How many countries in the E.U. are actually financing their imports and their elevated life styles with their exports and not with borrowing?

Greece wanted [...]]]> The surprising sudden deterioration in Europe’s economic position in one week is alarming, but it is a sign that the whole of Europe, except for Germany perhaps, have unstable economies.

How many countries in the E.U. are actually financing their imports and their elevated life styles with their exports and not with borrowing?

Greece wanted a 21st Century life style from the earnings of a small tourist trade.

The only country earning a living in the E.U. with exports is Germany and the rest of Europe expects to live off her.

Greece should have a life style at a level of pre-1914 Europe because that is the level her exports earn for her.

Except for Germany and Sweden the rest of Europe is little better, but why is that?

“Degrowth- (In French: decroissance, in Spanish: decrecimiento, in Italian: decrescita.) Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.” Degrowth is the underlying policy that is destroying the West.

“It is a political, economic and social movement based on Environmentalism, Anti-consumerist and Anti-capitalist ideas.  Degrowth thinkers and activists advocate for the down scaling of production and consumption – the contraction of economics – as over-consumption lies at the root of long term environmental issues and social inequalities.

Key to the concept of degrowth is that reducing consumption does not require individual martyring and a decrease in well-being.  Rather degrowthists aim to maximize happiness and well-being through non-consumptive means – sharing work, consuming less, while devoting more time to art, music, family, culture and community.”

Tell that to Greece, Spain, Italy, France and Portugal as well as China, India and the rest of the third world.

“At the individual level degrowth is achieved by voluntary simplicity.  Global solutions for degrowthists involve a re localization of economic activities in order to end humanity’s dependence on fossil fuels and reduce it’s ecological imprint.”

“Degrowth opposes sustainable development because, while sustainable development aims to address environmental concerns; it does so with the goal of promoting economic growth which has failed to improve the lives of people and inevitably leads to environmental degradation.”

Germany was in fact criticized for continuing to manufacture.

There you have it.  The constant economic problems in the Western World are policy by Socialist governments promoting democracy and universal equality.  In other words – degrowth.

The intention is to force the collapse of Western society so that our standard of living reaches third world levels.

A major instrument in this policy is global warming, which involves the destruction of our industry and our standard of living.  The policy of our Left-wing teacher’s unions is to dumb down European children and discourage the study of maths, science, engineering, manufacturing trades and advanced farming.

These people have infiltrated Right-wing parties in Europe, America, Australia and New Zealand.  Cameron in the U.K. is no Tory, his policies differ very little from that of Blair, including mass immigration.

Under British management Britain’s car industry was on the point of collapse, under Indian and German management the industry is flourishing.

There is no answer to the collapse in Western civilization World wide because the policy of our leaders is to destroy us.

Cameron does not want manufacturing in England, Hollande in France has the same policy, so does Obama in America and Gillard and Abbott in Australia.  Neither promote processing our mineral resources in Australia or anything to do with manufacturing.

If you want to do something write to your M.P.’s about degrowth and the local School Principal and the teacher’s unions about equal outcomes.

If we let things slide we will end up in mud huts with outside dunnies.

It is interesting that the A.B.C., B.B.C. or the Murdoch press never mentions degrowth even though a return to manufacturing and protectionism is vital to the survival of our society.  We will be in the hands of our enemies until that subject is debated and the policy reversed.

Degrowth and America starts to fight back.

Since completing the above article one of three items of news in The Advertiser, 19th May 2012, suggest that America has had enough and that Obama, to survive, has started to change America’s trade policy with China.

China never believed in fair trade for her any deal must be a win win result in her favour.

The price of her manufactured goods is not controlled by her internal costs but her need for foreign currency and her desire to dominate World markets.

If necessary she will subsidise any company to achieve her ends.  State controlled industry is not a level playing field.

“Trade war looms on China’s solar panels.  The Adveriser, 19.5.2012″.

