Trouble in Aus State Politics

and who probably regards it as an incentive to stay in opposition

But she's now a target from within her own party!

they seem to have only three MPs tho...I knew her dad Henry - not a bad bloke...think the other 2 are incapable of speech

They'll have friends soon enough. Probably a lot more if they stop parachuting party hacks into seats they previously didn't know existed.

A lot of oncers short term renting some real juicy job for life seats.

Giddings gone - Bartlett's original plan comes to fruition.

like Anna Bligh before her, Lara was handed a doomed ship

CanDo gets a mention at ICAC too:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/campbell-newman-wanted-5000-donation-in-return-for-meeting-icac/story-fn59niix-1226876769516

Overseas at the mo.  But his aides insist if there ever was a meeting proposed in return for cash he wouldn't have had a bar of it.

"We don't do facetime for cash anymore" said said aide.  "Not now we can sell knighthoods again."

hehehehe....Terry Lewis (if still alive) will be at the head of the queue seeking restoration of his knighthood

Actually I think he is still kicking around. Had a bit of publicity due to a book about the era getting flogged endlessly in the local press.

Des Sturgess, the DPP at the time of the Fitzgerald inquiry came out and said he felt sorry for him. Farking moron. Up there with Beattie giving Joh a state funeral. Sturgess though will forever be loved in the Territory as "the man who got the dingo off."

Bradman wrote:Actually I think he is still kicking around.  Had a bit of publicity due to a book about the era getting flogged endlessly in the local press.

Des Sturgess, the DPP at the time of the Fitzgerald inquiry came out and said he felt sorry for him.  Farking moron.  Up there with Beattie giving Joh a state funeral.  Sturgess though will forever be loved in the Territory as "the man who got the dingo off."

Beattie unforgivably also used over $200k in Home and Community Care (HACC) funds per year to give the old goat round the clock nursing care...in the standard banjo irony, Qld got under the odds in HACC funding because Joh delayed in the chips' sign up by three years - Joh said it was a socialist plot

I got to interview Lewis over 30 years ago on an unrelated issue (interviewed most Chief Comms at the time)...'charming', slimy and thick

He also didn't sign up to the parly super scheme for some like reason. My answer would've been "suck shit qunt".

I think even filthy Joh would be amazed by the turn Oz politics has taken...his desk would have been filled with brown bags at the ready

Bradman wrote:Actually I think he is still kicking around.  Had a bit of publicity due to a book about the era getting flogged endlessly in the local press.

Des Sturgess, the DPP at the time of the Fitzgerald inquiry came out and said he felt sorry for him.  Farking moron.  Up there with Beattie giving Joh a state funeral.  Sturgess though will forever be loved in the Territory as "the man who got the dingo off."

Yep, at least acc to Wiki....born Leap Year Day 1928, which would make him 86 (or about 237 if years were measured the same as votes in the Joh Age). He was only the 14th person since the Middle ages to be stripped of a knighthood (also acc to wiki).

(So you can tell the neither late nor lamented former Sir Terry Lewis FFS from all the other Terry Lewis FFS's, Wiki calls him a 'police officer'. A bit like Sweeney Todd was a 'hairdresser', or Sir Jimmy S (who may and should become No 15) a 'radio announcer'.)

Latest Newspoll in Qld has LNP ahead 52-48.

It was 62-38 in the last election!

Hmmmnn! I thought it was closer than that. Still a lot of oncers polishing up resumes.

Oh dear - BOF not having a good day in ICAC.  Denies receiving a $3000 bottle of Grange only to be shown a delivery receipt and phone records.

JGK wrote:Oh dear - BOF not having a good day in ICAC.  Denies receiving a $3000 bottle of Grange only to be shown a delivery receipt and phone records.

Yeah but isn't lying to ICAC like lying to your mother-in-law. No harm, no foul.

Delivery receipt?

Courier record of the Grange being delivered to BOF's house.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/22677343/nsw-premier-barry-ofarrell-resigns/

    

ICAC gets another Liberal Premier. 

There must be more to it than the Grange. 

Shame for NSW - at least BOF was a moderate and was willing to stand up to the Tea Partiers in Canberra.   We now run the risk of getting another Peter Debnam.

Aye, if we get a Hard right Liberal wingnut it will just make their fall from grace even sweeter.

Word is Mike Baird is the likely replacement.

At least we'll have a former investment banker running the place.

That'd be rhyming slang?