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Read this – it’s scary!

This is what the GREENS are about – killing our freedom and our country.

What a load of BROWN stuff. Why would anyone vote for them?

Don’t let the vocal and extreme minority control Australia



The Green plan to kill everyone’s job
Never before has this party had so much power - and so much opportunity to finally inflict on us some of the policies that so many innocent voters have treated as a just-dreaming position statement, rather than a deliberate manifesto for the de-industrialisation of our economy and the tribalising of our society.

This now is the real issue: how much of our future did Labor sell off just to get these Greens’ preferences?

Never mind this week’s faked scare campaign about what workplace laws Opposition leader Abbott might secretly plan. The hapless schmuck couldn’t get them through a Greens-Labor Senate even if he wanted to.

No, what really needs debate is what the Greens might now demand from a Gillard government in exchange for its vote. And that, in turn, needs journalists especially to at last take seriously this party’s policies.

The truth is that the Greens’ manifesto has not been written down just for a joke or some mood music. It is the serious work of the serious ideological warriors hiding behind Bob Brown’s amiable front.

Vote Greens in this election and you won’t get cuddlier koalas, bigger hugs and cleaner rivers.In fact, you’ll be voting to “transition from coal exports”, which means ending a trade worth $55 billion a year.

· You’ll be voting to “end ... the mining and export of uranium”, worth another $900 million a year.

· You’ll be demanding farmers “remove as far as possible” all genetically modified crops, which includes GM cotton worth about $1.3 billion a year.

· You’ll be voting to close down many other businesses and industries, including the export of woodchips from old-growth forests, certain kinds of fishing, oil and mineral exploration in parks or wildernesses, and new coal mines of any kind.

· You’ll even be voting to close the Lucas Heights nuclear facility, even though it actually produces treatments for cancer.

· In fact, you’ll be voting for policies deliberately intended to make us poorer. Less industrialised. Or as the Greens’ policy puts it, for a “reduction of Australia’s use of natural resources to a level that is sustainable and socially just”. Whatever that formula means.

· Maybe you think it won’t matter if a few industries get shut, as long as the rest make up for this loss of 6 per cent of our national income each year. Maybe you really are that stupid.

· But you haven’t heard the rest of the Greens’ policies yet, have you?

· You see, the Greens also plan to shut the coal-fired power stations that produce 80 per cent of the electricity used to run our homes, factories, offices, hospitals, shops, traffic lights and airports.

· They not only “oppose the establishment of new coal-fired power stations” - claiming they make the planet dangerously hot - but intend to ban new coal supplies for those we already have.

· What’s more, they’ll hit our power stations with a new carbon tax to make wicked electricity too expensive for you.

· Do you have any idea how many businesses would be driven broke by this green frolic? How many hundreds of thousands of jobs would be lost?

· Already Labor’s threat to bring in emissions trading some time after 2012 has caused power station operators to cancel half the $18 billion they’d planned a year ago to spend on maintaining the ones they had or building the new power stations we’ll need as we grow bigger and richer. Power shortages now seem certain.

· But if you think the Greens must surely have alternative power sources in mind to make up for the 80 per cent they’ll switch off, you’re dreaming.

· The Greens want to keep Labor’s ban on nuclear power, the most likely alternative and greenest source of base-load power. They even want to scrap government-financed research into carbon capture and storage, which is Labor’s one hope of making coal-fired stations still greenhouse-friendly.

· Sure, the Greens do promise to somehow get 30 per cent of our electricity from “renewable” sources within just 10 years, but there’s a small problem. Correction, huge one.

· We’ve only managed to lift our renewable energy to 6 per cent after all these years of subsidies, and three quarters of that is from hydro-electricity. But guess which party bans any more of these river-killing dams?

· So consider. If the Greens get their avowed way, we’ll have huge industries banned, businesses driven broke and power prices driven through the roof, with not enough electricity for what industries will be left.

· So with our income slashed to ribbons, what do the Greens propose? Not deep cuts in every government program, but a spending spree to make Kevin Rudd seem a miser.

· It’s free money for everyone. If you vote for the Greens, you’re voting for an extra week of holidays for all, “mandated shorter standard working hours”, more pay to women workers, higher pay for casuals, and better weekly benefits to students and artists.

· More pay for less work, at the mere stroke of a green pen. Isn’t this a darling way to reorganise the economy? What could possibly go wrong?

· Too spendthrift, you complain?

· Wise up, friend. The Greens have barely started.

