The Independent Australian

  Viv Forbes debunks the latest green fad - the electric car, which is essentially a coal burner.

Hard to be jolly, despite being the season to be so. Ideologically pure ALP Left tries to destroy Gillard by forcing her to vote against her election promise on homosexual marriage. Gillard displays yet again the business naivety of the ALP. More mendicants trying to dip into the public purse. Is our multicultural Australian paradise exposed by The Slap?

*Title lifted from the popular TV series. 

A recommended list of books by Australian authors dealing with population and sustainability, demise of the WASPs, Aborigine issues and one of particular interest now that the ALP has abandoned border protection. The publishers have websites with long lists with a conservative and conservationist bias, some way out, but worth a browse. For a good laugh instead: Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby is a DVD starring the most politically incorrect teacher you can ever imagine. Hilarious. Great value at $14.99 at ABC bookshops and shop.abc.net.au.

Abbott has promised to repeal the carbon and mining taxes, balance the budget in 2012/13, stop the boats, halt the NBN roll out, meet the green house gas emission target and not repeal the Fair Work Act. The looming problem will be how to persuade the electorate in mid 2013 that he can deliver on his current promises, indeed that some are still desirable. Some promises are incompatible, unless economic growth picks up very strongly. The promises threaten his chances of winning power from an incompetent government.

it’s important to take prudent precautions against credible threats. Climate change is real. Mankind does make a contribution.   Tony Abbott – ABC Illawarra – 16 March 2011. The Independent Australian fully concurs. But how? The mainstream media rarely points out the incongruent positions taken by the ALP and the Coalition. The ALP is supposed to believe in government intervention and regulation and the Coalition to believe in market and price mechanisms.

With 31st October marking the date on which the United Nations estimates the world’s population will reach 7 billion people, this represents nothing less than a crisis. National President of Sustainable Population Australia (SPA, www.population.org.au),  Sandra Kanck, says that the failure of nations to address this issue will inevitably result in catastrophe in the lifetime of most of us.

Viv Forbes points out that the ALP-Green government is proposing an ETS arrangement which has been discredited world wide.

 The Andrew Bolt judgment will throttle any discussion of race and multiculturalism. Previously political correctness ensured that timid fear of offending someone muted discussion. Now PC is legally enforceable. 

Friends of the ABC are always braying that the ABC does not get enough money. They should be asking what is it being spent on? And call for the CEO, Mark Scott to be sacked as the man in charge of the deterioration, which extends to allowing racism.