Here is your invitation...

Here is your invitation.

Next year (2017) I'm going to fight for justice, fairness and opportunity for all.

I want to see those that are able, to get into good jobs, those that want to study to get an affordable training program and those that have health issues to get the treatment and support they need in an affordable way.

I'll be advocating for marriage equality, humane treatment of asylum seekers and true rehabilitation programs for those that are incarcerated.

I'll be standing with people that understand that the environment comes before corporate or developer profits.

You know there is more to do... Those that would divide our community further by giving advantages to the already advantaged must be stopped.

So I'm inviting you to stand with me, to make a difference and to spread the word!

Are you with me?

NSW Govt plans to grab land that should be the site of Gosford's Cultural Hub.

The debate over the positioning of a new Cultural Hub for the City of Gosford has taken a new direction. Sadly at both state and federal levels we have members of governments that choose to oppose the community...

This recent post by the Member for Robertson shows arrogance and disregard. Here she encourages community consultation, she knows what the community are saying, she knows the anger to the current plans and yet she posts this!

Here is one reason why Poppy Park is not suitable for the PAC (other that the obvious sacred nature of the memorials)

So now we have this - Click here

The State Government has taken the opportunity for the PAC to share the old Gosford Public School site away. Guess what else.... go on guess!!! They will charge us around $3 million to desecrate the Poppy Park

Hold on to your hats!

At least the first thing you see, if it will be called the "Conservative Party" as Abbott suggests... won't be an out and out lie. The Liberal Party of Australia is not liberal. It is a deception from the start.

You've got to think that Abbott is a little miffed... Bernardi has stolen a March on him! Abbott must have been considering something along the same lines... he's even done the smoozing with Hanson (yes, the lady he sent to gaol).

Maybe you thought that 2016 was an interesting year politically. Hold on to your hats, here comes 2017!

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/conservative-party-could-win-up-to-10-tony-abbott-hits-out-at-cory-bernardi-over-breakaway-20161229-gtjmc6.html

He's not happy Jan!

The Truth Will Set You Free!

Here is a real issue for those of you that appreciate openness and honesty.

Professor Jenny Hockey is asking for some documents that were exchanged between the Governor of Australia (in the day) Sir John Kerr and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II the Queen of Australia.

The documents pre date what is refered to as "The Dismissal" when Sir John sacked the Whitlam Government.

The documents were classified (by Kerr) as private and confidential. The Professor contends that these documents may reveal an exchange between the venerable couple that are pivotal and helped determine the future of Australia. Being marked as private and confidential means they are held away from public view until at least 2016 and may ONLY be revealed with the permission of the Monarch and the Governor General.

The Professor says that they are neither personal nor private and should be available for perusal as are so many other documents that are of the same nature.

Their unveiling may give us an answer as to what advice Sir John may have received from The Monarch and how informed she was at the time....

The Professor has set up a crowd funding site for the legal costs. I don't have the webpage address yet (URL).... I will update this post when I have it.

https://chuffed.org/project/release-the-palace-letters

Click here for the ABC report on the issue

Challenge for Grace Collier

Grace Collier made a suggestion for Australians that have difficulty finding work. She says that there is only one person that they can rely on ... themselves!

"Tensions flared on Monday night's Q&A when industrial relations expert Grace Collier said the unemployed could solve their problems by starting their own businesses.

On a night when industrial relations was a key focus of the program, Ms Collier's remarks sparked several on the panel into life and surprised many in the Melbourne studio audience."

Ms Collier, I challenge you! If you think it is just a matter of "starting a business" why don't you show the under employed of Australia just how easy it is?

●Take three months leave (or as long as you think you will need) from your current occupation,
●restrict your access to funds to what a long or short term unemployed person would be able to access ie survive on the same disposable income as a newstart recipient has too,
●Start a business and maintain it, relying on it for your income as a newstart recipient would need too.

In short, let's see you pull off what you flippantly suggest the unemployed should do.

See the ABC story here...

Mike Baird.... Another fine mess!

Mike Baird and Troy Grant almost followed through on a promise to destroy a complete industry in NSW. Regardless of the wrongs and failings of the industry we have a government that cannot continue.

They stood firm for around three months stating that the greyhound ban would stand and that greyhound racing was finished in NSW.

Now, today, the ban has been overturned.

One of the roles of government is to listen to the community, investigate and come to a final point and then act in full confidence that they have made the right decision.

We need to be confident that when the government acts that they have covered all contingencies and that when they can, they give us stability and certainty. This government is unstable and uncertain.

Clearly what we have in Macquarie Street is a closed minded, deaf eared , knee jerking bunch of over confident mismanagers.

There are any number of other issues on the table where the Baird Government are not listening.... Lock outs, local govt mergers and the Gosford waterfront to name but three.... Mr Baird you say you are listening but it appears that you are not.

That's another fine mess that you've gotten us into Casino Mike!

What is going on here???