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DELLA BOSCA DESERVES CONGRATULATIONS
Despite the unsavouriness of events that have transpired since that fateful Friday night in June
John Della Bosca MLC deserves congratulations for taking a principled stand on the question of
his ministerial salary he is receiving during the period he is stood down.
He has announced he is donating the ministerial salary to charity.
The simple fact is that because he is stood down the government are legally obliged to continue to
pay him his ministerial salary (it's the same as being on holidays). He cannot refuse the pay.
However, by not seeking to benefit personally from the situation, and donating the salary to charity
he is setting a standard of impeccable behaviour.
IN that regard he deserves to be congratulated.
FURTHER, it is inconceivable he has committed any offence which the Police would be interested in. Therefore it can be expected he will be
"cleared" by police shortly.
HOWEVER, there are questions - not of a criminal nature - which can only be answered by the Premier. Those questions are what are the
standards the Premier expects of his Ministers and whether on his own assessment of the situation, he (the Premier) believes Mr Della Bosca
has complied with those standards. Those questions can only be answered by the Premier. The buck stops with him. He cannot fob those
questions off to someone else. The Premier must take responsibility.
SOURCES :
Danny Rose, Della Bosca to give extra salary to charity , News.com.au ,17 June 2008.
Greg Ansley , Labor pair's surreal plunge into scandal , New Zealand Herald, 19 June 2008.
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Despite the unsavouriness of events that have transpired since that fateful Friday night in June
John Della Bosca MLC deserves congratulations for taking a principled stand on the question of
his ministerial salary he is receiving during the period he is stood down.
He has announced he is donating the ministerial salary to charity.
The simple fact is that because he is stood down the government are legally obliged to continue to
pay him his ministerial salary (it's the same as being on holidays). He cannot refuse the pay.
However, by not seeking to benefit personally from the situation, and donating the salary to charity
he is setting a standard of impeccable behaviour.
IN that regard he deserves to be congratulated.
FURTHER, it is inconceivable he has committed any offence which the Police would be interested in. Therefore it can be expected he will be
"cleared" by police shortly.
HOWEVER, there are questions - not of a criminal nature - which can only be answered by the Premier. Those questions are what are the
standards the Premier expects of his Ministers and whether on his own assessment of the situation, he (the Premier) believes Mr Della Bosca
has complied with those standards. Those questions can only be answered by the Premier. The buck stops with him. He cannot fob those
questions off to someone else. The Premier must take responsibility.
SOURCES :
Danny Rose, Della Bosca to give extra salary to charity , News.com.au ,17 June 2008.
Greg Ansley , Labor pair's surreal plunge into scandal , New Zealand Herald, 19 June 2008.
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MORRIS IEMMA TREATS PARLIAMENT WITH CONTEMPT
Mr BARRY O'FARRELL: My question is directed to the Premier. Given that the Premier's staff knew that nine people
were present at the Iguana Joe's Bistro dinner, did the staff ask for only four statutory declarations? Or, were the
staff aware that seven statutory declarations were available? That is, from everyone present except John Della Bosca
and Belinda Neal?
Mr MORRIS IEMMA: What an absurd question.
IT reminds one of the caution given by British bobbies to "customers" in the ABC TV programme "The Bill" which is
along the lines of :
"You are not obliged to say anything, but you are cautioned failure to mention a matter of relevance may harm your defence"
Later, in relation to a completely different matter the Speaker said : However, I remind Ministers that they should respect the right of members to
ask questions both in the House and in writing and endeavour to provide adequate answers.
We eagerly await the publication of proposals for change to make parliament a more relevant forum and to improve the standard of behaviour in
the House.
We are confident this will happen soon because Richard Torbay MP told the 38th Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference in Raratonga:
One area of reform, which I have already flagged, concerns improving the conduct of question time. In my view, question time often
breaks down and fails to inform. Consideration should be given to making answers shorter and more precise, to provide greater
opportunity for Parliamentary scrutiny of the Executive. This is an issue I intend to pursue early in my term.
SOURCE :
NSW LA Hansard, Question : The Hon. John Della Bosca, MLC: Iguanas Waterfront Restaurant Incident , 18 June 2008.
NSW LA Hansard , Answers to Written Questions , 18 June 2008.
