Do you belong to the Australian Labor Party or are you in Morris Iemma's party? is a question every New South Wales Labor MP should be asking themselves right now.
This week Morris Iemma breached NSW ALP policy by introducing enabling legislation to allow for the privatisation fire sale of the state's power industry.
At the same time the Iemma Government has made a submission to a Rudd Government inquiry trying to convince its federal counterpart that the teeth should be drawn on any greenhouse gas abatement schemes for the power industry.
With enabling legislation before the NSW Parliament, Morris Iemma has
headed off for China and begun to talk down the value of those publicly-owned assets he intends to sell.As some of the corporate wheelers and dealers (who would potentially be involved in either setting up this fire sale or purchasing the state's electricity assets after privatisation legislation is passed) are also found on lists of political donors to the Iemma Government, the whole setup is beginning to sound remarkably convenient for banks, big business and the multinationals.
It certainly is convenient for Labor political bully extraordinaire Michael Costa.
The Prime Minister and his ministers for water and the environment should be very careful of the motives of this state government, which appears to have both forgotten the very real concerns of its electorate and the need to genuinely tackle climate change.
Penny Wong and Peter Garrett in particular need to remember that old adage about laying down with dogs and getting up with fleas.
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Hi just a bit of gossip floating around down under.Malcolm Powers,Labors candidate in tonites Henley(UK)BY-ELECTION is planning to emigrate to OZ and join the Party.However,Mr Powers,who is nothing if not right wing,has long been critical of the Party claiming that it has created a cult of criminality amongst its members all of whom claim descent from The Tolpuddle Unionists,Irish political criminals etc, etc,apparently he even thinks that Ned Kelly is a socialist icon for the left...and theres more he even went as far as to suggest that certain party leaders, past and present,have changed their names to avoid association with their forebears whose criminality was more to do with the streets than politics...(see Janestheone)
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