
A Plucky Woman.
The punters predict we’ll have a change of NSW Government happening this Saturday. It should not happen, but change is ‘in the air’, the pundits are saying. In fact a ’rout’ is predicted. It has always been a mystery to me that people change political sides when it comes to Federal versus State voting. The philosophical difference between parties become secondary, and alliances or allegiances are thrown overboard at the drop of a hat or election.
Perhaps for many, the slip and slide from one to the other are chained to their ingrained notions that whoever promises the most in material wellbeing will get their vote. They, the voters, are indeed an unpredictable lot and don’t seem to have much of an idea of remaining faithful to their beliefs.
Of course, anyone with even the slightest notion of judging people would never waver when it comes in a choice between the present leaders of the NSW main parties. No matter what the past or indeed the future; it is a no-brainer. When it comes to sheer power, strength, determination and a core of unwavering strongly held beliefs, KRISTINA Keneally is heads above any other possible choice. Despite all odds against her, she stays the course, totally un-perplexed of fazed. She is a winner even if she loses.
Most people that change their political alliances do so because they have been told by the opposition that things are bad or will become even worse if they stay with the present government. In state election, the opposition parties demonize and demolish, but rarely come with better policies. We have always known that.
Voters also sit in traffic, trains, or busses, for hours and hours, and blame the prevailing political party. They are miffed about relationships, the loss of their favorite football teams, the cost of bananas, and blame the present party. All of a sudden though, like a conjuror pulling fifty porkers out of a hat, promises fly like pigs from all sides. The wavering voter takes it hook line and sinker and changes; vote in the party with the largest bag of promises. And so it goes…
Desperately trying to fend off stroppy feminists who seem to gravitate to insults whenever women are praised for their sex; dare I say also, that at no stage in Australian politics has a female ever displayed the charms and cheer pizzazz on a level of Kristina.
Ok. Let fly now, become ropeable and give males heaps.
She carries herself presidentially and looks into the camera without fear or hesitation. Her dress sense is superb and at no stage is she at all concerned about how she comes across. She KNOWS her stuff, walks like a model but nothing is deliberate for effect or even votes.
There is no doubt we are looking at a future premier in Kristina, if not now, next time around. That’s if she sticks around on NSW but I wouldn’t like to wager that she might cast eyes federally, if not presidentially as well. We might be running ahead here a little but…. What would Australia be like, finally taking the jump and govern on own feet, ditching the Governors and get our own Head of State?
We love royal weddings and he is a Prince Charming, but would he mind if we dumped the lot of them and go for one of our own. Kristina would be as regal as anyone. Make her a queen if you like. Better still, a future President.
We’ll watch this Saturday’s voting in NSW, (with baited breath,) but am betting Kristina will be the winner even if she loses.
Australian resources for all Australians? Not really, FMG Andrew Forrest, being Australia’s richest man, owns most of it. Capitalism at its best (worst)
Remember his stance against the extra tax? He was also found guilty of fibbing and has been banned from running Fortescue Metal Group. Still, running all the way to the bank.
Can you imagine how many hospitals could be improved if ownership of our resources were ours?
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Barry’s Battlers are now strapped in for a ride on the O-Train. On Saturday, about one-in-three Labor voters, or 625,000 people, switched to the Coalition.
Obviously they must be stupid, as many commentators & posters keep saying in UL.
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Did the train go any faster?
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Probably not. But the populace is fed up with being called denialists and nutters (Mungo Mcwotsit).
The smarmy academics should start being friendly.
Most ordinary people are out of their depth and suspicious now.
Why don’t you buy shares in Fortescue? You could’ve trebled your money.
I don’t have any BTW.
We need Malcolm to negotiate more money.
Slagging of Andrew, won’t work. We need Kristina with alms.
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jayell, maybe the right word is ‘ignorant’, I also leave the use of the word ‘stupid’ to ignorant people like so many of canberra liberal politicians.
i only really know about barry o’farrell in nsw, and he’s not as bad as abbott,no-one is…
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I’m just fed up with many of the posters in UL calling the general populace stupid.
What they obviously don’t realise is that genuinely a lot of folk out there just do not comprehend AGW, and how a tax may help.
You need to woo these people not alienate them. Nurture tham and joke with them . Organise some talks with leaflets in shopping centres. Get some children’s entertainers along and explain to the Mums, about the simple science.
KEEP IT FUCKING SIMPLE.
They cannot understand the amalgamation of geologists, chemists, climate scientists, physicists and narcissists’ information; modelled. Modelling to them is Lara Bingle.
The ALP deserve everything they get…Malcolm is the only Voice of Reason: shouted down again today.
