Job lotto to bring ‘em back to earth
WE’RE all too rough on our precious ex-pollies, booted chief minister Adam Giles reckons.
Speaking on Sky News this week about the furore surrounding former defence industry minister Christopher Pyne’s new job, Giles set off an orchestra of tiny violins when he said Australians didn’t value highly enough the contribution our ousted leaders still had to make to society.
“I think we don’t treat former politicians as well as we could,” he said.
“Taxpayers invest a lot of money into politicians, particularly the higher up they go.
“They have a lot of skills and expertise and the minute they’re not in parliament they’re thrown out on the scrap heap, whether they leave of their own accord or they’re voted out. I think we need to find a way we can harness the knowledge the skills and the capabilities those former politicians have that can lend support to better governance, whether it’s in local government, state or territory or federal government.” ON CHICKEN OUTLET NENE’S GOLD COATED CHICKEN WINGS
That’ll be fun eight hours after … gives a new meaning to ‘golden eye’ Alan Specketer
Lips and hands aren’t the only place they will sparkle Belinda Boon Expensive turds the next day! Andrew Gray ON DARWIN MISSING OUT ON THE QANTAS ACADEMY
The two key takeaways here: “access to support infrastructure
In case you missed it, Pyne has landed a new gig fixing defence-related stuff for consultancy firm Ernst and Young.
Meanwhile, his cabinet colleague, ex-foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop, has found work as a board director with development contractor Palladium, a big player in taxpayer-funded aid contracts.
Unfortunately for both, and ability to attract students and trainers to live in the area.” Enough said. Benjamin Farkas
Seems to have forgotten what the NT in QANTAS is for Rusty Andersson
Alice Springs versus Mackay is a tough comparison. Hard to think how Alice would ever get up there Don Rosser
Not surprised the east coast has 5 million people at its door step. great for families and young people . no-brainer Pedro Bernardino Build on the Alice Springs Gliding Club and make Alice a their new jobs as private citizens appear to put them in contravention of the ministerial code of conduct.
The code stipulates ministers must not lobby or have business meetings with politicians or public servants within 18 months of leaving parliament on matters they dealt with in their final 18 months in office.
If you’re lucky enough to have been elected to federal parliament before 2004, such as recently retired NT senator Nigel Scullion, you’ll still be entitled to the old ludicrously generous pension scheme, negating the need for paid work meaning you can devote yourself full time to catching barramundi and shooting pigs. world venue for gliding Stephen McGreevy
Not really a “snub”. Just turns out that outback Australia isn’t the best place for a big flying school. Imagine the cost of flights if a student wanted to fly home at Xmas time. Dean Sing
Yeah sounds about right! … they probably asked our Government to ‘kick-in’ … LOL Ray Medlicott
Perhaps it’s time for them to change their name to QASAA (Queensland and Southern Australian Airlines). Ray Andersson Can’t blame them really. All the fuel out of the aircraft will be stolen every night like what happens to our aircraft. Chip Hood ON DARWIN TURF CLUB’S $12 MILLION GRANDSTAND DEVELOPMENT
I am member of the DTC & they cannot fill the two Grandstands that they have already except for Darwin Cup Day — Which is one day a year. Maybe our CM Can Fix youth crime first Dean Gebert
Wow will be easy to get a seat now among the crowd of 10 people on average Saturdays outside of spring racing carnival Brett Rosie
The government supports the Sport of Kings but doesn’t have money left over for the peasants. Sad. Nigel Mitchell
Meanwhile seriously sick people are shoved into storage rooms because they don’t have enough room at the hospital. This government needs to take a long hard look at itself and get its prioritys in order. Build a grandstand that is not needed and will be empty 99.9% of the time or build more rooms for the hospital that is critically needed infrastructure that will be used by all Darwin’s people on a regular basis? It’s a no-brainer Jamie Forrest