John Anderson
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2 down...........2 to go!
I gunna miss ya Lie-low John..
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Dear Warren,
As I gaze into my crystal ball...........I see a refreshing new and sensible era of Transport administration.......
..............oh...........nope......sorry....... it is just a 'stool' left by the former turd obscuring my vision...
...
That being the case..........
.......in anticipation of more of the same 
I gunna miss ya Lie-low John..
............Dear Warren,
As I gaze into my crystal ball...........I see a refreshing new and sensible era of Transport administration.......
..............oh...........nope......sorry....... it is just a 'stool' left by the former turd obscuring my vision...
...That being the case..........
.......in anticipation of more of the same
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Great to see him go.What a wasted space.I remember how smug he was when AN went under and you would have to wonder why with the voters he was supposed to look after in the regional areas.His legacy lives on with QF now looking for saviours in SQ etc,Well done john
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with thanks to the NT News ..
breaking news
Truss promoted in reshuffle
03jul05
AGRICULTURE Minister Warren Truss has been promoted to the transport portfolio in a Government reshuffle following the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson from the frontbench.
breaking news
Truss promoted in reshuffle
03jul05
AGRICULTURE Minister Warren Truss has been promoted to the transport portfolio in a Government reshuffle following the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson from the frontbench.
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And with the possible oncoming firefight that may be created by the Four Corners program tomorrow night things may indeed prove to be interesting.
As for the subject of this thread; Good riddance. Enjoy your big fat pension when you resign from Parliament and don't let the door hit you in the arse on the way out!!
You only live twice. Once when
you're born. Once when
you've looked death in the face.
As for the subject of this thread; Good riddance. Enjoy your big fat pension when you resign from Parliament and don't let the door hit you in the arse on the way out!!
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What is the bet a certain "Aviation Expert" will be making inappropriate "I told you so" type comments in the 'popular media' over the next few days trying to slice of some free publicity for his flawed agenda?
Press release on AAP.
Anderson bows out with grace.
"Mr Anderson said he was proud of his achievements on Telstra" Nothing about aviation, nothing about aviation policy, nothing about aviation reform - just Telstra.
Anderson bows out with grace.
"Mr Anderson said he was proud of his achievements on Telstra" Nothing about aviation, nothing about aviation policy, nothing about aviation reform - just Telstra.
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I've been known to swim against the tide before, so once more won't matter.
I think Anderson did as good a job as was possible given the circumstances and the size of his portfolio as well as being Deputy PM.
As one of his colleagues remarked "he was too much of a gentleman to be a politician, he didn't have enough mongrel in him"
We need more of those people not less, if our politicians are to do the job we ask of them.
The tragedy that we call Australian aviation regulation and service provision was not of his making. He may well have presided over it, but you can only work with what you've got.
How do you go about your portfolio, when you inherit a dysfunctional regulator that has had the Smith cohort tinkering under the bonnet for some decades, with his personal advocacy group stirring up the lumpen proletariat, driving them onto the guns with cynical rhetoric and self aggrandising polemic.
We forget that Transport also includes Marine, Rail and Road, they all seem to be able to get on with it, sorting and going forward without dilletante millionaire assistance. We can only thank our individual Gods that he hasn't bought a railroad or shipping line.
Then there is the Regional bit which basically includes everything not in the big cities. Basically humungous.
To suggest that he resigned for other than health reasons and the perfectly reasonable desire to spend time with a young family after such demanding public service is churlish at the very least.
At the very least he stuck his head up for public service and had the strength of his personal convictions to carry it through. It can't have been just for the money.
Politics is the art of the possible, given the poisonous aviation evironment manufactured by narrow personal agenda cloaked in grand illusion for the benefit of the chattering classes, it's surprising we got this far.
Would we had the half billion or so dollars flushed down the sewer in pursuit we could have rebuilt the industry infrastructure and reequipped the fleet several times over.
On balance I believe the history books will be very kind to John Anderson with his main antagonists getting the court jester role.
It's called the BIG PICTURE dudes.
This is not a paid political advertisement and I vote Liberal
I think Anderson did as good a job as was possible given the circumstances and the size of his portfolio as well as being Deputy PM.
As one of his colleagues remarked "he was too much of a gentleman to be a politician, he didn't have enough mongrel in him"
We need more of those people not less, if our politicians are to do the job we ask of them.
The tragedy that we call Australian aviation regulation and service provision was not of his making. He may well have presided over it, but you can only work with what you've got.
How do you go about your portfolio, when you inherit a dysfunctional regulator that has had the Smith cohort tinkering under the bonnet for some decades, with his personal advocacy group stirring up the lumpen proletariat, driving them onto the guns with cynical rhetoric and self aggrandising polemic.
We forget that Transport also includes Marine, Rail and Road, they all seem to be able to get on with it, sorting and going forward without dilletante millionaire assistance. We can only thank our individual Gods that he hasn't bought a railroad or shipping line.
Then there is the Regional bit which basically includes everything not in the big cities. Basically humungous.
To suggest that he resigned for other than health reasons and the perfectly reasonable desire to spend time with a young family after such demanding public service is churlish at the very least.
At the very least he stuck his head up for public service and had the strength of his personal convictions to carry it through. It can't have been just for the money.
Politics is the art of the possible, given the poisonous aviation evironment manufactured by narrow personal agenda cloaked in grand illusion for the benefit of the chattering classes, it's surprising we got this far.
Would we had the half billion or so dollars flushed down the sewer in pursuit we could have rebuilt the industry infrastructure and reequipped the fleet several times over.
On balance I believe the history books will be very kind to John Anderson with his main antagonists getting the court jester role.
It's called the BIG PICTURE dudes.
This is not a paid political advertisement and I vote Liberal
