Comments on: Berlusconi’s lady friends

By: John T

John T — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:46:39 +0000

Yes, Jenny Macklin, Stephen Martin is dead right. Build on your growing reputation as an effective Minister: conclude the acquisition and do the audit suggested.

Surely it’s time for you to abandon the self-interested and tendentious bleatings of the displaced aboriginal establishment, and the inner-city whities who so idolise those men’s primitive control and use of their tribal dependents.

By: Josephine Kneipp

Josephine Kneipp — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:33:06 +0000

Re ALP beginnings - in my school days (in Qld) I was taught me that the ALP was founded in Qld. I dare say our tipster, though, was schooled in NSW?

Of all sources, I think Wikipedia puts it best - “ALP mythology says the first party branch was founded at a meeting of striking pastoral workers under a ghost gum tree (the “Tree of Knowledge”) in Barcaldine, Queensland in 1891. The Balmain, New South Wales branch of the party also claims to be the oldest in Australia. The party as a serious electoral force dates from 1891 in New South Wales, 1893 in Queensland and South Australia, and later in the other colonies. “

By: stephen martin

stephen martin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:18:23 +0000

If ,and I imagine that’s a big if ,Tangentyere costs are of the order of $125 000 per house maintenance are correct, it’s scarcely surprising that the Feds want compulsorily acquire the lease to the camps.
I wonder if Tangentyere’s refusal of the offer has anything to do with the possibility of an audit of their operations when the leases are acquired. Their management records would no doubt make interesting reading, a bit like the British House of Commons expenses maybe.