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25.01.2022 Dodgy land grabs, shonky power plays, secret letters, lobbyists at fifty paces, whispered sweet nothings... Sydney property wars can just be so boring for the rest of the state but they seem to be the only thing Macquarie Street gets passionate about. https://www.smh.com.au//premier-s-planning-shake-up-came-a
25.01.2022 I was so thrilled when Matt Thistlewaite agreed to come and open our new facility in Banksmeadow. Ive heard Tony Burke talk passionately in the past about art and artists (but he was a great arts minister), to hear Matt rattling off fabulous thoughts about the angry penguins, Tucker and the Australian artists of the 50s blew my socks off. Very little doubt in my mind why this hardworking MP is one of the ALP people who picked up votes in the last poll. As I said in my thanks notes on Friday, Matt is everything that is right with the ALP in 2019. Proud to have him as my local member!
25.01.2022 At least Tony Abbott who was a climate denier could be buggered fighting bushfires properly... I wouldnt mind seeing Scott from Marketing on the frontlines... even acknowledging the fires are burning might be a start https://www.theguardian.com//scott-morrison-rejects-calls-
25.01.2022 Looks like the developers dropped the bad news on Gladys and Dom that appartment prices in Ultimo in this economy aren't going to do the trick. This was a smoke and mirrors property play from the beginning. A huge backflip but the right result.
24.01.2022 Super appointment!
24.01.2022 At the beginning of Tony Abbotts prime ministership Alan DuPont was appointed to a senior defence position but was then sidelined by the rural fire fighter in chief because he had once coauthored a paper that highlighted that climate change would ultimately be a threat to Australias security and a drain on defence resources. This is not unorthodox voodoo strategic thinking. The Pentagon had been so publishing and warning. Thousands of Australian troops are fighting fires to...day. After six lost years of climate denial, the current Prime Minister still plants his head in the sand (albeit in Hawaii, how a former head of Tourism Australia and the actual Aussie PM cant find Noosa on a map beggars belief). Make no mistake, Scotty From Marketing, whilst ultimately a complete moron, can not for a moment actually believe climate science is a hoax. It is far more a more nuanced fact that his leadership is under intense pressure daily, despite the victory in May. Dont forget, he only narrowly won the party room. I am reliably informed that Dutton is again counting numbers. Expect a spill by August. That being said, Dutton wont be the man to face the next election, there will be a conga line of cretins to cycle through before then... at least Prime Minister George Christiansen wouldnt go on holiday.... https://www.smh.com.au//trivialising-politics-has-helped-f See more
23.01.2022 As we say in the bush, you might be closing the Barn door after the horse has bolted, old son! https://www.smh.com.au//michael-mccormack-to-fight-for-his
23.01.2022 Im just about to move out of the rural town of Paddington on the Wentworth Plains because of a lack of attention.... regional NSW areas like mine are in desperate need of new 50 m swimming pools for our private schools and lounge facilities for our Agricultural Surf Life Saving Clubs. When can we have a #SportsRort Dave Sharma???
23.01.2022 I haven’t published my thoughts on Joel Fitzgibbon’s regular brain farts of late, mainly because I’m hoping his preselection will have been given to a plausible person with an eye to the future by the time I work out what he’s actually drivelling on about, however this is an excellent encapsulation of the real crisis in Australian coal. The market has moved on and politicians who possess neither the nuance to understand the shift nor the vision to embrace to where the market has moved, directing and developing jobs in their constituencies in renewable terms are bound to be left underground and not in the out in sunlight. https://www.smh.com.au//i-m-a-coal-miner-and-i-can-t-see-h
22.01.2022 If Dave Sharma insists on being a right wing knob all the way to the next federal election, I will gladly wager a significant lunch that he will lose the seat (again).
20.01.2022 It was fascinating hitting the phones on Saturday for Kristy. I had a great chat to a wonderful nurse from Tumut who really hammered home to me how fragile the network of healthcare institutions in that vast seat of Eden Monaro have become. She was unsure who she was going to vote for but made it clear that someone who could deliver specific results in Health would get her vote... timely that Health day was today and that Chris and Kristy were out with some excellent policy and projects like this one in Yass.
