Victorian Politics

[Knobby22]

Rowhena Campbell is the Libs candidate. She beat a field that consisted of three women.
Wwell, thats good, we need more women in Parliament.
Three out of four of the candidates are women, so it is highly likely that a women will triumph.
So thats good.
She is a barrister.
Thats bad, we already have too many legal folk in parliament.
She is part Indian extraction.
This is good, as it means more diversity in parliament.
She is married to News Corps Political Editor James Campbell.
That will be problem, how will we know if the Political editor will remain out of things if her name comes up? (fat chance).
The labour candidate is, wait for it, a former Union organiser.
Thats bad. We already have too many ex Union reps in parliament, despite the inions representing less than 1 in 5 or the workforce.
The good folk of Ashton really don't have much in the way of diversity apart from the ethnicity.
Mick

I found some other interesting information today.

She lives in Brunswick.
She is a City of Melbourne Councillor! (which is probably a good thing as she understands how things work).
She gets the keys to a property in Ashton today and will move to the burbs if she wins. If not. it will be an investment property.

Also I found out that, on the day that Deeming had the rally, according to the Liberals glum report, Labor had 18 of their MPs (and associated staff) door knocking the electorate.

Her husband is below. I recognise him.
James Campbell is the national politics editor at the Herald Sun newspaper in Melbourne and a regular commentator on Sky News Australia. He has also written for The Age, The Times newspaper in London, The Punch website, The Spectator and the Institute of Public Affairs Review.
(And that is a very lousy photo that the Herald Sun provided).

 

[mullokintyre]

I found some other interesting information today.

She lives in Brunswick.
She is a City of Melbourne Councillor! (which is probably a good thing as she understands how things work).
She gets the keys to a property in Ashton today and will move to the burbs if she wins. If not. it will

Also I found out that, on the day that Deeming had the rally, according to the Liberals glum report, Labor had 18 of their MPs (and associated staff) door knocking the electorate.

I thought paid were staff were not allowed to work on party business? Isn’t that what the Labour Red Shirt thing was all about?
mick

 

[Knobby22]

I thought paid were staff were not allowed to work on party business? Isn’t that what the Labour Red Shirt thing was all about?
mick

They would have been volunteering

 

[Sean K]

Nothing to see here folks.

 

[Knobby22]

A further 6.5% swing against the Libs in the Aston by-election. If that isn't a wake up call then I don't know what is.

Let's parachute a sky news political commentators wife from Brunswick into an eastern suburban belt seat. Let's go on about fringe issues which attract Nazis. Let's be negative on everything and make Albanese the sensible alternative and force them to deal with the Greens.

Let's publically attack Pesutto for trying to move the party to the centre.

Let's argue lower wages, and the only policy for young people is to let them raid their super to buy a house. They aren't stupid, they know that will only make landlords wealthier.

Let's generally go for the retiree vote.

Stop listening to Newscorp. Stop acting like the Republican party and become The Liberal Party again.

Divisive rubbish works in thecUSA but generally doesn't work here. Wake up!

 

[wayneL]

A further 6.5% swing against the Libs in the Aston by-election. If that isn't a wake up call then I don't know what is.

Let's parachute a sky news political commentators wife from Brunswick into an eastern suburban belt seat. Let's go on about fringe issues which attract Nazis. Let's be negative on everything and make Albanese the sensible alternative and force them to deal with the Greens.

Let's publically attack Pesutto for trying to move the party to the centre.

Let's argue lower wages, and the only policy for young people is to let them raid their super to buy a house. They aren't stupid, they know that will only make landlords wealthier.

Let's generally go for the retiree vote.

Stop listening to Newscorp. Stop acting like the Republican party and become The Liberal Party again.

Divisive rubbish works in thecUSA but generally doesn't work here. Wake up!

So right, yet so wrong.

Pesutto must go, along with most of the parliamentary party and executive (aus wide too).

 

[Sean K]

Where's the applications for a Big Build job?