Perceptions of Parliament - The view of an Independent Speaker : paper by Richard Torbay MP delivered at the 38th Presiding Officers
and Clerks Conference: Raratonga, Cook Islands 7-14 July 2007.
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Mr BARRY O'FARRELL: My question is directed to the Premier. Given that the Premier's staff knew that nine people
were present at the Iguana Joe's Bistro dinner, did the staff ask for only four statutory declarations? Or, were the
staff aware that seven statutory declarations were available? That is, from everyone present except John Della Bosca
and Belinda Neal?
Mr MORRIS IEMMA: What an absurd question.
IT reminds one of the caution given by British bobbies to "customers" in the ABC TV programme "The Bill" which is
along the lines of :
"You are not obliged to say anything, but you are cautioned failure to mention a matter of relevance may harm your defence"
Later, in relation to a completely different matter the Speaker said : However, I remind Ministers that they should respect the right of members to
ask questions both in the House and in writing and endeavour to provide adequate answers.
We eagerly await the publication of proposals for change to make parliament a more relevant forum and to improve the standard of behaviour in
the House.
We are confident this will happen soon because Richard Torbay MP told the 38th Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference in Raratonga:
One area of reform, which I have already flagged, concerns improving the conduct of question time. In my view, question time often
breaks down and fails to inform. Consideration should be given to making answers shorter and more precise, to provide greater
opportunity for Parliamentary scrutiny of the Executive. This is an issue I intend to pursue early in my term.
SOURCE :
NSW LA Hansard, Question : The Hon. John Della Bosca, MLC: Iguanas Waterfront Restaurant Incident , 18 June 2008.
NSW LA Hansard , Answers to Written Questions , 18 June 2008.
Perceptions of Parliament - The view of an Independent Speaker : paper by Richard Torbay MP delivered at the 38th Presiding Officers
and Clerks Conference: Raratonga, Cook Islands 7-14 July 2007.
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DISGRACEFUL BEHAVIOUR BY NSW POLICE MINISTER IN PARLIAMENT
Police Minister David Campbell MP (Keira) has once again set a bad example to NSW Police.
IT seems he is asserting that guilt by association is a normal way of thinking..
Mr DAVID CAMPBELL: ......Yesterday, disgraced former prosecutor, Patrick Power was formally struck off
the legal register. This House will be aware that the former New South Wales Deputy Senior
Crown Prosecutor, and former work mate of the member for Epping, has already served six months.....
Incidentally Speaker Torbay was in the chair. Behaviour in the bear-pit is going south.
If guilt by association as a concept becomes firmly entrenched it will bite David Campbell MP on the elbow. As a
MP from the Illawarra, he will be tarred with the pedophilia that the region is infamous for. His cabinet colleague
Kristina Keneally MP will be guilty of the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests.
IT's about time David Campbell MP took a grip of himself - and thought through the consequences of his actions.
SOURCE :
NSW LA Hansard, Question: Child Protection , 18 June 2008.
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Police Minister David Campbell MP (Keira) has once again set a bad example to NSW Police.
IT seems he is asserting that guilt by association is a normal way of thinking..
Mr DAVID CAMPBELL: ......Yesterday, disgraced former prosecutor, Patrick Power was formally struck off
the legal register. This House will be aware that the former New South Wales Deputy Senior
Crown Prosecutor, and former work mate of the member for Epping, has already served six months.....
Incidentally Speaker Torbay was in the chair. Behaviour in the bear-pit is going south.
If guilt by association as a concept becomes firmly entrenched it will bite David Campbell MP on the elbow. As a
MP from the Illawarra, he will be tarred with the pedophilia that the region is infamous for. His cabinet colleague
Kristina Keneally MP will be guilty of the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests.
IT's about time David Campbell MP took a grip of himself - and thought through the consequences of his actions.
SOURCE :
NSW LA Hansard, Question: Child Protection , 18 June 2008.
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IEMMA EVADES QUESTION - SPRUIKS SPIN
Check this out for meaningless nonsense :
Mr GREG PIPER: My question is addressed to the Premier. Under the Government's proposed power privatisation,
will contracts for sale or lease require purchasers or lessees to achieve renewable energy targets?
