Crikey

12 Comments

1. JBu
   Posted Monday, 3 November 2008 at 2:21 pm | Permalink

   Start being funny again or we will stop reading your comic.

2. Blind Freddy
   Posted Tuesday, 4 November 2008 at 8:05 am | Permalink

   In defence of the far north.

   Like much of our political history it’s forgotten that the far north of Queensland was once known as the Red North for the strength of its radical politics - in fact the state seat of Bowen (south of Townsville) elected the only openly Communist member of any Australian parliament in 1944.

   This isn’t particularly relevant, except to give some small hope to people there that there’s not some historical determinism that locks them in the grip of eternal reactionary viciousness.

   It’s always amazing what a difference crossing the border from the NT to QLD is, and especially for Indigenous people. The NT’s not perfect, but it’s far ahead of QLD I’d suggest.

   Poor buggers.

3. gary
   Posted Monday, 3 November 2008 at 7:16 pm | Permalink

   A cheap shot, taken from a comfortable distance, at an incredibly difficult and complex situation. Can’t wait for your next hilarious epsiode about the non-response to the serial harrassment, assault and occasional rape of white service workers in the same area.

   Go and spend time there. Come back when you’ve grown up a little.

4. Jenny L
   Posted Monday, 3 November 2008 at 10:17 pm | Permalink

   Hi Gary - Wilkinson I presume? Palm Island typifies the out of control management by a ditzy police minister who reigns supreme over disaster in every portfolio she’s touched. The evidence is there and on Palm Island where everyone suffered because she had no idea what her role was. Over more than twenty years this hopeless individual has contributed less than what she’s racked up. Its called putting a clown in charge of a tragedy. And its about a political party so self-focussed it forgot its primary role - public service. Whichever way you look at it, Judy Spence has done very little to enhance the lives of black or white Queenslanders surviving on the public and party purse certainly not on merit.

5. mikey
   Posted Monday, 3 November 2008 at 2:20 pm | Permalink

   I wonder if the new QLD police uniforms above are made in Australia?

6. Barbara Hines
   Posted Tuesday, 4 November 2008 at 1:14 pm | Permalink

   The regrettable element to all this is that 21st century Australia remains centuries behind despite all the benefits of hindsight.

7. Cathy
   Posted Monday, 3 November 2008 at 2:23 pm | Permalink

   Nothing - not even this Firstdog - would give the hapless, hopeless deep north a conscience nudge. It’s been comatose since Cook landed.

8. rob
   Posted Tuesday, 4 November 2008 at 10:47 am | Permalink

   FD if you have lost any friends through this insightful portrayal of the inequities visited upon the aboriginals of Palm Island I would suggest that they were friends that were not worth having. But a word of caution here, be very careful when next you go to queensland for if arrested you could end up dead with injuries similar to those suffered in a car accident by tripping and falling on steps while in custody.

9. john
   Posted Monday, 3 November 2008 at 4:44 pm | Permalink

   and that’s how you get on in the queensland police ,oh and , drive drunk ,after a police raid/party.etc

10. JamesK
    Posted Tuesday, 4 November 2008 at 9:00 am | Permalink

    Thanx FDOTM!

    In addition to QLD Police Union, mum, dad, the baby jesus and the citizenry of Palm Island, Bazza should have given thanx to blackfellas’ livers that ‘fracture’ anytime they stumble and fall…….

11. Jenny Laws
    Posted Monday, 3 November 2008 at 3:36 pm | Permalink

    Hullo! Is that Aunty Judy wearing the big pointy hat in the middle? Gosh there’s loads of history attached to the stars of this little ritual. The force is with their Police Minister big time. It owes so much of its history to her rellies with her dad a copper and her mum’s uncle the celebrated corrupt Commissioner Frank Bischof who as a commpulsive gambler managed to undermine the total credibility of the Queensland Police service during his tenure between 1958 and 1969. He even survived to use his replacement commissioner Terry Lewis as a bagman and the rest is called the Fitzgerald Inquiry. Doug Parrington of the Gold Coast Bulletin penned this wonderful cutesy piece about the woman who’s single-handedly led her Families portfolio through the CMC Inquiry into children in foster care abuse, her Disabilities portfolio through the Carter Report into abuse of the intellectually disabled at Brisbane’s Basil Stafford Centre and of course her Police and Corrective Services team via Palm Island and all stops inbetween. There’s no doubt ‘the force’ is with her.

    http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2008/09/13/16232_more-gossip-news.html
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200312/s1002144.htm

12. John McC
    Posted Thursday, 6 November 2008 at 9:07 am | Permalink

    First Dog nails it again. The Qld government is yet another product of the ‘iron law of oligarchy’ that dominates the ALP. Pre-selection and promotion is on the basis of unquestioning loyalty (to the Ludwigs et al), the talent pool dwindles, and the Qld/Joh culture is undisturbed. Mark Aarons’ observations in ‘Dear Mr Rudd’ on the undemocratic structure of the ALP remain unanswered and continue to threaten the party’s Federal potential. State ALP governments survive through the incompetence of their oppositions.