kennedy speculation

By: colgradolf (Registered ) on 25-09-2007 09:42

living in tully, fnq, i heard a peter lindsay ad today, on the radio. 
he claims credit for a significant improvement to the national highway system occurring between townsville and cairns. to the best of my knowledge, most of this is happenning in the seat of kennedy and i got the distinct impression from the tone of his statement that the coalition government thought that they deserve to win this seat back from the independent, bob katter, bacause of the pork barrel sums spent here. 
infrastructure improvements in this seat are long overdue and perhaps it has more to do with the fact that the government desperately wants to reacquire this seat than any urgency to fix longstanding problems that motivates their spending. 
regards colgraolf

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Strange accusations

By: wil (Registered ) on 05-10-2007 03:11

Vic...you may want to check the spelling of the candidate's name before you launch ill-imformed attacks on him. Now to the 'detail' of your accusations. George Colbran worked with unions when he brought his business to town to establish a fast-food industry award in North Queensland, ensuring his employees were paid fairly and in accordance with the law. As far as i am aware some of his management are on Common Law contracts which are based on the award. He currently employs more than 750 people in his business. Presumably these people are working there under their own free will.

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For Fact?

By: wil (Registered ) on 05-10-2007 05:48

I was born in Townsville, my family has been here three generations..I have lived most of my life here. In the last 11 years, I have watched the below-par performance of Peter Lindsay with distressed interest. He is all talk and no action. If you want evidence of the scary mind that lurks inside his skull here are some of things that he has said in public, to journalists: 
After 11 years as Member for Herbert and a few token months as Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Mr Lindsay thinks: 
 
• The solution to the Housing Affordability Crisis is for “financially illiterate” young people to use “milk crates” as furniture, like he claims to have had to, and sit around and wait for it all to pass. 
 
• The solution to the skills shortage is to shut down TAFE, because according to him it’s a “failing institution” and scatter ATC’s around marginal seats. At its peak, the Townsville ATC will produce 150 apprentices. TAFE produces 2000 apprentices every year, as well as thousands of certificate and diploma graduates. He also claims the city campus is empty when it’s actually operating at capacity. 
 
• There are no issues with broadband in regional and rural Australia because the only peop

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