Lindsay Electorate Office
(Open between the hours of 9am and 5pm - Monday to Friday)Location:
Ground Floor,331 High Street, Penrith NSW 2750
Tel: (02) 4732 1801
Fax: (02) 4732 1812Postal Address:
PO Box 712, Penrith NSW 2750
Parliament House Office
Location:
Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600
Tel: (02) 6277 4199
Fax: (02) 6277 8465Postal Address:
PO Box 6022, Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/memfeedback.asp?id=HVW
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Where to Complain: David Bradbury, ALP maggot for Lindsay and betrayer of the community
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Don't be Fooled with Fast NBN Internet
corrected and updated 2 October 2010
My terminology - Please note:
"speed" is the speed per second
"download" is monthly download usage
Preliminary:
I do not download music or movies
I have been using twitter full-time over past month
I am a consumer not an IT expert and should not have to be IT expert, I am one of millions
I was on 1.5 mbps speed + 50 gig download ADSL. I have been fine with 1.5 mbps speed but did not need 50 gig download. Maybe 25 gig download would have been fine.
When I arrived at the "Change your plan" page there were no options for ADSL.
The only plans I could choose were ADSL 2+. It was cheaper than my slower speed plan so took it. That was one sure sneaky way to get me to sign up for faster broadband.
New plan was to commence on 24 September 2010, when it changed exactly is not clear but somewhere on or after this date it changed.
My current plan speed is now (up to) 20 mbps. I wonder why pages do not download any faster than before.
One thing I have noticed is, today 30 September 2010 (6 days after changeover date), I have used up 10 gig of download since being on the higher speed plan. I am using the internet in the same fashion as last month. Last month download was 15.89 gigs for the month total.
I have noticed in the past, when I went up to 5 mbps on ADSL the download was chewed up faster even though I was not using the PC any more than usual, in fact it was less during that particular month so reverted back to 1.5 mbps and sat. For me monthly usage is very important.
In July 2010, in one day I used less than 3 gig online gaming continually for 24 hours on 1.5 mbps. Now I chew half that up in 4 hours (tested on 1 October) and only logged in and did not else within the game, no chat, no music, no moving, no building, nothing.
As of today, I am supposedly on the faster speed plan as per my internet account details.
1 There is no difference in speed, pages are not downloading 20 times fast I am still waiting.
2 My monthly usage has been chewed up at astronomical rate
3 21% of my monthly usage has been chewed up within 6 days
4 At this rate I will have to move to 200 gig per month download costing me the same as before.
5 ALP fast speed broadband will not be cheaper than before, it will still be expensive.
This tells me:
1 I have been dictated to
2 I will have to up my monthly plan to more download gigs which will end up costing me big time
3 It is a con because from the box to my home is still copper!
4 Something is up because I have not seen any fibre being rolled out in my area.
Then I ask:
1 When plan says up to 20 mbps deceives, I can only get 8 mbps max, not even close.
2 If copper can't give me 20 mbps speed then why are my plan choices ADSL 2+ stating up to 20 mbps speed?
3 Since 8 mbps is considered extremely slow, and yet the faster speed results in chewing up monthly download usage, then what is the ALP going to do about that for families they are conning?
3 Why are there only 3 choices in download monthly usage? eg 2 gig per month, then jump to 50 gig or 200 gig per month
4 Why are the choices for 12 gig and 25 gig for monthy download usage missing?
5 Do the internet providers know something about speed and download usage they are not telling us?
6 Most providers are similar in pricing with their plans, no competition really exists.
I would like to mention here that when I changed my plan from my memory I signed up for:
5000 kpbs = 5 mbps
50 gig download = $39.95 per month
but the plan seems to be higher speed of 20 mbps (which is not possible on my rim) and $69.96 per month to find out afterward the price they gave me was if I signed up for 24 months and $10 dearer at $49.95.
They did not send me email to confirm my initial plan and I did not get a print out of the original plan choices. However, they are advertising the $49.95 plan on their site I noticed yesterday.
If you call up to complain about the excess download usage which is quite alarming figures, they do not acknowledge something might be wrong.
High speed internet will result in need for more download usage costing families astronomical internet costs.
It would be like going to get fuel, it gives a per litre but the fuel pumps less than you are paying.
Don't be fooled.
Feel free to post on this, yet another ALP failure, "A Woman of Poor Judgement" leads.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Open Letter to James Massola
Dear James,
just received another email from Adriana re your request for interview.
As a twitter and blog based based phenomenon with a growing direct audience and 3700+ active "members" we're not really keen on open slather in the old media. It doesn't seem that it will be a fair and balanced piece given the silly outing of Grogs Gamut.
Don't get me wrong, I thought Gamut wasting taxpayers money on his tweeting was a disgrace, but the gratuitous outing of the sad little mindlocked leftoid seemed pointless except to boost newspaper circulation.
To assist you in your article preparation I am setting out below what we stand for, where we came from, and what we intend to do. You can make whatever use you like of this information.
Here we go:
My name is Gary Walker. Together with Adriana "Maimonides" and "Peter Lalor" we decided to form an Anonymous style organisation intended to be the political Al Qaeda against all forms of collectivism, communist infiltration of the Australian political system, socialism, and in particular the corruption of current politicians.
The three of us met online, then in real life. "Peter" has since retired from online to a large degree although he still has a twitter account as the Eureka Ninja. Adriana is out and about in Melbourne. I am on the New South Wales coast.
The principles of our movement are as follows:
1. RULE OF LAW
The just laws that apply equally to all are the basis of Australia's modern society culture and country. Mercy has to temper Justice.
2. POLITICIANS WORK FOR US
Death to tyranny! There is no place in our country for elites, squatterocracies, imported lords or priesthoods or anyone else who lords it over other people for no reason and by no right of law. Politicians in particular are our servants as are the bureaucrats. They do their work for a fair quid or they are GONE.
3. THE EUREKA OATH
"We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other and fight to defend our rights and liberties."
4. WE'RE ALL AUSTRALIANS
Anyone of any colour or creed is Australian if they come here legally, stay and form part of our political fabric and respect the law. No one is above anyone else in any way by cause of blood, birth or inheritance. We're all equal in spirit and deserve a fair go.
5. AUSTRALIA HAS THE LONGEST HISTORY ON EARTH
Australian history begins with the original inhabitants not with the European era.
6. TAXES AND GOVERNMENT ARE BEST WHEN SMALL
Taxation should be minimal and never imposed without consent of the governed.
No more rum rebellions and Eureka Stockade injustices!
We do not rule out civil disobedience and peaceful protests to get our points across.
We have no connection to the Australian TEA Party who, other than popping up to promote themselves, seem to have done absolutely nothing. To date, we Eurekans have launched four successful "emailalanches" mass email, call and mail campaigns, against anyone betraying their electorate. We will be escalating our campaigns as our numbers grow. Many of us have also joined the liberal party or the national party. Some of us intend to stand as genuine independents offering to sign detailed contracts with undertakings to truly represent their electorates. Some of our members have now started blogs of their own and the movement has clearly taken off, due entirely to the massive hatred of what has happened to Australia felt by the vast silent majority of Australians. It's not surprising journalists were taken by surprise by all of this. The journalists are pretty much all smug tuned out people listening to each other and the polis rather than to the millions of normal Aussies who don't read fish wrappers or watch television's puppet show.
All we ask of anyone following us is to take the Eureka Oath and to apply the maximum pressure they can to both the political class and the servile journalists who do nothing to hold politicians accountable. If that upsets the happy thoughts inside the credulous useful idiots of either persuasion that's all to the good.
I hope this is of some use to you in your article. It will be posted on our blog shortly.
We welcome anyone to the fight for the principles of Eureka. We will never rest until Australia is saved from the corruption in high places that is destroying her.
Gary Walker
EUREKA the Australian Tea Party
just received another email from Adriana re your request for interview.
As a twitter and blog based based phenomenon with a growing direct audience and 3700+ active "members" we're not really keen on open slather in the old media. It doesn't seem that it will be a fair and balanced piece given the silly outing of Grogs Gamut.
Don't get me wrong, I thought Gamut wasting taxpayers money on his tweeting was a disgrace, but the gratuitous outing of the sad little mindlocked leftoid seemed pointless except to boost newspaper circulation.
To assist you in your article preparation I am setting out below what we stand for, where we came from, and what we intend to do. You can make whatever use you like of this information.
Here we go:
My name is Gary Walker. Together with Adriana "Maimonides" and "Peter Lalor" we decided to form an Anonymous style organisation intended to be the political Al Qaeda against all forms of collectivism, communist infiltration of the Australian political system, socialism, and in particular the corruption of current politicians.
The three of us met online, then in real life. "Peter" has since retired from online to a large degree although he still has a twitter account as the Eureka Ninja. Adriana is out and about in Melbourne. I am on the New South Wales coast.
The principles of our movement are as follows:
1. RULE OF LAW
The just laws that apply equally to all are the basis of Australia's modern society culture and country. Mercy has to temper Justice.
2. POLITICIANS WORK FOR US
Death to tyranny! There is no place in our country for elites, squatterocracies, imported lords or priesthoods or anyone else who lords it over other people for no reason and by no right of law. Politicians in particular are our servants as are the bureaucrats. They do their work for a fair quid or they are GONE.
3. THE EUREKA OATH
"We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other and fight to defend our rights and liberties."
4. WE'RE ALL AUSTRALIANS
Anyone of any colour or creed is Australian if they come here legally, stay and form part of our political fabric and respect the law. No one is above anyone else in any way by cause of blood, birth or inheritance. We're all equal in spirit and deserve a fair go.
5. AUSTRALIA HAS THE LONGEST HISTORY ON EARTH
Australian history begins with the original inhabitants not with the European era.
6. TAXES AND GOVERNMENT ARE BEST WHEN SMALL
Taxation should be minimal and never imposed without consent of the governed.
No more rum rebellions and Eureka Stockade injustices!
We do not rule out civil disobedience and peaceful protests to get our points across.
We have no connection to the Australian TEA Party who, other than popping up to promote themselves, seem to have done absolutely nothing. To date, we Eurekans have launched four successful "emailalanches" mass email, call and mail campaigns, against anyone betraying their electorate. We will be escalating our campaigns as our numbers grow. Many of us have also joined the liberal party or the national party. Some of us intend to stand as genuine independents offering to sign detailed contracts with undertakings to truly represent their electorates. Some of our members have now started blogs of their own and the movement has clearly taken off, due entirely to the massive hatred of what has happened to Australia felt by the vast silent majority of Australians. It's not surprising journalists were taken by surprise by all of this. The journalists are pretty much all smug tuned out people listening to each other and the polis rather than to the millions of normal Aussies who don't read fish wrappers or watch television's puppet show.
