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SCULLY QUITS
NSW police minister Carl Scully has reportedly resigned. No links yet.
UPDATE. AAP one hour ago:
Carl Scully will stay on as police minister at least until next year’s state election, NSW Premier Morris Iemma says.
Well he’s gone - forced to resign says the Telegraph breaking news
Poor old Sparkles
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2006 10 25 at 06:36 AM • permalinkI thought he was gone when he started using the “water of a ducks back” line of defence against the cries for his resignation. When the Premier offered support at a recent press conference I knew he was history.
My pet hate of outright lies pouring from the left have finally claimed a victim. In Scully’s case it has taken some years.
Not a great loss, Mike Gallacher will make a very good replacement.
Posted by surfmaster on 2006 10 25 at 07:06 AM • permalinkIn my experience of business dealings with government and quasi-government types in all Australian states, I’d have to say that NSW is manifestly dysfunctional. The other officials come across as honest toilers just keeping heads above water. The NSW guys come across as obviously on the make without any idea of a bigger picture. Is it just me?
#6 - Big Jim - I agree with your comments re NSW but Peter Beattie in QLD is a shallow, and deceitful individual.
He is surrounded by a large team of diehard left wing bureaucrats that are as vicious as they are impregnable and to whom lying and scheming is second nature.
I’ve dealt with them. Legally and more important, [to me anyway], morally, we had them but it would have taken years and my best result would been a pyrrhic victory that would have emptied me finanicially and physically.
I couldn’t take the odds of an unfair result regarding costs and compensation.
They are bastards of high order.
#10- Don’t count on it; if the opposition is as inept, idiotic, a squabbling rabble with little policy distinction from the incumbent cretins as was the case in Qld, I’d expect Morrie and his Mongs to romp home. I think voters would like a change, but despair at what is on offer. There’s got to be an opening for an actual conservative alternative to run, especially in state elections where the Ba’athists could probably get up if they promised to bury Morrie Iemma, Peter Beattie and Steve Bracks up to their scrawnt necks in a fire ant nest, with a drip feed of cockys delight dripping on their empty heads.
Habib, no luck in Victoria either, we have a ‘choice’ between either Bracks or Bracks Lite this time around.
Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2006 10 25 at 09:14 AM • permalinkHere is the problem with Australian politics:
Mr Scully said he loved representing his western Sydney seat of Smithfield.
“I joined the Labor Party when I was 18 with a passion and love for those in need of a hand,” he said.
“I spent many, many years in the (Labor Party) branches pursuing a preselection to become the member for Smithfield. I have loved representing them, I have worked hard for them.
“And throughout the years I’ve been motivated by one thing: to do the very best I could for the people of NSW.”
In other words, (and correct me if I’m wrong) the guy’s never had a real job outside of politics.
Career politicians are a disaster waiting to happen, particularly when they start right out of university. This is why regardless of his politics, you’ve got to admire someone like Malcolm Turnbull who effectively takes a pay cut to join The Party.
Yep, Dan’s got it exactly & precisely right. How many politicans have a CV that reads:
.went to school
.went to Uni & became active in student politics
.went to work for a politician or political party
.became a politicianExcuse me, how does any real world information & experience actually enter that closed loop?
Think of most of the worst politicians you can. Bet most of them have that CV.
Princess Tasha (Stott-Disposable) is the classic example. Glad as I am to see the back of her, I’m disappointed that she’s leaving of her own violition, rather than being crushed in the self-destruction of the Democrats. Seeing her in tears on election night would definately brighten my day/week/month/year.
I’ve been hoping for years that Scully would fall. As transport minister, he did no more than make half-arsed attempts at modernising NSW’s freeway system, and every time he put his paws near the railways he screwed it up.
Posted by daddy dave on 2006 10 25 at 01:43 PM • permalinkWith Carrcrash gone, I was rooting for Scully to become Premier. No minister has been more accident-prone across so many portfolios - CCT, Glenbrook/Waterfall, delayed trains and then Cronulla: the icing on the cake - and the election result for the Libs would have been more sure than the result of your average Sussex Street branch stack.
