Totally unbelievable

Don't quite know what the next Labor government are going to use for leverage when the next election comes around .
With Tony Burke offering this week to control everything that is not nailed down beyond our shores,  its going to be hard for any future wind and water worrier to gain some ground by calling something no go territory.
You would think the people would realize that 3 million hectares is too big for any mere thousand new rangers  to police . Get seasick thinking about how pointless it is,to try , when like the people who used to help manage those areas ( as shown on seapatrol) they can't touch it either.
So pleasing to see ABC reporting the fact that crocodiles,kangas , camels and dingoes and frogs have to be culled to really protect areas.  

How do we help Syria?. Papua New Guinea?

Before we jump in with solutions,  we need to examine whether our wisdom about solving others problems is deep enough

1. We get interested when things are really bad , when effective ( cf wasteful) influence is planned and prestress and pre growth orientated 
2. We have the same problems , but may not have really solved them. Take the simmering household type discussion that is two parties fighting each other in the same building that is both Syria, Iraq , afganistan , and Papua New Guinea ( Coastal VS Highlanders ?)    
3. What is said may result in wasted expenditure by governments . We like their expenditure to work - the stimulus will be removed once the public realize"  its not working " see point 1 
4. The presumption of an outside enemy is all wrong . Yet this is the dumb west 's distracted direction in some of these countries . Therefore  a vote for every person may not help . Democracy can kill a family ( (if U have more than 2 children????) These are families in trouble .
   What the people need is Pastoral care . Not necessarily disciplinary or dumb democracy numbers( what if one group is bigger and doesn't care )  care, 
5. The problem is an internal one - how we think about each other. Maybe an external threat ? but still an internal angst and to be dealt with that way.  

Love that united governance stuff

Our foreign minister ( Bob Carr ) is so pleased that we are signing yet another agreement with some other nations . His faith is often misplaced. It seems to me he trusts more in government power than people power . This divorce has occurred before . Governments like his , who are most prone to mental illness here are those who forget the past and the nature of evil  ( as Churchill reminds us to not do by remembering the better in our heritage  and Chamberlain does like a typical reactionary , by reacting against it " people good,  not bad "    ) :While no man  or men are to be trusted , neither are governments.
Most of us would add,  neither are men who seek power .
Finally,  never trust as Santayana said , those who are losing their hold on power .

Best intentions are really the worst thing

One day Labor will realise ( as Shaw tried to alert them) that its flirtation with the best intention is what creates the evil that is now a meddling bureau and meddling tax system( "give us the money and we will decide what to do with it later "crap) on the subject of environment. Brisbane city electorates know The Greens are a menace to society even if they are not sure why.  The Greens don't know enough to be effective but they lobby enough to be a nuisance  - so busy on the crywolf tram that they stop doing the things that EFFECTIVELY stop people being burnt in bushfires and damaged by floods .The record of Greenlabor is NOW in the bag and judged ineffective . In politics it doesn't matter how good the rhetoric is ,  if its doesn't work,  it gets thrown out . The children maybe right about the problem but we are mad to let them decide about the solution.
For all the wild chatter on "Insiders"(ABCTV)  there is no serious refection on the damage careless Green/green thinking has done to Labor ( you heard it first on Blogger) Even Bligh speaks of her "green "achievements in buffers , tree controls and environmental planning when we all know it is expensive and ineffective slow meddling around the edges .She , like so many , doesn't realize that the  greatest evil is done in the name of the best intentions. Has political reflection on this subject ever been as shallow?

Trying to keep the high moral ground

It used to be said of some religious people that "they were so heavenly minded that they were no earthly use". Now we have heavenly minded Greenlabor. Same high minded talk, same usefulness
The momentum can only last for a moment, even though the public lose patience with the action talk that matters.
Greenlabor like to look down and say "you are being negative" as they fly ever up ward into the clouds.

When the people realize our powerbrokers aren't looking after us ,or taking us with them , they will reject them.


