The process is the issue – the ends do not justify the means. This government, these neoLibNats, show absolute contempt for democratic process. “Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we…
Just as I was resting up for the rest of Mental Health Week, the King endorses Corporate Advertising on OUR Opera House – this is outrageous! Outrageous – the whole worlds for sale (by those who don’t own it!) & we can’t even look after our refugees, the mentally ill, the old and the sick. Outrageous! We can’t give our children an equitable & equal education – Outrageous! What’s this event he’s trying to sell us? One of the biggest…
King Shnotty says he can guarantee a population explosion in Tasmania. Not only that but it won’t be necessary to go through parliament, he’s a neoLib, he’ll decree it. Like all the rest of his guarantees we can be “assured that its the best deal they’re ever gonna get!”. The kings prayers be with us. Says he’s, going to force any new humanitarian refugees, au pairs or for that matter, economic refugees to transport themselves down there. Well, its been…
Mate we don’t recommend you go off the main road. Well, four years ago you gave away maps with just that recommendation. I think it was called nature tourism .. and it’s not exactly like I dont look like I don’t know what I’m doing out there, in our nature, now does it? It’s closed now, he says, we dont maintain it anymore. Well you never did anyway. Forestry did. It’s dangerous it’s not safe, it’s for the public good…
What do you do when you find a law that’s on your side? You exploit it! A wobbly old fella reeled into the Narrabri Info Shack on Sunday morning, he’d been expelled from the Wee Waa Showground – apparently because the kids needed it for their kids little Pony Club and sick wobbly old single men are considered to be a danger to the kids these days. I was waiting to see if I could exchange an old book for…
“They’re just using their numbers to play politics.” Ahh, to use a standard phrase of Miss Mandy’s, ..’ well hello, durr!’ … Ain’t that the name of the game these days? How is it we can accept this sort of ignorance from these neo-liberal cretins? No wonder our children are so heartless, so disinterested in what’s going on in the world. This claptrap is the neoLibs answer to the fact that a parliamentary ethics committee ‘apparently’ made up of Greens…
“Is it decent, can it be just that these prerogatives should be exercised by any power less than the supreme or be decided by any authority but that which most adequately represents the voice of a nation? This principle ought, beyond question, to be extended universally. There can be no just reason for excluding the national representative from the exercise of any function, the exercise of which, on the part of the society, is in any case necessary. The functions…