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NSW LABOR ROLE MODEL
According to The Australian newspaper when Belinda Neal MP (Robertson - NSW federal) was attending Sydney University :
She stood out as an early right-winger, even arguing in one long and heated debate that the H. V. Evatt Labor
lawyers' club should dump its name because the ALP icon was "too radical".
Presumably the late Doc Evatt was not a suitable role model for young Labor members.
We understand he was a civilised and gentile man.
see : Brad Norington , Belinda Neal's stoushes with ALP comrades legendary , The Australian, 13 June 2008.
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According to The Australian newspaper when Belinda Neal MP (Robertson - NSW federal) was attending Sydney University :
She stood out as an early right-winger, even arguing in one long and heated debate that the H. V. Evatt Labor
lawyers' club should dump its name because the ALP icon was "too radical".
Presumably the late Doc Evatt was not a suitable role model for young Labor members.
We understand he was a civilised and gentile man.
see : Brad Norington , Belinda Neal's stoushes with ALP comrades legendary , The Australian, 13 June 2008.
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BUCKLEY's CHANCE AGAINST GREG PIPER MP
Greg Piper MP (Lake Macquarie), the Mayor of Lake Macquarie City Council has announced he will stand again for
Mayor at the September 2008 Council elections. He has carried out the dual roles of Mayor and local MP since
he was first elected to the NSW Parliament in March 2007.
He will be opposed in the mayoral ballot by John Buckley - as Labor candidate. He has not previously served
on council. Labor has not held the mayoral chains in Lake Macquarie for 15 years.
SOURCE :
Lake Mayor: Piper's hand up , Newcastle Herald, 13 June 2008.
Mayoral bid is Buckley's chance , Newcastle Herald, 14 June 2008.
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Greg Piper MP (Lake Macquarie), the Mayor of Lake Macquarie City Council has announced he will stand again for
Mayor at the September 2008 Council elections. He has carried out the dual roles of Mayor and local MP since
he was first elected to the NSW Parliament in March 2007.
He will be opposed in the mayoral ballot by John Buckley - as Labor candidate. He has not previously served
on council. Labor has not held the mayoral chains in Lake Macquarie for 15 years.
SOURCE :
Lake Mayor: Piper's hand up , Newcastle Herald, 13 June 2008.
Mayoral bid is Buckley's chance , Newcastle Herald, 14 June 2008.
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PORT'S PROPOSED POWER PLANT PINGED
The proposed power plant to be built near Port Macqurie will not proceed following the decision of Port Macquarie Council's
administrator not to sell the land, where the power plant was to be built, to the developer. However, the developer is
contemplating legal action over the decision.
Looks like Iemma and Costa will need to find another place for "private enterprise" to build a power station.
SOURCES :
COUNCIL PULLS THE PLUG: Power plant gets the flick , Port Macquarie News, 13 June 2008.
$110 million power plant: It's a dead duck , Port Macquarie News, 15 June 2008.
Power group may go legal , Port Macquarie News, 16 June 2008.
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The proposed power plant to be built near Port Macqurie will not proceed following the decision of Port Macquarie Council's
administrator not to sell the land, where the power plant was to be built, to the developer. However, the developer is
contemplating legal action over the decision.
Looks like Iemma and Costa will need to find another place for "private enterprise" to build a power station.
SOURCES :
COUNCIL PULLS THE PLUG: Power plant gets the flick , Port Macquarie News, 13 June 2008.
$110 million power plant: It's a dead duck , Port Macquarie News, 15 June 2008.
Power group may go legal , Port Macquarie News, 16 June 2008.
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| DAY 9 - off the front page (replaced by welfare cheats, models and hugging footy players) |
THE HUNTER - A HOT BED FOR THE LEFT
As the Hunter region is said to be a "hot-bed for the Left" we thought we would look at some back copies of the Newcastle Herald to see if that
might give an indication of what the good people in the Hunter thought of "right-winger" Belinda Neal MP (Robertson - NSW federal).
First, it is a good idea for politicians to keep an amicable relationship with journalists - if for no reason other than the potential for free advertising,
by virtue of the stories they may write.
