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Warning to all Muslims the world over seeking asylum and protection from the manifestations of their faith.
Do not under any circumstances come to Australia, for we are a Nation founded upon Judeo Christian Law and principles and as such Australia is an anathema to any follower of the Paedophile Slave Trader Mohammad's cult of Islam.
There is no ideology more hated and despised in Australia than Islam.You simply would not like it here.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
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Those who demand you believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace also demand you believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Aussie News & Views Jan 1 2009
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"But Communism is the god of discontent, and needs no blessing. All it needs is a heart willing to hate, willing to call envy “justice."
Equality then means the violent destruction of all social and cultural distinctions. Freedom means absolute dictatorship over the people."
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Take Hope from the Heart of Man and you make him a Beast of Prey
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“ If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
“There may be even a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves”
Winston Churchill. Pg.310 “The Hell Makers” John C. Grover ISBN # 0 7316 1918 8
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said.
This matters above everything.
—Confucius
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'a socialist is communist without the courage of conviction to say what he really is'.
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Hontar: We must work in the world, your eminence. The world is thus.
Altamirano: No, Señor Hontar. Thus have we made the world... thus have I made it.
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Voltaire said: “If you want to know who rules over you, just find out who you are not permitted to criticize.”


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When those sworn to destroy you,Communism, Socialism,"Change you can Believe in" via their rabid salivating Mongrel Dog,Islam,take away your humanity, your God given Sanctity of Life, Created in His Image , If you are lucky this prayer is maybe all you have left, If you believe in God and his Son,Jesus Christ, then you are, despite the evils that may befall you are better off than most.

Lord, I come before You with a heavy heart. I feel so much and yet sometimes I feel nothing at all. I don't know where to turn, who to talk to, or how to deal with the things going on in my life. You see everything, Lord. You know everything, Lord. Yet when I seek you it is so hard to feel You here with me. Lord, help me through this. I don't see any other way to get out of this. There is no light at the end of my tunnel, yet everyone says You can show it to me. Lord, help me find that light. Let it be Your light. Give me someone to help. Let me feel You with me. Lord, let me see what You provide and see an alternative to taking my life. Let me feel Your blessings and comfort. Amen.
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"The chief weapon in the quiver of all Islamist expansionist movements, is the absolute necessity to keep victims largely unaware of the actual theology plotting their demise. To complete this deception, a large body of ‘moderates’ continue to spew such ridiculous claims as “Islam means Peace” thereby keeping non-Muslims from actually reading the Qur’an, the Sira, the Hadith, or actually looking into the past 1400 years of history. Islamists also deny or dismiss the concept of ‘abrogation’, which is the universal intra-Islamic method of replacing slightly more tolerable aspects of the religion in favor of more violent demands for Muslims to slay and subdue infidels"

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Anthropogenic Global Warming SCAM

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Australian Military demands all food bear the "Mark of the Beast"

Halal certification: Army mandates Muslim-certified food for our Diggers

EXCLUSIVE Matthew Benns
The Daily Telegraph
February 17 2016






ONE third of combat rations ­offered to all Aussie troops now has to be halal-certified, despite the Australian Defence Force having fewer than 100 Muslims.

The orders that four of the 12 battle meal menu options offered to soldiers in the field need to be halal were approved by the Deputy Chief of Army Major General Rick Burr.

Under the new changes, ration packs should also contain kosher and vegetarian meals to help combat “menu fatigue”.




Army chaplains to remove ‘conquer’ from 102-year-old motto because it is offensive to Muslims,Test for Turnbull: We know who is paying him but who's side is he on?


But the decision to include halal food has outraged many of the ADF’s almost 60,000 fulltime members and veterans who question how many millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money will now be handed over to unregulated halal certifiers — who are already the subject of a federal government inquiry.

Senator Cory Bernardi, who was a member of the senate inquiry that looked into halal certification, said the order “demonstrates just how our military has been captured by minority interests and appears to have suspended the application of common sense”.




Islamic Animal Sacrifice_ "Halal

“Our military should be defending our way of life, on and off the battlefield. Decisions like this suggest it has become more an instrument of supporting minority interests rather than being focused on the national interest,” he said.

Documents obtained under Freedom of Information show that ADF combat ration packs should contain a variety of menus including vegetarian, halal and kosher “to meet ADF’s commitment to providing an inclusive working ­environment.”

