Faces of the future declare web war

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

Love this photo.

So did the local rag

http://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/2874838/faces-of-the-future-declare-web-war/?cs=159

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

Evil-A I didn't know about the dredging down there. It doesn't seem to matter what evidence you present the govt they will still go ahead and do it  anyway 😞

[curmu-curmu]

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@the*scarlet*pimpernel wrote:

Evil-A I didn't know about the dredging down there. It doesn't seem to matter what evidence you present the govt they will still go ahead and do it  anyway 😞

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Yep. Absolutely ruined a beach that families have used for at least 80 years!

Waves of 2 metres roll in even on flat calm days., sweeping right up the beach to the treeline. No beach left now...just rock embankments to protect the foreshore trees.

Politicians. Self-serving grubsters, the lot of 'em. Clear, concise evidence was brought before them, but they chose to believe  the reports of the government-funded surveyors. Funny about that!

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

Same thing here. An indepentent comapny picked Shenhuas EIS to pieces and yet the govt chooses to believe Shenhuas EIS. The mob that did it have done EIS's for other mining ventures so it is in their interest to give the mining company the results they want rather than the truth. The govt also employed someone to look over the water modelling. Same with the PAC, they are paid by the govt so they are employed by the govt so how can they be deemed an independent body.

[karliandjacko]

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@the*scarlet*pimpernel wrote:

Same thing here. An indepentent comapny picked Shenhuas EIS to pieces and yet the govt chooses to believe Shenhuas EIS. The mob that did it have done EIS's for other mining ventures so it is in their interest to give the mining company the results they want rather than the truth. The govt also employed someone to look over the water modelling. Same with the PAC, they are paid by the govt so they are employed by the govt so how can they be deemed an independent body.

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If they're a statutory body they are obligated to give an honest appraisal not to skew it to favour "development" at any cost.  It's a sad day when those working "for the people" work against them because the govt ranks mining more highly than other vital industries.  

[debra9275]

Pimpy this article just came through from Tony W ( I follow him on twitter)

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/when-chief-of-staff-becomes-chief-executive...

There's nothing new in senior political staff jumping ship to join the private sector, but proximity to the milestone of one year in office for the O'Farrell government appears to have triggered a mini-exodus.

Last December, Stephen Galilee, the chief of staff of the Treasurer, Mike Baird, announced his departure after nine months to become the chief executive of the NSW Minerals Council, the state's coalmining industry lobby group

it's interesting that Mike Baird's chief of staff of the treasure's officer left to become the CEO of the NSW Minerals Council

[evil_akuma_2002]

Dodgy, corrupt pollies. Most of 'em couldn't lay straight in bed!

As I said earlier, I just wish we had the capacity to pay them on a performance basis - we'd either have a great country, or a multitude of destitute pollies!

[wilk1149]

Stop voting, start shooting

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

there's been a bit of shooting going on in the past few days.

Photographer Ross Waldron is making a 90 second doco. I suspect he also took the photos I posted above.

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

it's interesting that Mike Baird's chief of staff of the treasure's officer left to become the CEO of the NSW Minerals Council

it's rather unsettling. Seems no-one in politics gives a rats patootie about the common folk

[karliandjacko]

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@the*scarlet*pimpernel wrote:

it's interesting that Mike Baird's chief of staff of the treasure's officer left to become the CEO of the NSW Minerals Council

it's rather unsettling. Seems no-one in politics gives a rats patootie about the common folk

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And when they do they get hounded out of there by orchestrated campaigns to discredit them and to get rid of them.