America’s Commerce department announced stiff duties yesterday “after making a preliminary finding that Chinese solar panel manufacturers ‘dumped’ their goods, that is sold these far below fair-market value.

More than 60 Chinese firms, including Suntech Power Holdings, the Worlds’s largest solar-panel maker, and Trima-Solar face a 31% duty on their exports to the U.S., retro active to shipments made in February.”

All other Chinese exporters of solar cells will be hit with a tariff of 250%.  The U.S. imports of Chinese solar cells – were valued at about 3.1 billion dollars last year.

As usual there is a complainant, Tony Clifford, chief executive of Standard Solar a solar developer and installer in Maryland wants to continue buying Cheap Chinese units at the old price.

If this is the start of a trade war between the U.S. and China be under no illusion that tactics will be dirty and bystanders will get hurt.

This war is for World Domination through international trade.  Threats and force will be used where necessary, China does not care who she hurts as a result of her policies as long as she wins.

The main fields of conflict will be Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South America, Europe will no longer offer effective opposition to the aggressive marketing strategy by either China or the U.S..

With the World at stake anything is acceptable.

China has complete control of her work force and America’s hard industrial relations will be well matched, but socialist Europe with it’s powerful unions has no hope.  (Up to 30,000 Hewlett-Packard jobs may go)!!!!

“In Australia 4,000 set to strike as miners defy B.H.P”

(The Advertiser, 19.5.2012)

If this trade war gets really ugly our present Capitalist system will not give us the power to survive.  Western governments must stop the sale of industrial firms and patents to China.

Legislate draconian laws to control union excess.  Like China, assist new manufacturers introducing new products on to the market.

Take control of all Banks and their lending policies.  Special systems, like Google, which are mainly in light industry, can prosper under the present system but not heavy industry.

Make no mistake this is the start of a war for World Conquest .  The size of the combatants is important.  China is in no hurry and if she takes the control off her rise in population she could have 3 billion citizens by the end of the century.

Australia’s choice may be surrender to an Asian tyranny or be eliminated.

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The socialist Left party Norway (Wikipedia) supports immigration believing Norway will evolve into a more multi-cultural society.  It also believes that the only way to create social equality is to create ethnic equality.

Socialist parties in Norway need a cause to exist because [...]]]> Socialist parties generally believe in multi-culturalism and the free movement of immigrants.

The socialist Left party Norway (Wikipedia) supports immigration believing Norway will evolve into a more multi-cultural society.  It also believes that the only way to create social equality is to create ethnic equality.

Socialist parties in Norway need a cause to exist because poverty has been removed from the agenda.  Until the end of the 1970′s Norway was a society of small farmers and fishermen struggling to survive.  After that it was North Sea oil and gas and wealth above the dreams of avarice.  The sovereign wealth fund is 500 billion dollars, the highest in the world, the minimum wage 28 dollars per hour and they have the highest per capita income in the world.  (Wikipedia)

What on earth can a socialist party do to justify it’s existence and stir up dissent?  Two policies filled the bill.  Multi-culturalism and the handing over of Norway to Islam and the importation of cheap food from Africa.  Norwegian farms would be unprofitable but that did not matter as the socialists said there were few farmers.  The farmer’s reply was to migrate to Rumania.

The Dutchman Geert Wilder’s book “Marked for Death”, previewed in the Brussels Journal, states the case against multi-culturalism and the making of Europe Islamic and the human trash can of the World.

The book is reviewed by Marc Huybrechts who examines certain of Wilders ideas such as “Much of the media and education systems preached moral relativism (you are your own judge) ” but practised moral absolutism (accept what I tell you is right) “in countless ways and multiculturalism became an explicit dogma and official policy in many political circles”.  Economic globalization and lax immigration policies opened the door to the rise of a new form of totalitarianism in Europe islamo-fascism facilitated by the immigration of millions of Muslims and sustained by the proliferation of legislated restrictions on freedom of speech and took the form of so called anti-hate, anti-discrimination and for anti-negationism laws.

