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A Dam ProblemThursday, 1st February, 2007 - When the last major dam to provide Sydney with water was completed at Warragamba in 1960, New South Wales had a population of 3.9 million. Today the population is up 75% to nearly 7 million but there is not even a site chosen for a new storage reservoir. more Choosing Independents Comes at a PriceThursday, 7th December, 2006 - Independent prosecutors to make the decisions about whether or not to put some one in the dock have generally been welcomed by Australia 's Attorneys General. At the Federal and State level the political heads of the legal system see the advantages of not having to take the responsibility when the public thinks things have gone wrong. Don't blame me - the Director of Public Prosecutions makes the decisions, is the stock answer, unless and until there is a real public outcry at a judicial decision. more Negative Gearing and the NSW Labor WoesFriday, 9 June, 2006 - The virtues of negative gearing a rental property as an investment for the future must be a highlight of dinner table talk in Perth at the moment. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures out today show a continuing rapid growth in commercial lending to individuals for property purchases. In Brisbane presumably the discussions are not quite as animated as out west. Lending in Queensland has continued at the same level for some months. But in Sydney there must be people who cannot afford the dinner parties. more Welcome to the Divided CountryThursday, 8th June, 2006 - Yesterday's National Accounts figures gave another measure of the divide between the big population states of NSW and Victoria and the resource rich states of Western Australia and Queensland . more Australian State Government NewsGood Result for Pollsters in SA and TasmaniaTuesday, 21st March, 2006 - The pollsters should be happy with their performance in predicting the result of the two state elections held on Saturday. more The Salvos Get Political and CriticalFriday, 10th March, 2006 - The Salvos will have them worried in the Tasmanian Labor bunker this weekend. The men and women in uniform swinging tambourines might not be God but they are just as hard to attack. They rank right up at the top of the list of admired organisations and when they criticise a government should listen. And criticise is exactly what the Salvation Army"s Tasmanian Commander Allan Daddow did this week. more Out Sourcing Hospital EmergenciesWednesday, 8th March, 2006 - The magnitude of the breakdown in Queensland's public hospital system becomes apparent when the Government has to outsource a government hospital's emergency service. This week private company Aspen Medical won a $7 million contract to provide doctors and a nurse educator to keep Caboolture Hospital's emergency department open for a year. If the government's Queensland Health could have found the doctors themselves the cost would have been $3.5 million. more Tasmanian Premier Accused of Conflict of InterestTuesday, 15th February, 2006 - In politics, more often that not, it is the cover up that gets people in to trouble not the incident itself. Which is why I remember with admiration the response of Mayor Daley (the father not the current son) when a pesky journalist was impertinent enough to suggest impropriety at a rare Mayoral press conference held on the eve of an election. ... Tasmania Premier Paul Lennon has not taken this Chicago line as he comes under questioning about government funded contracts being awarded to his brother John's consulting company. more It's the History that Creates the SuspicionWednesday, 25th January, 2006 If the NSW Liberal Party is gaining political benefit from its assertions that police are going easier on young Lebanese thugs than on non-Moslems involved in the Cronulla riots and their violent aftermath.then it is the Labor Party's past dealings with Lebanese that is the reason. Over more than two decades there is a well documented history of Labor appeasing Lebanese community leaders ... more
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