Richard Flanagan in the Tasmanian times:They sought to diidve us with hate and fill us with fear. Who were they who did this to us? In the end it wasnâ??t a party or a movement, but a small clique of cronies and bully boys and bully girls, the members and their families and their mates and even their matesâ?? children, the spinners and the standover men with their large salaries in government agencies. They treated parliament and its perks and positions as their own magic pudding. They lied, they deceived, they sold our soul for a mess of pottage, all in order that they could keep themselves in privilege.Itâ??s hard to believe that for over eleven years we have let the Tasmanian ALP run our island as if it was a sub branch of Norm Gallagherâ??s BLF.But we did.Actually, the BLF conducted the Green Bans back in the 70s, so it's even a bit unfair to compare Tasmanian Labor to them.

by Soelma 04:33:45 PM 2012.10.03