Former Army intelligence officer Bernie Gaynor, the Australian Liberty Alliance Senate candidate for Queensland, said: “Australia is not an Islamic country and our soldiers, sailors and airmen and women deserve better from the government and the politically-correct top brass.”

It follows the controversial decision last year by the Army to remove the motto “In this sign conquer” from the 102-year-old hat badges of army chaplains because the phrase is associated with the Crusades — and that could be deemed offensive to Muslims.

Mustapha Dib: Stabbing victim Edward Lee’s parents devastated over his release from prison

Mustapha Dib: Stabbing victim Edward Lee’s parents devastated over his release from prison

SARAH CRAWFORD
The Daily Telegraph
February 16, 2016



Life of violence: Mustapha Dib, boy from Sydney’s worst street

Mustapha Dib released from jail after murder conviction quashed

Mustapha Dib appeals murder conviction of pregnant woman


FOR years the parents of 14-year-old stabbing victim Edward Lee would hold vigil by his grave all night because they feared he would be “cold and lonely in the grave by himself”.

Edward's father Doojin Lee said he was devastated after seeing photos of his son’s killer Mustapha Dib smiling as he was released from jail following his acquittal by the Court of Criminal Appeal for the murder of a woman two years after his only son's death.

“I just want to see my son's killer back in jail,” the 64-year-old tiler said from his Campsie unit today.



The Canterbury Boy's High School student was fatally stabbed in 1998 on Telopea St, Punchbowl after mistakenly going to the wrong house for a 15th birthday party.

Mustapha Dib pleaded guilty to Edward's manslaughter and was sentenced to a minimum of five years.

He was released on parole in 2009 but taken back into custody in 2011 accused of the shooting murder of 20-year-old Anita Vzrina and the wounding of former schoolmate Ahmed Banat.

The prosecution alleged that Dib shot Vzrina and Banat on November 23, 2000, while they were in a car because he believed his school friend had turned police informant and would give evidence against him at his upcoming trial for Edward's stabbing.

A jury found him guilty of Ms Vzrina's murder in June 2012 and he was sentenced to 40 years jail.

On Monday the Court of Criminal Appeal acquitted him of Ms Vzrina's murder saying the jury could not have found him guilty beyond reasonable doubt because Banat's evidence at the trial contradicted his statement to police when he was in hospital.




Mr Lee has kept numerous newspaper articles on his son's death and Dib's sentencing for manslaughter.

He recounted how at his son's funeral the students of Punchbowl Primary School lined the street, where Edward had been dux, to see his coffin driven by in a hearse.

Mr Lee said the CCA decision had left him feeling disappointed and helpless.

“There is no justice for poor people like us,” he said.

A family friend, who did not wish to be named, said Mr Lee and his wife Soo Bin Lee, who are Korean immigrants, were “devastated” felt let down by the Australian justice system.

The friend said that for years the couple had visited their son's grave every day at Castlebrook Memorial Park at Rouse Hill in Sydney's north west.

“They would stay there all night because they told me their son felt cold and lonely in his grave by himself...and in the morning they would go to work,” the friend said.

“They can't understand that he has been allowed to go free.”

Lieutenant General Morrison,Un Australian of the Year, An officer’s plea for justice.

An officer’s plea for justice to David Morrison

Miranda Devine
The Daily Telegraph
February 17 2016



AUSTRALIAN of the Year David Morrison said this week that he refuses to be “defined by his critics”. Unfortunately, that is not his decision.

He also said he would make no effort to reach out to the troubled former Lieutenant Colonel he unjustly sacked over the so-called Jedi Council affair.

The most senior officer caught up in Morrison’s purge, known simply as “Ken”, knew nothing about the Jedi Council sex ring and never opened the emails.

He has twice attempted suicide since the scandal broke.

Today he writes an open letter asking Morrison to set the record straight. It’s the least he should do.

Dear Lieutenant General Morrison,
Congratulations on winning Australian of the Year, but I write to inform of the humiliation, injustice and betrayal you showed me by publicly stripping me of army unit command on August 21, 2013.

That was when you acknowledged I was not a part of the Jedi Council but that you were removing me from command because I “failed to remain aware of issues and events affecting me, my unit and the army”.

You determined that I was accountable for inappropriate and unsolicited emails from a civilian that I had not read.

You were a late starter on this matter, claiming you were unaware of the Jedi Council, even though I informed my chain of command on March 28, 2013 that NSW Police had contacted me to ask what I knew of the Jedi Council. My answer was “nothing”.

