Cory Bernardi

[kwikfix]

My secondment to the United Nations is coming to an end and due to my final commitments in New York unfortunately I have not had time to write a message for you this week.

Rest assured that I will be back at it next Wednesday, offering my thoughts on the latest in politics.

Until next week.

Cory Bernardi

P.S Don't forget to listen to my regular podcast at www.corybernardi.com/podcast or subscribe to it here.



Things that make you go 'hmm...'
Leftists continue to push their romantic dream of Fidel Castro, rather than admitting the reality of the hypocritical, brutal dictator who consistently abused and denied human rights.

A Labor MP is being sued after smearing a QUT student involved in the 18C case. The Greens admit that facts are unimportant, while the militant Left bully a photographer into shutting down his business. Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce has some advice for those calling for a sugar tax, while the Queensland public sector has exploded under the state Labor government.

A pro-life advertisement is banned because it’s “inappropriate”, while a baked beans ad is “dangerous”. The NSW nanny state is costing motorists $85 million, it’s “okay to celebrate Christmas”, don’t drive a “fake police car”, and the Leftist Hollywood hypocrites should all move to Cuba, according to one commentator.

Lastly, people forked out $100,000 to dig a hole.

 

[kwikfix]

Senator Cory Bernardi says he doesn’t know why international emission trading permits are on the table. Live on The Bolt Report, Sky News Australia

 

[kwikfix]

Senator Cory Bernardi says the Turnbull Government's climate change review will cause division in the party. On The Bolt Report, Sky News Australia

 

[Gough]

Elephant in the room was the carbon price worked, that's a demonstrable fact. Emissions fell while the economy continued to grow when it was law here. Bernardi, and his ilk are morons.

 

[Freo Big Fella]

And I thought border force was all about stopping extremists who refuse to adapt to the Australian way of life from coming into the country?

 

[Admiral Byng]

And I thought border force was all about stopping extremists who refuse to adapt to the Australian way of life from coming into the country?

Cory was already here before Border Force started.

 

[kwikfix]

Elephant in the room was the carbon price worked, that's a demonstrable fact. Emissions fell while the economy continued to grow when it was law here. Bernardi, and his ilk are morons.

BS Gough, emissions did not fall and if turdbull wants a carbon tax he should join the greens.

 

[kwikfix]

Elephant in the room was the carbon price worked, that's a demonstrable fact. Emissions fell while the economy continued to grow when it was law here. Bernardi, and his ilk are morons.

Cory must read BF

Dear Kwikfix,

It’s great to be back on Australian soil. Whatever the merits of other nations, I remain firmly of the view that Australia is the greatest country in the world. My aim is to keep it that way (and make it better) for generations to come.

However, already being a great nation doesn’t mean we can’t be better and that means confronting some of the issues we face head on. After all, that’s what our governments and our political representatives are meant to do.

But there seems to be a problem between what our citizens want and what our politicians are prepared to deliver. It’s that disconnect that is fuelling the crisis of confidence in the major political parties.

A perfect example of this played out over the past few days with the government’s ‘everything is on the table’ review of carbon dioxide emissions policy.

It was a clear attempt to reintroduce a price on hot air to satisfy the extreme greens and others seduced by the socialist alarmism of anthropogenic climate change.

I said it was the dumbest thing I had seen in recent political debate. Not only did it go against Liberal Party political interests, it was against our national interest.

How any Australian political representative can justify actively seeking to weaken our already struggling economy is beyond me. Yet that’s precisely what they tried to do.

It’s even more incredulous given the main topic of conversation since I returned home.

At every single meeting and function in recent days, the single biggest issue people have raised with me has been the cost of electricity and the lack of reliable supply.

In South Australia, where we have the highest renewable reliance in the country, we also have the least reliable energy supply at the highest cost. My home state is the living example of what Shorten, Xenophon et al (and some Libs) want to see repeated across the rest of the country.

