tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post6578468550529703798..comments2023-11-03T00:06:36.875+11:00Comments on Bunyipitude: It's Time To Talk About TedBunyiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-53704338141049115132012-11-12T09:54:39.939+11:002012-11-12T09:54:39.939+11:00Just saw this. So, how disgraceful! On Baillieu...Just saw this. So, how disgraceful! On Baillieu's table was John Cain (then-president of the Library Board of Victoria) and Eric Beecher (the chairman of the centre organising the awards)? Outrageous! And... *other* people of *different* political persuasions were in attendance (not at his table)? I don't know how he can hold his head up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-74699618728882390622012-01-23T17:22:10.255+11:002012-01-23T17:22:10.255+11:00I would suggest a new identification for the Premi...I would suggest a new identification for the Premier - 'The Compassionate Ditherer'<br /><br />The election seems to have changed the individual ministers but not the government one iota. <br /><br />Instead of a Labor government being protective of the disadvantaged and giving unions every chance of success, the Libs are protective of the disadvantaged and giving property developers every change of success. <br /><br />Perhaps we would have been better off if the Brumby government had been simply overthrown by a different faction of the ALP, one that could have owned up and reversed all the mistakes of the Baracks/Brumby era - Myki, desalination plants, establishing an anti-corruption commission...which would be more than Ballieau has done.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-18475789579114766282012-01-23T15:17:30.328+11:002012-01-23T15:17:30.328+11:00Red Ted is a disgrace pure amd simple. A rabid mul...Red Ted is a disgrace pure amd simple. A rabid multiculturalist who wants this detested policy enshrined into the Commonwealth Constitution, likens refugees to ANZACs, amd takes counsel from the rabid ethnic salami slicing extremist Petro. The sooner the party shafts him the better. His views on social policy are the elites wet dream. Supports the detested Hulls charter of rights and an assortment of leftist social policies. There's plenty of time for the party to get rid of him and his small cabal of supporters won't be able to hold off the inevitable challenge that will come from the true conservatives that represent mainstream voters. Imagine that, Alcorn and Beecher. Standard bearers of the hard extreme loopy left. How pathetic red Ted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-45484691189575745692012-01-23T14:06:37.908+11:002012-01-23T14:06:37.908+11:00Yes, absolutely spot on about Cain.
We only got t...Yes, absolutely spot on about Cain. <br />We only got those wretched pokies because he had sent the state broke and Kirner needed the revenue. (and haven't they been a wonderful benefit to the ALP heartland suburbs.)<br />There was nothing left after Cain was finished. Poor old Joan even had to flog the people's bank off the that Sydney Spiv Keating such was the depth of the mess he and Rob Jolly caused.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-83519565013680443402012-01-23T13:36:21.279+11:002012-01-23T13:36:21.279+11:00As a good culture warrior I would have liked to ha...As a good culture warrior I would have liked to have seen Ted put a bit more stick about, but one thing I'd give the new government credit for is I do think that they have marginalised some of the green forces that were dictating policy in this state under Labor. <br /><br />There might be something in what Anonymous at 4.16pm says - voters might be qute happy with an apolitical government that keeps out of our lives as much as possible.Bearbrassnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-9719579652189754732012-01-23T13:27:07.598+11:002012-01-23T13:27:07.598+11:00Here's another who is underwhelmed.
