Comments on: McGurk’s body takes on political smell

By: Carson

Carson — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:37:52 +0000

Personally, I will vote for anyone who can rid crikey of its plague of dog-haters, especially those ones that solipsistically assume everyone shares their opinion.

By: Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:36:31 +0000

Ah, just to add thanks for the story too, on reflection my last two comments on this author have been a bit real politik. As they say in China everyone likes to push a falling wall.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:28:12 +0000

I was wondering why the ARU kicked Lote out, now we now, Balmain indeed. The problem with the NSW AlP is that it’s infected with rightardation.

By: RaymondChurch

RaymondChurch — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:47:11 +0000

Wow Bernard that was a mish mash of topics. Not sure why the article was headed “McGurk’s body takes on political smell”? Thought you had wandered into a local funeral home catering to NSW representatives. Obviously your sub editor wanted to ensure the article grabbed our attention, did that alright. Alas not residing in your fair state one is at a disadvantage knowing about some of your local politics, whereas the gunning down of a prominent ‘businessman’, who may have, that is may have, a tape that could send a couple if not more, ALP NSW reps to a stay at Her Majesty’s pleasure, is big time news. One wonders just how much egg will be on the faces of the Liberal Opposition if the tape happens to be a home movie of the late Mr McGurk’s kids. But I digress, the mention of Akerman on Insiders makes me wonder if the jowled one is planning to play the lead in an Aussie version of the Robin Williams classic based on La Cage Aux Folles. Judging by the amount of makeup caked on to the ample facial features of Akers he is destined for something special, or perhaps the ABC makeup dept are simple taking the mick? Surely pedantic Piers hasn’t taken to doing his own

By: Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:34:20 +0000

So Margo we can assume you are not the Lote mystery woman in the tabloids?

By: Daphon

Daphon — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:41:55 +0000

“Why is it that the capable female MPs will have to pay for the lack of talent and the alleged corruption of the NSW ALP?”

Whether they are capable or not, they are members of NSW ALP. If they can’t do something about it, as insiders, then they deserve to go to.

By: Carlos Medina

Carlos Medina — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:30:29 +0000

It sure seems Margot’s got a point even if i do mostly disagree with her. But the ALP knows well their pie is shrinking and in the inner city their only rivals are the Greens.

Maybe that is the main reason Carmel Tebutt is not yet the state leader, it would be too much to have both Verity and Carmel gone.

Two quite able female politicians, that unlike most of their male ALP colleagues, also both have most punters’ respect and even the affection of some.

Why is it that the capable female MPs will have to pay for the lack of talent and the alleged corruption of the NSW ALP?

And to have both Verity and Carmel replaced by the Greens would just add insult to injury.

By: Russell Edwards

Russell Edwards — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:54:57 +0000

Gosh, Margot, how did we get from Michael McGurk to the Rozelle Metro? There must be something powerful in those Zumbo pastries which has affected your reasoning!

Was it the same stretch of vivid, agenda-driven imagination which had Piers Ackerman name a certain federal minister on Insiders yesterday?

If so, I think you’d go and have a lie down and a rest, clearly you’ve been listening to the Green’s paranoid conspiracy theories for too long. The ones that tell us that NOTHING is built ANYWHERE unless someone is bribed.

It is a very misanthropic view of human nature, but sadly it is one gaining currency as the Greens dismal pessimism about life on this planet captures the popular imagination

Good points about Callan Park, I quite agree, But with the Metro, you are way off the mark. If it was conceived as a “bribe” to keep Verity in her seat, then indeed, it was a very bad idea. But knowing the anti development sentiment in Balmain, no one even in the Labor Party, would have entertained such a mad notion.

The Metro, as it stands is truncated, true. But it is just the first step of a much broader network now taking shape. Check their website, don’t rely on the hysterical propaganda put out by the local Nimbys, the Liberal Party and the Greens.

It has to start somewhere. And why not by servicing two greenfield development sites, Barangaroo and White Bay? They are putting the public transport infrastructure in place BEFORE the development. Isn’t that what’s supposed to happen?