Hubby might have to consider his position too. Cushiest of sinecures.With her party in ruins, she has fallen on her sword.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/po...oken-bligh-quits-politics-20120325-1vs0l.html
Ms Bligh has already got that covered, Logique.Hubby might have to consider his position too. Cushiest of sinecures.
Big payout for Queensland Premier Anna Bligh's partner in 11th hour deal
* by: Michael McKenna, Queensland political editor
* From: The Australian
* February 10, 2012 12:00AM
QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh's husband, Greg Withers, will receive a six-figure payout if he is dumped by an elected Liberal National Party government after the top bureaucrat just had his contract renewed.
Mr Withers, put in charge of the newly created Office of Climate Change in 2007 barely a month after Ms Bligh became Premier, won a new three-year contract, with a further two-year option, on his $220,000-a-year package in December.
That was my response also but when I thought about it a bit more, doesn't she pretty much have to resign in acknowledgement of her gross failure?South Brisbane votes her back in and then she quits, real class there
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That was my response also but when I thought about it a bit more, doesn't she pretty much have to resign in acknowledgement of her gross failure?
Thats the easy way out, she stabbed the people who voted for her in the back, saying "I apologise for any inconvenience" I bet if they had their vote again....
Well they will have their vote again now, I don't expect the Labor candidate will pick up many votes this time
Hubby might have to consider his position too. Cushiest of sinecures.
Can anyone confirm that a Qld politicians' super is calculated on the the number of times they are elected to office?
I think the extent of election result is a disaster for Queensland. In any democracy you need a viable, healthy opposition party to keep a government on its toes and to provide an alternative point of view. This electoral imbalance will create its own problems for the LNCP (too many people looking for jobs) and leave Queensland with no viable alternative for at least a decade.
After a Premier has been as comprehensively beaten as Anna Bligh it is expected that they resign. The alternative is being sacked by your party. You have to start with a fresh leader for a rebuild.
I would have been just as concerned if Labour had won such a landslide victory. The principle of having a capable opposition still stands.
She knows she would have looked very small across the chamber from Campbell Newman and the LNP.Another set of issues you have confused and melded basilio.
1/ The Labor party was defeated for which Blight should rightly resign the leadership.
2/ However she won her seat and people have a right to expect she serve her electorate, whether leader of her party or whether her party is in government or not.
However she has spit her dummy in the sand and quit, costing taxpayers for an unnecessary by-election.
That is bad form.
Another set of issues you have confused and melded basilio.
1/ The Labor party was defeated for which Blight should rightly resign the leadership.
2/ However she won her seat and people have a right to expect she serve her electorate, whether leader of her party or whether her party is in government or not.
However she has spit her dummy in the sand and quit, costing taxpayers for an unnecessary by-election.
That is bad form.
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