Wilders claims “that Islam is incompatible with Western constitutional systems and attendant individual liberties” and Wilders is in fact marked for death by barbarous Islamists.

The question is why do socialists in the Western World hate their societies so much that they are trying to destroy them by introducing large numbers of anti-Christians who’s avowed intention is to force an Islamic way of life on us.

Anders Behring Breivik obviously believed that he could not stop the indoctrination of the young by the school system and socialist group camps and decided to act against the system.  Whether it was right to use force should be judged not by the trials of Nuremberg but the actions of various groups since then.  For example, the take over of Kosovo by Muslims and the bombing of Serbia into submission by Nato and the U.S.. The massacre of the Tutsi tribe in Rwanda while Belgium and the E.U. turned a blind eye.

The take-over of Tibet by China, the intervention and use of suicide bombers by the Tamils in Sri Lanka.  War in the Sudan and parts of Africa, VietNam, the twin towers in New York, Iraq, Afghanistan and the civil wars as the U.S.S.R. broke up.

Last but not least the encouragement to the Arabs of the Middle East and North Africa to revolt against their rulers by the Western press and the West and the aid given to the Libyans by Nato and the U.S. to overcome their rulers.

The Western press encouraged the overthrow of Putin by Russia’s middle class no doubt because he stopped the rape of Russian resources by U.S. miners and bankers.

Terrorism and suicide bombers are the last resort of the weak, if socialist Europe wants to stop attacks in the future controversial policies such as multi-culturalism, multi-racialism, foreign aid and foreign wars must be tested by referendum.

Europe may have lost it’s empires but supports America in it’s attempt to rule the World.  European courts of International Justice are a sham.  As China, Russia and India gain strength this attempt at world domination will be defeated.

The Americans are trying to make war illegal.  That is any war but theirs and socialist parties and N.G.O.’s are trying to rule the World through the U.N.  Now that is something to really fight against.

Breivik will be found guilty and must suffer for his crimes but I hold no special feeling for the people killed.  Norway escaped fighting in W.W.1. and did little in W.W.2., pacifism does not make them special.  Millions of men, women and children had died in conflicts in the last century what makes Norwegians so special?

For the rest of us, [...]]]> Our new generation see no new worlds to conquer, the vast factories of modern manufacturing have smothered the initiative of the individual except in rare cases where a small group or even an individual can develop his or her talents and prosper.  Such fields are electronics, writing, sport and entertainment.

For the rest of us, even with degrees, our jobs are semi-servitude with limited initiative and the constant spur of improved performance.

The very nature of our democracy and work place has changed from the medium-sized work shops of the 19th century to the monsters filled with automated machines of the 21st century.  Well beyond the capacity of even large investment groups to plan, build and equip.

The level playing field does not exist, Germany subsidizes it’s industries to the tune of 1.8 billion Euros.  In China the government is the provider of investment capital and will take risks that most investors in the West would find unacceptable.  Third world countries will part finance factories set up by foreign manufacturers and this is increasingly expected.  Ford and GMH both let the Australian government know that if you want our car plants to stay you will have to pay.

The three Killer diseases of Western civilisation are Altruism, the feel good opiate of giving away your inheritance; Environmentalism, the doomsday cult; and, Multi-racialism, the atonement of the white race for it’s sins against the third world.

Our leaders keep telling us that we are the rich nations of the World, but our countries, like old age pensioners, are asset rich and income poor.  U.K. prime minister Cameron keeps saying England must give more aid to the third world even though England’s economy is on it’s knees.  English people, we are told, are quite happy with this policy.  If they are they must expect to go back to the standard of living of the early 19th century.

Australia is no better.  The government cuts many of our social services but still splurges on foreign aid.

Except for the resources industries, which employ comparatively few people, our economy is failing.  The present style of capitalism is failing us and we must find another industrial pattern to follow.  Germany and it’s strong belief in technology, where the government subsidizes research and development in state and private laboratories and has a strong industrial base or China where government policy controls manufacturing, the export industry, the acquisition of overseas assets and internal finance.

