Front Page
There was as expected the Australian National University rated number one in Australia, in research. The ANU is the most represented University that comes out with pro-anthropogenic global warming nonsense. To indicate that this is a top research university, when so much of what they say on the subject is easily refuse it by looking at the literature, makes the whole process to me a joke. The ANU is also coincidentally the most left positioned University in Australia. It would have been a bigger surprise in a Labor environment if the university had not made top place.
Page Three
A number of years ago I was reading about the installation of a missile defence shield. During the Iraq War quite a bit was made of this technology. To read today on page one and three about our troops getting a new siren warning system, that initially had been delayed until 2018, beggars belief. What it does indicate is how poorly in general our generals treat our troops in combat. Defence is quoted as saying that anti-missile systems are not yet reliable enough is code for we don't want to spend the money.
The article at the top of the page shows just how messed up our legal system is. Here we have a woman remarried, living in the UK, to a very wealthy man demanding $21,000 in child support from old husband. Actually she demanded a lot more but that was as much as the courts were willing to give. The law should be that if remarried and the new husband can provide wealth of the family that the ex-husband should then be free from the burden. Instead the ex in this case is required to pay $110,000 a year. Australia is the only country on the planet that applies such absurd rules.
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"Not only is the sea temperature warmer" I recently read a fairly detailed analysis on sea temperature trends over the last few years. Both the Argo bouys and other measurement systems show that the sea temperatures have declined. In this case Rosanne Barrett is either global warming believer or just a poor researcher.
Page 7
There are two aspects to this story about the planes sent to Egypt to retrieve Australians. The first one is about the support our consular officers give to Australians abroad. Many years ago I was given a piece of advice while travelling in any situation where Embassy contact is required try the US embassy before the Australian Embassy. The embassy in Egypt is a large one and processes should be in place to contact Australians registered there. That this did not happen simply reinforces the stereotype that the Australian Embassy is not the place to go for help. The other aspect is the continuing trend of Australians not willing to help themselves in any situation. The trend is to immediately cry for help from mummy at the slightest scratch. For those a little older this is a disturbing trend in our culture and society.
Page 9
What a surprise China has once again blocking information on the Internet in this case about what is happening in Egypt.
Page 11
Sally Neighbour is in Islamic apologist. A few of her articles now show are definite leaning towards apologising for Islam. She paints quite a rosy picture of the Muslim Brotherhood. Over the years I've read quite a number of articles about this group. They are acknowledged as one of the primary drivers for the modern Jihadist movement. The group represents returning to a more fundamentalist view of Islam. Ironically this is one that would put Ms Neighbour it is a position of being a poorly treated women in the new society. You only have to read some of the writings of Hassan al-Bannah to understand what this group represents. Ms Neighbour seems to have been reading press releases from the organisation rather than their literature. She would make a good partner for Karen Armstrong.
Page 12
Excellent article by Michael Stutchbury.
Page 13
Top letter by Evan Coumbe takes a very simplistic view of the situation in Egypt. It astonishes me how little we as a nation understand international politics.
Benjamin Burns by contrast, in a very direct way, sums up the situation more succinctly.
Good question by Harry Baker what does "un-Australian" actually mean? Australia seems to accept everything these days the matter how much they may conflict with each other. So in the current economic and political climate everything goes in Australia.
Phillip Adams is our most left-leaning media personality. He always interrupts any guest not on the far left. Sometimes he interrupts because his ego would not allow someone else to talk for so long. There are some individuals to when I'm flipping channels and see them automatically causes me to keep going. He is one.
In Cut-and-Paste we find the reason, or a least one example, of why the new flood levee will be rorted to the max. We have people claiming Centerlink payments other thousand dollars per person simply because they went without power for 48 hours during the floods. This is the same amount, that those forced up onto the roofs of their homes because of rising floodwaters where they spent a day or more, receive.
Others who didn't get flooded a few kilometres from a store or a road was cut to 24 hours can also claim this bonus. It's a lot like the free $900 16,000 people received from the government in the stimulus. With such obvious claims being allowed right now how could anyone possibly trust the government to ensure the billions of dollars will be spent effectively. Can you imagine how much good this money would do in say the hands of the Salvation Army.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Jan 31 2010
Today's News is mostly about Egypt. There are only a few countries in that whole region that provide stability. They include Jordan, Egypt, Israel and to some extent Saudi Arabia. As today's front-page points out the Muslim Brotherhood is the group most likely to cause destabilisation in Egypt. A bit more on this later.
