The story is that one of the three administrators isn’t happy and wants out which could, it’s being suggested to me, enable us to have an opportunity to again elect our own council.

And this is something the NSW Government is apparently desperate not to allow.

I’m also told the government is applying pressure on this particular administrator to sit tight for now and they are quietly confident “she’ll be right mate”!!

That little bird also tells me this administrator has little or no time for the council officers and treats them with a certain amount of contempt.

All we can hope is that the administrator goes ahead with the walk away plan and we get a chance for that election and the opportunity to rule our own lives.

Leave the flag alone

In his latest gaffe our Premier evidently wants us to change our national flag.

We’ve had it and been proud of it since 1901 and people have fought and died for it in numerous wars and conflicts.

Now while Nathan Rees says it’s all a story being made up by his Opposition there’s evidence around that he has raised the possibility of a change with the Australian National Flag Association.

I know where any change should be made and it’s certainly not the flag and as for Nathan he can’t even fly a flag for NSW.

It’s not their role really

The Federal Government seems to want to tell us how we should live, what we shouldn’t eat and drink and so on, but is it really what they have been elected to do?

After all not everyone out there suffers from obesity and the government’s latest moves to ban certain foodstuffs from the marketplace are misguided to say the least.

If we don’t know what is and what’s not good for us to consume then that’s our problem.

Next thing they’ll be telling us how many times we should go to the toilet a day, what to watch on television and how many alcoholic beverages we should partake of each day.

And let’s not forget that next on their agenda will be telling us when to go to bed and when to get up and so on.

Maybe even sexual habits will come under the microscope!!!

But in all their diatribe I haven’t read anything about what they would suggest for the scrawny people of our world. Obviously being scrawny isn’t a health hazard!

Our men and women up their in Canberra cannot get the economics of our world right so moving to advise us how we should live is somewhat cheeky to say the least.

TRUenergy on move again

TRUenergy has more plans for further developments of its power base at Tallawarra with the possibility of a second power station.

The company’s latest newsletter suggests the new power base would be located next to the somewhat controversial Tallawarra A unit, but at the same time the company says it will not encroach onto land in the area currently zoned for open space.

We can only hold our breath.

It’s just not cricket

The announcement that our city council will rip up two turf wickets and replace them with synthetics is a backward move for sport in the city.

Turf wickets at North Dalton Park – not the main ground – and Reed Park at Dapto will suffer as council, or so it suggests, fights to keep preparation and maintenance costs down.

And there’s also the suggestion that sporting ground usage fees will rise, and this is even worse news.

Here’s a council that recently spent a million dollars plus on brightening up the foyer of its Burelli Street offices and which continues to put countless dollars into footpath reconstruction around the place when these paths are seldom used by the public, but it can’t find the extra cash to promote sport.

I can tell you it’s a very different story when you deal with ground usage, costs etc with the Kiama and Shellharbour councils where club members are allowed to have some involvement with ground preparations and the usage fees plans are open and reasonable.

And on the subject of cricket

Of course it was the sorry state of the wicket at The Oval that cost we Aussies the ashes and it had nothing to do with shocking selection decisions, Ponting’s dreamland captaincy and our batting.

The funny thing though is that the Poms had to bat on the wicket and they amassed some 705 runs so that gets rid of the state of the wicket argument.

That leaves the selectors, Ponting and our batting in the spotlight, and all three can take the blame.