Friday 6 July 2012
Gulaptis admits he "stuffed up" & then offers a string of weak excuses to 2,000 strong crowd
The Great Garbage Swindle
Clarence Valley Council is running the old pea and thimble scam, but are using garbage cans instead of thimbles.
Here is how it works.
If you are lucky enough to have the three wheely bins, green red and yellow, you are not in the firing line of this sting.
If you are one of the many in Valley rural areas who only receive the service of the red and yellow bins, read on….
It pays to think on the fortnightly cycle of the garbage service outside of the towns.
Last year the red bin was collected every week, therefore in one fortnight 2 red bins were collected and one week in the same period the yellow bin was collected. This makes a grand total of 3 bins per fortnight.
This current year the red bin is collected one week and the yellow bin the next week, the total number of bin per fortnight collected is 2.
When you look at this there is a 1/3 reduction in our garbage service, but the council assures me that the price we will pay for garbage services in our rates will remain the same.
So my argument is: since the garbage service has reduced by 1/3 or 33.3% and the price we pay for this service is the same as last year we are in affect paying 33.3% more than we did last year.
To put this in dollar terms if the garbage charged on my rates last year was $300, this current year I am in effect paying $100 more this year.
All this without a visible increase in the rate notices.
If this isn’t the best little pea and thimble scam you have seen in a while let me know.
In fact I hear that an unprecedented number of ‘Nigerian’ emailers have applied for Australian residency visas so that they can sit at the feet of a veritable scam meister.
Bins from Google Images
NSW Government closes forty-five year old, inefficient power station which has been surplus to requirements for last 12 months - media wildly blames introduction of carbon price
Delta Electricity announced today the closure of Munmorah Power Station after 45 years of operation. The station has been maintained on standby but has not been in production since August 2010.
Just how much is Cardinal George Pell's word worth?
It's up to you to judge the contents of this ABC Four Corners 3 July 2012 transcript:
For a number of years he's apparently been writing for The Armidale Express and The Armidale Independent, as well as for The Catholic Weekly. He belongs to the Catholic Historical Society among others.
A University of New England newsletter seems to point to "F" having had contact with that educational insitution in the early 2000s.
If the snapshot from the 5th July 7.30 Report can be believed "F" i s also a member of Lions up Armidale way - having been sponsored by a fellow Census collector and probably distant rellie.
UPDATE:
The Sydney Morning Herald on 18th October 2012:
"A former NSW priest who allegedly told three senior Catholic clergy a decade ago that he had repeatedly sexually abused altar boys has been arrested in Armidale for historic offences against girls.
Detectives arrested the man known as Father F in the state's New England region today in relation to a number of child-sex offences against three female children in the 1970s and 1980s.
The State Crime Command's sex crimes squad set up Strike Force Glenroe in July to investigate allegations that Father F had abused altar boys while a priest based in Armidale and Parramatta."
Thursday 5 July 2012
Grafton Gaol and Cansdellgate - on the same agenda
What action has this (O"Farrell) Government (in NSW) taken on the previous member (Steve Cansdell) on his action regarding his speeding fine?
The writer added, "It appears that members of parliament are immune to action being taken against them, no matter what the offence. What a disgraceful lot we have governing us at the moment."
Here's the complete text of Charles Lincoln of Gulmarrad's letter to the Examiner.
National Party 'stooges' failing to deliver
Regretfully, I have to put pen to paper and place my objections to the manner in which this present State Government is neglecting, wrecking and displaying complete disregard for the voters of this area, the Clarence Valley.
We have a Coalition Government which is only interested in looking after its voting power base, ie, Newcastle-Sydney-Wollongong, and having a complete disregard for its National Party constituents in this area.
We have a National Party representative who is completely out of his depth and is failing his constituents badly.
First it was the loss of Telstra jobs; then the closure of the meatworks at South Grafton; and now it is the loss of 92 jobs at the Grafton Jail.
What this Government is doing by its actions is propping up its swinging seats down Kempsey and Cessnock way at the expense of the Clarence Valley.
The National Party representatives are only "Liberal Party lackeys or stooges", and the voters of this area cannot see past the end of their noses, as they continue to elect them - and for what reasons?
Failure to deliver, inexperience in government, and engaging in nepotistic practices seems to be the norm.
No thought has been given to the jail workers who reside down here on the Lower River, who have bought houses, have their children attending local schools and are set up trying to exist with mortgages over their heads.
And now they may have to relocate, take their children out of their existing schools and make a new start at another school.
In many cases, this may be a retrograde step and cause a child to fall back a couple of years with his/her education.
What a miserable lot this incumbent government is.
Their only concern is a "grab for money to build up their own egos".
And while I am writing in this vein, may I ask: what action has this Government taken on the previous member on his action regarding his speeding fine?
It appears that members of parliament are immune to action being taken against them, no matter what the offence.
What a disgraceful lot we have governing us at the moment.
And National Party voters have the hide to claim that the previous Labor Government stank.
But be reminded, this lot have only just started, and the stench is starting to emanate from the Queensland border nearly down to Sydney.
Many people were dissatisfied with the previous Labor government after 15 years on the treasury benches and said that they had to go.
They possessed one outstanding quality and that was they showed empathy and compassion for the average person.
But this lot is only interested lining their own pockets and supporting those with vested interests who can donate to their party and provide a secure board job for them after they have retired from politics.
Charles Lincoln, Gulmarrad
Da Troll
By yambaman from Yamba,
Such as his real name, what he looks like, his age, home address, the car he drives, preferred sport, hobbies and much, much more courtesy of his tendency to chatter away on multiple platforms across cyberspace.
Andrew Bolt accuses legitimate companies of not existing and other howlers
“Below are some interesting examples of the 200 businesses listed on http://www.b4ce.com.au/home/signatories/businesses supporting a Carbon Tax:
• Love.fish (there website is ambiguous but possibly a fish and chip shop or an sustainability consultancy that sells fish and chips )
• Marie-Pierre Cleret (not so much a company as a Physiotherapist in Erskinville )
• Organia Revolutuion (store selling “Elephant dung journals & writing paper in Murwillumbah)
• “I ran the wrong way” (possibly a gift shop )
• Byron Bay International Film Festival
• Unfolding Futures (possibly a husband and wife team of motivational speakers )
• WordCraft Global (some type of consultancy which teaches you how to write documents
• NIDA
• Shaunie P Music
• Telstra Shop Balina (note Telstra Australia haven’t signed up – just the Balina shop)
• The Dentist at 70 Pitt Street
• The Family Wellness Centre
• Young District Anglican Ministry
• Cellian (don’t appear to exist based on an online search)
• Damask Perfumery (shop in Woolloongabba)
• tripple0gear (don’t appear to actually exit)
• Jason Corporation (appears to be a house in Neutral Bay” {all that red ink belonga me}
And yes, I took a screenshot of Bolta's pork pies.
Wednesday 4 July 2012
National Carbon Price: how does Tony Abbott explain this?
If Australian businesses are all behind Tony Abbott’s position that a national carbon price will wreck the economy, how does he explain this advertisement by Businesses for a Clean Economy?