Israel Memorial Day lest we, the west, forget at our peril

 

Memorial Day, 2010

By Naomi Ragen
http://www.NaomiRagen.com

I have just sat down after the fading notes of the siren have finally
disappeared.  It is another  Memorial Day for Israel's Fallen.  We have lost
22, 684 sons and daughters.  For a little country like Israel, that is an
enormous and incalculable loss.  Over the years, I have told all those ready
to listen Israel's well-kept secret: there is no Israeli army.  There is
only my son and your daughter, and the neighbor's kids.  Every loss is the
loss of not only an individual, but of  generations: the children who will
never be born, the grandchildren that will never snuggle in the laps of
grandparents.  It is the destruction of not only young lives full of
promise, but of their families: mothers and fathers whose lives are forever
shattered, grandparents who must bear the unthinkable, young girls who lost
their boyfriends, wives who lost their husbands, children who lost their
fathers.  Young women who died before they could experience anything of
life's promises.
After the words and ceremonies and sad music and films of remembrance, one
comes to the conclusion that Israel itself is bereaved, and does not know
how to comfort itself.  The ongoing and seemingly neverending price for our
freedom in the land God promised us is inhumanly high.

Only yesterday Achmadinijad spoke clearly of destroying Israel, uprooting us
like a "cancer."  The King of Jordan proclaimed there would be another war
in July.  And Syria is boldly transferring long range scud missiles once
again to Hezbollah in Lebanon. 

Only a week ago, we went through Holocaust Remembrance Day.  I remember
walking from my home to the Kotel.  And on the way back, I stepped inside
the newly rebuilt Hurva Synagogue, destroyed by the Arab Legion in 1948.  As
I stepped into the women's section, I looked with wonder at how the once
empty, destroyed shell, was filled anew with praying, chanting Jews.  It
reminded me of  Ezekiel's vision of dry bones rising from the dead full of
life once more.   They destroy, and we rebuild.  So it has been for every
generation of Jews.
That Europeans, who killed and tortured our families with unprecedented
barbarism, destroying one-third of the Jewish people, do not rejoice at what
we have done with our little country, but instead do all they can to see us
die again, shows me all their tears over our dead are fake, all their
Holocaust memorials empty shells.  That Americans, who did nothing to  stop
the trains to Auschwitz or to destroy the gas chambers, should ask us to
prove our desire for peace by appeasing our enemies, leading to more of our
beautiful sons and daughters being killed, shows me that America too has not
learned its history lessons.

There exists no comfort for the loss of our children as soldiers fighting
just wars.  But there is even less comfort for the loss of our children at
the hands of slaughterers, terrorists, and evil regimes.  Our young soldiers
have given their lives to save us from that.  May God bless their memories,
and comfort their families.  We owe them everything that makes our lives in
this world as Jews possible. Let's remember that more than one day a year.

 

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Lu Kewen aka. Australian Labor PM Kevin 07 Rudd follows, adopts? UK Labor’s Immigration Policy

 

Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser
Labour threw open Britain's borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a "truly multicultural" country, a former Government adviser has revealed.

By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor
Telegraph.co.uk
Published: 6:42PM BST 23 Oct 2009

The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and "rub the Right's nose in diversity", according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.

He said Labour's relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to "open up the UK to mass migration" but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate its "core working class vote".
As a result, the public argument for immigration concentrated instead on the economic benefits and need for more migrants.

Critics said the revelations showed a "conspiracy" within Government to impose mass immigration for "cynical" political reasons.

Mr Neather was a speech writer who worked in Downing Street for Tony Blair and in the Home Office for Jack Straw and David Blunkett, in the early 2000s.

Writing in the Evening Standard, he revealed the "major shift" in immigration policy came after the publication of a policy paper from the Performance and Innovation Unit, a Downing Street think tank based in the Cabinet Office, in 2001.

He wrote a major speech for Barbara Roche, the then immigration minister, in 2000, which was largely based on drafts of the report.

He said the final published version of the report promoted the labour market case for immigration but unpublished versions contained additional reasons, he said.

He wrote: "Earlier drafts I saw also included a driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural.

"I remember coming away from some discussions with the clear sense that the policy was intended – even if this wasn't its main purpose – to rub the Right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date."

The "deliberate policy", from late 2000 until "at least February last year", when the new points based system was introduced, was to open up the UK to mass migration, he said.

Some 2.3 million migrants have been added to the population since then, according to Whitehall estimates quietly slipped out last month.

On Question Time on Thursday, Mr Straw was repeatedly quizzed about whether Labour's immigration policies had left the door open for the BNP.

In his column, Mr Neather said that as well as bringing in hundreds of thousands more migrants to plug labour market gaps, there was also a "driving political purpose" behind immigration policy.

He defended the policy, saying mass immigration has "enriched" Britain, and made London a more attractive and cosmopolitan place.

But he acknowledged that "nervous" ministers made no mention of the policy at the time for fear of alienating Labour voters.

"Part by accident, part by design, the Government had created its longed-for immigration boom.

"But ministers wouldn't talk about it. In part they probably realised the conservatism of their core voters: while ministers might have been passionately in favour of a more diverse society, it wasn't necessarily a debate they wanted to have in working men's clubs in Sheffield or Sunderland."

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the Migrationwatch think tank, said: "Now at least the truth is out, and it's dynamite.

"Many have long suspected that mass immigration under Labour was not just a cock up but also a conspiracy. They were right.

"This Government has admitted three million immigrants for cynical political reasons concealed by dodgy economic camouflage."

The chairmen of the cross-party Group for Balanced Migration, MPs Frank Field and Nicholas Soames, said: "We welcome this statement by an ex-adviser, which the whole country knows to be true.

"It is the first beam of truth that has officially been shone on the immigration issue in Britain."

A Home Office spokesman said: “Our new flexible points based system gives us greater control on those coming to work or study from outside Europe, ensuring that only those that Britain need can come.

“Britain's borders are stronger than ever before and we are rolling out ID cards to foreign nationals, we have introduced civil penalties for those employing illegal workers and from the end of next year our electronic border system will monitor 95 per cent of journeys in and out of the UK.

“The British people can be confident that immigration is under control.”

