Quite frankly, I’ve had enough of Katy, Barr, Corbell, and that court jester Rattenbury. They have surely got to be the most irresponsible, dangerous, and seemingly unaccountable excuse for a government within the Australian Federation.
They appear to have largely abandoned any attempt to effectively deliver the core governmental services for which they are actually responsible, such as healthcare and policing. Or they are simply incapable of so delivering. When they have attempted to do anything in these areas they have almost universally been absolute scandalous disasters. For example, Katy Gallagher, as Health Minister, presided over the falsification of health statistics by a family associate; falsification which seemingly had the effect of defrauding the Commonwealth of otherwise forgone incentive payments. If this had happened in NSW, they would all be before ICAC. And now we hear we have the worst health system in the country.
Shane Rattenbury demanded that Katy, Barr, and Corbell, in return for continuing in power, sign up to build a $700 – $860 million Capital Metro Project (with your taxes) that has no business case, no cost benefit analysis, no passenger number projections, and no hope or chance of either being delivered on time or ever making any money (even given appropriate levels of subsidy to take in non-financial considerations).
Corbell, seemingly at the behest of Barr, has decided to enact legislation patently beyond the power of the ACT Legislative Assembly in order to politically wedge the Abbott Federal Government (something which they did not consider necessary to do to the former Rudd/Gillard/Rudd Governments) and bring on a High Court challenge; which they will defend with millions of dollars of your money.
The only growth industry in the ACT is the ‘human rights’ industry; that consists of the ACT Government paying human rights lawyers (who often seem to be connected to ACT Labor) to comment upon and advise upon endless harebrained schemes that are largely aimed at correcting non-problems, while anyone who ever tries to evoke their purported human rights (often against the ACT Government itself) discovers they have none. (Don’t worry, the ACT Government pays more human rights lawyers to write up summaries of how you, in fact, have no human rights.) Meanwhile, our $100 million human rights compliant jail is full, and inmates are having their human rights violated by the ACT Government.
* ACTEW executive pay and sponsorship scandal — no one told Katy and Barr (asleep at the wheel).
* Highest utilities prices in the country, used as a quasi-tax by Katy and Co.
* Banning plastic shopping bags.
* $5,500 fines for leaving a shopping trolley in the street.
The list goes on.
Under the ACT Self Government Act, the Governor-General has the power to call an end to this madness and appoint a Commissioner to conduct the affairs of the ACT. The provision is as follows:
Dissolution of Assembly by Governor-General
(1) If, in the opinion of the Governor-General, the Assembly:(a) is incapable of effectively performing its functions; or
(b) is conducting its affairs in a grossly improper manner;
the Governor-General may dissolve the Assembly.
(2) Where the Assembly is dissolved:
(a) the Governor-General:
(i) shall appoint a Commissioner for the purposes of this section; and
(ii) may, at any time, give directions to the Commissioner about the exercise of the powers of the Executive; and
Given all this, should the Federal Government advise the Governor-General dissolve the ACT Legislative Assembly and end this chaos:
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Robertson said :
Please feel free to quote the number of Iraqi and Afghani refugees for the last 10 years rather than cherrypicking one year’s worth of stats.
And I don’t think many (any?) Chinese arrive by boat, so you can knock them out of your stats right now.
Pakistanis? Well being next door to Afghanistan, with the spillover of that war and the illegal drone attacks by our wonderful allies, I think one could make a strong case for saying they are fleeing the instability caused by Australia’s invasion of Afghanistan.
Sri Lankans, yes they are another case entirely. So you got one out of three right.
IP
Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :
The fact Sri Lankans, Iranians and Burmese are coming here in large numbers disproves your implication that “Australian warmongering” is responsible for refugee arrivals to Australia.
2011-2012 had just under 1,000 Sri Lankan refugees apply, 1,200 Chinese, and 1300 Pakistanis. If “Australian warmongering” isn’t responsible for those refugees, then there appears to be no rational reason for your belief that “Australian warmongering” is responsible for any others.
You have demonstrated (once again) that the rightards you criticise by no means have a monopoly on irrational beliefs.
funbutalsoserious said :
Umm they are… I guess the issue is YOU don’t like their priorities. As I said to the poster above, not happy vote them out. But remember yours is just 1 of 200,000+ odd votes, so if the same government gets re-elected it means that other people disagree with you. It’s called democracy.
OP your lucky ACT Labor has stuff up the health system so badly (in your eyes anyway) If they hadn’t then I am sure the loony bin van would be paying you a visit and dragging you off for some counselling.
PS other than headlines do you have any evidence of how bad it is here in Canberra. Take health for example, so far this year my mother has gone to hospital a total of 4 times and was looked after exceptionally well every single time. My wife has also just had a baby in the ACT Health system, again cannot give them enough praise.
You also mention police, pray tell where is there any problem (other than perceived) with policing in the ACT?
At the end of the day if you are not happy with the government, then every 4 years you get your chance to say so. Now the fact that Labor keeps getting re-elected may give you a hint that the majority of the people in this town are happy with what ACT Labor (and the greens) are doing. That is called democracy. If your not happy with that then I am sure there are some non democratic countries you would be more comfortable living in. No doubt things will seem like they run like clock work, tough deep down the issues will be there, just not reported.
Oops the latter sounds like our new Federal (Liberal/National) Government. No news is good news, every bit of bad news is a headline crisis, so keep all news out of the news.
Objective said :
Given that most economic “science” is hokum I don’t think experience in one is going to prevent the other. Look at this year’s Nobel winners: one gentleman won for proving markets are efficient, another for proving markets are not efficient.
Kim F said :
Bwahahaha! Me too.
Wht a farcical post.
How dare they implement the promise they took to the election to build light rail. World ending…
Objective said :
I have experience adding. I can count to two, unlike the pro-Liberal posters on here.
One person’s obnoxious is another person’s something else.
But I have lived in the EU where subsidies are rorted to the max. They distort markets and are generally an evil thing.
If you can point me to an economist who has actually done something useful, I will defer to their expertise. “God Created Economists To Make Astrologers Look Good.”
IP
IrishPete said :
So the answer to my question is – no, you have no experience. Enjoy reveling in your ignorance
And it’s not a matter of sensitivity. It’s just obnoxious, simple as that.
This is the worst government in the country at the moment, and yet we still voted them in (not me though)
Why don’t they prioritise what they are spending their time on and our money on, like the basics of hospitals, education, roads, mowing, etc.
Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :
Geez man, been on the angry pills?
Chill out, people are allowed to have an opinion that differs from yours.
Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :
Thanks for answering for me. Yes, obviously in recent times the vast majority of refugees coming to Australia by boat have been from Iraq and Afghanistan. A previous wave came from Vietnam. If I was Iranian I would probably leave and live in Iraq or Pakistan, but they’re pretty grim at the moment too so I don’t blame them for travelling further..
The problem is the disconnect between our refugee settlement policies, our overseas aid policies, our foreign policies and our defence policies. The defence link is obvious. But how can we justify accepting refugees from countries like China, Sri Lanka, Burma and so on while maintaining normal diplomatic relations with those countries, even giving them lots of our foreign aid (we do we give one cent to China?)?
And for all their faults, initial impressions are that the new federal government is getting Indonesia to be more proactive in the problem of leaky, unreliable and overcrowded boats. Roll on Palmer’s Titanic 2 which can bring them over in safety.
IP