Andrews government pays Big Build bosses super-sized salaries, despite public service cuts​

Major projects bosses are raking in super-sized pay packets up to $780K a year, as hundreds of public servants lose their jobs.

The Andrews Government is paying bosses on its gold-plated major projects salaries of up to $780,000, at the same time as it slashes public service jobs due to a budget emergency.

Special exemptions from the state’s pay-setting tribunal have been secured in recent months to pay Big Build chiefs the mega pay packets, due to strict salary limits on taxpayer-funded executive positions.

Some of the biggest packages approved include almost $780,000 for the former head of the Major Transport Infrastructure Authority, Corey Hannett, who until recently was overseeing the state’s $100 billion infrastructure program.

Other super-sized salaries approved include up to $750,000 a year for the head of Rail Projects Victoria, Nicole Stoddart, and up to $620,000 a year for Commonwealth Games Organising Committee boss, Jeroen Weimar.

The packages approved were between $127,000 and $286,000 higher than the public sector salary bands usually available for such positions.

 

[farmerge]

A further 6.5% swing against the Libs in the Aston by-election. If that isn't a wake up call then I don't know what is.

Let's parachute a sky news political commentators wife from Brunswick into an eastern suburban belt seat. Let's go on about fringe issues which attract Nazis. Let's be negative on everything and make Albanese the sensible alternative and force them to deal with the Greens.

Let's publically attack Pesutto for trying to move the party to the centre.

Let's argue lower wages, and the only policy for young people is to let them raid their super to buy a house. They aren't stupid, they know that will only make landlords wealthier.

Let's generally go for the retiree vote.

Stop listening to Newscorp. Stop acting like the Republican party and become The Liberal Party again.

Divisive rubbish works in thecUSA but generally doesn't work here. Wake up!

Mr Knobby, me thinks try taking a horse to water and then make it drink, won't happen. Same with the Blue Brigade, to full of themselves with the "we are the born to rule party" Might have been in the 50's and 60's but the peasants are waking up to the fact that they are a mob of d*&^heads these days. There is of course a few exceptions, but not many.

 

[mullokintyre]

A little while ago, some blokes dressed in black and performing a Nazi salute walked past a Liberal Victorian MP at a rally.
By guilt of association, not only the Victorian Liberals guilty, bit so were the Liberal feds.
The larger bunch of blokes dressed in black from the CFMEU look suspiciously like they are giving the NAZI salute.
Wonder if the labour feds will end up with the same guilt by association tag.
Mick
perhaps its a matter of degrees (of arm extension I mean).

 

[farmerge]

A little while ago, some blokes dressed in black and performing a Nazi salute walked past a Liberal Victorian MP at a rally.
By guilt of association, not only the Victorian Liberals guilty, bit so were the Liberal feds.
The larger bunch of blokes dressed in black from the CFMEU look suspiciously like they are giving the NAZI salute.
Wonder if the labour feds will end up with the same guilt by association tag.
Mick
perhaps its a matter of degrees (of arm extension I mean).
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In this country NO WAY Should be a jailable offence. Anyone who has seen the Hilter salute would recognise this to be one also.

 

[mullokintyre]

It seems even the AFR is turning against Danistan.

Albanese must say no to bailing out Andrews​

Instead of bailing out the most fiscally profligate left-wing government in Australia, the prime minister needs to focus on getting on top of the spending pressures on the federal budget.

Annual Interest payments of $7billion. Can't see things getting better soon.
Reminds me of the late 1980's in Victoria.
The Cain government had wracked up enormous debt, and Cain abandoned ship and left Joan Kirner to face the eventual drubbing, despite her being more popular than Jeff Kennet.
We left a moribund and snarling Victoria at the end of 1990, and returned a little over two years later.
The change was remarkable, not so much in the politics, but the sense of things really happening.
Its a moot point as to whether it was warranted, but under Kennet, the coalition did at least leave the state in a better situation financially than when he first took over.
In the 1992 election the Liberals had a spectacular triumph electorally, and scored enough seats(52) to rule in their own right , without the coalition of the Nationals, though Kennet wisely kept the nationals in the fold, perhaps because he knew or suspected that such landslides seldom get repeated. The 1996 election was expected to be somewhat closer than it was, with the coalition losing only two seats.
However, his fall from grace was equally spectacular, with John Brumby recording a 13 swing to labour in the 1997 election.
So to all those who suggest that one side or the other needs to "reinvent itself", I say look at History.