The Consequences of UK Labor’s Immigration Policy (I am pretending that they were not aware of the following when they introduced this immigration policy aka Mass Suicide Note) Australia’s very own Lu Kewen aka. Australia’s PM Kevin Rudd, is committed to a “big Australia” some 36 million in population and presently has an open border immigration policy with a preference for Muslim illegals.

Australia

We'll be a nation of new migrants

By NICK GARDNER
The Sunday Telegraph
April 18, 2010

THE Australian-born family will become a minority group within 15 years - outnumbered by a surging wave of migrants from Europe and Asia.

Figures from demographic consultants Macroplan Australia show record overseas migration and an ageing population mean migrant families will overtake the number of locally born residents by 2025 - far sooner than previously imagined.

The news will infuriate some Australian citizens, who claim the population is already too big and infrastucture is buckling under the strain.

According to 2006 census data, 40 per cent of the nation's population was either born overseas or had at least one parent who was born abroad.

But at present immigration levels, that proportion will jump to more than 50 per cent by 2025.

The news comes a few days after the appointment of Tony Burke as Australia's first population minister

He faces the task of managing the influx of migrants, which is expected to swell the population from 22 million today to 36 million by 2050.

As Mr Burke was sworn in, a survey of 3000 people revealed 70 per cent of Australians do not want a bigger population. Fewer than a quarter favoured immigration as the main contributor.

But experts say a migrant majority will be healthy for Australian culture and attitudes.

"It all adds to the cosmopolitan nature of modern Australia," KPMG demographer Bernard Salt said. "It means our views become less blinkered, and we become more tolerant, confident, engaged, opportunistic and optimistic because we are open to new ideas, not obsessed with keeping things the same."

Macroplan chief executive Brian Haratsis said Australians tended to "stare at our shoes and say we're the best in the world".

"While immigration needs to be managed with better infrastructure, we also need high immigration for sound economic reasons - if we don't, we'll all end up paying higher taxes."

Dr Bob Birrell, co-director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research and reader in sociology at Monash University, said the ratio of foreign-born residents was already higher in Sydney and Melbourne because they were the two most popular destinations for new arrivals.

"We're getting lots more Indian and Chinese immigrants coming to study, but many of those will end up settling here," Dr Birrell said.

The Federal Government estimates that cutting immigration from 280,000 to its target of 180,000 will result in a population of 36 million by 2050.

But it also means the number of working taxpayers will halve in relation to the number of people aged over 65.

Most migrants come from Britain (14.2 per cent), followed by New Zealand (11.4 per cent), India (11.2), China (10.5) South Africa (5.3) and the Philippines (4.1).

Mr Salt said there would be more Iraqi and Afghan migrants.

 

Technorati Tags: Multiculturalism,Lu Kewen,Muslim Demographics,Colonisation of Australia

Lu Kewen aka.Australian PM.Kevin Rudd’s Nephew Van-Thanh-Rudd Trashes Australia (again)

 

Australian Open 26 1 2010

Van-Thanh-Rudd

Lu Kewen

Australian Federal Election Poster, Hong Kong 2007.

Rudd nephew in 'disgusting' art controversy

Sunday Herald Sun
January 30, 2010 11:43PM

PMs nephew in new controversy
Art work called 'disgusting'
Lampoons dead Aussie soldiers

FRESH from being evicted from the Australian Open Tennis, Kevin Rudd's nephew is embroiled in fresh controversy over art works that lampoon dead Australian soldiers.

Van Thanh Rudd, who last week was ejected from the open for wearing a Ku Klux Klan costume with the logo "Australian Made", has been attacked over "disrespectful and disgraceful art".

The art work juxtaposes a picture of Shane Warne making an impassioned appeal for a wicket against a coffin of a Digger draped in an Australian flag being carried to a Hercules transport plane for the journey home.

Another montage entitled The Rape depicts real pictures of identifiable rugby league players positioned so they look as if they are engaged in sex acts.

Mr Rudd is the son of the Prime Minister's older brother, Malcolm. According to his website which displays the art works, Mr Van Thanh Rudd was born in the Queensland coastal town of Nambour - the Prime Minister's home town - and now resides in Melbourne.
In what appeared to be a veiled reference to the Prime Minister, Mr Baldwin said anyone with any influence on Mr Van Thanh Rudd or his family should get him to pull the website down.

Prime Minister Rudd has previously condemned artist Bill Henson over his erotic depictions of children describing them as "disgusting". But presented with Mr Van Thanh Rudd's images a spokesman would only say: "The Prime Minister believes all Australians should respect the service and sacrifice of our Australian servicemen and women."

Mr Van Thanh was fined $234 by police for his Klu Klux Klan protest at the Australian Tennis Open. But he could also be facing possible civil action from the Australian Made campaign if he ignores a legal warning to stop using its logo for his anti-racism protests.

Mr Rudd, 36, was fined by police for "riotous behaviour"' after he and fellow Revolutionary Socialist Party member Sam King staged a protest against the treatment of Indian students and immigration policies.

Australian Made campaign chief executive Ian Harrison said the organisation had told lawyers to write to Mr Rudd requiring a commitment from him not to "misuse" the logo.

The Prime Minister's nephew said the protest was aimed at drawing attention to racism in Melbourne and the incarceration of asylum-seekers.

"We don't see why Australia has the right to be the most racist country in the world," he told the ABC.

"Australia funds the genocidal Sri Lankan regime and then rejects the refugees who flee. In this country you could not get away with doing that against whites. So they're the basic reasons we're having the protest today," he told the ABC.

Mr King said the idea for the demonstration stemmed from a cartoon in an Indian newspaper that likened Victorian police to the Ku Klux Klan.

Kevin Rudd defends nephew Van Thanh Rudd's right to protest

Herald Sun
February 05, 2010

KEVIN Rudd has defended the right of his nephew to use controversial protest tactics, even though he disagrees with him.

Van Thanh Rudd, a Melbourne-based artist, made headlines in the Indian media after dressing up in a Ku Klux Klan hood on Australia

Day to protest against violence directed at Indian students.

Asked about those tactics, the Prime Minister said he had a broad family.

"We all believe in free speech but I don't agree with what he said," Mr Rudd told Fairfax Radio today.

"I haven't had a chat with him for quite some months."

Mr Rudd pointed out that his 36-year-old nephew had two brothers - a policeman and a member of the Australian Defence Force.

