Post it …

If you are intending to vote by post in the impending election it would be as well to apply very soon.

Beware of this scam. The best way to apply is online via the Australian Electoral Commission web page where you will learn that …

You can apply for a postal vote if you:

  • are outside the electorate where you are enrolled to vote
  • are more than 8km from a polling place
  • are travelling
  • can’t leave your workplace to vote
  • are seriously ill, infirm or due to give birth shortly (or caring for someone who is)
  • are a patient in hospital and can’t vote at the hospital
  • have religious beliefs that prevent you from attending a polling place
  • are in prison serving a sentence of less than three years or otherwise detained
  • are a silent elector
  • have reasonable fear for your safety.

Click the button and fill in the form.

Recycling …

Peter Beattie on Kevni …

No one should ever forget the damage that he has done.

Sources close to the prime minister tell me that other celebrity candidates are under consideration.

Following the outstanding success of Bob Carr and the shot in the arm that Peter Beattie has given the campaign in Queensland, former state labor politicians are considered very marketable properties. Even as we speak Eddy Obeid and Ian MacDonald are being recruited to run in marginal seats. Eddy is particularly attractive because the campaign is somewhat strapped for cash and rumour has it that Eddy has a quid or two stashed away.

Trust me …

We are at the end of a boom.

The money has been rolling in. Things get tougher from here. We should be cashed up and ready to respond to tighter times. We’re not.

Why not? Well, two terms of Labor government have a lot to do with that, and Mr Rudd reduces the issue to the question “Who do you trust?”. He does seem to be making it very easy.

Even the Fin Review, a Fairfax rag can tell you the answer. It does its best to soften the blow for Labor, the Telegraph puts it more bluntly …

 

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Batty …

THE era of Kevin, interrupted by the Julia interlude, has been a roller-coaster ride. Having promised Howard-lite and fiscal conservatism, the excuse of the global financial crisis unleashed a period of rapid growth in government spending, successive budget deficits and mounting public debt under Kevin Rudd’s guidance.

Now, with Rudd’s return, Labor has launched a charm offensive that seeks to whitewash the past: it is as if aliens from Mars, fortunately departed, had been in charge.

Now that Miss Gillard has gone back to Mars it’s worth looking at the Rudd record …

…in the 935 days between becoming prime minister on December 3, 2007, and Julia Gillard’s coup of June 24, 2010, Rudd left Australians with at least $153 billion in unfunded fiscal burdens while wasting $100 billion of the community’s resources….

Labor has now achieved a net debt of $161.6bn. The May budget forecast an $18 billion deficit for this year and just a short time later it has had to be revised to $30 billion.

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Emmett’s disciple …

Got talking with a guitar player today. Lovely guy, named Wayne Monger.

Back in the 70’s one Emmett Chapman developed an instrument that is essentially a guitar and a bass mounted side by side on a near vertical plank. The strings are tapped rather than plucked. The result gives the soloist a harmonic freedom and range that would give the piano a run for its money, the Chapman Stick. Wayne is a convert …

or try this from Robert Culbertson

Local government bullying …

Dear City of Melbourne,

I do hope that council has read and considered the article published <HERE>.  Especially taking note of the comments.

Yours faithfully,

Robert McGee.

 

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Thank you for your feedback.

This feedback has been recorded and passed onto the Parking and Traffic team for their information.

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Regards,

Sam on behalf of  Customer Relations | Customer Relations Branch

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Integrity, Courage, Accountability, Respect, Excellence

Don’t you love this bit … Integrity, Courage, Accountability, Respect, Excellence.

I will be voting NO in the referendum concerning recognition of Local Government in the constitution.