Wilkie's Demands

[The Exorcist]

Wilkie has asked that the ALP & the Coalition enact their pre-election promises to give $20 million to loggers in Tasmania


... but before the minority government is determined


Hopefully he might be having a bit of fun, but if he's not then perhaps Abbott was right and he is mentally unsound


Don't know how well Wilkie will go down with the other Inds if he goes down this path


Sounds to me (at this stage) that Wilkie won't be supporting any major party

 

[Subprime]

Why is an ex-Greens candidate is seeking money for loggers, is it a redundancy payment?

 

[Caesar]

If Wilkie doesn't understand caretaker conventions then he really shouldn't be in the House of Representatives.

 

[Inferno]

He can't wait a bit? Like just a little bit? Like until we actually sort out a workable Parliament and have a Government that isn't running in caretaker mode??

Same as Subprime I'm wondering why an ex-Greens candidate wants money thrown at loggers, they must have been the interest group that funded his campiagn or something.

 

[The Exorcist]

He can't wait a bit? Like just a little bit? Like until we actually sort out a workable Parliament and have a Government that isn't running in caretaker mode??

Same as Subprime I'm wondering why an ex-Greens candidate wants money thrown at loggers, they must have been the interest group that funded his campiagn or something.

He clarified that this arvo

The money is for the families who have been affected by the declining tree felling industry

On the felling, he said he wants logging to eventually stop and old growth forests preserved etc, and that any logging should be from plantations

 

[Caesar]

He seems to be more of a social activist with environmental leanings than a strictly Green candidate.