Chris Minns

[Johnny Bananas]

Right, thats your opinion and understandable, but just addressing your point that seemed to paint it as some kind of win for the racing industry if tracks were closer to where studs are located.

I wouldn't say I was painting it as that. I was more describing it as an absurd waste of urban land and questioning why they couldn't be closer to stud farms.

 

[AvantGardener]

I wouldn't say I was painting it as that. I was more describing it as an absurd waste of urban land and questioning why they couldn't be closer to stud farms.

OK, I was answering that bit then.

 

[JackFlash]

Minns is doing okay, the latest anti sematic attack in Sydney sees him at odds with Penny Wong and rightly so. Sydney appears to have made a comeback in recent years while Melbourne goes further down the gurgler?

 

[Gough]

I've never seen such gleeful victims as the Australian Zionist community.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Minns is doing okay, the latest anti sematic attack in Sydney sees him at odds with Penny Wong and rightly so. Sydney appears to have made a comeback in recent years while Melbourne goes further down the gurgler?

Sydney is coming off a low base.

 

[Cmarsh]

Real test for Minns with two-thirds of NSW public sector psychiatrists resigning to take effect Jan 21.

Resulted from a long standing dispute over pay and conditions, with NSW public psychiatrists paid up to 30% less than interstate colleagues.

There would be significant extra pressures on the health system if a deal can't be reached within the coming days.

Not to mention the bin fire with the Sydney train system currently, again over a pay dispute with rail workers.

 

[Not Important]

minns would fit nicely into the reactionary party the way he’s behaving. on so many levels.

marque lawyers (@marquelawyers.bsky.social)

Racist hate speech is on the same continuum as racist violence and therefore requires attention, but drawing the same line so far as to ban peaceful protest activity is illegitimate authoritarianism. The NSW government is about to make that mistake.

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[Cmarsh]

Wards in NSW’s largest psychiatric hospital close as mass resignations begin

Doctor calls situation ‘an absolute disaster’ for public mental health system and vulnerable patients

www.theguardian.com

The ongonig and still unresolved dispute with NSW Psychiatrists has now directly victimised acutely unwell patients with the closure of acute beds.

Minns refuses to explain why the requested pay increase to get to parity with other states can't be done beyond "we can't afford it", but can't explain why other states seemingly can.

 

[Skeppersap]

I watched a long interview with Minns yesterday, what an exceptional person. He is also becoming an exceptional leader.

He acknowledged the mistakes they made after the anti Israeli protests in Sydney following October 7, and is looking to make real change. A Labor leader acknowledging previous errors is a breath of fresh air following on from the Andrews / Allen governments.

I have never voted Labor before, but will at the next election at this stage.

 

[Sttew]

I watched a long interview with Minns yesterday, what an exceptional person. He is also becoming an exceptional leader.

He acknowledged the mistakes they made after the anti Israeli protests in Sydney following October 7, and is looking to make real change. A Labor leader acknowledging previous errors is a breath of fresh air following on from the Andrews / Allen governments.

I have never voted Labor before, but will at the next election at this stage.

I assume you live in NSW?

 

[Skeppersap]

I assume you live in NSW?

Yep, have lived in Sydney for nearly 15 years now.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Anything but relaxed and comfortable here in NSW. I can’t see this appalling incident getting swept under the carpet.

Hannah Thomas warned to ‘prepare for worst’ after serious eye injury

The former Greens candidate has been warned she is unlikely to ever regain full vision in her eye after suffering an injury when police broke up an anti-Israel protest.

www.smh.com.au

 

[Gough]

Anything but relaxed and comfortable here in NSW. I can’t see this appalling incident getting swept under the carpet.

Hannah Thomas warned to ‘prepare for worst’ after serious eye injury

The former Greens candidate has been warned she is unlikely to ever regain full vision in her eye after suffering an injury when police broke up an anti-Israel protest.

www.smh.com.au

I can and easily. A few singed front doors and some chants in Somerset has the country up in arms, gbh from the NSW filth in the name of Zionism is yesterday's news.

 

[spinynorman]

Anything but relaxed and comfortable here in NSW. I can’t see this appalling incident getting swept under the carpet.

Hannah Thomas warned to ‘prepare for worst’ after serious eye injury

The former Greens candidate has been warned she is unlikely to ever regain full vision in her eye after suffering an injury when police broke up an anti-Israel protest.

www.smh.com.au

A year ago, one of his own MPs, Anthony D’Adam, gave a critical speech of heavy handed policing of the Palestine protests. Minns responded by immediately demoting the MP without even bothering to investigate his claims.

Between this and the caravan episode and the utter contempt with which he’s treated the investigation, Minns should be in severe strife, but for a compliant media and an opposition party who basically agree with him.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

I can and easily. A few singed front doors and some chants in Somerset has the country up in arms, gbh from the NSW filth in the name of Zionism is yesterday's news.

Um, I think the arson attack on the synagogue was horrific.

 

[Not Important]

minns is a right-wing lib masquerading as labor. i hope hannah goes after both the wallopers who did this and minns.

Possum (@pollytics.bsky.social)

This will continue to be the norm until we have constitutional protections on the freedom of peaceful protest, freedom of political participation and freedom of speech. Charters of Rights aren't worth the paper they're printed on, as we've seen in every state they've been introduced. Then...

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Hannah Thomas: NSW police drop emergency riot powers charge against pro-Palestine protester

State Greens member Sue Higginson had complained to police watchdog alleging extraordinary powers applied ‘unlawfully or retrospectively’ against Thomas

www.theguardian.com

 

[Dixie Flatline]

Minns looking at legislating to prevent further protests on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Obviously, Minns has never read Voltaire.

