“Well, they’re trying to work out how to pay it back [$260b Federal debt]. So they devised the mining tax; the trouble is, of course, the people who came to help them out with that were the major mining companies, and they devised a mining tax where they don’t actually pay any tax. They said we’d have a mining tax, [BHP’s] Marius Kloppers said ‘You certainly will’, and then Marius Kloppers whipped out a pen and a paper and he gave them one. And it’s working very well for BHP. It’s working very well for Xstrata. And good luck to them, I mean, if a fool invites you to their office and opens the chequebook then you just start writing out your own cheques…
… So they’ve come to this conclusion: they have no money. They have to go finding money. So, first thing they do when they try to look for money is set up a class war. Or, things have to start with a moral prerogative, ‘We must find evil people'”…
They’re going to go and – obviously – just flog the money out of people’s super. Simple as that…
It’s so sneaky.” – Senator Joyce
Alas, I have long neglected to catch up on Senator Joyce’s YouTube channel.
It is the best place for you to enjoy catching up with, and hearing the latest from, one of the few politicians left in this country who might, just might, actually have a genuine devotion to interests other than his own.
Like his constituents, for example.
And the Australian people and nation as a whole.
About a week ago there were a bunch of new videos uploaded to Barnaby’s YouTube feed. The following one is particularly topical, in light of the recent media and political focus on superannuation, and the mining tax. Note in particular from the 1 minute mark, after Barnaby’s delightfully authentic, unpolished and rambling preamble:
Note independent Senator Nick Xenophon’s helpful correction towards the end. And see my recent post Your Super Screwed By The Laboral Party.
I maintain the view sent to Senator Joyce some months back.
The Nationals … and if not the Nationals in toto, then he himself … should split from their ‘senior’ Coalition partners, and go independent.
As a matter of principle, and integrity.
And participate in forming a new government with whomever they wish, according to their own principles and the views of their constituents.
Not those of the Liberal Party’s machine men.
IMO, the Liberals are no better than Labor.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
The Laboral Party.
Barnaby Is Right 
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