All we ask of anyone following us is to take the Eureka Oath and to apply the maximum pressure they can to both the political class and the servile journalists who do nothing to hold politicians accountable. If that upsets the happy thoughts inside the credulous useful idiots of either persuasion that's all to the good.
I hope this is of some use to you in your article. It will be posted on our blog shortly.
We welcome anyone to the fight for the principles of Eureka. We will never rest until Australia is saved from the corruption in high places that is destroying her.
Gary Walker
EUREKA the Australian Tea Party
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Peter Slipper: Where To Complain.
Peter Slipper MP
Party: Liberal Party of Australia
Parliament House Contact
PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Tel: (02) 6277 4975
Fax: (02) 6277 8514
Email: Peter.Slipper.MP@aph.gov.au
Slipper already has an expenses scandal under his belt so in terms of morals (he has none) he's a great fit for the ALP-Greens coalition.
Electorate Office Contact
Maroochydore Office:
Location:
Shop 10A and 10B Cartwright Centre, 138 Point Cartwright Road
Buddina Qld 4575
Postal Address:
PO Box 1224
Buddina Qld 4575
Tel: (07) 5444 4888
Fax: (07) 5452 6655
Toll Free: 1300 301 981
Please note: 1300 telephone numbers are available from within the Member's home state only for the cost of a local call.
Party: Liberal Party of Australia
Parliament House Contact
PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Tel: (02) 6277 4975
Fax: (02) 6277 8514
Email: Peter.Slipper.MP@aph.gov.au
Slipper already has an expenses scandal under his belt so in terms of morals (he has none) he's a great fit for the ALP-Greens coalition.
Electorate Office Contact
Maroochydore Office:
Location:
Shop 10A and 10B Cartwright Centre, 138 Point Cartwright Road
Buddina Qld 4575
Postal Address:
PO Box 1224
Buddina Qld 4575
Tel: (07) 5444 4888
Fax: (07) 5452 6655
Toll Free: 1300 301 981
Please note: 1300 telephone numbers are available from within the Member's home state only for the cost of a local call.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Worth a 1000 Words: Телеграфное агентство Советского Союза is authorised to announce...
Picture credit: ABC News Watch
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Alex Somlyay UPDATED
Alex Somlyay MP
PO Box 1978
Sunshine Plaza, Qld 4558
(07) 54792800
or send him an email: alex.somlyay.mp@aph.gov.au
If he makes war on our democracy and on us, we must and will make war upon him.
UPDATE
PO Box 1978
Sunshine Plaza, Qld 4558
(07) 54792800
or send him an email: alex.somlyay.mp@aph.gov.au
If he makes war on our democracy and on us, we must and will make war upon him.
UPDATE
Media Statement from Alex Somlyay
24/09/10
I can confirm that I have been approached by the Gillard Government, through the Leader of the House, the Hon Anthony Albanese, to stand as their nominee for the position of Deputy Speaker on the basis that I would support the Government on no confidence motions and supply bills.
I have declined this approach.
I have been a proud member of the Liberal Party Room for 21 years and my commitment to serve the Liberal-National Party remains strong.
After discussions with both the Labor Party and my own leader, the Hon Tony Abbott MHR, I confirm that I will be contesting the nomination for the position of Deputy Speaker in the Coalition Party Room on Monday.
I support the Coalition’s decision to reject any pairing arrangements for the Speaker and Deputy Speaker positions on the basis that such pairing is inconsistent with the Constitution.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Howard was far from perfect, but it's not a perfect world. There are rumours that gun control was mainly about disarming the hate groups and separatist ghettoes in Australia but it was a terrible decision and one that has to be reversed.
Other than that, Howard did a lot of good, and in an imperfect world he was far better than Rudd or Gillard. That is utterly beyond question.
PressThink: Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press
That journalists affirm and enforce the sphere of consensus, consign ideas and actors to the sphere of deviance, and decide when the shift is made from one to another— none of this is in their official job description. You won’t find it taught in J-school, either. It’s an intrinsic part of what they do, but not a natural part of how they think or talk about their job. Which means they often do it badly. Their “sphere placement” decisions can be arbitrary, automatic, inflected with fear, or excessively narrow-minded. Worse than that, these decisions are often invisible to the people making them, and so we cannot argue with those people. It’s like trying to complain to your kid’s teacher about the values the child is learning in school when the teacher insists that the school does not teach values.
PressThink: Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press
Anyone whose views lie within the sphere of deviance—as defined by journalists—will experience the press as an opponent in the struggle for recognition.
PressThink: Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press
Anyone whose views lie within the sphere of deviance—as defined by journalists—will experience the press as an opponent in the struggle for recognition.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Can Australian States "Do an Arizona"?
Australian territories are creatures of the Commonwealth government, and have no States rights. Some question whether in the case of the ACT it should even have a parliament except to set some sort of Guinness record for over-government.
However the Australian States have Constitutionally enshrined rights. Amongst them is the right to make legislation that even the Commonwealth can't entirely destroy.
Back before the current malaise struck the country, Australia had a vigorous Federation, with a series of legal cases going back almost to Federation itself relating to how much power the Commonwealth has over the States. Many of the cases involved Western Australia, including an attempt to secede and the question of how much autonomy an Australian State has.
Looking briefly at the USA, we see that the state of Arizona, suffering under the yoke of unbearable illegal immigration and receiving no relief from the corrupt Obama regime, took the step of passing State law effectively banning illegal immigrants from the State. The mechanisms and the legislation itself were completely non-controversial, in fact they are less draconian than US Federal provisions for border control. However, it became a socialist target for extreme persecution, especially from the neo-Marxist Obama and his camp followers. The Federal US administration has turned on one of its constituent states. This is a quiet and undeclared legalistic civil war.
Back to Australia, and the question is can an Australian state provoke a similar situation?
The Australian Constitution provides to the Commonwealth superior and all-inclusive powers. One of those powers is Defence. This should mean that the Commonwealth can strike down any Arizona-type laws a State passes in Australia, especially with a left-wing Court system to rubber stamp centralism.
However, not every State-Commonwealth law case goes the way of the Commonwealth. If say Western Australia, with its long separatist history, frames an anti- illegal immigrant law carefully enough, it would be able to hamper the blank cheque that the Commonwealth gives illegals. For example the massive Federal handouts can't be affected by a state, but a state can certainly legislate to take away all state benefits and entitlements of all kinds to anyone in receipt of a Commonwealth handout based on their immigration status. In other words, illegals can be covered by a non-discriminatory law that would apply to all of them as well as to anyone else who might be caught by its provisions.
Another simpler law would be "no Australian passport, no job".
A third simple law would be to enshrine in state law that non-citizens and illegals receive low priority medical and hospital treatment and Australian citizens, the people who pay for everything, get first use of all facilities.
If a state government has the will, it can fight the Commonwealth successfully. Even if the stacked deck of the legal system is against it, the state would swiftly win the debate in the never-ending PR war.
It could happen... WILL it happen?
However the Australian States have Constitutionally enshrined rights. Amongst them is the right to make legislation that even the Commonwealth can't entirely destroy.
Back before the current malaise struck the country, Australia had a vigorous Federation, with a series of legal cases going back almost to Federation itself relating to how much power the Commonwealth has over the States. Many of the cases involved Western Australia, including an attempt to secede and the question of how much autonomy an Australian State has.
Looking briefly at the USA, we see that the state of Arizona, suffering under the yoke of unbearable illegal immigration and receiving no relief from the corrupt Obama regime, took the step of passing State law effectively banning illegal immigrants from the State. The mechanisms and the legislation itself were completely non-controversial, in fact they are less draconian than US Federal provisions for border control. However, it became a socialist target for extreme persecution, especially from the neo-Marxist Obama and his camp followers. The Federal US administration has turned on one of its constituent states. This is a quiet and undeclared legalistic civil war.
Back to Australia, and the question is can an Australian state provoke a similar situation?
The Australian Constitution provides to the Commonwealth superior and all-inclusive powers. One of those powers is Defence. This should mean that the Commonwealth can strike down any Arizona-type laws a State passes in Australia, especially with a left-wing Court system to rubber stamp centralism.
However, not every State-Commonwealth law case goes the way of the Commonwealth. If say Western Australia, with its long separatist history, frames an anti- illegal immigrant law carefully enough, it would be able to hamper the blank cheque that the Commonwealth gives illegals. For example the massive Federal handouts can't be affected by a state, but a state can certainly legislate to take away all state benefits and entitlements of all kinds to anyone in receipt of a Commonwealth handout based on their immigration status. In other words, illegals can be covered by a non-discriminatory law that would apply to all of them as well as to anyone else who might be caught by its provisions.
Another simpler law would be "no Australian passport, no job".
A third simple law would be to enshrine in state law that non-citizens and illegals receive low priority medical and hospital treatment and Australian citizens, the people who pay for everything, get first use of all facilities.
If a state government has the will, it can fight the Commonwealth successfully. Even if the stacked deck of the legal system is against it, the state would swiftly win the debate in the never-ending PR war.
It could happen... WILL it happen?
New South Wales warns us: NO FIXED TERMS!
The bribery graft and grift deal with Oakeshott and Windsor made by Gillard includes fixed terms for Federal parliament. Given the horrors of NSW Labor, this fixed term provision in particular must be destroyed.
Maintain the rage, keep the pressure on, it's had a massive effect so far and although Windsor is just a bitter incompetent keeping time until retirement, Oakeshott, as well as another surprisingly vulnerable member of parliament, can be made to do the right thing and swap support. It doesn't matter at all what the politicians think of being forced to do their job. They're endangering Australia on a daily basis and need to be brought to book.
THEY WORK FOR US
THEY ANSWER TO US EVERY DAY NOT JUST ON ELECTION DAY
PHONE, FAX, MAIL, EMAIL - KEEP THEM HONEST
Maintain the rage, keep the pressure on, it's had a massive effect so far and although Windsor is just a bitter incompetent keeping time until retirement, Oakeshott, as well as another surprisingly vulnerable member of parliament, can be made to do the right thing and swap support. It doesn't matter at all what the politicians think of being forced to do their job. They're endangering Australia on a daily basis and need to be brought to book.
