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Sit back and watch the PM and his ALP state colleagues beat each other up over health reform and then oppose most of what ever comes out of the mess.

KRISTINA Keneally has hinted that NSW will not support Kevin Rudd’s $50 billion health overhaul at next month’s COAG meeting unless he reveals all five key parts to his ambitious reform package.

Funny that because only a day ago she was a keen supporter.

The Premier, Kristina Keneally, said NSW cannot afford to reject Kevin Rudd’s health changes…

This too and throw will go on for weeks, if not months. It will make Rudd look inept.

Nasty business – suprisingly from the ABC:

When she was five weeks pregnant, a trainee doctor told Ms Vanderhook she had lost the baby.

The doctor recommended termination using the drug misoprostol, but the drug did not work and a follow-up scan showed the foetus was still alive.

Later scans revealed the baby had fluid on the brain – a condition likely caused by the abortion drug Ms Vanderhook had been given.

Despite six other specialist opinions that the baby would be born normal, Ms Vanderhook says a senior obstetrician at Canberra Hospital continued to press her to terminate the baby, even at 31 weeks, when termination would have involved inducing labour.

“To have a baby induced and to watch him just die and not do anything about it? I was disgusted,” Ms Vanderhook told the ABC.

The Vanderhook’s barrister, Bernard Collaery, believes there is a simple explanation why the hospital was urging her to terminate the pregnancy.

“Away would go the litigation that might in the event of serious deformities produce a multi-million dollar verdict,” he said.

What type of person becomes a doctor so they can administer forms of infanticide? The shocking thing is, that these type of late-term abortions go on all the time in hospitals through out the country.

Tony Abbott recently gave an interview to the Women’s Weekly in which he relayed what he had told his daughters about matters relating to their bodies. Despite it being fatherly advice, it hasn’t stopped Deputy PM Julia Gillard from sticking her socialist nose where it does not belong:

“These comments will confirm the worst fears of Australian women about Tony Abbott. Australian women don’t want to be told what to do by Tony Abbott,” she said.

It’s not for the Deputy PM to start passing judgement on the way Tony Abbott raises his own children, especially considering Gillard does not have any. His advice was clearly for his own daughters and he stressed he was not trying to impose his will on anyone.

In The Australian Women’s Weekly article, Mr Abbott said he would advise his three daughters not to give away their virginity “lightly” and try to adhere to the “rules” on sex before marriage.

So it’s a family matter, not a government matter, and therefore does not warrant Gillard’s running commentary. Her statement reflects an earlier claim made by Abbott that she lacks life experience.

UPDATE

This episode says more about Julia Gillard’s unfitness for high public office than anything. Abbott was speaking as a parent but Gillard being the one dimensional figure that she is, lacking in life experience, only knows how to speak as a politician:

Defending Tony Abbott’s right to discuss the advice he gave to his daughters on virginity, Senator Brandis said the Deputy Prime Minister was a “one-dimensional” person who had “chosen not to be a parent”.

“The vehemence of her reaction, in fact, shows that she just doesn’t understand the way parents think about their children when they reach a particular age,” Senator Brandis told ABC radio.

“I think that although Julia Gillard is a very clever politician, she is very much a one-dimensional person and I do think her reaction, her overreaction to the, in my view, quite unexceptionable remarks Tony Abbott made as the father of daughters, is not something she would have said if she were herself the mother of teenage daughters.”

Good to see party colleagues closing ranks around Abbott.

The continuing attacks on Indians in Australia is symbolic of the ineptitude of the Rudd government. The latest comes from Brisbane:

The Indian community in Brisbane says it fears two bashings last night were copycat crimes triggered by a spate of attacks on students in Melbourne and Sydney.

Rudd and his left-wing allies believe that there is very little they can do to combat these crimes. According to their dogma, crime is a function of circumstance, be it social or economic, and as a consequence police merely respond but can’t stop or prevent crime. The issue of individual responsibility is completely lost on Rudd and his state labor allies. So the bashings will continue and our relations with India will also continue to get worse.

A recent article in the WSJ exposes this great lie:

The recession of 2008-09 has undercut one of the most destructive social theories that came out of the 1960s: the idea that the root cause of crime lies in income inequality and social injustice. As the economy started shedding jobs in 2008, criminologists and pundits predicted that crime would shoot up, since poverty, as the “root causes” theory holds, begets criminals. Instead, the opposite happened. Over seven million lost jobs later, crime has plummeted to its lowest level since the early 1960s. The consequences of this drop for how we think about social order are significant.

It should also cause Rudd and his ‘progressive’ friends in the state Police departments across the country to also have a re-think.  That won’t happen though because it would destroy one of their main political tenants:

If crime was a rational response to income inequality, the thinking went, government can best fight it through social services and wealth redistribution, not through arrests and incarceration….

Instead:

The recession crime free fall continues a trend of declining national crime rates that began in the 1990s, during a very different economy. The causes of that long-term drop are hotly disputed, but an increase in the number of people incarcerated had a large effect on crime in the last decade and continues to affect crime rates today, however much anti-incarceration activists deny it. The number of state and federal prisoners grew fivefold between 1977 and 2008, from 300,000 to 1.6 million.

So these attacks on Indians can be set squarely at the foot of Rudd and his ‘progressives’ that promote social theories on crime that seek to deflect blame for crime away from the individual.