He speaks plain English that they can understand….And another thing Greg Combet looks exactly like someone that you would frighten your children with!
I feel better now.
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hadron, with kevin and malcolm there for a minute it was all rather civil…
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You are a strange one Little Hardron. I have not read “many of the posters in UL calling the general populace stupid” anywhere. Though it would be true to say they are generally ignorant on the subject and I think it would be good to have a paid information campaign in all media. Comments on Unleashed articles on climate change are not indicative of what the general public think or don’t think.
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If you haven’t, I’m amazed.
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In three of the last opinion pieces they have been called rednecks, simple, stupid and myriad diverse synonyms.
Never mind. I’m going out to buy six floor wastes, for bathrooms and toilets── that’ll take my mind of it.
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London
I used to swim in The Serpentine.
I used to go to the Bag O’Nails
I used to go to Hammersmith Palais
I used to go to Morton’s (I installed all of the lighting and sound there)
I used to go to the FIRST Hard Rock (————-ditto——————-)
I used to go to the Valbonne (———————-ditto——————-)
I used to go to The Playboy Club (——————ditto in their downstairs nightclub).
I used to go to Tramp.
I used to go to Monkberries, also owned by Peter Morton (———–ditto——–)
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So, you could make something up and pretend it was true. Or vice versa. We’ll never know. Change the names to protect the innocent and the not so.
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Aha. There’s the rub. Some of the interesting stories would have to be with ecchooooo coooming Pseudonyyymmmsss. echo, echo echo.
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Well you can google some of that and ghost write it for me.??
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Why? You write much better than I do.
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Stop flattering me…or Hung will butt in and crack the ‘Whip’.
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I have been meaning to write. Warriagl issued an edict. But some of the funniest stories are real, and I havn’t yet mastered the art of telling it third hand. And some of it is genuinly anecdotallly true!! Ha ha.
I remember sitting down having a coffee with Jack Sharpe (my partner in one venture), in The Playboy coffee room and they went and had cocaine in the toilet. The count had a tiny silver spoon in his pocket on a tag, or chain.
Jack was a tenor sax player, who had been in the Tubby Hayes jazz band. I met him in Majorca in 69. We opened aclub together and he used to play in the house band. There were some great gigs with mates that dropped in. I also booked pop bands to boost the younger clientel. I remember once when we had The Edwin Hawikin’s Singers on. We shared the cost of flying them over with Ronnie Scott, one of Jack’s lifelong friends. They took up the whole fucking stage…………………………………………………………………………………..OH Happy days…………….Oh Happy dayss,…,, When Juses walks..Oh happy days. We went back to Ronnies afterwards andv Pete Green was there (Fleetwoodmack).Ronnie locked up and they all jammed for five hours and got stoned…Me?
I just had twenty Vodka & tonics (Stolychniya) and two puffs of Leb………………………………………OK
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Yes Jules, a good tale but I’m left wondering was 20, 21 or 19, vodka’s hate to let the truth get in the road of a good story
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Excuse typos, I didn’t want to check it..In case I changed my mind about writing it.xxx
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I missed out that it was Count Basie. In the Playboy Club. Told you I wrote it quickly.
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Only if he’s well oiled.
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Mmmm, I know what you mean!
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It’s a different world to me.
Do you tell these stories to your offspring I wonder?
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Of course.
If you cast your memoery back to UL, a couple of years ago, I wrote how I was in The Platyboy Club when my 1st son was born. I went straight over after the phone call with my mate (who married a bunny girl, Claudine, not her real name, they used exotic pseuds).
Any way he came over and sat in the room, at the St George Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, opposite The Hard Rock(now a hotel, converted by Alan Bond I think).
The Doctors ect came in and told me to put boots and a gown on. I had been helping with a touch of Oxygen BTW. Next thing is they took me into the Theatre. I didn’t know what was happening . I thought that it was just to accompany my wife on the trolley. Then they locked the door and gave me something to hold. I dunno what it was.
Anyway it was an amazing, unexpected, mid boggling , experience.
1 Hour later I was in The Hard Rock drinkin Schkitz beer with Peter Morton and My Mate……………………………….They pointed out that I still had that hospital yellow wellies on !! 🙂
Off to watch the box now for 120 minutes. Ive got tilers arriving at 7am..xx nite to all.
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Yes Jules, a good tale but I’m left wondering was 20, 21 or 19, vodka’s hate to let the truth get in the road of a good story..?
Say that in English?
I only drank that many at night!
During the afternoon I stuck to ten bottles of Löwenbräu , or Stella Artois.
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You could flesh that skeleton out a bit. Doesn’t seem to take you long.
Bonne nuit.
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Voice says:
March 27, 2011 at 10:36 pm
It’s a different world to me.
