Queensland Election 2012

[Julia]

If ever a woman deserved her fate it was Bligh. Of course her flood posture was an act. She was hamming it up for the cameras...a media tart. Under pressure her truly viscous nature came out.

You may be right, Calliope. But even if you are, I think it's reasonable to argue that during that terrible time she did what a leader should do, and as such provided at least some comfort/reassurance when people were so desperate.
I can't think of any politician who could have better performed this role at that time.

This does not in any way make me a 'Bligh fan' but comparing her projected empathy with the wooden, token performance of Julia Gillard, she did pretty well.

 

[Calliope]

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This does not in any way make me a 'Bligh fan' but comparing her projected empathy with the wooden, token performance of Julia Gillard, she did pretty well.

Yeah. She's a better actor than Gillard. The whole performance was well stage managed too.

 

[DB008]

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3464141.htm

 

[Calliope]

SECOND-generation Inala MP AnnastaciPalaszczuk will contest the Labor leadership and is believed to have the handful of numbers needed to win.

Her father Henry held the seat of Inala before her. He was a very popular member. I wish her well in the state's most thankless job.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...n-for-leadership/story-fnbt5t29-1226310843442

 

[Ves]

Yeah. She's a better actor than Gillard. The whole performance was well stage managed too.

do you have any proof of this? i honestly don't think the forum needs any more rumour mongering at the moment. cheers.

 

[wayneL]

do you have any proof of this? i honestly don't think the forum needs any more rumour mongering at the moment. cheers.

Yeah! The media do a good enough job already.

 

[Calliope]

do you have any proof of this? i honestly don't think the forum needs any more rumour mongering at the moment. cheers.

No, only her practice of manipulating the media, and the fact that you can't trust a liar. As Bligh and her campaign directors demonstrated, you don't need any proof to make false, nasty accusations against a political opponent and his wife. If she fooled you, then you must be very gullible.

 

[Ves]

Gee, thinking back to the Howard days...

No, I am not fooled. I don't trust any politicians. But your story sounds as much of an exaggeration as anything Bligh ever said or did.

 

[Calliope]

Gee, thinking back to the Howard days...

No, I am not fooled. I don't trust any politicians. But your story sounds as much of an exaggeration as anything Bligh ever said or did.

Stiff cheddar. You'll get over it.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Bulimba has fallen to the LNP.

Queensland Labor has conceded defeat in the Brisbane seat of Bulimba, leaving the party with just seven seats in the new parliament.
And it could be reduced to six if it fails to win this month’s by-election in former premier Anna Bligh’s seat of South Brisbane.
The Electoral Commission of Queensland held a recount of votes in the Brisbane electorate of Bulimba yesterday, after initial counts suggested the Liberal National Party’s Aaron Dillaway had won by 85 votes.
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Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...-in-bulimba-20120406-1wg3h.html#ixzz1rERRWwBP

Aaron is a good bloke, standing aside to allow Campbell Newman to run in Ashgrove.

The ALP now have 7 seats, with a loyal ALP party warrior standing against a citizen in Anna Bligh's seat of South Brisbane, later this month.

My money is on the citizen, Clem Grehan

Clem Grehan is your CanDo Candidate for South Brisbane.

Clem Grehan was born in Munduberra, Queensland, educated in Queensland schools, and is one of seven children.

Clem's career has progressed from labourer and chainman to surveyor to lecturer to construction planner to project manager, gaining university qualifications in Surveying (at University of Queensland), Building (Singapore) and Project / Construction Management (Reading, UK).

Clem has over 30 years of experience in land developments, and the construction of major road, rail, port and mine infrastructure from working in Queensland, Singapore, Malaysia and the US.

Clem married Daphne in 1982, and together they have five children, Tysun and Teo (adopted Thai sons) daughters Pollyanna and May, and youngest son Coleman.

A party hack or a man who worked his way up in a large family from labourer to Project Manager.

gg

 

[sails]

...The ALP now have 7 seats, with a loyal ALP party warrior standing against a citizen in Anna Bligh's seat of South Brisbane, later this month....

Didn't alp or Bligh pass up Cameron Dick to put in one of Bligh's friends. Is she really a warrior or just hoping to ride in on Bligh's old coat tails?

 

[Julia]

Didn't alp or Bligh pass up Cameron Dick to put in one of Bligh's friends. Is she really a warrior or just hoping to ride in on Bligh's old coat tails?

No. Cameron Dick declined to stand.
He apparently has more of a sense of self preservation than to align himself with the bedraggled band of losers.

 

[sails]

No. Cameron Dick declined to stand.
He apparently has more of a sense of self preservation than to align himself with the bedraggled band of losers.

Thanks for the info - I obviously had that wrong!

 

[Logique]

From GG:
Clem's career has progressed from labourer and chainman to surveyor to lecturer to construction planner to project manager, gaining university qualifications in Surveying (at University of Queensland), Building (Singapore) and Project / Construction Management (Reading, UK).
Clem has over 30 years of experience in land developments, and the construction of major road, rail, port and mine infrastructure from working in Queensland, Singapore, Malaysia and the US.

Impressive CV. Someone of this quality, or a Labor ex-staffer, gee tough choice.

Let's not jump the gun, but Labor might now have trouble filling that Tarago. Exciting times for you QLDers.

 

[sails]

Impressive CV. Someone of this quality, or a Labor ex-staffer, gee tough choice.