Businesses here are in despair. Some are seeing 100 per cent increases in annual contract prices. Some are deferring investment whilst others are shutting up shop because they cannot afford an extra $500k every year to power their enterprise.

Households are struggling to keep their air-conditioners running as utility bills skyrocket.

Incredibly, this state of affairs is a direct product of politics and the abrogation of real leadership to act in the national interest.

Too many state and federal politicians would prefer to be seen hugging a wind turbine and blowing up a power station rather than having to make a principled and considered economic argument about the importance of reliable and cost-effective power.

The loopy Left are intent on shutting down the most reliable and cost-effective method of generating power that gives our nation a competitive advantage – coal-fired power stations.

It seems okay for us to dig it up and send it to China to burn but not for us to burn it ourselves. The idiocy of this approach appears lost only on our political masters. The rest of us want cheap, reliable electricity for the good of the country.

In fact, if I were a struggling state or federal political leader, here’s an election-winning platform:

“I want to make (South) Australian electricity prices the most competitive in the nation/world. To do that, we are going to remove bureaucratic impediments to the construction and operation of new power stations and remove subsidies for uneconomic schemes.

"This approach will create jobs, benefit Australian industry and help ease the cost of living pressures for every Australian family.”

Simple, easy to understand and easy to achieve: just don’t hold your breath waiting to hear it from the current players!

The appeal and practicality of such an approach is even stronger with the election of Donald Trump. His promise to withdraw from the Paris climate accord should be the catalyst for Australia to do the same.

We don’t need to be part of an international agreement that actually impedes us from making determinations in our own best interest; particularly an agreement that won’t include the world’s largest economy.

We all know that some people get into politics because they seek position or authority. These people seem to love the power.

It’s just a pity that they don’t share a love for the power that is the basis of our prosperity, our industry and our future success.

Until next week.

Cory Bernardi

P.S Don't forget to listen to my regular podcast

 

[NSWCROW]

OH HAI !!
Just checkin if " Rhymes with " has started his own party like he said he was gonna ??.....


No ??......










Course you 'aven't

 

[Bleeeeeeeeep]

BS Gough, emissions did not fall and if turdbull wants a carbon tax he should join the greens.

Yeah they did.

 

[FredLeDeux]

Yeah they did.

They did if you live in the real world.
They didn't if you live in the post-truth phantasmagorical Bernardiland.

 

[kwikfix]

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...ristensen-to-raise-funds-for-anti-islam-group

 

[FredLeDeux]

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...ristensen-to-raise-funds-for-anti-islam-group

This from the Q Society site:

All products and services from halal-certified suppliers should be clearly labelled by one standard symbol. This way the consumer can recognise when meat, meat-based products or other products and services come from halal-certified sources. Australian consumers can then make a conscious decision.​

Note that they are not wanting labelling of halal-certified products; what they want is for all products to be labelled as coming from a company which sells any halal-certified products, so that they can then punish the company by refusing to buy its non halal-certified products.

The label could possibly look like this:

 

[kwikfix]

Conservative MP Cory Bernardi says the payment of Centrelink spousal benefits to the wives of polygamous Muslim men is political correctness gone mad.
http://www.news.com.au/national/bre...s/news-story/6ea0c9a0a719b19b0ae73516530b7a30

 

[Bradesmaen]

Cory must read BF

He maintains that Australia is the greatest... yet had a hat made that says Make Australia Great Again? Must have had tinfoil on the inside

 

[Pessimistic]

LOL that these bozos think there's a trump Brexit wave to side into power in Aus

What does he think Hanson mark one and Howard's battlers were? We've seen it before. And the disenfranchised almost booted the Abbott Turnbull govt out on their arses

Folk in certain suddenly depressed areas won't buy Bernardo's policies of Christianity. Sect 18 Muslim bashing etc etc. Bernardi you ARE the out of touch elite

 

[igon value]

Bernardi should either shit or get off the pot.

