Bracks goes.
At the ripe old age of 52, Steve Bracks, Premier of Victoria, has retired - as well as some other ministers no one cares about. I hope he manages to find employment with one of the many companies he allowed to rort the PPP's, because I doubt the parliamentary pension will be enough for the poor lad.
I'd like to thank him for the Upper House reforms, even though it was in their own interests, and seemed to turn the ALP into a Greens hating machine.
GOOD THINGS:
Upper House reforms.
BAD THINGS:
Continued privatisation of public transport.
Bay dredging.
Public-private partnership scams.
All that logging.
BEST THING I CAN SAY ABOUT HIM:
The last Premier was worse.
posted by Larry Bonewend @ 2:35 pm
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correct me if i'm wrong, if bracks and his no.2 goes, does that mean the right faction are pretty much decapitated? i don't know much about vic state politics but it seems that way to me...
I hope you're right, but I don't know enough about the fell doings in the inner workings of the ALP to say.
Bracks was right, the other guy that resigned (Thwaits) was neither, and the new leader is right.
The deputy leader role seems to be the one the factional warlords are watching - and there was speculation the Socialist-Left Lynne Kosky might take the role....
...but as transport minister, she justified the continued privatisation of the public transport by saying "do I want to run a train system? I don't think so", etc., so I'd take any effect from a swing of factions in the Victorian branch with a grain of salt.
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