Where's Zeddy?

There’s more to the assembly than just votes – it’s supposed to be a debating chamber. The logical extension of the argument above “lose by 2 votes or lose by 3” is that none of the non-government members need ever bother appearing, which is clearly ludicrous.

You could say the same thing about Standope and his absences from virtually any form of CM ministerial duty that requires attendance at a church. Of course when it comes to Labor associates such as Grasby and Terry Connolly (RIP) he will turn up but anything major at a church that has federal govt. attendance (memorial services etc) Comrade is conspicuously absent…..he generally sends a shabbily dressed Katy

Does it really matter wether he’s there to vote or not? Lose by 2 votes on something or lose by three? When they (Liberals) and the semi-independent and the Green all vote together they can….only just lose. Oh well.

Remember when Karin Macdonald got caught getting her boyfriend to astroturf, calling the radio and raving about how good she was, and got caught out? That was great.

She wouldn’t be stupid enough to do it twice……would she?

I smell a Labor party team member being somewhat indiscrete, but clever by using the CityNews as the cover, in their attempt to badmouth the opposition without fully disclosing who they are. I wonder if you are also the source of the leaked emails that are mentioned in the article, seeing you put such effort into the picture above – its not the one captioned with the article on the CityNews’ website..

Now, do we care that Zed wasn’t there for the Labor party to ram through their bills that they would have passed anyway using their majority numbers, no matter how loud the people of Canberra object? Nup.

If anyone in Canberra has any sense they will be voting to at least return the assembly to a minority government, if not voting stanhopeless out all together.

I’m interested to see that the Legislative Assembly debated several controversial bills on the night Zed took off. According to that article he missed the votes on the Electoral Act and Civil Partnerships Bill. I would have thought that leading his party’s opposition to those bills was more important than attending a fundraising dinner.

The real issue seems to be the level of incompetence in the Liberal party which resulted in a fundraising dinner being scheduled for a day where the Assembly was sitting (and hence where there was a good chance that sittings would continue into the night). The party’s leader shouldn’t have had to make the choice between anoying donors by not showing or cancelling or skipping an evening’s sitting and several votes.

I dont understand what the problem is?
Is this something only a blind diehard labor voter understands??

He wasn’t fundraising – he was at a dinner with the Canberra business community on his knees, kissing Jim Murphy’s pinky ring, giving Kate Carnell a back rub, buying Russell Parkes a drink while crawling around on the ground and grovelling, begging, “pleaseeee, pleaseee don’t form your own party… Pleeaaaassse! I’ll be good I promise – I’m better than Bill, give me a go…. I can turn things around…”

Unfortunately Zed can’t rely on pokie money from the Labor Club (the 7th largest political donor in the country)

http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/news/opinion/editorial/general/stanhope-should-explain/130722.aspx

http://petermartin.blogspot.com/2008/04/saturday-forum-our-nations-capital-is.html?showComment=1209543780000

is any different to any of the prior chief ministers?

Yep and I can’t wait to vote him in.

Yes.