Is an attack on the ACT Government an attack on you? [With poll]

Skidbladnir said :

johnboy said :

PantsMan said :

Serbian community maintains support for Zed, despite electoral failure.

I thought Zed’s ancestry was Croatian?

Easy mistake to make, for all the touchy-feely “Don’t call a Croat a Serb or mention the Yugoslavian Breakup” and their tendency to nationalism, its only been twenty years since they were separated.
I’m guessing they stick back together when it suits his/their political needs.

Zed is indeed a Croat.

A good friend of mine who is a Croat had family visit from the old country a couple of years ago, and these vistors were surprised by the level of Serb v Croat evident in Australia, which is apparently more of an issue with the under 30’s here than back home.

johnboy said :

PantsMan said :

Serbian community maintains support for Zed, despite electoral failure.

I thought Zed’s ancestry was Croatian?

Easy mistake to make, for all the touchy-feely “Don’t call a Croat a Serb or mention the Yugoslavian Breakup” and their tendency to nationalism, its only been twenty years since they were separated.
I’m guessing they stick back together when it suits his/their political needs.

PantsMan said :

The tide has really gone out from Mr Stanhope’s government, and I think he knows it. Nobody is listening to him any more, and he is sounding more and more desperate.

I think that the rampant cost of living increases that have left people on $100K as basically working poor have finally cut through as people have realised that Stanhope’s utopian vision, which has been just around the corner for the last 10 years, will never materialise.

Prediction for 2012 election: Sadly, Stanhope back with support of the Greens; Serbian community maintains support for Zed, despite electoral failure.

I thought Zed’s ancestry was Croatian?

toriness said :

does a dislike of the current government really equate, in your minds, to a more all-encompassing conclusion we don’t deserve the right to self-govern on the same level as the states?

Simple; the ACT should be either allowed to do it properly – or not at all… either way, the Federal Government’s ability to repeal laws established by the Territories needs to be removed immediately…

The tide has really gone out from Mr Stanhope’s government, and I think he knows it. Nobody is listening to him any more, and he is sounding more and more desperate.

I think that the rampant cost of living increases that have left people on $100K as basically working poor have finally cut through as people have realised that Stanhope’s utopian vision, which has been just around the corner for the last 10 years, will never materialise.

Prediction for 2012 election: Sadly, Stanhope back with support of the Greens; Serbian community maintains support for Zed, despite electoral failure.

i appreciate the fact that a lot of rioters are highly critical of the current government. however does a dislike of the current government really equate, in your minds, to a more all-encompassing conclusion we don’t deserve the right to self-govern on the same level as the states? our population as a discrete region doesn’t deserve equal representation and independence? genuine and open question.

the ACT government itself is an attack on all canberrans

The ACT is a tin-pot operation eh? Well I say Senator Steve Hutchins is an oxygen thief and a joke of a man.

I think that if you let that bother you it is because you have no mind of substance and little insight into the big game of politics. Most don’t even stand by what they say on record in the real world, they say it to better the odds of the game. The game of holding office. We all play along don’t we? An attack on a government is an attack on a government. They don’t really do our bidding for us. Just I decide that.

With the price of tin now topping 30k a metric ton, I’d say that Senator Hutchins grossly over valued Chairman Stanhope and his merry band of numpties.