Mr MORRIS IEMMA: I inform the member for Lake Macquarie that the change will not change the New South Wales
Government's greenhouse goals, and the national target will continue to apply.
Mr George Souris: Will you read out the agreement?
Mr MORRIS IEMMA: Yes, I will. We announced the New South Wales target, which was enhanced by the Rudd Government, and we
support those targets. The policy has had no impact on privatisation and will continue to apply. The national target will cover all
electricity companies, including those that acquire leases over assets. We have made that position clear. I confirmed that and I also
confirm that a national renewable energy target is the most appropriate way to drive increased investment in renewable energy
sources.
Professor Owen has made the point that investment in renewable sources of energy is important. Renewable energy resources make
an important contribution to securing future electricity and energy supplies for the State. But renewable sources of energy alone will
not be sufficient, hence the need for additional baseload investment. I thank the member for Lake Macquarie for his question.
EVEN to the most casual observer it is apparent that the Premier has no idea what he is talking about , no idea what the question was about and
no idea what the "targets" are.
AS TO IEMMA's passion for renewable energy take a listen to the words of Alex Mitchell :-
In 2006, City of Sydney councillor Chris Harris of the NSW Greens held talks with sustainability expert Michael Mobbs and Sydney University's
Professor David Mills to discuss opportunities of solar thermal power for Sydney.
Mills explained how the solar thermal technology used in his prototype project at the Liddell power plant in the Hunter Valley was progressing. He
predicted that the results were so impressive that if the project was expanded, then Sydney could be powered by solar thermal power down the
grid within three years.
Avenues of major investment in the technology were readily at hand: adequate land was available at either Moree or Bourke in the state's north-
east where more than adequate sun power is available; Moree sat on an electricity hub; and there was spare capacity on the electricity grid so
that the solar thermal energy could run down the line to Sydney.
The Greens released a plan and produced a brochure on the proposal before the state election in March 2007.
What happened? The Iemma Government won the state election, ignored the technology on offer and Professor Mills received no
encouragement from Labor ministers. So he pulled up stakes and went to California where he built the world’s largest solar thermal power station
with the blessing of Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Australian technology was lost.
Now let's cut to 2008. Iemma sends his Environment and Climate Change Minister Verity Firth on a taxpayer funded junket to Las Vegas to view
and learn about Mills' solar thermal technology, even though she could have seen it in her own backyard at Liddell.
As Harris lamented: "All Ms Firth had to do was take an 80-minute drive where she could have inspected the demonstration which is producing
steam to drive turbines using free energy from the sun."
Back from Las Vegas, Ms Firth is trilling about the solar thermal technology and trying to hide the inconvenient truth that NSW let its technology
go offshore, jobs were given away and an opportunity to be a world leader in this field has gone.
Meanwhile, the environment and climate change minister is showing Cabinet solidarity by supporting the advanced plans to open more coal and
gas-fired power stations and maintain the myth of "clean coal".
SPIN will fool people for a while. UNFORTUNATELY for Iemma his days of spin are over (simply because very few people give him much
credibility these days).
SOURCE :
NSW LA Hansard , Question :Electricity Industry Privatisation , 18 June 2008.
Alex Mitchell , Powering Sydney with the sun? Not if the pols can help it , crikey.com, 18 June 2008.
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Check this out for meaningless nonsense :
Mr GREG PIPER: My question is addressed to the Premier. Under the Government's proposed power privatisation,
will contracts for sale or lease require purchasers or lessees to achieve renewable energy targets?
Mr MORRIS IEMMA: I inform the member for Lake Macquarie that the change will not change the New South Wales
Government's greenhouse goals, and the national target will continue to apply.
Mr George Souris: Will you read out the agreement?
Mr MORRIS IEMMA: Yes, I will. We announced the New South Wales target, which was enhanced by the Rudd Government, and we
support those targets. The policy has had no impact on privatisation and will continue to apply. The national target will cover all
electricity companies, including those that acquire leases over assets. We have made that position clear. I confirmed that and I also
confirm that a national renewable energy target is the most appropriate way to drive increased investment in renewable energy
sources.
Professor Owen has made the point that investment in renewable sources of energy is important. Renewable energy resources make
an important contribution to securing future electricity and energy supplies for the State. But renewable sources of energy alone will
not be sufficient, hence the need for additional baseload investment. I thank the member for Lake Macquarie for his question.
