She Needs To Be Tough

Julia Gillard is a tough person. How many times have you heard that recently? It’s repeatedly proclaimed from her colleagues. Many would agree that she is tough but it’s said as if we ought to like her because she is tough.

She has had to be tough. Her toughness has been displayed after enduring continual and much deserved criticism that has come due to the excessive incompetence displayed by her and her colleagues.

So she is tough, who cares? It doesn’t make her a good PM. It doesn’t make on competent.

Catch Up Football

League fans and commentators wonder how the AFL is making such inroads into what they consider “league heartland”.

Perhaps it has something to do what Triple M’s ‘Grill Team’ discussed recently.  A listener asked them whether rugby league clubs are doing enough to promote the game.  Their resounding conclusion was NO!  Their media manager even declared which clubs were the most difficult to deal with.

Meanwhile the new AFL club in western Sydney is working extremely hard to form links with the community.  They do clinics, school visits and scholarship programs to mention a few.  They do all this because they realise that it is of great benefit to the club and to the game, especially in the long term.

Any criticism of AFL’s rise in Sydney is out of pure envy.  Rugby League could be dominating the region more than they are already.  Instead they are playing catch up after years of sitting on their hands and not investing in grassroots as much as they should.  They seem to believe that they ought to exist in the region out of entitlement not through any work or investment.  This is just lazy.  Rugby needs to get their act together, otherwise they might just lose a grip on their stronghold. 

Consistency Please

So a carbon tax is about decreasing carbon pollution. Yet its subsidies will keep big polluting industries afloat.

But if you want a carbon tax, and truly believe that it will affect global pollution and change the climate, then you shouldn’t be disappointed to see big polluting industries such as manufacturing disappear. You should be unfazed at the potential of massive job losses. After all, your claim is that so many ‘green’ jobs will be created.

So why is the Australian govt so keen to bolster already declining industries? Especially when subsidies don’t work in the long term if at all. They are a crutch and don’t promote productivity. All they do is create a reliance on further govt subsidies.

Once again the govt’s policy defeats the purpose for which it is intended. Do they think anything through??