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2012 Elections

Are Our Politicians A Reflection Of Us?

12 October 2012

Politics is said to be a dirty game. If it is, then the dirtiest place to be must be parliament. And the antics of our elected representatives over the past week or so have done much to dispel that belief. Thanks in no part to a complaint media, parliament has descended into “reality TV” style [...]

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The Fourth Estate or Publicity Machine?

5 October 2012

Consider for a moment the following comparison of two organisations. Organisation A: • members readily identifiable by the ‘colours’ or patches they wear. • when in large groups, regularly has violent clashes with the police. • ignores court rulings/directions. • ‘representatives’ use bullying and stand over tactics to get their way. • – failure to [...]

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All We Want Are The Facts

29 July 2012

It appears that two of my previous posts about the LNP funding a $25 Million Greyhound Complex at Cronulla Park has got a few people up in arms. By a few people I mean those within a pro greyhound forum. Originally I wasn’t going to comment on anything that they wrote in there as I [...]

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Queensland Labor Silent On Government Funding

26 July 2012

With the ever increasing lists of projects being cancelled by the current LNP Government, any reasonable person would have thought that the Opposition would be scrutinising everything that tax payers money is spent on. Except this hasn’t been the case. As mentioned in the post Whats On The List Of Priorities For State Funding?, the LNP Government is [...]

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Whats On The List Of Priorities For State Funding?

23 July 2012

Hardly a day goes by where the media and the ALP opposition aren’t making some sort of noise about the withdrawal of funding for particular projects by the current LNP government. In recent weeks, we have seen the closure of GoPrint, Q-Fleet, SDS, Fanfare, the Darling Downs Correctional Centre, and Skilling Queensland, because they were running at a loss [...]

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Democracy. Is The Media Or The Miner A Greater Threat?

9 July 2012

If you have been paying any sort of attention to the media or pub talk over the past week or so, you could easily be forgiven for think that we have a free and independent press in this country, and that a shareholder wanting to have a seat on the board is one of the [...]

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The Big Announcement

4 June 2012

By now most of the readers of this blog would be aware that in 2013 I will be throwing my hat in the the ring of election madness as a candidate for a Senate seat in Queensland. Why after all these years of having a go at they way politicians govern, would I possibly want [...]

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Is It The System That Is Broken Or Only Those Within It?

29 April 2012

With polling booths now closed on another Queensland election weekend, this time the vote was for the Local Government representative, though the lucky people of South Brisbane did have the privilege of queuing up twice, as they had to vote in the by-election caused by the resignation of former Labor leader Anna Bligh. This campaign, whilst not as exciting [...]

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Is A Political Party It’s Leader Or The People Within It

16 April 2012

Last week saw the resignation from Australian politics by the Australian Greens leader, Bob Brown. Since the announcement, there has been all sort of speculation as to the future of the party without him at the helm. Whilst the reasons behind his departure have been wide and varied, ranging from saying that it was due [...]

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Lessons To Learn From The Queensland Election

29 March 2012

With the dust slowly settling on the 2012 Queensland election, all the media commentators and so called political experts have got their voroscopes out looking at the ALP’s campaign and adding their $0.10 worth of opinion as to what happened at this election. They are all singing the same tune saying that Labor lost for [...]

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