For starters, stop being a mealy mouther senator and run for the Representatives. Much easier to affect change there. Secondly, stand for your convictions and form your own political party. Stop using the Liberal Party as a fig leaf and run as an independent. Hanson can do it, Lambie can do it, Hinch can do it. Why won't you Senator Bernardi?

The bloke has no balls.

 

[kwikfix]

Bernardi should either shit or get off the pot.

For starters, stop being a mealy mouther senator and run for the Representatives. Much easier to affect change there. Secondly, stand for your convictions and form your own political party. Stop using the Liberal Party as a fig leaf and run as an independent. Hanson can do it, Lambie can do it, Hinch can do it. Why won't you Senator Bernardi?

The bloke has no balls.

Cory Bernardi is a conservative and a coalition senator who doesn't like Turdbull trying to drag his party over to left. Turdbull is in the wrong party.

 

[Farm Boy]

Cory Bernardi is a conservative and a coalition senator who doesn't like Turdbull trying to drag his party over to left. Turdbull is in the wrong party.

Turnbull will do what he is told. He sold his soul for a bit of limelight. So long as he knows his place, knows his role, he will continue to stay in the limelight. He is just the front man. I agree he is in the wrong party, but I think having him as a conservative puppet is punishment enough. The right still run the party - thankfully.

 

[igon value]

Cory Bernardi is a conservative and a coalition senator who doesn't like Turdbull trying to drag his party over to left. Turdbull is in the wrong party.

What in gods name is left wing about Turnbull?

Bernardi is a moron and a coward.

 

[Gough]

Turnbull will do what he is told. He sold his soul for a bit of limelight. So long as he knows his place, knows his role, he will continue to stay in the limelight. He is just the front man. I agree he is in the wrong party, but I think having him as a conservative puppet is punishment enough. The right still run the party - thankfully.

So you'd agree that it's a touch disingenuous for those very same conservative warriors on the right of Liberal Party to be railing against the dreaded elites when they themselves are effectively running government. You don't get much more elite than that.

 

[pugsville]

What in gods name is left wing about Turnbull?

Bernardi is a moron and a coward.

Don't under estimate Bernardi, sure he's wrong about almost everything, and by a long margin, but his has been very effective in both importing a lot of his policies and mobilising a degree of public support. He's fairly effective player of the political game, sure he's annoying and a lot of what he says appears to be simple idiocy but it is designed to and plays very well where it is targeted.

Bernardi is playing a clever game within the Liberal party. It's Turnbull who is the coward, Turnbill is the one ,modifying his position in response to political pressure within the party exerted from the likes of Bernadi.

There is nothing left wing about Turnbull, there certain Policies he sees as reasonable and better than the right wing of his party thinks, his a centre right moderate, but he lacks any courage of his convictions and is towing the line dictated by the right of the Liberal party (which is quite extreme these days)

There's barely a left wing in the labour party these days.

 

[Admiral Byng]

Cory Bernardi is a conservative and a coalition senator who doesn't like Turdbull trying to drag his party over to left. Turdbull is in the wrong party.

The Liberal Party pride themselves on being a "broad church" open to a variety of different view points. Neither is in the wrong party, problem is it has become too broad to be workable. Really needs to split into two separate parties.

 

[NSWCROW]

Bernardi should either shit or get off the pot.

For starters, stop being a mealy mouther senator and run for the Representatives. Much easier to affect change there. Secondly, stand for your convictions and form your own political party. Stop using the Liberal Party as a fig leaf and run as an independent. Hanson can do it, Lambie can do it, Hinch can do it. Why won't you Senator Bernardi?

The bloke has no balls.

QFT

 

[Pessimistic]

The Liberal Party pride themselves on being a "broad church" open to a variety of different view points. Neither is in the wrong party, problem is it has become too broad to be workable. Really needs to split into two separate parties.

One bit wants to wedge labor/greens, the other bit wants to wedge One Nation.

Ends up wedging itself - bigtime

Happens when your raison'd'etre is "were not labor"