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Australia Day 2014 : Comments

By Sophie Love, published 28/1/2014

What has happened to our proud pioneering spirit, our Aussie battler mentality and sheer grit?

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An excellent article.
It is a great pity that we don't have strong leaders with vision.
Posted by Raise the Dust, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 7:41:21 AM
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A dreadful article the sentiments of which are the problem with Australia. The author's praise for Rudd and Gillard is beyond comprehension. Both these incompetents ruined Australia's economy wracking up a debt of nearly $300 billion for no lasting benefit. In Rudd's case his and Swan's policies during the GFC were both unnecessary and stupid; see:

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=15130

As for Gillard, she should face criminal charges, see:

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=14428

Gillard also oversaw the Finkelstein enquiry, the single greatest threat to free speech in this country's history.

The author praises renewable energy and in particular solar energy. Solar energy has ruined Spain and is not being utilised in any country in the world to supply grid power.

Solar power [an oxymoron] and renewable energy generally does not work because it is unreliable and intermittent, 2 different and insurmountable problems; it is that simple. I wish this were not the case but it is.

Renewable energy can never work. If battery storage capacity increases and the capacity to store for a wet day or the night occurs the problem still remains you cannot use power twice; if you are storing the solar or wind power for use during the night you can't use it during the day.

Globally trillions have been wasted on wind and solar energy; that is money which could have been spent elsewhere. This is a terrible waste and scandal.

The only reason renewable energy has been supported is because governments like the previous Rudd and Gillard governments were so stupid and weak and were dominated by Green fanaticism.

Australia is great because of its political and economic structure which allow a free society. All of this requires cheap and plentiful energy. The Greens want to stop this and have used the propaganda of AGW to promote their insidious schemes. This has been classic watermelonism and this article is an example of it
Posted by cohenite, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 8:30:15 AM
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It is a great pity that we don't have strong leaders with vision.
Raise the Dust,
The Goaf made sure of that for the next few decades.
Posted by individual, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 9:56:43 AM
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While the artilce is full of error's, cohenite's tard has turned our atention to he/she/it fact free rant instead.
Posted by Cobber the hound, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 10:00:32 AM
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This author asks what’s gone wrong with Australia, and then champions the very things that have caused the problems! She:

Attacks fossil fuels – cheap energy that once made Australia competitive, and therefore is against one of the few things that still creates wealth and growth in Australia.

Instead if “kowtowing” to “mining magnates” she thinks we should kowtow to aborigines for nothing we have done.

Barracks for Rudd and Gillard.

Believes in a stupid and costly (to us) tax on carbon dioxide.

Likes a tax extra taxing on wealth and job creation (mining).

Thinks we have plenty of room here of “refugees” to come as they please.

Tells us we should change the character of our ethos to cater for homosexuals instead of just letting them get along with their lives and accepting them. Institutionalise homosexuality.

Then, there is that terrible Captain Cook and convicts, and stupidly makes a crack about turning boats back at the time of settlement.

Because she probably believes in such nonsense, she hasn’t mentioned another blow to Australia – multiculturalism and the multicultural industry, which has riven Australian society, and was forced on us by a rotten politician.
Posted by NeverTrustPoliticians, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 10:15:24 AM
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Sorry, laughing so hard that I don't know where to start
Posted by Sparkyq, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 10:16:17 AM
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Well cobber, old mutt that was a typical dog of a comment; now at the risk of invoking the old adage that if you lie with dogs you'll catch fleas I must ask you to point out how my 'rant' was "fact free".
Posted by cohenite, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 10:23:18 AM
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'Only with Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard was there any sense that we could step up and play with the superpowers. '

Sophia living in the dream world. She obviously did not see Gillards almost faint in the presence of Obama. No mention of the 1000 plus dead woman and children due to their faulty ideology and pig headedness.What a sickening leftist rant.
Posted by runner, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 11:05:32 AM
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Ugh, the usual litany of progessive wishful thinking.

Progressives: Precisely the reason Australia is going downhill fast.

"What if they had 'turned back the boats'?

I bet if they could have they would have.
They couldn't, so didn't.
We can and we will.

"overturns the wishes of its citizens"

The citizens didn't vote for gay marriage.
The politicians did.

You want the citizens' wishes? Have a plebiscite.
Then shut up forever when it fails.

You don't love "Australia" or "Australians".
You are one of the very people stabbing them in the back.
Posted by Shockadelic, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 5:47:30 PM
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What has happened to our proud pioneering spirit, our Aussie battler mentality and sheer grit?
Sophy love,
Two generations of the likes of you have seen to that with PC, womens' lib & do-gooderism.
Posted by individual, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 8:33:56 PM
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"should be leading the world in renewables, not keep kowtowing to mining magnates"

This is a non sequitur. Solar and wind use (per kWh generated) 15 times more concrete, 50 times more iron, copper and glass, and 90 times more aluminium than other low-carbon energy sources like nuclear (not to mention huge quantities of rare earths used by wind in particular). Thermal energy storage, if it ever becomes viable, would increase these resource demands by orders of magnitude. Rest assured mining magnates would be delighted to see renewable energy generation rolled out on a massive scale.

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/renewable-energy-needs-huge-mineral-supply-16682
Posted by Mark Duffett, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 10:16:43 PM
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Hey Sophie,
Your priorities were voted on at the recent federal election.

Your lot lost.

Btw the only place in Aust to have their gay marriage laws fought and overturned was the ACT. The last time I looked ACT wasn't a state. Accuracy is Important I my world.
Posted by imajulianutter, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 4:32:56 PM
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Just quickly.
Sophie Love Love Love.
What can I say? The first paragraph for starters.
Hallmark cards would be made with someone of you poetic talent.
Your declaration of love love love for Australia, its ah people. And the land, the birds, the trees, the platypus playing the aromatic cicadas even.
I feel a sudden need for a couple of Maxalon
Posted by jodelie, Saturday, 1 February 2014 8:43:33 AM
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It certainly is a great pity we dont
have strong leaders with a vision.
Posted by jodelie, Saturday, 1 February 2014 1:04:41 PM
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sophie love. I could comment on every paragraph of your blurb from experience but know that would be a monumental waste of my time.
Your obvious despise of the 'still shackled in our convict past' Australian community is based on what experience? Learned it all in a book?

You, like myself obviously have spent many years living and learning from our aboriginal friends.

Been on the gas fields of a coal mine to see how the methane is removed from underground and safely disposed of? Me too.

Our shameful attitude toward to our 'most important asian neighbors seeking asylum. We have an abundance...of what?

Anyway in good old Aussie spirit, shackled hubby and I, the gay guys next door, a couple of our aboriginal and Islander work mates are going to head out for a bbq, game of cricket and a few home brews..of course.

In future if you want to make so many bold damning statements, get your fact right so that you dont look like an idiot.
Posted by jodelie, Sunday, 2 February 2014 11:58:38 PM
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