Page 2.
"See the university rankings today on www.theaustralian.com.au" go to the website and the word university doesn't appear anywhere on the front page. using their search tag tried "University rankings" still couldn't find it. I must admit the only reason I was looking was to see how low ANU placed though I suspect I would have found it near the top as the most Left supporting university in Australia.
Page 3
It seems that its hard-pressed to find any addition of a newspaper without at least one barefaced lie concerning climate change. Today it was about the Arctic's melting glaciers. Anybody who has read the literature knows that these don't exist. They would have also seen the satellite shot of the waste dust from China moving north up the coast and impacting that side of the Arctic ice sheet. This effect has of course nothing to do with global warming. The source of the story was The Sunday Times. Amount checking by the editor zero. As a side note any time of tried to point out the inaccuracies in the published material, even when I supplied links to the appropriate scholarly documents, I've been ignored. This has in no way surprise me.
Page 8
As expected the ANU, or in this case one associate Prof, is not a supporter of a regional processing centre for refugees. Anyone on the Left, with true leftist leanings, wants all processing in Australia. Australia is about the only country on the planet that gives refugees and asylum seekers full access to their court system thereby weakening any case made against illegal immigrants.
It never ceases to amaze me as to the stupidity of those at the top in our legal system. In this case it is about the jailed "boy" smuggler. If you can get access to the photos of the people claiming to be minors just from a visual examination you will be able to find people as old as 30 in this category. You will of course need to have spent some time in Asia to be a spot this easily. For some reason our legal eagles are willing to believe any claim about age. There are multiple methods that can be used to determine age including hip x-rays and other methods. Ironically when these people are caught out on a lie they immediately switch to another approach and the authorities seem to immediately forget that they lied about their age.
Page 10
Excellent article by Martin Ivens. The key sentence here and one that is almost universally ignored by the West is that Islam (and not just one strand) does not recognise democracy as being legitimate. Everything must only come from the dictates of Allah.
Page 11
Where is the world or in this case the USA going to realise that Pakistan is not our friend? This latest example of not recognising diplomatic immunity is yet one other case where many within Pakistan don't recognise anything that comes from the world of the infidels. As an aside expect to see Veena Malik either killed or attacked in the near future for daring to challenge the more militant within Pakistan on her right to dress provocatively.
Page 14
An excellent article from Mirko Bagaric. At least the professors from Deakin University know what they're talking about.
Letters
Good letters from Michael Cunningham, Martin Fitzgerald, Peter Edgar and Des Moore Gowda went. The confusing letter comes from Tory Puglisi concerning the Red Cross and the Salvation Army not constructing roads or railways. Of course the usual batch of anti-Coalition letters are almost mandatory in any newspaper published in Australia. As usual apart from the ad hominem attacks they contain little substance.
It was good to see some of the opinion pieces written in a well-balanced and thoughtful manner today.
The situation to watch in the coming weeks is the one in each of. If militant Islam, i.e. true Islam, is allowed to gain a foothold in Egypt's this will place great pressure on Israel to strengthen its stamps in the region. The chip has a large standing army and one that will be used by followers of Islam to attack Israel at the earliest opportunity. It would also not bode well for the Coptic Christians who live in Egypt. There are diminishing number of countries in the region where anybody following other than the Islamic faith can live for exist with any semblance of peace. Expect any Leftist run Western nation to offer little support if the situation changes.
Page 2.
"See the university rankings today on www.theaustralian.com.au" go to the website and the word university doesn't appear anywhere on the front page. using their search tag tried "University rankings" still couldn't find it. I must admit the only reason I was looking was to see how low ANU placed though I suspect I would have found it near the top as the most Left supporting university in Australia.
Page 3
It seems that its hard-pressed to find any addition of a newspaper without at least one barefaced lie concerning climate change. Today it was about the Arctic's melting glaciers. Anybody who has read the literature knows that these don't exist. They would have also seen the satellite shot of the waste dust from China moving north up the coast and impacting that side of the Arctic ice sheet. This effect has of course nothing to do with global warming. The source of the story was The Sunday Times. Amount checking by the editor zero. As a side note any time of tried to point out the inaccuracies in the published material, even when I supplied links to the appropriate scholarly documents, I've been ignored. This has in no way surprise me.