Unfortunately, Ms Neal seems to have got journalist Joanne McCarthy offside some time ago,so it is understandable why on 14 June 2008 Ms
McCarthy began an article :
IT was November 12, 1998, when former NSW Labor president Steve Hutchins stood in Federal Parliament as a senator, and in his
maiden speech made the prediction that Belinda Neal so gloriously fulfilled this week.
"Just let me say that I think and do believe she (Neal) will be back with a vengeance," he said.
Give the man a cigar.
She went onto explain :
Ms Neal and I had a nice old barney in May last year [ 2007] when I rang after Labor's national executive preselected her for the Central
Coast seat of Robertson on the same day it anointed Greg Combet for Charlton in the "super-Saturday" votes.
I said I was writing a column comparing her treatment with that of Charlton's Kelly Hoare, the woman booted out for a "fresh face", who
was seen to represent the "old" Labor politics of seats as family fiefdoms, rather than "new" Labor's promotion of talent.
Ms Hoare was also the woman kicked while she was down after the leaking of a complaint about alleged sexual harassment after she
had been drinking.
Ms Neal, to put it mildly, objected to any comparing of herself with Ms Hoare and accused me of beating up the complaints of men who
might have stood against her if there had been a rank-and-file election.
I was being used by the men, she said, which is when I suggested, one feminist to another, she might like to sit and think about what
she had just said, because I didn't need a man's help to smell hypocrisy and ALP power politics. Thanks.
Joanne McCarthy, Hypocrisy and ALP's politics to the fore , Newcastle Herald, 14: June, 2008. p. 19.
AND Ms Neal's antics prompted Greg Ray to write this piece :
WHICH nation-state does Belinda Neal represent?
Kevin Rudd asked that question this week when reporters wanted his reaction to the Iguanagate allegations against federal MP Neal and
her NSW MP hubby John Della Bosca.
Blimey Kev, you know better than I do that Ms Neal is a card-carrying representative of NSW Laborland.
Laborland is like the Vatican, a sort of country within a country that makes its own rules, protects its own members and dictates terms
to its unquestioning believers, wherever they may be.
It's a funny sort of place because it doesn't have any fixed borders. Its capital is supposed to be in Sussex Street, Sydney, but in some
ways it's more like a club than a nation.
How do you join?
There's a variety of ways. Mostly you stack some sleepy old Labor Party branches (you remember the Labor Party? It had something to
do with social equity or somesuch nonsense) with heaps of pals who preselect you to run for Parliament.
If you haven't got time for that you can arrange with the Lords and Ladies of Laborland to use their tricky head office rulebook to
magically parachute you into a convenient electorate. They won't ask much in return: just your soul, and who needs one of those
anyway?
Or if you are uncharismatic, have trouble making and keeping friends or just lack confidence in your social skills you can schmooze
your way onto an Upper House ticket.
Another common way is to marry into the inner circle. This is a super thing to do because it can assist you to become a well-paid
campaign manager, press secretary, ministerial chief of staff or help you land a nice job in the public service.
Experience and qualifications are optional and little misdemeanours in your past needn't matter at all.
How you get into Laborland is immaterial. Once you hold that coveted dual passport a big wonderful world opens up to you.
Want a plum consultancy? No problem maaate.
Need some help with a development? There's people you can talk to.
Your kids are looking for a job? Too easy.
Ever wondered how merchant banks make their money? Wonder no more.
Like throwing your weight around? You're in the right place.
Of course, Laborland has its little civil wars from time to time, as Ms Neal and hubby Della can readily attest. But they pass like spring
showers under the eternal sunshine of free public money.
Ahhh Laborland!
Bewdiful one day even more bewdiful the next.
Greg Ray , Ray on Saturday , Newcastle Herald , 14 June, 2008. p. 2.
I haven't been to Newcastle for a while. Must get back there soon. They sound like fun people !!!
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As the Hunter region is said to be a "hot-bed for the Left" we thought we would look at some back copies of the Newcastle Herald to see if that
might give an indication of what the good people in the Hunter thought of "right-winger" Belinda Neal MP (Robertson - NSW federal).
First, it is a good idea for politicians to keep an amicable relationship with journalists - if for no reason other than the potential for free advertising,
by virtue of the stories they may write.
Unfortunately, Ms Neal seems to have got journalist Joanne McCarthy offside some time ago,so it is understandable why on 14 June 2008 Ms
McCarthy began an article :
IT was November 12, 1998, when former NSW Labor president Steve Hutchins stood in Federal Parliament as a senator, and in his
maiden speech made the prediction that Belinda Neal so gloriously fulfilled this week.
