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.
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Labor has no great reason to feel proud of their victory because the casualization of the workforce means the Libs alliance with business does not carry enough weight in the dumb ungerrymandered boxes that we think says we have a democracy .
The best thing will be if Labor don't listen to the greens. The left have enough of their own nutters to think the above reforms are actual achievements.
One would hope between Bracks and Brumby they would be scared of how badly advised they can be. Bracks knows that he can win points creating GNational Park . The evidence is that he is stupid enough to think it will be an environment win - many do. Presumably these little lights want to be remembered for putting the Envir on their record . Bracks and Thwaites certainly will get that - sloppy stupid.
Labor Bracks set themselves up to keep winning Victoria in 2006 .People asked me why i wasn't on the hustings this year . There is no point while this ridiculous electoral system ( as Anthony Green has pointed out) remains . one Labor bloke agreed it wasn't abot representation - just about self interest . Thanks Bracks
Was I wrong to suggest the Greens are on the nose? - I don't think so . Young P aren't stupid but they are idealistic and the good boy Greens vote grows while there is no alternative (Cost of real party participation is compromise ) . Many YP's chose to vote for the sex party for reasons we can maybe only speculate on - most likely they are following the trend of modern politics - its about me and my freedom It will be interesting to see overall whether Greens its gone up about the green vote i think . Country kids are more wary than the city knowing their record for wacky and i reckon close examination of the figures will show that Greens as a party is eroding its support in the same way as any "all things to all ideals" party will go eventually There is evidence that the bleeding of the bleeding hearts clubs is moving away from Greens to animal rights and other causes for eg . The results in upper, if nothing else show what a selfcentred mess Bracks has made of our democracy.
"A major reform of the Parliament was made by the Labor government, led by Steve Bracks, with the passage of the Constitution (Parliamentary Reform) Act 2003. Under the new system, members of the Legislative Council serve fixed four-year terms linked to elections for the Legislative Assembly, unless if the Legislative Assembly is dissolved sooner.
Each electoral region consists of 11 contiguous Legislative Assembly electoral districts with about 420,000 electors each, who elect five members to the Legislative Council by a single transferable vote. There are now 40 members of the Legislative Council, four fewer than before. The changes also introduced proportional representation. The opportunity was also taken to remove the Council's ability to block supply. The reforms have made it easier for minor parties to gain election to the Council and possibly gain the balance of power."
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