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The people of New South Wales have lost : Comments

By Jonathan J. Ariel, published 27/3/2007

Twelve years of hard Labor is too much to bear. Sixteen years is truly cataclysmic.

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Geeat stuff, johncee. I agree with all of it, especially the stuff about trains :)

Where can I get some of whatever it is that you're smoking?
Posted by CJ Morgan, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 9:00:22 PM
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Morris Iemma and his Bonobo Party are a lot more than incompetent.Morris does not have the guts to do what his Treasurer Michael Coster said needed doing 12mths ago,ie drastically reduce the bureaucracy and the number of departments and hopefully the culture of waste,chaos and inefficiency.

Another four years will see this lot become totally corrupt.They don't give a stuff now and the electorate have rewarded the most inept Govt in living memory.The two companies competing for the desalination plant contract have donated large amounts to Labor.I heard it totalled $1 million.Now this is an extremely expensive project that will only supply 7% of Sydney's water.There are far cheaper options.I smell a dirty rat.

Will Queensland and Western Aust be taking economic refugees from NSW and do Labor voters have to processed on Chistmas Island to check their IQ.

PS Bonobos are relatives of Chimps who resolve conflicts and problems by having sex with anything that they can touch.
Posted by Arjay, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 9:21:02 PM
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Jonathan Ariel writes that the NSW premier “has a deputy who was a school teacher. God help us.” What a despicable comment! It is not unusual for teachers to be treated with undeserved contempt, but this is an extraordinary addition to the usual baseless abuse of the selfless, kind and decent people who give their working lives to helping children and thus to building the future of our nation. Given the skills required, experience in teaching provides an excellent grounding for anyone who wants to go into management, administration, communication or politics. Teachers work long hours, juggle diverse demands, exercise judicious authority, communicate with large numbers of very individual people all at once, sift copious amounts of information, detect jargon a mile off, withstand daily abuse and act with diligence and commitment to the students they teach. In giving NSW a deputy premier who was a teacher, God has already helped out a lot. The only things more you could ask of him would be to give Jonathan Ariel a better appreciation of the depths of commitment of teachers and to give NSW premier who had been a teacher.
Posted by Chris C, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:29:09 PM
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Poor poor pouty little Johnny. This is his latetest whinge.

What a patronising sour graped attitude you have. It is called democracy and the people have decided. Your opinion is not superior to the opinions of 6 or so million people. Spare us from your doom and gloom. Public Service? Why don't you get a real job, like school teaching?

Now move on and get a life.
Posted by saintfletcher, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:16:22 AM
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We're too willing to speculate about what went wrong without really caring to face the terrible facts. We're a conservative people, frightened when a leaf drops off a tree in autumn. Our federation document is a car we ordered to be built from various make parts supplied from many car factories. It hardly went when it was delivered, producing shoddy motoring for decades. Never a grease and oil change, no service or maintenance. If we wanted to add water to the radiator, we'd get howled down with a big NO! That's the way we treat our politics, just as we treat our religion and pretty well most things. We can't stomach change, and least of all change that requires both brains and guts. Our political system is stuffed. Did we really expect a better election than we got? The best we can hope for is what we got. If it isn't good enough, start supporting new political faces who are all for making necessary changes and maintaining the new car when delivered. The Republican Party of Australia seeks to initiate a two-tier system, replacing state and local government with a single regional system responsible to Canberra uphill, and Canberra responsible to the people on the return trip.
The goal is to achieve things our present system precludes: efficiency and cost effectiveness of government; politicians answerable directly to their voters, not a political party; democracy, not plutocracy; representation, not authoritarianism; sovereignty of the people respected, not held in contempt; Australians as a nation, not a hodge-podge of clapped out colonies masquerading as states. We'll all get a chance to see if we want that sort of thing come the federal election. At that time, we'll see whether the whole nation is willing to compromise itself for the status quo, as NSW voters did.
Posted by Greg Hamilton, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 5:59:42 AM
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Just a few of us need to stop and remember voters have about the same IQ as us, they did not get conned they did think it out and they voted.
They considered both sides and said no yet again to the tainted right of conservative Australia.
However look closely the impending removal of John Howard's hand picked failure, it will bring true Liberal leadership to the party and a re birth of Liberalism.
Some tainted by a press that never let truth get in the way of manufactured news want more.
More of everything but not the taxes it would take to fund it.
Now johncee 1945 Hard as it may be to believe I met a bloke who thinks like you once, that makes two of you in 61 years, why don't you get together and form a party?
Again do not devalue voters who think different than you it may just be you who is wrong.
Want to build a party? watch Morris do just that next week.
21 elections 21 lost and some still blame the voters?
Laughter is my only answer! gee it feels good too.
Posted by Belly, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 6:38:11 AM
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