Poison Deviny

Classic Miranda, 2011: “In NSW, after 16 years of damaging government had brought the state to its knees, then Opposition leader Barry O’Farrell promised to look at introducing recall elections so voters can dump “corrupt, incompetent governments”.

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Yeah I don’t think he’ll be doing that:

“A senior government source said last night the only producer of ethanol in NSW, Manildra, “gives a lot of money to political parties and has bought (itself) a monopoly”. ”Customers don’t want it and we have a mandate to make people take it. If you (were to) dump the mandate, then you don’t have to abolish unleaded petrol,” the source said. BP’s government relations director Richard Wise told Seven News that Mr O’Farrell’s decision was “bad policy” that benefitted only Manildra.”
“The Opposition has accused Finance Minister Greg Pearce of ordering the adjournments and interfering in the judicial process.”
“Mr O’Farrell on Monday sent his senior media adviser, Peter Grimshaw, on leave without pay pending an investigation into whether he breached a code of conduct for ministerial staffers by forwarding to his girlfriend emails from the premier, a former senior executive at The Star. Mr Grimshaw’s partner has accused sacked Star managing director Sid Vaikunta of sexual harassment, one of two complaints being investigated by the Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA) as part of its inquiry into the casino boss’s removal. Mr Grimshaw, who once worked for The Star, has been accused of conspiring to get rid of his partner’s then-boss Mr Vaikunta.”

LORD Mayor Clover Moore has worn out her welcome with Sydneysiders - even the 34,000 people who voted for her at the last election must be having second thoughts. Her legacy will be the $70 million ugly white elephant of a cycleway that has gridlocked the streets and is rarely used by cyclists. They’d prefer taking their chances with the traffic to riding on a bunch of over engineered obstacle paths punctuated by pictures of bicycles stencilled on the road under parked cars. After eight long years, it’s time. Premier Barry O’Farrell is at last going to force Moore to choose by September between her two jobs - mayor or independent state MP. As far as Sydney is concerned, it’s no choice at all. Moore should immediately vacate Town Hall. We need a lord mayor who can restore some sanity to our broken city, free up the traffic, allow people to park for a reasonable price, forget about turning parking spots into green energy substations and start working with the state government to get the city moving again.

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—	Carbon price = authoritarian, media inquiry = authoritarian, forcing a woman out of a job she was elected to = ok because Miranda doesn’t like traffic but cannot be seen riding a bike or taking a train like the rest of us sclebs.

Classic Miranda, 2010: And, having done nothing demonstrable to reduce heroin use, or cause drug addicts to abstain from the substance that is ruining their lives, it was made permanent this week.

Legislation was passed in the NSW Upper House with the aid of the limp-wristed NSW Opposition, which fails to realise that a conservative party that turns its back on conservative policies never fares well at the polls.

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Carr says he has no aspirations for the Labor leadership, but if Julia Gillard doesn’t improve her poll ratings, who better qualified than this erudite, feline history buff who managed to last ten years as NSW Premier - and send the state to rack and ruin?

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There is a lot you could criticise Carr for but sending the state “to rack and ruin” isn’t one of them. He broke records for spending on hospitals and roads while still managing the first“government in the State’s history to retire debt”. He neglected water and electricity but no Premier since him has fixed those problems. As the soon to be a nuclear waste haven Western Sydney gets shot to pieces while Orica spits poisons, the Sydney Harbour Bridge falls to pieces and the Pacific Highway remains a neglected deathtrap; I wouldn’t be surprised if many citizens of NSW wished Bob the environmentalist, tough on crime Builder could make a return to the Premiership.

Sure enough, when Bratton’s police cracked down hard on minor offences such as fare evasion, vandalism, loitering and intrusive begging, there was a corresponding dramatic drop in more serious crime - including robbery, rape and murder. Rather than tinkering with soft sentencing options, and the occasional high profile police operation, Premier Barry O’Farrell should give Sydney a shot of harsh medicine, New York style. It’s well beyond time to stop pussyfooting around with the riff-raff.

An entire generation has grown up since Bratton cleaned up New York.

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In 1993-2001, for example, San Diego was second only to New York in experiencing the biggest crime drop of any city in the United States, with our violent crime decreasing by 45 percent and homicides decreasing by 62 percent. But New York’s crime drop was associated with aggressive zero tolerance policing and a concomitant 50 percent increase in misdemeanor arrests. San Diego’s crime drop, by contrast, was accomplished through a community policing model that resulted in a 1 percent decrease in misdemeanor arrests. In fact, from 1994 to 2000, prison sentences in San Diego were actually reduced by 25 percent.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2011/may/29/if-prison-costs-rob-education-what-then/?print&page=all