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Only HBPB will avoid a million unemployed
Saturday, 2 May 2009, 12:01 pm | Citizens Electoral Council
Reports that the Commonwealth Treasury is now projecting one million unemployed by year’s end reinforce the urgent necessity for the Citizens Electoral Council’s Homeowners and Bank Protection Bill, said CEC leader Craig Isherwood today. More >>
When will our government begin to govern?
Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 9:29 am | Citizens Electoral Council
The rising unemployment toll has finally forced Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to utter the word “recession”, but what, concretely, does his government plan to do about it? More >>
Australia needs real infrastructure
Friday, 17 April 2009, 9:24 am | Citizens Electoral Council
The $43 billion Kevin Rudd plans to spend on a high-speed broadband network would pay for enough large-scale water infrastructure projects like the Bradfield Scheme, and the Clarence River Scheme, to drought-proof most of Australia and fully replenish ... More >>
Australians beware! Stimulus is kookery
Thursday, 16 April 2009, 12:40 pm | Citizens Electoral Council
If you think the policy of giving spending money to consumers to “stimulate” an economic recovery doesn’t make sense, you’re right because it doesn’t—it is kookery cooked up by a cultish clique of “behavioural economists” who’ve ... More >>
Stimulus Is “Behavioural Economics” Kookery
Wednesday, 15 April 2009, 12:39 pm | Citizens Electoral Council
If you think the policy of giving spending money to consumers to “stimulate” an economic recovery doesn’t make sense, you’re right because it doesn’t—it is kookery cooked up by a cultish clique of “behavioural economists” who’ve ... More >>
Mortgage relief’ plan is a fraudulent imitation
Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 8:58 am | Citizens Electoral Council
Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood today scoffed at the Federal Government’s agreement with the banks to provide a 12-month period of relief of mortgage payments: “It’s an incompetent attempt to induce homeowners into believing they will be ... More >>
Time To Buy Back The Farm
Friday, 3 April 2009, 9:27 am | Citizens Electoral Council
The “Golden Rule”—whoever owns the gold (or iron-ore, coal, aluminium etc) makes the rules. More >>
Campaign geared up to stop bankruptcy Tsunami
Friday, 27 March 2009, 9:11 am | Citizens Electoral Council
Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood today announced that the CEC has geared up its national campaign for the Homeowners and Bank Protection Bill 2008, to place the Australian Banking system into bankruptcy reorganisation and protection, ... More >>
Bailout is a swindle - LaRouche
Wednesday, 25 March 2009, 9:54 am | Citizens Electoral Council
Lyndon LaRouche forcefully denounced the latest bailout swindle, announced yesterday by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, as nothing more than a “continuation of the original bailout scheme put forward by then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in November ... More >>
Rudd Goes Bananas
Monday, 23 March 2009, 12:21 pm | Citizens Electoral Council
Responding to the recent decision to allow banana imports from the Philippines, Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood exclaimed, “Kevin Rudd has gone bananas! More >>
Rudd goes bananas
Saturday, 21 March 2009, 4:08 pm | Citizens Electoral Council
Responding to the recent decision to allow banana imports from the Philippines, Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood exclaimed, “Kevin Rudd has gone bananas! More >>
Prosecute a real war on drugs - Isherwood
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 10:17 am | Citizens Electoral Council
On news of the death of another Australian soldier in Afghanistan today, Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood asked, “What are our Aussie troops even doing in Afghanistan, given its rapidly growing drug production, and associated organised ... More >>
Do not turn bushfire inquiry into Royal Cover-up
Friday, 13 March 2009, 9:56 am | Citizens Electoral Council
The plan to hold the hearings of the Royal Commission into the Black Saturday bushfires behind closed doors smacks of a possible cover-up, to get the Government off the hook, Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood said today. More >>
Nature craves more carbon dioxide
Saturday, 7 March 2009, 2:31 pm | Citizens Electoral Council
Government policies to force drastic cuts in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, out of fear of CO2 as a “pollutant”, are insane—a fact underscored by recent testimony before the U.S. Senate by award-winning Princeton University physicist Dr. Will Happer. More >>
Derivatives elephant crashing ‘Four Pillars’ bank
Friday, 6 March 2009, 10:57 am | Citizens Electoral Council
Yesterday’s claim by former RBA Governor—and now, ANZ board member—Ian Macfarlane that Australia’s “Four Pillars” banking policy has protected our banks from the global financial collapse is a deliberate fraud, stated CEC leader Craig Isherwood. More >>
Isherwood: Double The Tariffs, Save The Economy
Sunday, 1 March 2009, 12:11 pm | Citizens Electoral Council
“If we can’t even manufacture our own undies in this country, what the hell have we come to?” Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood asked today. More >>
Isherwood: Double the tariffs, save the economy
Saturday, 28 February 2009, 10:42 am | Citizens Electoral Council
“If we can’t even manufacture our own undies in this country, what the hell have we come to?” Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood asked today. More >>
Isherwood: Economic clowns are making our laws
Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 9:44 am | Citizens Electoral Council
In This Southern Land of Ours, Australia’s greatest poet, Charles Harpur, wrote: With clowns to make our laws, and knaves To rule us as of old, In vain our soil is rich, in vain ‘Tis seamed with virgin gold! But the present only yields us nought, ... More >>
‘Neo-Liberal’ Rudd Covers For The Banks
Saturday, 21 February 2009, 3:07 pm | Citizens Electoral Council
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had the chance this week to declare his support for an investigation of the role of the banks in the current economic crisis, and he shirked the issue. More >>
