23 August 2011

Katy gets her blog

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Chief Minister Katy Gallagher is celebrating her 100th day in power by announcing that she’s started a blog:

I believe that a good government is an open and accessible government. I will be blogging on a range of issues that I deal with as Chief Minister, as Minister for Health and Industrial Relations, and as a local member representing the people of Molonglo. I want to hear your comments on my posts. I will try to respond as often as I can but if I do not reply please know that I am reading your comments. Please remember that that this is a public forum so be respectful in your comments. Thanks for taking the time to visit and I look forward to having a great conversation with you and hearing your views and concerns.

Looks tasteful.

As with any blog it’s all about the iteration rather than making an oil painting. Time will tell.

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DUB said :

I don’t care about any politicians-Greens,Coalition, Labour..They all suck. 🙂

Some suck better than others.

Just wondering about a broken vacuum cleaner. Does that suck or what?

Mr. Leigh, can you post a better pic of that chick standing to your right, she’s hidden behind Julia.Just wanted to have a look.Thanks.

PS-I don’t care about any politicians-Greens,Coalition, Labour..They all suck. 🙂

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Holden Caulfield said :

colourful sydney racing identity said :

I like the way you rail against socialism but are on a pension.

Almost as good as Mr Moulis going to the Labor Club for Christmas lunch. I kid you not!

I might be a conservative but my stomach is politically agnostic, especially where seafood is concerned 🙂

colourful sydney racing identity9:49 am 24 Aug 11

Holden Caulfield said :

colourful sydney racing identity said :

I like the way you rail against socialism but are on a pension.

Almost as good as Mr Moulis going to the Labor Club for Christmas lunch. I kid you not!

Ah the lolz. At least he has his picture on twitter so I will be able to avoid him next time I go to his local shops at Pearce.

Holden Caulfield9:40 am 24 Aug 11

colourful sydney racing identity said :

I like the way you rail against socialism but are on a pension.

Almost as good as Mr Moulis going to the Labor Club for Christmas lunch. I kid you not!

Holden Caulfield9:29 am 24 Aug 11

John Moulis said :

I’m proud of that comment and I stand by it.

And that tells us all we need to know about you.

Not that we didn’t already know it, haha.

colourful sydney racing identity9:13 am 24 Aug 11

John Moulis said :

Jim Jones said :

John Moulis has a blog?

BWA AHAHA HAHAHAHA HA HAHA

What does he post about? I though we already knew that the ABC, the Greens and everyone who’s not a far-right wingnut is part of a conspiracy to enslave the world (via the climate change red herring) that will install a one-world government under the control of the reptoids … ssshhh … there’s a black helicopter hovering overhead – quick, put your tinfoil hat on so that they can’t read your thoughts.

Or is it all about how 2GB, big cars and bodybuilding and completely awesome (and totally not gay)?

No I don’t have a blog. As someone once said “Bloggers are the uninformed talking to the non-existent”.

But you do have a twitter account.

I like the way you rail against socialism but are on a pension.

John Moulis said :

No I don’t have a blog. As someone once said “Bloggers are the uninformed talking to the non-existent”.

This is not how Arianna Huffington views the situation.

Jim Jones said :

John Moulis has a blog?

BWA AHAHA HAHAHAHA HA HAHA

What does he post about? I though we already knew that the ABC, the Greens and everyone who’s not a far-right wingnut is part of a conspiracy to enslave the world (via the climate change red herring) that will install a one-world government under the control of the reptoids … ssshhh … there’s a black helicopter hovering overhead – quick, put your tinfoil hat on so that they can’t read your thoughts.

Or is it all about how 2GB, big cars and bodybuilding and completely awesome (and totally not gay)?

No I don’t have a blog. As someone once said “Bloggers are the uninformed talking to the non-existent”.

Jono said :

Skyring said :

Hmmm. How much did we pay Push for this? What’s wrong with WordPress?

The interesting part is whether Katy’s blog will be a robust forum, or a whitewash.

Worryingly, looking at the code, it is WordPress…all they’ve done is put a custom skin on it.

Shoot! You’re right. I should have spotted that myself. But there’s a comment saying no government money was wasted on the blog, so that’s okay, I guess.

It’s Delicious from StudioPress, $US79.95. I use the Lifestyle theme from the same people for my own blog(s).

PantsMan said :

steveu said :

Expect moderation of comments by her staff.

Will public servants be used to run this?

Not public servants as such, but certainly people on the public payroll.

