Tough on drugs. Tough on drunks. Labor win NT election : Melbourne Indymedia

Less than a decade ago it would almost be impossible to believe that the Northern Territory would ever have anything other than a Country Liberal Government.

A political philosphy of zero tollerance on drugs and a policy of locking up habitual drunks (read Aboriginal itinerants) sounds like standard CLP party policy.

But Northern Territory political axioms are again today in a further state of flux. Yesterday it was not the former ADF General the CLP's Dennis Burke who was going to the polls with a policy of locking up habitual drunks but the former ABC staffer, ALP's Clare Martin.

Martin who swept to power in 2001 has increased her lions share in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from fourteen seats in 2001 to a record 19 seats in election's held yesterday.

Described as pragmatic and accessible Martin seems to be everywhere. It is not unusual to bump into the local member for Fannie Bay at the airport, any cultural or civic event in the NT or just meet her in the supermarket shopping for her family.

She will happily listen to you with a smile and a nod but as political progressives were to find out in the last month this mood changes when her drunks policy is raised.
She ignores, changes subject or tough's it out when critics suggest it is racist.

The policy which means that habitual drunks who are picked up on the street for anti social behaviour and who refuse treatment for their alcholism can be jailed.

This policy which wasn't greeted with the same enthusiam by the party faithful as her commitment not to allow another uranium mine in the NT. Yet it seems to have struck a chord with the electorate.

Humbugging (begging for a dollar or a smoke) is seen by the electorate as one of the highest priorities in the Northern Territory. Core issues that bring about humbugging are often seen at the bottom end of the importance scale.

So today the day after it's official the ALP will introduce a program that locks up drunks who refuse rehabilitation.
The Country Liberal party is in tatters with them losing the election and possibly the seats of Leader Denis Burke and his deputy Richard Lim.
And Clare is at home resting trying to recover from a flu which is the only thing that has dogged her in the last week of the campaign.

Who is not too happy about this disgraceful racist exhibition. ( See corpse media )

Also it looks like the splinter socialist sect that wanted to direct prefs away from the ALP human and civil rights violators and murderers was right to advocate tactical voting - or at least more right than the parochial sectarian idiot that sneered at them here last week.

I hope he's very happy now along with his old troll mate ' Bushy'. They really ought to get married.

Fuck people lets all grow up and realize that elections are about as meaningful for non-believers as Sharia law.

And ALP criminal garbage who continue to torture, attack, rape and murder poor peoples inalienable human and civil rights will soon be made directly accountable by poor people - I promise you.

Clare's permanent retirement from politics? By Melb Cup day - ( my 2c )

Can someone please translate the above hyperbolic rant into some representation of what the author is trying to say?

' Huh' if your not a troll pretending stupidity - a classic troll tactic then simply write to me at pro2 @ NOSPAM optusnet.etc otherwise eat shit, fuck off and die you worthless slimy toad.

Now if there's to be a jihad against panhandling drunks then all the politician's in Australia should be safely behind bars by Xmas.

I'd like to see that.

Also I am available at pro2rat@ yahoo

Sorry I had to step on a cane troll and was distracted...

MPs spending wastes millions: report

Millions of dollars have been wasted on more than 70 federal parliamentary inquiries whose recommendations have been ignored, Fairfax newspapers reported.

The federal government has not replied on time to a single public inquiry out of the 62 it has ordered in the House of Representatives since December 1998.

It has given no reply at all to almost half of them.

Nine years ago, the federal government committed to responding to all parliamentary inquiries within three months of the findings being lodged.

Since then it has responded on time to only four of 137 Senate inquiries and failed to give a response to 46 Senate inquiries. END STORY.

So how many million's has been humbugged off Darwin resident's lately Clare you dero?

David Gulpilil link...

http://news.google.com.au/news?q=David%20Gulpilil&hl
=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wn

Gulpilil angry at plan to jail drunks
Age (subscription), Australia - 17 Jun 2005
"Why pick on us?" asked David Gulpilil, etc...

