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Mark Latham - One Nation

Post by Black Orchid » Wed Mar 06, 2019 7:34 pm

Mark Latham says there’s no place for gender quotas in our emergency services.

The current Fire and Rescue NSW policy says when hiring, there must be an equal amount of female and male firefighters.

Mr Latham tells Ben Fordham firefighters have complained to him about the struggle to maintain this quota.

“The reality is the emergency services strength matters.

“There’s no room for quotas and doing anything other than ensuring the very best person applying for the job gets the job,” he says.
https://www.2gb.com/mark-latham-calls-f ... efighters/

Couldn't agree more. How many women want to be firefighters? Certainly not half of every gender quota.

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Post by Black Orchid » Wed Mar 06, 2019 7:39 pm

Mark Latham says his top priority if he is elected to the upper house at the state election will be "to fight overdevelopment in Sydney and restore quality of life".

The former federal Labor leader, who appears likely to win a seat for Pauline Hanson's One Nation, campaigned at Miranda train station on Monday in support of candidate Gaye Cameron.

Mr Latham said Sydney "has become dysfunctional with apartment towers and all the other development".

"The whole face of Sydney is changing before our eyes," he said.

"No one voted for this, no one was asked about it, and a lot of Sydney-siders think, 'It's not what I wanted - a crowded area, crowded trains, traffic jams, can't get the kids around on time, the whole nature of my area has changed'.


"What is needed are sensible planning policies that give people back their suburbs, instead of being overwhelmed by overdevelopment."

Mr Latham said there was "a unique opportunity with back-to back state and federal elections to support One Nation because our policy is to cut the immigration program that is fuelling the 100,000 a year population increase in Sydney".

"At a state level our policies are three-fold," he said.

"The first is to abolish the Greater Sydney Commission, headed by Lucy Turnbull, which has just been a mouthpiece for extra growth and immigration.

"The second is to introduce planning controls in the shire to stop overdevelopment and limit the population growth, similar to what the current government has given in Ryde.

"The third policy is to restore the powers of local government.


"You have now got councils who don't approve a single development application. It has been taken out of their hands and goes either to state level or so-called independent panels."

Mr Latham denied having a credibility problem due to his chequered political past.

"Labor changed a lot more than I did," he said.

Ms Cameron said "the fiasco of overdevelopment across Sutherland Shire is creating anarchy among the residents".
https://www.theleader.com.au/story/5937 ... t/?cs=1507

Again I agree. It's certainly not only Sutherland shire though. The north has been ruined to accommodate the Chinese.

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Re: Mark Latham - One Nation

Post by Black Orchid » Wed Mar 06, 2019 7:43 pm

Go nuclear. Ban Islamic full-face coverings from government buildings. Just a few of the “show me the money” conditions a newly minted Mark Latham MLC might put to a minority Coalition or, possibly, Labor government after the NSW election.

Make no mistake, the former Labor, then Liberal Democrat, now One Nation loyalist will be elected to the upper house ‪‪on March 23‬‬. And he will be front-and-centre among the swollen ranks of crossbenchers who’ll decide the fate of many policy deliberations until, wait for it, 2027.

How will he weigh the legislative conundrums brought before him? What motivations might he bring to bear? The answer could lie in some of his ruminations on US politics.

Explaining in August 2016 why he wanted “The Donald to win”, Latham mused it would be “a poke in the eye for the self-interested political elites, for establishment figures everywhere ... who cravenly guard their power at the expense of regular people”. Egalitarianism with a figurative dash of ocular retribution? Check.
More at https://www.smh.com.au/national/why-dem ... 50vq7.html

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Re: Mark Latham - One Nation

Post by Outlaw Yogi » Wed Mar 06, 2019 9:39 pm

A lot of pundits and opinionistas condemned Mark Latham as immature and for being a head kicker, but I always liked him, not because I played footy with a bloke bearing the same name, but precisely because he is a head kicker.

And who can forget the best parliamentary slagging in living memory when berating Howard & Co for getting sucked into George Dubya's 'Down with Saddam' campaign by referring to them as " ... a conga line of suck holes"?
And how right/correct he and we who opposed the 2nd invasion of Iraq? .. in light of the fact Islamic State (Stalinism painted Islamic to sucker extremists) is Saddam's revenge, pure and simple.

When the ABC's Chaser/War on Everything/Glasshouse crew set up an effigy of whoever they were condemning at the entrance of Parliament House and offering exiting pollies the chance to belt the effigy with a nurf bat, Latham took the bat and belted the Chaser compaire.

These days he's a pariah for talking common sense ... like the Canadian Jorden Peterson, who profoundly illustrates the malaise of Westernised society when someone becomes a celebrity for simply talking common sense.

So on the topic of gender quotas, or for that matter racial quotas or queer quotas, his comments will resonate with the mainstream because he's condemning stupidity. These quotas make as much sense as making someone the Police Commissioner because they're Aboriginal, or Director of Emergency Services because they're in a wheel chair.
Quotas cause incompetence and incompetence breeds corruption because the incompetent are easily manipulated.

On over development, well he's correct but about 20 years too late. Over development and over crowding due to mass immigration is why I bailed from Sydney in 1998, although I'd planned it by buying a bush block in 1992. over crowding increases competition for pretty much everything from somewhere to live, hospital treatment, parking spaces or just room to move .. or walk your dog.
This competition for living space and basic services makes us more aggressive as a people/population.

