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2011-03-27 Down Under

Austrailia's center-left Labour Party thrashed in NSW state elections.

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Posted by crosspatch 2011-03-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The Labor Premier (more or less the same as a US governor) who lost was an American, who was born and lived most of her life in the USA.

She had quite a pronounced American accent which probably lost her quite a few votes.

Although GW taxes were probably the biggest issue.

Posted by phil_b 2011-03-27 00:56|| 2011-03-27 00:56|| Front Page Top

#2 We are celebrating the ousting of that corrupt selection of bunglers.

Good riddance. Don't come back for at least a decade or two!

IN the pockets of land developers, made stupid policy. Taxed us to death while not using our taxes for their intended purpose: roads, hospitals, schools, infrastructure.

So they got the big boot in the posterior.

Posted by anon1 2011-03-27 03:04|| 2011-03-27 03:04|| Front Page Top

#3 No Phil B, nobody minded her US accent

It was taxes firstly, Federal Gillard Government announced Carbon Tax, so we told them what we thought of that idiocy.

Next it was the sale of the state-owned electricity provider, which the State Govt did in secrecy then shut the parliament down rather than have an inquiry. They ended democracy in NSW.

We hated that too.

Then there is the fact our roads, schools and hospitals are totally run down but they've been taking all our taxes all this time supposedly to pay for them

and the corrupt deals with land developers

we HATED these incompetents who had sat their fat behinds in power for the last 16 years riding this state into the ground.

Get rid of them!

Meanwhile Pauline Hanson everyone voted for her with a 1 above the line, but maybe those votes didn't get counted as you needed to number 1-15 below the line and specify her, as she was in a non-aligned group of independents.

So because people didn't know perhaps that's why she didn't get in.

Posted by anon1 2011-03-27 03:07|| 2011-03-27 03:07|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't live in NSW. So maybe you are right.

Posted by phil_b 2011-03-27 05:48|| 2011-03-27 05:48|| Front Page Top

#5 >Then there is the fact our roads, schools and hospitals are totally run down but they've been taking all our taxes all this time supposedly to pay for them

Well Schools and hospitals are something the state does very badly. It's a pity the desire people have for someone else to pay overwhelms the sense that what they get should be any good.

Connectivity is something the state does well, but the tax system means they get treated as a cost, rather than the billable service they would under an LVT.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-03-27 09:51|| 2011-03-27 09:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Nice to see the Progressive (commie-socialist) movements being defeated all over the world.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-03-27 12:08|| 2011-03-27 12:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Here in Daveistan we voted against commie shits and still got one.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-03-27 12:32|| 2011-03-27 12:32|| Front Page Top

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