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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: one-eyed on March 06, 2013, 07:44:39 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: UNCONFIRMED reports that Ted Baillieu has resigned as Victoria's premier.
Mr Baillieu has just left the Liberal Party meeting at Parliament House without saying anything but is expected to hold a media conference shortly.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/ted-baillieu-resigns-as-victorias-premier/story-e6frf7jo-1226591143726
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Looks like Denis Napthine will replace him.
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Big Ted has bailed it would seem :rollin
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Captain Schettino mark 2.
what an abolsute farce of a leader we have had to subject ourselves too.
goodbye and good riddons fool for doing nothing.
did i read somewhere that he okay'd the brigthon train station to be built underground fully funded by his government. Could have read it wrong but wouldnt surprise me if he looked after his toorak mates.
what will it take to ditch all state governments and only have a federal. Perhaps ditching the queen will do the trick?
What a complete waste of tax payer money. Local councils on big bucks for doing sfa, local mp's do sfa yet they get paid big bucks, state government on big bucks for doing absolutely sfa.
it seems a big load of poo how over governed we are yet we are the ones who have to cough up.
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FOFF Ted.
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Tapping one of his staffers?
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At least jeff did something.We got a shed ,a square and a prix out of him
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At least jeff did something.We got a shed ,a square and a prix out of him
You have missed the best...
He got rid of that stupid left hand turn/give way rule we used to have and...
Introduced the whole yellow taxi thing.
:cheers
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State Labor did plenty during the Cain and Kirner governments. The boggest accomplishment was to bankrupt the State of Victoria for one thing. As for Brumbys/Bracks lol ... they gave us the $28 billion dollar white elephant desal plant. What a stuffen disgrace. Should have just stuck a damn on the Mitchell River for $600 million and we would have been ok for the next 100 years.
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The rainfall prior to this current dry spell showed our current dams can easily supply Melbourne will enough water when they are full. The problem with dams is they dry up during long droughts at a time when you need the water from them more than ever. Building another rain-dependent dam won't get around that problem. In fact building another dam would've been called a white elephant given now we have enough water at the moment ;). For the next long drought we'll need a rain-independent source of water such as the desal. Anyway it's going to be interesting in the future when the Libs are on harsh water restrictions while the rest of us have desal water during the next drought :whistle ;D.
Anyway back to Baillieu - he's taken the fall (more like pushed out) for a useless government that in just two years has driven Victoria into recession with rising unemployment while they were asleep at the wheel ::). The fact Geoff Shaw caused Baillieu's resignation is even more embarrassing; be like Craig Thompson telling Gillard to resign. The one who should have resigned first was Peter Ryan over this police tapes affair. It just goes to show there's grubs and grubbiness on both side of politics. Of course Abbott is fine with it when it's his side doing it.
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State Labor did plenty during the Cain and Kirner governments.
Exactly, gave us the National Tennis Centre (aka Cain's Cathedral ;D) the finest tennis venue in the world that others are no copying (eg Wimbledon and a retractable roof). Guaranteed us hosting the Aust Open which generates millions for state unlike that pesky Grand Prix that Jeff got for us ;)
As for the Bracks/Brumby Governments suggest you have a drive along Flemington Road - there is a state of the art Childrens hospital that was commissioned and built by said Govt. I know Big ted took credit for it because he was in power when it opened but getting it built was thanks to the previous mob - ditto the new Royal Womens
Carry on ;D
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State Labor did plenty during the Cain and Kirner governments.
Exactly, gave us the National Tennis Centre (aka Cain's Cathedral ;D) the finest tennis venue in the world that others are no copying (eg Wimbledon and a retractable roof). Guaranteed us hosting the Aust Open which generates millions for state unlike that pesky Grand Prix that Jeff got for us ;)
As for the Bracks/Brumby Governments suggest you have a drive along Flemington Road - there is a state of the art Childrens hospital that was commissioned and built by said Govt. I know Big ted took credit for it because he was in power when it opened but getting it built was thanks to the previous mob - ditto the new Royal Womens
Carry on ;D
The Regional Rail project will also make a huge difference unblocking bottlenecks in the suburban and country rail system on the western side of the city that have been around for 100 years. Another Bracks/Brumby Government major infrastructure project that is actually being built unlike 44 year old phoney regurgitated election promises to build Rowville and Doncaster rail lines that have never seen the light of day.