"Just let me say that I think and do believe she (Neal) will be back with a vengeance," he said.
Give the man a cigar.
She went onto explain :
Ms Neal and I had a nice old barney in May last year [ 2007] when I rang after Labor's national executive preselected her for the Central
Coast seat of Robertson on the same day it anointed Greg Combet for Charlton in the "super-Saturday" votes.
I said I was writing a column comparing her treatment with that of Charlton's Kelly Hoare, the woman booted out for a "fresh face", who
was seen to represent the "old" Labor politics of seats as family fiefdoms, rather than "new" Labor's promotion of talent.
Ms Hoare was also the woman kicked while she was down after the leaking of a complaint about alleged sexual harassment after she
had been drinking.
Ms Neal, to put it mildly, objected to any comparing of herself with Ms Hoare and accused me of beating up the complaints of men who
might have stood against her if there had been a rank-and-file election.
I was being used by the men, she said, which is when I suggested, one feminist to another, she might like to sit and think about what
she had just said, because I didn't need a man's help to smell hypocrisy and ALP power politics. Thanks.
Joanne McCarthy, Hypocrisy and ALP's politics to the fore , Newcastle Herald, 14: June, 2008. p. 19.
AND Ms Neal's antics prompted Greg Ray to write this piece :
WHICH nation-state does Belinda Neal represent?
Kevin Rudd asked that question this week when reporters wanted his reaction to the Iguanagate allegations against federal MP Neal and
her NSW MP hubby John Della Bosca.
Blimey Kev, you know better than I do that Ms Neal is a card-carrying representative of NSW Laborland.
Laborland is like the Vatican, a sort of country within a country that makes its own rules, protects its own members and dictates terms
to its unquestioning believers, wherever they may be.
It's a funny sort of place because it doesn't have any fixed borders. Its capital is supposed to be in Sussex Street, Sydney, but in some
ways it's more like a club than a nation.
How do you join?
There's a variety of ways. Mostly you stack some sleepy old Labor Party branches (you remember the Labor Party? It had something to
do with social equity or somesuch nonsense) with heaps of pals who preselect you to run for Parliament.
If you haven't got time for that you can arrange with the Lords and Ladies of Laborland to use their tricky head office rulebook to
magically parachute you into a convenient electorate. They won't ask much in return: just your soul, and who needs one of those
anyway?
Or if you are uncharismatic, have trouble making and keeping friends or just lack confidence in your social skills you can schmooze
your way onto an Upper House ticket.
Another common way is to marry into the inner circle. This is a super thing to do because it can assist you to become a well-paid
campaign manager, press secretary, ministerial chief of staff or help you land a nice job in the public service.
Experience and qualifications are optional and little misdemeanours in your past needn't matter at all.
How you get into Laborland is immaterial. Once you hold that coveted dual passport a big wonderful world opens up to you.
Want a plum consultancy? No problem maaate.
Need some help with a development? There's people you can talk to.
Your kids are looking for a job? Too easy.
Ever wondered how merchant banks make their money? Wonder no more.
Like throwing your weight around? You're in the right place.
Of course, Laborland has its little civil wars from time to time, as Ms Neal and hubby Della can readily attest. But they pass like spring
showers under the eternal sunshine of free public money.
Ahhh Laborland!
Bewdiful one day even more bewdiful the next.
Greg Ray , Ray on Saturday , Newcastle Herald , 14 June, 2008. p. 2.
I haven't been to Newcastle for a while. Must get back there soon. They sound like fun people !!!
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BELINDA'S MAKE-OVER
When attending school in Orange Ms Neal was described as :"quiet, shy and attractive" .
see : Tracey Prisk, MP Neal’s Orange cricket days , Central Western Daily, 15 June 2008.
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When attending school in Orange Ms Neal was described as :"quiet, shy and attractive" .
see : Tracey Prisk, MP Neal’s Orange cricket days , Central Western Daily, 15 June 2008.
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RACE-CALLER GOES "POLITICAL"
Northern NSW race-caller, football commentator and "voice" of Radio 2NZ, Greg Kachel, is taking up a new career
as Chief of Staff to senator elect John "Wacka" Williams, whose term commences on 1 July 2008.
