Question is, how many pensioners throughout their working lives paying their taxes, would it have taken to put that ragtag of a so called flag up on a Bridge that we are still paying for nearly ninety years later. Hard working people have paid the price once again
Surely someone asked the indigenous community if they would like to pay for their flag. Where does the money they earn from mining royalties go? They must be very disappointed that they weren't asked to contribute or even pay for the total cost.
Has anyone asked an Indigenous person, living in a remote area without schools/hospitals and the other facilities that city dwellers enjoy, what they think of this ridiculous and exorbitant amount being spent on a flag? And for the NSW premier to say "it's a small price to pay" with a straight face just leaves me speechless - and I voted Liberal!!
I note that the Premier announced today that the $25m quote did not pass the pub test - I think he meant the James Macpherson Report test - and that he would go through the quote line by line to ensure taxpayers were not being ripped off.
Every day life gets more strange, even peculiar. I read this morning that food transport vehicles are causing greenhouse gas problems and we should source our food no further than 160 kilometers from our homes! Poor people in southern states - no more bananas, or sugar or mangoes.
NSW "Premier" (overrated title) announces he could go to Bunnings & put a flag pole on top of the Harbour Bridge. Mr. "Premier", I went to Flagpoles r Us & they can beat your quote by 10%.
Yep. And if you complain about the price you are accused of being racist. It's just incredible the way these things work. It's for this reason the Premier is not red-faced about the cost. He knows people will, for the most part, be too intimidated to challenge it. Most people will just shrug.
I hope Jacinta Price will comment on this activist virtue signalling, when her concern is for the safety and lives of remote rural indigenous women & children.
Northern Territory senator-elect for the Country Liberal Party Jacinta Price said the removal of the flag was “very disrespectful to all Australians.”
“It’s becoming a little bit childish for leaders to be virtue-signalling about who loves Aboriginal people more,” she said.
“There’s a lot of Aboriginal people out there who I’m sure like myself can see right through it. Just get on with representing all Australians, that’s what we are all elected to do regardless of our backgrounds. It is racist of Bandt to continue to paint Aboriginal Australians as helpless victims in need of rescuing by the likes of privileged woke MP’s.”
What an absolute disgrace how could a flag pole and a flag cost that much. A flag that will bring racial division not unity for the indigenous 3% of our population.
As you said James all the good and vitally necessary things this money could have been spent on.
Dom P pandering to the woke activists, has he learnt nothing from the demise of our previous Fed. PM through desertion of the conservative base.
Question is, how many pensioners throughout their working lives paying their taxes, would it have taken to put that ragtag of a so called flag up on a Bridge that we are still paying for nearly ninety years later. Hard working people have paid the price once again
Surely someone asked the indigenous community if they would like to pay for their flag. Where does the money they earn from mining royalties go? They must be very disappointed that they weren't asked to contribute or even pay for the total cost.
If they dare to spend that sort of money on a flag pole will be the last time I ever vote Liberal, ever.
I would be happy to fly to Sydney at my own expense and get an alternative quote or two.
To whom do I express my displeasure at this waste of money?
So frustrating. I'm sorry this money wasn't spent on the Indigenous community it is purporting to support.
Has anyone asked an Indigenous person, living in a remote area without schools/hospitals and the other facilities that city dwellers enjoy, what they think of this ridiculous and exorbitant amount being spent on a flag? And for the NSW premier to say "it's a small price to pay" with a straight face just leaves me speechless - and I voted Liberal!!
I note that the Premier announced today that the $25m quote did not pass the pub test - I think he meant the James Macpherson Report test - and that he would go through the quote line by line to ensure taxpayers were not being ripped off.
Every day life gets more strange, even peculiar. I read this morning that food transport vehicles are causing greenhouse gas problems and we should source our food no further than 160 kilometers from our homes! Poor people in southern states - no more bananas, or sugar or mangoes.
NSW "Premier" (overrated title) announces he could go to Bunnings & put a flag pole on top of the Harbour Bridge. Mr. "Premier", I went to Flagpoles r Us & they can beat your quote by 10%.
More in to warm fuzzies I feel than critical political issues!!!! 🙄
Yep. And if you complain about the price you are accused of being racist. It's just incredible the way these things work. It's for this reason the Premier is not red-faced about the cost. He knows people will, for the most part, be too intimidated to challenge it. Most people will just shrug.
Mmmmm ….a thousand rolly eye emojis!!!!
I hope Jacinta Price will comment on this activist virtue signalling, when her concern is for the safety and lives of remote rural indigenous women & children.
She did.
Northern Territory senator-elect for the Country Liberal Party Jacinta Price said the removal of the flag was “very disrespectful to all Australians.”
“It’s becoming a little bit childish for leaders to be virtue-signalling about who loves Aboriginal people more,” she said.
“There’s a lot of Aboriginal people out there who I’m sure like myself can see right through it. Just get on with representing all Australians, that’s what we are all elected to do regardless of our backgrounds. It is racist of Bandt to continue to paint Aboriginal Australians as helpless victims in need of rescuing by the likes of privileged woke MP’s.”
What an absolute disgrace how could a flag pole and a flag cost that much. A flag that will bring racial division not unity for the indigenous 3% of our population.
As you said James all the good and vitally necessary things this money could have been spent on.
Dom P pandering to the woke activists, has he learnt nothing from the demise of our previous Fed. PM through desertion of the conservative base.