by K_P9 | May 9, 2015 | Senate Estimates - Unplugged
Wow; There is whisper, which, if true and handled properly by the grown ups, suggests there is quite a story brewing related to the airport approved to have a toxic waste dump built on a floodplain. We will have to wait (alas) a little while before getting to the...
by K_P9 | May 1, 2015 | Accidents and Inquiry, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
It is a mad world, seriously, truly, completely and utterly insane. I watch the news and see the lamp-post huggers, armed with candles, all dewy eyed and wailing because a sovereign nation has exercised their law and shot a couple of drug smugglers, who for profit,...
by K_P9 | Apr 29, 2015 | Senate Estimates - Unplugged
Master Easton sets a bar the majority of main stream media journalists could not attempt; flat, factual, no frills reporting. Until P2 brought ‘the Mandarin’ to my attention it would never have entered my wooden head to even contemplate reading such a...
by K_P9 | Apr 24, 2015 | Accidents and Inquiry, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
Give the poor commissioner a break. Only five and a half years to get the Norfolk investigation started and an update, this early, stating :- “Yup, it’s right where we left it” is not too shabby a response. Busy old Beaker; press calls at Silly...
by K_P9 | Apr 23, 2015 | Accidents and Inquiry
We need to remind ourselves – this is a capital ‘B’ bureaucracy Skidmore must deal with, not democracy. If it were a democracy then he would attract a veritable landslide majority on a reform platform; but it ain’t a democracy, is it (rhetorical)....