Mr Kachel is saying farewell to 2NZ Inverell after 32 years with the station - which must be a record of some kind for a country radio station. He
commenced as a trainee announcer in 1976 and was appointed General Manager of the Station in 1987.
However he will not be moving far. Wacka is opening an office in Inverell - which is probably a historic first for Inverell - to have a Senator's office
in the town. Mr Kachel will move from 167 Byron Street Inverell to 144 Byron Street - basically across the road !!!
Let's hope he is allowed weekends off to call the races and the footy !!!
see : Amy Slessor, Kachel to sign off for senator , Inverell Times, 6 June 2008.
Amy Slessor, Kachel leaves radio for senator , Glen Innes Examiner, 10 June 2008.
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Northern NSW race-caller, football commentator and "voice" of Radio 2NZ, Greg Kachel, is taking up a new career
as Chief of Staff to senator elect John "Wacka" Williams, whose term commences on 1 July 2008.
Mr Kachel is saying farewell to 2NZ Inverell after 32 years with the station - which must be a record of some kind for a country radio station. He
commenced as a trainee announcer in 1976 and was appointed General Manager of the Station in 1987.
However he will not be moving far. Wacka is opening an office in Inverell - which is probably a historic first for Inverell - to have a Senator's office
in the town. Mr Kachel will move from 167 Byron Street Inverell to 144 Byron Street - basically across the road !!!
Let's hope he is allowed weekends off to call the races and the footy !!!
see : Amy Slessor, Kachel to sign off for senator , Inverell Times, 6 June 2008.
Amy Slessor, Kachel leaves radio for senator , Glen Innes Examiner, 10 June 2008.
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MP's - MP's EVERYWHERE - BUT NOT ANYONE TO LEAD
The diagnosis has been made : Terminal
The prognosis has been made : Not long
Well that's the gossip anyway. And according to the gossip the old adage applies :
The King is dead . Long live the Queen!!!
Uhh - you say -it's long live the King . Well in this case it's the Queen - the Queen of Marrickville.
Uhh - you say - but she is a "leftie".
Well, according to the gossip the heavyweights are prepared to do anything to cling onto power. They are terrified of a Rudd style expose of the
"dealings" of the previous government. So the dream team of Carmel Tebbutt and Nathan Rees might be just what the doctor ordered.
Isn't it interesting, that when push looks like it will come to shove - "loyalty" runs a long 2nd to "self-interest".
IT's all gossip, innuendo and fantasy. BUT at least it is a welcome relief from "reality" in NSW.
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The diagnosis has been made : Terminal
The prognosis has been made : Not long
Well that's the gossip anyway. And according to the gossip the old adage applies :
The King is dead . Long live the Queen!!!
Uhh - you say -it's long live the King . Well in this case it's the Queen - the Queen of Marrickville.
Uhh - you say - but she is a "leftie".
Well, according to the gossip the heavyweights are prepared to do anything to cling onto power. They are terrified of a Rudd style expose of the
"dealings" of the previous government. So the dream team of Carmel Tebbutt and Nathan Rees might be just what the doctor ordered.
Isn't it interesting, that when push looks like it will come to shove - "loyalty" runs a long 2nd to "self-interest".
IT's all gossip, innuendo and fantasy. BUT at least it is a welcome relief from "reality" in NSW.
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STRANGE TWIST OF FATE
IN what is possibly a historic first for a NSW political party, the NSW Nationals parliamentary
wing led by Andrew Stoner MP, is to follow the decision of it's annual conference.
The annual conference of the Nationals voted overwhelmingly to remain as a stand alone
party and not to merge with the Liberals to form a "new" mono-conservative party
(unlike Queensland where a marriage is underway).
