Shooters Party Under Blog Scrutiny

Sometimes the blogosphere seems riddled with rubbish, other times it is brimming with chestnuts worth digesting. The balls-up in the NSW Parliament by Labor in its marital tiff with The Shooters is burning up the blogosphere. Here is a small sample of varying quality of what I've seen:

* North Coast Voices - 29/08/09
* The Petition Site - 6/08/09
* Radio 2SER Razors Edge - 26/07/09
* Care 2 News Network - 22/08/09
* Alternative Media - 21/08/09
* Feral Thoughts - 17/08/09
* From Magna Carta To Here - 3/09/09
* Animals Australia - 26/06/09
* Venting Vegan - 7/08/09
* The Bull - 24/06/09
* NSW Law & Justice Monitor - 4/09/09
* Bartlett's Soap Box - 4/09/09

SkyNews offers an abridged version culled of the story from the Daily Telegraph today.

The Australian looks at the planned shooting range at Hill Top and flirts with providing an incomplete picture as to why Labor had a deal with The Greens that led to the loss of The Shooters Party votes since June.

The Sydney Morning Herald for 3/09/09 has its profile on the Parliamentary stalemate.

Labor & Shooters! I Almost Choked on My Weeties!

This morning I nearly choked to death with laughter as I had my Weet-Bix stuck in my throat. I saw the Sydney Morning Herald's article about The Shooters Party. Labor doesn't get it! If you support the boys with guns you'll alienate the community that supports conservation, ecology, and preserving animals (The Green vote). If you support The Green-style vote (which you should) then the loony-bin brigade will rally to put yet another Shooter in Parliament in 2011.

This lot of Labor don't have even the barbed-wire nous of an ultra conservative like Tony Abbott who effectively knocked One Nation off its perch.

And when will journalists turn the spotlight on the cause of the deadlock in Parliament? Why were The Shooters put off-side? It was Attorney General Hatzistergos' rabid lobbying in late June to push through the ridiculous merger of the Protective Commissioner. The public didn't want it. The disability advocates didn't want it. But Mr Hatzistergos and his off-kick Glanfield dug their heels in. They ran amok among the minor parties looking for support. The Greens said "ok" but Labor had to kick The Shooters. So, remember that the Attorney General, first-law officer of the state helped to stuff his own party's prospects of pushing through any more bills in the Legislative Council.

What has Labor done since the recess in June and the re-opening on Tuesday? Oh the de facto Premier Wedderburn tried to offer a lamb chop to The Shooters but the doggies wouldn't bite! So look at the "better service" delivery NSW is now receiving from Labor. It is surreal!

Della Bosca Resigned. Another One Bites The Dust

So Mr Della Bosca's ambitions to be Premier are well and truly over! Like so many living in the world of politics in Macquarie Street, it seems he was losing the plot about his life. The scandal that has engulfed his life and career is nothing new in NSW politics.

The NSW Health portfolio will now require yet another ministerial appointment, a certain kiss of death to whoever takes it on. Since 2005 we have had Hatzistergos, Meagher, and Della Bosca - not an awe-inspiring cast. Meagher left Parliament a year ago; Della Bosca will languish in obscurity and will surely be finished; and only Hatzistergos remains with his hands on industrial relations and law.