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Saturday, December 05, 2009
Poor Kristina Keneally, Premier of NSW.
Kristina Keneally defends Labor's ruthless kingpins, Joe Tripodi and Eddie Obeid
Gemma Jones and Simon Benson
The Daily Telegraph
December 05, 2009 12:21AM
NEW Premier Kristina Keneally yesterday declared she would keep Labor warlords Joe Tripodi and Eddie Obeid as her mentors, describing them as "popular".
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, she denied she was a "puppet" and defended the men who helped her into power, claiming they had "served the community well".
Ms Keneally praised the pair that ousted premier Nathan Rees labelled as "disloyal and treacherous" and said she did not believe his description of them was true. But an angry Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday refused to endorse Ms Keneally.
"The people of NSW are now expecting better government," he said.
"I would suggest that the new Premier of NSW get on with the job as of today."
Senior sources said Mr Rudd was furious that, after having backed Mr Rees as premier, the NSW Labor Party "stuck their fingers up at him" and sacked him.
"It's safe to say he is not a very happy man," the source said. Ms Keneally was branded a "puppet" of Mr Tripodi and
Mr Obeid on Thursday and, when asked if she thought the stinging assessment of the pair as cancers on the party was true, Ms Keneally said: "No."
"I think that yesterday was a very difficult day for Nathan Rees. I don't believe those statements reflect well on the
party and I don't think they reflect what I would have thought was Nathan's genuine belief," she said.
The new Premier, who was handed the job by Mr Tripodi and Mr Obeid whose Right faction supported her, even defended their record of service to NSW.
"Both of those members have served as ministers in different cabinets and both of those people have served their communities well," Ms Keneally said.
"Joe is a very popular local member in his community."
Mr Rees sought a change to party rules at last months' state Labor conference to get rid of Mr Tripodi from cabinet.
Mr Obeid hit back last night, accusing Mr Rees of lying to "slander" him and Mr Tripodi because it was convenient.
When asked if she would continue to take their advice, Ms Keneally said she would continue taking the advice of all MPs.
"Particularly once you have been elected leader it is essential you talk to your caucus colleagues, all of them, and you work with your caucus colleagues, all of them," Ms Keneally said.
In a further sign that Ms Keneally will be unable to throw off the shackles of the past, she last night appointed Walt Secord, the Canadian-born former adviser to Mr Rudd and former premier Bob Carr, as her chief of staff.
Mr Secord was until yesterday, the chief of staff to NSW Treasurer Eric Roozendaal.
While Mr Tripodi will be left out of her Cabinet, leadership rival Frank Sartor will be welcomed in and Ms Keneally declined to say if former health minister John Della Bosca, who resigned over an extra marital affair three months ago, would make a comeback.
A source yesterday said both Ms Keneally and Mr Sartor had offered Mr Della Bosca a cabinet seat if he supported them.
Walt Secord……Ahem…Any thought of this Woman been ignorant or naive or been a babe in the woods and not totally aware of the malignant culpability of her Party and her back door men aka. “Puppeteers” FACELESS MEN of the ALP is now officially defunct, she is obviously one of THEM.
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Kristina Keneally:Toledo Ohio Woman now Premier of NSW Australia.
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Friday, December 04, 2009
United Nations “Rat with a Gold Tooth”Lectures Australian’s on Illegal Middle Eastern Entrant’s and Aboriginal welfare.
Gee thanks Arse Hole,Australians were just hanging out wondering what the F**K the United Nations, aka. Terror Inc. wanted us to do about Illegal Entrants from the Middle East and Aboriginal life long welfare.