You know what I’d really like Katy to blog about? I’d like someone to explain just what the hell went wrong when they hooked Aranda up to the GDE.

steveu said :

Expect moderation of comments by her staff.

Will public servants be used to run this?

Oh my god, I almost missed the bit where a failed journalist and career public servant was going nuts against a politician “who has never worked a day in his life”.

BWAAAAA HA HA HAH AHAHAHAHAHA AH

LMAO, game of politics sounds a lot like bunch of 5 year-olds having disagreement in a sand pit, telling on each other and calling each other names.
“You are not my friend anymore!!”-BANNED. 🙂
At least now I know who are Andrew Leigh and John Moulis. Bloggers?
Congrats to Katy on her tax payer funded blog.I hope it will not be a waste of our money and it will be read by many people.

John Moulis has a blog?

BWA AHAHA HAHAHAHA HA HAHA

What does he post about? I though we already knew that the ABC, the Greens and everyone who’s not a far-right wingnut is part of a conspiracy to enslave the world (via the climate change red herring) that will install a one-world government under the control of the reptoids … ssshhh … there’s a black helicopter hovering overhead – quick, put your tinfoil hat on so that they can’t read your thoughts.

Or is it all about how 2GB, big cars and bodybuilding and completely awesome (and totally not gay)?

John Moulis said :

I told Andrew that in order to try and scare him in order to stop him constantly harrassing me and trying to contact me via my YouTube account after I unfriended him on Facebook.

I have trouble believing anyone would go to this trouble over facebook.

Its an interesting way to try and engage with the electorate. Good luck to her. Perhaps we will see genuine engagement in the comments area like JB occasionally does, and some public figures do on their blogs.

Sadly, most politicians blogs/fb accounts are generally updated by staffers – there is no debate, as its just another form of media to them.

For a man who spends all day slinging insults at others, you are remarkably thin-skinned.

AndrewW said :

John Moulis blocked me from commenting on his blog when I politely disagreed with one of his crazy rants. When I questioned him about this via private message, he reported me to the AFP.

No joke. He tried to drag “the feds” into an internet disagreement!

I did not drag “the Feds” into an Internet agreement. I told Andrew that in order to try and scare him in order to stop him constantly harrassing me and trying to contact me via my YouTube account after I unfriended him on Facebook. I don’t like stalkers or flakes who can’t understand the rules of engagement on Facebook.

Seeing as you’ll be dead before we get to witness the generational suffering your people have caused I’d ban you to.

Minor pains now are going to avoid huge pains in the future. Maybe you should have saved and invested some of your hard-worked for dollars sometime ago rather than bitching about the pain now. See what happened, your complete failure to learn.

I hope politicians realise they shouldn’t grovel to people like you because thinking, active & concerned people with long life spans ahead of them vote as well.

John Moulis blocked me from commenting on his blog when I politely disagreed with one of his crazy rants. When I questioned him about this via private message, he reported me to the AFP.

No joke. He tried to drag “the feds” into an internet disagreement!

amarooresident3 said :

You may be proud of your comment, but I would have banned you as well.

Ditto.

amarooresident34:49 pm 23 Aug 11

You may be proud of your comment, but I would have banned you as well.

colourful sydney racing identity said :

John Moulis said :

Will she blackban anybody who disagrees with her blog postings like her buddy Andrew Leigh did with me? Or will she send out nasty messages to people who try to add her as friends like Andrew Barr did with me on Facebook?

She’ll quickly find she can’t get away with much on the Net.

Why on earth would Andrew Leigh blackban you?

Oh,

maybe because of this?

Leigh, you are an absolute tool. A typical left wing academic geek who has never worked a day in his life who joins a political party and has a job for life in a safe seat where the idiots will vote Labor even if Mickey Mouse was the candidate.

You might like to write masturbatory crap about young people and their so-called commitment to the future and belief in so-called climate change, but what about us? Pensioners who are sick and tired of electricity bills going up because of Labor’s renewable energy targets? Too scared to turn on a light because we can’t afford it? Staring down the barrel of not being able to eat because the carbon tax will escalate the cost of everything. ALL TO PLEASE A BUNCH OF GREENIES. All to give wankers like you a warm and fuzzy feeling. I don’t give a flying [OMITTED – DO YOU REALLY NEED TO SWEAR TO MAKE YOUR POINT? ED] about a bunch of naive kids and a mealy-mouthed politician who grovels to this wankery, I care where my next meal will come from, I care about my elderly mother and my aunts and uncles who are being driven to the poorhouse by this green zealotry.