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State Labor did plenty during the Cain and Kirner governments.
Exactly, gave us the National Tennis Centre (aka Cain's Cathedral ;D) the finest tennis venue in the world that others are no copying (eg Wimbledon and a retractable roof). Guaranteed us hosting the Aust Open which generates millions for state unlike that pesky Grand Prix that Jeff got for us ;)
As for the Bracks/Brumby Governments suggest you have a drive along Flemington Road - there is a state of the art Childrens hospital that was commissioned and built by said Govt. I know Big ted took credit for it because he was in power when it opened but getting it built was thanks to the previous mob - ditto the new Royal Womens
Carry on ;D
The Regional Rail project will also make a huge difference unblocking bottlenecks in the suburban and country rail system on the western side of the city that have been around for 100 years. Another Bracks/Brumby Government major infrastructure project that is actually being built unlike 44 year old phoney regurgitated election promises to build Rowville and Doncaster rail lines that have never seen the light of day.
All on the State credit card. Labor never pays for anything. They tax and spend and when they cant tax enough they just go into debt. Look at Rudd and Gillard they came to power with Zero Public Debt and will leave in September leaving Australia almost $300 billion down the crapper.
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I still think the yellow taxis were a good idea.
:thumbsup
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Just on the Desal plant we will need it now that water restrictions are goneskis and people continue to try and grow their driveways. Sick to death of people wasting water by watering their driveways :banghead :banghead
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WP as someone who has southern Europe close to his heart ,a well nurtured and watered driveway is something to behold...it takes many hundreds of litres of water to get a driveway to the point where Better homes and garden would even contemplate having it appear in their mag
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Labor rightfully and decisively smashed in the WA Election. Everyones waiting for Gillard and September. Labors going get smashed electorally. Federal Labor destroyed WA Labor in the West. Federal Labor is nothing more than a shamed and dysfunctional pressure group run by a bunch of hillbillys who arent real Labor people.
The great party of Curtain and Chifley, the party who gave us the great reformers in Hawke and Keating and the party who even under Whitlam gave us what we now know as Medicare has been decimated by hacks, no hopers, hangers on and union bludgers who have never had real jobs. The sooner real Labor People get back in charge rather than these Greenie Socialist Ratbags and their Chronies the better. Its going to be a long 20 years in opposition for Labor unfortunately.
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when kirner was ousted in Victoria many pundits said it would be a generation before Labour got back in Vic.Seven years later jeffrey was given the stuff...
One year is a long time in politics let alone 20
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Labor rightfully and decisively smashed in the WA Election. Everyones waiting for Gillard and September. Labors going get smashed electorally. Federal Labor destroyed WA Labor in the West. Federal Labor is nothing more than a shamed and dysfunctional pressure group run by a bunch of hillbillys who arent real Labor people.
The great party of Curtain and Chifley, the party who gave us the great reformers in Hawke and Keating and the party who even under Whitlam gave us what we now know as Medicare has been decimated by hacks, no hopers, hangers on and union bludgers who have never had real jobs. The sooner real Labor People get back in charge rather than these Greenie Socialist Ratbags and their Chronies the better. Its going to be a long 20 years in opposition for Labor unfortunately.
What's a "Chronies"?
Did you mean Crownies? (about to have my first for the day)
Or is there just an "aitch" too many?
:cheers
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Labor rightfully and decisively smashed in the WA Election. Everyones waiting for Gillard and September. Labors going get smashed electorally. Federal Labor destroyed WA Labor in the West. Federal Labor is nothing more than a shamed and dysfunctional pressure group run by a bunch of hillbillys who arent real Labor people.