In June 2013 you told the Australian public that a group of 17 personnel were “in production and distribution of highly inappropriate material demeaning women”. You told the media “there is one Lieutenant Colonel that is part of this group”.




Perhaps my anonymity could have been preserved if I was a private but there were not many Lieutenant Colonels in Townsville subjected to an Australian Defence Force Investigative Service (ADFIS) office raid and interview on June 5, 2013. Within hours I was fielding calls from friends asking why I was locked in my office.

Then on July 11, 2013 my name and image were released in the media. Despite knowing I had done nothing wrong, you made no effort to protect my name. Indeed, ADFIS told me two days before that I would be named nationally.

As Chief of Army, you failed one of your commanding officers.

On July 4, 2013 I attended a meeting in Townsville to look you in the eye and tell you I had nothing to do with the Jedi Council. You looked at my nametag and fobbed me off. I was then amazed when you stood and spoke about the Jedi Council, saying: “These alleged individuals, and I use the term alleged because I have to, I will have them removed from the army.” I knew then that, despite the evidence, you would let me down. And you did.

So now you are the Australian of the Year and I am unemployed. I won a bravery commendation and have three masters degrees, a loving wife and two beautiful children.

But none of this matters because my Chief of Army has not told the public that “the Lieutenant Colonel was not a part of the Jedi Council”.

I have a letter that states that fact but it will only count to my family, friends, and colleagues if you say it publicly. Please tell Australia what you told me on August 21, 2013, so that I can be at peace.

Mosque operates illegally for 13 years now demanding council approval.

Artarmon mosque operated ‘without consent’ for 13 years now being considered for approval

Ian Paterson
North Shore Times
February 16, 2016 



WILLOUGHBY Council is considering a development application to approve the operation of a mosque which has been holding services “without consent” for the past 13 years.

The Australian Islamic Cultural Centre purchased the two storey double-brick building at Hampden Rd in July 2001 for use as a house of prayer and community centre with the organisation wrongly assuming the site had previous approval.

Council first became aware the AICC were holding prayer services and using the site as a community centre in November 2003 without development consent.

Their records reveal only one complaint was made by a neighbouring resident in the last 24 months, which related to unauthorised works carried out on the site.

The new DA was lodged on December 1, 2015 for use of the existing building as a place of public worship and community facility after council had earlier issued the AICC with a notice of intention to serve an order for the organisation to cease operation.

The current DA seeks approval to use the ground floor and the lower ground floor of the property for prayer rooms and use as an office.


It would operate every day, except Sunday, with general prayer sessions held at different times throughout the day from 5.30am until 8pm.

The statement of environmental effects (SEE) prepared by Planning Ingenuity consultants for AICC reveals an expected attendance of up to 15 people at each of the nine general prayer sessions, Monday to Saturday, with a maximum of 100 people attending the sole congressional prayer session on Fridays, 12-2pm.

The property was originally built and used by the NSW Scouts in 1957 and was later sold to the Salvation Army with council granting them development consent to occupy and operate the building as a community facility in December 2000 but this was never enacted.

Repeated attempts by the North Shore Times to contact the applicants, Australian Islamic Cultural Centre, were not successful.


Multicultural Australia: Pious Muslim speaker who condones child rape one of 12 men booked for United Muslims Of Australia Quest For Success conference

Radical Islamic speaker who condones child rape one of 12 men booked for United Muslims Of Australia Quest For Success conference



EXCLUSIVE Matthew Benns
The Daily Telegraph
February 17 2016



A RADICAL Islamic speaker from the UK who condoned child rape on a previous visit to Australia is returning to spout more of his foul bile at a Muslim youth and community conference at Sydney Olympic Park.

Hamza Tzortzis, who has said publicly that anyone who fights against Muslims should be beheaded, is one of 12 international and local speakers — all of them men — booked for the ominously named United Muslims of Australia Quest for Success conference.

The event will be held in May in Homebush, which falls into the electorate of federal MP Craig Laundy, who will be sworn in as Assistant Minister for Multicultural ­Affairs tomorrow.


When The Daily Telegraph called Mr Laundy yesterday to inform him of the conference line-up, he said: “Hate speech has no place in our society and I utterly condemn in the strongest terms the views of anyone preaching hate and intolerance.”

Other speakers include a Hamas-supporting British preacher called Sheikh Zahir Mahmood and a Canadian called Sheikh Alaa Elsayed, who believes having two wives is good because, he says, they will fight for your attention.