I am sure that you are, like the Australian Prime Minister,Kevin Rudd delighted that his “policies are working” as in the 51st ILLEGAL “Refugee” boat has been escorted into Australian waters by the RAN or HMCS to Christmas Island where the passengers will be “processed” and after a very short time courtesy of Kevin 07 and the Australian Labor Party be granted permanent residence in Australia, ie. free medical , housing , chemist, dental and life time social security not to mention free education for themselves and their children.All the while they are encouraged via the socialist Labor Party’s Policy of Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism, to plot the downfall of Australia at every opportunity and not to forget reminded at every opportunity who to VOTE for, ie. The UN friendly Australian Labor Party, led by Kevin 07 “I have never been a Socialist” Rudd and funded by the Marxist,Australian Council of Trade Unions, ACTU.
PISS OFF YA FUCKING BUM, Go back to New York or whatever WESTERN Judeo Christian Democracy it is you HIDE out in, whilst you plot the downfall of your HIDE OUT.
Hollywood’s Favourite Paedophile,of Choice, to be released from Jail in Switzerland.
Roman Polanski to be released into house arrest
Kristina Keneally:Toledo Ohio Woman now Premier of NSW Australia.
There is much to admire about this woman, she is very pretty and speaks well.
What she can do for Sydney and NSW will be seen over the coming months ahead.
Unfortunately for her,I believe she has been handed a poison chalice, the NSW Labor Party is without doubt the most corrupt organisation in Australia, closely followed by all the other state Labor Party organizations and the Federal Labor Party.
The now Keneally led,NSW state Labor government,is about to enter it’s final death throws,led by the first ever female Premier (and the first ever American born leader) before it is eliminated by the voters of NSW from the political landscape for what could well be justifiably,decades in the political wilderness.
The fact that Keneally has accepted the leadership shows her naivety when it comes to Australia and Australian politics.
She should have asked herself why would the movers and shakers of a political party that hates America and all it represents, draft her to the leadership of the NSW branch of that same party/
The NSW Labor Party is the most disgraced and corrupt political party in Australia’s relatively short history,the Italian Mafia send trainee’s here to learn the arts of graft and corruption,( NSW is regarded as a centre of excellence world wide amongst the thugs and stand over men of the International Socialist movement) and its sole purpose has been these last 5 years has been to cover its own arse rather than engage in governing in the best interests of the people of NSW.
Opinion Polls say that the NSW Labor Party will be decimated in the state election due in 18 months time, if Keneally is still leader by then and is defeated at the polls she will be quickly removed from the leadership and humiliated by not only the result of the election but by the party that elected her to hold the can for all that IS has been,”Labor” in NSW the past 14 years, whilst the financiers and mover and shakers of the Labor Party,the Union movement,the ACTU,and their hard core band of “true believers” Union members,social security recipients and non English speaking immigrants from the Middle East and Asia demand to know why a YANKEE or worse still a Yankee WOMAN with brains was appointed to the highest office of government in NSW,after all there are plenty of PIG Ignorant Non English speaking shop stewards out there who could have been given the job.
She is a brave woman, sorry person,however I hope she is prepared for the insults and attacks from those who are on her side she should remember despite what she has wanted to believe Australian Socialists are without doubt the most intolerant “animals” on earth and the second she starts to look like a loser these same enlightened caring and sharing tree huggers and recyclers will kick the crap out of their token Yankee Woman Premier. (If only she was a non English speaking Muslim terrorist they would not be able to lay a glove on her).
It was not that long ago that Keneally was set for the high jump, she had disappointed her backers and was set to lose endorsement for her seat,one wonders what changed the party machines mind about her future or lack of with the Labor Party.
Her uncle,by marriage,author Thomas Keneally, is a welded on “professional Irishman”,Labor supporter and apologist,perhaps he was able to secure her position within the Labor Party when others wanted her arse prior to the 2007 NSW election.
I wish her well,after all she is good looking,If only she had of joined the Liberal (Conservative) Party, with her abilities she would have been used as something more than a patsy for the Marxist Union financed Australian Labor Party.
NSW Labor Party warlords get their woman
Simon Benson, Gemma Jones, Angela Kamper and David Barrett
The Daily Telegraph
December 04, 2009 3:09PM
KRISTINA Keneally has been sworn in as NSW's first female premier and its fourth leader in as many years following the dramatic sacking of Nathan Rees in one of the most extraordinary scenes in the state's political history.
