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Politicians
May 22 2014
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RHP User
12 years ago
Politicians. . They live on a different level from the rest of society. They are not meant to be above us, they are supposed to work for us, their constituents. A pollie has just had furniture to the tune of $27,000 installed in his office, $1,600 per chair, a table and a lounge. That is considered reasonable by that politician. Their pay structure is set aside from ours, it doesn't run on any value for money quota as do most Aussies. They don't even live in the same world with us. . The one politician I can remember the name of that I have met face to face is imo a self serving arsehole. My initial message on a topic that is supposedly close to his heart went unnoticed for two weeks. My follow up message stated not to worry, now that it's been two weeks. I get a message within 24 hours from staff explaining that message system doesn't always work (eh???). My suggestion, get it fixed or advise your followers. A thank you message was sent to me. I hear back from hisself saying it would have been better I had included pictures. I message back explaining he would have seen them if he'd followed the link I included in my initial message. Lastly, the next day, I hear from his staff explaining that he is away and too busy to deal with me, LOL! I finished up explaining that I'd already acknowledged two weeks was too late to be looking into the issue I raised. He broke the one promise I remember him making in my presence. . I praise Julia Gillard for her act of bringing around the RC.
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RHP User
12 years ago
I actually worked in a volunteer position to represent a certain group of WA families. It was then when I went to Canberra and met with government icon Bronwyn Bishop. Have to say what a great lady she was to talk to and work with.
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RHP User
12 years ago
When I lived in Bendigo in the early 80s,I met John Brumby,he was gorgeous but not sexy:-) ........... When I sat on a local arts committee the councillor and the local member were on it too.......They were so competitive and truly awful women....I often felt like I was in an episode of Kath and Kim:-) :-) xx Q
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RHP User
12 years ago
John Howard in the city. It's quite funny but I've noticed I pick up on a person's walk. With Johnny I thought it was him before I did my quick. .." I'm just in a hurry toddle through the city, quick glance to my left. . Oh fancy it is him" totally surreptitiously and not all obvious. what I was doing Thingo... No convo. Or "it doesn't count unless I got a selfie " shot.. I'm much too shy to do that. . All in all I feel polies are way too daggy for my liking and have spent way too much time at uni. .. and not even at the bars for God's sake to gain a personality!!
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RHP User
12 years ago
Thankless job. I would never be one. Every sector has it's fools, every sector has the self servers. I think most are there for the right reason and yes, pay is average for what they could get for same level of responsibility in the public sector.....
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RHP User
12 years ago
I swear budget time is a crazy time. Hehe xxx
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QLDtwo4fun
12 years ago
I have met a few, three PMs. I am a cynic, while most are charismatic, they are also full or ego and to varying degrees self serving. They have to be, they fight within their own parties to get preselection. Then they need to suck us in to get votes.
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RHP User
12 years ago
and I met with him at one of the events during the last campaign... asked a couple questions, he sounded like a smart and funny person made me happy to vote for him )
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RHP User
12 years ago
Johnny Howard twice... Once when he on the election trail.. He walked up to me offering his hand to shake , trouble was I had a armful of groceries at the time and best I could do was offered my little finger back.. The other was in the dressing room after a footy win. He was a keen supporter and loved to chat with the boys.. Also briefly meet Nick Greiner at a formal...
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Smilingwithfun
12 years ago
Yes have met several. John Howard was nice. Don Cameron was a very hard worker. Ron Boswell was a very interesting intelligent man. Interesting about their pay. The average wage of the CEO's of the banks is close to 10 million a year. The Treasurer of Australia gets about one thirtieth of that yet runs a much bigger budget. Politicians also have to face there employers in an election every 3 years. Imagine having that in a Job criteria.
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RHP User
12 years ago
walked past me and other family when we were at the airport in Townsville, he walked past and said hi and welcome on his way past in a hurry. Thought he was just a friendly local until we realised who it was, lol.
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RHP User
12 years ago
I had a brush with Gough Whitlam in the lift where I was working.. Gough got in ( just the 2 of us ) I said Gday Gough he replied hello my friend.. and that was it ? BIG man in statue . So I count that as a meet. In the same building in the same lift Graham Kennedy came running over and I held the door.. he said thank you.. Think that also count lol...
