Australian Politics General...

[SirRumpole]

Seems like there is a lot of money floating around for things that really matter

What will happen with the Gabba's sporting events and school while it undergoes Olympics transformation?

Costing Queensland taxpayers $2.7 billion, the redevelopment of the site will be complex and cause considerable disruption for sport lovers and the nearby community.

www.abc.net.au

 

[sptrawler]

Seems like there is a lot of money floating around for things that really matter

What will happen with the Gabba's sporting events and school while it undergoes Olympics transformation?

Costing Queensland taxpayers $2.7 billion, the redevelopment of the site will be complex and cause considerable disruption for sport lovers and the nearby community.

www.abc.net.au

It would build a lot of social housing, especially if you add the Wellcamp fiasco money.

I don't know how politicians can actually take themselves seriously.?

 

[Knobby22]

Daniel Andrews has been in power 3000 days and gets his statue as per Kennett's arrangements.

Andrews is a political beast. He has paved his road to longevity

Daniel Andrews is a transactional premier, in politics to be listened to or in some cases respected but never loved – or even well-known as a person.

www.theage.com.au

 

[sptrawler]

Just shows Victorians are into BDSM IMO. Lol

 

[Smurf1976]

Daniel Andrews has been in power 3000 days and gets his statue as per Kennett's arrangements.
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Andrews is a political beast. He has paved his road to longevity

Daniel Andrews is a transactional premier, in politics to be listened to or in some cases respected but never loved – or even well-known as a person.

www.theage.com.au

I can see a bigger problem than a statue. From the article:

Nine men and one woman have had the honour of being premier of Victoria since Sir Henry Bolte retired in 1972 after 17 years in the post.

Of the 10, four had been teachers before entering parliament. Two were lawyers. One was an architect, another a veterinarian, yet another an advertising man. Only one eschewed a pre-parliamentary career and pursued politics as a full-time vocation straight after completing his university studies

So 2 out of 10 had a career that wasn't law, education or the somewhat similar fields of marketing and politics.

I've nothing against those professions as such, but our parliaments aren't representative when they're stuffed full of people with very similar backgrounds.

Any sort of manual or clerical work from farming to trades to frontline customer service?

Anything relating to STEM?

Business?

 

[sptrawler]

I see the lobbying is starting. ?
It's getting serious when they start bring in the actors.

Hugh Jackman believes it’s ‘inevitable’ that Australia becomes republic

The Hollywood star made a rare intervention into politics, saying that breaking away from the British monarchy seemed natural.

www.smh.com.au

 

[Knobby22]

I can see a bigger problem than a statue. From the article:



So 2 out of 10 had a career that wasn't law, education or the somewhat similar fields of marketing and politics.

I've nothing against those professions as such, but our parliaments aren't representative when they're stuffed full of people with very similar backgrounds.

Any sort of manual or clerical work from farming to trades to frontline customer service?

Anything relating to STEM?

Business?

The worry for me is that Andrews is the first professional politician. At least those others had a career outside Parliament.

 

[sptrawler]

The worry for me is that Andrews is the first professional politician. At least those others had a career outside Parliament.

Wait until we become a republic, even Dan Andrews wont qualify for a seat, Hugh Jackman might. ?

 

[moXJO]

Wait until we become a republic, even Dan Andrews wont qualify for a seat, Hugh Jackman might. ?

Just imagine.
All these rich pr1cks want to fast track it to get a "bought" president.

 

[sptrawler]

Just imagine.
All these rich pr1cks want to fast track it to get a "bought" president.

Yep play on peoples little dicks syndrome, to get them to give away the best system of Government on the planet, oooh your head of state is in another country, even though it means sod all. ? Only that you can sack your Government if they are $hit and you can chuck out your PM if they are $hit.
No much better to have the elites in there for a fixed term and can't be chucked out and you can only get in if you can afford to pay off enough people, bring on the republic, the richest or the one with the most bum kissing gets to be president.?

 

[mullokintyre]

Its funny how so many of the big issue items are almost purely symbolic, will make absolutely no difference to the lives of the vast majority of our citizens.
The Voice, The Republic, The Great Apology, removal/shifting/abolition of Australia Day, Celebration of Pride Day, etc etc.
Mick

 

[Smurf1976]

Its funny how so many of the big issue items are almost purely symbolic, will make absolutely no difference to the lives of the vast majority of our citizens.

