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Aerial baiting of wild dogs

February 25th, 2011 · 3 Comments

Warning – do not look at the photos below if you choose to turn a blind eye to the savage and wanton slaughter by wild dogs At last there is accelerated action over the control of wild dogs. The new Victorian Liberal Government has announced aerial baiting will commence in the immediate future. Quite predictably, [...]

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Tags: Forests, Farms, Fish & Environment · Government & political

Ingram loses seat – what happened?

January 10th, 2011 · 3 Comments

Everyone knows that Craig Ingram lost his seat to the National candidate Tim Bull, but what happened? Prior to the election, Gippsland East was never mentioned by the ‘experts’ as a marginal seat. It was never in focus as a potential loss for Ingram, even on the night of the election. Craig Ingram held the [...]

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Greens re-elect commercially incompetent Bob Brown

August 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: Climate Change · Federal election · Government & political

Darren Chester has intestinal fortitude.

June 25th, 2009 · No Comments

I was surprised and pleased that Darren Chester crossed the floor and voted against the increase in the alcopops tax. I am not commenting on whether or not it was the right decision but more importantly it shows that Darren has the ‘guts’ to stand up, oppose the majority in the coalition, and to cast [...]

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Minister for Deregulation

April 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Isn’t it time we had an enlightened Prime Minister and Premier from any political party who had some understanding of the real world in which most of us live, and had enough common sense to appoint a Minister for Deregulation. The position would be so important that it should be a Cabinet Minister. This country [...]

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Tags: Government & political