Do you tell these stories to your offspring I wonder?
Just came back to this Voice. I wasn’t sure why you asked.
So a stab in the dark here:
The London Playboy Club was a respected and highly popular casino. It was not a ‘clip joint’, or bordello. In fact it had a couple of excellent restaurants, subsidised by the gambling, and was patronised by the rich and famous, as well as middle class Mums & Dads.
There standards were incredibly stifling; no chatting to the bunnies, who were waitresses and croupiers in uniform; no loud speaking, and a dress code. (Which I didn’t like, because it was businessy-and I was watered-down hippyish shabby chic.(Too much information methinks).
They decide to go a bit funky and that’s why I got the gig to install the sound and lighting system in their downstairs disco. Obviously I got to know some of the staff, as one does through one’s work.
Anyway, I mention all this in case you formed an impression of nefarious goings on, that couldn’t be discussed in front of my kids. When in fact the opposite is true.
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If WARRIGAL* gets down here, he may be interested that I installed the first quadraphonic sound system in the world. (In a commercial venue of course, since it was available domestically.)
I know that he had an interest in sound somewhere.
I am using Upper case to get his attention BTW.
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Oh Oh! I should proof my posts..
Their standards.
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My dot dog didn’t appear, so I’ll just repeat (to myself)..I’m off to read about Warrigal’s dogs.
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“women are praised for their sex”.
Not always Gerard.
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The planning of housing left to developers is like asking the rats to look after the cheese. The best of town planners and architects should be employed to draw up planning for city living that incorporates all societal needs as well as individual needs, especially transport, schools, shops etc.
The actual building of all housing developments could be left for tendering and after completion, some could be let or sold. Housing is a social need as much as health or education and ought to be taken away from developers whom, by and large, have transformed housing in the instantly ‘world wide recognisable horrors’ that most developments usually turned into.
To sell blocks of land and then give the freedom to the owners to build, more or less,
what they like, is akin to allowing books to be written by bedbugs.
It is vandalism in a grand scale, although some confuse this with democracy.
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Gerard, In the late 1940’s a wonderful plan was put together Called the County of Cumberland Plan by Bradfield I think. It allowed for a sustainable city of 2.5million with green belts and bounded in a circle not much further west than Parramatta. Over time it was wittled away with the urban sprawl we have now. The last Liberal government in NSW bothced the Rouse Hill development and now propose to build two more of these out in the boondocks.
Why! In NSW three times as many strata units are sold than blocks of land. It hasn’t changed for 15 years. Where do you build these strata units. I don’t think O’Farrell gets this.
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None of this matters now Algy; since I have discovered the most heinous of crimes… Perpetrated right under our noses!
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………………………….Your new area leader has an A followed by a double R, in both his given and family names.
Now just what are the chances of that?
I mean in less salubrious places one expects to find Mohammed Mohammed , Sirhan Sirahn or Sanchos Sanchos; but really in NSW one expects a bit more.
It wouldn’t happen if we got rid of the State Governments. We would just have regions staffed with employees that we could boss around- and rally against.
Well were not allowed rallies any-more according to Greg “‘Cavalcade to Canberra’ of August 19, 1996 which resulted in 2000 breakaway protesters mounting a physical attack on the Australian Parliament.” Combet
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Algy,
The best examples of good architecture are often to be found amongst Government Housing Commission. Perhaps, the problem of many Shires and local Councils doing their own thing has resulted in ad hock planning. Allowing subdivisions into private hands just magnified many fiascoes in the housing industry. The problem is that profits from social needs draws the speculation merchants out. This is not just applicable to housing only.
Even so, here and there are good examples of good design and good housing. Like everywhere, I suppose.
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Gez, in our area we have this band of hair brained activists called RAID. They had an issue with public housing that was part of Rudds plan to lift housing to the homeless etc. You could not explain to them as the Department of Housing was building them, that council consent or a DA was not required to build them. Now I have public housing in the streets around where I live. A lot of it solid built brick housing from the 1950s and 60’s. The problem is that most of it is very small. The Liberals got on board with this bunch and whipped up hysteria. Its part of the reason that the sounds of silence replaced Maxine McKew. These clowns think the Dept of housing is stamping on their democratic rights! most of them don’t live anywhere near any social housing.
Now last year we had a break in out our place. I thought I saw who it was and this person broke into a few houses in the area. In the afternoon I went to one of the neighbours to tell them I saw someone suspicious coming from their property. They made the comment that we’ll have more of this problem when they finish the new social housing in the next street. I pointed out to them that they had 16 social housing townhouses behind them and asked if they had problems with them. No they replied the good people. So I said to them why would you have any problem with the new ones. They stood there dumb.
