Global Climate Change Action

The article by Adele Horn in the Saturday Sydney Morning Herald dated 15.10.11 needs more balance to be factual.
Point ignored by the writer were:
1. Baby boomer super which they are living off was provided by their contributions and salary sacrifice during their working life.
2. These same baby boomers brought up and educated their children this future and current generation of workers.
3. Baby boomers were subject to very high mortgage rates during working life circa 11% and higher.
4. Frequently these baby boomers worked both worked to provide income for raising children and retirement.
5. Marginal tax rates were wage earners were significantly higher at the lower end of the tax scale resulting proportionally more income tax being paid during their working life.
6. The parents of the baby boomers to which they have been compared had gone through a world depression and a world war hence their ability to accumulate retirement monies was severely impacted and any holiday away from suburbia was very appreciated by them.
7. Baby boomer generation did not have the opportunity of part time government assisted employment and day care facilities to facilitate part time return to work as this generation has.
8. Older superannuation schemes did not facilitate employment for women after having children as happens now.
I trust the above points raised will be brought to the attention of the above writer and published to rectify the imbalance referred to above.

Petrol prices is a resolt of people appothy of doing nothing
Oz does not buy petrol we are self sufficient and they use US pricing as a way to play politics with the pricing. Petrol in all of Asia is about a quarter of the Retail price on the street of OZ. . Even if we were to take the Retail price of petrol that of Asia and put on the government taxes it still would not be even half of the cost it is …….
We are puppets of the oil company and the goverment on Petrol Price.
Solution Take the goverment busses to work not for a day but for three weeks and that will cause a reduction in petrol .
There would be a greater reduction in Car Emmission and we would be doing something towards Carbon control , its all positive
People power is the only way to get this goverment to acknoledge they are working for us not the other way around.

Climate change and trust the Government ?
Reading a Jakarta paper whist in Bali last week relating to climate change .
He highlights : two years back the Government of Australia sent Millions of Dollars to the Indonesian Government to give to the Farmers to entice them not to cut down the trees in the forest.
He points out not a cent has ever reach the farmers , and never will ,the government is like many others corrupt , this is a world problem with underdeveloped and dictatorship governments.
So I ask a journalistto to do a full research for the people of this great country and give us the truth
The question is .. over the last say ten years how much has the Government paid out to other countries for any excuse of climate change and how much has really gone to the people of those countries to make changes. This would clear the air and give us the voters the opertunity to see at least part of the truth .
Australia has unmeasurable polution compaired to the worlds problems , The cost on everything will have a dynamic impact on every person in how they live and will hurt more that it would cure the climate change . The government will pay Multi millions of Dollars to national companies in the process , Tax the people and Nothing will change in the world of climate change as a result. Australians polotion is minisurial and it realy cant be measured , the only benifit is Australia wont be penalised by not trying .

In my opinion, Its nothing more that a government trying to stay in power by sleeping with the greens as they will control the crenate in the near future and their agenda is well documented and that is more political advantage than for the people

The removed Government insensitive that could have a greater impact on climate change for this country that being the home Solar power units. , think this way , if every home had a solar 4.5W power grid the usage on the main system would be reduce would take care of the carbon problem . and Australia would be a more Greener place. . This will cost the government way under what they will pay the Industrial companies for compensation and have a greater effect on carbon pollution .
Then the government can be seen to be acting in the best interest of the people and not their pockets or prestige…

For We Are Aussies And We Care

Raymond J Warren

Brisbane Qld

February 9th 2009

Did you see that fireball a'rolling, down the valley fair,

And the timber smoke a’rising, from the beauty that was there?

Did you hear the birds a calling, in fear as they flew,

And house dogs barking loudly, at the fright that they felt too?

Did you hear the wind a’roaring, like a jet plane overhead,

Did you see the roadway littered with the dying and the dead?

Did you hear the crackling bushland, see the volunteers fight,

Did you see the orange horizon in the darkness of the night?

Can you hear the men a’yelling, as the run this way and that,

Can you hear the horses screaming as they gallop on the flat?

And can you hear the child calling as she stands now safe alone,

“Where’s my daddy have you seen him, I want my daddy home!”

Do you know that sinking feeling of the loss and loneliness,

As you stand before your once proud home and feel the emptiness.

Do you know the heartache, as you sift through ashes bare?

Does a tear come to your reddened eyes, for the memories stolen there?

Now please don’t worry strongly, there is something you should know,

We can’t bring back your loved ones, or the tokens for to show.

But we can share your pain, for our shoulders we lay bare.

So lay your head upon our breast, we are Aussies and we care.