Well dear Gladys B might have nailed the last nail in the coffin of her administration with her craven pandering to the horse racing/gambling industry by agreeing to put their damn ads on the Opera House sails at the behest of that old screeching parrot, Alan Jones. The hypocrisy of the man, he has a big interest in the racing industry and has a horse-breeding establishment in the Hunter Valley where some of the horses that are running in that race this afternoon were bred. I hope that it pours this afternoon so the fair weather race-goers will be deterred from going to Royal Randwick but the clouds are clearing, so they will make their money. It is so ridiculous, the only thing noteworthy about the particular race is the amount of money being offered, $13 Million and Jones and the Murdoch faux news mob have labelled the poor woman who is responsible for management of the Opera House as a member of the elite. A little while back I was shocked to discover that Alan Jones was opposed to expanding one of the giant open-cut coal mining pits in the Hunter Valley but then I realised it had nothing to do with any desire to protect the environment, no it was because of his horse stud, Arrowfield that he was worried about. He was still full-steam ahead with the COALition's pro-coal message, just not interested in a big open-cut next to his lucrative property. Gladys like Malcolm has spent this last year buckling to conservative interests - backflipping on the government's ban on greyhound racing and now actively supporting this industry that promotes animal cruelty, backflipping on the proposed marine reserves along the NSW coast because the Hunters, Fishers and Shooters Party, a right wing party dedicated to killing as many animals as possible threatened to block passage of bills in the Legislative Council and run candidates against them in marginal electorates on the coast. The NSW Liberals can't afford to chuck her out so close to the next election. She would have been dumped already.
The radio station, 2GB won't sack him because he is the highest rating bloviator in his time slot in Sydney, though his main demographic is old men and women wishing that they could return to the 1950's when everything for them was rosy, all of them likely to drop off the perch quite soon, so when they start dropping so will his ratings and he may retire to his apartment next to the Opera House. Another example of his hypocrisy and ability to force the NSW government to obey him was his and other wealthy occupants of the "Toaster", the apartment block he lives in complaining to the government and stopping the outdoor concerts in the forecourt of the Opera House because he didn't like them. Funnily enough there was no sign of him at his apartment on the night the ads were shown on the Opera House.
I think Scummo has regretted opening his trap and calling the Opera House a billboard and has had to backtrack on his thought bubble of maintaining the ability of church schools to discriminate against LGBQTI students, but he has spent a lot of time out in the electorate in hi-vis shaking hands with real "workers", attending sporting functions with his baseball cap welded on to prove he is a real Ozzie bloke and of course went out to the country to minister to the drought-affected farmers to show country people he has their interests at heart. If he keeps this frenetic pace in spreading the hype and blathering the spin up till the actual election campaign he will be half-dead by the end of it. Hopefully his government will be too.
Yes the light rail's route was specifically designed to go past Randwick race course but they didn't want it on their side of the road and so the trees had to go. There are not too many trees in the Eastern Suburbs other than Centennial Park and Moore Park so removing a whole stand of mature Moreton Bay figs from the streetscape and replace them with little thin saplings was just another example of the current NSW government's destruction of the city's environment. Their symbols should be the bulldozer and the chainsaw. They also loosened the land-clearing laws for farmers so they of course went on a land-clearing bonanza a year or so ago, before the drought conditions returned.
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Re: Old Goblins
Date: 2018-10-13 03:14 am (UTC)The radio station, 2GB won't sack him because he is the highest rating bloviator in his time slot in Sydney, though his main demographic is old men and women wishing that they could return to the 1950's when everything for them was rosy, all of them likely to drop off the perch quite soon, so when they start dropping so will his ratings and he may retire to his apartment next to the Opera House. Another example of his hypocrisy and ability to force the NSW government to obey him was his and other wealthy occupants of the "Toaster", the apartment block he lives in complaining to the government and stopping the outdoor concerts in the forecourt of the Opera House because he didn't like them. Funnily enough there was no sign of him at his apartment on the night the ads were shown on the Opera House.
I think Scummo has regretted opening his trap and calling the Opera House a billboard and has had to backtrack on his thought bubble of maintaining the ability of church schools to discriminate against LGBQTI students, but he has spent a lot of time out in the electorate in hi-vis shaking hands with real "workers", attending sporting functions with his baseball cap welded on to prove he is a real Ozzie bloke and of course went out to the country to minister to the drought-affected farmers to show country people he has their interests at heart. If he keeps this frenetic pace in spreading the hype and blathering the spin up till the actual election campaign he will be half-dead by the end of it. Hopefully his government will be too.
Yes the light rail's route was specifically designed to go past Randwick race course but they didn't want it on their side of the road and so the trees had to go. There are not too many trees in the Eastern Suburbs other than Centennial Park and Moore Park so removing a whole stand of mature Moreton Bay figs from the streetscape and replace them with little thin saplings was just another example of the current NSW government's destruction of the city's environment. Their symbols should be the bulldozer and the chainsaw. They also loosened the land-clearing laws for farmers so they of course went on a land-clearing bonanza a year or so ago, before the drought conditions returned.