tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post1512842198523512055..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: Barrie Cassidy queers the pitchAndrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-82943759280310577992015-05-07T13:04:14.173+10:002015-05-07T13:04:14.173+10:00Cassidy=sinecurist. Bludger.Cassidy=sinecurist. Bludger.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-9320703552263551522015-05-04T23:20:16.140+10:002015-05-04T23:20:16.140+10:00My guess would be that Cassidy is old fashoned lab...My guess would be that Cassidy is old fashoned labor catholic right and that piece is close to my reading of the beat up also..the right faction is happier to make war on what's left of the left faction than deal with Abbott and the tories.<br /><br />People like Cassidy do well enough out of the system and social issues are something they instinctively shun. Things are nice just the way they are. That's not to say he is deliberatley malicious, just complacent.<br /><br />The samll target stuff is fair enough. Beazley made a terible error not maing Howard fry in his own Tampa Sieve X mess. Later, when Latham attempted some thing a bit imaginative as to Tassie rainforests, the vested interests showed their usual fall back position of collluding to sabotage a change in the status quo. When Rudd tried to break factional control of the ALP they waited till they could sabotage him. <br /><br />Plibersek is of a different type to the apparatchiks, although you'd suspect also a poitician, but I think it is likely that she and the right faction big shots don't get on either, because she is too well educated to fall for the nonsenses of social conservatism.<br /><br />I think there is a problem in the ALP with hidebound thinking: They should have challenged on DataRetention but failed dismally on a serious issue. Th eALP has become like someone half way up a ladder, who suddenly panics..they have forgotten how to act boldly and set the agenda.<br /><br />P.WalterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-57086237266854800782015-05-04T00:25:54.839+10:002015-05-04T00:25:54.839+10:00I'm pleased to read such a concise demolition ...I'm pleased to read such a concise demolition of Cassidy's tosh.<br />I re read that bit about the naughty ALP destroying the liberal party's hopes for a conscience vote several times on the assumption there was something I'd missed, but there wasn't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-37337024437629683022015-05-03T15:43:32.439+10:002015-05-03T15:43:32.439+10:00Yeah, really. I have been reading reaction to Plib...Yeah, really. I have been reading reaction to Pliberseks comments this week with an all too frequent eye roll. The media treatment is as you have described.<br /><br />Shortens reaction really annoyed the crap out of me. All he had to do was say, essentially, that this issue, and others are up for internal discussion ALL THE Time. That it is not uncommon for people in political parties to have different views on some topics. What the hell is new about that? Isn't policy supposed to EVOLVE? It took Albanese to make sensible statements to that effect.<br /><br />Cassidys piece was a long winded, an as you note, often contradictory load of rubbish. Seems like times like this substance rather than word count should be the aim.<br /><br />Oh gawd, so fed up with this navel gazing, lazy drivel.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07751752866267313598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-3797467540935459212015-05-02T03:27:59.095+10:002015-05-02T03:27:59.095+10:00I remember watching Cassidy on "Insiders"...I remember watching Cassidy on "Insiders" a while ago - I think it was around the time of the Lib leadership spill vote - asking Tony Burke the most fatuous questions about nothing of substance. It was cringe-worthy. <br /><br />As for this article - ugh. You've pretty much summarised why my eyes rolled all the way back in my head upon reading it. And can he and his counterparts please stop bloody calling it "gay marriage" (and thank you, Andrew, by the way for not using the term)? It may come as a terrible shock, Barrie, but a number of people who might want to marry someone of the same sex or gender identity - and the two aren't necessarily one and the same but that's a whole 'nother issue - are not ipso facto "gay". But I fear it's too much to expect certain members of the press gallery to grapple with the concept of not excluding people who don't fall into neat sexuality and gender binary boxes, since anything beyond the most simplistic and superficial attempt at political analysis appears to elude them. Good grief, it's depressing.Rachelnoreply@blogger.com