THEY WORK FOR US
THEY ANSWER TO US EVERY DAY NOT JUST ON ELECTION DAY
PHONE, FAX, MAIL, EMAIL - KEEP THEM HONEST
Progressivism 101: Ex-Left Presto Change-O
“We need to recognise the only possibility for major social change is under a long period of Labor administration. Within that administration the Left needs to be willing to participate to shape political outcomes, recognising the need to accept often unpalatable compromises in the short term to bolster the prospect of future advance.”
Julia Gillard
Julia Gillard
If you're not angry, you really haven't been paying attention.
Great Aussie acting and a great message.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Those things for which we stand, beyond the Eureka Oath and Eureka Flag
1. RULE OF LAW
The just laws that apply equally to all are the basis of Australia's modern society culture and country. Mercy has to temper Justice.
2. POLITICIANS WORK FOR US
Death to tyranny! There is no place in our country for elites, squatterocracies, imported lords or priesthoods or anyone else who lords it over other people for no reason and by no right of law. Politicians in particular are our servants as are the bureaucrats. They do their work for a fair quid or they are GONE.
3. THE EUREKA OATH
"We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other and fight to defend our rights and liberties."
4. WE'RE ALL AUSTRALIANS
Anyone of any colour or creed is Australian if they come here legally, stay and form part of our political fabric and respect the law. No one is above anyone else in any way by cause of blood, birth or inheritance. We're all equal in spirit and deserve a fair go.
5. AUSTRALIA HAS THE LONGEST HISTORY ON EARTH
Australian history begins with the original inhabitants not with the European era.
6. TAXES AND GOVERNMENT ARE BEST WHEN SMALL
Taxation should be minimal and never imposed without consent of the governed.
No more rum rebellions and Eureka Stockade injustices!
The just laws that apply equally to all are the basis of Australia's modern society culture and country. Mercy has to temper Justice.
2. POLITICIANS WORK FOR US
Death to tyranny! There is no place in our country for elites, squatterocracies, imported lords or priesthoods or anyone else who lords it over other people for no reason and by no right of law. Politicians in particular are our servants as are the bureaucrats. They do their work for a fair quid or they are GONE.
3. THE EUREKA OATH
"We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other and fight to defend our rights and liberties."
4. WE'RE ALL AUSTRALIANS
Anyone of any colour or creed is Australian if they come here legally, stay and form part of our political fabric and respect the law. No one is above anyone else in any way by cause of blood, birth or inheritance. We're all equal in spirit and deserve a fair go.
5. AUSTRALIA HAS THE LONGEST HISTORY ON EARTH
Australian history begins with the original inhabitants not with the European era.
6. TAXES AND GOVERNMENT ARE BEST WHEN SMALL
Taxation should be minimal and never imposed without consent of the governed.
No more rum rebellions and Eureka Stockade injustices!
Oakeshott stopped from being speaker.
Now all that is left is
TOE THE LINE OR RESIGN
Oakeshott is a political hack and rotten borough patron. He's not tough, he's sneaky. Keep the pressure on and he will either support the Coalition as he was voted in to do, or resign. Believe it, we've got him on the run.
TOE THE LINE OR RESIGN
Oakeshott is a political hack and rotten borough patron. He's not tough, he's sneaky. Keep the pressure on and he will either support the Coalition as he was voted in to do, or resign. Believe it, we've got him on the run.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Oakeshott petition to fix the Rotten Borough of Lyne
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/oakeshott/
TELL EVERYONE.
If you're in Lyne, SIGN THIS PETITION.
This guy has to toe the line or GO.
Either he backs the Coalition as he was instructed to do by his employers, the voters of Lyne, or he RESIGNS.
TELL EVERYONE.
If you're in Lyne, SIGN THIS PETITION.
This guy has to toe the line or GO.
Either he backs the Coalition as he was instructed to do by his employers, the voters of Lyne, or he RESIGNS.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
ABC : WHERE TO COMPLAIN
Contacting the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Complain and complain again until the public broadcaster that all Australians pay for properly displays balance, properly respects mainstream views instead of extreme views and either fires enough of its ALP agents to create genuine balance or alternatively adheres to its charter.
We're all sick of the smirking lefties of the ABC, it's become an unfunny cliche. It's time to take direct action. If complaints don't work, it's time to march on ABC offices around the country.
ABC lefties are like cockroaches and they hate the light. Shine some on them.
Complain and complain again until the public broadcaster that all Australians pay for properly displays balance, properly respects mainstream views instead of extreme views and either fires enough of its ALP agents to create genuine balance or alternatively adheres to its charter.
We're all sick of the smirking lefties of the ABC, it's become an unfunny cliche. It's time to take direct action. If complaints don't work, it's time to march on ABC offices around the country.
ABC lefties are like cockroaches and they hate the light. Shine some on them.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Rotten Borough: Lyne
The term rotten borough refers to a parliamentary borough or constituency small in size but large in influence. Disproportionate power of a tiny place still able to elect a lower house candidate or influence the whole Parliament defines the rotten borough beyond its original stricter meaning.
Another term for this sort of consituency is a pocket borough, as they were seen as being "in the pocket" of a patron. This pocket borough concept is alive and well in Australia.
Lyne, the electorate of the closet socialist would-be robber baron Rob Oakeshott, is a classic pocket borough, with Oakeshott doing everything he can to be the patron of the rotten borough.
We have uncovered and exposed his network and the facts are now being "retweeted" in the world of radio, and perhaps sooner or later on television, by mainstream media. Oakeshott is particularly repugnant and even the otherwise on-side media have turned on him- although very gently so far.
A notable exception is Ray Hadley on 2GB and his needling of Oakeshott and repetition of the facts about his patronage system in his electorate could lead to Oakeshott's resignation. That might sound unbelievable but it isn't really. Oakeshott is no genius and it's the opinion of some people in his electorate that his patronage may well have crossed the line somewhere. Even if that opinion is wrong Oakeshott exposed not only his own despicable lack of values but also the valueless desire for power at any costs of the socialist junta led publicly by Gillard.
Keep fighting, email you local politicians, the political leaders, local media, and keep the fire burning for reform. Not what Oakeshott meant by reform- business as usual in sheep's clothing- but real reform and accountability.
THEY WORK FOR US
We will keep fighting, and WE WILL WIN
Another term for this sort of consituency is a pocket borough, as they were seen as being "in the pocket" of a patron. This pocket borough concept is alive and well in Australia.
Lyne, the electorate of the closet socialist would-be robber baron Rob Oakeshott, is a classic pocket borough, with Oakeshott doing everything he can to be the patron of the rotten borough.
We have uncovered and exposed his network and the facts are now being "retweeted" in the world of radio, and perhaps sooner or later on television, by mainstream media. Oakeshott is particularly repugnant and even the otherwise on-side media have turned on him- although very gently so far.
A notable exception is Ray Hadley on 2GB and his needling of Oakeshott and repetition of the facts about his patronage system in his electorate could lead to Oakeshott's resignation. That might sound unbelievable but it isn't really. Oakeshott is no genius and it's the opinion of some people in his electorate that his patronage may well have crossed the line somewhere. Even if that opinion is wrong Oakeshott exposed not only his own despicable lack of values but also the valueless desire for power at any costs of the socialist junta led publicly by Gillard.
Keep fighting, email you local politicians, the political leaders, local media, and keep the fire burning for reform. Not what Oakeshott meant by reform- business as usual in sheep's clothing- but real reform and accountability.
THEY WORK FOR US
We will keep fighting, and WE WILL WIN
Thursday, September 16, 2010
An open letter to "Their" ABC. We demand right of reply
We understand perfectly that ABC and in particular The Drum is nothing more than a propaganda factory for the ALP, but nevertheless we demand our right of reply.
If the charter of the ABC is to be honoured, "balanced" coverage needs to be adhered to in the spirit and law not in the breach.
We ask for equal time in reply or the ABC truly stands convicted as "TheirABC" and nothing more than propaganda for the socialist movements of Australia.
Gary Walker,
EUREKA! the Australian Tea Party
If the charter of the ABC is to be honoured, "balanced" coverage needs to be adhered to in the spirit and law not in the breach.
We ask for equal time in reply or the ABC truly stands convicted as "TheirABC" and nothing more than propaganda for the socialist movements of Australia.
Gary Walker,
EUREKA! the Australian Tea Party
Our PM - A Woman of Poor Judgment
This is a list of poor judgments made by Julia Gillard. Although it is a list, it is in effect a running statement about our "unelected by the people" unpopular PM. As you follow along the picture will become clearer and clearer.
Gillard makes many poor judgments and there will be many I have left out, feel free to post the ones you remember.
**************In no particular order Julia's Poor Judgments*****************
As deputy of ALP devotedly supported Kevin Rudd and his poor judgments
She had to instigate a body to audit the school failures when one should have been in place to monitor and prevent them in the first instance.
Took individual work place agreements away from people who were happy with their contracts.
Claims the management of wasting money during the GFC saved Australia.
States proudly that because our debt is less than the rest of the world this is a good thing (there should be far less debt if any, noone should ever be proud of debt).
When asked, she did not want the top job, 2 days later she believed she was the right person to take the top job. This decision turned out to be very poor judgment. The public did not accept her judgment on this.
Executed the elected PM.
Solely took the blame for the execution protecting the 4 faceless men.
The first day she became PM, in Parliament she degraded Julie Bishop with her sharp tongue, insinuating Julie Bishop was still only a deputy following her 3rd leader. Gillard thought herself clever.
Told the public ALP had lost its way, a party she devotedly supported prior to this statement.
Decided East Timor for offshore processing.
Called an election too soon for her own good.
During the campaign at western Sydney, she sat on the stage.
Threatened the public with "Workchoices" even though it is no longer on LNP agenda.
Went to union groups and stood with them during her campaign.
Night of election she held a wake, had the gall to declare ALP won the 2PP vote and promising to fight to remain as PM.
Admitted at the election wake, it would be a while to understand what the results actually meant after losing 14 seats and losing the majority.
Did not step down graciously.
Still believed she was the best person to be PM and knows little about foreign affairs.
Aligned herself with the Green extremists.
Made sure she gave Bob Katter nothing to win him over, Gillard believes she does not need Katter.
Day after election she takes her boyfriend to breakfast in public.
Fought hard to remain PM and got there, very poor judgment not listening to the people.
Rewarded the faceless men with ministerial positions.
Rewarded those who were apart of the party which had lost its way.
Told her party not to look back at the major mistakes (pretend they did not happen).
Made 10 mistakes when forming her new cabinet leaving out important sectors.
