Tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber?

Like us, perhaps, you are not looking forward to the 3 yr Corrall?
-the forced choice between 2 stale and suspect images pressed up against a window-

Here's how to show real choice-- Does your local member walks around with a lot of yes talk , but acts like the chain is short and tight?
YOU Have at least 4 votes at the next election -2 in the senate and 2 in reps . Consider using your first to vote for the minor parties and some of the dedicated and passionate independants FIRST. Your major party interests are often not affected by such choices .
The major parties also rely too much on compliance from the masses. They don't have to take OUR opinion too seriously, when there are only 2 major groupings.

Which of the 2 parties can you trust ? Maybe neither ? Have they, in many areas like environment, become all things to all men? What shadows does your member really cast- --the shadows of mere rhetoric?
SO make the most of your intelligence and listen for the tuff stuff of independants. Steve Crikey has yet to crack the curtain ?

Esp Check the courageous small ones for yourselves ( Here are some ----this list will grow if you show us how they fit the above criteria - make sure they are not just stooges for one of the bigger parties )

Independants
QLD
www.jamesbaker.com.au


Minor parties
National Barnaby Joyce

The god assumption- not a good look for reelection

Hon Water ministers ( Thwaites and Turnbull ) proved in the drought period the reality that the biggest danger to realistic action on risk management ( they were talking about spending billions to engineer ourselves out of a earthborne limit ) is probably from those who think they can do the impossible.

It has been said that if men do not believe and trust in God they become gods - testimonies abound for men and movements , even in recent history , who have failed because they have made the god ( or if you like "God is not there" ) assumption.

Unlike Canute, such mere men ,overestimate their ability to godlike proportions. The myth of course is that they can do anything with enough .............

If you don't believe its a mental disease in Canberra, compare the money thrown at targets and the actual shape and substance of those targets .

When in doubt, hand the stuff out

Not very deep but very predicatable .
If there is one thing the Libs need to learn from Mr Howards disasterous polling against Rudd thi s week :
If you stand with the superficial and see your role only as benefactor , you will soon lose your credibility- your right to govern will be taken from you because you refuse to accept the disciplines of office and especially to the tough listening to those who know what they are trained to do as far as the big picture goes.

The conservatives are not credible on matters of "country" .
Your options ?
--Be green, but ditch the extremists/http://quickfiz.blogspot.com..
--Be green , but stop filling up private pockets and loud private concerns .
--Be green , but insist on integrators with competence in matters of

Migration Act review -An Act of defence or desperation?

Well let's face it, now there is independant thinking, the governement have to do more than smile and hope we will believe them. I am afraid we deserve an explanation as to why the ship is leaking , not the niceness of nodding heads and more and nicer beds in Nauru/ etc .
Gee amanda vanstone -no excuses --- if the law is an ass, change the law, or we will think lawgivers asses too!

Business knows best

They say a week in politics is a long time . Not so for the major players for give them six months after an elaction and they still don't understand the edge issues -eg that they may be missing the opportunity to deal with the great enemy of sound political action - the fad and the faults of others( labour's deep malaise)
Greens are all over the place and so is the petty point scoring of the libs over labours push for regulation .
The Conservatives will have to answer one day for their silly and sleepy love affair with self regulation.
Labour continues to leave the door of common sense wide open by not hammering hard all the reactive and ineffective nannyist legislation their mates on the payroll keep drumming up in the public service in the big cities. wanted a political paradigm bigger than the two old parties!!!!

Reading the wind - reaping the whirlwind

If there is one thing you need to learn from Labors disasterous polling on Saturday and labor’s dumber than dumber following of the ever shifting greens agendas:
If you stand with the superficial, you will soon lose your credibility- your right to govern will be taken from you because you refuse to listen to those who know what they are trained to do.

Your options ? Be green, but ditch the extremists and their wasteful distractions . Get back to the central issues of Environmental care- competence !

http://productionecologists.blogspot.com

ever so predictable if you stop chanting and start listening

Major parties are just as "religious" as any. This helps explain why Labor now after losing so big ,will take a long time to really admit why they missed the opportunity to address the "issues of the day ".
As chief political adviser I don't give important advice to just anybody ,but if you are willing to explore, you 'll find much of labor's highly predictable failiure ( i wrote to goerge negus on the subject several weeks ago ) briefed out there - you really need to explore our teaching site for politicians. http://users.gsat.net.au/tuf
Like Jeff Kennett ten years ago coming from another blikered view of the world, Labor can expected be struggle to accept the fact their biggest handicap is political correctness. No time here to elaborate - that too would give the game away. There is, as Santayana said, no medicine like the truth to get in the way of a historic media strangehold on the story .

They must think we are stupid

Big party credibility - the loser
The big parties desperation to win votes is not only costing 16.2 billion ( AFR today ) ,its costing the parties their credibility.
Maybe they are getting as cynical as the media and the marginal grab fad sectors they play up to?
Doesn't really help the parties credibility either, to see prominent pictures of the Premier and his cabinet with lovely pictures of themselves and their promises in our regional papers---- and not one picture or story of some of the candidates.

No point in parliament if still don't listen or know

There is nothing worse than not being understood . the city doesn't really understand the rural situation .Its most obvious when you tell us what to do with things we have ben looking after .
This media driven ignorance makes the up coming election a farce because the country is worn out calling for a real one nation and a real rural voice. we no longer have the energy to fight. Maybe one day the city will be more aware of it !

After a while when the family leaders do not listen, its no talk and high depression. Until govt find a proper way to listen, they will promote depression in rural areas..... not reduce it .

Losers - the people, young people

Why is debate so little , so meagre . The majors seem to think everything is OK and only extreme groups need attention.
How can everything be OK when 4 million of our citizens, including many young people try to keep their lives going on less than the basic wage. How can we build family life without genuine full employment.

Winner - The Geelong Advertiser

Serious fun and good reporting
see Pollywaffle , extensive analysis of the greens failure to stop moving the goalposts around and substantially funny and extensive bits on the candidates . (This week) . Regional papers are ahead of the city dailies in talking about the issues and the new minor parties.

The great debate

What debate?

Whatever they say what they say gives it away

Neither the media nor the politicians really want to talk big picture .Taking about someone who supposedly lied years earlier is easier - the media are lost in family pettiness too . "Effective politics is supposed to be about pleasing the margins", the cynics in media will tell us . Yet the big media party are being pushed to talk more widely by certain new tiny minor party factors (and the reality amongst thinking people about the importance of the values discussion) to asking big picture questions .
The big guns in ABC will say the new minors are not important, but they will be talking about them and their issues for the next four weeks . -- I hope in a big way, for the sake of balance. We have no balance with the old parties; the weakness of the party who once stood to be strong and the parties who are are strong about different things at diffent times .These are the dysfunctional elements, unable to hold the balance - Time for some balance . Someone to bring the the extremists and the wishy washy chatter back to a reasonable noise level and a reasonble discussion about the main game .
About time . Go for it Family First

Losers

Labor low . Bringing up a story about someone lying about the time of the last election - "got to be a winner !"more like got a be a distraction and bit of projection . Who would vote for Labor when they throw stones into a pond so far away- really desperate and it shows.