The great party of Curtain and Chifley, the party who gave us the great reformers in Hawke and Keating and the party who even under Whitlam gave us what we now know as Medicare has been decimated by hacks, no hopers, hangers on and union bludgers who have never had real jobs. The sooner real Labor People get back in charge rather than these Greenie Socialist Ratbags and their Chronies the better. Its going to be a long 20 years in opposition for Labor unfortunately.
All these leaders and their successful major reform ideas were bagged by their contemporaries at the time. Chifley, Whitlam (post-dismissal) and Keating had large swings against them when they lost government. Hawke-Keating were only praised well after they were out of government when people could finally see the long-term benefits. As Gigantor said one year is a long time in politics let alone 20. Just ask Rudd and Baillieu.
As for never having a "real" job, Abbott fits that category well. Virtually his whole adult life has been involved in politics in some way. Actually most pollies these days come via the same uni arts/law/politics conveyor belt before moving onto being a party staffer to learn the ropes before eventually gaining preselection for a seat to get into parliament. The days of Chifley (train driver) and Fraser (farmer) becoming PM are long gone.
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Interesting point mighty..why are most of our parliamentarians lawyers(it seems that way)?As an eloctorate its in our interests to have as wide a cross section of our community as possible representing us eg architects,social workers,teachers,sportsmen etc etc.
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there should be rules in place where someone cannot be allowed to seek a position in any australian parliament without having say 10 years in a real job first.
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there should be rules in place where someone cannot be allowed to seek a position in any australian parliament without having say 10 years in a real job first.
And what do you classify as a "real job" Ramps?
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there should be rules in place where someone cannot be allowed to seek a position in any australian parliament without having say 10 years in a real job first.
And what do you classify as a "real job" Ramps?
public sector job, private sector job and people who have given years to voluntary service would suffice. For example someone who has worked in say private industry for 7 years and given 3 years of community service voluteering or helping out community groups would be allowed to run for parliament under the ramps rule for pollies.
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there should be rules in place where someone cannot be allowed to seek a position in any australian parliament without having say 10 years in a real job first.
And what do you classify as a "real job" Ramps?
public sector job, private sector job and people who have given years to voluntary service would suffice. For example someone who has worked in say private industry for 7 years and given 3 years of community service voluteering or helping out community groups would be allowed to run for parliament under the ramps rule for pollies.
So under your criteria Big Ted qualified as being the Baillieu behind what was "Baillieu Knight stuff" ;D
And both the current PM & Opposition leader qualify seeing they were both IIRC lawyers
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there should be rules in place where someone cannot be allowed to seek a position in any australian parliament without having say 10 years in a real job first.
And what do you classify as a "real job" Ramps?
public sector job, private sector job and people who have given years to voluntary service would suffice. For example someone who has worked in say private industry for 7 years and given 3 years of community service voluteering or helping out community groups would be allowed to run for parliament under the ramps rule for pollies.
So under your criteria Big Ted qualified as being the Baillieu behind what was "Baillieu Knight stuff" ;D
And both the current PM & Opposition leader qualify seeing they were both IIRC lawyers
wasnt the current pm just a conveyancer?
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wasnt the current pm just a conveyancer?
err No she was a partner at a law firm - Slater & Gordon
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shes running the country like a conveyancing office ;D
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there should be rules in place where someone cannot be allowed to seek a position in any australian parliament without having say 10 years in a real job first.
And what do you classify as a "real job" Ramps?
public sector job, private sector job and people who have given years to voluntary service would suffice. For example someone who has worked in say private industry for 7 years and given 3 years of community service voluteering or helping out community groups would be allowed to run for parliament under the ramps rule for pollies.
Having people involved in the party from a wide range of backgrounds e.g private sector, small and large business managers, public sector, non for profit organisation etc.. would be in a party interest. Even Ferguson when he resigned from Gillards front bench mentioned the need to get people other than a "union hack" into safe seats of parliament on the ALP side.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/lord-mayor-robert-doyles-car-hit-by-protesters/story-e6frg6n6-1226612755290
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