Banjo!watch my Friend how you place your feet!
You are standing on your bottom lip.
I was born in Yass Mum Bargo,Dad Bowral, we lived as the family of a railway fettler in Picton Tarmoor Bargo Yanderra and Yerinbool.
I left the souther highlands, apart from one session playing foot ball over 40 years ago.
AND NEVER CLAIMED TO LIVE THERE NOW!
If I ever! have to lie,to protect Labor or abuse conservatives I am nothing but a grub.
Show me the claim I live there, do not let your misconceptions insult me.
Many know,of my recent problem with a visitor from these pages, others know it is not the first time.
It is known by a few I worked as a union official in Newcastle.
My post history again and again talks of my 22 years on the RTA based at Port Macquarrie then Newcastle.
My union days took me to both twice a week.
See links I post from local newspapers latest the northern rivers star.
Banjo, you need to focus, you do mate, it is my belief you and I are not far apart.
But I could name city's towns villages all over Australia I lived in.
It is one hour drive from here to port, I will be there next Sunday, for a market.
I forgive you mate, but please UNDERSTAND! to wrongly infer I lie is a mistake but low in any case.
First shout is yours top shelf too.

I like Banjo, he has made a mistake, no worse than one I made calling him Bazz then launching in to an attack.
No reverse gear still, but aware,uncaring much ,my age forbids stupid acts I nearly put my home address here.
Never ever do that please!
WARNING! it is not an act of bravery but stupidity.
IF WE contribute enough GY has said we can get personal messages between us, give if we can.
But be careful please.
We are not experts, not one of us, every opinion any of us put up may be wrong.
But am I just getting old and silly.
Am I foolish to think I see a chasm opening up in Australia, due only to our politics.
Are we puppets for some hidden divid and conquer powers.
A FACT I no longer respect Rob Oakshot, he seems to leap in front of Cameras.
But he won and held with massive margins, NSW parliamentary seat.
Windsor did too.
Oakshot supported Labor there, Windsor once the other side.
Both had been LOVED and defeated the Nationals in elections.
Both entered Federal Parliament the same way, trouncing the National, bigger than big margins, both held love and respect.
Until they backed Labor, one had before one? not sure.
Two blokes not unlike one another Banjo and me.
At war, a war started by TONY ABBOTT, he could but will not, wait his turn, victory is his, but what of Australia?
no band aids will reunite us only new leaders on both sides can stop us ripping the guts out of our country.
Lyne is next to the seat of?Paterson, my old office in Lyne home in Patterson.Banjo, been here from about 1982, this home 7/5/2002, and staying.

Belly,
Just now back to this thread. Been doing other things.

My apologies.

I was wrong and am sorry.

I have seen your references to a village on Southern Highlands and mistook it as your home for many years. I know you worked for the RTA and a Union which I presumed to be the AWU and that you are now retired. Some time back you related about going up the coast to pick up a couple of blokes that were in trouble and I did think it was a hell of a way from Bargo.

I must admitt to being a little dissappointed as I thought that one day I could find you, at Bargo, and meet and have a beer, but further north is too far to go. I am South of Bargo and every trip on the Hume meant a stop at Bimbo's roadhouse, where all the trucks stopped.

I owe you one. I do read what you write but presumed too much.

Pelican,

In politics as in life, there are choices, and with each choice there are benefits and consequences. With neither Labor nor the coalition having won a majority, it became a race to garner the support of the independents. Gillard's choice was to keep a promise to the electorate or gain government.

She clearly chose the latter, and thought that she could manage the fall out from the broken promise, as at the time there appeared to be a slim majority support for action on carbon. They seriously under estimated the response from the coalition, who made the tax wildly unpopular and framed the broken promise as treachery.

The same applies to RO and TW. They thought they could hitch their wagon to a government clearly beholden to them and make it work. The reality is that they have misrepresented the clear preferences of their electorates, and have delivered a government lurching from crisis to crisis.

The choice between 11 years of sound economic management and 4 years of incompetence is clear for all but a few remaining labor tragics.

I think you lot have to come to terms with e fact that this guy is all but washed up and may not even run in the next election, given his obvious bias.

He has also done untold damage to the true imdepenant, a position that was once like the demarcates with a view to wards keeping the bastards honest.

How, oakshot, wilki or windsor can continue to pledg their support for this, the worst government in my time, is a mystery and one that will be their downfall in my view.

Paper or no paper, this guy is about as popular as a fart in an elevator.

All ok Banjo, Bimbos! 7 year old so it nosed kid if I mowed a lawn walked Yanderra to Bimbos and spend the 3 Penny's on a cold draught ginger beer.
I am firmly convinced Labor is dead.
And in part at its own hand.
Much like 1975, and blinded by the same silly thought, the public will wake up to the other side.
It is my dream, that Labor, in a year of reform, will remember us.
Those Unionists/members/voters who put so much hope in this wreckage of our party.
That they will understand we do, understand, how awful our opponents are behaving.
And that we, most of us, want our proud and focused current agenda pass the Parliament too.
Few here, if any, understand, if this man, and in my view he did, spent his unions money this way, HE SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN PRE SELECTED.
But here, in Parliament he is being convicted hung drawn and quarter ,with trial, with no crime conviction against him.
So in my view a man unfit to be a Representative in Parliament can become prime minister.
Continued