BJ on McDonaught's - 'Marriage of Convenience' with the ScoMo?? 
Via the SMH:
Barnaby Joyce demands better deal for Nationals in Coalition
By Rob Harris
January 27, 2021 — 6.50pm
Former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has called for a major overhaul in the Coalition arrangement with the Liberals, again undermining his successor Michael McCormack ahead of a new parliamentary year.
Mr Joyce, who said he does not want to return to the top job, said the junior Coalition party was being short-changed by Prime Minister Scott Morrison around the cabinet table.
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The former deputy prime minister also fired a warning shot over climate change, saying the Nationals will not accept a 2050 net zero emissions target.
“We need a fairer deal from the marriage,” Mr Joyce told Sky News Australia on Wednesday evening.
“We have been doing it the polite way ... we’ve been doing it behind closed doors. We’ve been doing all the things they tell us to do but it’s just not working it.
“There is a problem, the problem needs fixing, it is in how the relationship works and for there to be a Coalition it has to be in form, it has to be in substance like it was in the past.”
Mr Joyce is among a group of backbench Nationals MPs who have picked a fresh climate change fight within the federal Coalition, releasing a manufacturing plan underpinned by new coal-fired power stations.
Almost 12 months since he was defeated in a party room ballot after calling a leadership spill, Mr Joyce said the Nationals need to demand more from the Liberals.
Asked about Mr Joyce’s opinion piece about the Coalition in The Australian earlier in the day, Mr McCormack said the partnership was a “marriage of strengths”.
He said the vast majority of government spending was administered by the Liberals with even the big-spending infrastructure portfolio, held by Mr McCormack, also shared with Liberal MP Paul Fletcher.
“The Liberal Party is not going to govern without the National Party. Simple as that,” he said.
“You’re not going to have National Party votes if you don’t have National Party seats and you won’t have National Party seats unless we get a substantive change in how this works.”
Mr Joyce said as the longest-serving MP in the party room he was entitled to speak his mind and he was not touting for the leadership.
“I am going to make sure I’m still standing up for my party,” he said.
Next (courtesy of FB) Senator Gerard Rennick hits the nail on the head on un-elected bureaucrats - in his response to this Oz article: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/busines...60b36dad53
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“The ABC has defended its decision to officially refer to January 26 as “Invasion Day”, maintaining it would be inappropriate to insist that staff only call it Australia Day or “use any one term over others in all contexts”.”
The latest action by the ABC is just another example of the sedition by stealth that is occurring by unelected, Marxist bureaucrats in this country.
It’s not just the ABC doing this.
- the BOM never had permission to homgenise data
- APRA won’t enforce the sole purpose test
- ASIC allows short selling without disclosure
- the CSIRO released the GenCost report without the Minister's permission
- the RBA have complete control of monetary policy and have transferred our gold offshore
- Scientists claim the reef is covered in coal dust with no evidence
- the Auditor-General (ex-Labor staffer and member of the Socialist Forum), makes deliberate, false and misleading claims about land values in order to undermine much needed infrastructure.
Bureaucrats are getting away with this because there is a view that they are independent and politicians are not. This is a false assumption. No person is independent. Everyone has preconceived ideas.
What matters is whether or not people are held accountable.
It is completely absurd that democratically elected parliamentarians and ministers are removed from the decision making process. What’s the point of democracy if people aren’t held to account?
Yet that is exactly what has happened with the creation of independent statutory authorities.
Who holds these bodies to account? The RBA, BOM and the ABC have been completely negligent in performing their duties yet ministers are powerless to stop them because prior governments have washed their hands of the responsibility.
I will be asking party room to consider legislation placing power back into the hands of elected representatives and away from unelected, incompetent, belligerent bureaucrats.
Hmm...any chance we could elevate the good Senator's motion directly to ScoMo's PMC for immediate action with the proviso that they start with making an example of the CASA Iron Ring??
MTF...P2
Via the SMH:
Barnaby Joyce demands better deal for Nationals in Coalition
By Rob Harris
January 27, 2021 — 6.50pm
Former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has called for a major overhaul in the Coalition arrangement with the Liberals, again undermining his successor Michael McCormack ahead of a new parliamentary year.
Mr Joyce, who said he does not want to return to the top job, said the junior Coalition party was being short-changed by Prime Minister Scott Morrison around the cabinet table.
The former deputy prime minister also fired a warning shot over climate change, saying the Nationals will not accept a 2050 net zero emissions target.
“We need a fairer deal from the marriage,” Mr Joyce told Sky News Australia on Wednesday evening.
“We have been doing it the polite way ... we’ve been doing it behind closed doors. We’ve been doing all the things they tell us to do but it’s just not working it.
“There is a problem, the problem needs fixing, it is in how the relationship works and for there to be a Coalition it has to be in form, it has to be in substance like it was in the past.”
Mr Joyce is among a group of backbench Nationals MPs who have picked a fresh climate change fight within the federal Coalition, releasing a manufacturing plan underpinned by new coal-fired power stations.
Almost 12 months since he was defeated in a party room ballot after calling a leadership spill, Mr Joyce said the Nationals need to demand more from the Liberals.
Asked about Mr Joyce’s opinion piece about the Coalition in The Australian earlier in the day, Mr McCormack said the partnership was a “marriage of strengths”.
He said the vast majority of government spending was administered by the Liberals with even the big-spending infrastructure portfolio, held by Mr McCormack, also shared with Liberal MP Paul Fletcher.
“The Liberal Party is not going to govern without the National Party. Simple as that,” he said.
“You’re not going to have National Party votes if you don’t have National Party seats and you won’t have National Party seats unless we get a substantive change in how this works.”
Mr Joyce said as the longest-serving MP in the party room he was entitled to speak his mind and he was not touting for the leadership.
“I am going to make sure I’m still standing up for my party,” he said.
Next (courtesy of FB) Senator Gerard Rennick hits the nail on the head on un-elected bureaucrats - in his response to this Oz article: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/busines...60b36dad53
“The ABC has defended its decision to officially refer to January 26 as “Invasion Day”, maintaining it would be inappropriate to insist that staff only call it Australia Day or “use any one term over others in all contexts”.”
The latest action by the ABC is just another example of the sedition by stealth that is occurring by unelected, Marxist bureaucrats in this country.
It’s not just the ABC doing this.
- the BOM never had permission to homgenise data
- APRA won’t enforce the sole purpose test
- ASIC allows short selling without disclosure
- the CSIRO released the GenCost report without the Minister's permission
- the RBA have complete control of monetary policy and have transferred our gold offshore
- Scientists claim the reef is covered in coal dust with no evidence
- the Auditor-General (ex-Labor staffer and member of the Socialist Forum), makes deliberate, false and misleading claims about land values in order to undermine much needed infrastructure.
Bureaucrats are getting away with this because there is a view that they are independent and politicians are not. This is a false assumption. No person is independent. Everyone has preconceived ideas.
What matters is whether or not people are held accountable.
It is completely absurd that democratically elected parliamentarians and ministers are removed from the decision making process. What’s the point of democracy if people aren’t held to account?
Yet that is exactly what has happened with the creation of independent statutory authorities.
Who holds these bodies to account? The RBA, BOM and the ABC have been completely negligent in performing their duties yet ministers are powerless to stop them because prior governments have washed their hands of the responsibility.
I will be asking party room to consider legislation placing power back into the hands of elected representatives and away from unelected, incompetent, belligerent bureaucrats.
Hmm...any chance we could elevate the good Senator's motion directly to ScoMo's PMC for immediate action with the proviso that they start with making an example of the CASA Iron Ring??
MTF...P2