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1. Be the sitting member for a seat, namely Dobell, in which water supply is a critical issue.
2. Make sure that you promote your role in securing a $80 million project to build a new pipeline.
3. Threaten to freeze funding if the Liberal party is not happy with composition of a new board involved in the the management of the pipeline.
4. Back pedal furiously and hope somehow the damage can be undone.
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The Libs just cant seem to adjust their typical bully-boy stacking habits to the new environment (ie people no longer scared of them, as they look and smell like losers).
People on the Coast don’t like workchoices… What they hate even more up here is playing politics with water.
Mr Ticehurst is doing the ultimate playing politics with our water.
This is so reminiscent of Larry Anthony on election night telling the voters of Richmond that they’d get nothing now that he was gone. The Coalition genuinely seem to believe that they are entitled to be in government permanently and that the Treasury is simply there for them to reward their mates.
Dave From Albury:
That’s the attitude of the Nationals in Queensland too …. [they would have been dead and gone had it not been Peter Beattie and his forced amalgamations of shire councils].
Shaun Cronin:
Dobell? Isn’t that where well-known and innovative economics commentator Graeme Bird standing?