Comments on: NSW: It’s not a government, it’s a clique http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/20/nsw-its-not-a-government-its-a-clique/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:41:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Peter Simmons http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/20/nsw-its-not-a-government-its-a-clique/#comment-23831 Peter Simmons Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-23831 These are desperate times in NSW .. that we have to recruit the sullied like Langton to make decisions involving billions of public $ is sad .. that anyone would even contemplate appointing the damaged and reprehensible like Koperberg and Gibson is horrid .. that when the Bathurst hospital was built with ten thousand and one screw ups, and local member Gerard Martin didn't even offer to resign is frightening .. give Turnbull a run in NSW These are desperate times in NSW .. that we have to recruit the sullied like Langton to make decisions involving billions of public $ is sad .. that anyone would even contemplate appointing the damaged and reprehensible like Koperberg and Gibson is horrid .. that when the Bathurst hospital was built with ten thousand and one screw ups, and local member Gerard Martin didn’t even offer to resign is frightening .. give Turnbull a run in NSW

]]> By: Murray Travis http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/20/nsw-its-not-a-government-its-a-clique/#comment-23832 Murray Travis Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-23832 Brian Langton was not a minister when he mis-used travel vouchers.He was a shadow minister.The charge wasn't that he gave away his vouchers but that he mis-used the vouchers of others to pay for trips. Brian Langton was not a minister when he mis-used travel vouchers.He was a shadow minister.The charge wasn’t that he gave away his vouchers but that he mis-used the vouchers of others to pay for trips.

]]> By: Tom#2 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/20/nsw-its-not-a-government-its-a-clique/#comment-23833 Tom#2 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-23833 ...Just go to 'NSW Parliament' via google and choose 'former members' //Brian Langton born 1948, Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly [seat of Kogarah] 22 Oct 1983 5 Mar 1999 15yr(s) 4mth(s) 12day(s), Minister for Transport and Minister for Tourism 4 Apr 1995 1 Dec 1997 2yr(s) 7mth(s) 28day(s) Minister for Fair Trading and Minister for Emergency Services 1 Dec 1997 30 Apr 1998 4mth(s) 30day(s) // In other words a backbench for the last 11 months or so in Govt Party. …Just go to ‘NSW Parliament’ via google and choose ‘former members’ //Brian Langton born 1948, Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly [seat of Kogarah] 22 Oct 1983 5 Mar 1999 15yr(s) 4mth(s) 12day(s),
Minister for Transport and Minister for Tourism 4 Apr 1995 1 Dec 1997 2yr(s) 7mth(s) 28day(s)
Minister for Fair Trading and Minister for Emergency Services 1 Dec 1997 30 Apr 1998 4mth(s) 30day(s)

// In other words a backbench for the last 11 months or so in Govt Party.

]]> By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/20/nsw-its-not-a-government-its-a-clique/#comment-23834 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-23834 Got out the dusty files on Brian Langton yesterday. He was a minister in the govt elected in March 1995 - I was there pounding the streets of the east - 10% vote too. Langton was Transport Minister - till at least 1997 from memory. Not so sure about 1998 if that's Mr Travis's point. Certainly he was involved in electioneering by that stage, as the whole show was, up to March 1999 end of 4 year term defending 3 seat majority. Right or wrong Langton had a good reputation amongst ngo/green movement 95-97 and for instance Scully as Roads minister announced April 97, $132M changes to Eastern Distributor tollway in the backlash from the public transport lobby, of which Langton was involved as minister. I think Alex Mitchell is on the money here. The Parliamentary online history will reveal chapter and verse of his ministerial career and retreat pre 99 election. As SMH editorial implies today, NSW public could do worse. Got out the dusty files on Brian Langton yesterday. He was a minister in the govt elected in March 1995 - I was there pounding the streets of the east - 10% vote too. Langton was Transport Minister - till at least 1997 from memory. Not so sure about 1998 if that’s Mr Travis’s point. Certainly he was involved in electioneering by that stage, as the whole show was, up to March 1999 end of 4 year term defending 3 seat majority. Right or wrong Langton had a good reputation amongst ngo/green movement 95-97 and for instance Scully as Roads minister announced April 97, $132M changes to Eastern Distributor tollway in the backlash from the public transport lobby, of which Langton was involved as minister. I think Alex Mitchell is on the money here. The Parliamentary online history will reveal chapter and verse of his ministerial career and retreat pre 99 election. As SMH editorial implies today, NSW public could do worse.

]]> By: Murray Travis http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/20/nsw-its-not-a-government-its-a-clique/#comment-23835 Murray Travis Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-23835 Brian Langton was not a minister when he mis-used travel vouchers.He was a shadow minister.The charge wasn't that he gave away his vouchers but that he mis-used the vouchers of others to pay for trips. Brian Langton was not a minister when he mis-used travel vouchers.He was a shadow minister.The charge wasn’t that he gave away his vouchers but that he mis-used the vouchers of others to pay for trips.

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