Australia news as it happened: More aid for Gaza announced after Harbour Bridge protest; Chinese woman charged with foreign interference; New AFP commissioner Krissy Barrett

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[HurleyHepsHird]

Most competent or perhaps least worst Liberal premier NSW has had in a minute, which is not saying much.

A bit hard-line though, even compared to the previous three wowsers.

More seriously, if the NSW Labor right are dumping on you for governing via 2GB soundbite, it might be time to sort your shit out.

I know there is a segment of Labor that thinks the disastrous flag shagging, war mongering, Thatcherite pro corporate vampirism is the way to go and dream of following the US Democrats and UK New Labour off the political cliff, so they can all retire to juicy no work corporate gigs as industry devours a collapsing state, but I'm not quite sure toleration for these fifth columnists exists within the Australian Labor movement or public more broadly as it does in the UK and US.

Much like how Australia handled the pandemic and was more in tune with its Asia and Pacific partners, so it goes with a society that still broadly wants to or believes it and others should exist.

Time for more than a few Aussie pollies to re-evaluate and if they aren't completely cynical sociopaths, realise the US and UK are circling the drain, likewise that neither Australians more broadly or the region itself wants that. Cataclysmic US instigated wars, foreign genocides, ridiculous hollowing out of the state and living standards, trade conflict and tech oligarchs, no thank you.

We've had our fill of destructive neoliberal economic policy, and neoconservative foreign blood-lust. Time for folks like Minns to smarten up on stop relying on the boot to stomp on public discontent.

 

[HurleyHepsHird]

Minns looking at legislating to prevent further protests on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Obviously, Minns has never read Voltaire.

Australia news as it happened: More aid for Gaza announced after Harbour Bridge protest; Chinese woman charged with foreign interference; New AFP commissioner Krissy Barrett

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Guaranteed to see the biggest protest in Sydney's history if that is the case.

Man is more out of touch and reactionary than some of the staunchest LNP reps. Hope the party cans him if he tries this.

It's a hell of a thing to triple down and dig your heels in when you are at odds with both the public and supposed Labor and idealised "Western" values this badly. Then again, he strikes me as the type who'd rather ram through extremely unpopular and conservative friendly legislation and lose his job, or lose Labor government, than actually represent the interests and wishes of voters.

 

[Cookie]

I watched a long interview with Minns yesterday, what an exceptional person. He is also becoming an exceptional leader.

He acknowledged the mistakes they made after the anti Israeli protests in Sydney following October 7, and is looking to make real change. A Labor leader acknowledging previous errors is a breath of fresh air following on from the Andrews / Allen governments.

I have never voted Labor before, but will at the next election at this stage.

Fast forward to last week. He has totally failed to read the room and painted himself in a corner.
Comes across as a Liberal in Labor clothing.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Minns will be rewarded if he can walk and chew gum with Sydney’s rail

For several weeks now, observers of NSW politics have detected a shift in the language Chris Minns has used about public transport. Now we know why ...

www.smh.com.au

Finally, politicians and the media are starting to wake up to how big a boost successfully completing public transport projects are to a government's fortunes. I reckon the Level Crossing Removal Project helped Dan Andrews a massive amount.

Perhaps it's only such a big boost in the places where the capital city makes up more than half of the electorates. But I do wonder if the Liberals could have killed the rise of Palmer United back in 2015 had they simply committed to the rail line to Maroochydore, which now won't happen before the Olympics because both major parties sat on their arses for too long.

Anyway, it appears Minns is claiming he can't build new lines because it'll cost a lot simply to bring existing lines up to proper condition. While he may be right, the SMH is right that it won't excite the public as much, but if he can do both in the end, he'll win big at upcoming elections.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

minns is a right-wing lib masquerading as labor. i hope hannah goes after both the wallopers who did this and minns.

Possum (@pollytics.bsky.social)

This will continue to be the norm until we have constitutional protections on the freedom of peaceful protest, freedom of political participation and freedom of speech. Charters of Rights aren't worth the paper they're printed on, as we've seen in every state they've been introduced. Then...

bsky.app

Hannah Thomas: NSW police drop emergency riot powers charge against pro-Palestine protester

State Greens member Sue Higginson had complained to police watchdog alleging extraordinary powers applied ‘unlawfully or retrospectively’ against Thomas

www.theguardian.com

A positive development in a horrible tale:

Police officer charged with assault after Hannah Thomas injured at pro-Palestine protest in Sydney

Senior constable charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm due to appear in court in mid-November

www.theguardian.com

 

[Not Important]

David Milner (@davemilbo.bsky.social)

Anyone else noticed how Nazi rallies get the go-ahead fairly easily from state governments, then the horrified public reaction is weaponised to pass anti-protest laws, which are then used to quash anti-genocide dissent and justify police assaults on small brown women? You picking up on this, too??

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[Not Important]

what a great idea, allowing a private militia to carry arms. minns is a f***king disgrace.

Chris Minns open to arming Jewish security group with links to Israel

Former member tells Deepcut that the Community Security Group is a 'recruiting ground for Israeli intelligence'

www.deepcutnews.com

 

[Johnny Bananas]

what a great idea, allowing a private militia to carry arms. minns is a f***king disgrace.

Chris Minns open to arming Jewish security group with links to Israel

Former member tells Deepcut that the Community Security Group is a 'recruiting ground for Israeli intelligence'

www.deepcutnews.com

Minns seems to hate democracy and love authoritarianism. I've never seen a worse Labor premier.