tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post217645148936004126..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: Andrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-91373174785329919042010-02-26T00:55:46.338+11:002010-02-26T00:55:46.338+11:00I thought the mention of Gordon Brown was insightf...I thought the mention of Gordon Brown was insightful, given the trading of ministerial advisors between New Labour and the ALP around about the time of the 2007 election. <br /><br />You almost get the feeling that any parliamentary party with a Third Way tinge is doomed to repeat the same narrative. The NSW Government was elected two years before Blair and it's amazing how much of the former has been a prediction of the latter. There's Carr and Blair's resignation and the way they're both held in increasingly negative esteem, the short and abruptly-ending grace period for less than appealing successors, and both governments completely eroding their credibility when the constant rehash of media announcements fails to produce any tangible benefits to the community. <br /><br />I feel like I'm living through a delayed version in Melbourne. We must have had three different transport blueprints in the last five years, and the next major public transport project has been pushed back until the end of the decade. Apart from a freeway, there's been no transport infrastructure that wasn't tinkering at the edges. Meanwhile, you see the ministers in hard hats every other week with "Road X: It's Part of the Plan" livery in the background. The Brumby Government is happy to take the same craven attitude to developers as the state government in NSW, and we've had some white elephants that rival the monorail. We've had the same sort of scandals with the DHS as you've had with DOCS. Community consultation is a farce, and instead of seriously challenging any of this, the Opposition is gearing up for the same law and order campaign that Debnam tried in 2007. <br /><br />Anyway, didn't mean to turn this into a Sydney-Melbourne penis measuring contest. I worry that Brumby will romp it home later this year and we'll spend the next four years living the same biweekly scandals that NSW Labor has wrought on the state. Either it's the Third Way destiny or it's just the inertia of incumbency, I haven't been paying attention to politics for long enough to be able to tell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-69297622270129146862010-02-25T21:02:09.165+11:002010-02-25T21:02:09.165+11:00And the abbott's answer to his manifest failin...And the abbott's answer to his manifest failings this week is to have a.........idea fest! Because he obviously aint got a clue.<br /><br />Bring on the election say I, let's put us all out of our misery. The meejah are utterly pathetic and I am fast losing patience with any sort of reasoned debate about future of country, all we get is future of these fools who are actually employed by US.madgrannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03758657265795748063noreply@blogger.com