The Henderson Government's "climate-change-policy".

I note the eternally hopeless, big spending, high taxing, bureaucracy-building and interfering Northern Territory Labor Government has this day announced their "climate-change" policy.


This pathetic excuse for a government (the Martin/Henderson Labor government) has done NOTHING of worth to Territorians since they were first elected in 2001. Sorry, Henderson, to his credit did work hard to secure the Inpex "deal" - which hopefully will eventually come to fruition. But that is his sole achievement!


But leaving NT Labor's only success to one side, one must wonder what these southern-controlled freaks have in mind for a future Northern Territory?


Do they seek to continue to control, interfere and regulate every aspect of Territorians lives, as the have done thus far?


Today's stupid and totally meaningless announcement of a "climate-change" policy is indicative of how this mob of ex-feeders-at-the-taxpayer-funded-trough see the world. They believe in, and act on the advice of bureaucrats and other time-serving, usually taxpayer-funded, nincompoops . Hence, this totally unnecessary policy which has NO benefit whatsoever for Territorians, and will make no difference to the world's climate, even if the theory of man-made-climate-change was proven. Which of course it is not.


Of course, since the Martin/Henderson government came to power they have plenty of form in deciding what is "best" for Territorians:


Totally over-the-top pool fencing laws. A knee-jerk reaction to the laziness and lack of supervision of one person.


Removal of open speed-limits. Again thanks to Labor's southern "advisors" from other Labor nanny states.


Blanket no-smoking legislation in private business houses. Again, as advised by southern Labor do-gooders. Smoking is a legal activity; only the business owner and the patron should determine whether non-smoking, partial-smoking or all-smoking is the way to go. In other words - the marketplace. Something the ex-public servants of Labor will never understand.


Territorians are a pretty easy-going lot. I wonder whether they may wake up one day (if they have not already) and find the Territory they used to love and cherish has been stolen from them - right before their eyes, by the fools and dreamers of Labor, aided and abetted by their southern political masters and "advisors".


With Rudd already well advanced in destroying Australia's once robust economy, we certainly do not need these local wreckers to cause even more unnecessary hardship here. And certainly not in the name of the theory of man-made-climate-change.

ETS Bill Failure - good news for Australia

Dear Editor,

Most Australians do not fully appreciate how perilously close our country came to having a totally unnecessary, economy-destroying “Emissions Trading Scheme” - or indeed how fortunate we were to avoid it.

Had this frighteningly dangerous bill been passed by the Senate, Australia would have been changed forever - from a prosperous, mostly free-enterprise nation into an over-regulated uncompetitive third world country.

Australia’s competiveness, prosperity and ability to create future wealth would have been drastically reduced by the effects of an ETS. Business and household costs would have gone through the roof. We would be much poorer than we are now.

Additionally a massive ETS bureaucracy would be set up - collecting vast sums of money and re-distributing it by way of an enormous slush fund to finance cozy deals for union-affiliated “green businesses”. In other words only lazy, unproductive socialists would benefit. That is until the money ran out. Then, of course, everyone would lose. Australia would become a banana republic with a “leader” in the style of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s extreme left-wing President.

The election of straight-talking, clear-thinking Tony Abbott as Leader of the Opposition has saved Australia from ruin – at least for the moment.

However, and fortunately, the voters now have a clear choice between the big (wasteful) spending, high taxing, over-regulated and increasingly leftist government of Kevin Rudd complete with an ETS; or the measured spending, low taxation, minimum regulation and a clear direction under a future Abbott Government, with no ETS.

And finally, whether one believes in the theory of man-caused-climate-change or not, and as Tony Abbott wisely says: “it would be "folly" for Australia to establish an emissions trading scheme before the United States had settled on its model.”

Yours truly,

Dave Wane

5th December, 2009