Page 8
As expected the ANU, or in this case one associate Prof, is not a supporter of a regional processing centre for refugees. Anyone on the Left, with true leftist leanings, wants all processing in Australia. Australia is about the only country on the planet that gives refugees and asylum seekers full access to their court system thereby weakening any case made against illegal immigrants.
It never ceases to amaze me as to the stupidity of those at the top in our legal system. In this case it is about the jailed "boy" smuggler. If you can get access to the photos of the people claiming to be minors just from a visual examination you will be able to find people as old as 30 in this category. You will of course need to have spent some time in Asia to be a spot this easily. For some reason our legal eagles are willing to believe any claim about age. There are multiple methods that can be used to determine age including hip x-rays and other methods. Ironically when these people are caught out on a lie they immediately switch to another approach and the authorities seem to immediately forget that they lied about their age.
Page 10
Excellent article by Martin Ivens. The key sentence here and one that is almost universally ignored by the West is that Islam (and not just one strand) does not recognise democracy as being legitimate. Everything must only come from the dictates of Allah.
Page 11
Where is the world or in this case the USA going to realise that Pakistan is not our friend? This latest example of not recognising diplomatic immunity is yet one other case where many within Pakistan don't recognise anything that comes from the world of the infidels. As an aside expect to see Veena Malik either killed or attacked in the near future for daring to challenge the more militant within Pakistan on her right to dress provocatively.
Page 14
An excellent article from Mirko Bagaric. At least the professors from Deakin University know what they're talking about.
Letters
Good letters from Michael Cunningham, Martin Fitzgerald, Peter Edgar and Des Moore Gowda went. The confusing letter comes from Tory Puglisi concerning the Red Cross and the Salvation Army not constructing roads or railways. Of course the usual batch of anti-Coalition letters are almost mandatory in any newspaper published in Australia. As usual apart from the ad hominem attacks they contain little substance.
It was good to see some of the opinion pieces written in a well-balanced and thoughtful manner today.
The situation to watch in the coming weeks is the one in each of. If militant Islam, i.e. true Islam, is allowed to gain a foothold in Egypt's this will place great pressure on Israel to strengthen its stamps in the region. The chip has a large standing army and one that will be used by followers of Islam to attack Israel at the earliest opportunity. It would also not bode well for the Coptic Christians who live in Egypt. There are diminishing number of countries in the region where anybody following other than the Islamic faith can live for exist with any semblance of peace. Expect any Leftist run Western nation to offer little support if the situation changes.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Sat - 29 Jan 2011
Front Page
According to Malaysia's Prime Minister he knows nothing of the East Timor plan. Of course not one word on the Opposition's Nauru plan. The government's anal-like opposition to Nauru is a processing location is making them the laughing stock of the world.
Page 3
It was good to see the Kindle being given to book prize judges instead of the hundred plus physical versions of each book. With the current price of the Kindle by the time you read 100 books it has paid for itself easily.
Page 4
The story about Muslim numbers is worth reading. Too bad it will be a long time before there is any commentary on how this will affect Australia in any negative way.
Page 10
How can Julia Gillard be surprised by the amount of water flowing downstream from Queensland? This is high school physics and was predicted some weeks back.
Page 12
The article on the lives lost is both poignant and accurate. That senior officers told rescue trained individuals to stand down and wait is eminently believable. That there are too many agencies and that they did not work together also highlights the bureaucratic heavy focus of any government organisation. The lack of warning for many areas, in light of the early warnings given by non-government individuals, also highlights the need to move much of this as far away from the government as possible.
Page 13
A large article the inability of current power generation to meet future needs. Not a single word on the root cause of this problem being the Green push for alternate energies sucking the life out of real power generation to impose hardship on future Australians. Also not a word on how these useless alternate energy structures are dramatically pushing up the price of power.
I used to have a lot of respect for Noel Pearson but in light of his new divisive stance to separate and treat as different aboriginal Australians from other Australians that respect has been severely diminished.
Page 14
What a surprise that Sally Neighbour is surprised that young Australians love our flag. In general those of the Left, with true Leftist leanings, hate Australia and by extension Australia's flag. Instead of expressing surprise Sally should be commending in promoting Australians supporting Australia and should all of her media friends. I do however support her implied dislike of Aussie, Aussie, Aussie Oi, Oi, Oi.
