Labor Cabinet IQ

Can you believe it? Apparently Della Bosca represented 50% of the Intelligence Quotient of the Labor Cabinet. Well if that's 50% IQ it doesn't say much about the failed minister nor the rest of the cabinet that remains in office!

Super Premier Man (aka Nathan Rees)

A hilarious and timely comic strip from the Daily Telegraph -- it is a hoot!

Selling the Lotteries - Hello, Anybody Home?

Could somebody please knock on the collective cranium of the NSW Labor Cabinet? I just want to be sure if anybody is there. I think that there is a "vacancy" sign displayed on the collective forehead of the Cabinet -- "for lease, vacancy, apply within". The empty-heads want to try and sell the NSW Lotteries. How are they going to pull that off? The Shooters Party wants to go "bang-bang" in National Parks, wants to over-turn the law that can whack a fool for aiming a laser pointer at aircraft, and what seems to be a fishing-free-for-all. They won't support Labor until they get their way with guns. So how can Labor govern in a hung Upper House? What a laugh, Hatzistergos doesn't want the health portfolio - yeah right after he supervised it from 2005-2007. And Hatzistergos is the key player who got The Greens to vote for his bill, and they said right John so long as the Shooters are stopped. Oh please why isn't he removed from office? When oh when can we vote this lot out?

Hatzistergos and Health Portfolio

Hatzi is back (for the time being) as Minister for Health, a position held from 2005-07. His track record back then is not something to cheer about. Presumably it will only be a short nanny-based appointment until someone fills the chair left vacant by Della Bosca. Hold your breath NSW Health and Hospitals!

NSW Planning Minister Hammered

For once, it seems, the cause of pro-development has suffered a set-back due to the findings of the Land & Environment Court. The findings sink more nails into the political coffin of Mr Sartor and they also put Kristina Keneally as the current minister on-the-spot.

The donor relationship between developers and NSW Labor does not look good at all in the eyes of the public: a party and government beholden to companies interested in making fast-dollars.

Yet one more factor to add to the Mt Everest high-pile of reasons for voting out the current state government!

Richard Ackland on Hatzistergos

A million thank-yous to Richard Ackland! He has had the guts to tell it like it is about John Hatzistergos' war against Nicholas Cowdery and the DPP. Ackland spells out the truth about the alleged wasted funds by the prosecutors who attended a conference in Brisbane. He points out how the numbers of prosecutors are down, how junior solicitors are carrying grunt work (when they should not), and that the District Courts are in a mess because of fewer employees. All of this reflects on John Hatzistergos and Laurie Glanfield -- it is not good policy or good administration at all. The NSW Attorney General's Department is in a mess and these two men are in charge.

Ackland describes Hatzistergos and his media effort to discredit Cowdery as the thorn-in-the-flesh:

"Hatzistergos represents a haunted, closed, suspicious, micro-managing sort of politics. And to leak against your public servants is, frankly, the pits."

Time both Hatzistergos and Glanfield resigned.

A Deficit for the DPP

Nicholas Cowdery has indicated that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is (once more) short of cash to the tune of at least $3 million, and the staffing levels are likewise a bother.
Meanwhile Mr John Hatzistergos the NSW Attorney General deflects the matter by saying something like "it's that time of year" concerning budget allocations. Yes it probably is! And we all know that the purse strings of Treasury are locked tight because the state is broke. We also know that the Attorney General's Department is in a state of acute crisis in all its sections and it agencies. They keep raiding coin-jars to prop up a system that is dead.