Well the new social housing is finished 4 units where a house once stood. A lot better use of the land than the old buildings and the architecture is as good as any other in the area. And the problems well they all seem to be over 50 occupying them. They look far better than the abomination being built around the corner.
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I just watched ‘Designer people’ on SBS. they interviewed the Danish bicycle designer Jens Martin, who formed the Biomega company (his bikes are such works of art that he has them hanging on the wall of his office). Anyhoo, those Danish apartment blocks, and public buildings, and so on, are so beautifully designed. Don’t know why e can’t do that here???
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They will be able to now 🙂
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Track record of the NSW Liberal party says no, Jayell.
NSW Liberals sold off all the land for the M4 east to developers for a song. The motorway finishes 9kms short of the city and spews traffic onto Parramatta Road which is little wider than a goat track. They’re experts at selling off Public land as well.
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Labor have been selling everything up here. Everthing.
There’s nothing left, just a few blades of grass and a wonky desal’ plant at Tugun.
Anyway they’ll be gone soon, apparently. Weve got The Pied Piper Of Brisbane as Leaderable now. And according to the Gallop polls he’s a shoe in.
I don’t know why, but with Labor in charge of my destiny, I feel gloomy and depressed. Yet they’re all the same really .
I don’t live in NSW, but I just feel uplifted now: just how one feels as the curtain goes up on a new Broadway Musical… Expectant, eager, friendly and bluff. Singing in the shower sort of feeling . Like losing a hump.
It’s a wonderful, uplifting, “We can do it now”, sort of tingling.
Oh well The ALP has had a few years now at Federal level (it feels like fifty), I don’t know what they stand for…And where’s Penny Wong? One minute she’s the Messiah; next a pariah.
We need David Attenborough, Malcolm Turnbull & Steven Ciobo up there. Oh and Kristina, we need some eye candy.
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I’ve not consciously assessed Barry O’Farrell’s walking or sartorial styles, but I strongly suspect they’re well below model standard. Somehow I find myself facing that prospect with a fair degree of equanimity.
In Sydney we’ll never get back the whole public schools and hospitals, or parts thereof, that have been flogged off to greedy ‘developers’. We’ll never get back the land that had been held to allow for expansion of roads (there go the potential real cycle ways) , or the houses and gardens that have been knocked down in order to generate ‘developer’ profits.
Where has the money from massive windfall taxation amounts on rising land prices gone? There’s a gloomy feeling that NSW is in too much debt to be able to fund new infrastructure.
There have been some significant Sydney transport improvements though. The Metrobus system is seriously good. The trams linking Darling Harbour with the City. The Chatswood-Epping rail link. I don’t include the long distance toll roads to and through the City though; they stink of money for mates.
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Buggered if I know where the money has gone because stuff all ever comes this way without long, drawn out protracted fights. Sydney has some great transport improvements but it never seems to get noticed. I read the SMH and am totally sick of reading complaints about roads, transport etc. If the place is so clogged up why do people move there, live there. Build a road and it just gets filled up with traffic. New roads aren’t the answer. Sydney’s planning has been up the shit for decades. They can’t get anything right anymore and I am buggered if I understand why. All downhill since I left.
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viv, we have been wise and have moved to small country places. i have certainly found my spot, we walk everywhere, to the shops to the cinema, to the library … when i fractured my wrist we walked to the hospital, milo as well, most people might be liberal voters but they are friendly. my neighbour is a retired district nurse and pops in to check that i rest my arm , another one has offered to do the vacuuming…
talking about kristina at a christmas party, all the staunch liberal voters (men) said; of course we all love her, but not the rest… 🙂
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Well, the feeling is that the planning has basically been about how can our ‘developer’ mates make more money. So it’s not that they haven’t got It right, it’s that It is more about feathering nests than making things work properly. That’s it in a nutshell.
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We’ll see what happens won’t we. If you want to look at planning Liberal style look at Rouse Hill a development for 250000. They got the water, sewer and stormwater right but that’s it. They failed to upgrade Windsor Road or Showground Road or Old Windsor Road from the two lane goat tracks they were. They built a section of the M2 from nowhere to nowhere. They failed to provide rail link to the area, in fact, they allowed for punitive damages should a rail line be built near the M2. That clause was removed to allow widening of the M2. Mind you that didn’t stop the Labor party from announcing the rail line to the North West many times. Let’s see how Gladys copes now she has to actually do something rather than rant.
They say that they’ll repeal part 3A of the planning act but do they understand what that means. Certainly it has been abused by some developers particularly in Wollongong. What is needed is Local government reform like merging the 42 LGA’s in Sydney into 4 or 6. Most of them can’t handle a 4 bedroom house with a carport let alone anything of significance.