Classic sign of an economic cycle top when public discussion and debate is almost entirely about non-economic matters with an implied assumption that the good times are here forever.

 

[mullokintyre]

After the a NSW Lib Mp Tudehope is forced to step down from his role over having Transaurban shares in his SMSF, it looks like A Victorian Labour pollie may well suffer the same fate.
From The Australian

Victoria’s Assistant Treasurer has been accused of a “serious conflict of interest” over shares he holds in the Commonwealth Bank.
State parliament’s register of interests shows Danny Pearson has held the shares since entering parliament in 2014, meaning he held them when he announced a new three-bank panel to deliver Victoria’s banking and financial services in August 2021.

The new arrangement, including the Commonwealth Bank, Westpac and NAB, replaced a contract with Westpac which had been worth an estimated $120m a year.
Distancing Mr Pearson from the decision in response to questions from The Australian on Monday, the Andrews government said he had “merely noted the outcome of the tender” when he announced it, and was “not a decision maker” in the process.

“The minister was not a decision maker in this process – he merely noted the outcome of the tender as determined by the department,” the spokeswoman said.

“The process was run by senior independent public servants and there was a probity auditor engaged throughout, who signed off on the process.”

The revelation comes after NSW Liberal Damien Tudehope was forced to resign on Friday, after it was revealed he had failed to disclose his family’s superannuation portfolio included shares in toll road giant Transurban, which owns the majority of Sydney and Melbourne’s toll roads.

Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas divested himself of an ASX top 20 share portfolio in 2019, after The Australian revealed it included shares in Transurban. The company stands to make $37.3bn in extra tolls from Victorian motorists in exchange for investing $4bn in the Andrews government’s West Gate Tunnel, under a deal personally brokered by Mr Pallas.

Given the precedents set in the past, not sure how long the Assistant treasurer can keep his job.
Mick

 

[sptrawler]

Interesting snippet of info regarding Australian politics, that many may not know, including me.

'Profoundly and devastatingly different': How war with China would compare with World War II

Australians could wake up one morning to the news we are at war with China. Perhaps a more confronting thought is that such a decision would not require any consultation in parliament. So what could lead us into conflict? John Lyons asks military experts.

www.abc.net.au

Australians could wake up one morning to the news that we are at war with China.

Confronting as that would be, perhaps more confronting is something many people do not realise: such a decision would not require any consultation in parliament.

The decision to go to war would not require a public discussion. It would not require the assent of the Governor General and is entirely in the hands of the prime minister of the day.
Current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese would presumably discuss the matter with his National Security Cabinet before any decision is made but there are no checks and balances built into the system before the PM makes the biggest decision that a leader can make – to send our young men and women to war.

 

[SirRumpole]

Interesting snippet of info regarding Australian politics, that many may not know, including me.

'Profoundly and devastatingly different': How war with China would compare with World War II

Australians could wake up one morning to the news we are at war with China. Perhaps a more confronting thought is that such a decision would not require any consultation in parliament. So what could lead us into conflict? John Lyons asks military experts.

www.abc.net.au

Australians could wake up one morning to the news that we are at war with China.

Confronting as that would be, perhaps more confronting is something many people do not realise: such a decision would not require any consultation in parliament.

The decision to go to war would not require a public discussion. It would not require the assent of the Governor General and is entirely in the hands of the prime minister of the day.
Current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese would presumably discuss the matter with his National Security Cabinet before any decision is made but there are no checks and balances built into the system before the PM makes the biggest decision that a leader can make – to send our young men and women to war.

Yes, that is an Executive Decision. Something the PM is paid the big bucks for.

 

[wayneL]

Australians could wake up one morning to the news that we are at war with China.

...and they are preparing for it.

Meanwhile, we're making rainbow lapels

 

[Sean K]

Did I hear wrongly that Labor is going to make changes to the superannuation rules when they said during the election they would not do such a thing? Asking for a friend.

 

[SirRumpole]

Did I hear wrongly that Labor is going to make changes to the superannuation rules when they said during the election they would not do such a thing? Asking for a friend.

Rumours, just rumours.

 

[Sean K]

Rumours, just rumours.

Maybe.

 

[Sean K]

I'm sure the coalition has backtracked on election promises but this is edging on criminal.

The other thing going on is industry (union) super funds spending money on dodgy projects and propping up Labor. We need to keep track of this reckless spending of the people's money we should have in our pockets.

Big government is back in town folks. They know how to spend your money. oink oink.