I enter Parliament 3 weeks early.....

Hey ho.. I have been given a trial run at Parliament. I will not earn the daily $4000+  salary and expenses a State Member earns even as a lowly backbencher. That's okay. I will go for the free tea/coffee and sandwich lunch.

Yes this morning I enter the NSW Parliament as one of the 65 citizens selected from across the State of NSW for the People's Parliament organised by the Daily Telegraph. see: Read the Telegraph's words :

It will be an interesting day with a range of expert speakers for key areas of State policy and we ordinary folk from across the State engaging in questions and comments. I will be the only person from Liverpool, with another from nearby Voyager Point.

I hope to initiate discussion on the quality of politics and its practitioners these days and a way to improve it.

As well on the need to return major social reform back to the people.

I will Tweet on this if I am permitted to operate my Notebook PC ( no Smartphone for me until my ordinary old Nokia phone falls apart - not far off)

Have a peep on Skynews Local or  streaming video on the Daily Telegraph site.

Hey, the bells are ringing  -  I am off to the Chamber.

Cheers

Michael

Lynch MP's hypocrisy on display at Public Forum

On Thursday night (Feb 24th) the local Liverpool Leader newspaper hosted a public forum at which candidates for the upcoming State Election stated their case and took questions. Well done to the Leader.

It was an interesting evening with Paul Lynch MP turning up with his rabble of noise sitting as a group at the rear of the meeting, and a few scattered around the hall. Their disruptions were minor and only had the effect of stirring up my own measured passion as I delivered my speech ( see below).

What was not pleasant was their ridicule and disrespect towards the Liberal and Christian Democrat speakers who had heavy middle-eastern accents. Mr Lynch was seen with a smile on his face as this happened.

This really shows up the hypocrisy of Lynch MP who counts these people as supporters and at the same time smooths over the various ethnic groups in Liverpool.

I notice he never brings the two groups together. The audience at the forum was mainly anglo-celt which of course suited the hypocritical Lynch for his purpose.

I am in the race - Let's Do It Liverpool

Friday February 4th 2011 :  Today I announce my running as an Independent for the State Seat of Liverpool.

Liverpool is one of the safest seats for Labor with a 27% margin on the 2 party preferred basis.

My engagement is a response to Liverpool's years of political neglect and self serving by its State representative Paul Lynch MP.

Lynch MP  established himself as a party war lord with the departure of Mark Latham to Canberra in 1994. We have seen Liverpool since go backwards with infrastructure and services being late ( the Liverpool Lag), never arriving or being done on the cheap.

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Liverpool is fed up with being taken for granted.  I intend to take the challenge to Lynch MP.

I am back refreshed and ready to go...

 

Happy BiCentenary Liverpool

Liverpool is our town. And yesterday, on Sunday November 7th 2010 Liverpool saw its 200th year since Governor Macquarie rowed up the river  ( Georges River ) to declare the location as "Fit for the Purpose" for a new town named Liverpool. The Governor was accompanied by local settler Thomas Moore ( Moorebank.. Moore Theological College) and his Surgeon Dr William Redfern ( Redfern, Redfern Oval - home of the South Sydney Rabbitohs).

Liverpool is the fourth oldest town in Australia, after Sydney, Parramatta and Hobart.

Happy Birthday Liverpool.

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Busted Politics? Politics really is local...

The phrase "All politics is local" is attributed to the renowned US Democrat politician Tip O'Neill.

Busted Politics? Extraordinary Events

I did an extraordinary thing yesterday.