Put herself in the position which forced her to give Kevin Rudd the foreign ministry.
Cannot offer prayers for the families of fallen solders or the death of any Australian.
During her swearing in as PM did not say "So help me God".
Continues to roll out NBN without detailed costings.
Offers Rob Oakshott a ministry.
Says Oakshott is experienced to hold speaker of the house position and is considering it.
Gillard continues with ALP policies despite the failures, debt and the will of the public.
Tells the Insiders that reporters did not report fairly during the election (even though she tells lies).
Smiles in front of the camera with yellow teeth (very poor judgment).
Gillard believes Treasury makes no mistakes.
Election promise there would be no ETS then changes her mind after election saying nothing is ruled in or out.
Plans on the MRRT to get up to pay for NBN, every promise and bribe.
Gets smart with a reporter with her sharp tongue, when asked about an ETS, said to the reporter, if she knew the reporter was overseas for the past 3 years she would have sent a postcard, very poor judgment.
Said she would not move into the Lodge until she is elected by the people (looks like our PM will not be moving to the lodge).
A career woman with live-in boyfriend, no children who does not believe in God, representing families, working and stay at home mums, and a country of various religions, still believes she is best placed to be PM.
A woman who remembers her early days in Australia and held a grudge for 40 years has affected her judgment.
*********************Our PM - A Woman of Poor Judgment *********************
The Choir Of Free Voices
EUREKA has turned this blog over to not just the founders of the movement but like-minded people of all walks of life.
They will be contributing their own independent and free-thinking voices to the choir of freedom.
Some will be well educated and polished; some will be raw and scathing.
Freedom of speech means allowing everyone to be heard.
What scares the socialists of Australia is that their fantasies, so carefully scripted, are falling apart in the face of the great awakening of the silent majority. Silent no more.
YOU have the power. Not the media, not the socialists, not the spin doctors, no one but you. Many electorates were decided by almost single votes. As we said at the beginning, if you personally accept responsibility to change the views of 1,000 people you have in many cases changed the politician elected in your seat.
And even if you are in what the media and the political classes call a safe seat, remember the Oakeshott lesson. Despite his betrayals, he was still on a winning majority until our email campaign. The insurrection against his tyranny came from those who elected him and their brothers and sisters beneath the Eureka Flag around Australia.
There was a general melee at the Eureka Stockade, although just 22 rebels are recorded as having taken refuge in the picket stockade itself. 22 Australians changed our history.
You could be one of the next 22 history makers. Take personal responsibility, swear the Eureka Oath. Protect your rights and freedoms, fight all forms of tyranny. Do it for your own sake and for the sake of those you love.
The bigotry of low expectations destroys too many of us. The coopted media try and destroy the rest. Talk directly to and with your fellow citizens, and decide things for yourself. When you have to, take action. Email, write, call, agitate. Take the effort to make Australia politically fit agan, because if our beautiful country falls this time, she's dead.
The battle for our rights and freedoms has begun.
They will be contributing their own independent and free-thinking voices to the choir of freedom.
Some will be well educated and polished; some will be raw and scathing.
Freedom of speech means allowing everyone to be heard.
What scares the socialists of Australia is that their fantasies, so carefully scripted, are falling apart in the face of the great awakening of the silent majority. Silent no more.
YOU have the power. Not the media, not the socialists, not the spin doctors, no one but you. Many electorates were decided by almost single votes. As we said at the beginning, if you personally accept responsibility to change the views of 1,000 people you have in many cases changed the politician elected in your seat.
And even if you are in what the media and the political classes call a safe seat, remember the Oakeshott lesson. Despite his betrayals, he was still on a winning majority until our email campaign. The insurrection against his tyranny came from those who elected him and their brothers and sisters beneath the Eureka Flag around Australia.
There was a general melee at the Eureka Stockade, although just 22 rebels are recorded as having taken refuge in the picket stockade itself. 22 Australians changed our history.
You could be one of the next 22 history makers. Take personal responsibility, swear the Eureka Oath. Protect your rights and freedoms, fight all forms of tyranny. Do it for your own sake and for the sake of those you love.
The bigotry of low expectations destroys too many of us. The coopted media try and destroy the rest. Talk directly to and with your fellow citizens, and decide things for yourself. When you have to, take action. Email, write, call, agitate. Take the effort to make Australia politically fit agan, because if our beautiful country falls this time, she's dead.
The battle for our rights and freedoms has begun.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Malcolm Turnbull on the Net Filter
TurnbullMalcolm @AussieTeaParty I am utterly opposed to the conroy net filter as is the Coalition. It has no merit at all.Clear concise confirmation: The stupid net filter is a socialist, and not a Liberal or Coalition idea. STOP THE NET FILTER BEFORE IT BECOMES REALITY.
Oakeshott as Speaker: HELL NO
Oakeshott's quest for power at any price confirms the factual reports from his electorate of a "rugby club junta" running an electorate in classical coopted corrupt fashion. Whether it's the local chief of staff of a newspaper, a newsreader, a NSW Labor government office holder or the less high profile shills trying to oppose the lightning of public offence with their bows and arrows, Oakeshott is no more a hippie laidback good guy politician than Julia Gillard.
His clumsy attempts at Machiavellian power politics have been laid bare. His appointment as Speaker, a role with 75% more pay and accompanying entitlements, would be the final bribe in an extremely raw and corrupt process to cobble together a collectivist socialist ruling elite out of what should be a fragmented and therefore democratic lower house in Australia.
Oakeshott must be emailed, phoned and written to every single day by as many folk as possible. We managed 4700+ mailouts yesterday, that number needs to increase by a long way.
Don't forget to also contact your own local member of whatever political grouping. Remind them all:
THEY WORK FOR US
WE PAY THEIR SALARIES
THEY ANSWER TO US EVERY DAY NOT JUST ON POLLING DAY
His clumsy attempts at Machiavellian power politics have been laid bare. His appointment as Speaker, a role with 75% more pay and accompanying entitlements, would be the final bribe in an extremely raw and corrupt process to cobble together a collectivist socialist ruling elite out of what should be a fragmented and therefore democratic lower house in Australia.
Oakeshott must be emailed, phoned and written to every single day by as many folk as possible. We managed 4700+ mailouts yesterday, that number needs to increase by a long way.
Don't forget to also contact your own local member of whatever political grouping. Remind them all:
THEY WORK FOR US
WE PAY THEIR SALARIES
THEY ANSWER TO US EVERY DAY NOT JUST ON POLLING DAY
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Billy Tea Parties
We're organising get togethers but there's nothing at all to stop anyone reading this doing the same! Even if the local governments of your area ban campfires you can find a way to boil billy tea. :)
Billy Tea:
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/6799/billy+tea
Lamingtons:
Whatever party you organise, be sure and fly the Eureka Flag, Australia's only REAL flag by for and with the people! :)
Billy Tea:
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/6799/billy+tea
Lamingtons:
These small cakes were popularised by Queenslanders in the early 1900s. They are named after Lord Lamington, the Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901.
Ingredients for Making Lamingtons
3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup caster sugar
3 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup self-raising flour
1/2 cup plain flour
1/2 cup milk
chocolate icing
desicated coconut
3/4 cup caster sugar
3 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup self-raising flour
1/2 cup plain flour
1/2 cup milk
chocolate icing
desicated coconut
How to Cook Lamingtons
Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Add two eggs, one at a time, and beat well.
Add vanilla and half the sifted flour. Mix well. Add milk, the remaining flour and the third egg, and mix until smooth.
Place in a well-greased lamington tin or baking dish and bake for 30 minutes in a preheated moderate to slow oven. Cool and cut into squares about 5cm.
Spear each square on a carving fork, dip in chocolate icing, drain off excess, and toss in desiccated coconut.
Other recipes:
http://www.oldaussierecipes.com/breadsconesbuns.htmWhatever party you organise, be sure and fly the Eureka Flag, Australia's only REAL flag by for and with the people! :)
Monday, September 13, 2010
What's the big deal anyway about Gillard being so "passionate" about education? WHAT THE WITCH REALLY MEANS
"When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already. . . . What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."
Adolf Hitler 1889 to 1945, German dictator. Speech, 6 Nov. 1933.
Quoted in: William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, ch. 8, "Education in the Third Reich" 1959.
For the traitor appears not a traitor
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear".
Marcus Tullius Cicero. 45 BC.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear".
Marcus Tullius Cicero. 45 BC.
GetUp is not "of the left" it is a front for unions and PR firm
The ABC and other media is prepared to say GetUp is a left wing organization but they don't tell the story truly.
GetUp is funded by unions, in possible breaks of the law, and is masterminded not by its public leader but by ALP spin doctors and a PR firm.
In other words this means GetUp is not a genuine "grass roots" organization, it is a classical type "astroturf" organization. This has the meaning that it's not coming from a real community outrage or movement but is a fake organization which is not legitimate. It is illegitimate because it is pretending to act from public ideas but reality is it's promoting a script from socialist headquarters.
GetUp has started dressing in orange. That is a unionist tactic used by many unions over the years. It is a like the brownshirts and other menacing socialist movements that use uniforms and bullying to make people think their more powerful than they really are.
The people of Australia have all the real power. We outnumber them, like our leader, Gary, says.
Or like our founder "Peter Lalor" says, one Anonymous scared the whole multimillion dollar church of scientology. A few curious Aussies can scare the hell out of GetUp and the socialist hive they serve.
We have information on GetUp including copies of payments. We need to check all this to make sure it's real. If you have any more information on GetUp, the AWU, Bill Shorten, other unions involved or the PR firm and its contractors involved, especially the ABC employee, please contact me directly at adrianam1@gmx.com or by leaving a comment here.
I have to say this now for legal reasons
"all comments left on this blog post are the property of the person commenting and are not in any way the responsibility of or the opinion of EUREKA the Australian Tea Party, its members, blog site administrators, editors or participants. No responsibility taken for any comments made below"
Sorry about that but that is what we have been told to put on this one.
Once our legal advice comes back about how we can post proof we will be putting scans up or video or whatever we're told to do.
Adriana
GetUp is funded by unions, in possible breaks of the law, and is masterminded not by its public leader but by ALP spin doctors and a PR firm.
In other words this means GetUp is not a genuine "grass roots" organization, it is a classical type "astroturf" organization. This has the meaning that it's not coming from a real community outrage or movement but is a fake organization which is not legitimate. It is illegitimate because it is pretending to act from public ideas but reality is it's promoting a script from socialist headquarters.