Ms Keneally took the oath of office before NSW Governor Marie Bashir at Sydney's Government House just after 1pm today.
She was accompanied by her husband Ben and their two sons Daniel, 11, and Brendan, 9, as well as deputy premier Carmel Tebbutt - first female double act in Australian political history.
Ms Keneally won a Labor leadership ballot in caucus last night after Labor MPs dumped Mr Rees only 15 months after putting him in the job.
Mr Rees, whose fate was sealed after he labelled sections of his Government treacherous, was executed by warlords Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi in an ambush caucus meeting.
Despite earlier vowing not to hand over the state to the two factional bosses, at 7.15pm Mr Rees resigned in front of his caucus, following in the footsteps of the man he replaced last year, Morris Iemma.
He walked from the party room at Parliament House and simply said: "It's a difficult decision and we move on."
An overwhelming 47 MPs of the 70 members of the party's full caucus then voted to install Ms Keneally.
Frank Sartor bowed out of the race following an earlier meeting of the dominant right-wing faction, which triggered the spill to wrest control of the crumbling Government.
It ended a 15-month soap opera of challenges to Mr Rees' leadership and for the second time installed a leader in NSW without an election.
Ms Keneally, a committed Catholic, became the 42nd Premier of NSW in a deal with the rebel MPs, which will also result in John Della Bosca's return to the ministry.
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Ms Keneally told colleagues after her election that she demanded respect.
"I'd like to thank my colleagues for putting a great deal of trust in me. I am here to work for the people of NSW," she said.
She had earlier denied she was a puppet of Mr Obeid and Mr Tripodi: "I'm nobody's puppet, I'm nobody's girl."
In her first press conference as Premier-elect Ms Keneally said she was a regular "working mum" who would work hard for the people of NSW. I don't intend on being the last woman standing. I would not have put my hand up if I did not intend to be Premier in March 2011," she said last night.
"The party has taken the view that it is time for us to heal and they have turned to me with that task."
Joe Tripodi will not be in her Cabinet but she said there is room for Mr Sartor and Mr Rees, who will stay on the backbench.
"I would also like to tell you a little bit about myself. I have an accent but I am first and foremost a proud Australian," she said as sons Brendan, 9, and Daniel, 11, looked on.
"I came to this country because I fell in love with a man but immediately when I came here I fell in love with this country."
Meanwhile, the sacking of Mr Rees on Parliament's last sitting day for the year has affirmed Mr Obeid and Mr Tripodi as the most powerful men in NSW Labor.
But it was a slap in the face to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who had urged party bosses to stick with Mr Rees after endorsing him at the state Labor conference. A Federal MP last night said they were in shock.
The beginning of the end for Mr Rees came shortly before 11am when 17 rebel MPs signed a petition calling for a leadership spill.
Today, Ms Keneally denied being a "puppet" to Labor powerbrokers, insisting she is her "own woman".
On the first morning of her premiership, the member for Heffron began a media blitz to sell herself to the public as the new face of a Labor party in crisis.
She left her Pagewood home just before 6.30am today, and by 7.30am had appeared on ABC TV, the Today Show and numerous breakfast radio programs.
The state's first ever female premier told The Daily Telegraph she was not concerned at being labelled a "puppet" to powerbrokers Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi.
"I'm my own person. I stand on my own two feet," she said. "This is a fantastic opportunity.
"(I'm) getting up today to focus on the mechanics of government and starting to put my team together this morning; being sworn in at midday, then heading to western Sydney this afternoon...on a western Sydney job summit."
Ms Keneally said she would focus on employment, public transport and caring for the state's "most vulnerable" over the next 15 months.
"A society is judged by how it cares for people at the margins; how we support and how we include them," she said.
"That will be at the heart of my decision making."
Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell said today that he wished her success because the state couldn't afford to wait for a change of government.
"I'd actually want Kristina Keneally to succeed because I'd like to see real change in New South Wales,'' he told Fairfax Radio Network.
"I'd like to see this state start to finally improve itself in a whole range of areas because we can't afford to wait 15 months and an election and a change of government to set this state on the path it should be on.''
But Mr O'Farrell said he believed the Government would not let call an early election because it knew it would bring certain ruin.
"They're incompetent, they're arrogant but they're not stupid,'' he said. "They're not going to ruin and terminate their ministerial careers early.''
Discredited, despised, but still pulling all the strings
SMH
KATE MCCLYMONT
December 4, 2009
KNOWN as He Who Must Be Obeyed, Eddie Obeid is the most powerful politician in the state, yet a check of parliamentary records show the 66-year-old backbencher has not made a single speech in Parliament for the past seven years.
The mystery for NSW voters is how the wordless Obeid and his equally controversial right-wing colleague, Joe Tripodi, wield such extraordinary power that they can make - and unmake - premiers.
Thin-lipped with fury yesterday, Nathan Rees said of the duo: ''Should I not be Premier by the end of this day, let there be no doubt in the community's mind, no doubt, that any challenger will be a puppet of Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi.''
If the ferocity of his words by some miracle escaped his party or NSW voters, he repeated the sentence word for word.
The power of Obeid and Tripodi stems from their ability to ''branch stack'' - that is, muster foot soldiers to become members of ALP branches.
In 1996, for instance, Tripodi delivered almost $7000 to ALP headquarters to stack a branch in south-west Sydney. With that money, he was able to pay for 500 new memberships.
By controlling Labor Party branches, the pair can determine who is preselected for local councils and for Parliament.
Their reputations as ''can do'' men also encourages business figures and developers to make donations to Labor through them. And with money comes power.
Labor ministers have told the Herald that the pair have threatened their ministries in the past, and even their seats, for perceived disloyalty to the backroom men.
Through their vice-like hold over the party, they have also withstood controversies that would have destroyed the careers of less powerful people.
Eddie Obeid's reputation as a wheeler-dealer extraordinaire has long been a worry to Labor. A former cab driver turned property developer and ethnic press barron, he pulled off an amazing deal in the fortnight before becoming an MP in 1991.
Having bought a property in Clovelly for $875,000 on Wednesday, the very next day he had sold it to the Housing Department for $1.1 million.
In 1994, Obeid found himself in business with Paul Keating's controversial piggery partner, Al Constantinidis, for whom Obeid went guarantor on a million-dollar loan.
He also joined the late disgraced stockbroker Rene Rivkin to buy the Offset Alpine printing press from Kerry Packer. Investors in the company reaped a small fortune when the overinsured printing premises were destroyed by fire in 1993.
Quite separately, Obeid has had bad luck with fires - two of his premises and two houses have gone up in flames.
The accident-prone Tripodi, 42, has the backing of powerful figures including the property developer Pat Sergi, who was named in the Woodward royal commission as a key member of the Griffith mafia. While an MP, Tripodi had shares in Sergi's company, which bought and sold government land, including Housing Department property.
Over the years Tripodi has been referred to the Independent Commission Against Corruption several times: for his shareholding in Sergi's company; his alleged sexual assault of a Democrat staffer; his personal friendship with Joe Scimone, a former Wollongong Council officer against whom corruption allegations had been made and who was appointed to a position within Tripodi's portfolio; and over his alleged involvement in the Orange Grove affair. In each case ICAC found no evidence of wrongdoing by Tripodi.
One minister likened the betrayal, treachery and naked ambition - revealed so starkly by yesterday's events - to the fall of the Roman Empire.
So damaging is the battle between Left and Right that the Labor caucus Christmas party was cancelled last night ''because we did not think we could be civilised enough not to come to blows with one another'', a minister said.