Letters page 15
Ms Lord urges people to donate generously and not complain about the levy because in her words one goes to the people and the other to infrastructure. Actually this is not correct the levy money will be handed out to individuals on a case-by-case basis. To call people petty are complaining about the levy speaks volumes about her own character.
Mr Puleston repeats the warmest mantra that extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and intensity and that human induced climate change is the main underlying factor. Scholarly peer reviewed papers are easy to find on this subject and this contention has been shredded in a number of these papers. Being Green doesn't mean mindlessly following what a few politically minded individuals are saying. Of course for some individuals this is exactly what Green means.
Mr Hedley is correct in one sense but what he ignores is the government used up all of our future fund that would have been used to assist in instances like the flood.
Ms McLauchlin is of course correct the Davidson letter was incredibly narrow and single-minded focus. It ignores all of the reasons and cases why parents send their children to private school.
According to Malaysia's Prime Minister he knows nothing of the East Timor plan. Of course not one word on the Opposition's Nauru plan. The government's anal-like opposition to Nauru is a processing location is making them the laughing stock of the world.
Page 3
It was good to see the Kindle being given to book prize judges instead of the hundred plus physical versions of each book. With the current price of the Kindle by the time you read 100 books it has paid for itself easily.
Page 4
The story about Muslim numbers is worth reading. Too bad it will be a long time before there is any commentary on how this will affect Australia in any negative way.
Page 10
How can Julia Gillard be surprised by the amount of water flowing downstream from Queensland? This is high school physics and was predicted some weeks back.
Page 12
The article on the lives lost is both poignant and accurate. That senior officers told rescue trained individuals to stand down and wait is eminently believable. That there are too many agencies and that they did not work together also highlights the bureaucratic heavy focus of any government organisation. The lack of warning for many areas, in light of the early warnings given by non-government individuals, also highlights the need to move much of this as far away from the government as possible.
Page 13
A large article the inability of current power generation to meet future needs. Not a single word on the root cause of this problem being the Green push for alternate energies sucking the life out of real power generation to impose hardship on future Australians. Also not a word on how these useless alternate energy structures are dramatically pushing up the price of power.
I used to have a lot of respect for Noel Pearson but in light of his new divisive stance to separate and treat as different aboriginal Australians from other Australians that respect has been severely diminished.
Page 14
What a surprise that Sally Neighbour is surprised that young Australians love our flag. In general those of the Left, with true Leftist leanings, hate Australia and by extension Australia's flag. Instead of expressing surprise Sally should be commending in promoting Australians supporting Australia and should all of her media friends. I do however support her implied dislike of Aussie, Aussie, Aussie Oi, Oi, Oi.
Letters page 15
Ms Lord urges people to donate generously and not complain about the levy because in her words one goes to the people and the other to infrastructure. Actually this is not correct the levy money will be handed out to individuals on a case-by-case basis. To call people petty are complaining about the levy speaks volumes about her own character.
Mr Puleston repeats the warmest mantra that extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and intensity and that human induced climate change is the main underlying factor. Scholarly peer reviewed papers are easy to find on this subject and this contention has been shredded in a number of these papers. Being Green doesn't mean mindlessly following what a few politically minded individuals are saying. Of course for some individuals this is exactly what Green means.
Mr Hedley is correct in one sense but what he ignores is the government used up all of our future fund that would have been used to assist in instances like the flood.
Ms McLauchlin is of course correct the Davidson letter was incredibly narrow and single-minded focus. It ignores all of the reasons and cases why parents send their children to private school.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Fri - 28 Jan 2011
The word of the day is Levy.
Everybody's talking about the flood levy, Julia Gillard’s one-year tax. No one is talking about the potential for this process to be rorted as thoroughly as the pink bats and BER. When this was raised in a press conference Julia umm-ed and aah-ed dodging the question.
There are so many reasons why this levy is not only a bad idea but will be applied unequally and inconsistently. The levy is not taxable a donation is. There are a number of Australians, perhaps even a significant number, that have made donations to the flood effort. These people will be forced to donate further. All those people who are planning to donate will no longer do so because the government has decided to force the issue.
In the past people have claimed to be a victim of a fire or flood and later found to have had nothing to do with it. This is of course only those who are caught. Now we have a case where those considered to be flood victims are not subject to the levy. It would be interesting in a year’s time to be able to track the amount of the levy wasted on this determination process. We are after all talking about the government here.