Among the Australian speakers are Zachariah ­Matthews, who has called for elements of sharia law to be introduced into Australia’s legal system, and Sheikh Abu Hamza, who has argued that it is OK to hit your wife — just not too hard.

Also on the list of Aussie speakers is Sheikh Shady ­Alsuleiman, whose Sydney ­organisation hosted a speech by an al-Qaeda recruiter who was later killed in a drone ­attack in Yemen.

Ironically, Mr Tzortzis, who is known for his strong moral views, appeared on hacked data from the Ashley Madison dating website, ­although he has said repeatedly he was hacked.

John Perkins, the president of the Secular Party, ­debated Mr Tzortzis when he was in Australia in 2013.

“I put it to him that the Koran condones child marriage, (and) he defended it.

“He was defending child rape. I was absolutely ­appalled,” Mr Perkins said.

Despite Mr Tzortzis’s ­offensive views, Mr Perkins believes the conference should be permitted.

“It is better that views are exposed to the public because their own words condemn them more than any attack ever could,” he said.

The event has also angered women because of the lack of female speakers. Activist Eva Cox said: “It is impossible to imagine a conference about success that excludes women.”

A spokesman from the ­Department of Immigration said Mr Tzortzis had not yet ­applied for a visa.

“There are strong provisions under the Migration Act to refuse or cancel a visa if a person is found not to be of good character,” he said.

United Muslims of Australia did not provide a comment.


                      This is what a Muslim conference wants to teach Aussie kids.

Monday, February 15, 2016

Jo Haylen : Labor Green Loon Village Idiot and Affirmative Action beneficiary lets the Cat out of the bag.

Labor MP Jo Haylen wants sniffer dogs retired from music festivals, and pills tested for ‘safety’

EXCLUSIVE Andrew Clennell
State Political Editor
The Daily Telegraph
February 15 2016



LABOR’S rookie inner west MP has called for sniffer dogs to be banned and illegal party drugs to actually be tested at music festivals to ensure they were safe for young people to take.

“Kids smoking pot or taking pills at music festivals won’t go away,” Summer Hill MP Jo Haylen said in her speech to colleagues at Labor’s state conference.

“Rather than ruining lives with a criminal record or, worse still, leaving people to take risks on their own, let’s be brave.



“Let’s introduce amnesty bins and pill testing at festivals so we’re not putting people at risk.

“Let’s retire sniffer dogs so we’re not unnecessarily targeting vulnerable people on our streets.

“Let’s decriminalise the possession and use of drugs and get the debate back on track — let’s get drug users out of cop cars and into the health system.”

Ms Haylen gave the speech late on Saturday, hijacking a health committee debate which colleagues felt should have been focused on the gap in health funding Premier Mike Baird wants funded through an increase in the GST. Ms Haylen said it was time to “put Labor at the vanguard again”, just as when former Premier Bob Carr introduced a medically supervised injecting room at Kings Cross.

She also criticised the Baird government’s increase in roadside drug testing.

“Labor understands that you don’t fix a flood with a hammer,” Ms Haylen said.



“The Baird government’s heavy handed approach doesn’t fix the problem. “Sniffer dogs are ineffective — they’re wrong three quarters of the time, causing unnecessary interactions between police and young people. “Likewise the intensified pressure of police at music festivals and events doesn’t stop young people taking drugs — it just encourages them to take all their drugs to avoid arrest.

“Roadside drug testing hurls people into the legal system for having the most minute traces if drugs in their system, but operates without a shred of evidence to prove it reduces the number of accidents.”

Ms Haylen said in her speech Premier Mike Baird and his deputy Troy Grant should “stop targeting kids, and poor people, LBTIQ people and the vulnerable.

“They (should) use their resources to target drug dealers and manufacturers to stop the flow of illicit drugs on our streets.”



The motion put by Ms Haylen, a member of the Left, to review the sniffer dog drug detection program, introduce pill testing at festivals and hold a parliamentary inquiry into drugs was defeated by the Right at conference and was not permitted to go to a vote.

Ms Haylen said yesterday that she did not intend to take her proposals to caucus, they were her personal views and reflected the views of her electorate.

Labor’s health spokesman Walt Secord said: “Her speech diverged sharply from ALP policy.

“I would have preferred to have debated the more than $20.1 billion in health cuts by the Turnbull and Baird governments.”

