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Where there is no vision, the people will perish

By Stuart Ballantyne - posted Monday, 24 August 2026


Time to tell the unions to take a hike. The engine room of Australia, small businesses, could never have union participation, as it would be the kiss of death. Burke's IR policies are already burdening small businesses. It is only the big, financially overweight companies and the dead hand of government bureaucracies that can afford unions and tolerate their poor performance while working from home.

The only genuine spark of interest in coastal shipping from politicians was from Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts of One Nation and Katter Party's Bob and Robbie Katter. All four of them have been guest speakers at the famous Marine Therapy Group. Yes, we had speakers from Labor but never the Greens shipping spokesperson, Senator Janet Rice, despite repeated invites and giving her a signed copy of Bluff Your Way to Sea.

Visionaries for the nation who have proposed extending rivers into canal waterways to access our immense mineral wealth, again have included Bob Katter during his tenure as a Minister in the Bjelke Petersen Nationals Government. The Greens and the burgeoning EPA /EPBC bureaucratic evil empires already put the blockers on that, as they have done to most initiatives to access and mine the enormous economically trapped resources since then.

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Surely the visions of our forefathers including John Bradfield had merit? Repeated attempts to turn the northern rivers back into the headwaters of the Murray Darling and create a huge food basket for us and our neighbouring countries, always met with the bleating of finance ministers and treasury bean counters.

So in 2009, when Kevin Rudd declared to the nation a $42 billion stimulus spendathon to provide jobs and long-term prosperity for the nation against an impending economic storm, I immediately jumped to the conclusion "This has got to be the Bradfield Scheme, or a new coastal shipping service?" Alas, it was neither, just another Labor raft of "free stuff"! Ill-conceived promises to get votes, including the already technologically outdated NBN, so you could download porn at a faster speed, $950 cash per person, pink batts to insulate your roof and rapidly the money was frittered away. Not one single visionary project.

I was on a cruise ship at the time and never saw my $950, just alongside the $275 Albo promised me off my electricity bill. These promised amounts are mentioned in my Last Will and Testament so my grandkids can get them when they come through, after all, a promise is a promise.

That was the moment that I realized the enormous wealth, potential and future of Australia was tied down like Gulliver by a multitude of Lilliputians. Thank you Jonathan Swift!

So how do we untie Gulliver, eliminate debt, remove enemies already within our gates, regain prosperity, our national pride and values and release Australia's vision to become the Lucky Country again?

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Spot the cancers and remove them!

Albo and his whole cabinet would win gold, silver and bronze in the Destruction Olympics. They have tied down Gulliver and cancers are spreading all over the body. Even the dimmest of Labor supporters can now see that they are not incompetent, they are actively and deliberately bringing the country down, spreading the cancers of division, violence, unhappiness, fear, poverty to every family. They have destroyed any remnants of the ability to defend ourselves from seriously motivated, jealous and well armed neighbours .

Albo's team are hermetically sealed within the Canberra bubble and ministerial chauffer-driven Comcars. Like cancers, they need removing as a matter of urgency.

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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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