Of the two China seems the best example for our purpose because the government controls more of the work place.

Our government should take over control and financing of the resources and other industries.  The government must decide which industries it is in Australia’s interest to become involved in.  Particularly those related to our resources boom and which require a high level of operator skills.  A sovereign fund would provide the capital.

The banks should also be taken over.  This would overcome the problems Australians have in accessing finance for worthwhile projects.  Governments in the future must evaluate commercial prospects and support any that look promising.  Governments world-wide are becoming involved.  England, Germany and the U.S.A. all became super powers using their natural resources we should do the same.

The German model is too difficult for Australians and their ‘she’ll be right’ attitude and the ‘clever country’ was always a fallacy.

The fiasco of the Collins Class submarines built in South Australia show the present limitations of our work force.

Australian, like many socialists, have an out-dated view of the primacy of the work  force.  Capital is King.  Industry has fled high wages of Europe and America and now farmers are leaving too.

An article “Romania offers pastures new for E.U. farmers”, by Mirel Bran, Le Monde,  in the Guardian Weekly, 4/5/12, informs us “that Romania’s 15m hectares of farmland is attracting people from all over Europe fed up with British and  the  E.U.’s farming policy.  Thousands of British, Danish, French, German, Italian and Spanish farmers have moved there since Romania joined the E.U. in 2007″.

As Africans flood into Europe perhaps this is the beginnning of a return by Caucasians to their home-land.  There is more than enough room and resources in Eastern Europe and Russia  for Europeans sick of their leaders and ruling classes fixation with altruism in the third world at the expense of their own people.

Let the Unions finance and run the factories in what is left of Europe.

Let the unemployed work the farms and put in the hours demanded of their previous owners.

Socialists do not need capitalists, ask any Cuban!!!

Of course all civilisations decay and die, but the real questions are when and how?

Our civilisation is perhaps unique in that part of our society hates, so vehemently, what they consider [...]]]> An SBS mini-series, Civilisation: Is the West History? Wednesday, 9.35pm, attempts to address this question, but has yet to come to a conclusion.

Of course all civilisations decay and die, but the real questions are when and how?

Our civilisation is perhaps unique in that part of our society hates, so vehemently, what they consider the unfair advantages we have won with our invention of the Industrial Society, that they have gone a long way to destroying us with their Post Industrial Society.  The transfer of our industry to the third world and last but not least the demand that we stop polluting the planet with our greedy use of energy.

If we do not reverse the policy of the Post Industrial Society and a return to a primitive third world standard of living, our Industrial civilisation will indeed be finished.

The U.S. and Europe are constantly in recession.  After Greece more and more E.U. countries need financial bail-outs from Germany the only European power still with manufacturing as part of it’s economy.

All these people in Europe that are rioting against austerity that is being forced upon them foolishly accepted the Post Industrial Society.  They accepted the transfer of our industry to the third world.  They buy Chinese and Indian goods and close our factories and put themselves out of work and they continue to demand higher wages and conditions that they do not merit.

The Greens and other global warming fanatics demand the West closes it’s heavy industrial plants, cuts it’s use of energy and as the bills come in wonder what they can do to earn a living.

Global warming fanatics cannot be believed when they do nothing about the World’s exploding population and refuse to use atomic energy.

Now one of the High Priests of man made global warming ‘recants’.  Dr. James Lovelock, lionised for his claims about catastrophic global warming and his abstruse Gaia theory about a single complex organism comprising all parts of the Earth, now concedes that the Earth has “not warmed up very much since the millennium” even though he expected us to be “half way towards a frying world” because of the increase in CO2.

Dr. Lovelock has singled out former U.S. vice-president, Al Gore’s ‘an inconvenient truth’ and Australian Climate Change Commissioner, Tim Flannery’s “The Weather Makers” as alarmist.

The Leader, The Australian, 26th April, 2012, p/15.

If we do nothing about them, our socialist and green masters will take us back to the stone age.  If we let that happen no amount of rioting will be of avail.