Julie Bishop Abbott ASSASSIN spending Taxpayers money like a good Labor politician.

Julie Bishop took 70 foreign diplomats on a two-day tour of WA, costing taxpayers $150,000

EXCLUSIVE Simon Benson
National Political Editor
The Daily Telegraph
February 15 2016

TAXPAYERS were charged $2000 an hour for “Celebrity Minister” Julie Bishop to take 70 foreign diplomats on a two-day sightseeing tour of her home state of Western Australia.

Ms Bishop, who is also Foreign Minister, took an entourage of 12 staff with her on the 2014 trip, which cost taxpayers almost $150,000.

The opposition has labelled the trip an “appalling waste of money”, claiming it was an ­indulgence that included a $10,000 dinner, a tour of the Sandalford Estate winery in the Swan Valley and a breakfast by the beach for the Canberra diplomatic corps, which included representatives of some of the wealthiest countries in the world.



There was also a charter flight for almost 100 people to the Pilbara at a cost of $57,000. There they toured the iron ore operations of BHP and Rio Tinto — the two richest mining companies in the world.

The bill would have been significantly higher had the diplomats not paid for their own airfares to Perth and their accommodation while there.

Ms Bishop, who is becoming increasingly known for her red carpet appearances and glamorous lifestyle, compared the cost of the trip to one Kevin Rudd made in 2011 to Queensland.

“Diplomatic corps visits are a longstanding practice supported by both sides of government dating back to 2000,” Ms Bishop told a Senate estimates hearing last week.

“The total cost incurred by the Australian government for the diplomatic corps visit to Western Australia was $145,200, or $2016.67 including GST per head of mission.

“This is comparable to the 2011 diplomatic corps visit to Queensland hosted by former foreign minister Kevin Rudd which cost $1978.77 including GST per head of mission when adjusted for inflation.”

The opposition has described Ms Bishop’s response as offensive because Mr Rudd’s trip — on which he took 100 foreign ambassadors and high commissioners — was part of the crisis recovery expedition in the wake of Cyclone Yasi.



“It is incredibly offensive for Ms Bishop to compare her sightseeing tour of WA to Mr Rudd escorting diplomats to Queensland in 2011 to demonstrate the state’s recovery after Cyclone Yasi,” Labor’s Wastewatch committee spokesman Pat Conroy said.

“This is a pathetic attempt to excuse the waste and misuse of taxpayers’ money. Last year Julie Bishop spent $125,000 on a tour of South Australia, and on that occasion she took nine staff and a few state Liberal MPs along with her.


“We also caught her taking three staffers along to a $350-a-head dinner, clearly more than are necessary.

“When the taxpayer is footing the bill for these functions, you’ve got to consider whether every expense is necessary.”








































Stop Turnbull : A timid Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull hits reset button

A timid Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull hits reset button

Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun
February 14, 2016 



IT’S been a terrible false start for Malcolm Turnbull, and an even worse one for the country.

Last September, the new Prime Minister offered us a fresh dawn when he picked his team of ministers.

“Today, I’m announcing a 21st century government and a ministry for the future,” he beamed. But it turns out his future didn’t last even five months.

On Saturday, Turnbull — oops — had to announce a very different ministry, now missing six of the people he’d boasted last year was his “ministry for the future”.

Gone were deputy prime minister Warren Truss and Trade Minister Andrew Robb, both retiring. Dumped were four other ministers — Mal Brough, Jamie Briggs and Stuart Robert, all torched by scandals, and Luke Hartsuyker, nobbled by his fellow Nationals.

Turnbull can’t be blamed for all these losses, although it was all his own dumb work to make Brough a minister in the first place as a reward for plotting against Tony Abbott.

What was he thinking? Brough was already up to his neck in the leaking of private information of former Speaker Peter Slipper, a matter now being investigated by police.

And did he really have to reward Robert, another plotter, with a ministry, too, and then hang on to him for too long?



Turnbull didn’t take long to realise he’d stuffed up with his picks. Good sources say that in December, he rang Bruce Billson and told him he’d made a mistake in dumping him as Small Business Minister, a portfolio Turnbull had given instead to yet another of his allies, Kelly O’Dwyer.

But Billson refused Turnbull’s request to come back. He’s been burned, and is quitting Parliament.

True, many of the people promoted in the second Turnbull ministry on Saturday are very good.

The best are supporters of Tony Abbott wrongly overlooked by Turnbull last September — Victorians Dan Tehan and Alan Tudge. Add also Angus Taylor, a former Rhodes scholar, said by some to be a prime minister of the future.

