Election Wrap - 3 October

Shhhhhh!!!

We better not point out that the early TV adverts that the Liberals were running: “You had your chance” (Schools, Tharwa bridge, GDE etc), it appears were not the voices of Canberra locals.

As far as I could ascertain they were professional talent “voice actors” from an agency up in QLD. Hardly locals lamenting the current state of affairs.

Currentscore on political misrepresentation of local voters:
ALP:1, Liberals:1

and the eros foundation is paying money to attend a lib event? how is this bad?

better the money goes somewhere, rather than not.

jakez said :

Lest someone accuse me of being partisan:

“Mr Seselja said the Opposition was not against public art per se.

“I think Jon Stanhope’s stretching it there. We’ve always said we’re not opposed to all public art but we are opposed to spending a lot of money on public art on the side of roads instead of actually finishing those roads,” he said.”

WOW. Way to say absolutely nothing Zed.

how is it saying nothing? sorry, but I think that is a great idea. finish the dual lane GDE, then worry about stacking koppers logs and rocks.

Lest someone accuse me of being partisan:

“Mr Seselja said the Opposition was not against public art per se.

“I think Jon Stanhope’s stretching it there. We’ve always said we’re not opposed to all public art but we are opposed to spending a lot of money on public art on the side of roads instead of actually finishing those roads,” he said.”

WOW. Way to say absolutely nothing Zed.

tylersmayhem said :

Oh – so the person on the ad’s name is Naomi Clarke. Hmm, I always thought it was a pre-pubescent boy…you know…like Doogie Howser?!

right.

okay then.

interesting that an ad with the person’s name on it when it is running makes you think of doogie howser…

Oh – so the person on the ad’s name is Naomi Clarke. Hmm, I always thought it was a pre-pubescent boy…you know…like Doogie Howser?!

Fiona said :

yes but you couldn’t use an actualy TCH nurse in an ad now could you? Then someone would complain about the government using their government ways to get their staff to campaign for them. Or something.

if it was a TCH nurse, she would have bags under her eyes, stress lines, generally looking very tired.

The fact that there aren’t enough staff in TCH, the wards have toilets that don’t work properly, particularly the ICU, makes you wonder why the ALP would want to bring attention to the hospital system in the first place.

I would have made a generic ad focusing on things that they are doing right for ACT health services…..

wait. what ARE they doing right for ACT health Services?

anyone?

hello?

can’t get passed “Labor are…”

yes but you couldn’t use an actualy TCH nurse in an ad now could you? Then someone would complain about the government using their government ways to get their staff to campaign for them. Or something.

“We could actually live in a cultural desert if people felt that was an appropriate way for us to express who we are and how we live,” he said.

It is ridiculous to assert (as Stanhope has) that art and culture cannot exist without the Government. This is both false and insulting. If we did not have Dinornis Maximus in Woden, we would still have art and culture to the extent that it was desired. In a city like Canberra, this would equal a great deal of art and culture. One only has to look.