The bloke...Here's another who is underwhelmed.<br /><br />The bloke has charisma up close but is too left for this conservative.<br /><br /> So much so that the Libs won't be getting my 2012 subscription as a member.<br /><br /><br />Does anyone think he might see too much of his Min L, or has he always been a closet Green left spin meister?<br /><br />Mind you I'm still not going to vote Labor or Green<br />(UGH! UGH! Know them too well and have NO respect for any of them) <br />and I'm still going to vote for Tony Abbott!Jazzanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-76364495623297149882012-01-23T12:47:39.575+11:002012-01-23T12:47:39.575+11:00Teddy is banking on the electorate thinking the Co...Teddy is banking on the electorate thinking the Coalition will be a safe bet in 2014. It's all about safe bets. And look at the second election results over the last 15 years - almost invariably a big win for an incumbent government after a tight first win followed by a first term of supposedly doing nothing.Tonyhttp://aftergrogblog.blogs.com/cricket/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-57216698728678583632012-01-23T12:06:57.876+11:002012-01-23T12:06:57.876+11:00To expect Ted to run screaming from packs of Lefti...To expect Ted to run screaming from packs of Lefties - this is Victoria, after all; they are everywhere - is ridiculous. Moreover, much of the criticism of Ted is that he has done nothing - this is the reaction from people whose memory stretches no further back than eleven years, a period during which Labor people were in the papers every day wearing ridiculous orange vests - giving people of little brain the impression that Labor was 'doing' things - while the State was run down.paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-80644561436090179472012-01-23T11:16:43.022+11:002012-01-23T11:16:43.022+11:00Balderdash! Us out here in the suburbs are bloody ...Balderdash! Us out here in the suburbs are bloody glad that Ted is playing steady as she goes.With a huge inherited Victorian debt and a Federal government that is bound and determined to create havoc on a big scale, we are pretty happy with the hands off routine.You don't hear the voters complaining do you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-20988511873082955522012-01-22T21:26:21.267+11:002012-01-22T21:26:21.267+11:00Victoria is now known all over the rest of Austral...Victoria is now known all over the rest of Australia as The People's Republic of South Murray. Unless Ted behaves as the overwhelming majority of reddish voters in Mexico expect him to he'll be out on his ear anyway.whyisitsonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-10613087400778416672012-01-22T20:14:04.432+11:002012-01-22T20:14:04.432+11:00Bugger Ted, I'd like to see the recipe for the...Bugger Ted, I'd like to see the recipe for the "leg of lamb spiked with garlic, secret herbs and diced pancetta (which) emerged from the smoker". The fruit salad drowned in banana liquer also sounds wonderful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-59559401827269576012012-01-22T19:42:43.458+11:002012-01-22T19:42:43.458+11:00Walter: In regard to linking the Eastern Freeway t...Walter: In regard to linking the Eastern Freeway to the Bolte Bridge, don't overlook the fact that the Greens oppose such a move -- and Ted has demonstrated a curious willingness to placate them. If I'm not mistaken, Ted voted against Bay dredging, not that it did him any good with your Brunswick communards. (If I'm wrong, please correct)<br /><br />I almost relish the fact that the link is not being built. Let Bob Brown's admirers suck exhaust fumes. Meanwhile, smart Melbournians swing left at that magnificent eucalypt on the traffic island outside the Parkville Asylum and then scoot down Grattan to Arden Street and on to Dynon Road.Bunyiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-7244562054550647302012-01-22T19:29:43.242+11:002012-01-22T19:29:43.242+11:00Tony, re. your second comment: That tight majority...Tony, re. your second comment: That tight majority you mention, what if there is a backbench heart attack or someone is forced to resign under scandalous circumstances?<br /><br />At that point, do you reckon our side might regret a gameplan hung on four years of not rocking the boat and hoping incumbency, rather than achievement, is enough to get Team Ted back over the line?<br /><br />With a one-seat majority, Ted's hold on power is a good deal more tenuous than Gillard's. He really does need to start getting things right (pun intended).