Submitted by rickeyre on
Counting down the three outstanding political quotes of the past week:
Number Three:
"...there are 350 million people in India who are classified as middle class. That's bigger than America. Their middle class is larger than our entire population."
- George Walker Bush, assigning blame for the global food shortage, 1.5.08
Number Two:
Submitted by rickeyre on
Michael Costa's bizarre and geopolitically ignorant response to a question in State Parliament on Tuesday about Chinese investment in New South Wales was not the end of that particular matter.
Submitted by rickeyre on
You don't have to be a rocket surgeon, or even a brain scientist, to understand the People Republic of China's role in that Maoist Johnny Howard's strong economic management of Australia. And you might even be aware of the Chinese government's new-found interest in foreign corporate investment. However, the New South Wales Government's leading parliamentary economist, treasurer Michael Costa, is none of the above.
It seemed reasonable enough in Question Time in the Legislative Council on Tuesday, when John Kaye of the Greens put the following to Costa the Coster:
Submitted by rickeyre on
"More to do but heading in the right direction."
- Morris Iemma, NSW ALP election campaign slogan
"Obviously, there's great work to be done. And we're doing a lot of it."
- Dick Cheney, Australian-American Leadership Dialogue breakfast, 23.2.07
Submitted by rickeyre on
"...you know have to accept that in our country we have our laws and we just administer our laws and Australia is traditionally a very egalitarian county. Therefore our laws apply to all people. We don't have exemptions from our laws for different categories of people. That's just the way we work in this country, that's just the way our country is and it will probably always be like that."
Submitted by rickeyre on
Never mind the politics in the States. Staggering news from Newcastle this morning as the NSW Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Member for Swansea, Milton Orkopoulos, has been arrested by a police task force on about thirty sex and drug-related charges, some related to minors.
