Yabby:>> I'm sick of Brown, Xenephon, Wilkie and Co trying to interfere with what we do here. They don't know what is best for us, so why should they have a say.

There are no wise men from the East, just politicians feathering their own political nests.<<

Yabby WA's succession is out of the question, but I would support a WA takeover of Australia and overthrow of the treasonous swine who now decide Australia’s future, now that is a plan. Is Barnett ready for the top job if we can get the ball rolling? See Yabby, you can have your cake and eat it too.

Ludwig, it started out as a tongue in cheek bit, but half way through I started to see that quite a bit was getting very close to the truth. So, like you, I'm not quite sure any more.

I used to like going to South Oz for the F1 race at Mallala each year. The worst part was cleaning the bitumen off the car, when you got home. The track would start to melt at least one day of the meeting, & the stuff stuck everywhere.

The best thing about visiting Adelaide, realising how lucky you are that you don't have to live there, as you fly out.

Gee Gloin, you are worse than me, poor Ludwig won't know who is serious & who isn't.

Just in passing, have you noticed any funny noises on your mobile recently. They tell me you do get them when your phone is being taped.

Ludwig,
Of course your right and not only has QLD had floods but many. Crops have been washed out over and over- roads that are not roads anymore and people have died. There are others who are still living in tents- some still without power water etc.
Roads- what roads in many places. The mount Lindsey highway leading to my farm was closed for months. Bridges are still washed away . In Brisbane city itself complete roads collapsed.

What Senators Xenephon wants ( who would be my choice for PM) is value adding for Australia. What Senator Wilkie and Bob Brown want also is jobs for Australia. They as I are very concerned that we rely more and more on imports. WA is a part of Australia. Yes QLD have mines too. The Australian minerals belong to all Australians.

Our roads and people are i a far worse state than wa and when QLD was pulling more than others QLD people did not say- oh this is just ours. Australia as I said is Australia. We all share the minerals and whatever else.
This is a childish mindset that ought to be taken care of when these people were children. This is why mothers teach children to share their lollies.

KA:>> What Senators Xenephon wants ( who would be my choice for PM) is value adding for Australia.<<

Kerryanne I have no issue with Nick on the whole, a principled man who states the obvious, my only negative regarding Nick is that he has a bit of the "nanny" about him, in some things the individual should be left to make the decision rather than legislature.

The south-west corner of WA, where most of the population reside, is hardly any different to similar places in other parts of Australia. Services and roads are good. The north-west, however, is radically different and from my experience is almost like another country - it has it's own flavour.

(We don't have pokies in this state which is a great thing. People then don't have to make the decision whether or not to get sucked into the black hole. I'm constantly amazed that there is such a debate over pokie control. It's a social blight, but people keep aligning it with some sort of freedom to choose... humans are weird)