Cut lunch politician Carpenter shoots himself in the foot.The Desert Rat was gob-smacked to hear Alan Carpenter getting stuck into the Legislative Council telling them they were lazy and should work harder and pass the Government legislation.
Carpenter must be by far the laziest Premier this State ever had. He was so exhausted when he won his safe seat of Willagee the first time, he took a month off for a holiday. Carpenter regularly takes holidays. Eric Ripper seems always to be the Acting Premier.
Most country members work every weekend driving long distances attending functions and seeing constituents.
The Desert Rat has heard from a number of sources that Carpenter does not work weekend and refuses to take phone calls. Carpenter took little interest in Committee work when in Opposition.
And he has the gall to tell the Legislative Councillors to work harder.
Only last week he blamed the Legislative Council for failing to pass a Bill to increase penalties for serious assaults on police. The Legislative Council spent weeks last year debating a motion to expel Shelley Archer, because Carpenter stupidly ordered Archer to resign, then suddenly realised he had lost the ALP majority in the Legislative Council. So he changed tack and tried to get her expelled so he could replace her with a vote he could count on. Very few Bills were debated because of Carpenter’s blunder!
The police assault legislation was not on the Carpenter list of 19 priority Bills. The Bill has had bipartisan support since it was dealt with by a Committee in August last year.
Carpenter in an act of barefaced dissimulation, was caught out trying to blame others for his own incompetence for failing to get the police assault laws passed. The West Australian ran a front page story on 7 February 2007 exposing his duplicity. The truth was very different.
Meanwhile cops are in induced comas and are being seriously assaulted daily an Carpenter plays politics. He has done nothing to protect police officers and provide them with compensation for horrific injuries .
The Desert Rat remember about 15 years ago when the then Speaker Harry Jenkins fell off his bike at Parliament House in Canberra a got $66 000 compensation.
The serious injured police officer that shot the Victorian who murdered and raped the twin sisters in Melbourne got $34 000. Why should police care when they get no support from these ingrates who can’t tell the truth about why the legislation was delayed?
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