Comments on: Years ago the Queensland government owned 90 butcher shops – Anna Bligh's defence

By: danny

danny — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:17:37 +0000

As if Anna could care less really, she’s achieved her ambition to get in the history books as Australia’s first elected woman head of state. Like she gives a stuff about her seat of South Brisbane, she didn’t even mention it in her victory speech. She’ll be happy to be thrown out on her arse, like JWH, and get to say goodbye to all that, and hello Ros, thanks of keeping my seat warm.

By: daggett

daggett — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:11:57 +0000

Brian, Possibly, a number of delegates chose to run away rather than take a stand one way or the other. Whatever, I see no excuses. The fact remains that all too many delegates at today's conference have shown that they have no backbone.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:48:23 +0000

daggett, on the TV news one of the union reps suggested that there were quite a few empty seats when the vote was taken, but I have no idea what that really means.

By: daggett

daggett — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:12:37 +0000

So, the Queensland branch has carried (60%/40%, I gather) a “motion acknowledging that the sales are going ahead”, thereby raising the white flag before the Bligh/Fraser junta.

What a disgrace!

I would like to see how those 60% of conference delegates justify their shameful surrender before the trade unionists and ordinary workers that they’re supposed to represent, not to mention the broader Queensland public, who were never told of these privatisation plans at the last election, and who are every bit as opposed to privatisation.

So, did anyone else here attend the protest against privatisation today?

There should definitely be another at the opening of Parliament on 16 June.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:09:16 +0000

Bligh, it seems, has had a win.

the conference has passed a motion acknowledging that the sales are going ahead.

By: Steve at the Pub

Steve at the Pub — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:52:27 +0000

The LNP does however have the advantage of not being the ones who got Qld into the current financial red hole.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:12:27 +0000

That’s interesting, daggett. It’s amazing how these editorial writers have certain knowledge about what the electorate does and doesn’t understand.

I think it would have been a case of wake up in fright if they’d voted LNP, as it has been with the ALP.

By: daggett

daggett — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:45:22 +0000

Thanks, Brian.

During the election, on 7 March their editorial stated: “… if Mr Springborg wants to achieve his aim of returning the Budget to surplus by 2012 he will have to implement a redundancy program and he will have to sell assets. The voters understand this …”

So, even it acknowledged that privatisation was an issue at stake in the recent elections, if not from the quarter that it has now eventuated.

However, the Courier Mail made no other effort to alert its readers to this fact.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:33:26 +0000

daggett, it's on page 4. Electoral mutiny for Bligh, by Steven Wardill. A thin slither single column story nearly pushed off the page by the double spread Father furious at dive death term, for those who don't know, about the American pleading guilty to manslaughter of his newly wed wife when they were diving on the Reef a couple of years ago.

By: daggett

daggett — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:35:00 +0000

I think the fuel subsidy is a bad idea, but they have no right to break this promise in the way they have.

People must not allow this to be used as some kind of bargaining chip that would in any way sweeten the outrage of the asset fire sale.

The dishonesty is beyond belief.

Has anyone got a copy of the Courier Mail?

I couldn’t locate the story about Bligh’s own branch calling for her resignation. (I will have another look at it when I get it back off my neighbour.) I would have thought that such a sensational story deserved to be on the front page.

Having briefly slapped the Government on the wrist for it’s blatant deceit, in a short article by Steven Wardill on Thursday and in yesterday’s editorial, the Courier Mail is now running full steam ahead in its clamouring for privatisation.