One hopes they can fix up Barangaroo.
The good thing that I see from this is that Sussex Street has been destroyed or at least one hopes it has. Let’s see who that pick as leader, let’s hope what’s left of Sussex Street has no influence.
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Drove out out the vineyards on Friday for a eminar (not a piss up, this time). Newcastle has some decent cycleways, but there’s always spots where the council just hasn’t gone all the way to make it safe for bikes, i.e bikes and cars sharing a narrow road for the last few hundred metres of a busy bike track. Go out to the vineyards. Tens of kilometres of wide, concrete, well signposted biketracks. Evidently it’s something to do with planning ahead. Cessnock council bought up 100’s of kms of disused private train tracks for a song, and quietly converts them to bike and walking tracks at a few k’s a year.
Bear in mind that Cessnock is not populated with the cleverst folk in NSW!
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Sounds like a council doesn’t it. Build something great and forget to finish it.
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Here’s a typical example of planning:
“Emotions ran high as hundreds of staff, including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and the hospital’s general manager, Sue Shilbury, heard that plans to sell large chunks of land around the hospital would mean a shortage of beds now and in the future.”
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/hospital-renovation-will-not-alleviate-bed-shortage-say-doctors-20110316-1bxc8.html
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Yes, Voice – I buy and read the SMH 6 days a week. Living on the border near Albury/Wodonga means that we get nothing but Vic news and sport – it gets painful. We even have a satellite to get NSW ABC news instead of Victoria. However, on the planning side of things – I do of course mean town planning which covers a much bigger picture. The sale of public land originally reserved for hospital expansion for example is dreadfully shortsighted and I’d say bordering on illegal. Trouble is that the government can make and change anything to do with public land but I can’t see how it would meet any environmental rules and wonder if there was an EIS done. Poor planning exists everywhere where there is weak government (including local) – they do seem to think they owe the landowner the right to make mega bucks. It is a woeful mental state to be in.
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It seems that there will not be a need for re-count and the Libs will get in. Farrell seems miles above the sneers of Abbott and his cohorts. Congrats for the Libs walking in.
The thing is, no matter who is in power, we will keep on having trains that will take 2 hours to travel 100kms beween Bowral and Central. The arguments about education, health (,private and public), law and order will continue and nothing will change. The suburbs will keep spreading and the queen will continue as our head of state. What gets defined as jam in NSW is not jam in QLD and hospitals and police will not exchange files on patients or criminals between states or indeed between themselves.
Petty bickering between States will continue and we will all grow fatter and older, especially older. Still, we will seek and continue seeking our sanity in Pig’s Arms with a lemon cordial and some chips with vinegar.
J’ai maintendrai.
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Speak for yourself, gerard. I’ve just lost 8 kilos, although the last 2 were due to illness.
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Prove it.
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You’re bored, Julian? Write something about the London in the Sixties. I think Austin Powers is on TV, maybe that will jog your memory.
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There’s a bright golden haze in the meadow.
There’s a bright golden haze in the meadow.
The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye.
And it looks like it’s climbing clear up to the sky…
(End Intro):
Well, oh what a beautiful morning, aw now.
Yes, what a wonderful day. (Look out there).
You know I – I’ve got a beautiful feeling.
Everything’s – everything’s going my way. (Ya’ll c’mon now).
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You’re bored, Julian?
Politics has that effect on me. I prefer International stuff.
I don’t know much about NSW’ politics, except taht they are the biggest polluters percapita–so should pay more tax. That’ll fix the atmosphere.
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Didn’t you do anything ELSE in the Sixties?
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I wonder what Oakshott’s thinking now. If only walls had ears. His mate Bress….something, just got slaughtered.
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Interesting Torbay an independent in Windsors electorate increased his majority.
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Mmm, I can’
t claim to know anything other than that he was a mayor somewhere (I just googled that).
Maybe he’s a good bloke, or perceived as a Tory?
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Any way it’s all academic now. Libs are in Teamsters are out 🙂
Julia should do the right thing now…
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.And get married to her tonsorial tutor!
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He was the speaker of the house in the last parliament. He’s held the seat since 2003.
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There is a veritable Tsunami coming.
Regardless of left or right this government, as my old mate Leg-iron John would say, is a ‘bleedin shambles’.
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I’m gonna get some sanity and see if Judge John Deed is on Austar. “Toodle pip Alg”. As Ginger might say.
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The interesting things I’ve learnt tonight was that in 1981 the Wran slide gave Labor the majority that the Liberals now have and in 1988 they weere gone. In 1988 the Liberals had a large majority led a minority government after the next election and were gone after that.