GetUp has started dressing in orange. That is a unionist tactic used by many unions over the years. It is a like the brownshirts and other menacing socialist movements that use uniforms and bullying to make people think their more powerful than they really are.
The people of Australia have all the real power. We outnumber them, like our leader, Gary, says.
Or like our founder "Peter Lalor" says, one Anonymous scared the whole multimillion dollar church of scientology. A few curious Aussies can scare the hell out of GetUp and the socialist hive they serve.
We have information on GetUp including copies of payments. We need to check all this to make sure it's real. If you have any more information on GetUp, the AWU, Bill Shorten, other unions involved or the PR firm and its contractors involved, especially the ABC employee, please contact me directly at adrianam1@gmx.com or by leaving a comment here.
I have to say this now for legal reasons
"all comments left on this blog post are the property of the person commenting and are not in any way the responsibility of or the opinion of EUREKA the Australian Tea Party, its members, blog site administrators, editors or participants. No responsibility taken for any comments made below"
Sorry about that but that is what we have been told to put on this one.
Once our legal advice comes back about how we can post proof we will be putting scans up or video or whatever we're told to do.
Adriana
Gary Walker on EUREKA, the ATP
As many “left wing” hatemails have claimed, socialism in Australia seems to think that it has a divine right to claim the Eureka Stockade, or in particular its amazing flag, as their own private property. It isn’t.
Peter Lalor and the rest were essentially libertarian running through to card-carrying (figure of speech) anarchists and traditional living Chinese, Aborigines and part Aborigines, and every other colour race and religion. Yes, “even” islamic people.
They threw off albeit temporarily the chains of collectivism and authoritarianism and thought outside the box. They were essentially what might be called ultimate small government types- and that makes them conservative. The wanted a fast pace of change, arguably, which is not conservative, but we at ATP believe that in fact it was not radicalism but a desire for the quintessential fair go that defined the rebellion and the broader movement. It is how we define ourselves.
Conservatism can come direct from love of rights and liberty, and a desire to see police states big and small not trample them. It is the socialist collectivists (whether “communist”, “nazi” or just “mainstream” political party) and union thugs who are the enemy of the Eureka spirit.
Wrapping your fist in a flag before bullying other people is anathema to the EUREKA spirit.
Gary Walker, Australian Tea Party
Peter Lalor and the rest were essentially libertarian running through to card-carrying (figure of speech) anarchists and traditional living Chinese, Aborigines and part Aborigines, and every other colour race and religion. Yes, “even” islamic people.
They threw off albeit temporarily the chains of collectivism and authoritarianism and thought outside the box. They were essentially what might be called ultimate small government types- and that makes them conservative. The wanted a fast pace of change, arguably, which is not conservative, but we at ATP believe that in fact it was not radicalism but a desire for the quintessential fair go that defined the rebellion and the broader movement. It is how we define ourselves.
Conservatism can come direct from love of rights and liberty, and a desire to see police states big and small not trample them. It is the socialist collectivists (whether “communist”, “nazi” or just “mainstream” political party) and union thugs who are the enemy of the Eureka spirit.
Wrapping your fist in a flag before bullying other people is anathema to the EUREKA spirit.
Gary Walker, Australian Tea Party
Sunday, September 12, 2010
NBN scandal: another pink batts in the making?
Grand Inquisitor Conroy, minister of silly statements, net censorship and NBN, was on the radio this morning making ...misleading statements.
Meanwhile we were contacted exclusively on the weekend and have since passed on the story to news outlets that, according to one of the key installers of the NBN in Tasmania, of the people who were given the service 80% (so far) have immediately cancelled it the moment it changed from a free service (election bribe) to paid monthly (scandalous government monopoly).
The NBN monopoly entity, a wholly owned arm of the ALP government, has approved resellers. These pointless middlemen resell the NBN to consumers. Then you still need to pay extra connection fees. Rort is not a strong enough word for this level of epic waste.
80% cancellation rate. The government spin: this will insure that there is adequate availability of service for everyone who wants it.
But wasn't it meant to go to each individual house or building? Why would there be resources competition in that case?
Lie upon lie upon lie.
Good to see that many MSM outlets are picking up on this now. Expect to see the larger news outlets ignore it for as long as possible. It's fact, and it's out there, and if you can't trust the media (and you can't), then get the news direct from each other on this internet the socialists are so keen to censor.
Wonder why the socialists are so keen to censor us all? Now you know why. They're terrorised at the thought of an educated voting public.
YOU MAKE THE CHANGE IN YOUR OWN LIFE
Meanwhile we were contacted exclusively on the weekend and have since passed on the story to news outlets that, according to one of the key installers of the NBN in Tasmania, of the people who were given the service 80% (so far) have immediately cancelled it the moment it changed from a free service (election bribe) to paid monthly (scandalous government monopoly).
The NBN monopoly entity, a wholly owned arm of the ALP government, has approved resellers. These pointless middlemen resell the NBN to consumers. Then you still need to pay extra connection fees. Rort is not a strong enough word for this level of epic waste.
80% cancellation rate. The government spin: this will insure that there is adequate availability of service for everyone who wants it.
But wasn't it meant to go to each individual house or building? Why would there be resources competition in that case?
Lie upon lie upon lie.
Good to see that many MSM outlets are picking up on this now. Expect to see the larger news outlets ignore it for as long as possible. It's fact, and it's out there, and if you can't trust the media (and you can't), then get the news direct from each other on this internet the socialists are so keen to censor.
Wonder why the socialists are so keen to censor us all? Now you know why. They're terrorised at the thought of an educated voting public.
YOU MAKE THE CHANGE IN YOUR OWN LIFE
Police probe fires linked to batts scheme
Police probe fires linked to batts scheme
Finally, arson squad investigations have begun on the Rudd-Gillard-Garrett pink batt fiasco. 4 young Australians dead that we know about.
Finally, arson squad investigations have begun on the Rudd-Gillard-Garrett pink batt fiasco. 4 young Australians dead that we know about.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Garrett Watch and Wong Watch
Two of the worst -and that's saying something- "ministers" in the new line up of infamy led by Gillard are Peter Garrett and Penny Wong.
Garrett and Wong are both the same kind of driven careerist, but their backgrounds show different distinct types of unprincipled grabs for power at any costs.
Garrett began as a B-list pop singer before joining the Greens. When the Greens didn't serve his purposes well enough as a path to unbridled power he swapped to the ALP. Zero principles on display.
When Rudd was elected by the Australian mainstream media in 2007 Garrett began a shambolic stagger through serious issues and serious portfolios. He presided over the insulation scandal, resulting in the deaths of 4 young Australian workers and an unknown number of people in house fires. His direct responsibility has again been ignored by the media except in the most shallow of ways.
Wong is a trust fund millionaire who grew up in a privileged private school lifestyle of complete ease and comfort. Typical of the privileged people who now form the ALP, she waged relentless class warfare for no reason by becoming a classic extreme left wing lawyer and unionist, hacking and slashing through a life where she has never had a genuine job. This lack of any real life credentials is almost universal in the current ALP.
Garrett and Wong both need to have the spotlight on them 100% of the time now. Garrett will be presiding over stalinist attempts to indoctrinate the children of Australia, and Wong is now finance minister, in name if nothing else.
Any disasters in the making by these two miscreants or any other socialist in parliament need to be stamped on as early as possible.
Australia is also now 3 bil. more in debt than on election day and counting.
Garrett and Wong are both the same kind of driven careerist, but their backgrounds show different distinct types of unprincipled grabs for power at any costs.
Garrett began as a B-list pop singer before joining the Greens. When the Greens didn't serve his purposes well enough as a path to unbridled power he swapped to the ALP. Zero principles on display.
When Rudd was elected by the Australian mainstream media in 2007 Garrett began a shambolic stagger through serious issues and serious portfolios. He presided over the insulation scandal, resulting in the deaths of 4 young Australian workers and an unknown number of people in house fires. His direct responsibility has again been ignored by the media except in the most shallow of ways.
Wong is a trust fund millionaire who grew up in a privileged private school lifestyle of complete ease and comfort. Typical of the privileged people who now form the ALP, she waged relentless class warfare for no reason by becoming a classic extreme left wing lawyer and unionist, hacking and slashing through a life where she has never had a genuine job. This lack of any real life credentials is almost universal in the current ALP.
Garrett and Wong both need to have the spotlight on them 100% of the time now. Garrett will be presiding over stalinist attempts to indoctrinate the children of Australia, and Wong is now finance minister, in name if nothing else.
Any disasters in the making by these two miscreants or any other socialist in parliament need to be stamped on as early as possible.
Australia is also now 3 bil. more in debt than on election day and counting.
9/11 - when our American family was hurt - for being too good, too free, too happy
Friday, September 10, 2010
First post!
Hi to everyone!
My name's Adriana, and I am one of the Australian Tea Party / EUREKA organisers.
I live in Melbourne, which is where the Australian Tea Party started.
A number of people have asked why we called ourselves a Tea Party and isn't that an American thing. I think our founder Peter Lalor explained that all ready but basically there was an Australian Tea Party on the goldfields before the rebellion turned into a full scale battle. It was around campfires, where miners and their families and people like that sat and made tea in billies.
For foreign visitors, a billy is basically a little saucepan pot with no handle and a wire through the edge, like a little tin bucket. In the colonial days people would boil or cook in it. The miners boiled tea, and some of them added some grog, and they drank and decided whether to use violence to oppose their oppressors. And they decided to use violence. Because in that time they had no alternative.
I think we do have alternative to violence because the oppressors today aren't using the army or police or union thugs against us, at least not yet. At Uni I see it all the time when people are being quietly bullied by lecturers or the other students, it's just like high school with the way people of opposing views are shut down. It's the left wing that do it, they have the power in education.
My family are immigrants, I was born in Melbourne but a lot of my family weren't. They don't understand why more Australians don't care about politics and why people trust the news to tell the truth.
For myself I joined this blog because it appeared at just the time I was so angry with how the election had all happened and how it seemed like democracy was not working. And even more so the media were so wrong in what they said, their just lying and keeping things from people. I want to find things out for myself and post them here.
If you have news from your electorate please leave it as a comment or email it to me, my email is
adrianam1@gmx.com
And I will print any real electorate news, after checking that it is true.
Thanks for reading
ADRIANA
My name's Adriana, and I am one of the Australian Tea Party / EUREKA organisers.
I live in Melbourne, which is where the Australian Tea Party started.
