believes that a married woman is a prostitute.  (Quote) "Prostitution in marriage is the transaction of sex in return for love, security and house-keeping." (Quoted by Helen Trinca, The Australian, April 6, 1984, p.7).

Madame Gillard (l) without Tim "the Beard" Mathieson seen here playing dress up or something. 

If CNN wanted Gillard to be relevant it should have asked her why she failed to release a secret report that estimated the NBN would leave taxpayers up to $31 billion worse off. Instead of addressing Labor's failed policies and seeking answers to questions Labor has lied about, the international broadcaster gave Gillard a platform to talk about national security - an area in which, like so many others, she demonstrated no expertise.

It is understandable a global audience may be enthralled by stories of spooks told by ­defecting traitors, but there is really nothing new to these tales. What is more important to the nation is the truth and nothing but the truth about ­Labor's six deceitful and ­immensely damaging years in office.

VOTE People : Labor Green Loons Refugee SCAM CONTINUES

Busted people smuggler to be considered for a protection visa after being deemed a legitimate refugee

Gemma Jones Political Reporter
The Daily Telegraph
November 18,2013

"Fear for your Wife " Australia's new Conservative Abbott Federal Government cuts Labor Green Loon Islamic Colonization of Australia by 70% in five weeks of taking office.

A CONVICTED people smuggler busted three times coming to Australia using fake identities will be considered for a protection visa after being deemed a legitimate refugee.

The 41-year-old - who served two years of a 10-year jail sentence for people smuggling - returned to Australia in 2010 on a boat.

Department of Immigration officials rejected his refugee claim but a merits review found he was owed protection. 

The decision has placed the government in a difficult position as it is unlikely the man can be removed.

Sri Lanka confirms people-smuggling deal

An ombudsman's report to parliament shows the man first arrived in Australia by air in 1997 carrying a stolen Australian passport. He came using another fake passport in 2001 - and was convicted of people smuggling in 2006.

Former immigration minister Chris Bowen allowed the man to lodge a protection visa application last August.

"He has recently written to the minister 'asking for mercy'. He apologised for his past misdeeds and said he is now of good character," the immigration ombudsman said.

In another case reviewed by the ombudsman, a 31-year-old boat arrival wanted on an Interpol red notice for misappropriation was also found to be a refugee upon review.

Australia has told Interpol it cannot extradite the man to face charges and a three-year jail sentence because there is no extradition treaty with the country where he is wanted.

The man was living in community detention despite failing an offshore character test.

People smugglers struggle as demand dives


In another case, a paperwork bungle meant a 26-year-old convicted robber who served jail time in the UK was released into community detention. He spent four months in the community last year before the mistake in a submission to Mr Bowen was realised and the then minister revoked the man's placement.

"The Department of Immigration and Citizenship became aware the submission that had been put to the minister did not contain information about Mr X's criminal conviction and imprisonment in the UK," the ombudsman noted.

A 36-year-old man convicted of robbery, assault and visa overstay in another country was also found to be a refugee and is awaiting an offshore character test.

An asylum seeker permitted to leave community detention later became "a person of interest to the police".

Labor Green Loons standing with the Savage..... as usual.

Visa insult a betrayal of liberalism

Paul Sheehan
Sydney Morning Herald 
October 1, 2012

The Australian embassy in The Hague, at Carnegielaan 4, is a model of the functional blandness that dominates the Dutch city. An effort has been made to replicate a traditional steeped roof but it barely mitigates the sterility. On most days, a row of bicycles sits outside the front door, a very Dutch touch.

Posters carried by Labor's preferred constituency at the recent Islamic Insurgency Riots Saturday15912

What has been taking place inside the bland exterior of that embassy during the past six weeks is the opposite of Holland's famous liberalism. An unfolding act of cowardice has been cooking inside the embassy. It is a calculated insult to the Dutch government.
Six weeks ago, the leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), which until recently held the balance of power in the Dutch parliament, applied for a visa to visit Australia. His name is Geert Wilders.

Members of his staff and security detail were granted visas after three days. Wilders received nothing. He is still waiting. The Dutch media are waiting for the insult the Gillard government appears to be preparing for a member of the Netherlands' parliament.