When the fixers (Costa, Tripodi, Roozendaal et al) stomped on poor ol’ Sparkles’ head and Yammer stumbled and bumbled into the limelight, you just knew we were in for more of the same BS and double-talk from the puppet masters.
The best bit of writing I read all week was Imre Saluszinsky in the Australian, who argued that Carl’s talent was being wasted in the Bearpit and that ‘bigger things’ beckoned for him with Buckets and the boys in Canberra .
I knew the Australian leaned to the right but that’s just blatant!
#13- What really sticks in the craw is that not only has the daft slapper never had a job, she’ll never need one. She’s going to score A$65K (indexed) a year until she snuffs it, plus allowances for being a party leader and the usual travel/comcar largesse, provided by you and me.
A fitting reward for a perpetual undergraduate who went straight from annoying fellow students with leftist idiocy to encouraging a Democrat senator to annoy fellow senators with leftist idiocy, then finally becoming a senator herself through a casual vacancy (not elected), to annoy fellow Australians with leftist idiocy. Her sole contribution to the nation has been the demise of the Democrats as a federal party, which probably would have happened anyway without her able assistance.
Oops, I’m forgetting- she’s the hippest hipster to ever enter the senate- she wore Doc Martens to question time once*!
*Ignoring the fact that if she was wearing said footwear for its designed purpose, she’d have to kick her own head in.
Hm. Is Bull Connor available? Why settle for half measures?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 10 25 at 08:18 PM • permalink#8 LaoHuLi, your assessment of the QLD situation is spot on. They are bastards of high order indeed.
Two days ago Beattie announced quite seriously that Queensland would not be getting daylight saving because the extra sunlight would exacerbate the state’s skin cancer problems. Last night he was trying to weasel out of it and convince us that he had been joking about the skin cancer. I couldn’t give a stuff about DST but I do object to a Premier assuming that I am as big a dickhead as he is.
I lost a battle with state bureaucrats about 10 years ago, and I am presently engaged in a two-year-long battle with local government bureaucrats. The elected council seems to have lost control of the situation. The bureaucrats have told me that what they are taking from me is not backed by any legislation and if I take them to court I will almost certainly win. The bastards know that as a retiree I do not have the resources to take it to court and so they win their “green” rip-off by default.
Dan and TomH are right too. The bureaucrat with whom I have had the most trouble is about 25 years old and straight out of uni — he’s never had a proper job and never will.
/rant.I suspect Beattie is trying to keep us distracted from the real problems in Qld.
Everything worked OK while the “evil” Joh was running us.
Where are those brilliant, ABC investigative journalists when we really need them?
I have lived in a lot of places but never in such a fucked up state as today’s Queensland. The hospital system alone should provide 4-Corners with enough material for the rest of the year. Then the ABC can start on the rest of the failing infrastructure; power blackouts, cancelled dams and freeways, 3-hour rail delays, ripped up roads, and collapsing overpasses. That should keep them occupied enough to stop them harassing powerful conservative rivals in the media.#19- this is SOP for local governments in Qld these days- a mate of mine is a solicitor who specialises in local govt, and the bastards have an unstated policy of acting without ANY legislative framework, and saying- “if you want to move your house/redevelop the site/cut down a tree/etc etc etc, fuck off; we may be acting extra judicially, but we have bottomless pockets- can you afford to run through three levels of the idiot-riddled judicial system?” These arrogant fuckers should be hanging from their heels off power poles on the verge of collapse- for once performing a worthwhile task in their lives as crow bait.
Mind you, dickheads voted for every one of these rule-happy plant smoochers, so I find the complaints a little pathetic. The opposition may well have been a pack of feral hillbillies, chinless pinheads and potential Manson Family candidates, but could they have possibly been WORSE than what slithered back in?
Bloody hell- I’m starting to look back on the Joh era with a sense of nostalgia.
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Carl Scully will stay on as police minister at least until next year’s state election, NSW Premier Morris Iemma says.
Iemma this arvo. If a week is a long time in politics, then two hours must be eternity.