Labor is the mouth piece of a few unionists and the Liberal party of the big end of town, neither will control finance and the work force for the benefit of the rest of us.

The political middle way is taking us nowhere except to oblivion.

Make a choice, ‘back to an Industrial Society or the end of our civilisation’.

On the other hand continuing in the direction advocated by the proponents of this theory would dismantle our civilisation with our remaining industries, force us to abandon  many of our seaside towns and shore based houses.  There [...]]]> A complete industry is tied up in investigating man-made global warming and many scientific reputations are at stake.

On the other hand continuing in the direction advocated by the proponents of this theory would dismantle our civilisation with our remaining industries, force us to abandon  many of our seaside towns and shore based houses.  There would be a return to wood or mud brick houses, outside dunnies, bicycles and growing your own fruit and vegetables and keeping chickens for their eggs and meat.

Science ia abhorred because of it’s stimulus of our industrial civilisation and could be barred to all Caucasian students, including Indians, and only students studying non-proscribed green sciences and medicine would be entitled to have cars and computers, television sets would still be allowed as a means of contact with big brother.

Joking aside, the believers of man-made global warming are nothing less than fanatical in their beliefs and will never change their opinion.

More than a few British T.V. programs ridicule or support the desire of Britain’s Middle-class elites to return to a simple life in the country-side, which has a strong pull for many English people tired of the rat race.

One international group, Global Campaign for Climate Action, (The Weekend Australian, March 31-April 1, 2012, p1) epitomizes the many groups of people, academic and political, promoting the “Back to the simple life policy”.  The group is 300 strong and has distributed a ‘spin sheet’ encouraging it’s members “to emphasise the link between climate change and extreme weather events, despite uncertainties acknowledged by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change”  (IPCC).

An “Action pack” distributed by GCAA “said members shouldn’t be afraid to make the connection despite the sometimes low level of confidence in the official documents of the IPCC”.

“What this leaked document shows is again we have groups out there promoting more extreme situations than the report actually warrants because the latest report shows there degrees of uncertainty” says the Institute of Public Affairs climate spokesman Tim Wilsch.

The GCCA has told it’s member organisation to “use the precautionary principle to argue that we must take potential risks seriously even if science doesn’t offer high confidence”.

This attitude would seem similar to that of a person who smelt smoke in a theatre or cinema and screamed fire on the basis of better safe than sorry.  The resulting panic would kill more people than the smouldering cigarette in the ash tray.  That person would be prosecuted and so should be alarmists for any inadvertent damage the caused.

In another instance The Australian reported on March 24th Port Macquarie Hasting Council was recommending the enforcement of a ‘planned retreat’ because of an alleged danger from sea-level rise in the (distant) future!!

The Council seems to have acted on a report by the CSIRO Marine and Atmosphere Research, Hobart, Tasmania, which postulated an extreme sea-level rise.  This was questioned by Cliff Ollier in his article “CSIRO alarmism more dangerous than CO2″ and defended in a letter to The Australian Weekend, March 31 – April 1, 2012, by Bruce Mapstone, chief, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, Tasmania.

With claim and counter claim of sea levels rising, staying constant or falling, we are no better off than people during the Black Death when ranting clerics said the cause was the sins of mankind, the only difference now is that the clerics now have PhDs, Dr., or P.M. after their names.

Perhaps the answer is to remove the protection of a disclaimer after the reports.  That should make them all think more clearly.

If these people are wrong they should be punished for the damage they do to our society.  Even our politicians should be liable.  The results of errors is not trivial our civilisation is at stake.

Gillard is now not so sure as she cuts the numbers of scientists fron 900 to 600, but is that enough?

As it is, manufacturing vehicles is more  and more automated, there are automated trains carrying ore in the Pilbara, Western Australia and [...]]]> Stephen Hawking’s program, “Brave New World” , SBS last Sunday, shows just how fast science is taking over from human labour.  Most of the ideas are some time away but they will come.