They are the sons of the Prime Minister's brother Malcolm, a Vietnam veteran, and his wife Tuoi.

"I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist," Mr Rudd said.

“The Fruit does not falls far from the tree.”

Rudd’s Illegal’s on their way to Australia

HMAS Childers finally a chance to speak the truth.

Prof.Bob Birrell Speaks for Australia and Australians

 

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Islamic Scholar discovers cause of recent spat of Earth Quakes

 

Sex fuels earthquakes, says Iran cleric

Yahoo7
18 4 2010

A senior Iranian cleric has claimed that dolled-up women incite extramarital sex, causing more earthquakes in Iran, a country that straddles several fault lines, newspapers reported on Saturday.

"Many women who dress inappropriately ... cause youths to go astray, taint their chastity and incite extramarital sex in society, which increases earthquakes," Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi told worshippers at Friday prayers in Tehran.

"Calamities are the result of people's deeds," he was quoted as saying by reformist Aftab-e Yazd newspaper. "We have no way but conform to Islam to ward off dangers."

The Islamic dress code is mandatory in Iran, which has been under clerical rule for more than three decades.

Every post-pubescent woman regardless of her religion or nationality must cover her hair and bodily contours in public. Offenders face punishment and fine.

But this has not stopped urban women from appearing in the streets wearing tight coats and flimsy headscarves and layers of skilfully applied makeup.

Iran is prone to frequent quakes, many of which have been devastating.
The worst in recent times hit the southern city of Bam in December 2003, killing 31,000 people - about a quarter of the population - and destroying its ancient mud-built citadel.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury I rest my case.

 

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Muhammed’s descendents to pay for their for their ideology’s Godless savagery ?

 

Full Story Here

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Labor,Rudd’s Australia.

 

We'll be a nation of new migrants

By NICK GARDNER
The Sunday Telegraph
April 18, 2010

THE Australian-born family will become a minority group within 15 years - outnumbered by a surging wave of migrants from Europe and Asia.

Figures from demographic consultants Macroplan Australia show record overseas migration and an ageing population mean migrant families will overtake the number of locally born residents by 2025 - far sooner than previously imagined.

 

The news will infuriate some Australian citizens, who claim the population is already too big and infrastucture is buckling under the strain.

According to 2006 census data, 40 per cent of the nation's population was either born overseas or had at least one parent who was born abroad.

But at present immigration levels, that proportion will jump to more than 50 per cent by 2025.

The news comes a few days after the appointment of Tony Burke as Australia's first population minister

He faces the task of managing the influx of migrants, which is expected to swell the population from 22 million today to 36 million by 2050.

As Mr Burke was sworn in, a survey of 3000 people revealed 70 per cent of Australians do not want a bigger population. Fewer than a quarter favoured immigration as the main contributor.

But experts say a migrant majority will be healthy for Australian culture and attitudes.

"It all adds to the cosmopolitan nature of modern Australia," KPMG demographer Bernard Salt said. "It means our views become less blinkered, and we become more tolerant, confident, engaged, opportunistic and optimistic because we are open to new ideas, not obsessed with keeping things the same."

Macroplan chief executive Brian Haratsis said Australians tended to "stare at our shoes and say we're the best in the world".

"While immigration needs to be managed with better infrastructure, we also need high immigration for sound economic reasons - if we don't, we'll all end up paying higher taxes."

Dr Bob Birrell, co-director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research and reader in sociology at Monash University, said the ratio of foreign-born residents was already higher in Sydney and Melbourne because they were the two most popular destinations for new arrivals.

"We're getting lots more Indian and Chinese immigrants coming to study, but many of those will end up settling here," Dr Birrell said.

The Federal Government estimates that cutting immigration from 280,000 to its target of 180,000 will result in a population of 36 million by 2050.

But it also means the number of working taxpayers will halve in relation to the number of people aged over 65.

Most migrants come from Britain (14.2 per cent), followed by New Zealand (11.4 per cent), India (11.2), China (10.5) South Africa (5.3) and the Philippines (4.1).

Mr Salt said there would be more Iraqi and Afghan migrants.

Rudd’s Illegal’s on their way to Australia

HMAS Childers finally a chance to speak the truth.

Prof.Bob Birrell Speaks for Australia and Australians

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Australian Labor Party, Communisms Fifth Column, led by Kevin“I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist” Rudd

Will someone please explain to me how you can be elected to the leadership of the largest Socialist / Communist Party in Australia, Lu Kewen aka Kevin Rudd,and claim to not believe in its ideology and manifesto ? or is this yet another example of the Labor Party’s most adhered to commandment of “whatever it takes” Chk – chk- BOOM
The Australian Labor Party,ALP,is funded by the Australian Council of Trade Unions,ACTU,these bankers and financiers of the ALP are without question radical left in ideology and actions, are we to believe that they are unaware they have a man leading the political party they finance and SCAM for does not believe in or subscribe to their social and political objectives ?
An invitation to President Chavez by the undersigned cabal of Labor Party officials, Parliamentarians,Union officials and leftist beard strokers and “Religious” leaders.
For the latest developments in the Socialist Utopia of Venezuela,see SheikYerMami’s Winds of Jihad
http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org/?q=node/160
Dear President Chávez,
We, the undersigned citizens of Australia, would like to extend a warm invitation for you to visit our country. We have watched developments in Venezuela with great interest. We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. We have also noted with keen attention the moves that your government has begun to make to create a society based on popular participation in all spheres of society—from the workplace up to the national government.
Although we are on the opposite side of the globe we feel that our shared ideals of social justice and democracy bring us close together. Every country has its own traditions and culture and has to find its own solutions, but what Venezuela has been able to achieve in so little time will be a source of inspiration and ideas for many in Australia.

“that our shared ideals of social justice and democracy bring us close together”

“…..source of inspiration and ideas for many in Australia.”

