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.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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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