Sunday, October 09, 2005
Liberal Party State Council
A fine weekend for right wing death beasts in freezing Ballarat. Pre-selections are reaching a crescendo of activity, so the place was full of hopefuls searching out delegates. The savvy would-be candidates actually listened to the views of the people who would be their selectors. Others were not so smart. One MP seeking pre-selection for a new Bracks-designed unwieldy travesty of an upper house seat brought along a folder of his achievements and bored his victims to sobs with the wonders of his career to date. He has obviously not yet learned that when you're asking for someone's vote, you do well to find out how they see the world and what they want from the political process. Another hoot was the party's perpetual adolescent (there's only one - no prizes for guessing) being greeted by a groan from the auditorium full of delegates when he raised a point of order. But apart from these sideshows, Peter Costello & Robert Doyle performed well and there was sensible debate on some good issues. Not enough women candidates yet for the 2006 election, but we live in hope.
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Still to many motherhood motions. An hour trashing the state government about the increases in land tax, what do they think is going to happen, someone will put their hand up and argue for land tax to be increased, give me a break. "Yes we should increase land tax so the state government has more money to pay for nurses and teachers." Not likely at a Liberal party conference
The best one came from the guy who supported compulsary student unionism. After 25 delegates talked about the evil of CSU, one punter decided to argue the other side. The VSU people were so happy, they wanted and enemy, they were desperate for an enemy. Instead what they got was some guy argue in favour of CSU purely because it pisses so many students off, paying their $300 odd dollars a year to the student union. As a result he argued, they become life time Liberal party voters. A pisser - When the party gives out all it's awards, it should give one to this guy for "most humourous argument."
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