O'Farrell Government to launch CSG propaganda website in mid-April 2013

Should readers find misleading/inaccurate information concerning coal seam gas or broken links etc. on this new O’Farrell Government website www.csg.nsw.gov.au, coming online sometime in April 2013, then you can complain to the following:

Hon. Andrew Stoner MP

Deputy Premier and Minister for Trade and Investment

Level 30 Governor Macquarie Tower
1 Farrer Place
SYDNEY NSW 2000

Phone (02) 9228 5209

Fax (02) 9228 5970

Email office@deputypremier.nsw.gov.au

Mr Mark Paterson AO 

Director General

Department of Trade and Investment

MLC Centre
Level 47, 19 Martin Place
SYDNEY NSW 2000

Phone: (02) 9338 6600

Fax: (02) 9338 6950

Malcolm Rofe Digital Project Manager at NSW Trade & Investment

Phone: (02) 9338 6600
Fax: (02) 9338 6950

John Pavey Strategic Communications at Department of Premier and Cabinet
Phone: (02) 9228 3437
Email: domainadmin@dpc.nsw.gov.au

Andrew Callahan Digital Services

Phone: +61.0402849352

andrew.callaghan@business.nsw.gov.au

Whois Record

Domain Name: csg.nsw.gov.au
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Registrar Name: Department of Finance and Deregulation
Status: ok

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Registrant Contact Name: Malcolm Rofe
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Tech Contact Name: Andrew Callaghan
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Tech Contact ID: GOVAU-PAJO1212
Tech Contact Name: John Pavey
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Name Server: maitproddns.dpi.nsw.gov.au
Name Server IP: 203.11.159.13
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Name Server IP: 148.145.48.70

In the days when Rupert didn't pretend he wasn't about regime change

2. MURDOCK [sic], BY SWINGING HIS NEWSPAPER CHAIN BEHIND THE ALP, PLAYED A SUBSTANTIAL ROLE IN THE LABOR VICTORY OF DECEMBER 1972. HE IS SATISFIED THAT HE TOOK THE CORRECT POSITION AT THAT TIME, SINCE IT WAS ESSENTIAL TO HAVE A CHANGE AFTER 23 YEARS. LIBERAL/COUNTRY LEADERSHIP HAD BECOME INCREASINGLY WEARY INTELLECTUALLY. HOWEVER, MURDOCK IS DISAPPOINTED BY LABOR'S PERFORMANCE. HE EXPECTS TO SUPPORT THE OPPOSITION IN THE NEXT ELECTION.

Full U.S.Embassy cable text here.

What Australian Opposition Leader Tony Abbott told his true believers at the Institute of Public Affairs

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The people of Ulmarra, Glenreagh and Iluka need to act now if they wish to keep their local public pools or establish a new pool

The Clarence Valley Aquatic Facility Strategy, a Strategic Leisure Group draft report commissioned by Clarence Valley Council, has been released and will be considered at the Civil & Corporate Committee Meeting (C&CC) on 9 April 2013.

This report recommends closing both the Ulmarra and Glenreagh public pools rather than upgrading infrastructure or continuing routine maintenance.

This would force Ulmarra residents to brave the Pacific Highway and travel to South Grafton if they want regular aquatic exercise or a dip on a hot day and, send Glenreagh locals into the next local government area if they want to use the closest public pool.

Iluka is not well served by this report either as it recommends that a public pool capable of servicing the community far into the future not be established there at this time. Instead it suggests that Clarence Valley shire councillors might either look at a smaller pool option or send residents on a circuitous drive to Maclean’s public pool to take advantage of vaguely proposed discounted entrance fees.

When it comes to Yamba, the report also missed the golden opportunity to put forward the idea of creating a competitive-level pool which would attract state and interstate sporting events to the Lower Clarence.

While across the board it would appear that; Pool patrons indicated very strong satisfaction with existing pool managers and staff. Recommendations in relation to future management arrangements have been made including continuation of the existing contractor model but with reconsideration of the revenue sharing process.

Which flies in the face of contrary opinions held by some council staff, who may have possibly been too vigorous in pursuing their personal views.

Departing staff members have made their feeling known about one pool in tomorrow’s C&CC business paper as it states; Unfortunately Ulmarra pool is already on the priority list for significant works (resolution 13.036/11) and has $150,000 identified in the Delivery Program as a starting point… [my red bolding]

While admitting that; Glenreagh pool, by contrast, has recently had significant refurbishment which places it in a favourable position for at least 10 years.

Anyone interested in swimming as a recreational or sporting activity needs to make their own positions known to councillors as soon as possible or by the end of any public exhibition period should Council decide to place the draft report on public exhibition.

Abbott's Young Lib Army shows its true colour again

Abbott's Young Lib Army shows its true colour again - White Supremacist Gloss.

https://twitter.com/SydneyUniLibs

What navigating a former war zone looks like from the air

Something to think about if you are ever on a Dubai to Paris flight……….

Flying in what looks like an old wartime convoy line over Iraq in the late afternoon of 31 March 2013 ADST according to FlightRadar24:

More Abbott hypocrisy

Nine News 7 April 2013:

"The prime minister shouldn't use an overseas trip to make domestic political comments," he [Abbott] said.

The Australian 18 July 2012:

Mr Abbott told the Heritage Foundation, a leading [American] conservative think tank, that he was concerned Australia's defence spending had fallen to its lowest level as a percentage of GDP since 1938.

The West 5 April 2012:

The Federal Opposition plans to retain a key part of Labor's mining tax package, convinced it will generate billions of dollars in the decades ahead.

Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey has confirmed to The West Australian that the coalition would keep the Government's extension of the petroleum resource rent tax to onshore projects.

Until the introduction of the mining tax last year, the PRRT was restricted to offshore oil and gas projects including the North-West Shelf and Bass Strait.

By extending its footprint to onshore reserves, the PRRT will capture massive amounts of tax from the expanding coal seam gas sector in Queensland and NSW.

Mr Hockey said the coalition still intended abolishing the minerals resource rent tax and insisted the decision to keep the expanded PRRT would not come as a surprise to the mining industry. "The coalition has been consistent in its message that our abolition of the MRRT will not automatically extend to the PRRT," he said yesterday.

Abbott’s pre-election ‘discussion’ about absconding with GST revenue assigned to Labor states and giving the billion plus to Liberal mates:

Only one way that Julia Gillard or Tony Abbott will ever fix their budget deficit and that’s strong revenues from the mining industry and the mining industry’s basically Western Australia….

He made comments to me along the lines that, ‘I don’t think it’s sensible to hold back strong parts of the economy to simply prop up weaker parts of the economy’…..

*Abbott photograph found at Google Images