EVEN to the most casual observer it is apparent that the Premier has no idea what he is talking about , no idea what the question was about and
no idea what the "targets" are.
AS TO IEMMA's passion for renewable energy take a listen to the words of Alex Mitchell :-
In 2006, City of Sydney councillor Chris Harris of the NSW Greens held talks with sustainability expert Michael Mobbs and Sydney University's
Professor David Mills to discuss opportunities of solar thermal power for Sydney.
Mills explained how the solar thermal technology used in his prototype project at the Liddell power plant in the Hunter Valley was progressing. He
predicted that the results were so impressive that if the project was expanded, then Sydney could be powered by solar thermal power down the
grid within three years.
Avenues of major investment in the technology were readily at hand: adequate land was available at either Moree or Bourke in the state's north-
east where more than adequate sun power is available; Moree sat on an electricity hub; and there was spare capacity on the electricity grid so
that the solar thermal energy could run down the line to Sydney.
The Greens released a plan and produced a brochure on the proposal before the state election in March 2007.
What happened? The Iemma Government won the state election, ignored the technology on offer and Professor Mills received no
encouragement from Labor ministers. So he pulled up stakes and went to California where he built the world’s largest solar thermal power station
with the blessing of Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Australian technology was lost.
Now let's cut to 2008. Iemma sends his Environment and Climate Change Minister Verity Firth on a taxpayer funded junket to Las Vegas to view
and learn about Mills' solar thermal technology, even though she could have seen it in her own backyard at Liddell.
As Harris lamented: "All Ms Firth had to do was take an 80-minute drive where she could have inspected the demonstration which is producing
steam to drive turbines using free energy from the sun."
Back from Las Vegas, Ms Firth is trilling about the solar thermal technology and trying to hide the inconvenient truth that NSW let its technology
go offshore, jobs were given away and an opportunity to be a world leader in this field has gone.
Meanwhile, the environment and climate change minister is showing Cabinet solidarity by supporting the advanced plans to open more coal and
gas-fired power stations and maintain the myth of "clean coal".
SPIN will fool people for a while. UNFORTUNATELY for Iemma his days of spin are over (simply because very few people give him much
credibility these days).
SOURCE :
NSW LA Hansard , Question :Electricity Industry Privatisation , 18 June 2008.
Alex Mitchell , Powering Sydney with the sun? Not if the pols can help it , crikey.com, 18 June 2008.
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PRAISE FOR MEMBER FOR MARRICKVILLE
John Aquilina MP (Riverstone) the Leader of the House was quickly to his feet to talk up Carmel Tebbutt MP (Marrickville).
Mr JOHN AQUILINA (Riverstone—Leader of the House) : I compliment the member for Marrickville on her contribution
about the schools in her electorate. I also congratulate her on noting the outstanding work the schools do. Not only
does she have very close contact with the schools in her electorate, as a former Minister for Education she also
knows precisely what is of value to those schools and the local community. I commend her for recognising the
many accomplishments that warrant promotion and congratulations.
Only a conspiracy theorist would think that the compliments, laid on with a trowel, had anything to do with tensions inside the cabinet.
SOURCE :
NSW LA Hansard, Carmel Tebbutt MP: Marrickville Electorate Education , 18 June 2008.
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John Aquilina MP (Riverstone) the Leader of the House was quickly to his feet to talk up Carmel Tebbutt MP (Marrickville).
Mr JOHN AQUILINA (Riverstone—Leader of the House) : I compliment the member for Marrickville on her contribution
about the schools in her electorate. I also congratulate her on noting the outstanding work the schools do. Not only
does she have very close contact with the schools in her electorate, as a former Minister for Education she also
knows precisely what is of value to those schools and the local community. I commend her for recognising the
many accomplishments that warrant promotion and congratulations.
Only a conspiracy theorist would think that the compliments, laid on with a trowel, had anything to do with tensions inside the cabinet.
SOURCE :
NSW LA Hansard, Carmel Tebbutt MP: Marrickville Electorate Education , 18 June 2008.
