In the New South Wales today, thousands of people joined a protest including 15 Labor Members of Parliament about the State Government’s plans to privatize the electricity industry.
The MPs included Paul Gibson, Upper House president Peter Primrose, and former MPs Kerry Hickey and Grant McBride.
Mr Gibson was reported as saying, “I’m a member of the Australian Labor Party and I’m sticking to the Labor platform and policy.”
The Government seems to have ignored the positions of the protesters, with Premier Morris Iemma expressing to the first sitting of Parliament for 2008 that his Government’s plans would proceed.
Related instances in Tamworth occurred, when workers in the Electricity Trade Union walked off the job.
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amfortas said,
Electricity everywhere else in Oz has long since left the hands of inefficient State bureaucrats (except in Tasmania where it remains controlled by another friggin’ labour Guvmunt, just disguised). The looney left was given a shot in the arm by the new Labor Federal Guvmunt. We now have wall to wall (sea to shining sea) socialist lunatics running the feminazi asylum.
And the Americans think we are their best ally ! What does that say about America?
February 26, 2008 at 11:37 pm