Katy moving on?

Gungahlin Al said :

Anyone remember not long ago how the City News was always slagging the dropping circulation number for the Canberra Times, while their own circulation was growing on the back of strong real estate advertising incomes?
And then along came internet real estate sites, plus an upstart called Canberra Weekly…
I compared issues a couple of weeks ago, City News had just one page with real estate ads (one ad actually) out of I think just 28, while the Canberra Weekly had around 80 pages, of which more than half were real estate ads.

Then there were those false covers that they ran during the last ACT election that were actually just 4 pages of Liberal advertising carefully disguised to look like a legitimate issue cover.

Just a couple of interesting prisms through which to contemplate the City News’s decision to run such a piece…

Which might, also, help to explain why the Canberra Weekly seemed so pleased, at the time, with the heir apparent’s new land tax system.

If only this was true…….

Of course, if she did move on she wouldn’t be responsible for it…..just like Education, Health and everything else she’s been ‘responsible’ for during her time in ACT Labor.

Anyone remember not long ago how the City News was always slagging the dropping circulation number for the Canberra Times, while their own circulation was growing on the back of strong real estate advertising incomes?
And then along came internet real estate sites, plus an upstart called Canberra Weekly…
I compared issues a couple of weeks ago, City News had just one page with real estate ads (one ad actually) out of I think just 28, while the Canberra Weekly had around 80 pages, of which more than half were real estate ads.

Then there were those false covers that they ran during the last ACT election that were actually just 4 pages of Liberal advertising carefully disguised to look like a legitimate issue cover.

Just a couple of interesting prisms through which to contemplate the City News’s decision to run such a piece…

Here’s a funny observation. The nicest and most honest people in politics are the ones that stand for election, every election, go out and campaign, debate the issues, can identify the pros and cons of their own party politics as well as the main opposing positions, and don’t get elected.

Everyone vote for the funny guy who chatted with you in the shops or that friend of a friend who seems to be on the wrong team but you really like him anyway. The world would be a better place!

Well, her achievements will forever be remembered as:
• presiding over a family member fudging hospital emergency department data to defraud the Commonwealth of money, then covering it up;
• making a bunch of statements about human rights, while running a government that systematically breaches the rights of its citizens;
• appointing people she likes to high-paying but largely pointless positions;
• as a shareholder, not knowing that ACTEW paid its CEO over $800,000 per year, and then blaming everyone else;
• running the ACT’s budget into deficit during the biggest economic boom in the ACT’s history, while increasing taxes;
• banning plastic bags as part of an extremist culture war;
• legislating entirely outside the ACT’s competence, and using our money and gays’ and lesbians’ relationships to attack Tony Abbott, as part of the same said culture war;
• ceding the governance of the ACT to the Greens, because they were comprehensively defeated at the 2012 election;
• throwing $600+ million at a white elephant known as light rail; and
• demanding pay increases and chauffeur driven cars, while making everyone catch ineffective buses or ride bicycles.
I suppose these achievements can be put down to her extensive life experience (as a union organiser and Labor Party hack).

La_Tour_Maubourg said :

People seem to have tolerance for Katy but anyone actually like Barr? He appears to be arrogant at all media releases

I don’t like him. I don’t like him a lot. He’s a cold and arrogant dickhead, and there’ll be snowfalls in hell before I’ll vote for him, or a party that he leads.

Gotta love it when someone harps on about paying lawyers, apparently oblivious to the facts Solicitors-General are public servants and on the public pay roll anyway.

She should resign forthwith. She has just poured money that should have been spent on health and education down the drain in the form of,
a/ paying lawyers to write legislation that was inoperative
and
b/ paying lawyers fo advice that proved wrong
and
c/ paying lawyers to appear in the High Court to achieve failure.

How does this help Canberra’s ratepayers?

Resign!

johnboy said :

As in most politicians telling us they’re going to spend “more time with their family” have adult (or none at all) children.

that’s a bit pre-judicial in terms of a definition of ‘family’ there, jb; and a bit gossipy, old chap. ease up now. pip pip.

With the entrenched GreensLabor vote in the ACT sadly the chief minister role is essentially reduced to a baton passing exercise between one useless Labor henchman (or woman) and the next.