Christian Kerr, speaking on the Drum, reckons South Australia (and the South Australian Liberals) need a big dose of reality. He reckons that Alexander Downer is the man to provide that dose. Downer is the man to tell them all to
Sit down, shut up, and grow up.
Fantastic – almost a Liberty Quote.
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Very few people, even among environmentalists, have truly faced up to what the science is telling us.
— Clive Hamilton
This is because the implications of 3C, let alone 4C or 5C, are so horrible that we look to any possible scenario to head it off, including the canvassing of “emergency” responses such as the suspension of democratic processes.
I despair for the SA Liberals. Last state election they truly acted as if win / loose they couldn’t really care either way; they simply didn’t try very hard. They present as ‘Labor lite’ and don’t appear to be offering any significant differences to the current Marxist leader. Certainly they do not hold very conservative views, their MO seems to be win by being patient and waiting for Labor to finally fail.
Downer would be much better, this bar is not a high one.
You must admit SA is a barrel of laughs for the rest of the country.
It would be a lot funnier if we didn’t have to pay for it.
SA got screwed by Rudd, Swan, Gillard and Wong.
I feel sorry for them. No Olympic Dam = an economic backwater populated by water thieves with a tourism industry no one is interested in.
There’s some reasonably nice South Australian wine going around under the label “Darby & Joan” with a bit of a story to it.
Seems that it was made for the Californian export market (hence a touch too sweet, but otherwise decent) and the economic downturn in the US caused the importer to go broke, plus the high Aussie dollar (or QE-diluted US dollar if you prefer) ensured that export was basically impossible. Since the ALP cellaring laws impose a penalty on anyone keeping the stuff, and since it has reached the age where it is about as good at it’s going to get, you can buy it for around $8 a bottle.
Better be quick before the ALP impose the $10 per bottle minimu-wage system for boozers and the cellars just start throwing the bottles at a brick wall. Funny old world.
Yeah, just remember one startling fact: Fifty years ago SA / Adelaide was way outstripping QLD / Brisbane in terms of progress and economic wealth.
SA Liberals today are quiet about matters like this though, they apparently don’t want to stick their neck out and have people imagine things could be significantly better than they are. Probably easier to run as a large old folks home.
Dot said:
“SA got screwed by Rudd, Swan, Gillard and Wong.”
Must say it sounds like a firm of lawyers. Rather fitting!
I say again – merge SA & Tas. One single basket-case state is all we need. And 12 senators will be more then enough between both of them.
That’s a liberty quote but you ignore my Abu Chowdah Party platform, “Grow up, Australia”?
Tch, tch.
What exactly qualifies as “a Liberty Quote”?
Pure distillation of a libertarian principle or diagnosis of a leftard ailment.
What is the libertarian principle here, since the diagnosis is of the SA Liberal Party?
I don’t care. I was discussing MY catch phrase.
DTAKU.
I don’t care. I was discussing MY catch phrase.
DTAKU.
I don’t care. I was discussing MY catch phrase.
DTAKU.
I don’t care. I was discussing MY catch phrase.
DTAKU.
I don’t care. I was discussing MY catch phrase.
DTAKU.
I don’t care. I was discussing MY catch phrase.
DTAKU.
Whaaaaaat?
LOL
The cat destroys a witty comment with a serious malfunction.
I would make a lot more sense if it didnt come out of loony left wing kerrs mouth
yeah, a bit like that barrell of laughs they hid in the old Snowtown bank vault. its an apt metaphore for a dead state that survives on swindled handouts
It is very hard to see Downer as a state premier. State government are seen totally in the service business: roads, hospitals, school and such.
Downer has no cperience or, I suspect feeling for these matters.
Few politicians move between state and federally andi can’t think of one who has gone the other way.