What will it be TODAY? My hope is that the Greens get a reality check - I trust it's on the cards

While there still seems a great risk of minor group dominance, in this The VIC ELECTION DAY


The Greens have candidates in all electorates and it will be the most interesting aspect of this election to see how they poll,


Despite their popularity and high spirits ,I am hoping the electorate will see through them as i think many young people are too


I hope it translates to a reluctance to let Labor have another go


I am hoping that if Labor get in , Andrews makes clear he is breaking with the Greens. If there is to a positive side to a Labor win this could be one


However the down side is that

• The bureau will be refueled with reactionaries . 
• Those who want to make the world a better place by taking people to court ( equal opportunity court review) 
• Those who want to make the world a better place by just throwing out old and bringing in latest fad 
• Those who want to make the world a better place by giving people money to behave better 
• Those who want to make the world a better place by putting themselves in charge ( the state of advisory service to members of parliament would be in some quarters ( env and edu be unreliable) 

There is a good old Aussie expression 'takes one to know one ". Wood -headed is the authors problem .The greatest evil is done in the name of the best intention --Now that's a even bigger and brighter bit of world wide wisdom that Bracks might have heeded before he got conned by Green labor into his/their godlike skills in making water.

These noisy and marginal advocates have god like wisdom and power - and all we have to do is to do nothing
All these wonderful ambitions mentioned in the article about Greater Eastern National Park about forest and ecological management would be supported if they actually occurred .
Apparently all this good work starting at Healesville and going east is so easy to do . Apparently it will all happen because we do nothing .
Too bad half the assertions about all the wonderful things that will happen are just plain wrong . As if doing nothing is always the right thing to do .
I hope no readers conduct their lives this way , because its the way of blinkered cowards, full reality deniers and ignorant worriers ,
The rotting of forests will not sequester carbon and the protection of water quality will not occur if you allow acid to degraded the soils and water in over-mature forests.
Let the readers wait for a response from them before they get sucked in again to another Green labor proposal to save the earth by the simplest of tricks . The reality is that this new easy low effort religion is so heavenly minded its of no earthly use--
Simple faiths sound good , but when you test some ( Greens have no history apart from Pedder that works ) - In their case as the arguments show it will just go thud when tested and at our expense.

Lets hope and pray for Andrews that ,  if he gets in , that he makes a clear break with the wacky do gooders.
Dogooders in my book includes the dummies who think reviving trial by loose tribunal is the way to deal with discrimination ( Equal Opportunity Act)

So symbolic of the praxis failure of the left is this : they leave effectiveness to the one eyed looseness of legislation; having no faith in their fellow man and the traditional levers of the soul they are at the mercy of mere politics and legal leverage.

Poll result

with only 2 votes the result is more than  a bit sus . However if the Napthine govt fails today , it should take note re consulatnts,  not listening,  not locally accountable .Things we see not just at State level but in the parlous state of our local Councils.

So much easier to do nothing

If you know nothing .
We locals are off to Forrest this arvo to celebrate the life of a man who knew what he knew and knew a lot about what he didn't know - a wonderful bloke .

The city pretends it knows a lot about the environment ; we know different about who knows what and what the city really knows --- almost nothing.
Who do you vote for? Someone who respects locals or someone who lets someone else (say from the city) make decisions for us. 
Jim Speirs , whose life we celebrate this week,  was one local who knew what he was talking about  . As a result he did a lot to build understanding and respect for his work in and amongst the complex issues of managing Otways resources; He used a friendly, competent  and reasonable conversation that made sense .He knew the 3 crops of timber and the damage done to West Barwon catchment, so he wasn't afraid of history or a risky land use . His own study on the ground showed that we often burned too much ( for sound forest ecology ) and were doing it again   
He wasn't indolent in promoting decision making . He wanted our grandchildren to make houses, furniture and Maton guitars out of the bounty, rather than just let things rot ,die or burn or make acid water ....as some now do.  
Many of us long for the day when our leaders don't just spend all  our resources waiting for a decision from those who don't really know what they are talking about, are too afraid of others,  or are too afraid to admit they don't know the complex beast of environment: 

We have enough leaders who can open up a bridge or a new road.
We want leaders who,  instead of years of indecision and fear , can reopen a simple walkway through the bush to Marriners Falls ,or make a safe place for vehicles to go in a bushfire , or just give us our dogs back . All in a days work for Jim

Why is Napthine worried? His party are dreaming?..... of just how rich they are ?

I mean they have done everything.  Offered us new roads&  railways .   They are raking it in like never before on Stamp Duty .Are they just Kennett style - leave it to business BUT with soft gloves . Bet they don't offer to reduce the number of holidays .  Do we trust them ?----East west link and more - not even costed .  Hard hitting or just let business do what it likes ? Talk big pay later
Surely they can't have gone too far ? Surely the Libs infrastructure talk isn't failing like some crack in their mindboggling ambitions to give us things we want.
Surely the Libs infrastructure talk isn't failing ----- the tangible concrete  is so much easier than real government work

Surely they can't have gone too far ?  something sus  in their mindboggling ambitions to give us things we want  ,
Are we all dummies or do we want our children to have houses , not gloat on the prices of them. Those of us that have them .
Maybe we have seen through all this market and business knows best . After all it just exploits people ?
Are we all dummies or do we want our children to have dreams , not live in boxes while they sell off old public land sites.
Are we all dummies or do we want our children to have dreams to live and work in what was once the most livable suburbs  or just get an 4WD SUV and some new roads so we can get outta here.

Are we all dummies or do we not sense that our biggest problem is the entitlement culture , our vulnerability to debt , throwing things out for new and BUYING in to the commercial . The way some parties play up to it --- and the dumb talk of how wealthy we are .
If I was a teenager I would be reluctant to vote for a government who does not activey recognise its own historical woosiness and playing up to rich in our culture .( spend billions to save commuters 10 minutes on a an an EW link  when the growth probably should be onto  trains )