20.01.2022 Cue the angry septuagenerian boomers who will cite the fires of the 1860s for a reason why this is irrelevant. This graphic is pretty astounding which ever way the denialists cut it. We have to deal with this.
18.01.2022 Several billion committed to help Harry Triguboff sell ugly apartments in Sydney to connect the hopelessly under-utilised and pathetically over budget light rail and yet again .... no major visionary spending on regional rail infrastructure that might build cities and develop this state. The Premier for bloody Sydney strikes again. https://www.smh.com.au//transport-blueprint-reveals-two-ne
16.01.2022 A rare bullseye for Peter Hartcher. Renewable energy generation and transmission has to be central to all infrastructure planning in Australia; global markets and our institutional investors despair at the tawdry climate wars being played out in Canberra for the peanut gallery in Newscorpland. Angus Taylor, take a bow, consistently the butt of our nations energy joke. https://www.smh.com.au//draining-the-nation-s-energy-how-c
16.01.2022 I would make a joke about this being a police state but frankly its just a State of Stupidity.
15.01.2022 To be fair, this makes a change from replacing a perfectly useful Sydney Football Stadium with a useless hole in the ground?
15.01.2022 The Federal Opposition is next week being asked to back or block a $3.3m feasibility grant for a so-called clean coal plant in central Queensland. This barely opaque wedge tactic of Angus Taylor should be played straight bat, it is hardly cunning but neednt be opposed. The Labor senators should back the grant bill, with an amendment, that there will be a dollar for dollar grant to the CSIRO to monitor coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef. Preferably with language that stipulates that the two concepts are not mutually exclusive. Angus climate games can get interesting; this is not about supporting jobs and lower power prices in regional Australia Mr Taylor, its pissing about in the sandpit for your spectators in Sky Television-land because you havent got an actual plan to meet Australias renewable future.
15.01.2022 I clearly realise the irony of this post, but those who can should read this harrowing article about the lack of conviction this platform has for battling hate speech. And then have a shower as I intend to do after using Facebook. https://www.newyorker.com//10/19/why-facebook-cant-fix-its
14.01.2022 When does the preselection open for the Seat of Hughes.... I think my diary just opened up. https://www.smh.com.au//you-are-a-climate-denier-craig-kel
14.01.2022 The world simply must not allow the post pandemic recovery to ignore transition to sustainable energy economics. To think the future of Australian soft commodities exports will not rely on sustainable supply chains and regional hubs powered efficiently and cleanly is to deny Australian producers a future for their children.
13.01.2022 Mike Kelly has served our nation in uniform and in Parliament for 36 years. From all of us thank you.
12.01.2022 When I was a criminology student my visit to Silverwater Women's Prison was amongst one of the most shocking and outlook-altering experiences of my life. Rose Jackson's excellent second instalment of her Podcast series provides a considered focus on the worrying state of affairs regarding incarceration in New South Wales. Wonderful to hear Bob Debus' sensible voice in the debate again, alongside some gut wrenching testimony from a corrections officer whose words took me back ...to some of the confronting conditions I remember. I recall a dormitory room full of women, many of them indigenous faces far two young, stuffing Qantas headsets into plastic bags. I remember Prison officers with inadequate training but enormous hearts trying to make do under completely unjust workplace conditions. I remember isolation cells covered in chalk being hosed down. This cannot be reform. In any sense of the word. See more
12.01.2022 Government agencies have told Australians stranded overseas to draw down on their superannuation so they can afford business class flights home - AFR, 29/8/20 If Qantas gets one dollar of government money during all this Im going to blow a gasket.
12.01.2022 Chilling stuff coming from Washington. If the greatest democracy in the world can’t sort the mechanics of its handover of power into something civil and orderly it ought be of desperate concern to her allies around the world. Democracy or dictatorship? Trump’s post-election moves spark outcry https://on.ft.com/38DtMpc
09.01.2022 Once every so often, a by election produces the sort of outstanding candidate that political parties strive to produce and that the public constantly craves. Kristy McBain is one of the most impressive individuals who has come along in recent memory; a country person totally committed to her community and its connection to the land. She understands and is committed to the sustainability of her peoples' enterprises and the future of what will be left for the children and grandchildren of the folk of the Monaro, one of the most majestic stretches of landscape in Australia. I am backing Kristy.
