Snelling odds-on to replace Premier Mike Rann

Chase Stevens says:

03:58pm | 18/01/11

Gotta be better than Snelling though.

Tony of Poorakistan says:

09:23am | 18/01/11

They could put Bozo the Clown up for election and he’d probably get in; South Australian voters are stupid. 
 
This is the team that approved the electricity being turned off in a 45 degree heatwave, resulting in the deaths of a number of elderly citizens, so that the power could be sold to Victoria instead. 
 
This is the team that swallowed the Greens’ line about it never raining again, refused to countenance the idea of a dam (’‘what is the point if there will never be anything to fill it?’‘) and gave a mob of Spaniards nearly $2Billion to build a desalination plant that uses more electricity than the Adelaide CBD and produces a trickle of water at the same cost per litre as scotch. 
 
This is the team that approved the use of fake how to vote cards at the last election. 
 
This is the team that gave millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money to Puglia in Italy, for zero return, because that is where Mike Rann wants to retire and purely by coincidence is where his wife is from. 
 
This team refused to remove the state taxes as agreed under the GST reform, preferring to rename them levies (we have Emergency Services Levies, Save the Murray Levies etc etc, but they are simply taxes which go into general revenue). 
 
Neither Rann nor Foley have the slightest knowledge of what it is like to be a normal citizen in SA. They never talk to them, so how could they? They maintain an army of nearly 100 spin doctors to ensure that the public do not scrutinise what they don’t want scrutinised. 

They refused for years to have an Independent Commission Against Corruption, despite SA being a place that desperately needs one. Who was responsible for GIFTING (that’s right, it was free ) a pristine parkland to a bunch of slum developers in exchange for a toxic waste site that even the EPA says can never be remediated totally, since they plan to bury the waste onsite. 
 
Who put in place a Govt body to over-rule local councils on development proposals and then put on that body, the wife of one of Adelaide’s largest developers?

Adelaide is shrinking in terms of importance and they don’t care. Companies like BankSA, Adelaide Bank and SGIC (Some of the biggest employers in the state and companies who were headquartered here) no longer exist. Others like Ipec have been ‘merged’ with interstate companies and have a skeleton presence here. Still others, like Mitsubishi, have simply folded up their tents and gone away. 

SA is a basket case thanks to successive Labor Governments and I see nothing that will cause it to improve

Normy says:

09:57am | 18/01/11

Tony, a few things- firstly the Liberals distributed a third parties How to vote cards in 06 which directed votes to themselves over labor when that party indicated a split ticket in seats like Hartley and Mawson- at least the Michael Brown had the balls to put his name on the dodgey cards.

Yes this teams swallowed the line of the tiser and the libs and built the desal plant, but god forbid a source of water be avilable when there may be a drought, or do they not happen anymore because of one storm??

alot of the “facts” and figures you quote are laughable, where do they come from- I woudl hope that if your attempting to educate such stupid voters you might need a shred of evidence.  But then thats typical of people liek yourself, you feel that from your arm chair you can pontificate onto others as you knwo whats best, well put your money where your mouth is and run for election, i’d surely liek to vote against you.

You attack the government for seemingly not stoping globalisation- that thing that makes your beef cheap and all those other consumer goods easy to get.  companies have merged and folded because of many good reasons associated with the national economy and the global economy and barely if any associated with the state government- its a wonderful stretch.

SA is getting a new train system, more trams and busses, a new hopsital, a revamped stadium (which it doesnt need) as well as a secure supply of water from diversified sources- i can think of much worse in the current climate.  SA is a basket case because of people liek yourself who oppose any development and change, like a dwarfed version of france you are screaming for some sort fo relevance nationally and globally when you dont seem to get it that SA is not of any relevance and doesnt need to be- the general public often are happy to get by in a safe home, with secure income, good education and access to public transport and services when they need it.

G.J of Great Country says:

10:07am | 18/01/11

Goodness me Tony:we have been bottling up our bile and hatreds for quite some time haven’t we? ..Calm down before you have a heart attack.!      Perhaps you are the basket case Tone—because i don’t see a lot of stupid people,but i do see plenty of contented ones..By the way,i hope that young Jay Weatheral gets the top gig..

Saskia says:

11:33am | 18/01/11

Like Tassie more people in SA voted Liberal yet the dodgy boundaries and filthy Greens have enabled the ALP stooges to turn this state into a retirement home backwater.  Billions now to be spent on a massive new hospital on prime CBD real estate perfect for the entertainment precinct that the Adelaide people want.

All the city fringe burbs vote Liberal and the outer welfare burbs keep these ALP grubs in power, despite both Rann and Foley living in blue ribbon inner city Liberal seats yet ‘representing’ hard-core ALP seats.

We have had some shocking ALP govts in SA, Bannon, Dunstan etc but Rann’s name will live in infamy.  No wonder he plans to live in Tuscany.

Tony of Poorakistan says:

02:46pm | 18/01/11

Saskia

Let us not forget that we will not own that new hospital. Unlike the current RAH, which we do own, the new one is to be leased at some outrageous annual cost while Rann presumably gives the old site to one of his developer mates to put up yet another concrete and glass insta-slum.

GManderson says:

08:43am | 19/01/11

Ah yes. 60s SA.  Halcyon days, eh Smissen.

Let’s see if we can just fine tune your wonky old memory a bit.

bzzt skweek xxt sst zzzt ah hah, got it on the old rotary tuner!

Back to 60’s SA then.

The 60s. When archaic pub laws saw the disgusting 6 o’clock Swill each working day, in pubs country or city.

Where to shop on weekends after noon on a Saturday you had to leave “The Metropolitan Area” to buy a dozen eggs.

Where you couldn’t even buy a flippin meal on a Sunday, full stop.

Pub bars where women were simply not allowed to enter at all.

Restaurants where women in trouser suits would be refused entry or service.

The 60s. When boys left school at 15 to become fact’ry ‘ands.

When girls left school at 15 to become nurses if they were lucky, and Mums if not.

When women could not get permanent Public Service jobs, and were excpected to leave on marriage.

When there were still no seatbelts in cars, no breathalysers either.

No radial tyres either nor disk brake either - far too fancy for GM or Chrysler or Ford in Oz..

Ah the 60s. Where LCL Premier Playford kept the townies in their place, ruling by aid of a gerrymander so blatant that it was not only re-named after him but dropped as soon as he finally retired to the Cherry Farm.

Where the SA upper house was not only gerrymandered within an inch of its life, but also elected *only* by electors who met property-owning and income tests - and so continued until 1973… ah, heady days for democracy, eh.

There you go. How 60s SA really was.