Hello again Dominican Republic and also Sweden, the USofA, Romania, and Russia...welcome y'all to the blog...a short sharp post today because I spent heaps of time unsuccessfully researching some stuff and it's really p'ed me off...and straight off, I know I've had a goodly amount of gougage at Independent Member for Frome Geoff Brock, and now a Weatherill Labor government Front Bench Minister for Regional Development and Local Government Relations, but here's some more astute observationings...(stupid more like-Ed).
Incorrect maybe, but stupid? mmm I dunno...now I did see (and hear) it reported that Mr Brock is a dis-enfranchised former Liberal (the Right) who 'centralised' to the position of Independent, and I reckon I repeated that as such, but in researching this post I cannot find any specific reference to any specific Liberal connection, eg, on his own Homie Page , Wikipedia, various media reports, etc...I think this was a statement/reporting confusing the 'Conservative' nature of the seat of Frome...I apologise to blog availees for my repeating of what appears to be an error.
(Was he knocked back for Liberal pre-selection for the 2006 state election or in 2009 and then chose to run as an Independent?-Ed)...dunno...he was elected at the January 2009 Frome By-election after the retirement of Rob Kerin, but what I'm reading suggests that it was the Rann Labor government that pushed him to run and he was elected on Labor and Nationals preferences...and again had Labor support in March 2010 and March 2014...
I cannot find anything stating specifically that Mr Brock is 'a former Liberal', but that does not preclude his particular political tendencies as Councillor and Mayor of Pt Pirie...but in the circumstance I can only apologise for referring to him as such...(but it is true when referring to Such-Ed)...no no, it's apparently not true...(no no, I'm referring to Dr Bob Such who is definitely a disenfranchised Liberal who ran as an Independent-Ed)...indeed...
It becomes a self-contradicting discussion when issues of definable Labor support allow Mr Brock to operate as an Independent...pragmatically speaking though, with the 'preferential system' we use in Australia that support has to go somewhere, and Labor are not likely to preference anywhere near the Liberals...and beyond that, the two major parties are virtually indistinguishable...the supposedly 'Leftist' SA Labor Party is more Right Wing than the Liberals, furiously Privatising everything, eg, the Forestry Estate Sale, and slashing services, eg, the Shared Services fiasco that withdrew Regional public service positions.
(So you're saying that in South Australian politics a jump to the Left is actually a step to the Riyiyiyiyiyight-Ed)...indeed...(boy, that sure was a very long build up to a very average joke-Ed)...indeed...(moving on?-Ed)...I think it best...but just quickly, I still struggle with the whole spiel from Geoff Brock whereby he sprays Labor for their atrocious treatment of regional South Australia, and then supports them back into another term of the same Adelaide-centric lunacy...(and the whole Bob Such shenanigans-Ed)...indeed...and it's just the start...
Mr Brock is there at all because of Labor support and Dr Such also has a history of supporting Labor, eg, as replacement Speaker in April 2005, and then we have the most extraordinary shenanigans re Dr Such's illness and the 'resultant decision' by Geoff Brock to support Labor...and I repeat that the timing and nature of Dr Such's illness is a public interest issue because he was a public officer asking to be re-elected and his health affects his participation and/or continuation and therefore affects the make-up of the Parliament.
But we in Sow Straya have even more pressing concerns than the potential manipulation of an already grossly biased pro-Labor gerrymander electoral system...our economy is in unrepentant free-fall whilst unemployment is rocketing in the opposite direction in an express lift to nowhere (now over 7% where the National average just dropped below 6%) ...and the most obvious, most recent example is what's happening in Adelaide's Northern suburbs already, with the impending closure of Holden's Elizabeth manufacturing plant to further massively impact...
I'm not the only person suggesting that a job created in a Coal mine in Western Australia doesn't replace a job lost at Elizabeth, not least of all because Fly In Fly Out causes massive social disruption...and it's been quoted that the Mitsubishi closure in 2008 led to roughly 1/3 of the workforce retiring, 1/3 gaining other employment but of lesser income, and the remaining 1/3 had suffered ongoing unemployment and gross under-employment issues...(yay-Ed).
