Idiot of the Day
I guess this is what you would call a conflict of interest.
Labor MP Carolyn Hirsh has resigned as chairwoman of State Parliament’s Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee after being caught drink-driving.Ms Hirsh blew .07 – .02 above the limit – when police breath-tested her late on Wednesday night as she drove home from an ALP function that sources say descended into a rowdy affair.
Describing herself as a “bloody idiot”, Ms Hirsh, 66, offered her resignation to Premier Steve Bracks yesterday.
She said she could not continue on the committee while it was working on a report about strategies to reduce harmful alcohol consumption. She hoped to rejoin the committee after the September release of the report.
Ms Hirsh was breath-tested at a booze bus in Burke Road, Glen Iris, after 11pm.
She has been fined $300 and her licence has been suspended for six months.
Ms Hirsh, the upper house member for Silvan, said she had four glasses of white wine in four hours, including two glasses in the hour before she left the ALP’s “chookhouse party”, a traditional function held in a building at the rear of Parliament House to mark the end of a parliamentary session.
“I feel very bad,” she said yesterday.
I bet she does. It is called being hung over.
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: MT Archives
Hey here’s a suggestion for Dave:
Why don’t you post your own profile for the sake of curious readers, such as basic information about yourself. Who you are, what you do, age, etc. And if you’d really be willing to put a cherry on top of it, a photo!
Only a $300 fine. Now, anybody else would be stiffed for all they possess, what an outrage.Some might opine, she resigned, boo hoo and, it was only from that committee, not any other office and certainly not from their seat: a bit like polticians saying they have resigned, but they still hold their seat, though on the back bench.
Here is some really antisemetic stuff not from a FRENCH paper but from the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD.
written by ALAN RAMSEY.
Can you believe this crap!!
the very heart of all that is wrong in the Middle East, even if that appalling little man in the White House, and those who teach him what to say and do where and when, refuse to accept their responsibility as the very lifeblood of everything Israel and its equally appalling government continue to do, with relentless savagery, week after week, month after month, year after year, in stealing another country and assassinating its people while here, in Australia, we do so little other than mouth insincerities and care even less.