In this light we believe that a visit to our country by yourself would not only help to improve the awareness of the Australian people of developments in Venezuela, but also be an unparalleled opportunity to strengthen the ties of friendship and solidarity between our two peoples.
All signatures will be posted to Nelson Davila, Venezuela’s charge d’affaires in Australia, Canberra.(Todas las firmas de invitación serán enviadas a Nelson Dávila, Encargado de Negocios de Venezuela en Australia, Canberra)
If you would like to confirm the signature of yourself or you organisation for identification and for promotion of President Chavez' visit please contact us: Jody Betzien 0425 887 078 or email info@venezuelasolidarity.org
Signatories include
Andrew Ferguson NSW Secretary, CFMEU Construction and General Division, John Pilger - Independent Journalist, Warren Mundine - National President of the ALP in 2006, Sylvia Hale - Member of the Legislative Council NSW (Greens), Steve Dargavel - Acting State Secretary, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Victoria, Meredith Burgmann - President of the Legislative Council of NSW, Wayne Berry - MLA (ALP) Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly, Tim Gooden - Geelong Trades Hall Secretary,
Van Thanh Rudd - Visual Artist  Nephew of Australian PM Lu Kewen aka.Kevin 07 Rudd

Labor’s, Rudd’s coveted economic,social plan for Australia.

Australian Council of Trade Unions President Comrade Darling! Sharan Burrow, in the centre with ASU National Chairperson Alison Peters front right, Fran Teirney of the ASU-NSW & ACT (Services) Branch front left and others.

“Organisers as Educators” 

"The only way you'll fly is with the ASU!" Airlines organisers showing the way.”