While Greenlabor would do anything to avoid the reality that they rely on being religious ( trying to take the high moral ground) they act to prove it so . Today their followers try to run another story on a problem in another country . Heavens away.
Greenlabor , when in trouble likes to find its hope in some grand plan . Gets a lot of press from the press. This week while the government reels from being reminded that it is controlled by green idealogues , the green ideologues run yet another story of mistreated animals in Indonesia.
Labor will never find a credible regional minister. Current Ag minister is nowhere to be seen .  Burke tried , Libs tried  Greenlabor won't even try- they want to represent our animals ,not the people .
This is the watershed , or the worldview moment, in our history .
Some might say that ags are the target for our own embarrassment over our use of the earths resources and animals for food in particular.
Either way those heavenly minded are not helping by not even talking about it in an Austrailan context . Ludwig you see will never say "They have a problem,  we are doing OK" because the greens won't allow this attempt at heavenly leverage to ruin their ambition to close down meat industries.
The principle is the same as all religious attempts to change the world
Setting a high moral standard on killing in general on the world stage is easier than having a cleanup discussion in our own backyard. The approach is ,as it always was, hypocritical ,and unworthy of those who claim to be genuinely interested in changing our society for the better.

Never try to solve a problem you haven't defined

Gosky review in education funding . 
Sometime politicians are best to let someone else solve problems - The fact that  any policy is "incoherent"  and " not transparent " to polys is completely understandable . To make it so may well be to make it too simple . The fact that Bob and Julia are preoccupied with money fixing the problems shows they are both completely out of touch . 

The last meddle ( building program ) lost more good teachers because they didn't respect existing process  . Another meddle is likely to do the same . Causus and Bob Brown love change because they are reactionaries rather than real revolutionaries.
The cost benefit of Julia's incentives  is going to go into history as bigger and worser  meddling than anything Jeff K tried .Catholic schools are not equitable funded NOW so whay would they ever be with this clear attempt to better fund government schools.

Because they can't and  haven't defined what "advantage"  means,  its more go nowhere atmospheric level moeddelling ( a now common degrading combination of meddling hidden by the smoke haze created by modelling ) The only view they have checked is that government schools will probably get  more money than the existing underfunded  Catholic  schools in particular . Is the word Fair  really going to work for fairness?

Such reactionary "car picture policy " is largely driven by a desperate policy defined not by its solution, but driven  by simple political panic about State schools being abandoned by parents , teachers and the like .
Like the building program that preceded it is likely to fail . Like it has done in our district, it acn be expected to create MORE  quickfiz nonsense that categorized the last funding round 

The press have only got to ask former state teachers why they left and why they think many teachers stay . Todays' talk should start there and not meddle and model itself  into a another mess  . 
This is a car  without wheels and all the talk of "nuts and bolts" by spokesmen rather said so 
Worse,  they and Green labor haven't realised that to reach the goal of incentive to learn, its not all about money.  
To allow yourself to accept the label disadvantage  is to let the label stick and make the people sick. . This $ driven mere description problem driven nonsense was best exemplified by MR Jeff Kennett  ;
Jeff Kennett will go down in history as one who meddled,  and by confusing the role of business and governance  set a new and much lower benchmark for government performance review .Instead of making Govts more accountable the process is thanks to his ideas less  accountable ,bigger  and more expensive.  
 One presumes that Labor are desperate and dumb enough to follow Him   Parents and former good teachers from the State system are choosing church schools because of the attitude at such places,  and the stumbling meddling responses of some out of touch wannabes who don't even respect the real workers in that industry ( ABC should interview former teachers !)  .
 "tough choices talk" and " this is the most important thing we have .... " is used to empower and distract listeners from the reality that the idea is  driven by reaction rather than a knowledge of needed action.- as do --the five categories which  look like some way to set direction - wait and see them being abandoned. 

The god assumption

Our growing bureaus and their reactive focus is clearly a result of our pollies feeding their own image with god assumptions for themselves .
They can and will FIX  the biggest of problems ; global warming ; global climate change , The Murray Darling  , Our excessive use of water electricity gas and whatever .

To do that they have to maintain the fear and the speed . They have to maintain the idea that dangers are immanent ( where their allegiance with the media is so dangerous ) and that's where taxes must be spent . Witness the growth of emergency management agencies ( the crywolf's ) and the dearth of prevention and sound planning agencies.

Passenges who want to join the slower more sustainable peace train look no further
 Maintaining the idea that dangers are immanent means that modern politics is glued onto an  allegiance with the media .
As a result MEDIA credibility is at all time low . Our ABCTV ( medium being easy message)  must show some vigilance if its not to fall for all the noise.and science jobs ( study the source of growth and prevention strategies  ) just window dressing .