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Swayed by the powerful arguments of Cate Blanchett, Bob Ellis, and Alison Broinowski, federal and state governments have abandoned plans to sell their shares in the Snowy Mountains Hydro scheme.
It’s nice that Cate, Bob, and Alison believe the Snowy scheme to be an “iconic enterprise” and a “marker of our aspiration.” Construction of the iconic marker took 25 years, and involved clear felling thousands of native trees, among other massive environmental stompings. Imagine, please, the rage from Bob ‘n’ Cate were plans for a similar project announced today.
(More Snowy pics here)
Hey, listen, Casanova, the only thing worse than a rape of Milf Gaia is a rape of Milf Gaia that makes somebody some money!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 02 at 12:25 AM • permalinkPlus you have to remember that Cate, and other actors especially, have made a career (and gazillions of dollars) from memorising and speaking other people’s words…
when they then feel the need to spout off themselves, its not surprising that their feeble efforts are often not a patch on the prose and logical trains of thought they often exhibit on the big screen….
as for Bob Ellis, this sewer has so lowered the expectations of the masses as to what he is capable of, nothing surprises any more, nor lowers his already rock bottom credibility further….
That share issue was gonna be free money for a lot of ordinary Aussies, but what do Blanchett and Ellis care? They’re rich and doing fine - we cant have the Howard voting ‘plebs’ getting ahead can we?
Posted by Islam/cancer-Chuck Norris/answer on 2006 06 02 at 01:48 AM • permalinkWhere were the usual assortment of celebrities (actors, academics, ex politicians and the famous for something) when icons such as iced vovos and vegemite left Aussie shores? I wonder what business reason was used to oppose the Snowy sale by the celebs and the Federal Government. It’s not a national interest thing, but rather nostalgic wanking.
As an actor it is Cate Blanchett’s responsibility to read things in the paper and then go on TV and say the same things as if they are original thoughts.
The whole Snowy Hydro saga has been characterised by misinformation. The whole scheme was never going to be sold, just the electricity generating company Snowy Hydro.
No water with the sale at all.And yes, ironically, something like the Snowy would never be achieved now because of green spooks.
Posted by The (WHMECDM) President on 2006 06 02 at 02:10 AM • permalinkAs I said, it’s aa victory for the communists.
Sounds to me like the two Labor Premiers were going to push this sell off so as to get their hands on a shitload of cash to throw at whatever their next pet projects are, quite rightly under the belief that even though holding only 13% of the shares, the Federal Govt., i.e. Howard and the Libs, would take the brunt of the furore. The Greens can crow all they like about this “victory”, but it shows Howard to be once again the consumate politician. If the sale went ahead, it’d take at least up until the next Federal Election to go ahead. That means it’d be fresh during the election campaign. As it is, who’ll remember this issue next year?
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 06 02 at 02:22 AM • permalinkVery true Alburyshifton. The Feds only own 13 per cent but they were getting much more than 13 per cent of the political flak.
However, the reality is a private snowy hydro would operate much the same way as a corporatised snowy hydro, except maybe they would invest a bit of money into infrastructure. It would have also given small share holders a chance to actually own the snowy, rather than the government owning it on their behalf and spending diddly squat making it better.
Posted by The (WHMECDM) President on 2006 06 02 at 02:33 AM • permalinkStatement of unalloyed fact.
The bottom of my budgie’s cage has more intelligence than Cate Blanchett, Bob Ellis and the twittering Broinowski (diplomat put out to pasture) put together.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 06 02 at 03:14 AM • permalinkA piss-poor performance all round. Just days ago, the Bracks Government felt confident enough about it to start putting ads up around Melbourne asking for shares in Snowy Hydro; now, the turn-around has been just as dramatic.
A more questionable case of privatisation is the sell-off of Medibank Private: in this case, the members of Medibank Private are also the shareholders; and yet, when it is sold off, the profits will go to the federal government. I don’t know the legal ins and outs of that one, but it sounds pretty suspect to me.
In other news, Stock Analysis analyst blames the proles for sale failure.
Oh my god, Bob Brown is a complete turd!
and its an absolute victory for the Greens in the Parliament as the real opposition
Brown can make like a Russian and fuckovski - Bill Heffernan, that protectionist old windbag, did ten thousand times more to a) bring this story to the public’s attention AND b) get the proposal sunk, than that poseur Brown.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 06 02 at 04:44 AM • permalinki had no respect for gene symmonds (Kiss) until I saw this quote from him. ” If it wasnt for rock and roll Id be standing behind a counter asking “would you like fries with that”“
Sums up most actors as well.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 06 02 at 06:11 AM • permalinkMr Nicholas said he would leave Australia for good if the sale went through.
