Edgar Adams' Editorial

Firstly, we must congratulate our local Members, Jim Lloyd and Grant McBride for working together to get the  HMAS Adelaide as a dive site for the Coast.
Here is a classical case where pollies from opposing parties have put aside their differences for the good of the community. I know they have both worked hard on this project and it is to their credit that they can work together.

This month we go the polls to elect a new State Government, a government that will control our lives for the next four years.  Will it be more of the same?
After 12 years of a union ruled Labor Government with Premiers and ministers who have simply lied (it isn’t spin) their way through the whole period, this has to be the ‘drover’s dog’ election.
If you own or manage a business you will be praying that this lot get tossed out on their ear.  The Carr/Iemma Government has been an anti business government all along.
The stories of businesses going broke, family breakdowns and nervous breakdowns resulting from a union vendetta against small and medium businesses is tragic.
But the Minister for Industrial Relations, John Della Bosca, who has engineered this using WorkCover and OH&S glibly glosses over all this blaming bosses who don’t want to pay workers compensation premiums or run safe workplaces.
Let’s face it, this government’s agenda is to get everyone off sub-contracting and labor hire and onto the full-time payroll. 
At the same time, to pump money into union coffers the OH&S Act has created the potential for all employers to be declared criminals if any employee hurts themselves, regardless of whose fault it is.
(Think about this. If you have an accident in your car insurance companies and the courts apportion blame.  But John Della Bosca’s laws do not recognise this when it comes down to employees and employers)
So when there is an accident and you are taken to court and fined you will pay all your legal costs, all WorkCover’s legal costs plus massive fines, half of which go straight to the unions.
Remember, you will be guilty because the law says you are. Going to court is just a means of terrorising you and raising funds for the unions.
Under this Minister NSW has the toughest, and most impossible OHS laws in the world.

Still on the drover’s dog election, the Premier was on the Central Coast late last month trying to drum up some enthusiasm.
Obviously in desperation, he comes up to Warnervale for the official opening of Woolworths Distribution Centre.
This place started operating in November 2005 – 15 months ago.
We’re not all fools Mr Premier!  That was the last large investment on the Central Coast. Nothing much has happened since.
Your Government has had plans before it for the rezoning of the Warnervale Employment Zone for nearly three years and still nothing has happened.
The Central Coast is out of industrial zoned land and the Carr/Iemma Government has done exactly zero. 

Having said all that, for people trying to run a business in NSW and particularly on the Central Coast, don’t hold your breath about a change of government.  A dysfunctional, disinterested, pathetic Liberal Party won’t save us.

When the Liberal Party in Gosford Council knocks back a complying development that will create 200 jobs and provide a desperately needed aged care facility just to appease a handful of objectors you know that we are on a sinking ship.
Councillors Brooks, Holstein and Drake, aided and abetted by the Greenies (for some reason Clr Doyle didn’t turn up) voted down a $60 million development at Forresters Beach, against the advice of Council officers, Council’s lawyer and a Planning Consultant engaged by Council.
These three Councillors knowingly and wilfully threw out a development application that will most likely be approved by the Land & Environment Court and Council will be paying the costs – about $100,000.
This is economic vandalism at its worst.
And Holstein wants you to vote for him and send him to Macquarie Street to represent you!

Edgar Adams
Editor

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