NSW: Queen, Dismiss.
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COMMENT, Sydney — The NSW Government of Carr-Iemma-Rees has ended.
Nobody has admitted it yet. The decline trend is well in its death spiral, the day Iemma resigned. There is no rebirth without change.
“The Governor may…..remove from his office, or suspend from the exercise of the same, any person exercising any office, or place, in the State…”
– The Royal Instructions, Clause 10
NSW, Doomed.
NSW politicians have destroyed Australia’s most prosperous state.
Largely run by factional hacks, and political plotters, NSW is now only a political state.
No one is professionally managing the basics. Economy, jobs, investment, urban planning or infrastructure. No forward-thinking.
Certainly, no innovation in Government.
NSW was under-performing before the boom. And now is in a truly disastrous state. Under-performance will be magnified by entering a severe national downturn.
There is a mid-term threat of NSW facing dire financial defaults.
Competence.
The Mini-Budget represented an incompetent handling of the crisis. It is the exact opposite of economic medicine needed.
Raising taxes & no stimulus was largely how Hoover brought on the Great Depression, according to many economists.
Read Sydney’s respected Ross Gittins here, describing the mini-budget as a “sham”and “will in fact make things worse… produced not because of the downturn, but in spite of it.”
The NSW Government is acting against the long-term interests of its citizens. When leading economists tell them what they are doing is incompetent, why are they doing it?
Self-interest.
Simple. The Rees Government is acting to save its political skin. It’s purely factional. And political. It is no longer acting as a part of the Government. These representatives are not in the interests of those who democratically elected them.
History has shown that once a decline has commenced, even unprecedented economic butchery to arrest a declining credit rating will not cause the decline to halt.
If NSW was a company the management (and board) would have been sacked & replaced. For acting against shareholders interests.
Opportunity.
The 2thinknow View is that NSW is in terminal decline short to mid-term. NSW probably actually hit bottom in late 2006. But the current government is delaying a turnaround.
NSW has an educated hard-working workforce. High profile overseas. Economic infrastructure that requires maintenance. Resources. Assets.
NSW has better assets than other Australian states that are outperforming it. Under-performing the index, in business terms, means the management have failed.
A competent business manager could pull NSW out of its current mess.
Not these stooges…
But to lead NSW out of the crisis it is in, and to prevent a further deepening of the crisis and crash into disaster, the government MUST be replaced.
If the crisis turns even slightly worse, then having the NSW government led by it’s current pack of self-serving idiots is a disaster.
These political hacks & plotters led the state into this mess. They cannot lead the state clear of this mess.
The 2thinknow View is that the Carr-Iemma-Rees team have mismanaged the state of NSW. Decisions have been taken against the long-term interest of the State’s people.
How?
The Governor of NSW, Professor Marie Bashir, can dismiss the NSW government. As the representative of the Queen in Australia.
Dismissal has been done before. In fact, examples of the dismissal are taught in the NSW school curriculum.
“In the exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him, the Governor shall be guided by the advice of the Executive Council, but if in any case he shall see sufficient cause to dissent from the opinion of the said Council, he may act in the exercise of his said powers and authorities in opposition to the opinion of the Council, reporting the matter to Us without delay, with the reasons for his so acting.”
– The Royal Instructions, Clause 6
“The Governor may…..remove from his office, or suspend from the exercise of the same, any person exercising any office, or place, in the State…”
– Clause 10
Cause to Dissent.
There are numerous legal grounds available for dismissal.
If the Governor, Prof Bashir, believes the NSW government is acting incompetently and against the interest of the State then she should act to dismiss.
In 1932 the Governor waited until the crisis had turned into a depression to dismiss Jack Lang.
Unprecedented Under-Performance
The 2thinknow View is that the NSW Government is damaging the State of NSW.
And acting as a magnifier on any economic downturn.
The Governor can wait and see.
But 2010 elections can cost a lot of NSW citizens jobs and homes.
The key point is the NSW government is acting against its citizens economic interest in a time of crisis. The NSW government is preserving power at all costs.
Dismissal should be used, is intended to be used, when politicians act against the interest of their citizens. It is a matter of time. And losses.
What do you think, how far gone do you think NSW is?
Yes, absolutely, dismissal. This crap about the next election 2011 is nonsense. It’s like the rampage in India, everything is being shot down and bombed and we can’t stop it? Get the facts straight, it’s not in-competence it’s downright corruption and corruption is illegal. Bob Carr, Morris Iemma and Nathan Rees have allowed it to continue. This is sufficient grounds for dismissal. Dismissal now 29 Nov 2008. If they don’t go willingly then we’ll have to have a massive people movement on MacQuarie Street.
The labor government is absolutely useless but look at the alternative. I’m voting greens.