· They promise to lift foreign aid to “a minimum of 0.7 per cent of GDP by 2010”, which means an instant rise in handouts of $4 billion a year.

· Another $2 billion a year will go to scrap tertiary fees and forgiving all HECS debts. Billions more will go on putting train lines underground and subsidising “green” power.

· On and on the spending spirals, as if the Greens are the party for spoiled children using daddy’s credit card, with not the slightest giddy thought of how it’s all going to be paid for.

· Oh, excuse me - the Greens do lazily assume that the bill will be covered by hiking corporate taxes, hitting the richer 5 per cent of us with wealth taxes, and slugging air travellers.

· Show us your costings, Bob. Wouldn’t come within a bull’s roar.

· I’d be amazed if after a year of two of this that anyone would want to come to a country that by then would be a smoking hole in the ground.

· Yet the Greens plan to do their airy best to attract more beggars to their new nation of freeloaders.

· Any “asylum seeker” making it here by boat would be freed into the community within 14 days, security checks permitting, and rewarded with instant benefits, medical services and school for the children. These tempting goodies will be offered to “environmental refugees”, too.

· Guess to the nearest 10,000 how many people from Third World countries will want to cash in? Guess how many more billions this will cost, and what fresh tensions we’ll import?

· By then, though, we’ll have more of our own ethnic tensions than ever, as the Greens divide us into tribes, squabbling over precedent and spoils.

· Aborigines will be written into the constitution as having “prior occupation and sovereignty” over this shared land, and will be allowed to “reclaim language, heritage and cultural practices”. Like payback?

· The more newly arrived will win the right to have government programs “implemented in languages other than English”, and to have their “cultural and linguistic diversity ... respected”. Like shariah law?

· As for our defence ties with the United States, well, phooey to those white capitalist imperialists.

· The Greens want to close the joint bases here, pull out of the US missile defence program and end the ANZUS treaty. Naturally, many counter-terrorism laws will also be “reformed”. Which means weakened.

· There’s not much point in going on, picking out the economic idiocy and social lunacy of a manifesto that would leave us poorer, more divided and more defenceless. The laughing stock of Asia.

· It’s all so crazy that you may dismiss it as the idle dreams of homoeopaths in tofu sandals. But a new, militant industrial agenda is also buried in this New Age madness, signalling the arrival in Bob Brown’s party of “watermelon Greens” - green outside and red in, and meaning business big time.

· These, like lead NSW candidate Lee Rhiannon, seem Greens more of convenience than faith, using this doctors’ wives party to smuggle in the kind of hard-Left politics that would scare off the voters if they saw it coming under a hammer and sickle.

· But be clear: vote for their Greens and you’re voting for a return of union muscle of the most bullying kind.

· Secret ballots for industrial action would be abolished. Unions would have a formal right to strike, and their victims less right to sue for damages.

· Union bosses would have more power to barge into your workplace, and to dragoon workers into “industry wide agreements that are union negotiated”.

This is what a vote for the Greens really means. And it’s this party of vandals, tribalists and closet totalitarians that shameless Labor now helps to such threatening influence.

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SENATOR THE HON RICHARD COLBECK


Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry



M E D I A R E L E A S E


16 August 2010


Labor's Tony Burke runs scared from national fishing conference


Federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Tony Burke has demonstrated Labor's failure to support the recreational fishing sector by refusing to turn up to a national fishing conference over the weekend.


Coalition spokesperson for Fisheries Senator Richard Colbeck who stepped in for the Minister at the Australian Fishing Tackle Conference on the Gold Coast said Labor had completely forgotten the recreational fishing sector.

"The Australian Fishing Tackle Association is to be congratulated for their impressive national conference and efforts to promote the benefits of recreational fishing," Senator Colbeck said.


"Despite this Minister Burke was a no-show. It shows the lack of regard Labor has for recreational fishers and fishing tackle businesses.

"This follows the failure by Minister Burke to turn up to his own Ministerial roundtable for recreational fishing in Canberra just a few weeks ago instead sending along Departmental officials.

"Over the past three years Labor has displayed a complete lack of communication, a complete lack of consultation and a complete lack of consideration for recreational fishers.

"When is Mr Burke going to realise he is the Minister for Fisheries not the Minister against Fisheries?"


