The next crisis

But the cockies (water or no water) aren't going to vote for the reds, or even for pinko independents, are they? Don't the Libs always benefit from any drift from the Nats? And how are my friends the pixies travelling ...?

He's losing his touch.

you wouldn't think they'd vote for pinkos, ianw, but andren has always done pretty well.

I'd vote for Peter Andren if I lived in Orange

He's losing his touch? As well as his hearing? What's next?<BR><BR>Meanwhile ABC has just reported that a member of the Bader-Meinhof Group has been released on parole after 24 years. The past is a foreign country eh.

Lets hope its his voice Ian !

We reside in one of the most marginal seats in the country. We wholeheartedly welcome all forms (covert or overt, we don't give a shit) forms of pork barrelling. We have no conscience when it comes to holding out our grubby little mitts when it comes to government funding for health care and education. Won't change the way we vote, but we'll still take the donations.

Next big crisis? I think the Gnome will be caught off guard by the press one morning while doing a blockie of Burley-Griffin where he'll step right into a steaming pile of Great Dane prairie cakes.

Spen, as so often, you didn't actually read my post before reacting. I never said Labor won't win the election.

I said:

1. The libs concerned about Hicks won;t make a difference, even though a lot of them care, and
2. Labor won't win in the aspirational seats. I never said they are crucial to the outcome. Just if Lbor is counting on them, their own polling tells them not to. I have no idea whether they are counting on them, but I do know it has one of the biggest Your Rights At Work campaign comiittees in the country, and the local state Labor member is using it as an election support - she is shit-scared she will lose the state seat (yes the Penrith area is Labor in the state)

Ian - re Jackie Kelly - it caused a major outcry. It is a company she set up with a friend to market Australian-flag togs (very topical given the Big Day Out hoohaa). She used her electorate office number as the contact number for the business because she "forgot" her friend and business partner's mobile number when doign the advertising. She has since amended that, so inquiries are now directed to her friend's mobile.

She's a grub. The one who saw no problems with cuts to uni funding because "people in my electorate don't go to uni" (the fact that there is one, possibly two, uni campuses in her electorate is immaterial.

Well, anyone who chooses to build a McMansion out there on good farming land richly deserve such an insect as their member. Does she helicopter in from her Vaucluse home to have lunch with the local white-shoe brigade?

I can attest to the fairly disastrous effects of VSU at universities - all the services ran by student unions are gone - dental, child care, doctors etc.

Not so critical, but I went to book a squash court and the cost had risen from $4 an hour to $19 an hour - OK, I can afford that, but not if I was a student on Austudy.

This is not to mention the effect on campus arts, theatres..