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Kevin 07 Rudd the quintessential elitist smart arsed Labor Party Socialist TURD.
Comrade Rudd returns from reporting to Hussein Obama,to the reality of not having his like minded thinker Malcolm Turnbull,no longer leading the Liberal Party.
The best he can do upon his return to what I am sure he sometimes feels is his second home,Australia,is to criticize Mr Abbott’s wearing of his Surf Life Saving swimming costumes (Budgie Smugglers) during a qualifying swim at Queenscliff Beach in Sydney on Sunday.
I can just imagine the smirking Rudd strutting down to the waters edge in his “Boardies” on a visit to the beach,ignorantly jumping into the water in true nerd style, outside of the patrolled area and eventually having to be rescued by someone like Abbott wearing their offensive “Budgie Smugglers”
Rudd has to be the most out of touch,ignorant smart arsed “citizen of the world” Socialist nerd, ever to achieve public office in Australia’s history.
Rudd when was the last time you saw Triathletes, Olympic swimmers and Life Savers wearing “boardies” whilst they engaged in their sport or in the case of the activities of Mr Abbott and his fellow life savers training to save lives of drowning people?
Pious Muslim Taxi driver ,Abdul Majid Qazizada, assaults female passenger suffering from cerebral palsy
Taxi driver
'groped disabled passenger'
By Dave Barrett and wires
The Daily Telegraph
December 03, 2009 1:02PM
A SYDNEY taxi driver repeatedly fondled a female passenger suffering from cerebral palsy - then denigrated her while she gave evidence in court, a magistrate has found.
Abdul Majid Qazizada, 51, of Acacia Gardens, faced Ryde local court today charged with the aggravated indecent assault of the woman on September 10.
In her judgement, magistrate Jennifer Betts told the court Qazizada had “denigrated” the victim and embellished the incident in his evidence before the court.
She found Qazizada guilty of one count of aggravated indecent assault.
The court heard the taxi driver picked the woman up from Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club and drove her home, repeatedly telling her: “You’re a lovely lady”.
As she struggled to exit the cab in the driveway of her home, he touched her breasts several times and again told her she was a “lovely lady”.
The woman immediately went to her neighbours' home and reported the assault, the court heard.
The court heard the woman, who can not be identified, suffers from cerebral palsy and epilepsy.
She uses a walking frame to travel short distances, a wheelchair for long distances and suffers from weakness to the left side of her body.
Magistrate Betts said that in evidence given to the court, Qazizada said he was a devout Muslim and was observing the religious month of Ramadan at the time of the offence.
“As a practicing Muslim he was in the middle of Ramadan,” Ms Betts said.
“Being a fasting time, ‘men don’t even touch their wives’, were his words.”
Mr Qazizada will face court again on December 9 for sentencing.
Australia’s “rich tapestry of Cultural Diversity” claims another victim.
Lets see what punishment is dished out to this vile piece of Muslim crap on Dec. 9.
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Get ready for the sub-prime carbon bubble.
The Rubber Duckies: Deutsche Bank’s countdown to the carbon bubble
This year’s Corporate Rubber Duck Award goes to Deutsche Bank and the world’s financial institutions. The crass willingness of the world’s banks and investment houses to jump on to the global warming crusade reached a new low of irrational exuberance this week with the erection in Manhattan of an eight-story high Deutsche Bank carbon counter. The rolling digital clock flies through digits at the rate of about 1000 tonnes a second —the rate at which greenhouse gasses are accumulating in the atmosphere.
For a second yesterday afternoon, the counter stood at 3,642,124,591,652 — before it moved on. Why would Deutsche Bank do this? Because in those numbers Deutsche Bank, and all the other big financial blunderers who delivered today’s financial crisis, are gearing up to cash in on the next big wave, carbon markets and green investing.
