Good news back home
I come from West Australia so I’m more than pleased with the results of the weekend election. The ALP are ever hopeful but I think they’ve lost the battle.
I just can’t image the new powerbroker Grylls doing a deal with Carpenter and if he does then it would surely be the first time in Australia when the Nats and the ALP have formed such a liaison. He says he doesn’t care who he deals with but I would expect the Libs to be the eventual winner.
Brendon Grylls, the powerbroker, is just 35, country to his bootstraps, has a three-legged dog named Kokoda and boasts an iron determination to put country people back on the political map.
He has a very clear strategy based on;
..seeking Royalties for Regions – a pledge to quarantine 25 per cent of the $2.7 billion in royalties received by the state government annually and inject it into regional areas. The concept was simple. If they won the balance of power, the Nationals would use that power to leverage $675 million a year to spend on regional projects over and above current and budgeted estimates.
Seems reasonable to me being a country lad myself.