Peanut of the week

Ha ha ha!! Talk about me and my cynical statements lol :))).

Axle.

Could have been a Taxi Driver Gramps, We just had a Taxi Driver doing 100k's and hr for 30klm's on the wrong side of the road on the freeway into Adelaide from Melbourne.

Ooops ! Forgot about taxi drivers. We know they're exempt from all road rules :)))

QLD'er

LOL Hairy. I'm trying to stop picking on Qlders :)))))

I saw a taxi driver open his window and punch someones side mirror against their car, the driver was very intimidated, I felt like reporting the guy.

Alice

Not much on Sat night, they'd all be down the pub, enforcing the regulations :))))

Footloose

What pub? Has something changed?

Regards

Kim

Kim, no idea. Just thought I'd get your attention :)) In other words I was just being silly as I've no real knowledge of how things are working out with the new regulations. (But a report says its shifted a lot of stuff from the public domain back into the settlements).

that was so funny

Morning Kim, Footloose,
Nothing has really changed yet, no laws are realy going to make much difference except a grog licence and equality. Most of them don't want to go back to the communities, besides someone wrecked there houses and threw rubbish every where and its easier to ask for another one than clean up the mess.
If your asking about the 50 Million Kim, The local councils have agreed to accept the 50 million but will not lease them the land to spend it on, nor will they let the Government govern them. So Mr Brough said the money will go to WA, but..............Come up with another agreement and he will find another bucket of money!!!!!!
We've got a few more cops and are getting more which is a good thing but they are young blokes who are going to take a while to harden up (on the trouble makers instead of the pensioner going to the dump with a dim trailer light).
Called the cops last week to report a couple of drunks sneaking in the front gates of a senior policeman's house who's wife was home on there own, they toll me not to go over there which I took no notice of......Lucky....no one turned up....and when he checked there wasn't even a job logged!!
But thanks for asking, every thing is great. (seriously though, It has stopped getting worse, only just making the one murder a week quota)
Cheers

Hairy and Footloose

I heard the Tangentyere Council rejected Brough's offer of $60m to improve the camps. It was my understanding that no impost would be placed on traditional Land and the offer put to Council was a lease agreement on the camp sites only.

Good to hear things are improving. Alice is a great town.

Regards

Kim

Gday Kim,
Yep, thats about it. They basically said, we'll clean up your mess, build you new houses as long as you lease the land we build them on back to us.
Wreaks of greed to me.
Another issue is everyone is now arguing who are the traditional owners who's a visitor and who's entitled to what.
If I had my way, anyone who said they were entitled to something in town and was found to have a house and land out bush would be charged with fraud!

Cheers

Hairy, I'm sure its not supposed to smell of greed. AFAIK it's designed to give them the "opportunity" to own their own stuff, along with some rights they don't presently enjoy in law.
Now AFIk at least one community you know doesn't have a great record when it comes to paying the electric bill. How are they supposed to pay rent ?
Get a job. Oh oh...same old same old coming up.

So tell me, where has all the taxpayers money that has been gushing all over the problems for a long long time, been spent ?

Me thinks too many fingers in the pie, both black and white, to solve much of importance. Maybe the present minister has the same idea ?

The greed I was talking about is the land owners not the taxpayers.(Talk about want your cake and eat it)
As for where has the money gone, you answered that yourself but also the up keep and repairs on the communities that do actually get it is astronomical.
I think if everyone was treated as equal we would be a lot better off.
Cheers

Oh sorry. Thats what I thought but it didnt read that way to my glasses (which are foggy not empty).
For a minute there I tried to put myself in their place...and by golly I almost could.
I mean, what if someone wanted to extract me from my misery and poverty by giving me money for nothing (and my chicks for free :)) Coolies ! (said in the traditional language of course).
I see the PM has been accused of genocide, and yet they have a much faster growing population than we have. Somebody speaking with forked tongue, methinks .
I've said it before and will say it again, what we've bestowed on them is a hip pocket, cargo cult mentality.
The vast majority of Australians voted for them to become citizens a long time ago...me included. Now, what have they done ? It's got to be a 2 way street.

Yep, it's always been a nice town for me. Pity about the hassles.

Git outta here Footy and off yer bloody soapbox, I hear people saying...

Hairy

Didn't Brough include a conditional offer of a further $20M for 'visitor' camps?

If this is true, all their getting from the Federal Government is more of the same. Visitor camps won't work. What a stupid idea.

There's a push from business to become involved and emulate some of the success Comalco and Argyle have achieved over recent years in the creation of employment. There are some real success stories out there.

I don't have any confidence in Government to address the issues anymore.

Regards

Kim

You can't help anyone who will not help themselves! I think this sums up the whole debate in one line.

Yep,
The visitor camp known as the dongas is another bucket of money that any local will tell you is just another waste of money. There is already a few motels which have turned into "blackfella motels", its just you have to pay for them and a lot of people don't want to waist there grog money on accommodation.
Problem now is the local custodians have burred up and said the proposed site is now sacred! (good job it backed up to a nice residential area). Funny thing about all of this is the mob jumping up and down saying OUR people need more help wont let them stay on their 100s of acres surrounding the town were the infrastructure already exists and they all could act as mentors, they are now your problem!
Visitor accommodation already exists, its called motels,caravan parks and hostels, its just you have to pay for it and abide by a few simple rules (trashing the place is not accepted)
Cheers

What....thats not stupid enough????

No I havent driven in Hong Kong but I reckon this bloke has. The only anoying bit was his abusive atitude toward everyone else?
Should have seen his face when I stopped and said "why are you getting the shiits withe everyone else when your the diickhead driving up the wrong side of the road, (laughing) how do you feel peanut?"

That could be deemed a hit and run..

Did you stop and render assistance???

I was stationary, he hit me...and Run!!!! like a dog with his tail between his legs.

Other option, you could call it a rear end colition.....I was the one in the front.

and also....I did get out to render assistance but had to assume he didnt want any because I couldnt catch him.