Those Labor mates ...By HAG
Tut, tut, chaps, this is getting nasty ... And in today's Merc we have Mr Albanese defending his right to examine the issue as he pleases, after all he is Labor's shadow on the environment (a dark one according to Dick). Of course it is all so predictable. So entrenched are the positions. So immovable is established power in Tassie. But one thing it is, is murky as well as nasty ... As she reeled around one of Hobart's seedier establishments for the criminally smashed last Friday she came across a bit of scuttlebut which cannot possibly be true ... but loyally passes it on to her faithful reader (thank you Cousin Wayne). Hag unreliably heard that the nation's greatest defender of tree-lopping, Our Paul, was not all that co-operative when the Feds were researching their forest policy (well, there's a surprise). Hag was told quite a bit of information was withheld from the national brothers, specifically maps, before the election ... Yet the Libs somehow became the recipients of a mass of information which they used to shape their policies. And , remarkably the Libs policy seems to have emerged as wonderfully sympathetic to Gunns plans. Now, don't tell me this little fracas isn't going to rev and rev and rev. If there is one characteristic of Labor which has held true for generations of the bruvvers it is the Grudge and the Payback. Watch out, Paul ... Meanwhile, Hag will not bother with a book on the new Gov. Surely it's a forgone conclusion... arise Sir William. Of course, Paul could get really radical and scrap so much of this damned anachronism ... go part-time-Gov with specific consitutional care and turn that wondrous pile over to the people ... Pigs might fly ...
HAGSCRIPT: For an analysis of how the people voted for Dick, read phill Parsons:
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