Labor half way to funding its new ‘Crikey-style’ news service
The Australian Labor Party says it now has 226 paying subscribers to its daily online service and says it is about half way to reaching its fundraising goal.
Last week the political party announced it would launch a paid news service as the party’s “own Crikey” to stop their views being “filtered through the mainstream media”.
The announcement saw much derision on social media with national secretary in a letter to members writing: “Did you see how the conservatives on Twitter jumped up and down when they heard we were fundraising for an editor for our new online Labor Herald?
“Apparently they weren’t fans of the idea, but a bit of Twitter hyperactivity won’t stop us. We’ve got 226 new founding subscribers and we’re more than half way to our fundraising goal of $95,000 for the position of editor.”
I was a member of the ALP in NSW for about 30 years (Coogee then Southern Highlands branches). I left for the Throsby Greens, where half the members are disillusioned former ALP members.
A party totally lacking in vision is of no interest to me. Gough inspired me and many of the older ex-ALP Greens a lifetime ago. Shorten seems to have no vision for Australia so what reason could we have to participate in aspects of party administration?
We are being pushed in awful directions with no hope except in trying to get a few Greens into positions in which they can influence events in small ways.
Sad times, particularly for those of us with children struggling in the deregulated mess dumped on us by the two wretched parties we have to choose between.
Regards, James Saville
Gosh James, seems like you have a bit to complain about.
I hope you enjoy that, because my instinct says we will ALL have a lot to complain about as the days roll by.
Personally, I so much dislike what is happening to us, to me, our friends, my family and people I don’t know who are ill, old, infirm or just failed the Gina test and got born to average parents.
When did helping everyone (“noblesse oblige”) become helping oneself, snouts in the trough?
As I age, I fear HockyCare.
I see Bazza O’Farrells’ sin is now characterised as not filling in his gifts form properly – as if lying and misleading aren’t worth the mention.
When I compare my future pension with Mr Abbott’s future pension, I wonder where MY office and stamps and phone card and gold travel pass and Commonwealth Car is. I’m SO glad he and his cohorts will be looked after so well by all of us – I only regret I have but one wage for them to tax.
Blessed are the cheesemakers.
Cheesemakers, bless’ed all:
http://www.news.com.au/finance.....5945641593
john Howards office rental in 2010 was over $13,000 a month, Mr Frasers is around $12,000 a month but Gough and Paul’s are merely $7,000-odd a month.
Mr Howards ComCar was $2,265 a month.The next highest was Mr Fraser at $818 a month.
Former Liberal PM Malcolm Fraser had the highest home phone bill at $281 a month, while Mr Howard had the highest mobile bill at $616 a month.
The others averaged between $191 and $193 a month.
Each former PM is entitled to at least two staff, including a senior private secretary, and the annual wages bill of each is nearly $300,000.
Mr Keating saves about $70,000 a year by using staff as he needs them instead of full time appointees.
Mr Fraser, whose expenses have outstripped other former PMs in the past, has the most expensive private self-drive car at $1852 a month.
The cost of subscribing to newspapers and magazines also varies significantly.
Mr Whitlam and Mr Howard both spend more than $500 a month, while Mr Fraser spends $237 a month and Mr Hawke and Mr Keating are below $200.
Mr Fraser also has the highest postage bill at about $172 a month.
DID I MENTION THE INDEXED SALARY OF AROUND $250,000 A YEAR?
And that was 2010.
I didn’t walk away from the ALP – it walked away from me. I still have what I would call Labor values and principals. Sadly they are not being reflected back at me in NSW context and I’m not convinced Bill Shorten is the best person at the top. Politically I feel homeless and hope against hope that Labor finds its way home -soon. I don’t consider the Greens to be a safe haven either. I feel more and more abandoned by politics in Australia. Sad.