HOLD the front page!
Tasmanian politicians and their minders are trying to get the dirt on their political opponents.
Shock, horror. Read all about it!
What is going to be the next manifestation of the absolute naivety and gullibility of the Tasmanian media?
I hate to have to tell you, scribes, this is the way of the world and has been since well before Caius Julius Caesar conquered Gaul, donned a toga and entered the forum.
And yes, we taxpayers have always paid the bills for the likes of Big Julie, Rod Scott, Mike Aird, Kim Booth, Peg Putt and even Max Bingham to scratch around in the garbage can of politics looking for the dirt on their opponents.
You see, scribes, there is a Premier’s Office and a Premier’s Department. They have quite different functions. The office is political.
Rod Scott is employed to ensure the return of the Lennon Government.
Linda Hornsey is head of the Premier’s Department. We also pay her bills, but she is a public servant, scribes. If she had her nose in the garbage bin, then you would have a yarn! “Dirt Unit in the Department of Premier and Cabinet” — that’s a story.
If the Greens can delve into the donations to the ALP and the Libs and feed the journos’ questions, why can’t Lennon’s mob pose questions about the Greens’ funds?
By the way, Wes Young, good work on the MS Word detection work (The Premier’s dirt unit). What are you doing these days?
Bruce Montgomery
Liverpool Street
Hobart