Very wealthy individuals will benefit from the levy if they are flood victims. I'm not sure if those insured are covered by the terms outlined by the government seem to indicate that they maybe. If they are not then those who did not take out insurance are being rewarded by the government while those who were prudent, sensible, and wise would not be. The message then would be don't do anything the mother government will look after you. This is of course socialism at its finest.
So the donors get to pay, the volunteers get to pay, a number of victims will get to pay, businesses who were wiped out may get to pay and so the Socialist machine rolls on. The one industry to benefit once more as it has in all of the other failures of the Labor government is once again the building industry. They're talking about bringing people from all over the country, relocating them to free, to help in the effort. This is not the issue so much as the new potential for this favoured industry to overcharge and make large sums of money on the backs of the rest of Australians.
Page 12.
Keeping in line with Gillard’s "Education Revolution" which is not a revolution at all but a devolution we read an article, and a well-written one, about the poor quality of both English curriculum and the NAPLAN testing of English. At the same time in this article there is an indication that the testing should be weakened to accommodate non-native English-speaking individuals. To quote "other questions are written in ways that rely on native speaker into wish and, or common sense and logic, rather than a solid grasp of how English works."
Anyone who has spent any time in a non-English-speaking country, particularly one in Asia, will know that these people will often know more about grammar than a native English speaker but often has difficulty in basic conversation. Those joining a society are far more useful if they can speak and understand that if they know what a hanging participle is. Focusing on the inner technical workings of English rather than the ability to understand or answer questions about it is somewhat elitist. Given that one of the writers comes from ANU however based on previous experience listening to people from this facility this is not unusual.
The article from Tony Kevin on the SIEV to 21 incident, or the boat that crashed into Christmas Island, is both self-serving and a little disingenuous. He claims that the Jindalee operational radar network or JORN allowed Australia to detect and safely intercept 220 of 221 boats. Given that two of the boats were 'intercepted 'after they had touched the jetty, and many others either reached land or came very close this claim is somewhat spurious. The other issue is of course that everybody is focusing on the intricacies of the issue, and coming up with some wild solutions, rather than focusing on the core issue which is of course the weakness of the Australian policies and the huge number of boats leaving Indonesia.
Letters
As usual in today's letters we have a few people Abbott bashing without any substance whatsoever. One writer talked about putting his donation on hold, representing many, many more doing the same.
Two letters of note. One by Frank Pulsford raising the issue that even aborigines are not sure that all those claiming to be Aboriginal are, in fact, so. This is one of the many issues swept under the rug when dealing with Aboriginals. At the very least this question is going to cause division in both the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities.
The other letter by Ray Carman pointed out that President Obama’s wireless solution makes our cable solution look positively prehistoric. As an IT professional I would of course agree.
Peter Davidson's letter is yet another calling the division. The contention is that private students deserve no support from government. You are either for equality or against it. When it comes to children at the very least they should be treated equally. If their parents can afford to pay the extra money, well above and beyond that paid by other parents, then good for them. Socialists of course want everybody brought down to a particular level, socialism never ever elevates people in societies. By calling for a withdrawal of a subsidy for private school children Mr Davidson appears to be calling for special treatment of non-private school students. In other words he only favours looking after one group of children. If people have worked hard to make more money so that their children can go to private schools, and in many cases having to give up other luxuries so that their child can go to a private school, why should they be penalised for this. Again socialism does not reward those who work harder or try to distinguish themselves.
Everybody's talking about the flood levy, Julia Gillard’s one-year tax. No one is talking about the potential for this process to be rorted as thoroughly as the pink bats and BER. When this was raised in a press conference Julia umm-ed and aah-ed dodging the question.
There are so many reasons why this levy is not only a bad idea but will be applied unequally and inconsistently. The levy is not taxable a donation is. There are a number of Australians, perhaps even a significant number, that have made donations to the flood effort. These people will be forced to donate further. All those people who are planning to donate will no longer do so because the government has decided to force the issue.
In the past people have claimed to be a victim of a fire or flood and later found to have had nothing to do with it. This is of course only those who are caught. Now we have a case where those considered to be flood victims are not subject to the levy. It would be interesting in a year’s time to be able to track the amount of the levy wasted on this determination process. We are after all talking about the government here.