Let's see if I can help you with yet another one of the hash assassin, professor of ratbaggery's dense menace laden comments.

I believe he is attempting to say if I might para-phrase it slightly that ...' You are a major league arsehole - GO FUCK YOURSELF! '

Something like that, hope that helps you ( and any of your troll army mates.) I might add in passing that I second the emotion. Thank you genuine independent thinkers and readers for yr time. We do apologize for the odd introduced pest here and are grateful for yr patience with us as we take out the trash. Thanks again.

Long ago there lived beautiful people existing in harmony with nature and taking only what they needed, giving back to mother Earth what was left. Women and men lived in egalitarian accord with no great wars and few tribal conflicts. People were happy, well balanced and lived long and prosperous lives full of plenty. The men were handsome and muscular being well co-ordinated for walkabout hunter gathering.
They bought back protein for growing families while the tanned bare breasted women carried infants and collected bush tucker to supplement the hunt. Children frolicked in clean pure streams dreaming of the day they would grow to be beautiful big people too.

But then came the evil empire - European white men carrying sickening diseases and worse, racism, imperialism, cut-throat capitalism and many other ideologies of patriachy, hierachy and slavery.
The scummy high tide of Euro land greed, brutality and lust for gold that poisoned all it touched washed up here.
The beautiful people died like flies and the environment was soiled, air polluted, great forests destroyed. Resistance was crushed with terror for the beautiful people lacked any industrial weapons that might have saved them.
In a world without slaves, torture and mass murder's the beautiful people had no need of such brutal weapons. They were driven off, jailed, poisoned, brainwashed and beaten. Tortured, enslaved and terrorized only remnants remain. The consequences of stealing an island, destroying those living in peaceful harmony with the land, and strip mining the forests that bring rain have not been slow in appearing and it is those consequences that will probably avenge the beautiful people and grind down the deadly white poison men to white blowaway dust.
A few may become refugee's; environmental refugee's if any other land is foolish enough to let the stinking foul creatures descend on them like the leporous plague they are.

Clare Martin? - have a nice white day, Clare. I hope you get everything thats coming to you.

The 'left' need to realise that NT prisons have more Aboriginal content then ever before under the CLP.

http://country-liberal-party.com/pages/Prison-Stats-Australia.htm

http://country-liberal-party.com/pages/NT-Labor-worse-than-CLP-Incarceration.htm

So I don't know why the 'dissent' -- now.

Makes it sound as though everything was rosy -- before Labor's latest black bashing outburst.

Gulpilil...

http://onemiledam.org/

Preferencing the CLP is not 'tactical voting' -- it's an obscenity...

(And the results highlighted the futility and unpopularity of that particular ploy.)

...as is the silence on the already too high incarceration rates for Aboriginal people under Labor -- being ignored by the 'left'.

Plus side? CLP out. No new U mines and an ALP rank n file unhappy with the black-bashing rhetoric.

Yeah...

... but it's what's here.

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Yes but addictions destroy your own life and those around you and if you cannot autonomously heal yourself what are te rest of the community to do ?
Why do women demand and organise dry zones ie no booze in communities BOYS?
By avoiding the real issue of abuse you have handed social change to POLITICIANS ie Authorities.
alas.soma soma send me into a coma
why pay a white man to poison ya ?

"PARIAH were at the forefront of the anti-Mandatory sentencing campaign and were vindicated in this struggle, when the Country Liberal Party lost the next election after an uninterrupted 26 years of power. "
- Halfman Lambe

In a press interview Micky Boy takes credit for the defeat of the Country Liberal Party in the 2001 election and goes on to describes himself as a "radical intelectual".

So logically if Aboriginal incararation was lower under the CLP, it is Halfman's fault for the surge in imprisonment under the ALP.

However not able to make a go at it as a "radical intelectual" he seems to have found a new career as a paparazzi.

