Another corrupt Liberal forced to resign

[just_me_karen]

Barry has announced his resignation.

these Libs expectation of entitlement comes back to bite them. I hope he enjoyed his bottle of plonk.

Bye bye Barry.

[spotweldersfriend]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Noses and Ears Continue to Grow as We Age

http://www.doctoroz.com/blog/arthur-perry-md/noses-and-ears-continue-grow-we-age

  Pic of Lakeland from behind

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Had me fooled.I thought it was William McMahon.

[lakeland27]

and i don't have a bald patch.  i may have plenty of corrosion and erosion but no bald patch.

[boris1gary]

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@lakeland27 wrote:

and i don't have a bald patch.  i may have plenty of corrosion and erosion but no bald patch.

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Well I am still grinning, went out tonight -  the mood out and about was wonderful, smiling, laughing, happy people. Firies were particularly cheerful as were the PSA, the nurses were very upbeat, so were the teachers. Actually everyone was happy. Thanks barry.

[spotweldersfriend]

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@just_me_karen wrote:
That's the same kind of reasoning abbott just used.

He has absolute admiration for Barry, calls him a man of high integrity and honour, blather blather... Innocent...etc

And this is how he describes a colleague who misleads the ICAC and accepted corrupt gifts from corrupt people. It must be normal behaviour for all Libs.

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Cromulently put,Tony.I couldn't have said it better."A noble deed embiggens the smallest man",

[boris1gary]

http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/faulty-ofarrells-scandalous-premiershi...

Faulty O'Farrell's scandalous premiership
 

Barry O'Farrell was rolled out of the NSW premiership today, yet according to his colleagues he was more honest than Gandhi and his Government as pure as driven snow. Peter Wicks from Wixxyleaks corrects the record.

Barry O’Farrell had run a campaign based around allegations of Labor Party corruption and scandal.

In his own words, Barry promised voters a government that was “scandal free”.

What a lie that turned out to be.

In the short time O’Farrell has been Premier there has been almost more scandals and scandal prone ministers than you can count.

Some of these include:

• Environment Minister Robyn Parker, who thinks logging is good for koalas;
• Health Minister Jillian Skinner, whose office is evacuated at the threat of a few nurses delivering her a cake;
• Education Minister Adrian Piccoli, a man who publicly signs a pledge to maintain TAFE funding in his campaign and then slashes TAFE services as part of the Coalition's $1.8 Billion education cuts, which cost 800 TAFE workers their job;
• Piccoli is also famous for leaving disabled children stranded by the side of the road when he changed their transportion service;
• Emergency Services Minister Michael Gallacher, who I believe is the first minister in Australia to ever have his Party actually booed out of Parliament by a gallery full of police;
• Gallacher also made the decision to close fire stations around the state during a heat wave and spate of bushfires, forcing communities to rely on volunteer services and fire services from other areas which were left unprotected.

On top of that, we have seen three NSW Liberal Party MP’s forced to stand down after ICAC hearings and raids — one of those being Chris Hartcher, a front bench Minister.

It is not often that we see a premier forced out of office due to ICAC findings; the last time it happened was back in 1992, when another Liberal Party Premier, Nick Greiner, fell on his sword.

What is probably even worse than that empty chair is the idea of Mike Baird becoming Premier — which seems highly likely.

For those interstaters who don’t know Baird, he is the NSW Treasurer that despite inheriting a surplus and landing his job after the Global Financial Crisis was over, has delivered nothing but deficits in the hob. He is also infamous as being the Treasurer who lost a $1 billion.

Just as well there’s an election next March.

[just_me_karen]

Baird is now the boss.

We definitely need a national version of the ICAC, as corruption appears to be central to so many govt decisions.

We'll never get it because it'd be the undoing of tony & cronies.

[debra9275]

I agree Karen, in Vicoria our's is IBAC and on Tuesday they complained after one year in operation that they were not able to take any action due to  not having enough power to do so.

just after hearing what happened in NSW Dennis Napthine said he would follow IBAC's reccommendations

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/ibac-admits-it-lacks-legislative-teeth-20140415-36ppu.html

[freshwater-2]

Correct me if I am wrong, but in the back of my mind is.....Baird was the one that pushed to have Girolama appointed head of AWH against the advice of his colleagues.

[debra9275]

freshwater, I think you're right, he was the one who had the list about appointing Girolama to the ports then ultimately signed off on the job on the board with the water board

[lakeland27]

well thats a good thing. he'll enter the job pre-tainted..