Comments on: Iemma and his party remain on collision course

By: Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Iemma wants my local MP Tebbutt to revitalise Cabinet. but she knows the $B’s from the power sale will go on $5B tunnel with cancer smog stacks IN Teb’s seat of Marrickville (hence bail out, not just son Nathan?). Spouse is Fed MP Albanese positioning to head off Green ballistic revenge by posturing/planning a 2nd airport (again) to claim reduced noise pollution impact (would be popular). As Alex Mitchell points, the poker pot is getting very big here. Rudd similarly wants the dinosaur economics for ALP Inc who gave him the numbers. Combet similarly has clean central coast air to breathe. Meanwhile, Yvette Andrews is 5 months now GM in Addison Rd Community Centre (‘biggest in Oz’) as career ALP Lefty staffer in heart of Grayndler/Marrickville (Fed/State seats) with her publicly funded job NEVER advertised to public applications since Oct 07 (illegal?). Andrews is just another screw holding down this lid on the Inner West pressure cooker and it’s about to blow with the rest.

By: Antony Green

Antony Green — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

A few slight sequence errors with Alex Mitchell’s chronology on William Holman. Holman formed a National government with Wade and then extended the life of the parliament so he didn’t have to face the election that was then due. Governor Strickland didn’t immediately agree with the request but had his reserve powers clarified by Downing Street. Then early in 1917, deciding that the time was right, Holman called an election and was re-elected as head of a Nationalist government. To keep the new Coalition together and keep conscription off the agenda, all the government candidates had signed a pledge not to again raise the conscription debate. The government was re-elected, but Holman and co faced acute embarrassment when later that year, Highes called another plebiscite on conscription.

By: Dez Hoy

Dez Hoy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I have been astonished in recent times at the apparent contempt the NSW Government has for the people of NSW. Now its clear that this contempt extends not only to its own membership base, but to its own rules and traditions. They (along with the hopeless opposition) certainly make the case, without even trying, for the abolition of the states. More to do, but heading for a train wreck? (Bad metaphor, I know - I live in Northern NSW, where there are no trains anymore!)

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

This is where it gets REALLY interesting: Kevin O’Great is due to address conference on the Sunday. He is already on record supporting the Iemma/Costa plan. He will have two choices: stare down the mob and continue to back them or squib it and allow the party to tear them down and probably itself with it. Whichever way he goes, it will be no weekend love-in and perhaps the biggest test of his leadership to date.