[Please note that "Bushy" has been identified as a troll who's main interest is in starting flame wars, by the MelbIndy collective. He has posted under numerous psuedonyms, nearly always to flame someone or post an EdPol breaching post. His post below is a clear example of this. Please keep this in mind as you hear its protests about having its posts pulled - Ed. (ZB).]

I was called a "radical intellectual" by a reporter in a piece about our http://country-liberal-party.com site.

It upsets the Troll :-) who is deliberately confusing two separate media events...

...and who sneers at Letty Scott in this piece.

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/92749.php

It also attacks the NT Greens who must get credit for the ALP's No nuke stance. Not a great deal of focus on the environment or aboriginal issues without them.

http://onemiledam.org/pages/NT_GREENS_COMMUNITY_LIVING_ZONING.htm

Yeah we got a lot of media recently - it's called hard work.

Gulpilil's arrival is a bonus.

http://onemiledam.org/

Regime changes rarely mean much in Oz. And it's hard to get a concerted 'left' campaign going about black incarceration against a popular labour government.

This is also a legacy of the CLP.

The press pieces help.

http://onemiledam.org/pages/Age-report_June17_05.htm

http://onemiledam.org/pages/Gulpilil_at_One_Mile_Dam.htm

The competition/envy of Trolls and other psuedo-activists is a shameful and time-wasting bore.
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[Please note that "bored" has been identified as a Halfman by nearly everyone who has ever come into contact with it. Whereas once he made a rule of always posting under his own name he now uses numerous psuedonyms, nearly always to flame someone or post an EdPol breaching post. His post above is a clear example of this. Please keep this in mind as you hear its protests about being the victim of a troll - Ed. (ZBushy).]

I was called a "radical intellectual" by a reporter in a piece about OUR site.
- Halfman
What do you mean "OUR" site. Their is no "OUR". There is only "YOU". No other activist or activist group will work with you. And according to the article YOU described yourself as a "radical intelectual".

It upsets the Troll :-) who is deliberately confusing two separate media events...
- Halfman
No it upsets you!!!!! And that is why I call you it.
Why don't you publish the article? Coz you know I am right. Confusing two seperate media events???? What are you talking about??? I am confused.

...and who sneers at Letty Scott in this piece.
- Halfman
I sneer at Letty Scott??? What the fuck are you talking about?
I wrote an article about a case that had local and national importance and all you can do is attack me.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/92749.php
You should be ashamed of yourself.

It also attacks the NT Greens who must get credit for the ALP's No nuke stance. Not a great deal of focus on the environment or aboriginal issues without them.
- Halfman
Attacking the NT Green's was I? Attacking the stupidity of one of the comments that a member of the NT Green's made sure. So what? Are the NT Green's unable to be criticised?

Yeah we got a lot of media recently - it's called hard work. Gulpilil's arrival is a bonus.
- Halfman
And this is an answer to what question?

Regime changes rarely mean much in Oz. And it's hard to get a concerted 'left' campaign going about black incarceration against a popular labour government.
This is also a legacy of the CLP. The press pieces help.
- Halfman
I agree with all that. Also ou don't spell Labor as in the political party with a "u". But who am I to speak. I cant even spell "intelectual".

The competition/envy of Trolls and other psuedo-activists is a shameful and time-wasting bore.
- Halfman
That you happily and robustly participate in.
As seen Halfman is all that he describes..... only worse (winking face ala Halfman)

Indymedia for activists
- Bushy

to racists

http://www.country-liberal-party.com/pages/NAP_racist_disrespect.htm

Just a couple of months back he was bosom buddies with the guys in NAP.

It seems that once you kick Halfman out of your house your a racist.

Remember how vocal a supporter of NAP Halfman was when he was bludging off them? See a pattern? Give him a bed and he is your biggest advocate. Wake up to what he is, kick him out and your a racist. Watch out DT.

So which one is it Halfman, are you a racist, stupid or just full of shit.

I am guessing bit of all three.