As it is, manufacturing vehicles is more  and more automated, there are automated trains carrying ore in the Pilbara, Western Australia and now robot trucks are taking over the movement of our resource bounty. (The Australian, 2.2.12, p.11)

In England the recession has hit the children of black migrants the hardest in the age bracket 16-24 year olds.

Everywhere in the world the question will be asked ‘How do we employ our surplus population?

If Australia wants car factories she has to rent them from the international car companies on the other hand those companies may have to buy entry to our markets.

If Australians want work they must add value to our mined resources and the food we grow.

If we want advanced technology we must buy it and the factories that go with it.

We need to educate our population to the highest level possible if they are to find employment in this “Brave New World.”

Anna Bligh recruited 28,699 public servants in her last term and Queensland’s bureaucracy ballooned beyond 200,000 and the taxpayer funded wages bill has soared by 28% to $18 billion over the past 4 years. (The Australian, 10-11.3.12, p.8.)

“The state budget papers reveal staff costs are set to rise another $2.5 billion to $21.7 billion over the next three years because of a combination of staffing increases and wage rises.”

This did not save Bligh’s arse, to do that she would have had to put all of Queensland’s work force on the pay roll.

Our stupid inner city elite, the unions, and our greedy investors have to realize that we are all in this together.

Economic Nationalism as a policy must be implemented if we are to survive.

State-Directed Economic Nationalism.

In 1995 Russian politicians started to realize policies had to be tied to Russia’s interests.  (The rise of Economic Nationalism under Globalization.  The School of Russian and Asian Studies, David Szakonyl.)

In 1991 the U.S.A. and the E.U. were preparing to plunder Russia’s natural resources with the help of Russia’s new oligarchs who were not seen as acting in Russia’s interests.

Putin stopped the rot and the state became involved in economic planning as well as usurping financial power from the oligarchs, who were Russian but had no interest in the state.

Stopping the piratization of the Russian economy by the U.S. and the E.U. after 1991 was the reason the West organized attacks on Putin during the recent election by the Communists and other minority groups attempting to give Russia’s riches away to the U.S and the West under the guise of democracy.

Democracy no longer works under globalization.  International mega companies increasingly maraud across the planet in search of resources and cheap labour and only State Nationalism, as operated by China and Russia, are big enough to resist their power and”that of small groups who profited while most of the population lost everything they had”.

“Putin also supported legislating against giving work permits to immigrants if Russians could fill the positions for which they were being issued”.

Australia is in the position Russia was is 1991.  Our people need work, but we are no more than a quarry for our vast natural resources, the industries that use them being in China and India.

Queensland shows that the only people who do well out of a Labor government are unionists and the rest of us foot the bill.  If we are to embrace Economic Nationalism and bring the major miners under control and develop our own industries then the unions must give up their power.

This recent election shows that Labor no longer can rely on blind supporters electing them no matter what;  we have all had enough.

Housing migrants is not an industry we need to foster.  Too many people will be a burden not an asset in the future.  We no longer need migrants.  Our own kin need jobs now.

These people call themselves global citizens and, like the Murdoch press, claim to [...]]]> World governance has to be managed and as usual people from the English speaking nations see the opportunity to assume the role of World leaders claiming to be leaders in human rights issues and World morality through the NGO’s and the U.N.

These people call themselves global citizens and, like the Murdoch press, claim to be impartial in their dealings with the Nation states.

Their aim is of course a borderless World where migration is unrestricted and the third world and their billions are free to take over the West and enjoy our life style.

Examples are Blair and Brown and their policy of a multi-racial Britain, pre-dominantly non-European.  Other examples are the U.S. giving Kosovo to the Muslims, Howard and Downer supporting the take-over of Fiji by the Indians.

U.S. support for the Tamils eventual take-over of Sri Lanka and Australian politicians who want Australia to integrate with Asia.

Immigrants in large quantities become settlers and settlers bring their own culture with them.

