That said, I have to put my hand up for disbeleiving Brumby’s poll results.

In my defence, a recent poll suggests a majority of Victorians believe he is RUBBISH on public tranmsport – which was the particular thing up my nose at the time.

LNP in Queensland exemplifies all this, despite the Borg pr extravaganza.

Heh on ec management: but japes aside, Im not sure the LNP has ever enjoyed any “trust” at state level – not since fluffing their post-state bank collapse era cred with serial privatisation fiascoes, anyway.

Except of course in NSW – which appears to be sucking any and all bad electoral vibes to Sydney, like some enormous black hole.

http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/12/19/speaking-of-queensland-politics/

It’s a timelapse movie of Lake Mead, Nevada, from 1996-2008, going from full to pretty crusty. The credits at the end say “A lot can change in 12 years…how rising demand for water is changing the way governments work… Get ready for the next 12 years …. Stop Talking Start Doing (with IBM)”
Lake Mead is the biggest reservoir in the US, behind the Hoover dam on the Colorado river. It is the main water supply of Southern California, notably LA.

As of October 2008, the lake is currently at 47 percent of its capacity, threatening to make the Las Vegas valley’s primary raw water intake inoperable. If the lake doesn’t receive enough inflow this spring, problems may arise later this summer. Arrangements are underway to pipe water from elsewhere in Nevada by 2011, but since the primary raw water intake at Lake Mead could become inoperable as soon as 2010 based on current drought and user projections, Las Vegas could suffer crippling water shortages in the interim….Lake Mead’s water level could drop below the dead storage elevation by 2021, and that the reservoir could drop below minimum power pool elevation as early as 2017″

So Anna, and SEQ, with our very recent, very troubling, very politically charged, water supply problems are not alone, Arnie et al. are in deep do-do as well.
The difference is: Arnie, when the lethal effects of climate change, turbocharged with a profligate population, became bleedingly obvious, responded by promoting massive investment in (australian designed) renewable energy production deployments, and Obama sees the opportunity to develop a green economy.
Whereas what happens here in Bleattie-Rudd-dom? Enthusiastic, fanatical even, promotion of yet more ways, and at even bigger scale, of unfixing ancient carbon, and other hard-hatted, soft-in-the-headed, electoral-cycle-focussed, massive-energy-requiring downstream eco-criminal pandora projects, like aluminium, and concrete production.
But, caught as our politics are in the vice-jaws of “if we didn’t do it, someone else will” and “how else are we gonna employ our dinosaur workforce constituency”, triangulated with the alternative of whatever lunacy the desolate hive of the Borgmind and it’s traditional constituency of eco-rapists can dream up on a weekend, all in the vacuum of no upper house, was there ever any hope of anything better, visionary, sustainable, brains not bricks, evolving out of the primordial slime that is qld politics?
The Greens? hahahahahahaha

thanks for straightening us out, you secret straightener.

The problem will be that we are getting no closer to better governance, Labor will not even bother trying if they don’t have to, this is where I hope the Greens will see their opportunity, there is little point looking to canabalise the Libs and Nats, but there is plenty of soft tissue in Labor’s vote to bite into if they can put together a Left of center policy base that combines good advice with common sense and then sell that policy base to the people and donors.

But I hold out no hope of that, the next election will be a loss for QLD either way, the following 3 years though, who knows.

PinkyOz

Just sayin’.