Very wealthy individuals will benefit from the levy if they are flood victims. I'm not sure if those insured are covered by the terms outlined by the government seem to indicate that they maybe. If they are not then those who did not take out insurance are being rewarded by the government while those who were prudent, sensible, and wise would not be. The message then would be don't do anything the mother government will look after you. This is of course socialism at its finest.
So the donors get to pay, the volunteers get to pay, a number of victims will get to pay, businesses who were wiped out may get to pay and so the Socialist machine rolls on. The one industry to benefit once more as it has in all of the other failures of the Labor government is once again the building industry. They're talking about bringing people from all over the country, relocating them to free, to help in the effort. This is not the issue so much as the new potential for this favoured industry to overcharge and make large sums of money on the backs of the rest of Australians.
Page 12.
Keeping in line with Gillard’s "Education Revolution" which is not a revolution at all but a devolution we read an article, and a well-written one, about the poor quality of both English curriculum and the NAPLAN testing of English. At the same time in this article there is an indication that the testing should be weakened to accommodate non-native English-speaking individuals. To quote "other questions are written in ways that rely on native speaker into wish and, or common sense and logic, rather than a solid grasp of how English works."
Anyone who has spent any time in a non-English-speaking country, particularly one in Asia, will know that these people will often know more about grammar than a native English speaker but often has difficulty in basic conversation. Those joining a society are far more useful if they can speak and understand that if they know what a hanging participle is. Focusing on the inner technical workings of English rather than the ability to understand or answer questions about it is somewhat elitist. Given that one of the writers comes from ANU however based on previous experience listening to people from this facility this is not unusual.
The article from Tony Kevin on the SIEV to 21 incident, or the boat that crashed into Christmas Island, is both self-serving and a little disingenuous. He claims that the Jindalee operational radar network or JORN allowed Australia to detect and safely intercept 220 of 221 boats. Given that two of the boats were 'intercepted 'after they had touched the jetty, and many others either reached land or came very close this claim is somewhat spurious. The other issue is of course that everybody is focusing on the intricacies of the issue, and coming up with some wild solutions, rather than focusing on the core issue which is of course the weakness of the Australian policies and the huge number of boats leaving Indonesia.
Letters
As usual in today's letters we have a few people Abbott bashing without any substance whatsoever. One writer talked about putting his donation on hold, representing many, many more doing the same.
Two letters of note. One by Frank Pulsford raising the issue that even aborigines are not sure that all those claiming to be Aboriginal are, in fact, so. This is one of the many issues swept under the rug when dealing with Aboriginals. At the very least this question is going to cause division in both the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities.
The other letter by Ray Carman pointed out that President Obama’s wireless solution makes our cable solution look positively prehistoric. As an IT professional I would of course agree.
Peter Davidson's letter is yet another calling the division. The contention is that private students deserve no support from government. You are either for equality or against it. When it comes to children at the very least they should be treated equally. If their parents can afford to pay the extra money, well above and beyond that paid by other parents, then good for them. Socialists of course want everybody brought down to a particular level, socialism never ever elevates people in societies. By calling for a withdrawal of a subsidy for private school children Mr Davidson appears to be calling for special treatment of non-private school students. In other words he only favours looking after one group of children. If people have worked hard to make more money so that their children can go to private schools, and in many cases having to give up other luxuries so that their child can go to a private school, why should they be penalised for this. Again socialism does not reward those who work harder or try to distinguish themselves.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Thurs - 27 Jan 2011
Page 3 "were unable to call Australia home" in the story about the stranded Qantas passengers. Really? Who makes the kind of dissociation people miss flights all the time, flights are delayed all the time. It makes it sound like all the passengers were either deported or denied access to the country by the authorities.
Same page story about Coles and the Israeli fruit boycott. The real story here is the Left's hatred of America and all who support all allies with them. Yes, this means they also hate Australia. Conversely they seem to love anything that is anti-capitalism, anti-democracy,and pro-socialism.this is the real reason behind the anti–Israel bent that some people are on these days.
Page 12. Here and elsewhere the old saw about the mythical inequality of women in the workplace is raised by none other than someone who has access to the literature that says otherwise. I had an opportunity to write a Masters level paper on the subject. This meant I was required to research the peer reviewed literature on this subject. It takes a little bit of work is not that hard.
Every time you read about pay inequality, or position of equality, or lack of promotion, or lack of women at the top, the evidence used is a normalisation of the data without looking at any of the underlying principles involved.
So here is, you can look it all up for yourself.