The Chinese, English and Jews seldom completely integrate.

Singapore, which started life as an English settlement, is now a Chinese city, 5 million Muslims now live in France and parts of Paris like some parts of England are no go areas to police and are under Islamic control.

It is not that we dislike certain races, it is simply that we do not want to live in their culture.  Sharia law? , praying 5 times a day, Chinese state tyranny, Indian joint family system, are just some parts of their cultures we do not want to adopt and no politically correct group, like the one that produced the white paper that said ‘We should not celebrate ANZAC centenary because it upsets our multi-cultural society’, should be given our money to make such a suggestion.  (The Advertiser, 26.3.12, p1.)

The only question that I would ask is why the Advertiser did not name these people, their organization, and where they lived?

According to O’Sullivan John Fonte is one of the few opponents of the prevailing intellectual orthodoxy of the ideology of global governance.

Even our service industries are under pressure to cut costs and automate.

We have to make the best use possible of our existing labour force and that means education.

Chris [...]]]> Automation in our factories and farms is the only way to go to meet our constant demand for cheaper and cheaper manufactured goods and food.

Even our service industries are under pressure to cut costs and automate.

We have to make the best use possible of our existing labour force and that means education.

Chris Bowen, the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, seems to believe that mass immigration from Asia (China) is the answer to our problems.  I thought he represented the interests of Australia’s present population.  He would seem to be the Chinese Minister at Large for the Chinese take-over of Australia.

Our present education system does not fill our needs.  It’s policy of equal outcomes ensures that our best students do not realise their full potential and our average students are only good for work in the service industries.  Our teachers tell their pupils that they have greater potential than just becoming tradesmen and that they should go to the University.

In my view it is better to be a first rank tradesman than a third rate graduate of some ‘micky mouse’ course from a ‘degree factory’.

Chris Bowen, “Immigration paves our way into the Asian Century”, The Australian, 9.3.12, p.14.

The real state of our education system is shown in the latest report from the Grattan Institutes’s School of Education.  In the question and answer article by Ben Jensen, Grattan Institute and Greg Callaghan in The Australian Weekend Magazine, 10-11 March 2012, discuss the falling standards in our school system compared to those of leading countries in Asia.

Our average 15 year old maths student in Australia is now performing at least 2 years behind their counterpart in Asia’s leading countries and at least one year behind in reading and writing.  This is spite of the increase in funding of Australian education by 40 % during the period 2000 -2009, which has not produced better results.

It has been found that smaller class sizes do not produce better results and installing computers in every classroom  has failed to lift performance.

The so-called ‘Tiger mums” are not the reason education in some Asian countries is ahead of ours.  Before 2001 Hong Kong was ranked 17th in international assessments of reading literacy and Singapore was ranked 15th.  They started a new education strategy and are now ranked 2nd and 4th respectively.

“If the evidence is overwhelming – that great teachers make great students, why hasn’t something been done earlier”.

“90% of teachers in Australia say that they would receive no recognition if they tried to improve the quality of their teaching”.

It is now known that pay alone is not the answer.  The Asians use classroom observation, collaboration and peer feed back with good results.  As economic power is shifting from West to East we must do something.

In the past parents have been led to believe that their children are the problem, Asia has proved to us that it is the education system and the teachers.

Our society is in terminal decline, if we are to stop this trend education must be completely overhauled and the teachers and the teachers union are not the people to do this.

Kevin Foley, Sunday Mail, 4.3.12, is right.  “Boot this dinosaur union out of the management, policy making and staff selection in our schools”.

Steven Hawkins in his program, Brave New World, SBS 1, 11.3.12 8.30pm shows that our civilisation is not finished our people are still more than capable of leading us into a fantastic future if our education system motivates our children to excel.

Put Brown and his ludite greens with the teachers union in the dust bin of history and get the best for our children and their hopes.

The future is full of machines and we will need people educated enough to use them.  The alternative is a return to manual labour and a third world society so beloved by socialism and the greens and our middle class elite.