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RHP User
12 years ago
have a tough gig at times, but they don't help themselves when the go to a private wedding and crash into 4 cars on their way home in a Gov supplied car, and say nothing for 2 weeks about it. Now we the WA Tax payer are paying for this error of judgment on their part. Mnal illness or not, no need for us to pay for a utter blunder. Have had a pleasure to work along one very closely whom also was known to me from High School days. Being a country guy he had those country values. But the down side, lost a marriage due to long hr and hard work. Had the opportunity to meet other and found them OK. Work closely with our 1st WA female Premier and she was GREAT person. Top lady once you got to know her. There was post further up the chain on this threat on buying chairs at $16,000 each. Nice chairs as is current Premier office re vamp at $25 million while we have homeless people on the streets. That's is what makes me mad - money for things not totally life saving. 25 mil might not build a lot a home, but some are better than nothing. Do think most out of touch with the "real" life.
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newdimension
12 years ago
Imet a woman many years ago who is now a minister here. MMM what can I say about her she was a stalker, had the biggest dildo I ever saw under her pillow and loved being fisted ( first time for me and spun me out lol ) ohh and she cried like a baby when she had a orgasam
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RHP User
12 years ago
I've met a few, spoken to a few, attended meetings with a few. Tried to speak to many. One is a "nice" guy but rather ineffectual. Malcolm? Sure, he's clever, but he's not smart or empathetic. Different things. Most politicians are not innovative statesmen....few are actually interested in you, despite the spin.
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RHP User
12 years ago
I lived in a fruit picking town ,many people were forced to go there by Social Security for work but couldn't get jobs. The federal government had an emergency relief fund which was administered by the churches.They issued vouchers stamped''no pet food or cigarettes, people did not get cash.The irony mof this Christian benevolence was thast the local brothel ,situated on a paddle steamer was owned by the head of one of the aforementioned churches. I belonged to the Unemployed Workers Union which had branches all over Australia. We organized a cavalcade of buses with our members to converge on Canberra and to lobby the then minister for Social Security Don Grimes.Don was retiring and he decided as his final act,to give the Union the last of the emergency relief funding he would sign off on.When we received the funding the local paper did a story on us,citing how outraged the churches were. As you can imagine people were soon knocking at our door....one of the best things I have ever done in my life was to give that money away to people who were virtually homeless and to families who were struggling to feed their kids. I left town soon after as I had finally had been offered a job in another town.I have never forgotten Don Grimes. xx Q
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RHP User
12 years ago
I lived in a fruit picking town ,many people were forced to go there by Social Security for work but couldn't get jobs. The federal government had an emergency relief fund which was administered by the churches.They issued vouchers stamped''no pet food or cigarettes, people did not get cash.The irony mof this Christian benevolence was thast the local brothel ,situated on a paddle steamer was owned by the head of one of the aforementioned churches. I belonged to the Unemployed Workers Union which had branches all over Australia. We organized a cavalcade of buses with our members to converge on Canberra and to lobby the then minister for Social Security Don Grimes.Don was retiring and he decided as his final act,to give the Union the last of the emergency relief funding he would sign off on.When we received the funding the local paper did a story on us,citing how outraged the churches were. As you can imagine people were soon knocking at our door....one of the best things I have ever done in my life was to give that money away to people who were virtually homeless and to families who were struggling to feed their kids. I left town soon after as I had finally had been offered a job in another town.I have never forgotten Don Grimes. xx Q
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RHP User
12 years ago
In the mid 80's to early 90's I was posted to the RAAF air movements at Fairbairn in Canberra. Think of it as the military airport! We looked after all international VIP flights, whereas 34SQN looked after all the domestic. So in that time I saw, well handled, several PM's, some to be PM's and various visiting VIPs. Best by far was Bob Hawke. He did a lot of the little things himself like always front up and hand his and Hazel's passport to Customs whereas some of the others always used lackeys. Bob would also always come in the back hangar to say hello to my troops, he knew everyone by name and insisted we call him Bob (of course we couldn't lol). He would also insist a couple of bottle of spirits and a box of cigars were always given to us when he returned. Worst, toss up between Keating (arrogant to the extreme, everyone below the most senior person was invisible to him) and Howard who was nearly as bad. Howard always reminded me of the geeky kid at school who would try too hard to be popular and would fail every time. Some pollies have strange rules too, Bronwyn Bishop would insist anyone meeting here above a certain rank or standing would be required to shake her hand and kiss her on the cheeky (the face one thank fuck) lol Some of the visiting VIP's were interesting, best organised would have to be the Pope, that was timed down to the minute, even better than when Bush turned up. It was a toss up on who had more security too! The popemobile is a damn tank, was part of the team that flew that around the country during his visit. Got to know some of the high profile reporters too, Peter Harvey, Laurie Oakes etc. Don't know if it is still practice but back then the media circus had to pay business class rates when travelling with the PM overseas and some of the media would ensure that they got their money worth by drinking the aircraft dry. Had to help carry Laurie off a 707 once, not an easy task lol Ah memories, lots of hard work, lots of long hours there but it was never dull. Mooks
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