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Kristina's killer heels start the march to the Opal Office : Comments

By Tess Lawrence, published 31/3/2011

Even her frenemies think Kristina's got the righ stuff, so why not inject it in at the highest level?

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Forrest Gumpp, good work reminding us of the smell around the Keneallys and the electric car grid. As a Terrigal KKK carries with her the stench of opportunism and/or corruption.
I'm not sure of what it is you're suggesting with the Smartroll. How does this make it any more likely that the roll could be corrupted?

Tess, yes KKK was energetic and upbeat but no one was listening to her. The swing in Heffron was close to the statewide swing; and she hardly, if at all, stauched the wound across the state. The best thing she did was engage Barry O in a number of one on ones in public and on radio, but spoiled this by often talking over him.
The last thing we need is another "star" parachuted into Canberra to save the day.
Posted by steam, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 9:24:48 PM
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OLO userID 'steam' (Steam! If only a few more had just a little bit of it.) says:

"I'm not sure of what it is you're
suggesting with the Smartroll. How
does this make it any more likely
that the roll could be corrupted?"

I'm not necessarily SURE of that myself, but I can imagine a number of possible scenaria. For now, however, I shall just let the results of this morning's Google search, lightweight and spun as they may be, speak for themselves for those who have ears to hear. For the record, my search terms: http://twitpic.com/4hdn22 , which yielded on the first page:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/state-election-2011/young-may-pay-price-for-smartroll-20110325-1c9jk.html

http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/enrol_to_vote/smartroll

http://www.techworld.com.au/article/375577/nsw_electoral_commission_kicks_off_e-enrolment_upcoming_state_election/

The Techworld article is perhaps the most informative. Just in case of a '404 message' shortly coming to replace that page content (you know, the shooting of it down under 'rule .303') I have posted this series of Twitpics of the page content:
http://twitpic.com/4hdqvv
http://twitpic.com/4hdrit
http://twitpic.com/4hds6z

It seems only 10,372 young people were added under SmartRoll in NSW before 26 March, according to the SMH news item. Not much help to Kristina, that few, was it! http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=4297#108978

However, this could be the most significant piece of information quoted in the Techworld article, perhaps revelatory of the real intended effect of SmartRoll in the not-too-distant future:

"“In a continuous mode, after the March 2011 state election,
SmartRoll automatic enrolment is expected to be at the level
of thousands of NSW enrolments per week,” the [NSWEC]
spokesperson said. “The SmartRoll project will continuously
automatically enrol or re-enrol large numbers of NSW electors
in the period following the election.”"

And duly transfer them to the Commonwealth rolls, no doubt, should the Joint Roll Agreement never have been, or be unable to yet be, officially terminated by 12 months gazetted notice, prior to the next Federal elections.
Posted by Forrest Gumpp, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 9:46:08 AM
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Tess,

Re your post of Tuesday, 5 April 2011 at 7:47:16 PM: we can't just leave things there.

Flattering, and perhaps even mildly embarrassing, as your protestations as to 'falling in love' with my online persona may be, Tess, I fear the reality might be disappointing for you. I wouldn't want you to be disappointed.

I have a suspicion that the reading of my posts in the voice of Sir John Gielgud, however, may help kill off any infatuation in a way that avoids heartbreak. Houellebecq seems to see value in that technique*, albeit in a presumably different interpersonanal context. (See! I invent new words, too. http://twitpic.com/4hrr8t . Is that what attracts you Tess, I wonder?) Even should you find Sir John Gielgud attractive, that, too, would let me fade painlessly into the background, and become camouflaged against it. Problem solved! Unrequited love, unnoticed, to fade away.

Just as you have hoped to 'crowd source', Tess, I, too, was hopeful in this thread of doing a little 'forensic journo recruitment' in the cause of shining a light upon Kristina's government and related behind-the-scenes activities. Plodding and clunky exploiter of the information superhighway that I am, I was hopeful of some free, knowledgeable, forensic research help. Someone of your skills capable of finding those seemingly missing gazettals, the purported NSW SmartRoll legislation of 28 April 2010 referred to by the NSWEC that I can't find, and such like.

You see, I am relatively slothful in the little sleuthing that I do. As to filing, the OLO user history feature does all that: its there for anyone to use. I can't claim any credit for it. What you credit to some OLO users as their being very knowledgeable may well be nothing more that an ability to recognize historical evidence like wreckage in the debris field of a sunken ship-of-state, and draw meaning from it. I was hoping filing was your forte.

In coming to OLO to gently compile a sabbatical essay on comments, you have undoubtedly come to the right place.

Welcome!

*http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11583#198765
Posted by Forrest Gumpp, Thursday, 7 April 2011 11:39:02 AM
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Dear Forrest Gumpp, non, non, that's not the only reason I'm responding to comments, not at all. Studying comments is part of a research document I'm doing about facets of the media. I love this conversing and I am genuinely intrigued at the sometimes forensic detail that is sometimes enclosed, as in your comments. I got so rapt in it all the other day that I exceeded the four posts per article limit.
Tess Lawrence
Posted by Tess Lawrence, Thursday, 7 April 2011 12:26:17 PM
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Just thought I should mention that I had seen some advertorial stuff over the Easter long weekend on Channel 9 for the Better Place electric car! You know, the one being plugged (!!) by the company with which Ben Kenneally, as Head of Marketing and External Affairs, Better Place Australia, is involved: Ben, the other half of the former(?) 'power couple', the other half of which (or at least the 'killer heels' thereof) is the subject of this article.

Whilst it was undoubtedly not a good look for Kristina's government to be seen excluding all others who may have had an interest in tendering to Energy Australia for an electric vehicle grid enterprise agreement at a time when her husband was Head of Marketing and External Affairs of the lone eventually successful tenderer, and when her own government was trying to bumrush a firesale privatisation of NSW' remaining electricity assets before its time in power expired, perhaps we shouldn't be too hard on her.

With Better Place, founded by Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi, being the world's leading provider of electric vehicle services and a pioneer in sustainable transportation technology, perhaps we have a 'Chim Ham'-like situation with respect to Ben Kennealy being involved with that enterprise. It is not hard to imagine Thomas Keneally, Ben's uncle, having made many useful contacts with prominent Israelis over the years since he commenced research on his book, 'Schindler's Ark'. Perhaps Ben has been a beneficiary of that.

All of which, to my perhaps labyrinthine mind, makes all the more intriguing the initial Labor Party support within Marrickville Council for the Greens-initiated BDSM* campaign against Israel that commenced prior to the recent State elections, support which was the basis for claims of Labor hypocrisy made on behalf of the defeated Greens candidate for Marrickville at the State elections. See: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11852#203281 **

A puzzle.




*The 'M' in this acronym standing, of course, for Marrickville, just to make sure that its Council's resolution is clearly identified in the wider Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions scene.

**I inadvertently posted this post to the 'Smear Campaign against Greens in Marrickville' thread. Dayyum!
Posted by Forrest Gumpp, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 1:50:25 PM
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Dear Forrest,
Is this the same electric car company headed up by a former Victorian pollie ? And what do you think of electric cars per se ?
Tess Lawrence
Posted by Tess Lawrence, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 2:20:36 PM
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