Better still, Barnaby Joyce is the new Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister, replacing Truss. Very few politicians have as much cut-through in the media, and few will have more power to drag Turnbull from his souring flirtation with the media Left.

So Turnbull can rightly argue his new ministry may have lost experience, but it hasn’t lost much talent. Yet one critical thing it has lost is time.

Turnbull must virtually start all over again, but not just with a new team.

Now, with just three months to go before his first Budget and only eight or so until the election, he must find a new economic plan.

Again, he’s had an awful false start. Five months ago, Turnbull announced not just his “ministry for the future” but his big promise.

Abbott, as prime minister, had “not been capable in providing the economic leadership our nation needs”, he thundered.

Turnbull would be different: “We need a style of leadership that explains those challenges ... and sets out the course of action we believe we should take and makes a case for it.

“We need advocacy, not slogans.”

But Turnbull has failed. He’s offered no “economic leadership”, no “course of action” and no “advocacy”.

What’s his “course of action” on tax cuts? On superannuation tax breaks? On a capital gains crackdown? On winding back negative gearing? On workplace reform? On spending cuts?

No one knows.

For months, Turnbull did toy with raising the GST to 15 per cent to raise money for big tax cuts, but didn’t offer a word of advocacy for this (pointless) switcheroo, meant to be the centrepiece of his economic strategy.

Once again, he seemed too scared of risking his popularity to fight for anything that mattered to him — or should. He, instead, pushed out Treasurer Scott Morrison to make the case to premiers and business leaders. But last week, Turnbull cut Morrison off at the knees.

He’d got too frightened by Labor’s scare campaign against a GST hike and had Industry Minister Chris Pyne casually let drop that it “is not going to be introduced”.

Ouch. Premiers who backed a GST rise are furious to have wasted their time and credibility. South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill whacked Turnbull: “It’s the opposite of taking responsibility and demonstrating the leadership that he promised.”

Nor will the ambitious Morrison like being made to look weak, and he’ll be even angrier now Turnbull has sacked Stuart Robert, a key Morrison ally.



Morrison had argued publicly that the accusations against Robert — of doing a business favour for a mate on a trip to China — were just a “shocking beat-up”.

He has now learned the hard way that it takes a strong, clear and loyal Prime Minister to make a minister look good.

Morrison became a star as immigration minister when Abbott told him plainly to stop the boats, and backed him completely when he did.

But he now looks a struggler because Turnbull told him vaguely to maybe raise the GST and then dropped him when he tried.

The big picture for voters is this: the Government has lost five months while Turnbull fossicks for the economic plan he promised last year.

Sure, our economy is still growing, but so is our debt.

Sure, unemployment is falling, but so are prices for our exports.

Every month lost in fixing the Budget is a month more of rising debt, and one month less to protect us from future shocks, such as China tanking.

But Turnbull has lost not only time. Critically, he has lost momentum.

It was always clear the Government shouldn’t raise taxes but should cut spending, and voters had to be coached to take the pain.

Even our greatest Labor treasurer, Paul Keating, this month said the world had slashed our export earnings, and Turnbull had to “trim our spending and not accommodate more of it by ever more taxation”.

Our greatest Liberal treasurer, Peter Costello, agreed. “Tax changes will not solve the Budget problem,” he warned, and spending must be cut.

Abbott, as prime minister, knew this.

You might hate him for breaking promises and mock him for his heavy-handed attempts to cut government programs, but credit him with having the guts to try to fix the spending binge that’s driving us broke.

But here is the problem: Turnbull’s supporters egged on Abbott’s media critics and undermined his message, crippling his efforts to persuade feral senators to pass his savings.

Now that he’s taken over as Prime Minister, Turnbull has all but dropped that grim talk of spending cuts and is hunting for easy tax hits instead — possibly on superannuation and negative gearing, which the Greens would help get passed.

Gone is Abbott’s depressing talk of “Budget emergencies”, as Turnbull has sold sunshine instead.

So how can Turnbull now switch back to Abbott’s argument of our cupboard being bare and our belts needing tightening?

He’ll look like he’s spent the last five months faffing around when there was hard work to be done.

And that, I’m afraid, is the truth.