Signatories to invite Chavez to Australia
Ali Kazak - Former Ambassador of Palestine
Andrew Ferguson NSW Secretary, CFMEU Construction and General Division
Angela Briant - Secretary Independent Education Union (Tasmania)
Antony Loewenstein - Independent Journalist
Barry Carr - Director of la Trobe University, Institute of Latin American Studies
Belinda Selke - NTEU, Wollongong
Blake Stephens - Organier, CPSU NSW
Brendan Hewson - President, Community & Public Sector Union /CSA
Buranjali David Allie - Council of Elders, Indigenious Land Council
Cameron Durnsford - LMHU, Qld
Caroline Risely - Monash University Welfare Officer
Carolyn Smith - Childcare Union Assistant Secretary, WA Liqor Hospitality Miscellaneous workers Union
Casper Cumming - Swinborne Student Union President 2006
Charlotte Boss-Walker -Peace Activist (Tas)
Cheryl Dillon - NTEU, Wollongong
Chris Game - Secretary, NTEU NSW,
Clare Ozich - Industrial Officer, Unions WA
Craig Bulley - Worker's Radio
Craig Johnson - Cultural Studies, Macquarie University.
Darren Mathewson - director of Organising CPSU
Dave Robinson - Secretary, Unions WA
David O’Byrne - Sectretary LHMU
Deb Foskey - Greens Member of the Legislative Assembly (ACT)
Dick Nichols - National Co-ordinator, Socialist Alliance
Doreen Shenman - Peace Activist (Tas)
Dr Alastair Grieg Senior Lecturer, Australian National University: Faculty of Arts
Dr Coral Wynter - biochemist, Brisbane
Dr Rhonda Forrest - Lecturer, Charles Sturt University
Dr. Anthony Ashbolt - NTEU, Wollongong
Dr. Henk Eijkman - Empowered Learning International
Dr. Peter Ross - Spanish & Latin American Studies, UNSW
Erick Maldonado - NTEU, Wollongong
Federico Fuentes - National Co-ordinator, Resistance socialist youth organisation
Fay Hannah - Cuba Friendship Society
Geoff Hull - LMHU (NT)
Gil Anderson - Secretary ACT Branch LHMU
Graciela Nogues - ASU workplace delegate & L.A Solidarity Committe
Graham Pallot - organiser, CFMEU WA
Grahame McCulloch - General Secretaty, NTEU
Glenda Mejía - Spanish Co-ordinator at RMIT
Humphrey McQueen - Historian
Ian Bray - WA assistant branch secretary, Maritime Union of Australia WA
Ian Cohen - MLC NSW, Greens
Ian Newman - Peace Activist (Tas)
J Keith Atkinson - Associate Professor emeritus, UQ; Healer
Jack Mundey - Environmentalist
Jade Mason - LMHU (Qld)
Janine Aitkens -President, Cairns Campus, James Cook University Student Assoc.
Jakalene X - Indigenous community activist
Jake Wishart - Student Activist Alliance
Jenni Bond - Peace Activist (Tas)
Jenny Forward - Organiser CPSU (Tasmania)
Jim McIlroy - journalist, Brisbane
Jim Mellor - Communications/Projects, CFMEU WA
Jim Reid - organiser, CFMEU WA
Jo Maree Coghlan - Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong
Joan Doyle - Victorian Branch Secretary of the CEPU Communications Division
Joe Cambria - The Australian Global Warming and Fair Pay Institute
Joe McDonald - Assistant Secretary, CFMEU WA
Joel Asphar - AMWU WA Organiser
John Pilger - Independent Journalist
John Sutton - National Secretary, CFMEU, Construction & Gernaral Division
Jose Munoz - Organiser ACT Branch LHMU
Judith Pabian - President ACT Branch NTEU
Keith Peckham - Industrial development officer, UnionsWA
Kerry Nettle - Australian Greens Senator for NSW
Kerryn Williams - Editor, Green Left Weekly
Kevin Ennor - organiser, CFMEU WA
Keysar Trad - Islamic Friendship Association
Kim Sattler - Secretary UnionsACT
Kiraz Janicke - National Co-ordinating Committee Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network
Lee Rhiannon - Member of the Legislative Council NSW (Greens)Len Palmer - Lecturer, Charles Sturt University
Lisa Darmanin, ASU Assistant Branch Secretary, Lisa Darmanin
Linda Briskman - Professor, Curtin Centre for Human Rights Education
Linda Seaborn - Welfare worker, and HACSU delegate
Lisa MacDonald - National Co-ordinating Committee Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network
Mark Taylor - Australian Services Union (Qld)
Marree O'Halloran - President, NSW Teachers Federation
Michele McKenzie - Greens Councillor, Leichhardt Council
Michelle O'Neil - TCFUA State secretary
Megan Clement - Newcastle University Students Association, Education Officer 2006
Meredith Burgmann - President of the Legislative Council of NSW
Mick Baker - MUA WA organiser
Mick Buchan - Organiser, CFMEU WA
Mick Campion - President, NTEU Murdoch Univeristy Branch
Mike Donaldson - NTEU, Wollongong
Naomi Arrowsmith - Australian Services Union, Assistant State Secretary (NSW)
Narendra Mohan Kommalapati - Journalist
Natasha Stott-Despoja - SA Australian Democrats Senator
Neil Mudford - Secretary ACT Branch NTEU
Nicholas Kafer - Education Campaigns Coordinator - Wollonongong Undergraduate Students' Association (WUSA)
Noah Bassil - Associate of the Centre for Middle East & North African Studies
Paul Halfpenny - WA Organiser, NTEU
Paul Lynch - State member for Liverpool
Paul Gonzalez - Pablo Neruda Cultural Centre (Melb)
Paul Obohoov - Trade Union Voices Choir, ACTU
Phillip Adams - Journalist, Republican of the Year 2005
Peter Boyle - National Secretary, Democratic Socialist Perspective
Raul Bassi - Transport Workers Union delegate, Sydney
Ray Jackson - Indigenous Social Justice Association
Reverend Alex Gator
Robert Austin - Honorary Fellow Department of History, University of Melbourne
Robyn Francis -Permaculture Education, Erda Institute Inc
Ryan Ardill - Your Rights at Work, Kingston Division
Saeb Ali - Peace For Lebanon (Wollongong)
Sam Watson - Indigenous Murri Activist
Scott Poynting - Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Education, UW
Shelley Watson-Harris - Executive Officer, Unions WA
Simon Cocker - Secretary, Unions Tasmania
Stephen Weber - ASU (Alice Springs)
Steve Dargavel - Acting State Secretary, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Victoria.
Steve McCartney - State President, AMWU WA
Steven Arditto - Organiser CPSU (Tasmania)
Susan Engel - NTEU Wollongong
Susan Hopgood - Federal Secretary, AEU
Susan Price - UNSW National Tertiary Education Union, Branch President
Sylvia Hale - Member of the Legislative Council NSW (Greens)
Tania Jorquera - Youth Worker
Thirza White - Campaign Coordinator Unions WA
Tim Anderson - Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney
Tim Gooden - Geelong Trades Hall Secretary
Van Thanh Rudd - Visual Artist
Vinnie Molina Organiser, CFMEU WA
Viviana Ramírez - Senior Teacher of Spanish, Beerwah State High School
Warren Mundine - National President of the ALP in 2006
Warren Smith - Assistant Sydney Branch Secretary, Maritime Union of Australia
Wayne Berry - MLA (ALP) Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly
Wendy Jopson - Lecturer, University of Technology Sydne
Yvette Berry - Organiser ACT Branch LHMU
Rudd backtracks on socialist label
Samantha Maiden and Verity Edwards
The Australian
December 15, 2006
KEVIN Rudd has junked a pledge to remove the word socialism from the Labor Party's constitution just a day after denouncing it as an "arcane, 19th-century" doctrine.
Three years ago he declared himself "an old-fashioned Christian socialist", but yesterday he was busily denouncing socialism and also backflipping on a 2001 push to remove it from the ALP's constitution.
Mr Rudd has previously declared the ALP's socialist dogma of controlling "production, distribution and exchange" had nostalgia value only and was "entirely unmemorable".
When asked yesterday whether he would now take action, the Labor leader changed tack and said he had no plans to pursue the reforms at next year's ALP national conference.
"I have no plans of doing so," he said in Adelaide yesterday.
"I've already indicated where I stand philosophically in terms of the questions of my own beliefs, my own values and the priorities and objectives which I believe for a modern, progressive, democratic party.
"These are core social democratic values and I'm proud to be a committed social democrat as I have been all my life."
Mr Rudd's emphatic rejection of socialism was frontpage news in Melbourne's The Age yesterday. The newspaper's website also included video images of the Labor leader denouncing socialism but admitting he did not want workers being left to the "dung heap of the market".
"I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist," Mr Rudd said.
However, his bold statement of values was immediately undermined by the emergence of another declaration in 2003, when he was quoted in another Fairfax newspaper as saying: "I am an old-fashioned Christian socialist."
Mr Rudd also cites Keir Hardie, founder of the 19th century British Christian socialist movement, as one of his heroes.
In a homage to another of his political heroes, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who fought to expunge socialism from the British Labour Party's constitution in 1994, Mr Rudd has repeatedly said the ALP should follow suit. "The socialist objective ... should be abolished," he said in 2002. "While we may not have taken the socialist objective seriously ... there are others outside the party who have - and have been fundamentally alienated by it."
Socialism has clearly been on the Labor leader's mind for a while. In his maiden speech to parliament, Mr Rudd said: "Nambour, for those of you who are unfamiliar with it, was not a major centre of revolutionary socialism in the 1970s - the cane growers hall even less so."
Former Labor Party president Barry Jones said yesterday the ALP's constitution had already been updated during a special national conference in 1981.
"(But) if there's going to be a broad debate about what we stand for that's terrific because, in a way, for some decades we just haven't talked about it," he said.
Mr Jones pointed to a discussion in his autobiography, A Thinking Reed, which refers to comments by Polish philosopher Leszek Kilakowski, who said: "The trouble with the social democratic idea is that it does not stock and does not sell any of the existing ideological commodities which various totalitarian movements offer dream-hungry youth."

Lu Kewen.

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Lord Christopher Monckton speaks to Alan Jones about his up coming USA Tea Party appearance

 

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Hussein Obama interviewed by Australian TV, Australia and the USA do have so much in common,both nations are ruled by a lunatic.

 

Full interview with Hussein Obama & Rudd Government publicist

And just who is the man Hussein Obama says he has so much in common with?

PM turns his failure into a $1 billion disaster

By Andrew Bolt
The Daily Telegraph
April 14, 2010

KEVIN Rudd spent his first two years in power smashing stuff.

Now, in this election year, he's spending up to $1 billion of your money to fix the damage.

That's right: Rudd is spending at least $1 billion to fix the havoc he's unleashed by handing out free insulation, splurging on overpriced school buildings, relaxing boat people laws, letting in an unsustainable 300,000 people a year - and more.

Oh, I know. You think I'm far too hard on a PM with the air of a particularly methodical Christian dentist. But one disillusioned day you will hear from many who now work with him that how Rudd seems is bizarrely different to how he is.

I don't just mean that this prissy churchgoer is privately a foul-mouthed, arrogant and paranoid control freak, but that many of his brightest ideas swiftly flop.

