>David McLoughlin wrote:
>> Garry Ford wrote:
(warning! madman loose with shears here)
>... despite Labor's six year spending spree on a wasteful bureaucracy (no real
>capital works started by them - both Gold Coast Line and City Underground
>quadruplication started by previous government although Labor did do most
>of the work). Says something for 34 years of National Party government I think.
Yet the Gold Coast Line was - along with the Cleveland Line -
dismantled by the Country Party government in the early 1960s.
And IIRC, much of the Queensland rail system was built by ALP
governments between 1915 and 1957 (to wander a bit more off the topic
here, the biggest problem with Qld politics isn't the National Party
or Labor Party governments per se: it's just that those governments
stay in office for so bloody long. Conservatives from 1899 to 1915;
Labor from 1915 to 1957; Country Party/National Party from 1957-1989:
Labor from '89 to 95 and Nationals now: FOUR changes of government in
98 years is more stable than Cuba under Castro (though less stable
than the Vatican).
Now to get back onto the correct track...
Roy
(another snip)
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>Garry
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