I think I now understand your political position.

The National Party and Libs will probably have to either totally be restructured or the whole generation who have suffered under their weird governments will probably have to die out before they will be trusted to any great extent.

This actually happened when people got burnt buying shares in the South Sea Bubble in the 1700s and it took about seventy years before shares were bought by the General Public again.

The Conservative’s style of government is unsuited to a Democratic system. I was reading their policy this afternoon and was amazed to see that even now they just do not get what the separation of powers is about.

Their policy of Government integrity says,

To restore accountability in our State Parliament and to make it more effective, a Queensland Coalition Government will: Support the over-riding right of the elected Parliament, not the courts, to determine the laws of the State

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leaves one wondering just what is going to happen to the courts if the Coalition ever gets into power.

But one encouraging thing I did find among their media releases was that the old pork – barrelling of Country electorates is alive and well in Natland.

The Coalition’s wild dog bounty is estimated to cost about $50,000 a year, based on the RMP report into the economic impact of wild dogs which found councils spent $50,000 in 2004 on bounties.

Mr Hopper paid tribute to The Nationals’ Member for Charters Towers Shane Knuth who had first proposed a State dingo bounty and had raised concerns about wild dogs in State Parliament, the media and the Coalition party room on many occasions.

“The Coalition’s policy will provide a significant incentive for Shane’s constituents in the Charters Towers electorate, particularly in the Richmond Shire, where bounties would increase from $50 to $100,â€? he said.

Examples of other council dingo bounties include but are not limited to, Bungil Shire Council ($30), Rosalie Shire Council ($20) and Pittsworth Shire Council ($60).

Trust the Nats to come up with a plan like that and once the dingos are thinned out no doubt they can start on the feral pigs and Flying foxes. Or perhaps the tourists from Rosalie Shire could flock to Charters Towers and pick up a bit of spare cash by $100 lots in a working holiday.

What a fun place Queensland will become! And they wonder why they are behind in the polls. Oh, and the cost to Queensland taxpayers from these Financial Gurus is 33 Million Dollars.

The real battle for the future is not between Gilead law or Sharia law but between Democratic socialism and Libertarian socialism.

Interesting comment. I’m not sure you’re right, but it would be nice if you were.

Update: The Poll Bludger comments on the Newspoll.

( and I was too though it’s all shrinking a bit these days )

But Qld could also be about the future of politics as well as the past.

With the lunar Gliead right in retreat and dissaray globally the anti-state left (and anti-war right ) are now faced with a giant bureaucratic centrist authoritarian state.
New tactics may be needed to tame this large scaly lumbering beast.

I’m encouraged , not only by the recent sucess of the Nedrenaline surge and the rise of the intelligent machines ( the internet) but also the recent referendum on the new EU superstate.
See while the daily Kossacks now speak of ‘ Libertarian democrats’ storming the gates and the Europeans obviously like Shengen and common currency but they seem to dislike big states …and all their associated big military-entertainment complex’s.

Creeping Beattieism is like a plague of poisonous spreading statist toads but with science, the web and determination we can send this hideous dinosaur off a cliff at a time and place of our choosing.

The real battle for the future is not between Gilead law or Sharia law but between Democratic socialism and Libertarian socialism. Disclosure – I’m an anarchist.