Pericles, how dare you suggest that the democratic process should usurp the “authority” the commentariat?

There are so many people who need to be given an opinion on a wide range of very important matters; they must not be denied the opportunity to adopt an opinion from the excellent choices available through the media.

Heretic!

You're right of course, spindoc.

>>Pericles, how dare you suggest that the democratic process should usurp the “authority” the commentariat?... Heretic!<<

What on earth was I thinking...

If I remember correctly Pauline Hanson resigned from what was left of
One Nation.
That was something else that Julia Gillard lied about.

However do you realise that the reason Pauline was so controversial was
not because she was wrong but because she was right !

You know, the biggest rows are always around propositions that are
politically incorrect or right against what a majority believe.

Now even Tim 1000 years Flannery is in trouble for telling it as it is.
Oh well if you didn't laugh you would have to cry !

Belly,

While I have considered you misinformed, the pathetic attempt to link PH's policies to the liberals is deliberately false.

As soon as PH's virulent ideals came to the surface, she was expelled from the liberal party even though she had won a seat on the liberal ticket.

I personally don't like extremists such as PH or the greens, but with Juliar beholden to the greens and effectively unable to proceed with her promise for an offshore processing centre, the train wreck that is the immigration policy is causing great frustration amongst ordinary citizens who are voting for PH as a protest vote.

The Liberal Party had her jailed not for any altruistic crime-fighting motives but purely because she was eroding the Conservative support base.

That is what the Coalition thinks of the democratic system?

Whether you like her or not is a matter for the voters in her electorate.

The only positive thing about PH's election is she will be one of the few politicians that will not be afraid to rock the flavour-of-the-day policies in regards to expanding foreign ownership of agricultural land, utilities, water infrastructure etc, sale of public assets, population growth and one-sided (and so far not-open-for-negotiation) FT policies.

Although it is doubtful there will be much influence from a State Upper House seat.

The negative aspect is that all the good stuff she might potentially inject will also mean more of the racist commentary and little understanding of what it means to be a minority.

Well, I think the people of NSW deserve Pauline, and thank you all for taking her off our hands here in Qld.

But what happened to her flight-to-Blighty?

Probably noticed how multicultural that nation is, far more so than OZ, even though politicians here think it is an Australian invention, and 'unique'.

Belly, what about Keneally getting a leg-up into Garrett's seat (while he gets dumped-good oh), aided by the rightwing unions (there are no others these days of course) in NSW?

Will replacing one xtian fundie with another really benefit the ALP?

It might improve the NSW state branch, of course, but what 'progress' will there be overall?

Let's not forget also Belly, that the ALP under Beazley adopted most of the Coalition attitudes towards refugees, never mind the comments Whitlam made years before that.

There are no innocents-in-politics, they are all grubby and dishonest individuals who pander to the lowest in society, from CEOs to mullet-headed Westies, from war mongering fake xtians to careerist academics not the least bit interested in running educational institutions as if they were worth something, never forgetting the one-true-faith in Oz, the Sports Boof, who gets a shovel load of support while schools fail to get anything useful.

The votes lie in lies, in deceits, in iggerance-for-the-masses (and from the masses too).

But one thing I think most of us can agree on is this: there will be no real change in NSW under this 'new' regime. Services will be cut, taxes will go up but not for the wealthy, public schools will close to boost 'private' ones, trains will never work in NSW, the ferries will be sold off and sink like the UK and Victorian train systems did when gifted to the 'clever' CEOs in private industry, life will continue as usual in NSW, funded by developer largesse.