<br /><br />Part of his misguided approach, I believe he gets from his mate Kennett, who may have warned him once too often that his own government was turfed out because of its perceived arrogance and emphasis on bulldozing opponents.Bunyiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-26413969078977466112012-01-22T19:14:36.394+11:002012-01-22T19:14:36.394+11:00Ted is playing what was described in Bracks' f...Ted is playing what was described in Bracks' first term as "cross-over" politics. In other words, don't rock the boat from the off, steady as she goes, benefit from the authority innately granted by incumbency, and roll from a tight majority at the first election to a large majority at the second election. Then, with a tidy electoral buffer to protect them, they can slough off the dead wood in the bureaucracy and all the assorted quangos.Tonyhttp://aftergrogblog.blogs.com/cricket/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-51716889869559156282012-01-22T19:11:10.840+11:002012-01-22T19:11:10.840+11:00Before Ted was elected I attended a fund-raising b...Before Ted was elected I attended a fund-raising breakfast for the local candidate at which he was the guest speaker. One word: underwhelming. A speech consisting mostly of platitudes. And during questions afterwards he revealed he's up with the best of the when it comes to waffling and avoiding giving an answer.<br /><br />So we now have a government of remarkable non-achievement. Treading water as it were. What happened to the major infrastructure projects we were promised, e.g., closing the Greensborough Gap and connecting the Eastern Freeway to Citylink. It was all talk and no action.Walter Plingenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-69739481897195046392012-01-22T18:47:53.318+11:002012-01-22T18:47:53.318+11:00Prof, are you familiar with the term "RINO&qu...Prof, are you familiar with the term "RINO"? It's what the Yanks call someone who is Republican In Name Only. That's our Ted, Mr. Disappointment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-64427037011392521642012-01-22T18:18:33.050+11:002012-01-22T18:18:33.050+11:00Yes, Professor, we expect the incumbent Libs to le...Yes, Professor, we expect the incumbent Libs to lead the way for the coming Federal rout and start gingering up the luvvies, not to continue watering the precious little flowers.<br /><br />The Ape and I tend to keep our lefty friends all in one bunch now and see them in groups separate to other companions of trencher, barrel and vat. Otherwise it all gets just too hard, as the lefties trundle in, as lefties do, with the assumption that there will be no cognitive dissonance with anyone. We only keep our lefty friends with the application of lashings of teeth-gnashing discretion, and still they smell a rat with us I am sure. We are drifting apart. <br /><br />No such luck with the lefties within the family though.Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-41110389929999139002012-01-22T15:14:39.611+11:002012-01-22T15:14:39.611+11:00Tony: Tribal loyalty obliges me to hope you are ri...Tony: Tribal loyalty obliges me to hope you are right, even though I and others like me will have to hold noses while filling in the ballot. But if Ted's embrace of Labor-lite continues, why not vote for the genuine article?<br /><br />Why isn't he clearing out the luvvies, at the very least? Take the Premier's literary awards, which he has left in the hands of the former government's camp followers. Why is Film Victoria still a sanctuary for Brumby holdovers?<br /><br />Because we are such a pleasant and decent lot, the worst mistake conservatives make is to imagine our enemies are similarly decent. They aren't. Sure they will smile and nod, take your money and break bread with you, but the slightest opportunity to advance their agaenda, and their self-interests, sees them spring immediately into action.<br /><br />Ted could have friends, lots of them, and good friends, too. But he must first acknowledge conservative concerns. To date, he has shown precious inclination to do so, and that is profoundly disappointing.<br /><br />And if he does get in the mood to roll up his sleeves, the next thing he must do is fix his government's publicity machine. Ever notice the number of times, usually when the Age breaks another faux scandal, the words "the minister was not available for comment" appear at the bottom of those stories?<br /><br />By the election the impression of a government beset by corruption will have taken root and, as there is so little difference between Ted and Labor, why not vote for the party offering the biggest swag of handouts?Bunyiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-2302430035899941212012-01-22T14:31:58.232+11:002012-01-22T14:31:58.232+11:00John Cain? John Cain?? The presbyterian socialist ...John Cain? John Cain?? The presbyterian socialist wreaker of Victoria?? I was living in Victoria when he was Premier, and watched agape as he did everything he possibly could to wreak the economy, feiging surprise when it finally happened. I have only seen one more incompetant economiccaly destructive government, they are currently in action in Canberra.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-17637994288437705972012-01-22T14:31:06.036+11:002012-01-22T14:31:06.036+11:00The Coalition will easily win the next election.The Coalition will easily win the next election.Tonyhttp://aftergrogblog.blogs.com/cricket/noreply@blogger.com