Comments on: What is Labor’s problem with strong corporate governance?

By: Tom McLoughlin

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

Great rant TKFB. Not sure I quite got it all but great .TKFB reminds of a certain gifted cartoonist, not sure if he would know a catamite (?) from catnip though. But what I mostly wanted to say was: Dick Pratt is going gang busters in the PR stakes today over underwriting sculptures of the cavalry charge of Beersheba (apology for spelling). Just as Peter Timmins FoI expert writes quietly in the SMH about 5 days back about FoI systemic failure to flush out a report relevant to Costello et al failing to really criminalise cartel behaviour … by a certain Dick Pratt for instance, proven to satisfaction of a legal forum. All very awkward when billionaires get caught stealing from the public with cartel distortions of the market. Timmins is surely right, show us the report Mr ALP, let the cards fall where they will!

By: The Kid From Bondi

The Kid From Bondi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

P.S. Was I the only person who noticed an article in the SMH - front page a couple of Mondays ago - about Visy OVERSTATING by several hundred(?) thousand tonnes ( I can’t recall the exact figure but it was very significant) the amount that they have recycled? The article said that Visy claimed it was a bookkeeping error that has been rectified. I wonder what the bounty/rebate per tonne Visy received for the overstated, sorry, mistaken declaration. Not a peep from anyone. Would Visy care to respond? I would love to be corrected, if I am wrong. As for Dicky, grudging respect, but not approval, is due, he at least stands up and takes his medicine in public and makes some form of restitution for his “errors’ unlike most of his other fellow members of the “born to rule club”

By: The Kid From Bondi

The Kid From Bondi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Shock, Horror, The Slurp from Brissy has no time for his “working families” but will supplicate himself to those who have and will continue to rip off those same people. OK The Slurp is a sycophantic catamite to the glitterati but even he has realised that his new “famous mates” wouldn’t give him a penny for his “root and branch hype” and his performance in the coming months will ensure that those with some money are too smart to invest in his “red shoe wearing, heel clicking, visions of Dorothy for the Land of Oz”. However he does know that the boys, those with all the money they ripped off from The Slurp’s “working families” will be more than willing to buy salvation for their corporate malfeasance, keep most of their ill-gotten gains, give him a token amount to buy him off, pretemd to lend him their support and that may allow The Slurp to pitch the for a chance at a bat. Sad, so sad, but not unexpected.