1. A woman and a man doing the same job in Australia with the same roles and responsibilities, in the same organisation are paid the same.
2. Due to biology women need to take time off to have a baby. While they are doing this a man who started at the same time they did in the same organisation, in the same department will in some cases progress to a higher position. When the woman comes back to work at the same place she may then be at a lower pay rate than the man who started same time she did. This difference in rate has nothing to do with inequality, but with the fact that the woman was absent for a period of time, i.e. was not working, gaining skills etc.
3. Some positions within an industry may contain dangerous that preclude women from holding those roles. Such positions often come with danger bonuses and high salaries. Normalising across an industry for men and women will buy this very process show an 'inequality' that can hide this kind of information.
4. Because of point 2 earlier women may take longer to reach the top. By contrast women who don't start a family are often the first to reach the top, case in point the new Premier of Tasmania.
The inequality, if one does exist is purely one of biology.
As for the letters today there are the usual mix of the good, the inane, and the music. Excellent cartoon by Nicholson today. Labor is really showing its colours with its inability to cut unnecessary programs to fund the flood requirements and instead looking to add yet another tax to the Australian people.
Same page story about Coles and the Israeli fruit boycott. The real story here is the Left's hatred of America and all who support all allies with them. Yes, this means they also hate Australia. Conversely they seem to love anything that is anti-capitalism, anti-democracy,and pro-socialism.this is the real reason behind the anti–Israel bent that some people are on these days.
Page 12. Here and elsewhere the old saw about the mythical inequality of women in the workplace is raised by none other than someone who has access to the literature that says otherwise. I had an opportunity to write a Masters level paper on the subject. This meant I was required to research the peer reviewed literature on this subject. It takes a little bit of work is not that hard.
Every time you read about pay inequality, or position of equality, or lack of promotion, or lack of women at the top, the evidence used is a normalisation of the data without looking at any of the underlying principles involved.
So here is, you can look it all up for yourself.
1. A woman and a man doing the same job in Australia with the same roles and responsibilities, in the same organisation are paid the same.
2. Due to biology women need to take time off to have a baby. While they are doing this a man who started at the same time they did in the same organisation, in the same department will in some cases progress to a higher position. When the woman comes back to work at the same place she may then be at a lower pay rate than the man who started same time she did. This difference in rate has nothing to do with inequality, but with the fact that the woman was absent for a period of time, i.e. was not working, gaining skills etc.
3. Some positions within an industry may contain dangerous that preclude women from holding those roles. Such positions often come with danger bonuses and high salaries. Normalising across an industry for men and women will buy this very process show an 'inequality' that can hide this kind of information.
4. Because of point 2 earlier women may take longer to reach the top. By contrast women who don't start a family are often the first to reach the top, case in point the new Premier of Tasmania.
The inequality, if one does exist is purely one of biology.
As for the letters today there are the usual mix of the good, the inane, and the music. Excellent cartoon by Nicholson today. Labor is really showing its colours with its inability to cut unnecessary programs to fund the flood requirements and instead looking to add yet another tax to the Australian people.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Wed - 26 Jan 2011
The story of the day is the Constitution.
The Constitution of Australia stands out as one of the most stable in the world. It has weathered challenges on a number of occasions and when changes are suggested it is the one time that Australians tend to stir from their lethargy and think about an issue. This latest challenge comes from a few people in the indigenous community.
Noel Person suggests that the Constitution serves everybody but the aboriginal population. He is of course missing the point. Just because the Constitution doesn't specifically refer to aboriginals doesn't mean that they aren't covered by. In fact the contrary is true. It should and does cover all people recognised as Australian citizens equally.
The moment any individual group is allowed to be treated in a separate or special way the concept of equality vanishes.The definition of the word aboriginal means one native to that country. How many generations are required before this comes into effect? The current indigenous population moved here across the land bridge from the North. Given that there is evidence they wiped out the indigenous population they have effectively replaced those here.
Some families not of aboriginal descent are fifth and sixth generation. A large number of those considered aboriginal have less than half "aboriginal blood" in them. As a country we have this weird worldview that even the tiniest amount of aboriginal blood entitles that person to be called aboriginal. In some cases no aboriginal blood at all is required in the mix. In what strange universe does this makes sense?
The Constitution should not be modified to name any individual group. The special treatment of aboriginals to date has fostered division, seen huge sums of money turned to dust, and all of the plans of the fluffy headed socialists fail.