Originally published as A timid Turnbull hits reset button


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Ideas? Innovation? We’re only getting inaction

Tim Blair
The Daily Telegraph
February 15 2016



LABOR leader Bill Shorten promised us a “year of ideas”. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declared “the Australia of the future has to be a nation­ that is agile, that is innovative, that is creative. We cannot be defensive”.

Then nothing happened. Absolutely nothing.

Shorten delivered no ideas at all and Turnbull has been locked for five months in an agile, innovative and creative strategy of total defensiveness. Both men are paralysed with concern over the election, so are now engaged in a war of complete inertia.

It’s like a chess championship in a narcolepsy ward. Or, even worse, any soccer match played anywhere, between any teams, at any time. “What’s happened? What has he actually done?” Shorten asked last week about his motionless­ opponent­, who could well have asked the same about Shorten.

These two are demonstrating all the dynamism and energy of ABC staffers at 4.55pm on a long-weekend Friday.

Now, this is not entirely a bad thing. There are a lot of situations that could become a great deal more unpleasant through the involvement of either Shorten or Turnbull. For example, the Prime Minister could decide to waste more of our time and money on another doomed republican bender. And Shorten could try to drive somewhere.

It’s just that Australia has some serious problems — with increasing numbers of zeros — that can only be resolved through political action. Sooner or later, Shorten and Turnbull need to present their ideas for spending cuts.

Spending cuts! These words strike fear into the marrow of both the PM and his rival. It’s a measure of just how frightened they are even to mention spending cuts that Shorten and Turnbull would rather discuss potential tax increases, which in an election year would normally be suicidal. Yet they’ve obviously decided that spending cuts are even more dangerous, despite a significant and possibly election-turning public appetite for restraint.

Turnbull’s reluctance to publicly consider spending cuts is more pronounced, especially given his September vow to pursue agility and innovation. People who are paid to observe Turnbull and his kind are beginning to notice.

“The Turnbull government has to take a more — much as I hate to say it, given its previous overuse and misuse — methodical approach to the difficult tasks ahead, especially as it allowed a few months to slip by without properly making the case for tax reform,” former Peter Costello staffer Niki Savva wrote in The Australian last week. “There has to be a clearer articulation of objectives followed by a disciplined outlining of solutions.”



Yes. Solutions would be nice. “What’s going on?” asked Fairfax’s Mark Kenny.

“Order has given way to a faint air of chaos. Malcolm Turnbull’s administration looks slave to events rather than the other way around … The strong impression being created is that parts of the show are flying off — that either through incompetence, stupidity, or a failure of due diligence, Turnbull’s executive is disintegrating around him, suggesting he is less in control than he might pretend. And that’s before anything serious has even been tried in a policy sense.”

A safety-first approach isn’t always safe. It might be prudent to take a hands-off approach when you’re cruising at altitude but eventually you’ve got to grab the controls and actually land the thing.

The Saturday Telegraph’s Laurie Oakes reflected on Turnbull’s switch to somnambulism: “His stint as opposition leader ended in tears in 2009 because he alienated colleagues through an arrogant ‘I-know-best’ style. But in his new incarnation as Prime Minister, Turnbull seems to have gone to the other extreme. Consultation and process get such priority that he fails to convey strength or a sense of direction.”

Part of the problem is the people Turnbull consults. Like Shorten, he is surrounded by big-spending, big-government types whose answer to every electoral problem is more government programs.


This is what led us to our predicament in the first place. The Great Explainer, and his Labor counterpart, need to consult with the people paying the bills instead of the people spending our damn money.




Saturday, February 13, 2016

Keep Australia's doors shut to jihadi kids in Syria.

Miranda Devine: Lock our door to keep the jihadi kids in Syria

MIRANDA DEVINE
The Sunday Telegraph
February 14 2016



THE latest plea for sympathy from the mother-in-law of the (maybe) dead Islamic State ­terrorist Khaled Sharrouf is too convenient for words.

Karen Nettleton and her lawyer Charlie Waterstreet are now claiming that Sharrouf’s wife, Tara, has died in the ISIS paradise of Raqqa, Syria, making orphans of their five children, aged between 14 and six.

Actually, make that six kids, since Sharrouf married off his 14-year-old eldest daughter, Zaynab, to his head-chopping rapist mate Mohamed Elomar. Their baby was born eight weeks ago, after he was reportedly killed in a drone strike.

Elomar’s death has at least been confirmed by Australian authorities, unlike Tara’s or her husband’s.

Supposedly she died in September from complications to do with appendicitis. Or perhaps it was kidney disease. ­Reports differ.

