Not sure Greg.... could you enlighten me ?
Tall poppy was aimed at Fitzgerald......
back to work.............
LP
Bruce..grew up just around the corner from the Mackenroths..would never have picked Terry to go on to his career as a major ALP powerbroker for many years.
Not sure Greg.... could you enlighten me ?
Tall poppy was aimed at Fitzgerald......
back to work.............
LP
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Goss was actually the frist to dump the career public servant from the DG job and put his buddy in. The incumbent had started in a certain dept..worked his way up from the bottom..through Director of Finance, Director of Housing...and then Director General..Goss won Govt and gave him the flick...all that dept knowledge and experience chucked aside...how stupid..and all Govts since have continued the trend..and they wonder why Departments fail to work at peak performance.
Dunno. Terry was in my class at primary school. Yup - he did not seemed destined to be anything other than the welder that he became for a while but I recall that even in primary school, he was heavily influenced by family affiliations with the Labor Party.
That he held me back from escaping a thumping by someone in about grade 8 at lunch time tells me that he was probably always well qualified to be what an ABC announcer once described him to me as being - ie a (politcal) headkicker.
Terry was good for the electorate though - very hard working for the electorate - and very good for community activities like girls' netball where I know that he was very active. That is where a lot of politicians fail but where the likes of Rudd and Mackenroth and Bob Katter and Iron Bar Tuckey survive and thrive. Viz the harder they work, the luckier they get when the electoral tide goes out.
As you will recall, Greg, this electorate was well served with Labor stars including Clem who drove a very active organically grown, community progress theme producing gems like what we now know as the Clem Jones Centre encompassing many sports facilities within the one block of land.
I reckon that the new member could do little worse than to explore how the State Government might help in updating those facilities. I am not sure that they have improved much over the years since Clem, apart from the pokie funded expansions of the football club.
Of course, another way that both Mark, and the new man in my electorate, could make a valuable name for themselves, is to get themselves on a state government committee to explore liquor licensing laws in this state and remove the restrictions of supermarkets being able to sell me a bottle of plonk whilst I am shopping for groceries.
I have just been watching a bit of Saturday afternoon TV and have seen the TV advertisements for various forms of gambling on mainstream media. If anything was soft porn, those adverts are in relation to how they make online gambling seem like a bit of innocent fun. I cannot understand how governments can allow that soft brainwashing of children to happen on free-to-air TV and yet ban the sale of a bottle of plonk in a supermarket as happens in the other states.
(Footnote for the youngsters under sixty in this forum, until 1963, Queensland primary schools included grade 8.)
Ahh JJ. It is true that there were subjects that I did struggle with at school.
eg geography.
Like, I can never remember where the Plimsoll line of self indulgence lies in Australia. Is it at the Tweed River or the Murray River?
Or was that the Plimsoll line of self denial? Cannot remember which.
All I remember was that it is always pretty miserable under it and that, whenever possible, the poor creatures down there would do all that they could to escape to be above that line to breathe in the pure Queensland oxygen of wisdom.
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I don't know about no plimsoul line but thats one of the most flowery pieces of bulldust I've ever read. Please get your punctuation and spelling right, first time, next time. Cheers JJ
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Ya better let Tony know, Mark.
Well done Mark for coming onto Ausfish after the disappointment of not getting fisheries and offering to be a potential line of communication. I think it shows and lot of character regardless of which side of politics you're on and I sincerely hope that things work out for the best for you as I suspect what's best for you will be best for us rec anglers as well.
We need to go back to a new monarchy of Australia..
Tony Abbot as King and Julia Gillard as Queen.
Imagine what their offspring would look like.Tony Abbot as King and Julia Gillard as Queen.
The title of the role is "Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry" not "Fisheries". Whilst Mark is pretty clued on for one of the three titles, could it be that McVeigh might be better qualified for the job that entails all three titles? And whilst we are at it, what is the biggest income earner for Queensland, Agriculture, Fisheries or Forestry??
How $$much$$ do Hospitals make us Andy ??
Why have a "minister at all" for health. ??
Maybe RecFishos contribute a.k.a $$make more$$ FOR the ECONOMY than hospitals....
...AND...$$more$$ than Commercial fishing
Go figure
Not quite sure what you are getting at there Gazza. Are you suggesting hospitals are a waste of money?
As for the Rec V Commercial Sector, I would be interested to know the dollar value. One would have to consider the export market for the commercial fishery, but also the local market in terms of boats and tackle shops etc. I would suggest from my experience that the rec sector is grossly underestimated, but I am yet to see solid evidence of that.