Like all those actors who left AmeriKKKa after Bushy Katrinaspewer was selected again.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 06 02 at 07:49 AM • permalink#15, #16.
You could also make the observation that the prevention of the sale by the feds will remove the ability of the NSW ALP govt. to have a war chest with which to try and buy the next state election.
From Howard’s perspective, this would be an excellent political manouvre, while also having the merit of preventing money from a valuable public asset being pissed up against the wall.Strange that our good friend Ant L is not in the list of signatories. Surely some mistake. No doubt his invitation was lost in the mail, so he may as well stop waiting by the post box.
I do note that John ‘Anthony’ (surely Doug Anthony) is one space above Ian ‘Lowe’ (i.e. short for Lowenstein?)
To get Jonathan Biggins on the list they must be scraping the celebrity barrel. An unfunnier, witless cretin I have yet to come across.
Posted by Effing & Blinding on 2006 06 02 at 09:27 AM • permalinkWell, I, for one, am extremely disappointed. Paco Enterprises’ subsidiary (Paco Power, Dam-It!) worked long and hard to structure several large private placements with cash-rich, er, agricultural conglomerates in Colombia that were looking for a
frontgood business opportunity in an overseas investment market. Now what am I supposed to tell them? I’ve already used some of the up-front money to cover, ah, administrative expenses and they’re liable to want it back. And I don’t have it. Salty, do you need a boatswain or something? Maybe for a cruise to the other side of the world?Thank you, Mr. Bingley (#25).
Someone had to mention it and you saved me the trouble. Reading Mr. Nicholas’ quote was, in the words of baseball manager Yogi Berra, “like déjà vu all over again.” That line should be retired and buried right along side the plastic turkey because it’s just about as real. Mr. Nicholas’ attitude (as well as others who’ve used that line) reminds me of a kid threatening to hold his breath until he gets what he wants. It’s worth a laugh and not much more.
Well, k com, it’s also so plooking arogant, the thought that it would be such a terrible thing for our republic if they weren’t here. Oh! Please! Stay! We beg you!
barf.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 06 02 at 12:27 PM • permalinkAs a family member worked on one of the last projects in the Scheme we make a pilgrimage to a dam or a power station each winter on the way to the ski resorts. To our family the Scheme certainly is an “iconic enterprise” so the decision to half-empty the dams to increase the river flow downstream was decidely non-iconic. How is investment in this a good idea if you wouldn’t have control of the resource (water) that would make you money?
Mr Nicholas said he would leave Australia for good if the sale went through.
Alec dipshit Baldwin said exactly the same thing if George Bush were elected…the fuckhead is still here. Courage of conviction is typically NOT a strong point among ‘useful idiots’. And I don’t think BDS is a conviction.
Is that Rachel Corrie I see under that Caterpillar Bulldozer?...:).
You could also make the observation that the prevention of the sale by the feds will remove the ability of the NSW ALP govt. to have a war chest with which to try and buy the next state election.
From Howard’s perspective, this would be an excellent political manouvre, while also having the merit of preventing money from a valuable public asset being pissed up against the wall.Howard’s conservative/free-market credentials aren’t always up to scratch, but his political instinct is, as always, impeccable. And just because he’s scotched the idea now, doesn’t mean he can’t revive it at a later date, especially if there’s a Lib Premier in Macquarie St.
I still wonder what Carr and co were doing with all that cash that was flowing in as stamp duty, etc. during the property boom. I’d like to think the the rail and road networks, and the education system, and the healthcare system were allowed to deteriorate over time in order to pay off state debt. But I suppose one can always dream…
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 06 02 at 05:17 PM • permalinkLeave it to the Ozzies. It now appears that Australia itself was formed from the greatest destructive environmental impact yet discovered—
“...a 300-mile-wide crater lies hidden more than a mile beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. And the gravity measurements that reveal its existence suggest that it could date back about 250 million years—the time of the Permian-Triassic extinction, when almost all animal life on Earth died out.
“Its size and location—in the Wilkes Land region of East Antarctica, south of Australia—also suggest that it could have begun the breakup of the Gondwana supercontinent by creating the tectonic rift that pushed Australia northward.”—“Big Bang In Antarctica: Killer Crater Found Under Ice,” ScienceDaily, June 1, 2006, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060601174729.htm.