Either way, it is handy timing, considering earlier pleas for public sympathy fell on deaf ears, despite Waterstreet’s imaginative sob stories.

In any case, the Australian government is under no obligation to bring any Sharroufs home. The idea that we would risk special forces to enter Syria to assist the family of a convicted terrorist is laughable, even if it were possible.



And it’s a pity Karen Nettleton wasn’t as proactive about protecting her grandchildren before she helped her Muslim convert daughter fly them out of the country in 2014.

Karen travelled with Tara and the children to Malaysia, the first stage in a journey to Raqqa to join Sharrouf. She has said it was just a family holiday, that when she left her daughter and grandchildren in Malaysia, Tara only planned to go to Turkey to visit a friend, and must have been duped by her husband to go on to Syria.

The privations of the ­Islamic State made Tara regret her foolishness but, judging by photos on her Twitter feed last year, she enjoyed Raqqa at first, living in a nice house ­stolen from some poor Syrian family, travelling around in a luxury BMW.

“Chillin in the khilafah, lovin life,’’ she posted under a photo of herself and other black-cloaked IS wives toting machineguns.

She didn’t seem to mind that her husband had posted on Twitter a photo of their son holding a severed head, with the caption ‘That’s my boy’.

Nor did she seem to mind that Zaynab, who describes herself as a “soldier of Allah”, was pregnant at 14 to Elomar, almost 20 years her senior.

In any case, the Australian government is under no obligation to bring any Sharroufs home. The idea that we would risk special forces to enter Syria to assist the family of a convicted terrorist is laughable, even if it were possible.

Then there were the Yazidi sex slaves kept at the Sharrouf home. After escaping, they told the ABC how badly they were treated by the Sharrouf children, whose every whim they had to indulge.

“His children were treating us badly as well and they had knives and cellphones, saying that they will take videos while killing us because we follow a different religion,” one of the women said. “And said that they will make a video while cutting off our heads.”

You can’t blame the children for their family, but they have been brainwashed since birth by their father to hate non-Muslims, say police who listened to phone taps for months before Sharrouf was locked up for his part in the Operation ­Pendennis terror plot. He managed to convince a judge in 2005 to give him a soft sentence of less than four years, on the grounds of mental illness.

But when he got to Syria he declared he had made it all up: “I played the government there like ignorant children i was never mentally ill not then nor now.”

He played the Australian authorities for fools then and now his family think they can do it again.

Orphans or not, there is no guarantee that they won’t one day pose a terrorist risk to Australia if they return.

You would wish that they had never gone to Syria but it was a one-way ticket.

THE leaders of an Islamic sect that supported female genital mutilation have banned the practice in Australia after a ­Supreme Court trial ruled the custom illegal.

Islamic leaders ban genital mutilation after court ruling

YONI BASHAN BRENDEN HILLS
The Sunday Telegraph
February 14 2016


Multicultural Sydney: Auburn genital mutilation: Guilty women, sheik fail to show remorse or speak out says judge


THE leaders of an Islamic sect that supported female genital mutilation have banned the practice in Australia after a ­Supreme Court trial ruled the custom illegal.

Trustees of the Dawoodi Bohra Shia Muslim community issued an edict last week ­ordering its followers not to perform the ritual known as “khafd” or “khatna”, either in Australia or overseas.

The order follows the conviction of a mother, a retired nurse and a spiritual leader, who were prosecuted in ­Australia’s first female genital mutilation trial on two sisters last year.

In both cases, the girls’ ­clitorises were cut with a silver tool, but medical examinations were inconclusive about what types of injuries had been caused.

The trio were found guilty of mutilating the two sisters and are yet to be sentenced.

A meeting was held in ­Auburn on Monday about the practice and on Tuesday a ­letter signed by 12 trustees of the Dawoodi Bohra community, a small religious order, told followers to abide by the law of the land.

The letter cited the convictions handed down by the ­Supreme Court and said, consequently, the practice of “khafd” was illegal.

“All parents and guardians are hereby directed in the strictest terms not to carry out khafd under any circumstances,” the letter said.

It also directed people not to take any child or other ­person outside Australia for the same purpose.

Lawyer John Sutton, representing the Dawoodi Bohra sect, said the move to ban the cultural practice was an ­unequivocal signal that the community wanted to adhere to Australian laws.

Even though medical ­examinations of the two ­victims in the court case were unable to prove conclusively what took place, he said the resolution was clear.

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