I know that you are the darling of The Canberra Times and other members of the left wing/green set with all this crap you are spouting about climate change, but the vast majority of Australians are screaming out for all this to STOP! For a break from rising prices, for a break from grovelling to The Greens, for an end to air-headed wankery about “saving the planet” and for a break from ignorant tools like you living in a little bubble on the public teat.

I’m counting the days until the next election when you and the rest of your mates will be on the opposition benches and we can completely brush the nightmare of the past year or so. It doesn’t matter what a bunch of bike riding, latte-sipping public servants and their kids north of the lake tell you, there is real anger and hatred brewing towards you and this government in the real Australia, and no amount of “carrotmobs” at Ainslie Shops will ever counter that.

http://www.andrewleigh.com/blog/?p=1031

I’m proud of that comment and I stand by it.

colourful sydney racing identity3:50 pm 23 Aug 11

John Moulis said :

Will she blackban anybody who disagrees with her blog postings like her buddy Andrew Leigh did with me? Or will she send out nasty messages to people who try to add her as friends like Andrew Barr did with me on Facebook?

She’ll quickly find she can’t get away with much on the Net.

Why on earth would Andrew Leigh blackban you?

Oh,

maybe because of this?

Leigh, you are an absolute tool. A typical left wing academic geek who has never worked a day in his life who joins a political party and has a job for life in a safe seat where the idiots will vote Labor even if Mickey Mouse was the candidate.

You might like to write masturbatory crap about young people and their so-called commitment to the future and belief in so-called climate change, but what about us? Pensioners who are sick and tired of electricity bills going up because of Labor’s renewable energy targets? Too scared to turn on a light because we can’t afford it? Staring down the barrel of not being able to eat because the carbon tax will escalate the cost of everything. ALL TO PLEASE A BUNCH OF GREENIES. All to give wankers like you a warm and fuzzy feeling. I don’t give a flying [OMITTED – DO YOU REALLY NEED TO SWEAR TO MAKE YOUR POINT? ED] about a bunch of naive kids and a mealy-mouthed politician who grovels to this wankery, I care where my next meal will come from, I care about my elderly mother and my aunts and uncles who are being driven to the poorhouse by this green zealotry.

I know that you are the darling of The Canberra Times and other members of the left wing/green set with all this crap you are spouting about climate change, but the vast majority of Australians are screaming out for all this to STOP! For a break from rising prices, for a break from grovelling to The Greens, for an end to air-headed wankery about “saving the planet” and for a break from ignorant tools like you living in a little bubble on the public teat.

I’m counting the days until the next election when you and the rest of your mates will be on the opposition benches and we can completely brush the nightmare of the past year or so. It doesn’t matter what a bunch of bike riding, latte-sipping public servants and their kids north of the lake tell you, there is real anger and hatred brewing towards you and this government in the real Australia, and no amount of “carrotmobs” at Ainslie Shops will ever counter that.

http://www.andrewleigh.com/blog/?p=1031

colourful sydney racing identity3:44 pm 23 Aug 11

John Moulis said :

Will she blackban anybody who disagrees with her blog postings like her buddy Andrew Leigh did with me? Or will she send out nasty messages to people who try to add her as friends like Andrew Barr did with me on Facebook?
.

LOL. You should become a Milwall supporter ‘nobody likes us and we don’t care’

Will she blackban anybody who disagrees with her blog postings like her buddy Andrew Leigh did with me? Or will she send out nasty messages to people who try to add her as friends like Andrew Barr did with me on Facebook?

She’ll quickly find she can’t get away with much on the Net.

I believe that a good government is an open and accessible government

Great!

wow, she flying …… 100 days and she has a blog 🙂

This city is really going places

It’s a pulpit, but anyone can get one of their own, so no harm in it.

colourful sydney racing identity2:05 pm 23 Aug 11

Skyring said :

Hmmm. How much did we pay Push for this? What’s wrong with WordPress?

The interesting part is whether Katy’s blog will be a robust forum, or a whitewash.

I think we can settle that now. It will not be a robust forum.

Skyring said :

Hmmm. How much did we pay Push for this? What’s wrong with WordPress?

The interesting part is whether Katy’s blog will be a robust forum, or a whitewash.

Worryingly, looking at the code, it is WordPress…all they’ve done is put a custom skin on it.

Expect moderation of comments by her staff.

Hmmm. How much did we pay Push for this? What’s wrong with WordPress?

The interesting part is whether Katy’s blog will be a robust forum, or a whitewash.

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