The South Australian Political Landscape

[Gozu]

Not technically SA politics:

Former Premier John Olsen’s life just gets busier: barely a week after taking over the role of Chairman of the Stadium Management Authority from Ian McLachlan, Olsen is set to hang out a shingle at lobbyist firm Bespoke Approach.

The high profile firm was founded in 2008 by former Federal Government ministers Alexander Downer and Nick Bolkus, and PR identity Ian Smith.

Downer had served in the Howard Liberal government and Bolkus in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments. Both are still prominent figures in their respective political parties.

Downer is due to leave South Australia after being appointed Australia’s 26th High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

John Olsen will take up the “conservative role” at Bespoke.


http://indaily.com.au/news/2014/04/29/j ... -approach/

[Jimmy_041]

Kouta in action

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/sa-treasurer-tom-koutsantoniss-figures-disputed-in-350m-port-pirie-smelter-redevelopment/story-fni6uok5-1226902787938

Not his fault - he probably doesn't know how to calculate it

Here you go Tom: http://www.nyrstar.com/investors/en/shareprices/Pages/shareprice.aspx

What a champion
I wonder if he did those finger paintings in the background Probably better qualified for that

[dedja]

heard KFol on ABC Mornings and had to change stations it was so embarrassing

[mighty_tiger_79]

Rod Hook repotedly sacked by the Premier

[dedja]

was not afraid to speak his mind ... maybe he did it once too often.

Seemed like a straight shooter though, I'm sure some numbty stooge will replace him.

[dedja]

Anyone subscribe to the view that Fred Hansen was sacked before he could spill the beans on the Gillman deal?

[Jimmy_041]

Silly if they did because it gives him more reason to let loose and not let them off the "Hook" (Pun intended)
Hooky is certainly giving it to them. Some of the reactions are circa Harold Salisbury stuff (that worked out well for Dunstan)

[Jimmy_041]

Weathered, Mumbles and Smelling blaming the Beaumont children on the federal government
Smelling has been covertly moving State hospital costs to the Feds for the past 4 years
If they hadn't blown the finances in the past 10 years, they would have some room to move.
Maybe, Weathered will bite the bullet and start cutting some costs and the bloated PS.

Going through the budget with a purely selfish attitude, it makes little financial change to my life.

[Psyber]

Silly if they did because it gives him more reason to let loose and not let them off the "Hook" (Pun intended)
Hooky is certainly giving it to them. Some of the reactions are circa Harold Salisbury stuff (that worked out well for Dunstan)

It did actually.
He may have taken a lot of flack but he got possession of the file special branch had on him as a suspect in a murder case, which Salisbury had refused to hand over. (CIB source confirmed this for me some years later.)

The story alleged was that the bisexual younger brother of an Adelaide identity had a row with Don and two hours later was found dead in his bath tub with an electric radiator. (Which was incidentally how Jill Blewett - a devout Catholic - died some years later.)

[Jimmy_041]

WOW: That opened up a can of worms.
My mother came from Launceston and knew Blewett and his cloak.

The man who successfully sued a radio station for saying he is gay.
I wonder if it ever occurred to him to pay it back

[Psyber]

Yes, my wife and her friend Anne-Marie Mykyta (whose daughter was one of the Truro victims) were both fairly close to Jill at Adelaide University.
They both swore her devout Catholicism would have prevented her from committing suicide, which was what her death was attributed too officially.

The Truro business put me in a spot too. I knew whom Worrall had blackmailed to get a good report for the Parole Board and get him out of gaol before the Truro murders began, but couldn't tell Anne-Marie about the government required cover up after the blackmailee Psychiatrist scarpered off back to England.

It wouldn't have helped her cope anyway, I guess, and may have made her feel worse to know.
So it just made me uncomfortable when we saw each other.

[dedja]

The Family murders will be solved by the end of the day at this rate ... c'mon Psyb, spill your guts.

[Jimmy_041]

Here, I'll have a crack seeing he cant sue me anymore: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/accused-pedophile-magistrate-richard-dutton-brown-dies/story-e6frea83-1225970991567

[Dogwatcher]

Any other obituaries you'd like to publish, Jimmy?

[Jimmy_041]

I will as they fall off the perch...........
They deserve nothing less

[Dogwatcher]

I've always found it interesting we should never speak ill of the dead...but legal convention has it that the dead can't sue.

[Psyber]

The Family murders will be solved by the end of the day at this rate ... c'mon Psyb, spill your guts.

My theory there - and this one is only theory based on bits and pieces I've heard - is that von Einem drew the short straw when the politics of the situation demanded there had to be a fall guy, and that he was a minor and relatively unknown (publicly) player in the group and therefore safe to sacrifice.

Presumably there was leverage applied to ensure his compliance. (Among other things I heard he was promised his mother would be "looked after" one way or the other depending on his cooperation.)

[dedja]

agree that he took one up the arse for the team ...

[Dogwatcher]

No doubt about any of that Psyb.

And...

Dedja, pity it wasn't a bottle, a broken one.

[dedja]

Yes, the atrocities (allegedly) committed were unimaginable.

I know a someone who was a journalist at the time when some of the other Family murders were being instigated and there was an attempt to charge von Einem. The stuff she recalled from testimony was completely and utterly unbelievable.

It is a complete travesty of justice that it seems that many people got away with these atrocities.