Predictions, predictions, who knows, this could be a marriage made in heaven, This prediction is as strong as your prediction, The people will decide not you.

Kerryanne:

...I always understood you to be a girl with a brain...don't disappoint me please...Julia Gillard would be much kinder to herself and Labor party supporters, if she were to cut her tongue into 32million pieces as a contribution to "The big Australian BBQ"; the one Tony Abbott is hosting at the moment!...

The fact of the matter is we haven't had a single government, state or federal, that was full of nation-builders for a very long time.

Federal had become a body of authoritarian lazy gits- and then a career launching pad since Fraser;

And I can vouch that no NSW government had given to craps about actually doing a job for the public since before Bob Carr at least.

As such, one thing I like about the Greens is that although moralistic, they actually clearly place a duty on themselves to be managers.

But of course, there are plenty of other parties that consider administering services to be what their job is supposed to be as well- and it is definitely overdue we start transferring our votes to them.

And may we now expect the Greens to back the calls to cull* the fruit bats?

*Cull: get a lot of people out there where the bats roost and kill them with shotguns, preferably during the day.

Or, perhaps, they might become favourably disposed to bushfire mitigation policies, such as burning off and clearing trees from around buildings.
Their record in this regard is abysmal, even verging on the criminal in their disregard for the welfare of their fellow Australians.

Is mise,
talk about culls, I just received this email from a friend who was a staunch Labor supporter until recently.

Peter Garrett (ex lead singer of Midnight Oil, now a Minister in the Labour Government of Australia)

PETER GARRETT IS DEFINITELY A COUPLE OF CANS SHORT OF A SLAB!
The Australian Government and the NSW Forestry Service were presenting an alternative to NSW sheep farmers for controlling the dingo population.

It seems that after years of the sheep farmers using the tried and true methods of shooting and/or trapping the predators, the Labour Government
(Peter Garrett - Environmental Minister), the NSW Forestry Service and the Greens tree-huggers had a 'more humane' solution.

What they proposed was for the animals to be captured alive, the males would then be castrated and let loose again.

Therefore the population would be controlled.

This was ACTUALLY proposed to the NSW Sheep Farmers Association.

All of the sheep farmers thought about this amazing idea for a couple of minutes.

Finally, one of the old boys in the back of the conference room stood up, tipped his hat back and said, 'Mr Garrett, son, I don't think you understand our problem,
'those dingo's ain't f---ing our sheep, they're eatin' 'em.'

You should have been there to hear the roar of laughter as Mr Peter Garrett and the members of the NSW Forestry Service, the Greens and the other "tree huggers" left the meeting very "sheepishly".