Senator Colbeck said over the past three years, Labor has:

· Stripped the national peak body, Recfish of its funding

· Banned the fishing of mako and porbeagle sharks and then back-flipped following a national grassroots political campaign by recreational fishers;

· Banned the fishing of thresher sharks

· Threatened massive new no-take marine parks around Australia; and

· Allowed fringe environmental groups to unilaterally influence policy;


Senator Colbeck said the recreational fishing sector and its many millions of participants can be assured they will be genuinely listened to by a Coalition Government.


"Tony Abbott has already released our marine parks policy which will see recreational fishers given a much greater say in the establishment of any marine parks. Further initiatives will be released shortly," Senator Colbeck said.


"The Coalition will give recreational fishing the respect and recognition it fully deserves as a contributor to the environment, to healthy lifestyles and to the nation's economy.


"The Coalition recognises the strength and importance of recreational fishing around Australia with more than 3.5 million Australians dropping a line every year.


"The Coalition understands the economic importance of recreational fishing. The thousands of businesses including charter operators, bait & tackle stores, outboard engine stores, boat dealers and many others in fishing communities are critical to our national economy worth billions of dollars and employing thousands of Australians."



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Patrick Clancy

Office of Senator Richard Colbeck

Senator for Tasmania | Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry

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Hi All!!

Please take the time to think about the seriousness of the upcoming election for the future of recreational fishing and tourism in all coastal regions of our country. The Extreme Green movement and the c%*k sucking the Labour party has undertaken to secure green preference votes means that the outright ridiculous and unscientific based intention to lock out recreational fisherman from ALL their fishing spots and to ultimately ban recreational fishing is closer than ever to becoming a reality.

It is a fact that recreational fisherman are in general conservationists at heart, targeting species and selecting their catch with minimal waste. They have a vested interest in and a deep desire for a healthy and diverse marine environment. They have long supported sustainable fishing practises and imposed their own regulation such as bag and size limits. Well before the stupid licensing fiasco. Recreational fishing accounts for aproximately 2-3% of total fish taken from our oceans and waterways and fish stocks have recuperated beyond belief wherever commercial fishing has been stopped. There is absolutely no rational or scientific basis for locking us out of 30% of the marine environment. Remember that this 30% actually includes all reefs and fish habitat areas effectively locking us out of 99% of our fish catching areas.

Commercial fishing in areas beyond the reach of recreational anglers continues to be unsustainable. The raping of rivers, estuarys and insore areas continues with numerous examples of gross missconduct such as netting entire spawning schools of bream and mulloway and the murder of entire schools of marlin prevalent. Not to mention the by-catch issue. Yet these practises don't seem to worry the Greens and get little attention by them or in the media! Run off, pollution and the destruction of esturine and river systems vital for fish breeding is also neglected.

In economic terms the value per kilo of fish caught by recreational anglers is measured in thousands of dollars through the direct purchase of tackle, boats, cars, accommodation, charters, food......and the list goes on. Adding billions of dollars to our economy in retail purchases and tourism spending which is vital to so many coastal communities. This is not a go at commercial fishing, but why the hell are they targeting those who have the best interests at heart for fish stocks, our marine environment and sustainability when over development, pollution and wasteful commercial practises that return a few dollars per kilo to the economy account for the majority of fish depletion!?!?!?

The only thing green about the Greens is their deceitful name. Relying on those miss informed morons who think they are voting for an environmental cause when they vote for them. True conservationists would have the best interests of our marine environment at heart and make policy based on credible research so that the outcome would actually benefit the marine environment. Sustainability through sensible practises is the key to saving our environment for future generations. Locking recreational fisherman out will not in any way fix the problem. Spending time on the water actually gives people a direct connection with the environment which is far more powerful and real than sitting inside staring at a computer or TV!

I don’t often get political as there are too many things out there that frustrate me about our political and economic models which I believe have detrimental flaws. However this hits really close to home and the total ridiculousness of the policy being implemented ‘under the carpet’ with little to no public consultation is beyond belief and un-democratic in my opinion.

PLEASE pass this on to anyone you think may be unaware of what is actually going on or who may have an interest in really saving our recreational past time for themselves or perhaps their children to partake in the future. This is not to say I think the Liberals are the perfect party….vote for anyone you like….but remember that Labour have no policy in relation to this matter and will do whatever the Greens want. If the Greens get the balance of power in the senate were are truly F*%$ED!!!!

Please find attached some “How to Vote” advice! I believe there are enough rational, environmentally conscious people and fisherman out there to sway the outcome of this election so get off your bums and spread the word!!!!

Regards, Peter.