The pleasing thing is that the cancer that is Sussex Street has been destroyed. The sad thing is the Kristina has resigned and gone to the back bench, The result wasn’t a suprise. I live in Ryde and knew this was coming from 2008 when in 4 changed their vote. What the Labor mustn’t do is put John Robinson in as Opposition leader.
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Kristina, will get a job on Getaway now.
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I reckon she’s positioning herself for a job in Business.
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Or maybe Canberra
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I’ve just got in. I suppose I had better look at the post mortem.
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Yes Helvi,
Brazenly walking in front of the Bowral Anglican StJudes crowd direct to the ALP ‘how to vote’ caused gasps and tuts and nods of disaproval, my reputation is rooned. Just now I received notification of my beloved burial( pre-paid) spot at the back of the church in those hallowed grounds to be cancelled.
From being regarded a diamond now fallen to clubs and spades.
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There is a sense that the ALP can only improve from now on.
Just a little question. When people go to the polling booths, I noticed that most will accept the ‘how to vote’ papers from just about ever party volunteer. I suppose most know who they will vote for.
So, why the ritual of collecting so much paper?
Is it a ‘privacy’ thing. Keeping things closely to the chest?
One of life’s little pleasures surely is to walk brazenly to the party you want to vote for and snub you nose at the others. Besides that, it saves a lot of paper litter.
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gerard, were you the only labor voter in the blue-ribbon bowral? I’m still curious about balmain and marrickville 🙂
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“There is a sense that the ALP can only improve from now on.”
I think that you hit the wrong tag, gerard.
Try The Comma!
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OMG. Antony Green officially called the election only one hour after the polling booths closed.
What took him so long?!
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I thought he called it before the votes even came in. Gary Foley from Labor even did.
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I stand by what I believe, equitable sharing of wealth and good social conditions for all achievable through a fair to high taxation with most tax payable by the highest earners and those belonging to the squattocracy classes. A single education and health system. A limit or ban on advertising and no tuck shops at schools, a banning of all AFL and other loutish sports where alcoholing and glassing is taught. The banning in public of all sneers and swaggering walks, big ears and all those ,but not excluding, all with, and especially with bicycles, seated on odoriferous saddles.
I would promote and allow those struggling ashore from war torn countries, to be processed in the community and allowing them to earn money and give Australian Citizenship after 3 years have lapsed and then tax the same as others.
An obligatory stay in Finland for all politicians of at least 3 months in winter, so they will get a feeling of how to build dwellings that are insulated and architecturally, aesthetically pleasing.
That’s it for now.
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I reckon you could have won on that platform as an independent anywhere in NSW that traditionally votes Labor, gerard. A dead cert if you send the pollies to Siberia for the winter instead.
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My view (from my capitocialist standpoint) is that 80% voters are fickle and only think of now’s circumstance.
They were persuaded that Howard was an evil lying two faced bastard── and that Kevin would be a doer and a breath of fresh air; in fact the shepherd boy who would that would save the villagers.
But, as we now know he was no such thing: And rightly the voters are disillusioned. Further as Gillard has proved no better the labour party is stigmatised and it’s hard to see a resolution to that.
So when the real wolf has arrived, AGW, no-one is interested. It just seems more of the same. False alarms, backed up by back -flips and gloomy looking TV coverage of Greg Combet, a worthy poster-boy for ugliest class nerd. ( I suppose , begrudgingly, Mr Bean, deserves a guernsey here.)
(And the cardinal sin: simply no proper explanation of The NBN, AGW, Mining tax ect, ect..the list goes on.People just do not understand it all.)
So everybody wants a clean sweep. …Howard’s fault, or Rudd’s?
If there was an election tomorrow, Liberals would win hands down, in my view.
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There is truth in what you say about explanations but with the super mining tax the explanation and details were given but it was ignored by all and sundry except for one writer in the Business section. Yet, the Libs et al all screamed for consultation. So with the Carbon Price they get a broad proposal and offered discussion and told detail will be forthcoming – yet, now they want all the details first. You can’t win! NBN and AGW have been explained – AGW/climate change now for at least 20 years yet still they want more debate but the debate is not a debate from their point of view, just a great big NO. Abbott has turned everything for the good of the country into a political fight which has nothing to do with carbon or NBN or whatever. While Abbott fights and calls for a revolt there is no room for proper information. It is all bloody stupid headlines.
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When I went to vote I asked the Liberal scrutineers why they weren’t wearing brown shirts. They asked back “why brown shirts” to which I replied “that’s what Nazis where isn’t it”. Those around laughed and the Liberals recoiled.