The truth is his skill at spinning has so far saved Rudd's reputation as a manager.

But check the substance rather than the image and you find he already qualifies as possibly the most incompetent prime minister since World War II.

And, no, I haven't forgotten Whitlam.

Take Monday's announcement that his Government will spend another $14 million on a taskforce to tackle the massive rorting of its $16.2 billion school stimulus scheme.

This so-called "Building the Education Revolution" spendathon was always destined to be a colossal waste.

But even I couldn't predict the rorting.

In NSW builders have charged $800,000 a time for more than 40 covered outdoor learning areas which state government costings say should have cost $250,000 each.

In Victoria, even a dying school with just two children was given $150,000, and from everywhere came complaints that BER developers were charging "management fees" of up to 21 per cent.

That's all your money, folks. Blown in what some now call the Builders' Early Retirement fund. Now the Government is spending even more of your money - $14 million - on a taskforce to stop the looting of what's left of our $16.2 billion.

Or to seem to.

Why did Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard only now announce this "safeguard" when it's been clear for months that your taxes were being wasted like never before in our history?

Three reasons, all squalid.

First, Sunday Night on Channel Seven last weekend ran a devastating report on this scandal. Second, it's election year, and a taskforce makes you seem you're dealing with the problem.

Sunday Night “Building Education Revolution” report.

And third, although Gillard refuses to admit it, she has an advance report on this BER racket from the Auditor-General that is likely to be devastating, and it's a fair bet she set up her taskforce to short-circuit the criticism she'll get when it's released.

This BER rorting is the biggest Rudd waste so far. But the more graphic symbol is his free insulation scheme.

Rudd barged ahead even after his own department was warned in writing a year ago that rushing out these freebies could attract shysters, burn houses and kill people.

It all happened, as Rudd was warned, with four installers dead, 120 homes set on fire and more than 300,000 homes fitted with potentially lethal or near-useless junk.

To fix the disaster and compensate the losers, the Government may now have to spend anything up to $1 billion. It also means taxpayers must pay millions to take out insulation that Rudd made them pay millions to put in. It couldn't get crazier.

Correction. It already has. See, Rudd meant this giveaway to "stimulate" the economy and put people in jobs. But the day before Easter (a good time to bury bad news) his government announced, in effect, that his insulation scheme had killed off the very industry he'd meant it to help.

The Government said it would now give insulation manufacturers $15 million to help them stockpile all the batts and foil they can no longer sell, now that Rudd's scheme has stuck the stuff in a million more ceilings.

Those stockpiles of unsellable batts are a clear sign that these once healthy businesses have been poleaxed. Indeed, an industry which once predicted Rudd's free insulation plan would create 4000 jobs now says its collapse has cost the jobs of 6000.

That's why Rudd has spent another $41 million of your money to help retrain the people sacked from an industry he spent billions to "stimulate".

And still this lunatic incompetence doesn't end. To fix this mess before the election, Rudd has switched his entire emissions trading team on to it.

Remember them? They're the 154 public servants Rudd originally hired to work on what until this year he called "the greatest moral, economic and social challenge of our time" - the man-made global warming he told us his great new green tax on everything would help stop.

But that tax is now blocked in the Senate, and public support for it is falling like a batt out of hell, so Rudd has put "the greatest moral, economic and social challenge of our time" on the backburner and set his $57 million-a-year team of planet-savers to work on insulation instead.

And still this comedy is not done. Rudd last weekend froze the processing of refugee applications from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan to stop the tide of boats he unleashed by weakening our boat people laws two years ago. Boat people were a problem John Howard had fixed, cutting arrivals to just 18 boats over six years. Rudd unfixed that problem by going soft, so he's now luring in more than 10 boats a month.

The Christmas Island detention centre is full and fixing this will cost hundreds of millions more of your dollars, with the 2000 people who've arrived just this year costing some $80,000 each to process.

Then there's the whole new "Department of Population" Rudd abruptly created to hose down the alarm he'd raised by not only letting in a record 300,000 immigrants last year, but by then endorsing predictions that our population will explode to 36 million by 2050.

And we still don't know how much in total we must pay for all Rudd's other failures – Fuel Watch, Grocery Watch, the scrapped tender of his first broadband scheme, the lobbying for his pan-Asian body, the botched Green Loans plan, the rorted solar hot-water scheme, the "Ideas Summit" fiasco and the new nuclear disarmament body.

More amazing is that Rudd retains the air of a man who knows just what he's doing, and is across every detail. Watch him now sell his latest multi-billion-dollar plan - a health shake-up that Ken Baxter, former head of the premier's departments in the Victoria and NSW, warns will create a bureaucratic monster that will eat money.

But look at Rudd. See how assured and competent he seems, even as his last schemes still fall around his ears?

Amazing gift, that, and you're paying billions for it.

Beijing’s highest ranking representative in Australia, Australian Prime Minister, Lu Kewen aka Kevin 07,has finally ground to a halt, he simply has run out of acronyms, bumper stickers, and babies to kiss, he is now after two years as one commentator said “haunting hospital wards” pushing his new plan for Australia’s crippled bankrupt FREE Health Care system , Medicare.

Lu Kewen electioneering in Hong Kong 2007

The word has gone out for his and his party’s most loyal media cheer squad, the Australian taxpayer funded, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) to go into damage control and try and get some positive spin on their PM by having the Messiah praising him from the White House as the Messiah’s man down under, who was so much like,of all things the Messiah himself.

America is now bankrupt, Australia is far from that however when Lu Kewen took office in November 2007 he inherited from the previous conservative Howard government a surplus of some $25 BILLION dollars a little over two years into his first term he has turned that surplus into a $300 Billion deficit.

He is with doubt the most incompetent Prime Minister in the history of the nation he and his government make the infamous far left Labor Whitlam government of the 70’s appear conservative in comparison, its no wonder Hussein Obama has such high regard for Lu Kewen, Kevin 07, or as Bill Clinton calls him “Prime Minister Rude”.

2GB’S Alan Jones  with Daily Telegraph’s Piers Akerman.

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Lakemba Mosque caught out again.

 

Al-Qaeda at city mosque

SMH

ERIK JENSEN
April 15, 2010

EXCLUSIVE

AN AL-QAEDA recruiter, described as the No. 1 terrorist threat to America, was engaged by a Sydney youth group to address hundreds of young people - a decision that has caused deep divisions at one of Australia's largest mosques.

