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Make it count NSW - 28 March

2106greencat — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:16:05 GMT

28th March - for LNP/ALP

Could be a good day, could be a bad day

Please guy's make it count, send a message, follow your heads not your hearts.........

Re: Make it count NSW - 28 March

ladydeburg — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:45:42 GMT

Well I won't vote for Labor to come back in and rort everything not nailed down like they did last time. How soon people forget the agony of Labor NSW.

Re: Make it count NSW - 28 March

lurker172602 — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:59:32 GMT

I just wish any of them would acknowledge that NSW actually extends beyond Sydney!

Re: Make it count NSW - 28 March

debra9275 — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 01:09:23 GMT

From what I've been reading, mining seems to be a big issue in NSW, but with both major parties supporting mining it could be a difficult choice. Mike Baird seems to be an OK person, but I don't know who else is who after so many stepping down after the ICAC inquiry. I don't know much about Luke Foley either.

I disagree with privitising utilities as money just ends up leaving the country and they don't seem to reinvest any of it back into improving or maintaining things like power poles. It's also not true that prices come down

Re: Make it count NSW - 28 March

cherry*135 — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 01:54:19 GMT

The 'Abbott factor' is going to lose the Coalition some seats.

This is the recent history in my electorate:

2011 – Present	Gareth James WARD	Liberal Party
1999 – 2011	(Matt)Matthew James BROWN	Australian Labor Party
1986 – 1999	(Bob) Robert Joseph Wilson HARRISON	Australian Labor Party
1981 – 1986	William Edwin KNOTT	Australian Labor Party

Re: Make it count NSW - 28 March

cherry*135 — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 02:00:20 GMT

Matt Brown's, undoing.

The Australian newspaper, quoting a witness, reported Mr Brown stripped down to his "very brief" underpants and danced on a green leather couch in his office. [after the election win]

Mr Brown, a 36-year-old father of one, resigned from State Cabinet late last night over the allegations, just three days after being sworn in as NSW police minister.

Re: Make it count NSW - 28 March

aps1080 — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 03:54:09 GMT

am*3 wrote:

The 'Abbott factor' is going to lose the Coalition some seats.

The Abbott factor is not going to have a big as an effect as you think, espcially when NSW Labor do idiotic things like this,

as the elctorate has told them.

'This is the best you've got? Freakin' lol cats?': Politician resorts to lame cat memes during election campaign and it backfires spectacularly

A political party's attempt to use LOL cat memes as part of their election campaign has backfired after social media users pointed out they should be focusing on policy not comedy.

NSW Labor, whose leader Luke Foley is campaigning to win the upcoming state election, posted a series of cat memes targeted at Liberal Premier Mike Baird on Saturday which they renamed 'Caturday'.

But the party's Facebook fans were quick to point out cat memes had ‘become a bit passé’ and blasted ‘get your message across in an adult way, as it is adults who vote’.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2985770/Politician-resorts-lame-cat-memes-election-campaign-backfires-spectacularly.html

Re: Make it count NSW - 28 March

cherry*135 — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 04:15:13 GMT

The Abbott factor IS going to have a big negative effect in the NSW elections.

VIC & QLD - pre election others said the same as you. Result was ??

Re: Make it count NSW - 28 March

myoclon1cjerk — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 04:24:38 GMT

Lol cats are so old hat.Try Taylor Swifting. 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPEJGQj4Z50&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Re: Make it count NSW - 28 March

i-need-a-martini — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 07:14:58 GMT

@ladydeburg wrote:
Well I won't vote for Labor to come back in and rort everything not nailed down like they did last time. How soon people forget the agony of Labor NSW.

A bit like O'Farrell aye?

Re: Make it count NSW - 28 March

cherry*135 — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 07:36:47 GMT

Someone mention rorting and corruption?

2014

A sensational corruption inquiry has concluded by claiming a 10th NSW Liberal scalp, with Port Stephens MP Craig Baumann sent to the crossbench amid allegations he took secret developer donations.

This brings to 12 the number of state and federal Liberal politicians who have resigned or stood aside following corruption inquiries this year.

