NSW Votes 2011 - links to live election news, polling updates, analysis

A few links for those political tragics roaming cyberspace today:

• NSW State Election 2011 home page
• NSW Electoral Commission Virtual Tally Room - online from 6.30pm
• ABC Online NSW Votes 2011 - live coverage
• The Australian Online - live coverage including video
• ABC TV News 24 - will simulcast the ABC1 election coverage from 6.30pm (AEDT)
• Channel 7 NSW Election 2011 - coverage features commentary by Premier Kristina Keneally & Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell from 6.30pm to 8.30pm
• Twitter #nswvotes & #auspol

702 ABC Sydney and ABC NewsRadio will combine for a live radio simulcast from 6pm (AEDT) - coverage until 10pm.
702 ABC Sydney will also have audio streaming via abc.net.au/sydney and will broadcast live to ABC Local Radio across regional NSW and to 1233 ABC Newcastle.
2UE Radio Online NSW Election 2011 – coverage from 6pm

Earth Hour 2011 - a hard choice for many in New South Wales

Earth Hour falls on 26th March 2011 - tomorrow.
It falls slap in the middle of radio and television coverage of the NSW general election which is expected to give government to the Liberal-Nationals Coalition for the first time since March 1995.
Bet a few extra Nue Sou Welshie homes won't be switching off at 8.30pm - unless it's in disgust at the polling figures.
Because we're all set to get a state government which has thrown in its lot with that arch-on-again-off-again climate change sceptic, Federal Coalition Leader Tony 'I've never met a right-wing extremist I didn't like' Abbott.
Somehow I don't think dousing the lights is going to help us.

East Coast Pty Ltd gets a PR fail in cyberspace

Snapshot 20 March 2011
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East Coast Pty Ltd is a NSW North Coast company registered in 1999 according to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission.

So in 2011 why is its website displaying in what appears to be badly constructed Latin when it was supposedly set up to allow visitors to; Search the entire Australian East Coast for property for sale... in English?

Even Google Translate cannot shed light on the website's contents. Here is its version of part of one para in its Folder Pages:

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Alexa currently gives this website a zero ranking - so perhaps it is still under construction by Bob the Builder and isn't supposed to be visible on the Internet just yet. Oopps!

Bob drawing found at Geocaching

Climate Change and the next generation

From Pollyics Stream at yfrog.com

Election Eve NSW March 2011

I've made a meal of local election campaign adverts from all the major and some very minor political parties in the lead up to tomorrow's NSW state election and found that what I'm being served is a dismal choice between hopelessly inadequate sitting MPs and p*ss weak new or serial candidates across the political spectrum.
The only healthy response is........


Gif found at Glitter Graphics

NSW State Election 2011: As the worm turns.....

Snapshot from the Essential Report 23 March 2011

NSW North Coast MP Janelle Saffin supports pay increase for lowest paid workers

Saffin supports pay increase for lowest paid workers

Page MP Janelle Saffin said Australia’s lowest paid workers must not be left behind in the latest wage review.

The Australian Government submission to Fair Work Australia’s 2010 Annual Wage Review recommends that any increase in minimum wages be in line with cost of living and other economic changes.

Ms Saffin said many people on modest incomes are doing it tough and Fair Work Australia needs to take this into account.

“Pay increases for those in the workforce are for necessities, not luxuries.”

“The ACTU is calling for an increase of $28 a week. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) acknowledges that an increase in the minimum wage rate is warranted, although says it should be no higher than $9.50.

“It is important that the increase is a fair amount to help the lowest paid workers support themselves and their families.

“It is a worker’s right to seek a pay rise and the sky won’t fall in if this is granted,” Ms Saffin said.

“The minimum wage is a key part of Australia’s safety net. The Australian economy is performing well and can afford a fair increase to the wages of the lowest paid.”

21 March 2011