In May 2008 Rudd rolled out a strategy to reduce homelessness with lashings of government money. Back then I predicted the problem would get worse not better as a result of Rudd’s fiscal intervention. Well guess what?

THE Rudd Government has conceded the homeless crisis has worsened since the Prime Minister declared war on a problem he described as being a “national obscenity”.

Not Rudd himself though, only the ‘government.’

So said a respondent to the following blog entry from the Telegraph about Bono’s recent apperance at the Tory party conference: ‘Is Bono a Conservative?’

Catanzarite made an impressive and compelling case, arguing that while “the band’s political affections seem to most often favour those agitations (and agitators) coming from the left side of the aisle … the songs of U2 betray a state of mind, a type of character, and a way of looking at the civil social order that is undeniably conservative.”

I think Bono probably just goes where the money is to support his charitable causes.

Further evidence that Rudd is the most unintelligent ill-prepared PM in living memory. Parents at an inner-city Sydney school want to hand back Rudd’s education ‘revolution’ money because they don’t think spending $2.5m in tearing down 4 perfectly good classrooms and rebuilding them – as demanded by the NSW government –  is value for money:

The school’s initial application was to build two covered outdoor learning areas, returf the oval to remove asbestos and refurbish an existing block of four classrooms.

The NSW Education Department knocked back the request, saying the BER timetable was too rigid to make changes. The school was told it had to demolish the building of four classrooms and would have enough money only to build another block of four.

…the department’s solution for rising student enrolments was to take over the music room or the Italian room, which would be unpopular in an area with a large Italian community.

Like something out of Little Britain – ‘Computer says no’. Parents are learning what Rudd’s education revolution is all about: window dressing problems with lots of money and telling local people – via Big Government – to shut up. Tony Abbott’s idea of having local boards run local schools and hospitals makes more and more sense. Rudd sees government as the solution to problems not the problem in and of itself.

…and its against international law established after the horrors of Nazism and their use of abortion to control societal makeup:

New Queensland Health figures show 19 babies were aborted at 20 weeks or more in 2007, but rather than dying at birth as intended, the newborns were able to breathe unaided.

The babies, some as advanced as 26 weeks, were aborted using drugs to induce labour. Once born, no medical help was offered and they died soon afterwards.

The rest of the country, especially ACT and Victoria have virtually no restrictions on abortion services. What type of doctor goes to medical school to make a living carrying out these procedures?

The revelation came from Mark Colvin covering the US health care debate:

Faced with the debate over US President Barack Obama’s project to overhaul American health care, I’m finding it difficult to maintain the impartiality required of an ABC current affairs presenter.

I’ve had rather a lot of care from what the Americans call “socialised medicine”, here and in the UK – in fact without it, I’d be dead several times over – and some of the things that have been said against it strike me as plain ridiculous.

Ha! Ha! Ha! So the ABC favours public health care and is not shamed about admitting it. Finally some honesty from the ABC about their political bias. Colvin makes a few real crazy allegations to go with his bias:

…but the system I have encountered (NHS), while it has major flaws, does have one massive advantage for the seriously ill: you can be sure that you will not be faced with the choice of ‘bankruptcy or death’….Without all of this public medicine, in the American system for instance, I believe I would be dead, or dead broke, or both. Is that an exaggeration, on a par with Sarah Palin’s “death panels”? I think not. 

Palin is on another planet, but consider this. 4550 Australians die each year because of public hospital mistakes, in the UK it is 17000 deaths a year, of the 1.4 million people working in the NHS over half are administrators – like something our of Yes Minister and the Compassionate Society and while Australia spends 5.8 per cent of its GDP on government funded health care, in the USA with their medicare safety net and their own PBS – none of which Colvin mentions – it is 7 per cent. So who is socialist now? The NHS like Australia’s public system is not a free universal health care system – there are a range of medical services that people are required to pay for up front for, while what sort of safety net is the NHS when you face such a risk of avoidable death at the hands of inefficiently run hospitals.

UPDATE

From the UK Telegraph:

…a report by the Patients Association estimated that up to one million patients had received poor or cruel care on the NHS.

The article primarly focuses on a letter signed by a number of preminent UK doctors, warning that many people are being put to death by NHS rules.

As a result the scheme is causing a “national crisis” in patient care, the letter states. It has been signed palliative care experts including Professor Peter Millard, Emeritus Professor of Geriatrics, University of London, Dr Peter Hargreaves, a consultant in Palliative Medicine at St Luke’s cancer centre in Guildford, and four others.

“Forecasting death is an inexact science,”they say. Patients are being diagnosed as being close to death “without regard to the fact that the diagnosis could be wrong.

“As a result a national wave of discontent is building up, as family and friends witness the denial of fluids and food to patients.”

I don’t see a problem with this, even though the MSM are pointing the finger:

A spokeswoman for Ms Bryce yesterday defended her decision to join the Lyceum Club.

 ”The Governor-General has no issue with men or women-only clubs or organisations,” the spokeswoman said.

This comes on the back of an absurd suggestion by Gillard that she would turn up to a men only club in Melbourne demanding membership.

“I’m sometimes tempted, on days when I am Acting Prime Minister, to go down to the Melbourne Club with our female Governor-General and apply for membership on the spot.

I don’t recall the former GG or Deputy PM, both men, ever threatening to go down to their local Country Women’s Association demanding membership. Childish stuff.