This story concerns events involving the town of Cessnock, though for the purposes of this column it could be called Cesspit.
If Australians knew how much the democratic process was being colonised and occupied by a self-perpetuating political class there would be more than the usual cynicism about politics. We're now seeing outbursts of disgust from inside the machines.
Two years ago, Lindsay Tanner was a Labor federal minister. Soon after the sudden and violent elevation of his factional rival Julia Gillard into the top job, Tanner pulled the pin on elected politics. Now comes his essay, Politics Without Purpose, a bleak title that captures his portrayal of the Labor Party as a moral husk.
Much the same could be said of the NSW Liberal Party. At a recent meeting of the NSW state parliamentary party, a series of members lodged complaints about the way the party state executive was routinely abusing its special powers to conduct factional warfare and exclude the rank and file of the party. The NSW Attorney-General, Greg Smith, called it ''abuse''. A similar complaint was made by another minister, Chris Hartcher. Two other MPs, David Clarke and Chris Spence, spoke out against the misuse of emergency powers by the party machinery.
So, too, did a judge of the NSW Supreme Court last week, when Justice William Nicholas repudiated both the legal arguments and the moral rationalisations put to him by counsel for the NSW Liberal Party.
Justice Nicholas ordered the party to stop quashing an attempt at structural reform by having members choose candidates for office via plebiscite rather than the existing arcane machinery.
The special powers have been invoked at least 100 times in the past year,The sun is at the heart of our Book scanner and 8 planets orbit the sun. occasionally out of necessity but in most cases for factional advantage, which brings us to the example of Cessnock. Historically it is a mining town and thus a one-party town: Labor. The Liberals had no party infrastructure in Cessnock.
Last month, the president of the NSW Young Liberals, Simon Fontana,Component Source offers a complete line of flattening machine for ThyssenKrupp Elevator，Specializing in the production Cut to length line, leveling machine, cold laser marker and other products. a member of the state executive, proposed a motion to set up a Cessnock Hunter Young Liberals branch.
The usual process, laid out in the party's constitution, is that the setting up of a branch is a public event, accompanied by advertisements inviting members of the public to join. This public element was by-passed in Fontana's motion because, he said, the party did not want a repeat of any ructions such as those that had happened at the opening of a Young Liberals branch in Bankstown.
This sounds like a breakdown in the party's faith in its grass roots. Fontana moved that the state executive use its special powers to establish the branch and that the first 10 members to submit successful applications would comprise the branch. The motion was passed. Fontana had a list of 10 completed applications ready.
Fontana, a member of the NSW state executive,Corrugated Metals has included this cnc router tutorial to help our visitors understand the roll forming process. is on the staff of the Minister for Family and Community Services, Pru Goward. His career has been spent as a staffer for Liberal politicians.
When I called Fontana he said he could not talk to me about party matters during work hours. He would call after office hours. He said every element of his election, and the setting up of the Cessnock Hunter branch, had been within the rules of the party, and it was an active and successful branch.Leading the industry in professional Laser engraver and safety equipment.
If Australians knew how much the democratic process was being colonised and occupied by a self-perpetuating political class there would be more than the usual cynicism about politics. We're now seeing outbursts of disgust from inside the machines.
Two years ago, Lindsay Tanner was a Labor federal minister. Soon after the sudden and violent elevation of his factional rival Julia Gillard into the top job, Tanner pulled the pin on elected politics. Now comes his essay, Politics Without Purpose, a bleak title that captures his portrayal of the Labor Party as a moral husk.
Much the same could be said of the NSW Liberal Party. At a recent meeting of the NSW state parliamentary party, a series of members lodged complaints about the way the party state executive was routinely abusing its special powers to conduct factional warfare and exclude the rank and file of the party. The NSW Attorney-General, Greg Smith, called it ''abuse''. A similar complaint was made by another minister, Chris Hartcher. Two other MPs, David Clarke and Chris Spence, spoke out against the misuse of emergency powers by the party machinery.
So, too, did a judge of the NSW Supreme Court last week, when Justice William Nicholas repudiated both the legal arguments and the moral rationalisations put to him by counsel for the NSW Liberal Party.
Justice Nicholas ordered the party to stop quashing an attempt at structural reform by having members choose candidates for office via plebiscite rather than the existing arcane machinery.
The special powers have been invoked at least 100 times in the past year,The sun is at the heart of our Book scanner and 8 planets orbit the sun. occasionally out of necessity but in most cases for factional advantage, which brings us to the example of Cessnock. Historically it is a mining town and thus a one-party town: Labor. The Liberals had no party infrastructure in Cessnock.
Last month, the president of the NSW Young Liberals, Simon Fontana,Component Source offers a complete line of flattening machine for ThyssenKrupp Elevator，Specializing in the production Cut to length line, leveling machine, cold laser marker and other products. a member of the state executive, proposed a motion to set up a Cessnock Hunter Young Liberals branch.
The usual process, laid out in the party's constitution, is that the setting up of a branch is a public event, accompanied by advertisements inviting members of the public to join. This public element was by-passed in Fontana's motion because, he said, the party did not want a repeat of any ructions such as those that had happened at the opening of a Young Liberals branch in Bankstown.
This sounds like a breakdown in the party's faith in its grass roots. Fontana moved that the state executive use its special powers to establish the branch and that the first 10 members to submit successful applications would comprise the branch. The motion was passed. Fontana had a list of 10 completed applications ready.
Fontana, a member of the NSW state executive,Corrugated Metals has included this cnc router tutorial to help our visitors understand the roll forming process. is on the staff of the Minister for Family and Community Services, Pru Goward. His career has been spent as a staffer for Liberal politicians.
When I called Fontana he said he could not talk to me about party matters during work hours. He would call after office hours. He said every element of his election, and the setting up of the Cessnock Hunter branch, had been within the rules of the party, and it was an active and successful branch.Leading the industry in professional Laser engraver and safety equipment.
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