A number of people have asked why we called ourselves a Tea Party and isn't that an American thing. I think our founder Peter Lalor explained that all ready but basically there was an Australian Tea Party on the goldfields before the rebellion turned into a full scale battle. It was around campfires, where miners and their families and people like that sat and made tea in billies.
For foreign visitors, a billy is basically a little saucepan pot with no handle and a wire through the edge, like a little tin bucket. In the colonial days people would boil or cook in it. The miners boiled tea, and some of them added some grog, and they drank and decided whether to use violence to oppose their oppressors. And they decided to use violence. Because in that time they had no alternative.
I think we do have alternative to violence because the oppressors today aren't using the army or police or union thugs against us, at least not yet. At Uni I see it all the time when people are being quietly bullied by lecturers or the other students, it's just like high school with the way people of opposing views are shut down. It's the left wing that do it, they have the power in education.
My family are immigrants, I was born in Melbourne but a lot of my family weren't. They don't understand why more Australians don't care about politics and why people trust the news to tell the truth.
For myself I joined this blog because it appeared at just the time I was so angry with how the election had all happened and how it seemed like democracy was not working. And even more so the media were so wrong in what they said, their just lying and keeping things from people. I want to find things out for myself and post them here.
If you have news from your electorate please leave it as a comment or email it to me, my email is
adrianam1@gmx.com
And I will print any real electorate news, after checking that it is true.
Thanks for reading
ADRIANA
Where To Complain: Andrew Wilkie
To spare you the agony or hilarity of reading his pompous self-aggrandizing website, below are the contact details for champagne socialist Andrew Wilkie.
Telephone
0400 818 625
Email
wilkie.andrew@bigpond.com
Post
208 Elizabeth Street North Hobart Tasmania 7000
Telephone
0400 818 625
wilkie.andrew@bigpond.com
Post
208 Elizabeth Street North Hobart Tasmania 7000
Faithless Electors
A faithless elector is a member of an electoral college who refuses to cast a vote for his or her pledged candidate. This term is used most commonly in American politics, although technically members of electoral colleges all over the world could be faithless electors, if they so desired. Faithless electors are often subject to political reprisal for their actions, in cases where they can be identified. In other areas, the ballots of the electors are secret, so it's possible to develop a list of suspects, but the identity of the faithless elector cannot be confirmed.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-faithless-elector.htm
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-faithless-elector.htm
When Everything Changed
I was in my first grade classroom in NY 9 years ago yesterday and all i remember is my first grade teacher had a brother who worked in the towers who never made it out.... The other teacher came into to tell her wat was going on and she fell to the floor. The rest of the day was silence. No one was aloud outside the classroom and the worst part was being only 1st graders no on would tell us what was going on Now i realize how true horrible this day was. R.I.P all the people who lost there lives
- "smittiesworld", YouTube
Sydney Coves / Sydney Ducks
Among the immigrants to San Francisco were the most ruthless criminals in the world. A substantial number came from Van Dieman's Land and New South Wales where the British had sent their criminals in the mid-1800s. Once those criminals served their time, they sailed for California.
The numbers grew and the "Sydney coves" (Sydney Ducks) were almost impossible to control as witnesses and prosecutors were few. The offenders operated unchecked from late 1849 through early 1851 with robberies, midnight assaults ending in murder, gambling, and starting fires, during which they would plunder shops and homes. At one point, more than 100 murders had been committed within the space of a few months and not one criminal had been executed.
To regain order, two vigilance groups were formed between 1851 and 1856. Unfortunately, rather than stemmig crime, they were among the most notorious. The 1856 Committee was one of the most successful organizations in the vigilante tradition of America's Old West.
The Committee of Vigilance formed in 1851 and revived in 1856 lynched eight people, kidnapped hundreds of Irishmen and government militia members, and forced several elected officials to resign.
The First Light Dragoons claimed to be the first legally organized militia company mustered in under the first Militia Law passed by the first session of the California Legislature held in San Jose in 1850. This claim was disputed by the Eureka Light Horse Guard which was organized about the same time. Whether the First Light Dragoons were first or not, they were destined to stay in the service for twenty-nine years, many of which were turbulent ones calling for loyalty to the cause of law and order.
The alleged criminality of the Sydney Ducks was the catalyst for the formation of the Committee of Vigilance of 1851. The vigilantes usurped political power in the city, conducted secret trials, lynchings, and deportations, which effectively decimated the Sydney Ducks. The area where the Sydney Ducks clustered, the base of Telegraph Hill, was originally known as "Sydney-Town," but by the 1860s was called exclusively by its better-known name, the Barbary Coast.
So... San Francisco is OUR fault???? :)
The numbers grew and the "Sydney coves" (Sydney Ducks) were almost impossible to control as witnesses and prosecutors were few. The offenders operated unchecked from late 1849 through early 1851 with robberies, midnight assaults ending in murder, gambling, and starting fires, during which they would plunder shops and homes. At one point, more than 100 murders had been committed within the space of a few months and not one criminal had been executed.
To regain order, two vigilance groups were formed between 1851 and 1856. Unfortunately, rather than stemmig crime, they were among the most notorious. The 1856 Committee was one of the most successful organizations in the vigilante tradition of America's Old West.
The Committee of Vigilance formed in 1851 and revived in 1856 lynched eight people, kidnapped hundreds of Irishmen and government militia members, and forced several elected officials to resign.
The First Light Dragoons claimed to be the first legally organized militia company mustered in under the first Militia Law passed by the first session of the California Legislature held in San Jose in 1850. This claim was disputed by the Eureka Light Horse Guard which was organized about the same time. Whether the First Light Dragoons were first or not, they were destined to stay in the service for twenty-nine years, many of which were turbulent ones calling for loyalty to the cause of law and order.
The alleged criminality of the Sydney Ducks was the catalyst for the formation of the Committee of Vigilance of 1851. The vigilantes usurped political power in the city, conducted secret trials, lynchings, and deportations, which effectively decimated the Sydney Ducks. The area where the Sydney Ducks clustered, the base of Telegraph Hill, was originally known as "Sydney-Town," but by the 1860s was called exclusively by its better-known name, the Barbary Coast.
So... San Francisco is OUR fault???? :)
Rights and Liberties... Part 1
Rights and Liberties.
It's clear we've lost colossal amounts of liberty, ie perfect freedom. And it's equally clear that in the guise of conferring "rights" in enumerated politically correct lists we've lost all the original inalienable rights we enjoy not by gift of government but by fact of existence. Our rights come with our creation, they aren't from man but from the higher power. If someone doesn't believe in the higher power, then those rights still exist, and they come from within us all. They don't require any form of approval from other people. Government itself is a set of delegated tasks and we can revoke that delegation.
This is the source of the concept that THEY WORK FOR US. Politicians are employees. But like all bad employees they want to upturn the hierarchy of the workplace, usurp responsibility for which they aren't qualified and generally get money for nothing. This not only ruins our country, it demoralises the people who would otherwise enter politics to try and really make a difference.
This has to stop.
It's clear we've lost colossal amounts of liberty, ie perfect freedom. And it's equally clear that in the guise of conferring "rights" in enumerated politically correct lists we've lost all the original inalienable rights we enjoy not by gift of government but by fact of existence. Our rights come with our creation, they aren't from man but from the higher power. If someone doesn't believe in the higher power, then those rights still exist, and they come from within us all. They don't require any form of approval from other people. Government itself is a set of delegated tasks and we can revoke that delegation.
This is the source of the concept that THEY WORK FOR US. Politicians are employees. But like all bad employees they want to upturn the hierarchy of the workplace, usurp responsibility for which they aren't qualified and generally get money for nothing. This not only ruins our country, it demoralises the people who would otherwise enter politics to try and really make a difference.
This has to stop.
Join the Australian Tea Party
Want to join? If you believe what we believe- you already have. This isn't some exclusive club, it's an awakening of our cultural identity.
If you want to show support, use the Eureka Flag as your avatar on fb, twitter or anywhere else. Post the oath of Eureka. Learn the tenets of Eureka. Live them.
If you want to show support, use the Eureka Flag as your avatar on fb, twitter or anywhere else. Post the oath of Eureka. Learn the tenets of Eureka. Live them.
Unfaithful Elector Oakeshott has lust for power curbed... by PEOPLE POWER
No two ways about it, if Oakeshott had not been email bombed with over 5000 hostile responses to his treachery and intimations he was going to grab a ministry from Labor to seal his whoredom, he would today have announced himself as the new Minister for Regional Affairs.
The only fortunate thing about this wretched opportunist is his weakness. In the face of angry voters in his electorate and still more angry emails from around the country over the last 24 hours he has backed down, from a Federal ministry he dearly wanted... Not to make a difference but for the power and the money it would have given him.
This is only the beginning. This is a clear demonstration that people power, the spirit of Eureka, can defeat entrenched interests on any part of the political spectrum. They work for us, and they are scared of us. We outnumber them, and we're smarter than them.
Keep up the good fight and remember the Eureka Stockade!
The only fortunate thing about this wretched opportunist is his weakness. In the face of angry voters in his electorate and still more angry emails from around the country over the last 24 hours he has backed down, from a Federal ministry he dearly wanted... Not to make a difference but for the power and the money it would have given him.
This is only the beginning. This is a clear demonstration that people power, the spirit of Eureka, can defeat entrenched interests on any part of the political spectrum. They work for us, and they are scared of us. We outnumber them, and we're smarter than them.
Keep up the good fight and remember the Eureka Stockade!
Thursday, September 9, 2010
The Australian Identity
The Australian Identity
Really excellent piece, setting it all out and with actual facts and key points based on clear no-spin attitudes. Every Australian should read it at least once.
Really excellent piece, setting it all out and with actual facts and key points based on clear no-spin attitudes. Every Australian should read it at least once.
The inevitable spiritual evolution from Radicalism to Conservatism, from youth to sensible experience
Peter Lalor (1827-1889) - From Radicalism to Conservatism
Peter Lalor was born in Queens County, Ireland in 1827. His father was a member of the House of Commons. Peter was one of ten brothers. One of his brothers, Patrick, was involved in the failed 1848 rebellion in Ireland, he was jailed because of his participation in the rebellion and died in 1849 of tuberculosis. Peter, a civil engineer, migrated to Victoria in 1852 and worked as an engineer on the Melbourne-Geelong Railroad. He moved to the goldfields in Ballarat in 1853. He did not come to the fore in the Eureka movement till the meeting that was held on Wednesday 29th November at Bakery Hill, when he moved a resolution to turn the Ballarat Reform League from an ad hoc to a permanent organisation.At 10.00am on Tuesday 30th November, the police conducted a particularly viscous licence hunt at Ballarat in which eight miners were arrested. The miners gathered at Bakery Hill, Peter Lalor mounted a stump and took command. The Southern Cross was unfurled and about 1000 miners marched to the Eureka site. At a meeting of a dozen captains of the miners, Peter Lalor was elected as commander in chief.
