Never Rains…….

Well we had a win with Natasha Griggs on Saturday, one duck down, this I feel is going to be a slow and laborious process. So I open the paper and there it is…..Barry Doyle, quoting Natasha as saying that she now doesn’t think that the houses can be excised from the Base……a round with Mike Tyson [...]

Bugger All

  The Chamber of Commerce on Monday 16 Aug had a Lunch and Question Time with both Damian Hale and Natasha Griggs, I unfortunately was unable to attend. However some of my colleagues where and one of them was able to record it, so I was able to watch it and see for myself  what actually happened. What [...]

Hansard

Today I have been reading Hansard from the 10th of Aug, pretty good stuff, the amazing thing for me is the Govt inaction on housing and their bleating about how much they have done, it should be noted that they have less than 400 projects on the go and some of them will not be [...]

Irony’s Side Effects

The next nine days are going to be hard work for me, the future of my business hangs on an election. I find a curious irony in this though, this  is maybe madness setting in or maybe enlightenment or perhaps a side effect of both, who knows?   In this I mean if Labor were to [...]

Unbelievable

Sometimes words cannot explain how I feel after reading about the Damian Hale’s solution to Housing in Darwin. Has he considered we are not all stupid, was there not a similar proposal at the last Election by the Labour Party in regards to this and what happened there?? Nothing at all. More importantly where is all this land [...]

Food for Thought

I have just come into possesion of a report that dates back to 1984,  this was in relation to ‘Improvements to On-Base Housing, Raaf Base Darwin’. Having read this I decided that maybe I might apply some of the logic that was being put into play back then in regards to RAAF Base Housing, they [...]

Update 6/08/2010

Yesterday there was an article in the NT News questioning the Liberals commitment to save the housing at RAAF Base Darwin from comments by David Johnstone, Shadow spokesperson for Defence. Naturally we were not pleased, but as we are learning, nothing is what it seems. Today we have another article that clarifies what was said, [...]

Update 4/08/2010

Yesterday we got an Email that was passed on to us regarding the meeting on the 9th of August with Major General Cosson, it has been  decided that due to the meeting being recorded and posted on the Web and that the govt was in caretaker mode that it would be inappropriate to meet again [...]

Update 2/08/2010

On the 9th of August we have a new meeting with General Cosson, this came as a surprise as I at least expected someone from her staff. At this meeting we expect to updated with Defences position, I dont expect anything special, just a clearer picture. However since the last meeting we have had some [...]

Update 20/07/2010

In more recent times we have seen Damian Hale announce he has saved the houses by making sure they will be moved elsewhere, but in the same sentence he has said “Bad Luck” to the businesses. Not exactly what we were looking for from him. However he has come to the party with a meeting [...]