Go nuclear? .. if he means for electricity supply, then he hasn't researched it adequately. The people are bitching about subsidies for flimsy renewables making the cost of electricity unaffordable ... well nuclear power is the mother of all subsidy scams. Nuke power is the most expensive method of boiling water ever devised, and there's no business case for nuke because it doesn't run without subsidies period. That's just for operating costs. On top of that you've got massive construction cost and almost infinite waste storage costs ... it's a dud! .... Oz won't go nuclear because we're too tight arsed to pay for it, and I'm glad for it.

If go nuclear is a metaphor for cracking down on Islamic induced dramas? Couldn't agree more, but I'd go the whole hog and just ban Islam outright. There's no logical reason to accommodate this thorn in our side. The Left wing apologises for their anti-social barbarism because they recognise Muslims want to destroy Westernised civilisation so use them as proxy vandals.

Wanting Trump to win? ... Well I predicted against consensus opinion (here and everywhere else) that Trump would win, and that belief was founded on listening to what the ordinary people said, rather than what the parasite class told us what was proper and correct. And personally I favoured him over Clinton because he has the potential to abate fifth column/left wing sabotage of Westernised civilisation and democracy. Most left wingers are latent communists, and communism is pseudo-monarchism, thus the "Chairman" is just a king with an alternate title.
Someone's got to stand up to China, and so far Trump is the only one with the balls to do so.
Those cretins who (in the last 30 years) let China develop financially and industrially without developing politically should be skinned alive.

As for Latham himself? I hope he gets elected.
If Donald Trump is so close to the Ruskis, why couldn't he get Vladimir Putin to put novichok in Xi Jjinping's lipstick?

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Re: Mark Latham - One Nation

Post by Valkie » Thu Mar 07, 2019 5:37 am

I like Mark because when howard the coward insulted Marks wife,
Mark crushed howard the cowards hand in a handshake
howard the coward crumbled under the force of a real man and went white.

Anyone that hurts howard the coward gets my vote.
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My hope is that in time, Islam will be nothing but a bad dream

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Re: Mark Latham - One Nation

Post by Valkie » Thu Mar 07, 2019 5:58 am

I don't hear any screams of gender equality in some professions.

Such as teaching and child care.

Men have been hounded out of these now almost totally female dominated professions.
And yet there is a real need for men, as positive role models, in these professions.

But I guess, only women matter these days
Men don't get a look in
Its all about equality, and women are apparently want to be more equal than men.
I have a dream
A world free from the plague of Islam
A world that has never known the horrors of the cult of death.
My hope is that in time, Islam will be nothing but a bad dream

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Re: Mark Latham - One Nation

Post by brian ross » Thu Mar 07, 2019 12:54 pm

How can someone who has frequently changed parties when the party has refused to back him be referred to as a "loyalist"? :roll:

Latham is like Pauline. It is his way or no way. Two strong egos of similar type cannot co-exist in a single party the size of the Hansonites. I foresee another example of David Oldfield occuring. He'll split the party and create a schism all to his own benefit and to Pauline's detriment. She has foolishly allowed him inside the door and so she will again pay the penalty of relying on someone who has an ego as big as her's... :roll:
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Re: Mark Latham - One Nation

Post by cods » Thu Mar 07, 2019 3:18 pm

brian ross wrote:
Thu Mar 07, 2019 12:54 pm
How can someone who has frequently changed parties when the party has refused to back him be referred to as a "loyalist"? :roll:

Latham is like Pauline. It is his way or no way. Two strong egos of similar type cannot co-exist in a single party the size of the Hansonites. I foresee another example of David Oldfield occuring. He'll split the party and create a schism all to his own benefit and to Pauline's detriment. She has foolishly allowed him inside the door and so she will again pay the penalty of relying on someone who has an ego as big as her's... :roll:


some people change as they get older bri bri...some actually grow up...

ego after all is a form of fear....giving into someone else is a weakness of character....

when in fact its the opposite.

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Re: Mark Latham - One Nation

Post by brian ross » Thu Mar 07, 2019 4:28 pm

cods wrote:
Thu Mar 07, 2019 3:18 pm
brian ross wrote:
Thu Mar 07, 2019 12:54 pm
How can someone who has frequently changed parties when the party has refused to back him be referred to as a "loyalist"? :roll:

Latham is like Pauline. It is his way or no way. Two strong egos of similar type cannot co-exist in a single party the size of the Hansonites. I foresee another example of David Oldfield occuring. He'll split the party and create a schism all to his own benefit and to Pauline's detriment. She has foolishly allowed him inside the door and so she will again pay the penalty of relying on someone who has an ego as big as her's... :roll:
some people change as they get older bri bri...some actually grow up...
Partially true but somehow, I doubt it in the case of Latham. He strikes me as one angry man. What a shame really. I had high hopes of him when he was the leader of the ALP.
ego after all is a form of fear....giving into someone else is a weakness of character....

when in fact its the opposite.
Allowing someone like Latham onboard is like letting a cannibal take over the cooking... :roll:
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Re: Mark Latham - One Nation

Post by Neferti » Thu Mar 07, 2019 5:08 pm

Mark Latham has every right to re-enter the political scene under a different guise as anyone does. Australia is still a FREE country.

Pauline Hanson has every right to do her thing too. So what?

NOBODY is telling you that you HAVE to VOTE for either of them.

God some people are pathetic.

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