Gloss: Grist for an Aussie beer ad.
It’s nice that Cate, Bob, and Alison believe the Snowy scheme to be an “iconic enterprise” and a “marker of our aspiration.”
Well now it is time for Cate and co. to support The Nationals in the next Victorian elections.
More dams the answer, say NationalsnullState Nationals’ leader Peter Ryan said new dams could be the cheapest, most secure way of supplying water to Melbourne and country Victoria.
He called on the State Government to investigate the viability of building new dams at potential sites including along the Mitchell, Ovens and Goulburn rivers. Large dams have not been built in the state for more than 20 years.
It is time we had more icons in Victoria but for some reason I doubt old Bob Brown will back this proposal.
VOTE ONE: The Nationals!
Interesting, innit?
Also from the meteor article:
But the more immediate effects of the impact would have devastated life on Earth.“All the environmental changes that would have resulted from the impact would have created a highly caustic environment that was really hard to endure. So it makes sense that a lot of life went extinct at that time,” he said.
So where’s bloody Greenpeace when you need ‘em? Where were the Zodiac rubber duckies putting themselves between the meteor and the vulnerable earth?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 06 02 at 07:22 PM • permalinkO/T - Report in Herald-Sun:
Complaints hit student website
The University of Melbourne’s Islamic student society has been forced to withdraw material on its website which praised the insurgency fighting US and Australian troops in Iraq as heroes…
The entries and forum links were removed last month after complaints raised with the vice-chancellor’s office by the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council.
It claimed some of the material was consistent with information normally found on neo-Nazi websites aimed at fostering hatred of Jews and America.
Seems Melbourne Uni’s days as Victoria’s premier university are long over. Just a lot of riff-raff nowadays.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 06 02 at 07:40 PM • permalinkThe University of Melbourne’s Islamic student society has been forced to withdraw material on its website which praised the insurgency fighting US and Australian troops in Iraq as heroes…
Funny how often that happens.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 06 02 at 07:53 PM • permalinkI am so over Cate Blanchett. She joins the likes of Heath Ledger, George Clooney, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Sean Penn etc as someone I will not pay any money to watch under any circus pants.
In fact I don’t want to watch them at all. Lets boycott the bitch.
As for Ellis, Broinowski and Brown, just ignore them. Give those turds no oxygen at all.
#39 SCD,
Very interesting. The Permo-Triassic extinction has not (to my knowledge) been identified previously with an impact crater, as some of the other big mass extinctions have. I’ve never been fond of the impact theory for the Cretaceus-Tertiaty extinction but I may have to reconsider if this impact proves to be geologically contemporaneous with the Permo-Triassic one.Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 06 03 at 01:12 AM • permalinkHi ML
..original link by ForNow
What’s your concern re the K-T event? I’m not up with the scientific papers in the past 5 years but isn’t the iridium layer and mass extinctions across that layer still one of the best evidences?
Also, don’t follow your meaning “if (the C-T) impact proves to be geologically contemporaneous with the Permo-Triassic one.”
Surely abt 100 mill years apart?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 06 03 at 04:14 AM • permalinkThis reminds me back to when a Reagan administration official proposed taking a dam down and letting the valley that the reservoir consumed be returned back to its original natural state. This reservoir provided the water for San Francisco and the little nature loving lefties didn’t think much of the idea. The then mayor now US Senator, Dianne Feinstein, said that the reservoir was a birthright of every San Franciscoan.
Dianne is also a gun-control nut and yet carries a handgun with her. I guess that birthright is just reserved for special people like herself.
Well it’s hardly free enterprise. [Sigh]. It’s just Johnny, the consummate politician, playing his favourite game of screwing his opposition. Politics has prevailed and no-one should be surprised.
Then again the Snowy Mountains Scheme - hmmm - lots of water, a little bit of hydro electricity (remember it’s really a pumped storage power system) but good electrical infrastructure linking the NSW and Victorian power grids. Why it’s an ideal location for one, two or three nuclear power stations, with plenty of water for cooling, a power grid in place with a little upgrading and idyllic tranquil mountain settings for the stations
in National Parkson government land.Perfect!
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I think Tim here is expecting Cate and others to stay on message, which is probably a bit of an unfair expectation to hold them to such a high standard….
especially as they usually have little clue about what they are rabbiting on about, usually just take short term populous positions, and are use to basing these positions on philosphical and ideological issues rather than letting facts and logic spoil their rants and raves….
as such they feel free to take completely contradictory stances on issues as they see fit and as the mood takes them….