ian wrote on Jan 14^th, 2015 at 2:41pm:



Not exactly shallow, just sheeples. Most Australian voters wouldn't even know what's good for them, that's why we've got the scum government that we have.

aquascoot wrote on Jan 14^th, 2015 at 6:40am:



Only an egotistical snob would think that way and Labor voters don't fall into that category.

Shallow people vote for Vogue wannabe's, grounded folk vote for principles and ideals.

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Jan 14^th, 2015 at 2:55pm:
The only reason we now have this massive problem with middle class welfare is because Howard used it to buy votes by appealing to peoples greed and sense of self entitlement, in fact thats what both parties have been about since after Keating.  The only thing which is going to sort this country out is a massive recession. Oh how I miss Keating, the smartest and most honourable PM we have ever had and the people kicked him out for being so.

Emma wrote on Jan 14^th, 2015 at 12:31am:


Frankly folks I'm surprised no-one has added to my comment about Adani.  You do know don't you,  that it is the Indian company which is driving massive expansions to the shipping through the Great Barrier Reef. The ones who want to build a massive addition to an already existing environmental disaster..
The REASON why the WORLD HERITAGE status,  the protected status of the Great Barrier Reef is under extreme threat from GREED.   OH and of course the NEED  for Coal , and GAS.

Think of what could be achieved if all this money went into renewable energy.  To me, it's a no-brainer. But to Newman and Team.. it means MONEY. 

JOBS?  just a handy excuse for pillaging and raping one of the worlds wonders.

Shame. SHAME.

And lets not forget how Newman and Team have allowed new developments to proceed,  by BIG COYs, in fragile eco-systems, and koala habitats. By winding back Vegetation Protection law, they are directly responsible.  NO question there at all. 
The only people to really profit from Newman policies..???

His mates ..and multi-nationals.
IT IS A CRIME. 

A former Newman government assistant minister has urged Queensland voters to beware the ambitions of sociopaths as he gave an extraordinary indictment against his former party in power.

Dr Chris Davis, who quit parliament in protest at his government’s “betrayal” of Queenslanders last year, features in a new TV advertisement for the Wilderness Society in which he recommends voters put the Liberal National party last on ballots in the upcoming election.

Davis said on Saturday he would not “be standing here today if the trust that people gave the Newman government in 2012 had not been broken”.

“We’re talking about betrayal of thousands of public servants, the winding back of political scrutiny and donor influence, contempt for the professionalism of doctors and judges, jeopardising our environment and sustainable farming and deception on vital issues such as employment and cost of living,” he said.

Davis said that citizens needed to have trust in leaders to “serve us rather than themselves or their powerbrokers”.

He took aim at the LNP’s key platform of privatising government utilities, saying “disposing of our assets to pork barrel the Newman government into power is certainly not in our long-term interest”.

Davis also said voters needed to “be particularly wary of sociopaths”. Asked if the character of the Newman government had been sociopathic, Davis said he left it to voters to “make up their own minds”.

Davis was sacked by Newman from his post as assistant health minister when he publicly disagreed with government policy around contract negotiations with doctors and its treatment of the parliamentary committee overseeing the corruption watchdog.

He said the sacking of that committee’s chairperson, independent MP Liz Cunningham for “simply wanting some accountability” was “one of the defining moments of alarm” about the Newman government.

“For me, that was the death of accountability in Queensland,” he said.

Davis quit parliament in protest and his LNP replacement in the Stafford byelection lost in a massive swing to Labor.

Davis, who had flagged running for Labor in Ashgrove against Newman but was rebuffed, said he was now “happy being a citizen”.

Revelations of the LNP’s $18m plan to ensure premier Campbell Newman is re-elected in the seat of Ashgrove mean voters “have a challenging moral issue ahead of them”, he said.

“What we have seen has been a real pork barrelling of that electorate,” he said.

“Ashgrove is certainly not an economically deprived electorate and all of that money going into Ashgrove ... there are areas that arguably have far greater need or difficulty raising money, really don’t get that money.

“So (voters) really need to consider whether in fact they are being bribed or not, and whether they want to be bribed.”

Davis said he had been approached by the Wilderness Society to “assist with articulating what the people of Stafford have taught me”.

“I have been to the best of my ability faithful to the oath that I took as a politician to faithfully serve the people of Queensland… and was reassured when I handed the voice back to the people of Stafford at the by-election, that a poll done showed that I had 85% support for the particular approach that I had taken,” he said.

He said he agreed to appear in the advertisement “as a concerned Queenslander rather than there being anything in it for me”.

Davis said Queensland had under Newman “suffered some losses” in all three pillars of its democracy – parliament, public service and judiciary.