And now Penrice Soda is in administration possibly closing, so another 180+ jobs may be lost, but there are far greater problems on the horizon...(sailing over the horizon almost-Ed)...indeed, with the Air Defence Destroyer program nearing it's conclusion, and the patently ridiculous $50billion Submarine plan now also under threat, Adelaide is staring straight down the barrel...and the Collins Class subs are a bit of a disaster with usually only 1 or 2 subs actually operational at any one time.
Again, buy a dozen or more second-hand subs for the same price, use our facilities to strip a couple back for parts and at the same time learn them literally inside out, then maintain a program of intensive and extensive upgrade re-fittings...we get an immediately operational fleet of 6-8 subs, heaps of spares, and plenty of well payed, highly technical employmentings...
And I know that I've barrelled Adelaide with monotonous regularity, but nobody really wants to see Adelaide en masse go to the wall, not least of all because it'll destroy Regional SA to try and prolong the inevitable...(yay some more-Ed)...
It's Crack Time: Ahhhh, Joe Hockey's gettin' his Mandate out again...and he apparently wants to have a "sensible discussion about the quality of life" when what he really means is 'we're gonna slash Old Age Pensions and raise the Pension age and slash Disability Support funding'...including for the Disability Insurance Scheme for which the funding is already being levied, and of course attacks on the Disability Support Pension and Unemployment Benefits...but the OAP is the one they're really after...
According to Mighty Joe, apparently 1 in 3 children born today will live to 100...(bollocks, there is ample evidence that the mass pollution of the food chain, multiple other associated dietary issues, poor fitness, sheer numbers of people on the planet, etc, will all see the lowering of the average life expectancy with a few people living longer due to medical interventions-Ed)...indeed Ed, I believe that I at 47 am part of the vanguard of a generation who are likely to live less long than their parents or even die before their parents do...
And it's all fairly straight forward...our parents imbibe a lifetime of pollutants, often unwittingly, which are often captured/stored in and/or around fat cells...(fair enough-Ed)...and we are mammals that produce milk for the young, and it is the fat reserves of the females that are 'mobilised/utilised' for the production of said lactate...(and therefore those pollutants are also 'mobilised' within the milk and fed to said offspring?-Ed)...basically, yes.
It is not just alarmist Greenie propaganda that states that the first born calve of some species of Cetaceans (whales, dolphins.etc) are considered to be almost sacrificial in that they receive the parents lifetime of accumulated toxins via feeding, and there have been instances of dead baby whales washing onto beaches and having to be treated virtually as 'toxic waste'...but I digress...
And when do I get $200k per annum (minimum parliamentary income) Joe mate?...gord knows I've been doing the heavy shreckin' lifting when it comes to my community...and by necessity not by desire I've trashed my own life in pursuit of an issue that seems consistently under the patronage of both the Liberal and the Labor Party, institutionalised Paedophilia...when do I get appropriate recompense for the Illegal Dismissal of April 2000 that rooted my life?...or for the ensuing rank corruption of the Industrial Relations Commission?...and then there's the St Martins bullshit...
Please tell me all about the 'entitlements' that I get Joe because my life has been so totally trashed by situations entirely outside of my control...and when it comes to St Martins, a situation where I have been openly attacked as the actual problem, not least of all by a highly payed system that's meant to protect the children not the paedophiles...come and tell me all about it you shreckin' muppet...
Is there anything more galling than someone on a massive publicly funded income who gets a publicly funded and quite outrageous superannuation package...(and multiple publicly funded allowances and entitlements-Ed)...good point...anything more shreckin' galling than someone who gets all of that and then wants to tell the lowest income earners that he's going to end "the age of entitlement"...(well I for one am completely galled-Ed).
Tomorrow: Global Politicking
PS: I have just spent an hour re-trawling through the Interweb and my own posts, and yes I did previously refer to Geoff Brock as a "dis-enfranchised Liberal" but no I cannot find any specific reference to this anywhere...again apologies...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
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