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Focus on what you have, not what you don’t have

By Stuart Ballantyne - posted Tuesday, 3 February 2026


Of course I jumped at the opportunity, and when in Perth the CEO sent out a fax to all tendering companies stating that Stuart Ballantyne was heading up the project, so their submissions were to go to him.

This was too much for the dimwit at the Sydney shipping company office, who responded immediately to the Perth CEO stating "I will only submit to the organ grinder, not the monkey!"

The Perth CEO sent a signal to the Sydney company Board of Directors informing them they were out of the tender process. effective immediately. The dimwit manager was sacked the same day.

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The points-only gallop around the world door knocking secured us some orders and the team was secure

This "focus on what you have" was a good lesson for me and helped me and my family come out of a financially difficult time.

So, Prime Minister Albanese, how about focussing on what we have?.

We havea fabulous country that is in a financially difficult time and we just need you to focus on what we have.

We have an abundance of mineral wealth from coal which helped propel this nation's prosperity from day 1, right through to much sought after rare-earths, uranium and thorium to secure our energy future. We are talking trillions of dollars here!

Howabout repealing the UN membership, red, green and black tape that not only obstructs small companies accessing and obtaining permits for mining these minerals, but rules that also stops us using these minerals, especially for nuclear power?

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What's the deal banning gold mines because of an isolated rogue indigenous opinion?

Surely this repealing initiative is a no-brainer!

We havean abundance of farms that also helped propel this nations prosperity, from sheep farms, fish farms to the massive agricultural industry farms

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Stuart Ballantyne is just a sailor who runs Seat Transport Solutions who are naval architects, consultants, surveyors and project managers.

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