The Lefts Celebrity Muslim and Islamist apologist Keysar Trad spins

At the same time as Anwar al-Awlaki was advising the extremist later charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas, he was in talks with a group, Sydney Muslim Youth, about delivering a sermon to young Australians. He was already well known to security agencies as the spiritual guide to three of the hijackers on September 11, 2001.

''Anwar al-Awlaki is like a virus produced by the body wanting to fight a microbe,'' said Taj el-Din al-Hilaly, condemning the sermon, which was delivered at his mosque by phone link from Yemen.

According to US authorities, about the time of the sermon Mr Awlaki was transforming himself from radical cleric to trainer and recruiter for al-Qaeda.

Last week, Mr Awlaki became the first US citizen added to the CIA kill list. He is considered a military enemy of the US and faces assassination by special forces.

"The danger Awlaki poses to this country is no longer confined to words," a US official told The New York Times. "He's gotten involved in plots."

The chairwoman of the US house subcommittee on homeland security, Jane Harman, called Mr Awlaki "terrorist No. 1 in terms of threat against us".

The bomber who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day last year reportedly described Mr Awlaki as his trainer and recruiter.

The Herald attended the sermon at the Lakemba mosque in February last year but was ejected by organisers. Yesterday, no one involved with the mosque would take responsibility for securing Mr Awlaki as a speaker.

According to a director of the mosque, Ziad Ghamraoui, Shady Alsuleiman was in charge of organising evening youth events at the time of the sermon. Sheikh Shady refused to comment. He would not say whether Mr Awlaki was paid and would not comment on the subject of his speech.

Since Mr Awlaki's lecture, all speakers must now be approved by the mosque. Mr Ghamraoui said: ''We need to make sure that it's only moderate scholars that are coming.''

The senior imam at the mosque, Sheikh Hilaly, condemned provocative clerics who radicalised young people. ''They are like fast food who give no substance and no spiritual nutrition,'' he said.

''Our young people these days like loud voices. They seem to like Rambo and Schwarzenegger and the imam who raises his voice and appears tough.'' IslamicMedia.com.au, an initiative of the Shady-affiliated United Muslims of Australia, streamed but did not record the speech and has 15 other audio sermons from the imam.

On other websites, not hosted in Australia, Mr Awlaki supports jihad with phrases such as: ''The messenger of Allah said … whoever kills a non-believer can meet him''.

The NSW counter-terrorism squad, which has previously described Mr Awlaki as ''of great concern to us'', was unavailable for comment.

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Crazed Socialist Loon performs for cameras at Australian Protectionist Party rally outside illegal entrant detention centre.

Bluto & Ms.Cameltoe

The face of Rudd’s Socialist Australia on parade.

Australian Protectionist Party

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Rudd’s Socialist Utopia,Australia, April 2010

 

Jones & Akerman on Rudd’s Australia 2 years on.

The consequences of the Genius of Rudd’s open borders policy

The ever ready Fifth Column

Multicultural Cop Killer allowed to remain in Australia.

FU*K*I*G Terrorist !!!! oops woowww,sorry what was he thinking? how about Muslim “car enthusiast” (that’s better), bailed for Easter riot, cameraman stood down.

Labors’ Medi DONT Care and never did.

Rudd’s Illegal’s on their way to Australia

Who’s ya Daddy?

HMAS Childers finally a chance to speak the truth.

Prof.Bob Birrell Speaks for Australia and Australians

HMAS Childers finally a chance to speak the truth.

Lu Kewens’ internet censorship plans “unworkable” says Google

Rudds’ Australia: Iran,Australia and North Korea a threat to internet via censorship regulation

Update on Rudd's internet censorship laws

Americans BEWARE Australian internet to be CENSORED by Australian Labor Party

That’s 100 failures by Julia’s logic

Piers Akerman
Daily Telegraph
Saturday, April 10, 2010

‘ANOTHER boat on the way, another policy failure,” is how deputy prime minister Julia Gillard characterised the flow of people smugglers’ vessels when she was in Opposition on April 23, 2003.

Seven years later, Labor has been in office for two-and-a-half years, and the spate of unlawful boat arrivals has mounted to more than 105 vessels since the Rudd Government introduced its watered down tough-but-humane approach.

So, Julia, is this more than 100 policy failures? Or would you like me to add all of the other policy disasters: the failed Fuel Watch, Grocery Watch, Murray-Darling program, the lethal home-insulation disaster, the wasteful and disgraceful education revolution building program, and the rest?

Reviewing the Rudd Government’s record, Julia, it’s hard to find any policy that has done any more than make a handful of self-stroking true believers feel warm and comfortable while the nation has been plunged into billions of dollars of debt and even the supposedly secure capital reserves of the Future Funds have been looted to pay for Labor’s reckless spending.

The backflip on refugees is merely the latest of the Rudd Government’s policy failures, but it epitomises so much of this administration’s lack of policy and management skills.

Clearly, the plan to halt the processing of applications for refugee status of arrivals from Sri Lanka for 3 1/2 and Afghanistan for six months is designed to take the heat off Labor in the run-up to this year’s election and bury the issue as plausibly as spin doctors are able to.

It is in line with last weekend’s appointment of Agriculture Minister Tony Burke as the nation’s first Population Minister - with instructions not to report until well after the election.

It is apiece with the Hawker Britton strategy of announcing reviews of divisive issues to prevent further damaging debate.

In the case of the suspension of refugee applications, however, the Rudd Government has only its inexperience and lack of understanding to blame, combined with its innate venality in Opposition, for the enormity of the policy backdown.

Former Prime Minister John Howard was pilloried by Labor and by its supporters in the community for his principled stand on people smugglers and those who paid for their services.

Gillard promised Labor would run “a fast, fair and transparent processing regime on Christmas Island and on mainland Australia that determines 90 per cent of refugee claims in 90 days. Genuine refugees will be quickly identified and released while failed claimants will be quickly returned” (Hansard, 13/5/2003).

Former Opposition leader Simon Crean made the same claims. Gillard went further, promising “under Labor’s system, there won’t ever be a time where people are kept without review year after year, languishing in detention centres, which is what happens under this current government”, except now, when new arrivals will be detailed but will not be processed, let alone reviewed, for a three- or six-month minimum.

