Dear Belly,

There's something that I don't quite understand.

George Wright, ALP National Secretary has said that
Labor's National Executive had unanimously admitted
Ms Nova Peris as a member of the NT Branch and they
have credited her to stand for pre-selection for
the position on Labor's Senate ticket in the NT.
A ballot will be voted on the 29th January 2013.
Applications close on the 28th January.

Doesn't this mean that its fair? The current senator
can contest the seat as well - and who wins, wins?
That doesn't sound like an unfair process to me.
Or can't people contest seats anymore? If that's the
case - then parties would end up with a bunch of hacks
and seat warmers - right? A bit of competition would
not be a bad thing would it? And just because someone
is loyal to the party does not necessarily make them
a competent senator does it?

There is such thing as becomming to familiar, and predictable, i say that is the case here. Peris is new and fresh it will encourage people that have given up hope of any reform to renew their push for indiginous issues. The about face at the last local election warrants change, that is what this is about.

Afraid not Lexi, a complex story.
First I had no idea the deposed Senator is a Rudd supporter,so that plays no roll in my thoughts.
It may have greased the rails for Gillards actions.
I will try to explain what I see in this.
To understand first the group who entered this fine lady[ignore the trite comments she won gold and is gold] is not Representative of the rank and file.
REFORM a word that controls my every thought.
And this act again entrenches the rights unwillingness to even start true reform.
Complex? sure is.
The center unity of the ALP, my faction, came in to existence to ensure the left never controlled the party,I agree with that.
Times saw it roll leftist candidates before election, some very left among that group.
So far so good, Labor needs to be both just left of center and near midstream in politics.
But the right became lost, it supported that faction in every case.
And lead to total control, even over mainstream membership, time and again dumping non-Labor candidates on local branches.
Behind Rudd,s dumping, Gillard could rely on? power brokers from ALP PTY LTD power brokers, center unity.
WE need reform, we must get better candidates, only the best , any sex, not minimums set that push the wrong folk vie sex or star ratings.
But this move, in its imposing and removing a Senator to fit, in my honest view DAMNS Gillard and those supporting her.
We are, with Abbott putting two hand picked in NSW, fast becoming a country that has no say in who even gets to stand for election.
Center Unity is the right.
It stabbed Rudd, and sponsored the NSW FILTH CURRENTLY UNDER INVESTIGATION.

This is clearly a payback by Gillard of a Rudd supporter. Gillard could have 'picked' Mick Mundine to fill a causal Senate vacancy in NSW, she would have got her 'token black' that she so desires, and we wouldn't have been burdened with Boo Boo Bob Carr.
Labor parachuted Peter Garrett into the "safe" seat of Kingsford Smith, once held by a famous Labor stalwart, Lionel Bowen, Lionel could command 70% of the primary vote. Garrett has been such an outstanding success Kingsford Smith looks likely to fall to the Liberals for the first time ever at the next election. Gillard called it a "captain's pick", the captain of what? Labor's version of the Titanic!
This kind of rubbish can never happen in The Green where all candidates have to be endorsed by the grass roots of the party, through the democratic process of pre-selection. Every member has an equal vote, none of this so called parachuting or captains picks, endorsement by the back room boys etc. If you want to join a political party and be treated as a mushroom then join the ALP.

err, no one has brought up this point, are you afraid ?
Don't worry Nicola's new "free speach" laws are not in yet.

Has the PM contravened the racial discrimination law ?
She, as CEO of the employer, the parliament, has dismissed a white
woman so that she can appoint a black woman as candidate.
It has been stated that the purpose was to replace white with black.
No other reason was given.

What sort of a rumpus would there be if it was the other way around ?
Especially if a white man was to replace a black woman.
Talk about b%^^&y hypocrites !

579, you win!

You just can't see wrong in anything labor or Julia does.