The South Australian Political Landscape

[mick]

Reports on the News tonight that Media Mike has been given an ultimatum to leave within a month or there will be a challenge.

Good news!

The man who perfected faking sincerity is gone, the Roosters beat Westies, life is looking up

[redandblack]

Hey, enough of the gloating about Westies, mate

[tiger07andbeyond]

At least he had the balls to stand up to the bikies

[The Sleeping Giant]

What difference did he make with the bikie gangs? None.

South Australia really needs a political leader with some guts. The place has become a stagnant backwater.

[redandblack]

Not when he announces the Olympic Dam expansion.

It's ginormous.

[The Sleeping Giant]

Need a few more Olympic Dams.

[redandblack]

Mate, I believe this one might be the equivalent of many more Olympic Dams, if I've read about it correctly.

[Jimmy_041]

Thanks Psyber it looks like we share good taste in movies!

Hilarious looking at the Wikipedia Water Flouridation Controversy page and finding these quotes:

Activists on the far right of American politics routinely asserted that fluoridation was part of a far-reaching plot to impose a socialist or communist regime.

Others asserted the existence of a plot by communists and the United Nations to "deplete the brainpower and sap the strength of a generation of American children". Dr. Charles Bett, a prominent anti-fluoridationist, charged that fluoridation was "better THAN USING THE ATOM BOMB because the atom bomb has to be made, has to be transported to the place it is to be set off while POISONOUS FLUORINE has been placed right beside the water supplies by the Americans themselves ready to be dumped into the water mains whenever a Communist desires!" Similarly, a right-wing newsletter, the American Capsule News, claimed that "the Soviet General Staff is very happy about it. Anytime they get ready to strike, and their 5th column takes over, there are tons and tons of this poison "standing by" municipal and military water systems ready to be poured in within 15 minutes."

I knew it!!!!!!!!

Damn dentists

[The Sleeping Giant]

Mate, I believe this one might be the equivalent of many more Olympic Dams, if I've read about it correctly.

Biggest open pit mine in the world once completed. South Australia still needs more than that though.

[gossipgirl]

we need another pit so we can throw all the politicians in it.

[Dog_ger]

Rann leaving is a joke to get all our thoughts away fom the States Financial troubles.

Nick him off immediately.

Labour you have no "BALLS"

[CK]

Rann has never hidden the fact he would like to pass Don Dunstan's record of time in office, and is currently 97 days away from doing so (he would need another 85 more days to become South Australia's second longest serving Premier of all time, passing John Bannon). It will create further problems, however, if he insists on staying this time to do so.

[GWW]

Its all about Mike obviously. The state of SA is only an afterthought.

[southee]

Rann has never hidden the fact he would like to pass Don Dunstan's record of time in office, and is currently 97 days away from doing so (he would need another 85 more days to become South Australia's second longest serving Premier of all time, passing John Bannon). It will create further problems, however, if he insists on staying this time to do so.

Exactly. He wont move until this record is broken.

Purely arrogance at it's finest work.

[Gozu]

I thought Rann "had" to stay about another nine months (mid 2012) to become Labor's longest serving Premier in SA?

If CK is right and I'd assume he is then that gives a lot of weight to this trying to hang around until Sep/Oct guff, which I had just assumed was a stalling tactic to give him more time to come up with another reason to hang around.

They need to get rid of him ASAP.

[dedja]

The tap on the shoulder Friday wasn't strong enough ... should have used a rolled up magazine.

[Gozu]

The tap on the shoulder Friday wasn't strong enough ... should have used a rolled up magazine.

Q: Did the Right factions heavyweights meet with you on Friday Mr Rann?

A: I can assure you I didn't speak to anyone from the Right faction on the weekend.

[dedja]

I have never done a deal in my life with that faction, the Right faction ...

[Gozu]

This doesn't sound too flash:

LABOR powerbrokers expect Premier Mike Rann to be gone from office soon after December 6, the day he becomes the party's longest-serving leader.

They are convinced he will go quietly without any need for a partyroom ballot.

"It has been sorted out, don't worry," a senior party source told The Advertiser yesterday.

"These things are never easy but there is an arrangement in place and all the parties will stick to it.

"There won't be any challenge or blood on the floor."

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/sout ... 6105393111

[Psyber]

Rann goneski ... finally.

Not yet apparently, but he's agreed to tell the ALP when, once he's made up his mind...
I'm having lunch with my SA-ALP old school friends tomorrow, and I'll ask whether he's told them when yet!