In determining how they will vote, the public listens to what their representatives have to say on issues.

Here is what Burke said four years ago on detaining asylum-seekers on Christmas Island: “The Labor Party understands that while health, security and identity checks are being carried out it can be necessary for people to be placed in detention.

But there is no reason to take these people to Christmas Island while we have spare capacity on the mainland. Health, identity, security - they’re the reasons for detention to take place.

Once those checks are complete, there will be no reason for people to not be allowed back within the Australian community while it’s being determined whether or not they are genuine refugees.”

Oh, Minister, why is Christmas Island full to the point of overflowing today?

Proving again there are none so blind as those who do not wish to see, the outspoken Fairfax commentator David Marr just a fortnight ago told an ABC audience that he had problems with an “unsourced” warning from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees that the Rudd Government’s decision to allow dozens of Sri Lankan boat people in Indonesia to jump the immigration queue would encourage others to try similar tactics.

Perhaps he will believe his own newspaper’s report last week which said that people smuggling is “totally out of control”, even though the source was the UNHCR’s senor representative in Indonesia?

Manuel Jordao would not comment on whether the “push” factors, which the Rudd Government has claimed are to blame for the flood were responsible, or the “pull” factors of the Rudd Government’s weakened refugee policy, but the article did note that “in just over three months this year, 1808 irregular immigrants and 96 crew have made it to Australia by boat.

“If that rate continues, 2010 will be the biggest year yet for unauthorised arrivals by boat, easily exceeding the 5000 or so who arrived in 2001.

“In 2009 - the first full year under the Rudd Government’s new immigration policies - 2706 asylum-seekers and 115 crew made it to Australia. This was a sharp increase on the 127 asylum-seekers and 15 crew who arrived by boat in 2008,” the report said.

The demand has now reached such a volume that it has pushed the price down to $US4000 from $US10,000.

The new Rudd policy of suspending visa applications is worse than anything any previous government has put into place in a bid to stop the flow of asylum-seekers.

It places humans - men, women and children - in limbo. It shreds any claim to compassion the Labor Party may have foisted on the public in the lead-up to the 2007 election, and it probably fails the Australian Government’s own laws on discrimination grounds.

Furthermore, it will not stop the boats from coming. Empty, dangerous and ineffectual - it sums up the Rudd Government nicely.

 

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Acid attacks on the rise in Pakistan

 

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The Genius of Lu Kewen aka.K Rudd : When Australia’s Socialist’s go into the school building business.

 

Are we seriously meant to believe that the differential between what these buildings cost and what the Labor Government SAYS they cost, is simply going to be allowed to increase the bottom line of the Labor Party’s preferred contractors ? How many Swiss bank accounts have been set up by Rudd and Company since this SCAM started?

This SCAM is been financed with borrowed money,some $16 Billion,from the Labor Party’s head office in Beijing, after the SCAM is over, it will be left to Australians and their Children/ Grand children/ Great Grand Children to repay the $16 Billion Lu Kewen SCAMMED in order to line the pockets of the Labor Party and their “preferred contractor” and Union mates.

Lu Kewen election poster 2007 Hong Kong.

These traitors SCAM artists and carpetbaggers should be arrested and tried for crimes against Australia and its people,and executed on the steps of Parliament House Canberra at the earliest opportunity.

 

Unions grab $80m slice of school building funds

Rick Wallace
The Australian
March 20, 2010

UNIONS have exploited a loophole to have almost all schools stimulus upgrades in Victoria declared "major projects" in order to pocket site allowances estimated to total at least $80 million.

The Master Builders Association of Victoria said the allowances - supposed to account for harsh conditions on large buildings - were an "abomination" and should never have applied to most education revolution projects. "We have a regime where the unions exploited the building education revolution to maximise wages for construction workers," executive director Brian Welch said. "It's just another add-on, and because the employers don't have the capacity to take it away from the unions, it stays and it grows."

The main building union, the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, won the right to site allowances of between $2.40 and $4.60 per worker per hour through a series of cases at the Victorian Building Industry Disputes Panel.

The CFMEU confirmed it had since spread the allowances across almost all school jobs and said workers would use the extra cash for dinner or a film.

In Victoria, a "major project" is defined as anything above $2.4m. Once that threshold is reached, the sliding scale of allowances applies. Many schools stimulus projects fell short of the $2.4m mark, so the CFMEU sought to "bundle" together all projects undertaken by individual builders to get over the threshold.

The Weekend Australian has obtained two judgments from panel chairman Bob Merriman in which he green-lights the union's bid. "In considering all aspects of this matter, I am convinced the union's claim in this matter is justifiable and meets the requirements of the principles outlined above," Mr Merriman ruled.

Mr Welch said the MBAV supported the $16.2 billion Building the Education Revolution stimulus, but the exploitation of the site allowance had hurt profits.

"The costs escalated and not only applied to the workers for the construction company but all the subcontractors who walked on to the site," he said.

"It didn't aid employment, it just put more money in the pockets of building workers."

CFMEU state secretary Bill Oliver made no apologies for securing the allowance, saying unions were used to builders artificially breaking up projects to minimise site allowance.

"A site allowance is extra money in the pocket of workers, which will be spent on taking their families out to dinner, or to see a movie, or to buy a new pair of socks - all of which helps the economy and serves the ultimate purpose of the stimulus funding," Mr Oliver said.

The MBAV wants the panel to be abolished or an appeals mechanism created. "There is a flaw in the system, which we pointed out to the (state) government; they didn't do a great deal about it so the industry is now paying $2.40 for every school no matter what," he said.

"Why haven't they done anything about it? Because I think they are as intimidated by the unions as much as anyone else."

Labour costs usually make up about 50 per cent of a construction project's cost. The site allowances add 6 per cent to the wages bill, and 3 per cent to overall cost. Applied across Victoria's $2.64bn share of the last two rounds of the stimulus, it amounts to $80m.

Mr Welch said employers would be powerless to strip the allowances out of future agreements. "The unions are going to be out of the cage," he said.

"The Australian Building and Construction Commission is waning, the ability to control and temper their conduct is diminishing and the feral elements want to exert their influence."

The state and federal governments declined to comment.

 

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