After eleven years of an incompetant conservative federal government it is a real wonder all those States and Territories survived after being starve of Educationa and Health Funding. The legacy of Howard lives on and it will now take eleven years to rebuild. Andrew Robb has virtually told Costello, Downer and Vaille to sling their hook as they are just parasitical garbage that are still earning wages from the taxpayer while searching for an outside job with a high income.

Thanks for the view from the Social Alliance but in my wildest moments I do not think I can put the blame on Howard.
Nore can I fall for the arjay line its too late, my mind saw henny penny darting in and our screaming the sky is falling!
Fact is I seldom see conservatives, come to think of it doing anything they are thin on the ground!
But when will the question their side? or talk of Askins NSW?
My ALP will act soon we could have done so a long time ago.
While we all wait do not fall over the rubble that once was NSW oh and watch out for chooks dashing in and out in fear.

So since your labor party could have acted before we can put it down to incompetence.

Or is this just having fun with the people and destroying their lives.

Yes belly we have rudd backing the sell off of our power stations and combet is just being a good little boy and doing as he is told.

superanuation and tax break, well would have been better for the workers as super, but hey that will not happen especially when the government will lose money, so in all we cannot do the right thing by the people.

Now health, how about the planned referendum so rudd can get his hands on that and then privatise it.

Health will be for the rich.

And since you are union belly why were those men down the mine at beaconsfield, especially since one said he was a union delegate and they knew there was safety problems.

Or wasnt the safety of the men important enough, and only became important after the accident.

This is a question nobody wants to answer.

And i will run again at the next federal election as an independent.

Stuart Ulrich

Rational debate is not always possible, the best we can do is try.
Rudd to the best of my knowledge has not taken any stance on the selling of NSW power.
It plumbs the depths to blame the miners for Beconsfeild.
I do not shy away from my view the NSW ALP must consider why we have not got rid of a few ministers.
Is it wrong however to highlight , yes highlight the dreadful state of this states opposition?
3 years a very long time to wait but if that opposition gets its act together it will win a landslide.
I ask this question of my leader in this state.
Mate has your failure to act, yes act not grand stand seen the question asked just how many are involved and who?
Did you Morris join the party for the party's sake or your own?

Yes it seems that the backing of the power stations is not something the labor party will tell the people.

Rudd had stated on stateline that he backs the sale of the power industry.

And still you have not answered why these workers were working in a dangerous enviroment, especially when the unions knew.

What are the unions doing for the workers, nothing except taking their money.

The state labor government is so corrupt why does the unions keep supporting them or is it since the state only gets 60% of federal funding and the state keeps the other 40%, is this for union payments.

Where is the peoples representation as all we have is pupetts on a string doing as they are told.

I also hope everyone gets private health insurance as this will be labors next sell off.

There will be those who can afford it and those who will just have to die.

Rational debate should take place on the state of NSW my posts hardly defend this government.
However waiting for them to fall over instead of building an opposition is not the best way to win elections.
Some will not understand but the state of the NSW opposition has played a part in this scandal.
A one party state mentality see,s a leader convinced he can ride out the storm, 3 years till an election just maybe he can!
The longer he waits to act the more questions will be asked about his knowledge of the scandal.
Posts seemingly setting out to insult my union and me do nothing to add to the debate ,however if evidence exists both are to blame for any wrong ? give it to us both!