Trouble in Aus State Politics

embee wrote:Buswell resigns from politics ...can't manage mental illness and his job

....pity ....the guy when on his game (as opposed to sniffing chairs or the booze) was highly competent for a tory

aye ...my brother knows him from Busselton and a guy I went to school with is a lib mp

they both say he is brilliant at his job ...but a toddler in a man's body in his private life

Desperate Dan on 774 this morning....said 'people are sick of hearing the name Geoff Shaw' about half a dozen times, thereby giving us another half dozen chances to realize how sick of hearing the name Geoff Shaw we were....an odd strategy, doubtless based on 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', which is bulldust, actually my enemy's enemy seems s bit too good at collecting enemies to have much use for much.

DD or Dennis the Menace....which cartoon do YOU want running your State?

Looks like the NSW Libs have scored a perfect 10 at ICAC

http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/liberal-mp-craig-baumann-a-new-focus-of-icac-inquiry-into-illegal-donations-with-commissioner-megan-latham-extending-scope/story-fnii5s3x-1227056279557

Must be getting close to the total number of ALPers in the lower house.

The cross bench is about to form government.

Lib, ALP ... the common factor is NSW. I blame BC Francis.

aye Lardy....truly the man has a lot to answer for

Kudos to the Vics for expunging the criminal records of those previously convicted under now repealed homosexual offences.

aye...pretty much bipartisan support too.

tomorrow is the last day of the parlt and government goes in to caretaker in a fortnight.

election will be close...tho the Lib leader has been stumbling in the past fortnight

JGK wrote:Kudos to the Vics for expunging the criminal records of those previously convicted under now repealed homosexual offences.

I wonder just how many people were actually prosecuted under those laws when they existed. I'd suggest no one in living memory which makes it a smart move. Gay votes for nothing.

Big Dog wrote:

JGK wrote:Kudos to the Vics for expunging the criminal records of those previously convicted under now repealed homosexual offences.

I wonder just how many people were actually prosecuted under those laws when they existed. I'd suggest no one in living memory which makes it a smart move. Gay votes for nothing.

While there is little public data about the number of arrests and prosecutions that took place before homosexuality was decriminalised, experts believe thousands of convictions could have taken place given the era - a time when gays were often ''witch-hunted'' or entrapped by police.

Melbourne author Noel Tovey was one of the men convicted of having gay sex - or ''the abominable act of buggery'' as the offence was then called - in 1951, when he was 17. The former indigenous dancer was arrested after police raided a party in the Albert Park home of the female impersonator Max Du Barry.


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/victoria-to-expunge-criminal-records-of-men-convicted-over-gay-sex-20140111-30ntq.html#ixzz3GC0wo5xz

1951....as i said...not in my living memory at least.

they were still prosecuting in the 1970s

separately the Naptime Govt has been caught up in a sex scandal....a former staffer to the Premier is alleging there is/was a porn ring involving Lib MPs

Spivs are joining in the party too...

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/liberal-and-labor-parties-to-support-bill-to-remove-historic-gay-sex-convictions-20141016-116l3v.html

Big Dog wrote:1951....as i said...not in my living memory at least.

And they had to pick on a blackfella too.

oh dear...a porn scandal has captured the ruling libs in Melbourne (MPs, staffers and a couple of Ministers involved)...feel for the Premier who yesterday fessed up to his colleagues doing this but said that the material while distasteful and inappropriate was not illegal...must have been a relief to the Premier that no animals were involved (he is a vet)

seems to me that this is the sort of infantile neanderthal behaviour traditionally associated with the private schoolboy toffs who infect the tories..

Anyhoo, our Premier who seems a pretty decent albeit thick bloke has been forced to look after colleagues that I expect he would hold in utter contempt

Awesome timing for Napthine:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/renewable-energy-stall-costs-first-job-losses-as-100-cut-in-victoria-20141023-11addr.html

poor old Nappy cannot take a trick

Looks like the Fed Tories have written off Victoria. Napthine gets thrown under the bus again with Abbott hinting at GST rises this morning.

two polls out today...one has ALP 53 and the nobs 47, the other 52/48...Nappy is preferred Premier - and of course that is what the Sun ran with in their editorial

Abbott must be loving the focus state issues are taking off him and his.

Are the Greens a chance of holding the balance of power?

JGK wrote:Are the Greens a chance of holding the balance of power?

I hope not...

got caught this am at the nursing home providing advice on a poster asking us "what are you doing to be healthier in 2014"...my advice was vote early vote often

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/06/victorian-election-investigation-into-allegedly-corrupt-donations-to-liberals

the filthy tories cannot help themselves it seems...this time at least it comes out before the election.