Mick

 

[PZ99]

Albo went with ScoMo on saying no to the belt and road.

But Dan was in China last few weeks with no media right ?

The expected inquiry into the trip might join a few dots in the finance area

 

[mullokintyre]

Albo went with ScoMo on saying no to the belt and road.

But Dan was in China last few weeks with no media right ?

The expected inquiry into the trip might join a few dots in the finance area

Perhaps Dan is doing a Whitlam?
Question is, who will play the Khemlani role?
Mick

 

[farmerge]

Perhaps Dan is doing a Whitlam?
Question is, who will play the Khemlani role?
Mick

And if all else fails then there is the GST to plunder from WA and perhaps other States.

 

[Smurf1976]

Reminds me of the late 1980's in Victoria.
The Cain government had wracked up enormous debt, and Cain abandoned ship and left Joan Kirner to face the eventual drubbing, despite her being more popular than Jeff Kennet.

The doings of the Cain government were even worse than many realised at the time.

It wasn't just the debt as actual debt.

It was also the "dividends" extracted from everything they could be extracted from, sending government authorities deep into debt in their own name as well. Everything that could be raided was raided, the cupboard was bare.

I'm no fan of Kennett, indeed some of his actions laid the foundations for the problems we've got today (energy most notably) but he was handed an effectively bankrupt state.

 

[farmerge]

The doings of the Cain government were even worse than many realised at the time.

It wasn't just the debt as actual debt.

It was also the "dividends" extracted from everything they could be extracted from, sending government authorities deep into debt in their own name as well. Everything that could be raided was raided, the cupboard was bare.

I'm no fan of Kennett, indeed some of his actions laid the foundations for the problems we've got today (energy most notably) but he was handed an effectively bankrupt state.

One could suggest that the place is going to the dogs (not the Western Doggies), crippling debt, shortage of workers(?), others wanting more lolley, building companies going down the gurgler etc etc.

 

[Smurf1976]

One could suggest that the place is going to the dogs (not the Western Doggies), crippling debt, shortage of workers(?), others wanting more lolley, building companies going down the gurgler etc etc

We're not fully there by any means but it's all sounding a bit uncomfortably like ~1990.

That didn't end well.

 

[frugal.rock]

Dan Andrews (scarecrow) has previously boasted that Victoria is the most progressive state in Australia. All other states, except for SA, have an airport train service... I guess the Chinese didn't want to cough up, or, is it just a plan to let 'em in again via belt n road.
Victorian debt spiral...

 

[mullokintyre]

It seems that Victoria Police just keeps adding to its list of corrupt practices.
From Evil Murdoch press

At least two major drug squad cases may be compromised after a Victoria Police officer involved in them was arrested for allegedly falsifying a DNA case results summary in another matter.
That matter, involving Senior Constable Jye Symes, was dropped at court two weeks ago after he was arrested and interviewed on March 29 by professional standards command. According to a letter sent by the Victorian Office of Public Prosecutions to lawyers involved in an upcoming case, he was stood down with pay and “may yet be charged”.

Not one person was charged over the Nichola Gobbo corrption, and to my knowledge, no one has ever been charged over the Jason Roberts corrupted trial.

In 2020, the Court of Appeal ruled police misconduct undermined Mr Roberts’ 2002 trial after a Victorian anti-corruption commission investigation identified “improper practices by police officers” concerning witness statements.

The investigation found officers were asked to change Constable Miller’s dying declarations so they did not include his descriptions of the offenders.

It also found an officer omitted information in his statement on Constable Miller’s dying declarations, namely that there were two offenders.

The Vicpol Motto, Tenez Le droit is still current, but it now means upholding the right of police to do whatever they want.
Mick

 

[wayneL]

Good question