28 February 2006

Vicki Dunne email interview

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Liberal MLA Vicki Dunne has agreed to be part of a new RiotACT email interview series.

In the past we have chosen ten questions from those suggested, however, depending on the questions, I may pick five and add five follow-ups to them.

So, what do you want to know about Vicki Dunne and how she thinks? Put your suggested questions below before next Tuesday (28-FEB-06) and I’ll send them off on Wednesday.

UPDATED:This is a final call for all the questions you’ve ever wanted to ask of Liberal MLA Vicki Dunne, who has agreed to do an email interview with us.

Questions will be taken until approximately 9.30pm Tuesday 28-FEB-06.

FURTHER UPDATE The questions have now been sent. You can see the ones chosen in the comments below.

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you cant get an action bus because terry snow and the act gummint have been butting heads for years. anything that makes it easier for peopel to get to the airport the gummint will block.

bonfire, there IS a service, no denying that. But its EXPENSIVE. Even if you work at brindabella, you still pay soemthing lik 3.50 a trip.
Why shouldn’t i be able to get out here on an Action bus in civic(going down consitution av, through russell then straight down morsehead drive, not goin through anywhere stupid like fyshwick.

Bonfire, you had a whole week to see what questions other people wanted asked and, if you thought it appropriate, to compose your own question on public transport for consideration with all the others. You didn’t ask about public transport, so it wasn’t included.

5 is easy – there already is a bus to the airport. snow has a contract with deanes to run a mon-fri business hours service.

should there not perhaps be a question on public transport in general. your questions skirt it – parking in civic, buses to airport etc.

On a side related issue, did anybody else receive a missal from Vicki Dunne last night ?

I was most amused at the topic; What I thought about the Ginninderra High School closure and the consultation process, and the effect of the closure on my family.

Too little, too late, sprang to mind. Well that alongside ineffectual crap in my letterbox…

barking toad9:54 am 01 Mar 06

Very dissappointed that “shit from clay” didn’t get a guernsey!

Here are the questions chosen:

1. Do you think you have irreparably damaged Richard Mulcahy’s leadership ambitions by alienating the one member of the Smyth faction who might have changed sides, Steve Pratt? Some may ask whether you are really a Smyth mole, sent into the Mulcahy to ensure he is unable to gain sufficient numbers to take the leadership?
2. How do you feel about the Federal Government overruling ACT decisions? While the entire country clearly has a legitimate interest in the decisions affecting the parliamentary triangle area, should residents of, say, Sydney have any more influence on planning decisions in Gungahlin or Tuggeranong than we do on Parramatta?
3. If you were planning an ACT Liberal Party fund raiser and needed a community leader from Canberra to speak, who would you ask?
4. I would be interested to hear how you propose the ACT deal with the unacceptably high level of teenage school drop outs as a result from the proposed ‘curriculum renewal’? What do you propose as an alternative?
5. What do you think about putting a bus line through to – I like this one – Canberra International Airport?
6. What are your thoughts on actually being able to park your car in Civic?
7. As a politician, how do you approach difficult issues/decisions such as the proposed Majura Valley Dragway, where both sides of the argument are very passionate and have valid points? How do you personally arrive at a position on this type of issue?
8. The big question is what have you got against Staffies?

Do you still feel that they should be a restricted/banned dog in the ACT and why? Going by dog attack stats you’d be far better restricting heelers or shepherds.
A Staffordshire bull terrier is a wonderful dog that is gentle and loving. You’d be better for having one Vicki.
9. Vicki, as ex-Education minister perhaps you could shed some light on why, both the ACT Department of Education and CEO have failed to “come to the party” re: Enterprise Bargaining Agreements which become redundant this year.

The CEO EBA is completed at the end of March and despite the CEO having an offer on the table for 5 months, they have done nothing.

The ACT Department of Education has also had an offer on the table.

Do you believe they are effectively “holding out” so that the new IR laws can come into effect and basically have teachers arrested if they choose to strike?
10. Vicki, you’re on the public record as saying Katy Gallagher, courtesy of being born in the 1970s, is ‘imbued with all the pedagogical nonsense that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s that thwarted educational reform in western schooling’. The new shadow education spokesperson, Zed Seselja, is also a child of the 70s and is therefore also likely to be imbued with similar ‘pedagogical nonsense’. Do you think he will be able to overcome such genetic inhibitions?