At 4.45am on Sunday 3rd December mounted police and soldiers attacked the stockade. Lalor took command. Standing on an exposed mound, he ordered the miners not to fire until the police and troops were at close range. He then ordered the pikemen forward. Just at that moment, a musket ball and two bullets struck him in the left shoulder. Realising the battle was lost, he ordered the miners to flee. He was picked up from the ground and was hidden in a woodpile. Later that morning, Lalor was spirited away by supporters. That evening he had his left arm amputated at the shoulder joint without the use of anaesthetics. The rest is history. He stood unopposed and was elected to represent Ballarat at the Legislative Council. The electors lost faith in his abilities when he voted that a property qualification be imposed on electors. He did not seek re-election in Ballarat but stood for the seat of Grant in 1857. He held the seat for 30 years until his retirement on the 4th October 1887. During this period, he served as a Cabinet minister as well as a Speaker of Parliament. He died at the age of 62 in 1889 at his son's house in Church St, Richmond, Melbourne.
When asked while in parliament whether he believed in democracy he stated "I would ask these gentlemen what they mean by the term 'democracy'? Do they mean chartism or communism or republicanism? If so, I never was, I'm not now, nor do I ever intend to be a democrat. But if a democrat means opposition to a tyrannical press, a tyrannical people or a tyrannical government, then I have ever been, I am still and will remain a democrat".
http://www.takver.com/history/eureka.htm#aa523
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Go Galt
Where does your money go? Anywhere and nowhere. First, it goes to establish an altruistic excuse and window dressing for the rest: to establish a system of subsidized consumption—a “welfare” class of men who consume without producing—a growing dead end, imposed on a shrinking production. Then the money goes to subsidize any pressure group at the expense of any other—to buy their votes—to finance any project conceived at the whim of any bureaucrat or of his friends—to pay for the failure of that project, to start another, etc. The welfare recipients are not the worst part of the producers’ burden. The worst part are the bureaucrats—the government officials who are given the power to regulate production. They are not merely unproductive consumers: their job consists in making it harder and harder and, ultimately, impossible for the producers to produce. (Most of them are men whose ultimate goal is to place all producers in the position of welfare recipients.)
Ayn Rand Letter
Ayn Rand Letter
The Spirit of Eureka, and of Australia herself.
"I would ask these gentlemen what they mean by the term 'democracy'. Do they mean Chartism or Communism or Republicanism? If so, I never was, I am not now, nor do I ever intend to be a democrat. But if a democrat means opposition to a tyrannical press, a tyrannical people, or a tyrannical government, then I have been, I am still, and will ever remain a democrat."
Peter Lalor, 1856
Billy Tea Meeting 1
I doubt they had laptops at Eureka, but we had one with us tonight. It was cold, it was clear, the billy boiled lots and the fire went from explosion to ashes all too fast. This is what the first billy tea meeting gave us:
1. RULE OF LAW
The just laws that apply equally to all are the basis of Australia's modern society culture and country. Mercy has to temper Justice.
2. POLITICIANS WORK FOR US
Death to tyranny! There is no place in our country for elites, squatterocracies, imported lords or priesthoods or anyone else who lords it over other people for no reason and by no right of law. Politicians in particular are our servants as are the bureaucrats. They do their work for a fair quid or they are GONE.
3. THE EUREKA OATH
"We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other and fight to defend our rights and liberties."
4. WE'RE ALL AUSTRALIANS
Anyone of any colour or creed is Australian if they come here legally, stay and form part of our political fabric and respect the law. No one is above anyone else in any way by cause of blood, birth or inheritance. We're all equal in spirit and deserve a fair go.
5. AUSTRALIA HAS THE LONGEST HISTORY ON EARTH
Australian history begins with the original inhabitants not with the European era.
6. TAXES AND GOVERNMENT ARE BEST WHEN SMALL
Taxation should be minimal and never imposed without consent of the governed.
No more rum rebellions and Eureka Stockade injustices!
1. RULE OF LAW
The just laws that apply equally to all are the basis of Australia's modern society culture and country. Mercy has to temper Justice.
2. POLITICIANS WORK FOR US
Death to tyranny! There is no place in our country for elites, squatterocracies, imported lords or priesthoods or anyone else who lords it over other people for no reason and by no right of law. Politicians in particular are our servants as are the bureaucrats. They do their work for a fair quid or they are GONE.
3. THE EUREKA OATH
"We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other and fight to defend our rights and liberties."
4. WE'RE ALL AUSTRALIANS
Anyone of any colour or creed is Australian if they come here legally, stay and form part of our political fabric and respect the law. No one is above anyone else in any way by cause of blood, birth or inheritance. We're all equal in spirit and deserve a fair go.
5. AUSTRALIA HAS THE LONGEST HISTORY ON EARTH
Australian history begins with the original inhabitants not with the European era.
6. TAXES AND GOVERNMENT ARE BEST WHEN SMALL
Taxation should be minimal and never imposed without consent of the governed.
No more rum rebellions and Eureka Stockade injustices!
Lest We Forget: Marcus Wilson
This poor young man is a victim of the criminal negligence of the Rudd-Gillard government. He is one of those people directly killed as a result of the dangerous dreams and stupid decision making of people totally divorced from reality.
So the next time you see Gillard waving her tuck shop wings and waddling up to give another droning speech, the next time you see her hateful smug chicken lipped smirks... Remember the human cost, in young lives lost, of her literally murderous will to power.
THIS HAS TO STOP NOW.
Where to complain long and loud:
Tony Windsor, all-round man of straw and intellectual lightweight:
Tony.Windsor.MP@aph.gov.au
Rob Oakeshott, the St. Andrews schoolboy who HAS to be right, basket case, political animal and crank:
http://www.roboakeshott.com/contact-rob
Notice Oakeshott doesn't even have a normal public email like a normal politician. He is a CINO (conservative in name only) now exposed as an actual socialist.
Go your hardest. They work for us, not the other way round.
Tony.Windsor.MP@aph.gov.au
Rob Oakeshott, the St. Andrews schoolboy who HAS to be right, basket case, political animal and crank:
http://www.roboakeshott.com/contact-rob
Notice Oakeshott doesn't even have a normal public email like a normal politician. He is a CINO (conservative in name only) now exposed as an actual socialist.
Go your hardest. They work for us, not the other way round.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
http://www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622#!/group.php?gid=159103720769981
This is the Australian Tea Party facebook group. Come on into the stockade and share a billy of tea with us! :)
This is the Australian Tea Party facebook group. Come on into the stockade and share a billy of tea with us! :)
What to do?
Get active.
You don't need to join a political party. You DO need to take seriously the awesome power you have as a vote. Many electorates had their seat decided by less than a thousand people. YOU know enough people to turn a seat result. YOU do.
Do NOT let the media or the leftists silence you. EVER. Bear witness. Find out the truth on issues and fearlessly tell people the truth. Not as some crazy preacher harassing people, but when conversations occur- keep it truthful. Stop the rot at the grass roots.
If you're at university, it's going to be very rough on you. Universities are full of lazy opinionated people with no life experience. This doesn't stop them from constantly repeating leftist talking points in an ignorant way. Abbott put up with it; all conservatives put up with it. Now you will have to put up with it.
Every mind you change, every person you free from the mind control of the leftstream media is a massive victory.
YOU ARE THE ANSWER.
Are you going to do less than the heroes of the Eureka Stockade? Is that what a fair go means? Turning into slaves of socialists? No way. Not now, not ever. Keep to the spirit of Eureka, Kokoda and today.
You don't need to join a political party. You DO need to take seriously the awesome power you have as a vote. Many electorates had their seat decided by less than a thousand people. YOU know enough people to turn a seat result. YOU do.
Do NOT let the media or the leftists silence you. EVER. Bear witness. Find out the truth on issues and fearlessly tell people the truth. Not as some crazy preacher harassing people, but when conversations occur- keep it truthful. Stop the rot at the grass roots.
If you're at university, it's going to be very rough on you. Universities are full of lazy opinionated people with no life experience. This doesn't stop them from constantly repeating leftist talking points in an ignorant way. Abbott put up with it; all conservatives put up with it. Now you will have to put up with it.
Every mind you change, every person you free from the mind control of the leftstream media is a massive victory.
YOU ARE THE ANSWER.
Are you going to do less than the heroes of the Eureka Stockade? Is that what a fair go means? Turning into slaves of socialists? No way. Not now, not ever. Keep to the spirit of Eureka, Kokoda and today.
EUREKA TIME
The Eureka rebellion, which is often referred to as the 'Eureka Stockade', is a key event in the development of Australian democracy and Australian identity, with some people arguing that ‘Australian democracy was born at Eureka’ (Clive Evatt). In addition, the principles of mateship, seen to be adapted by the gold diggers, and the term ‘digger’ was later adopted by the ANZAC soldiers in World War I.
The rebellion came about because the goldfield workers (known as 'diggers') opposed the government miners' licences. The licences were a simple way for the government to tax the diggers. Licence fees had to be paid regardless of whether a digger's claim resulted in any gold. Less successful diggers found it difficult to pay their licence fees.
Law and order on the goldfields was enforced by the Gold Commission's police force which was later reinforced by a garrison of soldiers.
The Social Order Notice. Image courtesy of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and Australian Museums & Galleries Online.
Governor Hotham came to power in June 1854 and set up licence checks twice a week to enforce the licensing laws. Tensions began to boil over as opposition to the licences increased.
Official corruption was another concern for the diggers. This issue came to a head after a group of men beat to death a drunken Scottish digger. The group included local publican James Bentley. Bentley was a friend of the local magistrate and he escaped prosecution, as did three other men from the group.
This led to the diggers meeting on 17 October to try to bring the men to justice. After the meeting a crowd of diggers burnt Bentley's hotel to the ground. Soon after three diggers were arrested and charged with arson for their part in setting fire to the hotel.
On 11 November, 10,000 diggers met to demand the release of the three diggers, the abolition of the licence and the vote for all males. The outcome of this meeting was the forming of the Ballarat Reform League under the chairmanship of Chartist John Basson Humffray . Several other Reform League leaders, including Thomas Kennedy and Henry Holyoake, had been involved with the Chartist movement in England. Many of the miners had past involvement in the Chartist movement and the social upheavals in England, Ireland and Europe during the 1840s.
