For those who still vote for the major parties it would be interesting to consider how long they themselves might imagine they could hold down a job if they were unwilling or unable to provide transparency or explicit answers to an employer when asked, without insulting or deceitful obfuscation.
Labor’s minister O’Farrell is um.. particularly ah…. astounding and… very… um… very… experienced when… um it ah… comes… ah… comes… to ah… padding out… um the ah… the… um… question ah… time… until the ah… time has elapsed and ah… no answers um… are given. And taxpayers are footing the bill.
Why would anyone who considers themselves modestly, somewhat intelligent, vote for a government which lacks transparency and claims to be managing the economy while allowing obscene record corporate profits?
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