We are either Australians will not. The Constitution is for all Australians Black, White, Brown, Yellow and none of this should allow this to be changed.
In Letters to the Editor today there are the usual mix of mono dimensional letters from those whose sole source of news is from the mainstream media. I don't understand why the Editor publishers such trite material
The Constitution of Australia stands out as one of the most stable in the world. It has weathered challenges on a number of occasions and when changes are suggested it is the one time that Australians tend to stir from their lethargy and think about an issue. This latest challenge comes from a few people in the indigenous community.
Noel Person suggests that the Constitution serves everybody but the aboriginal population. He is of course missing the point. Just because the Constitution doesn't specifically refer to aboriginals doesn't mean that they aren't covered by. In fact the contrary is true. It should and does cover all people recognised as Australian citizens equally.
The moment any individual group is allowed to be treated in a separate or special way the concept of equality vanishes.The definition of the word aboriginal means one native to that country. How many generations are required before this comes into effect? The current indigenous population moved here across the land bridge from the North. Given that there is evidence they wiped out the indigenous population they have effectively replaced those here.
Some families not of aboriginal descent are fifth and sixth generation. A large number of those considered aboriginal have less than half "aboriginal blood" in them. As a country we have this weird worldview that even the tiniest amount of aboriginal blood entitles that person to be called aboriginal. In some cases no aboriginal blood at all is required in the mix. In what strange universe does this makes sense?
The Constitution should not be modified to name any individual group. The special treatment of aboriginals to date has fostered division, seen huge sums of money turned to dust, and all of the plans of the fluffy headed socialists fail.
We are either Australians will not. The Constitution is for all Australians Black, White, Brown, Yellow and none of this should allow this to be changed.
In Letters to the Editor today there are the usual mix of mono dimensional letters from those whose sole source of news is from the mainstream media. I don't understand why the Editor publishers such trite material
Monday, January 24, 2011
Tuesday – Jan 5, 2011
Front page quotes around the word cleared in reference to the navy being held accountable for the boat that crashed into the rocks. Really? The incident occurred in high seas on the side of the island where there was no landing. For some reason the writers seem to believe that the navy is somehow tracking all wooden boats departing from Indonesia heading for Australian shores. Given the limited resources it is not surprising that a boat can arrive at the jetty before being detected. Somehow however the boat that crashed on the rocks were supposed to have been detected and saved. The fault here lies with the Indonesian captain not the Australian Navy. Move on to page 2 and there is an emotive story from one of the relatives already on Christmas Island.Yes this is an emotive issue that as usual the underlying issue of the business of entering Australia by bypassing the normal process, often by people who are not asylum seekers, is ignored.
Page 12. Not written by any below could journalists that the now almost mandatorily Israel bashing article. The tiniest amount of research will discover that the building on the East Bank is well within both international law and previous agreements. One day after giving over land Israel shelled, or more accurately rocketed. After this happened they are still criticised for not giving up high ground from where this could happen, or would happen again.
Letters to the Editor. Let from John Sandilands. This is nothing more than a Coalition bashing letter and offers nothing to the debate. The same from John Murphy and John Sumner but for different reasons.
Page 12. Not written by any below could journalists that the now almost mandatorily Israel bashing article. The tiniest amount of research will discover that the building on the East Bank is well within both international law and previous agreements. One day after giving over land Israel shelled, or more accurately rocketed. After this happened they are still criticised for not giving up high ground from where this could happen, or would happen again.
Letters to the Editor. Let from John Sandilands. This is nothing more than a Coalition bashing letter and offers nothing to the debate. The same from John Murphy and John Sumner but for different reasons.
The Australian - Intro
The Australian newspaper describes itself as one that presents both sides of an issue, or is balanced. In reality it is part of the left-leaning media in Australia but is a little more clever in how it does this. Yes it does publish the occasional article towards the centre of the political spectrum but if you examine what is written, what is published, and what is contained in the letters you can find an obvious bias to the left.
As time permits this blog will analyse some of the content of The Australian to point out where this bias lies and correct or add comment to what is written. There will also be the occasional letter to the editor, unpublished of course, to show how the editor inserts bias in the selection process.
As time permits this blog will analyse some of the content of The Australian to point out where this bias lies and correct or add comment to what is written. There will also be the occasional letter to the editor, unpublished of course, to show how the editor inserts bias in the selection process.
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