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| ARE REBA'S DREAMS UP THE SPOUT ??? Only a conspiracy theorist would countenance the rumour on the streets at the moment that Reba Meagher's dream of getting rid of the Left MP in Coogee, Paul Pearce, and installing herself in the seat (because it is closer to home) has gone up the spout. BUT as the story goes - with Morris Iemma having f***ed his government , the Terrigals are unlikely to be able to pull off this strategy. So it seems it's back to the western suburbs of Sydney for Reba .. with her dreams turned to dust . |
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST - PART 2
We wrote about what appeared to be a dual persona of Peter Draper MP (Tamworth) - Ernest in the city and
Jack in the country - when he issued a media release this week decrying that the time of parliament was going to
be wasted on the Iguana Joe's affair when it should have been spent on matters of policy relating to various state
responsibilities.
WE noted the same day he issued the media release, he voted in the parliament in Macquarie Street Sydney, to
discuss matters arising out of the Iguana Joes incident rather than matters relating to the state's infrastructure
requirements.
ALMOST as if he wanted to ram home the point he was Ernest (not to be confused with the Jack he had left behind in Tamworth) on 18 June
2008 he voted in favour of discussing matters in relation to Iguana Joes, rather than discussing Nationals policies to meet the requirements of
NSW's power and energy needs.
OSCAR WILDE - eat your heart out !!!
SOURCES :
NSW LA Hansard , Consideration of Motions to be Accorded Priority , 18 June 2008.
The Importance of Being Earnest , June 2008 Pages page 21, www.independent-nsw.com
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We wrote about what appeared to be a dual persona of Peter Draper MP (Tamworth) - Ernest in the city and
Jack in the country - when he issued a media release this week decrying that the time of parliament was going to
be wasted on the Iguana Joe's affair when it should have been spent on matters of policy relating to various state
responsibilities.
WE noted the same day he issued the media release, he voted in the parliament in Macquarie Street Sydney, to
discuss matters arising out of the Iguana Joes incident rather than matters relating to the state's infrastructure
requirements.
ALMOST as if he wanted to ram home the point he was Ernest (not to be confused with the Jack he had left behind in Tamworth) on 18 June
2008 he voted in favour of discussing matters in relation to Iguana Joes, rather than discussing Nationals policies to meet the requirements of
NSW's power and energy needs.
OSCAR WILDE - eat your heart out !!!
SOURCES :
NSW LA Hansard , Consideration of Motions to be Accorded Priority , 18 June 2008.
The Importance of Being Earnest , June 2008 Pages page 21, www.independent-nsw.com
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PARANOIA ?
We perceive - and admit our perception might be wrong - that Peter Draper MP (Tamworth)
holds Morris Iemma up as some sort of political hero.
EVEN so, we would have thought it unwise to treat Morris Iemma as a role model and slavishly follow
his example.
FOR instance we suggested earlier about Morris Iemma's deliberate antagonising of the media,
as the defining moment of the beginning of the downfall of his government.
AND it seems, in the same manner Peter Draper MP, either intends to, or fortuitously is,
antagonising the media in his hometown of Tamworth.
A recent attack by him on the integrity of the Northern Daily Leader newspaper, has prompted
the editor to defend the paper.
Peter Draper MP has accused the newspaper of engaging in a campaign of instability against
the construction of a new hospital in Tamworth.
The editor responded :
We would like to draw his [ Peter Draper's ] attention to the fact that we have been campaigning for a new hospital – not against one.
Mr Draper took great credit for the announcement of a new hospital for Tamworth during the last election campaign.
Now he is claiming our quest for answers to the very basic questions of when construction is likely to start, when it is likely to finish
and how much the hospital is likely to cost is “making my job of delivering the new facility increasingly difficult”.
The first step would be to deliver some answers. Neither Mr Iemma or Mr Costa have been able to do so to date.
IT is a great pity when the media have to become a "pillar of democracy" to achieve things the Tamworth community expects, when the usual
democratic institutions are either unable or unwilling to do so.
Meanwhile - work is expected to commence "this week" on Narrabri Hospital. We will need to do some research to find out when the
announcement for that hospital was first made - and whether it was part of a political promise made during an election campaign
SOURCES :
Editorial , Answers on new hospital please , Northern Daily Leader, 19 June 2008.
ABC News, Work to begin on new Narrabri hospital , 19 June 2008.
