Can Mike Rann survive? This morning, he looked as though he would, like Custer, make a stand, writes Hendrik Gout.
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Wesfarmers has not been able to make headway at Coles against the entrenched culture. Long term senior managers feeling somewhat relieved at having survived the first wave of the Wesfarmers takeover activity. As the Wesfarmers team now hand over to Ian McLeod to manage, Coles managers have been a bit puzzled at the gentleness of the past six months. Okay, it was obvious from day one that the Wesfarmers team were totally overwhelmed with the size of Coles, but they didn’t even manage to reduce the head office by as much as the numbers due to go under the plans that were already underway by Fletcher. Interestingly, some who were told they were out of a job 18 months ago are still alive and well. Perhaps Ian McLeod and his new team will be able to change things. One thing they will have to battle is the ever increasing leakage of good quality people who have arrived at Coles in the past few years and decided to leave because the culture isn’t changing, whilst the long termers who have left and been paid out manage to find their way back to the comfort of the old Coles culture. COAG’s health politics. Re. “Labor rejects AMA’s bedside manner”. Bernard Keane wrote: “The AMA opposed a COAG proposal to establish a national register of doctors — shortly after the “Butcher of Bega” revelations about Graeme Reeves — claiming it would threaten patient care.” Butcher of Bega and Dr Death were just handy political expediencies — the real reason that COAG were looking at this micro level of stuff was to enable the National E-Health Transition Authority to set up the Unique Healthcare Provider Identifier project that will be a cornerstone of the future Individual Electronic Health Record. Graham West MP is the NSW Minister for Gaming and Racing, and Minister for Sport and Recreation. Minister West has recently agreed to give substantial funds for programs in his own and adjacent electorates. This also benefits an organisation where his policy adviser used to work. Is he doing this because his days are numbered? And on the anniversary of the NT intervention word seeps out that the first (and only?) university to support the intervention directly, the NT’s own Charles Darwin University, is to lose both its VC, Helen Garnett and the Exec Director, corporate Scott Snyder. Following a protracted struggle with the CDU council Garnett was offered a one year contract extension which she refused and Snyder none at all. Regarding the chronic shortages of qualified ATC staff. You will be interested to know that Airservices have a contract with the South Australian State Government to provide marine radio services, using ATC staff at the Brisbane ATC centre. Why are highly trained and specialised air traffic controllers providing marine radio services? Surely, this is a waste of an already limited resource? Separated at birth. Belinda Neal and Martin Bryant?
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16 Comments
The seperated at birth is a tad tastless and fairly insulting to those who lost family members at Port Arthur.
However it’s a perfect example of the lunancy now surrounding this subject.
The “Separated at birth. Belinda Neal and Martin Bryant?” is an indictment of the writer, the editor and publishers of Crikey. It is a gratiutous insult to Belinda Neal, her friends and family and also to relatives, family and friends of the victims of the Port Arthur massacre.
I DO HOPE CRIKEY PUBLISHES AN APOLOGY AND RETRACTION IN ITS NEXT EDITION. IT SHOULD!
The Separated at Birth pictures of Belinda Neal and Martin Bryant made me wince when I saw them, and I don’t wince easily. I think this comparison was cheap and unwarranted.
Sign your work you contemptible creep.
Well there you go, I found it hilarious! Actually laughed out loud for the first time in ages - come on, it’s funny because it’s true!
I agree with Perry. The Age mock-up front page was funny; the separated at birth pictures of Belinda Neal and Martin Bryant was merely offensive. Ms Neal may not be a nice person, she and her husband may have abused their power and done the wrong thing but she does not deserve to be compared to a mass murderer. Shame on Crikey.
This photographic analogy of Ms Neale and Bryant is a disgrace and Crikey should be ashamed. To suggest that Ms Neale has something in common through looks with a mass murderer is a step too far and giving a woman a kicking when she is down. Where is the editor and where are the scruples Crikey? Shame. Shame. Shame. Get out of your journalistic gutter and get on with real content before you float away with your own sewage and subscriberless oblivion.
These pictures are bad media behavior. They obviously been doctored. There were many of the same pictures of Ms Neal in the same clothes yesterday.. No showed the brown shading on her face. What, nay I ask, does this presentation prove? Actually when you look at the pictures, there is little resemblance.
Like your Beaty comments these pictures are gutter politics. Your contributers have no ethics and neither does your editorial staff. I am heartily sick of gutter journalism in most of the media I read. Why do you do this?
There is absolutely NOTHING funny, clever, or slick about using Martin Bryant in comparison to anybody. He is still the greatest single mass murderer of our time. You have stooped to the lowest form of gutter journalism imaginable with this one. I was wondering whether I should renew this year. Now I know.
F**********ck, that is pretty rank stuff, guys. Neal is no poster child but to associate her with Bryant is way out of line. If I was you I’d be consulting the best defo lawyer I could find.
Not right, Crikey.
You can’t possibly be serious. That is the lowest , stupidest, most pathetic, political comment I have ever seen. The reason I subscribe to Crikey is to avoid that sort of crap. Please reassure me that it was a temporary lapse.
By Crikey me thinks the comparative photos scrapes the bottom of the barrel. Come on Crikey you surely can do better than that!
I am beginning to feel that the snide remarks being made by quite a few of your articles makes for gutter journalism at its worst.
Some of us are beginning to wonder why we should continue to subscribe.
Harry
I usually enjoy the “Seperated at Birth” comparisons, but comparing Belinda Neal to the evil that is Martin Bryant makes me go cold - poor taste. I am a Tasmanian commuting to Sydney, and I do find NSW politics fascinating though, reminds me of home!
Note to Crikey: Must do much better. “Separated at Birth” part of this piece is ENTIRELY, and I do mean ENTIRELY unnecessary.