08.01.2022 The pathway ahead for New South Wales is not through Martin Place accountants and funds managers teaming up with Budget Boys bureaucrats to come up with the next privitisation-bound Sydney infrastructure thought bubble; but rather it is to be found in a true transport vision that will link our capital with the regions. It is in this States rural heartlands, its second cities, its next metropolises, that the future prosperity of NSW lies. https://www.smh.com.au//second-wave-of-mega-projects-silve
08.01.2022 Bravo Boris! you managed to read The Economist magazine this week. Come up with your own ideas you intellectually lazy sheepdog.
08.01.2022 Is there nothing this tasteless mob will not try? From social media ads with the army, to unwelcome selfies in Wingello... now they want to cash in on a bloke who has had the hardest summer of his life. The NSW Liberals and their climate denying mates in Club Fed are just shockers sometimes... https://www.smh.com.au//nsw-fire-chief-cancels-planned-lib
08.01.2022 The Nev Power thing was pretty grotty but completely unsurprising, frankly these guys cant help themselves.
07.01.2022 Yes it was heavy rain, yes it was chaotic all over Sydney but are you shitting me? This is a major project in a major city in the 21st century. This stuff is just laughable. I witnessed how utterly incompetent Transport For NSW was first hand when I was on the light rail business reference group... words cant begin to describe how out of their depth these people are. No pun intended. https://www.smh.com.au//millions-of-litres-of-water-floods
06.01.2022 Matthias Cormann just told me to take my kid to school. Last Friday morning he told Australians to go to the Grand Prix. The government shut down events later that day. Hey Scotty from marketing, excuse me if I dont trust any of your dodgy salesmen anymore.
06.01.2022 Ferry McLoseyourface https://www.smh.com.au//government-defends-new-sydney-ferr
05.01.2022 The British Election should serve as an enormous chill down the spine of the Australian Labor Party. The complete dismissal of pure socialist rhetoric in favour of left-leaning but marginal state support bound together with conservative culture-war style electioneering could well wipe out the red wall of the western suburbs of metropolitan Sydney over the next decade. What is certain is that a centrist, popular figure is desperately required to win back the Lodge preferably one with a low-taxing, infrastructure building voice.
05.01.2022 when is this donkey going to realise that right wing Liberal PMs don't win much trust with the "no cuts to the ABC" porkie...
05.01.2022 Chinese officialdom have a tin ear, they corral panda hugging businessmen and vice-chancellors around boardroom lunches and declare how keen they are for peaceful bilateral relations, the subtext is always: Beijing is displeased with you, step into line. I know, Ive sat at these tables. And then they launch pure visceral economic threats. To these bullies I say this: economic independence is crucial to the world at this time, a unified independent response to a global heal...th crisis wherever it originated is however paramount. If our graziers and vintners need to work with the government to develop less volatile markets for our great produce, I can assure them it will only be a phase. China is going to have to learn to live with a more wary, less easily manipulated world and that is simply a fact of the 2020s. The relationship will go on but it will evolve. In the meantime, to China I say this: our people and our producers can weather drought, can survive infernos and can bear a nationally imposed lock down... we can handle a few empty threats from a diminutive career diplomat with a glass jaw. Im sure you have excellent Wagyu striploin from Harbin to wash down with Chateaux Wuhan Shiraz for a few years if youre serious, but dont sully the relationship with threats when Australia has for so many years been such a steadfast friend. https://www.smh.com.au//australia-could-lose-billions-from
02.01.2022 As a member of the I once said dumb shit on Social Media club.... this one is pretty spectacular.
01.01.2022 After the war, Australians would no longer believe, suggested Chifley, that there was a limit to what governments could do. They would demand that the problems of peacetime reconstruction should be tackled with the same energy and scale of resources that were being applied to the prosecution of the war. - From D Day, Chifley.
01.01.2022 Is it possible to be honestly disappointed and yet utterly unsurprised.
01.01.2022 This is pretty appalling oversight and surely sorted with some basic intervention from the Federal MP ... Stephen Jones MP Fiona Phillips MP maybe time to check in and see if Angus still knows where his electorate is?
