To BJ with love. Comment to his FB post
Sandy's reply to this BJ FB post:
"..Barnaby, with respect and appreciation for your contribution to our country, the same situation and bureaucratic madness is found in General Aviation (GA) and you were the Minister but chose not to make the real reforms that are plainly required. I personally spoke to you about the problems, and wrote via my MP many times.
You did make some recognition of the numerous problems of GA by issuing a more detailed Statement of Expectations. to the (Un) Civil Aviation Safety Authority.
Like all of your predecessors, since Gareth Evans persuaded Parliament to create an independent corporate to administer civil aviation, you went along with the “hands off” system that relieved you of that direct responsibility. That being a denial of the Westminster system where our elected representatives take responsibility for the various arms of government through traditional Departments of Government.
Unfortunately your last SoE was only a nudge in the right direction and with change of government CASA is dragging its feet as usual.
As far as land use controls by government over private property are concerned, there’s not one government, or political party, in Australia that’s working towards giving back real property rights and ownership by any fundamental change to our debilitating land use and heavy zoning controls.
Today ownership is not much more than a token allowance and any change of use is an immediate call to the bureaucracy to impose all kinds restrictions and take fees and charges to themselves and their ‘consultant’ friends, often former colleagues.
How did we get here? All governments love their land zoning powers, these powers have been approved in principle by all parties including the National Party.
Not one government in Australia is going to propose a no land zoning free enterprise system where your ownership really means something.
Take no zoning Houston Texas for example, a very prosperous (low mortgage load) and growing community, property values are not bloated and distorted by artificial ‘planning’ schemes (same as Australia pre 70s).
You can’t have the efficiencies and the prosperity that comes with our freedom without people being able to use their land as they see fit.
You can still have your EPA standards and governments can control all of their own very large holdings.
A friend was just asked for $12,000 to cut down a gum tree so he could build a shed on a 70 acre wooded farm, the trend to a truly socialist, and a relatively weaker and poorer Australia, has been going on for years and this has much to do with the fact that our major political parties maintain their liking of government zoning and ‘planning’ controls over private property.."
L&Ks Sandy...
MTF...P2
Sandy's reply to this BJ FB post:
Quote:Barnaby Joyce
The problem with trying to get ahead in our electorate of New England and Australia today is that government are far from helping and is so often the greatest impediment.
In Bingara, there was an investor trying to build a new greenhouse for leafy green vegetables including tomatoes. This would have employed many locals as well as supplying food for Australians. The bigger the supply of food the lower the price for your grocery bill, but that was until government green tape came into play.
To clear 20 hectares of rubbish black pine country was going to incur a bureaucratic charge called the Environmental Biodiversity Offset, and the cost? Six and a half million dollars! So you don’t have to be Pythagoras to work out what happened, the developers said forget it.
In another area, just for this local council, an acquisition to secure land for a road bypass has hit its own roadblock of 19 Native title land claims instantaneously being lodged on the small parcel of land, with some claims from as far away as Western Australia.
Does anyone ever sit back in government and call rubbish on these excesses? Do people realise how difficult it is to expand the economy and create jobs, as you hear so often in pious narrations by Ministers of expanding the economy, providing new economic opportunities, and increasing wages, when they are the same body that created the hurdles to stop precisely that.
And then of course there is the power price fiasco as we close coal fired power stations and replace them with wind factories. Minister Chris Bowen is pythonesque saying that he is bringing down power prices with renewables when the reality is the pain in your power bill. It is going through the roof.
How do we say we are going to increase manufacturing jobs when we can’t afford to manufacture?
"..Barnaby, with respect and appreciation for your contribution to our country, the same situation and bureaucratic madness is found in General Aviation (GA) and you were the Minister but chose not to make the real reforms that are plainly required. I personally spoke to you about the problems, and wrote via my MP many times.
You did make some recognition of the numerous problems of GA by issuing a more detailed Statement of Expectations. to the (Un) Civil Aviation Safety Authority.
Like all of your predecessors, since Gareth Evans persuaded Parliament to create an independent corporate to administer civil aviation, you went along with the “hands off” system that relieved you of that direct responsibility. That being a denial of the Westminster system where our elected representatives take responsibility for the various arms of government through traditional Departments of Government.
Unfortunately your last SoE was only a nudge in the right direction and with change of government CASA is dragging its feet as usual.
As far as land use controls by government over private property are concerned, there’s not one government, or political party, in Australia that’s working towards giving back real property rights and ownership by any fundamental change to our debilitating land use and heavy zoning controls.
Today ownership is not much more than a token allowance and any change of use is an immediate call to the bureaucracy to impose all kinds restrictions and take fees and charges to themselves and their ‘consultant’ friends, often former colleagues.
How did we get here? All governments love their land zoning powers, these powers have been approved in principle by all parties including the National Party.
Not one government in Australia is going to propose a no land zoning free enterprise system where your ownership really means something.
Take no zoning Houston Texas for example, a very prosperous (low mortgage load) and growing community, property values are not bloated and distorted by artificial ‘planning’ schemes (same as Australia pre 70s).
You can’t have the efficiencies and the prosperity that comes with our freedom without people being able to use their land as they see fit.
You can still have your EPA standards and governments can control all of their own very large holdings.
A friend was just asked for $12,000 to cut down a gum tree so he could build a shed on a 70 acre wooded farm, the trend to a truly socialist, and a relatively weaker and poorer Australia, has been going on for years and this has much to do with the fact that our major political parties maintain their liking of government zoning and ‘planning’ controls over private property.."
L&Ks Sandy...
MTF...P2