Producer,
I always see things in a light of accountability & integrity. When I point my finger at someone I keep in mind if I could uphold the values I expect from someone else. Sadly, I witness too much lack of accountability & integrity from the bureaucrats that surround me on a daily basis. I see even less competence. Where I do see an increase is in the ego of those in authority & in the wasting of our tax dollars.
Now, you say the Qld Premier is doing too much flying. He HAS to ! How else do you expect him to assess the disaster areas of the Labor years ? Sell the Government Jet ? Replace it with what ?
At least the Premier is repairing huge damage. What do we get in return or value from our ex Parliamentarians on whom we spend massive amounts of tax payer dollars.
Start looking at the situation from the right instead of the left perspective & you might even comprehend what's going on.
If you think the Qld Premier has a case to answer then you'd better ask his predecessors first & have them explain why their successor is flat out repairing their unacceptable mess.

I was about to make a contribution to this discussion when I read yours Individual and realised I couldn't have put it better.

Individual – You got off to a great start in your first paragraph and I agree with you 100%

Then you said - Now, you say the Qld Premier is doing too much flying.

If there one thing I hate, it’s being verballed. Nowhere did I say or imply this.

I said – “He flew down to the recent COAG meeting in the Queensland government’s private jet and complained that his state couldn’t afford the federal government’s education initiatives. Something is not right.”

It would seem your first paragraph does not apply to Mini-Me Newman.

“I always see things in a light of accountability & integrity. When I point my finger at someone I keep in mind if I could uphold the values I expect from someone else. Sadly, I witness too much lack of accountability & integrity from the bureaucrats that surround me on a daily basis. I see even less competence. Where I do see an increase is in the ego of those in authority & in the wasting of our tax dollars.”

You can’t have your cake and eat it too. Would not you agree Snake?

How Else? As Ludwig suggested teleconference or catch a plane like everybody else or within Queensland drive. That way he can feel the road and visit communities that don’t have airstrips.

Hasbeen – Have you checked out the maths?

say or imply this.
producer,
Forgive me but why draw attention to that link which obviously is about too much flying or rather the expense of it when you don't actually disapprove of it ? It certainly looked to me
as a gripe about too much use of the plane.
You refer to the Premier not supporting the PM's education initiatives as something's not right. You're right there after the PM authorised $500 million to religious schools to our neighbour.
re "your first paragraph does not apply to Mini-Me Newman". Right again. it refers to the bureaucrats in the qld public service who are staunch Labor & will do everything they can to thwart the Premier's attempt to fix the state this State is in.

Producer you bitch about a few bucks worth of jet fuel, which would have saved hundreds of staff hours, then promote billions to be wasted in a fool gesture to buy a few education union, & a few uninformed general public votes. Now that's arithmetic at it's simplest. Hell you don't even have to be able to add to understand that.

When it comes to government aircraft, I do recall that Goss got rid of Joh's old aircraft, only to buy himself a much more exotic & expensive replacement.

Of course if I want to get nasty I could talk about a fat fool premier who used the thing to fly to the football, but that wouldn't be cricket, now would it

Dear Producer,

Your reference to Newman as Mini-Me is clearly intended as a dig at our new premier. Your proselityzation of the ALP mantra against Newman is another dead give away.

If you are a Queenslander, may I remind you that we have already decided to award the ALP 7 seats and the LNP 70 seats, it’s called democracy. You can either suck it up sweetie or move to Tasmania. If you are not a Queenslander, butt out.

Why on earth Campbell Newman ever had the good grace to not de-register the ALP in Queensland I don’t know because people like you don’t understand good grace.

As I posted on OLO the day after our election;

<< Brisbane train station was a very busy place last night.

There was the early departure of the 8:15 pm ALP special, containing the entire ALP contingent of about seven MP’s. They were accompanied by zero Greens MP’s who had successfully managed to drive their support base to something less than zero. The departure board showed this train’s destination was “political oblivion” and all passengers appear to have one way tickets.>>

[Deleted for abuse.] Instead of picking away at the very person who gave you by his political good grace, a party in Queensland you could continue to support.

It seems that gratitude, hypocrisy and embarrassment are not in your genes. But we already knew that because you are just another left leaning political toady without cognitive skills, just an adopter of someone else’s opinion.

My very best wishes to you for September 14th.

May you rest in peace from September 15th