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An after election comment from Bob Brown was “we want to put a Carbon Tax on the polluters and not on the Australian taxpayer”. What an moronic economic statement! Place an tax on business in any shape or form and the costs are immediately passed on to the consumers – the Australian taxpayers. With Brown’s [...]

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Watching Abbott and Gillard in what must be the worst, most boring and most negative Federal election campaign ever, has again highlighted the insulting and dismissive behaviour of politicians who treat us like brainless idiots. Maybe we get treated this way by them because, on the whole, we are brainless idiots. Watching Abbott this morning [...]

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Have you emailed a constructive comment to a politician in this Federal election? What happens is that you will receive an automated reply thanking you and will also receive directions to their web site, or to their views or recorded comments. They really don’t get it. You are not asking them for their opinion. You [...]

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Last year and again last month, I spent time flying through North & West Queensland up to Cape York Peninsula. Winton is my favorite country town in Australia and the area around Winton, Richmond, Cloncurry and Hughenden is characterised by the quantity and quality of dinosaur and pliosaur fossils. These fossils date back to 150,000,000 [...]

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Quick note with more to come. Not technically perfect but good enough for the moment East Gippsland Shire Council decided to grant a permit for a multi level building at Lakes Entrance. One objector, Ms L Taip, took the matter to appeal at VCAT. East Gippsland Management Authority then obtained leave to object on the [...]

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