As soon as the Liberals polls head south they’ll jettison Abbott, too much collatoral damage. I’m hoping that his antics this week will be the catalyst for that. Mind you he trawls the redneck vote and they’d have loved that during the week.
There is only one more session of Parliament before the Liberals lose influenece in the senate, the dynamics will then change.
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In Albury the Libs are wearing yellow skivvies. The Labor bloke had nice trousers and a blue shirt.
Yes, they must get rid of Abbott – he is not a leader’s anything.
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Actually, the details of the Super Dooper Resource Tax were available as PDFs from the government web site, so I don’t know what the hoo haa about lack of consultation was all about, except as a political smoke screen?
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Mr Bean stood on a stage and announced it…To the surprise of everybody.
With something as serious as that, it should have beenquietly heralded; foreshadowed by some bare bones── and offers made to sit down and flesh it out. That’s how it works in the normal corporate world.
It was a botch up. I knew it from the moment Bean opened his mouth.
Malcolm is the one to negotiate more money. Not that twerp. How could you vote for him? He’s an idiot! To the nth degree. He should just fuck off back to Nambour!
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i expect very little from australian politicians. i am happy that o’farrell and kristina have been rather civil to each during the campaign.
when you think how badly abbott has behaved, makes those two look like angels.
rudd and turnbull combination never really sank to the abbott lows either…
i am pleased with very small mercies indeed.
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She was an excellent soccer player. And she’s a looker. Beyond that I knowe nothing.
If they got rid of all of the State governments with their Parliaments and civil service gravy train, the happier I would be.
Beatty was a felonious cretin and Bligh is a pale imitation of her forebear.
Keneally should take up a proper job; like cooking school dinners or Federal Govt. (If she’s good enough: I don’t know, or care.)
I’m more interested in what’s gonna happen in Syria, now that giraffe face is on the nose.
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Vectis, I agree, get rid of state governments and those sheltered workshops Local government and introduce regional government. Can’t see those with snouts liking that though.
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We’ve just had some building work inspected. Council ‘engineers’ can’t look up span tables for a commonly used product themselves. I have to pay a private engineer to read the span tables for them. If this is so, then most council jobs could be sloughed off to the private sector, and a handful of clerks could collate the info!
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Yep thats why most people employ private certifiers. Almost have to be brain dead to work in some councils.
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…never again!!!
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For someone with the moniker Vectis Lad which sounds very much like a racing horse, I would have thought you would always study the form yet you say you know nothing.
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Fair comment Vivienne, but I live in Queensland. And I’ll just reiterate: I have no time for other states quasi National governments. Heck I don’t even know what side of the road they drive on 🙂
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We drive on the moon here in NSW, Vectis.
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Did you know that when Queenslanders visit Albury they go to a pub, behave dreadfully and when asked to quieten down, they answer (loudly) I’m a Queenslander and I can say what I fucking like. True. I also know about your driving habits – pretty weird.
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vectis lad, you can drink at pigs arms even if you wear socks with sandals 🙂
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The thing is Vivienne, that I live here. That’s all. I’m not responsible for rude intoxicated Australians.
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Algernon says:
March 26, 2011 at 3:53 pm
We drive on the moon here in NSW, Vectis.
You can drive on the RIGHT now Algy 🙂
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Vectis! Boom Boom!
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Of course you are not responsible for all Vectis Lad – I just wanted to dish a bit of crap back to you following your unkind comments regarding Christina.
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The Labor leader is persistent, walks like a model, AND dresses well. And yet, some disloyal voters say they aren’t going to vote Labor this election. It’s almost as if there was something spooking them. What could it be? It’s all very mysterious.
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── Sorry folks. Just practising a long hyphen for unleashed. It has been bugging me for weeks. Although I haven’t pressed send ‘here’ yet.
Sorry Kristina, for using you for my gratification, but UL is moribund en este momento!
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I think she comfortably won the campaign if you could call it that and in any of the debates showed Barry to be what he is lazy and clueless. He’s like Abbott uses the Liberal mantra that if you repeat the same lie over and over people will start to believe you. The problem is no one was listening.
I think her problem was that Tripodi and Obeid were standing behind her. Labor will be better off without Tripodi however Obeid needs to walk in front of the metaphoric train. Another problem is Roozendaal yet he’s top of the ticket.
The one good thing that I can see is that the Labor party started removing the dead wood six months ago replacing with younger people. If the stick with some of these younger people in the next four years they’ll build the base again. The Liberal party on the other hand has dead wood all over the shop that has waited for years to gain power.