HOWEVER, running true to form for a NSW political party, and in a mad Morris moment,
Andrew Stoner MP, has defied a conference motion relating to nuclear energy and says
he will not implement it
SO maybe we will have to wait a little longer for the predictions of Peter Draper MP (Tamworth)
to be fulfilled :
****While I have been unable to reach an amicable agreement with the National Party as they see everyone outside their organisation as the
enemy, I will encourage a constructive dialogue with the Liberals because they are significantly increasing their interest in rural and regional
communities across this state. (1)
***The NSW Liberals have not only convinced the state Nationals to sell out their country constituents on electricity privatisation, they are now
after their parliamentary seats. (2)
***their [Nationals] slow march to complete irrelevance will escalate. (2)
*** [Stoner] play(s) cheap politics and issu(es) misleading media releases. (3)
***Country communities are rejecting the hypocrisy and lack of action on the part of the Nationals. (4)
***“New South Wales Nationals Leader and Shadow Minister for Education, Andrew Stoner, needs to stop being a hypocrite and get fair dinkum
about the needs of regional and rural communities. (5)
***“I do not believe the Labor members seen protesting with unions will actually vote against their government . (6)
SOURCES :
Nats reject plan to merge parties , Northern Daily Leader, 16 June 2008.
NSW Nats reject merger with Libs , Stock & Land, 16 June 2008.
Springborg unfazed by NSW Nats merger rebuff , Brisbane Times, 16 June 2008.
ABC News, Stoner defies Nationals' nuclear support , ABC Radio, 13 June 2008.
(1) Peter Draper MP, Liberal Shadow Ministers Visit to Tamworth Very Welcome , Media Release, 26 May 2008.
(2) Peter Draper MP, Now, Who Is The Enemy?, Media Release, 23 May 2008.
(3) Peter Draper MP, Stoner Unfit to Lead , Media Release, 4 April 2008.
(4) Peter Draper MP, Nats Abandon Country, for Water Views at Kirribilli Club, Media Release, 2 April 2008.
(5) Peter Draper MP, Stop the Hypocrisy and Deliver Good Policy, Media Release, 7 March 2008.
(6) Peter Draper MP, Electricity Debate Smokescreen To Wear Down Opposition, Media Release , 29 February 2008.
IN what is possibly a historic first for a NSW political party, the NSW Nationals parliamentary
wing led by Andrew Stoner MP, is to follow the decision of it's annual conference.
The annual conference of the Nationals voted overwhelmingly to remain as a stand alone
party and not to merge with the Liberals to form a "new" mono-conservative party
(unlike Queensland where a marriage is underway).
HOWEVER, running true to form for a NSW political party, and in a mad Morris moment,
Andrew Stoner MP, has defied a conference motion relating to nuclear energy and says
he will not implement it
SO maybe we will have to wait a little longer for the predictions of Peter Draper MP (Tamworth)
to be fulfilled :
****While I have been unable to reach an amicable agreement with the National Party as they see everyone outside their organisation as the
enemy, I will encourage a constructive dialogue with the Liberals because they are significantly increasing their interest in rural and regional
communities across this state. (1)
***The NSW Liberals have not only convinced the state Nationals to sell out their country constituents on electricity privatisation, they are now
after their parliamentary seats. (2)
***their [Nationals] slow march to complete irrelevance will escalate. (2)
*** [Stoner] play(s) cheap politics and issu(es) misleading media releases. (3)
***Country communities are rejecting the hypocrisy and lack of action on the part of the Nationals. (4)
***“New South Wales Nationals Leader and Shadow Minister for Education, Andrew Stoner, needs to stop being a hypocrite and get fair dinkum
about the needs of regional and rural communities. (5)
***“I do not believe the Labor members seen protesting with unions will actually vote against their government . (6)
SOURCES :
Nats reject plan to merge parties , Northern Daily Leader, 16 June 2008.
NSW Nats reject merger with Libs , Stock & Land, 16 June 2008.
Springborg unfazed by NSW Nats merger rebuff , Brisbane Times, 16 June 2008.
ABC News, Stoner defies Nationals' nuclear support , ABC Radio, 13 June 2008.
(1) Peter Draper MP, Liberal Shadow Ministers Visit to Tamworth Very Welcome , Media Release, 26 May 2008.
(2) Peter Draper MP, Now, Who Is The Enemy?, Media Release, 23 May 2008.
(3) Peter Draper MP, Stoner Unfit to Lead , Media Release, 4 April 2008.
(4) Peter Draper MP, Nats Abandon Country, for Water Views at Kirribilli Club, Media Release, 2 April 2008.
(5) Peter Draper MP, Stop the Hypocrisy and Deliver Good Policy, Media Release, 7 March 2008.
(6) Peter Draper MP, Electricity Debate Smokescreen To Wear Down Opposition, Media Release , 29 February 2008.
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