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  • Posted by freedomforall 5 years ago
    Bravo, Vinay!!!

    I have repeatedly tried to get friends in Australia to consider the evidence available about "global warming", but they have refused- being brainwashed by the labor/UN/NWO propaganda. They are otherwise rational people in my opinion, although they place an undue amount of trust in state propaganda against free market enterprise. Perhaps some truth from what they feel is the fount of knowledge can help open their minds.
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    • Posted by Lucky 5 years ago
      A story. Our CSIRO (compare, State Science Institute) has done some really good work, but that was then.
      A new manager wanting to conserve money, planned to let go a few hundred 'climate scientists' on the grounds of the science is settled.
      There were howls of anguish and protest. He got the message, government spending on science is about government jobs, and to tell government what it wants to hear.
      The Science is not science.
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    • Posted by Vinay 5 years ago
      Thank you, freedom for all, for the compliment. Even the non-Mises libertarians in Oz have been ignorant of the New Left narrative. But the conservatives (and of course objectivists and the Mises libertarians) are now well aware of this issue.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 5 years ago
    Where in the flip is this 'global warming'? I live on the Gulf Coast of Texas and we are in April and I still have the heat on in this 6800 square foot barn I live in! These crazies need to wake up!
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  • Posted by Lucky 5 years ago
    Vinay. .. Well done!

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    Turnbull- not centre anything, just politically indifferent and green ideologically.

    The word Conservative in the context of describing the Australian Liberal Party is the worst sense of the word -preserving the status quo rather than economic freedom.
    Vinay correctly quotes their foundational document, but it seems they can believe one way and still appease the green left in actions.

    Scott Morrison, sort of rightish but wanting to occupy that holy middle ground and get the votes of both sides being seen, he hopes, as responsible. It is not working, the centre is elusive with voters correctly seeing that he while he may have a position, he will not stand on it.
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    • Posted by Vinay 5 years ago
      Thank you, Lucky. Yes, Turnbull was a greenie who sometimes voted against the unions on economic matters. I'm glad he's gone. Exactly right that the Liberals say one thing and do another.
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  • Posted by ycandrea 5 years ago
    Sounds like it is based in a lot of our own philosophy and Constitution.
    “We believe:

    “In the inalienable rights and freedoms of all peoples; and we work towards a lean government that minimises interference in our daily lives; and maximises individual and private sector initiative.

    “In those most basic freedoms of parliamentary democracy – the freedom of thought, worship, speech and association.

    “That, wherever possible, government should not compete with an efficient private sector; and that businesses and individuals – not government – are the true creators of wealth and employment.
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    • Posted by Lucky 5 years ago
      ycandrea - interesting comments.
      The writers of Australia's constitution, back in about year 1900, certainly made use of ideas in the US Constitution.
      As for the expression of ideals of Australia's Liberal Party, note the use of qualifiers such as 'wherever possible', and 'an efficient private sector'. So it is government who decides what is possible and what is efficient. Well if those ideas were given even that level of qualified support it would be an improvement.

      This I think is what Vinay is suggesting in his letter, put aside the postmodernist pap (especially the climate racket) and at least consider the basic aims of the Liberal Party.
      They thought that pragmatism -say nothing do nothing without focusing on the voters- would work, but they mistook the 'chattering classes', the mainstream media, for the voters, and as Vinay's letter says, this has not won public support.
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 5 years ago
    The other day, I didn't have time to read the whole article. But today I did find the time, though apparently there was a video, which I didn't watch. I think it was a great letter. That does not mean that Morrison will read it, or necessarily have the courage and honesty to act on it.
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    • Posted by Vinay 5 years ago
      Thank you for the compliment. Some junior staffer may read it. Very little gets elevated to the PM. But I have copied a few other MPs and conservative journalists, so let's see.

      The video is of Morrison's coal-o-phobia speech in Parliament.
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 5 years ago
    Not to be insulting, but, due to circumstances, I didn't have time to read the whole article (unfortunately). But it is refreshing to read that there is a country in which the word "liberal" seems to express the original meaning of the word; its common origin with the word "liberty".
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