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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
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Which party is my party Shawny?
For the record, I have never been a member of any political party and have voted for Labor, Liberal, Australian Democrats, and independent candidates. Vote Compass says I’m right of centre.
I was talking to an RSL mate at our Remembrance Day commemoration today and he just happens to be our local One Nation candidate. He’s pretty switched on and I think that he would be a decent local member. I can’t vote for him because his party is based on racism and bigotry, has no policies, and is owned by Gina Rinehart.
Another mate is running as an independent candidate and she is far and away the most intelligent and well-educated in the field. She’d be a great MP but, realistically, has no chance. I could vote for her, knowing that my vote would go to my second preference.
I didn’t speak to the sitting State MP today - the Commonwealth MP told me that I looked “sharp”! - but she is very popular and will probably retain the seat.
The Liberal candidate seems to have accepted that outcome and is doing an excellent impression of the invisible man. The Greens candidate just makes up the numbers.
The thing is that I have worked with every Victorian State Government from Henry Bolte to Denis Napthine, and have briefed and advised Labor, Liberal and Nationals Ministers in the Bracks/Brumby and Baillieu/Napthine governments. Some were risk averse, some were “courageous” as Sir Humphrey Appleby would say, some acted on advice, others wanted the advice to fit their agenda, all were driven and believed in what they were doing, and there was only ever one hint of corruption; a planning minister ignored departmental advice and approved a development that was later overturned on appeal. This was all in the days before IBAC but the Auditor-General and Ombudsman still kept a very tight rein.
I’m sure that nobody really gives a fat rat’s clacker about your bizarre political beliefs, or mine for that matter, but don’t presume that you know anything about my politics, or how the State Government is run. Right wing conspiracy theories aren’t real, and neither are the left wing equivalents.
Seeing you dodged my point i will do the same on that long winded spin reply about nothing.
Have you noticed the Big build royal commission going on?
Or do you refuse to acknowledge it because its the labour government being accused of corruption?
Pretend the same inquiry was with Trump instead.... Would be 50 pages written on it if the names were swapped.
Cheques and balances
You really need to think before you post nonsense Shawny ... and you need to stop trying to deflect with continual references to Taco in this thread and continual references to Australian governments in the Taco thread. They're completely separate issues ... and threads.
It is the Royal Commission into the Integrity of Major Public and Civil Infrastructure Construction Projects in Victoria. It was called by the State Labor Government "to inquire into and report on matters relating to corruption, criminal conduct and serious misconduct on or in relation to major construction projects in Victoria." The allegations that prompted the Royal Commission concerned corruption and criminal conduct by the CFMEU and construction companies and poor oversight by government agencies and, potentially, the Government. The Commission is in the first week of its first block of public hearings and, to be perfectly honest, it hasn't even begun to warm up.