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Just what we need: more federal bodies

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Just when things are going so well :) in the health and hospital reform :) space, with new agencies being proposed, Ross Garnaut thinks we don’t have enough.

All independent, of course.

Written by Judith Sloan

May 31st, 2011 at 2:29 pm

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  1. LOl

    An “Indepwendent” Carbin Bank. That sure is going to work with every subsidy whore in the country knocking on its door.

    Has anyone told these freaking morons that G8 has basically nixed any emissions cuts?

    JC.

    31 May 11 at 2:32 pm

  2. Independent of who and what? Voters?

    Ellen of Tasmania

    31 May 11 at 2:41 pm

  3. Ah, so this is how the age old problem of trying to keep your legislation going after you have been removed from office will be confronted.

    The startling contempt for democracy in the C02 emissions debate continues to get stronger. Vote for ‘No Carbon Tax’ Gillard and get a Carbon tax designed to outlive the government.

    Clearly with Workchoices Howard should have set up 10 agencies with people on long term contracts to stop change happening to that.

    Karl Kessel

    31 May 11 at 2:45 pm

  4. Karl

    I think you’re thinking of an Idepwendent Workchoices Bank. The Howard government was setting that up.

    JC.

    31 May 11 at 2:47 pm

  5. A carbon bank!

    Here’s how to make a deposit:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVaKNarDpuw

    C.L.

    31 May 11 at 2:59 pm

  6. If Garnaut will have contributed anything for Australia, it will have been the introduction of more flowcharts into public cspaces.

    Can we have a flow chart detailing all of Garnaut’s flow charts, please, and a flow chart showing how those flow charts relate to other flow charts, and supplementary flow charts showing how Catallaxy’s flow charts tie in with Garnaut’s flow charts tie in with other flow charts? Thanks.

    TimT

    31 May 11 at 3:15 pm

  7. Or we could just simply allow hydro, nuke and nuke exploration and exports to operate carte blanche. With no taxes on energy.

    .

    31 May 11 at 3:21 pm

  8. independent = unaccountable

    Adrian

    31 May 11 at 3:24 pm

  9. I will regard my kids as independent when I stop funding them. I doubt it will be the same with these proposed creatures.

    TerjeP

    31 May 11 at 3:25 pm

  10. TimT

    I think we need a flow chart of Ross Garnaut’s fees. It appears to me this dude is the biggest fee whore we’ve ever seen taking drinks from the public trough.

    He’s coming up with “studies” every 47.5 hours now.

    As I said, we’re going to see this dude on the Forbes 400 list before too long.

    JC.

    31 May 11 at 3:26 pm

  11. This governments contempt for those outside their charmed circle of tax eating hangers on is shocking to watch.

    They spit in the face of the general public. Lie cheat and twist reality, now a new tax becomes “a market mechanism”, and carbon dioxide becomes “carbon pollution”.

    TerjeP has it right. They are animating the zombie corpse of socalism by beuaucratic complexity, and creating whole new groups of constituents to be brought off.

    thefrollickingmole

    31 May 11 at 4:54 pm

  12. Why does the independent comm. reporting to Parliament report to the executive and why does the carbon bank owe allegiance to Parliament and the legislative check on the executive?

    .

    31 May 11 at 5:16 pm

  13. Heard Guano boy talking on the ABC about the “carbon bank” being just as important as the reserve bank… FML…

    thefrollickingmole

    31 May 11 at 5:20 pm

  14. Surely he knows better.

    I wonder if Frontier Economics will slam this proposal as well.

    .

    31 May 11 at 5:29 pm

  15. The real aim is to structure the Australia politic as follows:

    Independent Carbon Bank
    Constitution of Australia
    Parliament, Courts, Executive Government of Australia

    Samuel J

    31 May 11 at 6:14 pm

  16. Awwww man you can just see how FUCKING STUPID this is going to be. This looks like a diagram of the Soviet financial system when I was doing Command Economics (is) for Idiots in Gr 11.

    A carbon bank? I bet the likes of, well let’s not mention names until we have the evidence, but certain people in government are just rubbing their hands with glee at this one.

    Adrien

    31 May 11 at 6:20 pm

  17. The smartest thing to do would be to just axe payroll tax and have a $40 tonne/carbon/16 cpl fuel excise.

    This would actually work.

    The ALP/Greens Government are too stupid to do this.

    Of course, there should be no taxes on energy. We need to unshackle nuke power, nuke exploration and exports and hydro power.

    That would actually make a difference.

    The ALP/Greens Government are too stupid to do this.

    It also makes me suspicious as to their motives. They are deadset stuck on the idea of taxing themselves into prosperity. Maybe regrettably as a last resort. But this is their first and only answer.

    .

    31 May 11 at 7:08 pm

  18. How is the Government going to stop me from burning wood fires etc?

    This is impossible to account for and doomed to fail.

    .

    31 May 11 at 7:30 pm

  19. Are these the Green jobs the Climageddon worshippers keep talking about? Sounds more like a bloated Green bureaucracy which will need to be chopped in the first Abbott budget.

    Jon

    31 May 11 at 8:36 pm

  20. Independent Carbon Bank
    Constitution of Australia
    Parliament, Courts, Executive Government of Australia

    Abbott should, immediately promise to dismantle any bureaucratic structure like the carbin bank as soon as he gains office and the officers there dismissed asap. Not just dismissed from those jobs and relocated but fired/axed and intimation they would be never be allowed to serve in the public service again.

    This ought to raise a few eyebrows in Canberra.

    The Libs should also ask under FOI how much they have paid Ross Garnaut and a copy of his consultancy arrangement. I can’t believe they haven’t done so yet. Can a private citizens request an FOI?

    JC.

    31 May 11 at 8:57 pm

  21. I’d love to see a flow chart of him and Julia’s methane sequestration programme when they are inhaling each others farts!

    JB Goode

    31 May 11 at 10:59 pm

  22. It also makes me suspicious as to their motives.

    Really? Just suspicious? The Greens have been clear about their motives since day dot, have a gander at the at any Greens paper or forum archives. Apparently the number one problem for the environment are Jews and Israel, number two are humans, number three is capitalism and number four is industry.

    For Labor, well for Gillard the crusty old Socialist Forum / Fabian loser (who the hell still hangs around a real life “socialist club” using the word “comrade” in their forties? How embarrassment), it’s about moving more control of the business to the central bureaucracy (as seen here) and yet another wealth redistributing tax.

    The motives of the individual players are crystal clear. Gillard gets to shift the economy a bit further into central command mode, as her beliefs demand, under the cover of Climate Change. The greens get to stab industry and humans in this country in the eye.

    A win win for both…until next election.

    I would posit a guess that neither really give a shit about climate change.

    twostix

    31 May 11 at 11:57 pm

  23. God, these people are suckers for anything that claims to be “independent”, aren’t they?

    Peter Patton

    1 Jun 11 at 12:46 am

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