To banks and financial players now lobbying Washington, Ottawa and governments everywhere, the rolling carbon counter is a rolling dollar counter. At 1,000 tonnes a second, if each tonne could be hit with a $50 carbon tax or carbon trading fee, that’s $50,000 a second, which works out to $2-billion a month. The potential, obviously, is in the trillions of dollars — bigger, even, than the global sub-prime crash.
Citigroup, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs are all part of campaigns to push the Obama administration to adopt carbon trading.
Earlier this year, Kevin Parker, head of Deutsche Asset Management, urged Washington to give “direction and boost” to global warming policy and carbon trading. “The nation is at a rare crossroads. With the right direction and boost from Washington, American business and investors can take a lead role in the global clean energy future.”
So much for claims by David Suzuki that the world’s corporate capitalists are leading a conspiracy against global warming science. Big business isn’t fighting global warming; it’s the new vanguard.
When financial institutions join government in reshaping the economic landscape — as they did with the U.S. housing market, based on various junk-science financial models — what happens? The sub-prime housing bubble has burst. Get ready for the sub-prime carbon bubble.
The previous leader of the Australian federal opposition,the Liberal Party, Mr Malcolm Turnbull,was Chairman and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Australia 1997-2001.Partner, Goldman Sachs and Co 1998-2001.
Mr Turnbull was, on Monday December 1 2009, replaced by Mr Tony Abbott in a leadership spill.
The left faction of the Liberal Party, and the main stream media, had anointed Mr Joe Hockey as Mr Turnbull’s replacement.
Mr Hockey’s wife,Melissa Babbage,is head of foreign exchange and global finance at Deutsche Bank.
Australians 1, Rudd and International Socialism 0
Tony Abbott:Rudd’s worst nightmare ? a Federal Opposition leader at last… Oh BTW Interest Rates went up AGAIN.
Tony Abbott Australia’s last chance of remaining a sovereign state ?
Australians 1, Rudd and International Socialism 0
The Australian Senate voted against the Rudd Socialist Labor Government’s Emissions Trading Scheme,ETS.
The People have won this round of Labor’s attempt to drive Australia and it’s people into been just another third world crap hole all in the name of Global Warming,Climate Change or The Weather.
PM Rudd was counting on appearing at the upcoming Copenhagen gab fest waving a piece of paper in the air declaring that Australians are the first to be sacrificed upon the alter of the Anthropogenic Global Warming scam, thereby ingratiating himself to his fellow International Socialists who he had hoped would fall about themselves patting him on the head telling him what a good little Comrade he was.
The fight is not over,however Australians may well be on the way to cutting the chains that have shackled us since the election of the Kevin 07 “I have never been a Socialist” Rudd, Socialist Marxist Union funded Labor Government.
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Tony Abbott:Rudd’s worst nightmare ? a Federal Opposition leader at last… Oh BTW Interest Rates went up AGAIN.
Man of the people who could be Rudd’s worst nightmare
Piers Akerman
Daily Telegraph
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
NEW Opposition Leader Tony Abbott offers Australian voters their first real political choice since the 2007 election.
No one can be in any doubt on where he stands on most issues affecting the nation. His unpredicted election to the Liberal Party and Opposition leadership offers the weakened Opposition forces their best opportunity to reposition themselves since the 2007 election.
The first round of party room polling which gave Abbott 35, Malcolm Turnbull 26 and Joe Hockey 23 votes demonstrated that the Liberals wanted a leader of conviction.
That ruled out Hockey who had destroyed himself with his wishy-washy call for a free vote on the ETS issue.
The all-important leadership vote gave Abbott 42 to Turnbull’s 41 and showed the intense concern within the party room over the choice of a leader who appeared to be lending support to the Rudd Government’s ETS bill, albeit with hard-negotiated amendments, and a candidate who wanted the public to know more about what was involved in the implementation of the most drastic new taxing policy in recent memory.
Turnbull is retreating to the backbenches, possibly to plot.
Hockey will need massaging but will probably remain in the new team.
The Senate will now either refer the ETS bill to a committee or call for a vote, which is likely to be defeated. There now appears little stomach for floor-crossing by Liberals.
