Aunty goes for Gladys via Fairfax and the Parrot
And The Store by Fairfax sets up a stall at the Davos World Economics Forum.
Gladys Berejiklian is finally in the NSW premier’s chair but as ABC News’s Dylan Welch reports, she’s dogged by a couple of demons. 7.30, Monday:
Another, more important, topic the new Premier will face are her ties with the state’s most influential lobbyists … Michael Photios is one of the leaders of the Liberals’ Left or Moderate faction.
The Premier is in Photios’s pocket? Welch must have a solid source. Oh … no … he’s put up a bloke from Fairfax. 7.30, continued:
Sean Nicholls: Ms Berejiklian has come under attack even before she was voted in as Liberal leader over her close links, and in fact friendship, with a well-known political lobbyist in NSW and former Liberal minister Michael Photios. Mr Photios controls the Left or Moderate faction of the NSW Liberal Party.
But Fairfax’s Nicholls has a cracker of a yarn for ABC viewers — the Parrot doesn’t like the NSW Liberal Left. 7.30, continued:
People like Alan Jones, the broadcaster, have raised serious questions I think about that relationship.
Alan Jones calling in from his sick bed in Europe. 2GB, January 20, 2017:
The Liberal Party … in NSW is the most undemocratic it’s ever been … I got messages yesterday to tell me that before this announcement was made that the Gladys Berejiklian forces were already ringing up and doing deals ...
Rogue Liberal Ross Cameron, Sky News, January 20, 2017:
As soon as you wind up being this favoured factional pick who just gets deposited regardless of anyone’s views or instincts. you already start from a weakened position.
The Liberal Left is from Venus, Ross Cameron is from Mars. Sky News, continued:
David Speers: You think that’s what’s going on? Because she’s a woman she’s being favoured for the job?
Ross Cameron: Well, I ask you, why is it being uncontested?
Remember Kristina Keneally’s famous words and repeat, Gladys. NSW Legislative Assembly, December 3, 2009:
I’m nobody’s puppet, I’m nobody’s protege, I’m nobody’s girl!
Attorney-General George Brandis might get a shock with this single, childless NSW premier, The Australian, January 27, 2010:
“ ... I think Julia Gillard who is — has chosen not to be a parent — and, you know, everybody respects her right, in the vehemence of her reaction in fact shows that she just doesn’t understand the way parents think about their children when they reach a particular age,” Senator Brandis said.
Globalists descended on Davos to get pissed and forget 2016. Judith Sloan writes in The Australian, yesterday:
Vast quantities of other people’s money — only a handful of attendees actually pay their own way — figuratively tossed into the plentiful snow falling on that picturesque village in the Swiss Alps.
The Sydney Morning Herald on the Davos debauchery, January 19, 2017:
Yet the solutions that have currency seem calculated to spare corporations and the wealthiest people from having to make any sacrifices at all.
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