What is it with NSW Labor and fast cars? Rees did it with the V8 Supercars, Now it comes to light that failed former Premier Morris Iemma approved a new drag strip at Eastern Creek on a site previously set aside for much needed land fill. The land fill cost nothing, yet the Labor government happily paid $30 million startup costs for this privately owned venture, with the expected public cost to reach $150 million.
Shadow environment spokeswoman Catherine Cusack calls this affront, ‘…quintessential Labor – jobs for the boys, political donations, prime Sydney real estate, sod turnings in an election campaign – all encased by a brick wall of secrecy and denial.’
Having witnessed two premiers in the same number of years ousted from office, we are now faced with poster girl Keneally and her bid to appropriate the Grand Prix for NSW. According to The Age, most Victorians are begging us to take it.
Premier, fast cars won’t take our minds off slow trains. Infrastructure is more important than big boys’ toys. And a pretty face won’t hide the corrupt and inept government of which you are the figurehead.
Are you sure that NSW doesn’t have Tasmanian politicians in disguise?
Or do we maybe have yours?
Either way, both states have a long history of backroom deals, jobs for the boys, and corruption that runs deeper than the Hess Deep (bluddy great chasm in the Pacific, home of who knows what weird and maye-not-so wonderful creatures).
This is not likely to change any time soon, as the old-boys network will continue to hide behind shiny new facades, and offer us distractions like KK, in the hope that the tricks that worked 30 years ago will continue to do so.
And sadly, they will.
Do not know much about it, I have been to the existing drag race strip, why having another one? what the use? love ooxx