Comments on: Hobson's Choice

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:19:56 +0000

Mark,
What you’re choosing to ignore is the irrefutable fact that I’m always right.
Please remember to view all my future comments in this context.

My view on the election is best summed up by a cartoon I saw today – A man at a polling booth, when faced with the choice of voting for Iemma or Debnam, chooses the third option which is jumping in the car and moving to Quinceland.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:20:25 +0000

Evidently, you don’t like being criticised, Alex. I’m sorry if I offended you, but perhaps you should think about that next time before you post an irrelevant and off topic comment sledging someone else. I didn’t call you a “fool” or accuse you of distorting the truth for political purposes. You were quite blase about doing that with regard to someone else.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:58:26 +0000

The point of this thread is to discuss the article, and the NSW election. Not to attack someone.

Well that would explain your 500 word post attcking me then.

I didn’t deserve that.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:43:25 +0000

Whatever, Alex.

The point of this thread is to discuss the article, and the NSW election. Not to attack someone.

By: Tyro Rex

Tyro Rex — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:08:38 +0000

Geoff H; I can certainly vouch from personal experience that the Sydney trains as I last experienced them on a daily basis, in mid-2005, are a helluva lot better than those in Brisbane!

And the first time I got onto one of Brisbane’s old buses … haven’t seen a bus of that vintage in Sydney since at least the early 90s (maybe even the 80s, it was that long ago I can’t remember accurately) … they must have sold their surplus fleet to the Brisbane City Council!

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:50:52 +0000

Wow Mark, you’ve certainly read the universe into a grain of sand there.

I’ve been on at least 3 ministerial advisory groups in the last 4 years, and enjoy a tremendous working relationship with people from all corners of the political compass and broader community. Additionally, I have an excellent relationship with my Local State MP (National) and Federal representative (also National).

My work takes me deep into the community where I’ve run training and educational workshops for the – Brethren (unexclusive!), Salvation Army, Catholic Church, Uniting Care, Wide Bay Indigenous Health Forum, Islamic Women’s welfare counsel, CWA and the freemasons!

So the charge that I “choose not to work with those with a different opinion to mine” is demonstrably false, and equally offensive.

My only experience with Graham Young has been witnessing his embarrassing gaffes over climate change. In my opinion he abused his position as editor of Online Opinion, to launch a series of ad hominem and personal attacks on Tim Lambert. That’s where I’m coming from.

By: bert

bert — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:26:07 +0000

I am glad someone said that Geoff. The lack of infleunce of the media pundits will be obvious when Labor is returned with ahealthy margin

By: Anna Winter

Anna Winter — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:15:42 +0000

Bear in mind that as long as you don’t obscure your voting intention (ie. write over the boxes) you can write as much as like on your ballot paper, time for a mini essay.

Also, you cannot identify yourself. Swear as much as you like, but don’t put your name to it or it will be thrown out.

By: David Jackmanson

David Jackmanson — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:33:08 +0000

Mark @11.26pm:

Hear, Hear!

By: Geoff Honnor

Geoff Honnor — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:05:23 +0000

I’m not convinced that things in NSW are actually as bad as the over-hyped media lamentation would have it. Given the relentless negativism from Fairfax and News Ltd and the harping Shock Jock whinge, you’d think that Sydney was some sort of apocalyptic amalgam of Mumbai and Beirut in which human existence is wretched and tenuous. It’s actually not that bad.

I expect the ALP to lose some skin today – the polls notwithstanding – and they certainly deserve to do so. But if the voters ignore the advice of the Sydney Morning Herald, the Daily Telegraph, the Australian and Alan Jones and re-elect the Iemma government, the post-wash-up chicken entrail gazing might focus on whether interminable Cassandra-like wailings from the Fourth Estate actually connect with lived reality.