Greetings Rod,



04-Apr-96 16:38:54, Rod Speed wrote to Sandy Fitzgerald

  Subject: Politics



   Thank you Rod for your comments.



SF>> Well what are your thoughts on Cheryl Kernots performance todate?



   The power (if any) seems to have gone to her head like blood to her

   feet.  Your two opening words sum up the situation well C/H.



 RS> It was indeed. And clearly since both major partys were in favor of

 RS> selling Qantas and the ComBank, and got the vast bulk of the votes, the

 RS> opinion of a tiny party like the Democrats that didnt even get double

 RS> digit percentage of the votes is completely and utterly irrelevant.



   Well there is not much of the farm left to sell.  We can all say in

   future years that those were the assets which the taxpayers use to

   own.  Of course when private enterprise gets in you can forget about

   the service continuing if it's uneconomic.  Feel sorry for the rural

   people.  What's Cheryl Kernot saying about that?  Nothing!



 RS> The only reason she has any capacity to say anything is because

 RS> we were silly enough to have proportional representation in what

 RS> is basically an obscenely gerrymandered house where Tasmanians

 RS> get a hell of a lot more say than a NSW voter etc.



   Nothing much more to be said here.



 RS> There is something fundamentally wrong with an electoral system

 RS> which produces a avalanche in the lower house and doesnt even

 RS> deliver a majority in the Senate.



   Yeah and who's going to do something about it?



 RS> And the mindless grandstanding on a Senate enquiry into the Victorian

 RS> Casino is even more utterly bonkers. The voters in Victoria have just

 RS> had their opportunity to say if they care about how the Casino was done.



   Another three years of bliss.



 RS> She's even worse than that pathetic garden gnome they had before her.



   Very true!



   Ciao for now, Sandy F.

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