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They will not be good government without a good opposition. I think that the Liberals in NSW are doing better but it will not happen fast. I reckon that they have to be creative and they have to find some real principles.

I have been wrong before and I hope to be wrong again but I cannot see the NSW Government doing anything except botching this power privatisation. I heard this fellow on the radio who was 100% for privatisation of NSW power generation and he held up as a glowing example the privatisation of Telstra. How lucky we all were that this had happened and what wonderful benefits flowed from this.

I have a phone bill to pay. I can't se that there has been big savings for the poor old consumer. There are places in Sydney that still can't get ADSL. Internet services are still backward. They are expensive and slow. phone calls are expensive. Text messages are very expensive. phone contracts are intentionally complex so that the poor old sonsumer cannot know how much they are paying.

If there is competition it is not obvious. The banks act like we should be proud of having such a strong bank system. We have that because they charge like wounded bulls. There is another wonderful example of how privatisation has helped small business and the people in the bush.

The bush is still going to miss out. Power is going to get really pricey and less reliable. That is going to be great for all concerned.

New Golconda you are almost certainly right but there are going to be some hard and strange times before it happens.

but look ay what Warshipadmin has done! he has made this post and then the Liberals in Victoria proved everything he had said, again.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/liberals-face-vicious-scurrilous-attack--from-within-party-hq/2008/05/11/1210444244272.html

the State President of the Party, a man with considerable political ambition has these staffers placing libelous stuff on the internet. The best he has done so far is to say that it was news to him and sack the staffers. Oh well, remember when Jeff Kennett and Andrew peacock were getting used to these new fangled mobile phones and got their conversation about a NSW Liberal, one John Howard by name, recorded and published?

Jeff Kennett quite grew on me. I was glad that he was Victoria's Premier and not New South Wales but he had a little bit of principle for all his rough and tumble style. I quite like him as a personality.

http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/05/12/Peter_Debnam_resigns_in_protest_of_power_sale

And then there is Peter Debnam, former leader of the NSW parliamentary Liberal Party resigning on a matter of principle. For 11 years the Liberal party has had as Party policy that they would not support the privatisation of NSW power generation. Now, because he is the Shadow Minister for Energy he has resigned his position because he sees that if they have been teling the people of NSW that they will not do it and then they do, they are not a party of principle which makes them very like the Labor Party, lacking principle.

i am pleased that he has shown some spine and some principle. I am sorry that his party has not also shown some. It makes them look craven and corrupt and very like the Labor Party except not as efficient. I do not reckon that they Liberrals have got this oppostion thing down pat yet.

They only had to oppose the Labor Party. The power station privatisation is as popular with the electorate as the pork chop in the synagogue. They did not have to actually make policy. I think that Debnam was right. Tell the Labor Party to take it to the people. Tell everyone that they are a corrupt lot of lying Bs which the electorate already believes anyway.

i think that I will end on the positive Debnam note. The rest of the news about the Liberal Party is too depressing. Debnam deserves to be congratulated.

I do not think that I knew that one. Bob Hawke COULD HAVE SAID ANYTHING.