Where would we be?

Tony Robinson's Time Walks... today's episode just paid tribute to the BLF and the green bans. Have a look here if you like http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/tony-robinsons-time-walks/ZW0650A004S00

Swathes of history was about to be destroyed in Woolloomooloo and other areas of Sydney... but the community and the UNIONS came together and historic features such as the Finger Wharves were saved from the developers.

That's right those nasty, grubby, criminal UNIONS! The next time you see the conservatives, the developers and the Murdoch press denigrate UNIONS have a think about the Green Bans. Have a think about workplace safety and have a think about what UNIONS really mean to our country. Think about what vested interests would do without the presence of UNIONS!

https://newmatilda.com/2011/07/19/green-bans-saved-sydney/

Is there dishonesty in the Amalgamation Agenda? You bet there is... Shame on the Baird Government

Alan Jones has been very active regarding the amalgamation fiasco. It is clear that Alan sees Toole as dishonest and Baird as uncaring when it comes to the wants and needs of the community! There is no doubt that he considers that breaches of the law are part of this mess.

Mr Jones lays a few truths down and it's not a pretty story! He asks why Baird won't release the full KPMG report, why not a plebiscite? He reminds us that the Baird Govt are there to represent us not to boss us around.

Are we being run by liars? Alan Jones says that they ARE lying to us...

Remember that there is a KPMG report that the Baird Government is using to validate their actions and agenda. The sad fact is that their report is a secret document, released in part only! What you may not know is that Bombala, Cooma-Monaro and Snowy River Shire Councils has also ordered a report from KPMG you can hear how in a FULLY RELEASED report the prospect of amalgamation is not favourable ie NOT RECOMMENDED... Mr Baird and Mr Toole I call on you to give us honesty in Government, I call on you to FULLY RELEASE your KPMG Report and finally (for now) I call on you to let the people of NSW decide this issue by plebiscite or by a general election if you dare! Click here to listen

Election 2016: Malcolm Turnbull rolls the dice and now his fate now rests in an unlikely budget

The Australian Senate are doing exactly what the Australian voters have asked them to do. They are doing their job, they are the house of review. They have reviewed and they have rejected bad legislation.

And yet unless Mr Turnbull pulls his threat of a Double Dissolution (the polls are against him) we will be heading to the polls sooner rather than later.

Let's assume (for the sake of argument) that the election returns Mr Turnbull and his friends to government but as is the want of the Australian electorate, they chose to elect a Senate that will "keep the bastards honest" (has there ever been a political slogan that captured the heart of Australians so thoroughly?) Mr Turnbull will be in the same position as he is now!

Given the same circumstances will the LNP choose the same path? Could we end up in another DD situation just a few months after the upcoming election? Will we have continuity or change?

The possibility is there... So do you want to see a government that will return you to the polls on a whim or do you want proper government where even where there is difficulty, a way to make it work is found?

Can you respect a government that when the going gets tough, they choose to throw up their hands and run to the GG for a DD, or will you vote to remove such a mob?

Election 2016: Malcolm Turnbull rolls the dice and now his fate now rests in an unlikely budget

When is a boost not a boost?

You will hear the Abbott/Turnbull government spruiking a "boost to funding" for Finance Watchdog ASIC. When you hear it remember this story. Click the link please...

http://www.smh.com.au/business/asic-lashes-budget-cuts-20141029-11dr2c.html

An election looms, but there are unresolved allegations...

I am at a loss to understand how the Turnbull government can countenance the prospect of another election with the number of allegations of electoral funding corruption that currently soar overhead here in NSW . 

Surely Mr Turnbull understands and has noticed the stench that is in the nostrils of the electorate. That stench, Mr Turnbull, is the stench of corruption.

Whilst Mr Turnbull is doggedly determined to uncover and obliterate corruption in other places, it is an anomaly that there seems to be less of a need to do so in his own back yard.

Shouldn't clearing his colleagues and his party be a high priority? Isn't that important? Will he take us to an election without having these matters decided?

In my humble opinion, the activities of, his party, of the Free Enterprise Foundation and of the other groups and individuals that are under the ICAC and public microscope need to be allegation free before we proceed to the polls.

We have already had an election (2015) in NSW in full knowledge that serious allegations stood against the Liberals here in NSW. People that possibly should have been removed from positions within the party were allowed to participate in that election. We do have a presumption of innocence here, but this has gone on for far too long. The presumption of innocence does not preclude those that are under suspicion from being suspended from their duties or roles... It is time for the Liberals to be seen to act in this matter...

Until the allegations of Liberal Party electoral donation illegalities are confirmed or dispensed with no early election should take place. 

You need to clear the air Mr Turnbull...

We had hope, now we have nothing!

Remember when there was a glimmer of hope, that Turnbull offered a glimmer of hope? This is from the Sun-Herald - Sep 29 2015.

I know the glimmer has been well and truly extinguished... Trust me I am a firefighter, I know extinguishment when I see it.

Alleged fraud won't be stopping Baird's loyalty to backers.

Let me get this right...

Regardless of whether the alleged actions of his party are legal or otherwise, he suggests that he must continue the current agenda out of loyalty to his backers ???? Correct me if I am wrong...

The possibility of hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal donations and the willingness to accept multi millions of taxpayer dollars as a result of an election process where (allegedly) electoral fraud may have been committed is not enough to prompt "Likeable Mike" to sit down and take a long hard look at his party?

It seems not, rather, it is full steam ahead... 
Please let me be wrong!

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By Artist is Elihu Vedder (1836–1923). Photographed 2007 by Carol Highsmith (1946–), who explicitly placed the photograph in the public domain. - Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-highsm-02035 (original digital file), uncompressed archival TIFF version (93 MB), cropped and converted to JPEG with the GIMP 2.4.5, image quality 88., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4068003