Re: Make it count NSW - 28 March

ladydeburg — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 21:31:02 GMT

@i-need-a-martini wrote:
@ladydeburg wrote:
Well I won't vote for Labor to come back in and rort everything not nailed down like they did last time. How soon people forget the agony of Labor NSW.
A bit like O'Farrell aye?

Did he rort the state of millions of dollars? I don't think so, he made a silly mistake and resigned like any decent person would.

But we are still seeing the corruption that ruined Labor under the conga line of Premiers inc the female who reinstated Obead and Tropodi.

Tropodi and Obead ring a bell?

Re: Make it count NSW - 28 March

ladydeburg — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 21:32:55 GMT

It's drawing a lojg bow if your saying circumventing the donor rules equates with the millions Obead and Topodi stole.

The non disclosure of donor funds only hurt them, they did not steal from the state.

Re: Make it count NSW - 28 March

the*scarlet*pimpernel — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 01:46:05 GMT

it would be nice if politicians were actually interested in the good of the people and the country. Seems to me all they are interested in is the glory of saying I WON nerner ner and getting paid big bikkies to sit around not actually do anything worthwhile. Much easier to just sell off everything to get the economy going, then leave at the end of term knowing you'll be getting a huge pension/super etc and be sitting pretty for the rest of your life on some nice little farm or beach house far away from mines and csg wells

Re: Make it count NSW - 28 March

cherry*135 — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 06:59:34 GMT

Tripodi and Obeid does.

What about the 12 LNP MP's/ Senators NSW (State or Federal) that were investigated by ICAC for corruption??

Doing deals with developers (giving them preference) affects other members of the public livelihoods.

Re: Make it count NSW - 28 March

monman12 — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 00:19:35 GMT

"I disagree with privitising utilities as money just ends up leaving the country and they don't seem to reinvest any of it back into improving or maintaining things like power poles. It's also not true that prices come down"

AUSTRALIANS who live in states with privatised electricity supplies have faced smaller price rises over the past two decades than their counterparts in other states.

Analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics data provided exclusively to The Australian finds that privatisation has not led to consumers paying higher prices, despite union and ALP scare campaigns.

The analysis is a boost to the Baird government in NSW, which goes to an election this month on a platform funded by the partial privatisation of poles and wires.

The Grattan Institute work shows retail prices have risen more in Sydney and Brisbane than in Melbourne and Adelaide, where the Victorian and later South Australian governments had privatised the electricity industry from the 1990s. It suggests that from 1996 to mid-2014, in nominal terms, retail electricity prices have increased by 207.7 per cent in Adelaide and 158 per cent in Melbourne — compared with 212.1 per cent in Sydney and 217 per cent in Brisbane.

It is notoriously difficult to get reliable historical data on electricity prices because of changes in ownership and regulation, while other factors such as customer density and weather conditions complicate comparisons. But the latest analysis supports a recent Ernst and Young study commissioned by the NSW Treasury that found network prices had fallen in real terms since privatisation in Victoria and South Australia, but soared by more than 100 per cent in NSW and Queensland.

Because network prices typically make up 35 to 55 per cent of the final bill, rises in electricity bills had been contained where the poles and wires businesses were privately owned.

“Privately owned businesses run at lower cost to the benefit of consumers,” the Grattan Institute’s energy director, Tony Wood, said.

The figures give weight to support by other groups, including the Productivity Commission, Australian Competition & Consumer Commission and peak business groups, for privatisation.

Rest of the Australian article is to be found here:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/fact-check-privatisation-is-definitely-better-for-electricity-bills/story-fn59niix-1227257662553

"The former chairman of the NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Authority, Tom Parry, said the “all the evidence” was that privatised networks “have much better cost controls”. “I don’t see why there’s any basis to suggest that network charges will go up as a result of privatisation,” he said."

I do however note that NSW has a State election very soon, and this topic in NSW is very much subject to " union and ALP scare campaigns". A little like telling the bleaters to be afraid of the big bad wolf .

Re: Make it count NSW - 28 March

cherry*135 — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:14:30 GMT

Analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics data provided exclusively to The Australian finds that privatisation has not led to consumers paying higher prices, despite union and ALP scare campaigns.

That sounds a bit suss.