Some in the media will attempt to peddle the view that Abbott is a fundamentalist religious fanatic but those who believe in a fair go will discover that the father-of-three is a plain-speaking suburban dad who puts his firm belief in community service into practice through his local surf lifesaving club and volunteer bushfire fighting brigade.
In both, he enjoys the friendship and respect of his mates, some of whom go back to his school days. He is probably closer to being a man of the people than any former Rhodes Scholar and Oxford Blue can be and as such stands a better chance of restoring unity to the divided Liberal Party, just as he rapidly repaired the fractured relationship with Coalition partners the Nationals.
Without doubt, Abbott is the man Labor did not want to lead the Opposition.
Its spin machine is predictably working to paint him and his supporters as extremists, the usual response from a party notorious for running scandalous fear-and-smear campaigns against its opponents and those of its own members who refuse to toe the party line.
Great Back Story here at Jo Nova Updated Here
Technorati Tags: Tony Abbott,Kevin Rudd,Climate Change TAX,The Weather Tax,ETS TAX,Copenhagen Scam,Liberal Party
Comrade Rudd’s Australia, December 1 2009.
NSW residents already burned by higher electricity prices
By Rhys Haynes
The Daily Telegraph
December 01, 2009
THOUSANDS of NSW residents are already battling to pay electricity bills even before the looming threat of significant price rises over the next three years.
Data obtained by The Daily Telegraph from big electricity sellers showed more than 10,000 NSW customers had fallen behind and asked for deferred or reduced payments.
The news followed a The Daily Telegraph report yesterday that the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal would allow power prices to soar a staggering 60 per cent in the next three years, adding more than $400 to the average household power bill.
The state's three major retailers said yesterday they were offering assistance to more than 10,000 customers battling to pay bills, with Integral Energy's hardship customers totalling 5770, EnergyAustralia helping 2882 customers and Country Energy with more than 3000 on hardship programs.
The NSW Consumer Credit Legal Centre said families and pensioners in Sydney's outer suburbs would be most affected.
"We certainly get calls from people who have a long list of unpaid bills including electricity," Centre co-ordinator Karen Cox said. "It is commonly people on very limited incomes, low income families or pensions and they are going to cope very poorly with any further price increases."
NSW Energy and Water Ombudsman Clare Petre said the number of complaints made by members of the public about electricity retailers had surged 21 per cent to 7008 in the 2008/09 financial year.
Energy Minister John Robertson, who fiercely opposed electricity privatisation as Unions NSW boss yesterday admitted some people could struggle with higher costs.
"Those (IPART) figures as estimates are high and obviously . . . we will be going over it with a fine tooth comb so that we can ensure that we can get the balance right between a reliable electricity supply and the cost to consumers," he said.
The IPART report, out on December 15, shows country families and businesses to be hardest hit with rural power bills rising by just over 60 per cent by mid-2013.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Caution America: Bejings man in Australia has Landed on your shores to conspire with Hussein Obama
Beijing’s man in Australia,Australian Prime Minister, Kevin 07,”I have never been a Socialist” Rudd, has just arrived in the United States Of America, to meet his soul mate, and like thinker, US President Barack Hussein Obama.
Kevin 07’s agenda is to report to Hussein Obama about what a good boy he has been, and how he has (almost) tricked the Federal Opposition Party, the Liberal Party, into accepting his UN Beijing sponsored ETS,Emissions Trading Scam .. oops sorry Scheme.Or as Americans would call it,Cap and Trade Scam.
Not so, after un precedent outrage by Australian citizens from both sides of the political spectrum demanding that Australia not sign up to Rudd’s TAX, the Liberal Party opposition has split wide open.
The Future of the Liberal Party and indeed Australia,will be decided on Tuesday the first of December 2009, when the leadership of the Liberal Party will be decided.
Comrade Rudd speaks to the media following his last visit with Hussein Obama.
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