The Australian organisers of the Wilders trip are resigning themselves to being out of pocket by at least $10,000 if the Minister for Immigration, Chris Bowen, continues to stall. The trip was going to be cancelled yesterday but the organisers have decided to hold for a few more days. After six weeks of silence, the federal government hasn't had the courage to deny Wilders a visa. It prefers the back door.
This confirms, as if any more confirmation were needed, the gutlessness that lies at the core of Australia's multibillion-dollar debacle on border security, where the thin blue line on border integrity has been turned into a wide yellow streak. While the government blusters, the people smugglers keep thriving and the cost of processing asylum seekers soars well beyond $100,000 per person.
Wilders is an elected member of parliament, has never been convicted of a crime and is an outspoken defender of pluralism, democracy, feminism and freedom of speech. He believes these bedrock liberal values are being eroded by a steady, incremental challenge from Muslims in Holland. He now lives under constant police protection. Four prominent critics of Islam in Holland have been assassinated or threatened with death in recent years.
Wilders argues that the root cause of growing ill-liberalism in Holland, and also in Belgium and France, is driven by strict adherents of Islam. He does not think the problem is confined to an extreme fringe. Rather, he sees the stresses between Muslims and non-Muslims in Holland as rooted in a general insularity among Muslims because Islam is not only a religion but a social, legal and political system that gives Islam primacy over the state.
Wilders was to have given speeches in Sydney and Melbourne in two weeks, sponsored by a private group, the Q Society, which was funding his visit via private donations and ticket sales.
The Gillard government appears intent on stopping this visit, even though it recently granted a visa to an Islamic fundamentalist, Taji Mustafa, a spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir, the group implicated in the violent demonstration by several hundred Muslims in Sydney two weeks ago, while Mustafa was visiting the country. The Arabic script on headbands and T-shirts worn by many demonstrators were variations of the theme of jihad, such as ''We are your soldiers, Muhammad''.
An apologist for jihad was allowed into the country to speak while a member of the Dutch parliament has been stopped.

A member of Labor's preferred constituency at the recent Islamic Insurgency Riots Saturday 15912

When the Minister for Immigration was asked in Parliament on September 17 why he had a approved the granting of a visa to Mustafa, he said: ''Hizb ut-Tahrir has not been proscribed in Australia and nor has it been proscribed in the United States or the United Kingdom. This entry permit was issued in accordance with the normal procedures for British nationals … I conduct myself … in accordance with my responsibilities under the act. To do otherwise would be to open the Commonwealth to potential overturning of the decision and a potential very serious compensation case.''
The reason for the Gillard government's willingness to find a cheerleader for jihad acceptable while an elected MP and cheerleader for Western values is tacitly deemed unacceptable would lie partly in a dramatic change in demographics under Labor. This, too, is a subject about which the federal government maintains a deafening silence.
During the five years of federal Labor governments, the ramp-up of immigration and boat people arrivals has helped a historic surge in the Muslim population of Australia, from about 350,000 to 500,000. The number of Muslim permanent residents has risen 75 per cent in the past decade. Labor holds several electorates in western Sydney with significant Muslim populations.
In 1972, when Labor introduced formal multiculturalism under the then minister for immigration, Al Grassby, Muslims represented just 0.2 per cent of Australia's population. This percentage has risen more than twentyfold in the ensuing 40 years. Grassby's reputation has been disgraced by revelations about his numerous links to Italian organised crime.

Two members of Labor's preferred constituency at the recent Islamic Insurgency Riots Saturday 15912

This would not surprise Wilders, a trenchant critic of multiculturalism, whose policies are much further to the right than those of the Coalition. The PVV rose to prominence after he expressed alarm about problems associated with the rapid growth of the Muslim population, which now exceeds 1 million in a country of 16.7 million and is growing about four times faster than the non-Muslim population.
Meanwhile, back at Australia's border debacle, the Gillard government refuses to embrace policies that have proved to be effective such as temporary protection visas for asylum seekers, or to set up an advanced interception line off Sri Lanka. So the boats keep coming - another three over the weekend with 333 asylum seekers - while the government expends $1 billion a year servicing its own impotence.

Equipment trashed in outburst on Nauru

Gemma Jones - Political Reporter

Daily Telegraph

October 01, 20129:23PM

A GROUP of Iranian and Iraqi asylum seekers have been involved in a disturbance at the Nauru processing camp, overturning equipment and trashing recreation areas.

The men armed themselves with kitchen utensils, but the Immigration Department has been unable to confirm reports that tents were slashed with knives during the Sunday incident.

About ten men were involved.

Wilson security guards at the Topside camp took control of the situation before Nauruan police arrived.

After assessing the situation and taking reports from staff, officers took three men to the police station, where they spent Sunday night in cells before being returned to the camp.

Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said he had recently heard unconfirmed reports that a knife count in the kitchen had indicated some of the utensils may have been missing.

"We received unconfirmed reports they did a count on the knives and the count didn't reconcile," he said.

"It is important that the government be very clear about what utensils were in the possession of those who created the disturbance and whether they had gained access to any knives.

"When it comes to border protection, it seems Labor just can't get anything right, including Nauru."

The government is unaware of any knives being missing.

Only a small number of Iranian and Iraqi asylum seekers have been sent to Nauru, with mostly Sri Lankans at the camp because they are considered less of a security threat.

A spokesman for Immigration Minister Chris Bowen described the disturbance as "minor."

"There was a minor disturbance at the Nauru temporary facility over the weekend," he said.

"The situation was quickly resolved by the security contractor and there were no reported injuries to staff or detainees. Local police also attended the site.

"Immigration will be investigating the matter further."

September was a record month for boat arrivals, with 2355 people and four of the biggest boat loads ever recorded with the largest carrying 198 people.

Almost 11,500 asylum seekers have arrived since the start of 2012.

Nauru can currently hold just 500 asylum seekers.