Dell, welcome, while it is worse in Darwin, we do not need to go that far.
Name any fair sized country town in NSW say Dubbo, even the fishing paradise Queenslanders love to visit, Evans Head on a weekend night.
We whites have to share the blame.
Unpleasant? maybe, but we have failed in our attempts to change it for 200 years.
I started the thread.
To express my contempt for sections of the ALP/UNION movements, for backing Gillard.
For the rest of this year, I must hope, no beg, that I am wrong.
And too, see with increasing understanding, and yes fear,Conservatives offer only pain, for me and my country.
Lexi, a thought, Richo, a bloke saying much as I have, was once one of our very best,and controlled in a level headed way, a faction.

Dear Dell,

I appeciate and understand your concern about the
plight of the Indigenous pople in the NT although
I don't quite understand why you brought this issue
up on this thread which doesn't deal with this topic
and why you're directing your post at me.

However, indigenous-white relations is a complex issue
and it is a difficult matter to deal with. It will
perplex us for many years to come. We can only hope
that working together - our governments will not
evade their responsibility in this area and that
with time things will improve.

Dear Belly,

I used to admire Richo

Lexi in this matter we will continue to disagree.
For me my party is my life, it will always be so.
After our loss, it sadly will be so, we will find our selves with the best policy,s and record, standing in the wreckage of our party.
Haunted by the reality of the effects of knifing Rudd.
The truth in Sussex Streets roll there and in putting Thomson it t0o his seat.
HSU the yet to be found other such events, Lexi do you know right now, without pay I would return to union work.
That I think it is life,s greatest honor to serve union members?
Yet so many in that roll, are there for the cash and the opportunity to climb the ladder.
TOO many end up in parliament,and with no memory or concern for the reason they first started that climb.
Richo is still a lover of the ALP he like me bleeds for the true ALP.
I WILL VOTE AND WORK MY GUTS OUT FOR THEM, WE WILL STILL FIND OUR SELVES STANDING IN THE RUINS
That day, grief stricken I will see and hear every remaining Labor voice saying the words I say now.
It took years of hard work to put us in Parliament it will do so again.
We inflict Liberals on Australia, by not isolating the dreadful actions of some in our nest.
No house is truly clean until the carpet is lifted and the dirt truly removed.
Without change power brokers will always own my party.

Dear Belly,

I don't for one moment doubt your sincerity and
your integrity - and I wish you every possible
success in your life's goals. I've read
Lindsay Tanner's book and the suggestions he,
Bob Carr, Brachs, Faulkner, and others have made
in ways to improve your Party. Hopefully, positive
changes will come sooner rather than later.

Take care.

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/alp-vice-president-savages-nsw-right/story-e6frfku9-1226567130150
Lexi a truth is hidden here.
I value every one of our greats who that book speaks of.
But, without people like me, willing to be the disliked one, but speaking the truth, my party may die.
Hard to imagine?
Be leave me no party infested with such as NSW Terigal, faction, /Obied gang, can survive if no clear intention is shown to put them on public display, rather than pretend you never knew them.
This link, comes from a bloke with guts, I have campaigned with him, not for politicians.
His words are true.
Rudd is saddling up, for a last run at being returned, if he fails, we fail, and he, followed by many more, will not contest Gillards election.
IF any chance exists for a Labor victory, even a lessor loss, Gillard and Swan, a life member of my union, must be removed.
And a commitment ,even a real start, to true reform must be under way before spring.
POWER BROKERS INSULT THE RANK AND FILE.
Sad but true, real reforms harsh and honest team building, will come as a result of defeat at the hands of our own power brokers and Gillards team of fools.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/at-last-obeid-forced-to-reveal-all/story-e6freuy9-1226567335979
Yet another link.
Yet another unfortunate truth.
My words are far from alone and far from the only ones from within my party.
Pleading for an open,headline making, rejection of the filth that killed NSW Labor.
It is strange, and challenges our right to honest government.
But if this thread was about corruption on this scale,and it could have been/maybe one day, my detractors would be posting hourly.
In the end, this country must demand always, that
no
politician ever again uses us this way.