Still waiting for Dan to clean house orrrrrrrrr quit on his own accord. So far the only real casualty from Dan's Comm. Games stuff up is poor old Jerome!
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Vic Daniel Andrews and the Statue of Limitations
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Is this the bit were the cynicism kicks in
Kardinia Park is in the safe Labor seat of Geelong, which was held with a 10 per cent margin before last year’s election. Armstrong Creek and Waurn Ponds are in the neighbouring electorate of South Barwon, held on a tighter 3 per cent margin.
Labor campaigned on the Games in the regions and extended its lead in both seats at the November election.
Dan can kick he’s feet up, he’s in no danger leadership wise. I cannot stand the bloke. But I just don’t vote, as Liberal offer no alternative. In boxing, you have to take the belt off of the champion - it’s not going to be handed to you.
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Sttew
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Did you read the article linked in post 758?
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Thats where i took it from
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Do they just accept everything in all these business cases and not push back on them?
The whole Comm Games debacle really does feel like an episode of Utopia
The whole Comm Games debacle really does feel like an episode of Utopia
Fresh from her trip to Africa on behalf of Victorians, Education Minister Natalie Hutchins has backflipped on cost cutting to address the ballooning State debt.
A win to the Education Union, a loss to the Treasurer - what chance Dan runs the Union line:
"We are pleased the minister has genuinely engaged with the AEU, parents, disability advocacy groups, families and the community and taken this proposal off the table."
What line will the media run?
A win to the Education Union, a loss to the Treasurer - what chance Dan runs the Union line:
"We are pleased the minister has genuinely engaged with the AEU, parents, disability advocacy groups, families and the community and taken this proposal off the table."
What line will the media run?
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There's been very little investment in PT. Other than Metro which isn't open yet and was bi-partisan.
Committee for Melbourne released a good paper about bus services recently:
Course Correction - Reforming Melbourne's buses | Committee For Melbourne
The challenges, benefits, and recommendations for bus reform in Melbourne were outlined at our Course Correction event.
melbourne.org.au
More buses is the opposite of what the ALP seem to want to to (no big build aspect, unless buses are built locally).
Libs won't do it, because it makes the Union bigger, that's why they cut all the jobs and services in the Kennett era after the GP PT strike before privatising, thus entrenching the job losses.
I've lived what happens when there is more pressure on that corridor. In 2017 a major accident in Point Cook diverted all Geelong bound traffic through Bacchus Marsh. It took four hours to get to Bacchus Marsh from Windsor.
I'll complain about the Department of Transport - line agencies shouldn't leak to the media. All the EWL leaks during the Napthine Premiership came from DoT.
And anyone can complain about anything - you just don't have to give it any regard.
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Level crossing removals are a somewhat upgrade because they renew the infrastructure but it isn't being backed up with service upgrades .There's been very little investment in PT. Other than Metro which isn't open yet and was bi-partisan.
Committee for Melbourne released a good paper about bus services recently:
Course Correction - Reforming Melbourne's buses | Committee For Melbourne
The challenges, benefits, and recommendations for bus reform in Melbourne were outlined at our Course Correction event.
More buses is the opposite of what the ALP seem to want to to (no big build aspect, unless buses are built locally).
Libs won't do it, because it makes the Union bigger, that's why they cut all the jobs and services in the Kennett era after the GP PT strike before privatising, thus entrenching the job losses.
Service upgrades aren't exactly sexy it seems.
You mention buses being built locally. Practically every bus body is.
The majority of buses running around in Melbourne came out of Volgren Dandenong.
Even interstate builders in Bustech and Custom Coaches(now custom denning) don't have huge amounts of buses running around in Melbourne
Is there an outside chance that we ditched the Comm Games at a cost of $380+ million to get our hands on the Fyre Festival II?
Tickets on sale for reboot of Fyre, the fraudulent luxury festival that flopped
Tickets cost from $499 for second edition of event organised by Billy McFarland six years after notorious first effort
I can't envisage a better sequel to the original Fyre Festival than having 1000's of rich American influencers being sold shots of Whitehaven Beach and ending up in some swampy farmland around Moe.
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The thing about people is most don’t like being made a fool of and won’t forget it at the next election. Lots down here aren’t happy with the games cancellation and that’ll be that these games were used as regional victoria election bargaining chips.
Venue named 27 times in Games business case was ‘never’ hosting, insists Andrews
The premier says a pre-existing aquatic centre at Kardinia Park was never going to host Commonwealth Games events, despite the business case stating so.www.theage.com.au
Let’s see at the next election how many don’t forget that they voted for this man on the back of this now cancelled major event.
The snippet from last nights news was embarrassing.
Regardless of political alignment I think most should be able to see we deserve a better person as premier.
Remember Kennett was in the rust bucket era, Cain hospital hand pass to Kirner.There's been very little investment in PT. Other than Metro which isn't open yet and was bi-partisan.
Committee for Melbourne released a good paper about bus services recently:
Course Correction - Reforming Melbourne's buses | Committee For Melbourne
The challenges, benefits, and recommendations for bus reform in Melbourne were outlined at our Course Correction event.
More buses is the opposite of what the ALP seem to want to to (no big build aspect, unless buses are built locally).
Libs won't do it, because it makes the Union bigger, that's why they cut all the jobs and services in the Kennett era after the GP PT strike before privatising, thus entrenching the job losses.
'By the left' Ms Allan.
No trains to the Latrobe Valley for the time being, lots of buses though.
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For all you saying ‘little infrastructure’ is bein built are you having a laugh?
Too much is happening now which is inflating the costs which is pure economics
Too much is happening now which is inflating the costs which is pure economics
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The non stop buses hasn't escaped the attention of organizations like the PTUA.
Big Build burnout? – Public Transport Users Association
www.ptua.org.au
If someone said Metro, V/Line, LXRA and Metro Tunnel don't talk to each other planning out work I wouldn't be surprised.
Then again there's a lot of shit I've seen that doesn't surprise me rail wise.
Will the last business to leave please turn off the lights?
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What is this? Where is this from? If you go on the ABS website, they have different numbers.
Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits, July 2021 - June 2025
Counts of actively trading businesses, rates of entry to and exit from the market sector of the economy, and rates of business survival
www.abs.gov.au
Victoria had its chance but didn't want a new Guy in the role. So now we are stuck with Dodgy Dan for a while longer.
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Cain - Kirner “rust bucket” era revisited
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The Victorian economy is actually doing just fine, like other states, it was a bit over-heated. I wonder how many of those businesses were "trusts" or made up companies for the purposes of the pandemic? There was a lot of that going on.
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I heard Paul Guerra being questioned about this on Wednesday. He made a similar point but did say he was concerned about the stats and he urged Melbourne businesses thinking about moving not to go interstate but to consider regional Victoria. The significant point he made is that the impact of increases in payroll, WC and land tax (for businesses that own their property) are yet to bite
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