I'm about to take Lib's car up the street to the garage and fill it with fuel and check the oil and tyres as I do most Saturday mornings. On the way back I'll stop off and cast my vote at the booth at the primary school for the state election.
As a 'Green' voter, I can't win outright, I know that. If the Labour Gov't is thrown out, which I expect to happen, the Libs will govern. That's bad. The Wilderness Society in a survey of environmental groups came up with the following ratings for the respective policies of the major parties-
Labour 50%
Libs 15%
Greens 93%
On the other hand, if the Lib's win, the $10.3 million that Labour promised Puffing Billy probably won't happen. I'm not a PB fan; it's a noisy, polluting, self serving drain on the state's finances. I don't know why it is such a sacred cow. I don't mind it being preserved in the museum at Belgrave. Even run it up and down a few hundred metres now and again if you must. The prime land the railway takes up could be put to a better use. How about a Flora and Fauna Corridor? A Nature Trail? A Heritage Trail? All with educational and tourism potential greater than PB's spouted tourism return, which I believe is grossly overstated. The $10.3 mill offer has got me seriously considering where to put my second preference.
It's a dilemna. Our sitting Labour member Tammy Lobato has been terrific. I'd hate see her go. She's a wonderful lady. It's a hard business. It won't be her fault if Labour loses.
Brumby is on the nose.
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Nice post Carey. It seems you carry some of Lyle's prophetic prescience. Labour was indeed thrown out, and I am of the view that despite their own spin, it had little to do with the 11-year itch or the fourth-term blues. It had much more to do with Brumby's cloak and dagger style and a refusal to pay attention to widespread concerns about highly unpopular and highly damaging interventionist policies. Like lack of discussion or consultation about the dredging of Port Phillip Bay, the North-South pipeline, the Wonthaggi desalination plant, and Madden's maddening drive to satisfy the insatiable appetite of developers everywhere in the State. And there's probably a heap of other stuff that we don't know about.
Both parties have done everything they can to emasculate and discredit The Greens, the Liberals up-front, Labour more insidiously. And it seems to have worked. No change in Greens primary votes this time around compared to the last round. Very disheartening.
Gill bumped into James Merlino in Belgrave while he was spruiking the big monies for Puffing Billy. She suggested that he was on the wrong train, and that he was standing on a very limited platform, considering what is really going down all around us. He didn't get it. Not that it makes any difference.
Power on bro.
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