Why would we need an inquiry into Union Corruption, we all know they are corrupt.

Many know who is corrupt, but won't do any thing about it.

Inquiries are only supposed to be to help lawyers pay for new luxury cars aren't they. Has the law business been a bit slow recently?

While spindoc would like us to think the whole Labor/Union tree is infected, every fruit every leaf every action, it is not so.
Bought to the surface PAST acts like Sussex Street Mafias destruction of the NSW branch.
Its roll in Marshalling the power brokers knifing of Rudd.
The HSU scandal, and the yet unproved mud bucketing of Gillard as she was 20 years ago.
See it is years ago, full of bile, Paul 1405 infers John Robinson is tainted by that.
He in fact is a savior not other he stood for no power sell off and is a man of merit.
PAST, my constant issue is about a past, and the effects that WILL DRIVE A NEWER RESPONSIVE ALP.
I want that now not after Gillards troika.
I demand as I have for years an end to every power broker.
No reward, *LEADERSHIP* for the knife holders/power brokers.
A freedom for ALP to cross the floor.
Spin doctor, this chalenge is for you, do you claim no factions in your party?
No wrongs, are you man enough to rather than sink your teeth in to Labors neck tell us of the wrongs on your side?
My efforts will not stop, my party must reform, must bravely expel the filth .
Are the Liberals content to stay just a party of Abbott wingers without policy's?

Belly, when I asked you what Robertson was doing in regards to reform, you offered this: "He in fact is a savior not other he stood for no power sell off and is a man of merit." I fail to see the relation to party reform. Its quite plain if the ALP is going to reform it has to start in NSW, yet there is absolutely no evidence of any real reform taking place. Belly your call.

Paul we have reached the stage talking is time wasting, you killed one thread with childlike interventions.

And one you your self started had much that could have been said had you not turned it in to a joke.
Remember, it is you, who put the thought, you know every thing.
If you do not understand the roll played by JR, his out standing roll in his anti work choices bus trip, his stand again power sell off.
His standing aside the filth, his demands for reform and accountability.
I once thought of you as a rather ill informed mate, but mate still.
Of late you haunt threads, posters from both sides, with less than child like attempts at humor.
RUOK?
The bitterness is it the truth sneaking its head up? post Brown greens is even worse than I say.
I wish you well, but in truth bloke you must confront the change in you, not me.
Is free speech a greens policy? am I free to think as I do?
Do you claim that right but deny it to me?
You mob are in far more trouble than mine, we will dump our dirt, you are stuck with policy,s very few want.
Folk like me are massing, to demand we regain ownership of the ALP from power hungry filth.
Any plans to change greens policy.s to even near every day Australians?

Hi Belly,

I was very hopeful when the Faulkner-Carr-Bracks report
came out in 2010. I thought that reforms would be embraced.
However it seems that ambitious plans for rule changes
and more open processes are still being blocked by
established power players who hold the numbers and see no
incentive to change. Some people see this as a battle between
the Left and the Right in the party.

The "Yes, but not yet," attitude has got to change and perhaps
the opporunity may come next year at a special conference?
Pressure needs to be applied for it to happen.

Dear Belly,

You really haven't answered me. I didn't claim the Greens were liked by most people. That really is irrelevant. I claimed you were name-calling by labeling the Greens socialist. That is a cheap shot.

I am a member of the Greens because they regard what is happening to the environment of the planet we live on is the most important issue. I regard it as the most important issue so I am a Green.

You keep harping on the fact that the Greens don't get the vote that Labor and the Coalition get. That doesn't mean they are wrong. It does mean among other things that you can't make the bucks that an ambitious pol can make with Labor or the Coalition due to jobs for the boys. It means the Greens aren't getting the corporate contributions that the major parties thrive on.

Let Labor or the Coalition give greater weight to the environment than the Greens do, and I will be for Labor or the Coalition.

Coalition opponents of Labor have called Labor socialist rather than justifying their difference with its policies. By calling the the Greens socialist you are imitating their shoddy tactics.

My political leanings are not determined by the percentage of people who are for or against any party. They are determined by which party is concerned about what I think important.