Vicki, you’re on the public record as saying Katy Gallagher, courtesy of being born in the 1970s, is ‘imbued with all the pedagogical nonsense that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s that thwarted educational reform in western schooling’. The new shadow education spokesperson, Zed Seselja, is also a child of the 70s and is therefore also likely to be imbued with similar ‘pedagogical nonsense’. Do you think he will be able to overcome such genetic inhibitions?

Do you think you have irreparably damaged Richard Mulcahy’s leadership ambitions by alienating the one member of the Smyth faction who might have changed sides, Steve Pratt? Some may ask whether you are really a Smyth mole, sent into the Mulcahy to ensure he is unable to gain sufficient numbers to take the leadership?

Vicki, as ex-Education minister perhaps you could shed some light on why, both the ACT Department of Education and CEO have failed to “come to the party” re: EBAs which become redundant this year.

The CEO EBA is completed at the end of March and despite the CEO having an offer on the table for 5 months, they have done nothing.

The ACT Department of Education has also had an offer on the table.

Do you believe they are effectively “holding out” so that the new IR laws can come into effect and basically have teachers arrested if they choose to strike?

Thanks.

Have another read Mael: Questions will be taken until approximately 9.30pm

So far everything and nothing; decisions will be made tonight.

Kerces, what made the cut ?

The big question is what has she got against Staffies?

Does she still feel that they should be a restricted/banned dog in the ACT and why? Going by dog attack stats you’d be far better restricting heelers or shepherds.

A Staffordshire Bull Terrier is a wonderful dog that is gentle and loving. You’d be better for having one Vicki.

the high cost of the airport bus is rumoured to be because the airport charge a fee per passenger (like the taxi levy they also charge.) The ACT govt needs to pay more attention to details like this in the contracts they sign with developers. I still think ACTION could run a bus to just outside the airport.

Great point Andy!

Will a liberal government reduce bus fares to encourage a wider uptake of the service ?

there is a bus from the city to the airport.
it costs something like $7.00 per trip. Its not run by the ACT Govt. You’d think, with charges like that, they’d be quick to jump on the bandwagon.

Vicki,

as a politician, how do you approach difficult issues/decisions such as the proposed Majura Valley Dragway, where both sides of the argument are very passionate and have valid points?
– How do you personally arrive at a position on this type of issue.

ps – I second the Airport Bus and especially the Parking in Civic questions.

Vicki, instead of emailing press releases, why dont the liberals email policies.

i like reading the press release wars from all assembly parties, but i cant recall ever seeing a press release about a substantive non-reactive policy development.

Is policy development occurring within the act liberals, and how are these policies made available for constituents to look at.

I have to say, I’ve never found it all that hard to park my car in Civic. Then again, I don’t actually work there, and I’m never there in work hours.

Some people just get very peeved becuase they have to walk an extra block or two…

What’s her thoughts about the recent amalgamation of the NSW and ACT tourism departments, and whether or not she thinks development of joint efforts such as the rail link between Sydney and Canberra with a possible (future) integration into an internal Canberra rail system (light or monorail) becoming a feasable tourism venue for Canberra ?

What does she think about putting a bus line through to – I like this one; Canberra International Airport.

What’s her policy on actually being able to park your car in Civic ?

Does she really put her lipstick on with her fist (or does it just appear that way).

Given the hammering the MLAs often get on here, I would like to know how relevant she finds websites like RiotACT in gauging public awareness/feeling when determining/debating polices and would her attitude change if in government?

If Vicki was planning an ACT Liberal Party fund raiser and needed a community leader from Canberra to speak, whom would she ask?

I’d like to know why she (when she was shadow education minister) did not return my e-mail re: a matter I had raised in said e-mail.

Indeed, can she spell “propose”?

Slapp_monkey4:14 pm 22 Feb 06

I would be interested to hear how she preposes the ACT deal with the unacceptably high level of teenage school drop outs as a result from the preposed ‘curriculum renewal’? What does she prepose as an alternative?

How does she feel about the Federal Government overruling ACT decisions? While the entire country clearly has a legitimate interest in the decisions affecting the parliamentary triangle area, should residents of, say, Sydney have any more influence on planning decisions in Gungahlin or Tuggeranong than we do on Parramatta?

Is it a useful thing for a party in opposition to settle its internal differences in public, or does it just distract from casting light on the activities fo the government of the day?

I guess it’s a bit obvious to ask her about the difference between shit and clay 🙂

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