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We perceive - and admit our perception might be wrong - that Peter Draper MP (Tamworth)
holds Morris Iemma up as some sort of political hero.
EVEN so, we would have thought it unwise to treat Morris Iemma as a role model and slavishly follow
his example.
FOR instance we suggested earlier about Morris Iemma's deliberate antagonising of the media,
as the defining moment of the beginning of the downfall of his government.
AND it seems, in the same manner Peter Draper MP, either intends to, or fortuitously is,
antagonising the media in his hometown of Tamworth.
A recent attack by him on the integrity of the Northern Daily Leader newspaper, has prompted
the editor to defend the paper.
Peter Draper MP has accused the newspaper of engaging in a campaign of instability against
the construction of a new hospital in Tamworth.
The editor responded :
We would like to draw his [ Peter Draper's ] attention to the fact that we have been campaigning for a new hospital – not against one.
Mr Draper took great credit for the announcement of a new hospital for Tamworth during the last election campaign.
Now he is claiming our quest for answers to the very basic questions of when construction is likely to start, when it is likely to finish
and how much the hospital is likely to cost is “making my job of delivering the new facility increasingly difficult”.
The first step would be to deliver some answers. Neither Mr Iemma or Mr Costa have been able to do so to date.
IT is a great pity when the media have to become a "pillar of democracy" to achieve things the Tamworth community expects, when the usual
democratic institutions are either unable or unwilling to do so.
Meanwhile - work is expected to commence "this week" on Narrabri Hospital. We will need to do some research to find out when the
announcement for that hospital was first made - and whether it was part of a political promise made during an election campaign
SOURCES :
Editorial , Answers on new hospital please , Northern Daily Leader, 19 June 2008.
ABC News, Work to begin on new Narrabri hospital , 19 June 2008.
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DAWN FARDELL'S PRO-LABOR BIAS IS SHOWING AGAIN !!!
Dawn Fardell MP (Dubbo) recently issued a
media release criticising the Nationals for
holding a cock-tail party at Kirribilli,
IT is difficult to fathom the rationale for the
media release.
IF Mrs Fardell is opposed to cocktails or drinks
parties, why did she not issue a media release
criticising the Premier's Xmas Drinks party in
2007 ?
If her opposition is to holding drink parties in
swank establishments - why was she
not critical of the Premier's Xmas Drinks
party held at the Establishment ?
If her opposition is to the charging of fees to
attend swank drinks parties, why didn't she
express her opposition to the
Premier"s Xmas Drinks were it was reported
that to get an invitation one had to a member
of a Labor supporters club - the minimum
cost of membership being about $100,000 per year.
Because of Mrs Fardell's failure to criticise the Premier's Xmas drinks party in he swank Establishment Hotel in down town George Street Sydney
- one can only assume Mrs Fardell is not opposed to anything - except some of the personalities involved.
IN other words, Mrs Fardell is engaging in the politics of personality.
AND she seems to reserve her criticism to one side of the house only.
AND one wonders if the reason for that is - that Mrs Fardell dare not criticise the side of the house on which she stands..
Dawn Fardell MP (Dubbo) recently issued a
media release criticising the Nationals for
holding a cock-tail party at Kirribilli,
IT is difficult to fathom the rationale for the
media release.
IF Mrs Fardell is opposed to cocktails or drinks
parties, why did she not issue a media release
criticising the Premier's Xmas Drinks party in
2007 ?
If her opposition is to holding drink parties in
swank establishments - why was she
not critical of the Premier's Xmas Drinks
party held at the Establishment ?
If her opposition is to the charging of fees to
attend swank drinks parties, why didn't she
express her opposition to the
Premier"s Xmas Drinks were it was reported
that to get an invitation one had to a member
of a Labor supporters club - the minimum
cost of membership being about $100,000 per year.
Because of Mrs Fardell's failure to criticise the Premier's Xmas drinks party in he swank Establishment Hotel in down town George Street Sydney
- one can only assume Mrs Fardell is not opposed to anything - except some of the personalities involved.
IN other words, Mrs Fardell is engaging in the politics of personality.
AND she seems to reserve her criticism to one side of the house only.
AND one wonders if the reason for that is - that Mrs Fardell dare not criticise the side of the house on which she stands..
