Conroy takes the cake! Posted on June 1st, 2013, by Judith Sloan. I have just been reading the transcript of the Senate Estimates hearing in which Eric Abetz attempts to ask ABC managing director, Mark Scott, about the appointment of overtly partisan leftoid, Russell Skelton, to the position of head fact-checker at the ABC. (Available over at Andrew Bolt’s website.) What a complete joke, but actually Mark Scott was able to avoid answering the questions by virtue of the irresponsible and puerile interruptions of Senator Conroy. And is there not a point that the ABC is a statutory authority and not a government department, so Conroy should have largely remained silent? The senator’s performance removes any doubt about Conroy being a witless, unintelligent, immature and boorish grub who is completely unfit to be a Minister of the Crown. And to think he is overseeing the largest government funded boondoggle without a cost-benefit analysis. And to think that this is the man who came within a whisker of clamping down on freedom of speech. Had it not been for his complete incompetence and impatience – the independents were kindly disposed to the idea of Conroy’s legislation – the bill may well have passed. (Is this possibly a case of so bad being so good?) I am thinking of running a book on the worst minister of this Labor government. Yes, I know fish rot from the head down and all that, but I am not including the PM in my list of starters. There are a lot of contenders and perhaps I need to refine some criteria for the awarding of the big reverse elephant stamp. But it is hard to go past: The Treasurer (Swan), for his failure to achieve a budget surplus plus other assorted misdemeanors; Workplace Relations Minister(Shorten), for pushing a brazenly pro-union piece of legislation to greater heights and overseeing some egregious appointments for mates; Immigration Minister (O’Connor), for completely failing to deal with the uncontrolled arrival of boats and the implications; Foreign Minister (Carr), for pouncing around the world with his wife concentrating on the unimportant issues; Climate change minister (Combet), for keeping faith when everyone else is retreating, wasting billions in green schemes and to agreeing to the most ridiculous predictions on carbon prices in the forward estimates; Former AG (Roxy), arguably the worse AG we have ever had until the new one was appointed; Childcare Minister (Ellis), for overseeing a disaster in the childcare space with ridiculously burdensome regulations and skyrocketing fees; School education minister (Garrett), for promoting something he doesn’t understand and spending money we cannot afford which is actually just a sop to the Australian Education Union. Now I know there are other contenders, but I am getting tired of typing. Thoughts on criteria very welcome, as well as other contenders. - Judith Sloan.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 07:56:52 +0000
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