Let's not jump the gun, but Labor might now have trouble filling that Tarago. Exciting times for you QLDers.

Yes, it's a nice to be a QLDer and know that our community is not as stupid as lefties would hope...

Can't wait for the day Australia gets the opportunity to show Gillard and her whacky brand of labor what the electorate think of them. Voters have long memories.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Impressive CV. Someone of this quality, or a Labor ex-staffer, gee tough choice.

Let's not jump the gun, but Labor might now have trouble filling that Tarago. Exciting times for you QLDers.

Clem Grehan for the LNP has indeed a very impressive CV, his opponent Jackie
Trad seems to have the trajectory as a Labor staffer that ensured the failure of her Labor colleagues throughout the rest of Queensland.

Having worked in Anna Bligh's office, it will be interesting to see how dirty she makes the campaign against Clem.

It beats me why the ALP cannot get a citizen to run for Labor rather than a Labor aristocrat who has been groomed to rule.

gg

 

[Knobby22]

It beats me why the ALP cannot get a citizen to run for Labor rather than a Labor aristocrat who has been groomed to rule.

They could, but the byzantine way the Labor party works these days now means that it is almost impossible for a citizen to stand a chance of being preselected. They really need to fix it.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

They could, but the byzantine way the Labor party works these days now means that it is almost impossible for a citizen to stand a chance of being preselected. They really need to fix it.

It is difficult to know how they can fix it.

The people they need as members, workers, tradies, and family men and women, have been marginalised by the ALP aristocrats, born to rule, incestuous and exclusive.

Most branches are composed of ageing retired workers who raised families and professionals with a green agenda.

Perhaps in states like South Australia and Tasmania, where they still hold power, they could regenerate. As far as WA, Qld, NSW and soon in the NT they are history.

A look at the ALP in the ACT would be a case study of what the ALP should not be. That might be a start.

gg

 

[noco]

VInteresting how an American Paper express what they think about our election results.





I thought this might make interesting reading from a colourful American report on the Qld Election results.

Perhaps the yanks may think we are one step away from communism and they could well be right.

Subject: Aussie voters deliver stunning rebuke to socialists








how it was reported by then American Thinker !! Very colorful indeed ..........

March 25, 2012

Aussie voters deliver stunning rebuke to socialists
John McMahon
A political earthquake measuring 10.0 plus on the Richter scale rumbled and the accompanying unprecedented political tsunami surged over the entire State decimating the socialists in the State of Queensland as a consequence of the State election held yesterday (Saturday 24th March).
In the 89 Seat House of Assembly the Labor Party (the socialists) had been in government for twenty (20) years with 52 seats in the House. The conservative opposition, the LNP (Liberal National Party) led by a retired Australian Army major achieved a massive swing of 17% resulting in attaining 78 Seats in the new Parliament as opposed to their 31 Seats in the previous Parliament. The socialists were reduced to a mere 7 Seats thus losing their status as an official Parliamentary party and losing public funding.
Political pundits, socialists and of course the MSM are stunned. Some of the descriptions being bandied about include: massacre, carnage, blood-bath, annihilation, decimation etc. Former Premier and predecessor of Premier Bligh, Peter Beattie, is speechless. This is a bloke who has never been lost for words.
History has been made in Australia and of course in the "Smart" State (coined by Peter Beattie) and Queenslanders have shown that they are indeed smart but not in the manner as expected by the socialists who are accustomed to assuming that their lies, their spin and their propaganda were impenetrable. Some of the Seats lost by the socialists had been held by them for 100 years.
The result means that the socialists will need some 15 years to re-build and may not warm the government benches for a generation.
Premier Bligh's last stand has been compared in a political sense to the massacre of General Custer and his troops at Little Big Horn.
General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Calvary were massacred at Little Big Horn in an epic battle now known as Custer's Last Stand (Battle of the Greasy Grass). in June 1876. The opposing Indian Chief was Crazy Horse.
Yesterday Generalissimo Anna Bligh and her troops were annihilated at the battle of Election Day 2012 now known as Bligh's Last Stand. The opposing General was Campbell Newman who ambushed Bligh with a strategy and tactics hereto unknown in Australian politics. He led the charge, not having a Seat in the then Parliament, but from the outside as an unelected Opposition Leader. It was a brilliant strategy. He secured a seat in the election overcoming an incumbent socialist Member who had been expected to be easily returned. Bligh has announced she is retiring from politics.
The few socialist survivors of this massacre and purge have been taken prisoner and will now be placed in isolation in a corner in the Big House for at least 15 years.
Even on the eve of this unprecedented epic battle, General Bligh's ministry of propaganda was unable to predict the carnage that would follow the next day. Some of the Leftwing MSM propagandists even likened Campbell Newman to Napoleon and his downfall at Waterloo. They had expected him to lose.
As is usual the Left was unable to discern realty.

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[sails]

Thanks for posting the article, Noco...

Interesting that Australia rarely gets mentioned on US news - at least that's been the case when we have been there and also confirmed by US friends. Our friends didn't even know that Gillard was in the states visiting Obama - didn't get a mention on their news...lol

So, this news must have been considered more newsworthy that Gillard's visit to their president...lol

And Newman is busy doing what Anna should have been doing years ago - IF she really cared about how taxpayers funds are spent, imo:

From the Courier Mail: Premier Campbell Newman slashes VIP box spending