IT’S ALWAYS someone else’s fault, isn’t it Mr Premier.
With Governor Butler it was all a dreadful media conspiracy to destroy the ”good name of Tasmania.”
With the issue of perception of conflicts of interest in relation to brotherly love or a Gunns subsidiary doing Lennon mansion renovations, it’s all an invasion of family privacy by the intrusive media and undeserving Great Unwashed.
When there are perception questions about accepting lavish PBL publicity while negotiating Betfair, it’s not my fault, it’s what Premiers do …
Now, Spirit !!! has sunk — not because it was an overblown hubristic vision … but because of “rising fuel costs and cheap air fares.”
Tasmanian Times contributor Mike Moore put it rather nicely, The Captain:
What’s the bet that Captain Ahab will not go down with this ship but simply blame it on market forces, or those pesky greens and liberals.
It’s all their negative publicity that swamped the ferry. It couldn’t possibly have been that captain Jim and Paul the cabin boy had absolutely no idea what they were doing and refused to listen to anybody that did.
Perhaps instead of selling the ship and doing even more money we, the taxpayer, could moor it on the new Meander Dam as a floating hotel.
That’s providing it’s approved as we wouldn’t want to jump the gun and actually build or do anything before to totally impartial RPDC says you can.
If we did that who knows what would happen …
Oh Please Mr Premier. Please face the Awful Truth. It was your idea … and despite the loud warning signals of Treasury you ploughed mindlessly ahead with another Cargo Cult Big Bang solution — to carry on as you so eloquently asserted, the vision of Billion-dollar Bacon.
Strategies in keeping with Tasmania’s ghastly history of failed Big Bang solutions … from the Carbide works to the proposed pulp mill.
All the time backed by monstrous subsidies and dinosaur economists’ theory that Tasmania can advance only by Big Bang solutions.
And a massive — unprecedently huge — spin team recruited by the attraction of money and associated power from the experienced ranks of Tasmanian journalism. Hope you enjoy selling this one girls and boys.
It’s just too much to consider how much medical care and educational solutions could have been provided by these millions poured mindlessly into Bass Strait.
But, let it not be said, that Hag does not have a little sympathy for the Premier’s plight.
And a brilliant solution (Brucey Felmingham would be happy to do the Big Bang economic modelling):
If the pulp mill topples build a nuclear power plant on the Tamar!
Marvellous.
You could have a desalination plant nearby. You could build a Walker Corp canal development to house the workers.
You could send all that power out via debt-laden Basslink.
You could chopper out the the nuke waste to Melaleuca and dump it down a used mine shift.
Brilliant!
Marvellous!
Hag will accept Tasmanian of the Year honours. Now!