This was followed by an even larger meeting on 29 November where the diggers decided to publicly burn their mining licences. At this meeting the famous Southern Cross flag, which was to become known as the Eureka Flag, was displayed. In response to the meeting, the Gold Commissioner ordered a licence hunt for the following day.
Government troops and police stormed and ransacked the Stockade on the morning of December 3rd 1854. Image courtesy of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.
On 30 November another mass burning of licences took place at a meeting on Bakery Hill. Under the leadership of Peter Lalor, the diggers then marched to the Eureka diggings (named after the 'Eureka lead', a deep lead of gold being mined by the diggers) where they constructed the famous stockade.
The stockade itself was a makeshift wooden barricade enclosing about an acre of the goldfields. Inside the stockade some 500 diggers took an oath on the Southern Cross flag, and over the following two days gathered firearms and forged pikes to defend the stockade.
Early in the morning of Sunday 3 December the authorities launched an attack on the stockade. Some weeks earlier the government had ordered the 12th and 40th Regiments to the goldfields to support the police troopers. The diggers were outnumbered and the battle was over in twenty minutes. Twenty-two diggers and five troops were killed. The Southern Cross flag was pulled from the flagpole and souvenired by the victors. Peter Lalor escaped the scene even though his arm had been badly injured (later requiring amputation).
On 6 December martial law was declared, and the following day a Commission into the goldfields was appointed. Thirteen diggers were committed for trial, but all were acquitted when they came to trial in February 1855. Peter Lalor avoided capture. The only person imprisoned as a result of the Eureka Stockade was the Editor of the Ballarat Times, Henry Seekamp, who was found guilty of seditious libel.
In March 1855 the Gold Fields Commission handed down its report, and the government adopted all of its recommendations. The Commission resulted in all the demands of the diggers being met. A bill was passed in 1854 to extend the franchise (the vote) to diggers possessing a miner's right costing one pound, whereas previously a six months residency and an eight pound yearly mining licence were required before a digger could register to vote. The hated Gold Commission was replaced by a system of mining wardens.
In 1855 Peter Lalor later became the first MLC (Member of the Legislative Council) for the seat of Ballarat. The Ballarat miners were given eight representatives on the Legislative Council.
The rebellion came about because the goldfield workers (known as 'diggers') opposed the government miners' licences. The licences were a simple way for the government to tax the diggers. Licence fees had to be paid regardless of whether a digger's claim resulted in any gold. Less successful diggers found it difficult to pay their licence fees.
Population of the goldfields
The population of the Victorian goldfields peaked in 1858 at 150,000. More than half of these were British immigrants, and 40,000 were Chinese. There were also Americans, French, Italian, German, Polish and Hungarian exiles as well as many other nationalities. (The Oxford Companion to Australian History)Between 1851 and 1860, an estimated 300,000 people came to Australian colonies from England and Wales, with another 100,000 from Scotland and 84,000 from Ireland. Gold seekers from Germany, Italy and North America also made the journey to Australia in search of gold. Just over 5,000 people from New Zealand and other South Pacific nations, and at least 42,000 people from China, also arrived in Australia during the 1850s gold rushes. During this period, the colony of Victoria received 60% of all immigrants to Australia.
eGold: A Nation's Heritage: Immigration and Ethnicity.
1854 - the year of the rebellion
In 1854 there were about 25,000 diggers of many nationalities on the Ballarat goldfields. Aboriginal people were also present in many capacities: as Native Police, guides, wives and gold diggers, as well as trading cultural items and food. Women on the gold fields were assisted by Caroline Chisholm.Law and order on the goldfields was enforced by the Gold Commission's police force which was later reinforced by a garrison of soldiers.
The Social Order Notice. Image courtesy of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and Australian Museums & Galleries Online.Official corruption was another concern for the diggers. This issue came to a head after a group of men beat to death a drunken Scottish digger. The group included local publican James Bentley. Bentley was a friend of the local magistrate and he escaped prosecution, as did three other men from the group.
This led to the diggers meeting on 17 October to try to bring the men to justice. After the meeting a crowd of diggers burnt Bentley's hotel to the ground. Soon after three diggers were arrested and charged with arson for their part in setting fire to the hotel.
On 11 November, 10,000 diggers met to demand the release of the three diggers, the abolition of the licence and the vote for all males. The outcome of this meeting was the forming of the Ballarat Reform League under the chairmanship of Chartist John Basson Humffray . Several other Reform League leaders, including Thomas Kennedy and Henry Holyoake, had been involved with the Chartist movement in England. Many of the miners had past involvement in the Chartist movement and the social upheavals in England, Ireland and Europe during the 1840s.
This was followed by an even larger meeting on 29 November where the diggers decided to publicly burn their mining licences. At this meeting the famous Southern Cross flag, which was to become known as the Eureka Flag, was displayed. In response to the meeting, the Gold Commissioner ordered a licence hunt for the following day.
The Eureka Stockade
Government troops and police stormed and ransacked the Stockade on the morning of December 3rd 1854. Image courtesy of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.The stockade itself was a makeshift wooden barricade enclosing about an acre of the goldfields. Inside the stockade some 500 diggers took an oath on the Southern Cross flag, and over the following two days gathered firearms and forged pikes to defend the stockade.
Early in the morning of Sunday 3 December the authorities launched an attack on the stockade. Some weeks earlier the government had ordered the 12th and 40th Regiments to the goldfields to support the police troopers. The diggers were outnumbered and the battle was over in twenty minutes. Twenty-two diggers and five troops were killed. The Southern Cross flag was pulled from the flagpole and souvenired by the victors. Peter Lalor escaped the scene even though his arm had been badly injured (later requiring amputation).
On 6 December martial law was declared, and the following day a Commission into the goldfields was appointed. Thirteen diggers were committed for trial, but all were acquitted when they came to trial in February 1855. Peter Lalor avoided capture. The only person imprisoned as a result of the Eureka Stockade was the Editor of the Ballarat Times, Henry Seekamp, who was found guilty of seditious libel.
In March 1855 the Gold Fields Commission handed down its report, and the government adopted all of its recommendations. The Commission resulted in all the demands of the diggers being met. A bill was passed in 1854 to extend the franchise (the vote) to diggers possessing a miner's right costing one pound, whereas previously a six months residency and an eight pound yearly mining licence were required before a digger could register to vote. The hated Gold Commission was replaced by a system of mining wardens.
In 1855 Peter Lalor later became the first MLC (Member of the Legislative Council) for the seat of Ballarat. The Ballarat miners were given eight representatives on the Legislative Council.
The Eureka legacy
The Eureka rebellion is considered by some historians to be the birthplace of Australian democracy. It is the only Australian example of armed rebellion leading to reform of unfair laws. The Southern Cross flag has been used as a symbol of protest by organisations and individuals at both ends of the political spectrum.Australian Tea Party
It took a lot for Americans to wake up to socialism, international socialism. But they have awoken, and they're doing their best to destroy it root and bough. And well they should.
The Australian experience is a bit different. We're egalitarian like our American cousins; we've always had tickets on ourselves but less so than the septics (septic tank = yank :) ). But we've been proud.
Well it's hard to be proud today isn't it. An illegitimate PM, selected not elected - twice. A bunch of weaklings exploiting our political system to create a weak alliance and rob the will of the people of its effect.
The American Tea Party is about harking back to the Boston Tea Party. Our Australian Tea Party is about gathering round and talking- then acting. Our inspiration is the billy tea the Eureka heroes drank before they busted up the local oppressors of the police state that oppressed them.
And like the American Tea Party we'll be called racists, radicals and all the rest. Well Eureka was all colours and creeds. United beneath Australia's real flag, for freedom. FREEDOM. Freedom has to be fought for.
This blog will be posting lots of information- on politicians, their records, their statements- and all the other issues that the leftstream media remains silent about- radical islam (there is no other kind), gutless conservatives, socialism in Australia, religious manipulation and all the other things that have gone wrong for our country.
We act now decisively or we're finished. Gone and dusted.
The Australian experience is a bit different. We're egalitarian like our American cousins; we've always had tickets on ourselves but less so than the septics (septic tank = yank :) ). But we've been proud.
Well it's hard to be proud today isn't it. An illegitimate PM, selected not elected - twice. A bunch of weaklings exploiting our political system to create a weak alliance and rob the will of the people of its effect.
The American Tea Party is about harking back to the Boston Tea Party. Our Australian Tea Party is about gathering round and talking- then acting. Our inspiration is the billy tea the Eureka heroes drank before they busted up the local oppressors of the police state that oppressed them.
And like the American Tea Party we'll be called racists, radicals and all the rest. Well Eureka was all colours and creeds. United beneath Australia's real flag, for freedom. FREEDOM. Freedom has to be fought for.
This blog will be posting lots of information- on politicians, their records, their statements- and all the other issues that the leftstream media remains silent about- radical islam (there is no other kind), gutless conservatives, socialism in Australia, religious manipulation and all the other things that have gone wrong for our country.
We act now decisively or we're finished. Gone and dusted.
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Having a beer with him is hysterical. They asked him at interview if he “believed in climate change”. he’s a natural born bullsh*tter himself and he saw which way the wind was blowing and fed them babblespeak.
Most of them creamed themselves with joy. He said it was obviously a closed shop. Only true believers got in.
Now, he reckons it’s a clear breach of the Public Service rules to have to say you “believe” in something the Dept deals with before getting a job there - but nobody who did not say yes (and with messianic enthusiasm) EVER got past an interview panel that he saw.
On the policy level they just make crap up on the fly, or called the Greens and get ‘science’ from them. POLICY is based on this approach. Policy they spend your hard-earned on.
Most of the staff have no idea that anyone in the world disagrees with AGW.
It’s a flaming shambles and a colossal waste of money according to him, and he worked there. It got so bad (he had nothing to do for half his time there), that he’d wander over to a mutual friend’s Department for ‘meetings’ and do work for them just so he could look at himself in the shaving mirror each morning and know he was doing something for Joe Public to justify his pay.
Others, including his boss, would ‘go to a meeting all afternoon’ every time there was a new movie in town.
Their secretary gave a Greenie babblespeak to some oil conference last year and literally got laughed at. He was giving straight Greens talking points to a highly educated, technically literate audience and they just shredded the guy.
He can go on for hours with yarns from the place, and it’s ALL bad.