At the West Tamar Council meeting this week, I moved a motion that the Council discontinue the practise of supplying lunch for Councillors and staff that happens at every meeting between the “policy workshops” and the actual Council meetings.

I did this because I know that in this day and age it is NOT standard commercial practise for companies in the normal workplace to do things like this  and because if I want lunch I am luckily able to put my hand in my own kick and pay for it myself!

Now I realise fully the historic reasons that this practise is in place and I am not a dummy – I also realise that when you have guests at these lunches they should not have to pay and arrangements can be made easily for reimbursement at these times.

However, I do not accept that the lady who lives in the unit next door to my place should have to pay for me to have a feed.

The vote was lost 6 to 2. The only Councillor who supported the motion was Tim Woinarski so, thanks Tim, another day eh?

The issue may well be a minor one in dollar terms – I estimate about about $5000 a year but I could be wrong – but to me it is a matter of some principle.

To use an old hackneyed expression; there is NO such thing as a free lunch.

I hope the day comes when this can practise from the 1980s can be changed.

Sorry I could not win the argument this time round but I will try again.

Gosh – I wonder what the headline news stories on Southern Cross tonight are?

Wow – that is a biggie – Princess Mary and her hubby are on a Danish tour to South Korea.

Get over it – it s a Danish tour to South Korea. What the hell has that got to do with the local news here in Tasmania?

Yes – she was born here. End of story.

They Royal family of Denmark has about as much relevance to life here in Tasmania in 2012 as that other bunch of pampered and scandal riddled nongs from Windsor Castle.

Unscientific study – May 2012 – things people are sick to death of hearing about:

1. Carbon tax

2. Politics

3. Fat people losing weight

4. American presidential election

5. Facial tumours on Tasmanian Devils

6. Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan

7. The Tasmanian Chamber Of Commerce And Industry

8. Lara Bingle

9. Celebrity weddings

Unscientific but there you go…….

Last night I was unfortunate enough to be watching the Win TV programme  A Current Affair which years and years ago used to be a good programme. It is now just media slop.

Their big deal was good old Dr Geoffrey Edelstein’s old squeeze, Leanne whatshername, airing her dirty laundry about her affair with Clive James.

My God. Is this what this programme has come to?

If you value your time at more than 50 cents and hour, you are ripping yourself off watching this garbage.

The original producers of this programme must  just hang their heads in shame. This programme is way below the lowest common denominator. What a waste of space.

No more second chances from me!

So the big issue for Greens Bass member Kim Booth is that we should have all poker machines in “plain packaging” to stop people being “hypnotised” by them? (Southern Cross news 22.4.12)

The Greens (the people you pay) are now anti forest, anti mining, anti fishing, anti tree farming, anti horse racing and anti poker machines unless they all look the same!

Of course if they got this up it would end up in a  High Court challenge so I guess they are not against the tax payers forking out lots of dollars for lawyers and barristers.

Meanwhile , as Tasmania slowly sinks in the west…………………………………

Lately I have had occasion to drive a friend up to the LGH on an almost daily basis to have treatment at the Holman Clinic for a serious disease.

If you have had nothing to do with them before, let me tell you these people are absolutely great and work extremely well under immense pressure.

What sort of pressure? My friend had an appointment the other day for 1.12 pm.

Not 1.10 or 1.15 – 1.12!!!!!   That is the sort of pressure they are under.

What a shame our government does not work to the same exacting standards in supporting them.

I cannot believe how the Labor Party and Greens in Tasmania want tax payers to fund even more politicians in the lower house to share the work load. 

 What a joke!

Here are the real numbers showing how  how we are already over-serviced by State politicians:

Tasmania:  40 politicians – about 1 per 12000 people
South Australia: 69 politicians – about 1 per 22000 people
West Australia: 91 politicians – about 1 per 23000 people
Victoria: 128 policians – about 1 per 40000 people
Queensland: 89 politicians – about 1 per 47000 people
New South Wales: 135 politicians – about 1 per 50000 people

Apart from the Northern Territory, Tasmania has MORE politicians per head of population than any State in Australia. 

 It is worthwhile noting that while the Northern Territory does actually have more State politicians per head of population than Tasmania, they do service an area 21 times the geographical size of our State (1,420,970 sq. kms. as compared to our 68,401 sq. kms.)

Add in a dozen Senators and five federal members and, really, you have got to be kidding.

Here are some figures you may find interesting. The TOTAL Tasmanian Government Budget for 2008 / 2009 was $4 billion. In New South Wales in 2008 / 2009, the budget for roads alone was $4 billion. Now who is kidding who?

If the current State politicians find the  heat and workload disturbing, it is time to vacate the kitchen and stop whining!

At the end of the day, here is the real the no brainer – do you want more politicians or more nurses?
Do you want more politicians or more police?
Do you want to spend less time dealing with Government offices or have more politicians?
Do you want more staffed beds at the Launceston General Hospital or more politicians blaming each other for the mess the health system is in? 

These people agitating for more politicians fair dinkum live in La La Land!

Contrary to what the groaning and moaning and dismal jimmy Property Council of Tasmania may tell you to further their own political aims, the truth is that in Tasmania we have the best planning approval rate in the country. This was published in the Mercury last week:

Now your questions are these: was this published in The Examiner? If not why not?

Thanks to all of the people who submitted ideas for works that they considered needed to be undertaken by the West Tamar Council.

Those ideas have now been compiled and added in to the mix with the Council administration so we shall watch with interest what happens from now on!

I shall do this on a semi regular basis from here on in and advise when the next batch of ideas will be compiled and submitted.

So the Greens now want to shut down the live export industry – along with the forestry industry, mining industry, gambling industry and fishing industry.

So what does the human industry end up doing? All sit around smoking dope and singing kumbayah I guess while depending on the Government, who of course have no income without industry, for a fortnightly handout.

How long are YOU going to keep putting up with this garbage? Forever? Or are YOU going to tell them?

What a bunch of wankers.