From what I can see there is no enthusiasm for the Liberal under O’Farrell other than he is not the Labor party. It’s a worry we’ll get rid of a party because they’ve been in government too long and then give some carte blanche to do whatever he likes. Someone who stands for nothing, has never had a real job, has no vision and was part of the last Liberal machine which was found to be technically corrupt by ICAC. On top of that the electorate could give him control of the upper house, short memories of Howard when he had control of the Senate.
The Liberal government in NSW will be a two term government at best and possibly one term. They will eat themselves from the inside. They have David Clarke in the background that makes the Tripodi, Obeid et al look like saints. There will be Nats who may jump ship if they don’t get ministries on the North Coast.
In our seat we had a disgruntled Liberal nice bloke but dull. The Greens put forward an 84 year old man who has stood here for the past 20 odd years. The greens scrutineers were recommending a vote in the UPPER house. A CDP candidate who taught my children, her hypocritical stance on social housing lost me. A Wet behind the ears Labor candidate who will be a better choice in 4 years. And the Liberal our very own one legged arse kicker. He’ll get up given everyone else has run dead. Yet in four years time he’ll get tossed out. He will become the Liberal poster boy for ineptness.
At the end of the day I really wonder when walking into the polling booth in seats like Cessnock, Granville or the like where they have voted Labor or their life as to whether they can bring themselves to actually vote for a party they cannot believe in. Or vote as they always have but without any enthusiasm. I suppose we’ll know in a few hours.
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Well Algy, it will be indicative of a National sentiment I believe.
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I’m watching Dubbo. The sitting independent, Dawn Fardell, is well supported in the regional centre of Dubbo but the Nationals’ Troy Grant is looking good in the smaller towns. Dawn only held the seat by a slim margin of Dubbo votes last time so it will be interesting to see if the state wide swing to the conservatives will see Troy trounce Dawn, or whether she’ll hold on mainly because she doesn’t have the stink of party politics on her.
My feeling is that dawn will prevail, but these are disjunctive times and this is definitely a case of incumbents being booted out and definitely not the Opposition winning on policy or any forward trending ideas.
My sense of this election is that they might have greased all the politicians like carnival pigs, thrown the electorates up for grabs and then shown the resulting melee on prime time TV. It would have made about as much sense and the result would be much the same, except that we would have swapped one bunch of greasy pigs with another bunch.
But you all know my cynicism about Australian politics. It’s part of the problem, not the solution.
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Hornsby’s one I’m looking at having grown up there. For generations neglected by the Liberal party. Now a disgruntled local mayor was popularly voted in is standing after the Liberals parachuted in a nobody. The independent could get in on Labor and green preferences.
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vectis lad, isn’t also so that if one side has been in power too long, people get fed-up and go for the other side…
i’m not saying that labor has been good in nsw, but it’s not going to be any better under o’farrell.
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Little Mother, Fangio and Wordsworth live in Mt Colah. They’ve been filling me in. Interesting electorate these days. Full of tradies and “aspirational” workers.
You’re right Algy, it’ll be interesting to see just how deep the desire for change goes and what form it will take.
Mostly my sense of this that the voters want to give Labor a real good kickin’. A sort of car park sort out, with no finesse. But like most car park brawls it can only end badly.
Tomorrow we’ll have a new premier. Let’s all hope Fatty O’Barrel has more of a clue than it appears he does, otherwise it’ll be business as usual for the Libs with Clarke creeping around the corridors threatening and intimidating whilst all the time pressuring out polity back to some pointless neo-medievalism. Clarke is like Abbott, a religious nutter only creepier.
Mind you Jules, if I can swing over to you, at least these state elections means we’ve all been spared the ludicrous notion of Campbell Newman being the most senior elected Liberal in the Country. Perhaps that’s why he’s taking a tilt at the premiership in Qld; hubris pure and simple.
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A friend of mine was a Greiner staffer. I didn’t mind Greiner at least he stood for something, there was little below him though. Nowadays the friend has time for about two of them and both will be out by 2015 and is only just a Liberal. Now the Fat Barrel is no Greiner, tomorrow he’ll have his hand on the tiller and be sitting there an think Shit what do I do now. Clarke will be starting spread his tenticles. Within 6 months fatty will loose his control and within 12 months he’ll be rolled. Then the thickets will be wondering what on earth have we done.
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Vectis Lad says:
March 26, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Well Algy, it will be indicative of a National sentiment I believe
I think not vectis, the monkey is off the back for the feds in NSW now, lets see how O’Farrell performs. Also I think the fascist Abbott days may be numbered. One bad poll is all it will take.
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I’ve just remembered Algy. It’ll all depend on where they put the papaya.
Foolish of me to have forgotten that.
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Next to the yellow goat perhaps.
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No shortage of yellow goats this election.
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Bus loads of them, Waz.
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